Tried watching Inception. About 20 mins in I said 'No, no, the directing is too modern for me' and switched it off
John Carpenter's The Fog. Nice horror flick, though not as well-known as The Thing or Christine. The only flaws are Adrienne Barbeau's annoying 'sexy' voice and poor character development
In an alternate universal, Soldier Blade II has already been crafted by Hudson Soft and Compile with proper tate this time around (c) PC Engine Fan X!
Sega tried and failed. Nintendo didn't even try. (c) Specineff
despite the horrible reviews I went to the movies with my b-film movie club buddies to see what all the shit talking was about?
I thought the movie was incredible, for a scream/horror movie, that is. Not as good as the first one, but easily takes 2nd place. Don't know why critics 'slash' it as bad as they do? What did they expect? This one critic on a danish movie site first talks about what the scream movies are all about. klichés, talking about movies within the movie etc. the further down the review he's very disappointed/annoyed that they ramble about movies within movies, that the rules change and all the klichés? wtf
It was cheap so I bought it. Just like Lake Placid a croc has gotten so big it can swallow a person whole. A tour boat see's a flare during the daytime which it investigates. By doing so they travel into the croc's territory. The story begins.
I must say its quite an adventure. The cinema photography is just mind blowing with the scenic locales shown. For a monster type of story it hold itself well. I'm going to give this an 8/10. Stars Sam Worthington (before he became a little more famous obviously). The special effects are worthy of note too. Very convincing croc.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
Watched Birdemic: Shock And Terror with some friends the other night. They'd already seen it recommended that we watch it with RiffTrax. I'm glad we did watch it with commentary because the movie was insufferable. I'm a pretty big MST3K fan (and prefer Mike's commentary), but the RiffTrax couldn't save this film.
It's essentially a super-low budget film (we're talking a 10K budget) about birds getting violent with humans. People die, get their eyes pecked out, etc. Curiously, for a movie of such terrible caliber, there were no breasts. There's little "so bad it's good" flavor to be had in this one.
I had to watch the MST3K episode of Overdrawn At The Memory Bank to feel better about myself.
Aachi & Ssipak - I don't like the style of animation and the character design is hardly inspired (FLCL fans might like it), but I don't think it's ultra-violent and dystopian for the heck of it either. There's more to it than just "Koreans are weird" phenomenon, methinks. It's like the sort of urban folklore and SF from Eastern Bloc countries that influenced Brazil.
The rear gate is closed down
The way out is cut off
In an alternate universal, Soldier Blade II has already been crafted by Hudson Soft and Compile with proper tate this time around (c) PC Engine Fan X!
Sega tried and failed. Nintendo didn't even try. (c) Specineff
Thor - This could so easily have been a laughable mess, but it turned out to be an enjoyable, charming movie. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that the script was one draft away from elevating it from good to great. The romance sub-plot in particular didn't convince me, and for that to be the least convincing element in a movie about norse gods from another dimension is really saying something.
The Last Exorcism - I approached this with trepidation due to it having Eli Roth's name plastered all over it, as I despised Hostel. Despite what the marketing would have you believe though, he produced Last Exorcism but Daniel Stamm directed. Suffice to say this film was a hell of a lot better than I expected. The docudrama style is well realised, and the acting and characterisations feel natural and engaging. The only disappointment was the ending. A film like this thrives on riding the line of subjectivity, and it did this expertly throughout, until the final five minutes. Without spoiling the ending, I'll say that the film eventually leaves little room for interpretation as to whether it was about a real possession or not. Had the film ended with some ambiguity, I probably would have been compelled to watch it again. As it stands, the definite full stop that the ending put on the film was jarring, and felt sloppy compared to the complexity of the 80 minutes that preceeded it.
It started off promising in the first five minutes, but then I noticed how terrible the acting was. Moreover, the supernatural bullshit killed the realism that the movie should have achieved. Think of Silence of the Lambs: that movie was frightening not because the villain was some shape shifting magician or some shit, but he was a person who craved human flesh. And the story was believable to the point of being able to see that it could happen in reality.
If they just made a film about a clown who killed children, who didn't have magical powers and wrote it accordingly, then it would have been a masterpiece. It will forever remain a movie that had a lot of potential to be an instant classic, but was executed poorly. Tim Curry still looks great in it, though.
EDIT: Another example of a great horror film that left out the supernatural crap would be When a Stranger Calls. Hell, even House of Glass towers above this one. At least I cared about what happened to the hot chick.
"Too kawaii to live, too sugoi to die. Trapped in a moe~ existence"
Monsters - For a film that ranged from competent to proficient in so many ways, it sure was boring. I think the main problem is that the film takes 50 minutes to reach the point in the plot it should have been at after 20-30 minutes. While it creates a convincing world and interesting set of problems for the characters to overcome, the narrative spends too long meandering.
Harry Potter 7.1 - So the climax to the series is a bunch of fetch quests. How unimaginative. It was reasonably entertaining, but I spent the whole 140 minutes thinking that there should be something more interesting going on at this point.
Daigohji wrote:Thor - This could so easily have been a laughable mess, but it turned out to be an enjoyable, charming movie. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that the script was one draft away from elevating it from good to great. The romance sub-plot in particular didn't convince me, and for that to be the least convincing element in a movie about norse gods from another dimension is really saying something.
The Last Exorcism - I approached this with trepidation due to it having Eli Roth's name plastered all over it, as I despised Hostel. Despite what the marketing would have you believe though, he produced Last Exorcism but Daniel Stamm directed. Suffice to say this film was a hell of a lot better than I expected. The docudrama style is well realised, and the acting and characterisations feel natural and engaging. The only disappointment was the ending. A film like this thrives on riding the line of subjectivity, and it did this expertly throughout, until the final five minutes. Without spoiling the ending, I'll say that the film eventually leaves little room for interpretation as to whether it was about a real possession or not. Had the film ended with some ambiguity, I probably would have been compelled to watch it again. As it stands, the definite full stop that the ending put on the film was jarring, and felt sloppy compared to the complexity of the 80 minutes that preceeded it.
