Is this a different version? The only version I'm aware of has James Mason as Philip Vandamm. ;)

The thought of pickled onion Monster Munch and Space Raiders has sent my salivary glands into overdrive! :pop2:

Smart Alec you are Nos nobody picked up on that:lol: autocorrect again, I shouldn't be using my phone while commenting on stuff.

I'm surprised no one else noticed :lol:

Can we stay on topic please i cant handle all this crisps talk :pound:

Just for the record - Beef Monster Munch go better with Snake Bites than pickled onion flavour.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) ★★

For the most part, it's badly written, meandering and boring, and Jar Jar Binks is a horrendous character, grating and borderline offensive.

However, the pod race is genuinely engaging and the sequence with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi taking on Darth Maul is really well edited and superbly scored.

It's not a terrible film, but it's not close to being mediocre either.

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) ★

A ponderous and dull film without any interesting dialogue, a romantic subplot without any romance, wooden performances from Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman, a supporting character (C-3PO) who is nearly as irritating as Jar Jar Binks, and dated CGI.

I did laugh when Christopher Lee's Count Dooku escaped across the desert on a speeder and looked like someone had photoshopped an old man on a mobility scooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQS9...reStateStudios

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) ★★½

Of the films in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Revenge of the Sith was too late and too mediocre. Some films are made mediocre, some films achieve mediocrity, and some films have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Revenge of the Sith it had been all three. Even amongst films lacking in distinction it stood out as lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who watched it were always impressed by how unimpressive it was. (With apologies to Joseph Heller.)

If you think they are bad you should see the three recent ones made by Disney. The second was so awful i haven't even seen the third one.

I thought The Force Awakens was up there with the original trilogy. Actually better than Return of the Jedi. The Last Jedi is messy however and Rise of Skywalker is genuinely rubbish. Complete rubbish.

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Just for this you should give an extra star :lol:

On topic:

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During the 80's everything was possible, "Let's do a slasher movie with a samurai" :lol: - low budget movie, slow pace to a point getting boring, but in the end it's worth a watch, it's not ever day you see someone in a full samurai suit killing people.

And a thumbs up for the soundtrack, who doesn't dream to listen to classic music while people are having sex, or killing other people?

I'm trying to catch up on reviews for the other six. I think Star Wars is okay, The Empire Strikes Back is much better, The Return of the Jedi is (mostly because of the militant wing of the Care Bears) the weakest of Trilogy.

With the newest films, although it is basically the same as Star Wars: A New Hope, I enjoyed The Force Awakens, thought The Last Jedi better than any of the other Star Wars films – Empire Strikes Back included – and The Last Skywalker building on everything which had come before to bring a fitting end to that trilogy.

I haven't watched it recently, but I think my favourite Star Wars film is Rogue One.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

And so this record breaking video game horror franchise comes to an end and thankfully everything is pretty much sewn up in a satisfying conclusion.

The only other film in the series that is multi referenced is the 2002 original, both in plot terms and in fan pleasing references to past events namely the corridor of automated grid traps.

The film begins with a huge set piece and in true video game fashion never lets up from beginning to end. It's a pop corn thrill ride where characterization gives way to action. In fact the only ones with any depth are Milla Jovovich's Alice and Iain Glen's satisfyingly evil Dr Isaacs. The rest including Ali Larter's Claire Redfield are hastily fashioned cardboard cut outs.

Come the end, the Umbrella Corporation is liquidized, a T-virus cure is airborne and Alice sets off on another journey as a voice over is heard

"When the T-virus spread across the Earth, it did so at the speed of the modern world, carried by jetliners across the globe. The antivirus is airborne, spread by the winds. It could take years for it to reach every corner of the Earth. Until then, my work is not done. My name is Alice."

Final installment or not. If you enjoy the Resident Evil films then this is recommended, but for non-fans it isn't likely to win you over

I've loved seeing all these films again on blu-ray. The sound quality of them is superb. From the loudest explosions to the quietest tinkling, it's a wonderfully immersive experience. £20 very well spent.

Are the blu-ray box sets of The Matrix and Back to the Future far superior to their dvd counterparts in the same way Resident Evil is?

The Matrix films definitely are. I'm not sure about Back to the Future because I only have them on DVD.

Thanks, Nos.

The Matrix box set is £13 in Sainsbury's so i might pick it up next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1JGPhYBS8

What a boring over bloated piece of shit, way too long by at least an hour with a bunch of unlikable character's. All not bore people with the shit story, just do yourself a favour and avoid it like a zombie apocalypse.

