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Post by lazario on Nov 10, 2008 8:02:20 GMT -5
Hmm... a bit of a surprise, this one. I had no idea what to expect, but after about the first 17 minutes or so, it started getting good. After the first 34 about minutes, it started getting even better. By the end of it, I couldn't even recognize what I expected from this movie. Have to say, the 2nd half of this movie exceeded and shattered what I could have hoped from this little weird, freaky gem. The style is sharp as a tack, the music is bizarre and creepy, the camerawork and cinematography are amazing, it's simultaneously poetic, absolutely grotesque, funny, sappy, sickening, and more brutal than you'd expect. The slow and problematic first 20 or so minutes (that really rip-off Don't Look Now and The Bad Seed) are the only thing that keep this from being a masterpiece. A glowing: from me. Yet further proof that the 1970's was the greatest decade in horror history.
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Post by shunty on Nov 10, 2008 18:01:21 GMT -5
the thing that really stood out for me with that one was the acting. that has some of the best acting i've ever seen in a horror flick. yes.. i said flick.
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Post by malbowski13 on Nov 10, 2008 19:11:14 GMT -5
The Bourne Ultimatum - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Better than part 2 but still peanuts compared to the 1st one.Not much more to say...... 7/10
The Bourne Trilogy : 7/10
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Post by lazario on Nov 11, 2008 2:51:32 GMT -5
the thing that really stood out for me with that one was the acting. that has some of the best acting i've ever seen in a horror flick. yes.. i said flick. It seemed to me like they were doing a kind of version of a melodrama. Not to mention all the really weird hairstyles, the Godfather-ish kind of music ques, that very long scene where the couple who've separated and he remarried almost make-out, all the kitchen shouting scenes. another re-watch of: And there's still no question that this is Dario's weakest story and least interesting ideas since Cat o' Nine Tails, and there's some downright sloppy filmmaking here. It's basically his giallo version of Suspiria, though, in that it's way more visual and music-driven, and the set-pieces make it worth watching. Anchor Bay's DVD doesn't help matters too much either. On one hand, some of the sound effects are better than any of their other DVD's (the rain falling, glass shattering, and fire burning sound like they're actually happening in the room you're in), but everything else is shrill or distorted (mostly in the beginning) and there's very little bass. I don't get it- why does it seem like all of Argento's productions from 1979 to 1986 were all originally mixed in Mono? Seems to me in Italy, they would have been making money at this time. The Demons movies, Phenomena, and some if not all of Inferno suffer from this same effect. I'm also seriously unimpressed with the video quality, the look of the movie. All the little flaws are just magnified. Phenomena faired much better, all around.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 12, 2008 16:17:49 GMT -5
return to sleepaway camp
sadly this one was pretty bad, it did a good job of capturing the feel of cheesy 80's horror, but there was just to much downtime where nothing happened, the kills were lame and the "twist" ending was pretty dumb, sadly most of the reviews were right, this one was a stinker for the most part
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Post by lazario on Nov 13, 2008 4:04:52 GMT -5
Overall, a very disappointing film. Brian De Palma's follow-up to his genre-masterpiece Carrie, and this is no Carrie. Like the similar-themed Scanners, it was clunky and stiff a lot of the time. But it lacked the truly passionate, envigorating, lay-to-waste ending of the also similar Firestarter. But, still without question Disney's Return to Witch Mountain, yet another movie with a similar theme to this one, is the far superior of the group. The beginning stinks but as it goes on, the "impersonating cop" car chase scene was admittedly very fun. The middle is actually very good, with a lot of interesting stuff going on (jealous Robin's attack at the carnival, Gillian's testing scenes and the bleeding-attacks, the heart-breaking "escape" scene with the car-crash that kills the wonderful Carrie Snodgress). So it begins to look up from the slow start. But the ending totally sinks it. Direct to video Canadian sci-fi fantasy horror film (how often do you truly see all 3 genres combine into one?). This one has tremendous ambitions to be an art film and it's certainly written and edited very well. But unfortunately the budget is too low and the special effects are... awful. I think anyone on Earth would complain about the CGI here. It's not even video game quality, which is already low and cheap. It really is a perfect half and half film. Some of the cast is perfect ( especially Alice Krige, Laura Harris, and Balthazar Getty), some stink (almost everyone else) and seem to have no training. The scientific dialogue is really smart, but the plot writing isn't all that great. Especially the lame phys. ed teacher and his half-hearted bible-thumping