What can i say. You're easy to please. :D

Killing Bono

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535101/


kept me entertained through the duration

Yeah, I think it really is a masterpiece.
Tarkovsky's not for everyone, I guess, but he's one of my favorites.

Wached Yellow Brick Road, and S&Man.

It's the second time I've watched Yellow Brick Road, and I really don't know if it's ok or if it sucks. There is something in the movie that must intrigue me because I watched it twice. What that something is, I'll never know.

S&Man is great! It's a documentary about torture porn movies. They do interviews with the director of the August Underground movies, and other characters from that industry. Personally, I hate those type of movies. I am not one of those snooty horror fans who is anti-gore, and wants every movie to be The Haunting. I love gore, but at least throw a teeny bit of plot in it to make it interesting. And get a better camera! My cell phone takes better videos than whatever they're shooting with. Even with all my feelings about torture porn, I thought this movie was brilliant! Ok... maybe not brilliant, but it's very unique, and definitely worth watching! I'd talk about it more, but I don't want to ruin anything, It's one of those movies that you really don't appreciate how slick it is til the credits are rolling.

I think Mordum is a brilliant film. There's plenty of story in the August Underground series. Maybe they aren't plot driven but they are definitely a character study that puts you in the killers world.

Just got done watching Freejack.
For some reason I've had an urge to revisit some early 90's sci-fi titles that I didn't have much recollection of.

Funny, it goes to show how your taste changes...I remember seeing a preview on a VHS for this movie and thinking WOW it looks awesome.
Then I watched it, I must have been maybe 13?
I didn't actually like it.
Maybe it was that I didn't really have an understanding of what was going on, though I had no fond memory whatsoever of this movie, in fact I remember being pretty disappointed.

Yknow, I actually quite enjoyed this - kind of similar to another one of my sci-fi action favourites of around that time (Total Recall) though doesn't really fall at all into "rip off" territory.
It was a cool idea, lots of twists and turns, and a damn trippy ending.
Glad that I had the random inclination to check it out again.

So on my 90's sci-fi that I can't remember list
The Lawnmower Man
Hardware
Virtuosity
Circuitry Man

- Of course I'm open to any suggestions of films along these lines between the early to mid 90's. I think there was some really good sci-fi going on back then.

It's probably a good thing that you forgot about Lawnmower Man & Virtuosiy.

What about Spontaneous Combustion or Fire in the Sky?

Didn't like

Never heard of.
Is it actually scifi?
Seems more horror-ish.

I saw Spontaneous Combustion as a kid and it completely freaked me out I seem to remember there was an intensity to it that made it very horror-ish and it is certainly meant to scare you but there are some sci-fi elements too. It was directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eaten Alive/Deathtrap, Mortuary)

LOL I wish I was but sadly not.

Finally saw Benny's Video (1992) by Austrian director Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Hidden, The Piano Teacher). Luckily I knew nothing about the film before I saw it. Had I known about it there's no way I would have watched it. I'm really in a huge dilemma with this film. It starts with a video of animal slaughter which I abhor with all my heart BUT I didn't switch it off there and then instead watched the rest of it basically because I know I will encounter similar scenes by accident in the future (maybe I should try to desensitize myself). It turns out that this is extremely important to the plot and character development. I just despise such manipulative tactics like this. However the film is very well done, bleak, stark, genuinely upsetting and very effective in the points it makes. Bottom line is I will never watch this film again nor recommend it to anyone because of that scene (which is repeated again later in the film) but that is my personal choice and view, I completely understand how this film could be very well liked, even enjoyed by some regardless of that scene. Challenging stuff.

Couldn't agree more-I really felt sorry for him as an actor because I can imagine how much hell inside himself he had to draw upon to perform some of those scenes. He reminded me of David Thewlis' mancunian vagabond character in Mike Leigh's "Naked". Unforgettable.

Not seen any Trakovsky films but will look them up. I loved Dogtooth and Hidden-not seen Seventh Continent but what did you think of Benny's Video?

Thanks.

I'll stay far away from that one.

Freejack is good fun. Jagger played surprisingly well.

Re-Animator. No further comments except one: it's a great movie.

Out of those types of movies, the AU series is probably the best (at least from what I've viewed). But I guess I do just prefer things to be more plot driven. Probably the same reason I don't really dig porno. It's nice to see a bunch of T&A, but sitting through more than an hour of it straight, it tends to get rather tedious and redundant.

