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Post by floyd on Feb 23, 2010 11:06:40 GMT -5
Why I very much liked Phantasm? 12-years guy looks this film in the short summer of 1995 in Siberia. A film about my contemporary and the older brother. They drive by the beautiful car, battle to unprecedented opponents. It very much cool! Morningside, night, a crypt - very cool!
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Post by gopher in heat on Feb 23, 2010 12:17:55 GMT -5
I love your description, floyd! I can honestly say I've never heard it put in such a way.
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Post by floyd on Feb 23, 2010 12:25:14 GMT -5
I would live in Morningside
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Post by pumpmonkey on Jun 17, 2010 23:43:31 GMT -5
You know, I just read this and what FLOYD is saying is reminiscent to what we've all been saying. (and in my margarita-induced state I feel the urge to pontificate)
Okay, for starters, we all know there were a dozen or so films in the Horror genre that came out in 1979. Other than PHANTASM, only a few stick out (in my memory, these are)...ALIEN, METEOR, PROPHECY & SALEM'S LOT. So. We all know that ALIEN was (and still is) the box-office winner of the group, then and now.
However, those films are what they are, and nothing more. Of that group, only PHANTASM managed to capture the angst Mike was going through at that stage in his life. An angst that was very understandable and palatable to all boys of that approximate age. It doesn't matter what year you've seen it...what matters is if you are near the age Mike is in the film, or if you can really remember being that age=you're hooked.
To wit: If I properly interpret his post, FLOYD first saw the movie in 1995. That is fifteen years after it was released, and FLOYD stated that he was 12 at the time. Tada~! It struck home with him. After all, many of us saw it near the release date, or shortly after when we were teens, and it stuck home for us as well~!
Phantasm transcends time, because the barrier of perception brought upon by our own age as we go through life is not removed by the "latest trends".
This movie was a fantasy for me, a fantasy that was carried on by P-II. P-III was more like a lucid dream and P-IV? Well, the first time I saw it...it was on HBO at 4:30 in the morning, and yes, I stayed awake for it.
Another example of The Generation Gap would be THE LOST BOYS. If you recall the scene in which LUCY (played by DIANE WEIST) is trying to get through to her son MICHAEL (played by JASON PATRIC) that she loves him and wants to maintain an open line of communication:
LUCY: "We could talk about anything you want to talk about."
MICHAEL: "Mom, I have more serious things on my mind than girls n' school. I'm dealing with things. Things that -"
LUCY: "Things I wouldn't understand?"
That surprised me, she said something that my parents had tried to reiterate to me. Not in that exact phrase (and certainly *not* under those exact circumstances!) but I understood the meaning behind it, and it was an eye-opener: Our parents really did go through the same things we did. And in fact, now that I'm older I understand that a lot of it was much worse.
Ahh...but I see that The Witching Hour is approaching. I have rambled on long enough.
TTFN...
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Post by floyd on Jun 18, 2010 10:52:46 GMT -5
I agree with you , pumpmonkey! When I have looked for the first time Phantasm to me was as much years how many and to Mike. And I even envied him.
But high art value of a film is Awesome!
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Post by nitelinger on Jun 18, 2010 12:21:01 GMT -5
It was like love at first sight for me. It sucked me right in and I stayed captivated all the way till the very end! And thats all I have to say about that. Other than it was so killer to see it at the movies when it was new. To get to see and hear the reactions from the audience. To see how everyone jumped out of their seats when The Tall Man slaps Jody on the shoulder "the funeral is about to begin sir". The big laughs when Mike is in the cemetary spying on Jody & the Lady in Lavender and he gets a look at those nice big (o)(o) and Jodie says "WoW" & Mikes says "WoWW". The cheer of the crowd when Jody steps up from behind Mike and blasts the sphere out of the air with his trusty wingmaster, or the reaction when Reggie pops up at Morningside (after we feard he was dead) with the news he found the girls and had set them free "they took off through the woods like a bunch of scared rabbits". The end when Mike is alone in his room and the Tall Man appears and Mike is draged throught the mirror to God knows where? Looking back now it was a real privilege to be a witness to some of the very first showings.
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Post by tallman3 on May 18, 2011 19:32:15 GMT -5
Phantasm (1979) is different than any horror film ever made before or after. The Tallman attracted to the ice cream truck because his barren planet is 140 degrees and has a gravity 12x the earth's. They shrink dead bodies into dwarfs filled with yellow embalming fluid wearing Monk robes. Then in a special room at Morningside Mortuary, they send the drawfs through a tuning fork dimension to their home planet to become working slaves. Silver metal balls with protruding forks chase intruders around in the mausaleum, guided by brain matter from the Tallman. The Tallman can morf into a hot blonde in a purple dress to lure men to the cemetery to have sex, where he then kills them with a long knife. Like I said, there is nothing like it ever.
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Post by Kitty on Feb 5, 2013 17:01:19 GMT -5
It was like love at first sight for me. It sucked me right in and I stayed captivated all the way till the very end! And thats all I have to say about that. Other than it was so killer to see it at the movies when it was new. To get to see and hear the reactions from the audience. To see how everyone jumped out of their seats when The Tall Man slaps Jody on the shoulder "the funeral is about to begin sir". The big laughs when Mike is in the cemetary spying on Jody & the Lady in Lavender and he gets a look at those nice big (o)(o) and Jodie says "WoW" & Mikes says "WoWW". The cheer of the crowd when Jody steps up from behind Mike and blasts the sphere out of the air with his trusty wingmaster, or the reaction when Reggie pops up at Morningside (after we feard he was dead) with the news he found the girls and had set them free "they took off through the woods like a bunch of scared rabbits". The end when Mike is alone in his room and the Tall Man appears and Mike is draged throught the mirror to God knows where? Looking back now it was a real privilege to be a witness to some of the very first showings. Took the words right out of my mouth! ;D
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Post by sharpsphere on Mar 24, 2013 8:57:29 GMT -5
wow Graver you couldn't have said it better, I first saw it when I was 12 I could totally understand that dependence Mike felt to be with his older brother cause his parents were gone, Jody was his only love his only loving connection he had with his past
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Post by Kitty on Apr 23, 2013 15:46:24 GMT -5
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