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EADD Movie Recommendations Thread v.4...not for TV series and stuff Dan...

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PoltergeistRelease Date: TBD

Cast: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris, Jane Adams, Nicholas Braun, Saxon Sharbino

Another year, another horror classic remake. Kimberly Peirce’s take on Brian De Palma’s Carrie didn’t live up to the hype, but with Monster House director Gil Kenan behind the lens and Sam Raimi producing, the remake of Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist does have a chance, especially with top-notch talent like Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Jared Harris on the roster. Even though the original will always have a nostalgic appeal, there’s also no denying that the creep factor of the scenario could get a major boost from more advanced digital and practical effects.

Dead Snow: Red vs. DeadRelease Date: TBD

Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Martin Starr, Ørjan Gamst, Ingrid Haas, Jocelyn DeBoer

Sure, it’s been nearly four years since Dead Snow had a very limited domestic theatrical release, but if you're not foaming at the mouth for the sequel, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, it’s probably because you haven't seen the movie's brilliant Sundance trailer. The combination of film one throwbacks and the reveal of an incredibly smart and well-timed new twist rocks the power to get longtime fans pumped for more and also entice newcomers to catch the original in preparation for round two.

[REC] 4: ApocalypseRelease Date: TBD

Cast: Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo, Héctor Colomé, Ismael Fritschi

[REC] 3: Genesis was a major disappointment and tonal anomaly, but considering [REC] and [REC] 2 hold up so well, there’s still hope the new installment will allow the franchise to return to form. Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza co-directed the first two films and clearly Plaza fell short helming the third film alone, but now it’s Balagueró’s turn to give solo directing a go and with Manuela Velasco back in the game and a narrative that’s more directly connected to the original storyline, he could have a better shot at winding up with a stronger end result.

TuskRelease Date: Fall 2014

Cast: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment

Thanks to certain notorious antics, every Kevin Smith project comes with a degree of curiosity and his latest, Tusk, is no different, especially after Smith failed to complete it in time to screen at Sundance. Regardless, the film still secured distribution, so in the third quarter of the year, we’ll get to see what happens when Long’s character meets up with Parks’ for an interview about his global adventures only to find out that he’s really a deranged, walrus-obsessed killer.

KillersRelease Date: TBD

Cast: Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Luna Maya, Ray Sahetapy

If you’ve seen the “Safe Haven” segment of VHS 2, you know Timo Tjahjanto is one to watch and, sure enough, based on the reviews coming out of Sundance, his latest film as part of The Mo Brothers (along with Kimo Stamboel) is being dubbed an especially horrific experience. It hones in on a serial killer who targets the women of Tokyo and a journalist who indulges in vigilantism. Both post videos of their murders online and when the serial killer comes across the journalist’s work, he decides to encourage him to seize his potential.
 
The Golden Compass based on the novel by Phillip Pullman.

Seriously, it's obviously a kids film but is so well made and is full of phantastic ideas like every 'normal' citizen having daemons or spirts of anilmals attached to their soul to be a companion and advisor to their 'owner'. Its got a great cast, Brian Blessed does the voice over for the sad and exiled turned drunkard ex king armoured ice (polar) bear, and is fucking magnificent. All of the sets and settings are awesome. Id have loved to have watchd this film as a kid, hell, i love watching it as a supposed adult, second time ive seen it now. I need to watch the sequel. Presumably there was one. Total escapsism, but is full of the usual ingredients for a great childrens story; good vs evil, courage vs fear, pride, honour and justice etc. I may be doing Pullman an injustice, maybe it wasnt just aimed at kids, in the same way so many adults liked Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings, i dint like either of those, but i do like this one.

EDIT: it wasnt Brain Blessed it was Ian McKellen as the ice bear. He sounded just like Brian Blessed though with that roaring voice.
 
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Qatsi, Baraka and Samsara already been mentioned, but I watched Baraka the other night and was blown away. I mean, DOC is impressive alone, but it seemed like a great film. Now to whatch Chronos, a short film in the same style with time as the main theme, and to look forward to an upcoming IMAX release of his film about india. <3 Red Fricke.
 
The Penny Dreadful Picture show - three short films (one about a killer music box). Quite strange but good fun.
 
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Don't think I've heard of it. Fixing that now. PTCH have I already wished you a happy new year? I can't remember.

If not, Happy New Year!
 
Kin-Dza-Dza! It's a dark satirical comedy made in Georgia during the fall of the USSR. It sounds weird and out there, but honestly. it's fucking hilarious, so watchable. Better than most of the shit they pump out of Hollywood. Me and my missus were quoting lines from it for weeks.

Also- if any of you lot haven't seen Spinal Tap... you need to sort that out.
 
Original Godzilla Stomps Into Theaters Before Big-Budget Remake



When most Americans think of Godzilla, they think of the movies that filled Sunday-afternoon voids on basic cable. That Godzilla was rarely menacing, and in some series installments he was actually heroic, helping puny humans battle the likes of equally phony looking beasties like Rodan and Baragon. Silly sequels, bad dubbing, re-editing and generally misguided Americanizing did nothing to help the giant lizard’s image.
Considering how he was presented to U.S. audiences, it’s no surprise that Godzilla has been hard to take seriously. That might finally change now that the original and uncut Japanese version of ‘Godzilla’ (or ‘Gojira’ as it was called) is coming back to a handful of U.S. theaters on April 12.
Moviegoers who aren’t familiar with the 1954 black-and-white Japanese version (which received a limited theatrical release once before in 2004) are in for a surprise, especially if they’ve seen only the sliced-to-ribbons domestic cut, which inserted new scenes featuring Raymond Burr as an American reporter in Tokyo.
In both versions, Godzilla is far more menacing than he’d ever be again. Even the watered-down U.S. version is pretty bleak and serious compared to subsequent outings. But the differences between the two cuts reveal two completely different movies with different stories, different characters, different motivations and, perhaps most important of all, different subtext.
In the U.S., the first Godzilla was a simple monster movie import to stand alongside other cheesy atomic-age sci-fi movies. But in Japan it was a cautionary tale and an allegory — a terrifying visceral reaction from a country still shaken from the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nine years earlier. It might, in fact, be the world’s first notable anti-nukes movie, reflecting the fears of a population still unsure of what to expect in the wake of atomic weaponry.
Whether intentional or not (and one has to be careful about assigning too much thoughtfulness to opportunistic American distributors), ‘Gojira’’s political and environmental message was stripped away during its metamorphosis into ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters.’ With it went a lot of drama and intensity. For example, a tormented eye-patch-wearing Japanese scientist — a darkly heroic major player in ‘Gojira’ – is sidelined for most of the U.S. version to accommodate Burr’s newly filmed scenes.
With this new remastered and uncut Japanese version hitting big screens again just one month before the release of a highly anticipated re-imagined ‘Godzilla,’ a new generation could be introduced to Big G just in time, and in the best way possible. Here’s a complete list of cities where the original ‘Godzilla’ will screen. You can watch the re-release trailer above.
‘Gojira’ did get “special edition” DVD treatment in 2004 and a Criterion Collection Blu-ray in 2012, so if the newly mastered cut doesn’t make it to your neighborhood, you still have an opportunity to soak it up before the remake levels your local mall’s multiplex.


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