Films Recently Watched

I'm in this "strange and weird films" group on facebook and I see loads of folks talking about watching low-key pedo movies on DVDs that are banned in most places.. pretty fucked! I love weird films but that's not something I need to see to get my head around the art world, really. Watched 10 cloverfield lane yesterday. decent flick. 

  On 2/4/2019 at 9:18 PM, chronical said:

I'm in this "strange and weird films" group on facebook and I see loads of folks talking about watching low-key pedo movies on DVDs that are banned in most places.. pretty fucked! I love weird films but that's not something I need to see to get my head around the art world, really. Watched 10 cloverfield lane yesterday. decent flick. 

I enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane quite a bit. I've always liked John Goodman... and I think he nailed the roll.

I went into it knowing nothing about it... about halfway through I was questioning if it was related to the original. 

=P

  On 2/4/2019 at 9:18 PM, chronical said:

I'm in this "strange and weird films" group on facebook and I see loads of folks talking about watching low-key pedo movies on DVDs that are banned in most places.. pretty fucked! I love weird films but that's not something I need to see to get my head around the art world, really. Watched 10 cloverfield lane yesterday. decent flick.

Teh fuck? Is it Serbian Movie/Film or whatever it’s called?

  On 2/4/2019 at 5:57 PM, chenGOD said:

Ballad of Buster Scruggs - the monologue from the trapper on his relationship was hilarious (that whole segment was fantastic).

Decent flick for a Friday night with good beers.

I enjoyed it a lot. I watched The Sisters Brothers around the same time and now in my memory it has become one of the stories in Buster Scruggs. It's good too.

  On 2/5/2019 at 12:42 AM, Squee said:

 

  On 2/4/2019 at 9:18 PM, chronical said:

I'm in this "strange and weird films" group on facebook and I see loads of folks talking about watching low-key pedo movies on DVDs that are banned in most places.. pretty fucked! I love weird films but that's not something I need to see to get my head around the art world, really. Watched 10 cloverfield lane yesterday. decent flick.

Teh fuck? Is it Serbian Movie/Film or whatever it’s called?

I watched Valerie and Her Week of Wonders a little while ago and was not prepared for the paedo shit, it was not cool.

Murder Party
Big fun, way better than expected! Absoultely chuggs and zips along with great pace. only shy of 1hr 15mins but feels like a well developed epic.

Equalizer 2014. Fuck ya

  On 2/5/2019 at 8:23 AM, tec said:

 

  On 2/5/2019 at 12:42 AM, Squee said:

 

  On 2/4/2019 at 9:18 PM, chronical said:

I'm in this "strange and weird films" group on facebook and I see loads of folks talking about watching low-key pedo movies on DVDs that are banned in most places.. pretty fucked! I love weird films but that's not something I need to see to get my head around the art world, really. Watched 10 cloverfield lane yesterday. decent flick.

Teh fuck? Is it Serbian Movie/Film or whatever it’s called?

I watched Valerie and Her Week of Wonders a little while ago and was not prepared for the paedo shit, it was not cool.

 

there's pedo shit? I'd noticed this a while back and put it on my to-watch list.

I watched this based on Ray Liotta's performance in Chantix commercials. It's a decent dark comedy.

I can't take Boaty Maguire the slightest bit seriously.

that’s why he’s good. the best pussy posse member

Velvet Buzzsaw - some decent funny and Jake Gyllenhaal is good as ever, but the deaths really needed more pizzaz. If you're going to do a B-movie on an A-budget you have to be more memorable than that.

White Rabbit - a breezy 71-minute character portrait of an earnest and kinda loony performance artist in LA. Quite good, especially given the emotional rollercoaster they pull off on a microbudget. Basically an acting reel for Vivian Bang but that's not a bad thing. 

a classic piece of pinku from the master of japanese sleaze; masaru konuma. 

a silly businessman is cheating on his gorgeous wife (yuki kazamatsuri) with a callgirl (rika takahara). one night after doing his business- he comes home to find his wife has been raped. she demands to call the police to report the crime, but he convinces her that it would be bad for his reputation. what will people think? also- can she clean up? she could have caught a disease.

