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| Forums Index -> Dread Central Cinema -> Nov 28 - An American Werewolf In London |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:01 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | 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. |
If it was me then yes.  |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:02 am
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| Gory wrote: | | 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. |
They are perfect. I sing stuff from this movie so often it's sad. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:02 am
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| The roar is so perfect and distinct. I wonder what they made that from? I saw a low budget werewolf movie where they literally stole that from this movie. And I mean from this movie. It seemed like they recorded it from it and then placed it in. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:02 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | | 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. |
They are perfect. I sing stuff from this movie so often it's sad. |
Not sad at all. I have all the songs on my iPod.  |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:03 am
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| I'm surprised we didn't have a bigger turn out tonight. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:03 am
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:04 am
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| Gory wrote: | | The roar is so perfect and distinct. I wonder what they made that from? I saw a low budget werewolf movie where they literally stole that from this movie. And I mean from this movie. It seemed like they recorded it from it and then placed it in. |
I've heard it in a few movies. It's so distinctive that you CANNOT mistake it. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:05 am
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| John Landis came up with a film following an incident while shooting _Kelly's Heroes_ (1970) in the countryside of Yugoslavia. While driving along a country road with a colleague, Landis encountered a gypsy funeral. The body was being buried in a massively deep grave, feet first, while wrapped in garlic, so as he would not rise from the dead. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:06 am
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| Gory wrote: | | 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? |
Not really. The only part of the movie that really frightened me at all was the scene in the subway. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:07 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | Gory wrote: | | The roar is so perfect and distinct. I wonder what they made that from? I saw a low budget werewolf movie where they literally stole that from this movie. And I mean from this movie. It seemed like they recorded it from it and then placed it in. |
I've heard it in a few movies. It's so distinctive that you CANNOT mistake it. |
I am shocked that people can think they can use it. Unless they're doing an homage. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:07 am
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| I tried to get a new person to show up tonight, but he didn't make it. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:07 am
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| Studio executives hoped John Landis would cast Dan Aykroyd in the role of David and John Belushi as Jack. John Landis refused. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:08 am
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:09 am
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| The guy from the US Embassy is none other than Frank Oz who has done many voices on the Muppets and of Yoda in the Star Wars movies. He has also directed several films including the musical version of Little Shop Of Horrors. |
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:09 am
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| LivingDeadPunk wrote: | | I tried to get a new person to show up tonight, but he didn't make it. |
He? Can't we get more she's? |
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