What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Janszoon** · 01-23-2010, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

^ Really enjoyable film about the formation and struggles of a white soul band from Dublin. Besides being really well-written, the soundtrack is immense as well, and probably rivals the Blues Brothers when it comes to the strength of the performances (the version of Mustang Sally here's probably the best I've ever heard as well).

I just saw this for the first time recently myself after having heard my parents rave about it for years. I thought it was good but the ending was too abrupt and not handled very well.

Burning Down · 01-23-2010, 10:04 AM

The Heartbreak Kid.

Bulldog · 01-23-2010, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I just saw this for the first time recently myself after having heard my parents rave about it for years. I thought it was good but the ending was too abrupt and not handled very well.

Yeah, I see what you mean, the ending was a little bit disappointing. Otherwise, I felt it was a great piece of writing all-round. I'm a huge fan of these kinds of movies as well, which helped I suppose.

NSW · 01-23-2010, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

^ Really enjoyable film about the formation and struggles of a white soul band from Dublin. Besides being really well-written, the soundtrack is immense as well, and probably rivals the Blues Brothers when it comes to the strength of the performances (the version of Mustang Sally here's probably the best I've ever heard as well).

Fantastic movie! Easily one of my favorites. I remember I used to have the soundtrack on cassette tape, and I wore that thing out once upon a time. Love Andrew Strong's voice.

LoathsomePete · 01-23-2010, 12:40 PM

Sure it's not the most in depth look at the Metal genre, but Sam Dunn did manage to cram a lot of stuff into a 90 minute documentary. The interviews with Mayham at Wacken and Gaahl from Gorgoroth are worth watching it alone. Also watching Dio take as many digs at Gene Simmons was quite entertaining as well. I'll post the two interviews just because they're that funny, but if you're a fan of metal than it's definitely something to check out.

Antonio · 01-23-2010, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Sure it's not the most in depth look at the Metal genre, but Sam Dunn did manage to cram a lot of stuff into a 90 minute documentary. The interviews with Mayham at Wacken and Gaahl from Gorgoroth are worth watching it alone. Also watching Dio take as many digs at Gene Simmons was quite entertaining as well. I'll post the two interviews just because they're that funny, but if you're a fan of metal than it's definitely something to check out.

have you checked out Dunn's documentary after that, Global Metal? he made it after he got responses from A Headbanger's Journey from places like China, Brazil and Iran, and he goes to alot of those places and talks about the metal scene there, definately worth watching as well.

LoathsomePete · 01-23-2010, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

have you checked out Dunn's documentary after that, Global Metal? he made it after he got responses from A Headbanger's Journey from places like China, Brazil and Iran, and he goes to alot of those places and talks about the metal scene there, definately worth watching as well.

of course, it's stilling on my DVD shelf collecting dust right now. I liked it, but not as much as Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Some of the bands were pretty good, but some were just... bad, however it was cool seeing just how much metal has influenced youth cultures around the world. A good book to read after watching that is Heavy Metal Islam, which I would put up in the P.I.F. thread, however I gave it to a friend for Christmas.

Antonio · 01-23-2010, 01:36 PM

hmmm, ok, i'll check it out.

jackhammer · 01-23-2010, 01:38 PM

I wasn't all that impressed with A Headbangers Journey myself. I don't think he did enough to endear outsiders into liking metal and instead made a metal doc for Metalheads and I learnt nothing new. I much prefer Get Thrashed myself.

+81 · 01-24-2010, 02:03 PM

It was kind of a fun movie partially due to the fact it was loaded with a lot of cheese. The story line was pretty interesting - Futuristic society where the majority of the population are vampires, capture humans to harvest their blood. Now their supply is diminishing and they aim to find a blood substitute before everyone begins to go insane and mutate from blood deprivation. I'm still confused as to why the vampires explode when stabbed in the chest though...

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+81 Rats off to ya! Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: House of the Ju-Ju Queen Posts: 1,609	It was kind of a fun movie partially due to the fact it was loaded with a lot of cheese. The story line was pretty interesting - Futuristic society where the majority of the population are vampires, capture humans to harvest their blood. Now their supply is diminishing and they aim to find a blood substitute before everyone begins to go insane and mutate from blood deprivation. I'm still confused as to why the vampires explode when stabbed in the chest though... __________________ My Music on: Facebook Last.fm My Last.fm My Poor Ol' Neglected Journal

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