What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

As much as this is been up for discussion plenty of times I never really appreciated it , I re-watched this last year and some how enjoyed it, only thing that still puzzles me is, why did Sharon kill herself?

It harks back to the initial death of the girl dying in flames so no doubt the demon made her do it. She was pretty weak willed i thought. It's not explained either way. However Lamont almost succumbs to it as well so, yeah that's my theory.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

As much as this is been up for discussion plenty of times I never really appreciated it , I re-watched this last year and some how enjoyed it, only thing that still puzzles me is, why did Sharon kill herself?

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It harks back to the initial death of the girl dying in flames so no doubt the demon made her do it. She was pretty weak willed i thought. It's not explained either way. However Lamont almost succumbs to it as well so, yeah that's my theory.

Sharon's death isn't properly explained and doesn't make much narrative sense, but I think Demdike is right that it's a call back to the beginning of the film where the exorcism goes awry, and Sharon is targeted by Pazuzu as a way of getting to Father Lamont and/or Regan.

When I first saw Exorcist II, I tried to keep an open mind and wanted to like it, but I just thought it was silly, a film with a poor script, bad direction, jarring music (a rare misstep by Ennio Morricone) and unconvincing effort.

Like Demoncrat, I can only watch it as a comedy, a film with laughable dialogue, and where the sight of James Earl Jones dressed as a giant locust adds to the hilarity.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Sharon's death isn't properly explained and doesn't make much narrative sense, but I think Demdike is right that it's a call back to the beginning of the film where the exorcism goes awry, and Sharon is targeted by Pazuzu as a way of getting to Father Lamont and/or Regan.

When I first saw Exorcist II, I tried to keep an open mind and wanted to like it, but I just thought it was silly, a film with a poor script, bad direction, jarring music (a rare misstep by Ennio Morricone) and unconvincing effort.

Like Demoncrat, I can only watch it as a comedy, a film with laughable dialogue, and where the sight of James Earl Jones dressed as a giant locust adds to the hilarity.

For me it was all part of the tribal stuff that derailed the film in the first place.

[Dave Boy]

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MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED (1976)

The adventures of an independent ambulance service. The first ambulance on the scene gets to take the person to hospital so a competition begins with a rival company..

Alan Ladd, Jr., after reading a copy of the script, said, "This is about the most offensive script I've ever read in my life. There is no group you don't insult in this movie. Can you make this for three million bucks?"

I really like this movie so I don't know what it says about me, Ha ha!

A Madcap black comedy with some pretty hilarious scenes and dialogue. Always good to see Raquel Welch (Jugs) in a comedy role.
The movie rattles along at a good pace along side a good 70s soundtrack.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

For me it was all part of the tribal stuff that derailed the film in the first place.

Yeah, it has a place within the story, but doesn't fit naturally into the narrative and, when it features, is so exaggerated that it's as if that footage has been spliced in from a completely different movie!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

A 100 minute compilation of rock and pop video clips from Pink, Motley Crue, Prodigy,White Zombie, Chemical Brothers, B-52's, Electric 6, Bon Jovi, Edwyn Collins, David Bowie, M.C. Hammer and more, featuring performances by Cameron Diaz, Lucy Lui and Drew Barrymore.

This is so fast it's fun, there might be a story in there somewhere i can't recall. Still laughing at some of the double entendres and the expression on John Cleese' face.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It harks back to the initial death of the girl dying in flames so no doubt the demon made her do it. She was pretty weak willed i thought. It's not explained either way. However Lamont almost succumbs to it as well so, yeah that's my theory.

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Sharon's death isn't properly explained and doesn't make much narrative sense, but I think Demdike is right that it's a call back to the beginning of the film where the exorcism goes awry, and Sharon is targeted by Pazuzu as a way of getting to Father Lamont and/or Regan.

When I first saw Exorcist II, I tried to keep an open mind and wanted to like it, but I just thought it was silly, a film with a poor script, bad direction, jarring music (a rare misstep by Ennio Morricone) and unconvincing effort.

Like Demoncrat, I can only watch it as a comedy, a film with laughable dialogue, and where the sight of James Earl Jones dressed as a giant locust adds to the hilarity.

Certainly interesting thoughts on Sharon being weak willed and being targeted by Pazuzu. Thank you gentlement.

[davcol]

Scarface : Watched this for the first time in about a decade with my 14 year old son. What a ****ing blast we had watching it. There's something really great about watching a classic film with someone who hasn't seen it before.

[Frankie Teardrop]

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD – I wonder if I can hear those Freddy claws scraping the bottom of the barrel, but as I’ve not yet seen the notorious ‘Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare’, I’ll reserve judgement. On the other hand… I liked it. It’s a total mess, no more than the natural consequence of a load of studio execs going “who cares, just pile on the effects,” but I enjoy that kind of bad. Scene after scene of ludicrous dream shit, a strange tone that marries bleak mean spiritedness with eighties knockabout splatter humour, characters no more than mere devices, effects gratuity that strains for the depths of nightmare but instead brings us the hilarity of someone turning into a motorbike just because that character liked riding his moped… Freddie’s one-liners are the most sentient thing about it.

GHOSTS OF MONDAY – A mysterious hotel bigs up its dark history, hoping that Julian Sands will reel in the punters after he uses an incident of mass poisoning there as the basis for a paranormal documentary... etc. GOM is a strange one, a microbudget cheapie that starts with ghost stuff, throws in an Argento-esque murder scene, then finishes by piling on just about any reference to hotel-based horror ready to hand (nods to ‘The Shining’ and ‘The Beyond’ are the tip of this not particularly impressive iceberg.) Somehow this all connects with a Lovecraftian sea-cult and something slimy in the cellar. Again, it’s a bit of a mess, and it chafes a little knowing that this was one of Sands’ final venues, but I quite liked its tossed salad approach. And it’s short enough to stay below the boredom threshold.

ALL AMERICAN MURDER – Stude with attitude Artie hits Squaresville after a bit of arson prompts his relocation to an uptight campus populated by Aryans and horny faculty wives. When his new gf is murdered, embittered cop Christopher Walken steps in to teach him a life lesson… and gives him twenty four hours to nail whodunnit or face life in the slammer. ‘All American Murder’ is such an odd little film. I loved it. It has the surface quality of a post-‘Heathers’ campus-based TV drama – sort of – but then ditches it for an almost giallo-like structure organised around this ludicrous ‘solve your own crime in a day or you’ll be sorry’ device. It rolls with a quasi-noirish swing whilst spouting wildly snappy dialogue, throwing in jarring spurts of gore, and shackling together its two leads as a weirdly contrived buddy cop / surrogate father – son team, and it’s difficult to know what it’s trying to do with all these incongruities apart from boil them up to watch the pan overflow. I was hooked though, not just because of Walken; the whole damn mess (yep, another one) feels at odds with itself but somehow totally works, which might betoken greatness behind the camera for all I know. Speaking of, apparently Ken Russell was originally slated to direct – the mind boggles, it’s crazy enough as it is.

[MrBarlow]

Forced Vengeance. 1982.

Chuck Norris plays a war veteran who heads to Hong Kong and becomes head of security at a casino. His new boss is gunned down by a rival, and goes out for revenge.

Norris hands out his own fighting skills that seem a bit predictable but certainly is a guy who can take a beating and dish out one or two. James Fargo did a decent job of adding in plenty sights of Hong Kong and made Michael Cavanagh a decent adversary for our hero. This was made before Chuck joined the Cannon movies and has that low budget tone but certainly one I enjoyed for a Saturday afternoon flick.

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