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BIL · Post by **BIL** » Wed May 06, 2015 4:01 am

Q (1982) oh hell naw, a dragon is going around NYC eating motherfuckers. Is this for real? Maybe it's just a gigantic ostrich. David Carradine and Richard Roundtree's cool cat detectives disagree on the facts, while Michael Moriarty's neurotic loser petty crook is pretty sure he knows what the fuck is up.

Although I'm not sure how intentional it was... the movie's earlier, better half derives a creepy uncertainty from its juxtaposing of mundanity and blunt monster terror - Moriarty's pathologically twitchy, nervous ex-con being the sole witness to events aids the effect. It devolves into schlock surely enough, but I found the fleeting glimpses of something less hamfisted quite tantalising.

Drum · Post by **Drum** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:37 am

BIL wrote:Q (1982) oh hell naw, a dragon is going around NYC eating motherfuckers. Is this for real? Maybe it's just a gigantic ostrich. David Carradine and Richard Roundtree's cool cat detectives disagree on the facts, while Michael Moriarty's neurotic loser petty crook is pretty sure he knows what the fuck is up.

Although I'm not sure how intentional it was... the movie's earlier, better half derives a creepy uncertainty from its juxtaposing of mundanity and blunt monster terror - Moriarty's pathologically twitchy, nervous ex-con being the sole witness to events aids the effect. It devolves into schlock surely enough, but I found the fleeting glimpses of something less hamfisted quite tantalising.

Same director did The Stuff and that has a similar vibe, so definitely intentional. I really like The Stuff.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Wed May 06, 2015 6:33 am

Oh cool, ta! Will check that one out.

drauch · Post by **drauch** » Wed May 06, 2015 7:04 am

The Stuff is my favorite Cohen movie. You'll love it. Absolutely hysterical. Moriarty is always good in his movies, but he really shines there.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Wed May 06, 2015 7:05 am

Aww sheeit, bumped up to TONITES VIEWING ;3

I loved Moriarty, hadn't seen him before (that I know of). Was reminding me of Michael Biehn's intensity and Christopher Walken's weirdness.

Mero · Post by **Mero** » Wed May 06, 2015 7:56 am

BIL wrote:Q (1982) o

When we first got a video back in around 86/87 this was one of the very first tapes we ever got, the local video shop was flogging off some of their old stock. We also had a video of Popeye cartoons (the Sinbad one) and Annie (for my mum). I strongly suspect that Q and the Popeye vid were 'pre-cert' since the rating logo's were just stickers stuck on the case.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Wed May 06, 2015 7:39 pm

Interstellar
Decent movie that was way too slow and whinny for the first hour. Barely any time spent on the specifics of the mission before they went on it, but once they went on it, the movie became good. Shame that first hour was so slow and boring. Weird at points, but not 2001 weird. Enjoyed it for what it was. Sound mix sucked ass though.

Xyga · Post by **Xyga** » Wed May 06, 2015 7:56 pm

Jupiter Ascending - nice tech demo... that's it.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed May 06, 2015 8:41 pm

OZ: The great and powerful -

Whilst the ending had a bit of kick to it, the build up was slow and felt uninteresting. Its a shame that Sam Raimi never put quite as much inventiveness into the beginning and middle sections of the movie. Certainly the world in which OZ is, it could have been much more.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Thu May 07, 2015 3:05 am

lilmanjs wrote:Sound mix sucked ass though.

Nolan has an ongoing problem with that. Dark Knight Rises was barely audible.

Back to The Future II

Fucking amaze. Don't make em like that no more. So many memorable lines.

Khan · Post by **Khan** » Thu May 07, 2015 12:04 pm

CHI wrote: Big Hero 6 2014[/b]

I watched that yesterday, for a supposed kids movie it actually was really quite good! there were several parts in the movie that were just utterly hilarious but one scene had me laugh so much I had tears in my eyes (butler fist bump!)

