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I was at work today and a bus passed by with the advertising for this film on its side, I took one look at Samuel L, and knowing it was another Tarantino affair thought to myself its another one of his movies, in other words fancy dialogue and more 'style' then you can shake a stick at! Turn't me off of it! as you say "deja vu all over again".
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? Massimo Dallamano's classic giallo gets a gorgeous transfer on Arrow's blu ray. Performances are top notch, the camerawork and photography excellent and it has yet another cracking score from Ennio Morricone. In the hands of another director, this could have been cheap and nasty, but under Dallamano's direction, it is a gripping thriller. Some great interviews as extras make this an essential purchase. COUNT DRACULA Christopher Lee stars in Jess Franco's take on the vampire legend, which, by all accounts, Lee really enjoyed as it stuck pretty closely to Stoker's original novel ( including the notion that the Count gets progressively younger after each attack ) as well as having him quote dialogue directly from the book. I wouldn't say it surpasses anything by Hammer, but it looks lovely and is very restrained, particularly considering the more extreme material Franco would film only a few years later. Lovely looking print on Severin's blu ray. |
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It's actually a really good film. Think Reservoir Dogs & The Thing in a Western/post US Civil War setting, and that pretty much sums it up. Almost 3 hours long, but it doesn't drag for a single second, with Kurt Russell sporting the coolest beard in the history of films, and channeling the spirit of Duke Wayne. Plus, Tarantino comes up trumps again with his use of music borrowed from other films, including a few familiar cues from The Thing.
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Creed well it'll be interesting to see what all the folk unhappy star wars had similar plot points to the original will make of this, basically its Rocky re-done with Apollo creeds son being trained by Rocky. I really enjoyed it however and think it holds up as an entertaining movie. As for Hateful 8, I'll be seeing that soon. Personally I think all of Tarantino's films are great fun. I've never bought into the self indulgent criticism as a lot of my favourite directors including Brian De Palma, Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky ect ect have all been rather self indulgent. I personally think you either dislike his style of film-making, which is totally fair given a lot of directors I like split opinions down the middle, or you like it. |
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Enjoyable but nowhere near as good a spy spoof as i'd hoped. The film sports an ingenious use of Skynyrd's Freebird (Second only to The Devil's Rejects) as Colin Firth slaughters an entire church's congregation in hand to hand combat. Too long overall. In Like Flint and Austin Powers International Man of Mystery are better examples of the genre. |
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As I'm boring and can't be bothered to go out for new year, seeing it in with this movie ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451604840.769567.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451604855.352857.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451605693.827872.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451605702.479165.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451606124.152093.jpg Last edited by trebor8273; 31st December 2015 at 11:55 PM. |
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I stopped going out on New Years Eve after the millennium celebrations. I don't miss it at all. Too many pissed up people who can't drink. Tonight's viewing has been Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) - excellent Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) - very good with Dead Snow 2 up next followed by The Inbetweeners 2. I've not seen any of the four before so i'm pleased at least 50% are very good. Happy New Year to all Cult Labbers. |
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