Dark Places Movie Review & Film Summary (2. Gillian Flynn’s script for. David Fincher’s incredible adaptation of “Gone Girl” was a master class in. It makes sense that another of. Flynn’s novels, the sinister “Dark Places,” would get the cinematic treatment. Gone. Girl” as a What Not to Do cinematic lesson. Whereas Fincher and Flynn brought.

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Spaceballs is a 1987 American comic science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis. 7.2 Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. Fortunately for Sarah Paulson, she has a much calmer week this week than she did during Election Night. Rather than screaming and. No one involved in the production of Dark Places ever asked a crucial question: Why should you care?

Paquet- Brenner only makes the already- underrated “Gone Girl” look even more. Advertisement. When she was only seven, Libby Day (Sterling Jerins). Her entire family was murdered in a shotgun rampage.

In Cold Blood.” In fact, the murders earned that kind of. Libby’s brother Ben (Tye Sheridan).

Accused of dabbling in Satanism. Ben was convicted on little evidence, and true crime nuts have been convinced.

He's 12 years old and still afraid of the dark. The burglars hid in the dark between the two buildings. He bought the kids special rings that glow in the dark.

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Day murders. Of course, there was, because. Bitter and hardened by life, grown Libby (Charlize Theron). Corey Stoll older). That’s when she’s contacted by Lyle Wirth (Nicholas Hoult), a. He convinces the broke Libby to tell her story to the club.

Of course, Lyle has ulterior motives. Ben is innocent, and he eventually talks Libby into digging. Both narratives—the current- day investigation and the days.

Theron does her brooding best to make Libby. Consequently. “Dark Places” is a film without a protagonist, akin to watching recreated footage. Dateline NBC,” as each flashback or revelatory conversation fills in a few more. Poor Theron wanders through a narrative designed around reveals; so she’s either remembering things she couldn’t have possibly. As he often has lately, Corey Stoll actually makes out the best in a few.

Ben, and Hoult certainly isn’t bad even if his. Advertisement. All of this leads to a distinct lack of urgency in “Dark. Places,” which makes the dour, depressing subject matter that much harder to. It's a checklist of awful things that can happen to a Middle American family. The Day matriarch (Christina Hendricks) is afraid of losing the farm.

Satanism threatens to entice. Ben, the kid is accused of child abuse, drugs, teenage pregnancy—the whole. We. needed a reason to wallow in the dark places of Libby Day’s horrible life to. No one involved in the production of “Dark. Places” ever asked a crucial question: Why should we care?

Spaceballs - Wikipedia. Spaceballs is a 1. American comic science fiction film co- written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, the film also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers.

In addition to Brooks in a supporting role, the film also features Brooks regulars Dom De. Luise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appearances. The film's setting and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci- fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films. It was released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer on June 2. It has since become a cult classic[4] on video and one of Brooks's most popular films.

Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has squandered all of its fresh air. Skroob schemes to force King Roland of the neighboring planet Druidia to give them the code to allow them to steal all their air by kidnapping his daughter Princess Vespa on the day of her pre- arranged wedding to the narcoleptic Prince Valium. Skroob sends the villainous Dark Helmet to complete this task with Spaceball One, an impossibly huge ship helmed by Colonel Sandurz. Before they can arrive, Vespa abandons her wedding and flees the planet in her Mercedes spaceship with her droid of honor, Dot Matrix. Roland contacts mercenary Lone Starr and his mog (half- man, half- dog) sidekick Barf, offering a lucrative reward to retrieve Vespa before she is captured. Lone Starr readily accepts, as he is in major debt with the gangster Pizza the Hutt. In their Winnebago space ship the Eagle 5, Lone Starr and Barf are able to reach Vespa before Spaceball One, rescue both her and Dot, then escape.

Spaceball One tries to follow, but Helmet foolishly orders the ship to "ludicrous speed," causing it to overshoot the escapees by a large distance. Out of fuel, Lone Starr is forced to crash- land on the nearby "desert moon of Vega".

The escapees travel on foot in blazing sun and pass out. They are found by the Dinks, a group of diminutive red- clad aliens, and are taken to a cave occupied by Yogurt, who is old and wise. Yogurt introduces Lone Starr to "The Schwartz", a metaphysical power similar to the Force. Yogurt also introduces the audience to the film's merchandising campaign.

Starr and Vespa begin to flirt, but Vespa insists she can only be married to a prince. Helmet and Sandurz break the fourth wall by using a VHS copy of the film to discover Vespa's location, and Helmet orders Spaceball One to the moon. The Spaceballs capture Vespa and Dot, and return with them to planet Spaceball.

