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I had a Smokey and the Bandit double-feature last night. The first one makes me laugh every time I see it. Jackie Gleason and his piece of shit car are the absolute best. Part Two I hadn't seen since it was in the theater when I was a kid (I don't think) and it was awful. I didn't laugh at all. Some of the car crashes are kind of funny, but not funny enough for me to even really giggle.
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Invincible Enforcer (1979) - Good reasons not to fall asleep midway through a movie! Liu Yung's a tough and righteous guy who gets on the bad side of a copper (Antonio Ho) and ends up in prison. Once there he pisses off both the cell leader (Wang Jung) and the copper's warden brother (Chan Shen). Once he gets out siad copper makes his life a living hell. As I said prior, gets a bit preachy and socio-political on the human rights/reformed con angle; Fanny/Fan Lei's social worker seems a bit too easily roped into Liu's revenge scheme. BUT...it ends on a mighty nasty note with one of the more shocking decapitations you'll see in a straight drama (all achieved without practical effects, but done through clever camera angles and editing). Certainly not outstanding, and a bit too drawn out for its own good, but it's pretty easy to see while watching it where Prison on Fire and its ilk stemmed from.Comment
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I have that one but haven't gotten around to watching it.
Last night? The Executioner.
VIVA CHIBA.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS, on Canadian netflix. Going to have to get it.Comment
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The odd thing is, just about every reference source (including the online HKMDB) claim the film is a "martial arts" film as its genre. It's not. It's a straight drama. Obviously everyone doing the labelling on this one never actually saw the film! :pOriginally posted by Ian Jane View Post
Oh yeah, I forgot: the film has one absolutely surreal wtf moment that should make you laugh out loud. For almost no reason at all (I guess other than some kind of bizarre political comment), there's a scene where the inmates run a racing bet that involves half a dozen prisoners dressed up in dog masks and feather duster tails being led around with belt dog-collars. The winner gets a box of ten cigarettes packs, the loser gets to eat a collected pot of horrendous yellow crap with a soup ladle...and that's "real" crap, not a metaphor for something awful. Though, really, a bit pot of prison poo is pretty awful...
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Watched Shaw swordfighting martial arts films Valley of the Fangs and The Web of Death. They were both good (Lo Lieh was always good value, moreso as a hero but he made for a good villain too). That's all. Bed...Comment
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I like Web of Death quite a bit.
Yesterday.... The Isle. I'd seen it before, Alison had not. The ending still throws me for a loop and the fish hook scenes still make me squirm. I don't know if it's Kim Ki Duk's best but it's the first film of his that I ever saw (I actually saw it projected) and it sticks with me. It's a pretty fucked up movie.Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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I loved the Spider in The Web of Death -- it was great! Roared like an elephant trumpet, glowed like it was radioactive and killed people at a hundred yards with its web. Try kung fu-ing that, heroes! Poor old Ching Li though, her character didn't have a chance! :p
As for The Isle, this is what Kim Ki-Duk had to say about it in the interview I did with him for Screem:
"The fishing hooks stood for sharpness and yearning. Although a fishing hook can be torturous and painful, it was a way of connecting two people. I believe that love is painful."
So...there's a riddle in an answer for you. ;)Comment
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Watched GOLDEN TEMPLE AMAZONS last night and loved it. Just like a Saturday afternoon kiddie adventure.
With tits.Comment
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Last 10 movies from Netflix and letter grades since I don't have time to discuss any of them:
ANIMAL KINGDOM B
WINTER'S BONE C-
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS A
THE FIGHTER B+
THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES B
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS B
RED C-
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE B
BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER C+
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN C+Now everyone can have a complete KRULL lifestyle.Comment
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WINTER'S BONE, C-?
I hope you have a warrant for that.Comment
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Scream of Fear (1961) -- that Seth Holt, he was quite a gifted director when he was around. One of the few Hammers I'd never seen, and exceedingly glad I now have. Really moody, atmospheric black & white photography (shadows seem darker when composed that way) and a rather clever mystery from Jimmy Sangster. For a fifty year old film, not only did I not pick "whodunnit", but I didn't see the double-jeopardy twist coming either. Excellent! :up:Comment
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Watched CALIBER 9 last night. Fuck, if that isn't the most intense first 5 minutes of a film EVER!!
I like the menu screen too... all Barbara all the time.Comment
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It's a good one for sure.
Thursday night - Behind The Burly-Q - I liked this more than Tolch. Not as pro or focused as it could have been, but a really interesting 'in their own words' history of 40s and 50s titty twirling.
Friday night - Daughters Of Satan (Tom Selleck vs. Filipino Satanists nonsense - awesome!) and Mandrake (a bad jungle horror film shout in LA?)Rock! Shock! Pop!Comment
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These are the Damned (1963) -- another Hammer film I'd never seen. I loved how spectacularly bleak the final act is, but it was kinda creepy seeing Macdonald Carey hitting on Shirley Anne Field (produced the same feeling that your Dad hitting on your girlfriend might). Good old nuclear war -- just as much a threat today as it was then. A bit slow going and abstract in the beginning, but once the children pop up a fine post-atomic thriller.Comment
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