Thanks Treb I was going to watch this tonight,but I'm going to watch The Horror of Party Beach instead.... cheers:thankingyou:

Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985, Philippe Mora)

A lot of fun. The cast alone ahem. I look forward to the third installment methinks :nod::lol::rolleyes:

My son enjoyed it but I didn't like the sheer amount of unnecessary dialogue, the predictably or the running time and I have no problem with long films if the story demands it.

It just seemed long ,just for the sake of length. Should of been 90 minutes , the opening credits was by far the best bit of the film, then it crawls to a snail's pace with loads of boring and pointless dialogue.

I’ve just this minute finished watching it and fully agree with everything that’s been said, massive let down compared to the trailer!

One of those trailers which all the good parts are showing in it,people should save themselves 2hours 30 minutes and just watch the trailer.

TOURIST TRAP – Have never fallen out of love with ‘Tourist Trap’, a film I return to endlessly after all these years. In a sense it might have been a fairly perfunctory rip of TCM with added mannequins and telekinesis were it not for its incessant offness, which really does push it onto a far higher plane… “hur hur… you’re pridee…”, goes Chuck Connors’ off-brand Leatherface as he asphyxiates someone with a dishful of spackle. TT throws out indelible images without so much as a shrug – witness a roomful of dummies breathing up a crescendo of sighs, and that feverish bout of supernatural missile-hurling and plastic-mouthed giggling near the start, which almost certainly must have influenced ‘The Evil Dead’ somewhere along the way – but there’s also a tug of weird melancholy about its forgotten lakeside location and backstory of heartache and loss. The inevitable downside is that it’s repetitive and runs out of steam too early, but for all that remains a flawed near masterpiece of the macabre.

PANIC BEATS – Paul Naschy, remaking one of his earlier films (‘Horror Rises From The Tomb’, I think? I’m no expert). It’s set in a huge castle with suits of armour standing around, so it looks the full gothic monty despite the contemporaneous con-merchants at the heart of its storyline. Had my hopes up after the full-blooded intro but had to wait till the end to really wet my whistle, although it was worth it to see everything turn into a succession of Pan Book Of Horrors' Best Covers for five or ten minutes. Quite the blow-out, if you’re into rotting faces and a bit of gore (I am, obviously). Everything in between was either moderately intriguing or intermittently atmospheric, but the talky / sludgy pitfalls of much Euro-horror of PB’s vintage were never very far away. Another lovely package from that feted boutique, Mondo Macabro.

PLAGUE TOWN – Set in rural Ireland, where an American family and a latched-on annoying Brit guy are wandering lost. They happen across an abandoned car, then some freaky kids… cue lots of running around and angst. ‘Plague Town’ is effective because of its night-in-bleak-countryside vibes, which are relayed through very nice cinematography and lighting etc, and there’s also something to be said for the creepiness of its monstrous backwoods charmers and the violence they impose. It has about itself the feeling of a nightmare, at least in places, and that’s basically what I look for more than anything in movies like this. An element of ‘constant chase’ might threaten to be slightly wearisome, but it never gets that grating. I liked it. From the guy who runs Severin (I think), which makes you wish he’d do more features than extras.

THE UNHOLY – Has a lot of what I like about late eighties horror, which was never afraid to resort to rock video visuals if a lacklustre storyline needed propping up. Both elements are in evidence here - ‘The Unholy’ might spin us a bit of ‘heard it all before’ in laying out its possession-themed mystery, but its tick list of stylistic tropes is a gaudy delight (there’s even a neon-lit era specific goth club scene). Gelled lighting and mist aside, the atmosphere actually grows quite ominous in places, and the climactic fx blowout that arrives complete with a slightly Clive Barkeresque hallucinogenic hell sequence is nice and unexpected. Shame that those latter titbits weren’t the predominant force in the movie, which as a consequence leaves a vague aftertaste of missed opportunity along with a lingering sense of frustration about some of the pacing (there’s a bit of ponderousness here and there, but I guess the filmmakers thought that it was warranted by their weighty themes). As with all minor movies of its ilk, it’s a mixed bag, but I’m glad I finally made the acquaintance of ‘The Unholy’, which I’d seen lingering on the shelves of CEX on many a winter’s night, but always passed up on.

Plague Town is one of those films i've wanted to see for years. It was always 'coming soon' to dvd but never actually arrived in the UK and although it got a US release there was always something more important to order than this if you get my drift.

I love The Unholy. You mentioning it reminded me it's out on blu from Vestron isn't it? There's a couple of their releases i'd like so this is another.

Netflix are more inclined towards long running series as are all of these content providers and perhaps this would of been better as a mini series ? i don't know.
I do know there was a political undertone throughout but it wasn't particularly subtle.

Snap I got a large bag today as well from my corner shop, mine was a slight bit cheaper tho was only a quid. Soon went through it tho.

Think it's more Zack Snyder don't think he's made a film that's less than 2 hours all he's films seem a little bloated maybe it's all that slow mo!

