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Post by PimPamPet on Jul 15, 2011 2:33:28 GMT -5
Strangers on a Train (1951). Excellent. I've been watching a lot of Hitchcock's less famous movies lately and this is one of the best I've seen so far. Good story, good cast, good everything. From Beyond (1986). Fun horror flick from the same people who made Re-Animator. Some neat special effects and the always entertaining Jeffrey Combs make this worth a look.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jul 15, 2011 18:16:40 GMT -5
Bite Marks 2011
A gay vampire comedy-horror movie. The best of its genre I've ever seen. And the worst. Twilight doesn't count. No horror.
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Post by Crowfan on Jul 15, 2011 18:44:23 GMT -5
Curse of the Zodiac. Ulli Lommel's take on the serial killer of the 60's and 70's. Meh.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 15, 2011 21:08:52 GMT -5
Ned Kelly 2003. Sweet Cheezits, man, PACING. I don 't think this director knew what he wanted his film to be, an arty film or a character piece or a action westerny thing or what. I'm sure all that welling music over long shots of dripping tips of pine trees meant something to him, but I watched the thing with my thumb on the "next chapter" button, and I used it as the pace lurched from mildly interesting to slower than the migration of magnetic north through Canada. I can't believe I'm kvetching about lovely cinematography but it was in the service of nothing when it happened. What a waste of a couple decent actors.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 16, 2011 2:49:16 GMT -5
Downfall 2 and a half hour movie about the last days of Hitler. Interesting, horrifying - a solid film, though it felt a little, oh I don't know, stagey? (is that the word I'm looking for). Bruno Ganz gives a chilling performance as the batsht insane Hitler. And the actor playing Goebbels was scary just to look at him. The guy had some cold, dead eyes.
Note: I don't mean to be crass, but at one point I actually got to laughing. It's when Adolf is referred to as "Uncle Hitler". Yeah I know, Goebbel's kids might have actually called him that, but hearing it was like something you'd find in an old Python skit.
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Post by Crowfan on Jul 16, 2011 13:43:31 GMT -5
The Odessa File. Jon Voight as an investigative reporter hunting for a Nazi war criminal. He comes upon a story while investigating the suicide of an elderly Holocaust survivor. Suspenseful. Based on the novel by Fredrick Forsyth and highly recommended.
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Post by Crowfan on Jul 17, 2011 14:23:17 GMT -5
Hitler. Starring Gypsy's boyfriend Richard Basehart. As a movie, it explores Hitler's relationships with those around him, and has really Freudian overtones in his relationships with women. The war is simply a backdrop, which makes this movie rather unique. Recommended.
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Post by reaperg on Jul 18, 2011 10:06:19 GMT -5
A Takashi Miike double feature of "Audition" and "Visitor Q"
Psycho chicks, dismemberment, prostitution, incest, mother abuse, necrophilia, and lactating -- who could ask for anything more?
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Post by Torgo on Jul 19, 2011 11:12:21 GMT -5
I've been meaning to watch Audition for some time. Looks pretty damn creepy.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 20, 2011 4:50:53 GMT -5
Fair GameAh the Bush administration - what a lovely bunch of coconuts they were. George, Dick, Scooter and good old Karl Rove. If you loathe these bastards as much as I did, you'll probably like this movie as much as I did. A good flick (about the Valerie Plame affair) filled with righteous anger - but it's frustrating, seeing what bullies our leaders can be. I'll shut up now, before this becomes a topic for Observers brain. ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png)
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Post by TheNewMads on Jul 20, 2011 7:14:29 GMT -5
Fair GameAh the Bush administration - what a lovely bunch of coconuts they were. George, Dick, Scooter and good old Karl Rove. If you loathe these bastards as much as I did, you'll probably like this movie as much as I did. A good flick (about the Valerie Plame affair) filled with righteous anger - but it's frustrating, seeing what bullies our leaders can be. I'll shut up now, before this becomes a topic for Observers brain. ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) not to be confused with the imminently mistiable billy baldwin-cindy crawford clownfest from '95! doesn't mike nelson make fun of that movie in "movie megacheese"? you wanna get really annoyed, check out "inside job." no, it's not about 9/11, it's about the 2008 economic meltdown. i don't think a movie ever hacked me off as much, though i'm deliberately avoiding watching "sicko" for that very reason. anyway, last night i watched 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance ('94). (you asked for more michael haneke, and we're giving it to you!) i'd also recently seen "nashville," the altman movie, and weirdly, insofar as both movies had a similar premise both are apparently random slice-of-life vignettes of seemingly unrelated people who we learn at the end happen to witness or be the victim of an act of random violence; this spoils "nashville" but not "chronology," which reveals this in its synopsis... i liked chronology of chance more. nashville was a lot more visually lush (on the one hand, aspiring pop stars in one of america's crown jewel cities, on the other, depressed average dweebs in drab, wintry austrian cityscapes), but the haneke movie seems a lot more coherent and emotionally invested. much of nashville was improvised, and it shows.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 20, 2011 8:41:05 GMT -5
The Last Airbender. Bought the rifftrax, watched the movie by itself first. Okay, watched PART of the movie by itself first, fell asleep, repeat. Even the rifftrax couldn't fully keep me conscious during this. On the other hand, it's no worse than all MNS's other movies, none of which I liked and all of which I found slow and finally "cheats" in various ways (and I could not figure out for the life of me how people didn't immediately see the big secret in the Sixth Sense--it was glaringly obvious to me.) This film actually had a lot of potential. He should have tried it as a silent film (actually the score was good, so silent plus score), avoiding all the tedious VO crap, and it would have had a sort of visual poetry about it, certainly a sense of the epic, and we could have made up our own story (as they do in foreign lands when they don't have subtitles) and it might have been a pleasant enough film-viewing experience. With dialog and VO, it isn't.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jul 20, 2011 12:04:39 GMT -5
He ofllo folks! I got a DVD of "It Came From Somewhere Else" through Netflix. This is one bad movie, in the good sense of "bad". It features UFOs, aliens, kids partying in a car, and a cheaply made airplane cockpit. All familiar situations to us fans of Ed Wood movies and the makers of Alien Factor and Galaxy Invader.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jul 20, 2011 20:11:06 GMT -5
Welcome back, Bix! I might need to dig that flick up.
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Post by pablo on Jul 20, 2011 22:31:53 GMT -5
Fair GameAh the Bush administration - what a lovely bunch of coconuts they were. George, Dick, Scooter and good old Karl Rove. If you loathe these bastards as much as I did, you'll probably like this movie as much as I did. A good flick (about the Valerie Plame affair) filled with righteous anger - but it's frustrating, seeing what bullies our leaders can be. I'll shut up now, before this becomes a topic for Observers brain. ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) you know, you lay out your opinion, which I disagree with, and then say "I'll shut up now". what good is that?
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