Last movie watched...

[Frank]

A Prophet, or if you prefer - Un prophète. Caught this film for the first time last Christmas, and have now snagged the dirt cheap Bluray. Brilliant stuff.

I had to watch the scene with [spoiler]the razor blade in the mouth[/spoiler] in isolation recently, and it is absolutely skin-crawling, fingernails in your palm stuff. Drifts a bit later on, without the focus and structure provided by the prison setting, but it's worth sticking with. Some of my favourite films are about guys in prison; on an enrelated note, does anyone else enjoy gladiator movies? Or films where grown men wrestle naked?

[Professor Bear]

Simping Detective Shakes the Clown, the 1991 writing and directorial debut of Bobcat Goldthwait, better known as the bad guy from the only good Police Academy movie, and yes, I am actually going to use that as a qualification.  Shakes is an alcoholic substance abusing clown on the run from the cops in a very noir-ish tale interspersed with what I presume to be stand-up ad-libs from a varied cast of performers that include Robin Williams and Adam Sandler, and despite the noirish MOIDAH stuff, Shakes remains a ridiculous character who elicits sympathy despite his many shortcoming and chronic unreliability, and it's really neat to see something in the noir mold that doesn't resort to the usual "he's a loner all on his own doing things his way alone" bollocks to portray Shakes as having a circle of friends who try to do right by him in spite of his drinking.  The dark elements of it are a great counterpoint to the comedy, but I am not surprised at all that it sank without trace as it's not willfully surreal, it's just a murder drama that happens to be set in a town populated with a large amount of clowns committed to their act, though the comedy moments do hit the mark when they're supposed to.  SBT was on about Abbott And Costello meeting Frankenstein a while back in the thread and that film's scary-bits-are-scary and funny-bits-are-funny approach is the closest thing I think I can compare to this - the drama works and the comedy works, and even though some elements of it are just utterly ludicrous, they work within the context of the story and the world Shakes inhabits, with none of the outre components of the story rubbed in your face, so it becomes practically impossible to grate on your nerves as I feared would be the case.  An amusing oddity.

[chaingunchimp]

Desecration (a film i worked on) is now available to be viewed on youtube.
have a watch and leave some comments please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLD2lNSqWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLD2lNSqWA

[El Chivo]

Prometheus
now i can finally read that thread! ...Whaddaya mean, locked?

Anyway, I liked it

Chi

[Spikes]

does anyone else enjoy gladiator movies? Or films where grown men wrestle naked?

Well, if thats your bag, do you also enjoy films set in Turkish prisons?
If so, then Midnight Express should be right up your alley.

[Frank]

Midnight Express should be right up your alley.

F-nar!

[Frank]

Desecration (a film i worked on) is now available to be viewed on youtube.
have a watch and leave some comments please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLD2lNSqWA

Cheers for providing my lunchtime viewing, chimp. That's quite a well put together wee short; was your contribution storyboards or making the tea?

[vzzbux]

Tried to watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) last night. Should I have been  laughing so hard at it? My sides were hurting and I had tears rolling down my face at some points. This hasn't aged well.





V

[Colin YNWA]

Tried to watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) last night. Should I have been  laughing so hard at it? My sides were hurting and I had tears rolling down my face at some points. This hasn't aged well.

I'll bit my lip and except that people are of course entirely welcome to their own take on such things... no I will resist the urge to scream

"HERETIC FOOL. BUUUURRRRNNNN HIIMMMMMMM!"

as its not constructive.

[SmallBlueThing]

Nah, dawn is overlong, badly paced, full of crap effects and mostly boring. But, it's romero savagely waving his fist at consumerism. These days, the central message of dawn is so accepted by our culture that it has zero effect. Zombies are us? Well duh! Who cares? But at the time, it was- im told- astounding. Personally, while id take it to a desert island, it's only be to keep my spines looking nice. Day, land, diary and survival are MY romero zombie movies.

SBT

[Spikes]

Tried to watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) last night. Should I have been  laughing so hard at it? My sides were hurting and I had tears rolling down my face
V

Nah, dawn is overlong, badly paced, full of crap effects and mostly boring.
SBT

One person not liking DotD '78? Well, i can put that down as being some kind of bizarre aberration.
But when SBT - of all people, joins in the chorus of disapproval... then, im lost for words and dont quite know what to make of it all, 

DotD '78 - in all its glorious versions is simply Mustard.

[blackmocco]

V/H/S. Had more than a few scares but I'd recommend going into it cold. No trailers or reviews. Far better than it had any right to be....

[chaingunchimp]

Desecration (a film i worked on) is now available to be viewed on youtube.
have a watch and leave some comments please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLD2lNSqWA

Cheers for providing my lunchtime viewing, chimp. That's quite a well put together wee short; was your contribution storyboards or making the tea?

cheers Sauchie, I wrote the orginal treatment for it, then storyboards and all that.

[Mardroid]

Prometheus
now i can finally read that thread! ...Whaddaya mean, locked?

Anyway, I liked it

Thank goodness I'm not alone. (Although I'll admit it could have been better.)

And Dawn of the Dead is good, but I found it dragged a bit too. I prefer Day... although Dawn... if doubtless the most iconic* of the Dead films. Or any Zombie film for that matter.

*Sorry for the over-used pretentious word. It seemed applicable here though.

[Frank]

Desecration (a film i worked on) is now available to be viewed on youtube.
have a watch and leave some comments please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pLD2lNSqWA

Cheers for providing my lunchtime viewing, chimp. That's quite a well put together wee short; was your contribution storyboards or making the tea?

cheers Sauchie, I wrote the orginal treatment for it, then storyboards and all that.

Congratulations, you should be very proud.