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

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I watched Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2u, the other day. Kind of a Groundhog Day meets Scary Movie (Scream) type dark comedy. Given my low expectations, both were surprisingly entertaining and had a fair few original moments.
 
CFC said:
I watched Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2u, the other day. Kind of a Groundhog Day meets Scary Movie (Scream) type dark comedy. Given my low expectations, both were surprisingly entertaining and had a fair few original moments.
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PG-13 horror movies are usually utter shit, with a few exceptions (The Ring comes to mind) but I quite enjoyed Happy Death Day. I have the second movie but haven't seen it yet.
 
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans & I love the movie.

So many scenes that made me proper laugh till I cired (though most people would be horrified by what I laughed at) this is one part that I'll never forget I know that much.

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Bad Lieutenant is definitely one of Cage's best films. He's been in so, so many terrible movies but also a few good ones, lol
 
Joker ( 2019 ). Good job from DC, dark further back atmosphere, the way Joker should be, never exepected from Joaquin to do such a great work but he had respect for the character.
 
Been into the jungle/cannibal movies of the '70s and early '80s lately.

Man From Deep River (AKA Survive! AKA Deep River Savages) - this was the first of the lot that inspired all of the others, although it's actually an action/adventure rather than a horror. Not that there aren't movies of (bright red, 70's) gore. Really surprised this was on the list of "Video Nasties" as at the heart of it it's actually quite a nice movie with beautiful scenery and quite a sweet romance.
A man taking photographs of the scenery along the Amazon river is kidnapped by a primitive tribe where he is put through a series of tortures before being accepted as "one of us" (gooble gobble) One of the only of these movies that's overall actually quite a decent movie.

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (AKA Cannibal Ferox 2 AKA Nudo e Selvaggio ) - I really liked this one too. I'm usually online at the same time while I'm watching a movie but this one help my attention. Sure it's cheesy and the acting is awful but that just added a little humour at times. Not just cannibals in this one. A plane crashes into "Dinosaur Valley", a place rumoured to be ripe with Dinosaur fossils. Here, the survivors also have to battle with snakes, quicksand, an evil slave owner and Piranha! (oh my!). I thought this one was fun.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals - Fuck me is this terrible! Two very brief gore scenes are pretty decent but otherwise very boring. Being an "Emanuelle" (she of the erotic film fare) movie the first 2/3rds is just soft core porn. Not that I have a problem with that but it's really boring, unsexy sex, despite Emanuelle herself being pretty hot. By the time the action did start I just didn't care anymore and it wasn't worth it anyway. I watched this 3 days ago and remember almost none of it it was so generic. Give this entry a miss. Plot? What plot?

Slave of the Cannibal God (AKA Mountain of the Cannibal God AKA Prisoner of the Cannibal God) - this is the only one of the subgenre that is a mainstream movie starring action film stars (Italian one's, that is) and is English language despite being an Italian movie (as are almost all of these movies). Not one of my favourites, but one of the most popular overall. If you think Ursula Andress is hot you will fucking love this. A woman (Andress) and her brother head into the jungle to find a lost group of explorers of whom her husband was the leader.

White Slave (AKA Schiave Bianche ) - A young woman and her parents are on their boat in (I THINK the amazon river?) when her parents are murdered (to say whom by would be a spoiler, as it's part of a twist) and she is taken prisoner. Although cannibals appear briefly in this one, the tribe are actually Head Hunters. The movie is like a series of flashbacks as it is told by the young woman 10 years later when she is in court for a related double-murder. Not bad and different from the other movies of this style.
 
Not much that I remember of :/
Overall propably darkest movie I have ever seen so Id recommend it on that basis
 
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Not much that I remember of :/
Overall propably darkest movie I have ever seen so Id recommend it on that basis
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Oooh, think I'll give a watch then.
I think I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) is probably the darkest I can remember seeing. That I can think of off the top of my head anyway.
 
Rofl "rape and revenge" - genre what the fuck :ROFLMAO:

Yeah, if you like dark movies Id definitely recommend watching it.

Think I saw a DC cartoon movie Justice League Vs The Fatal Five last night.
3.5/5
 
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Rofl "rape and revenge" - genre what the fuck :ROFLMAO:

Yeah, if you like dark movies Id definitely recommend watching it.

Think I saw a DC cartoon movie Justice League Vs The Fatal Five last night.
3.5/5
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I do like really violent/bloody revenge movies. Just so satisfying when the victim wreaks their vengeance. Although it was hard to sit through 75 minutes of the lead girl being raped and degraded first. I almost turned it off a couple of times because it seemed like it went on too long as though the movie was aimed at the kind of degenerates who'd get a kick out out of seeing her ruination like that. Glad I didn't though as she got them back in the extreme. It did leave me feeling kind of cold afterwards, though, and feeling really shitty about humanity in general. Especially as what she went through - basically human sex slave trafficking - is horribly a reality.
 
I get it. I like a good revenge story too.

S. Craig Zahler has also written and produced the western horror movie Bone Tomahawk which youll propably also like, since its a violent revenge movie.
 
Shadow of the Vampire

Interesting concept for a 'horror' film. John Malkovich really shines, even outshining Willem Defoe. Not much to say about it, just that I enjoyed it and I was really impressed with the mad-genius type acting Malkovich put out. Defoe was great too but his best performance was in 'The Hunter' imo.

Not great but not bad either.

