Films Recently Watched

  On 10/15/2024 at 4:54 AM, usagi said:

fuck Downton Abbey.

For the longest time I thought it was called Downtown Abbey. 
 

Anyway, Alien Romulus. The first half of the movie was VERY good. I loved the sets. Seeing actual physical things made it seem as if I was actually watching a movie. Then you-know-who appears and what should only have been a brief cameo ends up being a horribly bad deep fake character. Why was that necessary?

It also felt like the movie all of sudden realised that it hadn’t referenced enough stuff from Alien and Aliens so it threw a bucket load of member-berries at the viewer. 

One thing that REALLY surprised me was that after all the build-up in the first half of the film, the rest of the film was pretty damn boring. 
 

Maybe give it a rest with the films, huh? Can’t wait for the tv show!

Halfway through my month of horror flicks, here’s what’s been watched for so far

  On 10/17/2024 at 3:22 AM, YELLOW said:

Halfway through my month of horror flicks, here’s what’s been watched for so far

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Damn I used to love Brainscan back when it came out. 

Hell yeah Razorback

Strange Darling - fictional all over the place twisty serial killer romp, I'm a sucker for serial killer stuff so I quite enjoyed it

The Substance- daycent body horror, lots to like and dislike about it, about a washed up old celebrity fitness tv star (demi moore) taking an illicit drug to create a younger better version of herself, Kermode was raving about this, I personally would have probably found this to be an absolute classic if it wasn't about a fitness trainer and it was just about a more regular ex virile raver wanting to be young again

7 min into The Substance I knew this film was made by a French person. 

The shadow Strays (on Netflix). This is an overly long Indonesian parade of hitman related action tropes that you've seen a million times before, buuut you can also tell it was made by people who had fun, a lean budget and a real passion for delivering a shit load of squibs, creative fights, stabbings and face shootings. It's full of warts and by no means high cinema, but if you're a sicko who likes that sort of stuff it's also beautiful thing.

Furiousa

I had to watch this over 2 flights and one hbo sitting. Lots of small screens, but still, wasn’t too bad. I think it had some lukewarm reviews initially so I held off, but I thought it was pretty good.

At the end of the day, it’s a basic revenge story but so what. It’s still a lot of eye candy and George Miller’s “pockyclips” world is always fun to spend a few hours in. The film has moments that are wildly visceral and (dare I say) artistic, but also a lot of things we’ve seen many times before. The ending also peters out a bit. Eh. My biggest gripe is that I don’t ever really like ATJ. She was good in The Menu, but that was probably because you weren’t really supposed to like her character. I was surprised that Chris Hemsworth was excellent tho.  
If you’re a fan of the others, this is definitely worth a watch.
 

doof/10

The Substance

What a steaming pile of pubescent shit. 

Kill List - Third watch. This film gets better and better each time I put it on. First time I watched it I was disappointed. So much unnerving, creepy atmosphere in everyday scenes and you could cut through it with a knife. It feels real. A classic.

Believe it or not, I've never seen Se7en. Watched it for the first time last night. Very good!

  On 10/20/2024 at 2:49 PM, Caged Element said:

Believe it or not, I've never seen Se7en. Watched it for the first time last night. Very good!

Rewatched this a few months ago. Still holds up. Great film.

se7\en

  On 10/20/2024 at 2:45 PM, beerwolf said:

Kill List - Third watch. This film gets better and better each time I put it on. First time I watched it I was disappointed. So much unnerving, creepy atmosphere in everyday scenes and you could cut through it with a knife. It feels real. A classic.

to me it was the other way around... I wish I could feel the same I did the first time...

btw need to re-watch a field in England

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/71_2015

Martyrs 2008

It's a 10/10 but I won't ever want to watch it again, ever...

best torture gore fest film imo, why is there a remake?

watched Strange Darling and did not like it. I guess the era of Tarantino nods is back.

The twists were annoying. The main actress got on my nerves. That's St. Vincent's sister right?

They look alike. I wanna watch Cuckoo, they look similar in tone. Hopefully one is better than the other.

awfull movie, it's basically 3 movies in one... starts with ghosts or some shit like the grudge, then some shit in between and then the disgusting martyr thingies which is a really hard watch...

edit: I'm talking about Martyrs, I recall some french horror movie that came out about the same time and they're better IMHO AFAIK ASAP tldr lgbtq+

  On 10/21/2024 at 11:31 PM, Atop said:

They look alike. I wanna watch Cuckoo, they look similar in tone. Hopefully one is better than the other.

nevermind cuckoo, watch his 1st movie... LUZ... I was very disappointed with cuckoo seeing that LUZ is in the list of my favorite movies...

I just watched the director’s cut of Doctor Sleep. I had seen the original version before and liked it but couldn’t really remember anything about it (maybe that’s saying something about how much I actually liked it). 
Having just stumbled across this “director’s cut” and being a low-level Flanagan fanboy, I dove in and was not disappointed. Not remembering much about the theatrical release, I couldn’t tell you what was different from on version to the next but I did like the director’s cut more, for sure. It took its time more with setting things up with a little more grace for what I felt to be a bigger payoff. 
 

Midsommar. Not as scary as Hereditary but disturbing, weird, engaging. Really enjoyed it.  

finally got my gf to watch the original Evil Dead trilogy. she liked ED2 the most (a million onus points right there), though I was disappointed that she fell asleep during Army of Darkness. It's a classic, even having gone full slapstick. We watched the director's cut of AoD, which was new to me... I understand why the production company told Raimi that wasn't a great note to end on, lol

  On 10/22/2024 at 2:44 AM, luke viia said:

finally got my gf to watch the original Evil Dead trilogy. she liked ED2 the most (a million onus points right there), though I was disappointed that she fell asleep during Army of Darkness. It's a classic, even having gone full slapstick. We watched the director's cut of AoD, which was new to me... I understand why the production company told Raimi that wasn't a great note to end on, lol

the "original" ending is the only one I've ever known. it's so memorable and iconic, I've remembered clearly since I first saw it as a dumb 10 yr old.

also, having fallen into a real hole this year and having the most dysfunctional sleep patterns I've ever had where I'm staying up past dawn every night and then sleeping almost until it's dark again, for months on end now, that ending has special resonance even with all its silliness.

  On 10/22/2024 at 6:28 AM, usagi said:

also, having fallen into a real hole this year and having the most dysfunctional sleep patterns I've ever had where I'm staying up past dawn every night and then sleeping almost until it's dark again, for months on end now

What’s going on with this brother?

  On 10/22/2024 at 7:42 AM, Alcofribas said:

What’s going on with this brother?

been a pretty bad year, on several fronts. work stress/burnout is the biggest thing atm. I've always had trouble committing to a normal sleep pattern but stuff this year has completely thrown it out of whack.