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[SmallBlueThing]

BLOODSTORM
aka NAZIS AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

I can't review this, i dont have the words. It's at once a throwback to the days when renting cheap horror videos meant nervous giggles and mounting concern as to how far the makers were prepared to go, and the kind of movie that if it were a 2000AD strip, or an indie 'graphic novel', we'd be calling its publication the very best of times, and wearing tshirts emblazoned with the logo.

It cost about a quid, but none of that matters- the effects are magnificent and hilarious, the whole film is one jaw dropping sequence after another, culminating in what might be the most seriously repulsive and disturbing sequences in recent cinema history seguing into perhaps the most celebratory and punch-the-air moment of incredulous brilliance, where your eyes will fall out due to what they see. I cannot believe they made this. It's like they reached into my brain and pulled out the best film ever. My recomendation: a double bill with DAGON.
Just brilliant. 10/10

SBT

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

The sight of the [spoiler]Hitler Cyborg[/spoiler] forever removed any sanity I thought I had SBT.

You obviously saw some merit in it that I did not but for real hokum let down shlcok I declare 'The Craving' [The Horror Channel] winner of the most stupid idea ever.  Some tweenagers stalked by a leaping Ape that uses body odour to overwhelm them.Well I've never heard of that before so strike one for originality.

Evil, psychopath Cop aids the fiendish extra in the rubber suit to decimate the Youth obnoxious all to satisfy his addiction to the Ape stink. Just say no to Drugs and the B.O of experimental Monkey armpits kids. 

It ended on a cliffhanger but no...evil has resurrected itself! Filmed very badly on chepo Camera to make it look more Blair Witchy made it look like the cheap,2 penny straight to DVD cash in it was.

'It certainly made a monkey out of me.' I thought to myself as I stalked dissapointed up to bed.

[NapalmKev]

Revenge of the Sith: Seen this a few times before but it was on the Telly so I sat through it again. Now I'm a fan of Star Wars (mainly the originals), but this film has some excessively shitty lines of dialogue, combined with sub-standard/wooden acting. On the plus side the Special effects and battle scenes (Wookie fight in particular) are quite amazing, as are the twin duels that happen at the end of the film. On the whole I'd say this could have been so much more but I think it's quite apparent anyway.

For the record my favorite of the lot is Empire. Mark Hamill actually 'acts' well in this one, in the battle with Vader he Plays the part of the 'lone soldier, without hope' very well.

Cheers 

[Mabs]

Revenge of the Sith: Seen this a few times before but it was on the Telly so I sat through it again. Now I'm a fan of Star Wars (mainly the originals), but this film has some excessively shitty lines of dialogue, combined with sub-standard/wooden acting. On the plus side the Special effects and battle scenes (Wookie fight in particular) are quite amazing, as are the twin duels that happen at the end of the film. On the whole I'd say this could have been so much more but I think it's quite apparent anyway.

For the record my favorite of the lot is Empire. Mark Hamill actually 'acts' well in this one, in the battle with Vader he Plays the part of the 'lone soldier, without hope' very well.

Cheers 

Out of the prequel trilogy this has to be the best...which isn't saying much to be honest. I'm a massive Star Wars fan, and like you Empire is my favourite film. Its not just a perfect Star Wars film but a great science-fiction/ fantasy film too.

ROTS is like I said, an improvement from the poor Phantom Menace and Clones. The visual effects that Lucas had been playing with from Episode 1 had been finally perfected. Theres some really gorgeous imagery on show, the stand out being the lush green Wookie planet Kashyyyk, and the planet where Obi Wan tears General Grevious a new hole! The Boga chase is really excellent. One qualm I had was that it felt a little too rushed toward the end - Anakin goes over to the Dark Side too quickly and in an unconvincing manner methinks. But theres still a lot to enjoy!

[Cursed Earth Dweller]

Watched Moby Dick (1956) last thursday.

Damn good epic! Gregory Peck sure knows how to put emotional rage into a performance! The practical sets of the time were pretty impressive too, especially the Whale. Most definitely a film worthy of it's classical status.

[SmallBlueThing]

The Gregory Peck Moby Dick, like the novel itself, is one of my favourite things n the world. My addiction to all things fictional maritime and barnacle-encrusted knows no bounds. Not in the least interested in the reality of sea-travel, and hate boats, but set a story on the briny deep and im there.

