What is the latest good film you watched ?
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OK I've seen this posted several times. What is it exactly? Cartoon I would guess but derived from which media?
mutiny on the bounty (1935)...i know it's a classic and all but i was expecting not to like it but i rather enjoyed instead
Pumpkinhead Haven't seen it since I was a kid and I barely remembered it. There was very little gore and that was disappointing, but Pumpkinhead was another amazing demonstration of Stan Winston's brilliance. The movie is just a bunch of fun. As is most anything with Lance Henriksen.
Anybody know if the sequels were worth watching?
[Rec] It was fun. There was some bad effects..or lack thereof, that hindered the movie. For example, the cop fires his gun in a dark hallway and there's zero muzzle blast. Also some bad CG blood. But the first person POV really pumped some new blood into the zombie genre...and yes, this is a zombie movie despite what anybody says.
It was fun with some decent to great acting and dialog. Nice pacing and a couple decent jump scares. There was no need for a remake so I have no intention of watching Quarantine, but I am anticipating the US release of [Rec]2.
A Serbian Film Yes, I watched it. Off of YouTube no less. I watched it unedited, but subtitled. Cut into 11 parts. It was actually really good even for having read every spoiler imaginable.
I went in thinking I needed to see it so I can have a basis to hate it besides reading other people's reviews...but the first half dragged me right in and I actually gave a shit about the main characters. The production value is absolutely fantastic. Save for the really controversial scenes, this looked like a slick high budget Hollywood film. And those controversial scenes were the only aspect that really looked kind of crappy...but I think that was necessary. The idea of the baby scene is actually much, much worse than the actual scene itself.
I'm not going to post a direct link, but it's still up on YouTube for the time being. The director stated that he wants people to see it by any means. Nobody's delusional enough to think this will get a mainstream American release. And, quite frankly, I've been more disgusted by Sasha Grey videos than this movie. I hate to spoil anything for anybody, but it's a movie, make believe...pretend.
Black Dynamite I fucking loved this. Hilarious. Unlike Blaxploitation parodies like I'm Gonna Get You Sucka or that horrible Undercover Brother, this was more of a homage than anything. It absolutely is a comedy, but like Rodriguez's Planet Terror, this looks like a true product of the grind-house era. The producers, director and writers really did their homework and really put a lot of love, thought and care into this and it shows. I really wish this would have gotten a nationwide theatrical release. It would have been huge.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. OK, I really liked this, but it doesn't hold a candle to Oldboy. Chan-Wook Park is a talented guy, but much of this was just sloppy, deus ex machina at its worst. Characters made these bold, crucial discoveries without any explained rhyme or reason and it was a huge distraction that could have been circumvented quite easily. I need to watch it again in the event that I missed something...though I think a second viewing will be enjoyable regardless. This one is definitely a bit more avant garde, unpolished and unstructured than Oldboy and, even though it's sound hip and arty to say that's a good thing, it's not.
Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it a lot and there were some amazing moments. But I think Oldboy spoiled me a bit more than I realized. Today I finally get to Lady Vengeance.
BTW, Black Dynamite and the Vengeance trilogy are all on Netflix Instant Queue if anybody's interested.
Anybody know if the sequels were worth watching?
[Rec] It was fun. There was some bad effects..or lack thereof, that hindered the movie. For example, the cop fires his gun in a dark hallway and there's zero muzzle blast. Also some bad CG blood. But the first person POV really pumped some new blood into the zombie genre...and yes, this is a zombie movie despite what anybody says.
It was fun with some decent to great acting and dialog. Nice pacing and a couple decent jump scares. There was no need for a remake so I have no intention of watching Quarantine, but I am anticipating the US release of [Rec]2.
A Serbian Film Yes, I watched it. Off of YouTube no less. I watched it unedited, but subtitled. Cut into 11 parts. It was actually really good even for having read every spoiler imaginable.
I went in thinking I needed to see it so I can have a basis to hate it besides reading other people's reviews...but the first half dragged me right in and I actually gave a shit about the main characters. The production value is absolutely fantastic. Save for the really controversial scenes, this looked like a slick high budget Hollywood film. And those controversial scenes were the only aspect that really looked kind of crappy...but I think that was necessary. The idea of the baby scene is actually much, much worse than the actual scene itself.
I'm not going to post a direct link, but it's still up on YouTube for the time being. The director stated that he wants people to see it by any means. Nobody's delusional enough to think this will get a mainstream American release. And, quite frankly, I've been more disgusted by Sasha Grey videos than this movie. I hate to spoil anything for anybody, but it's a movie, make believe...pretend.
