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I saw Uncle Drew this past weekend (thanks MoviePass). Pretty entertaining, but for sure not a movie I would spend money on.
Walked out of superfly into Tag. Surprised tag plenty of funny moments. Yeah with movie pass you can basically see odd movies you would not generally pay for
Paranoia (1969) Confirms Umberto Lenzi and I never clicked (I put up with The Man from Deep River because of my fondness for Ivan Rassimov). Not even Jean Sorel could save this poorly scripted, paced and shot pseudo giallo.
I also seem to have finally grown out of. Lucio Fulci’s zombie movies. City of the Living Dead had a good story, but outside of the buried alive sequence, it is bad. Laughably bad. I would say the same thing for The Beyond (the ending was good, but dang everything leading up to that?
). Not going to revisit Zombie (ironic I had a poster for that on my wall 30 years ago), I will just stick to Lucio’s giallos. His best movies.
On the Shaw Brothers side, revisited Dirty Ho which I love now (in spite of Wong Yu). If real life cooperates I will go see this on the big screen next week too. The kung fu is fantastic and I finally found a Gordon Liu performance I enjoy beyond the martial arts. He is so much fun here as the 11th Prince who goes on an incognito shopping spree to avoid being killed by an older sibling. He meets up with the title character, Wong Yu’s jewel thief, and promptly manipulates Ho into being his bodyguard while trying to sway the younger man away from a life of crime.
I also seem to have finally grown out of. Lucio Fulci’s zombie movies. City of the Living Dead had a good story, but outside of the buried alive sequence, it is bad. Laughably bad. I would say the same thing for The Beyond (the ending was good, but dang everything leading up to that?
). Not going to revisit Zombie (ironic I had a poster for that on my wall 30 years ago), I will just stick to Lucio’s giallos. His best movies.On the Shaw Brothers side, revisited Dirty Ho which I love now (in spite of Wong Yu). If real life cooperates I will go see this on the big screen next week too. The kung fu is fantastic and I finally found a Gordon Liu performance I enjoy beyond the martial arts. He is so much fun here as the 11th Prince who goes on an incognito shopping spree to avoid being killed by an older sibling. He meets up with the title character, Wong Yu’s jewel thief, and promptly manipulates Ho into being his bodyguard while trying to sway the younger man away from a life of crime.
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I also seem to have finally grown out of. Lucio Fulci’s zombie movies. City of the Living Dead had a good story, but outside of the buried alive sequence, it is bad. Laughably bad. I would say the same thing for The Beyond (the ending was good, but dang everything leading up to that?
BLASPHEMY
I just watched The Beyond the other day and found it actually better than the first time. And dare you not say anything bad against Zombi!!
Fulci is watching you through his thick lenses.
If you want another terrific Ben Foster movie, The Messenger,where he co-starred with Woody Harrelson, is very good, should be on some streaming service somewhere.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011016_messenger?
Collide. Really not sure about this one. It wasn't terrible, just not very good. Definitely ok-ish.
As long as he has early 1970s Jean Sorel watching me too, the ghost of Maestro Fulci can glare at me all he wants, but I refuse to cry bloody tears.
Now giallo tears, maybe. The Beyond: I think it is a mildly disturbing movie on the fear of death and the afterlife (an eternal limbo of desolation), and the ending is brilliant. Yet, I was giggling through the whole thing; most of the make ups were terrible (though the acid to the face was very well done), and the reactions were
. That red haired girl in the morgue - yikes!City... the makeups were largely crap, though Catrina MacColl is fantastic and I liked the core store though the execution wasn’t quite there. Michele Soavi’s zombie (“Tommy Fisher”) had me in tears (not bloody) though. Still, like The Beyond, people have the weirdest (and unintentionally funny reactions to the horrifying things going on around them).
Perhaps this was Fulci’s way of detaching himself from death and almost making fun of it? Plus, his history as a heart doctor meant he could go into gory details and he often did. I understand the appeal, I loved these for many years, but laughing as hard as I did during both movies surprised me.
If you haven’t seen Lucio’s giallos yet, you’re in for a major treat. Perversion Story, A Woman in a Lizard’s Skin and Don’t Torture a Duckling are all excellent and brutal (psychologically and in some cases physical too). The latter two have great blu ray options now and Perversion Story is coming. Can’t wait to see that one again.
