Most recent movie you saw

[LadyMistDragon]

Memories of Meerduur, the Korean suspense movie that's supposedly really good. I may have to watch it some other time, because while having a decent twist or two, wasn't really that interesting.

[MrFroz]

I'm still on my roll of watching films starring Heath Ledger. I have finished watching The Patriot and now I've just seen Monster's Ball. I really liked both films, although The Patriot gets history wrong in ways that make it a film that's not for everybody, it still is a quality flick with really good music and solid performances from the lead actors. Monster's Ball on the other hand is a more self-contained story and has got great music as well:

 

 

[Sonikkumania]

7 hours ago, Billy Baron said:

 I watched Se7en, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Maybe it's starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, you decide. I guess it also starred Gwyneth Paltrow, but well, anyway, not to spoil that part of the movie. Kevin Spacey shows up, if you like that sort of thing.
 Se7en seems like your regular cop movie, but things get weird. You don't really notice when or how, you just notice like a psychological spoil _somewhere_. It's actually kind of messed up how the mind of the killer gets mixed up in the plot of the cops. If you've never been blackmailed before, you might not notice parts of the psychological thrill, but then the dark underbelly of the beast shows, and it looks like something uncomfortable for all involved. Like the psyche of man is a playground at midnight or something.
 Se7en is a movie from the late 1990's and it looks like one. The art is really good, and the music is very hip to that period of time. Industrial music and gritty-cold rainy days. The direction is fast paced and The gore is just gross; sick man, sick. You twisted fu*|< ;-) Wipe that smile off your face!
 It's a lot of fun. Watch it!

 

You forgot to mention R. Lee Erney :D

[Capellan]

Happy Death Day, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

 

[MrFroz]

On 10/3/2022 at 2:32 AM, Sonikkumania said:

You forgot to mention R. Lee Erney :D

 

I found out about Se7en due to reading reviews of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy where it was mentioned as an influence for the game. Se7en clearly inspired that game and also the next one by Quantic Dream, Heavy Rain. I really liked the aesthetic in Se7en, with the city where it's always raining and other stuff like the opening sequence. Good movie.

Edited October 4, 2022 by MrFroz

[Rudolph]

I see that The Lawnmower Man: Director's Cut is on Tubi.tv right now. I know what I am watching today.

 

For those who have not seen it, the movie is a cheesy but still neat science-fiction horror movie starring Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Fahey. Despite the name, it is not an adaptation of a Stephen King novel; in fact, the movie was originally supposed to be titled "CyberGod", but producers had it renamed for brand recognition, which naturally caused Stephen King to sue. The movie uses some particularly dated early 90s computer-generated imagery, but there is a psychedelic quality to the visuals that add to the movie's charm. The soundtrack is pretty rad too!

 

EDIT: Ah, so it is called a "Director's Cut", but honestly, I do not think it is an improvement over the theatrical cut, as some of the restored scenes were not particularly good or necessary to begin with and technical issues have prevented their seamless integration. 

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 2022 by Rudolph

[MrFroz]

A Knight's Tale (2001). 'Twas a lot of fun.

[TheSlipgateStudios]

Halloween 4 (1988), I quite enjoyed watching this one

[Rudolph]

Not a movie per se, but I have started watching Farscape. It is alright so far.

[LadyMistDragon]

Twilight of the Golds. The main character is kind of a modernized James Dean protagonist but it was pretty good.

[Sena]

French Connection 2 which, in my sacrilege, I actually liked far more than the first one. As a crime drama, it's pretty conventional, but the middle half where he gets on heroin was the best bit of writing and acting I've seen in quite some time. 

[7x47]

Just watched Minions: The Rise of Gru. Truly a masterpiece for all to enjoy, if you have not watched it yet I would highly recommend going and watching the movie, it has beautiful writing and story telling, along side stunning 3D animation and voice acting. 10/10 movie, would recommend to literally anyone.

