Last Man Standing (1996)

*** out of *****


Overboard (1987)

***1/2 out of *****

Vanishing Act(1986 T.V. Movie) Newly wed(Mike Farrell) turns to a Lt.(Elliott Gould) about his missing wife that they had their first fight and she left disappeared, later receives a call from a father(Fred Gwynne) saying has info on her, and he should come right over. Upon getting there the father says his wife is here, she appears(Margot Kidder) seemingly her wits about her happy to see her husband only thing is hubby says thats NOT his wife...you're not my wife!! What the hell is going on here? well I won't say anything but its bloody brilliant and just a prime example with a small cast, smart excellent script, and direction you can come with this something truly great...even in a T.V. movie.

9/10. Great find on Youtube(sure the quality ain't perfect but you really won't care. Definitely worth a watch, even in the worst possible light a solid time killer.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKzuj2eavtU

Enjoyable but unoriginal horror comedy, involving a Halloween party a possessed house, demon possession and a bunch of typical teens, but it does have beaver on display. 7/10



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_faxqrjc0


Along with the first and a new nightmare my favourite of the series. lots of classic lines and kills giving us more background on the son of hundred maniac's. Nancy's back. Patricia Arquette and Laurence Fishburn in early roles. Only downside the lame ass, wizard master. After this the quality of the movies drops dramatically, till a new nightmare. 9/10


Now watching

Logan (2017)

****1/2 out of *****

One of the very finest films to be made in the superhero comic book genre, even though, it feels more like a hybrid of a modern day western and a road movie. Exceptional filmmaking.

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

The second best spaghetti western ever is about so much more than the ubiquitous 'man with no name'. Eastwood's Monco (See, he does have a name) often plays second fiddle to Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer, a fellow bounty killer, like Eastwood on the trail of the safe cracking Indio and his band of outlaws. However unlike Eastwood, Mortimer is after Gian Maria Volonte's Indio for personal reasons.

Almost playing like a fore runner to director Sergio Leone's masterpiece The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1965). The film is as much a character study, especially when it comes to Mortimer and the screen hogging intensely laid back Indio, who seems more dangerous when he's laconically watching a beetle than when he's gunning down folk, as it is western adventure. The moments of humour seen in Leone's other Eastwood films are for the most part missing from For a Few Dollars More, giving the whole thing a more intense feel to it.

Leone's direction is assured, allowing the film to breathe when need be but also ramping up the tension and excitement to boot. Helped in no small way by Ennio Morricone's almost punk rock score which drives the action along.

For a Few Dollars More is a real highlight of not just spaghetti westerns, but the whole western genre as a whole.

The 'like' is for Overboard. :nod:

Last Man Standing is really poor.

James White(2015) Drama centring around a N.Y. bloke (Christopher Abbott) fighting to regain control over his life over his self destructive behavior as his mom (Cynthia Nixon) battles cancer. Its good all round(well acted by Abbott and Nixon) but definitely have to be in the mood for it(which thankfully I was)which ism't a knock on the film just one of those minor things where you can appreciate the film a lot more if you are in the right mood for it.

8/10

Any excuse for these two again!

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazars revenge.

Great 90 minute film wearing the flesh suit of a 150 minute bloated mess. The actor they have found to play Orlando Blooms son is so bland that I suspect they managed to find away to animate tesco value bread. It has some funny parts but the franchise is essentially plodding along like one of Herbert Wests failures at this point.

Obviously, it’s piss poor compared to Yojimbo and A Fist Full of Dollars, but I find it quite enjoyable. It has its problems it’s far from great, but I'm a sucker for most things Walter Hill anyway - one of the greatest and most stylish action directors of his generation. One of my all-time favourite filmmakers. Although a fair share of his films has gone on to become cult classics, he's generally so underappreciated compared to his peers.

Walter Hill directed two films i'd easily put in my top 50 of all time in The Long Riders and Southern Comfort.

He's also made some very good films such as The Warriors, Trespass and Red Heat, however three of his later output - Last Man Standing, Supernova and Bullet to the Head were dreadful.

To be fair, Supernova wasn't Hill's fault, and the version out there isn't really his film at all.

I enjoyed Bullet to the Head, it's decent. It's a shamelessly 80's-esque action movie.

The Driver is a great film.

I've never seen The Driver. Is it the Ryan O' Neill film?

I really found Bullet to the Head to be poor. I'd hoped for something special given Stallone did it around the time of The Expendables movies.

Yeah with the awesome Bruce Dern as well.

Maybe you went in with your expectations too high. It isn’t anything special, but I enjoyed it for what it is - an ‘80s type action movie that played it straight, rather than making a gimmick out of it like The Expendables franchise. I thought it was pretty good fun.

X-Men: First Class (2011)

**** out of *****

Watching this, seen the cartoon but never fully watched the movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwA_ar7_qUw

Agreed.

Its an apt title,alot of people did get a bullet in the head.

But, but, but...it's Stallone and Walter Hill... it should have been a classic!

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Richard Linklater's comedy drama about the last day of school in a Texas town.

