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Now that that's out of the way, I've been here 4 years and have never spawned my own journal, so at this point I feel like I'm elevating my status as an MB member. Not really, this could fail horribly. This will be an area of free-flowing thoughts, PC/nonPC (your choice) opinions, comedic relief, tastemaking art, recommendations. You name it. I'll be reviewing music, films, concerts, video games, anything I can get my grubby mitts on. Possibly accept the occasional request. Post videos I'm enjoying, songs I'm listening too, pictures. Updates of my adventurous straight edge lifestyle.

So without further ado, a review.


The Babadook gives me faith in humanity. Not in that this is a cheerful movie, as you can maybe ascertain from the picture below, but that the state of horror in celluloid can (and will) remain a thriving genre not hell bent on delivering hollow jump scares or gratuitous guts, but something built and molded from the minds of people who know pure terror, or at least know how to film it.

With genre fare like "Ouija", and "Annabelle" proving loud sounds are starting to not fool the audience anymore, The Babadook takes that risky, bold move to use the silence and atmosphere to create a rife sense of dread that seems unrivaled in today's horror landscape. Since the day this film was released, it set a bar so high, It'll be hard to film anything scarier than this.

Essie Davis plays a woman suffering from a really late stage of grief, meanwhile raising a son never introduced to his father who tries agonizingly to keep her safe from an entity known as the "Babadook". The first time they suggested even so much of a glimpse of the Babadook, I felt fear I hadn't felt during a horror film since watching Friedkin's The Excorcist many, many years ago. And from that point on I opted to view the rest of the film through my fingers.

All In All, The Babadook is one of the scariest films of the last 25 years, wrapped nice and neat in gothic fairy tale chic. Highly recommended. Stop skipping this on your Netflix cue. 10/10

****ing love that film.

I think that Mike Flannegan (Oculus, Hush) is going to make something really amazing in the future. Right now his films almost hit the mark, but their originality keeps it going for them.

^ I really didn't like Hush, despite all fuss I've heard about it.

Review It Follows. I feel like it just comes hand in hand with The Babadook now since they both brought forward two different, yet equally exciting sides of independent horror films into the mainstream.

I feel the same way about Oculus too. I thought the premise and suspense was built well, but it did become aimless and pointless. There was no real motive for what happened in it and that would have made it way more interesting if the characters were a little more humanized or fleshed out.

Still have to see It Follows.

I think Hush was a touch better than Oculus, but they're both very "meh" in my books. Still better than some of the jump scare heavy modern horrors though, and I definitely do see some potential with Flannegan's desire to be a little different.

Get to watching It Follows, seriously. Not quite as good as The Babadook, but it has a killer score and the script was so well written.

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I think you have a deal. Review of The Raid 2 should be up later. Ever get that feeling someone's pushing your eyeball into your socket? For fuck's sake it's destroying my head.

Any film that uses an unstoppable entity as some allegory to aids, take all my money. Just the thought of that gives me a rock hard chub. Oh yeah, it's a good film too.

@Frown I can send you a torrent if you want.

Oh **** yes. That's a Violent J solo album BTW.

But mostly rock hard chub, right?

Okay, I thought it was ICP. Fuck me, right?

The Raid 2 takes place just a few hours after the first Raid. Rama (protagonist of the first) knows first hand that the goons in the building were just little fish swimming in a small area of a huge pond. What's outside of that building is where the real fear is. The Raid: Redemption is a relatively small, isolated, claustrophobic film compared to Berndal, simply showcasing a gonzo group of cops caught in a web of corruption, stretching only as far as the walls can go. Now with vengeance and justice stuck on Rama's mind, he realizes very soon it's not going to be so simple.

Take everything that made Redemption so great, and brutal, and crank that shit up ten-fold. With these characters not beholden to the confines of brick walls, the story unravels to goliath heights. I don't think anyone knew Gareth Evans could actually muster anything other than some of the greatest choreography, much less an intricate, detailed intertwined story. If his quest was to turn a contained plotline of survival into a crime saga worthy of "Godfather" complexity, he certainly succeeded.

