#Tedi Sarafian

[90smovies]

#Tank Girl #Lori Petty #Rachel Talalay #Alan Martin #Jamie Hewlett #Tedi Sarafian #VHS #90s

[jerichopalms]

*Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, dir. by Jonathan Mostow)

(celebrating Judgment Day on July 25 yeeeeee)

#terminator 3: rise of the machines #movie poster #movies #jonathan mostow #tedi sarafian #michael ferris #john brancato #female screenwriters #women screenwriters #terminator

[tankgirlfan23]

Tank Girl: The Movie: A Novel

by Martin Millar based on the comic strip created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett and the screenplay written by Tedi Sarafian

#tank girl #tankgirl #my collection #alan martin #jamie hewlett #book #lori petty #rachel talalay #comix #art #comics #comic art #penguin books #major motion picture #cult film #cult classic

[grigori77]

25 years ago a movie was released based on Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett’s feverishly popular underground comic book.  It was a box office bomb, divided critics and fans alike, and in general wasn’t well received.  And yet is has since become a major cult classic, and rightly so.  Sure, this is a flawed movie, and it plays decidedly fast and loose with its source material, but there’s no denying it’s a lot of fun, and I love it.  Here’s to a quarter century of this wonderful guilty pleasure ...

WARNING!  Possible mild spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen it.

#tank girl #tank girl movie #rachel talalay #tedi sarafian #alan martin & jamie hewlett #alan martin #jamie hewlett #lori petty #naomi watts #Malcolm McDowell #ice-t #don harvey #jeff kober #reg e cathay #scott coffey #guilty pleasures #25 years ago

[crypticmoviereviews]

The Possession Of Micheal King-Tubi

this is what I call a hidden gem. If you love supernatural horror movies this movie is gonna be great for you. its about Documentary maker Michael King does not believe in God, the devil, or any other supernatural existence. His wife Samantha believes the opposite. For many years she has visited medium Beverly for spiritual assistance. Samantha was killed in an accident in the United States, while Michael had wanted to travel with her in Europe at the time. Beverly, however, "foresaw" a major breakthrough in Samantha's attempt to become an actress and advised her to stay in America. Michael confronts Beverly with this. He asks her to admit that she plays false drama and has no contacts with anything at all. Beverly consoles him, but then asks him to leave.Michael struggles to pick up his life again after the death of Samantha. His sister Beth moves in with him to help him care for his daughter, Ellie. Michael decides to make a documentary to prove that there is no paranormal world or afterlife. He argues that such concepts can only be sustained out of human fear of nothingness, by a market that earns big money from it. From that starting point, Michael offers himself as a test subject for the heaviest, darkest supernatural rituals in which some other people believe. He places an advertisement on the internet where people can respond with suggestions for experiments to prove the opposite of his position. Cameraman Jordan will film everything he goes through, 24 hours a day. Michael assumes that he can show that there is nothing. If he is wrong, at least he becomes the first person ever with concrete evidence for the supernatural. the kill count for this movie is 4. Stay creepy guys. xoxo,Logan

#horror strory #horror #Horror Movies #horror fan #Horror Fans #horror fandom #horror fandoms #Scary Movie #hidden gems #SCARY FANS #LOVE + FEAR #horror lover #kill count #david jung #tedi sarafian #movie fandom #Satanic #cult club

[adamwatchesmovies]

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

No, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines isn't as good as the previous films. It may be a disappointment but to call it bad, you’d have to ignore everything it does right.

In 1984, Kyle Reese told Sarah Connor her son would lead humanity against Skynet following “Judgment Day” on August 29, 1997. That date has come and come. Now, John Connor (Nick Stahl) lives off-grid, cherishing every day as a gift and hoping the prophecized future will never come. When a new Terminator, the T-X (Kristanna Loken), arrives and begins eliminating John Connor’s future lieutenants, the humans send their own cyborg to the past (Arnold Schwarzenegger). As the T-X closes in on John's future wife, Kate Brewster (Claire Danes), the future is once again put in jeopardy.

At its worst, T3 misses opportunities. Presumably, the advanced prototype in T2 had a default form because it wasn't fully polished yet. There’s really no reason for the T-X to always take a recognizable and easily identifiable shape except to be spotted by the characters. Disappointingly, the T-X's design is nothing special; nothing compared to the chilling metal skeletons we've seen before. Finally, the characters do not achieve the same kind of growth and development they did previously. The writing's just not on that level.

With that said, Rise of The Machines gets much right. The vehicular carnage and action is spectacular; If computers were used to amplify the wreckage created as the T-850 and the T-X duke it out on a crane (who’s unique characteristics are used to its full potential), you can’t tell. It’s also surprisingly funny and the ending's so good, it elevates the picture on its own.

Being the third in the series, Rise of the Machines knows when to poke fun at itself. The interactions between an incredulous Kate, a been-there-done-that John, and a deadpan Terminator make for many hilarious, quotable scenes. Often, director Jonathan Mostow plays with your expectations with great success. Just when you think you know what’s coming up, he pulls the rug from under you.

