What Have You Bought Recently?

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Yeah,it was a creepy setting.
TFC is always slated as the worst,but I prefer it to Damien:Omen II.

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

I hope you helped him and called an ambulance. Do people usually plummet into car parks when you're about?

I nicked his Benedictine first and then called an ambulance. Apparently he heard there was a DVD sale and decided to drop in.


(I had to say it and have no regrets).......

[Sam]

Been on a bit of a trawl around the local charity shops and picked up the following:-

Scarlett Street (Fritz Lang) - Odeon - £2
McCabe & Mrs Miller - £1.99
I.D - £1.50
The Gladiator (Ferrara) - £1

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

Exactly. 1988's "They Live ".
That was his last good film for me (although the about the same time "Prince of Darkness" was piss awful rubbish).

I have to disagree with you about Prince of Darkness, I thought it was great! As do a lot of other Carpenter fans.

[Philleh]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

Exactly. 1988's "They Live ".
That was his last good film for me (although the about the same time "Prince of Darkness" was piss awful rubbish).

"Thing" and "New York" were sadly long past.

Have to agree with Nekromantik.
Sadly "Vinyan" was exactly as he said...it was playing out fine and was very well made, but the ending was a nonsensical farce that pushed ambiguity so far it shattered all over the audience's face, just like the director's spunk as he finished his masturbatory workout at our expense!

Not explaining all the details is one thing.
Not remotely explaining anything at all about anything at all is just taking the piss.

Back to 'CEX' it goes!

Well, it's actual title means Ghost in thai and the parents went looking for their lost child... they found more than that wouldn't you say? I thought the ending was fantastic and a right kick in the balls. It's a horror movie, why is the ending so out there? I'm guessing you've watch movies like The Thing and bought into aliens on earth frozen in ice?

But I do enjoy watching characters take a long, slow decent into hell... which is exaclty what this movie is.

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by Vampix

I have to disagree with you about Prince of Darkness, I thought it was great! As do a lot of other Carpenter fans.

The first time I saw Prince Of Darkness (on the cinema) I thought it was dull and boring. I'm still not a huge fan though it has grown on me with each viewing.

[pedromonkey]

Not a huge fan of Prince Of Darkness but it is by no means dreadful, there are some great moments in it and i can at time be quite creepy...

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally Posted by Philleh

Well, it's actual title means Ghost in thai and the parents went looking for their lost child... they found more than that wouldn't you say? I thought the ending was fantastic and a right kick in the balls.

It's a horror movie, why is the ending so out there?

I'm guessing you've watch movies like The Thing and bought into aliens on earth frozen in ice?
.

What? Last sentence did not even make sense.
If you're going to be smug with me, at least make sense while doing it.

I have no problem with 'out there'. I have a problem with nothingness and bullshit though.

Spoilers they be here:




When a film ends with a wife watching her husband, indeed welcoming her husband, being butchered all because of a single line "you let him go"...You need to damn well explain that line!!

Seems the entire film was hanging on this one line, and no one can agree on what the hell that meant from what I have read.

Let him go swimming?
Chased/argued him before the tsunami but let him go?
Let him go in the sense that he (despite slogging though jungle hell and spending countless amounts of cash!) accepted their son was dead?

WHAT?


Why did the old woman on the boat get so scared of the wife?
Why did the kids kill people?
Why did they kill the husband?
Why did they not kill the wife?
Was she a sudden mother figure? Well why? I saw no other women around being 'kept', so why this particular white woman?
Were the kids feral?
Were the kids spirits?
If they were it seems these spirits had physical form...so were they spirits or not?
And why JUST kids? No one mentioned that 'Vinyan' were JUST kid's spirits.
What was that damn huge as building stuck in the middle of the jungle?
Who were the old couple in the hut?
Was the son even there really, or a spirit, or not there at all?
If he was there, why? No other kids were white.
Where was the son supposedly drowned anyway?
Why would HIS spirit end up in a jungle with native spirits?

But hey...who cares about any of that!
Because it's so deep and meaningful and as such can ignore basically anything that 'lesser films' could never get away with.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally Posted by Vampix

I have to disagree with you about Prince of Darkness, I thought it was great! As do a lot of other Carpenter fans.

Guess I have a problem with the apocalyptic coming of Satan being a few bums in an alley way and a group of dicks in a little warehouse.
Or the fact Satan is gunk in jar.
Or that in a horror film I don't really want to spend ages listening to an obnoxious Chinese guy hiding in a cupboard do a bad stand up comedy routine for a woman with strawberry jam on her face...because Carpenter had decided horror, and the audience, was not worth taking seriously any more.

Good score though. Shame about the film it was used on.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

What? Last sentence did not even make sense.
If you're going to be smug with me, at least make sense while doing it.

I have no problem with 'out there'. I have a problem with nothingness and bullshit though.

Spoilers they be here:




When a film ends with a wife watching her husband, indeed welcoming her husband, being butchered all because of a single line "you let him go"...You need to damn well explain that line!!

Seems the entire film was hanging on this one line, and no one can agree on what the hell that meant from what I have read.

Let him go swimming?
Chased/argued him before the tsunami but let him go?
Let him go in the sense that he (despite slogging though jungle hell and spending countless amounts of cash!) accepted their son was dead?

WHAT?


Why did the old woman on the boat get so scared of the wife?
Why did the kids kill people?
Why did they kill the husband?
Why did they not kill the wife?
Was she a sudden mother figure? Well why? I saw no other women around being 'kept', so why this particular white woman?
Were the kids feral?
Were the kids spirits?
If they were it seems these spirits had physical form...so were they spirits or not?
And why JUST kids? No one mentioned that 'Vinyan' were JUST kid's spirits.
What was that damn huge as building stuck in the middle of the jungle?
Who were the old couple in the hut?
Was the son even there really, or a spirit, or not there at all?
If he was there, why? No other kids were white.
Where was the son supposedly drowned anyway?
Why would HIS spirit end up in a jungle with native spirits?

But hey...who cares about any of that!
Because it's so deep and meaningful and as such can ignore basically anything that 'lesser films' could never get away with.

I agree


Movie was just a bunch of BS and made out to be like the director is so deep and profound.