Seen and not seen's, recommendations and queries on top films in general.

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Quote from: KMusselman on June 08, 2012, 09:13:41 AM
The Grey

I didn't know Ridley Scott was one of the producers until seeing him listed in the end credits.

started out as a nice grim survival flick, but man, did it lose everything towards the end :-( boring. silly end.

ConcreteMascara

Watched the 2011 prequel to the "The Thing" last night; I wanted to gouge my fucking eyes out. What a piece of shit movie. Terrible acting, terrible, terrible CGI and straight biting of scenes from the original. I hope the directors were arrested for this atrocity.
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When I first saw the film I wasn't that impressed but I read the book after doing an illustration project on it in art college and the film seemed a lot better the second time round. Possibly because I now a a good sense of what a seemingly impossible book it is to translate to film and that they took the film script in an interesting direction. The book took a while to read. I read it a second time sometime later and for whatever reason it seemed to click and I found it much more enjoyable, the first time reading it was quite a chore though.

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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans- ridiculous & over the top. Liked it a little more before I foundout Herzog directed it. I barely remember the original film but know I didn't like it.

The Redeemer: Son of Satan- mildly interesting slasher film that is also known as Class Reunion Massacre which I probably rented on vhs. Has a murder scene in the ladies room that is pretty intense compared to the rest of the tame kill scenes.

Grizzly- 1976 film about a giant bear. Love the kill scenes esp. the kid who gets his leg ripped off.

Jordan

Quote from: Peterson on June 10, 2012, 01:32:32 AM
Everyone on here should have already seen Naked Lunch. I found the book unreadable but the film did the concept justice. Sometimes the works of a degenerate junkie must be wrested from their hands in order to make sense and be relevant to anyone else, I guess. Hah.

The film has very little to do with the book. It's more about Burroughs' life generally framed in the setting of the book or something. The focal point of the film is shooting Joan, and how Burroughs felt that the shooting is what made him become a writer, which is totally absent in the book. He often talked about how he had to write himself out of his situation after that tragic night in mexico, but never in a novel. In the introduction to Queer, I think, he says that he and his wife have separated ;) Although I've seen it a number of times and don't hate it or anything, it's more of a Cronenberg film than a Naked Lunch adaptation. Burroughs wasn't particularly impressed with it.

I find it hard to believe that people get into industrial without being Burroughs fans first. Reading Electronic Revolution and Invisible Generation when I was young got me playing with tape recorders and whatnot, and I don't think industrial would have resonated with me if it weren't for that.

I hardly read Burroughs books anymore, unless it's something heretofore unreleased. I read Phil Baker's recent bio and found a number of errors that I emailed him corrections to. If there's a second printing I will be acknowledged for that. Very vindicating.

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THE AGGRESSION SCALE- dumber than a bag of hammers & no where near as useful. It's like the scriptwriter is just now seeing "Home Alone" & decided it'd be better as an action film.

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Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on June 14, 2012, 09:01:02 AM
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Some months ago I did a "business to business" trade with other shop. Gave them 100 new dvd's of porn and took shitloads of regular dvd's in return. Mostly took movies I knew are good, things I have seen before, but would like to see again. Among them was this. It's at the same time full of amusing things, but also very dark and intense. Relationship of prostitute and guy who is on mission to drink himself to death. Cage does possibly his best role?
I watched this again not so long ago and think it's a very strong film. Nicolas Cage has made some really terrible films but occasionally he manages to pick the right role and act well. Doesn't happen often though.

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Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on June 14, 2012, 09:01:02 AM
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Some months ago I did a "business to business" trade with other shop. Gave them 100 new dvd's of porn and took shitloads of regular dvd's in return. Mostly took movies I knew are good, things I have seen before, but would like to see again. Among them was this. It's at the same time full of amusing things, but also very dark and intense. Relationship of prostitute and guy who is on mission to drink himself to death. Cage does possibly his best role?

YES. From the same director, check aslo the ultra-slow and heavy Lebensraum... I watched it around 2 in the night on a horror festival on a Ferry, and it was quite intense. Not a horror at hall, just classy depression.

Although Leaving LA is definitely Figgis' best.

Nicholas Cages was really promising in his early days (Arizona Jr, Wild at heart, etc.)... then turned into useless.
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For Nicholas Cage fans, you need to see "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans". It's like he was really doing drugs & they just turned him loose to see what the hell he'd do and say.

THE CHILDREN- UK film. Dumb as dirt but I like it. Kids killing adults, adults killing kids. Not up there with DEVIL TIMES FIVE or WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? but it's worth seeing. Never see the '80s films that I think this is sort of based on.

I like STREET TRASH. Named a song after it that's on something. I think. Never bought the 2-disc set. Didn't need all the extras.

Jordan

I feel very much the same about Nicolas Cage. Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, and now National Treasure. Herzog's Bad Lieutenant is a fine return to form though. Herzog had to pull him aside and make sure he wasn't taking any drugs. He says he's been sober for a long time but that trouble he had last year would suggest otherwise.

When I was young and more alcoholic than I currently am I thought telling girls that I'm drinking myself to death would be a good way to score. It wasn't.


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TWO-LANE BLACKTOP- not sure what the big deal with this is. pretty uninteresting except for the musclecars. never been a car-guy but definitely appreciate mean, gas-guzzling, growling machines.
VAMPIRE CIRCUS- fave hammer film
THOU SHALT NOT KILL... EXCEPT- cheap as dirt action film from'85 but almost feels like it could have been made 12 years earlier. not sure if it's suppose to be a satire or it's just bad acting,directing but guessing it's all of the above. would be a good co-feature with I DRINK YOUR BLOOD.

HongKongGoolagong

WEASELS RIP MY FLESH directed by Nathan H Schiff, 1979

Words fail me trying to describe this deranged horror obscurity kindly supplied on VHS by Mr DK720. I thought I was gonna have a heart attack from laughing so hard.

ConcreteMascara

just saw Prometheus and I really, really enjoyed it. Saw it on one of the big ass IMAX screens with a massive system, which made it seem more monumental. As a long time reader of Alien comics it was awesome to see many of the ideas on origins and intent of Aliens incorporated. And again, the visuals were fucking insane. I went expecting big budget sci-fi horror, and that's exactly what it delivered...
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