Oy yeah...I love this genre:p :D :D

That's because you're a sick and twisted fuck. :D

AUTUMN.....Kind of kept my interest but had a real lousy ending. Some of the slowest zombies in movie history...you cold literally push them around.

The Last Wagon (1956)


Im not a natural fan of non-Clint westerns, but this one is very good, highly enjoyable watch.

Walkabout (1971)

Walkabout opens with a wonderful montage of an Australian city showing cars, buildings and people all running around to get somewhere. We then see a man take his son and daughter out to the Australian wilderness for a picnic. All of a sudden he begins to shoot at them, when they run and hide the father sets the car on fire and kills himself. They are now forced to fend for themselves in the Australian outback.

Walkabout has some of the most beautiful cinematography ever commited to film. It is edited masterfully with amazing montages. One in particular stands out wherein an aboriginal boy hunts and kills a kangaroo juxtaposed with a man at a deli counter cutting up meat (showing an extreme difference between the two cultures).

Walkabout deals with themes of society setting rules and regulations that prevent people from really, truly surviving. It shows the blandness and boringness of everyday life in today's society.

Walkabout is one of the most compelling and beautiful films out there. It is essential viewing for any film fan.

-10/10

Exterminating Angel finally came to DVD a few months and I had the pleasure of finally watching after all these years and was not disappointed!

Viridiana is also one of my favorites of his.

Hotel for Dogs .. made my wife squeal with childish glee every time a dog did something cute, and it made my kid cry like crazy at a sad part.

it wasnt bad actually until the rediculous ending which discredited the rest of the film.


other than that we've been watching season 1 of Veronica Mars.
everyone is digging it although i'm finding the dialogue a little on the Juno side.


damn, we hip !

The Quiet Earth. Fantastic movie, 'nuff said.
Ashe.
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Cannibal Holocaust

I don't know which way to go with this movie. I love it because it's cheesy, but then it is actualy such a crap movie at the same time.

5/10

The French Connection (1971)

The French Connection is one of the best crime thriller films out there. It is a gritty, exciting, edge of your seat thrill ride containing one of the greatest chase scenes ever commited to film. Gene Hackman plays Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle and Roy Scheider plays his partner Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo two New York City Narcotics agent attempting to intercept a shipment of heroin from France to New York. The intensity in which Hackman plays Popeye Doyle (a role in which he won the Academy Award) is incredible.

Director William Friedkin mixes traditional Hollywood style with French New Wave aesthetics to create a highly stylized film - fast, gritty and real.

Along with Dirty Harry (released on the same year) it turns the table on the traditional good guy cop role and shows the cops as being just as ruthless as the criminals - that isn't to say they're crooked, it just means they're willing to do much more than the average cop to get what they need.

-10/10

Amen. I know Alky is going to like that.

Oh yeah, definetly one of the greats. Have you seen the sequel? If so, any good?

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Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) (1955)

Night and Fog is a film documenting the procedures of the Nazi concentration camps during World War 2. The director Alan Resnais uses actual footage of the concentration camps while operational with footage shoot ten years later of the abandoned camps to paint a shockingly resonate portrait of one of the most devestating events in history.

The imagery is stark and unsettling, there are many moments in the half hour running time where it is difficult to watch. The narration is brilliant, it sounds as if the director is reciting poetry.

The film poses a tough question - daring to ask whether or not the world has actually learned anything from the events, or if we're just going to repeat ourselves again. One quote in particular asks:

"Who among us keeps watch from this strange watchtower to warn of the arrival of our new executioners? Are their faces really different from our own?

-10/10

Indeed :) :) :)

Good (2008)

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Viggo Mortensen did a 'good' job with the role but besides that overall I couldn't find the film that much compelling as I expected, particularly I think the ending was a bit let down. Otherwise, it was a decent WW film about a 'Good' German during that period.

>>: B-

It's a marked step down from the original. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a bad movie - it's entertaining enough, and Hackman still does a fantastic job, but if you're expecting anything on par with the first one you'll be sorely let down.

(I know the question wasn't pointed at me - felt like answering anyway.)

That's basically what I was expecting, I'll probably check it out just as a fan of the first.

