What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nekromantik]

Just seen the new indie horror called Absentia.

It was pretty good for a indie flick. Nothing great but was worth the 90 mins run time.

[Handyman Joe]

Originally Posted by keirarts

just wait for the last episode of twin peaks. Probably one of the greatest episodes of tv ever. Shame about the rest of the 2nd series though

Too harsh Mr Keirarts - episodes 14 and 15 are total classics, Maddie's murder is one of the most brutal Lynch has ever filmed, gives me the willies just thinking about it. Incidental pleasures also abound - there's a great Lynch cameo where he visits the diner and flirts with Shelley - hilarious. Wyndham Earle's good fun too and there's plenty black lodge weirdness to distract you from James's wanderings or Ben's civil war shenanigans.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Handyman Joe

Too harsh Mr Keirarts - episodes 14 and 15 are total classics, Maddie's murder is one of the most brutal Lynch has ever filmed, gives me the willies just thinking about it. Incidental pleasures also abound - there's a great Lynch cameo where he visits the diner and flirts with Shelley - hilarious. Wyndham Earle's good fun too and there's plenty black lodge weirdness to distract you from James's wanderings or Ben's civil war shenanigans.

Perhaps I was, dont get me wrong there are numerous individual episodes in season 2 that are excellent. Anything with Ray wise as leyland palmer (including the 'revalation episode) spring to mind, and of course the ever brilliant michael parks as jean renault. I just have to say the series as a whole just didn't gel as a series the way the first did. It was just a bunch of episodes, some good, some bad.

[DaveJ.W]

The Stepfather (1987)

*** out of ****

[Gojirosan]

The Sinking of Japan - impressive SF disaster flick about Japan being sucked below the Pacific tectonic plate. Much better than Hollywood eco-disaster efforts, with more human warmth and genuine tension throughout. Sullied, however by THE most awful, mawkish, pop ballad which appears a couple of times during the film. Otherwise, great stuff.

Shark Attack 3 - Megalodon - well, I am not sure what to say about this. It's cheap, badly acted, has extremely clunky use of stock footage (in one scene the shark changes species about three times as it approaches a boat) and has no technical skill to redeem it. But on the other hand, it's funny, the script is knowing and amusing, the story rattles along great, the characters are wonderful and by the end of the film I had thoroughly enjoyed myself and was glad I had purchased the film. So, is it bad? It raises the issue of what is bad, once again. This is inept, yes, but I can't call it bad, because I loved it and never once questioned what I as doing watching it. Excellent entertainment.

[Handyman Joe]

Watched the Universal 100 BD of To Kill a Mockingbird this morning. Wow, haven't seen this movie for about 20 years and what a fantastic, powerful, lyrical piece of work it is - one of the few that can moisten these cynical old eyes. Picture is out of this world, packaging brilliant, extras look good too - in short don't let this go out of print - grab it now.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by keirarts

just wait for the last episode of twin peaks. Probably one of the greatest episodes of tv ever. Shame about the rest of the 2nd series though

Yeah, thisll be the 5th time ive watched TP. looking forward to "all new" documentary as well....
Don't get me wrong, up to ep 18 it's all good, i just feel that there's a listlessness (is that a word??) until the end.

i always remember that a mate said during the original UK broadcast, "god, there's a lot of bonny quines in this town....!" to which i said "well, it IS a soap opera...."

[Baseball Fury]

The end of Season Two does meandre somewhat, especially the Civil War gubbins, Leo doing his Igor shtick and the awful shite that was Deputy Andy and his adoptee.

And I still don't know what the f*ck that Josie Packard/furniture business was all about.

On a whole though, it's great TV. Twin Peaks at it's worst is still better than a lot of TV out there.

And Billy Zane nailed it!

[Demoncrat]

Indeed, still beats Lost hands down IMO.

[Handyman Joe]

Don't forget 'Little Nicky' and super powered Nadine - thing is Lynch totally realised the show had become infested with crummy subplots, hence blowing them all to smithereens in the last episode and of course FWWM which ignored them altogether.