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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN1RToUAOQg (Although its a Red Band trailer there's no nudity or swearing... I guess there's some fake blood?) Written and Directed by Clive Barker It is ~*~*~ LORD OF ILLUSIONS ~*~*~ Starring Scott Bakula! Famke Janssen! Kevin J. O'Connor! Daniel von Bargen! quote:It begins in the Mojave Desert in 1982, inside a house that has become the headquarters for a cult led by a man named Nix. Nix has the ability to use real magic and not just mere illusions. While preaching, he tells his followers that he has been named "The Puritan" because of a strange fire that he shown he once chosen by, and tells everyone that it is their destiny to cleanse the world.
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Actually its really bad OP
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Dec 3, 2016 15:38
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That's one of the better movies about magic in general. And it even has the guy from Quantum Leap too.
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Dec 3, 2016 18:01
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Director's Cut is much much better than the theatrical. Still though, the movie hasn't aged that well. It's the only one I can think of that could benefit from a proper remake. The story is solid enough, just get the effects up to par and make the villain more threatening. Once revealed, make magic truly supernatural and terrifying.
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Dec 3, 2016 18:14
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I was thinking about this movie not too long ago. It's a bad movie, but it did some stuff that I still like, like making magic all mysterious and dangerous feeling without relying on elaborate tales of otherworldly demon possession or Lovecraftian elder god nonsense. Nix was just kind of creepy in a small, culty way rather than a take-over-the-whole-world kinda way. Then Scott Bakula shoots at some flying origami I think.
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Dec 4, 2016 08:27
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Never was a fan of this, it's a horror-noir that isn't scary or mysterious. It doesn't even have a particularly striking mood, which should be the one thing a movie belonging to both horror and noir couldn't gently caress up.
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Dec 4, 2016 10:04
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Yeah, Nix being a creepy weirdo was a pretty good turn for a cult leader.
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Dec 4, 2016 17:46
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The Prestige isn't actually about magic, it's about Christian Bale being an rear end in a top hat to Hugh Jackman and vice versa, and each one being an rear end in a top hat to themselves. I do like both movies for making the distinction between illusions and magic, but The Prestige never pulls off the latter. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman and their armies of clones vs Nix would be a pretty cool movie though.
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Dec 4, 2016 20:18
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sethsez posted:Never was a fan of this, it's a horror-noir that isn't scary or mysterious. It doesn't even have a particularly striking mood, which should be the one thing a movie belonging to both horror and noir couldn't gently caress up. You know what it did have though: The best CGI 1995 had to offer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHqFvPfi9iI Now on Bluray!
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Dec 4, 2016 22:47
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I dig the film but even when it was new it felt flawed. I do like how for 1982, instead of making the young people stereotyped punk or new wave or whatever, they went with the yuppy mustache and lacoste look that was infinitely more common irl.
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Dec 5, 2016 14:14
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Just read about how the actor who played Nix ended up and I'm sad now. He was also the commandant from Malcolm in the Middle.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:52
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Everything that happens in the movie is a metaphor for the gay subtext tearing at the fabric of reality.
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Dec 5, 2016 21:02
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Halloween Jack posted:Everything that happens in the movie is a metaphor for the gay subtext tearing at the fabric of reality. "Written and Directed by Clive Barker" Checks out.
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Dec 5, 2016 21:17
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hell yeah, Lord of Illusions kicks rear end, just make sure you get the director's cut otherwise yr missing a lot of the best stuff
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Dec 5, 2016 21:47
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Halloween Jack posted:Everything that happens in the movie is a metaphor for the gay subtext tearing at the fabric of reality. Now I gotta watch it again. I'm guessing the swords stunt in the beginning will take on a new context.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:02
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When you think about it, its kind of crazy how Clive Barker went from horror author to screenwriter and director.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:55
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Don't forget videogames.
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Dec 6, 2016 01:51
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Remember that one VHS 2 segment about the magician that could do real magic? That's my favorite movie about magic. "Ta da."
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Dec 6, 2016 05:43
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muscles like this! posted:When you think about it, its kind of crazy how Clive Barker went from horror author to screenwriter and director. I wish he would direct more. I'm currently reading The Scarlet Gospel and while it has its fun moments, like Pinhead beating up an old blind woman, it's overall pretty weak.
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Dec 6, 2016 05:54
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Grendels Dad posted:I wish he would direct more. I'm currently reading The Scarlet Gospel and while it has its fun moments, like Pinhead beating up an old blind woman, it's overall pretty weak. I liked the part where Pinhead and Lucifer literally have a DBZ fight in midair.
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