I also watched Oblivion (tom cruise) yesterday, although it was decent you could see where it was going and I liked the fact the director had inspiration from anime, i dont know if its been mentioned or not but theres an anime I watched in the late nineties called Cyber city Oedo 808 there is a scene in ep 3 where Benten puts the vampire girl in cryosleep and tells her to dream of him even though he loves her he has to let her go...whether or not its coincedence we will never know i guess

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu May 07, 2015 3:50 pm

BIL wrote:Although I'm not sure how intentional it was... [Q's] earlier, better half derives a creepy uncertainty from its juxtaposing of mundanity and blunt monster terror - Moriarty's pathologically twitchy, nervous ex-con being the sole witness to events aids the effect. It devolves into schlock surely enough, but I found the fleeting glimpses of something less hamfisted quite tantalising.

I enjoy the Ebert review for giving a possible insight into that (even if he's just dishing on another reviewer, lol):
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/q-1982

A few days after “Q” was screened at the Cannes Film Festival (under its original title, “The Winged Serpent”), the following conversation took place between Samuel Z. Arkoff, the film's producer, and Rex Reed, the critic:

Reed: Sam! I just saw “The Winged Serpent”! What a surprise! All that dreck--and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!

Arkoff: The dreck was my idea.

After mentioning a couple obvious '50s horror flick setups, he closes with a list of Arkoff's films and a thought about film:

Remember, for example, “Attack of the Crab Monsters”, “Viking Women and the Sea Serpent”, “Creature from the Haunted Sea”, and “The Wasp Woman”. But in the last few years Creature Features have been replaced by Dead Teenager Movies, and instead of awful special effects of a monster going berserk, we get worse shots of a homicidal maniac going berserk.

I guess you're never in "the good old days." Can't say I really care about the Dead Teenager Movies, still.

Mischief Maker · Post by **Mischief Maker** » Thu May 07, 2015 9:05 pm

Skykid wrote:Back to The Future II

Fucking amaze. Don't make em like that no more. So many memorable lines.

Excuse me for going all Skykid on you, but I totally disagree. Back to the Future 2 was the first movie as a child that I realized was an unnecessary sequel with alarming amounts of product placement. I think even Zemeckis said it was just a disappointing rehash of part 1.

Now Back to the Future 3 redeemed itself, mostly because Doc Brown is the protagonist and Marty becomes the sidekick.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu May 07, 2015 9:32 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:I enjoy the Ebert review for giving a possible insight into that (even if he's just dishing on another reviewer, lol):
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/q-1982
A few days after “Q” was screened at the Cannes Film Festival (under its original title, “The Winged Serpent”), the following conversation took place between Samuel Z. Arkoff, the film's producer, and Rex Reed, the critic:

Reed: Sam! I just saw “The Winged Serpent”! What a surprise! All that dreck--and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!

Arkoff: The dreck was my idea.

Haha, I saw that too. COLLATERAL

Transformers 4 (2014) -__- same hamstrung mess as the third movie. Marginally interesting robot action spoiled by irritating, "relatable," plot-armoured human characters and their inane soap opera. I was exhausted when I got home today, was mildly curious about GALBATRON and figured it'd be a decent switchoff. It wasn't. As usual, these movies can't even pass for mindless fun. They're too poorly made for that.

Best bit, by far, is early on when the Jar Jar comic relief hippy dude gets fucking carbonised by a robot grenade. Turned the unfunny beardy cunt into a blackened silver statue of anguish, frozen in futile flight amidst a sea of flames. Nice shot, Mr. Robot! Ok look I'm sorry, that is a bit mean, but it was presented as some devastating loss and it was anything but. On the contrary, it was a merciful reprieve from his idiotic quips and dumb fucking face. Sadly, there's a lot more where he came from. Holy shit do these movies have some irritating people.

