Re-Animator (1985)

>>: A

Martyrs. My that was rather unpleasant. At the end i felt as if i were the one that was martyred. Obviously a well-done movie. Lots of unseen twists and turns. My only gripe was the ending. After having endured the previous unsettling violence i felt rather let down. i know the ending was perfectly fitting, but it still seems that it could have been better and not a played out cliche. Ashe.
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Quarantine

It was ok, the lead was too much of a screamer for my taste but it was perfectly watchable. This was probably due to the fact that it was almost shot for shot identical to REC, not a bad thing, just meant it was completely unnecessary to remake it.


Repo: The Genetic Opera

Try as I might, could not get into this, I lasted about forty minutes before giving up. Its very disappointing as I was really looking forward to seeing it but it just didnt work for me. The music and songs were not good enough to hold it together despite how good it looked.

The Green Mile
Notorious

The Spirit

Nowhere near as bad as I expected it to be from the reviews, etc. Good fun all round really kinda a mix between the Burton Batman flicks, Dick Tracy and of course Sin City

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Looks great but I found it kinda dull and the story was done more than a few times on the show. I prefer the later movies because they encompassed more elements storywise.

The Punisher

Liked it more second time round. Still prefer the Dolph Lundgren version characterwise. Still this flick fits in quite well with the old school revenge flicks I dig. Got Warzone to watch tonight so it'll be interesting to see what they do with that one.

I'm betting you'll enjoy it - it's pretty corny in a lot of places, but it's a lot darker than either of the other flicks and they pretty much nail the character. I thought it was fantastic.

Yeah, I think Warzone was the closest to the comic I've seen of the three.

Solid. That's got me pretty amped on checking it out!

The Virgin Spring (1960)

Finally very glad to see the most original tale of Craven's "The Last House on the Left" last night. And Bergman portrayed it by his unique delegate hand where faith collide with confusion & anger and the most merciful God's judgments shivered in the old war between the good & the evil.
The master filmmaker captured the tale in a genuine heartbreaking way. This is one of his most moving works I have seen so far, a film to be admired and pondered for a long time. One of the most outstanding scenes was when Tore (Max Von Sydow) wrestling with a tree that almost more than doubled than his height. He exercises it out of the ground so that he may whip himself with its leaves in a ritualistic fashion, as if to purify himself of the vengeance he plans to unleash. Tore is a man of deep faith and strict self-discipline who suddenly shocked both by the God who would allow such a tragedy to grief him and by his own wrongdoing, in savagely killing his daughter's murderers where even a young boy gets no mercy.
There was an interesting note when one of the farm hands explains at one point how the smoke from the fire finds its way up to the ceiling, but cannot go out through the opening into the free sky. The smoke doesn't know what's up there, he explains, so it stays indoors, trapped among what it does know. This could be an alternate viewpoint to the film's purely religious themes. Like all good works of art, there is no final, absolute answer. As in the final scenes when Tore made the promise to God that he'd built a church at the death place of his daughter....isn't that symbolize mankind's tired less belief & search for salvation in religion in a try to bury all the pains & restore the mercy & peace again & again in life?

>>: A+


Knowing (2009)

Decent time passing sci fi thriller.

>>: B-

The Burrowers. Pretty decent flick. Not specatacular, but it was pretty enjoyable. The setting was different, the acting was fine, and the story was original enough. The premise itself was pretty cruel. The ending even had an element of great movie-making to it. Worth a watch.
Ashe.
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