What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Red Riding Hood - 2011 USA/Canada d: Catherine Hardwicke

Er...wow.

I have seen some badly written, stylistically clichéd, risible embarrassments of films in my time, but this truly takes the biscuit.

Other than some beautiful women to look at this film has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It is a dire and desperate mistake of large proportions. I am not sure what it is trying to be really - horror, drama, romance, comedy? it is impossible to tell. It ultimately comes across as a very bad comedy which is not at all funny. There are cringe inducing anachronisms that make one boggle (the modern dance party to celebrate a wolf's death, clumsy inappropriate language like "okay" or "party" and so on) at the ludicrous ineptitude of it all. And don't start me on the music.

The whodunit element is utterly unengaging - you just don't care who the werewolf is or what its motivations are, and even the lovely Amanda Seyfried is a simpering sap of a heroine. For some reason Julie Christie sleepwalks through her part with an American accent. Gary Oldman is...well, no as over-ripe as he usually is, but the smell of ham is pretty strong. Only Lukas Haas retains the merest shred of dignity.

Ugh. This is a horrible film. A truly bad film, not an enjoyably bad film or a kitsch film, just bad. very bad. All time bad. This is down there with the worst of the worst.

I quite enjoyed it.
Must have been in a forgiving mood. Thinking about it i saw it over Christmas last year, i was probably under the influence of a single malt.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Of course not, I'm not making any moral objections, its a work of fiction. It was just very effective and disturbing to me. WAY more so than serbian film. I'm not having a pop at the film, as I said its well made and for me that was part of the problem and anyone going in blind or asking exactly how graphic the film is certainly deserve forwarning!

Didn't think you were sir! But that parti-cular scene is the "money shot" where this film is concerned imo.


I mean, noone told me Gamer was going to be as shit as it is (and more offensive personally than any of these fake child porn things....but that's just me cough cough)

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I quite enjoyed it.
Must have been in a forgiving mood. Thinking about it i saw it over Christmas last year, i was probably under the influence of a single malt.

I didn't think it was that bad either, unlike with twighlight catherine hardwick wasn't stuck with a pretty dreadful book to bring to the screen so as films for teenage girls go it was a lot better than said vampire film.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

I mean, noone told me Gamer was going to be as shit as it is (and more offensive personally than any of these fake child porn things....but that's just me cough cough)

I must be having one of those days.

I quite liked Gamer.

I thought it was going to be garbage and found it ok.

[Wes]

Just fresh from a screening of Steven Soderberg's 2008 two-part biopic and I'm not sure if I liked this one or not. I'm not even sure if this was a Soderberg A-side or B-side - the film is certainly not as inviting as The Motorcycle Diaries and for large tracts of this film little happens - this is a film about men tramping around the jungle, and the narrative is often obscure, not helped by a Latin American cast - good as they are, but hard to distinguish behind the ragged beards and combat fatigues. Whatever about Soderberg, this is Benicio Del Toro's film and delivers a perfectly judged understated performance (and in the second half of the film bears something of a resemblance to El Topo-era Alejandro Jodorowsky). Regardless of my misgivings, the film has something and I will grab the Blu in the new year - Film4's screening came with ill-timed and frequent ad breaks...

[gag]

For some reason I don't why but I never bothered to watch snatch,
Just finished watching it I highly enjoyed thought it was good entertaining etc,
I like films like this lock stock and layer cake can anyone recommend me any other films along this line and style,
And just for the record I quite enjoyed lock stock the tv series,

[Wes]

Originally Posted by gag

For some reason I don't why but I never bothered to watch snatch, Just finished watching it I highly enjoyed thought it was good entertaining etc, I like films like this lock stock and layer cake can anyone recommend me any other films along this line and style,
And just for the record I quite enjoyed lock stock the tv series,

It's far from a Cockney thing but I would highly recommend Milano Calibro 9 to all Richie fans... a great tough Italian crime movie from 1972...

[Rik]

Originally Posted by gag

can anyone recommend me any other films along this line and style,

Kind of a mash up between Snatch and Shaun of the Dead-Cockneys Vs Zombies, it even stars Bricktop from Snatch too!

Or maybe Love, Honour & Obey starring Ray "I'm the Daddy now!" Winston, Jude Law and Denise Van Outen, this was overshadowed by Guy Ritchie's Cockney Geezer film due to them being released around the same time from what I remember

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gag

can anyone recommend me any other films along this line and style,

Gangster No 1

The Limey.

Both very good British crime films.

[PaulD]

The Stepfather (1987): I'm a sucker for these sorts of not-really horror horror/thrillers. The bald wheelchair bound guy from Lost is really good as the master of disguise psycho stepfather who travels from family to family marrying widows then offing them. Pretty good for this sort of thing

Followed Home (2010): 4 teens go on a holiday retreat where they witness a murder (so the synopsis says; they don't actually see the murder) and are then followed home by the masked killer who proceeds to kill them one by one. Sounds like a decent enough premise for a slasher but has everything conceivable wrong with it. The dialogue is appalling, the acting dismal, it's shot in that awful Digital Video way where everything is in focus and there's no depth of field and the composition and framing of shots is so baffling and confusing half of them time you can't really tell if people conversing with each other are actually in the same room. It clocks in at 65 minutes before the credits start but there's an odd 10 minutes mid-credits sequence about another girl doing a webcam show who gets killed by the killer which has no relevance to the plot whatsoever. Really REALLY poor.