As for 'the craving', that sounds not even for my tastes im afraid, IATS. I have a specific criteria for movies, and i wont bother to try to explain it. Unlike the hilarious comedians around here with their oh so clever quips would have you believe, it's not that i will watch and love any old shit. My tastes were formed in the fires of the early eighties 'nasties' furore and the blockbuster boom of the late seventies. I was growing out of films when, at the age of 29, i saw blair witch and that kicked my love of horror up the arse and back to the forefront of my brain.
I just love seeing things on screen that i wouldnt otherwise see. Im really not interested in movies that dont feature outlandish (cont)

[SmallBlueThing]

(cont) creatures, effects, or sights that id never see in really life. I want movies that quicken my pulse, make me sweat and make my eyes pop with amazement. Im not particularly bothered by the quality of a script, as for the most part i find others' ideas of 'great dialogue' to equate to 'contrived knuckle-chewing bollocks that no one would ever say', a la steven moffat and quentin tarantino. The worst part of this is an entire generation of dickheads who think they need to speak like they're in 'buffy' to appear cool.

I generally have no time for movies that cost upwards of 100m dollars- i cant get my head around that obscene amount of cash being spent on something as inherently worthless as a film, when there's a worldwide recession and people are suffering in the first world, let alone the third. Movie budgets, like footballers' salaries, should be capped or taxed to fucking buggery. Id rather have 100 $2m horror films than one dark knight rises. Spending that amount of cash on a film about (cont)

[SmallBlueThing]

(cont) batman is fucking immoral.

SBT

[TordelBack]

Great rant, SBT, and some nice humorous work by your (cont).

Endeavour pilot. Two hours of my life down the drain.  Terrible casting, terrible costuming, ridiculous plot, a serious case of join-the-dots-prequelitis.  Nice cars and some good-if-inappropriate performances, but all merit was swept away by the bit with John Thaw's daughter's character thinking she recognised Morse (a-ha-ha-ha-f*ck-off), and the appalling unnecessary coda with the comedy MI5 agent and the Minister - I've never seen anything as cack-handed.

I'm a fan of the Morse books, not so much the TV series, so maybe this worked better if you liked the latter.  But I doubt it. 

[SmallBlueThing]

That's entirely passed me by, mr back. Is that a tv show then? When was it on? Some belated spin-off, i take it?

SBT

[TordelBack]

Is that a tv show then? When was it on? Some belated spin-off, i take it

Yeah it's a pilot for a Morse prequel series which they're apparently going ahead and making - don't know when it aired originally, I just saw it on ITV3 or 4 or something last night.  I forgot the best bit - [spoiler]at the end, Young Morse's boss asks him where he sees himself in 20 years time, so he looks in the rearview mirror of his boss' Jag and we see John Thaw's face looking back[/spoiler].  Do you see what they did there?

Jovus wept.

[Zarjazzer]

Prometheus. Um what can I say? it didn't really work for me for example and a biologist walking away from the corpse of the an extraterrestrial -uh, no way man. What the hell was the beginning about where the Engineer equivalent of a pot noodle accidentally brings about humanity? A cosmic joke indeed.

I loved the design and bits of tech/ kit but mini cthulhu to giant facehugger just made me laugh, as did the ending. The actors struggled gamely with the deranged script Fassbender on good form but CT was even more robotic and she was human. The Captain and crew at least had a good send off and a few good lines.

It made $400 million according to imdb.

[NapalmKev]

The Raid: aside from some excellent choreography with the fight scenes, I found the film massively Crap. The film makers HAVE BLATENTLY ripped off the early released Dredd script. I found several of the camera shots looked identical, and a few of the locations look like cheap rip-offs of Peach Trees interior locations. Even though the fight scenes were great 'eye candy', on more than one occasion it looked like they were fighting on a poorly made set/stage, rather than 'real' locations.

On the whole, far more crap than good to found here!

Not recommended!!!

Cheers 

[SmallBlueThing]

The Endeavour thing sounds terrible, i will stay away. As for The Raid, i dont think i could ever be arsed to even give it a go to be honest. Chop socky films are the lowest of the low *in my opinion*, and usually worse and more amateurish than the worst of porn. That they were embraced by underground and fan movie critics at the start of the 90s is entirely down to the dearth of good stuff coming from the usual channels and an increasing desire to champion more and more obscure films in an effort to have something new to talk about. I could kind of understand the raving over awful shit like 'zu warriors', but the lionising of the likes of jackie chan and yuen biao struck me always as truly desperate. Did anyone ever REALLY enjoy those films without the aid of substances hazardous to health? Im unconvinced. Certainly ive seen more than enough to know they are absolutely not for me. Living with a martial arts movie stoner while at uni proved that.
As for prometheus, im still tempted...

SBT

[Spikes]

As for prometheus, im still tempted...

Good for you, 
Though i must say as an Alien fanboy, i was left very underwhelmed. Still, it has its moments.