We can add Dawn of the Dead(both versions if you ignore the post credits sequence in the remake) and 28 Days Later to the list as well.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Anoconda is worth a look only because of Jon Voight's strangely entertaining > turn as a Latin bad guy out to exploit the giant snake for profit. He drips > bad-guy loathsomeness. It's a really funny, campy role that can only be > pulled off by a good actor in a silly role. I'm not a big fan of Lopez, so > she's no draw. Cube is okay. The overall movie is fun if you take it as > completely fanciful camp, maybe in the same broad family as movies like > "Piranha" . The anaconda itself isn't animated very well: it's obviously CGI. > An added issue is that it moves in ways completely impossible in nature. They > don't even give the snake some kind of scifi explanation: mutation, > experiment gone awry, etc. > > "Deep Blue Sea" is far superiour, and always worth a look. It's on my list of > fun movies to watch if i'm home and bored. "Event Horizon" is a cut above > standard scifi horror (how much "Scifi" horror exists anyway?) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracy Curtis" <tlcurti...@...> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 1:40:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] killing off black characters > > > > > > > Now I have to watch Anaconda. I avoided that because of the effects. I had > forgotten about Deep Blue Sea, but had the same theater experience. It's > worth another look just for that. I liked Event Horizon when it came out, but > haven't watched it in a long time. My memory of the ending was really hazy. > > With lone black characters, there's always way too much sacrifice for the > group, or getting sacrificed for the group. > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@... > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > There's a few. One of the earliest was "Anaconda", in which Ice Cube survived > while most of the whites died. Indeed, one of the reasons it succeeded with > blacks was that fact. Many of us were still smarting from the first "Jurassic > Park", where the first death in the flick was an old black man who'd climbed > onto the dino's cage, only to be eaten (and I could *never* understand why he > did that while the Great White Hunter stood at a safe distance with a loaded > gun). And of course Sam Jackson's character bought it in that movie. So Ice > Cube's survival was a new thing. > > LL Cool J survived in "Deep Blue Sea" (one of my fav B-movies) although all > but one of the whites bought it. Indeed, there's a joke in the movie itself > where LL's character says "Black people never survive stuff like this". In > the theatre where I saw the movie, the mostly Black and Mexican crowd roared > with laughter. > > Though Fishburne's character bought it in "Event Horizon", Richard T. Jones' > character survived the grisly killing orgy. > > Can we say Keith David "survived" in the 80s remake of "The Thing"? He and > Kurt Russell were the last two men left alive, though the ending pretty much > shows they were both going to freeze to death very soon. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tracy Curtis" < tlcurti...@... > > To: SciFiNoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 7:14:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] killing off black characters > > > > > > > I imagine this subject has been discussed on the list before. But I just > watched Cloverfield and was shocked that the black character seemed to be the > only one to survive. How many other movies with an ensemble cast leave black > characters, or maybe other characters of color, alive when others are killed? > Just wondering. I couldn't think of any. >
