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Old 17th June 2013, 03:41 PM
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I give up, it was fun while it lasted put you are all pulling my plonker now, aren't you? "the Goatman Murders is fun, it is sick, it is short and it does have some great gags in it but come on it's not THAT great!
You said your daughter loved it.
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Phase IV (1974)

Wow, this film left me cold. I found it so boring. When it comes down to it its just stock footage from National Geographic of ants under the earth and two blokes in a lab playing with knobs and dials.

Look at the poster below.... cool isn't it? Well its nothing like the film.
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Aw, you can't tell me the Safe Haven segment didn't at least unsettle you?
Maybe if I hadn't just watched the redband trailer 20 minutes beforehand...... We'll never know haha.
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Great atmosphere in places, but ultimately it left me cold, thinking is that it.
Aye, but watch it again....see what you think then.....was of same mind initially...now I loves it.
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Old 17th June 2013, 05:29 PM
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Depends on the car, meal or woman though.
Even lesser movies can have one or two moments that make 'em worthwhile.
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Phase IV (1974)

Wow, this film left me cold. I found it so boring. When it comes down to it its just stock footage from National Geographic of ants under the earth and two blokes in a lab playing with knobs and dials.

Look at the poster below.... cool isn't it? Well its nothing like the film.
I watched "Phase IV" at a small screen cinema when it first came out and again when it was broadcast on T.V. On neither occasion did it leave me "cold" except with the chilling thought that we may be underestimating the intelligence of "hive-minds"!

True, there is a lot of footage of ants, that's what the film was about, it would have been silly to show footage of dung beetles. The film is slow, quite clinical and, I feel, a tad scary. Not demon-possessed-maniacal-vampire-serpent-alien-monster-ghost scary but we-are-living-on-a-planet inhabited-by-other-intelligences-that-could-turn-on-us scary. More of an intellectual fear than a BOO! you've shit your pants fear!

The whole film is story driven and if you don't follow the story then the film will be boring because it will just be images of ants doing what ants do and two guys playing with their knobs! It's like reading a graphic novel if you don't read the story and dialogue all you have is sequential art.

I must admit that I haven't seen the film on dvd, or anywhere else for many years. Maybe the film has been re-cut and edited thereby losing some of the storytelling aspect of the original. Maybe it's just that today's audiences expect more out of a film than images of ants doing what ants do and two guys playing with their knobs! If I can remember a-rightly the image on the poster of ants crawling out of a hole in a hand is actually in the film also so there's no false advertising there. Maybe I'm just prematurely senile and I'm mis-rembering things but I quite liked it and will by the DVD if I see it around AND if I have mis-remembered stuff and I hate it I'll tell everybody here the address of the rest home I'm retiring to so that they can send their hate-mail and dead ants to me!
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I watched "Phase IV" at a small screen cinema when it first came out and again when it was broadcast on T.V. On neither occasion did it leave me "cold" except with the chilling thought that we may be underestimating the intelligence of "hive-minds"!

True, there is a lot of footage of ants, that's what the film was about, it would have been silly to show footage of dung beetles. The film is slow, quite clinical and, I feel, a tad scary. Not demon-possessed-maniacal-vampire-serpent-alien-monster-ghost scary but we-are-living-on-a-planet inhabited-by-other-intelligences-that-could-turn-on-us scary. More of an intellectual fear than a BOO! you've shit your pants fear!

The whole film is story driven and if you don't follow the story then the film will be boring because it will just be images of ants doing what ants do and two guys playing with their knobs! It's like reading a graphic novel if you don't read the story and dialogue all you have is sequential art.

I must admit that I haven't seen the film on dvd, or anywhere else for many years. Maybe the film has been re-cut and edited thereby losing some of the storytelling aspect of the original. Maybe it's just that today's audiences expect more out of a film than images of ants doing what ants do and two guys playing with their knobs! If I can remember a-rightly the image on the poster of ants crawling out of a hole in a hand is actually in the film also so there's no false advertising there. Maybe I'm just prematurely senile and I'm mis-rembering things but I quite liked it and will by the DVD if I see it around AND if I have mis-remembered stuff and I hate it I'll tell everybody here the address of the rest home I'm retiring to so that they can send their hate-mail and dead ants to me!
I'll watch it again when i recover from the crushing blow that it wasn't a giant ant destruction fest.
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Old 17th June 2013, 07:26 PM
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The US Legend Films dvd can be found very cheap nowadays.
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Phase IV (1974)

Wow, this film left me cold. I found it so boring. When it comes down to it its just stock footage from National Geographic of ants under the earth and two blokes in a lab playing with knobs and dials.

Look at the poster below.... cool isn't it? Well its nothing like the film.
A classic case of false advertising looking at the cover.
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Old 17th June 2013, 07:55 PM
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A classic case of false advertising looking at the cover.
How come Saul Bass didn't do a cool poster for it You'd think he'd want to pull out the stops for his own film . . . !
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