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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!

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Haven't watched Leprechaun 2 yet but started watching it

To cut the short Warrick Davis plays a gorgeous Irish man who does not have a Irish accent...

Greg - will you admit you have an Irish accent? Greg! Greg!
THIS QUESTION SET TO UK HUMORIST GREG DAVIES PS FUCK OFF
 
relex_author said:
Haven't watched Leprechaun 2 yet but started watching it

To cut the short Warrick Davis plays a gorgeous Irish man who does not have a Irish accent...

Greg - will you admit you have an Irish accent? Greg! Greg!
THIS QUESTION SET TO UK HUMORIST GREG DAVIES PS FUCK OFF
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3 and 4 and hood 1 is my fav lep
 
TheLoveBandit said:
Martyrs (2008)

French horror, I watched with English audio dub. The bad news is, I'd watched this before...I'd just forgotten (there's so many). Read the IMDB reviews after the fact, and found it a love/hate list of comments. Some loved it, some hated it. Those who loved it...I think they haven't seen many films. This wasn't good, IMO. Plot line follows two girls who grew up together, one found after she escaped from a torture facility. No explanation of how-why she was there, only that she continues to be mentally tormented growing up and her friend tries to help her. 15y later, she's hunting the people that did it to her - minimal explanation of identifying the family she crashes in on and kills as to them being the people or not, and following the melee her friend arrives to help her but she kills herself (oops, spoiler). Then, authorities show up, haul away all the bodies and set the friend into such a torture set. Finally, we turn the corner on the 'why', as there appears to be a cult of some sort that believes incredible suffering will allow a person to transcend to heaven but they are keeping the person alive to come back and tell them if there is an afterlife and what it is like. Film provides some nudity, but it's not appealing. Some torture, but it's meh other than the final phase for the friend (and the one person they free prior to that which gives the friend an idea of what they may do to her). Ultimately, the film is kept on the list of ... well whatever horror lists it is on, by a few strong fans and their limited experience to compare it with. I can't even say it was 'good' for its era. 3/10.
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Really? I definitely fall into the love category. I found it almost cerebral and loved the ending... Transcending through pain, I dunno, I thought it worked. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
 
Old Boy (2013)

Seems Spike Lee remade the film with Josh Brolin as the lead. I found this version cleaner (crisper images, more American) and I didn't lose things in translation, but there were things lost in the remake. The few humorous lines in the original were abandoned here, along with some liberties taken with the story. Our villain is still a brother, but is was his dad rather than him that was caught to create the root of the situation, but the son is the survivor still scarred and runs our protagonist role. Brother has an English accent, and is fairly unremarkable other than being annoying in his role. I will say, switching the original cause off the brother and to the father DOES make the ending fit better. It feels like the hotel stay was thinner, less screen time or less of an impression on me, I can't say. Out with the hypnotizing, in with the tech tools available today. Spike leans on his buddy Samuel L Jackson as the the hotel manager - a smaller role in this film, but still ok. We kept the hallway fight at the hotel...just updated it a bit. Ending was a little different, but suits this version, I suppose.

For someone who hadn't seen the original, this would likely earn about a 6.5-7/10. Because I'd seen the original, it gets a 6/10. Extra credit given for a) casting Elizabeth Olsen, and b) nude scene with E. Olsen (I haz a crush).
 
I just watched "Danger Close" (2019). It's a war film based on the true story of Australian/New Zealand soldiers holding off a massive force of N. Vietnamese in the battle of Long Tan. It's a very well done film in my opinion and is probably the best war film I've seen since "Saving Private Ryan." Amazing cinematography - particularly of Artillery fire. I think it really did a good job of capturing the chaos of war and the unpredictability of who lives and who dies and how all it can take is a moment in lapse of concentration and you're wounded or KIA. Did an excellent job at building tension with lots of action too. My one little complaint is that it really didn't humanize the N. Vietnamese very much, but I suppose the focus was predominantly on the Western forces. Solid 8.5/10 for me and I don't necessarily like war films that much. Worth a watch.

 
I re-watched Netflix's Death Note from their original section.

