Originally Posted by J Harker (Post 378851)

What's the blu like mate av wise?

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 378828)

Wolverine (2013)

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would and a lot better than the other movie. Like how we see a vulnerable and disturbed wolverine, great action pieces and nice how it's set in Japan and had too change my pants with post credits scene. 8.5/10

Basket case

What's in the basket. The Bradley boys Duane and belial going about seeking revenge on those who separate them when they where kids, but thinks don't work out well as belial becomes jealous when Duane falls in love 8/10

Basket case 2

Our boys are back and are taking in by granny Ruth after they escape from hospital. At granny's house we meet granny's family her daughter and her extended family a group off lovable freaks. Thing are not well between our boys as belial meets someone like himself and love is in the air and Duane wants to make a normal life with himself and granny's daughter. We have a noisy reporter who is set set to exposes the brothers and the family to the public. The brothers and the freaks join force to protected themselves from the reporter and her friends. But tragedy strikes as Duane accidentally kills granny's daughter when he discovers her secret. 8.5/10

Basket case 3

Granny and her family take a road trip to vist uncle Hal and little Hal, also belials girlfriend is pregnant . Tragedy strikes again as a couple of inbred deputy sheriffs kill eve and kidnap the infants, this finally brings the two brothers back together as they seek revenge and to protect there new family . Along the way belial dispatch people in his usual creative manner but is injured and little Hal builds him a special machine to continue his revenges and we find the little ones are just like there father. 8.5/10


Watching streets of fire. First time I've seen it but loving it.

Originally Posted by PaulD (Post 378686)

Viewings since last update:

Intruder - rewatched this after finishing a half marathon and celebrating with beer and pizza. The perfect film for such an occasion. I'm still surprised Scott Spiegel hasn't had more of a successful directing career as his work in this is excellent. It has tension, inventive camera placement and a wealth of great gore gags making it a really under-rated slasher film outside of the cult audience

The Night of The Hunter - another rewatch. Still an excellent southern Gothic fairytale with one of the most monstrous boogeymen in film history. Speaking of missed directorial potential I'd have loved to see what else Charles Laughton was capable of behind the camera.

The Call - Halle Berry does a minimal location/high concept b-movie-esque thriller. Really enjoyable stuff. Does what it sets out to do with great efficiency and verges on Maniac territory in the end. Really surprised at how much I enjoyed this

Blue Jasmine - it wasn't until I came out of the cinema that my friend said "I haven't read or seen it but apparently it owes a lot to A Streetcar Named Desire", something that completely passed me by when watching it. Cate Blanchett is incredible in this riches to rags story about a emotionally fragile woman who falls down the social ladder and has to move in with her sister following her husband's imprisonment for shady dealings. Blanchett's performance is mesmerising as the eponymous character in a way which makes you both pity and thoroughly dislike her. A return to form for Woody Allen since the last return to form since the last return to form since the last return to form since the last return to form since the last return to form since the last return to form...

Blackout - straight-to-dvd (one assumes) thriller of the 'people stuck in a lift' variety. Confusing, messy and all over the place but oddly shot with a real visual flair at times. The sort of rubbish Netflixploitation (yeah MTDS, let's call it that!) I can never seem to get enough of, no matter how rubbish it is.

The Wicker Man (The Final Cut) - it's been years since I saw the other 2 versions so can't really comment on how it differs in that respect (other than, in line with the so-called Director's Cut Britt Ekland's stunt arse takes a while to make an appearance) but this cut certainly doesn't lose anything that makes the original so fantastic. Looks great on bluray for the most part but I was surprised at the dip in quality on some of the newer scenes, considering the restoration work done.

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
The Cat O' Nine Tails
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Deep Red
Suspiria
Tenebrae
Phenomena
Two Evil Eyes
Trauma
The Phantom of The Opera

Revisted most of Argento's ouvre prior to see him in conversation at the BFI earlier this month. All rewatches apart from The Phantom of the Opera which was my first viewing and a curious mix of the tedious and the stupid albeit with great production design and soundtrack. I'll not go over the rest as you'll have all seen them and they're all varying kinds of good from the sublime (Deep Red, Tenebrae, Suspiria) to the ridiculous (Phenomena)

The Roommate - more light horror/thriller action, courtesy of Netflix. Utter arse and extremely dull to boot. I think I started nodding off at the end and can remember little about it.

