What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[trebor8273]

Heathers

Well that was brilliant best high school / bad girls film I've seen. Great performances from the two leads. Darkly funny and tragically true to life at the same time. We start out liking the character of jd but the more the film goes on the more we find there is something deeply wrong with him and ends up becoming dangerous and disturbing but a excellent performance. Who can't like a film with the line me slowly with a chainsaw! 9.5/10

Next up motel hell

[Buboven]

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)

This is my first viewing of any of the very original Star Trek films. While it has not converted me into a Trekkie it's a solidly made science fiction film and I can appreciate why this is one from the cannon is held in high regard.

Just scrapes a 8/10.

[Gold6082]

Amityville III

I found this very boring & dated,I love Amityville II and most the sequels but I felt III was like watching paintdry,the print was bad and for some reason looked much more dated than Amityville II. I made it to the end but only by a whisker.


INTRUDER

This was the Synapse Blu -Ray of one of my all time favourite slashers,I am sure there was footage in this amazing release not in the AWE or Dragon versions I have previously seen ( I may be wrong) but am convinced there was extra scenes/lengths to scenes anyone confirm?. Amazing picture and sound and as stated an all time fav of mine.


Two Evil Eyes


The Blue Underground Blu-Ray

I enjoy this film immensely 2 hours of great fun & gore,bit grainy in places but overall an upgrade from the DVD versions. Extras are less than on many BU releases but still a respectable amount.

[Rik]

Continuing with the slasher franchise documentary theme; I watched His Name Was Jason:30 Years of Friday the 13th last night.
Not quite as extensive as 1428 Films' Never Sleep Again, but still a great documentary, again with plenty of interesting insights from many of the cast & crew, hosted by one of my favourite people on this planet-Tom Savini.



And, due in part to my recent watch of Never Sleep Again and Hawk asking about the Elm St BD set; I've just put on Nightmare 1 with the behind the scenes "focal point" feature activated

[Rik]

Berberian Sound Studio- Fourth time watching and I still don't know what the Hell is going on

[Zann]

Island of Death

Haven't watched this in years and I'm not a huge fan of it. The dialogue, acting and music are all hilarious and/or terrible. Incredible to think it was such a controversial movie not so long ago. Some of the effects are unbelievably bad, eg. on screen a murder weapon is swung or shot....and then we cut to the victim plainly holding said weapon against themselves with some raspberry ripple....or how about the painter that wilfully gulps down emulsion (come on it's milk, full fat milk maybe but milk all the same). And I'm sure for a lot people these things are part of its charm...

By the way, I have the Allstar Pictures DVD from 2002 and remember getting it from a dedicated website at the time....has anyone compared it to the Arrow DVD in terms of PQ? I ask purely out of curiosity, not double dipping

Anguish

I love this movie. It's in a league of its own. Pitch perfect.

[Bringer Of Funerals]

El Mariachi

The debut film of Rob Rodriguez and I must say a very well made if low budget film. The characters a more human hence you feel for them more.

The story is a guiltar player wonders into a small Mexican town where it's ran by gangsters and drug dealers and while there he gets mistaken for a bloke who has a guitar case full of guns.

Lots of action and it's all spoken in Spanish but there was one thing I didn't like about it - the dream scenes, what were they all about?

Night Of The Living Dead 3D (2006)

A remake of the 1968 Romero classic starring Sid Haig and a very poor 3D effect. You all know the story so I won't go into it. By God what a pile of shite it turned out to be. Ben is white and it was 75 mins and it felt like 30000 mins.

Sid was the best thing in it and that wasn't saying much. The gore effects were pretty good and the zombie make up was pretty decent but the acting was appalling.

Never Back Down

About a boy (Sean Faris) who moves from school to school because he is always fighting and so he decides to go to a party because he is invited by the girl he fancies (Amber Herd). While there the local bully wants to fight him and rather than say no (or more like they wouldn't allow him to leave) he decides to fight and gets his arse handed to him. That then promps him to learn MMA.

For what it's worth it was a very well made MMA film and a guilty pleasure watch. I have also noticed all the women in the film are bloodthirsty whores. If a lad isn't getting his face smashed in or prepared to fight they don't want to know.

Ali G Indahouse

Ali G is faced with his Youth club centre getting shut down and so he prepares to take a stand against the Government that through some strange goings on gets him noticed by Charles Dance. This then propels him into the MP's House Of Lords and so starts his rather funny job in the house.

It was funny here and there especially when Charles Dance read out the letter Ali had written. Othertimes it's childish but at 1 hr 25 you can't really moan as it is an easy watching film.

[gag]

Originally Posted by Gold6082

Amityville III

I found this very boring & dated,I love Amityville II and most the sequels but I felt III was like watching paintdry,the print was bad and for some reason looked much more dated than Amityville II. I made it to the end but only by a whisker.


INTRUDER

This was the Synapse Blu -Ray of one of my all time favourite slashers,I am sure there was footage in this amazing release not in the AWE or Dragon versions I have previously seen ( I may be wrong) but am convinced there was extra scenes/lengths to scenes anyone confirm?. Amazing picture and sound and as stated an all time fav of mine.


Two Evil Eyes


The Blue Underground Blu-Ray

I enjoy this film immensely 2 hours of great fun & gore,bit grainy in places but overall an upgrade from the DVD versions. Extras are less than on many BU releases but still a respectable amount.

Intruder depends as in what sense do u think scenes are missing ?

If at the end where he stabs him 13 times in the phone box then yes it should be uncut

[sjconstable]

Gravity (2013) - 3/5

Immersive 3D but is completely lacking in substance, I can't believe so many people are hailing it as a masterpiece when all it consists of is one overblown disaster after another and Sandra Bullock talking to the audience and acting unrealistically. Very disappointed with this, my rating is quite generous considering my lack of enjoyment because I try to be objective as well as subjective, and listen here - the much-hated Man of Steel is a better film than Gravity, regardless of my personal enjoyment.

2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris (1972) are genuine masterpieces of sci-fi, Gravity is just a well-made but empty 3D popcorn thrill-ride (which didn't thrill me all that much unfortunately).

[Rondadoronron]

Its often said that an actor chews the scenery,well in Paul Naschy cases's not only the scenery but the entire cast gets nobbled.And as a hetro male I can still appreciate a manly chest hair,and Mr Naschy has this in spades,whether he's lycanthrop mode or just sexing up the ladies,boy oh boy what a man.