Movies RIP Joel Schumacher - Dies aged 80

[fungi]

R.I.P.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

What? Why?

maybe he played his character a little too well.

 

[fingercuffs]

i just can't, i don't know why.

he was great in lost boys, stand by me, hell even in flatliners

Husband used to be the spitting image of a cross between him, Eddie Izzard and James Hetfield. Lost Boys was my all, so much fun. I went pretty nuts about Flatliners too.

 

[BayAreaGuy]

A lot of people hate on his Batman movies, but growing up, I really enjoyed them. I haven't seem them as an adult though, but I want to.

8MM is my favorite movie of his.

 

[minute bull]

8MM is my favorite movie of his.

When it comes to tension, it's no slouch compared to SE7EN; both were written by Kevin Andrew Walker. The climactic sequence inside the boogie house murdered me with its sound design. When the music stops and it's just the record skipping? Yikes.

I wish the ending was a bit tighter. It seemed during that time Nicolas Cage was ubiquitous but sometimes didn't nail the landing. SNAKE EYES, coincidentally by another gay director, is another picture where everything is humming along until it sort drops out of sight suddenly. Too much denouement?

 

[Fedorgasm]

RIP

Made the GOAT Vampire movie

Seriously? The goat?

Maybe I need to watch it again. Haven't seen it since I was a kid.

But I would think it's hard to compete with John Carpenter's vampires.

 

[BayAreaGuy]

When it comes to tension, it's no slouch compared to SE7EN; both were written by Kevin Andrew Walker. The climactic sequence inside the boogie house murdered me with its sound design. When the music stops and it's just the record skipping? Yikes.

I wish the ending was a bit tighter. It seemed during that time Nicolas Cage was ubiquitous but sometimes didn't nail the landing. SNAKE EYES, coincidentally by another gay director, is another picture where everything is humming along until it sort drops out of sight suddenly. Too much denouement?

Yeah, those scenes where the hero is creeping around the bad guy's house are always good. 8MM had one of the better versions of that.

(The Snowman also has a great creeping around a house scene)

 

[Simple Southerner]

Rip

 

[Peteyandjia]

Even if he only ever directed The Lost Boys and Falling Down, he’d be a legend. As it is, he directed a handful of other interesting movies, from all over the place genre-wise.

(and of course, unleashed the cinematic nipple cancer that were his Batman sequels, but we don’t speak ill of the dead here.)

Off the beaten path, for anyone who hasn’t already seen them, these two would make for a fun afternoon double feature:

Watch em both, & then realize that not only were they made by the same director, but they were made in the same year.

RIP Shoe Maker

 

[Peteyandjia]

Lost Boys is the best vampire movie ever,

Made the GOAT Vampire movie

Spoiler: SRSLY

 

[Peteyandjia]

i just can't, i don't know why.

he was great in lost boys, stand by me, hell even in flatliners

Bro. The first 3 seasons of 24 are solid gold. Go take that ride if you haven’t already

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Bro. The first 3 seasons of 24 are solid gold. Go take that ride if you haven’t already

i can't take his face seriously anymore - after all that plastic surgery.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Everybody makes a little stinky doo. Except John Cazale.

This is nothing to do with anything but I just started watching Deliberate Stranger and Mark Harmon even sounds like Terry O'Quinn at times

 

[Fizzee Water]

Spoiler: SRSLY

I love Interview too, don't get me wrong. Lost Boys is just way more watchable.

 

[Batjester]

Just caught the end of St Elmo's Fire this weekend on Starz.

 

[JSN]

made the worst Batman ever tho.

@Bullitt68

 

[Bullitt68]

made the worst Batman ever tho.

@Bullitt68

If nothing else, hopefully his death will inspire people to (re)watch and (re)appraise his work, including and especially his work after taking the Batman baton from Tim Burton. Batman Forever is outstanding and Batman & Robin is criminally misunderstood and unfairly maligned, and to anyone who says different...

 

[Plissken]

When it comes to tension, it's no slouch compared to SE7EN; both were written by Kevin Andrew Walker. The climactic sequence inside the boogie house murdered me with its sound design. When the music stops and it's just the record skipping? Yikes.

I wish the ending was a bit tighter. It seemed during that time Nicolas Cage was ubiquitous but sometimes didn't nail the landing. SNAKE EYES, coincidentally by another gay director, is another picture where everything is humming along until it sort drops out of sight suddenly. Too much denouement?

Brian DePalma isn't gay.

 

[BisexualMMA]

This is nothing to do with anything but I just started watching Deliberate Stranger and Mark Harmon even sounds like Terry O'Quinn at times

Man that's a blast from the Sherdog conversation past reference. Yeah with a stronger follicle game Terry would have had those housewives salivating in the 80s.

 

[Oeshon]

He was the Wilt Chamberlain of gay sex.
Respect.

LOL

Now I remember where I remember his name from. He's the guy that had sex with like 20,000 people of something crazy like that

Respect (no homo)