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

Burt Lancaster stars as a renegade general escaped from a military prison who along with three other military convicts (Including Paul Winfiled and Burt Young) take over an underground nuclear missile silo in Montana and threatens to launch them starting WWIII unless the US President reveals top secret documents to the public regarding America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

One of those films i'd heard of but never seen until i bought the stunning looking blu-ray from Eureka. It's a powerful and tension filled drama which develops into a race against time and is cleverly directed by the great Robert Aldrich who uses split screen in a far more intense fashion than any other movie i've seen.

Even at two and a half hours the film flies by. Becoming genuinely nail biting stuff when Richard Widmark's General leads a team to retake the silo in order to prevent Armageddon.

The cast is excellent, Lancaster and Widmark always are, and when you add Charles Durning's President and Melvyn Douglas and Joseph Cotten as part of his scheming cabinet to proceedings you know it's going to be an acting tour-de-force.

Part political drama, part Cold War thriller, with a strong message at it's core that if you replaced Vietnam with Afghanistan and Iraq would remain as relevant today as it was back then.

An excellent film.

Twilight
 

There are no midgets in the United States Air Force.

The boat

It's one of those films with only 1 cast, a fisherman finds a boat and then becomes trapped out at sea in it, this is type of film that proves you don't need any fancy gimmicks, who who in the film, cgi, special effects, huge budget, ott action or anything else,
Just the suspense tension and atmosphere to be done right,
It’s a nail-biting tale of survival, the guy continues to look for solutions to the problems that he faces despite odds against him never gives up, He believes deep down that a miracle might occur, and at times of also feels like the boat is haunted and playing games with him.

Recommended and one I would watch again .

I wondered if it was a film you had in your collection, Inspector.

Yeah I remember seeing it first on BBC 2,might of been Alex Cox Moviedrome series....

What struck me whilst watching it was that Michael Bay's The Rock is almost a remake of it.

I imagine it's also the best of the Twilight series too.

Net income
 

:axekiller:Unfortunately curiousity got the better of me and watched Army of Dead,f#&k what a piece of crap, you know a film is in trouble when you have to CGi a character Into the film...some one should put two in the head of Netflix.... there audience is obviously zombies...

I did warn you! But at least now it should stop others from making the same mistake!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cNjTdFHL8E

A group of various people end up see a movie for free after receiving tickets from a man wearing a strange mask, it's not long before these people wish they had told the man to F Off when they are attacked and start turning into blood thirsty demons.

There is no story just enjoy one gory death after another and switch off your brain.

Now watching this for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNncHPl1UXg

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
 

Curse of the Crimson Altar Is always a little disappointing when ever I watch it...
It should really be, well on paper anyway, quite a good little film...It has a stellar cast, Chris Lee,Boris Karloff and Barbara Steele (although her role is mostly sitting around looking evil..) so it should of been quite an old school fright Fest...But a plodding script and some atrocious dialogue makes it a slightly laborious watch...Poor old Boris does his up most,but confined to a wheelchair and obviously having health problems,his performance is stilted and at times he looks confused,and at one point outside by the bonfire scene,him and his chaffuer are hit by fiireworks, Which I assume was unscripted.... It's not a total disaster,as Mark Eden (more famously known for being in Coronation Street) does a fairly good job in keeping the proceedings going, as does Virginia Wetherell...But it is a fairly arduous watch at times,only slightly elevated by some mild S&M scene's,Which consists mainly of a topless woman whipping (bathed in green light) everyone in sight,and a muscle Mary in leather pants and antlers on his head smashing up the flimsey set...It obviously has a cult following,but it's certainly not Tigons finest hour either ...

Watched xtro, been years since I’ve seen this, very bizarre and random at times and I still don’t get the theory behind the clown.
I’ve only ever seen the downbeat ending where they attack her and leave her for dead, so I googled alternative ending Gee I thought it was going to be a long scene like 10 min or so it’s only last min or so that’s different hardly worth the bother tbh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cNjTdFHL8E

A group of various people end up see a movie for free after receiving tickets from a man wearing a strange mask, it's not long before these people wish they had told the man to F Off when they are attacked and start turning into blood thirsty demons.

There is no story just enjoy one gory death after another and switch off your brain.

Demons is a film a never get tired of watching, awesome movie even though it put me off going to the cinema for a while :lol:

Easy Rider (1969)

In 1969, a low budget motorcycle movie changed forever the way America looks at itself and the way films redefine culture.

It was called Easy Rider.

One of my favourite movies of all time and certainly worthy of being my first Criterion blu-ray purchase. A definite step up from the dvd. The DTS 5:1 mix was nicely done in it's subtlety with only brief moments of actual surround sound.