@FuriousMachine Really glad to hear that! I’ve been itching for a good historical epic, with ‘The Northman’ and ‘The Last Duel’ being the only recent examples to have moved me in any significant way (besides the Director’s cut of Kingdom of Heaven, but that’s not exactly recent). Looking forward to November!
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@LtSarge Diamonds are Forever is many things but I wouldn’t say it’s forgettable! One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, dear Lord, from Bond strangling women with their own bra to an elephant playing a slot machine. Live and Let Die is one of my favourites though, feels very classic.
@FuriousMachine I have serious doubts about "Gladiator 2" however I am a Ridley Scott fan and hope it delivers. "Gladiator" is a film that doesn't require a sequel and shouldn't have gotten one but only time will tell.
@Hogs-of-War-General I'm with you on Gladiator 2, it really did not needed to be made. I really hate the current fashion of making sequels/remakes/reboots of film that i grew and love. Yes those films are still there for me to enjoy, but look at the Terminator and Alien series, totally run into the ground.
PS I'm watching the 4K of Event Horizon, You were right, it certainly is a good transfer!
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@JohnnyShoulder I agree with you to a certain extent in regard to all the reboots/remakes/sequels however I understand where they're coming from, "Making it for this generation of people!" However the main issue is that they are obliterating the spirit of the majority of those franchises with abysmal storytelling(writing), bad actors, horrible production value, and ultimately the worst in the bunch, inclusion of a bunch of garbage that has no place in the story of that particular film as it doesn't fit or progress the story.
I'm all for a continuation of a story or franchise, as long as it's done well and in the same spirit of the story/franchise. I actually enjoyed "Terminator: Dark Fate" as well as "Alien: Romulus", two franchises which I hold dear as I grew up on them. However they're not nearly as good as their predecessors but they aren't as bad as the vast majority of people are making them out to be.
PS. I'm glad you enjoyed the 4K version of "Event Horizon", it's a great film!
@Pizzamorg All three of those movies are intriguing, they're on my watchlist now, thanks!
While I didn't like The Breach @Hogs-of-War-General I will say the last like 25 minutes could have made a rad short. Shame about the hour plus before that. And if you are a film person, Enys Men is set in 1975, was shot on 16 mm and had sound design done in post to make it more mono / tinny. So if you told me this was a BluRay remaster done from on original 1975 negative I would believe you. The film itself is awful, but on that technical level I admired it.
@Pizzamorg Hahaha duly noted! Thanks for the info and everyone's film tastes are different but my watchlist is extremely long so I might watch one of the 3 films, eventually...
I'm both surprised and entirely not surprised by how much I enjoyed Joker: Folie à Deux. Like everyone else, I'd heard the rumblings of it being a bombastic failure, but I think the news of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Don't get me wrong. I understand where a lot of people are coming from with their criticisms of the movie and I do imagine that it's really not the movie many people were expecting or wanting from the sequel, but I think it was halfway to a stroke of genius. Personally, seeing this as a response to what some people took out of the first movie, I understand entirely what Todd Philips was going for here and I think he largely succeeded. It's not often a big budget movie takes a big swing like this either and goes out of its way to subvert any and all expectation, so the movie also gets bonus points for just having the sheer audacity to attempt it in the first place.
That said, I don't think I've ever seen a movie more specifically engineered to me and me alone. A love for courtroom drama? Check. A love for musicals? Check. A love for Lady Gaga? Check. A love for the first movie? Check. It's like Philips just went through my brain exclusively to check for what the fans want from a sequel, so I apologise for that if it's the opposite of what you wanted. I think it's a well written, fun romp with some fantastic moments scattered throughout. I think it's exactly the movie the Philips intended to make and I'm glad that he was able to make it the way he did for my sake. That said, I'm sure Warner Bros. might be regretting that right about now when looking at the accounting...
@Hogs-of-War-GeneralTerrifier 2 is one of not many movies I've actually turned off when watching it at home. I love horror movies and I'm not squeamish in the slightest and I can appreciate an evil just being evil, but this one did not land for me at all. It just seemed like it was leaning into shock factor for the sake of shock factor. It felt cheap, didn't have an engaging story in the slightest to speak of and the acting wasn't holding what was there up particularly well either. I'm not really sure what people see in the movie, but I'm glad it was able to have the positive effect on you that it clearly has had on many.
@Pizzamorg I saw it again not too many years ago, myself, and I agree. I do have a soft spot for the early "Dark Castle" movies, though. They are riddled with problems, but tons of fun. I especially love "House on Haunted Hill" with the delightfully over-the-top performances from Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen.
Maybe it is just an age thing @FuriousMachine but I have a bit of a soft spot for medium budget 00s horror in general to be honest. A lot of it kind of feels the same, but that feeling is one that is weirdly comforting. Secondary school sleepovers watching these movies when it got dark (and by dark, it was probably like 8pm because I was about about 12 - 14), feeling like you were doing something naughty somehow even though my Mum probably bought me the DVD. I see Darkness Falls is on Netflix, kind of tempted to watch that today even if it might be bad, just to recapture that nostalgia again.
@Pizzamorg I have the same soft spot due to very much the same reasons; though for me it's the movies I saw in the mid to late 80's, so I get where you're coming from. Darkness Falls, that's the tooth fairy thing with Emma Caulfield (with whom I fell in love with in her Buffy days), right? I can't really remember if I liked it or not when it came out, only that I saw it (simply because of miss Caulfield).
Yes @FuriousMachine from memory the Tooth Fairy sorta just looks like a bunch of bin bags flapping in the corner of the frame, yet it still scared me senseless as a teen anyway 😂
@Pizzamorg I saw Darkness Falls a few months ago and it was not as good as I remember, not horrible just very average. Decent film to watch though.
Over the past 4 Days I have seen the following:
1. Interview with The Vampire - Bluray - Not as good as I remember it being. I believe it was an amalgamation of things: bluray quality not being very good, very lackluster audio, decent visuals, very lackluster vampires, and a bit much too much narration. I grew up enjoying this film and it was always better than Bram Stoker's Dracula but after seeing the 4K of Dracula damn, it surpassed it!
2. Slither - DVD - Just a great movie all-around with 80s inspired horror, action, scifi, and comedy. Definitely some gnarly things in here and very entertaining, directed by the young James Gunn!
3. The Nun - DVD - Don't recall seeing any of the Conjuration films but this one doesn't really follow any of them, I think. A decent horror film set in the past, early 1950s in Romania, touching on exorcisms, demons, and Catholicism. I was decently surprised and want to see the sequel now.
4. Crawl - Prime - A good natural predator thriller from Alexandre Aja with great pacing, tense moments, and production value. Highly recommend to those who like nature as the antagonist!
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