What was the last movie you've seen?

[Fragems]

Bunraku

What a weird little movie. Basically after the Nuclear holocaust the survivors form a government which outlaws firearms. In response gangs form and go back to using sword, fists, spears, and etc. to fight for control of the cities. The heroes of the story show up each with their own bone to pick with the lead baddy played by Ron Perlman and they commence to kicking everyone's ass.

Overall I enjoyed the movie. The scenes were very stylized with an emphasis on orange, blue, and green lighting. The movie kind of felt like a mix between a movie and a live stage performance since there were very few camera transitions inside scenes(some scenes literally, the lighting was constantly changing, the sets felt small and handcrafted, and the action was very natural with a lot of exaggerated movements. I also thuoght the cast did very well I especially liked the performances by Woody Harleson, Josh Hartnett, and Demi Moore were pretty good aside from the fact that Demi Moore's role was made irrelevant towards the end of the film . Definitely worth a watch if you want some semi cheesy action and like Josh Hartnett.

Deer Woman

Didn't care for this movie at all the plot was just so stupid. Even the lead character roles his eyes when thinking about ways the crimes could have been committed. I think they banked all their money on expecting people to stick around just to see the Deer Woman disrobe repeatedly . If the Deer Woman had any personality at all or reason for committing the murders then this movie might have been decent. However as it stands the girl doesn't have a single line of dialogue and why she is obsessed with killing horny men is never explained even the Legend behind her is bare bones. This is not a movie I would expect from a "Master of Horror" . It also peeves me that they connected it to the same universe as "An American Werewolf in Paris"(which is a film I quite enjoyed and doesn't deserve to be tarnished by associating with this film) by talking about the events surrounding a "Abnormal Wolf" in Paris midway through the film .

2001: A Space Travesty

I usually love Lesile Nielsen but this movie just felt flat to me. The jokes just didn't age very well and for being a "Space" movie almost half of it takes place on earth. As with most Nielsen movies it had it's moments but it just wasn't my cup of tea.

[Pulsar_t]

Force 10 from Navarone

I had a relative who was with the Partisans in Croatia in WWII (even got a medal for helping defuse a bridge), shame that I will never know whether he'd seen this one, as it's pretty entertaining (before Hollywood got obsessed with gloomy Vietnam movies) and the landscape looks gorgeous on old film.

[Fragems]

Dune

This was my first time watching this and I was impressed by the atmosphere and environments they created. The pace was pretty breakneck though with the story stuffing over 3+ years worth of events within a little over two hours film. A lot of plot points felt really rushed/brushed over and the impact of the ending was lessened by it. Overall it is an awesome movie but it definitely would have benefited from being stretched out into a 2 or 3 movies instead of being crammed into 1.

Big Trouble in Little China

If you like 80s action flicks then this is a great movie. There is plenty of humor mixed in the action and things never really get super intense. Kurt Russel is also awesome as usual as he always does pretty well playing a rough and tough yet likeable American action hero. Only bones I have to pick with the movie is Kurt Russel doesn't really get to much action 70% of the time he screws up right at the beginning of a fight and before he gets back the Chinese characters have already kicked everyone's ass. Really he became kind of a laughable sidekick pretending to be the lead character in my eyes which worked in this film but going in I was kind of expecting another Snake Plissken style character which left me kind of disappointed. Other then that I didn't care for the ending it kind of felt anticlimactic with the final restaurant scene(wasn't really necessary in my opinion) and the opening few minutes in the law office never really were explained(why does Egg need a lawyer ).





Brainstorm

Freaking loved this movie the tech was simply awesome. Going in I totally expected them to go the route of Lawn Mower Man or Transcendence, but was happy to see them go a different route that didn't turn Walken into a super human monster. Basically scientist come up with a helmet device which provides a perfect mental link to a partner unit allowing a person to receive the full sensory input of another user. Eventually they start recording experiences(present and memories) which is awesome since a lot the footage is first person and they show some pretty awesome shots(roller coaster, grand canyon, driving off a cliff, etc.) . The first half of the film is pretty awesome as they just show off the technology and everything for the most part is light with them really planning to use the device for communication. However things take a darker turn towards the second half as suddenly the government gets involved and things shift to a kind of scientist vs. a military take over type of situation. Overall I really liked the film and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

Also Christoper Walken was great this is definitely one of my favorite movies with him as the lead now.

[stickem]

I think the point was to have kurt not be a badass. I love the movie but the lines for his buddy at the beginning sound like they were written by a 5 year old. One second he says he's picking up a girl, i don't want to talk about it. Then the next second he won't shut up talking about it.

[Ack]

Dune

This was my first time watching this and I was impressed by the atmosphere and environments they created. The pace was pretty breakneck though with the story stuffing over 3+ years worth of events within a little over two hours film. A lot of plot points felt really rushed/brushed over and the impact of the ending was lessened by it. Overall it is an awesome movie but it definitely would have benefited from being stretched out into a 2 or 3 movies instead of being crammed into 1.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second. It depends on the cut of the film you find. The original rough cut is 4 hours long, and David Lynch's planned version was 3 hours. I've seen a few of the "restored versions" as well that add to the length, including a 1988 release that was 186 minutes long.