The Open Door - more Netflixploitation (it's gonna catch on, fear ye not!). This one concerns a girl who calls a mysterious pirate radio station which grants its caller their hearts desires. But, y'know, with horrible consequences. You think it's going to be a slasher film but it ends up as some half-arsed Evil Dead-lite possession film with everybody screaming in a room and making little attempt to do anything about it. One of the characters quotes a line from Pulp Fiction at one point, presumably to prove that the director has actually seen a film before, and the film opens with a father shooting his family before killing himself at the dinner table which seems to have little relevance to the painful 85 minutes that follow. Poop.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch - quintessential Halloween viewing. I'd forgotten how oddly silly some of it is but it's balanced with a bleak and nihilistic edge which makes you forget about it (that ending!). It's such a shame it tanked at the box office as I'd love to have seen more standalone stories in this vein rather than the pissing on Michael Myer's legacy route that the franchise took

From Dusk Till Dawn - stuck in a hotel and this was on Channel 4. It's still about 1000% more Grindhouse that Grindhouse.

Curse of Chucky - went into this with low expectations considering the last few films but was pleasantly surprised. Felt like an old school horror film (large gothic house? Check! Thunder and lightning? Check!) and although it was a bit too free and easy with adding to the backstory in order to further the plot it was all done rather well. The 2 cameos towards the end felt a bit tacked on and like fan service to me though.

Last Caress - Strange French giallo tribute. Some decent gore effects and an enjoyable sub-Goblin electro-soundtrack but let down by incredibly amateurish directing. The poor script and lack of plot wouldn't be a problem in the company of the genre's usual visual flair (especially as the film only runs to 1 hour 5 minutes without credits!) but the straightforward locked-off-camera-and-shoot style really hampers its potential. It's good fun as an exercise in box-ticking for giallo references (including Deep Red, Suspira and the push-the-key-out-the-keyhole scene in Torso to name but three) but if you want a well done modern tribute to the gialli of the 70's you're better of looking into the work of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - Aka The Texas Penis Metaphor 2. I really enjoyed this a lot more on this viewing. Once you get passed the film's completely different tone it's a crazy and fun ride

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 378814)

Not a film but watched the trailer for x-men days of future past, it looks absolutely amazing. Hell of lot better than I was expecting

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2zYHWDZKo

Originally Posted by gag (Post 378865)

Quite a fair few films there, with work spending time with wife watching tv etc I rarely find time to watch films these days to much of my annoyance, I prob wouldn't watch that amount above in 6 weeks..
Ps the call went pics to watch that I was the same it was Actually quite good and decent and enjoyable watch..

Originally Posted by PaulD (Post 378886)

To give you some idea of the timescale that covers (since they're listed in order of viewing) I watched Intruder mid-September and TCM2 last week. I myself don't have that much time for films at the minute due to a combination of also watching tv shows (Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead at the minute and ploughing through all seasons of Dexter this year took up a lot of my time - 96 episodes watched means I could have watched about 48 - 60 films), work and trying to make my own short films/video editing freelance work I'm doing. Compared to a lot of the folk on here I watch very little especially as I used to average about one a day!

And yeah, I was really surprised by The Call (although director Brad Anderson has previous form). The sort of film that if you caught it at 11pm on BBC1 you'd be fully engrossed and stick with until the end.

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 378910)

Streets of fire

How have I managed to live without seeing this great film before. It's as cool as the underside of a pillow. Wonderful imagery and set design. Looks like a 40s film noir but with rock and roll characters and neon sign etc, which gives the film a very unique look. We have a great cast who seem to be having immense fun making this film, a fantastic rock sound track and plenty of action and some laughs. Was strange see rick moranis in a role that's is so different from the nice little guy he usual played. A true cult classic and a film that will be getting many more viewings. 10/10

Originally Posted by ArgentoFan1987 (Post 378912)

It sounds awesome, but I've never ever heard of it before!

Originally Posted by Invid Ninja (Post 378913)

Very surprised you've never heard of it before; best way to describe Streets Of Fire would be to imagine if Walter Hill was to remake The Searchers as an 80's rock and roll action movie musical that just also happens to be an amalgam of 80's as well as 50's design. I adore it and it might be my favourite Walter Hill film next to Southern Comfort, but it's one of his more divisive works from my experience so your mileage will vary.

