SOLD! I have a full proof plan to get unlimited free entrance!:lol:

I take my boys to the cinema all the time, ones 4 and the other is 8, they know that if they mess about or ruin the film for me or others then I won't take them again, I guess its how you raise your kids because it pisses me off when parents let their kids run riot

A Company of Wolves.....strange one this is. I did enjoy it but can't decide wheather it was good or not:confused:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:rockon:

Just finished watching Mesrine. never heard of him or the film before few people on here mentioned it...was on one of the sky channels recently so recorded and watched it highly enjoyed it very good films (say films cos its in 2 parts)

Just finished watching Stalker, the directorial debut of Martin Kemp. I enjoyed it, although it starts off a little slow it turns into a decent enough thriller, plus it was good to see 70's starlet Linda Hayden, thankfully fully clothed I must add!
7/10
Stalker-IMDb

THE UNDERTAKER - Hmm, when a film fails to reach the dizzily disjointed heights of 'The Last Slumber Party' does it actually then somehow succeed on some level? You be the judge. Bad edits and 80s inanity prevail. Workout video out-takes vie with random exerpts from 'The Corpse Vanishes' for some kind of pointlessness award. Necrophilia features, but not really. Despite all this bollocks, I needed it to be even more bizarre. Joe Spinell might've been served a better swansong. But still I have to say I liked it, especially the bad metal at the beginning.
WILLARD - Really liked it, although have to admit my pro- Crispin Glover bias may have coloured my outlook a bit. Whatever, animals on the rampage always do it for me, and this one seems fairly audacious in throwing some psychosocial dynamics at the rat murder horde formula. Nice vaguely Burtonesque look and feel. Glover does a number on 'Ben' which is quite good.
MANHUNTER - Has always creeped me out because of the respective intensities of Petersen and Noonan, the alienating sheen of the 80s in retrospect and just the constant atmosphere of looming dread. Much more potent than 'Red Dragon', a more conventional take on the same source material. Whenever I think of this film I hear a low, pulsating synth drone in my mind's ear.
ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME - I'm always in favour of weird Japanese splatter and this is no exception. Not the harshest 'Guinea Pig' but certainly strange and gross enough for many tastes, with its random bursts of surgery, reanimated puke-head and arbitrarily dwarfish scientist obsessive. The cruelty is blackly comic and ends with some 'floating in the mists of time' style metaphysical shiiiit, sort of. Two severed thumbs up and a dead man's knob.

Wow, another "The Last Slumber Party" fan. It's one of my favourite pieces of wonky cinema.:)

In time.

Decided to give this one a try for three reasons.

1.Because of social network and southland tales i've actually started warming to timberlake as an actor :eek:

2. Amanda seyfried. Gaddman she's hot!

3. Directed by andrew niccol. (i still believe gattaca deserves a critical reappraisal)

Turns out this is a pretty decent and surprisingly left wing movie for an american big budget movie. Time is traded as currency, and since if you run out you die its even more sought after than cash ever was. After his mother dies and he lucks out on over a hundred years of time timberlakes character decides to bring thesystem down and goe on the lam with a rich girls daughter stealing time and re-distributing it to the poor. Overall it was a refreshingly DIFFERENT kind of sci-fi to the junk thats been coming out lately and certainlyworth checking out. Great cinematography as well and it looks fantastic on blu-ray.

That's responsible parenting - if only everyone was like you, trips to the cinema during school holidays wouldn't be such a nightmare.

It must make times when there are children the same age as your lads, who are talking and running about the place, all the more infuriating if you're sitting there thinking 'If mine can sit here silently and enjoy the film, why can't yours?'.

When I was young and went to the cinema with my parents (and, occasionally, my Nana), my brother and I always treated the cinema with reverence, as it was a trip out and something to be cherished. They always ensured we went to the toilet beforehand and sat quietly throughout, making the most of the treat.

It seems a lot of children don't see the cinema in the same way nowadays and just an extension of their living room.

The Artist

Ugh, the novelty wore off pretty quickly for me. It was definitely a very cleverly executed pastiche but I didn't find it funny and I thought the themes of the evolution of society/cinema were too obvious to be moving. A 3 star film at best I thought but no doubt it's going to clear up tonight at the Oscars.

Exactly, when you consider how expensive it is to be able to treat them to a trip to the cinema these days, it really winds me up if somebody can't control their kids meaning the experience is ruined somewhat. My eldest boy gets more annoyed than me and even tells the other kids and their parents to be quiet so I'm always expecting an infuriated dad to try and pick a fight after he's had a dressing down from an 8 year old, thankfully its not happened yet.