dialogue. Plus, the last 30 minutes complete dissolve into a really awful looking Aliens-styled "everyone gets killed in the oozy cave" scene that lasts...30 minutes. But it tries very hard. It's also a lot like Rebel Without a Cause, which for a sci-fi movie is a very interesting ambition to have. I've always been a bit hard on this movie. And it's definitely better than I ever gave it credit for ... but not by much. I always thought the reason people liked this movie so much was because of the copious sleaze and the incredible death scenes (that throat-slitting is I think by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen). But it's an amazingly stylish movie that has problems. The idea is smart but it's so padded with references to the original and Psycho II that are stupid, and Anthony Perkins' performance most of the time is bad. Especially in the hospital scene, talking to Diana Scarwid in bed. The music is very good. And, there is some dark humor that works. Plus, there are 2 very obvious references to Dario Argento. The phone-booth scene is clearly influenced by Tenebre, and the swamp scene is taken from Inferno. One of the most sophisticated, intelligently-written "game" movies ever. An irresistable and fun "murder mystery" that goes everywhere for comedy. Only a few of the jokes fail. No, I can't read that cover either. That's the awful DVD cover for the Starz documentary: "Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of the Slasher film." Well, this documentary is good at getting interviews. And almost all of the interviews are really smart and shed a lot of light on the genre... unfortunately, the people showing us the clips of the slasher movies are showing us the most sleazy, nasty, ugly, least interesting-looking clips of each movie. So it basically makes the interview-ees look like idiots, defending scenes of women viciously pitchforked naked in the shower or topless women having their throats slit in swimming pools. Literally, almost all the clips taken are void of story and so the documentary neglects what's best about the good slasher films - The CHASE. The suspense. The anticipation.
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Post by malbowski13 on Nov 19, 2008 19:39:11 GMT -5
Clue is a childhood favorite of mine.Good taste, Laz!
The Incredible Hulk : or as I call it "The Incredible Bunk". Boring,boring,boring. Quick rundown - Liv Tyler(good), Jeff Bridges(bad), 1st hour and a half(bad), Ed Norton(bad), Tim Roth(good), Lou Ferrigno cameo(good), Stan Lee cameo(bad), and last half hour(good). Shitty or not(depends on taste), Punisher is still the best Marvel movie made.PERIOD. 'Nuff said. 6/10
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Post by lazario on Nov 20, 2008 5:07:13 GMT -5
Clue is a childhood favorite of mine. Good taste, Laz! That's my name. "Good taste," Laz. ;D (actually that's kind of a reference to the fact that I make a killer tortilla/taco)
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 21, 2008 5:14:04 GMT -5
watched a new movie called eden lake, great movie, it was filmed great and had such a realistic feel, also one of the more shocking movies i have ever seen, it really makes you care about the main characters and hate the "bad guys", i didnt care all that much for the ending and i dont wanna give anything away but i will say the main plot is a couple go away on a camping trip and get terrorized by a group of kids, everyone should check this one out, a must watch in my eyes, EASILY one of the best movies of the year
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Post by lazario on Nov 21, 2008 6:00:53 GMT -5
Here we go with "shocking" again. YAWN! And realistic? You mean it looks like reality TV? Or like you or anyone else walking around? Is it SMART? Because that's what we're lacking in horror right now. When I get smart again, I'll care about "shocking" again. Seriously, horror this decade wants to be action thrillers, basically. But I'm bored with that. my last re-watch: Almost as good as the first time I watched it. As low class as many of his movies often were, he did know a thing or two about art. He just let his over-the-top reputation on Zombie always get the better of him. People say it's because Zombie was so popular and such a huge hit in Italy, that the studios and financeers for his films always expected a gorefest and as long as they were popular with audiences, no matter what kind of story he did- they wanted a gorefest. I am told that The Beyond wasn't supposed to have been a zombie film at all but that he was coerced into putting zombies in by producers. I don't know how true that is. But certainly the way even this movie gets the zombie treatment as well, shows there's something to that theory. This movie is his best showcase, visually, after The Beyond. The story isn't very interesting, but the creepy and beautiful music mixed with the scenes of the children playing and May ominously warning Bob, and the creepy babysitter Ann, the blood-dripping tombstone, lots of other images - they kind of invent a story by themselves. There are quite a few mistakes and some of it is silly, but it does work in its' own way. Very well.
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Post by shunty on Nov 21, 2008 11:35:39 GMT -5
eden lake huh? i'll check it out. is there nudity?