Ixmucane2 · Post by **Ixmucane2** » Fri May 08, 2015 1:45 pm

White God (Fehér isten)

In a large Hungarian city along the Danube, Lili, a curiously unattractive teenager trumpet player, goes to live with her father, who takes all of one day to abandon her beloved dog Hagen in the street.
Over the following weeks Lili gets quite rebellious but reaches some understanding with her father, while Hagen has a number of unpleasant adventures.
What appeared to be a story of adolescents and pets switches gears into ultraviolence and becomes a rather novel combination of thriller and noir as Hagen leads a mass escape from the municipal kennel and begins using his new dog army to brutally murder a number of people in revenge, from the obnoxious lady who tipped off the dogcatchers to the "trainer" of combat dogs who developed Hagen's dark side.
When the horde of dogs has effectively conquered the city, Lili reunites with Hagen and tames him.

The eversion of traditional genres, the overt political undertones and the adaptation of many action, war and crime clichés to dogs are interesting, but what really makes this a masterpiece is the impressive density of straightforward storytelling and powerful scenes and images.

Superb photography and editing, good music, and incredible performances from the trained dogs.

Ixmucane2 · Post by **Ixmucane2** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:31 pm

Force Majeure

A family of Swedes (Tomas, Ebba and two children) goes skiing in France. They survive an avalanche unharmed, but in the worst possible way: Tomas runs like a coward leaving behind the others.
This causes an avalanche of self-loathing and distrust, involving the children and a few friends in the crisis; but like all avalanches it ends leaving a new, smooth surface (of renewed hypocrisy and self-esteem).
Well written drama, with many subtle and symbolic elements and a great balance between concrete events, sad feelings and funny moments.

Elegant photography, redeeming an abuse of out of focus images (as if always minimizing depth of field, even when there's no reason for blur) with very effective scenes of fog and whiteout.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat May 09, 2015 4:06 pm

Skykid wrote:
lilmanjs wrote:Sound mix sucked ass though.
Nolan has an ongoing problem with that. Dark Knight Rises was barely audible.

I never noticed anything bad until I watched the BluRay -- with thin walls and neighbors in close proximity. Everything was fine, until Bane said something.

Back to The Future II

Fucking amaze. Don't make em like that no more. So many memorable lines.

They played all three at a movie theater here recently. They play lots of good stuff... all of which I miss.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Sat May 09, 2015 6:29 pm

Skykid wrote:
lilmanjs wrote:Sound mix sucked ass though.
Nolan has an ongoing problem with that. Dark Knight Rises was barely audible.

Back to The Future II

Fucking amaze. Don't make em like that no more. So many memorable lines.

Heck yes, even though its a rehash of the first, it does so darn well, Back to The Future II. As for Nolan and sound mixes. I had to put headphones on so I could hear people talking. I figured the others in the house didn't want to hear Interstellar. Ohh hi! I'm the musical track! I'll play loud enough you can hear me, but people talking are nearly drowned out. How it won for best sound mix is beyond me.

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Mon May 11, 2015 4:27 am

Just saw Ex Machina.

It's one of those movies that's different from what you expect given the trailer. From the trailer you expect it to be about a robot escaping in the near future or something. It sorta is, but roughly halfway through the film (or maybe a bit longer, idk) it gets very dark and very jarring to watch. (and I'm not just talking about unexpected nudity) This isn't a movie that should be watched on a Sunday night. Sorta hoping one of you will also watch it and it turns out to be bad, since I'm not very good at judging movies when I get swept up in the moment.

Speaking of which, I wish I'd chosen to see Ultron instead. I'd prefer seeing a mediocre action flick to a jarring piece of cinema hiding behind an hour of buildup.