Now the Blue-Ray version is the original 137 minute release, but if you can find some of the other, longer versions that have been leaked, please check them out. They fix some of the pacing issues but add in others. And Lynch refuses to release a Director's Cut, unfortunately, so we'll never get the "official" 3-hour long version.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Dune

This was my first time watching this and I was impressed by the atmosphere and environments they created. The pace was pretty breakneck though with the story stuffing over 3+ years worth of events within a little over two hours film. A lot of plot points felt really rushed/brushed over and the impact of the ending was lessened by it. Overall it is an awesome movie but it definitely would have benefited from being stretched out into a 2 or 3 movies instead of being crammed into 1.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second. It depends on the cut of the film you find. The original rough cut is 4 hours long, and David Lynch's planned version was 3 hours. I've seen a few of the "restored versions" as well that add to the length, including a 1988 release that was 186 minutes long.

Now the Blue-Ray version is the original 137 minute release, but if you can find some of the other, longer versions that have been leaked, please check them out. They fix some of the pacing issues but add in others. And Lynch refuses to release a Director's Cut, unfortunately, so we'll never get the "official" 3-hour long version.

Regardless of the cut, is still way too short. It would have been better to tackle that book at a more relaxed pace with two three-hour movies. Also - and as much as I love David Lynch - it should have been directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

[Ack]

Dune

This was my first time watching this and I was impressed by the atmosphere and environments they created. The pace was pretty breakneck though with the story stuffing over 3+ years worth of events within a little over two hours film. A lot of plot points felt really rushed/brushed over and the impact of the ending was lessened by it. Overall it is an awesome movie but it definitely would have benefited from being stretched out into a 2 or 3 movies instead of being crammed into 1.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second. It depends on the cut of the film you find. The original rough cut is 4 hours long, and David Lynch's planned version was 3 hours. I've seen a few of the "restored versions" as well that add to the length, including a 1988 release that was 186 minutes long.

Now the Blue-Ray version is the original 137 minute release, but if you can find some of the other, longer versions that have been leaked, please check them out. They fix some of the pacing issues but add in others. And Lynch refuses to release a Director's Cut, unfortunately, so we'll never get the "official" 3-hour long version.

Regardless of the cut, is still way too short. It would have been better to tackle that book at a more relaxed pace with two three-hour movies. Also, it shoudl have been directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

You watch too many documentaries, prfsnl.

[Fragems]

That explains a lot. Thought I might have one of the older releases but it just turned out to be the TV Miniseries from 2000.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Regardless of the cut, is still way too short. It would have been better to tackle that book at a more relaxed pace with two three-hour movies. Also, it shoudl have been directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

You watch too many documentaries, prfsnl.[/quote]

I actually haven't seen that one yet. I am, however, familiar with its subject matter (i.e., the sweetest film concept of all time), and I would have loved to see it come to fruition.

[Ack]

Slugs, muerte viscosa

Oh, oh, it's just...oh, that's nasty. Oh, gross. Please, movie, stop! Oh God, why? Why did those explode out of his face? Why did the slugs choose to eat her eyeball while she was still alive? Why did that dead man's intestines explode?

Slugs is another creature feature, like The Nest, only far grosser in my opinion and with even more intense gore effects but even worse acting. In this movie, local health inspector Mike Brady discovers that mutant man-eating slugs are breeding at an intense rate in the sewer system of his town, and now they're out eating people and infecting them with their parasites. It's up to Brady to fend off the mayor and the world's most hard ass sheriff while he teams up with a local chemist and the head of the sanitation department to whoop some slimy slug ass, all while the kids throw a killer Halloween party that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the rest of the film outside of get one girl killed by slugs all because she wouldn't put out.

Yes, female sexuality is on full display here. Unfortunately unlike most slasher films, where the virginal girl ends up the sole survivor as the genre tries to work out its bizarre inner feelings on the nature of women as sexual entities, it doesn't much matter in this film which way the ladies go. Had sex? Gonna die. Not had sex? Gonna die. I guess the slugs just aren't picky. Or since they're all hermaphrodites, they don't really understand what "female" sexuality is anyway.

But what you're really here for is the acting, right? I certainly hope not, as the acting will suddenly shift from normal conversation to batshit crazy at times. Brady can go from dude doing ok to dude having a mental breakdown to dude shouting at everyone around him at the drop of a hat, and he often does in the weirdest ways and occasionally at the worst times! Of course, having been bitten by a killer slug on the finger, I guess it makes sense that he'd freak out, but he just kind of does it in the middle of the film and stays that way until the end. And then he gets calm...and then another of his friends dies and instead of getting emotional, he shouts at the worlds most hard ass sheriff, who does a complete 180 on how his character behaves, and then has a brief and touching chat with the chemist, who apparently completely comforts him with two lines about how his friend knew the dangers.

Right.

Face it, you're not watching this for plot, folks. You're watching it to be disgusted, and it is quite effective at that. At least it was for me. The sheer grossness of this movie, particularly the guy's face exploding with parasitic worms, well...yeah. Well played, Juan Piquer Simón. You definitely succeeded here. And the special effects were quite good. I definitely appreciate a good toilet kill, and you handled yours off screen but still make me not want to go to the bathroom. A slow clap is in order.