What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Guybrush · 03-12-2011, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by theuglyorgan

This was so non-scary and boring I almost shut it off. 3/10

So it's worse than the first one?

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

they need to kill POV horror movies. they are done!

I hate that Paranomal Activity made so much money and almost seemed to revive it when it was starting to fade.

Yeah, there are other celebrated horror movies in that niche as well though, like Noroi: the Curse or [Rec], both films that may have helped interest in POV films stay alive. None of them are american though .. and both are (despite the fact I think they're a bit overrated) way better than Paranormal Activity!

Howard the Duck · 03-12-2011, 06:12 AM

Leon Morin, Priest

Trying to complete my Jean-Pierre Melville collection. This is mostly a story of repressed desire and love between Barny, a widow of a Jew and the titular priest, with curt lesbianism (Barny's love for her ebony boss) and curt paedophila (a Nazi soldier falls in love with her half-Jewish daughter of 6, albeit a brief innuendo). It is a bit boring and hardly as captivating as Melville's other adaptation of another book set in a similar era, The Silence of the Sea, which is more atmospheric and tense than this. Set during the Nazi occupation and directly after, the Catholic theology is a bit too much Christianity 101 but the interaction between Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo is rivetting and compelling. And it ends with the typical Melville ending. Not really a good Melville effort, even if it did win the Venice Grand Prix (or whatever). 6/10

loveissucide · 03-12-2011, 11:27 AM

The Purple Rose Of Cairo.
Highly enjoyable fare from Woody Allen, perfectly cast and pitched although the ending is a bit flimsy.

Ben Butler · 03-12-2011, 04:54 PM

Let The Right One In 7/10

Far superior to Twilight but not as good as the brilliant book, the film just doesn't go into as much detail in terms of graphic imagery.

Let Me In is rubbish hollywood crap as I expected.

djchameleon · 03-12-2011, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

Yeah, there are other celebrated horror movies in that niche as well though, like Noroi: the Curse or [Rec], both films that may have helped interest in POV films stay alive. None of them are american though .. and both are (despite the fact I think they're a bit overrated) way better than Paranormal Activity!

Yeah I heard about [Rec] but I didn't get to see it before the bastardized American version came out and that's the one I saw.

jackhammer · 03-12-2011, 07:24 PM

Watched this for the 3rd time tonight and despite some really great scenes and dialogue I still think it overrated.

As a fun film for 100 mins it is decent enough but as a homage to grindhouse.... it is actually far too slick in places for it's own good.

Where is the bad acting? Badly dubbed scenes? Visible boom mikes or unimaginative cinematography? this is what grindhouse was all about!

loveissucide · 03-12-2011, 07:53 PM

Essentially Quentin Tarantino remaking the 1960's Batman. A hyperviolent cartoon that was like a non-crap Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

djchameleon · 03-12-2011, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Watched this for the 3rd time tonight and despite some really great scenes and dialogue I still think it overrated.

As a fun film for 100 mins it is decent enough but as a homage to grindhouse.... it is actually far too slick in places for it's own good.

Where is the bad acting? Badly dubbed scenes? Visible boom mikes or unimaginative cinematography? this is what grindhouse was all about!

there were scenes with the grain of the film becoming pretty bad and you see the reel on the side of the screen. There are also some spots where they have a scene completely cut out because the film gets interrupted by it being burned away. I don't remember if that stuff was on the dvd but it was in the theater version I watched.

DoctorSoft · 03-13-2011, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

So it's worse than the first one?

Yeah, I didn't like that one very much, but I thought it was decent. This was just terrible.

Howard the Duck · 03-13-2011, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Yeah I heard about [Rec] but I didn't get to see it before the bastardized American version came out and that's the one I saw.

[REC] is pretty good at what it does, presenting a claustrophobic view of people trapped in a hotel with zombies. Nothing THAT great, but not bad either. Didn't bother with the American version at all.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Watched this for the 3rd time tonight and despite some really great scenes and dialogue I still think it overrated.

As a fun film for 100 mins it is decent enough but as a homage to grindhouse.... it is actually far too slick in places for it's own good.

Where is the bad acting? Badly dubbed scenes? Visible boom mikes or unimaginative cinematography? this is what grindhouse was all about!

I don't like it much. Not even half as much as Machete, or even a quarter as much, even.

03-12-2011, 11:27 AM	#9613 (permalink)
loveissucide Himself Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leuven ,Belgium, via Ireland Posts: 1,325	The Purple Rose Of Cairo. Highly enjoyable fare from Woody Allen, perfectly cast and pitched although the ending is a bit flimsy. __________________ www.last.fm/user/p-mccusker http://www.mixcloud.com/pmccusker www.valjester.wordpress.com

03-12-2011, 07:24 PM	#9616 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Watched this for the 3rd time tonight and despite some really great scenes and dialogue I still think it overrated. As a fun film for 100 mins it is decent enough but as a homage to grindhouse.... it is actually far too slick in places for it's own good. Where is the bad acting? Badly dubbed scenes? Visible boom mikes or unimaginative cinematography? this is what grindhouse was all about! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-12-2011, 07:53 PM	#9617 (permalink)
loveissucide Himself Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leuven ,Belgium, via Ireland Posts: 1,325	Essentially Quentin Tarantino remaking the 1960's Batman. A hyperviolent cartoon that was like a non-crap Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. __________________ www.last.fm/user/p-mccusker http://www.mixcloud.com/pmccusker www.valjester.wordpress.com

03-12-2011, 06:12 AM	#9612 (permalink)
Howard the Duck Live by the Sword Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posts: 9,075	Leon Morin, Priest Trying to complete my Jean-Pierre Melville collection. This is mostly a story of repressed desire and love between Barny, a widow of a Jew and the titular priest, with curt lesbianism (Barny's love for her ebony boss) and curt paedophila (a Nazi soldier falls in love with her half-Jewish daughter of 6, albeit a brief innuendo). It is a bit boring and hardly as captivating as Melville's other adaptation of another book set in a similar era, The Silence of the Sea, which is more atmospheric and tense than this. Set during the Nazi occupation and directly after, the Catholic theology is a bit too much Christianity 101 but the interaction between Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo is rivetting and compelling. And it ends with the typical Melville ending. Not really a good Melville effort, even if it did win the Venice Grand Prix (or whatever). 6/10

03-12-2011, 04:54 PM	#9614 (permalink)
Ben Butler Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Rudheath Posts: 393	Let The Right One In 7/10 Far superior to Twilight but not as good as the brilliant book, the film just doesn't go into as much detail in terms of graphic imagery. Let Me In is rubbish hollywood crap as I expected.