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post #1 of 29
4/16/04 at 11:57pm
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Who else fucking loves this movie? William Hurt, Blair Brown and the entire cast were excellent. I love the 70's drug infested time period. You have massive amounts of drugs being injested, sex, an isolation chamber and a man genetically regressing to his primal state. Does it get much better?
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post #2 of 29
4/17/04 at 7:49am
Loved it...apart from Hurt's TWELVE TOES in the shower scene [exec]The audience is too dumb to notice it[/exec]

...and the fact they ripped off A-Ha's greatest video at the end.

Morten should sue...
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post #3 of 29
4/17/04 at 7:54am
I've never seen it but it does sound interesting. Ken Russell is a weird director ... GOTHIC is nuts ... Genetically regressing to his primal state, huh? Wouldn't our "primal state" be ... GOD?
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post #4 of 29
4/17/04 at 12:39pm
I saw "Altered States" in Wal Mart's DVD bargain bin but didn't buy it. I looked through almost every DVD and only saw one; I bet it's gone now. Stupid me.
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post #5 of 29
4/17/04 at 7:02pm
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Writhing Walt you should spare no expense at procurring a copy of this DVD for your collection. Wetbones, as Jess said you pretty much got the drift so go pick it up today and watch it! It's a truly brilliantly made movie for 1980.

Definitely Hurt's best performance ever.
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post #6 of 29
4/17/04 at 10:46pm
I might pick it up. its under 10 bucks so , no risk
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post #7 of 29
4/18/04 at 2:29am
Heh, I just revisited this film a couple of weeks ago, myself. When I was in college (lo those many years ago) I remember talking to a friend who was majoring in anthropology, and he told me how, whenever anyone from the anthro department was having a party, this movie would be playing in the background.

Wonderfully trippy visuals, good creature effects and, yes, one of Hurt's best performances (though I do think he was even better in BODY HEAT). And to think that this piece of twisted cinema is actually Russel's most accessible mainstream film! Cool, cool stuff.

And hey, the A-Ha video ripped of ALTERED STATES, Shatner.
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post #8 of 29
4/18/04 at 7:25am
...Well bugger-me backwards...really?
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post #9 of 29
4/19/04 at 9:34pm
I absolutely loved it. It was really fun to watch the first time because they made a lot of references to obscure things I knew from constantly surfing Erowid.
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post #10 of 29
4/20/04 at 8:17am
I saw this trailer when I was younger, and the scenes of Hurt in the tank, and as the neanderthal running in the streetlight had me convinced that I was watching a huge Alien baby watching a tidal wave flowing over somebody.

Couldn't have been more off, huh?
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post #11 of 29
4/20/04 at 6:48pm
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Speaking of the movie and its religious connotations I always felt that the end showed that there was no God.
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post #12 of 29
4/21/04 at 5:24pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Floydian Trip
Speaking of the movie and its religious connotations I always felt that the end showed that there was no God.
That's the impression I got too.
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post #13 of 29
4/22/04 at 2:39am
Oh yeah, one of the classics. Hehe, hearing Smith in the Matrix movies say "inevitable" always reminds me of Bob Balaban saying "phe-no-me-non" in this one
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post #14 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:12pm
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I think you're close Jess but I don't think that's what it's saying.

*puke* Love *puke* is the only thing that keeps us from the Black Hole of nothingness. Not even *barf* love really but lust. Sex, desire, lonliness the emmotions needed to fuel reproduction. That's all it is and Hurt's family proved that love is a boring consept and lust rules all. In the end that's all we are is reproductive machines. Nothing more. Our bodies are so efficient, however, that we live longer than we can reproduce. We are empty at that point and without real purpose except giving people shopping carts in Wal-Mart. Or something like that.
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post #15 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:18pm
I don't think it was meant to be that bleak. I think it was saying that while there is no God there is hope and love and we all have each other and all that shit.
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post #16 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:19pm
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Originally posted by Werewolf Girl is the Universe
I don't think it was meant to be that bleak. I think it was saying that while there is no God there is hope and love and we all have each other and all that shit.
That seriously makes me want to vomit.
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post #17 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:30pm
Er, what if I rephrased it? There's no God but don't kill yourself.
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post #18 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:33pm
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No I'm not planning on killing myself. I want to write the greatest horror script ever written first and that could take awhile.
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post #19 of 29
4/22/04 at 7:41pm
I didn't think you were planning on it, I was just going for the least sappy option.

I myself want to live well into my hundreds, I have a lot of work to do before I go. And if I have to die early, I'm takin' all you punks with me!
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post #20 of 29
4/29/04 at 7:19pm
Okay okay, back to the topic at hand (It was started ages ago...
but I mist add my 2 cents...)

The only thing worth seeing in this pretentious shit movie is the
part where Neanderthal-Hurt drops that goat with a rock. That
was fucking priceless. The rest of the movie... nothin but filler.
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post #21 of 29
4/29/04 at 7:22pm
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YOU MUST LEAVE NOW!
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post #22 of 29
4/29/04 at 7:25pm
You die now! YOU DIE NOW!
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post #23 of 29
4/29/04 at 7:45pm
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I fucked up alot of words but it's because I can't friggin type.
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post #24 of 29
4/29/04 at 8:19pm
I think it's priceless when someone takes personal offence
because someone that they've never met before doesn't like
the same shit they do.

It was crap. There were over 20 of us watching the movie at the time, and the only scene that anyone cared to remember was the damn goat. And no, we're not a bunch of kids, and yeah, we love movies as much as anyone on here... but that movie just.. just fucking ate ass.

So yeah, hate me for my opinion, I'm fine with that, because you know what? You're a stranger and your opinion means no more to me than mine does to you.

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post #25 of 29
4/30/04 at 11:22pm
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I don't hate you. I might be able to tolerate a dissing of AS or two.
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post #26 of 29
3/25/09 at 7:55pm
Just watched this for the first time since, geez, has to be the late 80s, and I was struck by how Kubrickian it felt, especially the opening scene. It really is an absorbing film, with a strong thread of humanity running beneath.

And Ken Russell must never sleep at night with this shit in his head.
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post #27 of 29
4/3/09 at 8:50pm
Ken Russell is either very,very good or very,very,bad. Here he is very,very,good.
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post #28 of 29
4/3/09 at 10:57pm
Even when he's very, very bad, he manages to be interesting.

I love this film. I actually think it's his best. It's bizarre, challenging stuff that doesn't spoonfeed you what it's trying to say.
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post #29 of 29
4/4/09 at 12:29am
I liked how the film just ends. There's no scene to wrap things up, no explanation. It just leaves you to draw your own conclusions.
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