What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

This one will be shorter as i remember a lot less of these

Tomb of Ligea - The best of the box I think. On location shooting and a very interesting story make for a much more interesting story than the previous films. 9/10

The Raven - An odd little film. Feels like a Sunday matinee kids film, silly harmless fun. Some good laughs and a fun little plot of magic battles and grudges. A very young Jack Nicholson appears as well. 8/10

Powaqqatsi - Right off the bat one can tell this won't be as operatic as it's predecessor and future Fricke films. The others opt for a slow build, a progression of themes, music, and images from slow and steady to fast and frantic. Powa however, opts to jump in blazing. As a result, it feels much less organized than the previous installment, and a fair lot of the images aren't as interested and powerful. It does improve around the second half however, bringing in more interesting shots and variation, but I guess it just will never be able to live up to the masterpiece the original. Arrow's Blu, like Koyaan, is Perfect. 8/10

Mark of the Devil - An odd film. Interesting varied characters and respective performances, and a cool score, whilst also being excessive, and kind of downbeat and repetitive. 7/10

Cheeky - Ugh. I picked this out as it was the Brass film that interested me most and supposedly one of his better ones, but shit if this is the better end I can't imagine the worst. This feels like porn, with unbelievable situations and characters. The main male character is so extremely misogynistic it's painful, what little plot there is runs wild, and so much of the sex manages to be unsexy. It's just boring and a very poor production. Well shot though, and a very fun score. Some very nice eye candy as well. Sadly the film offers naught else. 2/10

Night of the Comet - I loved this. Love love looooooooved it. There is so much good, the characters and story are fun, the scenery is fun, the writing is fun, it progresses nicely and steadily with different plot points. I just couldn't find anything wrong with it at all. I'm sure it didn't help that the main character and her sister remind me so much of my girlfriend and her sister, but still. This film would be perfectly paired with Return of the Living Dead. So 80's, so much fun, so good. 10/10

Branded to Kill - This opened very well, but fell so quickly. It's just wierd, and I feel it doesn't fit well in the Video line. It's wierd, it's all over the place, it's boring as hell for the most part. I didn't like it, but the bonus movie version looks more up my alley. 5/10

Black Sabbath - I have a slight sense of shame in saying this is the first Bava film I've enjoyed. Black Sunday did nothing, Baron Blood was silly, Lisa and the Devil i haven't even finished, Bay of Blood was cool but all over the place. This hwoever, is solid. Three stories, that never overstay their welcome. Good suspense and shooting and interesting stories. The third, A Drop of Water I think it was called, was amazing, the colorful cinematography, the amazing sets, and that face. I hope Blood and Black Lace is like this, it looks to be. 9/10

A Beautiful Mind - Tragic as hell, but very moving and interesting, with great twists. Not very real as it says however, but still good. 9/10

Bound - This really impressed me, as with such a small location and plot, it works amazing tension and action, and shows the future potential the Wachowski's proved with the Matrix and pissed away with everything after. 9/10

Naked Lunch - This was so overlong and boring and confusing and just wow, I have never been so lost with a movie so fast. 30 minutes in I was pretty much gone and it never got me again. The only redeeming features are Ed Harris' performance, and two great monologues regarding homosexuality, and a talking asshole. 2/10

Well thats it, i barey remember any of those.

I would swap the scores round fro Night of The Comet (though for me it scrapes a 6) and Branded to Kill myself.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I love Naked Lunch. It's a brave attempt at a virtually unfilmable book. I highly recommend the book.

As for talking assholes...there are a lot of them about.

I'm certainly up for giving it another go at some point, with subtitles this time. But first time around I was bored silly

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I love Naked Lunch too, i think it helps to make sense of the film more if you find out about Burroughs life ,which is reflected in parts of the story.

I did some reading as I went, the whole William Tell incident is fascinating. Apparently another movie was made about just that.

Originally Posted by Buboven

I would swap the scores round fro Night of The Comet (though for me it scrapes a 6) and Branded to Kill myself.

Ah well, the world would be boring if we all had the same opinions. I think Night of the Comet is a new favourtie for me

[gag]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I love Naked Lunch. It's a brave attempt at a virtually unfilmable book. I highly recommend the book.

As for talking assholes...there are a lot of them about.

