The Color Out of Space - Directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage

IamSpechal said:
It also wasn't one of Nicolas Cages's best performances. He wasn't horrible, but something about his acting felt off.
But I like the part at the end where it shows that the being that plagued the family sucked up all the color around it. It was neat, at least in visual terms.
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I really enjoyed the film. They captured the story well, and the part where the hydrologist saw the alien dimension before Lavinia was devoured by the vortex was genius.

I thought Richardson's performance was amazing, and I think she's underestimated in her field.
We really need to see more cosmic horror originals and adaptations.
 
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I've managed to see this yesterday.
I'll try to give an objective review:

The acting is pretty good. Cage has a few "Cage moments" but he's pretty grounded for the most part, you won't get Mom & Dad or Vampire's Kiss levels of crazy here.
The characters are a bit boring. The daughter stands out but the rest, including Cage, don't really do anything until 30 minutes in when everything is established.
The story is OK, I haven't read the original story but from what I know, it's pretty accurate, aside from the ending. The main complaint seems to be "but the color is supposed to be indescribable" but that's a problem with Lovercraft's stories - everything is "unimaginable" or "beyond human comprehension", making the reader create the monsters. The color of the color is fine, I would do it differently but it's fine.
It does take a long ass time to get properly going but there's build up during the slow parts. After a really messed up thing happens, it really picks up.
The effects are mixed. All the practical stuff is great, one scene is definitely inspired by the dog scene from The Thing. Some of the CGI looks off. There's a "cat" at one point and it looks pretty bad.
I feel like there's a lot of stuff that barely gets mentioned and is never developed. Each one of these aspects of the color could be it's own short story. It's like we're supposed to put the pieces together which is fine... I suppose... but I would like to explore those things a bit more.
The movie feels a bit dated, like it should have come out 25 years ago. That's because the director's last feature film was released in 1994 and this is his big comeback.

Overall, it's a decent old school horror movie.
You won't be remembering it for years to come but it's still better than most trash coming out nowadays.
 
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Idiotron said:
The main complaint seems to be "but the color is supposed to be indescribable" but that's a problem with Lovercraft's stories - everything is "unimaginable" or "beyond human comprehension", making the reader create the monsters.
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That was what I said when I first heard about this, I think I said it back somewhere earlier in this thread even. There are actually many Lovecraft stories that could be adapted well to film. But excepting some of the kinda odd, high-concept ones, you basically couldn't have picked a worse story to try to adapt to a visual medium than this one. It's uniquely impossible to properly film, because the core premise is impossible to represent visually.
 
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That was what I said when I first heard about this, I think I said it back somewhere earlier in this thread even. There are actually many Lovecraft stories that could be adapted well to film. But excepting some of the kinda odd, high-concept ones, you basically couldn't have picked a worse story to try to adapt to a visual medium than this one. It's uniquely impossible to properly film, because the core premise is impossible to represent visually.
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I don't think that is impossible. It's just that stuff like the Color (or, for example, cthulhu) shouldn't be shown directly on screen. What the dircetor could do is only showing the effects of seeing the color directly do on people. But presenting the color itself? It would never work, or at least as well. Still, it wasn't horrible in this film.
 
> Closest place to watch this is several miles away with notoriously bad parking
Piracy it is.
 
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