The whole family sat down to watch Abraham Lincoln, when I watched, and we all agreed it was pretty ordinary, but highly enjoyable, except Mum, who thought it was crap.

My brother thought it was crap and gave up after about 20 minutes, so it could be a Marmite film.

My brother did this with Dellamorte Dellamore. He spent the first 30 scratching his head, and continuasly scoffing and saying "what?" until he left, saying it was garbage and retarded (no offense intended, but he actually used that word)?

He did the same thing about 20 minutes into Chronos, but that was more "boring , and not what he expected"

But it doesn't matter, he's no longer invited to sit down and watch zombie movies with Dad and I.

Django. January 11 is gonna be ,y film day at the theater. Zero dark thirty and gangster squad with penn are gonna be epic.


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With all due respect, Mr. Fuzzy, but your brother is what I would describe as an idiot. :nono:

I will have to do it at least once more - I haven't done the commentary yet

However, a second viewing is NOT thru choice, but rather necessity of seeing all of the disc

In my experience in retail, people often wright off films they dont get as 'rubbish' I personally dont get surprised any more when people dislike films like this, its personal taste at the end of the day.

Well, I have a job interview in preston, it was quick! an hour and a half commute either way though and about a hundred quid a week commute! :shocked:

Need to find out how much pay and security there is, at it seems to be calling people offering direct marketing services.

Still, a day out in preston at least! (dinner time movie hunting at cex!)

Finally saw Something Wicked This Way Comes last night (in an annoyingly cropped pan & scan, sadly), only 30 years late!

It blew me away pretty much, to be honest. Tremendous film.

To imagine Disney making such a disturbing, harrowing, and plain nasty horror flick like that nowadays! :lol:

Moonraker - Yes, I like this film I will admit. Come on it's still far better than both Die Another Day and Quantum Of Solace.

Also, Lois Chiles. :3

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I think I must be the only person who didn't have any issues with Die Another Day.

Oh, apart from Rosamund Pike's disturbing hairline.


I still think Goldeneye was the worst of Brosnan's efforts. Left the cinema VERY disappointed after that guff.

I will give you this Goji, at least Die Another Day is memorably bad, albeit not even in an amusing trainwreck way for me. Quantum by comparison was dry and dull.

:lol:

I can't think what might be considered bad about DAD, at all! I just remember it being silly fun with some great over the top stuff.

I thought QOS was fine too, but didn't watch it properly as I was at my brothers' with my nephews and couldn't really concentrate. I'd need to see it again.

"dry and dull" sums up Goldeneye for me, but people seem to love that for some reason! I don't get it!

No I like Die Another Day. Quantum of Solace was a bit of a let down after Casino Royale but Skyfall quickly erased all memory of it.

HEATED VENGENCE.

Richard Hatch plays a vietnam veteran returning to thailand to seek out the woman he left behind. There he encounters the psychotic Bingo (ron max) the soldier he sent for court martial for rape. Bingo and his associates (including one great performance from michael J pollard) have set up shop in their old base across the border in laos manufacturing heroin. Bingo kidnapps hatches character and takes him back to the old base for some drawn out vengence, except hatch escapes and tries to make his way back to thailand.

Heated vengence is a great little action flick with plenty of violence and some great performances. Its perfect CODE RED material, an obscure almost classic piece of exploitation that refuses to outstay its welcome in its tight 90 minute plot. Great entertainment and worth a look.

Forgive me, but have there been any Bond films after 'The Spy Who Loved Me'?

Oh - there was 'For Your Eyes Only'...but Sheena Eaton was my pin-up at the time!

There's no doubt he has talent and What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a great film but I've just never been one to say he is a powerhouse. He is starting to sway me though.

I really dislike Die Another Day. The persormances are OK, scene chewing aside. But over all it felt very poorly made. The CGI was ATROCIOUS, the theme song is abysmal, John Cleese should never have been cast as Q, Mrs. Berry is one of the worst cast Bond girls ever (but I would still tap that!), the villeins have no clear goel and there means shift constantly. It's just a mess of a film. I actualy REALLY enjoyed QoS, as with all the Craig films. Moonraker is cheese, yet thats not bad. DAD is, IMHO, the worst Bond film of them all.

Oh no no. There are a few candidates for worst Bond film ever. Thunderball is pretty dire. I'm not a fan of OHMSS. The World Is Not Enough was pretty crap too. And Quantum is pretty poor.

Continuing my efforts to reduce the "Too" watch pile I finally (its been sitting on the shelf since end of August) got around to watching the marvellous We are what we are (UK Blu) which follows a group of teenage children living in a south American slum who must take there fathers place as the "bread winner" when he dies. The twist - they are a family of cannibals.

DEATH WATCH.

In Bertrand Taverniers sci-fi thriller, Harvey keitel's character Roddy has cameras implanted in his eyes so he can follow Teminally ill Ketherine (romy schneider) for reality tv programme Death Watch.

Tavenier locates the action at first in the streets of 70's glasgow, which manages to evoke a run down urban hell (though in the interests of fairness, the last time I visited it It looked lovely) of ruined buildings and urban decay amongst litter strewn tenement buildings. The future in this film is pretty bleak, teachers are being replaced by computers, unemployment is rife and all popular culture is created by computer in order to appeal to the broadest possible audience. Shops are large warehouse like complexes piled high with cheap packaged goods and the audience stare blankly at televisions that broadcast intrusive sould destryoying reality TV. Death watch is made for this world.

