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The exorcism of molly hartley

Bleh I was in the mood for a decent horror film last night, and yet this film disappointed me so much there was just not enough scare moments and the cast was incredibly forgettable it pretty much followed the line of all exorcism movies so far, girl possessed and priest who doubts himself has to save her while struggling with his own demons.

Very average movie that im glad I didnt pay for or I would be crying right about now :lol:
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Fifty Shades of Grey

Completely weightless, without any actual drama whatsoever. It was like a competently pieced together film with no obvious mechanical failings, but completely vapid and devoid of emotion or believability. The guy who played Grey was terrible, totally wooden lifeless performance that ruined any opportunity for chemistry with his admittedly well-cast co-star.

Watchable, overlong, fairly monotonous. On the whole I've seen more passion on wildlife shows where animals fuck each other. These two were meant to be intense, but just came across as timid, predictable, and incredibly dull human beings.

Short story: nothing interesting happens.
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Suburra
A contemporary crime story, set in Rome. The accidental (or, rather, fateful) consequences of a relatively minor incident mean death or ruin for many criminals and their enterprises. About 10 dead, which might not seem much but many of them are major characters; there are very few mooks.

It's a simple violent revenge story on the surface, but there are unusual good qualities:
  • Uncanny resemblance to actual facts and actual people, enough to forgive a number of stereotypes (e.g. the gangster visiting and threatening a IOR cardinal) and simplifications because they aren't exaggerations.
  • Style, for example making clichés like perennial rain with no umbrellas in sight or the tastelessness of a criminal's house look beautiful thanks to good photography and well planned variation and iteration.
  • Tempering the coolness of the characters by deliberately representing criminals like trash that won't be missed.
  • Complete lack of heroes (and police or investigations, except as an offscreen threat). Having motivations like honor and revenge rather than greed and meanness is more than enough to make some characters sympathetic; true victims are neglected and/or die quickly because they would be distracting.
Good acting, particularly Claudio Amendola as the sort of boss who makes offers you can't refuse by gaze only, without speaking much.
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Ex Machina (2015) - A bombastic opening, perhaps there to appease financiers. For the first 40 minutes or so, it treats the viewer with some distain, with particularly blunt exposition that reminds us that we're most definitely watching a Hollywood film. Then, after the premise is slowly and clearly explained to the audience, the film gradually becomes more compelling as the crudeness of the archetypes of the main characters becomes central to the narrative. The notion that consciousness and the self is by it's very nature unthinking and unlearned leads to some striking explorations of narrative and by the end as spectators, how we consider our relationship with fictional characters. The final 20 minutes are particularly satisfying, and the VFX are both subtle and unobtrusive.

Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (1970) - Absolute joy from start to finish. Like a glorious melange of Bunuel, Svankmejer and Miyazaki, though the cinematic language is as bold and defined as anything I've seen. The signification is clear to anyone with a passing familiarity with psychoanalysis, so it's best to consider this a wonderful montage of images and allow the unconscious to handle the rest. Apparently it's recently been reissued as a Criterion Blu Ray so that should be fun.

LA Confidential - this was good fun. An incredibly competent potboiler that oozes sleaze from every impeccably chiaroscuro setpiece, albeit the filth is as tame and sanitised as the fictional Hollywood it consistently critiques. I felt Chinatown nailed the neo-noir subgenre with it's impossible bleakness forming a nice bookend to the noir tendency in general, this was a worthy resurrection.

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Just saw the second Maze Runner movie. I think the subtitle was The Scorch or something like that?

I've never read the Maze Runner books, so I'm not sure how it compares to that. I found it very enjoyable and am looking forward to the next (and possibly last?) one.
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Starry eyes -

Horror film that makes zero sense to me. Perhaps you could all watch it and educate me.
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lilmanjs wrote: Ok, Lady Vengeance is a decent movie, but really, Spirited Away being Extremely overrated? How is that possible? I'd love to know why you think this.
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The least smutty chara design has to count for something.
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B/c that studio is known for scantily clad characters.
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Well, I can't find a better word for what I mean. Least doll-like, perhaps?

I'm watching the 2014 South Korean film Night Flight (Yaganbihaeng). Where else did this actress

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(here playing the protagonist's single mother's role, freshly dumped by another man) make a remarkable appearance? She's pretty fab in this one, kind of like the wife of dr Fitzgerald in the original Cracker TV show. Park Mi-hyun (according to English Wikipedia) - not the field hockey player - and she must have appeared in many Korean movies, but which ones of those are much good? The way Korean names are put together makes the research a bit tricky.

