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1927 continued: Trolley Troubles Sunrise A Song of Two Humans The Jazz Singer Metropolis http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/memb...tml#post325318
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Just watched The Devil Rides Out To The Devil A Daughter |
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Watched a couple of nice low budget US flicks on the weekend - Absentia YellowBrickRoad Both were very good, and only once or twice gave in to their low budgets. Speaking of low budgets, last night I watched all the special features on the UK blu of The Evil Dead - superb stuff. Would love to see a decent version of Within The Woods! Found it on youtube, but it's pretty much unwatchable. Lincoln. |
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Finaly got to see Argo on friday. Belting stuff, take's a few liberties with the subject material but all in the name of running time, and little of it of any significance anyway (at least Affleck was honest in his deppication of the stupidity of the guards and the fact they aimed the tear gas cannister's at the mob, most american directors would have depicted them as helpless and moronic). Very tense scene in the airport towards the end and a generally very authentic 70's feel to it all. Reccomended is you can take bio-pics with some salt (and if you don't hate Ben Affleck, which i'm beggining NOT to. This make's up for him staring in Pearl Harbor anyway).
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I originally posted this in the Soppy Bollocks thread, but as its a review i thought i'd recycle it here as well. Devils Playground (2010) For the first twenty minutes this film was so ho-hum, so cheap and nasty, a rip off of 28 Days Later, that it was becoming monotonous. Then something amazing happened. At some stage in proceedings it seems someone agreed with me and the production sprung into life. The characters suddenly became that bit more believable and well rounded, the acting once overplayed seemed to tone itself down a notch and notorious hardmen such as Craig Fairbrass actually became watchable and somehow interesting and highly watchable. As with all small groups trapped by the raving hordes outside, factions splinter off, some characters you root for, others you want dead from the get go. Devils Playground is no different except for the fact that it plays with the viewers conceptions and has you rooting for the Fairbrass / Dyer types rather than the lovely Jaimie Murray and her beau, who whilst not being evil as such, are certainly misguided and pretty unpleasant, whereas Dyer retains our sympathies for the whole film. Credit too must go to the cinematographers. Clearly the film didn't have the money to feature London's landmarks, the zombie hordes never attacked people in Trafalgar Square for example, but the film makers, through cunning location work, often had the cities tourist attractions in shot whilst characters were running down back alleys and especially whilst they were trying to escape down the Thames with the brightly lit Millennium Dome often in view against the night sky. Shots like these helped give the film a sense of scale that probably far outweighed its production budget. By the end of the film i was sat up on the edge of my seat anxious to know what was going to happen, and thats not something i can say for many modern zombie films. |
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