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Old 2nd April 2013, 04:16 PM
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....and that should have been HOKUM ahem.


Death Line (1973, Gary Sherman)

Watched this at mate's behest...well, I gave him a choice of this or Happiness Of The Katakuris

Grim, dour, edgy with faint traces of humour, due to Pleasance more than anything imo, this still stands out for me in the midst of myriad "lost tribes/cannibal" titles. Next time....Frightmare!!
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BTW-Lynch fans.
I was in CEX in Glasgow yesterday and they had STACKS of Lynch Blu Ray boxsets brand new for twelve quid!!!!!

Watched SIGHTSEERS last night-superb.Ben Wheatley is definitely the UK's one to watch.Let's hope he doesn't sign up for a Schichael Bay remake...

SCHINDLER'S LIST on Blu...OMG-Incredible! Still as harrowing as it was on first release!

THE HOBBIT-Looked amazing on Blu,but tbh,compared to the Rings films,I found this a bit of a chore to sit through....

Off now to watch the classic CHRISTINE......
CHRISTINE 'locked' on the menu screen on my ASDA BD player....it had better work on one of the others....
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Old 2nd April 2013, 06:05 PM
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MIDNIGHT - A bad, but somehow hypnotic movie. Teen on run from perv-copper father hits on unrealistic grocery thief duo, then ends up in a stew of satanic shit via TCM-style family doing bad things to women in cages. Although its myriad flaws should be obvious, there are a number of points in its favour. The grim, ever-brown landscape. The whacky music, which moves from anodyne (but haunting?) eighties synth to broiling industrial electro-psyche. An atmosphere that forever portends dread, almost held at bay by rubbish filmaking, but which manages to seep through in a few vicious scenes. Bad acting, sagging pace, but then just a sense of otherness, a creepiness that draws you in (if you're like me, in which case, I pity you). Bad picture quality, from Arrow. But even this adds to something that works. Despite its lopsidedness and poor dynamics, it hits a nerve buried deep within the infected tissue of late seventies / early eighties nihilism. If Russo had enough $ to make this for real, it probably would've been simply bland. As it stands, this is trance inducing garbage.

ALONE WITH HER - I've heard quite mixed opinions on this low-end camcorder voyage into covert surveillance and stalkerish obsession. A lonely guy picks a victim, infiltrates her home with cheap video devices and insinuates his way into her life. For me, it's not very good, but not bad either. As in, not good, but neither simply rubbish nor inspiringly awful. And yet, not quite mediocre. There was something about it that kept me watching, a tension which I guess followed the creepy premise. The acting was quite good, and the unravelling of the stalker's fixation was handled well (and painfully). The found-film subgenre awaits a truly sophisticated piece of work - there's a lot of potential in the idea of footage-as-material-for film. But, barring TBWP, no-one's managed to get beyond 'Cannibal Holocaust', which weirdly enough appears now as almost a PHD thesis on media deconstruction wrapped in the bad wardrobe of exploitation cinema.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – It's a brilliant film which is still great fun for all ages partly due to the superb animation; I can't think of a film in the last 25 years in which human actors interact so well with animations.

The BD is an improvement over the DVD, but the picture quality is far from reference quality with some crushed blacks and disappointing detail. However, the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack – which does sound like 7.1 – is really good, using all speakers for a terrific soundscape.
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Ive watched My Best Friend's Girl that has Dane Cook playing a man who takes friends ex girlfriends on a date from hell so they end up running back to their ex in a bid to realise what they had lost.

Tasks involve asking their mother to go down on him, going to strip bars with them and paying the strippers.
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Watched the new G.I. joe movie last night. Fun Lil action flick. My god was upset by something that happens early in the film. The 3d is horrible though. Saw it in IMAX and it had a bunch of ghosting and blurring.
It's a more ballsy film than the first one. Never got bored and there were a couple surprises. One that really angered my great whose a fan of g.i. Joe.
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I just watched Casino Royale (1967) on bd...
Now can someone explain to me how I get to the extras?
As there is no menu?

"As with other recent MGM discs, e.g. City Slickers, Fox has mastered this title with no main menu. The disc goes directly from loading to playback. During playback, the pop-up menu contains an option for "pause" but none for "menu", and any attempt to access a "top menu" produces an error message. After the film finishes, it simply starts again from the beginning. This arrangement is a huge inconvenience for playing extras.

Despite the "bare bones" menu structure, Fox has nevertheless mastered the disc with BD-Java, which wouldn't matter so much except that the ability to set bookmarks has been omitted. No BDJ-encoded disc should ever lack this capability. BDJ prevents the user from stopping playback and starting from the same position, and bookmarking is the only workaround. Its omission is inexcusable."

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Forgot to add these 2 to my post earlier, both bloody good too!

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – It's a brilliant film which is still great fun for all ages partly due to the superb animation; I can't think of a film in the last 25 years in which human actors interact so well with animations.

The BD is an improvement over the DVD, but the picture quality is far from reference quality with some crushed blacks and disappointing detail. However, the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack – which does sound like 7.1 – is really good, using all speakers for a terrific soundscape.
I assume you watched it through a reciever then Nos? Was it actually using all seven speakers?

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I assume you watched it through a reciever then Nos? Was it actually using all seven speakers?
Yes I did, and it was definitely using all eight speakers, including the subwoofer!
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