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| Forums Index -> Dread Central Cinema -> Nov 28 - An American Werewolf In London |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:48 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Cool. We n*sync. :\ |
Can I be ... um ... the one that didn't look gay. Which I guess was ... hm ... |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:48 am
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| I love every single little thing about this movie. It is damn near perfect in my eyes. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:50 am
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| Gory wrote: | | LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Cool. We n*sync. :\ |
Can I be ... um ... the one that didn't look gay. Which I guess was ... hm ... |
That would be Joey Fatone. Also called Fat One. But being fat and a comic book fan like myself, I think I'm a better fit as him. You can be Lance. Sure, you're gay, but you almost got to go to space! |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:50 am
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| I begged my dad to take me to see this when it came out. I had just turned 8 years old so he gave in. I didn't even make it through half the movie. This whole opening alone freaked me out. After the two of them get attacked I was so traumatized every time I was outside at night I always looked towards the trees and wondered if there was a werewolf there. It wasn't until I was about 13 that I finally saw the movie all the way through. On television. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:52 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | | LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Cool. We n*sync. :\ |
Can I be ... um ... the one that didn't look gay. Which I guess was ... hm ... |
That would be Joey Fatone. Also called Fat One. But being fat and a comic book fan like myself, I think I'm a better fit as him. You can be Lance. Sure, you're gay, but you almost got to go to space! |
Good point. I think. Although didn't he kiss Emmanuelle Chriqui in a movie? |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:53 am
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| Gory wrote: | Trivia of sorts:
John Landis originally wanted three other songs to add to the soundtrack: Cat Stevens wouldn't allow "Moonshadow" to be used because he had stopped allowing his secular music to be licensed for films following his conversion to Islam; Bob Dylan wouldn't allow his version of "Blue Moon" to be used in an R-rated film, as he had just begun his brief conversion to Christianity; and Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Moon" proved unavailable due to the ongoing lawsuits involving his estate. |
I never knew this. I hate Dylan and don't think Presley would have fit in anywhere and Don't care about Stevens, so it doesn't bother me. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:54 am
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| Compared to all of John Landis' other movies I think this one has a very distinct look and feel to it. Even when he's done non-comedy films and even went back to horror they never came close to this one. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:54 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | Trivia of sorts:
John Landis originally wanted three other songs to add to the soundtrack: Cat Stevens wouldn't allow "Moonshadow" to be used because he had stopped allowing his secular music to be licensed for films following his conversion to Islam; Bob Dylan wouldn't allow his version of "Blue Moon" to be used in an R-rated film, as he had just begun his brief conversion to Christianity; and Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Moon" proved unavailable due to the ongoing lawsuits involving his estate. |
I never knew this. I hate Dylan and don't think Presley would have fit in anywhere and Don't care about Stevens, so it doesn't bother me. |
I think the songs they have in the movie are perfect. I can't imagine it with anything else. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:56 am
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| Chicago is full of pubs so whenever I go to one - The Red Lion, The Elephants Head, Celtic Crossings, The Irish Oak - I always think of The Slaughtered Lamb. I used the joke once to people that didn't know what I was talking about. I never hung out with them again. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:56 am
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| The guy telling the joke was also in Alien 3. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:57 am
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| Gory wrote: | | I begged my dad to take me to see this when it came out. I had just turned 8 years old so he gave in. I didn't even make it through half the movie. This whole opening alone freaked me out. After the two of them get attacked I was so traumatized every time I was outside at night I always looked towards the trees and wondered if there was a werewolf there. It wasn't until I was about 13 that I finally saw the movie all the way through. On television. |
The family across the street from me when I was little had a VCR before we did and I was staying the night over there with my best friend at the time. HE was a couple years older than me, about 13 and he had his mom rent it. We say on the carpet in front of his TV and watched it that night. I loved it ever since. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:57 am
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| I bet this hole in the wall pub has an awesome pint. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:58 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | | I begged my dad to take me to see this when it came out. I had just turned 8 years old so he gave in. I didn't even make it through half the movie. This whole opening alone freaked me out. After the two of them get attacked I was so traumatized every time I was outside at night I always looked towards the trees and wondered if there was a werewolf there. It wasn't until I was about 13 that I finally saw the movie all the way through. On television. |
The family across the street from me when I was little had a VCR before we did and I was staying the night over there with my best friend at the time. HE was a couple years older than me, about 13 and he had his mom rent it. We say on the carpet in front of his TV and watched it that night. I loved it ever since. |
Were you freaked out? |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:59 am
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| Gory wrote: | | LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | | LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Cool. We n*sync. :\ |
Can I be ... um ... the one that didn't look gay. Which I guess was ... hm ... |
That would be Joey Fatone. Also called Fat One. But being fat and a comic book fan like myself, I think I'm a better fit as him. You can be Lance. Sure, you're gay, but you almost got to go to space! |
Good point. I think. Although didn't he kiss Emmanuelle Chriqui in a movie? |
You lucky bastard. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:01 am
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| Gory wrote: | | Compared to all of John Landis' other movies I think this one has a very distinct look and feel to it. Even when he's done non-comedy films and even went back to horror they never came close to this one. |
You're right, though I can't say why. |
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