WHOA, most unusual thing has just happened - when I watched all of it and wanted to post here something relatively highbrow (because the film's a pretty rare sort of good)... I forgot my password (happens once in a blue moon and must have had something to do with the filmwatching experience).
It is not only commited (in a way I didn't expect of a movie anymore), but actually tells things that needed to be told. "LGBT" isn't saying much, you see. Everybody here is, by hook or by crook, fenced in and breaking out is dead serious business. None of the director's cut's 144 minutes is fluff; shorter film would need to begin more sensationally, only to end up as a film with thesis. This one's taking its time telling story and hits the nail on the head with aplomb.
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Her? http://asianwiki.com/Park_Mi-Hyun

That's the only Park Mi-Hyun I could find, but Night Flight isn't on that list. I've only seen Children... and A Tale of Two Sisters out of those movies. Children is a good crime/thriller film about child abductions in some town. Nothing special, but entertaining enough if you like those types of movies. A Tale of Two Sisters is probably the best horror movie I've ever seen (it's either that or Noroi).
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iconoclast wrote:Her? http://asianwiki.com/Park_Mi-Hyun

That's the only Park Mi-Hyun I could find, but Night Flight isn't on that list. I've only seen Children... and A Tale of Two Sisters out of those movies. Children is a good crime/thriller film about child abductions in some town. Nothing special, but entertaining enough if you like those types of movies. A Tale of Two Sisters is probably the best horror movie I've ever seen (it's either that or Noroi).
Looks like her (also, No Regret is by the same director as Night Flight). Thanks a lot!
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Xyga wrote:
Acid King wrote:It's worth watching both. I'd suggest watching Romero's version, then Argento's. Personally, I like the Euro cut more. It's shorter by about ten minutes and the pacing feels better. He cuts out some comedic elements and little moments with the characters so it's darker overall. Plus he uses more Goblin in the soundtrack, which is always a good thing.
Thanks for the advice, I'll do that.

Still one choice to make regarding the 'Romero': I just spoke to my neighbor and he happens to have the 'extended cut' (139mn shown at Cannes festival and later released on LD as a director's cut apparently)

Is it a Good or bad idea to to watch it first in place of the 'normal' 127mn theatrical Romero-cut ?
From what I've read it's not just the lenght, both cuts have their own exclusive scenes.
Watch the extended cut first. They are all good, and worth watching, but I would watch that one first - gives a better idea of what was left out in the normal edits. Personally I feel it does add quite a bit, both in character development and mood. It adds quite a bit of character interaction scenes not in the other edits.

I've watched them all so many times, and love each edit for what it is, but my personal favorite is the extended edit.
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Krull: ***

A big budget bomb ($47 million in 1983, made only around $16.5 million of it back) from the 80s that eventually managed to gain a bit of a cult following. With as dated as this one looks, the decidedly 80s aesthetics in the set design and costumes are just about the only thing that keeps it from looking 20 years older than it actually is. The plot is pretty standard (boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes on epic quest to murder the living daylights out of beast that took girl, boy gets joined by a cast of expendable supporting characters that serve mostly to end up dead as the plot demands, etc.) On the plus side, it does come with a very good musical score.

Not bad, but if you're looking for a semi-cheesy 80s fantasy flick for an evening of mindless entertainment I'd probably recommend Labyrinth before this one.
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I don't think space-travelling, sword-fighting dudes were all that common in movies before Krull. It looks at least consistent in that respect (I'd rate it slightly above the 1987 live-action Masters of the Universe).
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Watched two classics today:

The Black Hole - this has such a good atmosphere, great film - long overdue a blu-ray release actually.

Shocker - from Wes Cravens best period IMO. That final scene with the TV jumping..
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Hell yeah, The Black Hole. Tons of great setpieces in that one.

By the way, today's the last day to watch Back To The Future (Part I) before Back To The Future (Part II) Day on the 21st.
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Obiwanshinobi wrote:I don't think space-travelling, sword-fighting dudes were all that common in movies before Krull.
Yeah, the only example I can think of before Krull is this obscure film from the 70s called "Star Wars."
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I can enjoy Krull for the art direction and the music alone. The opening castle, the slayers, the black fortress, the glaive in the lava on the mountain, the widow's web, the fire mares... basically a collection of rpg setpieces. It's all the shit I wanted to do when I was 10. Pretty sure I used most of those tropes in D&D campaigns, haha. So as a kid's movie (12 and under) I think it does a fantastic job of feeling like an epic, sometimes meandering journey, and there's nothing wrong with a movie being excellent only for a limited age range--rather something to be proud of if you ask me.
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blackoak wrote:I can enjoy Krull for the art direction and the music alone. The opening castle, the slayers, the black fortress, the glaive in the lava on the mountain, the widow's web, the fire mares... basically a collection of rpg setpieces. It's all the shit I wanted to do when I was 10. Pretty sure I used most of those tropes in D&D campaigns, haha. So as a kid's movie (12 and under) I think it does a fantastic job of feeling like an epic, sometimes meandering journey, and there's nothing wrong with a movie being excellent only for a limited age range--rather something to be proud of if you ask me.
From what I've read, one of the rumors that has gone around over the years is that Krull was originally intended to be a Dungeons and Dragons movie, but they ended up not getting the license for it.
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Spring -

