What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Vipp]

On Refelction - I can see my assessment of Eli Roth was off quite a bit - i tried to explain my opionions and so on but after thinking about it i can see they wouldn;t really make sense to anyone living outside of my brain and also Eli Roth can clearly make films and may have worked hard to be where he is and i haven't got the knowledge to take that away from him, and if i did i can't see why i would want to. I won;t be buying his films but he is a film maker and i was wrong.

Feel free to read my editied post, but if it doesn;t make sense that's because i haven;t been feeling great recently... that's my fault. sorry guys.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Buboven

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

9/10

Am I the only one who likes this better than the first.

Possibly not, but you're the first person I know who has expressed that view!

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by keirarts

My issue with Eli Roth was this.

Cabin Fever, Hostel + Hostel 2 were all good movies in my opinion. However he's spent 8 years doing bugger all but acting in his mates films, watching films and discussing films. I get it, he likes films but I think its something of a waste because he's in a position to make them and he doesn't.

(Though the remake idea for bad seed was genuinely terrible)

I think that sums up my feeling with Roth. Stop jabbering and make something new.
I'd also like to know what the hell happened to Neil Marshall, a director i thought was really going to go somewhere. Dog Soldiers and The Descent were brilliant and I'm a big fan of Doomsday and quite like Centurion. But that was about 5 years ago and he seems to have buggered off into tv land.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I think that sums up my feeling with Roth. Stop jabbering and make something new.
I'd also like to know what the hell happened to Neil Marshall, a director i thought was really going to go somewhere. Dog Soldiers and The Descent were brilliant and I'm a big fan of Doomsday and quite like Centurion. But that was about 5 years ago and he seems to have buggered off into tv land.

Niel Marshall claims he's still developing some film projects, like his Dracula one, and the Troll Hunter remake, however nothing concrete.

Roth on the other hand, directed The Green Inferno in 2011 or 2012 I think, and the distribution has been screwed over ever since, and then when he finally had it secured, with posters and dates, it all just fell away due to some dispute between companies, and the poor guy is just desperately trying to get his film out. I know i'm dying to see it!

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by keirarts

My issue with Eli Roth was this.

Cabin Fever, Hostel + Hostel 2 were all good movies in my opinion. However he's spent 8 years doing bugger all but acting in his mates films, watching films and discussing films. I get it, he likes films but I think its something of a waste because he's in a position to make them and he doesn't.

(Though the remake idea for bad seed was genuinely terrible)

Yeah, I agree with you on that. However, he does have 2 completed features now to be released so presumably he's getting back into the swing of things.

[J Harker]

His Dracula film, The Last Voyage of Demeter sounded like a great idea but he's been talking about it for ages. At one point i think Viggo Mortenson was even cast.
I'd still like to see Outpost his zombies on an oil rig movie.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

Niel Marshall claims he's still developing some film projects, like his Dracula one, and the Troll Hunter remake, however nothing concrete.

Roth on the other hand, directed The Green Inferno in 2011 or 2012 I think, and the distribution has been screwed over ever since, and then when he finally had it secured, with posters and dates, it all just fell away due to some dispute between companies, and the poor guy is just desperately trying to get his film out. I know i'm dying to see it!

Really? Me sad.......

[PaulD]

Watched Berberian Sound Studio again last night but with the commentary on. A truly fantastic insight into the film and the filmmaking process and Strickland is one of my favourite contemporary directors now by a long shot.

[Demoncrat]

Tis a good comm that.

Watched most of the classic Twisted Nerve (1968) on THC.

[Handyman Joe]

The Sound of Fury - A decent, hopelessly poor guy, in post war USA is seduced by a flash loud mouth crook (Lloyd Bridges, a great OTT performance) into a wheelman gig - only one way this is going. What this film is famous for is just how bad things get - climactic scenes of mob violence are still pretty much unparalleled. Great little film if you can track it down.

Desperate - Another decent guy, more venal thugs (young Raymond Burr this time, one of the great 40s hoods). This is an Anthony Mann noir and looks fantastic as always. Not quite as suspenseful as it should be given the chase scenario but the last 15 is stone cold classic stuff.

Dark Waters - Southern gothic noir - not my fav (also found Rebecca and Secret Behind the Door a little disappointing, although The Spiral Staircase is terrific). There's too many breaks from the tension here - the doctor and the nice ex gardener keep popping up to spoil the evil fun - Elisha Cook Jnr's death by quicksand is memorable though (70 year old spoilers!)