I thought Thor was good as well. As a blockbustery summer movie goes, it was quite good. I actually really liked the ending of The Last Exorcism and couldn't understand what all the complaints were. I understand the desire for a more ambiguous ending, but {spoilers] I like that the cult angle and I think the focus of the movie was the declining skepticism of the true believer. The characters go into the exorcism under the assumption that it's bullshit. As things get weirder and weirder it becomes increasingly difficult to explain away whats going on and when the film hits its peak at the end, it's one of the best "Oh shit" movie moments I've seen in quite sometime and it completes the mental 180 of the characters.
Centurion - Another solid piece of entertainment from Neil Marshall. Depicting the downfall of the legendary Ninth Legion, I was pleased that the film bucked the Hollywood trend of having the protagonist side with the fluffy natives against his own invading army (what I've seen of The Eagle indicates that it's telling the same story in that more predictable manner). Instead, Centurion takes the stance of war not being about who's right, just who's left. Brutality is described on the part of both the Romans and Picts, and so the central thrust of the narrative is simply the surviving soldiers' attempt to escape hostile territory. There's little originality and the characters are fairly one dimensional, but it works for what it is: Black Hawk Down by way of Gladiator. The only problem is that the dialogue seems to be reaching for the gravitas of a historical epic, but it never quite hits the mark. Well worth watching though.
Couldn't even enjoy the irony of having to go JESUS CHRIST!! every minute or so. Many of its scenes compare to the indoctrination scenes from 1984, it's just that this stuff is real. If you like watching kids getting fucked up for the rest of their lives this is for you.
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm
Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
Couldn't even enjoy the irony of having to go JESUS CHRIST!! every minute or so. Many of its scenes compare to the indoctrination scenes from 1984, it's just that this stuff is real. If you like watching kids getting fucked up for the rest of their lives this is for you.
Always up for documentaries about lunatics. Getting it now.
Ha ha ha! Man, when the christians get wind of that one they're going to freak.
Skykid wrote:
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:Jesus Camp - 9/10
Couldn't even enjoy the irony of having to go JESUS CHRIST!! every minute or so. Many of its scenes compare to the indoctrination scenes from 1984, it's just that this stuff is real. If you like watching kids getting fucked up for the rest of their lives this is for you.
Always up for documentaries about lunatics. Getting it now.
Just finished it. Scared the absolute hell out of me, so it must have had some religious significance.
Couldn't even enjoy the irony of having to go JESUS CHRIST!! every minute or so. Many of its scenes compare to the indoctrination scenes from 1984, it's just that this stuff is real. If you like watching kids getting fucked up for the rest of their lives this is for you.
Always up for documentaries about lunatics. Getting it now.
Then here's a couple more tips for you fella: get Philosophy of a Knife (which I've seen and which is awesome, not a "full" documentary, though. just google it) and Graphic Sexual Horror (which I haven'T seen but the trailer looked very interesting).
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Skykid wrote:
Skykid wrote:
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:Jesus Camp - 9/10
Couldn't even enjoy the irony of having to go JESUS CHRIST!! every minute or so. Many of its scenes compare to the indoctrination scenes from 1984, it's just that this stuff is real. If you like watching kids getting fucked up for the rest of their lives this is for you.
Always up for documentaries about lunatics. Getting it now.
Just finished it. Scared the absolute hell out of me, so it must have had some religious significance.
It's amazingly hard to watch, I almost turned it off a couple of times. That's how big of a PC fuck I am...
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm
Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
A couple of times I was about to rent this but then I hesitated and, in the end, didn't. How good is it?
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm
Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
Skykid wrote:Caught Assault on Precinct 13 on late night TV (the original.) Haven't seen it since I was a kid so I'd forgotten everything about it. It's ace.
Such a great film! And the soundtrack is stellar as well, especially considering when it came out. As much as I enjoy John Carpenter's films, I think I enjoy his scores even more; brilliant use of early synthesizers and drum machines.
Skykid wrote:Caught Assault on Precinct 13 on late night TV (the original.) Haven't seen it since I was a kid so I'd forgotten everything about it. It's ace.
Such a great film! And the soundtrack is stellar as well, especially considering when it came out. As much as I enjoy John Carpenter's films, I think I enjoy his scores even more; brilliant use of early synthesizers and drum machines.
Yeah, it gives his films a certain vibe.
Precinct 13 is like an 80's film in '76, it's great.
Has watched some Dracula and comic book flicks over the weekend:
Thor 3D - my first 3D movie! According to my darling it's 'just a fairy tale', and yeah, that's true, but anyway a decent flick. Would be better without Natalie Portman though - she's a good actress, just seemed out of place Dracula 2000 - best of the bunch. Gerard Butler is the man. Nathan Fillion's cameo didn't hurt too Dracula 2: Ascension - after Soldier I can't stop giggling while seeing Jason Scott Lee as a superhero Dracula 3: Legacy - the ending made it up for 1,5 hr of mehness. Even Rutger Hauer is not funny, he's just annoying
(suddenly) Dracula 3000 - filmed for microbudget and predictable, but somehow it has left a good impression. Ending is nice here too
In an alternate universal, Soldier Blade II has already been crafted by Hudson Soft and Compile with proper tate this time around (c) PC Engine Fan X!
Sega tried and failed. Nintendo didn't even try. (c) Specineff
