not a bad film at all ..

had that nutty hong kong feel to it.

double team was an interesting idea but it fell on its face ... what a waste of Rourke

probably got something to do with tsui hark ;)

yeah .. did u like ?

enjoyed it the first time i watched it :p


maximum risk

unsettling film, unfortunately slightly spoilt by some of the 'sledghammer' tactics used by the filmmaker



henry/man bites dog aren't as dark as this, but more effective imo

I didn't exactly mean that statement as I typed it. I haven't seen the Kill Bills.

From Dusk 'Till Dawn was okay.

Jackie Brown was dragged on and dull as hell.

Sin City is a superb movie, but he really didn't do that much on it...he was a guest director.

I think Tarintino is a good director. I'll wait to see if he can make a movie with some different characters besides the ones with "fuck" as every other word in their vocabulary before I make the decision of whether he's great or not.

That said, I love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs- those are his two great films (<that's what I should have said.)

X-men




Er...Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs...kick ass by the way.:)

jackie brown was my favorite QT film until kill bill ..
i thought it was old school great..

x-men

very bad things

Oh man, you need to see Kill Bill. I personally enjoyed it more than Reservoir Dogs [which I also loved], plus it proves that Tarantino can "make a movie with some different characters besides the ones with "fuck" as every other word in their vocabulary":p

Than I will see them. Like I said, I think Quentin Tarintino is a good director. I just find all of his characters unbelievably similar.

I didn't like the Kill Bill movies. I thought they were trying too hard too be a sort of "cult cool". But it's a major motion picture done by a popular director, there's no way it can be a cult hit. I just thought they were silly.

I liked them both but my wife had the same reaction to the first one, thought it was just violence with no good rhyme or reason; the second one however she thought was MUCH better. I personally think that you have to watch them together, one after another, they're only a good movie together as Kill Bill as seperate movies they're not that enjoyable.

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X-Men

both kill bills were 2 of my favorite films of the last decade.

i never once felt like they were going for th 'cool factor' - i totally understood tarantinos vision because it is similar to mine .. i also grew up with the grindhouse chop socky films/blscksploitation films this guy loves.

the films he is emulating were at the time trying very hard to be cool (which gave them their charm) so it is fair that this would come through in the Kill Bills, but its appropriate in this case.

i remember watching these films and just thinking 'wow' finally something that delivers.

i dont want to harp on the age thing but maybe it helped that i grew up in the 60's/70's ... i completely understood the direction of these films.

(i'm sure you 'understood' them too .. but you didnt live through it .. so nostalgia plays a big roll)

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2...are undoubtedly THE best works of Tarantino after Pulp Fiction. The direction and the acting by Uma Thurman stand out as one of the best on-screen, post Y2K. I m surprised Thurman didnt get an Academy nomination for Vol 2. (Yes she was THAT good)

The unique story-telling plus the raw, ruthless and brutal fight sequences are superb. I liked the way the movie turned into B/W mode once The Bride started her slaughter, and returned to color once the massacre was over. And that one scene when she surveys the club floor, filled with bodies, some dead, some writhing, moaning, lost limbs, hacked heads, arms, legs everywhere, blood, blood, blood...damn I re-played that at least 7-8 times over and over again. :D

Anyway, I saw Dementia 13 earlier tonite. An excellent movie. Coppola's first (so I read somewhere) and I dare say, one of the earliest and best slashers to come out in the early 60s. Some scenes stand out, from which I loved the decapitation scene (probably the first in movies??)

Anyone who hasnt seen it, its worth every dime to check it out. Good value for money. Highly recommended.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amalthea
The Cell, Gothika and Brother Bear. [/QUOTE

I loved the Cell!

