What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

Finished the night off with anatomy/anatomy 2.

Anatomy is the film that helped give Franka Potente a brief international career (though run lola run probably didn't hurt!) she plays a med student off to a prestigious medical school to follow in her grandfathers footsteps. There she uncovers the activities of the antihippocratics a group that reject the teachings of hipocrates that all doctors must follow "first do no harm". Its a fun little horror in the giallo mode with some nasty death scenes (especially the opening) and while not setting the world alight is a lot of fun. Its got the english dub and german with subs (with DTS) so everyone should be catered for, unfortunately the PQ falls a little short. Its not terrible or anything, it just looks a little bright and fuzzy as if someone got the contrast wrong. (im not an expert in these things.)
Anatomy 2 moves the action to berlin, this time a young doctor looking for a cure for his brother gets mixed up with a charismatic surgeon who selects his pupils and then encourages them to experiment on themselves with disaterous consequences. Franka potente turns up briefly but presumably as a favour as at this point she was probably busy swanning about with Matt Damon. Like its predesseor is an entertaining movie that cracks along at a brisk pace. The PQ here is much better than on the first, no english dub but honestly I could care less.

The disc is region locked so be careful, but if you can play it its worth a punt. Certainly when you can get it off amazon marketplace for less than a fiver.

[klownz]

@keirarts - Would you say the sequel is worth buying? I have the first one and thought that was a solid film, heard mixed opinions on the sequel though ... I don't mind that its not dubbed since I only watch dubbed films if there is no subtitled option.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by klownz

@keirarts - Would you say the sequel is worth buying? I have the first one and thought that was a solid film, heard mixed opinions on the sequel though ... I don't mind that its not dubbed since I only watch dubbed films if there is no subtitled option.

Its worth picking up. I watched them back to back and thought it was a worthy sequel.

[Prince_Vajda]

Scars of Dracula (1970). Brilliant shlock. Gory and full of beautiful lasses. Highly recommended. + + + + out of + + + +

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Scars of Dracula (1970). Brilliant shlock. Gory and full of beautiful lasses. Highly recommended. + + + + out of + + + +

A personal favourite Hammer film for me, and the first Hammer Dracula I ever saw 20 odd years ago on TV

I haven't really watched many films lately, hence my lack of posting for a couple of weeks, been far too busy wrapping up the first year of my degree and playing gigs while severely drunk (and not remembering playing )

I did watch Forrest Gump on TV last night and forgot how great the soundtrack is, so many of my favourite songs in one film, that's a rarety, and I love the film too, always brings a lump to my throat at the end

[Hawkmonger]

Alice (Jan Svankmajer): Decided to give Svankmajer another try after being furrily creeped out by Darkness Light Darkness...and I still find his SM animation to be extremely disturbing and almost made me cringe on a few occations...but it's a rollicking good view isn't it?! Very good take on the done to death source material and with a very memoriable atmosphere, if only the models wheren't so ugly I'd not hesitate at calling it a masterpiece, but alas I can simply call it a great movie. Highly reccomended, but I doub't i'll ever grow to like his SM animation.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

DEADLY BLESSING. A strange film full of unreleased potential that could have been great if some of the themes had been followed up or others removed. Ultimately it's very messy in places and also very 80s, especially in it's, wham bam, triple reveal at the climax of the film.

[SShaw]

I bought and watched the German bluray of Last Stand this evening. Wow! I really liked this, one of the best action films of recent years. I am sad I passed on this when it played the local cinema.

Tomorrow (five hours from now) I'm off to Manchester for Blazing Magnums tomorrow evening. Should be a lot of fun.

[Zann]

The House on the Edge of the Park

Used to find this film a little boring but over the years it's grown on me. It's really a David Hess showcase and he is great in it. The score is juxtaposed really effectively and it's interesting to see Giovanni Lombardo Radice playing the easily lead simpleton. I don't think it really deserves the rep it has, not to these jaded eyes anyway. The "it was a set-up all along" ending has to go down as one of the daftest ever.

Now how about a deluxe Hess BD collection with Last House on the Left and Hitch-Hike

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Zann

The House on the Edge of the Park

Used to find this film a little boring but over the years it's grown on me. It's really a David Hess showcase and he is great in it. The score is juxtaposed really effectively and it's interesting to see Giovanni Lombardo Radice playing the easily lead simpleton. I don't think it really deserves the rep it has, not to these jaded eyes anyway. The "it was a set-up all along" ending has to go down as one of the daftest ever.

Now how about a deluxe Hess BD collection with Last House on the Left and Hitch-Hike

Really? Grim as hell if I remember it, maybe it just reminds me of the parties I used to attend