Gothic

Well I didnt much care for it at first, but once it gets going this is one damn good movie. Starts slow, but the end product is astounding.

This is only the 3rd Ken Russell movie that Ive had the pleasure of viewing, but I've loved all three.

Oh, I remember having such fun seeing Gothic in the theatres when it came out.

I had just showed a high school friend "The Bride of Frankenstein" and he particularly loved the opening sequence showing the Shelleys and Byron. He got the biggest kick out of it. So when "Gothic" came out I said, "We gotta see this--this is basically the opening scene of Bride of Frankenstein expanded into a whole movie" and he said "LET'S GO!" and it was the most insane thing to see. Now I feel a hankering for it all over again.

Glad Im not the only one that liked this :)

So are you a fan of Russell's other work too?

If so, what do you reccomend? Ive seen this, along with Tommy and Altered States...anything else I should see?

Well, of his "completely insane" films, I have a special love for Lisztomania. Not available in all formats, you can sometimes find a VHS tape released a few years ago. (I used to have 10 copies of it I bought at the local discount store, but I gave them all away!)

Going back to Gothic for a moment, I noticed there seemed to be a similarity between the scene with John Polidori slamming his hand repeatedly onto the nail in the wall and the scene in Blue Velvet with Kyle McLachlan being beaten up by Dennis Hopper outside the car ("Feel my muscles!").

It's two different scenes, but both characters appear to be experiencing a liberation through pain, of sorts. Polidori is suffering his repressed love and seeks to distract himself by focusing on physical pain, and McLachlan's "Jeffrey Nothing" loses that last shred of the previous view of reality he was hanging onto.

I could be just imagining it, but I think of the two scenes as being very simlar.

I watched the omen666 last night, that kind made me sleepy then I fell asleep dureing the exorcism of emily rose. Yawn.

Day Watch (sequel to nightwatch)

holy shit...... this movie had enough things going on for 10 movies.
very busy - but not hyper kinetic busy like Domino..

it really flows well ... not sure how a 3rd movie is going to fit in but i'm looking forward to it .

Was that the russian made sequel, or the supposed USA sequel they were gonna make?
Does it follow on directly, or is there some spacing?
Same cast?
Where'd you see/get it?

Last night, watched the wedding singer.
I like this one...it's not laugh out loud funny, but a few good peices of humour thrown together...more like a girly film that's tolerable for guys...and Sandler not playing a complete retard is a nice change...to this day, I think it's one of his best films. How flawlessly they did the whole mid-80's thing was very cool too. Another top quality soundtrack too. Good family kinda movie this one...and they got Billy Idol, gotta love that.

Well, I tried to watch Irreversible today, but the disc Netflix sent me was cracked (Don't ya hate that?) so I ended up watching a movie I had never heard of off of FEARnet...

Bloody Mallory

I don't know about this one... It wasn't the worst movie I've seen, but by no means was it good either. It's hard to tell if the acting was good or not since it was originally filmed in French and the dubbed to English, but the voice acting sucked! Not much gore. I'm not sure if something was lost in translation or if it's sloppy directing/editing but this movie's plot was rather hard to follow as well.

D+

russian sequel
pretty direct follow .. very little spacing
same players
i popped by russia on the weekend :D