Film Thread.
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 14:55
Here are some films I watched recently
August Underground (weird serial killer film made to look like a home video. You could be disturbed by it if you are that way inclined, but I was not so convinced)
La Settima Donna (Last House on the Beach) - five girls, one nun held hostage by three bank robbers = rape & revenge movie
White Lightning (Burt Reynolds, car chases yee-ha!!!)
What is everyone else watching film-wise?
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 16:38
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*I saw 28 Weeks Later last week... I thought it wasn't too bad... If a little predictable.
*Ice Cream Man... Very very VERY cheesy...
*Visitor Q [Haven't actually watched it yet, but I shall be later tonight]
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 16:57
#2
The last few decent films I've watched:
Night at the Museum
Blades of Glory
Stranger than Fiction
Grindhouse
The Last King of Scotland
Spider-man 3
Perfume
Shrek the Third
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 17:28
#3
what was Grindhouse like? I have heard so many mixed reports over it. The trailers I saw looked good.
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 18:07
#4
This week I saw Zodiak and This Is England, both splendid
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 18:24
#5
All Skinhead movies always seem to boil down to the same thing.. really annoying. Only Romper Stomper didn't really focus on it.. although ofcourse it's littered with it all anyway.
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 19:52
#6
I know it's not a recent film, but I only got round to watching Taxi Driver recently. Wow! I was a bit disappointed by the ending to be honest - seemed a bit of a quick miraculous recovery. But on the whole, man, what a film!
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 20:16
#7
All Skinhead movies always seem to boil down to the same thing.. really annoying. Only Romper Stomper didn't really focus on it.. although ofcourse it's littered with it all anyway.
What do you mean? What is it that Romper Stomper didn't focus on?
For what it's worth, This Is England pisses all over Romper Stomper. There's ambiguity and intelligence and affection in it - it starts gently and slowly gets darker and darker. Romper Stomper is a load of directionless thick-ear. Haven't seen it for years, mind.
Taxi Driver is indeed enthralling. I wasn't sure about the ending either, it seems a bit pat and idealistic, him just getting a 'thank you for killing my daughter's pimp' note from the whore's mum.
Films I've watched recently:
Imprint (yes, I flinched)
Death Line ("Mind the doors!")
Evilspeak (Ron Howard's brother communes with the devil through a Commodore 64)
The Witch Who Came From The Sea (...downright fucking mental)
Carry On Jack (lovely, gentle Sunday afternoon fare, but it ain't no Carry On in my book)
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 20:42
#8
In one of the last issues of Terrorizer was an art article on Dave McKean who's done album covers for Fear Factory, Machine Head, My Dyeing Bride etc...he made a film called 'Mirrormask' which I saw recently and would definitely reccommend to anyone.
There's not much to the story but the visuals are so textured and it's full of his art and the whole film is in his creative style which is quite unique.
AND...he lives down the road from me and at his last exhibition my mum bought me one of his pictures which was a cover for a Velvet Underground album and the copy of Mirrormask I watched was a signed copy he gave to us...bonus!
(No I didn't mention that film just to show off about the pic etc)
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 22:20
#9
All Skinhead movies always seem to boil down to the same thing.. really annoying. Only Romper Stomper didn't really focus on it.. although ofcourse it's littered with it all anyway.
What do you mean? What is it that Romper Stomper didn't focus on?
For what it's worth, This Is England pisses all over Romper Stomper. There's ambiguity and intelligence and affection in it - it starts gently and slowly gets darker and darker. Romper Stomper is a load of directionless thick-ear. Haven't seen it for years, mind.
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 22:45
#10
Skinheads in the media always end up being portrayed as being far-right. The darker storyline within This Is England could of surely been put in another way! Instead of a race hate incident.
Yeah but, unusually, This Is England shows us what skinhead was about and how by the early 80s, fostered by unemployment/Thatcherism etc, some aspects of it were going in a more sinister direction. There are different types of skinhead in TIE, and even the chief right winger was more of a confused, lonely, embittered headcase rather than a sieg-heiling Nazi villain.
A film about skinheads in 1983 couldn't really shy away from the emergence of the far-right, surely!
Tue, 22/05/2007 - 23:24
#11
I wanna see This is England, hoping it's got a bit more subtlety to it than most skin head films which seem to go for predictable 'gritty' realism.
Made in England is a good film...a young Tim Roth plays a juvenile skin head, there's a really good scene when his future gets spelled out to him by a social worker. I think it was made for TV or was part of a series of feature length episodes made for TV? I dunno.
Wed, 23/05/2007 - 00:37
#12
what was Grindhouse like? I have heard so many mixed reports over it. The trailers I saw looked good.
Personally, I loved it. My favourite film of the year so far. As usual though, we're going to get screwed when it gets released over here.
Because american audiences were walking out after the Robert Rodriguez segment, unaware there were more trailers and a Tarantino segment (?!) the powers that be are going to split the movie into two separate films a la Kill Bill.
The Tarantino story "Death Proof" will get released over here first. which makes even less sense as it's the second segment anyway, and "Planet Terror" hasn't even been given a release date yet.
Splitting a film, which was meant to be a homage to the double and triple bills of grindhouse cinema, into two separate, easy to digest segments sort of defeats the whole fecking purpose!
Wed, 23/05/2007 - 12:11
#13
Splitting a film, which was meant to be a homage to the double and triple bills of grindhouse cinema, into two separate, easy to digest segments sort of defeats the whole fecking purpose!
Indeed. I hope they make Machete into a full length film - the fake trailer is brilliant.
