What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nicholasrope]

Death Wish 3

Charles Bronson is blackmailed into help eliminate a Gang that has been terrorizing a neighborhood. I think this followed the Rocky movie template where the first 2 movies were slower then the rest were more faster paced. Even though it was silly in places, I rather quite enjoyed it.

Dolls

A group of strangers end up staying in this secluded mansion when a heavy storm hits however the owners have a secret where the Dolls they make come to life and start killing. I must admit that this film's F/X would be completely outdated (Seeing that it was from 1987) however it wasn't too bad and I found the film to be quite enjoyable, the Dolls were creepy as hell.

Taken 3

A Taken film in name only as Liam Neeson is framed for Murder and is hunted by Forest Whitiker. Not a bad way to finish of the trilogy and it was refreshing that none of Neeson's Special Forces friends double crossed him. I was expecting them to do that in this or the 1st one.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Charles Bronson goes after the Drug Dealers who were responsible for the death of his Girlfriend's Daughter. Like Death Wish 3, it was more faster pace and was slightly less enjoyable but it's not an awful film.

Space Camp

A group of Teens who are at a Space Camp end up getting launched into Space when a Robot interferes with the computer system. Not a bad film but the F/X is a little outdated in this one unfortunately.

The Specialist

Sylvester Stallone is hired by Sharon Stone to kill the people responsible for the death of her parents. James Woods and Eric Roberts co-star. Again not a bad film but it doesn't work as a steamy thriller, which I think the makers were aiming for.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by nicholasrope

Regarding Black Widow, I was wondering if there would be a time if there was Marvel fatigue. This was meant to be out last year and this was coming after those 3 Mini-Series.

Or is it just a bad film period?

It's a bad film but do also part fatigue.

Think the only marvel stuff I'm looking really forward too is Moon Knight, Doctor strange 2 and Fantastic Four but expect I'll be disappointed again with fantastic four, just how hard is too get the fantastic four right?

[trebor8273]

This was very good, it's like a extended episode of the twilight zone with the voice over at the beginning and story , it some ways it's very similar too the classic episode it's a good life.

Here a group of strangers get stranded in lone bus station when a mysterious storm hits.



A fishy tale from Roger Corman, obviously made after the success of Jaws, hell we even have the female lead playing Jaws video game at the begining. Not a patch on jaws but enjoyable in its own cheesy bmovie way.


Now watching.

[trebor8273]

It started out good and seemed interesting and the acting was good, but it soon began too drag and relied too much on jump scares and noises. Fast forward a lot of it, disappointing and something I would never watch again.

[iank]

In The Eye of the Hurricane. A woman leaves her husband for a new man, intending to divorce him, but not long after she's moved in with her new beau, she suffers two near-fatal "accidents" and begins to suspect someone may be trying to kill either her or her new man. This early 70s Italian flick was pretty good. I didn't think I was going to like it at first, as it starts off a bit slow, but once it gets going it turns into an engagingly twisty-turny thriller where you're never quite sure who's really doing what to who. Entertaining.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

It started out good and seemed interesting and the acting was good, but it soon began too drag and relied too much on jump scares and noises. Fast forward a lot of it, disappointing and something I would never watch again.

That's what I thought when I watched it a while back, seemed good then down hill very quickly.

[Demoncrat]

Grandmother's House (1988, Peter Rader)

Easily the looniest flick I've watched this year
When tragedy strikes, two children travel to live with their gramps and grammy, this is where it begins to wildly spin out of normal cinema conventions.
Screw The bloody Visit, this is more like an Italian flick in structure IMHO. Brinke Stevens appears as "Woman", so there is that (fully clothed role BTW).

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)

Jon Bon Jovi plays a vampire hunter called Derek in this direct to dvd sequel to John Carpenter's Vampires (1998).

Set in Mexican desert towns this isn't actually as bad as you might think. I've seen it a couple of times and it's passable fun. Bon Jovi does okay in carrying the film, he has vulnerabilities and isn't an unstoppable vampire killing machine, whilst Spanish actress Arly Jover is fine as some sort of vampire princess. Director Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween: Season of the Witch) stages the action nicely and there's plenty of gory killings.