Evans created intensity in tight spaces with Redemption. Berndal avoids repeating that formula, moving the chaos to prison and the streets, shoving Rama into an unforgiving world of assassins and duplicity, asking the weary figure of nobility to navigate a new realm of enemies that emerge from anywhere at a time. it's a considerable widening of "The Raid" universe, pitting Rama against various criminal interests, forced to rely on his fight skills and heartfelt need to serve justice to cap a gushing well of mayhem.

Many different names and faces emerge throughout the film, all playing to a greater purpose, revealing plotlines with considerable depth. The violence, or ultraviolence, is much more extreme. I've seen NC-17 films more tamer than this. The number of times I said oh shit from each broken bone, or shotgun blast to faces, or hammers through mouths was more than 30 times I assure you. But with all this style, it has more than enough substance to go around, which makes it a very fulfilling film. And it should considering it's two and half hours.

All In All, The Raid: Berndal is hands down one of the best action films ever made. It's visceral, well-written, and even thought provoking believe it or not. A Raid film? Thought-provoking? Believe it. See it. But see The Raid: Redemption first, it literally won't make sense if you don't see redemption first. But I'm sure you already knew that. 9.5/10

It's one half of ICP. The good half. Such as it is.

If I'm a bitch for watching this at least twice a day, then so be it.

Reviews for these should be up within the next few days:

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Reviews that should not be up:

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Sorry Bat, this is too painful to actually articulate into words. You want a review? my ears vomit when I listen to this shit. It's everything you imagine it to sound like, avoid at all costs. And if you honestly listen to this un-ironically and jam to it, may God have mercy on your soul.

Looking forward to your Lobster review.
It isn't perfect, but I really enjoyed it.

That's all I really wanted.

I watched the first 30 minutes so far, then my sister barged in and demanded to watch the rest of 10 Cloverfield Lane that we couldn't finish the other night. I suppose I'll review that too.

You understand this blows too, right? It reminds me of this white guy I knew with a shitty beard that wore a necklace of the ICP symbol that watched anime and desperately wanted me to get into one night and I was just not feeling it.

Oh I wasn't at all expecting you to get into it. I just wanted to be a dick. At least Machine got through his ICP gauntlet. Pussy.

A Prophet opens up thrusting us directly into a hostile French prison, as a 19 year old naïve youth finds himself observing a large man squawking back and forth with a guard, realizing then that the rules here are much different than what his expectations were ever perceived as. It's a dangerous place, and legal jargon doesn't help the situation for him at all. He then falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by a man named Luciani, who asks Malek for a devastating favor that he must comply with or else he receives no protection from the Corsican faction, and certainly will get killed. The stakes are quickly established, turning a two and a half hour film into a clenching nail-biter.

I really had no idea of what to expect from this film, but what I did receive couldn't QUITE blow me away as was led to believe, but nonetheless this picture pulses with menace, creating a striking portrait of the years spent deep inside a turbulent prison society. Through Malek's eyes, we watch as mouse turns to man, slowly but surely understanding the customs and rules inside the prison, and the sense of control a mob family actually has from within penitentiary walls. What this picture lacks in violence (although there are moments of brutal, bloody disorder) it completely makes up for in a sense of atmosphere. People stare for way too long, motivations are all over the place, and moments like these kept me wondering just what the fuck was about to transpire.

Malik, played by Tahar Rahim, puts in career best work. The transformation of him turning into a crime boss not only feels fluid throughout the story, but well deserved, as he intelligently weaves his own motivation into the lives of even sketchier people than the one's he's connected with inside. He isn't a good man, by any means, but in some morbid sense I often created a sympathetic outlook to the way he enjoyed embarking on his own endeavors, to the disdain of Luciani and the rest of the Corsicans.

All In All, Un Prophete builds a pyramid of criminal intent that pays homage to the great underworld stories while indulging in its own spine-chilling mischief behind bars. Well worth over 2 hours of my time. 8/10

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This films a doozy, review will be up soon. And yes grindy The Lobster review will be up as well.

