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The remake of Cabin Fever.
Probably the most pointless remake since Funny Games.
Even the tits were shitter!
Wack ass X-men Apocalypse movie smh!!!
I think it's X-Men : Apocalypse for me as well.
Olivia Munn looked fantastically hot as Psylocke.
Had seen this movie also - think it was ok :tongue:
Warcraft movie, I liked it, except it could have been a bit longer so they can explain stuff better. :D
The Witch.
Interstellar...
Kill Bill Volume 1, House Of Blue Leaves Uncensored Japanese Version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD5TMdAtmQs
Concussion (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/
Looking forward to the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 " reunion coming June 28th.
http://www.hennepintheatretrust.org/...nneapolis-2016
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The American director Michael Cimino has died at the age of 77. He is best known for two films, The Deer Hunter (197-eight) and Heaven's Gate (1980) though some will recall his first feature Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and films such as Year of the Dragon (1985) and The Sicilian (1987). He has been described as a genius; or as a vain, self-indulgent, egotistical, megalomaniacal and an enfant terrible...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae...he_Deer_Hunter
but I think he sits somewhere between the two as there is a lot of skill and vision in his films, but I am not always sure about the depth. The opening scene in Heaven's Gate is particularly fine, even if it was shot not at Harvard but Mansfield College, Oxford and the 'old oak tree' was a fake. I think The Deer Hunter will survive as one of the best films about the US experience in Vietnam and its consequences, with some terrific acting from De Niro, Streep, Walken and John Savage. It remains controversial, but I think the context of the film in the 1968 'Tet Offensive' and the deceit over the war that followed was still raw in 1978 when it divided audiences, as it still does. In the UK Heaven's Gate was not released and I had to go to Paris to see it as in those days Paris got the latest US films about 6 months before they were show in the UK. I haven't seen it since then but recall it as a stunning visual film with a problematic script, and I might chase down the best version I can find to see it again.
There is an account of the opening scene of Heaven's Gate by an extra here:
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/feat...-heavens-gate#
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001047/#director
I saw the movie The Shallows. It is a decently reviewed movie about a surfer who is attacked by a shark. I'm generally an easy audience but it was a waste of time. Why does a shark spend a full day staking out a hundred pound blonde in a bikini when it has an enormous whale carcass a hundred yards away from the tiny island she's nestled on? Do sharks like blondes? Do sharks dislike blondes?
The Legend of Tarzan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5r6FrEgg5M
I watched Independence Day 2 today. I gave it a C. Wait til it comes out on DVD and then go check it out from your local library. Not worth the money to go to the theatre or buy at the store. Hopefully the Star Trek movie coming out on the 22nd of July will be much better!
Son of Saul (Lazslo Nemes, 2015)
This film is based partly around the revolt of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944 but mostly concerns the attempt of one of them (Saul) to give a dead boy a decent burial, claiming it is his son though there is no proof of this. The Sonderkommando were Jews who were forced to do the dirty jobs in the camp and who were usually executed after three months work. The film is distinguished by its claustrophobic camera work that rarely pulls away from the face or head of Saul, obscuring from view the horror around him. The climax of the film takes place on the day of the revolt which leads to both its predicted end but closes the film with an image which might be interpreted as resurrection, hope, release or the only conceivably positive note in this otherwise bleak film. Whether or not it is possible to make a feature film (rather than a documentary) about Auschwitz is not answered by this film but this one may hurt more than the wretched nonsense of Schindler's List or some other 'holocaust' films best not mentioned.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3808342/
Spotlight. It was excellent!
Just watched 28 Days Later for the first time. I'm Jonesin' for some Walking Dead.
Just go all 4 seasons of the original 1990's Granada Television /BBC series "Jeeves and Wooster" ... "frightfully entertaining ,wot?"
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To Have and Have Not.
Indy Day 2 was meh. An excuse to get out of the heat and eat some popcorn. I was surprised how underwhelming the new Star Trek was.Quote:
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Barbarella - yes seriously! Great psychedelic campy fun and although some of you might find the lack of a cock disconcerting, Jane Fonda is sooooo fucking hot
The Brothers Grimsby.
