What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Love Possession me. It truly defies description imo.

Every 5 years I rewatches Pearl Harbor . Every time I cries with laughter.

Song To Song (Terrence Malick, 2018)
Gosling! Fassbinder! ... and Natalie Portman is still hanging around from Knight Of Cups
Can't really remember what it was about ... some rumination on art and its effects on existence .... another action painting . Some protracted revenge for Days Of Heaven?? .

[Demoncrat]

The Hurricane Heist (Rob Cohen)

What a cast. Ralph fae The Office. The wet one fae Lost. The Hobbit ... fae Lost . And an auld Olympic hopeful . Chuck in theworststorminlikeforeverduuuude and some truly awful 'effects' and we are away !! Maggie Grace just cannot emote to save her life it seems. Physics (and credulity) duly stretched to say the least . Recommended!!

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Mission of Justice

An ex-cop infiltrates a neo fascist group headed up by Brigitte Nielsen...

Karate chopping mayhem, all done with a straight face, those baggy crotched, high waisted trousers beloved in 90s American martial arts films and more than one ponytailed baddie. Top stuff.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Fever Lake

Corey Haim, stars in this oddball supernatural flick that is as clunky as a pair of orthopedic shoes. The whole thing doesn't really come together and feels like a collective stutter of scenes looking for a speech therapist.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Unstoppable (2010)

With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.

With this weeks Top Ten Tuesdays list being the Scott brothers i thought i'd give the late Tony's last film a rewatch.

It's an absolute buttock clenching gripper of a movie. A disaster movie as it might happen in real life and pretty much akin to the kind of film favoured by Peter Berg in recent years (Patriot's Day and Deepwater Horizon). Scott thrusts us head first into a new day at a Pennsylvania rail yard and straight into character's lives as we meet up with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson et-al. The script isn't candy coated to feel the viewer into the film, we pretty much have to pick up the lingo as it goes along. Admittedly it doesn't have the dense terminology of say Deepwater Horizon but it's a similar scenario.

The action when it kicks in is a delight, it's not superhero style action, we don't have Spiderman bringing the train to a halt with a single web, it's more realistic and grounded in reality and equally more edge of the seat, helped no end by the everyman roles of Washington and Pine at the heart of the attempts to stop the train.

A third time viewing and yet again i really enjoyed it. Looking back it should really have made my top 10 as it's a more streamlined and focused film than Kingdom of Heaven which i gave tenth place to.

Highly recommended.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Love Possession me. It truly defies description imo.

It says a lot about the 2 of us, it's one of my favourite films, the hysteria actually makes it for me! Also, I'd love to be so dramatic that I start slicing myself up with the electric carving knife mid argument

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Justin101

It says a lot about the 2 of us, it's one of my favourite films, the hysteria actually makes it for me! Also, I'd love to be so dramatic that I start slicing myself up with the electric carving knife mid argument

Indeed I think our Sammy is quite justified in his mania.

I look forward to this BD.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

King of the Kick Boxers

Praise be to the Lords of cinematic scuzz...A cop suffering PTSD after seeing his brother killed in a fight gets assigned to track down snuff movie martial arts films in Bangkok. In the films, foreign fighters are tricked into believing they are making legit films only to be chop sockyed to death on camera. Gloriously trashy with gleeful levels of violence. Also contains a comedy relief chimpanzee, what more could you ask for?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

King of the Kick Boxers 2: Fighting Spirit.

Sequel in name only...on paper this sounds great: illegal fight clubs, street gangs, gang rape, murder, revenge and ghosts!

Sadly, the reality is a terribly dubbed film with fight scenes choreographed to show when punches and kicks are pulled rather than hide them. On the plus side the whole thing has a low rent porn aesthetic with a soundtrack to match.

[Nostalgic]

Bad Dreams

Passable Elm Street 3 rip off about a cult survivor being menaced by a dead cult leader while in a mental institute, undergoing 80's American group therapy. Although slow to start it picks up in the second half, some good kills & slightly better than Slaughterhouse Rock.

The director interview (24 mins) is great & interested to give the commentary a go.

Film 6/10
Extras: Probably a lot more/10 once i've gone through them.