Last Movie You Watched

[Wanderer]

I was misled by a friend, whose taste in films is usually quite sound, to watch 21 Jump Street ("for the laughs"). What a load of cr... Webern! Thank God for the fast-forward button.

THE AVENGERS was too much fun.

Haven't seen that one yet. Maybe at an outdoors cinema (very popular here) later in the season.

[TheGSMoeller]

The first time that they really made the Hulk character....well, a character.  Like my friend pointed out, if you have Banner and the Hulk opposing each other all the time, it is hard to cheer for the Hulk, or anyone.  I, for one, want to cheer for the Hulk!  He also mentioned that it might be good bringing in his friend Rick Jones, so the Hulk can play off of another character that is on his side while as the Hulk.  Kind of like he did with Cap toward the end of the film.

Agree.
Just read this morning that a re-boot for Fanastic Four and Daredevil are already in the works. I'm sure they got the green light after Avengers opening weekend.

[Ataraxia]

Agree.
Just read this morning that a re-boot for Fanastic Four and Daredevil are already in the works. I'm sure they got the green light after Avengers opening weekend.

YES!!!

...ahem... 

[Bogey]

Cool.

[Zizekian]

I just watched We Need to Talk About Kevin and hated it. I'm not a Tilda Swinton fan to begin with, but this movie was just pointless. Kids who are dicks sometimes grow up to be young adults who are dicks. So what?

[Lilas Pastia]

Where it says width= and height=, change the numbers to something lower. I used 300 and 400, for example.

Thanks, I'll work on that next time I try. Having been away from the forum for almost 2 years I lost fluency in technical niceties in the interim 

[kaergaard]

Episode 42 of A Romance of Three Kingdoms. A Chinese TV series based on the country's historical literary masterpiece, written by Lou Guanzhong in the 14th century. Incredibly beautiful scenery, actions and acting! 52 DVDs, only 45 more to go!

[CaughtintheGaze]

You could definitely tell who directed this one. Many of his stylistic features showed up here, but it asked some very good cyberpunk questions. Not a single good acting performance, save for Ironside's zany zealotry.

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This one had much better acting, but it didn't really address any cyberpunk themes. It also, in the end, lost its characterization of Luz, who was the best actor in the picture. It was quite similar to Total Recall though in its dystopianism.

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[SonicMan46]

Well, continuing my 'wine movie' adventure, streamed the one below last night from Netflix:

Bottle Shock (2008) w/ Alan Rickman & Bill Pullman - about the 1976 Paris blind wine tasting pitting California cabs against French Bordeaux & CA chards against white Burgundies - instigated by Steven Spurrier, and English wine merchant residing in Paris, the 1973 Ch. Montelena chardonnay & the 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet topped the lists in both categories!  Surprise or not, the tasting was a revelation and helped spur an interest in wines world wine - for those more interested in details of this tasting, then Check HERE!

And for those wanting even MORE information, check out the book by George Taber (from Time Magazine), who was the only reporter of many invited to the tasting to show up -

 

[snyprrr]

I get that. No need to really watch any of these films more than once.

I was reading that the fire extinguisher scene used CGI. Now it makes sense. I was wondering how they got the stunt double in there when the camera didn't really look away. I keep trying to analyze the scene thinking the fire can is made of foam, but now I can see how they could add 'make-up' to the 'body' with CGI.

How 'bout Martyrs? Frontier(s)?

Oy, why did I look at that Sick Movies site?

Remember the good ole days when there was just Salo and 2000 Maniacs? Mondo Cane, haha?!! Cannibal Feroux. mm... the good ole days , haha,...

[snyprrr]

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

It was a stormy summer's night in DC when we saw the theater goers exit this film with the worst reactions I had ever seen. Two hourse later I was the one leaving the theater disgusted. Later, alone in bed, with the storm in the distance,  I was still haunted by the Blair demon character.

Since then, I have grown to love this movie. It is so over the top and precious, how can one not fall in love? Burton utters some of the most ridiculous lines I've ever heard. When someone 'normal' asks him what's up, he thinks, and considers,... and one believes that he will give a 'pat' answer so the normal person won't think he's crazy, but he just goes ahead and says, "I was brushed by the wings of a demon."

The same goes for a scene where a little autistic girl asks Blair why she's in the psych ward: "I was possessed by a demon," she cheerily chirps!

Still, it's 1977, and we MUST forgive them, for they knew not what they were doing. If any film captures the " " of the '70s, then this is it. Just check out the penthouse digs Blair lives in!


Is there a 'Director's Cut'? I believe a re-edit was attempted, but the results weren't any better. Still, a complete re-edit of the film could reveal a completely different picture? I don't know why I'm so obsessed with this movie (uh,... Blair?? ), but I DO have connections in a way.

