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Started by SmallBlueThing, 04 February, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

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Professor Bear

I loved it!  You neglect to mention several fantastic bits in Black Samurai, but my favorite is probably when he squares off against the big baddie who has a vulture on his wrist, and a henchman can be seen off to one side when the baddie says "GET HIM!" and you naturally assume he's talking to the henchman - until the vulture jumps at Kelly and you have this crazy man vs vulture scrap where the vulture's POV is represented by a claw on a stick being waved at Kelly by a jumpy cameraman.

Half the fun of blaxploitation movies is watching them through your fingers and/or laughing at how wrong-headed or extreme(ly stupid) they get.  You want to give Black Belt Jones a go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthp5UBf0TU

NapalmKev

The last Film/Turd I watched was 'Innocence of Muslims'.
A truly awful film of Epic proportions!!!

Cheers  :)
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Tiplodocus

KILL LIST

A sort of lynchian mash up of a movie. Horror? Gangster? Kitchen sink? Road?

Genuinely can't tell if I liked it or not. But performances, main character relationships and much of the dialogue seemed painfully real.

Btw 'lynchian' is my shorthand for plot didn't make much sense and I didn't quite understand it.
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Spikes

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 14 September, 2012, 08:13:39 PM
Btw 'lynchian' is my shorthand for plot didn't make much sense and I didn't quite understand it.

Top film, that. Ill have to re-watch it again, when i get chance.
There's plenty of online debate about it, for those that wanna work it all out.

Keef Monkey

Was a little disappointed myself, I thought the performances were fantastic and it all felt disturbingly real, but as it went on it just kept reminding me of [spoiler]A Serbian Film and The Wicker Man[/spoiler]. I doubt it was consciously ripping those films off, but there were some spooky similarities. It meant when it finished I was just thinking about those films so Kill List was quickly forgotten which is a shame.

DeFuzzed

I was supposed to see that, totally slipped my mind. Will check it out - but it reminds me, did anyone see Killer Elite? Another one that slipped my mind.

Slumdog Millionaire, 2008.

I think, for me, the whole movie was stained by that scene, the toilet one. I can't get it out of my head. So I'm sure it was pretty and entertaining, since I lasted til the end, but honestly, my stomach is still roiling from the memory of that scene.

And then I felt a wee bit incensed for the people who toil like crazy to learnlearnlearn learn for a quiz and then this kid comes along and just -. No, I'm not a quiz toiler. Yes, I realise I'm being irrational and missing the point entirely! *g*

Good movie, humour/tragedy/action/romance, packed a helluva lot in, lot of levels, I can see why people like it.

But I prefer escapism in my movies and I found this too traumatic to watch again. Like the Hurt Locker was a great movie, I loved it - but I didn't love leaving the cinema all tense and traumatised. Never gonna watch again. Slumdog is a different kettle of fish altogether but still tragic to its core.

Going to immerse myself in my usual action-movies-with-only-a-smidgeon-of-realism to banish all the sad feels. My soul, it hurts! :(


Mudcrab

Lockout - Sci-Fi action from Luc Besson with a superb Guy Pearce carrying off the one-liner guy very well. Lots of convicts break out of suspension in a space-prison (only just thought of the High Rock but it wasn't much like that at all) and he has to go and rescue the President's daughter (Shannon from Lost, who wasn't nearly as annoying as Shannon from Lost).

Great performance from the "funny guy" from series 4 of Misfits (who was apparently also in Emmerdale) as a Scottish nutter, though his accent kind of flitted between Edinburgh and Glasgow, while his brother was distinctly from further north  :)

All in all, good fun. Some nice spaceships n stuff and even an almost Death Star run.
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Pete Wells

Well I've just took the littlun to see Mr Poppers Penguins and I'll fight any man who denies that this film is brilliant.

Zarjazzer

#2963
Starship troopers Invasion -an animated bug hunt basically. Some odd bits especially the prevalence of digital (female) nudity-seemd to jar somewhat. Mad plot involving dodgy psychic officer who turns out to be chums with the two main lead characters. Lots of sacrificial deaths  and people being chopped/jumped on by giant arachnids. They do save Paris and there is a tiny invasion of Earth before the bugs all get blown up.

Some terrible dialogue and to have a sniper [spoiler](twice) miss a giant Queen bug when she was happily shooting smaller bugs outside on a spaceship is just a bit too much.[/spoiler]

An okay film but one shorn of the originals satirical edge. 5 out of 10. Not without fun bits, the power suits are very remincient of HALO. At one point I was cheering on the bugs.  :-\
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Spaceghost

Doomsday, the 2008 film by Neil Marshall of Dog Soldiers/The Descent fame.

