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I never said his acting was good. Nobody could have saved that movie, and he didn't even try to, LOL.
I like what he brought to the villain character. Most Hollywood villains are of several cliches...

1. The scheming cerebral villain. May be megalomanical instead.
2. The psychotic villain, often grinning/laughing psychotically.
3. The stone-faced villain, i.e. the Technician.

Vincent Klyn brought ghetto/gangsta/Oz to his role instead. He killed ppl like he was lifting weights, which actually scared me. Hollywood villains are not scary. A guy who acts like a gangbanger with power? That is scary.

Agreed!

If I remember rightly, this was one of two movies made after Tarantino's Grindhouse featured spoof trailers for non-existent films (Hobo With a Shotgun and Machete). As I understand it, the trailers proved so popular that they were subsequently made into real films!

Machete has a kind of 1970s blaxploitation feel to it (think Shaft with Latin-American actors, and set in Mexico!) I actually think it's better than Hobo, but both provide a lot of guilty fun moments!

I really liked machete, was glad to hear that a sequel is in the works.
Yep you're right about the fake trailer thing, machete was one featured on the grindhouse double bill. Still waiting for the full movie of werewolf women of the SS.

I entirely agree! No one has scared me shitless as much as this guy has! No one. He takes the cake. Just for fun, i'll list all the other villains that have managed to intrigue/scare me from my youth til today:

Sam Neil (Event Horizon)
Stephen Lang (The Hard Way)
Clancy Brown (Highlander, which i only saw bits of)
Tom Noonan (Robocop 2)
Jeffrey Jones (Howard the duck)
Annie Ross (Superman 3, when she turned into that robot freak)

And pretty much anyone that Satan took over in Dark Side Of The Moon. A few scenes in Lost Souls freaked me out as well. But still... nothing compares to Klyn. Nothing.

After imdb-ing this guy, i didn't even realise he was in Nemesis and Point Break. I'll definitely have to go watch those again.

Anyone ever seen Country Man
It is about a Jamacian Rastfari Superman, Lots of classic reggea music, action & a good message on life! Kind of a cult movie, kind of corny too, but I watched it last night for the 50th time. If you love reggea & Bob Marley you would enjoy Country Man

I just watched Edward Scissor Hands with my kids. Tim Burton is weird

Burton's weirdness is what makes his movies amazing. (Yes I actually like his work and his art style. No, I'm not a Hot Topic mall goth. Yes, other people are allowed to like his work, too.) He doesn't care about what other people like or don't like, he just makes a good story. I watched Edward Scissorhands with my sisters probably about a year ago and when it was over, my youngest sister proclaimed that it's her favorite movie ever.

Burton is good at what he does. He made my favorite Batman movie ever, with the best Joker of all time (Sorry Heath, but Jack is just fuckin' crazy!), Edward Scissorhands is a classic, Nightmare Before Christmas...wasn't my cup of tea, but was still worth a watch. And Sweeney Todd is probably my favorite musical ever.

Then again, he does have a bad one or two in there.

I was a bit underwhelmed by Alice in Wonderland, for instance. I felt like he altogether too hard with it, and I was extremely disappointed with Depp as The Hatter.

Go to Youtube and look up Tom Petty's music video for Don't Come Around Here No More.

THAT is how The Hatter should've been. Insane, but in a cold and calculating way. Not mildly harmless with the frizzy hair and just waiting to snap out a physically impossible dance routine.

Don't get me wrong, I love Depp's work. He just fell flat here. When I think Tom Petty would be better at a role than a professional actor, then yeah...that part is forever ruined for me in the movie.

I suppose on some level I'm getting a bit tired of seeing the same people reappearing over and over and over in Burton's films. Depp, again...yes, he's good, and they have a good history, but its at the point of expected that its hardly a surprise to see him in the films anymore. And Helena too. I understand her and Burton are making the mad whoopiez, but that throws me off his latest movies a little bit more as well.

I just feel like, all told, Burton is digging himself back into a corner. Like it won't be long before we're going to see a movie that's just Depp and Helena sitting around wearing stripes from head to toe, with a strange soundtrack and some dark dialogue and funny camera angles.

