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[Jim_Campbell]

completely unnecessary and gratuitous nudity

You have my attention.

[The Legendary Shark]

Heh.

Next up was Out of Darkness. This is a really bleak romp about a disparate group of cavepeople looking for the promised land but ending up in a land of monsters. Fairly early on the thought occurred that these primitive humans must have passed through the Golgafrincham camp pretty recently because they all had really cool haircuts. This was more or less the time I started thinking about Predator v Humanity: First Contact, in which an arrogant Alpha Predator discovers Earth and humans - and finds himself totally outmatched from the start; pursued by a tribe of Stone Age human hunters at the peak of their own apex predatoriness, so in tune with their prey and environment that all those fancy invisibility shields are practically useless. Give it the whole King Kong vibe of the tragic, doomed monster. I mean, there has to be some reason Predators come here, right? Maybe it took them ages to even get a "win," and this first encounter sees the Predator using Arnie's mud trick to evade detection, and the chief hunter lets the Predator go with a precious shiny pebble as a souvenir. Anyway, Out of Darkness, okay if you like bleak stories about cavepeople playing out while you think of other things.

[GoGilesGo]

The Outfit (2022)

A widowed tailor who prides himself on using traditional techniques, gets caught in the middle of an old school gang war. Over the course of the night he must make the Don's somewhat useless son look his best and hide multiple corpses as the bodycount increases.

Now, if you're thinking this sounds incredibly similar to dear old Jacob Sardini from The Taxidermist, you are not alone. Watching on Netflix, I had to pause to look and Google if the writers were a couple of Squaxx sailing just this side of a plagiarism lawsuit.

Overall pretty good and very atmospheric, almost channeling Rope in that every scene takes place within the three rooms of the tailor's studio.

[JayzusB.Christ]

The Outfit (2022)

A widowed tailor who prides himself on using traditional techniques, gets caught in the middle of an old school gang war. Over the course of the night he must make the Don's somewhat useless son look his best and hide multiple corpses as the bodycount increases.

Now, if you're thinking this sounds incredibly similar to dear old Jacob Sardini from The Taxidermist, you are not alone. Watching on Netflix, I had to pause to look and Google if the writers were a couple of Squaxx sailing just this side of a plagiarism lawsuit.

Overall pretty good and very atmospheric, almost channeling Rope in that every scene takes place within the three rooms of the tailor's studio.

I only watched it a few weeks ago too - I liked it a lot.  The gradual revelation of the complexity of the tailor's character and history was fascinating.

I hadn't thought of the Sardini connection, but now you say it... 
Though Jacob had to rely on a lot of dumb luck, and while the tailor in the film had to as well, his own wits played a huge role too.

[Doomlord66]

Just watched SISU on Sky Cinema.

During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Germans on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Germans steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Germans throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back - even if it means killing every last German in his path.

Very good, very visceral, very Tarantino-esque

[Colin YNWA]

The Tiger

2015 film about the hunt for the last tiger in Korea in 1910s when Korea was under Japanese rule. The tiger is very much a mythical beast in this and the one mistake this film makes is moving away the barely seen flashes of tigerinessin the trees and bushes, we see in the opening hour which are just superb into full blown CGI tiger monster we see bashing numerous folks around in the second half.

It moves the tiger away from mythical mountain lord preparing to ascend to godhood that is so central to this piece and its themes of the old ways moving on and the cost of this. I see why they do it as it humanises the tiger as a character which is also important but I'm sure this could have been done without going full hulk tiger mode.

That aside an exquisite film with some fantastic central performances, wonderful cinematography and which pack quite the emotional punch. So moving and so well done.

Its on Amazon prime and well worth a go if you have a sub there.