Films Recently Watched

  On 3/10/2013 at 11:39 PM, Awepittance said:

 

  On 3/10/2013 at 10:19 PM, zaphod said:

anyone know any movies that aesthetically resemble the shootout in the deserted town midway through no country for old men? like, americana relit as a horror film. other than night of the hunter or blue velvet. i always liked how that scene felt like it was happening down the street from edward hopper's nighthawks.

 

ever since i saw No Country for Old men it seemed like it was channeling the original Terminator in that regard, but i'm sure you've already seen it. That's a good request, because i know I've seen other movies that had that same aesthetic but i can't think of any right now.

yeah i've always put those two films together in my mind. always felt the scene where chigurh repairs himself was an ode to the scene where arnold fixes his eye. terminator is more trashy 80s noir though. i'm looking for a sort of 1950s americana vibe but displaced into some kind of horror/suspense/surrealist tone.

the original Invasion of the body snatchers has this appeal for me. Hitchcock's later stuff has a little bit what you're talking about. Family Plots and maybe a little Frenzy, but that's british.
I hate to say it but i liked the original Jeepers Creepers for similar reasons, maybe that's totally off the mark though. Are there any other examples you can think of?

have you seen Parents? It's not anything like No Country but its probably the closest to a 1950s americana vibe transplanted into a horror/suspense context. Didn't love it, but it left an impression on me.

Reflecting Skin?

The Dual (spielberg's first)?

duel maybe a bit. haven't seen the parents. i actually kind of liked jeepers creepers as well, at least until it revealed the villain as being supernatural. would have much preferred a texas chainsaw style psychopath. but the first twenty or thirty minutes of that movie are pretty effective.

i think maybe night of the hunter is the closest to what i'm talking about. parts of poltergeist 2 maybe.

  On 3/11/2013 at 5:03 AM, vamos scorcho said:

trash humpers - i liked it

How?

  On 3/11/2013 at 11:39 AM, tec said:

 

  On 3/11/2013 at 5:03 AM, vamos scorcho said:

trash humpers - i liked it

 

How?

Yeah. 10 minutes of that crap was more than enough

The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael 8.5/10

good camera work and brilliant soundtrack make it standout. Embodying at once the cold sadism of Funny Games, disillusioned deadpan youths rural existence of Napoleon Dynamite and the drug crazed mayhem of Trainspotting. Especially the scene in the apartment of the latino dealer guy was very Trainspotting esque.

Brilliant film.

Mama - 7.8/10 . Good with the jumpy scares but kinda lost its edge when you see the CGI ghost out in the open towards then end but then the romantic dark Del-Torro ending just saves it from a typical Hollywood farce. Quite effective and well made for 15R horror,

Fortress - 7/10 haven't seen it in years and it has dated quite well considering the low budget. The cast make it a worthwhile watch but the cut and shut ending stops it from being a classic.

  On 3/11/2013 at 8:48 PM, AJW said:

The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael 8.5/10

 

good camera work and brilliant soundtrack make it standout. Embodying at once the cold sadism of Funny Games, disillusioned deadpan youths rural existence of Napoleon Dynamite and the drug crazed mayhem of Trainspotting. Especially the scene in the apartment of the latino dealer guy was very Trainspotting esque.

 

Brilliant film.

thank god someone watched it, been raving about it since i saw it, yeah, i liked it, a lot, felt that the characters were a bit undeveloped taking out some of the seriousness of the last scenes, but hey, fucking haneke meets kubrik...

really, dude, watch that shit i just posted, the loneliest planet!

Ah yes it was you that mentioned it! Thanks for that, was a great film. Will also check out The Loneliest Planet, cheers.

about to rewatch ken russell's 'altered states' on blu-ray.

like trumbull's 'brainstorm' i've only ever seen it on tv and it was looong ago.

both v weird.

anything else like this? you know... that isn't 'videodrome'?

  On 3/12/2013 at 4:49 PM, logboy said:

about to rewatch ken russell's 'altered states' on blu-ray.

like trumbull's 'brainstorm' i've only ever seen it on tv and it was looong ago.

both v weird.

anything else like this? you know... that isn't 'videodrome'?

into the void?

the trip?

Both look interesting, logboy, I'll see them some day.

Right now I'm watching L'emploi du temps (a.k.a. Time Out). Halfway through, so far it's not that special but I have the feeling it's getting better and better.

Btw, I also watched Fassbinder's Welt am draht (world on a wire), which I found really excellent. If anyone knows good german films from that era ('73) I'm open for suggestions...