[Billy Baron]

I watched "The Dream Team", starring Michael Keaton and Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, and Stephen Furst. to mention a couple other names you might remember from twenty-five years ago. This movie starts off with a pretty good concept - a bunch of people in a mental facility. It goes from the mental facility to a more familiar place, a totally urban location. From there the harsh realities of life start to set in a comedic way.
 The art looks pretty good, you get a really slimy feeling from the city they used. The people from the mental facility don't fit in, either, they stick out like sore thumbs. If this was your family, you would be embarrassed to go outside. The city streets are garbage strewn with all the facets of modern life like hookers haunting the avenues. Yes, it is a little dated, but everything fits in to today's society that overrunneth with the same kind of filth.
 The story is a good one, not to spoil anything, but a pretty fun time as we follow our mentally disturbed family/friends. It gets exciting and speeds up about halfway through, and for Michael Keaton's character, his love interest shows up and puts a kind of happy face on being deranged. Being scizophrenic might not be that bad! :))))
 If you like mental facilities, the insane, or just a fun movie that is kind-of fast paced, watch The Dream Team.

[Sonikkumania]

I just saw 12 Monkeys for the 1st time. It was alright, maybe a little dated.

[MrFroz]

17 hours ago, Sonikkumania said:

I just saw 12 Monkeys for the 1st time. It was alright, maybe a little dated.

 

I really liked Brad Pitt's performance in there, also the fact that he wore a different eye color. That movie is really popular within the Legacy of Kain fanbase. But when it comes to Terry Gilliam, I much prefer Brazil.

 

Me, I just finished watching V/H/S/99 after waiting a couple of months for it. Was a bit of a mixed bag, and one of the stories was oddly reminiscent of Silent Hill 1.

Edited October 23, 2022 by MrFroz

[Wyrmwood]

On 10/22/2022 at 2:37 AM, Sonikkumania said:

I just saw 12 Monkeys for the 1st time. It was alright, maybe a little dated.

 

Watch it again, it's better the second time, honestly, you notice so many small details. Sixth sense was the same in that first view its quite a cool thriller with a neat twist but it was better for me on second watch, seeing how cleverly M N Shyamalan sets it up.

[Sonikkumania]

1 minute ago, Wyrmwood said:

 

Watch it again, it's better the second time, honestly, you notice so many small details. Sixth sense was the same in that first view its quite a cool thriller with a neat twist but it was better for me on second watch, seeing how cleverly M N Shyamalan sets it up.

I propably will (Y)

[hybridial]

I watched the original Halloween a couple of nights ago.

 

This movie really did not need 15 more iterations. 

[Wyrmwood]

17 minutes ago, Sonikkumania said:

I propably will (Y)

 

Also like John Carpenter's the Thing, 12 Monkeys has two different endings depending on how observant you are watching the last scene, I missed it first time round.

[NonniR]

Glorious (2022) - A strange, horror-comedy-cosmic horror movie about a man who stops at a public restroom along the way, after what seems to have been a bad breakup. After drinking himself senseless and passing out in front of the restroom, he gets inside and finds himself locked inside with an Elder god occupying the last stall who claims he needs to help him or reality itself will be destroyed.

 

From then on, crazy things happen (often) in a comedic manner. It sounds totally crazy (and it is) but I couldn't help but love it. It's a bit low-budget, which you can see in the CGI, as well as in the main characters over-acting sometimes, but goddamn it, I liked it. It's one of the few movies I have seen that successfully manages to go from scary to humourous (and back) often within seconds, in a way that I don't really remember seeing before.

 

Also (no spoilers but just a comment on the ending and vague description of it), 

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the twist at the end of the movie was brilliantly well done. It makes you wonder if any of those things you saw happen in the movie actually happened at all which marries quite well with the whole cosmic-horror aspect of the storyline. It basically turned the movie from a "cosmic-horror" movie to a "psychological-horror" movie in a really, cool way.

 

So yeah, I totally liked it and I would recommend it to fans of cosmic horror movies (if you can accept some strange-comedy approach to it).

[Rudolph]

4 hours ago, hybridial said:

I watched the original Halloween a couple of nights ago.

 

This movie really did not need 15 more iterations. 

As flawed as Halloween III: Season of the Witch was, it should have been the direction the Halloween series had taken.

Edited October 23, 2022 by Rudolph

[hybridial]

Just now, Rudolph said:

As flawed as Halloween III: Season of the Witch was, it should have been the direction the Halloween series had taken.