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Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)

Scarface: The Shame of the Nation is often overshadowed by the remake starring Al Pacino and directed by Brian Depalma, and while it is difficult to compare the two (being made 51 years apart) I can say without any hesitation that I prefer the original version. I find the story to be better, the characters to be more interesting, and the perfromances to be superior.

The film revolves around the rise and eventual fall of prohibition-era gangster Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, trying to make his way up in the criminal underworld while also attempting to prevent his sister from getting involved in the shadowy world.

Paul Muni brilliantly plays Camonte and pulls off the task wonderfully. It is also nice to see Boris Karloff in a non-horror film for once. Scarface is executed quite well, mainly due to director Howard Hawkes' choice of portraying the gangsters as people just having fun, rather than the usual evil for the sake of being evil gangster of that time.

-9.5/10

The Black Gestapo

Classic stuff. This ruled, have no idea why it took me so long to check it out.

Taxidermia

Went into this one blind and thought it was killer. If you're a fan of dark humor and offbeat films I'd definitely recommend it. Very cool flick that I'm sure I'll dig even more upon repeat viewings.

Cars

You know... I really didn't dig the lead character's narcissism and really didn't believe the 'I am a good guy now' routine after the typical heartwarming 'life lessons' he had to learn.
I say he went right back to his self indulgent behavior within a week.
If he had never gotten lost, he would have ended up at his race and probably would not have won due to the typical overconfidence most egotistical high performance vehicles have.
Which, in turn, would have been such a blow to his shallow hull that he would have turned to some sort of cathartic self-searching for his inner race car.
If not by his own volition, definitely would have been somewhere in the much mentioned 'contract'.
The Sally character would have been a better focus, because even with her short descriptions into her 'other' life, it would have been fascinating to see how her crossroads came to be.
Mater was the comic relief but had such a sadness to his innocent outer shell that you start to wonder if he presents himself this way because there is not much else under the hood or he is just the simple 'good ole boy' everybody likes, but doesn't really want to invite for family dinners?
The really tragic character has to be Doc.
I just don't have the words or inclination to go into how I feel about Doc, but let's just say...his character moved me to tears...many times.

My 2 year old watches this movie at least 4x a day, so I have plenty of opportunities to delve into the vast emotional miasma this movie has on So Many levels....

Once again, amen. Amazing film.

Ah! I've been wanting to see this for quite some time, but I've never seen it out. Actually, as I'm looking now I see it's out in the UK. I guess I'll have to order it. It seems you think it'd be a good blind buy?

Its been out on R4 for awhile now thru Siren Visual Entertainment so you might wanna try there. Might work out pretty cheap with the dollar the way it is.

It's def worth a blind buy! I just picked it up because I was intrigued by the picture of a dude with a flame coming out of his dick :D

Only reason I've been wanting to watch it as well.... perv!


:p

Haha, yeah. That is one of the more intriguing images I've seen in a trailer, I think. Cool, though, I'll definitely have to pick it up. Thanks for the rec, Elvis.

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Trzecia czesc nocy (The Third Part of the Night) (1971)

It starts out with a recitation from the book of Revelation. The end-times. Set in Poland during WWII, for its characters, these are the end-times. After a young Polish man loses his wife, mother, and son to German soldiers, he joins an underground rebellion group. Through this, he happens to meet a woman that looks exactly like his wife, and a strange, (as much as I hate this word, it's appropriate here->) Kafkaesque journey through life in war-torn Poland unravels onscreen. Writer/director Andrzej Zulawski (Possession, 1981) bases key points on the story of his father, and tells his story with a subversive, gritty touch, and it plays out like a fevered dream.

Excellent, politically-charged, and apocalyptic.

Haha :D

I see a crazy image like that and I've just gotta check it out!

How's things with you anyways? Ain't seen you about for awhile

Feast 3

The first 20 minutes were a bit of a drag, to much of part 2 and just the same thing over. But from then on it became a new adventure, plenty of fun, but it was the weakest of the three movies.

6.5/10

That has got to be one of the strangest trailers I have ever seen....now I have to see it.

