Perhaps they didn’t rule out foul play?
Earlier reporting might have been wrong or I might have misread since they’ve said they found no bodily trauma. But they’re also saying “no obvious signs of a gas leak.” And there were two other dogs that survived. Door was open, but no sign of forcible entry. I don’t know. Anyway, just correcting what I posted above.
Results:
Nope! Really don’t think the original is for me. It’s frequently straight-up boring. Seems like an especially odd thing that I can’t find any love for that one when I liked its legacy sequel quite a bit, but here we are.
Heresy
Hearsay
Man, this book is so dark and violent I can hardly imagine people wanting to see it.
Did you watch the version with the voice over or without?
I bet there are plenty of fans of the book and horror type fans who would love to see it. But it feels like a project kind of doomed to fail or suck.
Without. I had to look up what you were referring to.
They tried to make a movie of it before. It’s said to be un-filmable.
" Unfortunately, for many years, the industry considered Blood Meridian unfilmable , so an adaptation never made it to the silver screen. A Blood Meridian movie has gone into production several times over the years, but ultimately, the project always falls apart."
It would be such a niche film that it would likely make little money and people would hate it for getting the themes of the book wrong. Would be super polarizing.
eta: I thought James Franco’s Child of God was great
It’s pretty weird for a film to go into production multiple times and fail. Lots of projects have the rights go through multiple people and die in development, but I can’t think of any examples off the top of my head of a project that got started in production multiple times and had its plug pulled. Keep in mind, these days almost nothing is unfilmable. It may not have a market, but it can be made with the right backing. I haven’t read the book, so I know nothing about why it’s considered unfilmable. That term is usually used when a story has too many key characters or is too epic (budget expected to be over $250m) to be made in a halfway decent run time without completely butchering the original source material.
Editing to add the Wikipedia says all adaptations failed in development or pre-production, not production. This is common for challenging stories.
Like Cloud Atlas.
I trust Hillcoat to figure out how to film this 
Recently had my first experiences with a couple of 70s classics that I knew I owed it to myself to get to.
The Last Picture Show (1971) is awesome. It’s top-level coming of age material, but it’s not only that, because along with the growing up of young Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms, it’s simultaneously charting the deterioration of a failing small Texas town on its last legs. It was very impressive on both fronts, and the movie has lived rent-free in my head since I watched it.
Nashville (1975) is an altogether different sort of film, but no less impressive. It’s an absolute magic trick for Robert Altman to juggle 24 different characters and weave their stories together in the way he does with noticeably minimal audience hand-holding all while telling a coherent story that even an inattentive boob like me can still keep good tabs on without too much issue. I loved this, and I also loved that it will invariably get better on future rewatch. With that large of an ensemble, even though I generally kept good track of the broad strokes, I have zero doubt that there’s a lot more to discover on future viewings.
I give 4.5/5 to both.
Have been curiously obsessed with “Freddie Got Fingered” lately. Had never seen it before and belived the hype that it was crap, but I think it’s better than most people who think it is good realize. It’s surreal and self-referential and if I knew more of cinema history, it seems to reference many other films. It’s very funny and has a place among comedy classics like Spinal Tap, Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, and The Jerk. However, it is deliberately off-putting and disjointed, so it’s a bit more on the conceptual art end of the spectrum than any of those films.
There are better scenes, but this is great and representative.
Saw both of these in recent years.
Absolutely loved Last picture show.
Nashville I appreciate the craft but I had trouble connecting with it at the time, as it was too “fully negative” (in terms of characters) for me. I still loved a lot of it though (the Keith Carradine “I’m easy” concert scene especially…doesn’t hurt that it’s the only good music in the movie). I think I’ll like it better on rewatch some day.
Rewatched Total recall recently. My memory of it was as the decent but least interesting of the 90s Verhoeven movies, but I’m not sure that’s true, in any case it is so much fun, had a blast the whole time. There’s a scene in there where Arnold watches a tape of his former self and realizes he’s very different from that guy, obviously made me think of Severance and realize (yet again) how much better the 90s action thriller genre is compared to current prestige TV.
This made me feel like I’ll always like 90s (my teenage years) media better than everything else, so I tested that theory by watching True Lies and wow did that not hold up at all. The whole humor tone feels so dated and borderline creepy, did not enjoy the sidekick banter etc at all. I appreciated some of it though, the last act when Arnold goes into the jet was fun in its absurdity.
(Also this was hurt by me having watched too many Mission Impossible movies bc when it starts with Arnold as an undercover spy at some party, I automatically thought “he’s too tall…and doesn’t run in the correct way…”)
And now…it sounds like we can officially put it on the board. Ctr will co-sign my take that the Rewatchables crew grunting and going, “oh yeah, we would have been better off getting True Lies 2 instead of Avatar” was absurd.
I can understand this. I’ll say that of the two, The Last Picture Show is the one that I’m more excited to rewatch more quickly, though that is somewhat informed by the fact that Nashville runs for like 2:40. Kind of an inevitable length with that many characters and stories to service, so it’s not a critique, but it does make it more difficult to go back as often.
Cybil Sheppard in this movie would rank in top 10 hottest a person have ever looked on film.
Fully agree.
