What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nosferatu42]

Sloane

A former Cop goes to the Philippines to find his ex-girlfriend who has been abducted. He teams up with her best friend and his best friend. The acting and script ain't good and I've seen better Action scenes but it does have a random scene of Cannibalism similar to Mountain Of The Cannibal God. It's a film I didn't switch off half way through but it's not one I'm likely to see again nor will I buy it if it got a Blu-Ray release.

Yeah but does it have pig shagging.?

[nicholasrope]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

Sloane

A former Cop goes to the Philippines to find his ex-girlfriend who has been abducted. He teams up with her best friend and his best friend. The acting and script ain't good and I've seen better Action scenes but it does have a random scene of Cannibalism similar to Mountain Of The Cannibal God. It's a film I didn't switch off half way through but it's not one I'm likely to see again nor will I buy it if it got a Blu-Ray release.

Yeah but does it have pig shagging.?

No it's just that they were in a cave

[nosferatu42]

Not good enough.

[Linbro]

'Carnival of Souls', Criterion bluray.
What an odd, wonderful film. A real joy, amazed that I haven't seen it up until tonight.
4.5/5

[Mojo]

I MONSTER
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus adaptation of the Jekyll and Hyde tale ( even though the characters have different names ).
I think it’s fair to say that this film wouldn’t be in many people’s’ top ten of all time, but it does have its moments - notably a nightmarish sequence in which Lee’s alter ego is seen as a skull like figure.
Any film with Lee and Peter Cushing is worth a watch and both give great performances here.
Needless to say, Indicator’s Blu Ray looks fantastic.

SHOCK TREATMENT
A woman goes to a controversial health clinic in an attempt to regain her youth, in this bizarre 1972 French flick.
Once there, she discovers things aren’t quite as they seem, with waiter staff constantly disappearing and strange experiments going on in secret.
A difficult film to categorise, but that helps to make it an enjoyable and unique viewing experience.

[MrBarlow]

The Incredible Hulk. 2008

Scientist Bruce Banner tries to find a cure for the monster he turns into when he gets angry while trying to escape from the U.S. Government, as he gets close to finding a cure, another creatures emerges Abomination.

Being a fan of the T.V. Series and looked forward to the 2003 film and felt really disappointed, I held off seeing this until a work mate told me it was a lot better, a year after it's release I watched it and now its a favourite in the household.

I wasn't sure if Edward Norton was the right choice but did manage to pull it off decently and even writing the script, William Hurt takes the role as General Ross who seems more believable to be a prick than Sam Elliott. Tim Roth stars alongside as the group leader sent in to find Banner and becomes the guinea pig for the abandoned super soldier programme that has consequences and Liv Tyler and Betty Ross the love interest who tries to help Banner find a cure.

The CGI is actually done decently and makes Hulk more realistic where youlook at the screen and think or shout "aw come on really", nothing is done over the top Louis Lettier done a decent job directing and knew how to entertain the audience and managed to add in a decent background score by Craig Armstrong.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Strange Days (1995)

What a movie Strange Days is. In it's two hour twenty fine minutes you'll run the whole gamut of emotions as director Kathryn Bigelow takes us on one hell of a thrill ride in this audacious, uncompromising noirish near future sci-fi murder mystery.

Set during the final two days of December 1999 in an L.A. on the brink of social breakdown, the film thrusts us into the sleazy life of Lenny Nero (A never better Ralph Fiennes) as he sells his highly illegal tripwires - a virtual reality experience in which the wearer of a headset experiences both visually an emotionally certain events - mainly pornographic. It's through a tripwire experience that Lenny witnesses the graphic rape and strangulation of a young woman. On occasions the violence is hard to watch yet it also mesmerizes in it's unflinching yet imaginative portrayals of the sadism.

Added to the mix is a raging slab of police induced violent racism taking the movie in new and exciting directions and also making it as socially aware as can possibly be in the here and now.

Bigelow ensures the film grips from the off, helped by a pounding soundtrack from the likes of Lords of Acid, Strange Fruit, Skunk Anansie and even co-star Juliette Lewis, and she maintains the edge throughout whilst introducing is to a plethora of weird and wonderful characters in the race to a pulse pounding finale as the clock strikes midnight.

As well as Fiennes who somehow makes us believe the weaselly Lenny is some sort of anti-hero, Angela Bassett really stands out as an emotionally conflicted limo driver and Lenny's only true friend who saves him from near death several times.

Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker fourteen years later whilst Strange Days failed to capture a mainstream audience (it's not difficult to see why as portions of this film are way too extreme) and flopped big time. I know which movie i prefer!

[MrBarlow]

The Vampire Bat. 1933.

When villagers start dying due to loss of blood panic is set out as people believe there is a vampire while a police inspector remains sceptical.

Lionel Atwill plays the doctor living in the castle conduction his own experiments on life and death. Melvyn Douglas plays the inspector who believes the killings are of a mad man and not a vampire. Fay wray plays the doctors assistant but doesn't seem to much except stand around and looked shocked and amazed. The downside to this is the editing at it seemed to be processed in a hurry and sometimes it looks at though it may have missed out seconds of the plot. This has always been a good little murder mystery chiller from the 30s from a small forgotten Hollywood studio who seemed to cheap out on the film but does pay off with the explanation on the ending that does have a good build up.

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[iank]

Cliffhanger. Passable early 90s Stallone action flick. It's better than most of his, which isn't saying all that much, granted.

[Demoncrat]

Get Duked (2020, Ninian Doff)

4 chavs are dumped in the Highlands as revenge for ... ungentlemanly behaviour cough.
Noo if you've seen White Settlers, ye will aw ken that we dinnae like the incomers up here the noo

Ahem.
Silly enough wee flick, never really goes one way or the other, first film written all over it etc. Supporting cast make up some of the shortfall as the leads are undistinguished imho. I enjoyed it ...