Good films I've watched recently are Ong-Bak, The Warrior King and Infernal Affairs.
Sun, 27/05/2007 - 00:38
#14
Just got back from watching Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End and it was awful - awful, awful, awful! Do not go and see it - it's like The Matrix Revolutions all over again. Avoid like the plague. This series needs to be buried at sea.
Sun, 27/05/2007 - 14:26
#15
Just got back from watching Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End and it was awful - awful, awful, awful! Do not go and see it - it's like The Matrix Revolutions all over again. Avoid like the plague. This series needs to be buried at sea.
Just as I suspected. The first one, I'll admit, I quite liked, but the second was rubbish and I'm sure the third will be too. The tagline should be "Johnny Depp! Phwoar! Orlando Bloom! Phwoar! Keira Knightley! PHWOAR! And look at all these cool effects!* *Plot, script etc not included"
Sun, 27/05/2007 - 18:26
#16
has anyone seen The Twins Effect? i saw it for cheap in a shop one day,and took the chance,as it had a couple of cute girls with swords on the cover(which automatically means it must be good!)
it turned out to be a fantastic Hong Kong vampire action film,definitely for those who enjoy the likes of Blade and Buffy.It's really funny in places,and the fights are spectacular.a really enjoyable film.
Mon, 28/05/2007 - 01:09
#17
i watched eraserhead for the first time yesterday and it really blew my mind. a magnificent blend of dark atmospherics and surreal imagery. Theres a message there too
Mon, 28/05/2007 - 14:39
#18
i watched eraserhead for the first time yesterday and it really blew my mind. a magnificent blend of dark atmospherics and surreal imagery. Theres a message there too
Being?
Tue, 29/05/2007 - 01:19
#19
The tagline should be "Johnny Depp! Phwoar! Orlando Bloom! Phwoar! Keira Knightley! PHWOAR! And look at all these cool effects!* *Plot, script etc not included"
That's an incredibly accurate assessment :lol:
Tue, 29/05/2007 - 07:06
#20
this week I have watched:
pirates of the caribbean 3 - ok-ish
clerks 2 - brilliant
deja vu - much better than I thought it would be
employee of the month - NOT funny
final fantasy VII advent children - just fancied it, not bad, brought back some memories of long ago
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Infernal Affairs is one of the best films ever made, god knows what Scorsese was thinking with that awful remake, major disappointment that one!
Tue, 29/05/2007 - 16:54
#21
Evilspeak & The Witch Who Came From The Sea now there's a video nasty double bill and a half.
Love the arcane Satanic revenge of Cooper Smith
Some good ones I have caught lately or rewatched are Death Note (Japan) Dog Bite Dog (HK)
Thriller A Cruel Picture, Hell Of The Living Death (RIP Mattei), The Ebola Syndrome & Dark Waters (Baino not crap shark movie)
I also really want to track down this one
http://ifcfilms.com/page/black_sheep
Tue, 29/05/2007 - 16:57
#22
i watched eraserhead for the first time yesterday and it really blew my mind. a magnificent blend of dark atmospherics and surreal imagery. Theres a message there too
Being?
Wed, 30/05/2007 - 01:02
#23
I watched decent little b-movie horror called Primeval the other day. A true-ish story about a gigantinormous crocodile that's been munching on the natives of Burundi since the 70's.
Like Lake Placid but in Africa.
Oh, and The Witch Who Came from the Sea was just too bloody weird.
Fri, 08/06/2007 - 08:16
#24
I'd recommend London to Brighton, even if the ending is a bit unrealistic. Pretty damn gritty UK film.
Agree with Zodiac, want to see Grindhouse but pissed we'll have to pay twice to see it.
Avoid Paradise Lost though, even for cheesy horror it was bad.
Fri, 08/06/2007 - 10:25
#25
I haven't watched many films lately: I just haven't had enough time.
I did get to sit down and enjoy one of the all time classics recently though: Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, which, along with the same director's Ran, is far and away the best film adaptation of Shakespeare.
Fri, 08/06/2007 - 10:34
#26
Splitting a film, which was meant to be a homage to the double and triple bills of grindhouse cinema, into two separate, easy to digest segments sort of defeats the whole fecking purpose!
Indeed. I hope they make Machete into a full length film - the fake trailer is brilliant.
Good films I've watched recently are Ong-Bak, The Warrior King and Infernal Affairs.
Fri, 08/06/2007 - 11:52
#27
I saw Zodiac the other day and I would strongly recommend it to anyone. The only criticisms of it that I can come up with (which hardly spoil the movie) are that it's a bit long and characters seem to come and go - the last hour alone seems more like The Jake Gyllenhaal Show more than anything else.
Tue, 12/06/2007 - 15:20
#28
saw Babel, eventually. Now I liked amores, wasn't too keen on 21 grams and can't make my mind up about Babel. any opinions?
Tue, 12/06/2007 - 16:40
#29
saw Babel, eventually. Now I liked amores, wasn't too keen on 21 grams and can't make my mind up about Babel. any opinions?
Far too heavily influenced by the shorts 11'09"01 to which he contributed. Pretty in places, but should be with locations like that.
Crucially, and this is what ruined it, there was a beautiful natural end-point reached a good 40 minutes before the end proper. It's so glaringly apparent, and just pressing stop there makes for a great movie with a powerful message, as it is it becomes overwrought and tedious - finally saying nothing.
A great shame.
Tue, 12/06/2007 - 19:06
#30
You lose 21grams when you die.. and it was all pretty tame.