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

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The Guilty

I love Jake Gyllenhaal but I hated this movie. I couldn't get into the characters. The plot twists were underwhelming. The ending was boring. Honestly one of the worst movies I've watched in awhile.

2/5
 
Sergeant Absent said:
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I'm glad you liked it! I watched it twice to fully understand the psycho/parental/carer aspects all rolled into one. It's hard to fit it into a genre really isn't it, which is probably why I liked it the most, unusual film with great storyline, great acting, keeps you interested, SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE READING : and that scene when they're all dancing to the light house track (not the techno scene) was so brilliantly done, as the soundtrack slides between diegetic and non-diegetic sound in the same scene which is very rare in film-making. It's just so odd how it starts like that isn't it? but you realise of course that that was who she was. I'm pleased you took the time to watch a recommendation, I love foreign cinema there's so many fantastic films out there which don't get mentioned in the British media.
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Raw by the same director is also fun :)
 
alasdairm said:
taboo was great @Asclepius

talk is that it's hardy's passion project and he will get round to season 2 but he obviously has other higher profile projects to which he is committed.

fingers crossed.

alasdair
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Yep, read that A - Hardy's father is involved in production also. The script writing, set design, direction, actors etc. ...so much, is amazing. 👍
Just need to pick up past a few episodes past where the story sequence went past me (diff directors for different episodes, that I found a bit less appealing)
However haven't got around to subsequent episodes, looking forward to catch-up, with it.
 
Argo, surprised I didnt see it before, all that happen when i was a teen, it really affected me, loved how RL Carter spoke at the end
 
Saw "Nitram" last night - about the guy who committed the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. The title is his first name backwards (because the crime was so horrific, some people don't speak his name).

Directed by Justin Kurzel who did Snowtown, which I thought was excellent (but not for the feint-hearted) Nitram was also very good. He was played by an American actor, Caleb Landry Jones, who won Best Actor at Cannes. He managed the Aussie accent! Judy Davis as the mother was good too. Realistic yet tactfully done.

 
Dagon (2001)
This HP Lovecraft story is directed by Stuart Gorden (of re-animator fame).

It's got a shipwreck, fish people, a seafood god, dead skin masks, and seafood/human mating.

What it doesn't have is scare factor or the gross out factor of re-animator.

1.5/5 stars
 
AbbeyLee said:
Directed by Justin Kurzel who did Snowtown, which I thought was excellent (but not for the feint-hearted)
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I really liked "Snowtown" too...I first heard of the film from a Australian tourist from Adelaide who lived near where the murders happened and told me about them & the film. The film was quite good, especially considering the fact that, with the exception of the guy who played the "ringleader" of the group that committed the crimes, all of the parts were played by amateur actors.

The real-life story surrounding the Snowtown murders is weird as hell....a really dark and depraved series of crimes. I think that the film captured that quite well, with its grim aesthetic

simstim said:
Dagon (2001)
This HP Lovecraft story is directed by Stuart Gorden (of re-animator fame).

It's got a shipwreck, fish people, a seafood god, dead skin masks, and seafood/human mating.

What it doesn't have is scare factor or the gross out factor of re-animator.

1.5/5 stars
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Ha I liked "Dagon", but I think that's just because it involves evil fish monsters and the grey, misty, maritime environment that it's set in reminds me of my hometown lol. Also Raquel Merono, who plays the main character's gf in the film is a real babe :love:

I remember reading an interview with Stuart Gordon where he said that the biggest obstacle to getting "Dagon" made was just the fact that people heard about the plot and said, "so, it's a movie about people getting turned into evil fish? wtf?" LOL
 
Burnt Offerings said:
The real-life story surrounding the Snowtown murders is weird as hell....a really dark and depraved series of crimes. I think that the film captured that quite well, with its grim aesthetic
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Yeah "grim aesthetic" is a good description.. It was so gritty. The characters were very realistic too (my ex-husband grew up in that part of Adelaide lol - one of the roughest suburbs in the country). That ringleader was a sadistic psychopath 😕

Nitram had to tread a lot more carefully. I watched it with my mother who couldn't cope with Snowtown at all. It's still very tense though and gives you a feel for what was going on in MB's head prior to the massacre. The characters are equally as realistic and bizarre as Snowtown.
 
From Beyond (1986)

Another Stuart Gorden film this time starring the same actor that starred in re-animator.

Other dimensions, floating eels, s&m themes and undertones, and Ken Foree (the helicopter pilot from the original Dawn of the Dead) are what you have to look forward to here.

The bad special effects are better than the digital effects in Dagon.

Give me bad props over bad cgi any day.

2.5/5 stars
 
AbbeyLee said:
Saw "Nitram" last night - about the guy who committed the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. The title is his first name backwards (because the crime was so horrific, some people don't speak his name).

Directed by Justin Kurzel who did Snowtown, which I thought was excellent (but not for the feint-hearted) Nitram was also very good. He was played by an American actor, Caleb Landry Jones, who won Best Actor at Cannes. He managed the Aussie accent! Judy Davis as the mother was good too. Realistic yet tactfully done.

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Haven't seen this yet, Snowtown was brilliantly directed, acted; the whole shebang, imo. Looking forward to this.👍

Speaking of Ozzie movies, on a different theme but nevertheless, a beautiful film, amazing cinematography & acting. Absolutely, gorgeous.

Sweet Country.(2017)
 
X (2022) - 4 stars - fantastic unconventional slasher! Just the kind of thing that's been lacking recently after a series of mediocre disappointments (such as Scream (2022) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)).
 
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