everyday, she goes to the beach and passes a group of guys on their morning jog. one day at the races, a man approaches her. turns out the husband killed the call girl and this guy demands a ransom or he'll report the murder the police. she pays up- but the man reveals that he was paid by the husband to rape her. 

suddenly she's into the rape thing. she begins to fantasize about being raped by the guys jogging. she begins to act like the call girl towards the husband. then things get really good

if this film weren't so vulgar you'd think it's right up there with tie me up! tie me down! with it's upside down treatment of such a topic. but it's pink cinema, so it exploits the women and embarrass the men- sometimes needlessly as the story is already doing this. 

there is a shot towards the end that would make most filmmakers envious- though i think tarantino got the hint and hired ms.kazamatsuri for kill bill. 

ten call girls whistling outside their shop out of ten

this film was brilliant 

dude just watch porn

Climax - Worst party I've ever been to. Beautifully shot.

6/10

  On 2/10/2019 at 9:41 PM, dr lopez said:

dude just watch porn

lol

  On 2/10/2019 at 9:46 PM, Squee said:

Climax - Worst party I've ever been to. Beautifully shot.

 

6/10

I tried watching this last night, but just couldn't get into it. 

It looks fucking interesting as hell, and I want to try again very soon... 

I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to sit through another Gaspar Noe film I guess. 

=/

If you're ever in the mood for a Gaspar Noé movie you need to talk to someone.

  On 2/5/2019 at 12:17 PM, TRiP said:

Murder Party

Big fun, way better than expected! Absoultely chuggs and zips along with great pace. only shy of 1hr 15mins but feels like a well developed epic.

thought this was a complete waste of time. I mean it's Saulnier's first go so I cut some slack but I really regretted sitting through it waiting for it to get better. very student project-y.

I lol'd later the same day when I sat down to finally start on the third season of True Detective and lo and behold, Saulnier's directing. man's come a long way. I also want to check out his last one, Hold the Dark.

  On 2/10/2019 at 11:41 PM, Squee said:

If you're ever in the mood for a Gaspar Noé movie you need to talk to someone.

I'm never really in the mood... But they do seem to require a certain state of mind.

  On 2/10/2019 at 11:28 PM, Hk47 said:

 

  On 2/10/2019 at 9:46 PM, Squee said:

Climax - Worst party I've ever been to. Beautifully shot.

 

6/10

 

I tried watching this last night, but just couldn't get into it.

It looks fucking interesting as hell, and I want to try again very soon...

I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to sit through another Gaspar Noe film I guess.

=/

Did you see in theater? I want to see but it doesn’t arrive till March and I don’t want to wait that long.

  On 2/11/2019 at 3:55 AM, frankbooth said:

 

  On 2/10/2019 at 11:28 PM, Hk47 said:

 

  On 2/10/2019 at 9:46 PM, Squee said:

Climax - Worst party I've ever been to. Beautifully shot.

 

6/10

 

I tried watching this last night, but just couldn't get into it.

It looks fucking interesting as hell, and I want to try again very soon...

I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to sit through another Gaspar Noe film I guess.

=/

Did you see in theater? I want to see but it doesn’t arrive till March and I don’t want to wait that long.

 

Nah... DL'd it. 

=X

In the Heat of the Night = timless genius. Poitier & Steiger are the perfect double act + some editing techniques seem to turn up in Taxi Driver nearly a decade later.

"they call me MR TIBBS"

  On 2/10/2019 at 9:46 PM, Squee said:

Climax - Worst party I've ever been to. Beautifully shot.

 

6/10

For what it was trying to do, 8/10 for me.

Also the first Gaspard Noë film that did more than merely annoy with lame attempts at being shocking.

Saw it on a big screen, which I'm sure helped.

i enjoyed the favourite quite a bit. the tug of war at the core of the film isn't too original or interesting, and isn't too deep due to its semi-farcial nature (though it does get deeper towards the end when things slow down and colman's performance helps it a lot), but everything around it kinda makes up for it. the no fucks given treatment of the whole 18th century court biz, the pacing and the editing, the camera, the acting, the production, the lols and so on. all very very tightly and neatly put together while still retaining some of that dogtooth spirit with its ultra cynical wit that sets it very far apart from other attempts to deal with similar setting and subject.