Dating, Italy and a girl that turns into a slimey lizard thing. I enjoyed it though. Definitely ranks up as a surprise.
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blackoak wrote:the glaive in the lava on the mountain
One of my first encounters with DVD format (off my buddy's then-new PS2) and we had to pause the film and re-watch that cheesecake-fest frame by frame. For us, it had more associations with The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe than anything D&D, but it was nevertheless quite a service.
So, yeah - if you badly want your youth back, I don't feel Krull owes you a thing, but if you have yet to regret parting with yours - there's no denying it fulfills certain programme. That I believe must be sincere, much like writing "proprer" pulp fiction takes certain nerve most people lose as they come of age.
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The Martian - An enjoyable survival film. It was pleasant to look at, and it made me feel good. I liked it more than Gravity and Interstellar.
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Vexorg wrote:
blackoak wrote:I can enjoy Krull for the art direction and the music alone. The opening castle, the slayers, the black fortress, the glaive in the lava on the mountain, the widow's web, the fire mares... basically a collection of rpg setpieces. It's all the shit I wanted to do when I was 10. Pretty sure I used most of those tropes in D&D campaigns, haha. So as a kid's movie (12 and under) I think it does a fantastic job of feeling like an epic, sometimes meandering journey, and there's nothing wrong with a movie being excellent only for a limited age range--rather something to be proud of if you ask me.
From what I've read, one of the rumors that has gone around over the years is that Krull was originally intended to be a Dungeons and Dragons movie, but they ended up not getting the license for it.
Hmm, it's an interesting idea. When you look at the movie's merchandise licensing and the arcade tie-in, it was fairly well capitalized in that direction in another way.

Hell of a lot better job done than much of the post-Wizards of Cost era of D&D where it all just retreated into underground culture. So I'll echo what was said above: Krull is great, and it's not ashamed about it. That's good.
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Ed Oscuro wrote:Hell of a lot better job done than much of the post-Wizards of Cost era of D&D where it all just retreated into underground culture.
This is a decades-old grudge, but it still galls me to this day that the company behind Magic: the Gathering, aka. RPG crack, ended up buying out Dungeons and Dragons. Is nothing sacred?
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crimson peak - beautiful but ultimately disappointing. it was enjoyable enough to see in theaters at least. surprisingly brutal
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the father having his head slammed into the sink repeatedly had me squirm a little bit in my chair
and even had a few laugh out loud moments, but there were quite a few things that bugged me - like charlie hunnam.

seeing anomalisa tonight which I've been waiting for since my kickstarter contribution. huge charlie kaufman/duke johnson/dan harmon/dino stamatopolous/stop motion animation fan. not too surprised it's still at 100% on RT too (with only 27 reviews) but I'm sure that'll drop soon.

seeing dheepan on saturday too which I'm also very excited for since I recently discovered my love for jacques audiard. apparently this one won the 2015 palme d'or.

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Throw Mamma From The Train
A Dark Comedy take on Strangers On A Train. A classic in my eyes and has too many moments of laughter when there shouldn't be. Nice way to test out the new HDTV that we got this week. We rather a cable we've had for ages for hdmi input and see if it wanted to kick off and it worked. A good movie and I love how Owen just shows up at random and odd times.
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Surprised no mentions of "Beasts of no Nation". This haunting film is lingering in my head still after a week lol. Brutal as all hell. Think i've had enough of hyper-realistic violent films for while, haha.
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Interstellar

Goddamn this movie was long like 2hrs 49 mins long, but all in all it was an enjoyable sci fi flick, Matt damon was in the movie but he doesnt really have a massive role in anycase I was a little disappointed by the ending there was a few things left unexplained which is what bugs me about some movies, then the director or producer will do an interview and say we wanted for the audience to make up their own minds on what happened....bleh thats just lazy production! :mrgreen:

lilmanjs wrote:Throw Mamma From The Train
A Dark Comedy take on Strangers On A Train. A classic in my eyes and has too many moments of laughter when there shouldn't be. Nice way to test out the new HDTV that we got this week. We rather a cable we've had for ages for hdmi input and see if it wanted to kick off and it worked. A good movie and I love how Owen just shows up at random and odd times.
Great movie from my child hood days! that oldie was in the goonies as well
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Anomalisa - met my hype. Movie was 90 minutes but I was surprised it went by so fast. There's 3 voice actors for the entire film, and once you see how it's implemented it's much more brilliant than you can imagine.

The stop motion is hard to describe... the sets are breathtaking and the actual animation is impressive, but it also seems purposely janky which was confirmed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson in the surprise q&a after. Very realistic script/direction and some real laugh out loud moments. You can tell it was originally written as a play too.

Pretty bummed I didn't up my contribution from 60 to 100 to be listed in the credits.

Dheepan this Saturday hopefully!
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