Moxie's Movie Reel

[Kieran]

@Federberg

This is a fan trailer for the Highlander movie. There’s a surprise actor in it:

 

[britbox]

@Federberg

This is a fan trailer for the Highlander movie. There’s a surprise actor in it:

Peter Cushing?

 

[Kieran]

Peter Cushing?

Yeah! I don’t know why, he seems to mean something evil to people!

 

[Federberg]

@Federberg

This is a fan trailer for the Highlander movie. There’s a surprise actor in it:

I'll watch it, but for the life of me I don't understand why they do these re-makes so soon. Is there really that little creativity or are the studios so completely risk averse. I say risk averse then I think about that Rachel Zellweger Snow White movie. Sending that out into the world was beyond risky, it was reckless and stupid. I don't understand these people

 

[britbox]

In honour of the late Moxie and her huge contribution to these boards over the years we've decided to rename this thread to Moxie's Movie Reel as she also worked in the film industry. A great idea from @Kieran.

 

[Kieran]

In honour of the late Moxie and her huge contribution to these boards over the years we've decided to rename this thread to Moxie's Movie Reel as she also worked in the film industry. A great idea from @Kieran.

She was so into movies! She saw everything first, you’d hardly come out of the cinema and mention it and @Moxie had seen it yesterday and couldn’t wait to talk about it. So many times she recommended films here and I thought, ok, I’ll get to that one. Well, she highly recommended Sinners and I got that from the library last week and will watch it this weekend and will mentally let her know if she was right.

I tagged her in this cos I feel she’s still with us, somewhere…

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

She was so into movies! She saw everything first, you’d hardly come out of the cinema and mention it and @Moxie had seen it yesterday and couldn’t wait to talk about it. So many times she recommended films here and I thought, ok, I’ll get to that one. Well, she highly recommended Sinners and I got that from the library last week and will watch it this weekend and will mentally let her know if she was right.

I tagged her in this cos I feel she’s still with us, somewhere…

Well I loved Sinner's Kieran, I know Susan loved it, enjoy!

 

[Kieran]

Well I loved Sinner's Kieran, I know Susan loved it, enjoy!

Thanks Margaret! I heard it’s a bit gruesome at the end? I’ll let the missus tell me what happens there..

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Thanks Margaret! I heard it’s a bit gruesome at the end? I’ll let the missus tell me what happens there..

LOL Kieran, thank goodness for your wife

 

[Kieran]

LOL Kieran, thank goodness for your wife

She has her purpose!

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

She has her purpose!

Thats good to know, I am certain she has a lot of other good qualities, apart from telling you what happens in the end of a gruesome movie

 

[Kieran]

I saw "Sinners," and thought it was amazing. For those who might be, don't be put off that it's listed as a "horror film." It's mostly a period film, with vampires, and that part his far from the whole film. The soundtrack, mostly Delta blues, is fantastic, with some Irish music in there, too. @Kieran

I finally got to watch this, at sister @Moxie recommendation. I probably wouldn’t have otherwise, but the missus is away - she won’t watch horror and violence - and it’s a good way to think of Susan. I have to say, I wish she was here. We might have a good Barney about this one. We might agree a bit, too. Reading @Fiero425 say it sounds like the Colour Purple with a vampire twist isn’t far off.

There are SPOILERS ahead!

It’s got genetic capital-B black themes, with the vampires being an explicit metaphor for the Klan, and the old chestnut about the bluesman selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads more or less literally takes place in this film.

Others have told me it reminds them of Tarantino’s film, From Dusk To Dawn, which it does, and could have benefited from his flair for writing and blending genres, but none of these derivative qualities would be enough to disqualify it from being a great film. They might even aid it. The acting is supreme, the filming, the music, everything is gorgeous.

Michael Jordan deserves all his plaudits, and so do the rest of them. It became very creepy in parts and it subverts the usual gothic vampire spiel by having it happen in the 30’s in Mississippi. It respects the vampire rule that they must be invited in, but their attempts to cadge an invite don’t resemble Victorian gentlemen trying to cajole a trembling innocent with love-words, but often violent threats and very virile insinuations that what comes next is better for them all.

There’s an Irish element and great Irish music, and a parasitic Irish vampire who wants to turn a young bluesman, to get his music.

Where it doesn’t quite reach greatness is in the climax to the movie, where everything is at stake. Literally. It just kind of fizzles out rather becoming gripping. The Klan then turn up to prove they’re no metaphor and there’s more gore. But all this is quite predictably done, looks more like television than cinema, and so it doesn’t hugely impress.

But there is an immensely impressive coda buried into the credits. The credits pause and and there’s a scene with the young bluesman is still playing, sixty years later. He’s played now by the real bluesman, Buddy Guy. He’s drinking alone after a show, and he’s visited by two of the main characters from back in the thirties. Two vampires.

They have quite interesting discussion, about the ordinariness of things since that night. And the religious blues singer is made an offer. It’s quite poignant, seeing the vampires, played by Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld look powerful and young, beside the faded singer, who is younger than them. Then the credits continue, with more great music. Soundtrack on this one is excellent.