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Yellowbrickroad - 2010 US d:Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton

A thoroughly hateful film. A bloated, amateurish, Sixth Form film project of an effort that should never have got past the morning after it was no doubt concocted by stoned people egging each other on, thinking they were creating great art. A pretentious, angering mess. This is what happens when film students watch David Lynch then don't bother to develop their tiny fraction of a half decent idea before traipsing out into the world and filming it.

Dreadful.

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan (Post 251270)

Didn't think it was that bad. Deeply flawed perhaps and very uneven, (as one previous poster noted it certainly tails off a bit in the second half) but to give it an out of 10 rating (which I normally hate doing) 5/10.

I watched the Dark star blu-ray last night. The carpenter cut, which is around 20 minutes shorter is a much better experience, I always liked the film but I did think it had a tendency to drag a little. The feature length making of is very good as well, though some of the interviews seem to be conducted over the phone!

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Originally Posted by wonderlust (Post 251263)

Anatomy of Hell
The Night Porter

And?? did you like/hate/care less about them??

;)

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Originally Posted by keirarts (Post 251273)

Something about it just jarred with me. The dull look, the lifelessness and humourlessness of it, the dreary am-dram acting, that all the characters were knobhead douchebags I couldn't give a damn about...technically it was mostly adequate, I wouldn't say it was badly made, I just hated it. It was a similar empty "Emperor's New Clothes" thing to The Blair Witch Project for me.

I was furious at it after it finished! :lol:

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan (Post 251270)

Ha haha. Mates have RAVED about this one. I must remember to quote you the next time i see them. This is the same couple who wouldn't watch The Host after i'd given them Bunman to look at;):pound::laugh: silly bunts!!

I recently watched my DVD of La Setta. I know many seem to like this movie but i found it quite boring. I waited, i waited and i waited but nothing really happened and the story was too slow to get my fully attention.
But because of the increased tempo at the last 15 minutes or so i manage to see the whole thing without falling asleep or start to watch some porn instead like every man does when he's bored ;)

I downloaded (yes im not gonna say 'rented') that yellowbrickroad movie again last night cause I saw it in this thread. Well I didn't know I had already seen it until I watched a bit. I thought this movie was really whack, to be honest, and so I went on to watch "Atrocious" (Atroz), a spanish 'found footage' bla bla... Though very unoriginal (as expected), I thought it was quite amusing. Just about 70 mins so not too long either. :dance:

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Originally Posted by ReturnToZero (Post 251378)

I think that's one film that could definitely do with the Shameless/Arrow treatment.
Not the greatest PQ on the Italian DVD tbh.

Jaws - 1975 Us d: Steven Spielberg

To see this on the cinema screen was an honour. A genuine modern masterpiece and Spielberg's greatest achievement by some considerable amount.

From it's early, Hitchcock-like scenes of suspense, through the Altman-esque overlapping dialogue to the plain brilliant B film style final act out at sea this is an amalgamation of most of the best aspects of Hollywood story-telling. Plus it's a monster film.

Some occasional, understandable focus issues with the Panavision rigs out at sea on tiny boats, this is a glorious piece approaching flawlessness.

You MUST catch this at the cinema. You simply must.

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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs (Post 251242)

I'd seen Beatrice Cenci for the first time a few years ago and couldn't remember much about it, so thought I'd give it another go. For Fulci, it's actually very tame and plays out like an oppressive period drama tinged with tragedy. It's an okay watch (mainly for Thomas Milian, and the very pretty Adrienne Larussa), but not one I'd recommend very highly.

Byleth is another I hadn't seen for a while, and again one I remembered little about. In fact, there were a number of crossed wires in my grey matter concerning this and Beatrice Cenci; which is why I most likely decided to watch them back to back (well, that and both hardboxes sit next to each other on my shelf ;)). Whilst both use the period setting and gothic atmosphere, Byleth is a lot more erotically charged than Beatrice is. The film is also quite dreamy in places, which adds to the interesting atmosphere. I slightly preferred Byleth over Beatrice, but whilst neither were in any way 'bad', I wouldn't recommend either very highly.

The Living Corpse (AKA: Dracula in Pakistan) started off well. The black and white cinematography is excellent (I watched the Mondo Macabro DVD, which aside form a few judders due to print damage makes for an impressively crisp transfer) and the suspense is built very nicely. However, as you approach the 30 minute mark, the inevitable happens. The fact that you are watching a Bollywood style (not true Bollywood, as this film was made in Pakistan and not India) take on Dracula becomes all the more apparent and the singing and dancing breaks out. I'm not oblivious to Bollywood film stylings, and how dance and music is an integral part of their cultural heritage in regards to film making, but it completely de-railed what up until then had been a genuinely interesting and suspenseful little film; Bollywood has its fans, but I am just not one of them. This 'nonsense' then plays out for most of the middle portion of the film, and I was almost ready to right the damn thing off, as you jump from one bemusingly random dance number after another, but I persevered and the film thankfully fell back into the boundaries of (near) sanity at the end.

Overall a very interesting experience, and one I'd certainly recommend. There will be many who will be able to stomach the music and dance routines much better than I (and I don't mean to come across as close-minded or insulting in this micro-review), but for me these perpetrated the 6/10 score I'd give this film over the 8/10 score I had in my mind before that sitar started furiously strumming ;)

I must say I share your opinions on these. :nod:
Btw you should really check out Drakula Istanbul'da which is a much much better Dracula film (I do realize that The Living Corpse is not really a Dracula film btw )
It's available fansubbed on youtube (don't forget to click the cc button for the subs).