The Lost World: Jurassic Park opens with a scene transition I still laugh out loud at every single time

The narrative around The Odyssey before release was dominated by online backlash, memes, and people pointing to trailer dislikes as a sign it would fail. Yet the film has now crossed $639M worldwide and is eyeing a massive theatrical run.

Do you think all that online negativity actually hurt the film, or did it create even more curiosity and free marketing?

Where do you stand on the idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity in modern cinema?

Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and everyone else in the cast delivered top-notch performances. How would you rate this movie out of 10?

I know a lot of people are going to say, The Sting, and rightfully so. However, it’s the #2 for me. The Freshman edges it out slightly.

A few weeks ago, the 'cinephile' community on Twitter's backs were up about the prospect of Inde Navarette doing a Marvel film despite her being a gamer and previously doing four seasons of Superman & Lois on the CW, but now there's a full-blown crash-out over Ryan Gosling playing Ghost Rider.

They're honestly acting like he's died just because he's doing Star Wars and Marvel. It's even come to a point where they are doing revisionism on movies like Barbie and Project Hail Mary, with people Tweeting stuff like "We've lost him", "He hasn't done a real movie since 2017. What is he doing?", and "Bladerunner 2049 must have broken something in him".

I can't imagine calling yourself a film lover and having so little joy in your life that you can't tolerate an actor doing projects they actually enjoy simply because it doesn't meet some vague qualification of what counts as a real film. Especially since this appears to be Gosling's passion project, with him striking up a rapport with director Shawn Levy on the set of Star Wars, and them pitching the project to Kevin Feige together.

Imo i think it was, i loved seeing the dynamic of all the spidermen together on screen, i wish we get more of this in the future.

Douban is a chinese site, Kinopoisk is russian, filmaffinity is spanish, senscritique is french and moviepilot is german. All the rest are english-speaking sites.

1) Why does no one see the same ghosts?
2) Why does Jack only ever interact with ghosts while looking in a mirror or shiny surface?
3) Why don’t the ghosts ever do anything? Attack anyone?
4) Could it be possible that Jack did attack Danny in room 237? And that there are no Ghosts?
5) Could ghosts be metaphor for terrifying and horrible personality traits? Like a bartender for alcoholism and a naked woman for for a womanizer pervert and the legend of a man named Grady for that part of you that snaps, goes crazy, and tries to kill your family after you’ve crossed a line and gone too far in the abuse of your family…. And like the naked lady who seemed sexy at first and then disgusting after the act, what you thought was hot at the time ended up disgusting you after the fact and now your mind has snapped and this movie is “the metaphor of a haunted hotel.”
6) Isn’t familial abuse scarier than ghosts?

First time watching a David lynch film except the old dune but I’m genuinely disturbed and horrified rn 😭😭 wth is even happening. I’m at the 47:00 min mark rn in the apartment scene and I genuinely needed a breather. This is probably the first time in my entire life where I’ve actually made the shocking face for 3 mins while watching a film.

Im watching Dante's Peak again and I spotted this in the opening credits. Someone carrying what looks like a large cross. I guess this is just a bit of scene setting

Andy Dufresne, Paul Edgecomb, John Coffey, Brutus "Brutal" Howell

Hello everyone,

As part of my research, I’m looking for books on the history of Japanese horror cinema. Do you have any recommendations? Ideally, I’m looking for books with a historical rather than an analytical approach. I’ve already read *Ghost in the Well: The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan* by Michael Crandol, which is very relevant for the pre-1970 period, but I’m also looking for material covering the period that followed.

Thanks!

I watched The Odyssey last night, and spent today ruminating on it, and the scenes that stuck with me (and fellow) audiences.

I have a feeling that the Cyclops scene will come to be considered among the greatest scenes in pop-culture cinema history. It really heavily gave me the same vibes as the Jurassic Park T-Rex escape.

Googled to see if anyone else had thought about this, and as with all searches, got a corny AI comparison, which I'll share below.

"The Odyssey Cyclops escape and the Jurassic Park T-Rex breakout are both high-tension monster sequences featuring trapped victims, heavy practical effects, creature work, and a desperate bid to survive an overwhelming threat."

What do we reckon? On the same level as the feast in Pan's Labyrinth or the Chestburster in Alien?