As going to the cinema, factoring in travel expenses and tickets, plus refreshments if you don't take your own, is so expensive, it makes you wonder why people would take their children if they are not going to sit there and enjoy the film thus, as you say, ruining the experience for other people.

It almost makes you yearn for the days when each cinema had an usher with a torch who would shine the 'light of shame' on anyone who was talking!

Part of this is undoubtedly down to the rise of home entertainment as, a few years ago, my mum went down to the Midlands to spend time with her sister and family. Whilst there, she took my cousin, who would have been about 14, to the cinema and, noticing he was fidgeting and not really paying much attention throughout the film – one he really wanted to see – asked why. His response was quite telling: "We'll buy it on DVD when it's out, so I can watch it again then."

When I used to go as a child, it was a case of watching it at the cinema or not at all, rather than watching it at the cinema and then having the DVD/BD a few months later, so it's a whole cultural shift due to the ever expanding home entertainment market.

Dream Home (2010)

*** out of ****

saw the Pang bros THE MESSENGERS
not a great film by any means

:thumb:

Too right! Madness incarnate.

EDGE OF SANITY - Jekyll and Hyde get a sexed up revamp, this time spliced in with a J.T Ripper narrative. It's a pretty obvious concoction, but when it tears free of its period dramatics and bursts into K Russell / D Argento stylistics, it works well. As always, Anthony Perkins is a mad genius and twitches along quite nicley here, esp. as sleazy Mr Hyde. Goodish late eighties horror, slightly overlooked.
THE DEADLY SPAWN - I never used to like this film at all, but had a pretty glowing time of it this afternoon. Actually, the reason I always thought it was shite was because the old VHS cover scared me senseless for some reason when I was a kid, and from that point on I was expecting it to be some kind of apex of transgressive horror. It isn't that, but it IS the diametric opposite of latter day focus group oriented multiplex bound Hollywood style oppression - a movie that celebrates the triumph of imagination, enthusiasm and arguable technical incompetence over the slick bastards. Come to think of it, this film pretty much sums up why I'm into movies. And god, it's so wonky - the pace and the tone shift all the time... warm hearted creature feature homage one moment, nihilistic gore fest the next. The giant toothy bell-end monsters are really good considering the obviously low, low budget.
ADAM CHAPLIN - In yer face Italo gore fest set in a blue tinted future full of freaks - my kinda movie. Shame about the title, but if this is the shape of Italian horror to come, then I'm totally on board.
Just watching INTRUDER... pretty good after all these years, might invest in the Synapse version.

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August Underground Trilogy

I watched all 3 of these movies today after hearing so much about them. I dont know how i feel after seeing these movies maybe im a little too fresh after watching them. The gore effects looked great so realistic the way it was shot added to the realism also. There were a couple of parts that will stick with me for a while over the whole trilogy im not gonna go into those right now. I only got a loan of them not sure i would want them in my collection as i dont feel there is much re watch value in them. Like i said i heard so much about them i just wanted to see what the fuss was about.

While looking these up i came across an other trilogy called Vomit Gore Trilogy. Does anyone know anything about these or seen them?

Yeah, I didn't see much re-watch value in them either, so sold my copies off last year.

These films focus more on sex and surrealism and are the brainchild of Lucifer Valentine and his pet project Ameara LaVey, who is basically a anorexic whore.

Branded as 'vomit-porn', it's pretty harsh stuff.

Vomit Porn how lovely ill avoid this so. Thanks for the heads up on that.

I quite enjoyed the first one, it's like the Cinema of Transgression crossed with a bizarre home movie, with gore and endless scenes of vomiting. The commentary is highly amusing. I've yet to see the other two.

I found the first one to be quite interesting in a lot of ways. Films like these are curios, and are almost 'begging' to be watched. I'm interested in certain films like this, as they provide something a bit different to the norm, whilst at the same time testing my resolve as a viewer.

However, the two sequels just run with the same idea, adding nothing but more extreme spins on the original concept, imo (a bit like the AU Trilogy).

I just saw an interview with Lucifer Valentine some of the things he was saying sound a bit attention seeking to me i would not repeat them on here. I have a weak stomach when it comes to vomit or poo.

I watched Water For Elephants yesterday.