I agree with you dude. Tarantino forgot subtley with these flicks.
This was reinforced for me after watching the Devil's Rejects and the Kill Bill movies pale in comparison. Rob Zombie took a lot of the 70s A.I.P grindhouse conventions and melded them into a more original vision than Tarantino did with Kill Bill. Kill Bill wore that Jack Hill influences on it sleeve and piked out on the Story of Ricky and Itchi The Killer splatter. At least Zombie reinvented the conventions by making the audience become attached to Last House on The Left style scumshit trash villians while being repelled at the same time. Sure tried (you could even say tired)and true conventions were used but at least they weren't overblown. Fuck I grew up on the Shaw Brothers kung-fu, Jack Hill women in gangs/prison/very little clothes kicking ass flicks, the 80s Ninja period (VHS for a babysitter) so I see what Tarantino was going for.... it was just a little to obvious for my liking. But as a teenager the Tarantino shit turned me onto a whole bunch of movies I never would've watched as I'm sure Kill Bill has. How much does he kick ass with subltey!! Jackie Brown was a masterpiece of reinvention and Reservoir Dogs changed my fucking life (saw film in a different way, gave me a attitiude that ANYONE can make a movie thats better than a bunch of the Hollywood bullshit). Tarantino spearheaded a filmic movement (whatever the fuck they'll call it or have called it - QT gets roped into the 90s indie revolution but its more important than that) and now all I see is rehash rather than reinvention. Hopefully it won't be another case of the maverick being reassimilated into the mainstream.............

But whatever I don't have people knocking down doors to film my scripts and Tarantino is a hell of a lot better film maker than Ritchie Cunningham/Speilberg/Lucas (add your own three blind mice kids). Shit I'll probably have a blah, blah, blaaaaahhh "that mans had to much wine" speech about Rob Zombie's next film in the same vein but at the moment RZ is breathing some fresh life into "trash cinema". The Devil's Rejects makes me feel like watching River's Edge/ Drugstore Cowboy/Reservoir Dogs/Clerks/Bad Lieutenant for the first time again.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap...one of Bud and Lou's most unfunny movies.

Not enough dick jokes for me. I'm into trash toilet humour comedy. But yo..... Modern Times made me laugh my ass off :D

the thing about the Kill Bills films though - for me - is that i never once felt he was trying to do anything other than bring back some fond memories of some kick ass films ..

i can appreciate what Rob Zombie is doing (moreso in 1000 corpses) but Tarantino in my opinion is far more skilled.

remember the grind house stuff from the 70's was very in-your-face ... it makes absolute sense that Kill Bill will be also..


those were masterful films ...

Merlin's Apprentice with Sam Neill

It sucked. I didn't even make it through the whole movie. It was very slow and did not hold my attention at all. I don't need non-stop action in a movie, but at least keep the story interesting!

Manic.7/10



Has anyone seen this film?

Mio In The Land Of Far Away 8 / 10

Zombie Holocaust


This is another one of the films I got for dirt cheap when Sam Goody by me went out of business and I'm pleased to say this one was actually worth the $2 I paid for it and then some!!! I was genuinely entertained pretty much from start to finish. The dialogue was terrible but other than that this was a really under-rated gem. Lots of gore, a fairly fast moving & engrossing plot, but the title itself is rather misleading. (There really weren't many zombies in it at all. It was more of a cannibal or psycho doctor movie than a zombie movie, but that's a minor issue.)

All in all, this film was really good. I enjoyed the ample cheesy gore quite a bit.

B+

The scifi channels movie Threshold. Not bad.

V for Vendetta...

Wow. Portman is incredible in this, so is Weaving. He does so much just with his voice, and the movie just FELT like a Wachowski Bros film. Awesome.

I watched The Asphyx a few nights ago. I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Basically, an English gentleman who dabbles in photography develops a method of photographing a spirit of death that visits the victim as they are about to die. His further experiments allow him to trap this spirit, thereby making the potential victim immortal. He has success trapping his own Asphyx, but when he tries to immortalise family members, things start to go wrong...

8.5/10 for this interesting British horror from the early 70's.

that is a cool movie - was fairly hard to find too - is it out on DVD now ?

Yeah, VHS is like 3 or 5 bucks but the dvd 'll cost ya $30+. Might be cheaper somewhere, just not the places I go to.

