What films have you seen recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

"Hell On Wheels": stock car racing, moonshine and country music. Sounds great but this is a yawnfest with lots and lots of crap country musical acts performing throughout the film.

"The Wild Rebels" more stock car racing but no country music this time. Instead we get the smallest gang of Bikers ever, totalling 4 if you include the gangs' mama. The final shoot out with the police is okayish if you're in a forgiving mood.

[re.form]

'True Crime' - decent thriller from Clint Eastwood.

Just got backed from my local indie cinema, watched 'Four Lions'. Not as extreme as Chris Morris' other stuff, but still very funny and even touching in some parts.

[BioZombie]

After Colin I decided to watch Dragon Tiger Gate.

It's not a terrible film but it did have a lot of parts that annoyed me. The plot was a bit all over the place, there was some truely horrid cgi and it could have done with an extra fight scene in the middle when it got a bit slow.

The fights themselves were well choeographed by Donnie Yen (if a little too depedant on wire work and acrobatics), but the cinematographer seen more intent on showing off fancy camera movents rather than choosing shots that worked with and showecased the martial arts to it full extent.

I'm glad I only paid a fiver for the dvd and didnt shell out 12 quid for the blu-ray.

[BioZombie]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

"Hell On Wheels": stock car racing, moonshine and country music. Sounds great but this is a yawnfest with lots and lots of crap country musical acts performing throughout the film.

"The Wild Rebels" more stock car racing but no country music this time. Instead we get the smallest gang of Bikers ever, totalling 4 if you include the gangs' mama. The final shoot out with the police is okayish if you're in a forgiving mood.

Doesn't sound like you had the greatest evening of entertainment there MTDS.

[antmumford]

Last night I watched Jackie Chan & The Kung Fu Kid and Red Road.
I really liked the Jackie Chan one, I mean of course I would even if it was crap but it was genuinely a good film. It's about a boy who idolises Jackie Chan and so goes on a little trip to Beijing to try and find him to become his disciple. It had some comedy elements, some good fighting and it was quite touching at one point (I think it was due to seeing myself in the kid). 3 out of 5
Red Road was a great film. About a lady CCTV operator who sees someone on one of her cameras that she may know so she kind of follows him I can't say much about the story to be honest because it'll ruin it for you but it's a good British film. It's quite tense and really portrays Glasgow in all it's miserably gloomy self. Unsettling but ultimately rather touching too. 4 out of 5

[buggenhagen]

Originally Posted by antmumford

It's quite tense and really portrays England in all it's miserably gloomy self. Unsettling but ultimately rather touching too. 4 out of 5

That'll be Glasgow it's portraying! The Red Road flats are very iconic, and due to be demolished in the near future. Yeah, it's very dark but a good little film. It's meant to be part of a trilogy, I worked on the next film (called "Rounding Up Donkeys") but it's never seen the light of day unfortunately.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I've recently finished watching Yakuza Papers: Battles without Honour & Humanity which are five stunning gangster movies with really visceral and realistic violence, an extremely complicated structure (fortunately the set comes with a 'family tree' to help you follow who is who) and it's up there with the best gangster movies I've ever seen.

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by buggenhagen

That'll be Glasgow it's portraying! The Red Road flats are very iconic, and due to be demolished in the near future. Yeah, it's very dark but a good little film. It's meant to be part of a trilogy, I worked on the next film (called "Rounding Up Donkeys") but it's never seen the light of day unfortunately.

Of course it was. Edited now

[Phats]

I'm ashamed to say that the last movie I saw was Dawn of the Dead - the original - for the very first time. It was fantastic and looked great on bluray. I haven't got round to watching the other cuts of the movie on the DVDs yet, so can anyone say which of the cuts of the movie they prefer, or are the cuts so similar that it's hard to tell the difference?

I also watched Escape from LA and Vampires which were both pretty poor by John Carpenter's standards. The effects in Escape from LA looked really terrible.

[DeadAlive]

Lesbian Vampire Killers
This is not the worst film ever made as some would have you believe, but it is lazy film making lacking originality and style. I did chuckle a few times along the way, (Paul McGann's swearing priest was great.) but the whole thing just felt like an idea for a thirty minute comedy skit had been stretched out to make a 85 minute movie. I couldn't understand why the vampires' blood was replaced by white fluid duing their kills. If this was trying to cash in on the success of films like "Shaun Of The Dead" they should have realised that genuine gore is an important aspect.


The Perfect Getaway
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. For the most part this is well acted and the script is quite smart. There is a nice line of pitch black humour that runs through it too. The "twist" was no real big surprise and the ending fell a bit flat for me but on the whole this is a fine time filler with a few classy moments along the way.


Lady In A Cage
Surprsingly sadistic thriller which may lack gore but certainly has plenty of atmosphere. Olivia de Havilland plays a middle aged woman who gets stuck between floors of her nice well-to-do house while James Caan (This may be his first leading role?) plays the leader of a group of particularly nasty thugs who plan to rob the house. When they see the woman's predicament they decide to terrorise her for a while. This may be tame by todays standards but it must have been a real shocker for most back in 1964. (My understanding is that it was actually banned in the UK.) As a note of interest the opening credits are a real grabber.