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Very special/confusing movie. It will work or it won't, like most psychological thrillers.Ok, your rep is on the line.I'll have to see if it's available on netflix.
Let me know what you thought about Triangle!
Say It Isn't So
Just watched this again - still makes me laugh. Nothing is sacred in this film.
And it's got Heather Graham in it - she's beautiful.
Just watched this again - still makes me laugh. Nothing is sacred in this film.
And it's got Heather Graham in it - she's beautiful.
Please remember this thread is not in PRSI
The Butler- saw it today with the wife staring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. A good historical movie from a black perspective. It's embarrassing to come from a country that touts liberty and freedom and allowed this to go on for the first 200 years. Of interest is the perspective of the Black Panthers, a group equated to subversive, even terrorists, except (I'm no expert) that it grew out of the MLK civil rights movement after King was assassinated. In the words of a character- "I'm not going to let them beat me up any more."
Jane Fonda and Professor Snape play the Reagans:
Robin Williams as Eisenhower:
The Butler- saw it today with the wife staring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. A good historical movie from a black perspective. It's embarrassing to come from a country that touts liberty and freedom and allowed this to go on for the first 200 years. Of interest is the perspective of the Black Panthers, a group equated to subversive, even terrorists, except (I'm no expert) that it grew out of the MLK civil rights movement after King was assassinated. In the words of a character- "I'm not going to let them beat me up any more."
Jane Fonda and Professor Snape play the Reagans:
Robin Williams as Eisenhower:
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Rewatched Michele Soavi's slasher, Stage Fright (a.k.a. The Bloody Bird/Aquarius).
The killer's giant Owl mask is a fun twist on the usual masks and the film is trashy fun. Some of the dark humor which peppers The Church and Cemetery Man is here too. I liked Stage Fright better this time and all the 80s references in the character designs, music etc. added to the entertainment. Judging this and the footage from a recent Italian tv crime show Soavi directed, I'd love to see him tackle a giallo proper.
Still waiting on my replacement copy of La Setta (the youtube only viewings are not enough for me.)
Rewatched Michele Soavi's slasher, Stage Fright (a.k.a. The Bloody Bird/Aquarius).
The killer's giant Owl mask is a fun twist on the usual masks and the film is trashy fun. Some of the dark humor which peppers The Church and Cemetery Man is here too. I liked Stage Fright better this time and all the 80s references in the character designs, music etc. added to the entertainment. Judging this and the footage from a recent Italian tv crime show Soavi directed, I'd love to see him tackle a giallo proper.
Still waiting on my replacement copy of La Setta (the youtube only viewings are not enough for me.)
Ok, your rep is on the line.
Streamed Triangle tonight. Sorry iMacBooked, but it was merely ehh...
What I primarily disliked about it was:
spoiler> Watching the same events repeated 3 times, each time some more was added, but it was the exact same actions, and at the end there was no resolution. I hate that! Instead of going through all of the shenanigans on the ship, the heroine, should of simply jumped off the ship and tried to drown or shoot herself.
It reminded me of the Star Trek Next Generation episode Cause and Effect, but STNG was better because there they figured the way out of the loop and a plus, each time they were systematically trying different alternative actions.
La Setta
Finally saw La Setta (The Sect) last night and loved it. I hope Michele Soavi's whacked ode to Rosemary's Baby, Alice in Wonderland (the story), Hellraiser, H.P. Lovecraft etc. gets a proper Stateside release eventually. Kelly Curtis finds out a Satanic Sect wants her to give birth to the Anti-Christ. Hellish Hijinks ensue including possessed shroud-like washcloths, a rabbit who use the remote control to watch television, a Satanic ritual murder that outdoes Hellraiser with the hooks and a truly wonky ending (which I liked.). No one films dream or nightmare-like sequences like the Italians. My only quibble, Tomas Arana is not in this as much as he should have been. For all the trouble I went through to get this (2 multi-region players and 2 copies of this PAL dvd) it was worth it.
I've got the Fernando di Leo Italian Crime Collection volume 2 sitting here. A viewing of Kidnap Syndicate is in order - I need more Luc Meranda crime antics kicking around my brain.
