What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

Get out

100% on Rotten Tomatoes? Probably not that good but its still a decent, well-written horror that will probably bug people looking for a murder every ten minutes. A couple of deeply annoying jump scares up front the film ditches them early (thankfully) for a more slow burning fusion of guess whose coming to dinner and the paranoid style of bodysnatchers, stepford wives and Rosemary's baby. Its best going in to the film blind but it absolutely is worth watching, with a nice payoff in the final act and a nudge and a wink to videodrome.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Get out

100% on Rotten Tomatoes? Probably not that good but its still a decent, well-written horror that will probably bug people looking for a murder every ten minutes. A couple of deeply annoying jump scares up front the film ditches them early (thankfully) for a more slow burning fusion of guess whose coming to dinner and the paranoid style of bodysnatchers, stepford wives and Rosemary's baby. Its best going in to the film blind but it absolutely is worth watching, with a nice payoff in the final act and a nudge and a wink to videodrome.

I'm definitely intrigued by this one and will try and get to The Odeon at some point in the next few days! I actually have my last 2 annual leave days to use up this week so there you go (we go April to March to follow the tax year if anyone is wondering how I've used all my holidays up by March )

[Demoncrat]

Watched The Wailing.
The Korean film. Oddity. The place looks lovely (well it does tae a Scot anyhow haha), even if the people aren't (not being racist...the cast all swear like buggery haha)
Somewhat reminiscent of Noroi (The Curse) as a rational (if clumsy) man is plunged into a world of shadows, secrets and lies. This is worth a look. Hopefully Hollyw**d will leave this one alone....

[Rik]

After having it sat on my shelf for about 2 years, I finally got around to watching Dead Snow 2 last night and it was brilliant!
Basic premise is about the sole survivor from the first film and his continuing battle against the Nazi zombies, led by Herzog, with the assistance of a trio of Zombie hunters from the US called the Zombie Squad.
Fans of the first film should find this film as enjoyable, the gore is OTT, and it's dafter too (zombies using intestines to siphon fuel from a bus!)
Highly recommended for fans of low grade zombie schlock 5/5

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Rik

After having it sat on my shelf for about 2 years, I finally got around to watching Dead Snow 2 last night and it was brilliant!
Basic premise is about the sole survivor from the first film and his continuing battle against the Nazi zombies, led by Herzog, with the assistance of a trio of Zombie hunters from the US called the Zombie Squad.
Fans of the first film should find this film as enjoyable, the gore is OTT, and it's dafter too (zombies using intestines to siphon fuel from a bus!)
Highly recommended for fans of low grade zombie schlock 5/5

THC have been showing it on and off. Duly noted!!

[J Harker]

Gave the new Ghostbusters a go last night. Im not normally one for giving up on films and I went in with low expectations, but it was just awful. Got halfway and I just couldn't stick it anymore. Truly terrible unfunny waste of time. And what the hell was Chris Hemsworth thinking.

[MuckyFunster]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Gave the new Ghostbusters a go last night. Im not normally one for giving up on films and I went in with low expectations, but it was just awful. Got halfway and I just couldn't stick it anymore. Truly terrible unfunny waste of time. And what the hell was Chris Hemsworth thinking.

I really liked the new Ghostbusters movie, but then I quite like Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig's brand of comedy ... most of the time 🤷*♀️ saying that, i don't think Chris Hemsworth's character brought much at all, if anything, to the film. Was just really wooden and stupid.


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[SymbioticFunction]

Watched Kick Ass 2, had some fun but I still give it a score of 3.25/5 only. It's really not that great at all but I love the original so much that I still enjoy seeing more (reminds me of Sin City 2 in that regard - btw that feeling doesn't extend to the disappointing Matrix sequels). Not a bad film as such but only worth viewing for big fans of the original movie. No surprise that there won't be a Kick Ass 3...

As for the latest Ghostbusters film - didn't like it at all but couldn't fault the cast, thought that they did their best with a really poor screenplay.

[MuckyFunster]

"Demons"

I finally got around to watching Demons last night. Thoroughly enjoyed the film, although it does go a bit off the rails towards the end when the fella is riding the motorcycle across all the cinema seats chopping up the Demons with a samurai sword!

The effects and make up were excellent, particularly the bit where the demon teeth push the girl's human teeth out of her gums, and her fingernails split. Had me clenching my eyes and screwing my face up imagining it!

Having set English subtitles with the Italian audio on my Arrow Blu Ray I found that sometimes there was speech with no subs, and other times there was no speech and suddenly subtitles. At one point where there was Italian speech and no subs I rewound the film and switched over toEnglish audio, only to find there was no English dialogue at that bit. There was also a bit where the subtitles displayed the lyrics to a different song than the one which was playing. It was reeeeeealllllly annoying. Anyone else have that problem with the Arrow Blu?


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[SymbioticFunction]

I own the Arrow Demons/Demons 2 steelbook but haven't tried watching either film in Italian with subtitles. Sounds like that was a wise move!