What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

"Citizen Kane" would be better if it had a metal/punk soundtrack, chainsaws and a good car chase!

And Robert pattinson !!!!

[VicDakin]

Switched my brain off and had a Paul W.S. Anderson double bill

[James Morton]

BASIC INSTINCT and FATAL ATTRACTION

[PaulD]

Finally got round to watching the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street last night. I went in with low expectations and a fairly open mind (honest!) but this was far worse than I ever could have expected. AWFUL cgi (especially the bit where Freddy comes through the wall), totally pointless bits from the original pasted in and the apparently ambiguous is ''he/isn't he a child molestor?'' bit came out of nowhere with people just assuming the parents were wrong, even though in a previous scene he'd told Nancy she was his 'favourite' as he licked her face! Dreadful.

I also hated how the parents only reacted the way they did to Freddy because they were personally affected by him. It was much better in the original when they acted out of a misguided sense of parental duty with no direct emotional link to Freddy's actions.

It looked as if it was shot with a view to post-convert it to 3D - a lot of the shots were done with things pointing towards the camera (the bit with Freddys garden tool in the soil and the shot of the mother getting killed through the mirror) which was also off-putting at times.

Overall: a colossal stinker.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Finally got round to watching the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street last night. I went in with low expectations and a fairly open mind (honest!) but this was far worse than I ever could have expected. AWFUL cgi (especially the bit where Freddy comes through the wall), totally pointless bits from the original pasted in and the apparently ambiguous is ''he/isn't he a child molestor?'' bit came out of nowhere with people just assuming the parents were wrong, even though in a previous scene he'd told Nancy she was his 'favourite' as he licked her face! Dreadful.

I also hated how the parents only reacted the way they did to Freddy because they were personally affected by him. It was much better in the original when they acted out of a misguided sense of parental duty with no direct emotional link to Freddy's actions.

It looked as if it was shot with a view to post-convert it to 3D - a lot of the shots were done with things pointing towards the camera (the bit with Freddys garden tool in the soil and the shot of the mother getting killed through the mirror) which was also off-putting at times.

Overall: a colossal stinker.

I guess I must be in the minority that actually like this film then

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by Rik

I guess I must be in the minority that actually like this film then

I hated it!!!!
It was terrible.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Finally got round to watching the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street last night. I went in with low expectations and a fairly open mind (honest!) but this was far worse than I ever could have expected. AWFUL cgi (especially the bit where Freddy comes through the wall), totally pointless bits from the original pasted in and the apparently ambiguous is ''he/isn't he a child molestor?'' bit came out of nowhere with people just assuming the parents were wrong, even though in a previous scene he'd told Nancy she was his 'favourite' as he licked her face! Dreadful.

I also hated how the parents only reacted the way they did to Freddy because they were personally affected by him. It was much better in the original when they acted out of a misguided sense of parental duty with no direct emotional link to Freddy's actions.

It looked as if it was shot with a view to post-convert it to 3D - a lot of the shots were done with things pointing towards the camera (the bit with Freddys garden tool in the soil and the shot of the mother getting killed through the mirror) which was also off-putting at times.

Overall: a colossal stinker.

i'm in 100% agreement with you, that film was S^&^. I went to see the movie genuinely interested in how the dream sequences would play out with current technology. As it turns out pretty bloody awful. The film felt like someone was approaching the film as a gun-for-hire director and turning out something they thought people might like without any regard for the genre. I rate the remake as possibly the ONLY nightmare movie worse than freddy's dead and thats pretty god-damnned awful indeed!
Just imagine if the producers had hired a 'visionary director' someone with a real visual flair and real excitment at turning in some impressive looking dream sequences, someone like tarsem singh (at least at a purely visual level) and we could have actually landed a pretty decent horror movie.

Tragically the end result breaks the cardinal no1 keir's rule of film-making...

its boring.

I can forgive a lot but not that!


Boring, tepid, lifeless, passionless by the numbers corporate greed in celluloid form.

[Frankie Teardrop]

eXistenZ - A vast improvement on my previous experiences with this film. Don't know why in the past I was always a little disdainful - maybe I thought it should on some level live up to 'Videodrome', or 'Shivers', or its immediate precendent 'Crash' for that matter. In fact, it does just that, on its own terms, on its own plane of reference, one shared perhaps by 'Videodrome' and 'Naked Lunch' - the three come together in my mind to form some kind of unofficial 'unreality trilogy'. Whatever, this time round I thought it was great - something really evocative about those scenes where Jen and Jude are in dialogue but splintered across multiple planes of reality and identity - arguably more of a headf*ck than v'drome. A strange association sprung to mind - don't know if anyone's familiar with Thomas Ligotti, but for some reason I was reminded of his work alongside my viewing - maybe just the Kafkaesque sense of a shimmering fantastique echoing throughout a placeless place. Erm. Watched SILENCE OF THE LAMBS for the first time in 16 years and found a smooth, elegantly crafted work that absorbed my attention and delivered tension and thrills in the sought after manner. Nice gloomy tone of foreboding, and always a slightly baffling treat to hear 'Hip Priest' during that climactic standoff.

[Gojirosan]

Shark Attack - I wasn't sure, but - yes - I had seen this on a VHS rental a ten years ago or so. Once again, reading the views on IMDb left me feeling an outsider and confused. There is a lot of hatred and contempt for this made-for-TV/video film, and I am not sure why. I think it's decently made, knows it's silly, throws in everything but the kitchen sink and the use of stock footage is far less intrusive than in a Bruno Mattei film - in fact I think it's quite well integrated!

I like this film and I cannot see what there is to hate about it. It's such unpretentious absurd fun!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Shark Attack - I wasn't sure, but - yes - I had seen this on a VHS rental a ten years ago or so. Once again, reading the views on IMDb left me feeling an outsider and confused. There is a lot of hatred and contempt for this made-for-TV/video film, and I am not sure why. I think it's decently made, knows it's silly, throws in everything but the kitchen sink and the use of stock footage is far less intrusive than in a Bruno Mattei film - in fact I think it's quite well integrated!

I like this film and I cannot see what there is to hate about it. It's such unpretentious absurd fun!

I trust it will be Shark Attack 2 then Shark Attack 3: Megalodon next then?

All entertaining films. I have them in a box set with the Crocodile movies and the Octopus films. Great stuff.