So not really that far removed from today really.

Death watch is a wonderful and very humanitarian piece of film making and deserves to be watched, be warned though its not the happiest film ever made either and left me feeling blue.

Also HARRY DEAN STANTON is in it as the crooked tv executive and he's great. Look out for his office with some amazing posters for cult movies like masque of the red death and a huge mickey mouse phone!

Thanks for reminding me of this one, I really need to check it out.

Santa Claus (1898)

http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/memb...tml#post309946

Watched Argento's 'Deep Red' this afternoon. Film was very good, but I kept having audio issues - it would switch from the English track, to the Italian with subtitles. It would then switch back when the next chapter started. Happened about six times. Very distracting. Is this a known issue with the Arrow BD?
Lincoln.

The longer cut of the film switches to Italian audio at some points because the English audio was always missing/ never recorded.

Many thanks for clearing that up, Paul.

The uk blu-ray release looks fantastic.

Catfish - seen it before but felt like a rewatch. Still an interesting documentary although the questionable authority of the filmmakers is a problem. Some scenes are clearly set-up and not captured on the spot as suggested, which isn't to say they didn't happen but does make it harder to fully believe what you're seeing.

Prom Night - the original. Fairly dull, plodding slasher bereft of scares or decent setpieces and with a predictable ending. I genuinely believe if this film didn't star Jamie Lee Curtis it'd have no reputation at all

No love for the disco scene at least?! :lol: I enjoy prom night but it's definately aged badly.

I had a look at the Microsoft Access database I keep to record everything I watch and last year I watched 1076 films (including duplicates), watching 76 of them with commentaries.

Including commentaries, I have seen 21 so far this year – three a day.

Undoubtedly commentaries can be entertaining and informative but to me there too much of a distraction from the movie! Snippets are about as much as I can take before it gets annoying!

I havent posted on here or updated my letterboxd recently of what films ive seen so here the lest few that i can think off.

Bait tbh i wasnt expecting much from this and boy was i surprised if you like you monster attack type style film then i would recommed this while it wont make no classic its defiantly a good watch only 2 things spoiled it for me 1) the couple trapped in the car annoyed the **** out of me and 2) the cgi on the shark at times was rather pants and not even slightky convincing but otherwise a film worth seeking out,

The sound of my voice ...Extremely slow dull boring and nothing to even keep you interested i tried to percivere with but had to turn it off around half way mark,

Barricade a bloke takes his 2 kids away on vacation middle of nowhere for christmas and strange things are happening not realy that good but worth a one off watch,

No tell motel.. about a group of teanagers have a car accident and come accros a old unused motel where they keep seing people and a little girl killed in a road accident ...Avoid only watch if you catch this on the horror channel

Society

Vengeance Is Mine/Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari - 1979 Japan d: Shōhei Imamura

Pretty bloody remarkable film that made me feel ashamed that I hadn't seen it before my 40s. Just...wow.

This is heady stuff. Ostensibly a case study of a murderer, but rather than some TV style procedural, this goes to wonderful, magical places. It becomes a study of outsiders within a society - killers, hookers, Christians, thieves, the poor, the old, the rejected - and their own almost hidden society within it and through it.

Imamura is in his element here, his utter mastery of the art apparent without showiness. Flat, straight forward narrative is suddenly broken by a small and appropriate slip into experimentalism. His characters seem to truly belong in the places he shows us, and the amazing acting helps enormously. The cramped sets mirror churning minds. This is all fully realised.

An amazing film.

Eureka's Blu-Ray looks (and especially sounds) pretty dismal sadly, but the strength of the art itself overwhelms the limitations of the transfer.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Cinema.

Indeed :nod:

Yes it is my freind, yes it is. :cool:

Watched Berberian Sound Studio yesterday. If you haven't already, then go out and buy it now! Easily the best film I've seen this year :tongue1:
Seriously though, it really is due all the great things people are saying about it, fantastic stuff. We're going to watch it at college next semester when we start delving into foley work on my recommendation 10/10

The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/memb...tml#post310230

Glad you like it!! fantstic movie imo.

on more of a downer, been doing my sums vis-a-vie this job im going to the interview for. £250 quid a week basic wage, subtract tax, then the cost of the commute (which is still cheaper than physically moving there) and loss of council tax reductions and i'll have barely anything left...:mmph:

Still, they were nice enough to give me an interview, and i've not had to do one of those in ten long years so i'll head along anyway.

Worse still, in a meeting regarding my redundancy, i'm owed a weeks wages for every year i've worked there. The swine are basing it on my 16 hours contract, when holidays aside i've not worked my contracted hours once, I was always king of the overtime... I hope they revise my payment or its off to a tribunal. Heading down to citizens advice on friday to see what my options are....

THE NEW YORK RIPPER - Pretty much as sleazy as I remember it. Like 'Maniac', people used to really hate this film, but now it's been rehabilitated to the extent that it's on the shelves in HMV - I never thought I'd see the day. I really like the unapologetic approach to brash sadism and outright weirdness... the Donald Duck routine must be a high point of Fulci just not giving a f*ck. As has been mentioned here, the real teeth gritter is less the nipple slicing and more the wailing of the terminally ill kid at the end. Back on the rehabilitation note, so many taboos have been broken in genre (and more underground) filmmaking over the years since NYR was released that it seems weirdly watchable and entertaining these days rather than sordid or transgressive. If it doesn't descend to real depths, it's at least monument dedicated to great bad taste.