If you're a bit childish...Or stoned, give it a watch.
The elephant scene...!!!
The Beguiled ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066819/?ref_=nv_sr_2 ), a very dark, very strange Clint Eastwood movie.
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I read that David Fincher and Brad Pitt are going to make a sequel to World War Z, I think it is going to be called
World War Zzzzzz...
White Hunter, Black Heart. I'd seen it before, but wanted to watch it again after reading the book. Of course the book is better!
Just finished Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which was a big influence on Star Wars.
It's only my second Kurosawa flick (I've also seen Rashomon). Japanese culture has always baffled me. The stylized acting seems alien to me. I did enjoy the movie, but I think from what I've seen of Kurosawa that I like Fritz Lang better.
The Hidden Fortress is not one of Kurosawa's best -given the number of times it has been copied, the original Seven Samurai is surely one of the best films ever made? It is three hours long and old and in black and white, but builds to a thrilling climax, and few directors did rain like Kurosawa...I do recommend it even if it is the last Kurosawa you see..Quote:
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Maybe I'll get that one during the next Criterion sale. But I figured I didn't need it since I've already seen The Magnificent Seven....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
John Sturges does a version that works as a standard western, but the Kurosawa is superior on every level -from the photography and editing, to the script and the acting- and has a more trenchant social message than the Western. Both films concern justice, but in the Japanese film there is a more subtle treatment of the concept of 'honour' that gives the conclusion to the film an unexpected degree of bitterness. Seven Samurai is a much darker film than The Magnificent Seven.Quote:
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Oh, I can imagine that.Quote:
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Last night I watched London Boulevard, an English gangster film directed by the screenwriter of The Departed. It's very dark and pretty good, but a little self-consciously hip in terms of blasting music over certain sequences. It's also a warped take on Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy W
Last night I watched the Russian Stalingrad from a couple years ago. What a stinker! The music is relentless and slo-mo is really overused in cliche-ridden battle scenes.
The story is crap, too. For some reason it has a framing story that opens with an earthquake in present-day Japan. WTF?
It's also loaded with bad CGI, including a scene early on of Russian soldiers on fire charging Germans and fighting as they burn.
The propaganda aspect of it is laughable as well.
There's a German movie called Stalingrad from over 20 years ago that's much better and had to be more challenging to make, as it's a film with no heroes.
I have not seen this film as it has not yet been released in the UK but it will be showing at the Toronto International Film Festival which begins on the 8th of September. The link below is to the TIFF website but not the best way to arrange its programme. If I am in Toronto at the time I would consider seeing it as I have liked a lot of Walter Hill's films: this is the intro:
(re)Assingment
This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer put through full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon (Sigourney Weaver).
http://www.tiff.net/films/re-assignment/
http://www.tiff.net/?filter=festival
I watched The Eiger Sanction last night. Great Clint Eastwood flick. For such an in-demand pro, his first hit is kind of sloppy, though. Decent amount of gratuitous nudity and Clint getting it on with an African-American woman (Vonetta McGee!) and a Native American woman, plus violence and mountain climbing. What more could you want?
Cool - you might be in Toronto! September is an excellent time to be here.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Star Trek:Beyond! Over-hyped and lousy plot! Wait til it comes out on dvd and then either rent it or check it out from your local library. It's not worth wasting your money to see at the theatre!
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
For reasons I cannot explain I had never seen this film before last night, even though I have seen most of Leone's films several times, they are that good. Nevertheless, I do always feel there is in Leone's films a lack of bite, perhaps because he prefers to create moods and impressions the most common of which is the lowered head (usually wearing a hat) rising to look at someone or something in the distance, accompanied by a short musical motif. Leone spent much of his early years working on productions of opera, and I wonder if the motifs -particularly those associated with curses, or fate- that one finds in the operas of Verdi and Wagner influenced him throughout life. Revenge, and the woes that follow men in search of money by any means is a repetitive theme in Leone films, but he does it well, though the women in his films lack depth of character. Leone died too soon to make more than about 12 films, but they stand up to repeated viewing, I can't imagine anyone making a western this good in 2016, it is hard to believe it was made in 1967 and released the year after.