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As I enjoy the old Thread, Thought to bring this thread back,

as there is one good film

Screamers.

I liked Screamers although the scene at the end with the loads of identical robots was lifted straight out of a Daredevil comic.



Having seen a few Tarantino interviews promoting 'Death Proof' (which I quite liked incidentally) I looked up a couple he was jabbering on about.

VANISHING POINT is basically a 90 minute car chase with some cracking characters and great stunts. Ending surprised me too.

THE MACK was a 70's classic with a hood's rise to becoming pimp of the year. It's like 'I'm gonna git you sucka' played for real. The jive talkin and costumes are brilliant.

If you liked 'Vanishing Point', give 'Two Lane Blacktop' a try - recently released on DVD and with Warren Oates giving a great performance

Incidentally, be sure NOT to check out the Vanishing Point remake starring Aragorn. Very bad.

they remade Vanishing Point!!!???!  

Is nothing sacred?

Ha, they did too, nice mullet Viggo!

Link: Vanished From Sight

All of them!!!! I've missed them all!!!! All the films that there are!!!!

Especially 9 Songs.

Boo hoo.

THREADS from 1984, a BBC film about nuclear war. Endlessly shocking, incredibly detailed; gave me nightmares as a kid & still depresses me now. Essential, though, and brilliant.

Watch it & then read Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD - equally terrifying & brilliant - just to say you did. Go on.

Aah, Threads...
Made especially chilling for me as im from Sheffield, and can still recognise alot of the scenes shown in the film.

Anyone mentioned Near Dark yet?

This is usually the point where I stand up and shout "Meet The Feebles!"

And fall over again.

Threads shat me up.

Meet the Feebles is great!

The Marine. So close to Scocjo's dream.

we had to watch Threads at school for Social Studies, man talk about scarring you pupils.
Just picked up 'Being John Malcovich' and watched it again, forgot how f*&$ked up it was.
Along with Meet the Feebles another Old Jackson classic Brain Dead, best use of a lawn mower ever.

CU Radbacker

9 SONGS IS A PILE OF PISH! GOOD SONGS MIND. NO STORY AT ALL. SHOULD CHECK OUT DISTRICT 13. EVEN THOUGH ITS FRENCH ITS STILL GOOD :-P

...stop shouting, ive got a head-ache...

Your right about District 13 though. Top film!
(even though its French!)

I Went Down. A mild-mannered comedy about a pair of inept Irish gangsters. Contains the immortal line: "I'm not talkin' to ye. 'Cos ye're a cunt!"

LOL at 'EVEN THOUGH ITS FRENCH ITS STILL GOOD'. !!

Yeah, right: 'coz no-one ever heard of a French film that was any good, did they?

:-P

even the brilliant film, Amelie! :)

French films that are good (of course there are many more):
- Pardon Mon Affaire
- The tall blonde man with one black shoe
- Le Samurai

Films I think I haven't recommended here yet:

All Night Long - a 1962 retelling of Othello set in a Jazz club with Patrick MacGoohan in the Iago role

The Big Sleep (the Bogart/Bacall version)

French films?

City of the Lost Children. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

*All Night Long - a 1962 retelling of Othello set in a Jazz club with Patrick MacGoohan in the Iago role *

Are you kidding!? Why have I never heard of this?

La Heine man. grokkin top.

Driller Killer. stonkin' blood fest fun.

WATCH THIS FILM REALLY LOUD

Alphaville. Delicatessen. Betty Blue.

Ah heck. Take your pick!

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_films

I'm not kidding! It's good stuff. There are a lot of actual jazz musicians in it and as you'd expect, they can't act for toffee, but MacGoohan and the other real actors are great

"Anyone mentioned Near Dark yet?"

Repeatedly, but mostly in the context of:

Pointless Hollywood remake in the offing ... Why, God? Why!?!

Cheers!

Jim

Recently watched Next, starring nicolas cage. Perfect throw-away fodder for a sunday afternoon and highly enjoyable:-

In "Next," based on the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man," Nicolas Cage plays a man with the unique ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Relentlessly pursued by the FBI, which is seeking to use his abilities to prevent a global terrorist threat, he is ultimately faced with the daunting choice of saving the world or the woman he loves.

I liked Next too, if you suspend disbelief to accept his ridiculous 'power' it's quite fun. Good action sequences and I liked his multiple selves searching a warehouse.

In a similar vein is DEJA-VU with Big Denzel doing the time travelling. I liked how they sprinkled elements throughout the present that we then saw created in the past - like the ansaphone message for example.

i've seen that before!!!

Had a stand in teacher who reckoned he was an extra in Threads.
I liked the bit where the woman pissed herself

I was recommending Cormac McCarthy's The Road to one of my mates and told him it was like a cross between Threads and Shogun Assassin, only he's not a samurai, just a frightened middle aged man with a shopping trolley full of tins of beans. He laughed, but he wasn't laughing much after he'd read it! It's a brilliant, unforgettable book, as relentlessly bleak as Threads is.

Great French Film: The Wages of Fear

And I watched Night Of The Demon the other day, that was fab.

Yeah, THE ROAD is stunning. Also have to say it is genuinely terrifying in places, and the feeling of dread mounts and mounts as you near the end.

The bit when they go into that house, though, eh?

I know Shane Meadows shot to stardom thru this film and I don't particularly want to see 'This is England' but I still consider it because of  Dead Man's Shoes.

Burnt By The Sun
Goodbye Lenin
Ten Canoes

had the absolute pleasure of watching "the zombie diaries " on t'dvd last week.
 done a la blair witch via video cam it follows and flits between a few groups of protagonists in a very good (i thought ) way .its british and quite realistic and even though its done on a low budget the fx are well done. i was even surprised to see in the "making of" bit in the extras that all the gunfire muzzle flashes and smoke is CG.

get ye down to blockbusters and check it out.

Link: will this work?

wot did i do wrong with my link?

No Surrender.

Alan Beasdale. Bernard Hill. Michael Angelis.

A bunch of octogenarian protestants are (deliberately) double booked with a bunch of likewise decrepit catholics into a run down Liverpool nightclub.

Hilarity ensues. OK, it's bleak, violent, sectarian hilarity, but it's a really fuckin' good movie.

Cheers

Jim

You stuck the website address after the 2000ad one. The one below should do the job.

I read 'The Road' over a long journey home and found it really absorbing and bleak. Every time he went rooting about for stuff I was hoping he'd find a big pie or something. I see a movie is in the works with Viggo in the frame for the father.

As for movies an old classic that I find appropriate is 'The Lost Weekend' another relentless tale of woe, this time about an alcoholic. It's funny and sad when he waits for hours to get his bottle out of his checked in coat only for it to smash soon after. He sooo wanted that booze. Very interesting to see the dated attitudes to class, booze and where to hide that all important bottle.

Link: Braainnsss...

Ha, did the same thing.

Link: Here!

Waaake!

thanks for trying buttonman.
any one else just go to www.zombiediaries.com