Tonight I watched another killer spider movie called Infested. This one is very similar to Sting. Eerily so. But also not nearly as good either. Maybe watch as a double bill with Sting if you want, but you could probably give this one a miss.
@LN78 Oh that's great but honestly I believe the theatrical release is the best version. What?!? No atmos for the 4k version? The audio design and score is amazing for the film as is but would have been incredible with atmos!
As for October 1st the films I watched were "Cabin Fever" and "The Blair Witch Project". I have never seen Cabin Fever before and never fully watched The Blair Witch Project so essentially saw both films for the first time and damn did they not disappoint!
Cabin Fever is just entertaining throughout especially the 2nd half where as in The Blair Witch Project is such a great film and I believe the main film to really kickoff the found footage genre! It was just a slight bummer on how it ended but definitely piques my interest to the sequels. Any thoughts on the sequels fellow film buffs?
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I am not a film buff at all but I can confidently asset that the Blair Witch sequel is absolutely terrible. Shameless cack handed cash in. You should watch it just so you can see how bad it is.
The 2016 film was better but still not anywhere near the first one.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Watched the entire Back to the Future trilogy over the weekend (4K UHD Blu-Ray) - These were probably my favorite movies as a kid growing up, so it's absolutely impossible for me to give them an objective look. In fact the second is probably my favorite because of the Super 80's... err, 2015, even though it probably has the biggest plot holes given how time travel works in universe. Never had these on physical media until now (even to this day it seems like they pop up somewhere on cable every other month, so I've never felt the need), but I picked up the 4Ks on Prime Day earlier this year and it was a great way to revisit them. Had lots of fun extras too, like two episodes from a 90's cartoon that I didn't know existed (unfortunately those weren't remastered), and a few shorts they came out with in 2015 in celebration of "Future Day".
Riding Bean (Blu-Ray) - Anime homage to American crime/cop action flicks of the 70's-90's (think stuff like Dirty Harry or Lethal Weapon). Bean Bandit, the "Road Buster", is the best courier/getaway driver in Chicago, and when he's framed for kidnapping he hits the streets to take out the gang who set him up, but he'll have to do so while avoiding Chicago's finest. The dub is absolutely terrible (but kinda charming in a way), and it's so over the top it's pretty fun (Bean is a beast of a man who can rip off car doors with his bare hands and tank gunfire thanks to a bulletproof leather jacket & headband), and at a pretty brisk 45 minutes it sticks to the (ultraviolent) action.
Joker 2 is worse than Megalopolis. Genuinely. Absolute utter dogsh*t that isn’t even funny bad, just a bit depressing in terms of how transparently desperate it is.
@nessisonett Can't say I'm surprised, but I'm curious as to what you thought of the first one? I was not a fan, so seeing this was never really an option.
Watched my first genuine stinker this Halloween called Hostile Dimensions. It is a shame as the same group made Death of a Vlogger and I quite liked that one. If you haven't seen that one, I'd recommend it. But go in as cold as you can, as I think it'll be ruined if a synopsis gives anything away.
@FuriousMachine For essentially a rip off of The King of Comedy, I thought the first one was fairly well made but I felt a bit gross coming out of seeing it. Like as a movie it felt sort of bad spirited. My thoughts on it straight after seeing it in the cinema (60mm reel in a lovely Victorian cinema we have) are probably buried in this thread somewhere.
@nessisonett I was too annoyed with it to notice anything good other than the solid performance from Phoenix. Looking behind that you're left with a subpar version of The King of Comedy, as you said, and a pretentious one at that. I found it borderline offensive as it looked to make the Joker a martyr for incels and edgelords to rally behind.
Again, Phoenix was good, though
PS: That cinema sounds like a magical place to see movies!
@FuriousMachine I think the GFT is actually from 1939 but you know the type, more of a ‘theatre’ than a modern cinema! Probably made me enjoy Joker more at the time, it really suited the surroundings and I’d love to watch, well… an actual movie from the 70s there rather than a pastiche of one!
@nessisonett That looks pretty nice, yeah! There's something a bit special about the old style theatres. We have a couple left in operation here in Oslo as well, but refurbishments and modernisation is chipping away at past little by little. There are two where there are still traces of the old Art Deco style to be seen still and one of them recently "upgraded" in order to be able to show 70mm again. Unfortunately, I've yet to see them actually put on a 70mm screening of anything, so not sure what's going on there.
@colonelkilgore I regret even seeing it early, it’s really that bad! I do think mileage will vary though, I could see some people thinking it’s clever.
@colonelkilgore Hmm, well it goes for a strange mix of ‘cerebral’ and undercutting that with musical numbers that in spoiler-free terms are sort of like dream sequences? Like, if I’m reading it right then the musical bits are their inner thoughts, a bit like a stage show. It doesn’t really work in my opinion, the movie comes across as a mess of different tones.
@nessisonett gotcha… sounds like something that if executed well, would be lauded but it’s like threading the eye of a needle. I gotta be honest, while disappointed by the general reception thus far, I am still slightly intrigued.
@nessisonett hahaha, that's funny, because I actually didn't notice; my head read it as 70mm
This little side track made think about the theatre experience in itself. Have you been to any that stands out in your mind as something special? An unorthodox venue or maybe just the vibes in the room were something else that particular day or something like that?
I have three that has stayed with me:
Catching the 70mm version of "The Hateful Eight"; the long one, complete with intermission. That was pretty cool
Then there was Kenneth Branagh's "Love's Labour's Lost" at Oslo Film Festival with Branagh and Alicia Silverstone in attendance for a Q&A. As a lifelong Branagh fan (and apologist) and a young man who thought miss Silverstone was particularly fetching, it was almost a dream come true.
But my favourite experience was a double-bill of F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" and the then brand new "Shadow of the Vampire". What made it really special was that "Nosferatu" was accompanied by a live soundtrack, like in the real olden days. Great atmosphere
@FuriousMachine They all sound brilliant! A lot of the best ones I’ve been to have been part of our film festival or part of a season at the GFT. I would love to go down to London for one of the BFI screenings though, especially the Doctor Who ones.
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