Risselada

Member since 9/21/2006, last signed in 2 days ago.

"Home Alone is like a kid's version of Straw Dogs without the rape."

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Personal statement: Interested in everything about film. I'd like to sample every different kind of film possible, and every different kind of art for that matter, just to see what's out there.

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Star Wars

movie year countdown #71 - 1936 ...
By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry. Flash Gordon I guess this was one of the first huge Sci-Fi epics made for the screen. Maybe it was the introduction of Sci-Fi as we think of it into popular culture. This series may even have even shaped how we think about these kinds of fantastical outer space travels with strange creatures, humanoid aliens, and all kinds of fantastical technology or the fact that we even think of these things at all. At it's time it was the most successful serial ever. And although over time these kinds of movies began to lose less interest and were relegated to smaller budget productions, when Star Wars revitalized this genre it was maybe just recapturing much of what was original created with Flash Gordon. What is really amusing to see is what passed as special effects in those days. And also what people imagined would be appropriate attire on alien planets and ... " [More]

The Shining

Re:Who's your favorite horror m ...
By Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
"I'm not really not sure if this would qualify as a horror movie, but The Monster in No Such Thing for sure! Otherwise either Jack Torrence in The Shining, Raymond Lemorne in The Vanishing, or the truck in Duel. " [More]

Re:Films or film making??
By Risselada in Viewing with a purpose
"I guess if I'd have to pick between those two I'd have to say I rate movies based more on how I enjoyed them. Sometimes I end up enjoying movies in ways that I wouldn't expect to enjoy them. Maybe enjoy isn't the perfect word because what I really look for is a movie that affects me in a way that seems truthful. At least to the truth of my current situation in life. Sometimes that can be surprising or not really be "enjoyable" but more gut wrenching or sad or a mix of many emotions. However when you compare that with "how much talent I think the film displayed" if I was somehow able to recognize that the filmmakers were able to display talent but failed to bring something enjoyable, then that seems like a big waste of talent to me. That should almost deserve a worse rating than a movie that is enjoyable despite a lack of talent. I guess I'm not sure how I would define talent entirely though. Again that's a judgement call, just like trying to guess what a film's intentions we ... " [More]

Re:Films or film making??
By Risselada in Viewing with a purpose
"At times it seems like you two are discussing more the distiction between movies created with a commercial motivation and those created with a creative motivation. Which is an easier distinction for me to pick apart than being a fan of films or filmmaking which a distiction that I can't really envision. " [More]

The Matrix

Speed Racer
By Risselada in Trailer Park
"Just saw some of the trailers for Speed Racer and I don't think I've ever seen anything on a moving screen that would fit the adjective "colorful" as well. I remember when the trailer for The Matrix premiered on the Super Bowl one year and no one knew what they had just seen, but they knew it was going to be amazing. I actually kind of just felt like that seeing the Speed Racer trailers. Maybe not to quite the same full extent, but I feel like this is a movie I have to see in the theater! " [More]

For the Bible Tells Me So

For the Bible Tells Me So
By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"For the Bible Tells Me So This movie surprised me. I didn't plan on seeing it, but my girlfriend who is a big documentary fan rented it. I'd almost felt like I'd heard enough on this subject. I was sick of watching people use the Bible as a weapon to support their un-loving and un-Christian beliefs. I didn't want to give people like that any further attention I thought. Not that I don't think we need to find a way to stop this kind of behavior and thinking, but most news I see doesn't do much to help the problem. It's usually just a sick exploitation piece of watching people who hate so we can hate them back. But the approach of this movie is not like that. It's not some sensational news story like you would find on Dateline or something like that. Here are real inspirational stories of homosexual people and their families facing the people who hate them (without even really knowing why) with love instead of hating them back. That doesn't mean submission. These are brave ... " [More]

Ichi the Killer

Re:Ask the Doctor...
By Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
"Media-blasters is a distribution company. I've seen a few anime series from it I think. And also the DVD for Ichi the Killer. " [More]

Re:Feedback - Groups
By Risselada in Spout Moderators
"What I would like would be a feature that would let me easily see in one place which of my contacts were members of which of my groups. And also an options to easily select a large number of people who invite to a group at the same time instead of have to visit each person's page and invite them one by one. Also it would be nice to see a list of anyone who may have rejected an invitation in the past so I don't pester them by accidentally inviting them a second time. " [More]

Re:Membership styles, what work ...
By Risselada in Spout Moderators
"[quote user="csprague"] There are four different membership models for groups. Open membership, invitation only by owner, invitation only by member, or requested membership. Different people use different models, what works for you and why? Do you think the kind of membership model you select influences the kind of group you are going to have? [/quote] I think all of the groups I have created or are moderator of are of the open membership style. If I'm encouraging open participation in my groups, I'm not sure why I would use any of the other models. It just makes extra work for myself and for others to get involved. If someone was becoming a problem user (which I haven't observed yet on this site) you can still always ban them right? I'm not sure what other purpose you would want for requiring invitation in this type of group. I could understand using the other models if you were starting a group where you only want to invite certain people who are already a part of some other ... " [More]

Re:Recasting THE BREAKFAST CLUB ...
By Risselada in Recasting couch
"[quote user="philiptallon"] My ability to recast the movie is a bit hindered by not having SEEN the movie. But given the breakfast theme of the title, here I go with my 'BREAKFAST CLUB' CORPORATE BREAKFAST FOOD MASCOT RE-CAST : Andrew Clark (The Athlete) ... Tony the Tiger Brian Ralph Johnson (The Frustrated Brain) ... The Trix Rabbit John Bender (The Criminal) ... The Cookie Crisp Crook Claire Standish (The Princess) ... Betty Crocker Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) ... Sonny the Cuckoo Bird Richard Vernon (The Principal) ... Captain Crunch (or possibly Count Chocula) Carl (The Janitor) ... Aunt Jemima The abject and inexcusable racism of this final casting choice suggests that the movie is directed by 'Birth of a Nation's' D. W. Griffiths, or perhaps by the Irish and alcoholic Lucky Charms leprechaun. [/quote] WINNER! " [More]

Re:Recasting smaller productions
By Risselada in Recasting couch
"If you guys want to pay me every time I use the site, I'd certainly be open to that! " [More]

The Aura

Re:Duplicate entries
By Risselada in Spout Customer Care
"[quote user="kristen"] Thank you for pointing that out. We have taken care of the problem. ~Spout Team [/quote] Here's another case of duplicates: http://www.spout.com/films/296 223/default.aspx http://www.spout.com/films/271 797/default.aspx " [More]

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