What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

it's a 1p special on Amazon, Rik.

Yep, ordered it about 10 minutes ago from Music Magpie, which means I'll probably end up with Mousehunt

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Yep, ordered it about 10 minutes ago from Music Magpie, which means I'll probably end up with Mousehunt

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Rik

Yep, ordered it about 10 minutes ago from Music Magpie, which means I'll probably end up with Mousehunt

Mousehunt is almost a live action Tex Avery cartoon.
Looking forward to getting the BD

[Demoncrat]

Watching Bug (2006, William Friedkin)

Yet another variation on Satre's No Exit ... this time set in a 'rustic' motel in Oklahoma.
The story is as old as the hills ...ex con ghosts ex just at a point where they can 'move on'.

Damaged people circling the drain .... to me THIS is horror ... the death by a thousand slights. Masked psychos are all very well. But the monster within is harder to see.

A film.

IMO.

[Frankenhooker]

Bug is simply brilliant, the play is well worth catching if you ever get the chance.


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[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Frankenhooker

Bug is simply brilliant, the play is well worth catching if you ever get the chance.


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If only ...

This is the reason Il watch anything with Shannon in it.

[Frankenhooker]

Shannon is fantastic in it, but the real surprise for me was Ashley Judd.

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[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Frankenhooker

Shannon is fantastic in it, but the real surprise for me was Ashley Judd.

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Il give you that ... both Judd and the crooner were a revelation tbh.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)

John Wayne is at his grizzled best in this later western. Standing alone against gangs of bad guys is no problem to him but his two sons aged 11 and 17 are a different matter since their mother died, especially when they join up with George Kennedy and rob a bank.

Whilst not one of Wayne's best westerns, Cahill is still a lively 90 minutes or so with Andrew V McLaglen directing some violent shoot outs whilst adding (true) grit to proceedings by putting the 11 year old lad in genuine peril whilst at knife and gun point. In fact i doubt they'd get away with the knife sequences on a child today.

Naturally Wayne stands tall throughout and he has a good rapport with Neville Brand who plays a Comanche chief cum tracker for Cahill. They spar off each other well and their camaraderie is as much to the films fore as Cahill realizing he's been a lousy father and having to make up for it.

When it all comes down to the said and done Cahill U.S. Marshall is a vehicle for John Wayne. John Wayne the cowboy and John Wayne the legend and he doesn't disappoint with some brilliant lines only he could deliver.

[Justin101]

I watched House 2 (aka House and the Crystal Skull) last night and I might have missed something Why such a massive shift in tone, it loses all of the horror trappings of the first movie and turns it into a slapstick comedy about a goofy old man and his prized magic Mexican crystal skull which gives him eternal life.

I thought it was OK, and I feel on a re-watch when I'm not caught off guard I'll enjoy it a lot more than I did last night. However, there were some really good bits, that bit John Ratzenberger was really funny and was definitely a high point in the film and now I'm racking my brain trying to remember another good bit and I can't really, it was more funny lines and brief moments of good comedy. I'll watch parts 3 and 4 over the weekend then I think I'll come back to this one with the commentary track and see what's what.

Initial thought are just under three stars (I thought the first film was around a four).