What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Army of Frankensteins. (2013)

For a film with an IMDB score of just 2.8 i found Army of Frankensteins wildly entertaining.

BloodRayne has a score of 2.9, and I once very much liked it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

BloodRayne has a score of 2.9, and I once very much liked it.

Me too.

[Susan Foreman]

For a film that is supposedly being made by students, the opening sequence of 'Urban Legends 2: Final Cut' is totally unbelievable

There is no way a student would have access to that kind of set and special effects, and as for the size of the cast and crew...

When I was studying film making at university, we had a cast and crew of six people, and our budget stretched to a couple of packets of Smarties (which were essential to the plot)

As for the rest of 'Urban Legends 2', it was rubbish

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Army of Frankensteins. (2013)

For a film with an IMDB score of just 2.8 i found Army of Frankensteins wildly entertaining.

A film can certainly be entertaining but not very good though!

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I get like that sometimes, maybe a tv show or a game.
I often find games better if i'm in that mood, something quick and simple that takes your mind off everything.

Pffft... you actually have to do stuff whilst playing games though.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sapphire (1959)

Brit stalwarts Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig are investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman whose body was found brutally stabbed on Hampstead Heath. As the investigation deepens it turns out the girl in question, Sapphire, was leading a double life as her light coloured skin allowed her to pass as being white when in fact she was black.

BAFTA winning film Sapphire is a triumph of British film making. Not only is it a gripping crime thriller it's also a journey into another time, another time which seems not quaint as most British films of the time are, not quaint, just wrong. As much as anything the film is an examination of racial prejudice and comes over as hard hitting and thought provoking. The racist attitudes from more or less everyone in the film except Nigel Patrick are a sad sign of the climate of 50's Britain following the first wave of commonwealth immigrants to these shores. It's not just the white community who hold prejudices, the black's encountered have no trust in British justice and openly allow their hatred out during the police manhunt. However at the heart of the matter is a story of how racial prejudice tears one seemingly loving family apart, even to the point of murder.

Sapphire also shines behind the camera. The script is tight and the dialogue well written. The location work is also excellent showcasing a London slowly rebuilding itself following the second World War, slowly rebuilding but still socially rotten in places.

Sapphire is highly recommended.

[iank]

Sleepwalkers. Truly terrible early 90s Stephen King horror. Alice Krige appears to be acting in something else entirely, and is the only cast member to emerge with any credit, and while it starts off not too bad when it gets to the scene in the graveyard it becomes absolutely laugh out loud, hilariously bad. The bit where the cat attacks the guy's face and he's clawing at it reminded me of Leslie Nielsen doing the same with a towel in The Naked Gun and was about as ridiculous.
After that hilarity I turned it off and watched something intentionally funny instead, I.e Blackadder.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sapphire is the final film i watched from Strawberry Media's Crime film box set.

The other films in the set are The Informers, Turn the Key Softly and Checkpoint. I've now reviewed them all on here and can thoroughly recommend all of them.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by iank

Sleepwalkers. Truly terrible early 90s Stephen King horror. Alice Krige appears to be acting in something else entirely, and is the only cast member to emerge with any credit, and while it starts off not too bad when it gets to the scene in the graveyard it becomes absolutely laugh out loud, hilariously bad. The bit where the cat attacks the guy's face and he's clawing at it reminded me of Leslie Nielsen doing the same with a towel in The Naked Gun and was about as ridiculous. ound:
After that hilarity I turned it off and watched something intentionally funny instead, I.e Blackadder.

I've not seen it but i always thought Sleepwalkers was meant to be one of the best Stephen King movies.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I've not seen it but i always thought Sleepwalkers was meant to be one of the best Stephen King movies.

I like it if that means anything.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I like it if that means anything.

Hit and miss with you Dem.