What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Invid Ninja]

Here's a few things I've seen recently, not much due to being ill and sorting out university stuff. UCAS is pure evil.

Friday The 13th 1,2 and 3 - Got to love US Netflix and it's stable selection of slasher fun. Everyone on here has seen them I'm sure, at a push though I enjoyed the first one the most.

Queen Millennia - Now for something I'm sure noone here has heard of. A fairly obscure 1982 Japanese animated space opera from designer Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999) following the exploits of a thousand year old alien queen defending Earth against an imminent invasion from her own dying planet. Absolutely bonkers conceptually but filled with surreal, occasionally haunting imagery and a masterful new age synth core from Kitaro. Highly entertaining space opera cheese. Not available on DVD sadly but it can be found here: Download Shin Taketori Monogatari: 1000-nen Joou | Queen Millennia Movie [Henshin-BOX] torrent - BakaBT

Thinking of having a Nicholas Roeg marathon on Blu next starting with Walkabout if I can get the time.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Invid Ninja

Here's a few things I've seen recently, not much due to being ill and sorting out university stuff. UCAS is pure evil.

Friday The 13th 1,2 and 3 - Got to love US Netflix and it's stable selection of slasher fun. Everyone on here has seen them I'm sure, at a push though I enjoyed the first one the most.

Queen Millennia - Now for something I'm sure noone here has heard of. A fairly obscure 1982 Japanese animated space opera from designer Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999) following the exploits of a thousand year old alien queen defending Earth against an imminent invasion from her own dying planet. Absolutely bonkers conceptually but filled with surreal, occasionally haunting imagery and a masterful new age synth core from Kitaro. Highly entertaining space opera cheese. Not available on DVD sadly but it can be found here: Download Shin Taketori Monogatari: 1000-nen Joou | Queen Millennia Movie [Henshin-BOX] torrent - BakaBT

Thinking of having a Nicholas Roeg marathon on Blu next starting with Walkabout if I can get the time.

Many, many thanks for the queen millenia link, i've wanted to see this for ages. Big fan of leiji matsumoto for starblazers, gun frontier and the awsome ARCADIA OF MY YOUTH (my personal favouirite).

[Invid Ninja]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Many, many thanks for the queen millenia link, i've wanted to see this for ages. Big fan of leiji matsumoto for starblazers, gun frontier and the awsome ARCADIA OF MY YOUTH (my personal favouirite).

My pleasure, sadly much of Matsumoto's work is unavailable in it's original form on DVD in the west save for a lot of Out Of Print US DVDs of later works. Fortunately an American company called Discotek have been on a roll recently with the Galaxy Express 999 movie releases as well as an upcoming DVD set for the original Captain Harlock show. The GE999 movies by director Rin Taro are for me utter masterpieces and are both in my top 10 favourite films of all time easily. I have not seen Arcadia Of My Youth in years and do hope Discotek obtain the rights to re-release it.

[Hawkmonger]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!
Leigi Matsumoto on DVD????? Pic's! I must have pic's! As far as I knew his properties where locked in eternal rights limbo.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Invid Ninja

My pleasure, sadly much of Matsumoto's work is unavailable in it's original form on DVD in the west save for a lot of Out Of Print US DVDs of later works. Fortunately an American company called Discotek have been on a roll recently with the Galaxy Express 999 movie releases as well as an upcoming DVD set for the original Captain Harlock show. The GE999 movies by director Rin Taro are for me utter masterpieces and are both in my top 10 favourite films of all time easily. I have not seen Arcadia Of My Youth in years and do hope Discotek obtain the rights to re-release it.

Shall look those up. I actually picked up Arcadia of my youth from a british heart foundation store a couple of years back for 99p! Its worth a bit more these days but I just can't part with it.


Just finished watching streets of fire.... still a work of mad genius after all these years.

[Invid Ninja]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!
Leigi Matsumoto on DVD????? Pic's! I must have pic's! As far as I knew his properties where locked in eternal rights limbo.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Galaxy-Expre...5225778&sr=8-1

Here is the link to the US Region 1 DVD of Galaxy Express 999, the sequel can also be imported in other links below. The prints used by Discotek are downgraded encodes of the Blu Ray masters, so the quality of these DVDs are pretty astounding.

[Invid Ninja]

Anyhow, onto another movie. Did get around to some first-time Nicolas Roeg after all.

The Man Who Fell To Earth - One word review: Woah.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Invid Ninja

Anyhow, onto another movie. Did get around to some first-time Nicolas Roeg after all.

The Man Who Fell To Earth - One word review: Woah.

It's a great sci-fi film with a brilliant central performance by David Bowie. It stands up to repeated viewings and is even better once you've read the novella on which it's based.

If you haven't seen Performance, which Nic Roeg codirected with Donald Cammell, it's another visionary masterpiece with a different rock star – Mick Jagger – proving he can act as well as sing.

[Slippery Jack]

Talking of Roeg, anyone else seen Eureka with Gene Hackman and Rutger Hauer? Proper bonkers stuff, I need to watch it again, a bit too much to take in in one sitting . . .

[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

I really enjoyed John Carter. I'll agree it's a bit disjointed but I found it entertaining enough. Not the best film ever made for sure, but I didn't mind it.

Tried double quoting this but can only get the last quote for some reason - bit of a pain because this is replying to the other quote in the post.

Anyway to the point - John Carter is not the biggest flop of all time,that was premature news based on a very poor opening weekend and following poor returns for the following weeks in the USA only.After its run elsewhere it is now in profit barely.

As can be seen here

The Numbers - Movie Budgets