What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Handyman Joe]

Took advantage of a morning off and watched my cheapie blu of Elephant (the Gus Van Sant one). What can I say, a magnificent film, beautifully put together and charged with suspense despite not much happening for the first hour. Great soundtrack too - Beethoven and Acid Mothers Temple together at last. I loved this movie - head to Fopp folks and see if they've any left!

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by Handyman Joe

Took advantage of a morning off and watched my cheapie blu of Elephant (the Gus Van Sant one). What can I say, a magnificent film, beautifully put together and charged with suspense despite not much happening for the first hour. Great soundtrack too - Beethoven and Acid Mothers Temple together at last. I loved this movie - head to Fopp folks and see if they've any left!

It is a very good flick.
I know there are a lot of Van Sant haters out there though.

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by Handyman Joe

Took advantage of a morning off and watched my cheapie blu of Elephant (the Gus Van Sant one). What can I say, a magnificent film, beautifully put together and charged with suspense despite not much happening for the first hour. Great soundtrack too - Beethoven and Acid Mothers Temple together at last. I loved this movie - head to Fopp folks and see if they've any left!

It is a great film and have been meaning to get the Blu-ray for a while, shame the nearest Fopp to me is 63 miles away

[Demoncrat]

after watching the rather exciting finale to Breaking Bad 4, i needed cheering up so watched Sour Grapes (Larry David's only directorial credit etc) a very cheeky tale of greed and familial rivalry, was worth the wait even if it looked like a tv programme in places (ie flat looking)

[Handyman Joe]

Originally Posted by antmumford

It is a great film and have been meaning to get the Blu-ray for a while, shame the nearest Fopp to me is 63 miles away

Its the only Van Sant I've seen - anyone got recommendations for others? (not Good Will Hunting though, can't stand Robin Williams!)

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by Handyman Joe

Its the only Van Sant I've seen - anyone got recommendations for others? (not Good Will Hunting though, can't stand Robin Williams!)

His Psycho is definitely worth a watch - contentious for a lot of folk, but definitely worth a watch.

Drugstore Cowboy is probably my fave Van Sant, although I love Elephant too.

[Slippery Jack]

...anything but Gerry . . .

[Prince_Vajda]

Scream 4. Once more, Mr Williamson and Mr Craven deliver a decent Horror flick. They have not reinvented the wheel, but this newest part is convincing because of the continuation of all the well-known characteristics of the franchise (including the cast) and because the implementation of a few new aspects works well. This is the fourth installment of a series, and it makes fun of sequels more than once (and remakes - watch out for a hilarious scene when Hayden Panettiere lists almost all recent Horror remakes at maximum speed! ), with versatile director Craven, and talented writer Williamson bringing in quite a few digs at the Horror genre in general.

The pre-credit scene is excellent, as is the final part of the movie - the latter being very dark and pretty angry. The rest of the movie varies from good (but already seen before) to great (e.g. the scene in the parking garage!) - it drags a little bit in the middle, but never enough to make you push the FF button.

Recommended!

Greetings!

PS: A word on my own account - am I getting old, or is Scream 4 a little bit hard in terms of violence and gore for a BBFC 15 movie?

PPS: My eyesight isn't the best, but does Neve Campbell (38) look a bit older than Courteney Cox (47) in quite a few scenes?

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Scream 4. Once more, Mr Williamson and Mr Craven deliver a decent Horror flick. They have not reinvented the wheel, but this newest part is convincing because of the continuation of all the well-known characteristics of the franchise (including the cast) and because the implementation of a few new aspects works well. This is the fourth installment of a series, and it makes fun of sequels more than once (and remakes - watch out for a hilarious scene when Hayden Panettiere lists almost all recent Horror remakes at maximum speed! ), with versatile director Craven, and talented writer Williamson bringing in quite a few digs at the Horror genre in general.

The pre-credit scene is excellent, as is the final part of the movie - the latter being very dark and pretty angry. The rest of the movie varies from good (but already seen before) to great (e.g. the scene in the parking garage!) - it drags a little bit in the middle, but never enough to make you push the FF button.

Recommended!

Greetings!

PS: A word on my own account - am I getting old, or is Scream 4 a little bit hard in terms of violence and gore for a BBFC 15 movie?

PPS: My eyesight isn't the best, but does Neve Campbell (38) look a bit older than Courteney Cox (47) in quite a few scenes?

PS: not in the slightest, it's incredibly tame for a the franchise, with only a few scene that are actually gory, the bedroom scene in particular. That's what disappointed me most about the film, the lack of screen violence and gore when the first 2 were quite OTT in a hollywood kind of way.

PPS: Courtney Cox has had so much work or whatever done to her face that she no longer looks like Courtney Cox, She also looks 10 years older than she actually is. I thought Neve Campbell looked good.

actually agree with most of what you said about SCREAM 4, i liked it because it was just another Scream film, nothing new added.

[Gojirosan]

Unexpected discovery of a wonderful low budget gem!

I have recently reorganised my Living room AV equipment and uncovered a forgotten pile of Poundland purchases, Film 2000 "home movies" and old Vipcos I had separated away from the main lot of disks for some reason long forgotten. I thought I might as well watch a couple I had not as yet seen. Firsst I watched Lich which was a fairly typical Film 2000 shot-on-video job, possibly a little better than the bulk of that company's releases.

But the other was a film from 2003 by Bilge Ebiri called New Guy. What a fantastic film! A dark and surreal Kafka-esque horror comedy, intriguing and intense with a superb central performance. I loved this and can't believe I let it vanish into a dusty corner for so long!

Find and watch this film!