Finally saw La Setta (The Sect) last night and loved it. I hope Michele Soavi's whacked ode to Rosemary's Baby, Alice in Wonderland (the story), Hellraiser, H.P. Lovecraft etc. gets a proper Stateside release eventually. Kelly Curtis finds out a Satanic Sect wants her to give birth to the Anti-Christ. Hellish Hijinks ensue including possessed shroud-like washcloths, a rabbit who use the remote control to watch television, a Satanic ritual murder that outdoes Hellraiser with the hooks and a truly wonky ending (which I liked.). No one films dream or nightmare-like sequences like the Italians. My only quibble, Tomas Arana is not in this as much as he should have been. For all the trouble I went through to get this (2 multi-region players and 2 copies of this PAL dvd) it was worth it.
I've got the Fernando di Leo Italian Crime Collection volume 2 sitting here. A viewing of Kidnap Syndicate is in order - I need more Luc Meranda crime antics kicking around my brain.
And you are on your computer...
The computer went off quite quickly after that post.
What a great flick that was! Start to finish was fantastic. The acting was good, the plot good and the visual effects good.
I was impressed with Star Trek (2009) with the actors for Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty and how they were able to really capture the likeness in mannerism of the original actors. They did a remarkable job and it continued with Into the Darkness.
I also enjoyed the sort of role reversal between Kirk and Spock regarding the flash-forward from the early Star Trek films and TV series. The radiation scene, Kahn and his crew being rescued from cryo-sleep and turing on the Federation, just like in TOS.
I also was reminded of the highway scene in The Matrix (2? or 3?) when Spock and Kahn were fighting on those ships flying through San Francisco, just like Morpheus and the Agent.
Early in the film, they encounter the Klingon's and their D-Class ships. One thing I noticed was they had a sound reminiscent of the Tie Fighter from Star Wars. I thought that was strange, but interesting.
Then the head of Star Fleet was played by Peter Weller who played Officer Murphy, RoboCop, in 1987. That was cool seeing him again since I don't think I've seen anything he's done since then.
JJ Abrams did a great job in bringing in new technology, a new story intertwined with bits and pieces from the early movies and TV series. I loved it all.
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i love the foreshadow kirk gives when spock is in the volcano, "if spock were here and i were there, what would he do?"
i've seen him in a lot of tv roles (24, psych), and i always see him play the bad guy.
The computer went off quite quickly after that post.
What a great flick that was! Start to finish was fantastic. The acting was good, the plot good and the visual effects good.
I was impressed with Star Trek (2009) with the actors for Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty and how they were able to really capture the likeness in mannerism of the original actors. They did a remarkable job and it continued with Into the Darkness.
I also enjoyed the sort of role reversal between Kirk and Spock regarding the flash-forward from the early Star Trek films and TV series. The radiation scene, Kahn and his crew being rescued from cryo-sleep and turing on the Federation, just like in TOS.
I also was reminded of the highway scene in The Matrix (2? or 3?) when Spock and Kahn were fighting on those ships flying through San Francisco, just like Morpheus and the Agent.
Early in the film, they encounter the Klingon's and their D-Class ships. One thing I noticed was they had a sound reminiscent of the Tie Fighter from Star Wars. I thought that was strange, but interesting.
Then the head of Star Fleet was played by Peter Weller who played Officer Murphy, RoboCop, in 1987. That was cool seeing him again since I don't think I've seen anything he's done since then.
JJ Abrams did a great job in bringing in new technology, a new story intertwined with bits and pieces from the early movies and TV series. I loved it all.
The entire Khan story and background is intriguing. To some degree along with unforeseen consequences, they were created that way. The good thing in my opinion is that both realities (the original Star Trek and the new, is that they basically used his same background but in the new version, the story intersection happens at an earlier time when an Admiral is hoping to use Khan against the Klingons.
As evidence by some of my other rants, sometimes I am intolerant of story changes, but in this case, transitioning from show to movie to movie, these are the best Star Trek movies, (although I'm still in love with STNG) and they are much better than the original movies imo, so I'm happy. My complaint about most of the Star Trek movies prior to Abrams is that they would start with a bang, then drag, then end with a bang. I felt like they were still writing a tv show, but had to figure out what to do with the extra hour.
What was always impressed me with Star Trek Next Generation is that they could tell this amazing story with threaded sub-plots in 50 minutes, fast paced and to the point. I tried other ST shows, Voyager and Enterprise, but a combination of the writing and actors that did not grab me, except for the hot Klingon... and post mission scantily clad rub downs was not enough to hold me.
Gone 2012, starring Amanda Seyfried, not great, but not a bad mystery crime drama about a girl who says she was abducted, got away, and the police did not believe her. Now her sister goes missing, and she thinks it's the same guy...