I could never understand how some people label Burton as a hack just because he has a distinctive style, much like Zach Snyder is shunned, yet they turn their backs and go praise Aronofsky or Tarsem Singh. You might not be a FAN of their styles but it doesn't make them hacks for sticking to how they love doing their work.



Wow you really ARE in my bed!!! Oh and i also agree about Helena. Oddly enough i feel she truly SHINES when she's NOT in a Burton film, like Potter, Merlin, King's Speech, etc. :)

I think people label Burton as a hack because a lot of them are sick of seeing whiny emo kids who wear all the Tim Burton Hot Topic clothes but aren't even old enough to have seen Nightmare Before Christmas the first time around. I'm not saying all Burton fans are like that, though. I personally find his twisted art an inspiration. Hehehehe... He has an innovative style, much like the Wachowski brothers or Zack Snyder, all of whom create movies that I love. :D

That reminds me, the Watchmen haven't been watched in a while. I better go do that tonight.

Are we not allowed to have t shirts of things that came from before we were born?

stares at his The Beatles, Thundercats, Ghostbusters, Starwars, Galaga, and Ramones shirts.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that people have a problem with the shirts because the emo kids wear them because they look dark and twisted. If they actually watched the movies, they most likely would not hold the same meaning.

That is what I was trying to say. Lots of people get mad at the kids who wear Tim Burton stuff because its dark and scary-looking, not because they like his work. I personally think it's fine to have shirts from before you were born, but wearing it for the wrong reasons is what gets people angry. I have a pretty good collection of Thundercats and Ghostbusters stuff myself.

I recently recorded a wall. Then I watched it.





It was boring. There was no plot and I'm a horrible director.

Ready for the list?

- Kenny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljKxU8EXPOQ
- Bad Lieutenant
- Lord of War
Poop.
- Lucky Number Slevin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30EeGDiI7MA
Dumb plot twist though.
- Shaun of the Dead
The first twenty minutes of this movie are possibly my favorite camerawork/filming that I've ever seen done.
- Public Enemies
- The Royal Tenembaums
- The Big Lebowski
- One Night at McCool's
All of these are rewatches.
- The Boondock Saints
Honestly not as good as I thought it would be, but gay Dafoe was the best thing ever.
- Bullitt
Slow and "best car chase ever"? Not really...definitely not bad though. c:
- Black Swan
Don't understand why everyone "loved" this, more of loved the lesbian sex with herself I guess, but it was okay.
- Pale Rider
Slow but good and SHE'S FIFTEEN CLINT. WHY DID YOU WRITE THAT?
- And there were like twenty more but I really am drawing a blank because I am tired and this is good enough.

recently rewatched the old Fright Night movies.
Then watched the new one.

Now I want a time machine so I can steal Roddy McDowell and put him in a room with David Tennant. Just for laughs.

I loved the original Fright Night. I hate the remake. -.- I also have yet to see the sequel to the original.. Is it any good?

the sequel is alright. not as good as the original of course. but charlie gets bitten by a sexy lady vamp, so it's alright i suppose.
i love the remake. at first i just watched it because it has David Tennant (one of my fave actors)as my character from the original. When I actually watched it, I sat there squealing in fangirl glee every time they included dialogue or a reference to the original. (just like i did with Star Trek.)

I'll have to track down the sequel to see it.

xD Nice. I mostly hated it because of how they portrayed Peter Vincent. He was a badass old man in the original... Remake made him look like a loser-faker dude.

Colin Farrel plays the vampire in the remake Fright Night, correct?
Sorry but I can't get behind that. I saw that on the poster and was like "Now there's no way I'm seeing this."
I know the movie is supposed to be somewhat camp anyways, but Farrel does not have an ounce of exoticness or air AFAIC.

I wouldn't call the remake a great movie by any stretch of the imagination but it's watchable. David Tennant (who i really don't rate) and Colin Farrell are the best things in it. One of the best things Colin Farrell has done in recent years is "The way back" about a group escaping a gulag and hiking to India.