What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Just out of interest Paul, what would you have him do?

I don't know to be honest. I guess anything different that doesn't involve zombies. Something surprising and different like Martin (or even Monkey Shines!) that couldn't be expected. Doing another Living Dead film brings too much baggage with it which Romero doesn't seem to be able to deal with.

I really wanted to like Survival of the Dead and watched it a second time today with the commentary on but it's just such a dull and poor film in my eyes

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by PaulD

I don't know to be honest. I guess anything different that doesn't involve zombies. Something surprising and different like Martin (or even Monkey Shines!) that couldn't be expected. Doing another Living Dead film brings too much baggage with it which Romero doesn't seem to be able to deal with.

I really wanted to like Survival of the Dead and watched it a second time today with the commentary on but it's just such a dull and poor film in my eyes

I've tried to watch the original Night twice, but i just find it too hard. I find it boring and annoying.

I love Dawn and Day, but Dawn does drag a bit at times, but its still good. Day is so bleak, its a classic in my eyes, a gritty alternate look at a hopeless future in a zombie apocalypse.

I haven't even tried anything past those, they just don't appeal to me.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

The Cabin In The Woods - 2011 USA d: Drew Goddard

Thoroughly smug and angering load of bollocks that thinks it's so very clever. The comedy isn't funny, the horror isn't horrifying. One can't help but imagine a lot of self congratulation and patting each other on the back when this was written. It is infuriating from start to end and really doesn't offer anything more than Williamson and Craven dished up with more fun and less pretension as Scream.

Avoid.

I'm guessing you don't want to buy my spare BD then?

[ThePopeofCOSDS]

The Suspected Death of a Minor. Should have been an ass-ton better.

- Razor88

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

The Cabin In The Woods - 2011 USA d: Drew Goddard

Thoroughly smug and angering load of bollocks that thinks it's so very clever. The comedy isn't funny, the horror isn't horrifying. One can't help but imagine a lot of self congratulation and patting each other on the back when this was written. It is infuriating from start to end and really doesn't offer anything more than Williamson and Craven dished up with more fun and less pretension as Scream.

Avoid.

With this and avengers I take it your not a Joss whedon fan!

Fair enough, I like his stuff but i'm more than aware that theres a few people who find his stuff like rubbing their face against a cheesegrater. (though when you said you hated Avengers I did say you probably would not like cabin as well.. so told you so! )

I thought Cabin was far better than scream, all scream did was take the generic slasher formula but have the characters all but turn and wink at the screen every five minutes, whatever the end result at least cabin tried to play around with the formula itself.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

THE RED MONKS. Incredibly sunny gothic horror which meanders along at a slow pace but it's never too boring. Heavy on melodrama, the film would have been served better with more gore and occult tomfoolery than is on display.

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by keirarts

With this and avengers I take it your not a Joss whedon fan!

Fair enough, I like his stuff but i'm more than aware that theres a few people who find his stuff like rubbing their face against a cheesegrater. (though when you said you hated Avengers I did say you probably would not like cabin as well.. so told you so! )

I thought Cabin was far better than scream, all scream did was take the generic slasher formula but have the characters all but turn and wink at the screen every five minutes, whatever the end result at least cabin tried to play around with the formula itself.

I didn't hate Avengers Assemble per se, it was just "meh". It didn't strike me as anything special or interesting, just another sigh inducing superhero/action flick.

I'm not a the hugest fan of Scream either, perhaps a more apposite comparison might have been with the magnificent and genuinely intelligent Wes Craven's New Nightmare which is probably the finest form-bending, post-modern horror flick that Hollywood has ever given us.

On Facebook I said of The Cabin In The Woods:

"I never imagined I could have so thoroughly hated a film with so many monsters, so much blood and such a stunning redhead."

which sums it all up very nicely.

[Demoncrat]

The Loch Ness Horror. Appalling "Scottish" accents. Appalling monster. Appalling scenery. I loved it

Ahem.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Wasn't the book written by Anthony Burgess when he had recuperated after being attacked at home, with the Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee) character based on him? I read the book represents his belief that people aren't inherently bad and can be rehabilitated.

Yes, I believe his wife was viciously raped by some American GIs if I'm remembering the story right. I bought an NTSC-equipped VHS player back in the early 90s to see this film - my bro picked up the Warners tape in America. All Stanley Kubrick films are my favourite Stanley Kubrick films when I'm actually watching them but this one really does give 2001 a run for its money. It's a testament to the muscle that Stanley Kubrick had at Warners that he could have the studio pull the film from distribution, and I imagine it was a big earner back in the day...

[Hawkmonger]

I really enjoyed Cabin in the Woods. Avengers also. Scream suck's. New Nightmares is horribly under-rated. This is the new's at 1:03 in the afternoon. Good day.