1up · Post by **1up** » Mon May 11, 2015 5:30 am

Blade Runner Final Cut

A theater a few town over decided to show this movie out of the blue. I've only watched it once a long time ago and found it pretty boring back then, but it being in the theater and all I decided to give it another chance.
I'm glad I did because it looked really amazing on the big screen. It's scifi done right and I think the pacing is ok with what it tries to accomplish. It feels a lot like an old noir style detective movie.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:51 am

Recently watched the first two Fast and the Furious movies. The first, quite frankly, was just plain stupid. The second one was a little bit better, but these two films have basically nothing to do with anything that happens later (aside from having some of the same characters.) After watching most of this series, I've come to the conclusion that when it all boils down, these are basically superhero films where the heroes all have the power of an infinite supply of cars.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon May 11, 2015 10:00 am

I thought F&F2 was comfortably the worst in the series. Two morons saying 'brah' nonstop (really, it's 30% of the dialogue) and CG car chases? WTF?!

I actually remember the first being one of the most enjoyable (they're all stupid for the record).

Furious 7 is pretty terrible though, but I think it pips 2.

xxx1993 · Post by **xxx1993** » Mon May 11, 2015 6:36 pm

Looking forward to Mad Max: Fury Road this weekend!

Post by **system11** » Mon May 11, 2015 11:31 pm

Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead

Australian zombie film with a bit of comedy in there - wasn't sure what to expect but it's surprisingly good, the insane doctor is .... definitely a thing. Didn't recognise a single actor and they all did a great job, it's definitely significantly better than most indie efforts.

trap15 · Post by **trap15** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:38 am

Watched The Blues Brothers for the first time last night. I guess I really have been missing out.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue May 12, 2015 4:45 am

trap15 wrote:Watched The Blues Brothers for the first time last night. I guess I really have been missing out.

I've been taking abuse at work for having never watched this... and now I live in Chicago... I gotta get on it.

Post by **system11** » Tue May 12, 2015 7:08 am

GP - you're old, how have you not seen this? Next it'll be "I haven't seen The Big Lebowski" and I don't even know how I could react to that.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Tue May 12, 2015 10:46 am

trap15 wrote:

Watched The Blues Brothers for the first time last night. I guess I really have been missing out.

Now check the film they made afterwards -> Neighbors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xymI6AH6E
It got bad reviews at the time but I've always liked it.
For some reason, I like films based on one wacky night. Other examples would be Hangin' with the Homeboys, After Hours and From Dusk til Dawn.

boagman · Post by **boagman** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:53 pm

Skykid wrote:I thought F&F2 was comfortably the worst in the series. Two morons saying 'brah' nonstop (really, it's 30% of the dialogue) and CG car chases? WTF?!

I want to argue with this, but I cannot. Reality is reality. You know what F&F2 has going for it? A smokin' hot Eva Mendes in her prime...and that's honestly about all it has going for it.

I must ask this question, since I've never actually seen Tokyo Drift: is Tokyo Drift honestly better than F&F2? Because I gotta tell ya that I thought they sort of lost their way with 2, and then when they went to Japan with basically *none* of the original character stars in Tokyo Drift, I thought they'd completely lost their way. In fact, I rather chuckled a good bit when they *finally* brought Diesel back in 4. It astounded me that they let the series basically limp on life support without him.

So Tokyo Drift isn't as outright silly/stupid/totally lost as 2 is, huh? Who would've thought that? Not me...

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Wed May 13, 2015 1:56 am

Tokyo Drift is better than 2, yes. The number one problem with it is that its protagonist actor is miscast. He's not terrible, but an odd choice for the role, and is kind of absurd as a high school student. In his brief cameo in 7 he looks older than Vin Deisel.

Otherwise the setting is good (Tokyo and Initial D mountain roads) there's a respectable level of soap operatic drama, and most importantly, the car chases cook.

If there's one prevailing reason Drift doesn't blow as hard as it probably should, it's that Justin Lin is the director, and he is the only reason IMO the series made it to the seventh (pretty awful) instalment, which he had no hand in incidentally. I certainly wouldn't rate him outside of this glossy commercial shlock, but credit where it's due, he knows the material and is competent at making stupid movies about fast cars - and he has ownership of the series highlights with his four entries. I think there's a good argument 5 is the best of all.

boagman wrote: I want to argue with this, but I cannot.

I notice you say this a lot. Weird. Why would you want to argue with something just for the hell of it?

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