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Old 4th June 2015, 06:50 AM
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Mad Max: Fury Road

Already posted here some time ago about this but went back for second helpings on the basis that I'll probably not pay money at a cinema and see as good an action film for some time to come.
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Old 4th June 2015, 06:57 AM
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Back then i could just fritter money away on videos, music, and girls, whilst pissing the rest up against a wall.

I was just being breast fed and shitting myself all day long. I'll leave it up to the public to decide which one of our scenarios was more fun!
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Old 4th June 2015, 08:20 AM
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THE EXPENDABLES 3

I watched this in hospital while I was waiting for Claire to go into labour so I wasn't really concentrating. But, I liked the film and it wasn't as bad as everyone claimed.

Sylvester Stallone gets a misson from Harrison Ford to go after someone and knack him in because he is an arms dealer. That someone they find out in the Expendables co-founder and Mel Gibson.

What everyone didn't like was the fact that Stallone dumped the original crew of Statham, Lungden etc to get a new crew of Banderas, UFC fighter Rousey etc, just to get the old crew back because the new crew was crap.

I agree with that and I didn't see the point of him doing that. Rosey is shit at acting and should stick to UFC. Mel Gibson was the best part in the film ad he is good at playing the bad guy.

Wesley Snipes was hardly in it and I couldn't see the point of adding him in the cast and to be honest I didn't miss Bruce Willis and I found Jet Li's cameo pointless. Other then that I liked the film but I like Expendables 2 better.
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Old 4th June 2015, 12:02 PM
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I was just being breast fed and shitting myself all day long. I'll leave it up to the public to decide which one of our scenarios was more fun!
Pretty similar i imagine.

Hang on, you would have been 8,9,10,11 at the time.
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Old 4th June 2015, 04:51 PM
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I was just being breast fed and shitting myself all day long. I'll leave it up to the public to decide which one of our scenarios was more fun!
So basically you were in your dungeon making one of your dodgy films.
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Old 4th June 2015, 06:47 PM
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Watched Emergency Squad (1974) last night, a bit disappointed in it with Milian almost a secondary character to the violent gang and Lovelock's presence cut so short. The concentration is clearly on the gang, like the 1960s US TV series The FBI focusing on the criminals and they're a weird bunch here, aren't they. I guess, if made today they'd all be twice as young as these guys but their in-fighting is clearly the heart and soul of the film. Milian's revenge track isn't really handled thoroughly. Nowhere near being in the best Italian crime category, in my opinion, but perhaps it'll win on later viewings.
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Old 4th June 2015, 11:22 PM
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Forced entry basicaly a porn film with a story

It me silly turned off about half way through., nothing to what i was expecting,

I've never watched a porn film all the way to the end either! Lol.
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Old 5th June 2015, 12:07 AM
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I went and took in the new Poltergeist movie at the cinema tonight. I'd only heard bad things about it, but having never seen the original movie (I know, I should hang my head in shame) I did enjoy it!

Quite similar in style to Sam Raimi's other recent horror film "Drag me to hell" (although not as good) you can tell it doesn't take itself at all too seriously and it ends up being quite fun.

The pacing is a mile off from the start. The wee girl disappears and it's hard to figure out for how long before the investigators come in, but its at least the following day anyway, and the family had all had a sleep, a wash and done their lippy and hair. All the way through indeed, the family looked incredibly refreshed and not at all "in bits" the way regular folks would be if their daughter disappeared for a period of time, never mind adding to the equation a haunted house. It was almost more a state of disbelief, with the teenage daughter still cracking wise throughout. The seemingly regular-thinking-any-American-family only mentioned contacting the police once and quickly disregarded it, only to choose calling in the paranormal investigators instead.

In that respect the entire film was more of a nightmarish fantasy, than a "really happening" type horror film. The "action" sequences were alright, one in particular I liked with the wee boy being tormented and then attacked by all these clown dolls, which to be honest has probably been done a million times before this.

Sam Rockwell and Jared Harris were good to watch, because they always seem to bring a bit of humour to their roles which fitted in well with the way they done this remake; especially Jared Harris, who has this mad Irish accent and may as well have winked at the camera after each line!

In summary, the film itself probably isn't very good at all, and I'm sure I've seen better films that didn't rank as high as 32% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is probably another one to watch once, don't expect too much out of it, and you should be entertained no bother for an hour an a half.
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Old 6th June 2015, 07:09 AM
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Hausu (House) - Teen Melodrama + The Wizard Of Oz + The Haunting + Toothpaste Commercial = Hausu. Not wanting to spend time with her Father (and his new Fiance), Angel drags six of her friends to the country to spend the school holidays with her Aunt. They arrive at said Aunts house and everything goes a little, well, mental.

At it's core it's a simple haunted house film, but that only tells half the story. Its a rollercoaster of a movie, an obvious influence on Sam Raimi, especially The Evil Dead. The director, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, throws everything at the screen, the last thirty minutes left me with my mouth open. Ôbayashi cut his teeth directing commercials and Hausu was his debut feature, the whole film is shot in the manner of a TV advert, complete with cringe worthy music and close-ups of beatific smiling faces. At times, especially at the beginning, the film is so joyous that it's unnerving, even when things are going bat-shit crazy, these girls are still smiling and giggling, seeing a friend get eaten by a piano doesn't seem to put them off their stride.

I've wanted to watch Hausu for a while and it didn't disappoint, it's a film I can see myself revisiting many times. One of the most dazzlingly original, insane films I've had the pleasure of watching. 9/10.
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Old 6th June 2015, 03:28 PM
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A Boy and His Dog. Some say that various elements of this marched straight into the Fallout game series and I can see how. So with Fallout 4 on the way I thought I'd give it a go as I've had it for a while but never got round to opening it.

A very young Don Johnson and his dog wander the wastelands after nuclear war has ravaged the world. The boy is able to telepathically talk to the dog and is used primarily for sniffing out woman for the boy to have sex with. Or rape, as we know it! The first woman they find has been attacked and cut up afterwards by Raiders forcing our hero to utter the line in my signature below.

Finding a girl, they follow her into a vault that reminded me of Tranquillity Lane and head into a whole heap of trouble. It's a bit dated now but I loved it. For it's time, 1976, it must have been quite shocking. The whole context of the film is better than the sum of its parts and the ending, although you can see it coming, made me chuckle.

Very oddball and unique, whether you'll like it or not is very hard to say but I loved it and if you're thinking of collecting post apocalypse movies then you have to see it and have it in your collection. Available on Region A locked Blu by Scream Factory or Region B Blu from Germany.

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