Dazed and Confused is one of those rare films that seems to improve with each viewing. Perhaps it's the brilliant cast of likable characters or perhaps it's the 70's rock n' roll soundtrack which features everyone from Alice Cooper to ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd to Bob Dylan and Foghat to Black Sabbath.

Set in 1976 it's a beautifully written film, both funny and poignant with a brilliantly assembled cast of characters including Ben Affleck as a bullying high school jock who failed to graduate the first time, to Matthew McConaughey's twenty something who likes to hang out with high school students. The film focuses on, well everyone really. From the geeks to the freaks, all have a starring role in the film and it's testament to Linklater that everyone feels rounded and no one is left out.

Laugh out loud funny, sad, outrageous and occasionally dreamlike, Linklater puts everything into the film giving it a quality that makes you want to be there. You want to play high school pranks, you want to party, drink and smoke weed and you definitely want to join Joey Lauren Adams and co in going to that Aerosmith concert as the end credits roll.

One of my all time favourites, I'm due a rewatch soon :) :rockon:

Yes, it's becoming one of mine too. Might be in my top 20.

Definitely Linklater's best film.

I've never seen that film sober :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcoi-Zgg8BU

Don't know why this is considered a classic of the slasher genre, its a pile of boring old shite, unlikable bunch of characters boring kills the only good one is ripped from the far superior bay of blood. Far better slasher out their of around the same time. Didn't I mention how boring it is! 5/10


Give a chance every so often just to see if I can see want others see, but no with 30 minutes I'm bored to death and its a chore to finish, feels more like 3 hours than 90ish minutes.

.....I literally am speechless. But it's The Driver. The only Ryan O'Neal film you need, unless slapstick is in your bag.
Cough.

Couldn't agree more.

Agreed. Might be in a minority here but its really my least favourite of any of the parts from the 80's.

Well if we were all in accordance it would be a different sort of Cult Labs I suppose ;)

Me too, but I actually enjoyed the later ones were Jason became a zombie more than the earlier ones, hell Jason X is my favourite which puts me in the minority.

The silly ones - Jason Lives and Jason X - are the only ones I like. ;)

The Cabin in the Woods. A group of college friends - a jock, a brain, a nerd and a virgin - head off for a weekend at an isolated cabin in the woods, and soon unleash an ancient evil. So far, so cliched, right? Wrong. Everything you think you know is inverted in this delightfully cheeky and imaginative comedy-horror co-written by Joss Whedon. Some of the last act reminds me, of all things, of the Pertwee Who story Carnival of Monsters! Great fun.:nod:

I must admit i drank quite a bit watching it last night. :lol:

Along with The Babadook this is at the top of the tree marked over hyped shite. :lol:

Well I agree with The Babadook (boring as ****!) but Cabin is a hoot. :tongue1:

For me it is the other way round, loved The Babadook (though perhaps it spoke to me a lot because of my own battle with mental health, in part due to my autism. Plus I loved the little homage to Bava's Black Sabbath) but thought Joss Whedon's direction in CITW was far too smug for its own good, came across to me as quite condescending and patronising to the genre. I don't know, maybe just don't get Whedon's humour, because I only like a select few number of horror comedies or it is because I like it when horror films have political or social undercurrents to them.

Wolf Guy, now there is a film which I call a bloody good hoot :lol:

I hear owls!

Off to the TP thread with you both :lol:


Sorry, couldn't resist ...

Haven't seen 'The Driver' but i enjoyed 'Paper Moon' with O'Neal.:pop2:

Its a great film,recommended without a doubt .

Don't f*** in the woods

With a title like that its hard to resist. The film itself is as trashy as one might expect with the end result being a mixture of softcore porn levels of shagging mixed in with people being slaughtered by a bloke in a rubber monster suit prowling the woods. Its very low rent and short at under 80 minutes but this, combined with the general trashiness of the whole project adds to its charm.

Raw

I've said this before, the French don't often do horror, however when they do the results are worth watching. This is certainly true of this fantastique tale of a girl becoming a woman as she navigates the worl of university studying to be a vet. Not only does she have the usual issues being new at school, its compounded by her nascent cannibalisitc tendencies that are brought out in a hazing ritual where shes forced to eat raw rabbits liver. Could the cannibalism be a metaphor for the struggle of becoming an adult? Perhaps the paranoid fantasies of someone who copromises their prinicples (vegetarianism) to fit in. Either way the end result is great and well worth watching.

RAW

I've said this before, the French don't often do horror, however when they do the results are worth watching. This is certainly true of this fantastique tale of a girl becoming a woman as she navigates the worl of university studying to be a vet. Not only does she have the usual issues being new at school, its compounded by her nascent cannibalisitc tendencies that are brought out in a hazing ritual where shes forced to eat raw rabbits liver. Could the cannibalism be a metaphor for the struggle of becoming an adult? Perhaps the paranoid fantasies of someone who copromises their prinicples (vegetarianism) to fit in. Either way the end result is great and well worth watching.[/QUOTE]
:woot:
Is this the movie that was meant to have caused a stir or controversary??