What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5
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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)
Interesting documentary... wish it had been longer than 70 mins.
Interesting documentary... wish it had been longer than 70 mins.
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Prince of Darkness (1987) - 3.5/5
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The Strangers (2008) - 1/5
Take away everything great about Funny Games and this is what you get. Tedious pointless borefest.
Take away everything great about Funny Games and this is what you get. Tedious pointless borefest.
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The Wages of Fear (1953) - 4.5/5
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Too true.gasteropod wrote:Funny Games....Tedious pointless borefest.
Unknown (2011-USA-Germany-France-UK) **½
Almost really good thriller just misses the bullseye somehow.
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Faster ** (2010-USA)
B+ for effort, but the results are underwhelming.
Paris Lockdown (2007-France) *½
Repellent wallow in gangster criminality.
B+ for effort, but the results are underwhelming.
Paris Lockdown (2007-France) *½
Repellent wallow in gangster criminality.
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Maniac Cop 3/5 enjoyable low budget thriller/horror,good cast loopy story,entertaining throughout.The Arrow BD looks ok but lets face it this movie will never look particularly great.
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Something about the original ending hereMarkgway wrote:"Due to studio pressure, 15 minutes were trimmed from the original running time and a new ending was shot."
Hmm... I rather liked Frantic... wonder what was dropped/changed?
http://theseventhart.info/tag/frantic-film-review/
I'd be very interested in seeing a Directors Cut....the version we know always seemed too cheesy to me.
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The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) - 1/5
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Dammit. Even gas got to see it before me
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Lolz, it gets a star for its nightmarish Eraserhead style, but otherwise it's just a vile waste of time.
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Max Payne (2008-USA-Canada) **
Not so bad as video game adaptations go...
Not so bad as video game adaptations go...
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Three O'Clock High (1987-USA) *½
Unpleasent, unfunny comedy about a nerd tormented by a school bully.
Unpleasent, unfunny comedy about a nerd tormented by a school bully.
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The Name of the Rose (1986) - 4/5
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Deadly Friend (1986-USA) **½
Quite good horror from Wes Craven.
Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW2pPlZF-M
Quite good horror from Wes Craven.
Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW2pPlZF-M
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Cruel Intentions - 3.5/5
Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon.
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What's up with Gas and Mark watching more movies than I do
Day 4 (the main event aka midnight marathon): Part 2 (04:45 - 10:30)
The Woman (2011). Mixed bag “Sundance shocker” by Lucky McKee. Middle class American family finds an animal-like “wild-woman” in the forest, capture her, and try to train her into a civilized human being. McKee plays with both feminism and misogyny, mixes horror and satire, and throws in small doses of as-graphic-as-MPAA-allows violence. It’s interesting and entertaining, but ultimately too flashy. Trying to turn an obvious exploitation premise into something intelligent, it the film comes out as a compromise. Too afraid of being labeled as trash it takes cover in self-indulgent cleverness that soon becomes more irritating than poignant.
Ator – The Fighting Eagle (1981). Hard core exploitation director Joe D’Amato took a lighter approach (and a new pseudonym) for a pg-rated Conan – The Barbarian cash-in. It’s an awfully scripted barbarian adventure with amusing dialogue, giant spider, and plenty of campy acting. Difficult to recommend to anyone except small children or fans of bad cinema, the pic does nevertheless have certain (mostly accidental) entertainment merits. For an early morning slot in a midnight film festival it makes passable offering – especially when seen from 35 mm film.
Lady Terminator (1988). Indonesian rip-off action exploitation madness! “First she mates, then she terminates”. The nonsensical storyline kicks off with a sneaky man beating a witch seductress at her own game in the 19th century, then jumps to modern day (1980’s), with a student girl somehow falling under a spell and turning into a lady terminator who is (apparently) after some jewelries worn by two women. The local police, who have unlimited ammunition (so does she) try to protect the innocent girls. What results is boobs, car chases, an unbelievable amount of fired bullets, and a storyline that is best summarized as wtfigo. Quality entertainment and a great closing movie for the night!
Strangely, the program finished on time, as opposed to being two hours late as usual (official statement: ”We’re sorry, we’re on schedule... we've messed up something”).
Day 4 (the main event aka midnight marathon): Part 2 (04:45 - 10:30)
The Woman (2011). Mixed bag “Sundance shocker” by Lucky McKee. Middle class American family finds an animal-like “wild-woman” in the forest, capture her, and try to train her into a civilized human being. McKee plays with both feminism and misogyny, mixes horror and satire, and throws in small doses of as-graphic-as-MPAA-allows violence. It’s interesting and entertaining, but ultimately too flashy. Trying to turn an obvious exploitation premise into something intelligent, it the film comes out as a compromise. Too afraid of being labeled as trash it takes cover in self-indulgent cleverness that soon becomes more irritating than poignant.
Ator – The Fighting Eagle (1981). Hard core exploitation director Joe D’Amato took a lighter approach (and a new pseudonym) for a pg-rated Conan – The Barbarian cash-in. It’s an awfully scripted barbarian adventure with amusing dialogue, giant spider, and plenty of campy acting. Difficult to recommend to anyone except small children or fans of bad cinema, the pic does nevertheless have certain (mostly accidental) entertainment merits. For an early morning slot in a midnight film festival it makes passable offering – especially when seen from 35 mm film.
Lady Terminator (1988). Indonesian rip-off action exploitation madness! “First she mates, then she terminates”. The nonsensical storyline kicks off with a sneaky man beating a witch seductress at her own game in the 19th century, then jumps to modern day (1980’s), with a student girl somehow falling under a spell and turning into a lady terminator who is (apparently) after some jewelries worn by two women. The local police, who have unlimited ammunition (so does she) try to protect the innocent girls. What results is boobs, car chases, an unbelievable amount of fired bullets, and a storyline that is best summarized as wtfigo. Quality entertainment and a great closing movie for the night!
Strangely, the program finished on time, as opposed to being two hours late as usual (official statement: ”We’re sorry, we’re on schedule... we've messed up something”).
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They may watch more. Do they write up every film they see? I don't.HungFist wrote:What's up with Gas and Mark watching more movies than I do
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I almost always just type a score up on here/Mubi as a force of habit.
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I used to write some massive detailed reviews of all films and TV shows, now I would rather watch them rather than spend countless hours a week writing about them
All I do now is mark them out of 5 and list the day I saw them ands format, quicker. I spend more time writing up gigs now haha and they can be even bloody bigger!
All I do now is mark them out of 5 and list the day I saw them ands format, quicker. I spend more time writing up gigs now haha and they can be even bloody bigger!
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I don't see the point just giving a mark, it tells you absolutely nothing of value. I'd at least write a sentence or two. For the most part, I cannot be bothered. Do you recommend Mubi Gas? I've been meaning to ask.
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I think the rating out of 5 says enough tbh. Well I use Mubi to rate and discover films, depends what you want to do, I like it yeah.bradavon wrote:I don't see the point just giving a mark, it tells you absolutely nothing of value. I'd at least write a sentence or two. For the most part, I cannot be bothered. Do you recommend Mubi Gas? I've been meaning to ask.
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I stopped adding comments to my ratings for a while because I wasn't sure if anyone was reading/interested in them. Maybe we should post backup comments (I agree/disagree with your rating, etc...) so reviewers know they're not wasting their time. Some of the films Gas and Hung watch I haven't seen though.
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Ghosts of Mars (2001) - 1.5/5
Finally got around to watching it just for completion's sake and yep it's bad.
Finally got around to watching it just for completion's sake and yep it's bad.
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One of the few Carpenter films I haven't seen.
What happened, John?
What happened, John?