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[rapoon]

Original Fright Night was totally awersome. It had an album track listing of famous 80s New Wave bands. I'd be disappointed in seeing the remake just on the music alone

Actually man, the opening song is "Bad Bad Love" by Alexander. It's a bad ass song.
It's a cool flick.

[Moniker]

@ Herzog folks --

I'm watching Fitzcarraldo, and can't for the life of me tell what language it's supposed to be in. The lips synch in english but the voices don't really match up. ???

[Acid King]

Gore Gore Girls rules! I miss H. G. Lewis.

He's still around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2NzSRFMTOA

[Skykid]

Watched this last night:



I never saw it originally, but I remember that the UK VHS was meant to be heavily cut so it's just as well I waited. I think I've got a soft spot for Frank Henenlotter movies. They're really amateurish and obviously bad, but somehow very entertaining - almost like the director was making them like that at the time because he knew it would pique everyone's interest thirty years later.

[drauch]

Gore Gore Girls rules! I miss H. G. Lewis.

He's still around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2NzSRFMTOA

Oh shit, I thought he died a few years ago...

[Aguraki]

transformers 3
saw it a while ago and the girl is completly invisible and out of place in this movie.
I coulnd't help and think where the fk is megan,how did u dump her,is she dead,etc...
After the 2 parts how they bring a new girl like that is beyond me.

Movie sucked overall too and I loved 1st 2 episodes...

[iconoclast]

Watched The Host last night. One of the best monster movies I've seen in years, and it was surprisingly funny too. Definitely recommend checking it out (along with this director's other movies, Memories of Murder and Mother, which are even better).

[CMoon]

Urgh...watched one of many versions of Scott's Legend, and I don't think I need to ever see it again. Ultimately this is a piece of shit movie made by really talented people. There are some shots which are really well composed, and somehow manage (at times) to make this film feel like something more than what it really is. Unfortunately, those talented cinematic moments are relatively lean, and even with the Evil's super-cool look, it just isn't enough to turn this into more than a polished turd.

Seriously fans, be real with yourself, this isn't better than Krull. No, it isn't.

As a side note, the version I watched had the soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. I realize that fans are all nostalgic for the tangerine dream soundtrack (and really, nostalgia is about the only reason to watch this), but the Goldsmith soundtrack carries a lot of familiarity as well if you've watched the other films he's scored from the early 80's (Star Trek the Motion Picture, Secret of NIMH, etc.)

"I don't get it pop--was there a murder or wasn't there?" Yes, killed good evening.

[drauch]

^I like you more and more every day. I despise Legend so much. I really don't understand the love for it at all, especially compared to the many great fantasy flicks that came out around the same time.

[CMoon]

Thanks Drauch. The weird thing about Legend is how nostalgic I am for this period of films. I find myself mulling over films I don't even really like that much. Legend hit me with both the whole early 80's vibe, and that early 80's Goldsmith sound--which I really like. I loved soundtracks as a kid, and Goldsmith, Williams and Horner were kings! So here I am watching this pile of shit movie, but totally getting into all the talent behind it.

*sighs* I don't think many people on this forum are really that young anymore, so you probably get nostalgic for this period too. I even miss the godddamn 70's/80's Universal Pictures logo with the filthy letters.

I never watched Labyrinth, so I guess that's up next. Hope I'm not too cynical/jaded to enjoy it.

[drauch]

Yeah, same here. Somehow I missed watching Legend growing up, and when the time finally came, a wave of disappointment flooded over me. I love silly films, but it's just too...silly. I can take a little humor in my fantasy, but Legend just overdoes it. Tim Curry's makeup is fantastic, and that's really the only compliment to the film I can give. Old video logos get such a rise out of me! Sadly not in the dirty way, but damn, it really brings me back to a time when film was grand. I especially love old VHS intros and their logos. Stuff like Vestron, Media, Cannon, and all that makes me go giddy like a schoolgirl. A couple years ago a theater got hold of a copy of Robocop, and damn, was that a dream come true. I strangely have never watched Labyrinth as well, nor The Dark Crystal! Don't know why, and at this point, I don't know if I'll ever even get around to it.

[rancor]

Watched 1979s Over the Edge last night. Great film about pot-smoking 14 year olds living in suburban hell - starring a young Matt Dillon. Awesome soundtrack featuring The Cars, Cheap Trick, and The Ramones. I love the "teen rebellion" genre, and late 70s / early 80s just cinches it.

<sigh>.... The 80s....

Trailer:

Over the Edge

[CMoon]

I strangely have never watched Labyrinth as well, nor The Dark Crystal! Don't know why, and at this point, I don't know if I'll ever even get around to it.

I recently rewatched Dark Crystal and it was surprisingly better than what I remembered. Here is a case where I think, sometime earlier, I was too jaded in regards to the film as it is such a huge labor of love, even it is by no means a perfect film. Also, earns points for not trying to explain everything and some genuinely bizarre creature designs. If you're doing the early 80's thing, this is one you should add to your list.

