interesting thing i just realized about the child's play movies

[Baliset]

every movie was written by the same guy.

that is COMMITMENT to the life of a project if you ask me.

although did wes craven write all the freddy movies? then that would be even bigger i suppose.

 

[goatschool]

i agree, very interesting.

it looks like mr. craven wrote parts of most of the NOES films.

i'm not really into chucky stuff but now that you point this out, i find it fascinating.

btw do you recall when chucky showed up on WCW wrestling sometime in... 99? i think?

i wonder if the same guy wrote his lines for that.

 

[Baliset]

yeah that was quite possibly the worst celebrity cameo in wrestling since the early 90's when Robocop came down to the ring with Sting.

 

[FuSoYa]

Wes Craven actually only wrote part 1. On the special Nightmare DVD box set they have a whole extra DVD (aside from the special features on each disc) with interviews, facts, games, explanations, makings-of, etc etc and they talk to everyone and I mean EVERYONE including the writers and directors of each of them. Oh also all the writers and directors were tools who you gather couldn't possibly have a true "horror" mind whatever that means (except for W.C.)

 

[goatschool]

when wes craven is listed as writing "characters" of each film, then, i bet that's in his contract or signifying intellectual properties or something.

 

[xfer]

also did you know brad dourif was the voice of chucky in one of the movies!

 

[Baliset]

in all of the movies

 

[xfer]

at LEAST two

 

[mindspell]

Wes Craven also wrote "New Nightmare" which was, in my opinion the best of the series. NOES was great back in the day but they aged very badly.

 

[FuSoYa]

oh yeah i forgot about that one. did you really like it all that much though? i thought it was sucky.

 

[FuSoYa]

also greg, noteworthy is the fact that the Child's Play movies, although fewer of them than the Nightmares, have gone on for more YEARS than the Nightmares did... so it would appear, then, that the C.P. films are a bigger lifetime commitment, right?

 

[Autumn Falls]

Man for some reason I couldn't help but think of that movie with that pesky kid and Gilbert Godfrey when I read Child's Play.... argh!! What is the name? help anyone? If it's any help I remember in the fourth they go to Catillion (sp?).

Brandon

 

[xfer]

problem child?

 

[Baliset]

toby: i would agree with that comment. my main point here is that while i don't like the child's play movies very much, i respect the fact that the writer don mancini is committed to his work and is comfortable with the niche he has created for himself in the film world, albeit very small. he's like a lesser version of george lucas or george romero in that respect.

alex: no brad dourif is the voice in all of them. although my guess is you are trying to antagonize me.

 

[Autumn Falls]

Ahh.. Problem Child. Thanks!

Brandon

 

[mindspell]

oh yeah i forgot about that one. did you really like it all that much though? i thought it was sucky.

It wasn't all that good but it still was the one with the best writing and possibly the best idea for the series to go anywhere. Considering that Craven had just did Scream at the time and the way he turned that around, yet remained in the same horror-film tribute mode, I found that it was pretty good. Have you watched any NOES recently? They are really bad and apart from nostalgia I don't think I could enjoy a minute of them, they are not even funny.

Halloween series is probably the series that aged the best with Romero's Dead series. Friday the 13th suck ass too.

 

[xfer]

oh, I thought New Nightmare was darn good.

 

[azal]

Problem Child was great up until they changed the main red headed kid.

 

[FuSoYa]

i watched them all in a row not more than two months ago, and yeah they kind of all have their fatal flaws except for #1 of course starring <3 johnny depp <3

 

[kleo706]

I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think Johnny Depp has a sweet ass.