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    Randy G
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    Daughters of Darkness on Shudder

    Somehow never seen this widely praised Eurohorror classic and it is as good as they say. Terrific score, atmosphere and super sexy vampires.

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  • killer must kill again
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    freddy got fingered

    yikes! I guess I will never be the same person again after watching this. rip torn deserves to win an oscar posthumously for suffering through this ordeal.
    I hope this gets a rerun at the cinemas. shit like the horse cock or the paralyzed girlfriend who wants to suck tom green's dick all the time just wouldn't fly today.

    vinegar syndrome, I want this on bru-lay with a horse dick slipcover!

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  • Dom D
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    The Godfather: I've been watching a bunch of Coppola interviews recently and he talks a lot about evolving the form of film. Each time I've seen him discuss this he eventually settles on shooting films live as a logical evolution. That seems like a possibly fun, probably stupid, novelty to me. In the more recent interviews he acknowledges the quality of modern tv but somehow passes over it as the evolution of the form, just seeing it as longer film. Listen Coppola, changing the format of film from, at most, 3 hours or so long to, say, 5 seasons of 10 hour long episodes is changing the form much more than filming the same screenplay live. The revolution happened and you missed it.

    I mention this because watching The Godfather I can't help thinking how much better this would be a tv show. It's not the movie people romanticise it as. "It's not a story about gangsters, it's a story about family" etc. Bollocks. This is a gangster film where some of the protagonists are related. If this was a story about family where are the women? When Vitos in the hospital and the police clear out his guards how do they get rid of Mumma Corleone? No way the Dons wife wouldn't be sitting on his shoulder when he's maybe dying. She should be a presence in this film but she's not.

    Anyway, I hadn't seen The Godfather since I was a teenager and I'm returning to it now because of The Offer. Now The Offer, after a terrible first episode, is amazing. A real demonstration of how much fun the television format is. There's time to build characters and time for those characters to have complex interrelations. The Godfather in 3 hours just doesn't have that time. It gives you dot points. You know: Vito makes a deal for Micheal to come out of hiding, cut to Micheal is back and running the family with Vito as Consigliere (would never happen by the way, succession doesn't happen like that and I wouldn't believe even if I saw it). If you want to tell a story this sweeping there's no other way to do it in the cinema format.

    Looking forward to getting into Part 2. It has that best sequel of all time reputation. I recall not liking it anywhere near as much as the original when I was young but we'll see.

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  • Matt H.
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    Originally posted by killer must kill again View Post
    v/h/s/94

    worth viewing for the 3rd segment alone (same guy who did the safe haven segment from v/h/s/2). imho the completely bonkers ending even saved the lame segment about the white supremacist group. the last part of the wraparound story sucked though. all in all better than expected.

    hail ratmaa!
    My favourite was Simon Barrett's "The Empty Wake". It was actually scary.

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  • Randy G
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    Hard to Be A God

    This modern but B&W Russian sf medieval epic, an adaptation of the novel by the Strugatsky brothers, immerses you in its world of mud, rain and the grotesque with little explanation. Beautifully shot and with a great central performance this film will test the patience of lots of people but those with a taste for arty extremes should love it.

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  • killer must kill again
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    v/h/s/94

    worth viewing for the 3rd segment alone (same guy who did the safe haven segment from v/h/s/2). imho the completely bonkers ending even saved the lame segment about the white supremacist group. the last part of the wraparound story sucked though. all in all better than expected.

    hail ratmaa!

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  • The Silly Swede
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    Panama total piece of shit b-movie with Mel Gibson and Wings Hausers son. How come all b-movies today feel so disjointed and poorly made? I get the impression that they cut as much material as possible before even starting shooting just to save money, and somehow hope the film will work anyways, and it never does. (Also, most DOPs really can't shoot digital without the film looking extremely cheap)

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  • Matt H.
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    Alien Private Eye - The first 15 minutes of this movie is the most perfect 15 minutes imaginable. It's bliss. The rest is also consistently entertaining and well-worth watching if you're looking for some brilliant unintentional laughs. Kilgore is a great villain.

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  • Nabonga
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    The Pentaverate
    Torturously unfunny (can Ken Jeong retire already? Goddamn I hate that guy)
    Mike Myers miniseries stretching the "mystery" out over 6 lame episodes only
    to reach the current year predictable conclusion that white men need to die to
    make way for diversity (without any white men of course). Soooo tired of this
    hateful BS. Also, something about climate change. Complete dogshit!

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  • Spaghetti Monkey
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    Originally posted by Matt H. View Post
    The Punisher (1989) - This is one of my favourite comic book movies, but I've seen it too many times. Dolph sounds like he's had a bad head cold since 1985. I watched the workprint version and what a treat! It has all of the cut violence (in better quality than the included SD unrated version) and the first 20 minutes is completely different, clearing up some relationship questions raised by the theatrical cut. This will be my go-to cut from now on. The Umbrella BD is phenomenal. It has three cuts, a Goldblatt commentary and interview and a brief interview with Dolph. Region free as well.
    Oooh, didn't know about the alternate cuts. Need to order this soon.