I really enjoyed it. Christophe Waltz was excellent as the cruel circus owner and Robert Pattinson was nowhere near as bad as i thought he might be in the first film i had seen him in. As with Di Caprio he seems like he has the ability to break out of the teen market and go on to better things. Reese Witherspoon was as always excellent and quite lovely throughout.

The story had enough pace to it to keep me entertained and enough animal cruelty for me to wish Waltz to an early grave. Despite it being publicised as a romantic story it didn't really kick in untill the last third.

A decent Hollywood movie that should entertain all, perhaps not the August Underground mob though. :lol:

On a final note it was great to see Ken Foree in a mainstream movie without zombies. (Pattinson apart that is ;))

Yet your such a fan of Zombi 2 that you model your entire appeanrence on that movie. Poo is suddenly worse than gouged eye's is it? ;):tongue1:

Yes sir poo is way worse i can deal with any gore until poo is introduced.

Hawkmonger, Nordicdusk :nono:

Your discussion stinks, its just crap, can't you talk about some other shit.


:heh:

:puke:Too much poo talk :yuck:

For shame! Flush him off the boards mod's!

:dance:

Whats all this s**t talk!! :lol:

Onto a brighter note, I just watched Gremlins 2!
I consider this to be much more fun then first part and love the spider gremlin.

Sometimes no matter how extreme some films sound like a lot of people i watch some out of curiosity or see what all the fuss is about..

A U trilogy are not my scene tadge to extreme and vomit gore trilogy etc well just a no no i dont see any apeal in these types of films and ill just stick to the good old plain horrors...i think some flms are best left aone and just left to the imagination...

Just watched Slashers this film is so so bad in every sense that its entertaining..

I really enjoyed this too. Christoph Waltz was superb, although he basically plays the same charming but sinister character he seems to play in everything. :)

....id rather be shit scared than covered in shit myself;);)

AAAAnyway.....mixed bag this weekend. started well when i nipped into my local charity shop to pick up Silver Screen in the Silver City (the history of cinemas in Aberdeen....god i need glasses, as i put the title down as something else on the "...reading?" thread)....and found a copy of Black Swan for £2!! love it or not, this is one of my recent favourites and was a nice wee bonus.

then on saturday my copy of Death Smiled At Murder turned up in extremely timely fashion (cheers Nos!!!) and was well worth the wait, one of Aristide's saner moments, though thats a bit of a red herring :laugh:, i felt that, like Buio Omega, a film il be watching again and again...
Combat Shock..timely as there's a great article in the new Darkside, Taxi Driver it aint, but this was right up my street, a more gritty film i couldnt hope to see, mate kept comparing it to Eraserhead, which is very apt, must see if i can still get that 2dscr!!! RECOMMENDED

and i finished with The Baader Meinhof Complex(Uli Ledel, 2009) which was on BBC4 Sunday. NOT for everyone, this tells the tale of disaffected left wingers in West Germany in the late 60s/70s, some interesting performances, great locations and some brutal scenes and still it wasnt long enough:lol:

also found Carlos The Jackal in my local Factory Store! 3discer!

Had a SyFy double bill last night.

Wyvern - this really is a good film! Well written and acted and with exemplary CGI effects. Extremely enjoyable.

Sand Serpents - not as good, but not without interest. Being set during the recent/current conflict in Afghanistan makes it a little uncomfortable to watch at times. But gigantic carnivorous worms are always a good call.

Glad you enjoyed Wyvern Gojirosan, its always a concern when someone buys a film you recommend.

Watched The Mechanic this weekend, the Statham one rather than Bronson. As I'm not really a fan of the Bronson one (due to Jan-Michael Vincent, the cinematic equivalent of thrush), I wasn't holding out much hope, but I really enjoyed it! Cracking set pieces, Donald Sutherland on great form and quite a restrained approach against what I was expecting. The only downer for me were the final scenes with the main antagonist, it didn't really have the same feel as the rest of the film. Perfect Friday night fodder though. The Stath truly is the JCVD/Seagal of this era, and it still on the cinematic high that they were both riding in the early 90's.

Also watched Toy Story 3 again yesterday. Pin-sharp blu-ray, cracking stuff. The rubbish dump sequence seemed a lot shorter this time, I felt it dragged on first viewing. Watched the Pixar short "Night and Day" which is an extra feature as well, very, very well made, but not as classic as Burn-E or Lifted.

ANNA IN KUNG FU LAND - Martial arts comedy. Not great , but it passed the time.

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