What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Deadpool looks awesome.

Looks like Spiderman to me.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Looks like Spiderman to me.

Deadpool looks like the most generic 90's superhero going which was ultimately part of the gag.

Triple nine

almost a great movie, triple nine ends up being a merely good one thanks to some weak characterisation, generic plot and character archetypes. A gang of thieves are roped into 'one last job' by the russian-jewish mob operating out of Georgia. To pull it off they need to kill a police officer, activating a triple nine call that will make sure all officers are the other side of town. Fortunately being crooked cops this might be easier than imagined unless of course things go wrong...
I must stress that as generic as it sounds, this isn't a bad film per se' just a little lazy. Woody Harrelson plays the cop you expect him to play, casey affleck just wanders in and out of the film as a plot device, Kate winslet wastes an interesting role.. yet it still kept me interested enough to keep watching as John Hillcoat directs the hell out of the anaemic script. It looks lovely and the score is good.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Cult of the Cobra (1955)

American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.

Whilst an interesting premise, this Universal horror picture loses steam extremely quickly once it leaves India and heads to the Universal backlot, sorry streets of New York.

A lack of thrills, underwhelming performances and a lacklustre script mean that doing the ironing is a more enticing prospect than a second viewing of this.

Awesome poster though.

[iank]

The Gauntlet. Clint Eastwood is a washed-up cop given what he's told is a "nothing" assignment to escort a witness from Las Vegas back to Phoenix - unaware that no one, including his own boss, expects either of them to make it back alive... Watchable if unremarkable and slightly silly late 70s action flick.

[nosferatu42]

George Romero put Cult of the Cobra in his top ten horror films when Total film asked horror stars and directors their favourites a few years back.
Obviously a nostalgia moment.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

George Romero put Cult of the Cobra in his top ten horror films when Total film asked horror stars and directors their favourites a few years back.
Obviously a nostalgia moment.

Wow! Really?

[gag]

Rang a friend and he suggested i come round i said ok we watch a film or two and he asked what? I said im not bothered absolutely anything.

And guess what he found a film called absolutely anything.
I never heard of it its a british film written and directed by terry jones from the monty python crew. Starring simon pegg.
Now i dont know if its films in general or me, we all at some point have complained about todays films in comparison to how they where one way or another and im guilty of that with comedies, and i can honestly say ive not watched a comedy for years that ive really enjoyed or made me laugh a lot so im not sure if it is films or ive lost my sense of humour.
Anyhow he stuck the film on and i can honestly say i found that one film that made me laugh out loud loads it made us all laugh. One of the funniest comedies ive seen for years. Its about aliens who give a bloke the power to do absolutely anything and see if he uses it to do good or bad things. And at times what he wishes for doesnt turn out exactly how he come across. There was ppl killed in a explosion and he said i like all the dead to be alive again meaning who died in the explosion suddenly everyone dead body in existence started to come alive.
And at one point i joked i make myself have a huge penis and thats exactly what he said in the film. The scene had me in stitches especialy when he said no i want one that will make women happy then he looked down and said oh come on a white one. If you havent seen it and like Terry jones and simon pegg then you shouldnt be dissapointed.

