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Screamers (1995)

This was a bad movie. Not only in a b-movie way, but like... it was just frickin' bad. Terrible! Plot holes left and right, takes itself too seriously to feel campy, special effects are... good? Looks like someone gave a 10 year old boy $8000000 to make a movie, and well, what else would you expect if you did that? Screamers is the answer to that...

Anyhow, steer clear. I barely enjoyed it. Terrible Alien ripoff stuff coupled with such cliched writing that even the twists and jump scares had me sitting there thinking, "Damn that was easy to predict."

2/10

Edit: Turns out the guy who wrote the script for Dark Star, Alien, Aliens, etc. wrote the script for Screamers. I guess he ran out of good ideas by the mid-90s lol
 
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Dead Again (1991)

It was an okay thriller/mystery. Cringey romantic plot. I'm also just not a fan of Kenneth Branagh. Something about him is just... meh.

Not a bad film, just not great either.

6/10
 
1900 (1976)

*4hr American cut on Amazon* *English dub*

I wanted this film to be good. It looked right up my alley. I have to say, while it has fantastic acting and cinematography with many American and English top billed actors of the day, the plot and many of the scenes are just garbage, absolute garbage. When I was expecting a dissection of the political divisions during this era in Italian history, I was instead treated to one of the most annoyingly blatant pro-communist propaganda films I've ever seen, ever so thinly veiled. On top of that we get weird child nudity scenes, weird ménage a trois scenes, a completely ignorant picture of the fascist movement of the time by a director who was not very departed from the time period... so again, just annoyingly propagandic in nature. Then to really turn your stomach in a shitty attempt to make you hate the fascist black shirts, we get to see Donald Sutherland bash a cat to death with... his head. Bash a child's brains out against a wall while spinning him in circles. Murdering a poor woman who's manor he wants to steal. It was just... like wtf? I can stomach violence, gore, sex, the visceral... but this was a whole different thing, and muddled with the Red propaganda, it was overall just sickening.

I'll give it this; the film did hold my attention well for most of it. But once the fascist movement developed it quickly devolved into pure, boring propaganda.

If you're looking for even just a semi-accurate period piece, give this one a pass. I give it the rating I do only because it was well shot, well acted, and beautifully done. But it's just a garbage film deep down at its core.

4/10
 
just saw the latest two mission impossible movies. first one rather lame, latest was ok. the Jason bourne movies were better, id say the best when it comes to special agents. fuck james bond.
 
Cream Gravy? said:
Screamers (1995)

This was a bad movie. Not only in a b-movie way, but like... it was just frickin' bad. Terrible! Plot holes left and right, takes itself too seriously to feel campy, special effects are... good? Looks like someone gave a 10 year old boy $8000000 to make a movie, and well, what else would you expect if you did that? Screamers is the answer to that...

Anyhow, steer clear. I barely enjoyed it. Terrible Alien ripoff stuff coupled with such cliched writing that even the twists and jump scares had me sitting there thinking, "Damn that was easy to predict."

2/10

Edit: Turns out the guy who wrote the script for Dark Star, Alien, Aliens, etc. wrote the script for Screamers. I guess he ran out of good ideas by the mid-90s lol
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Lmao, good review :) I'll never understand how you actually finish these films
 
Cream Gravy? said:
In the weird visionary sequence in that film there’s crosses and such. It’s not fresh on my mind, maybe I’m wrong.
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Not fresh on my mind at all, either!
Cream Gravy? said:
Also my bad, Lair of the White Worm was Ken Russel, not Terry Gilliam. Derp…
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Oh, the guilt & shame! 😉
Cream Gravy? said:
In the weird visionary sequence in that film there’s crosses and such. It’s not fresh on my mind, maybe I’m wrong.
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You're right; based on the legend of the 'Lambton Worm', apparently; "The story states that the young John Lambton was a rebellious character who missed church one Sunday to go fishing in the river Wear". (Wikipedia)

Hence the religious, imagery.
 
Shady's Fox said:
tried to watch killing gene but too much useless gore and a semi-coherent steam wave for audience instead of what we know, steam has water nosene, should like get us into that's what the fuck films are nosene
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Did you recommend this a while back, Shady?
 
Asclepius said:
Did you recommend this a while back, Shady?
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comsi comsa, for what it is it doesn't like try to somehow gulp within is own characters so the dialogue execution is kinda smooth exception for a few shots such as maybe showing too much of that lawyer room whatever was, i saw it way back but i think those "documentation" they tried to show that they previously did on a monster because they thought that this isn't first time such entity becomes the "Valkarye", you know. The thumbnail astronaunt iirc or they all were except for lady who hides in the shut on a scene, that's also something on moment and for what it seems at least me, it looks like a unfinished scene ( deleted scenes ), seems that's somewhere when film starts rather than almost 40m before its run-time ends.

i dislike creature films goric films I did somehow become a guest of when I saw "The Descent" thought to myself nm but then "Eden Log" crawls around my back like a bull and blows a cold air, you know. I think Sputnik needed at least 1 more year in production but still one of not forced creature films of 2020. Eden Logs is to be honest a guide to making such films with such chapters
 
"Triangle of sadness" by Ruben Östlund

First thing i've seen from this director. My expectations were high and they were met. A great film. Funny and dark. Realistic and poignant. Cohesive but not constrained.
 
Buzz Lightbeer said:
Lmao, good review :) I'll never understand how you actually finish these films
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Alcohol and boredom go a long way in helping :ROFLMAO: Plus if they're as bad as Screamers was, I tend to break it into several short viewings over a day or two, watching parts when I have nothing else going on.
 
The Suspicious Death of a Minor 1975

This film is by Sergio Martino. It's not his best film. It's kind of about an underage prostitution ring.

The first half is slow with only one murder and lots of campy almost comedic action sequences. Luckily It picks up in the second half with a couple more murders.

My favorite Sergio Martino film is the great Alligator 1979. The cinematography and music to that one are killer even though the alligator is terrible. This one doesn't stand out as being a Sergio Martino film worth watching more than once.

2/5 stars
 
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Burnt Offerings (1976)

Clearly a heavy influence on Steven King's/Kubrick's The Shining, this film follows a family as they rent an unusually cheap manor for the summer. Lots of similarities, but not nearly as good.

Decent soundtrack, decent acting, great cinematography and atmosphere, but runs a little long and left me a little bored.

7/10
 
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