Ravenswood Asylum (2017)

The usual stuff where four American twenty somethings on holiday in Australia take a ghost tour round the deserted and supposedly haunted Ravenswood Asylum. This starts off fine, or as fine as low budget horror gets with reasonable characters. Until they arrive at the tour and one guy acts like a complete knob throughout. Not because he's possessed but because they obviously decided to write him like that after a while.

Sadly it gets worse as it goes along and what could have been an interesting riff on the remake of House on Haunted Hill and it's DTV sequel featuring the perils of mad doctors and shock therapy basically goes nowhere due to lack of budget.

Baby Driver (2017)

After about ten minutes of Baby Driver i turned it off. I thought Baby (Ansel Elgort) was a dick prancing around with his ear phones in all the time and had decided the opening car chase was CGI bollocks.

Thankfully i looked at the special features, in particular how they did the driving scenes and they weren't CGI (Mostly) but staged driving on what amounted to cars inside camera rigs which although might not be The French Connection, The Driver or Ronin quality meant it wasn't quite as fake as i imagined.

Going back to the film knowing this improved matters greatly. I became used to Baby - I wasn't the only one he annoyed, Jon Bernthal's character thought he was a dick too - and the film improved no end. True it had weird shifts of tone making it feel slightly uneven but the story line (A kid enrolled by boss Kevin Spacey to be a getaway driver) was straightforward enough and together with some terrific (none CGI) driving sequences meant i actually rather enjoyed this in the end.

Oh yeah, finally. The music used isn't as awesome as director / creator Edgar Wright thinks it is.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)

Jon Bon Jovi plays a vampire hunter called Derek in this direct to dvd sequel to John Carpenter's Vampires (1998).

Set in Mexican desert towns this isn't actually as bad as you might think. I've seen it a couple of times and it's passable fun. Bon Jovi does okay in carrying the film, he has vulnerabilities and isn't an unstoppable vampire killing machine, whilst Spanish actress Arly Jover is fine as some sort of vampire princess. Director Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween: Season of the Witch) stages the action nicely and there's plenty of gory killings.

Ravenswood Asylum (2017)

The usual stuff where four American twenty somethings on holiday in Australia take a ghost tour round the deserted and supposedly haunted Ravenswood Asylum. This starts off fine, or as fine as low budget horror gets with reasonable characters. Until they arrive at the tour and one guy acts like a complete knob throughout. Not because he's possessed but because they obviously decided to write him like that after a while.

Sadly it gets worse as it goes along and what could have been an interesting riff on the remake of House on Haunted Hill and it's DTV sequel featuring the perils of mad doctors and shock therapy basically goes nowhere due to lack of budget.

Baby Driver (2017)

After about ten minutes of Baby Driver i turned it off. I thought Baby (Ansel Elgort) was a dick prancing around with his ear phones in all the time and had decided the opening car chase was CGI bollocks.

Thankfully i looked at the special features, in particular how they did the driving scenes and they weren't CGI (Mostly) but staged driving on what amounted to cars inside camera rigs which although might not be The French Connection, The Driver or Ronin quality meant it wasn't quite as fake as i imagined.

Going back to the film knowing this improved matters greatly. I became used to Baby - I wasn't the only one he annoyed, Jon Bernthal's character thought he was a dick too - and the film improved no end. True it had weird shifts of tone making it feel slightly uneven but the story line (A kid enrolled by boss Kevin Spacey to be a getaway driver) was straightforward enough and together with some terrific (none CGI) driving sequences meant i actually rather enjoyed this in the end.

Oh yeah, finally. The music used isn't as awesome as director / creator Edgar Wright thinks it is.

I actually liked baby, just hope he didn't drop anything next too Spacey! It has some of the best chase scenes I've seen in years

[trebor8273]

Archaeologist Daniel Jackson whom is a laughing stock of the archaeological community is approached by the military to decipher a artefact found in Egypt in the 1920s. Deciphering it be discovers it's instructions for a device called the Stargate, which allows travel across the galaxy. Highly enjoyable film that led too a long running tv show with numerous spinoffs.

Now watching .