Best Coen Bro's films (the ones that I've seen)

No Country For Old Men > Fargo > The Big Lebowski > A Serious Man > Inside Llewyn Davis > Intolerable Cruelty > Burn After Reading > True Grit > Hail, Caesar! > O'Brother Where Art Thou

I've been binging off these Jews lately

Oof. I don't know about that.

A Serious Man>Fargo>Burn After Reading=The Big Lebowski>No Country for Old Men>Raising Arizona>O Brother, Where Art Thou>Miller's Crossing>True Grit>Barton Fink>Blood Simple>The Hudsucker Proxy>The Man Who Wasn't There

Ain't seen the rest yet.

I tend to rate Barton Fink higher than some people, but idk if I can make a list.

Honestly everything up to and including Barton Fink is 10/10. If I did a marathon, I'm sure my order would change, it's so hard to choose between so many great films. I'd probably rate Raising Arizona lower, but that one has some heavy nostalgia for me.

I think I prefer the pynchonesque stoner-hippie conspiracy thriller vibes of The Big Lebowski, but I also rank Raising Arizona up there for being a totally balls-to-the-walls screwball thing.

I am good adjectiver.

JTF's list > Frownland's. Where's Inside Llweyn Davis? Also, I found Burn After Reading to be a little underwhelming aside from the fantastic performances, especially Brad Pitt's.

Haven't seen what's inside just yet. I love Burn because it's really dry and has a bizarre humour to it that the bros only match with A Serious Man (I'd include Fargo and Barton Fink as well but I feel like they're not quite dry, just different).

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Not when you have a computer that runs on rock salt and is only slightly more technologically advanced than a lightbulb.

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So are you going to do that Nice Guys review or are you going to make me start complaining first?

Is this all you've been working with?

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Tube+ sounds a little too much like a porn site.

It's actually not at all. I don't even think they have any porn. But you never know.

Sometimes you know.

I never know.

I'm slipping, I know.


I watched Cloud Atlas when it was first released, and at that point, (2012) I had already scribed my own personal top ten favorite films list, I had just added The Master to it, and Pulp Fiction was my favorite film. Yet, I couldn't understand Cloud Atlas. Either I wasn't interested, or I didn't understand what the film was trying to convey in terms of a philosophical standpoint. Therefore I scoffed at it's self-indulgent, grandeur ideas. Up until last night. Funnily enough, it's ironic I would've never watched it again if not for me being reminded of it from the Key & Peele film Keanu. Jordan Peele has a poster of it in his house.

Cloud Atlas tells six different stories that seem correlated in one way or another, eating up nearly three hours to wind their way through these linked lives, finding the participants bound together with a special comet birthmark used as a visual stamp to ease the audience into a boomerang story. It's challenging stuff, even now that I've watched it again nearly five years later. These lofty ideas that at once seemed too indulgent come off ambitious, showcasing an astonishingly beautiful story. Cloud Atlas is assembled seamlessly, an impressive balancing act considering the depth of emotion required for a few of the subplots, while action and intrigue heats up the rest.

Staying true to their (Wachowki's and Tywker) gifts, the movie is stunning to behold, with extravagant costumes and disturbing environments to examine, while the showy make-up work alone is worth the price of admission. With a core set of actors portraying all types of races and genders, “Cloud Atlas” shows startling freedom with the ensemble, allowing them to embody the oddest characters, yet they commit in full to the fantasy. For those who’ve spent a lifetime waiting to see Keith David made over as an Asian warrior, this is your Christmas morning. The technical achievements are exceptional, always keeping the picture gripping when the material sometimes decides to chase its own tail.

All In All, Cloud Atlas is all I'm thinking about right now. And no doubt years to come. The story, acting, makeup, costumes, the dystopian future, the Victorian-era, the hippie 70's. This film is a stark beauty to behold. A

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Just like I had envisioned, only better because I got to talk to the whole band and got each of their autographs. My life is awesome.

Anybody that denies me the right to enjoy Nicolas Winding Refn films can deservedly suck my shaft.