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DocBenWiz Special user Meridian, Idaho 991 Posts 
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Again, (and knowing many of you here were probabby born after this film) I recommend the cassic, gothic film by Ingmar Bergman, 1958 "The Magician". Not the TV show with Bill Bixby!(And I know subtitled films, as this is in Swedish,are an anathema to young folks these days, but it is worth it for the period styling, theme, mystery and creepiness of the gothic genre presented)
Here is a link to check out an excerpt, although not the best one representative of the film unfortunately. Http://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician There also is a better and longer review by Bowie if you Google the film title,
"Pay no attention to that strange man behind the curtain" (it's only "Doc Benjamin from the Amazing Wizardelia Wagon")
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DocBenWiz Special user Meridian, Idaho 991 Posts
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Ooops, sorry, not Bowie. The brief trailer and review of the 1958 Bergman classic, "The Magician", is by film critic, Peter Cowie;
Www.Youtube.com/watch? V=YDOzeEh5d7c
"Pay no attention to that strange man behind the curtain" (it's only "Doc Benjamin from the Amazing Wizardelia Wagon")
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On Jul 19, 2014, Mind Guerrilla wrote: "Jacob's Ladder" awesome film Mind Guerrilla fantastic twist at the ending. |
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On Jul 20, 2014, Fire Starter wrote: Another good one THE JACKET a 2005 psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury ,a man is bound in a straitjacket and then placed inside a morgue drawer and experience's extra-corporeal time-travel. |
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phil_n New user Sheffield, UK 28 Posts
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The Book Thief - not supernatural although it is narrated by Death
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ZoOpDoG Veteran user All the cool people have 311 Posts
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I gave a copy of ET to a friends kid as a gift about 12 years ago. I asked him later what his kid thought of it. He said "honestly man, it scared the **** outta him" I was shocked as I remembered it being such a tear jerker. He reminded me that when I saw it there were happy meals featuring ET and toys and commercials etc. When his kid saw it it was just a creepy alien hiding in a little girls dolls at one point etc. I never really thought about how much those things influence perception. That experience definitely made me become more aware of the manner in which something is presented and how the elements around it can alter perception.
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ZoOpDoG, that is really fascinating. Who would ever have imagined ET frightening anyone? Yet, it does make sense. I would also guess that there are dozens of similar displaced "Hollywoodonian" examples of perception vs. reality.
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I took a first date to see ET, I was holding back tears and she showed no emotional signs. (why I remembered,Her!)
Her comment was something like this " It's just some ugly alien creature ". I think she could eat her, young ! lol
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts
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You gotta stop dating sociopaths G
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@Brynmore14..." If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with " lol
(Julie Newmar, Cher, Elvira, Marsha Brady, were always somewhere else at the time !) 
And, Yes they were older ! I always wanted a 'Cougar' ... Then, NOT NOW ! LOL
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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galerius Loyal user Piemontese Alps ( Northwestern Italy ) 245 Posts
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Well, not so many, to speak the truth...I can be interested, amused etc. but 'filled with emotions' is rare.
However : As for moving me I'd say The Elephant Man, The Circus ( Chaplin ), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Kotch. As for conveyed "sense of wonder", I find the '66 Fantastic Voyage unbeatable. |
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Elephant Man had me bawling. Barber's Adagio for Strings played in the background of any death scene will bring on the water works.
Everyone in Spooky should watch this film. It's Lynch's masterpiece in my opinion, and has his signature touches all over the place...steam, fogged glass, the hum of machinery...the circus scenes are especially disturbing. Hopkin's face when he first sees Merrick is priceless. It's worth watching just for that.
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Yes ! The Elephant Man, was touching.
Not sure why this one did not come to mind, until just now. "Somewhere in Time", starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve, from 1980 .
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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Yessss! Also gets me every time even though it's corny as h*ll. Jane Seymour is always easy to look at though. Dang.
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts
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I am I the middle of watching Hugo, and it is vibrating my heart strings. My wife saw this ages ago, but I missed it.
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I have also thought of two of my all time favourite movies that have strong magical themes,Excalibur and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts
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Ooh "something wicked" what a great film.
Not film, but I remember "puff the magic dragon" being played on the radio as a small child and being totally wreaked by it, unfortunately my mum had just told me that "if you listen carefully, some songs tell a story". Well she wasn't wrong, It still gets me all these years later. Soppy sod
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Polanski's "Ninth Gate" filled me with emotions. The two main ones being intense rage and bitter disappointment.
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts
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I thought it was ok, but haven't read the book, so nothing to compare it to.
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On Jul 29, 2014, Brynmore14 wrote: I recommend you read the book. It is soooooo much better than the film. They stripped out a very significant strand of plot when making the film, which diminished the intrigue and impact for me. It also meant the film made less sense. And I thought the art direction was more "Murder She Wrote" than "Rosemary's Baby", which pretty much turned me off. Oh, and the ending was really, really sh*t and strayed absurdly and inexplicably far from the book. In some ways I can't blame Polanski for ballsing it up. The novel is basically about an unsympathetic anti-hero traveling around, talking to people about books and solving a cerebral puzzle - not the easiest thing to turn into a silver screen smash. But it didn't stop me being angry and disappointed.
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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