[xbl0x180]

I liked Labyrinth. It's very cheezy with the animatronics, but I like it in the same manner I like to see how a watch works with its many operations and intricacies. Costumes were good and the music score was decent, including the two David Bowie songs, which are strangely very, very sappy and romantic (earnestly sappy and romantic!). I actually included one of those in a mix-CD I made for a girl for Valentine's Day. That's how unashamedly sentimental it is hahaha

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec

[Moniker]

Saw Tower Heist. Don't see Tower Heist.

[CMoon]

Well, keeping to my word, I watched Labyrinth tonight. It certainly isn't as imaginative as Dark Crystal, but that isn't saying much, given how wildly out of control Dark Crystal is. There's still amazing moments here, though it doesn't constantly amaze. If nothing else, Labyrinth is a fun movie--and that's worth more than you'd think. Everyone dances at the end, and you never really feel like Bowie was genuinely evil, just creating an evil scenario to be triumphed by good.

Definitely worth about a thousand Legends and Krulls. Wish I'd watched it at the right age.

[Jon]

Bowies codpiece in Labyrinth was definitely evil.

I just picked up a copy of the Finnish flick Rare Exports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RQlikX4vvw

Great holiday film for the whole family.

[RNGmaster]

I saw a finnish movie a while ago called Pelikaani Mies (Pelican Man) about a pelican who dresses up in a man suit and tries tto convice two kids that he's a real person.

What the hell is in the water in Finland?

[BIL]

Day of the Jackal (1973). Excellent, slow-burning assassination/police procedural thriller. Apparently a box office flop which could've starred Roger Moore in the title role, in my book a bullet dodged much like Frank Sinatra as Vito Corleone and John Wayne as Dirty Harry. Edward Fox is perfect here.

[Raytrace]

Day of the Jackal (1973). Excellent, slow-burning assassination/police procedural thriller. Apparently a box office flop which could've starred Roger Moore in the title role, in my book a bullet dodged much like Frank Sinatra as Vito Corleone and John Wayne as Dirty Harry. Edward Fox is perfect here.

yeah that is a great film - so 70's the way it just ENDS.

I also dont even mind the remake, though of course it isn't as good at all, it is definitely entertaining.

[Skykid]

Maniac Cop 2.

What's wrong with me these days?

[drauch]

You mean what's not wrong with you? You've been watching sweet movies!

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Checked out the first showing of Immortals in 3D presented in DFX (Digital Fusion format which is comparable to Imax) with a upgraded 18,000 watt surround sound system in place at the local movie theater on Friday, November 12th, 2011. The fight scenes between the Gods & the Titans were brutal and sure packed quite a visual punch. Sure did get my ponying up $12.50 worth out of seeing it indeed. If you watch the ending credits, you'll see quite a bit of international CG companies whom were hired out to complete this film.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Aguraki]

straight time with dustin hoffman.
pretty good and with harry dean stanton....

that led me to watch

repo man with harry dean stanton and emilio estevez.
pretty bad 80's movie that start well and then turn in a nonsense worse than bukaroo banzai(which was great).
it's just random scenes one after one and I kinda watched it windowed the last 25 mins.

[drauch]

WHAT. Repo Man is always intense!

[xbl0x180]

I love paraphrasing that movie and referring to their BEER-brand beer

People go missing all the time. Where do they go?

Aliens? They look like sausages.

[jonny5]

WHAT. Repo Man is always intense!

Indeed!!! Watched it last night for the first time in at least a decade. Even better than I remembered. And the g/f had never seen it before!

[spadgy]

Watched Manhattan finally. A great movie (I bloody love Woody Allen) but I found the world and characters a little harder to warm to than I usually do with Allen's films.

[Moniker]

Watched Manhattan finally. A great movie (I bloody love Woody Allen) but I found the world and characters a little harder to warm to than I usually do with Allen's films.

Yeah I felt the same way. I read somewhere that he considered it a spiritual successor to Annie Hall, which feels right, but Allen and Keaton's characters' neuroses weren't as endearing in Manhattan. And I couldn't quite get past his romancing a 17-year-old. Watched Crimes & Misdemeanors recently, which was a whole new type of brilliance from his usual comedies. I think I slightly prefer his nihilistic dramas (Match Point, Another Woman, maybe Hannah & Her Sisters [being a dramedy]) to the comedies at this point.

[emphatic]

Watched Manhattan finally. A great movie (I bloody love Woody Allen) but I found the world and characters a little harder to warm to than I usually do with Allen's films.

Yeah I felt the same way. I read somewhere that he considered it a spiritual successor to Annie Hall, which feels right, but Allen and Keaton's characters' neuroses weren't as endearing in Manhattan. And I couldn't quite get past his romancing a 17-year-old. Watched Crimes & Misdemeanors recently, which was a whole new type of brilliance from his usual comedies. I think I slightly prefer his nihilistic dramas (Match Point, Another Woman, maybe Hannah & Her Sisters [being a dramedy]) to the comedies at this point.

You guys' seen Broadway Danny Rose? It's my fave Allen film.