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Steve Yun posted:Poltergeist is one of the greatest. At its heart it's a kidnapping movie. Unlike most horror movies the central fear isn't death, it's that they won't see their daughter again, and that really taps into the heart strings. I never really thought about it but I think the idea was to set up the expectation of a mostly harmless poltergeist, then as things get progressively worse you realize its much more serious than that. At the end you realize the whole place was just hosed from the start, the "poltergeist" activity was like a tremor preceding a massive volcanic eruption.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:That's a big Twinkie. Basically
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Dr Scoofles posted:I remember a scene with the parents messing about on the bed, jumping on the mattress, smoking a joint, having a laugh together like two childish idiots. I agree, the performances of Nelson and Williams really carry the movie, the scene you mentioned in particular. That scene goes a really long way towards making the characters likeable, people you want to be ok in the end. A lot of horror movies try for that exact kind of scene early on in the film and it rarely if ever comes across as genuine and endearing as that one.
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If Hooper was really a coked up mess on-set I find it hard to believe Spielberg wouldn't have just fired him.
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I really did gain a whole new appreciation for Hooper when I saw Lifeforce. Its so much more creative and stylish than I had previously thought Hooper was capable of.
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May 15, 2015 00:11
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DrVenkman posted:The truth I think is just that Spielberg wanted to direct it himself but couldn't because of ET... I think at the very least we can say that this part is true based on what Spielberg has said. He pretty openly states in that article that in a perfect world he would have been able to direct ET and Poltergeist, but the schedules just made it impossible.
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I hope by giving people "references they can relate to" he means thematically, not just the fact that there will be cellphones and flatscreen T.V.s in the movie.
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