The Isle (2001). Incredible Korean flick. Very little dialogue, allowing the story to be told not through telling, but by showing. i am sure that i didn't understand the meaning of some/most of the imagery and symbolism, but i appreciated it nonetheless. Ashe.
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ps. Posted here cuz noone seems to be posting on the J-Horror forum.

L'avventura (1960)

"Everything is becoming so hideously simple." So is the thesis of this great adventure as poetically stated by Claudia, a character who begins to see her life recycle itself and leave her behind. The theme here isn't so much love or the difference between the sexes, but how tremendously compulsive it is to be a human being, especially one masked by the absurd complications of bourgeoisie tradition. The film is shot beautifully and has a fittingly beautiful cast. It's headliners: the charming Gabriele Ferzetti and the magnetic Monica Vetti, a woman so radiant and confident she absorbs her surroundings effortlessly and remains always the most pressing point of interest, even among grandiose architecture and island landscapes. Antonioni carefully introduces her late in the film, and slides her forward at a moment where we are preoccupied by a plot point so strange it seems cut from a surrealist piece yet so natural it seems out of a newsreel. This jarring tragedy which introduces the film becomes a ghost to haunt the remainder of it, and the following incidents are clearly part of life's confounding randomness. There is no scientific support for the turns life takes- death has no schedule, love has no reason. A work of art like Antonioni's presents the best way to look at things; it supplies no answers to the infinite amount of puzzling questions presented in its reels, but by the touching conclusion we must realize that in a world like this, answers don't matter. We realize that next to bigger things like volcanoes and city structures, our time here is not so long and not so affecting- but that doesn't mean we shouldn't embrace it.

The Watch (2008)

wasted time

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The Horsemen (2009)

thought it'd be a good serial killer movie but I was wrong.

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Splinter (2008). Pretty standard new age monster/horror set-up. Still, this flick worked for me. Acting was solid, monsters were worrisome, etc. Ashe.
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Star Trek.
I actually liked it a fair bit more'n I thought I would...love how they tied in the established universe as the one that'll no longer exist.
I'd see more.

And now back to the movie that starts this thread... "Time Walker"

I saw this movie back in the day, when it was first on cable. It was a bit of a hoot back then! And now, I find that it is still a hoot. I got an old VHS copy of this off Amazon this week. And it's funny as hell! Very hard to take this dorkball movie seriously.

However, it is notable for featuring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston, the two male leads of Assault on Precinct 13. They are in several scenes together, and have a good bit of dialogue, and I think this is the only movie they came back to work with each other on. If you are a fan of Assault, I think Time Walker is worth watching just to see these two working together.

the being
last of the living
laid to rest
the last hunter

The Descent

Lazy, rainy Saturday. I watched The Terror, House on Haunted Hill (original) and Night of the Living Dead (original). The transfers were bunk but I still love two out of those three.

The Goonies (1985)

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