Despite being a fan of his previous two films, I'd have to generously describe Doomsday as 'a big fucking mess'. It seems to be at least three completely unrelated films cobbled together with no consistent atmosphere, look or feel to tie it all together.

The plot was obviously concocted by a 2000 AD reader as it 'borrows' several elements from the 'Cursed Earth' story in Judge Dredd. After an uncurable virus takes hold in Scotland, the British government decide to cut their losses and just wall the bastards up and let them all die. Anyone attempting to scale the wall into England will be cut to pieces by automatic machine gun fire.

A little girl is amongst the last to be rescued by the army before the whole country is put on 'Jockdown' (a better title for the film I think you'll agree) and, 30 years later, we see that she is now a fit baaaadaaaass working for the government, shooting baddies in the face and getting her partners killed due to gross incompetence.

Despite this, when the virus inexplicably surfaces in the middle of England, she is chosen to lead an expedition into Cal-hab wastes to confront a scientist who was trapped there whilst working on a cure all those years ago. You see, living people have been spotted in the ruined streets of Scotland and if they've survived, there must be a cure. Right?

Anyway, badass lady leads her team into Scotland in their two Land Raider tank things and look for survivors. They soon discover that the survivors have modelled their new civilisation on a 1980's film interpretation of a punk nightclub. They're all tattoos, mohicans, fishnet vests and screaming. Yes, their main means of communication is screaming.

Badass lady - 'How did you all survive?'. Cliched punk leader - 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!'.

Badass lady kills cliched punk leader's annoying, grinning girlfriend. Cliched punk leader - 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!'.

Me - 'This film is shit...'. Cliched punk leader - 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!'.

So, after the cliched tacky punks have held a sort of 'Britain's Got Cannibalism' song and dance routine making use of ropey music by Adam and the Ants and Fine Young Cannibals (HA! DO YOU GET IT? THEY ARE CANNIBALS!) they EAT SEAN PERTWEE who was a scientist with badass lady. They all go 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!' and then badass lady escapes with a prisoner who she has freed who turns out be the scientist's (the one they're trying to find in Scotland, remember?) daughter, who tells badass lady that, SHOCK HORROR, Cliched punk leader is her brother!!! This has literally no impact on the story or any of the characters.

Aaaaaanyway. They eventually find the community which has been formed by old scientist guy and they've gone in a very different aesthetic direction to the 80's new romantic punks. They have modelled themselves on a Lord of the Rings cosplay club. Yes, they're all 'swords and horses' and live in a big castle and have gladiator fights, erm, and decide to kill all the badass lady's team for some reason.

Buuut, most of them escape and drive off in a posh car that is hidden underground and neeeearly get away, but as they're getting near the wall, the cliched punks turn up at either end of the very long road in their Mad Max cars, buses, bikes and what have you.

How did they get there? How could they have possibly known that badass lady and her team would be there? Or even which direction they were going in? And why are they bothering to send 50 people, expending gallons and gallons of presumably dwindling and precious fuel to chase after them? 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!', that's why.

After all the punks have been messily killed to the strains of 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (by which point me and my wife are nearly helpless with derisive laughter at this stinking mess of a film), badass lady hands old scientists daughter over to the shady government man so he can do a blood test on her and find the cure.

Badass lady, disillusioned with the shady goverment man, decides to drive all the way back to 80's new romantic punk land where she throws the head of cliched punk leader to the floor, symbollically taking over leadership of the despicable, cannibalistic wankers with their shit taste in music. The shit punks eye her warily. What will be their response? Then, the cry goes up! 'RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!' they say.

My wife and I laugh uncontrollably throughout the end credits. What a right load of bollocks.
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Dandontdare

RAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHHH!

excellent review!

shaolin_monkey

Quote from: Lee Bates on 18 September, 2012, 02:38:38 PM
Doomsday, the 2008 film by Neil Marshall of Dog Soldiers/The Descent fame.
review

Thanks mate, you just saved me a DVD rental!

strontium_dog_90

Jockdown would have been a much better title, it must be said.

Just watched "Rec: Genesis," which aparently some purists are complaining about because it has more of a sense of humour than the first two. But it's great fun, just as violent as the first two but slightly less grim - plus the wedding setting, I would argue, lets you get to know the two main characters a little more than in the first two films.

That and the actress in it looks pretty good in a wedding dress.

Professor Bear

One Eyed Monster, in which porn legend Ron Jeremy comes a cropper when his cock rips itself off his body and goes on a murder spree in a mountain lodge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3nBU4KGnW4

It's awful, surprisingly.

Daveycandlish

I'm very tempted by Jockdown - it sounds so bad it could be good!
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