Just finished Silence
Such a dark film but incredibly well done
Such a dark film but incredibly well done
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Since it just came out on Blu Ray we bought and watched "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Great addition to the Harry Potter franchise. Super, well done CGI, good script and good acting. Well worth adding to the collection. We'll watch it again.
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I got all the demonstration I needed in the first film.
Carry on to that link then.
Guilty Pleasures tonight - Crimes of Passion - Directors Cut (1984)
A Ken Russell film, enough said watch it if you can find it, good as it ever was, certainly raises the pulse
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Expectations are stratospheric, please, please, not a weak watered down PG13 CGI fest. Alien should be shocking and terrifying. This is exactly where the studios have it 100% wrong, Adults want Adult films, they want Adult entertainment, nor are we talking about porn; scare us, thrill us, entertain us, just stop pandering to the kiddies and SJW's...
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A Ken Russell film, enough said watch it if you can find it, good as it ever was, certainly raises the pulse
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Expectations are stratospheric, please, please, not a weak watered down PG13 CGI fest. Alien should be shocking and terrifying. This is exactly where the studios have it 100% wrong, Adults want Adult films, they want Adult entertainment, nor are we talking about porn; scare us, thrill us, entertain us, just stop pandering to the kiddies and SJW's...
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Early Chang Cheh wuxia epic, The Heroic Ones (1970) Essentially, a small clan of barbaric warlords under their king Li (Ku Feng) begins to disintegrate when the youngest general (Cuo Xing the 13th) begins to win the kings' favor over his elders. Two elder generals do not like this and conspire with officials to bring the Li clan down. It's an interesting mix of sibling rivalry and conquest. Ku is particularly good as King Li and gets a great dramatic moment when his favorite natural born son Jing Sui (Ti Lung) is killed.
David Chiang is awesome as the cocky young Cuo, but good gosh, this film features the most brutal death he endures in a Shaws/Chang Cheh movie. I feel every inch of that demise...so I think I will skip that moment in my subsequent revisit later this week. I sat through some demises that have been far more gory and awful than this, but damn...
Early Chang Cheh wuxia epic, The Heroic Ones (1970) Essentially, a small clan of barbaric warlords under their king Li (Ku Feng) begins to disintegrate when the youngest general (Cuo Xing the 13th) begins to win the kings' favor over his elders. Two elder generals do not like this and conspire with officials to bring the Li clan down. It's an interesting mix of sibling rivalry and conquest. Ku is particularly good as King Li and gets a great dramatic moment when his favorite natural born son Jing Sui (Ti Lung) is killed.
David Chiang is awesome as the cocky young Cuo, but good gosh, this film features the most brutal death he endures in a Shaws/Chang Cheh movie. I feel every inch of that demise...so I think I will skip that moment in my subsequent revisit later this week. I sat through some demises that have been far more gory and awful than this, but damn...
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Beauty and the Beast (2017)- I've seen this story before, but a decent live action/CGI movie, although I really disliked the CGI country side. Some stronge singers and songs.
but a decent live action/CGI movie, although I really disliked the CGI country side. Some stronge singers and songs.
Time for something totally different Nosferatu (1922) the original chiller...
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A must watch for all The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) may well be 69 years young, equally holds up beautifully and the morals still stand to this day.
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one of my all time faves! silent films FTW!Time for something totally different Nosferatu (1922) the original chiller...
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another all time fave. well done!A must watch for all The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) may well be 69 years young, equally holds up beautifully and the morals still stand to this day.
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Nothing. I happened to rent two movies off the 99c special list from iTunes last evening, since I'm more or less chained to keeping one eye on my cellar pump during the rain-snowmelt flooding events here, and to my dismay neither of them would download (nor provide an error message). I have an inquiry into Apple. Both films do offer the "Download" option when I look at them in the Store, so it's not like the transactions didn't occur. Hmm. Maybe since I checked the SD option to enable faster download on my DSL, if there's no SD version ready to go then... I just debugged their code.
Anyway one was Deepwater Horizon (I enjoyed the book and the audiobook), the other was Trouble with the Curve since despite snow and rain it is baseball season after all. LOL I'm having trouble even getting to having trouble with either of these films. I look forward to getting my download issue resolved. Meanwhile looks like I could have just streamed Curve on Amazon for free w/ Prime but I blew 99c on it at iTunes...
Trailer for Deepwater Horizon:
And here's the trailer for Trouble with the Curve:
Anyway one was Deepwater Horizon (I enjoyed the book and the audiobook), the other was Trouble with the Curve since despite snow and rain it is baseball season after all. LOL I'm having trouble even getting to having trouble with either of these films. I look forward to getting my download issue resolved. Meanwhile looks like I could have just streamed Curve on Amazon for free w/ Prime but I blew 99c on it at iTunes...
Trailer for Deepwater Horizon:
The Fourth Protocol (1987) anyone who has enjoyed the Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) films will also appreciate The Fourth Protocol a gritty Cold War thriller, with a rather young Pierce Brosnan
Personally I like the film, although it does require the viewer to internalise a level of suspension of disbelief.
