What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Hawkmonger]

In more relevent new's I watched The Amazing Spiderman again today on BD. It's really so much better than the Raimi trilogy, though there are quality's that are inferior. The transfer from 3D to 2D for eaxmple, is rather poor. Spidermans still an extremily unlikable character though, gotta love Andrew Garfiled as Peter Parker despite this.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Is it true that when your having a bette midler movie marathon its just you and a box of mansize tissues.

That would be telling...

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) It is the 1830's and a jaded soldier leaves the U.S. Army to become a mountain man in the Rockies. His inexperiance, at first, gets the better of him until he meets up with Bear Claw, another mountain man who teaches the greenhorn the things he needs to know in order to survive. Pretty soon he is befriended by the local Indians and along the way picks up a family of his own and begins to settle down. However once settled a troop of cavalry turn up asking Johnson for help in reaching a group of would be settlers who are in need of help themselves. Johnson agrees to take them but the shortest path leads through an Indian burial ground. After warning the troop about the possible dangers of trespassing upon the holy ground he reluctantly agrees to take them through it, most people would have told them to do one and bogged off back home but not our Jeremiah! He lead them through it without a problem and they reach the stranded settlers. (Although after warning the soldiers about trespassing he inexplicably decides to return home alone that same way!. The Indians who had earlier befreinded him know what he has done and now turn against him and slaughter his family and attempt to chase him down.

I originally saw this in high school and it made such an impression on me that I swore once school was done I was emigrating to Canada to build myself a log cabin, trap beaver, eat possum and skin deer.............It didnt happen!

[VicDakin]

From Hell

Watched From Hell aka Carry On Jack The Ripper again,a rip roaring Victorian comedy complete with funny accents and slapstick ahoy,only thing missing was Charles Hawtrey propositioning a group of foreign sailors and a chas and Dave soundtrack,not to be missed,but drink plenty of gin first.

[SShaw]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Your not seeing my point, if you are I don't think your conveying it very well.
Some people wont consider The Haunting horror because it's not horrific, it doesn't induce terror in the masses. The Wicker Man can also be placed in said catagory, Supernatural Thriller. Suspiria does contain seen's of horrific act's though very stylishly executed. There are deffinit differences and it's all down to personal opinion.

Oxford English Dictionary: Cartoon: a film using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects

Humans and Cows are both mammals. But I am sure you would accept there is a world of difference between them (with the possible exception of my ex-girlfriend)

I understand your point that most Japanese animation is very different from most Western animation but that does not change the fact that both are cartoons using the commonly accepted definition of the word.

Does the fact that most Bollywood films are fundamentally different from Hollywood films change the fact that both are films? No, not if we use the common definition of film.

Its not a question of ganging up on poor Hawky, more a problem that your own definition of Cartoon is not the commonly accepted definition and your insistence on using a different meaning for this word has the potential to cause confusion and misunderstanding.

Can we agree that you disagree with everybody else in the world and get the thread back on topic?

[Hawkmonger]

Human: Ape
Cow: Artidactyla

I believe it was Alan Bennett who once said something about the Oxford dictionery being the most compacted list of linear deffinitions in history. Don't always believe what you read is what i'm trying to say, just because there is one deffinition in one source does not make it deffinitive.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

All I said was I couldnt see myself watching Animie as I thought it was a little to 'Pokemon'. Really has polarised the forum hasn't it?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by JoshuaKaitlyn

All I said was I couldnt see myself watching Animie as I thought it was a little to 'Pokemon'. Really has polarised the forum hasn't it?

No, its just Hawkmonger.

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Demdike

No, its just Hawkmonger.

Seriously, I can't tell if i'm head way's or crotch way's anymore!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

December 5th.

Nightmare Man (2006)

Cheap as chips, low budget, slasher film starring the always lovely Tiffany Shepis. For a digitally filmed piece the director, Rolfe Kanesky has managed to create a film with quite a nice atmosphere, enhanced by a lovely creepy score. The film concerns a woman who claims she is being attacked by the Nightmare Man, a creature which may or may not have come from an African fertility mask. After one such attack she seeks help from a group of young people at a cottage in the forest. From here on things get worse for the group as the Nightmare Man comes calling.

Although the story sounds simple, it has some neat twists and turns where everything is not quite as it seems. The film is reasonably well acted and characters on the whole, believable. Whilst having some nice gore effects the film relies more on atmosphere for its scares especially during the first half. The films final denouenment i actually found quite tough going. A little like the tree attack in Evil Dead but more graphic.

The Tournament (2009)

Top notch action thriller set in Middlesbrough of all places. Every seven years in an unsuspecting city somewhere in the world the top thirty assasins in the world gather for a tournament to see who survives and claims the $10m first prize in a battle to the death in the streets. Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames and Kelly Hu head the cast of this highly enjoyable kill fest. Limbs fly bullets richochet and the bodycount explodes. We have running battles in the streets, not to mention strip clubs. Some of the action set pieces are very creative and allow the movie to stand out from the crowd.

Fans of Shoot em' Up, and maybe Death Race should get off on this one.

Without spoiling this for people i will say this is very highly recommended and one of the best straight to video films i've seen in a long time