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| REVIEW | One of Streisand's Best!
I think this movie is Streisand's masterpiece. It is very good and the story is very well developed. The acting from all parties is terrific and the direction by Streisand is wonderful. I saw this film when it first came out and enjoyed it very much. I know that many people who read the book were not happy but I think she pared down the book to a very manageable size. I highly recommend it. |
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| REVIEW | One of Streisand's Best!
I think this movie is Streisand's masterpiece. It is very good and the story is very well developed. The acting from all parties is terrific and the direction by Streisand is wonderful. I saw this film when it first came out and enjoyed it very much. I know that many people who read the book were not happy but I think she pared down the book to a very manageable size. I highly recommend it. |
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| REVIEW | Don't even consider!
Absolutely horrible! With the exception of the Prince, all the other characters are played by different actors from the first movie. I don't know how Luke Mably accepted to do this movie again as the Prince. The actress playing Paige Morgan would be better off in a shalow role of a high school movie. The other actors aren't convincing as well. |
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| REVIEW | What if God was really the Devil? VERY underrated Carpenter film!
Prince of Darkness is not John Carpenter's best movie (that would be--no, not Halloween--Assault on Precinct 13), but it certainly ranks right up there with the best, and it is certainly his most underrated film. Unfortunately it is relatively overlooked compared to his more famous films.
Carpenter wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym "Martin Quatermass," a nod to the old Hammer Quatermass sci fi films, which he clearly loves. His script is an impressively intelligent one, and that is saying a lot. The characters in a movie cannot sound any more intelligent than the screenwriter is. (Too bad so many movies are written by ignoramuses.) Here Carpenter gives us a group of characters consisting almost solely of scientists and graduate students, and he nails it completely. As a graduate student myself I must say that this movie really does an excellent job capturing that world with its dialogue. Very convincing. The interaction between the multiple characters is also very real, much more real than in any of his other movies.
As a horror film Prince of Darkness does not disappoint. It flows well, has some very impressive cinematography, yet another awesome Carpenter synthesizer score, and is also very creepy. The plot is way out there, and contains some surprises that many viewers might miss. The first couple times I watched this film I completely missed the bomb that Carpenter delivers.
It is not just that the Devil has been unleashed. The real revelation that the characters experience in this film is that the Church has been lyingto us. "God" is the mind behind the universe. The lie is not that God exists, but that God is good. The mind behind the universe is only concerned with the negative side of matter. Thus, God is actually the Devil. Or, put another way, the only supreme being that actually exists is Lucifer (which means "morning star"). Jesus, Carpenter tells us, was simply an extraterrestrial who came here and attempted to warn mankind of this fact. He was deemed insane and executed without anyone really listening to him.
This plot was, incidentally, recycled in John Carpenter's embarrassingly bad Masters of Horror episode entitled Pro Life. At the end of the episode a character points out that if you hear a voice that tells you what to do to be a "good person," how do you know that it's really God talking to you? How do you know it's not the Devil? (For that matter, how do you know you're not crazy, or that it's not an alien beaming a signal to you?) Carpenter clearly likes toying with this idea. It is reminiscent of a quote by Bertrand Russell. He said that when he looks at the world around him it seems much more plausible that the world was created by the Devil when God was not looking.
SPOILER: By the way, isn't it kind of funny how Carpenter tends to set his sci fi elements in the very near future? Didn't Escape from New York take place in 1997? Anyway, here scientists from the future beam a signal back in time so that anyone sleeping in St. Goddard's Church will see and hear a transmission warning them of Satan's return. The signal is being broadcast from the year 1999. At the very end of the movie our protagonist finishes the "dream" and sees that Satan is his love interest who fell into the mirror (or rather, the Devil is using her as a host). The film ends with him reaching toward a mirror. What does this ending mean? Is he still in St. Goddard's? He must be, or how would he be having the dream, but it looks like his apartment. Is he reaching toward the mirror because he misses the girl? Is he going to pull the Devil out? |
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| REVIEW | Don't even consider!
Absolutely horrible! With the exception of the Prince, all the other characters are played by different actors from the first movie. I don't know how Luke Mably accepted to do this movie again as the Prince. The actress playing Paige Morgan would be better off in a shalow role of a high school movie. The other actors aren't convincing as well. |
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| REVIEW | Little Prince DVD
I was disappointed that it didn't follow the storyline of the book.
In some respects, the movie was too silly. I think that the movie missed some of the important messages from the story book. |
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| REVIEW | Little Prince DVD
I was disappointed that it didn't follow the storyline of the book.
In some respects, the movie was too silly. I think that the movie missed some of the important messages from the story book. |
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