The Others. Very well done movie with great acting and with quite a huge twist at the end. Not really scary at all. For some reason, though, this movie let me down. It just felt sorta flat. Still a decent flick. Ashe.
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Am quite alright, dear. Thank you for asking. :)

That morbid curiosity we seem to share is making me wonder if I want to go see Antichrist in theatres or not. Can just imagine the general uncomfortableness during a few key scenes...

Oooh, sounds like fun!


Last watched - The Cake Eaters

Jack Brooks - Monster Slayer

It's a bit slow and a bit of a kids flick, but a bit of fun still.

5/10

The shrink sessions were the highligts. :D

"Antichrist" 5/10

2 things..


First off, if you can't handle penetration, masturbation, clits, erected penises and naked bodies in general in non porn movies, do not watch Antichrist.

Second, i'm certain non of you regulars in here will find anything in it groundbreaking disturbing. We've seen lots of scenes before which've been much worse and disgusting. And the "disturbing" scenes in Antichrist are VERY few.


My biggest issue with this movie was that i couldn't get into the female characters psycotic grief and therefore didn't get the first 50 minutes. I understood what was going on, but i just didn't understand/believe her reaction to the tradegy in the beginning. Defoe was almost just as weird but in the totally opposit, overly calm kind of way. I just didn't believe the characters, who, might I add, must be the dullest couple in movie history. At least in the first 40 minutes. Every conversation they had was like small therapy sessions. Lots of sex but no feeling of actual love. Just therapy and numbness.... As Antichrist only consist of these two charaters it's needless to say I didn't think the story was working at all.

What Trier managed to do great was the music and sound score. Also the intro was beautiful even tho it was tragic. The slow-mo scenes in the dark woods were beautifully shot as well. Very dreamy with a hint of nightmare.

Some of this movie made me think of David Lynch. Many weird unexplained things happening and also it felt like Trier tried not to make it a genre piece. So the first 50 minutes was drama and far from horror. Last 30 minutes definitely horror. And in the very end i believe everyone in the theater was thinking, "WTF??!! What the hell was this guy trying to tell us???".

All in all Antichrist felt not very successful and quite Pretentious.

The Hangover

It wasn't quite the blowout I was expecting, but still pretty funny and worth the watch.

Damn. I've been reading a lot of so-so review for this. I was really excited for it.

And with a good reason.

This is a very big and original director we're talking about.

So you can't watch his movies now without some expectations. And maybe that's why i'm relatively disappointed about it, concidering he IS the director behind The Kingdom.
But he just isn't the kind of Director who would dream of making the same kind of movie twice.

Eden Lake

Not too bad, I guess. However, it kinda pissed me off, so that's my first and last viewing.

You should totally go. I know I'd be one of the first in line if it was playing over here :D

I'm not to worried about the luke warm reviews I've alwyas gotta see for myself!

Gimme Skelter

Quite lame really which is a bummer because the idea sounded really cool. One of the worst endings I've seen in awhile. This never rose above its no-budget production values. Worth a laugh at its expense and there's more than enough bare naked titties if you're that way inclined.

Frontier(s)

This totally surpasses Hostel, Wolf Creek and Eden Lake but enough already with these kinda flicks its been so overdone lately. Very good film however and its the keeper of these modern outings but it would've had more of an impact on me if I hadn't seen the basic plot done over and over.
This really wore its anti-right wing agenda on its sleave which got a bit tiresome and could've done with more subtlety... yeh cops and nazis are assholes blah blah blah.
On a side note the blonde Ilsa looking chick was pretty creepy/hot :)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Always Admirable Vincent Price was surely ingenious with the role of Dr. Phibes. Amusing method of execution where revenge comes with art & class. Specially liked the 1st one..Curse of Bats and the last one...death of the first born which seems might be played an influential part for SAW (2004). After House of Wax & Theater of Blood, this was another fantastic serial killer adaptation by Price that I have seen so far.

>>: B+

The Skeptic (2009)

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>>: D

One of Price's greatest roles, for sure. Phibes is a great film in many respects- art direction, music, story, and of course performances by Price and the incredible supporting cast including Joseph Cotten and Hugh Griffith.