Films Recently Watched

[eugene]

eye in the sky - the overdramatisation is pornographic and borderline vomit inducing, the characters deliver their dialogue lines and arguments as if they're swinging sledgehammers at each other. but despite all that, and while hoping that the makers did their homework when it comes to research, the film offers a very solid and wide-scope portrayal of post-bush drone strike operations and the networks consisting of people fulfilling very different roles, technologies, legal and political elements and so on that make those drone strikes what they are, and that's important i think. still it's a shame that someone like kathryn begelow didn't get to make this, could be much more effective with more subtlety and more organic portrayals of people involved.

[spptrl alt del]

The Martian - visually, unremarkable. utterly drab and no fun to look at. who wants to look at a Mars movie, with space stations, spaceships and stuff? fucking LAME

[Nebraska]

 

this film begins with a witch being tortured then burned at the stake. as "the flames lick her face" she curses the church leaders that her death will be avenged by her two daughters. this comes as a surprise to the court, and from there it's a matter of finding out who her daughters are, in the course of which much sexual depravity is to be had.

 

psychedelically good but at times painfully cheesy and unnecessarily long

 

6 nuns giggling maniacally out of 10

[awesomeperson]

Is that the Jess Franco movie? Jean Rollin was much better than him in that sort of genre.

[Nebraska]

^^ yes. this was franco's only nunsploitation.

[cwmbrancity]

Stephen Thrower (ex-Coil) did a superb book on Franco

 

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/murderous-passions/

[usagi]

 

damn, son.

[caze]

^ great movie

[Rubin Farr]

70s sci if posters were the shit

[Echolalia]

 

The Tall Man - 8/10 - really shocked by this one, has horrible ratings everywhere but I had to watch since it is by the director of Martyrs, his follow up that replaced his remaking of Hellraiser. I really enjoyed Martyrs after getting passed all of the horrible violence, there is an ultimately original and interesting story there. Now onto the Tall Man, one should go into it not knowing anything. I really enjoyed the acting, the shots are extremely well composed, the story is very original, it isn't filled with gore like Martyrs, Jessica Biel does a damn fine job as does everyone else. One of the better films of last year that has gotten next to no love.

 

 

Thanks for the tip. Just about to put this one on. Faults was like a philosophical explanation of what free will is and how it can be warped without realising it. The scene with the Father and the Daughter in the same room was darker than Vanessa Del Rio's bumhole.

[awesomeperson]

^^ yes. this was franco's only nunsploitation.

 

There was also this movie:

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

 

It's loosely based on a real story.

 

He had more movies with nuns but not as nun exploitation as Les Demons. Jean Rollin was more about lesbian themed movies in dreamy, surreal and horror settings, can't go wrong with that.

[iococoi]

Irreversible

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673

..brain freeze..sound: thomas bangalter

[joshuatxuk]

70s sci if posters were the shit

 

yes they are.

 

I love 70s/early 80s sci fi film posters and aesthetics in general

[joshuatxuk]

Well I thought I would not see this until 2024 at the very least, when the Library of Congress was granted permission to screen it publicly, but 30 minutes of mixed footage from Jerry Lewis' extremely infamous film about a German clown caught up in the Holocaust, The Day The Clown Cried, has leaked.

 

As some who has wanted to see it out of morbid curiosity I have to say it doesn't look that terrible. Acting is ok, cinematography is ok, has a "decent 70s era tv movie" vibe to it. Still the plot is a clusterfuck of misguided ethos and if you read why and watch it it's pretty obvious why this has literally been in a vault in Lewis' home all these decades.

Edited June 17, 2016 by joshuatx

[caze]

 

i have a thing for mary elizabeth winstead, so maybe I'm biased.

i really liked this one. ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3021360/

 

 

thanks for the tip, great little film. leland orser was great.

 

"lick my face", lol.

 

would join her cult, 10/10.

[Nebraska]

 

welp- this wasn't bad. it wasn't too sappy but it tried (by joe it tried). there are a couple of really funny moments (imo the whale shark and red octopus were my favorite characters) and then there are the other moments. it did do a few things that i absolutely hate but it made up by surprising me with something i never thought i'd see in a kids film so.... right on!!

 

7.5 fish tacos out of 10

[dr lopez]

 

affleck u fuckin legend

[hello spiral]

 

damn, son.

 

 

^ great movie

 

+1

[Squee]

The Neon Demon - style-over-substance/10

[Silent Member]

What a bombshell, he should let other people handle the writing.

[Nebraska]

https://youtu.be/y1SpWZm1PLc

 

this looks very shia labeouff

[Polytrix]

The Cure (1997)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/?ref_=nv_sr_2

 

Really unsettling and intelligent crime/horror from Japan

[Alcofribas]

The Cure (1997)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/?ref_=nv_sr_2

 

Really unsettling and intelligent crime/horror from Japan

 

 

i love kiyoshi kurosawa. sakebi is my fave.

[iococoi]

 

The Cure (1997)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/?ref_=nv_sr_2

 

Really unsettling and intelligent crime/horror from Japan

 

 

i love kiyoshi kurosawa. sakebi is my fave.

 

 

uhhhh..Kôji Yakusho is also yummy

[tec]

Fuck yes, Cure is the business.