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Post by lazario on Nov 21, 2008 11:55:12 GMT -5
Just watched the trailer ... Okay, it does look better than maybe MOST of the horror movies this decade. But again, this decade is almost full of crap. We've already had enough "human"-survivalist horror garbage. I'm not interested - nor should anyone else who's seen more than 2 of these movies - in seeing this same plot over and over again. Is there ANYTHING else this decade in horror? Seriously. Whether it's Saw or Chaos or The Girl Next Door or The Strangers, I have seen ENOUGH movies about groups of people being "tormented" by other people. I'm BORED already.
This is clearly the end of the horror genre. We have nothing else.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 22, 2008 6:30:11 GMT -5
laz you really need to stop complaining about horror, its 2008, of course just about every single idea has ever been done, but that shouldnt stop you from watching movies, there are how many hundred zombie movies out?? yet everytime one comes out i will still watch it and there is always something different about it, you have to realize that every movie is gonna borrow something from another movie, take every movie for what it is and stop complaining, why dont you write up an original movie script for us if you are so bored with horror, cuz i guarantee no matter what you come up with i can name a movie like it, you act as if its just horror, every movie in ever genre has been done before, there have been so many movies made its near impossible to make some completly original, so what you gotta learn to do is take a movie for what it is, just like everyone else does... but since all you like to do is bitch and complain i will address this to shunty, first off no there is no nudity, sorry bro , but this is the type of movie where u dont want or even care about nudity, i can promise you one thing, you will be surprised/shocked at times and it wont play out as you would have expected it too....check it out, i just watched a couple others tho the last house in the woods - a very very weird italian tcm inspired type movie, nothing we havent seen tho 5/10 vacancy 2- didnt even know they were making a second one and really it didnt need to be made, kinda like the first but not as good 6/10
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Post by lazario on Nov 22, 2008 8:25:29 GMT -5
Again, I say: this from the guy who thought Masters of Horror's Cigarette Burns and Sick Girl were nothing special.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 23, 2008 1:18:27 GMT -5
and how is that relevant?? o yea its not, not everyone is gonna like what you like, sick girl wasnt bad but got kinda dumb towards the end and cig burns just sucked, thats my opinion and you have yours, get over it
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Post by lazario on Nov 23, 2008 15:39:04 GMT -5
T - you don't know shit about horror and you hate that I keep "calling you out" because of it. You call it your opinion BUT YOU DIDN'T STOP AND THINK, so therefore it's not an opinion. It's just brain-fart... IF it came from your brain, that is.
How is it relevant? Because it proves you don't know shit. So you're not qualified to talk about great horror. You wouldn't know special or interesting if they punched you in the face.
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Post by malbowski13 on Nov 23, 2008 19:27:15 GMT -5
Simpsons-The Movie : Funny and entertaining, just like the show. 8/10
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Post by lazario on Nov 24, 2008 3:40:34 GMT -5
Simpsons-The Movie : Funny and entertaining, just like the show. 8/10 I agree. I heard nothing but bad things about it but it absolutely put me in stitches when I finally saw it. My second Mario Bava film, and another whopping disappointment after Bay of Blood / Twitch of the Death Nerve. The one truly great quality about Black Sunday / The Mask of Satan is how good it looks. It is definitely a beautiful horror movie. And visually, it's creepy as heck in black and white. But the flaws are big. First of all, the music score is terrible and cliched. The story is silly, the dialogue is hokey and cheesy, the death scenes are lame, and there was a surprising number of gross-out moments. So it was disgusting, but because of the bad music, it never crossed the line from creepy into scary. As I often say, it doesn't matter that it's not scary. What matters is the movie's starkness is ruined by it's cheesiness. Plus, a really, really bad ending. Total cliche that also lost its' visual grandness, then went for cheap gross out (the witch's guts are very graphically shown). Too bad too, because it looked like it was really going somewhere for awhile.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Nov 26, 2008 4:52:00 GMT -5
i watch horror movies just about every night, do you think i really care if i have some gay moron saying i dont like horror?? see i could be like you and say you dont know horror because you dont like some of the stuff i like, but im not a little kid that has to know more then you and be better then you, im mature enough to realize that for the most part we both have different tastes when it comes to horror, if you wanna grow up and actually have a convo with me let me know
anyway i just saw homesick, i saw alot of good things about it but i didnt really care for it at all, it was filled with a bunch of really weird scenes and really weird characters, a pretty pointless movie in my opinion
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Post by shunty on Nov 26, 2008 16:56:50 GMT -5
i just downloaded homesick. weird coink-e-dink
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