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 378975)

about to watch heathers, another film that have not seen but heard good things about. hope i enjoy it:pop2:

Originally Posted by Gold6082 (Post 379114)

Amityville III

I found this very boring & dated,I love Amityville II and most the sequels but I felt III was like watching paintdry,the print was bad and for some reason looked much more dated than Amityville II. I made it to the end but only by a whisker.


INTRUDER

This was the Synapse Blu -Ray of one of my all time favourite slashers,I am sure there was footage in this amazing release not in the AWE or Dragon versions I have previously seen ( I may be wrong) but am convinced there was extra scenes/lengths to scenes anyone confirm?. Amazing picture and sound and as stated an all time fav of mine.


Two Evil Eyes


The Blue Underground Blu-Ray

I enjoy this film immensely 2 hours of great fun & gore,bit grainy in places but overall an upgrade from the DVD versions. Extras are less than on many BU releases but still a respectable amount.

Originally Posted by gasteropod (Post 379266)

Gravity (2013) - 3/5

Immersive 3D but is completely lacking in substance, I can't believe so many people are hailing it as a masterpiece when all it consists of is one overblown disaster after another and Sandra Bullock talking to the audience and acting unrealistically. Very disappointed with this, my rating is quite generous considering my lack of enjoyment because I try to be objective as well as subjective, and listen here - the much-hated Man of Steel is a better film than Gravity, regardless of my personal enjoyment. ;)

2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris (1972) are genuine masterpieces of sci-fi, Gravity is just a well-made but empty 3D popcorn thrill-ride (which didn't thrill me all that much unfortunately).

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 379278)

When a stranger calls (1979)

Has to have one of the most frighting beginnings of any film, truly chilling and disturbing, which was used many years later in scream, the end of the movie is also good as well shame it is brought down by a dull and boring middle. Could of been so much more. 7/10 easily a ten if the middle had been better

The godsend
Yawn poor evil child tail, terrible acting and totally unconvincing evil child. 4/10

Robinson Crusoe on mars

Interesting and enjoyable take On the classic story and hell of lot more interesting than Tom hanks taking to a basketball. Ok it's wildly scientifically inaccurate . But it's fun with some great fly saucers stolen from war of the worlds. We also have a small role for Adam west. But the real highlight is Mona a cute little monkey who who steals every scene she's in in, she even has a cute little space suit. A wonderful film which was my first viewing but will have many more 9.5/10

It might be a bit early but watching one of the funniest and best Xmas films Christmas vacation

Originally Posted by trebor8273 (Post 379278)

It might be a bit early but watching one of the funniest and best Xmas films Christmas vacation

Originally Posted by Buboven (Post 379104)

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)

This is my first viewing of any of the very original Star Trek films. While it has not converted me into a Trekkie it's a solidly made science fiction film and I can appreciate why this is one from the cannon is held in high regard.

Just scrapes a 8/10.

Originally Posted by gasteropod (Post 379266)

Gravity (2013) - 3/5

Immersive 3D but is completely lacking in substance, I can't believe so many people are hailing it as a masterpiece when all it consists of is one overblown disaster after another and Sandra Bullock talking to the audience and acting unrealistically. Very disappointed with this, my rating is quite generous considering my lack of enjoyment because I try to be objective as well as subjective, and listen here - the much-hated Man of Steel is a better film than Gravity, regardless of my personal enjoyment. ;)

2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris (1972) are genuine masterpieces of sci-fi, Gravity is just a well-made but empty 3D popcorn thrill-ride (which didn't thrill me all that much unfortunately).

Originally Posted by Invid Ninja (Post 379299)

I will admit to really enjoying Gravity especially on a visual level and as a refreshingly simple thriller. Saying that, it's very much a 'ride' film; I myself would not call it either a 'masterpiece' or shower it with the 5 star praise that others have. Although I think it's a better film from this year than the decent if for me puzzlingly over praised Captain Phillips.

Originally Posted by Zann (Post 379203)

Island of Death


By the way, I have the Allstar Pictures DVD from 2002 and remember getting it from a dedicated website at the time....has anyone compared it to the Arrow DVD in terms of PQ? I ask purely out of curiosity, not double dipping :)

Originally Posted by Zann (Post 379288)

Ha ha yeah I got the BD collection too but am saving this treat until it's a bit nipply out :)