Most Spielberg movies have at least one constantly-screaming child (Temple of Doom, Lost World, Empire of the Sun). Sometimes they have two (Jurassic Park), or three (E.T.), and sometimes an entire cast of screaming children (The Goonies).
I see that Spielberg has inserted a screaming child (Dakota Fanning) into the plot of his next movie (War of the Worlds). Oh goody.
All Dogs Go to Heaven. I was in love with this movie when I was little, but I watched it a year or two ago and thought it was mediocre compared to other Don Bluth films like “The Land Before Time” and “An American Tail”.
Hey, you picked mine.
I really thought it was a witty, sarcastic movie, but it is nowhere as intelligent as I thought it was.
It’s even worse than you remember. They’re armadillos!!! Director Tod Browning had a thing for them – thought they were ooky and scary, when they were simply ridiculous.
Browning’s direction in Dracula was pretty uninspired, and I’m really disappointed in the screenplay, but I still love it because Lugosi, in his prime, was a great Dracula.
If you want to see what could have been done with the 1931 Dracula, look at the Spanish-language version, shot on the same sets, but with a different cast and crew. I’ve forgotten the names of the director and cinematographer, but they get big points for moving the camera around a lot more, putting in much more dramatic lighting, using close-ups more often… and for not putting armadillos in the film.
[QUOTE=DrFideliusI did watch the original **The Fly ** recently, with Dave Hedison. That film gave me nightmares for months when I ws eight. Now, not so much. (It doesn’t help that Help Meeee has become such a cliche.)[/QUOTE]
I won’t watch this one again because as a kid it upset me so much that he teleported his cat into “nowhere”. I’d have beamed a neighbor out before using one of my own pets.