That show he had explaining military equipment wasn't bad either.

Basically it's just fun watching him in a Marine Corps hat.

Eyes Wide Shut is a real dazzler but sex frightens me

It almost gave me cancer. Constant yeehaaaw when firing, getting so excited over obvious issues "So this is a CANNON ? WoW!" and a torrent of moments when he for example, didn't know how to use a 50 cal.
A lot of explosions, very little substance.
I'm not an acclaimed expert on this, but there are certain things (like tanks) I've been reading on for 2 decades .. and when he ventured into "my" territory, when he talked about things I had actual knowledge of, it was mostly bull.
I guess he has to make a living somehow, I'm just sad he didn't do his homework ;)

Compared to the other things my stepdad would watch that was a "good show". =D

Yes

Finally got around to watching Passengers and it disappointed like I knew it would.

The trailer almost paints it as a thriller. It would have worked better that way. If it went more space horror/thriller than what it ended up being. The trailer made it seem like there was this huge twist but it was a complete let down. They had the framework to do something cool but complete dropped the ball.

Saw is pretty sick

Idk man. I am tired of Spider-Man movies but went to see Homecoming anyways. I'm glad they skipped over the whole origin story for the third time. I was halfway expecting to see a flashback of Uncle Ben dying.

I won't spoil it but it was okay for a Spider-Man flick. Doubt I will ever watch it again. No need to.

Agreed, the first one's actually a pretty solid horror films. What transpired afterwards sort of taints the small greatness of the first one.

The first one is a pure example of horror films that legitimately scare me. I need to put myself into a terrible situation for me to get to the point of genuine psychological horror, as opposed to a few jump scares here and there.

The only time I ever watched Saw was sitting in a bar and having to read subtitles, and it still was pretty scary. So it definitely deserves some kind of credit.

The last film was 'Jurassic World'

I didn't expect such atmosphere from Saw but it turned out really good and I couldn't look away. I'm at least gonna watch the second one, cuz Id be lying if I said I didn't come for the brutality. I got that as well as like the most tense movie experience ever. I think I'm a certified gore hound now so I don't mind if the movies themselves get worse if they're upping the splatter. Also the second still has some positive reviews.

I might watch them all tbh but I'm obviously not expecting any to even come close to the first in terms of being a bitching movie. Apparently Saw V is the gnarliest

Saw I is great. Concept freaked the crap out of me on first viewing even though a lot of the acting was god awful terrible.

But I just can't rewatch it after Scary Movie 4.

Carey Elwes is life

Saw was my yearly Halloween tradition. I loved going to see a new one every year. The last one wrapped it up so well. I don't why they are doing Legacy but I will watch.

Saw Kubo and the Two Strings the other night. Aside from the conclusion being a little unsatisfying I thought it was pretty good. The animation was pretty nice.

I liked that movie a lot. All of the oragami stuff was especially cool.

Well Saw 2 was kinda whack. But I kinda feel like that's because it strayed from everything I liked about the first one. It was too "action"-y and nowhere near as mysterious. There was tension sure, but not two guys chained up in a single bathroom kind if tension.

I don't know if this is even a spoiler at this point but just to be safe



I also kinda already don't like where the story is going.

I guess Donnie Wahlberg didn't have the right stuff after all

Watched Sicario earlier today.
Everybody said it was good, so I felt like it was a safe bet, but...
I found it surprisingly boring and ineffective.
I'm not sure there was any single thing I really liked about it.
Actors underperforming, mismatched soundtrack, dull script and a constant feeling
that the movie seemed to think it was more menacing than it was.
I guess it looked pretty good at times, so that's something.

I feel like we watched entirely different movies the way you describe Sicario.

And I feel like that about the way everyone else described it to me :laughing:

The movie has this really portentous, dark vibe to it, but to me, that just completely missed the mark. I didn't get into the story at all and so I didn't feel like anything important or intense was actually happening to match the music and cinematography.

For example, that scene with the team entering the tunnels fell completely flat for me. I didn't feel like it had really been established that anything bad in particular was supposed to be down there, so the almost horror film like attempt at depicting it as a really intense and claustrophobic scene fell right on it's face for me.

I don't know... It just didn't grab me at all.

Interesting. How much do you know about that drug war? Maybe the locality of it on my end helped me understand some of the more unspoken elements of it.

I don't know a lot. Never been to Mexico, never been to the States. I do know that it's pretty brutal, but the movie didn't really go into the effects of the drug war much. It was barely hinted in the background.
One of the things I was thinking to myself after it was over was exactly that I would have preferred if it took a broader look at the drug war instead of just sticking to Emily Blunt's perspective for the entire movie.
I would rather watch a movie about how it is for the Mexican civilians to be in the middle of that mess.

A movie that I actually felt depicted the cruelty of the cartels much better was The Counselor.
I actually FELT something while watching that one.

Agree about Sicario.
It was well done but ultimately pretty underwhelming and forgettable.

PS: Inb4 Chula sucks its flick-dick.

Damn Euros.

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Super

Finally decided to give this a shot because I thought it looked pretty cheesy tbh. I was pleasantly surprised by how charming it was and how dark some of the humour got. Probably the best film tribute to the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs out there.