God bless America

Not sure if this was like a cross between natural born killers and falling down or just a film or the guy who wrote it is explaining how he see life like it is today. And trying to come across how life changed. But not for the better Either way the later is how i saw the film, but its funny how people see and perceive things different at the same time. There was a lot in the film i saw wether that was the intentions of the film or not as to how life is and how there is two sides to every arguement for and against whether we like it or not, At the beggining it shows how he liked to blow the shit out of his next door neighbours with a gun but he nice as pie when he see them, and lets face it in reality we all thought off how we like to kill someone of or just go over and knock **** out them or go on a killing spree but we havent and been nice instead . But also goes to show how society has become where we live off watching other people misery and glorifying it as entertainment, Jerry springer anyone? I mean my mum watches stuff like cant pay take it away r what ever the **** it called. I detest these shows because lets be fair some not all have just hit a hard time through no fault of there own and being eg kicked out their house etc there and then and i wouldnt personaly want my life when im down in the gutter to be shown on national tv for everyone to watch and sit there and be god judge and jury when they dont know **** all whats happened in that person life or why ended up in that situation. Then talk about it next day at work maybe. But it also shows how America has become trigger happy as well. And how violence has become the norm these days where people just seem to accept it, or people go the other way go overboard and why they had enough and act the way they do and flip and how the USA has gone trigger happy, nearly ever week there some sort of killing spree there been few already this year some just havent made as much headlines as other, there been one this week. And how violence has become the norm these days where people just seem to accept it or dont seem shocked anymore because its part of todays society and culture and at times when political correctness has gone daft and overboard when he was sacked because he thought he wasnt doing a nice thing by trying to cheer up the receptionist by sending her flowers to cheer her up, The scene in the cinema i can relate to sev times over, eg years ago when cinema houses where all on one level and not each row was up a step, i was the first one in the room and sat down one or two straggled in then suddenly a bloke 6ft 6 or their abouts sat the row and seat literaly in front of me having no choice to move. And then what happens next in the film is a prime eg of todays society and culture while they where shooting one bloke was videoing it on his mobile so he could probably upload it to some social network just to see how many likes they can recieve or give them something to brag about how they where there and saw it all, instead of helping or running to get help. i think the film had a deep meaning and showing how society has become, to the point where there is so many things that is wrong in life and so ****ed up but yet become acceptable

[Frankie Teardrop]

WISHMASTER 2: EVIL NEVER DIES – I've never been much of a fan of franchise horror. I prefer that 'Friday the 13th ' episode set in space to any of the others, and, as far as actual runs of sequels go, The Human Centipede series is the only one to have consistently held my interest. That, and maybe the 'All Night Long' films, not that you'd consider those to be part of a franchise exactly. I mean, what would the merch be? Bloodied tampons? The 'Wishmaster' films had some initial push in that the first one went out under the aegis of Wes Craven, who was, back in the late nineties, enjoying a second renaissance. I liked that first movie – it had a bit of drive and and verve behind its ultimately derivative pitch, and I remember it as being quite fast paced and appropriately gory. 'Wishmaster 2' is subject the law of inevitable decline which is imposed whenever anyone tries to do a sequel that doesn't mess with its forebear all that much. It's an example of a highly refined cinema – the reprocessed left overs of a film which consisted itself of reprocessed leftovers (of the 'Freddiesque' sub genre). It starts off with an art heist that goes wrong - the wishmaster is unwittingly sprung from his antique prison and lands a hipster goth chick / armed robber in a whole lot of trouble. For nonsensical but slightly poetic reasons, wishmaster (in human guise) deliberately puts himself in a real jail (as opposed to a statue), where he goes around getting inmates to wish themselves into messy situations as he sets up a soul harvesting operation. Meanwhile, hip goth chick robber hitches up with her unlikely former lover, a priest, and the two do the usual ie join forces to stop the wishmaster. It all ends in a casino / tawdry hell set piece, where moderately crazy stuff happens, thankfully. 'Wishmaster 2' is bad fast food with zero nutrition and less taste, but what the hell, I found it pretty entertaining. Quite a lot actually stacks up in its favour – some trashy special effects, including a stupid looking regression to childhood and a slimy wishmaster reconstituting out of a wall, a few good gore gags involving cons pushing themselves between cell bars and the like, plus the whole enjoyable inanity of nineties direct to video horror where lines like “release the prophecy” repeat every five minutes in a croaky, sibilant voice which sounds disappointingly like that of Victor Meldrew. The biggest draw for me however was Andrew Divoff's bizarre performance. He looked like he was involved in a freaked out attempt to channel Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy Leary, maybe with a bit of J Nicholson thrown in, with a really odd kid's “I'm being evil” face slapped on top. Possibly a pretty bad bit of acting, but I found it mesmerising. Though sadly not enough to inspire me to check out the other sequels, which I'm told are awful.

