What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[James Morton]

BLUE THUNDER - still an excellent piece of entertainment
BODY DOUBLE - De Palma's underrated 1984 thriller
KILL BILL VOL 1 - uncut Jap dvd, one of Tarantino's best

[DryJack]

Just watched Dark City. Excellent film with a great central idea (apparently based on a concept called "last Thursdayism"). The alien "strangers" were genuinely creepy and reminded me a bit of Cenobites. Richard O'Brien was fantastic, as was Bruce Spence (I love that guy). Highly recommended if you've never seen it.

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by DryJack

Just watched Dark City. Excellent film with a great central idea (apparently based on a concept called "last Thursdayism"). The alien "strangers" were genuinely creepy and reminded me a bit of Cenobites. Richard O'Brien was fantastic, as was Bruce Spence (I love that guy). Highly recommended if you've never seen it.

couldn't agree more, and The Matrix totally steals alot from this film, it's a shame Alex Proyas didn't make more dark Sci-fi but I, Robot was still fun.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

The kids and I watched THE MONSTER SQUAD the other night.
Still daftly enjoyable.

[BioZombie]

Last night I saw the new directors edit of Cannibal Holocuast introduced by Ruggero Deodato himself.

The only differences I noticed to the film were in the acts of animal cruelty. The first big major change was to the muskrat scene, this was handled very well cutting to the jungle canopy, with the screeching of the creature laid over the top.

The other cuts to the animals seemed a bit more obvious, for some reason Deodate has chosen to put some scratched and damaged blue film it to link editied sections, these looked a little of out place to me.

Having only seen the film a two or three times previously to this, I am not sure if there are other sections that have been changed that I have not picked up on. Nothing was obviously missing and all of the cannibal (and doumentary team) violence seemed to be 100% in tact.

Over all, in my opinion this version is not significantly different to the versions I have seen before (I'm sure others will have a lot more to say on this subject than me), and it certainly retains it gut punching impact.

Great work by Deodato and Shamless!

[dream demon]

Originally Posted by platostotal

The 'old hotel' reference may be to Hooper's 'Eaten alive' mid 70s flick with old guy that chucks unwanted guests to his croc in a swamp.

Ah, I see, I hadn't thought of that. Eaten Alive is a film I definitely need to see.

[gag]

Originally Posted by dream demon

Ah, I see, I hadn't thought of that. Eaten Alive is a film I definitely need to see.

Erm from my opinion you dont its bleeding terrible

[Demdike]

I gave a rewatch to The Avengers last night.

I really don't know what to make of it.

On some levels it is quite poor - The tea and macaroon references every five minutes, the lack of chemistry between Fiennes and Thurman, the below average storyline.

Yet parts of it i really like - the opening village scenes, the mechanical wasp attack, the snow bound London landscapes, and Uma Thurman has never looked better.

If you have never seen it, pick it up cheap on Amazon/Ebay and give it a go, whilst severely flawed, its never boring.

[platostotal]

Originally Posted by dream demon

Ah, I see, I hadn't thought of that. Eaten Alive is a film I definitely need to see.

Agree with 'gag' on this. Tobe should fall on his chainsaw for the tosh that is 'Eaten alive', so he should be. Looks like it cost less to make than to buy. Rubbish. Shame Brand didn't chuck Tobe in the swamp as well.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Eaten Alive is one of the many DVDs on my pile of unwatched discs, something I plan to remedy soon.