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11-19-2011, 07:36 PM | #10761 (permalink) | ||
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11-19-2011, 08:02 PM | #10762 (permalink) |
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Watched Nightmare Concert, aka A Cat in the Brain, a Lucio Fulci movie from 1990 which was at the very end of his career.
Reading about the movie, it intrigued me. It's a meta-film about movie making in which director Lucio Fulci stars and satires himself going mad due to working with grotesque horror movies for so long. He suffers psychotic episodes where he can't differentiate between the fiction from his movies and real life and things only get worse when he tries to get help from an even more disturbed psychiatrist. I have to say the execution was pretty godsdamn awful, though. The plot is so badly presented, it doesn't really do much to engage the viewer. Even worse, it was horribly dubbed and some of the scenes were just plain stupid. Early in the film, Fulci has a psychotic episode where he attacks a woman and tries to rip all her clothes off. When he apologizes for his behaviour, she instead thanks him for the thrill. All of it's just cheap and weird. Constantly throughout the movie, Fulci will see something, like a water running from a tap, which will remind him of something from his movies and we get to see some grisly footage from older movies he's directed or produced. Basically, what sounds like it could be interesting, the director in front of the screen making a meta film where he spoofs himself and the industry, becomes just another poor excuse to put vast amounts of gore on the screen. This time, the paper thin plot, the horrible editing and weird insertions of stock footage and so on reduce the emotional impact of the violence even more until it becomes the cheapest kind of exploitation. For those who like gore, it has heads cooked in the microwave, cannibalism, chainsawing off heads and other body parts, face smashed with hammer, stabbings, drownings, nude women getting ****ed, slapped and murdered, all you could want .. but it's still a bore! The most impressionable thing about it was a nice twist at the very end and a very screwed up start which shows a cat puppet having a feast in some brainy entrails. Overall, I'm disappointed in a movie I thought would be interesting, but turned out to be stupid and incredibly lazy as it recycles a lot of stock footage.
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11-20-2011, 05:39 AM | #10764 (permalink) |
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basically Indiana Jones in motion capture - i am not impressed, also the characters have voices I don't associate them with - 3.5/10 now this is more like it - gives me the Greek mythology kick that the new Clash of the Titans didn't - super-gory as well - 8/10 |
11-20-2011, 08:42 AM | #10765 (permalink) |
Mate, Spawn & Die
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The Burrowers (2008) A pretty good little horror flick set in the American high plains in the 1800's. I don't want to give away much of the plot as discovering what's going on is part of what makes the movie so entertaining, but suffice it to say it's a classic "group of people being stalked in the wilderness" style film. The wide-open and desolate setting of the plains really helps ratchet up the tension and it's always nice to see a horror movie that takes place in another era. I wish there were more of them. |
11-20-2011, 08:08 PM | #10767 (permalink) | |
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I saw "Happy Feet Two" today and was pleasantly surprised!
The movie had many adorable and clever parts, including two of the Best Cartoon Personalities Ever Created!!!!...Will and Bill. They got many of the best lines and had the greatest depth of character development. Will and Bill are even better than Scrat. They were darling, completely fresh and unexpected. The movie impressed me because it shows the marvelous nature of human creativity and music appreciation. One criticism could be that the movie almost seemed like an extended string of music videos, but Will and Bill kept popping up to add some amusing depth and perspective underneath the repertoire of overly sweet songs of hope.
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11-24-2011, 07:41 PM | #10770 (permalink) |
Ba and Be.
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Sci Fi meets historical epic. It works and it doesn't work. The fact that an 'alien' arrives on planet earth and is then told by his computer that it is 8th century Norway and the language is Norse is correct but Norse automatically becomes the English language which is an absolute load of bollocks. Little things like this annoy the crap out of me. It works when it portrays ' Vikings' as everyday people who just happened to be damn good at invasion and drinking!
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