I need to watch Arrow’s blu of Duckling all the way through. It looks beautiful (for such an ugly movie). Looking forward to watching it again.
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Perversion Story I haven't had a clue about at all - thanks for the info.
Lizard and Duckling I have seen and love em both. Great giallos and among the very best ( I know about). So P-story seems like a no-brainer. I do agree that they are clearly superior to City.. and Beyond.
As for the rest, I think City was the weakest, then the Beyond. Cemetery has it's own shortcomings but the last ten mins are so relentless And unforgiving that I can actually really enjoy the rest (maybe hard to understand dunno).
But Zombi is just on a whole different level. pure b-flic genius. Wouldn't want it any different.
Lizard and Duckling I have seen and love em both. Great giallos and among the very best ( I know about). So P-story seems like a no-brainer. I do agree that they are clearly superior to City.. and Beyond.
As for the rest, I think City was the weakest, then the Beyond. Cemetery has it's own shortcomings but the last ten mins are so relentless And unforgiving that I can actually really enjoy the rest (maybe hard to understand dunno).
But Zombi is just on a whole different level. pure b-flic genius. Wouldn't want it any different.
P Story is more Hitchcock-like; Jean Sorel and Marisa Mell are a gorgeous couple. Definitely more psychological, it was excellent. (I prefer the alternate title One on Top of the Other).
Zombie has it’s moments that is for sure (eye meet gigantic splinter
and the zombie vs shark LOL with that alone Fulci topped Dawn of the Dead which I think was his point.) So I am not revisiting it because I want to continue to enjoy it in my memory.I think I was surprised by how crude the zombie makeups were in City and the non morgue zombies in The Beyond. That and the reactions really threw me off. Cemetery was one and done for me, I agree about the last ten minutes though. Shame that Catrina MacColl did not do much outside of those movies for Lucio. I liked her.
Oh a mildly sleazy exploitation t-shirt maker is currently doing Fulci comics including a sequel to Zombie. A great idea really, but I am not interested (the art is not good enough for me). It’s Eibon press.
Ant-Man (2015) Outside of the villain who took me clean out of the movie, I have to say I was quite surprised at how much I liked some of this (Scott Lang, the ants and the FX showing you things from the ant and Quantum Realm perspective).
That said, Ms. Lily still annoys me to no end, most of the humor fell flat (though I laughed at the Siri trigger during the almost end fight), and that craptastic villain. This guy was trying to be Jeff Bridges' Obidiah Stane from Iron Man and failed so hard it wasn't funny.
Not interested in the sequel. I already know the
That said, Ms. Lily still annoys me to no end, most of the humor fell flat (though I laughed at the Siri trigger during the almost end fight), and that craptastic villain. This guy was trying to be Jeff Bridges' Obidiah Stane from Iron Man and failed so hard it wasn't funny.
Not interested in the sequel. I already know the
post credits scenes and how Ant-Man will play into Avengers 4.
Saw Ant-Man and the Wasp with the family on Friday night. It was simple fun with plenty of laughs thrown in. A great cliffhanger ending as well.
Ant Man wasn't bad. And that's coming from someone who doesn't remotely enjoy Superhero anythings. Though I did enjoy Deadpool for its candid humor.
Well, I have rented Hackers (1995) for 99c to see if it's a comically awful as the spread of professional critics' reviews on RottenTomatoes had indicated. Something that bad should eventually get a ripe enough rep from streaming to become a cult watch, or so suggested one sub-teen famliy member at a picnic a few summers ago. I keep meaning to ask if he ever watched it. At least now I've rented it so I can (perhaps have to lie and) say I saw it once as a contribution to its possible cult status.
There was a book called "Hackers" By Steven Levy, but it was about the technical advancements made at MIT from the '50's through the 80s. As for the movie, well "Hack the planet".
The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Been awhile since I watched this one.
Hackers isn't for everyone to be sure. Though, I always enjoy it when I watch it. There are a few parts that I roll my eyes at, but I like it. It's a B movie in my opinion and I'm a sucker for B movies that are sci-fi in nature.
Another computer-related movie that might be of special interest to Mac users is 1995's The Net, starring Sandra Bullock as a software engineer. Some of the scenes were shot at that year's Macworld San Francisco, and IIRC Sandra's character uses a Mac.