Realized this time around that the ending, concerning Light Turner's fate, was left entirely to speculation. Must have thought the first time watching it that L would be the better man and spare Light's life. So I must have watched it, this time around, with the mentality - and kind of going on the film's themes about crime and punishment - that I was feeling into what the spectators might have to think about the film. This drew a lot of my old fears to the surface, that in the past had severely warped what I guess I should call my worldly view... in the past, at least. That kind of power, of the Death Note, in anyone's hands is far too much power to take lightly, which I believe is one of the reasons why they chose Light's name.
 
sewerslide.666mg said:
I will be seeing this soon it looks so bad it might be good
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Similarly, tried last night to watch Robo Geisha (2009). Opening scene was horrible with 80's decor, 70's soundtrack, and a 60's dialogue. But wait, we end the opening scene with our host Geisha opening up and releasing two lingerie clad ninja girls with swords wearing goblin masks complete with dick noses. Fight-fight-fight...yawn, skip 30m. Goblin Geishas attack a girl with zero acting skills by shooting 'Devils Milk' from the dick nosed goblin masks on their breasts, ohnoes it is acid, the girls face is melting...skip 30min. Check a scene, we have a circle of ninja goblin girls doing some cult dance thing...none are attractive in the lingerie and poor lighting. Delete the film.


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TheLoveBandit said:
Similarly, tried last night to watch Robo Geisha (2009). Opening scene was horrible with 80's decor, 70's soundtrack, and a 60's dialogue. But wait, we end the opening scene with our host Geisha opening up and releasing two lingerie clad ninja girls with swords wearing goblin masks complete with dick noses. Fight-fight-fight...yawn, skip 30m. Goblin Geishas attack a girl with zero acting skills by shooting 'Devils Milk' from the dick nosed goblin masks on their breasts, ohnoes it is acid, the girls face is melting...skip 30min. Check a scene, we have a circle of ninja goblin girls doing some cult dance thing...none are attractive in the lingerie and poor lighting. Delete the film.


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sounds fun...... some times the B flix are hit or miss, I feel cheese films and drugs and alchol goes hand in hand, one of my favorite things since I was a kid
 
Reading back thru this thread, it seems I have a penchant for watching crap. :sigh: So it continues

Necromentia (2009)

B-minus horror film. Quality of the film (lighting, sets) is late 2000's, acting is on par with anyone willing to walk on set, but the story - that's what we came for, right? We start with Hagan tending to the body of his dead girlfriend, waiting for her to fulfill her promise to return to him even if she died. Enter Travis, who's younger brother committed suicide years ago and he wants to bring his brother back. Oh, btw, Travis' job is as a torturer (decent scene where he is carving a woman, only to stop as her time is up and she pays him) and a drug addict (I checked, never on BL). They make a deal where Travis carves satanic pattern on Hagan, making him a doorway to hell....all of this taught to Travis by Morbius, a demon he meets in hell while he is passed out on ketamine (hey-yo!). It seems Morbius is hell bent (hehe) on getting out of hell and back among the living and offers to reunite Travis and his brother if he can find Hagan to make the gateway. I won't spoil the ending, but it does tie all characters together reasonably well. However, the joy of the film would have been the torture pr0n (ok, for the era), the demons (one pretty good leftover from the Hellraiser series, a fatguy with a pig head that is annoying, the rest suck), and the story (pretty painful to drag along and ultimately not rewarding...ok, I suppose for a b-minus film). 4/10
 
TheLoveBandit said:
Similarly, tried last night to watch Robo Geisha (2009). Opening scene was horrible with 80's decor, 70's soundtrack, and a 60's dialogue. But wait, we end the opening scene with our host Geisha opening up and releasing two lingerie clad ninja girls with swords wearing goblin masks complete with dick noses. Fight-fight-fight...yawn, skip 30m. Goblin Geishas attack a girl with zero acting skills by shooting 'Devils Milk' from the dick nosed goblin masks on their breasts, ohnoes it is acid, the girls face is melting...skip 30min. Check a scene, we have a circle of ninja goblin girls doing some cult dance thing...none are attractive in the lingerie and poor lighting. Delete the film.


