Movie Details
| Title: | Troll | |
| Director: | John Carl Buechler | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| Genre: | Monster | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 01.17.08 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 01.17.08 | Terror Thursday | Terror Thursday at South lamar. You know... I never thought I'd say this but after this summer's Weird Wednesday experiences there I really don't mind these midnight shows at South Lamar at all. In fact I kind of prefer them. I don't have to worry about parking, there's plenty of room for the line, and room to talk with your friends afterward. I guess I'm just getting old or whatever... going downtown is definitely less of a draw for me nowadays. Anyway, I guess I'd heard about the whole Harry Potter connection before but I'd completely forgotten about it along with anything else I may or may not have ever known about this movie. So it was fresh and surprisingly good! The make-up effects were really good and I loved how all the little creatures looked (especially the one that looked kinda like Rodney Dangerfield and the one that looked a lot like the Austin Chronicle's Lewis Black), Michael Moriarty was GREAT as the dad. I loved it when he jammed out in the living room. The little girl was also great (although the boy was really bad. REALLY) and the scene where the girl's running around on a sugar high and we meet all the tenants of the building is actually super well-constructed and played really well by everyone involved. Color me surprised. And then when I think it's getting kinda old, all the little creatures start singing! It's like Magnolia but makes more sense. I also loved June Lockhart's thing about what day they dropped the Hiroshima bomb and how that would be a good thing to look up. Oh, I also also thought it was cool to get her daughter to play the young version of herself, and how Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall play a couple and ESPECIALLY Sonny Bono's unique brand of swingin bachelor. All the tenants are pretty great and the creatures were cool and funny and my lids only got heavy right at the end which, to be honest, I sort of thought would happen much sooner. Good, funny times. I'd always heard that Troll 2 had nothing to do with Troll 1. There are actually a couple similarities. The troll looks _kind of_ the same as the ones in Nilbog (but much better), he turns people into plants, there's a lot of the color green going on, and the dad's in both of them are awesome. Zack said it had more to do with the Troll 2 guys not getting permission from the Troll 1 guys before making it but... isn't that some sort of Italian filmmaking tradition anyway?. So yeah, had a good time with this one. |