I need to hear from someone else who has a dark relationship with this movie.

[Todd]

Been meaning to watch Head-On for a few years.  It's pretty darned good.  I could have done without the musical interludes, but everything else is well done.  And I do believe this is the first time I've encountered a former porn star who could actually act - the lovely Sibel Kekilli, lately seen in Game of Thrones. 

[Cato]

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

It was a stormy summer's night in DC when we saw the theater goers exit this film with the worst reactions I had ever seen. Two hours later I was the one leaving the theater disgusted. ...

Since then, I have grown to love this movie. It is so over the top and precious, how can one not fall in love? Richard Burton utters some of the most ridiculous lines I've ever heard. When someone 'normal' asks him what's up, he thinks, and considers,... and one believes that he will give a 'pat' answer so the normal person won't think he's crazy, but he just goes ahead and says, "I was brushed by the wings of a demon."

I need to hear from someone else who has a dark relationship with this movie.

  Dude!   

The Exorcist II: The Heretic is bad, but it is "epic bad" like Ishtar or the 1960's New York Mets.

Somewhere, out there, (pace Fievel the Mouse) is an interview with Richard Burton (maybe in Life magazine, or Time, I do not remember any more) during the filming of The Exorcist II where he admits to the journalist: "I wish I knew what this movie is about!" 

Your possibly adolescent fascination (How old were you at the time?) with Linda Blair is understandable: she had just turned 18 and...well...some guys go for this style:



And also out there somewhere is a defense of John Boorman's effort: here is one, although I have seen more scholarly ones back in the 1980's:

http://houseoffilms.blogspot.com/2009/11/accepting-synchronizer-defense-of.html

[TheGSMoeller]

After many viewings it still never fails to captivate me, one of the best American films of recent years.

[Corey]

[Lilas Pastia]

A great, severely austere yet joyous movie, one of Rossellini's best.

[snyprrr]

  Dude!   

The Exorcist II: The Heretic is bad, but it is "epic bad" like Ishtar or the 1960's New York Mets.

Somewhere, out there, (pace Fievel the Mouse) is an interview with Richard Burton (maybe in Life magazine, or Time, I do not remember any more) during the filming of The Exorcist II where he admits to the journalist: "I wish I knew what this movie is about!" 

Your possibly adolescent fascination (How old were you at the time?) with Linda Blair is understandable: she had just turned 18 and...well...some guys go for this style:



And also out there somewhere is a defense of John Boorman's effort: here is one, although I have seen more scholarly ones back in the 1980's:

http://houseoffilms.blogspot.com/2009/11/accepting-synchronizer-defense-of.html

Ah, dream brother!

No, I could write a much better love letter,... oh yes, I accepted the synchronizer a long time ago, haha! But yes, I think actually Phil Hardy liked it. Let's see...

...(Boorman) treads much the same perilous tightrope of pretension of his earlier Zardoz, and is just as fascinating...

...Trying to... fashion his sequel as a pure spiritual journey, Boorman fails because of a persistent thematic confusion...

...Burton reeks (!) more of melodramatic than spiritual concern...

...(Boorman & Fraker) combine to produce a genuinely visionary quality...

And the best:

...What the film does have... is a considerably more complex view of the inter-relationship between good and evil than the earlier film's simple dichotomy...


Yes, I am seeking the deeper implications of the 'failings' of the film,... as if God put them there on purpose for us to see for ourselves,... ahhh, I see ,...


btw- concerning Blair,... it's what's JUST BELOW the photo that that... are... the true stars of the film. Mm mm, she is just so '70s yummy in this film, wearing some quite sheer apparel! I... could... go... on...

I'm still reeling from the building-falling-apart cataclysm at the end of the movie,... EPIC!!

EPIC!!

[Corey]

A great, severely austere yet joyous movie, one of Rossellini's best.

Yes, you used le mot juste — joyous. The non-actors are brilliant and touching, and the script is beautiful and poetic.

[listener]

Shaw Brothers 1977 -  FANGS OF THE COBRA aka COBRA GIRL
sorry, it's zone 3 so I can't get a capture of the breasts
Nice variation on the usual teahouse-destroying fight at the end, and fight between a cobra and a mongoose included.
Although subtitled, it ain't art.

[CaughtintheGaze]

Quintessential cyberpunk, hitting on all of the main themes. Visually, this film is stunning, especially in regards to the use of fog and lighting. The plot had some interesting points, but weren't sufficiently explored. The pacing was wretched, it was heavily backloaded, and had many sequences that simply went on far too long.

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This has the trappings of cyberpunk (dystopian, a single overriding corporation), but it was more of a mystery tale than anything else. The plot wasn't bad. The shading was absolutely brilliant, but the film looked stupid, and therefore felt quite stupid.

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