Yeah its out on DVD in Australia. Funny thing was I picked it up for $9 (Aussie dollars) on the weekend, reduced from $25. Hadn't seen it before but it's hard to go wrong for $9. Had I known how much I would enjoy it, I would have gladly paid the full price.

i think i have an old beta copy of it .. or a dub .. cant remember.

i know it also goes under a different name sometimes ...

Spirit of the Dead
The Horror of Death

there you go - i looked it up on imdb :)

Dark Water [2005]

Meh. Almost fell asleep a couple of times. 2/5

The Fog [2005]

Complete trash. 1/5

The Da Vinci Code

Although not my cup of tea, it was a very well done flick. 4/5

X-Men: The Last Stand

Do not worry, this is a 100% spoiler free review...which is much harder than you'd think.

I'm a big fan of the X-Men in their various incarnations, be it the various cartoons, video games, comic books or, obviously, films. Though this doesn't quite live up to the first film, I think it easily surpasses #2, and I'm completely baffled by the people who've been saying it's the worst in the series.

I'll admit that I was a bit worried at first. The opening seemed really forced and the actors didn't seem as enthusiastic as they have been in the past films. However my mind was quickly changed after a huge shocker right off the bat. As promised , this review is spoiler free...but wow. Those of you who've seen the movie know what I'm talking about.

As I mentioned, the actors didn't seem as into their parts as they were in the previous installments. Once the film got on track however, this was mostly rectified. The only problem character-wise that lasted throughout the film was Wolverine. Until now, Hugh Jackman seemed born to play the role, and he pulled it off perfectly in the first two. Always on edge, blunt, sarcastic and almost feral. Here however, he seems much to sensitive. Perhaps this is more to blame on the writing, I suppose, but one scene in particular stands out that was totally out of character for him. Once again, spoiler free. Famke Janssen was dead-on as Phoenix, and made the character very cool.

The plot was handled great. I was a little afraid that a plot about a cure for "mutancy" would turn into a preachy mess, and although it does start out that way a balance is quickly found. The ending is pretty awesome as well, but if you don't want to groan Id avoid the scene after the credits.

The effects were incredible, as can be expected from any film with this kind of budget. Everyone bad mouths CGI, but damn does it look awesome when used well.

The new characters were great for the most part. I really liked the major characters of Magneto's Brotherhood: Juggernaut, Calisto and Spyke being the stand out new members. Pyro was as cool as ever, though I'd like to have seen a bit more of him. I was a little disappointed in the Omega Red cameo...the main thing he had going for him in the past was his kick-ass costume, take that away like they did here and he isn't all that great.

After it's all said and done, this is a great addition to a great series. It cant live up to #1, but it easily beats out X-2.

8.5/10

(applauding the spectacular verbal acrobatic performance)
Wow, not one spoiler.....great job!:D

Yeah, I still think the first one was it...all of them had their moments, all of them were "good" films, but the first one was it.

So Sam Neill was in ANOTHER Merlin film?...I mean, surely you can't be talking about "Merlin" the tv-movie/miniseries made about 8 years ago? 'cos that there was excellent, great score, brilliant effects and one of the best Merlin related stories ever.
So...assuming your taste doesn't completely suck, I have to say that this must've been a sequel or something?...and they fucked it up, huh?

Merlin sucked.

I'm halfway thru Day of the Dead 2 and it sucks so far too :)

Nope.

How they even managed to get the name on this all but completely unrelated peice of shit is beyond me. Did you catch the superimposed military vehicles at the beggining? The acting is so bad...there's kinda ONE good idea in the film (the evolved zombie thing at the beggining), but that in itself was poorly executed. I think they made this film for about $20.

Yeh it does. But I'm not really into the whole fantasy thing.

Yeh I did catch that shit :rolleyes: terrible stuff.... and this is coming from a guy that loves trashy garbage flicks. It must've cost them a bit of cash to use the DOTD name too. I guess it fooled a few more people to into renting it. Thank fuck I didn't buy it!