What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Deadpool (2016)

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Deadpool (2016)

What did you think? I was really unsure about what to expect and whether or not I would enjoy it, but loved the self-referential humour and action sequences. I know you don't normally bother with them, but both commentaries are well worth your time, with Ryan Reynolds full of information about the film and very engaging.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

What did you think? I was really unsure about what to expect and whether or not I would enjoy it, but loved the self-referential humour and action sequences. I know you don't normally bother with them, but both commentaries are well worth your time, with Ryan Reynolds full of information about the film and very engaging.

I felt the self referencing was a good idea but it wore really thin very quickly

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

It's one of my Franco faves too.

Me three!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

What did you think?

We're not even getting a score anymore, c'mon B_E

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

What did you think? I was really unsure about what to expect and whether or not I would enjoy it, but loved the self-referential humour and action sequences. I know you don't normally bother with them, but both commentaries are well worth your time, with Ryan Reynolds full of information about the film and very engaging.

I'm still in two minds exactly whether I liked it or not, as although it was quite refreshing in many ways for a superhero film I don't think all of the humour necessarily worked and the film as a whole was still full of some of the tropes that it tried so hard to parody or mimic. Ryan Reynolds is really good as Deadpool though (in my opinion anyway seeing as I have no other frame of reference about the character having never read the comics) and despite my apparent less than enthusiastic response to it, I did enjoy it as a whole and I'd say that it was easily the best Marvel film I've seen in a long time (...which is not exactly hard though). The Stan Lee cameo was great too.

Plus, as you will no doubt expect, I'm in no way interested in checking out the commentaries.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

We're not even getting a score anymore, c'mon B_E

I mentioned about the scoring situation a few posts back - I do still rate everything I watch on my Letterboxd account however.

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I stopped scoring as I was conscious that I generally score what others my deem 'low' and wouldn't want to put people off from watching a film based on a perceived 'low' score from me.

[Deadpool got a 58/100]

[Justin101]

Concerning Deadpool, I really enjoyed it at the cinema, bought the disc day 1 and ever since then I've had no inclination to watch it again, perhaps it's a one-time-only kind of film? Considering I saw Batman V Superman at the cinema, Captain America Civil Wars, Star Wars, Sing Street all of which I bought on disc day 1 and watched it again that night... BvsS was crap as well but I still watched it twice

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Cinematic Shocks

Beyond the Darkness (1979)

***1/2 out of *****

3 and a half???

Tee hee

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dial: Help (1988)

Okay, honestly i don't really know what i just watched last night. Dial: Help from Ruggero Deodato appeared to be about a possessed telephone line that haunts lovely Charlotte lewis in her Rome apartment and even out in the underground.

Seriously this film is absurd and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much cohesion to the narrative. The phone line in question makes harsh sounds in her home then kills her fish through sound, before long Lewis is attacked on the subway but her assailant is killed in typically gory Deodato fashion by coins flying out of a phone box. No wait... come back!

As the madness continues the phone line seems to possess Lewis making her change into sexy black lingerie before erotically attempting to drown herself in her bath water. She's then strapped down to a table in said lingerie by video tape as scissors menace her in a fetishistic fashion. As absurd as this all sounds i did rather enjoy Dial: Help. I'm not sure what Deodato was thinking as he made this film nor what he thought when he saw the end result but i did find the film a lot of fun to watch and feel it will either transport you to another plane of existence with it's weird and wonderful hallucinogenic qualities or you'll just turn it off as rubbish.