 

Yeah. I don't actually like that movie much, I think it's mediocre, but at least it was something different. To be more accurate discounting the original and III, there are 11 Micheal Myers films. And I don't really like any of them. 

[Rudolph]

17 minutes ago, hybridial said:

Yeah. I don't actually like that movie much, I think it's mediocre, but at least it was something different.

Mediocre feels a bit harsh.

 

I would say it is on par with most John Carpenter movies, actually, even if Season of the Witch was not directed by him, ironically enough. It also had the good sense of casting Dan O'Herlihy (the Old Man from RoboCop) as the villain. Oh, and the Silver Shamrock jingle.

Edited October 23, 2022 by Rudolph

[MrFroz]

Just seen Halloween Ends. I thought a certain scene was very poignant, and I got some Friday the 13th: A New Beginning vibes from it.

Edited October 23, 2022 by MrFroz

[Rudolph]

@MrFroz 

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What I do not understand is how Halloween Kills made Michael Myers more or less invincible - he literally survives being beaten into submission by an armed mob and then proceeds to just get back up and single-handedly take it out in the open - and then in Halloween Ends, it is revealed that he has been hiding in a sewer for the past four years, being content with not killing anyone, and when he finally gets back into action, he turns out to be much easier to kill this time around. Like, what?

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by Rudolph

[MrFroz]

1 hour ago, Rudolph said:

@MrFroz 

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What I do not understand is how Halloween Kills made Michael Myers more or less invincible - he literally survives being beaten into submission by an armed mob and then proceeds to just get back up and single-handedly take it out in the open - and then in Halloween Ends, it is revealed that he has been hiding in a sewer for the past four years, being content with not killing anyone, and when he finally gets back into action, he turns out to be much easier to kill this time around. Like, what?

 

 

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What reminds me of Friday the 13th V, is how you are surprised about who the killer isn't, that and Corey Cunningham is slightly reminiscent to me of John Shepherd's Tommy Jarvis. And there's a bit of a reality subtext with the film being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I think the fact that Michael Myers is isolated and weakened is how a lot of people became during the global lock-down. I wouldn't be surprised if the director actually meant it that way since horror movies occasionally make references to things that happen in the world at the time they're made, like how The Texas Chain Saw Massacre takes a jab at the 1973 oil crisis in the beginning.

 

I will concede that I think out of the trilogy this one is the weakest, but I was nevertheless in for a couple of surprises that for better or worse, made this a different experience than what I thought it was going to be.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by MrFroz

[Rudolph]

Yeah, I have not read any interview, but those similarities sound like they could have been intentional.

 

And I suppose the movie's resolution certainly beats Halloween 6's original ending, where the character is literally stopped by a bunch of pebbles.

[StodgyAyatollah]

O-bi, o-ba Koniec cywilizacji. A polish film from 1984. Watched it a few years back but couldn't find a copy with subs at the time so there was good amount I didn't pick up on. Felt it deserved a re-watch once I found a subbed copy. At first glance it's a somewhat standard post-apocalyptic film about a dysfunctional society of survivors in a bunker. Underneath it's far more interesting than the overwhelming bulk of post-apocalyptic films of the 80s. I would easily recommend it to any fan of classic science fiction. The plot follows a man who once spread word of a mythical "ark" that would come to save everyone in the bunker. A story to keep the masses calm and compliant. After nearly a year in the bunker he has become cynical and everything is starting to break down.

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[Sonikkumania]

@StodgyAyatollah it looks very interesting and like it's ahead of it's time, considering it was made in Socialist Poland. Will give it a check.

[Rudolph]

9 hours ago, Sonikkumania said:

it looks very interesting and like it's ahead of it's time, considering it was made in Socialist Poland.

It is actually not unusual, as quite a few classics  came out of the Soviet Union. Earlier in this thread, I mentioned one of them, the 1938 epic film "Alexander Nevsky" by Sergei Eisenstein; now, I do not think it has aged very well technically speaking, but it is still an interesting watch.

 

I believe it was George Lucas who stated that filmmakers in the Soviet Union had a lot more freedom and creative control than in the United States.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Rudolph