Black Dynamite I fucking loved this. Hilarious. Unlike Blaxploitation parodies like I'm Gonna Get You Sucka or that horrible Undercover Brother, this was more of a homage than anything. It absolutely is a comedy, but like Rodriguez's Planet Terror, this looks like a true product of the grind-house era. The producers, director and writers really did their homework and really put a lot of love, thought and care into this and it shows. I really wish this would have gotten a nationwide theatrical release. It would have been huge.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. OK, I really liked this, but it doesn't hold a candle to Oldboy. Chan-Wook Park is a talented guy, but much of this was just sloppy, deus ex machina at its worst. Characters made these bold, crucial discoveries without any explained rhyme or reason and it was a huge distraction that could have been circumvented quite easily. I need to watch it again in the event that I missed something...though I think a second viewing will be enjoyable regardless. This one is definitely a bit more avant garde, unpolished and unstructured than Oldboy and, even though it's sound hip and arty to say that's a good thing, it's not.
Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it a lot and there were some amazing moments. But I think Oldboy spoiled me a bit more than I realized. Today I finally get to Lady Vengeance.
BTW, Black Dynamite and the Vengeance trilogy are all on Netflix Instant Queue if anybody's interested.
Hey what do you know, I watched this as well. :hatsoff:
I pretty much agree with this mini-review. It is my least favoured of the three. My favourite being Lady Vengeance with Oldboy a close second.
Hearing that makes me feel good about Lady Vengeance. Just the box art and title alone are badass.
For the life of me, I still don't see why people put this into the "shocking" category alongside Martyrs, Oldboy and Inside. Then again, I'm not so sure why any of those movie seem to bare the banner of leaders of shock to begin with. Admittedly, I've yet to see Inside so maybe that one is as people say.
People get freaked out by the strangest shit. We should remember that Darth Vader destroyed a fucking planet and then cut off his son's right hand.
I'm sure now that I've gotten your hopes up you'll be completely unimpressed by what Lady-V has to offer. As is the way.
I didn't actually know it was in that category to be honest. But yes I can agree with that sentiment it really isn't that shocking at all. But then again - as you say - none of the other three movies listed were really all that shocking to me either (I was extremely unimpressed by Martyrs), but I guess that just says something about me and my warped mind and not everyone else. Or maybe not...
It's just gore people are afraid of. You don't see the actual genocide first hand when that planet is blown up - it's from a distance, just like you can theoretically forget about or take for granted a war if you don't see the wounded and the bodies rolling in day after day. There's a separation there that keeps us comfortable, these movies take that away somewhat. Nor do you see the severed arteries, muscle and bone when Luke has his arm chopped off. Blood and guts will always make people squeamish.
I'm sure now that I've gotten your hopes up you'll be completely unimpressed by what Lady-V has to offer. As is the way.
I didn't actually know it was in that category to be honest. But yes I can agree with that sentiment it really isn't that shocking at all. But then again - as you say - none of the other three movies listed were really all that shocking to me either (I was extremely unimpressed by Martyrs), but I guess that just says something about me and my warped mind and not everyone else. Or maybe not...
It's just gore people are afraid of. You don't see the actual genocide first hand when that planet is blown up - it's from a distance, just like you can theoretically forget about or take for granted a war if you don't see the wounded and the bodies rolling in day after day. There's a separation there that keeps us comfortable, these movies take that away somewhat. Nor do you see the severed arteries, muscle and bone when Luke has his arm chopped off. Blood and guts will always make people squeamish.
I was joking about Star Wars. I get it, but it's an amusing aspect of our psyche. We hear about the genocide in Darfur and think nothing of it, but then the local news shoes the smiling photos of a toddler who was run over by a drunk driver and we want to hang the driver from a tree. What are we afraid of as a society? Movie-wise? A retarded man who walks after you with a machete. But nobody ever has nightmares about crackheads with guns, Col. Hans Landa or even Anton Chigurh.
Your war analogy is dead on. If the media covered the war and showed viewers and readers the real bi-product of it, there's no way they'd still be going on. It would truly frighten us. We hide our disfigured vets and keep the graphic carnage in the streets off channels, print and websites in order to "maintain the standards of good taste". Horror does the opposite...it tries to get us to sympathize and empathize and confront these awful feelings and situations rather than treat us as mere spectators from far away (for the most part). I get it...it's context and atmosphere. Horror is usually more intimate and visceral, but I'm not sure about the gore aspect. Psycho has haunted millions and there wasn't heaps of blood in that. I think a large part of it is the idea or feeling that the antagonist is out of your control and you tend to project yourself while having to think about a situation where there's no hero to save you. No Luke Skywalker to save the day and make everything right.
I understand it, but it's still another one of those funny little things we humans do. In real life, I'd much rather be stranded at Crystal Lake than the Nakatomi Towers.
Anyway, in a whole bunch of written reviews and podcasts, I've seen/heard Oldboy and Sympathy f.Mr. V labeled as shocking and disturbing. I can almost understand why Martyrs gets that branding...the beating scenes and the skin scene I guess, but like you, I didn't think much of it. Sometimes I think people just like putting that label on anything made outside of the US that doesn't follow the same ol' Hollywood bullshit patterns.
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