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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 21:25:40 GMT
Low-budget horror time again, this has a cast of just two people, if I'm not mistaken, but it works quite well. Essentially, Mark Duplass claims to be dying from cancer, and wants a day in his live videoed so that his unborn son can see what he was like. But it soon becomes clear that he's more than a little odd and desperate to be a friend. Not brilliant, but lives up to its title fairly well, and is uncomfortable viewing at times. Paranormal Activity and the Purge were both pretty good.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 3, 2019 16:42:53 GMT
After a temporary lapse of reason in which I decided to "rent" this film from the apple store, and then having to deal a compatibility issue with my teevee (I have a mac mini hooked up to my samsung "smart" tv via hdmi) by which I couldn't even stream the damn thing. At least I got my 6 bucks back, after which I just d/l'ed the fucking thing through Pirate Bay. It's not terribly faithful to DeWitt's novel, which I found a bit surprising - John C Reilly gets an acknowledgement in the novel, which I got shortly after it was published in 2011, and is also credited as a producer on the film (released 2018), so you know he's deeply invested in this thing. Still, despite a few liberties, I still thought it was a good film.
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 14, 2019 10:39:45 GMT
Odd low-budget rip-off of Seven, which doesn't really have any need to exist, and copies some moments practically scene by scene. Only points of interest are David Cronenberg as an actor (but his performance is remarkably unremarkable) and the fact that Leland Orser was a victim in Seven, and one of the lead characters in this, including in some directly copied scenes.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 14, 2019 11:06:54 GMT
Christophe Lambert LOL
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 16:16:33 GMT
Two I watched this weekend. Color Me Obsessed was interesting. Just interviews with fans of the band and Clifford was very funny. It did terrible at the box office but I heard Martin Short talking about it. Very funny movie.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 14, 2019 21:18:05 GMT
“Act like a normal, human boy”
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 20, 2019 21:03:00 GMT
Ludicrous 1985 B-Movie, about a mysterious dessert which is turning people into addicted zombies. It has perhaps the shortest narraive exposition in the history of film, I'd say literally within the first 5 seconds someone discovers 'the stuff' bubbling out of the ground, eats it, and decides it tastes really good. Some really excellent bad special effects, and a cast of "hey, that's thingy who was in that thing. He was probably a bad guy in Columbo for a couple of episodes, too", the most famous prolly being Paul Sorvino.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 21, 2019 15:13:20 GMT
Larry Cohen! he died just a couple of years ago. I never met him but I knew a guy who said he was really tight with him and that he considered himself a pretty lucky guy. those "It's Alive" movies made a mint, I guess. I love how the guy in "the stuff" decides the first thing to do with something bubbling up out of the earth is to see how it tastes. LOL.
I just watched "Us". If you'd asked me how I liked it right after I finished it I would have been very diplomatic. I would have called it "well crafted" and "ambitious" things like that. I also probably would have said I found it confusing and pretty preposterous. well, I don't think I've gone an hour without thinking about that movie since I watched it Friday night.
I'm not really a horror movie guy. I can talk for hours about why I consider guys like Wes Craven and George Romero good film makers but the fact of the matter is, I have a very hard time sitting through horror movies. I have a problem with scenes of graphic violence or just prolonged unpleasantness in general. still, I get that this is part of what makes good ones stand out. If somebody takes a knife to the face early on then the filmakers have got you on your toes.
so, "us" was a tough sit for me about a half hour in. sitting here talking about it today it's maybe one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time. like "the babadook" it can be taken any number of ways. since watching it, I've asked people if they've seen it - most have (I guess it was a really big hit, huh?) some like it & some don't. most have a completely different take on "what it means".
I don't really see that as a drawback. I still think it was pretty preposterous but there are images and moments from that film as indelible as any I've seen. you might say I'm even still working out if I liked it or not. this is almost always a sign that I really do like something.
I'll bet the very next, good horror movie book is sure to have an image from this film on the cover.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2019 16:04:02 GMT
I introduced my son to this, this weekend.
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 29, 2019 7:03:33 GMT
Pretty great. Excellent performances all round (Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, as well as these two) and a tone that (unsurprisingly) isn't dissimilar to that of The Graduate. I don't hear it mentioned almost at all these days, which I think is strange.
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Post by rayge on Oct 29, 2019 13:53:28 GMT
Pretty great. Excellent performances all round (Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, as well as these two) and a tone that (unsurprisingly) isn't dissimilar to that of The Graduate. I don't hear it mentioned almost at all these days, which I think is strange. I assume this is about Carnal Knowledge (pic isn't showing up for me). I saw it in the cinema when it came out, but it seems to have disappeared from view. My abiding memory of it is how embarrassed I was by Artie's character (and/or performance). Nichols obviously thought he was a great thesp, because he used him more than once, but me, not so much.
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 29, 2019 15:39:18 GMT
It was Carnal Knowledge, yeah. Shame the image didn't show up because it's a great lobby card showing the two leads walking down a snowy street.
Anyway. I thought Art was pretty good! Better than I remembered. You do feel sorry for him, especially towards the start. I haven't seen him in anything else.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 29, 2019 17:46:11 GMT
really? you never saw "Bad Timing"? oh you gotta. you're gonna HAAAAAATE it!!! LOL.
I think the ending of Carnal Knowledge offends the daylights out of a lot of people. this makes it easy to forget to mention. some pedigree, huh? I think Jules Feiffer gets a LOT of the credit. the dialogue is so much like reading his comic strips.
Rita Moreno understood - he's getting excited at the end because he's not a very caring or imaginative person. some people like it that way.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 29, 2019 17:46:41 GMT
I saw "Three Billbords outside Ebbing Mo." & I thought it was terrific.
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 29, 2019 17:56:42 GMT
isn't Sam Rockwell great in that?
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