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  • The Silly Swede
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    Blacklight. Liam Neeson continues his trajectory downwards in shittier and shittier action movies. At least this one had some action, but it was really bad in terms of plot, acting and felt extremely lacklustre from everyone involved.

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  • Dom D
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    Gone done a full Riddick marathon. It's funny watching this when I'm most used to Vin in the FF movies. In those he's impossible to understand. You want to shake him and shout "ennunciate man!" Here he has good, clear diction. Who knew that mumble was an artistic choice?

    PITCH BLACK: This is a profoundly ugly movie. All those blue tinted shots and overly contrasted scenes to simulate an alien environment. It looks profoundly cheap. It had a $20 odd million budget which I guess is cheap for sci fi action but it looks cheaper. Vins character doesn't quite tally with what he becomes in the next two films. Still, solid Alien style thrills. Unexcpetional but passable.

    THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: This was an odd choice to go straight from a survival horror story to the standard hundred million dollar "chosen one to save the universe" schtick. This starts off grim. The first third is all bad action that is impossible to care about. It picks up after that. The film has great structure and from when Reddick arrives on the prison planet it's on rails. Has a cool Army Of The Dead inspired ending where Riddick winds up in charge of the galaxy. Had me wondering where they were going to go from there. Turns out nowhere particular. The third film sees that ending as a dead end and goes charging back to the first films scenario.

    RIDDICK: Unexpectedly the series peaks with the third film. It quickly writes off the previous film and settles into a small scale story of Riddick killing off a bunch of bounty hunters while also surviving some nasty local bugs. This is fast, tight, solid characterisation and leans heavily into the cool tough guy dialogue that is the series strength. This seems to have slipped under the radar but I rate it as very solid indeed.

    Overall I enjoyed the rewatch of the first 2 more than expected. The third, on a first viewing, I rate as a minor gem. I'd do a 4th film if there was one going.

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  • Matt H.
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    The Punisher (1989) - This is one of my favourite comic book movies, but I've seen it too many times. Dolph sounds like he's had a bad head cold since 1985. I watched the workprint version and what a treat! It has all of the cut violence (in better quality than the included SD unrated version) and the first 20 minutes is completely different, clearing up some relationship questions raised by the theatrical cut. This will be my go-to cut from now on. The Umbrella BD is phenomenal. It has three cuts, a Goldblatt commentary and interview and a brief interview with Dolph. Region free as well.

    The Punisher (2004) - Underrated and fun adaptation with Thomas Jane. It's unusually sadistic, back when Marvel was doing R-rated movies. It should've been a franchise with Jane, although I'm a big fan of WAR ZONE as well.

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  • Matt H.
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    Originally posted by Dom D View Post

    That was the guy in the bullpen at the baseball diamond. The guy she shagged in the pool house was a classmate, no? Or have I totally fucked up this viewing?
    Oops, my bad. I read "guy who looks like he's pushing 30" and I immediately thought of Ron Johnson at "The Cinch".

    You're actually right about Robert Romanus (who played Damone) - he was in his mid-20s when they filmed the movie.

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  • Mark Tolch
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    Originally posted by Dom D View Post
    Fast Times At Ridgemont High: I was surprised watching the credits when Cameron Crowds name turned up as screenwriter. I didn't know he was working back then. He's so specifically a late 90s guy in my head. Anyway this very much feels like a Cameron Crowe film. A few thoughts:

    - the casting director should be shot. With teen movies of this period you know the characters won't look the right ages but they should look the same age. It's disorienting when your watching Jennifer Jason Leigh at 19 semi realistically playing 15 dating a guy who looks like he's pushing 30 also playing 15. Her sex scene in the pool house looks like statutory rape.
    - huh, That's Nic Cage bouncing round in the background as a very noticeable extra.
    - Skin called Cates red bikini scene the greatest piece of nudity in any film. Its a contender but I'm guessing the talking head was a teenager at just the right time. It's funny how this type of film can sear itself in that way.
    - first time I've liked Sean Penn in a film.
    Well, to be fair, everyone is entitled to an opinion lol.

    You are correct, the guy in the bullpen is 26. The guy in the pool house is Damone, who is a senior (or something like that).

    If you get the Criterion version of the disc, it has the TV version which features wayyy more Cage. I think he's actually credited as Coppola on this one.

    Phoebe Cates, I've been in love with since I saw her in Gremlins. I love that scene.

    Sean Penn is alright in my book, but he's amazing here.

    This is one of my favourite flicks; check out Crowe's book if you can ever find it.


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