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

Started by GEWALTMONOPOL, December 29, 2009, 06:31:05 PM

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bitewerksMTB

DEATHSHIP- one of my fave '80s US horror films. the US dvd is very nice with international poster images on the inside & transfer is cleaner than the UK dvd
EXCISION- bodyhorror for teenage girls
BEDEVILLED- korean film about a tropical island paradise

The new season of The Walking Dead is ok. It's WAY better than American Horror Story: Asylum, which only has the occasional interesting scene. Otherwise, it's just dumb as shit.

Sons of Anarchy has been just over the top silliness but the episode-before-last with Kurt Sutter stabbing the nurse in the neck was BRUTAL. I'm curious as hell about the new character who beat the shit out of Sutter. No clue to his name but he was in Terriers a couple of years ago which was FX's best series that only went one season.

online prowler

- one by one the men turned black -



trailer for Stanley Kubrick's FEAR AND DESIRE (1953).

Soon to be reissued on Master of Cinema on dvd and br.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTU4UIHw-x4

online prowler

THE WILD BUNCH

The last western.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwE3TfJUB48


Planning to revisit Big Trouble In Little China one of these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592EiTD2Hgo


online prowler

A friend of mine recommended me this link. Don't know if any of you posted this previously. Anyway, enjoy:

TROMA - 150 FREE MOVIES - ON YOUTUBE.

Legendary psychotronic film studio Troma Entertainment, maker of such cinematic masterpieces as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke'em High, and Redneck Zombies, has put 150 movies (including some classics that it distributes) on YouTube for free viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tromamovies?feature=watch

martialgodmask

Quote from: KMusselman on December 06, 2012, 02:08:34 AM
The Dark Knight Rises came out yesterday on Blu-ray so I picked that one up.

Watched it a couple of days ago, I thought it was average at best.

online prowler

JIGOKUMON (GATE OF HELL)
1953.
Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa.



Eureka just released Jigokumon through their Masters of cinema series. Classic Japanese period/samurai drama. Here is a clip from the restored version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwhQRDSzBk&list=UUTMoFozMX_0KlRmRxoFXtrg&index=3&feature=plcp

bitewerksMTB

DEADFALL- crime/action film with the Jax from "Sons of Anarchy" & Olivia Wilde from "House".  I thought Wilde may get a nude scene but no go. Treat Williams gets the best line of dialouge: "While you were fucking your rat of a wife, a cop was getting shot in the face" Or something like that. Could have been "...that rat you call a wife". Other than that, it's a very forgettable film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667310/

Andrew McIntosh

Quote from: martialgodmask on December 06, 2012, 10:07:09 PM
Quote from: KMusselman on December 06, 2012, 02:08:34 AM
The Dark Knight Rises came out yesterday on Blu-ray so I picked that one up.

Watched it a couple of days ago, I thought it was average at best.

Yea, I watched it last night and wasn't as moved as I was by the previous one. The Dark Knight was a pretty big film to top, though.
Shikata ga nai.

ConcreteMascara

Started watching the TV series Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex last night. Enjoyed it so much I wound up watching 8 episodes in a row. It's been out 10 years now? But I never wanted to watch it because I was afraid it'd spoil the excellence of the manga and the films. It does not. It seems very much a compromise between the ponderous nature of the films and the more whimsical but still serious nature of the manga. I don't know how much, if at all, the show is censored on the US dvds, but I would like more tits and gore, because I'm a simple creature at heart.

Inspired by the show I re-watched Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence this morning. I still think it's a strong film, but the dialogue relies heavy on quotations, which is made more obvious by the fact that the subtitles are in quotations when it's happening. It get's a little over the top but there are some elements that compensate for that. Specifically the gorgeous animation and the inspired scenes with Kim the hacker.

enough anime nerding out for now...

gonna watch Beyond the Black Rainbow in a minute. Expecting disappointment, but hoping for the best!
[death|trigger|impulse]

http://soundcloud.com/user-658220512



Andrew McIntosh

Blacksploitation, baby, you dig?

The Mack

Coffy

Willie Dynamite

The Black Gestapo

Sweet Sweetback's Baaad Assss Song

I gotta split. Later.

EDIT - The Man just took down nearly all of them for copyright reasons. Damn.
Shikata ga nai.

Levas

Michael - most of the reviews included words like "perverted", "sick", "disgusting" etc. etc., but all in all it's a rather slow artsy and rather sad movie about a pedophile who keeps the boy locked in his basement. There is quite a lot of happening in between frames and in silent and still parts of the movie. So no exploitation value, lots of art. not a bad movie overall.

bitewerksMTB

I've been meaning to rent MICHAEL but haven't been in the mood for it as someone told me it was a 'slowburn'.

online prowler

Saw Michael a while back. Consider it as a very good debut film. Slow moving, non-judgemental, cold, cynical, but not without humour. Quite strict it direction, plot and presentation. Superb cinematography at times. Some shots evokes William Eggleston's photos. If I remember correctly the director Markus Schleinzer has worked on some of Michael Haneke's previous productions. For those of you whom enjoy the works of Ulrich Seidl plus Haneke, and haven't seen this yet - give it a chance.



Trailer// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUg0Mok8TTQ