Im sure i read somewhere that when he wrote the book he was high on drugs hence the weirdness. But when he come clean off drugs and tried help making the film he was just as lost as everybody else to what the book was about. so they kind of went with the flow and altered a few bits because if they made it as weird and bizarre as the book then it would have cost more to make and be too controversial and be a nightmare with the censorship in just about every country. or something along those lines.

[gag]

John doe vigilante

wow one of the best films seen in a long time.
Made by those from down under where we seem to be getting a lot of good films from these days.
Joe is a serial killers but only kills people like rapist pedophiles etc.
He being interviewed and telling his story why.
It doesn't play out like exterminator or the horseman its more of putting across both sides of the argument for and against, is he really doing good or is he just as bad as the others etc, it doesn't come across as a low budget film more like a big Hollywood blockbuster if you haven't seen it then do so now you wont be disappointed.
I recon itL become a firm favourite amongst people on here .

[Demoncrat]

Watched......

East LA Warriors (Addison Randall, 1989).
Didn't Godard say that "a film is a girl and a gun" ?? Well, in that case this is the greatest film of all time.
Or not.
From that "man in house" in Emperor Of The Bronx , this torrid tale of loss, anger and high calibre gunplay kept me rivetted to my seat. Until I got bored. For undemanding action fans...

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000). Not as funny as I remembered. Still, only two to get now (3 if y'count Wild Card though......)

Sorceress (Brian Stuart, 1982). Not as sleazy as Albert Pyun's simliarly S&S themed effort from the same year, two siblings are pitted against a clothing shortage, amongst other perils haha. Ends with the best pay off line in ages!!!

[sjconstable]

Tokyo Tribe (2014) - 8/10

Sion Sono just keeps churning out amazing films, I don't know how he does it! What this film lacks in substance, it makes up for in pure entertainment value and is somewhat addictive, I already want to watch it for a third time in the space of 24 hours

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

WITHNAIL AND I-Classic British comedy.Makes you long for a sodden weekend in the Lake District,as long as Uncle Monty ain't invited....

RABID-Classic Cronenberg,much prefer his oldies to his modern stuff.Bleak and straight to the gore.No ****ing about here with complicated plots.....And those old Cronenberg names-class....Dr Keloid....made me yearn for a bowl of corn flakes

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE-First time I've seen this.Laurence Harvey is superb.Now all we need is his other classic,WELCOME TO ARROW BEACH on Blu uncut.Knowing my luck,Stanley Coopersmith,sorry Olsen will pick up the rights...

FRIGHT NIGHT-The 35th anniv.was well worth the upgrade.Great Q&A sesh...

THE BONE COLLECTOR-DenZEL does Seven.

FALLEN-DenZEL does Seven with a supernatural slant....

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sjconstable

Tokyo Tribe (2014) - 8/10

Sion Sono just keeps churning out amazing films, I don't know how he does it! What this film lacks in substance, it makes up for in pure entertainment value and is somewhat addictive, I already want to watch it for a third time in the space of 24 hours

Looking forward to checking this one out myself eventually.

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

I'm certainly up for giving it another go at some point, with subtitles this time. But first time around I was bored silly



I did some reading as I went, the whole William Tell incident is fascinating. Apparently another movie was made about just that.



Ah well, the world would be boring if we all had the same opinions. I think Night of the Comet is a new favourtie for me

Totally agree, and I have a recent new fav aswell, so we are both happy Arrow costumers

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

From 1963 - part 1:

Blood Feast - The oldest picture in the DPP list of 'video nasties'.

The Kiss of the Vampire - Heres one I haven't seen in a very long while. Not too bad despite the bats-on-a-string attack.

Kings of the Sun - Great performance by Yul Brynner, shame about the rest of the movie though.

Fun in Acapulco - Generic Presley.

Summer Holiday - Bloody awful!

Promises, Promises - Jayne Mansfield gets 'em out! Which is the only highlight of this picture!

8½ - Another Fellini that really does nothing for me! Won the Oscar for best foreign picture

Doctor In Distress - Dirk Bogarde returns to the franchise in a passable entry to the series.

Leri, Oggi, Domani - Although released in 1963 this went on to win the Oscar for best foreign picture the following year. Its anthology film with three separate stories each with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in each part.

The Birds - Classic Hitchcock, no explanation as to why theres an Avian uprising, none needed just sit back and enjoy!