THE MUTILATOR – I'll always be a fan of that special time when you could go out and make a movie that began like a shit soap opera and ended with a vaginal stabbing. I'm also glad that movies like 'The Mutilator' can be looked at now with dewy eyes, and that the comfortable mists of nostalgia include these kind of lopsided schlockers. Whilst not all that effective as a slasher film, 'The Mutilator' is interesting in the sense that a few of the other recent re-releases ('X-Ray', 'Blood Rage', 'Madman' etc etc) are interesting – through being a bit eccentric, although not necessarily all that good. And it's interesting in itself that these hitherto woebegone flicks are now considered worthy of deluxe upgrades, whereas back in thems days they'd be taken as evidence of horrible taste in movies and possibly character pathology. 'The Mutilator' s specific eccentricity lies in the way it bridges the gap between anodyne and nasty (as with many early eighties slashers, this bridge also runs all the way to 'dumb as f*ck'). Again, this is a movie that starts by looking like it might turn into a feeble teen comedy and ends with some edgy genital mutilation. What happens between those two points is a bit blurry – I was tired when I saw it last night, but I think the film itself has that indistinct feel to it, so that it always seems as though it's being recalled from some time in the eighties. What I do remember is, some kids are going on a fall break. If you didn't know that, there's that well known and truly hideous theme tune to remind you. Anyway, our fall breakers are persuaded by one of their number to go to his dad's beach house for their holiday. Dad's having “one of his turns” and has kind of ordered his son out there, although, bit of back story here, son accidentally killed mom when he was a kid, so it's good that the two are on speaking terms. So they all go along, and there's a lot of the requisite wandering around and talking, but also odd little snatches like dad having a framed photo of his late friend's corpse on his living room wall. Erm, maybe dad's a bit weird or something? No one told them he's hiding beneath the house, and let the fun begin etc etc. 'The Mutilator's kids are fairly wholesome, and there's not much in the way of bitching or shagging. Still, I didn't feel all that much empathy for them when they were variously beheaded, drowned, vaginally stabbed etc as they were all a bit 2D, although the performances weren't all that bad despite what a lot of reviews have said. The gore is there in places, but it's well spaced out. The highlights are those points where the film goes a bit crazy – the climax for instance, where the killer manages to hack the leg off a passing cop despite having been cut in two himself! Beyond this, there's that weird, uneven atmosphere. I liked 'The Mutilator'. It's not as 'special' as something like 'Blood Rage', but it brings home once again the rough oddness of regional filmmaking and as such opens a window onto a naïve time which we'll never see again. Kudos once more to Arrow for investing the time and effort in such a minority interest, although I like to think it'll snare more than a few unwary punters in places like HMV.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Triple nine

almost a great movie, triple nine ends up being a merely good one thanks to some weak characterisation, generic plot and character archetypes. A gang of thieves are roped into 'one last job' by the russian-jewish mob operating out of Georgia. To pull it off they need to kill a police officer, activating a triple nine call that will make sure all officers are the other side of town. Fortunately being crooked cops this might be easier than imagined unless of course things go wrong...
I must stress that as generic as it sounds, this isn't a bad film per se' just a little lazy. Woody Harrelson plays the cop you expect him to play, casey affleck just wanders in and out of the film as a plot device, Kate winslet wastes an interesting role.. yet it still kept me interested enough to keep watching as John Hillcoat directs the hell out of the anaemic script. It looks lovely and the score is good.

It's between this and The Finest Hours for my cinema trip this week, I can't decide between the 2 as they both look equal in their 3/5 estimated review scores from me

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

It's genuinely one of my fave films of all time, definitely one of the horror films I like most. It's just got a really off kilter atmosphere, all the communication between the characters is off or distorted somehow, there's Adjani having a kabuki miscarriage in the subway, that German dude who looks like he's always about to start dancing with people, then the whole Lovecraftian octopus shagging angle...There are so many layers to it that might not mean anything or make sense, but make it feel so mysterious. But then again, I've known some people who otherwise really dig surreal horror / Jodorowsky et al to knock it back, so I guess it's really about what pushes yr buttons. If like me you change your mind a lot about films I'd give it another go though, sometimes my willingness to take things in or get into stuff varies a lot with how I'm feeling, and I can (and often do) go from nought to sixty on some flicks just by being less knackered / preoccupied.

What he said.
A genuinely disturbing film. For adults. Love is a battlefield cough