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Sounds like Karate Robo Zaborgar
 
Comedy of Terrors (1963)

I am old enough to appreciate Vincent Price movies. In this one, he is a scoundrel of a man who married a rather attractive woman only to take over her father's funeral business. Boris Karloff plays the father, in a rather limited role. The side-kick who makes coffins and then assists VP with his scoundrelous endeavors is played by Peter Lorre. The first five minutes are a joy compared to the crap I've been watching as of late, as the dialogue moves quickly with sniping and half-hidden remarks as VP has contempt for his voluptous wife and nearly everyone around him. Plotline follows that in their small village-town they've only had one customer in 9mo, and a debt collector is hounding VP for payments. So, VP decides he'll make his own victi...er, customers. The first effort doesn't go as planned, as he makes a widow of a buxom woman only to find she runs off with the inheritence the next day leaving his bill unpaid. So, he seeks out a bacheolor, and who better than his debt collector? Only, that one doesn't go so well either. I won't spoil the film, but if you are ok with 60's filmmaking, a bit of physical comedy and plenty of witty dialogue, this is for you. It's called a horror-comedy, which for the era it likely was, but by standards today there's no real horror to it. Around 75min runtime, neat and tidy with characters and story, and plenty of chuckles (not out right knee slapping, c'mon, it's the 60's). Solid 7/10
 
Recently I watched "Lovelace" (2013) and "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" (2018 )

Both were OK. With Lovelace, I wish there was more content dedicated to explaining how a hardcore pornographic film made over 600 million dollars (!) and got the kind of distribution and press that it received in the early 1970s. For someone like me, who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, that's pretty incomprehensible to me, and I wish they'd explored that a bit more, perhaps by putting it in context with the sexual revolution of the 60's and 70's...I don't know, might have made it more interesting. Instead the film focused mainly on the oppression Lovelace faced at the hands of her abusive ex-husband, and glosses over her later life in a tacked-on afterward. Had a couple good scenes though.

Day of the Soldado was your typical dark, stylistic action film in the mode of the first Sicario. The film is full of murky dialogue and references to things that aren't really clear to the audience...but there are some good set pieces in the film. Josh Brolin returns as CIA officer Matt Graver, who throws his hands up in exasperation that the goddamn pencil pushers in Washington won't let him turn the US-Mexico border into Afghanistan, while Benicio del Toro reprises his role as Alejandro, the soft-spoken lawyer-turned-mass murderer. del Toro is my favorite character in the series, he was the best thing about the first Sicario film and he's the best thing about this one IMO. But overall the film wasn't really anything special, I'd give it a 6 or a generous 7 out of 10.
 
I watched Extraction (2020), It was your typical I'm-a-tragic-lost-soul-total-bad-ass mercenary but I'm going to grow a conscience and thus redeem myself plot line. Some pretty cool hand-to-hand combat scenes but that's really all that's going for it. It's an obvious attempt to get some of that sweet Indian money with chunks of the dialogue in Hindi too, although I'm not sure I've ever seen a film set in Dhaka in part, so I guess there's that too? The character development was contrived and the acting really wasn't very good. Totally cookie-cutter and predictable, meh. 4/10

 
Boogie Nights (1997)

Been on my list for awhile, finally gave it a spin. Plotline for those that don't remember is young Markie-Mark Wahlburg is a late 70's teen who enters the world of adult films owing to his huge member. Plenty of stars in the film and nearly all do very well with their roles, seems pretty close to how I'd imagine that era, that lifestyle. At 2.5h long, we get hardly any skin...because, according to the director it wasn't about porn but about people trying to find themselves, a family, etc...in the porn industry. It's also constructed around the life and times of The John Holmes. Side note, until I looked him up today, I'd always assumed he was black, and I had no clue to the Wonderland killings (also mirrored in Dirk Digglers world to a degree). It doesn't drag, but you feel he entire 2.5h as we watch Dirk and his friends rise to fame, and fall. Can't say I'd recommend it, but I can cross it off the list now. 5/10.
 
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