You are correct on the shittyness of this movie. I was even hoping for Wahlberg to be more of his normal self just to add some type of personality to the movie. That's how dense it was.

Oh, and I saw Deliverance. I noticed it kind of seemed out of place on HDC's 100 disturbing, gorrific list so I thought I would check it out. Not bad at all. The acting and setting really make the movie. Not really disturbing by my standards but I can see how it can be considered such. 7/10.

Not disturbing? :eek:

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A little. But compared to the Gimp in Pulp Fiction is seems tame. I also finished watching Ginea Pig: Flower of the Flesh and Blood so maybe I was shell shocked. But for some reason, I can't seem to finish Cannibal Holocaust... is that weird?

It's really surprised me too! that was quite an interesting part of the story indeed. I haven't read the original story so thanks for notifying it out. Really, I'm now wondering why have they ignored this? For the movie length or what?

Length probably was part of it, but movie adaptations often pare a story down to its bare essentials so they can get the main point across. The book is called Ratman's Notebooks if you ever hear of it for sale, I recommend it. It's probably retitled Willard now, to capitalize on the movie.

hahaha! that's funny, the original title was better than the movie title.
Anyway, I'll definitely looking forward to it.

Frankenstein reborn

The cast anoyed me, otherwise it would have been a lot better.

5/10

The Bat - loved it! I love how some of the old movies played it for laughs. Agnes Moorehead was fantastic. And the woman that played her assistant/maid was also fantastic.

Part of Bloodlust.

We decided to have a double pack of 28 Days last night.


28 Days Later.

If ever there would be an example of cinematography selling a movie, this would be it. The visuals were gorgeous, especially the shots of the windmills, empty London, long shots of the city during daybreak/evening...very cool. Forget the actors and the plot for a moment, and watch this movie just for the slick work with the camera. You wont be disappointed.

Either way, Danny Boyle did a great job recreating a post-apocalyptic scenario. Some of the effects were quite brilliant, but some closeup shots revealed a bit too much of the bloated makeup - not cool in my book. The black chick got on my nerves more than once, but the hero and the Commander-in-charge of the Army holdout were good. Overall, it was pretty good and solid.


Rating - * * * *



28 Weeks Later.

Same premise, slightly different perspective. Its basically what Days would have been, had they stuck to the city. **SPOILERS** Although I felt Robert Carlyle turning up everywhere was a bit much for a coincidence (esp after the firebombing), the pace was impressive enuff to keep me interested. And also the unique way of combating the virus wasn't handled that well, IMO. But in keeping with the storyline, they had to sacrifice a bit out of that. **END OF SPOILERS**

Performance-wise, the kid was good. The girl was annoying at times. The doc, sniper, and the copter pilot were competent. And yes, the scene with the chopper and the rage zombies was another awesome shot of brilliant cinematography. In fact that entire sequence was filmed really well. This one was as good as the original, IMO, but lacked some depth in certain parts.



Rating - * * * ½

SAW V

Went to the theater last night. If you enjoy the Saw franchise, go see this one.

Scream- 9/10

Scream 2- 8/10

Sleepy Hallow
Dead Alive
Dead & Breakfast
Tommy Boy

Any good?

The one with Chris Farley? You haven't seen it? :eek:

Hilarious as always, it was our wind down/fall asleep to movie though.

Nope. Heard a lot of good stuff about it and always came close to getting it too, but never did so far.

Sounds good. I might pick it up later tomorrow. :)

It's a brainless, funny movie. Very quotable.

tromeo and juliet

Tonight's post-tirck-or-treating viewing:
Carrie
The Exorcist
The Ring
Possibly the Happening :D

Really - only a 9? From you?!?

It slike whipped cream, light, no real substance, but very satisfying for some reason.

David Spade at his sarcastic best.

Scream 3- 9/10

Best in Show

Hilarious dog show mockumentary.

Sold. Its a must buy now. :)



Actually came across that while researching for the Comedy Movie tourney. Looked pretty interesting. Seems like I ll be picking it up after all.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly- 3/10

You should...it's worth it just for Fred Willard alone.

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28 Weeks Later

Halloween

Went to see the original Friday The 13th in theaters, last night. Great theater experience.

Just finished City Of The Living Dead.

Halloween- 8/10

I can't figure it out- is this serious?

I was making fun of Return actually, but I knew you'd go nuts when you saw it.

lmao..........

HANK WILLIAMS - Honky Tonk Blues

Great documentary, if you're a big fan of Hank like me its essential viewing.

Suspiria...

Ghostbusters
The Raven

Carrie


And I just finished the Happening.

What an epic piece of shit. I don't know what animal produces the worst smelling shit in the world, but i suspect its ancestors ate curry. Good god what an awful AWFUL movie.


It is a must see it is so bad.

Somebody told me I had to add it to my list for our B (and sub-B) horror night.

Poultrygeist - 8.5/10

Enjoyed Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie a lot more, but this one was still pretty fun. There was too many musical numbers and it was about 30 mins too long, but they definitely upped the shit/semen/vomit/blood ratio since the last movie. Overall, a beautiful drunk movie...but awful if you like good movies, of course. Tis the Troma way...


-D

Dead kids aka Strange Behaviour
Did not like.

First Time Seen....in This Halloween
 

Nosferatu (1922)

Cute & lovely!

>>: B+


Kill Baby, Kill! (1966)

A creepy story with haunting atmosphere...perfectly suits with the Halloween.

>>: A-


Inferno (1980)

Yeah...mother of Darkness was the cruelest one. Next time I like to have a back to back show of the three mothers.

>>: A-


Scanners (1981)

I'm now highly confused about my "Most favorite film of David Cronenberg". Really, I'm not sure!:confused:

>>: A

Night of the Living Dead: 9/10

The Orphanage: 8/10

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Only watched about half of it, really....I supplied it as entertainment for one of the parties I went to. Perfect movie for Halloween, IMO - but my girlfriend and a couple of her friends were absolutely petrified, so we hung out in another room for most of it.

But man...the reaction of a room full of people who mentioned The Village and The Exorcism of Emily Rose among the scariest movies they've ever seen, when we got to the scene where the chick with the video camera gets killed - priceless. Absolutely priceless. Most of us would consider it incredibly tame, but for this crowd it was the epitome of sheer terror. Good thing I didn't bring something that was actually scary :p

Dungeon of Harrow

Sadly I didn't get to watch much of this one either - by the time I got home I was dead. Still, it's MY Halloween movie - I had to watch some of it! I'll finish it tonight :)