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Personally I like the film, although it does require the viewer to internalise a level of suspension of disbelief.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (21 July 2017)- Hmm, I may have to see this on the big screen. Is there a reason I'm reminded of Star Wars?
Fight for Glory (1980) Very good Taiwanese sword-fu as David Chiang's noble Teh Row attempts to discover who the Cold Moon killer is. It's set up almost like a giallo (no gloves or masks, but a lot of red herrings, murders and sword pointing leading to paranoia.) The filmmakers even borrowed Ennio Morricone music from Four Flies on Grey Velvet. The prize: to be named the very best swordsman in the martial arts world*. It would have been almost pure nod to the giallo if Ching Li was indeed the Cold Moon killer, but that sadly did not cross the filmmakers' minds.
I'd seek out a copy, if a better print was available as I enjoyed how this was structured and thought Chiang delivered another excellent performance (both acting and martial arts-wise.)
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Interestingly, the Ti Lung SB film Soul of the Sword (1978) also covers a young swordsman's desire to be the best and the price paid.
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Definitely SW prequel-flavored and some Buck Rogers there for me too. I'll pass, simply because it feels empty to me, unlike The Fifth Element.
The prize: to be named the very best swordsman in the martial arts world*. It would have been almost pure nod to the giallo if Ching Li was indeed the Cold Moon killer, but that sadly did not cross the filmmakers' minds.I'd seek out a copy, if a better print was available as I enjoyed how this was structured and thought Chiang delivered another excellent performance (both acting and martial arts-wise.)
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Interestingly, the Ti Lung SB film Soul of the Sword (1978) also covers a young swordsman's desire to be the best and the price paid.
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Definitely SW prequel-flavored and some Buck Rogers there for me too. I'll pass, simply because it feels empty to me, unlike The Fifth Element.
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Just finished watching Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon.
A superb film with very few flaws, but ones that seem to cause an irrational amount of headache. For me, at least.
Visually stunning (which is interesting, seeing as how the director is colour blind), the soundtrack by Cliff Burton an absolute gem and the actors and actresses do their job very well. All in all I'm very happy about the existence of Refn, since my favorite director of all time (David Lynch) isn't doing films any more (or at least for the time being). The two auteurs seem to share a dreamlike feeling in their films, and both make films that get under my skin and have me thinking about them for days or weeks, even after repeat viewings. Which is a mark of a great film in my opinion.
Now, for the second half of the double feature, it's time to put on a modern classic, Un prophète by Jacques Audiard. Also a repeat viewing, but also a film from recent years that has made a very strong impact on me.
A superb film with very few flaws, but ones that seem to cause an irrational amount of headache. For me, at least.
Visually stunning (which is interesting, seeing as how the director is colour blind), the soundtrack by Cliff Burton an absolute gem and the actors and actresses do their job very well. All in all I'm very happy about the existence of Refn, since my favorite director of all time (David Lynch) isn't doing films any more (or at least for the time being). The two auteurs seem to share a dreamlike feeling in their films, and both make films that get under my skin and have me thinking about them for days or weeks, even after repeat viewings. Which is a mark of a great film in my opinion.
Now, for the second half of the double feature, it's time to put on a modern classic, Un prophète by Jacques Audiard. Also a repeat viewing, but also a film from recent years that has made a very strong impact on me.
Fight for Glory (1980) Very good Taiwanese sword-fu as David Chiang's noble Teh Row attempts to discover who the Cold Moon killer is. It's set up almost like a giallo (no gloves or masks, but a lot of red herrings, murders and sword pointing leading to paranoia.) The filmmakers even borrowed Ennio Morricone music from Four Flies on Grey Velvet.
I'd seek out a copy, if a better print was available as I enjoyed how this was structured and thought Chiang delivered another excellent performance (both acting and martial arts-wise.)
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Interestingly, the Ti Lung SB film Soul of the Sword (1978) also covers a young swordsman's desire to be the best and the price paid.
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Definitely SW prequel-flavored and some Buck Rogers there for me too. I'll pass, simply because it feels empty to me, unlike The Fifth Element.
I'm obligated to watch this (Valarian), either in the theaters or via streaming.
and I am sure you will enjoy it. Pardon me while I explain: I find today's SF and pop culture movies to be largely empty, devoid of characters I care about and want to continue following. I may revisit a superhero film I very much enjoyed a few times (or too many times in the case of Captain America The Winter Soldier due to my fan woman loyalties to Bucky Barnes), but ultimately I forget 99% of them shortly after leaving the theater.
I want to care and to love these movies and add them to my collection, but ultimately, nope. I still haven't purchased Doctor Strange and am not surprised.
but, I do hope you enjoy
and I am sure you will enjoy it. Pardon me while I explain: I find today's SF and pop culture movies to be largely empty, devoid of characters I care about and want to continue following. I may revisit a superhero film I very much enjoyed a few times (or too many times in the case of Captain America The Winter Soldier due to my fan woman loyalties to Bucky Barnes), but ultimately I forget 99% of them shortly after leaving the theater.
I want to care and to love these movies and add them to my collection, but ultimately, nope. I still haven't purchased Doctor Strange and am not surprised.
but, I do hope you enjoy
There is only one way to know if this is status quo or something refreshingly new.