  On 3/11/2013 at 11:55 PM, AJW said:

Ah yes it was you that mentioned it! Thanks for that, was a great film. Will also check out The Loneliest Planet, cheers.

make sure not to read anything prior to it...

both are on blu - american, might both be multizoned - i know one is.

'brainstorm' seems to have issues with ratio, apparently, given the film used several types of stock.

the disc for 'altered states' is decent though, apparently.

altered states blu review http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Altered-States-Blu-ray/40870/

brainstorm blu review http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Brainstorm-Blu-ray/31659/

btw - 'into the void'? guessing you mean 'enter the void' THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON ... ?

  On 3/12/2013 at 4:58 PM, th555 said:

Both look interesting, logboy, I'll see them some day.

Fire In The Sky - 7/10. Worth watching for that brilliant and nightmarish flashback scene.

A Serbia Film - 8/10. Fuck knows what score you give to something like this, but it was well made, unforgettable and it had a top score.

Holy Motors - 5/10. Just couldn`t get into it.

Limitless - 6/10

Splice - 6/10

The Parallax View - 8/10

  On 3/12/2013 at 7:49 PM, logboy said:

btw - 'into the void'? guessing you mean 'enter the void' THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON ... ?

yes of course...

  On 3/12/2013 at 7:52 PM, Mindphaser said:

Fire In The Sky - 7/10. Worth watching for that brilliant and nightmarish flashback scene.

this movie brings back good memories. I watched CLose Encounters recently and Fire in the Sky has several scenes which are homages to that movie (the railroad crossing bright headlights scene for example) but put a horror spin on it.

I'm surprised more big budget productions haven't used the american folk-lore 'greys' as bad guy aliens. X-files maybe over did that so people don't want to touch it anymore. Still would be a lot better than the modern alien bad guy who resembles videogame Halo villains that look very bland and belong in a cut scene not a film

isn't there a new movie doing just that? dark sky or something?

dark skies

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looks bad though. i'd like to see more straight up 50's science fiction and horror films. i want pulpy stuff.

  On 3/12/2013 at 4:58 PM, th555 said:

Right now I'm watching L'emploi du temps (a.k.a. Time Out). Halfway through, so far it's not that special but I have the feeling it's getting better and better.

Turned out pretty good.

Just saw Wreck It Ralph, good kids flick. 9/10 on a scale of other kid flicks, most of which I can't stand. It's not morbidly nostalgic like most Pixar flicks (getting old and dying, growing up), it doesn't go for simple morals (shows that social ostracism and "bad" are not synonymous; shows that the designations "bad" and "good" both need each other in order to exist, etc), is a good homage to the history of gaming, and has some clever touches. Best thing you can say about it: would show to my kid.

this paralleled, fake doc might be entertaining:

The Hobbit

Classic what you would expect, liked the majority of it's stunted form, still peeved the smallest book is stretched into three films like seven fat dwarfs trying to get into a millets draft script sleeping bag on a scotish mountain.

7 we know the/10 ending / how can it be stretched out anymore/braindead

Cloud Atlas

I've read the book long before (as in when I saw the trailer) went ok, good if you read the not that good book anyway, they did the mixing the times up okay, would have preferred it the same order though, did it have anything to do with "off world" things in the book? was a nice ending anyway....

7 Streifs/ 10 Zacks

The Way Back (2010)

Second time watching it and it's a pretty good watch again, lovely story of war prisoners making there way back from Siberia to Tibet.... Colin Feral is quite good playing someone that is of Irish/Russian descent, and has some great moments, and is proper WW2

9/10 nazi cats

On The Road

I couldn't remember the book being this sexy, had many orgies and sexes, wish I whipped it out, a bit of the road in there as well, but alright I guess, read the book and then watch the porn version...... makes me want a film of the electric cool aids acid tests though....

7 kerouacs / 10 keseys

I just watched Moonrise Kingdom. I expected to hate it, but it put a smile on my face as a nice light-hearted movie. Nicely done, charming,etc. I think the only reason I hated Wes Anderson was Darjeeling fucking Limited. He redeemed himself, but he still needs to figure out what to do to enter the big leagues of bad motherfucker dfirectors.

what the dweeb

...

darjeeling limited is the only good film Lesbian Anderson has done apart from groundhog evening...

honestly, the only time his "cooku" style has actually been style, granted it was showing his twatty "oh i have daddy problems" against the backdrop of real problems that could have been done better, hopefully he goes back to India to redit... i mean redeem himself again/....

i'm imagining someone making air quotes as they say "cooku style" and everyone just nodding in recognition at the phrase, maybe a titter of laughter issues from the back.