What Have You Just Seen... Marks Out of 5

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 17 Dec 2006, 21:24

I would just like to state that Roth's films are not really horrors when you think about it. Personally, I'd class them in the same genre as American Pie, Bad Santa, There's Something About Mary etc... gross-out comedy.

I agree it is wrong to apply comments like "sickest gorefest ever made" - poor marketting and hype generated by the uneducated. One of my friends claimed that Hostel made her want to physically vomit. I'm more disturbed by such films as Hard Candy, Mr Vengeance and Koma.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 17 Dec 2006, 22:41

I dont know what people are on about with this new wave of Horror, bolloCKS, ITS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS AND YOU CAN FIND HUNDREDS OF FILMS LIKE THESE NEW WAVE FILMS. iTS IN PEOPLES IMAGINATIONS IF THEY THINK ITS ANYTHING NEW AT ALL.

Mmmmm caps on.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 17 Dec 2006, 23:36

bradavon wrote:You mean Italic LD, cursive means something else: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cursive

Well, I know hell, damn, ba- oh, I see what you mean...

Thanks to the The Simpsons

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 Dec 2006, 01:09

I'm not in a rush to see any Eli Roth films. I mean, even hardcore gore-hounds think his films suck and they usually love any old crap, like the Friday the 13th series.

romerojpg wrote:I dont know what people are on about with this new wave of Horror, bolloCKS, ITS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS AND YOU CAN FIND HUNDREDS OF FILMS LIKE THESE NEW WAVE FILMS. iTS IN PEOPLES IMAGINATIONS IF THEY THINK ITS ANYTHING NEW AT ALL.

Mmmmm caps on.

It is not called "New Wave Horror", it's the Torture sub-genre.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 18 Dec 2006, 08:27

EvaUnit02 wrote:I'm not in a rush to see any Eli Roth films. I mean, even hardcore gore-hounds think his films suck and they usually love any old crap, like the Friday the 13th series.

Innit!!!!!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 Dec 2006, 09:51

I'll try to watch BAT soon Brad, for £3 I'm treating it as a rental

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 18 Dec 2006, 17:57

EvaUnit02 wrote:I'm not in a rush to see any Eli Roth films. I mean, even hardcore gore-hounds think his films suck and they usually love any old crap, like the Friday the 13th series.

romerojpg wrote:I dont know what people are on about with this new wave of Horror, bolloCKS, ITS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS AND YOU CAN FIND HUNDREDS OF FILMS LIKE THESE NEW WAVE FILMS. iTS IN PEOPLES IMAGINATIONS IF THEY THINK ITS ANYTHING NEW AT ALL.

Mmmmm caps on.
It is not called "New Wave Horror", it's the Torture sub-genre.

Not at all, Torture has Always been in horror films in the 70's, 80's and 90's and beyond its nothing new at all. Its just now been give a label latley. A crap one ,esspecially since theres bugger all torture in most the films apart from maybe 2, Saw and Hostel. Theyare still pure horror seen it all before.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 18 Dec 2006, 20:20

Magnificent Warriors: 3/5

Average Yeoh flick. If you can forgive the many plot holes and incoherences (gunshot wounds don't seem to have much effect on the heroes, especially Richard Ng), you'll find this is a nice little film with decent action scenes.

The Iceman Cometh: 3,5/5

Typical Clarence Fok film. Poor cinematography, awkward pacing, good over-the-top acting from Yuen Wah and Maggie Cheung.

This has got to be the worst HKL DVD I've ever seen, though (on par with Legend of a Fighter). Grainy picture, out-of-sync sound and terrible subtitles (most of the jokes aren't translated properly).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Dec 2006, 20:37

grim_tales wrote:I'll try to watch BAT soon Brad, for £3 I'm treating it as a rental

A rental I'm confident "you'll" keep, you have taste

romerojpg wrote:Audrey Hepburn couldnt act her way out of a wet paper bag, pathetic "actress".

Coming from you Romero that means so much to me

. You're right though Starship Troopers is a masterpiece

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Dec 2006, 20:38

tom2681 wrote:Magnificent Warriors: 3/5

Average Yeoh flick. If you can forgive the many plot holes and incoherences (gunshot wounds don't seem to have much effect on the heroes, especially Richard Ng), you'll find this is a nice little film with decent action scenes.

Nice one thanks Tom. I was wondering if I should pick up Magnificent Warriors and for the price of the R1 I'll get it to bump my next DVD Pacific order.

How is Yeoh?

p.s - Can you understand Cantonese?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 18 Dec 2006, 20:54

Brad wrote:How is Yeoh?

She's OK. Quite convincing as a female Indiana Jones, I must say.

Brad wrote:p.s - Can you understand Cantonese?

Well enough to understand puns (which is why I dislike HKL even more now).
Their translators have no sense of humour.

