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Mars Attacks - wow I love that film! Burton before he got too self indulgent.
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Lethal Weapon 4.
I liked this perhaps a little more than the third one, though nothing comes close to the first two... This one was "ok", nothing against it really except for leaning again further into comedy territory. |
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open graves 6/10, nice to watch but quite predictable
my soul to take 8/10, good movie! |
Thor.
Not bad, an alright watch. Some good effects. Not really one of the higher points of the recent Marvel films. |
Swordfish. What an absolute joke of a movie.
The Mask. Oh, how it takes me back to my childhood...Where I once used a cereal box to make a replica of said titular mask...and hoped it would work. It didn't. |
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Today me and my hubby saw Tron Legacy and True Legend today. They are not horror but still, thought I would mention them. I loved Tron Legacy it was an amazing film with amazing visuals and music. True Legend was okey though it was a bit all over the place.
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Salvage (2009) I really enjoyed this (and not just because it was filmed in my home city) it was surprisingly violent, gritty, downbeat and freaky. Very effective modern british horror.
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Hanna: Other than one very nitpicky bit of "oh yeah, like that would ever happen" right at the very end, this movie rocked. Some very intense action, great cinematography, and some even greater acting from Saoirse Ronan made for an awesome movie.
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Mockumentry about the titular Punk Rock Band. Really good - great characters, great music - a real suprise.. |
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
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Three days ago I had like a horror night or what I should call it.
Me (and some of my friends) watched: Halloween 2007 Friday The 13th 2009 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 Saw I Saw 2 Hostel Part I A Nightmare On Elm Street 1984 Freddy vs Jason The Descent And then we ended up with Ghostbusters hah Yeah we started watching at daytime. We where awake for 42 hours so I'm totally destroyed.. The reason why we watched the remakes was because last time we did this, we watched the originals (including ft13th 1,2,3,4) |
Beetlejuice 9/10
Death Proof 895892164689/10 |
"insidious" 9-10/10
Loved it, loved it, loved it!! One of the very best, and scariest american haunted house movies i've ever seen. |
Everyone seems quite into insidious.
Might have to check it out... |
Doctor Who (1996)
I know it was a TV movie. I know it was a pilot. I know it was for an American audience. But this really is shit beyond compare. Disgrace to the Doctor. |
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Psych 9 - still not sure how I feel about it
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Nekromantik (1987)
http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/...romantik87.jpg It's really quite "visually challenging"!:D >>: B Dead Awake (2010) http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/.../DeadAwake.jpg >>: C+ Red White & Blue (2010) http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/...idhdc/RWB1.jpg With quick & stylish editing & direction it all started like a slow burn, bit of a bleak drama that for the first two-third of the film focuses the interwoven events of the three characters…Erica, a young girl who is trying to fill the void of her existence by working at odd jobs & having sex with almost any guy she meets; Franki, a guitarist in a garage band, with dreams of making it big, all the while caring for his cancer stricken mother and Nate, an Iraq war veteran, kinda edgy & disturbed ( Noah Taylor did a great job portraying the role). But in the third act it was like all hell broke loose…slowly the end comes with a pretty brutal and uncompromising revenge scenario where director Simon Rumley though left most of it off screen but skillfully that works for the audience enough to make you shiver or think about even after the credit rolls. It was gruesome…it was fun to watch! Overall, an exceptionally interesting indie effort that every genre fans should check out. >>: B+ |
Just watched "Madhouse" (1974) on Netflix. Awesome flick with some of my favorite actors in it: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff.
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Aw Rosh- I think Nekromantik deserves a strong B.
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I just watched this recently too, I thought it was great! |
Rat Race
Always good for a quick laugh. Whoopi Goldberg gets me every time. |
scream4, not bad
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Insidious here also, really loved it, id compare it to Ink and Paranormal Activity wrapped into one, only a lot scarier.
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Jurassic Park, with my brother (a throwback to perhaps one of my earliest memories.)
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It's a hopeless task trying to teach English to the English.. :p
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Insidious - 7.5/10
Couldn't wait for the cinema but soon realised I should've. Black Swan - 7/10 Fight Club called, they want their premise back! |
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Just watched 'Kill the Irishman' - I was looking forward to seeing this since i first heard about it - I must say I really enjoyed though it did have the potential to be an epic film it did fall a bit short. It was also a pity Christopher Walken hadn't abit more to do in it. Ray Stevenson was great in the lead and I think it prolly features every one who ever played a wiseguy on film or TV. And LOL@Vinnie Jones pretty much playing the same pikey boxer from Strength and Honour. The film didn't touch on Greene being a FBI informant and painted him in a pretty romantic light. The soundtrack also needed more House of Pain. I'd like to see a film about The Westies (though State of Grace was great) or Whitey Bulger. |
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Stalker (1979). The title of this immense Russian film is misleading to the minds of the West as this is about as far removed from a psycho-thriller as can be imagined. Stalker might best be described as a philosophic journey whose story is a true blend of sci-fi and fantasy and whose ultimate goal is to elicit some contemplation of the inner humanity of individual humans. Without really answering anything, it takes many of the most profound clichés that intellects cling onto with dear life and then person takes personal pains to expose them as intelligence obtunding tools that has allowed true thought, as well as mankind, to stagnate beyond repair.
This is a demanding and slow story, where things tend to linger, lulling the viewer into a mental state such the the subtle purpose of this flick can penetrate the walls of dogma. In one sense, this is a sort of thriller as the journey seems to get more and more foreboding, but the source of terror is only alluded to in such a confusing fashion that it never quite manifests into true terror whilst always threatening to do so. This movie is difficult to characterize. Not quite avant garde in structure, it is more like a masterpiece of moving visual art whose message is heard but is too abstruse for the conscious mind to make any sense of. The acting was strong, with much time spent allowing the actors to express feelings with their expressions and movements instead of just their mouths. Their transformation throughout, from cocky and self-reliant, reserved, and finally to the unwanted discovery of an inner reality they have been sequestering for their entire lives is quite an achievement. In another sense, though, they are secondary to the movie's visuals. Andrey Tarkovskiy is not so much a director as he is a visual poet. The camera is used not just used to tell a story but to open the mind up to things that cannot be understood, allowing it to again fathom the mysteries of life with an almost a childlike innocence deviously coupled with a sense of dread that only maturity can generate. The metallic sepia tones used in the beginning creates a dream-like presence that concurrently divulges the ugliness of human existence. Alcohol and drugs would almost be an excusable escape from such a dreary place. Camera movement and composition are exquisite. Long shots are championed, almost as if editing was an unheard of phenomena. The visuals of nature and man and the decomposition of civilization are all juxtaposed as if no other combination could be possible but with such a cruel reality that the mind will do anything to relieve itself from such honesty. The score sneaks in, sometimes hitchhiking along with the industry of society, only to disappear like a thief in the night whose booty is yet to be noted as missing. As this film comes to its close, in a fashion that almost dares Hollywood to breathe the life force of originality in place of its empty tinsel, the thinking brain is left convoluted, hinting of implosion, afraid and unprepared to seek a properly sanctioned thought that has been pre-approved by society with the empty promise of happiness at the expense of contentedness. d |
Fantastic review, D.
Where's Fortunato? He will be pleased as heck to read this review of his most favorite film. :) |
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