7/10
 
Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Like many Woody Allen films, the focus of this movie was really on the fast paced dialogue and a silly love triangle. It's always hit or miss with Woody. I'd put this one in the same category as Blue Jasmine, i.e. it wasn't a bad film but it falls among my least favorite of the ones I've seen thus far. A lack of music throughout the film aside from a repeated song that played when characters were under the influence of hypnosis contributed to the flat feeling of this one.

It reminded me somewhat of The Purple Rose of Cairo, but not as good. If you're into Woody Allen flicks, this one is worth a watch, but among his newer films, it falls flat in my opinion.

6/10
 
Ad Astra

I'll start off by saying that I go into all modern sci-fi flicks with lowered expectations. I'm not one to sit in a crowded theater so I wait till films are on their last week of showings to go see them, and usually take some xanax or a vape cart with me, you know, cause... well, everything is better on drugs right? Last night I was flying on a pillow of mellow pretty hard when I saw this, but my memory is clear (high bzd tolerance, no worries).

Anyhow, the movie started off very well. I was mostly unaware of the plot before seeing it and as such I was riveted by the first half's setup. Brad Pitt only seems to get better at acting the older he gets, and this was no exception. His character was truly tormented yet cool, and he acted it perfectly. Any shortfalls in this movie were not because of him.

The plot moves forward at a pretty rapid pace. I never found myself bored during the film, if anything, I feel some elements could be expanded upon to have made what was an uninteresting, uninspiring ending worthwhile.

Pitt's character's pursuit of his missing father is what drives the good parts of this film, coupled with the all too realistic future that we see created for us. Subway on the moon, in flight service between planetary stations (2001 did it first but I won't balk and say this film was too derivative). It touched me in a way that felt all too current and real, which is what really kept me riveted. Territorial conflicts between nations and corporations in space. Nothing ever changes is the idea. Capitalism will ruin the moon and Mars too just has it has our Earth.

I don't want to divulge too much more of the plot. Suffice to say, when Pitt's search ends, and the movie wraps up (and in a rather hurried manner I must say) I was left with the feeling that the director had almost given up on it in the last 15 or so minutes. The production value of this film seems high, the visual effects are astounding, the soundtrack spot on, and the actors so very real in their acting.

And yet, the ending was god awful/melancholic. It was the same feeling I felt when I watched Arrival. Or Interstellar. So many of these modern sci-fi movies get so much right, they get the best actors, the best visual effects the best soundtracks possible, then they go and try to emulate rather than create. Ad Astra was a slight cut above those recently mentioned modern flicks; however, it still suffered from the same pitfalls which leave the modern repertoire of sci-fi films feeling so lacking in the end. They cannot create something novel, or when they do, they can't wrap it up. Blade Runner 2049 was so afraid to be original that it became sort of a gloopy pile of nothing. It even ignored clear plot necessary from the original Blade Runner (Director's Cut, fuck the theatrical version).

My point is, Ad Astra had all the potential to be the best movie of 2019, but it simply won't be, because something is lost in the last half hour. If these new directors want people to remember their names among those of the likes of Kubrick or Ridley Scott, they'll have to get over nostalgia and their fear of novelty, and create something new, something that inspires, something that tickles our thoughts of our future. Ad Astra almost achieved it, but in the end, it too fell flat.

Because it was so good up till the last half hour or so, I'll bump up my rating by one point, and only because of the potential it had to be so great.

7.5/10
 
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Cream Gravy? said:
the modern repertoire of sci-fi films feeling so lacking in the end. They cannot create something novel, or when they do, they can't wrap it up.
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Cream Gravy? said:
If these new directors want people to remember their names among those of the likes of Kubrick or Ridley Scott, they'll have to get over nostalgia and their fear of novelty, and create something new, something that inspires, something that tickles our thoughts of our future. Ad Astra almost achieved it, but in the end, it too fell flat.
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I actually think the issue with being unable to cap off a (inter)stellar film - ha - is archetypal/mythological. The creators don't know how the myth resolves itself and so it just... ends. Pretty much every artistic creation is symbolic, mythological, and archetypal and as such tells the story of the inner unconscious of those who created it. The lack of resolution is a lack of resolution within the whole of the creator(s).
 
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I actually think the issue with being unable to cap off a (inter)stellar film - ha - is archetypal/mythological. The creators don't know how the myth resolves itself and so it just... ends. Pretty much every artistic creation is symbolic, mythological, and archetypal and as such tells the story of the inner unconscious of those who created it. The lack of resolution is a lack of resolution within the whole of the creator(s).
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I can agree with that, but I mean. It's not like there's a real ending to 2001, yet there's room for interpretation. Movies like Interstellar try so hard to mimic this... ambiguity. But in doing so, they fail, because it's never a "Damn, what did I just watch" feeling like 2001, it's a "Damn, you just gave up halfway through didn't you?" feeling. I mean, I guess that supports your notion, that the archetypal myth isn't concluded within the creator. But still... Or like the end of Blade Runner, we aren't explicitly told anything, but we can put the pieces together. With movies like Interstellar, Ad Astra, Arrival, the latest Blade Runner, there's no pieces for us to put together in the first place. They're just exercises in ambiguity to the point of meaninglessness.

I think a man like Ridley Scott or Kubrick has a vision in his mind of what the viewer should gather at the end. I think men like Nolan and that dude who made Arrival want the viewer to give THEM the answer, like they don't have the gumption.

I dunno. Just my opinion. Perhaps I am biased but I think these new sci-fi films could still be open ended and yet be fulfilling. To me, 2001 was about man's quest to find God, and the ending is fitting. Interstellar was like a clone of that without the genius.
 
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