The entire Khan story and background is intriguing. To some degree along with unforeseen consequences, they were created that way. The good thing in my opinion is that both realities (the original Star Trek and the new, is that they basically used his same background but in the new version, the story intersection happens at an earlier time when an Admiral is hoping to use Khan against the Klingons.
As evidence by some of my other rants, sometimes I am intolerant of story changes, but in this case, transitioning from show to movie to movie, these are the best Star Trek movies, (although I'm still in love with STNG) and they are much better than the original movies imo, so I'm happy. My complaint about most of the Star Trek movies prior to Abrams is that they would start with a bang, then drag, then end with a bang. I felt like they were still writing a tv show, but had to figure out what to do with the extra hour.
What was always impressed me with Star Trek Next Generation is that they could tell this amazing story with threaded sub-plots in 50 minutes, fast paced and to the point. I tried other ST shows, Voyager and Enterprise, but a combination of the writing and actors that did not grab me, except for the hot Klingon... and post mission scantily clad rub downs was not enough to hold me.
I'm not unlike you when it comes to being intolerant of story changes between movies/shows. But in this case, they did a great job with the little twists, not making big changes to the storyline.
The one thing that took my getting used to in the new Star Trek films was the relationship between Uhura and Spock. In TOS. there was never even a glint of that ever happening. Spock in the new films is more, emotional, shall we say than he was when Nimoy played him. I chock it up and accept it by rationalizing that Spock, as we know, being half human, is younger and hasn't fully developed his Vulcan discipline and lack of emotion yet.
Additionally, I was ever-so-slightly annoyed at how Spock was acting like Kirk's mother at every decision he made whereby Spock would offer his logical advice every time without being asked for it. That is something Nimoy did not do except on rare occasion, and did it without that nagging sense about it.
It, by no means, ruined the film for me, but it was something I picked up on.
My favorite is TOS and then STNG. All of the others after STNG I could never get behind. It took me a while to even warm up to STNG and I tried to warm up to Deep Space Nine, but couldn't.
I know many people thought some, or all, of the early Star Trek movies were bad, but over the years I've grown to like them all and enjoy watching them from time to time.
It adds an interesting depth to bridge relationships.
Regarding Spock and Kirk, I believe that is a continuation of the differences they had of how to approach challenges to a point where Spock threw Kirk off the Enterprise, abandoning him on some berg. I see it as different, but have accepted it as part of the new reality. Not saying you don't have a right to be annoyed though. 
Just finished watching R. I. P. D and boy was that movie craptastic.
Next up on the docket - Now you see me.
Hopefully this one will be less cheesy
Next up on the docket - Now you see me.
Hopefully this one will be less cheesy
Rewatched: There Will Be Blood.
What a great movie. I can't believe it got negative reviews. Very Kubrick-like with no dialogue in the first 15 minutes. Reminded me of 2001 in a few ways.
What a great movie. I can't believe it got negative reviews. Very Kubrick-like with no dialogue in the first 15 minutes. Reminded me of 2001 in a few ways.
I think that is one of the most amazing films in the recent past. I wasn't aware that it had received bad reviews...just goes to show that not all reviews are worth reading!
Daniel Day-Lewis gives one of the frighteningly intense performances I have ever seen. The guy is just scary good.
Have you guys seen Lincoln by any chance? I wouldn't be interested if it wasn't for Daniel Day-Lewis, received mixed reviews as well as far as I know.
Roger Ebert, who I had the utmost respect for, did not think this movie was that great. He thought No Country For Old Men was better. I thought the latter movie was good but not great.
The first fifteen minutes of There Will Be Blood reminded me of the beginning of 2001 when the apes learn how to use tools. It's like we are watching mankind learn how to go from mining for gold to mining for oil and kickstarting the 20th century.
I agree, Daniel Day-Lewis is positively brilliant. He is almost unrecognizable.
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Blade (never get tired of this)
Van Helsing (not sure why I endured this again. I guess I wanted to see Hugh Jackman wearing a Solomon Kane get up.)
The Designated Victim - Weird early 70s Italian remake of Strangers on a Train. Think it would have been much better if Franco Nero was in Tomas Milians' part.
Blade (never get tired of this)
Van Helsing (not sure why I endured this again. I guess I wanted to see Hugh Jackman wearing a Solomon Kane get up.)
The Designated Victim - Weird early 70s Italian remake of Strangers on a Train. Think it would have been much better if Franco Nero was in Tomas Milians' part.