What Films Have You Seen Recently?

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Originally Posted by J Harker

Fair enough Rik, let's go with that! Much better comparison. The Taken films. I've just watched the first kill count video for John Wick. I'm still not seeing all that much violence. Keanu Reeves shoots lots of people. So what? The Bond comparison was just in terms of violence. To me violence isn't a bloke running round gunning down baddies. It's the guy in Kill List taking a claw hammer to a perverts knee. It's Mr Blonde cutting a cops ear off while dancing to Stealers Wheel. It's Mads Mickelson whipping Daniel Craig's bollocks.

We can test what is more violent as I happen to own a hammer and a gun and I am guessing you have two knees to try them on.

[Demoncrat]

This I definitely recommend to those drawn to grot here. (IBYT)

My tuppence ....
John Wick reminded me most of a HK actioner. Hyperkineticism etc. Just saying ....

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

This I definitely recommend to those drawn to grot here. (IBYT)

My tuppence ....
John Wick reminded me most of a HK actioner. Hyperkineticism etc. Just saying ....

It does have that feel. My 10 year old boy had the same look on his face when we watched JW as when we watched Hard Boiled...shock and awe.

[Demoncrat]

Kudos! I applaud thy parenting skills

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Kudos! I applaud thy parenting skills

Haha! To be honest, violent action films are a safer beat for kids than most 12 cert films that are aimed at preteens as they all seem to be high school films about sex. We also have a pillow policy in place in which the kids will have to cover there faces if things become too adult whilst I fast forward. The rape scene in Mad Max 2 being the last time the policy was used. I tend to prewatch most 15 and 18 cert films before letting the kids see them and keep an eye on the DVD counter for rudeness to avoid social services kicking down my door!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Haha! To be honest, violent action films are a safer beat for kids than most 12 cert films that are aimed at preteens as they all seem to be high school films about sex. We also have a pillow policy in place in which the kids will have to cover there faces if things become too adult whilst I fast forward. The rape scene in Mad Max 2 being the last time the policy was used. I tend to prewatch most 15 and 18 cert films before letting the kids see them and keep an eye on the DVD counter for rudeness to avoid social services kicking down my door!

Sounds like there's a big difference between your pillow policy and the inspector's cushion policy.

[Demoncrat]

The bigger the cushion ... the sweeter the pushin' ???

[keirarts]

Night terrors.

A film that feels like Tobe Hooper was aiming to make the sort of horror Ken Russel might turn out and coming sort of close in places. The film has Robert Englund, really on form here, as the Marquis De Sade and one of his descendent's. The central character is the young daughter of an Archaeologist and fundamentalist christian working in Alexandria unearthing the temple of Gnostic Christians. Our young heroin has a fling with a local bedouin then finds herself getting deeper in with a libertine cult that seems in some way connected to the Gnostics. While overall the film doesn't quite hold together, its has some genuinely trippy visuals that wouldn't feel out of place in lair of the white worm and a strange almost dreamlike atmosphere to it. Plus there's a nasty undercurrent that seems to permeate the whole film that's somewhat in keeping with De sade. Overall its better than I remember it being.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Haha! To be honest, violent action films are a safer beat for kids than most 12 cert films that are aimed at preteens as they all seem to be high school films about sex. We also have a pillow policy in place in which the kids will have to cover there faces if things become too adult whilst I fast forward. The rape scene in Mad Max 2 being the last time the policy was used. I tend to prewatch most 15 and 18 cert films before letting the kids see them and keep an eye on the DVD counter for rudeness to avoid social services kicking down my door!

I get that. Some of the crudest things ... and I watch Water Power for fun

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Originally Posted by keirarts

Night terrors.

A film that feels like Tobe Hooper was aiming to make the sort of horror Ken Russel might turn out and coming sort of close in places. The film has Robert Englund, really on form here, as the Marquis De Sade and one of his descendent's. The central character is the young daughter of an Archaeologist and fundamentalist christian working in Alexandria unearthing the temple of Gnostic Christians. Our young heroin has a fling with a local bedouin then finds herself getting deeper in with a libertine cult that seems in some way connected to the Gnostics. While overall the film doesn't quite hold together, its has some genuinely trippy visuals that wouldn't feel out of place in lair of the white worm and a strange almost dreamlike atmosphere to it. Plus there's a nasty undercurrent that seems to permeate the whole film that's somewhat in keeping with De sade. Overall its better than I remember it being.

I've not seen this, is there a decent release?