The coffee/gafeh joke in Mr Vampire.
The Kuang Sheng joke in Armour of God.
The rape-related quiproquo between Yuen Biao and Sammo in Prodigal Son.
The Fan Mei-Sheng/Sammo cooking joke in Magnificent Butcher.
The hooker=chicken jokes in Iceman Cometh.
The Yeoh/Donnie quiproquo in Wing Chun.

The translations are so bad the jokes aren't even funny anymore.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Dec 2006, 21:15

tom2681 wrote:The Yeoh/Donnie quiproquo in Wing Chun.

How does it go? How should it go? I have that.

tom2681 wrote:The translations are so bad the jokes aren't even funny anymore.

I think they tried to be too standard with subs so everyone understands them, why I'm not sure.

tom2681 wrote:She's OK. Quite convincing as a female Indiana Jones, I must say.

Cheers.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 Dec 2006, 21:19

How are the Prodigal Son and Magnificent Butcher jokes supposed to go?
Doesn't the IVL translate the Jackie joke in AoG with his Mandarin name rather than Kong Sang?
I just read it as Kong Song anyway, I get jokes

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 18 Dec 2006, 21:29

hey,

Goodbye Captain 3/5

A bit of a sleeper hit this 1998 actioner starring Yu Rong-Guang. Well produced mayhem and with some surprisingly dedicated gritty fights, considering 1998 was part of the downward slide of Hong Kong action cinema.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 18 Dec 2006, 21:52

bradavon wrote:
romerojpg wrote:Audrey Hepburn couldnt act her way out of a wet paper bag, pathetic "actress".
Coming from you Romero that means so much to me . You're right though Starship Troopers is a masterpiece

Yup your always right

esspecially when you try to talk bollocks.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Dec 2006, 22:40

So you mean I don't talk bollocks then? Yep you're right I don't

.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Dec 2006, 10:21

The Thin Blue Line Season 1: 3.5/5

Hard to beleive this is over 10 years since I first saw it in 1995. Still funny but has a yendancy to rely on smutty humour, and certainly not Ben Elton's or Rowan Atkinson's best work. Still, I did like David Haig as chauvinist detective DI Grim, seemingly modelled on 70's TV cops - his unintentionally rude outbursts are often very funny, with some good lines. And I loved James Dreyfuss as the chocolate loving, childlike PC Goody, who's as camp as a row of tents and bonkers!

Interestingly, Stephen Fry turns up in one episode playing a scoutmaster called Brigadeer Blaster Sump - a character not dissimilar to his General Melchett or Duke of Wellington in Blackadder.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 19 Dec 2006, 17:02

bradavon wrote:So you mean I don't talk bollocks then? Yep you're right I don't .

Not at all, read it again slowwwlllyyy

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 19 Dec 2006, 19:50

hey,

Edge of Darkness 3/5

Solid, gritty undercover thriller from Fung Hak-On. Thankfully maintains its grim mood throughout, giving us intense violence and performances that matches the overall quality of the film. Especially Alex Man who makes his usual OTT antics pay off. Lo Wei appears in a fairly big suporting role as the big boss of the piece.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Dec 2006, 20:56

romerojpg wrote:Not at all, read it again slowwwlllyyy

I did and you said "try" to talk bollocks meaning I don't manage it. So if I don't manage it ergo I must be talking sense

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 19 Dec 2006, 21:02

hey,

we're trying to review movies here, ladies.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Dec 2006, 21:13

We are?

, two pages back:

BiscLimpkit wrote:Breakfast at Tiffany's 2/5
This film's quite pish tbh.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 19 Dec 2006, 21:31

hey,

that was a review. What you're doing now requires that handbag pic...

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 19 Dec 2006, 22:03

Well said Knetan, let's get back on topic please...

Street Fighter II: V 1/5
Now I remember why I don't watch anime series. An insult to the game and the entire SF legacy. Pure garbage.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 19 Dec 2006, 22:12

Fukc a handbag pic

Assault on Precinct 13 – 4.25 out of 5

A true classic in every way. From the slow burning pace that takes time and ponders along at a snails pace and builds so much tension that it needs to crack. Crack it does and when the film gets into the flow it’s truly a masterpiece. The action isn’t exactly all the time, but when it rears its head you know its something special as the cast members all do such a great job that we get to care about them all. The main shootout is an amazingly well paced and edited sequence of gun carnage, some wonderful editing and tense situations bring the screen alive.

Really the films just a beautifully different experience and nothing really could be improved on this simple siege idea. Carpenter films rarely get too complex and this is an easygoing idea placed onto the screen with true excitement. Films rarely get me so into them and really the films funny, perfectly cast and acted and features some suitably spooky music that tops the films off perfectly.

Simple films like this work, and Carpenter knows how to do this well and craft a story with characters we want to root for and want to get thru all these incredibly intense moments. Its dark and very well made, even scary at times as the way the gangs spread out and form soundless armies in the shadows of the night is a thing to savour, and the silencer shoot out is quite breathtaking as the rat a tat of bullets ricochet and pop all around the precinct.

Not a film easy to say why it’s one of Carpenters best film, but hell it’s impossible to actually fault the final movie