That's interesting, because I feel like he does something that very few other filmmakers can do, and that he does touch some part of me that very few other filmmakers do.

I'm a Haneke fan, too. Hidden was amazing. Did you see The Piano Teacher?
Dogtooth was absolutely brilliant. One of my favorite films of that year. Can't wait to see what that director does next.

Yeah, absolutely. Interesting comparison between those two performances, too.
Michael Shannon was actually in the play before William Friedkin adapted it.

Drive.
While I'm not about the jump on he bandwagon, it was a solidly entertaining film with a soundtrack I enjoyed.

whats this all about, everyone watching this movie drive,its like an action movie or something isnt it

LOL sweet review man :D

Antichrist

boring but extremely gross, not nice at all :D

Just saw Wrath of The Titans. Not bad, mostly just a lot of action. Better then the clash of the titans remake though

"Battle in Seattle" 8/10

A good movie with a message and lots of known faces.

Good flick, even better message. It's almost criminal how that whole situation was ignored by the mainstream media. WOody Harrelson was great. I always love to see people play a character who is the exact opposite of who they are.

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/...njidhdc/CW.jpg

Must see for all!

>>: A

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/...jidhdc/GR2.jpg

That Italian chick (Violante Placido) should do more action & horror flicks; liked her in The American.

>>: C-

Awesome, I definitely want to check this out.

I'm watching Seventh Continent tonight but I also haven't seen Time Of The Wolf did you see it?What did you think?

Lunacy/Sileni (2005)
Directed by Jan Svankmajer (who did the great Little Otik) this is a joint czech/slovak venture based on the writings of Poe and De Sade. The huge downfall of this movie is the animated meat scenes-these happen every two or three minutes throughout the film and though they don't last long they are hugely irritating and become unwatchable after about 20mins in the movie. I understand that the director was trying for something inventive but it's the frequency of them that let's the film down-it would have worked better had there just been only two or three of these and they lasted longer. Anyway besides that this is a reasonable film. Plenty of blasphemy for sade fans but not enough control and punishment-the few scenes of those there are come at the end and are too rushed through. Therefore the film fails in it's objective of showing a view of freedom vs control which is unbalanced in favour of the freedom ideology. Nevertheless the film does make some great points about lunatics running the asylum (on diffeent levels) and just who are the lunatics after all?Flawed but not bad.

Wow I would have loved to have seen him in that play-seeing such intensity on the stage would have been amazing.

You're really a serial killer, aren't you? ;):D

F A Q About Time Travel



I'm a sucker for time travel movies......enjoyed this one

Just watched New Nightmare for the first time

Yeah, I've tried to find videos of it, but to no avail.

Three Kings.
First time viewing.
Always heard from people that they quite liked it, but for some reason it never appealed to me.
So the other day, hit up a local charity/op shop and bought a shitload of VHS tapes for 50c each (I find this is a good way to see films I have not, and some of those that I'm not certain about) and this was the first one we popped in.

Really well made film I thought.
Entertaining, with moments that span from completely lighthearted to like...oppressively dark and tense.
It was a relatively well spun, if not slightly improbable tale with some good performances all around, even ice cube was pretty tolerable.

Throw in some pretty interesting camera-work and effects with bullets, some intense short lived combat scenes (that evoked a rather "being there" vibe) and dialogue both funny and tragic, a decent storyline and good resolution, overall thought provoking subject matter - it made for a very solid watch.

I liked this one a lot more than I thought I would, I think I'd actually give this 8/10, which for an action film is a rarity for me.
Though really it was Action/comedy/drama, nicely balanced mix too.

So, from a guy that never wanted to watch it in the first place - If you haven't seen this one and you're wondering if it's worth the time, I can say with fair certainty that it is.

I watched "Take The Money And Run" last night.

I'd never seen a Woody Allen film before and it had me really laughing all the way through!

I need to see more of his stuff now!

Any recommendations?

Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Sleeper
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Annie Hall

Definitely Crimes and Misdemeanors, Interiors, Love and Death, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Shadows and Fog (a lot of people didn't care for this one, but I really like it), Husbands and Wives.

Ooohhh, good call on Hannah and Her Sisters! Forgot about that one - great movie!

Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) ,
Sleeper and Bananas are more like Take the Money and Run. The others are great as well......so many more.

I really liked Bananas, but it's been awhile since I've seen it, so it might not hold up.