This brings us to the ending. The original movie explored a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the sequel, we learned you COULD change the future. In the third film, the bleak horror of inevitably returns. While there are laughs throughout, Rise of the Machines is grim. Sarah Connor is dead. Not in a glorious showdown; from cancer. John Connor, prepped from day 1 to be this great leader is kind of a bum. The whole movie, you think he and Kate are headed to some kind of movie-cliche central database - probably guarded by a giant mechanical spider - so they can blow it up and save the day. Actually, Skynet has no central base; there's no way to prevent Judgment Day.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is not on the level of its predecessors but remains a good entry in the series. Good instead of great but still worthy nonetheless. (On Blu-ray, September 6, 2019)

#Terminator #The Terminator #Terminator 3 #terminator 3: rise of the machines #movies #films #reviews #movie reviews #film reviews #film criticism #jonathan mostow #john brancato #michael ferris #tedi sarafian #arnold schwarzenegger #nick stahl #claire danes #kristanna loken #science fiction #sci-fi

[jamiepannn]

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#Tank Girl #movie #set #1995 #Naomi Watts #Lori Petty #fashion #seapunk #vaporwave #Rachel Talalay #Tedi Sarafian #90s

[man-creates-dinosaurs]

The Shape of Allusions: Analysis of THE SHAPE OF WATER Trailer

·         The Little Mermaid – The trailer starts off with a narrator asking the audience if they have ever heard the story of “the princess without a voice.” A princess without a voice in a story about a merman? This seems like an obvious reworking of the key elements of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy-tale Den lille havfrue/The Little Mermaid, about a mermaid princess who sells her voice to a sea-witch in order to become human and meet a prince. Here our main character of Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is mute but doesn’t appear to be any sort of princess but is in love with a merman (Doug Jones) who we know was also once worshiped “like a god.” Could that mean he is also a prince?

·         The Hellboy Connection – As many commentators have already pointed out SHAPE’s merman bears a striking resemblance to another aquatic humanoid also previously portrayed by Doug Jones in another film by Guillermo del Toro: Abe Sapien as seen in HELLBOY (2004). Though Abe is the creation of Hellboy writer/artist Mike Mignola, del Toro took a special interest in this character when adapting the comic to screen. According to Jones, the first time del Toro saw the finished Abe maquette the director dropped to his knees and began to sob: “You are so beautiful… And I am so fat.” Del Toro also imbued Abe with several traits unique to his cinematic incarnation including a love of rotten eggs and classical music; traits which SHAPE’s merman seem to have inherited as well. Furthermore, the line in the trailer about scientists needing to “take him apart and learn how he works” seems to be a direct nod to the story “Abe Sapien versus Science” which first appeared in the comic Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 (Sept. 99) and concerns how Hellboy rescued Abe from being dissected when he was first brought to the B.P.R.D.

·         The Creature from the Black Lagoon – As noted in my previous post THE SHAPE OF WATER is an obvious spiritual sequel to Universal Studio’s THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954, Dir. Jack Arnold), a film which del Toro has repeatedly expressed a great deal of fondness for. As such Doug Jones’ merman is a clear descendant of that film’s Gillman famously portrayed by Ben Chapman on land and diver Ricou Browning in the water.

·         Elements from Unmade Creature Reboots – Universal Studios has been trying to reboot/remake THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON since the early 1980s with none of the proposed projects ever coming to fruition. An excellent overview of these various failed attempts is David J. Schow’s essay “Revenge of the Return of the Remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon” found in Tom Weaver’s authoritative tome The Creature Chronicles (McFarland Press, 2014). I have little doubt that del Toro has probably read a fair number of these unmade scripts, if not all of them, and there are a couple lines in the trailer that would seem to suggest as much. At one point in the trailer a character called Strickland (Michael Shannon) says: “You may think that that thing looks like a man, it stands on two legs right? But we’re made in the Lord’s image. You don’t think that’s what the Lord looks like do you?” This sounds similar to a line of dialogue from veteran sci-fi film writer Nigel Kneale’s unmade CREATURE remake from the early 80s. In Kneale’s script religious zealot Capt. Paul Shiver says of the Gillmen: “They’re Men of the Wrong Day. Mankind was created on the Sixth Day. These must have come too soon, the day of the creatures of the sea, and the great whales…” Shiver wants to train the Gillman to be used as a military weapon and plans to do so via sadistic shock treatments. It would appear as if Strickland has similar plans for his merman. In another line of dialogue in SHAPE’s trailer we learn that “the natives in the Amazon worshiped it like a god.” The reference to the Amazon is the clearest indication we get of this film’s thematic linkage to 1954’s CREATURE, only the Gillman in the original film wasn’t worshiped by any natives. Rather this is an idea that was first brought to light in a script penned in the early 2000s by writer Tedi Sarafian under the stewardship of producer Arthur Ross and using Kneale’s script as a basis. Ross had hoped the anticipated box office success of the Hugh Jackman starring monster hunter movie VAN HELSING (2004, Dir. Stephen Sommers) would help get his CREATURE remake made and he had just the director in mind for the project as well: Guillermo del Toro. Unfortunately VAN HELSING tanked and with it so did the prospects of a del Toro directed Gillman movie… Until now.                                  

#creature from the black lagoon #the shape of water #guillermo del toro #doug jones #gillman #merman #the little mermaid #hans christian andersen #jack arnold #michael shannon #sally hawkins #hellboy #mike mignola #abe sapien