Their captors threaten to reverse Vespa's nose job, forcing Roland to give over the code to the shield that protects Druidia. Helmet and Sandurz take Spaceball One to Druidia, while Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot from the Spaceballs prison complex. When they arrive at Druidia, the Spaceball One ship transforms into Mega Maid, a robotic maid with a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum is then turned on, sucking the air out of the planet. When the vacuum bag is almost full, Lone Starr uses the Schwartz to reverse the vacuum, successfully blowing the air back onto the planet.

Once the air is successfully returned to the planet, Lone Starr and his allies enter the Mega Maid to attempt to destroy it. Solyaris Full Movie here. Lone Starr is forced to fight Helmet with lightsaber- like "Schwartz rings" near the ship's self- destruct button. Lone Starr manages to defeat Helmet, causing him to involuntarily strike the button. Lone Starr and his friends escape the ship.

Skroob, Helmet, and Sandurz fail to reach any escape pods in time, trapping them in the robot's head as the ship explodes. Subsequently, they land on a nearby planet, much to the regret of its Planet of the Apes- like population.

With Lone Starr's debt to Pizza nullified by the gangster's untimely death, he returns Vespa to Roland and leaves, taking only enough money to cover his expenses. After a lunch break at a diner and a strange incident involving an alien and an astronaut, similar to the events in Alien, Lone Starr finds a final message from Yogurt informing him that he is a prince and thus eligible to marry Vespa. He manages to reach Druidia in time to stop her wedding to Valium, announces his royal lineage, then marries Vespa. Development[edit]When Mel Brooks developed Spaceballs, he wanted his parody to be as close to the original as possible. Even though Yogurt mentioned merchandising during the movie, Brooks's deal with George Lucas on parodying Star Wars was that no Spaceballs action figures be made. According to Brooks, "[Lucas] said, 'Your [action figures] are going to look like mine.' I said OK."[5][6]Brooks also had Lucas's company handle the post- production, saying, "I was playing ball with the people who could have said no." Lucas later sent Brooks a note saying how much he loved Spaceballs and that he "was afraid [he] would bust something from laughing".[6]Bill Pullman got the part of Lone Starr when Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft saw him in a play—he had never seen Star Wars prior to filming.[7] Brooks had been unsuccessfully trying to sign on big- name actors such as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks for the film. Pullman said, "I think [Mel] was hurt that they didn't take him up on it ..

John Candy and Rick Moranis. Once that was secured, then he said, 'Heck, I'll get somebody nobody knows!' And I got a chance to do it."[8]Daphne Zuniga initially found Brooks's film parodies "too crass and not too funny", but after working with Brooks, she said, "I have this image of Mel as totally wacko and out to lunch. And he is. But he's also really perceptive, real sensitive in ways that make actors respond."[9]When the film was released, Spaceballs: The Soundtrack was also released on Atlantic Records on audio CD and Compact Cassette, featuring many of the songs heard in the film, as well as three score cues by composer John Morris. For the "1. 9th Anniversary", La- La Land Records released a "limited edition" CD, presenting the score in its entirety for the first time, with bonus tracks featuring alternate takes and tracks composed for, but not used in the film.[1.

Spaceballs Main Title Theme" – John Morris"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" – Jeffrey Osborne and Kim Carnes"Heartstrings" – Berlin"Spaceballs Love Theme" (Instrumental) – John Morris"The Winnebago Crashes"/"The Spaceballs Build Mega- Maid" – John Morris"Spaceballs" – The Spinners"Hot Together" – The Pointer Sisters"Good Enough" – Van Halen"Wanna Be Loved by You" – Ladyfire"Raise Your Hands" (hidden track) – Bon Jovi. Watch The International Online Goodvideohost here. Release[edit]Box office[edit]The budget for Spaceballs was an estimated $2.

The film grossed $3. United States, taking in $6,6. Dragnet.[1. 1]Critical reception[edit]The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Rotten Tomatoes reported that 5. At another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 1. Many critics agreed that, while it was funny, doing a Star Wars parody ten years after the original film had been released seemed pointless.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun- Times gave the film 2. I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept thinking I was at a revival…it should have been made several years ago, before our appetite for Star Wars satires had been completely exhausted."[1.

Home media[edit]Spaceballs was first made available on VHS and Laser. Disc in February 1. The VHS edition was issued twice; the latter edition was presented in widescreen.

The laserdisc, meanwhile, also gained a commentary track with Brooks; this was transferred over to the DVD and Blu- ray releases. The film was first released on DVD on April 2. This version also contained "the making of.." documentary and the collectible "making- of" booklet. The film was then released in the "Collectors Edition" on May 3, 2. This edition contained more extras including the documentary about the film and the video conversation about the making of the film with Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan.

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