Con Air

DAMN FINE cheesy action.


"Mylene Farmer" : Music Videos II/II - Always a catchy tune and always a great, and often mini-epic, video and always looking very sexy thank you very much!
Partly picked it up for the Abel Ferrara directed "California".

Face - Korean dead girl mystery horror. Holy shit - i'm getting to the point that i dont care how well made these things are - its like the 10th movie in a row from Japan/Korea/Thailand with the same 'creative' elements.

Ginger Snaps II - got a little loose around the edges ... but i still enjoyed it. The character 'ghost' was a creepy little kid. The lead did a good job ..

hmm dont think i've have seen any ghost movie from Thailand.....
"the Blob" (late 80 version)...again...a nice monster movie...dumb ass hell...but at the same time good ass hell...:)

Shutter

I agree that in it's day, it was the s**t, but nowdays with the way society has been annealed to violence/terror it would have more then likely gotten a PG-13 rating.

ATTICA, ATTICA, ATTICA, ATTICA, ATTICA, ATTICA, ATTICA...

Went to see Constantine Saturday night.

well of course sexy... she's only been naked in most of them, especially the older ones :p


closer and napoleon dynamite.

"Maniac Cop", Extended print.

"ELEKTRA"
Don't laugh....it had a scantily clad Jennifer Garner in it. Of course...thats ALL it had going for it.


http://www.seantconrad.com/years/200...an/elektra.jpg

Also "Wake of Death"......again with the laughing....it had a scantily clad Van Damme in it.
http://www.cinemovie.info/VanDamme/3.jpg


ok....so my weekend selection sucked.

Monas World (Denmark 2001):Comedy about a girl (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who works in a bank is witness to a bank robbery, and falls in love with one of the bank robbers (Mads Mikkelsen - The Danish voice of Randall from Monsters Inc). 8 / 10

Sounds like some might be feeling the same boredom with this influx of Oriental stuff as me.

How come nobody ever seems to have a bad word to say about anything with subtitles, particularly if it comes from the Far East?

Don't get me wrong, I like Takashi Miike and the Pang Bros. stuff (kinetic, extreme, sometimes very funny) and I'm a sucker for the harsher ends of the Jap torture series and 90's CAT III shockers... but recently these "mystery horror" movies are beginning to all look the same and the novelty value is gone.

I would say people view foreign films through rose-tinted specs sometimes, and consider that because they are intelligent enough to sit through the subtitles and "get" the foreign-ness of it all this gives the movie plus-points that an identical, English-language film wouldn't earn.

How do we know these Japanese/HK actors are not actually wooden as fuck soap-opera quality unless we understand the language they're speaking?

Perhaps it's the subtitle translators who are the unsung heroes of it all...

almost any one of these films - on their own - would be good viewing, and a welcome change from the american same old ..

in the similar vein as how cool friday the 13th was when we first saw it .. but as each progressive slasher used the same old bullshit as the last - it gets tired fast....and this is whats happening with these eastern horror/mysteries.

I enjoy foreign films as a rule because they give me a break from the usual crap - a fresh outlook or style.

The Hong Kong crime thrillers, the french new wave dramas..,
and within North America .. the young black filmmakers had a unique fresh approach (until it became the norm)

its interesting to see that the east are as guilty as the west when it comes to riding the wave of a good thing until its beaten to death.

I have also wondered about the question of the quality of the acting - are we blissfully unaware and everything sounds stellar because we wouldnt know the difference ..

i guess there's something to be said about that .. if we dont know if its bad or not .. then it sure isnt hurting us that way.

hey, it was a promising start - here's hoping they can use their skill as filmakers in some more innovative directions.

I just hope Miike isn't lured by the West, like John Woo and others were, to churn out quirky actioners starring Jean Claude Van Damme with his own "unique" style.

friday the thirteenth

Fist Of Fury HK Legends 30th R2

Bumfights 2: Bum Life - fucking hilarious!

What about the guy signing his life away before he embarks on a trip down a near-vertical slide... on a skateboard???

"Good luck, man."

"I told you, it ain't got nothing to do with luck... it's about SKILL!"

Then what an anti-climax!

His little hands scare* me.


Last for me was Dogville. I didn't think I was going to stop laughing every time the characters opened and closed a fake door, but it was deffinatly worth the wait. It made me smile.

Taboo (some movie about homoesexual samurais) Then tonight im gonna watch Adaptation, hope its good.

Warlock...Warlock 2...Warlock 3...Again...

its a good film

im wathing the Evil Dead commentary with Bruce Campbell, and it is funny!!!!

I watched Warlock 3 the other day. I am pretty sure it was the first time I had seen it. For me, and no offense tot he fans, there is a good reason it is #3.

The only drawback for me with movies w/sub-titles is my eyesight, (happens when you get old). I usually watch them on my laptop so it's much closer. As far as good vs bad, everybody makes s**t, but there may be cultural diffrences at play that aren't as obvious to others in the USA or outside of the country the film orginates from.

thats what i was wondering at first ...
I figured a dead girl looking for revenge must be a popular theme culturally .. but then i see the same thing in the Korean films ..
I know there is some simularity in the japanese and korean cultures .. they seem to be compatable ... but then i see Stutter.. a Thai film ...

I dont think all eastern countries are that culturally simular are they ? maybe so, i dont know ...

but its not just the girl with wet hair, freaky looking, crazy moving limbs akimbo visual .. there are other devices being used and reused.

the ghost is visible in reflections one second (mirrors/windows) and then they dissapear .. only to appear visually seconds later ..
This is in every single film !

They can be captured on film or security cameras ...

The funny thing is that most of these things the intended victim is completely unaware of .. its for the viewers benefit only. So the ghosts are fucking with us the audience ??

I understand that the filmmaker is making us jump and yell for fun .. but after the 4th or 5th movie doing the same damn thing its wearing thin ..

and thats not a cultural thing ...

Is that the one with Mel Tillis in it.

http://www.teddwebb.com/legends/mel_tillis-2.jpg

whoops !!

make that Shutter :D

to bad i didnt say Tutter :p

hmmm can you compare it to the japanese/koreans...I know you like the japanese movies better than the koreans..but where will you put Thailand...?

"The Incredibles "...a nice animated family movie...reminded me of a story I've read in Spiderman....

hmm I like all three :)

Some of the earliest Horror "films" originated from countries outside of the US, i.e. Germany, France. Therefore, we have never had a lock on the Horror franchise here in the US. Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and other monsters exist in all cultures, despite all their similarities each society deals with the legend(s) in a unique way. Of course we as Americans, (you know how we are) have to do things in a grand scale, cranking out one movie after another. I find that with foreign films, a lot of the violence is implied, not all mind you, Fulci is a good example. While we here in the States like the Bucket-O-Blood, show me the gore, or exploitation style. I also find that nudity is treated differently in a lot of foreign films, films from India have women with none, no bare bellies or much else. While naked co-eds or gratuitous sex scenes are almost a standard in many US horror flicks.

I hate those dance movies from Bollywood.....I think the ratings in India are very stricted.... by the goverment.....They just make movies with singing and dancing...I dont think nudity or violence are legal..and thats boring :o

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill Vol.2 R2

great movie ...

nidity is showing up in these films now ...

I actually prefer it to Vol.1

........NAH......