*spoilers*I have to say that the rape scene was pretty uncomfortable though, and I'm not sure whether or not the movie was trying to say something or doing it for yucks.*spoilers*

Atonement.

How do movies of this kind of epic scale and grandeur even get made? I'd seen it when it first came out and purposefully waited a long time before watching it again.

There's not a single fault I have with this flick. Every single aspect is movie making perfection. The acting by the 2 leads is mind blowing.

And that 5 and a half minute single tracking shot at Dunkirk beach??? Doesn't matter if some CGI was used to make it happen, as the viewer it's a single tracking shot.

Spoiler: Don't click on the video if you've never seen the movie.

The Saws seem to be getting more violent and more gay at an even ratio

The City of Violence (Jjakpae) (2006)

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Finally seen this after hours of looking for a player copy online with English subs

With no luck I ended up just buying it physically


Great film, good pacing, good choreography, nice stylistic direction

The only gripe I had if I had to choose is that the direction (eccentric though it may be in execution) can be a bit too fact paced in cut which makes me feel like it's the kind of film that's better upon the second watch

But you know, I guess that could also be a positive considering it would most likely be better each time you watch it

Defo a must see for a martial arts and/or revenge film enthusiast

Deliverance.

45 years old and hasn't aged one bit. "That scene" all the way up until its resolution is still absolutely mind blowing in its intensity.

This was Ned Beatty's first motion picture. Talk about giving it his all. There's such a thing as brave acting. This is the very definition of it.

Jon Voight deserved an Oscar. Best work Burt Reynolds did in his entire career.

When I first saw the movie I was really surprised at just how well it held up compared to my expectations. It's an excellent film that earned its cred and then some.

Come to think of it, The Descent makes a lot of nods towards Deliverance. I thought that the opening kayak scene felt familiar.

I really need to watch this. Been putting it off forever.

Back to Deliverance. Can you imagine how hard it was to film some of those scenes considering they were either in the woods or on the river? Just mindblowingly brilliant stuff.

Today they'd just resort to CGI or enhancements.

Re: Jon Voight

The trifecta of Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and Coming Home cement him as an icon. He was awesome in Heat too.

I last saw Problem Child 2 (1991) on VHS :) (Recorded from analogue cable in the 90s)

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Martin (1978)

With the sad passing of George A. Romero I've taken it upon myself to try and track down his non-zombie films. I've only actually seen his Dead movies and Creepshow, and even that I didn't know was directed by him until I was looking up his filmography. Not that it's been an easy task trying to track down his movies, so this may be a long term project, but I digress.

Martin is Romero's take on vampires, except not really. The film stars John Amplas as the titular Martin, a young man who moves to Pennsylvania to live with his great uncle Cuda, and cousin Christine. On the trip though, Martin reveals himself to be a serial killer, who uses sedatives on female victims and then slit their wrists to drink their blood. Cuda warns Martin that he knows what he is (although he treats Martin like an Old World vampire, complete with crosses, garlic, etc.) and that should he kill anyone in the town they live in, he will kill Martin. Martin tells him that he's family and to not treat him as a "nosferatu" which creates this tense living condition between Cuda who despises Martin, Christine who thinks Cuda is crazy and wants to befriend Martin, and Martin who is a rapist/ serial killer. Throughout the movie Martin befriends a DJ to set the record straight about what vampires are, and even begins an relationship with a local lonely housewife.

I thought this movie was incredibly well done and maybe the best Romero movie I've seen. It's kind of incredible given that Dawn of the Dead came out the same year, but this feels like it was more artistically directed, where as Dawn always felt like Romero just shot a whole bunch of footage and made it into a cohesive film in editing. Martin feels much more staged and arranged with a degree of deliberation. There's some really cool bits, like when Martin kills the woman on the train, he imagines it like an old black and white Hollywood movie, all very dramatic and.. I dunno, dignified, but in real life the woman had just finished using the toilet, had a face mask on for her skin, and was using every curse word under the sun as he was attacking her.

Tom Savini is great as always for doing the practical effects, and just like with Dawn, you get that super fake looking hammer horror blood. Savini even acts in this, playing Christine's douchenozzle boyfriend who she eventually settles down with because she's that desperate to get away from her insane great uncle and cousin.

The music also deserves mention because it has a very old school romantic Gothic vibe throughout. It does kind of clash with the modern (at the time) scenes showing the urban blight of the late '70's, but I thought that it worked well given the subject matter and goes well with what Martin probably imagines as his own personal score.

Overall I'm incredibly pleased with this hidden gem of a movie that really made me look at Romero in a different light.

Saw 6 was so gay it turned me straight

We don't want you playing for our team.

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Lion

I thought it was good, not great. The way that the movie accelerates at the end and tells such a huge part of the story through montage makes me think that they either didn't get an appropriate budget or they had an executive trimming down the run time. If his journey had been more fleshed out to match the first half of the movie, I would have enjoyed it more. 6.5/10

gotta be the best anime movie

Rounders. Fun flick made during the height of the Texas Hold Em craze.

Daman, Norton Moll, Malkovich, Turturro, Janssen, and a pretty good story.