dholliday
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Raging Bull, i reckon. For the sports scenes, specifically. The boxing is so visceral.
Last Film You Watched
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dholliday
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some from these last few months:
we attempted the Back to the Future trilogy. 1 was daft but fun. That scene with his teenage mum is still awkward as fook. I say teenage but both Fox and the actress playing his mum were already in their mid-20's. Still, a watchable decent flick with positive messaging about how to stand up to bullies, 7/10. Lloyd is great value.
2 was silly, sometimes watchable but aged badly...seemed like a cheap knock-off of the first one...4/10...hence we didn't bother with 3.
Dog Soldiers...rip-roaring good honest fun, tho' has as much depth & meaning as that 5-1 result did. 7/10.
Deliverance...that scene is so damn uncomfortable...arguably unnecessary. The rest is very good. Typical 70's the-world-doesn't-revolve-around-the-main-characters feel. 8/10. Boorman's greatest flick remains Excalibur.
Mulholland Drive. Very fine first hour, two beautiful beguiling leads...but the final third just has too many switcheroos for its own good. Still clearly worth a watch, 7/10. Lynch's finest hour for me is his Gotta Light ep from the recent Twin Peaks season.
Big Trouble in Little China...one from my childhood 80's where i wasn't sure if it was still any good...and it is! Great fun, nice mix of humour, action and mystery. Maybe lacking in oomph but deffo aged well. 8/10.
Tenet...started off interesting, loved the music and was enjoyong the stoic main character...but that stoicness didn't go anywhere, and neither did the film. In the end the incomprehensibility was just boring...i didn't care. 4/10. Nolan is very hit-n-miss but his films all have one thing in common: cold dry dull characters. Heath's Joker excepted. Prestige & Inception are his good films for me...the rest i can leave.
Batman Returns...easily the best Batman film, maybe the best superhero film overall (or that might be Superman from 1978). Three memorable antagonists all in one film: Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't just outrageously sexy, she's up there with Heath's Joker in greatest Batman movie characters. Expert performance! Keaton's amiable Bruce contrasted just right with his stiff Batman. Gotham looked alive, and the story got nicely twisted too. It's still a costumed superhero film, mind...not normally my thing. 8/10.
They Live...they say it's a cult flick, and i see why. Some of its messaging seems relevant even today. But still felt a little detached from it. Worth a go, tho' 6/10.
The Omen (original)...jesus wept, that scene where Peck cries: "oh God, forgive me!"...my boy's around the same age as Damien...i could barely watch that bit. Powerful film, tho' also quite tropey and some scenes don't hold up that great now. Overall still a strong 8/10.
The Fly (1986)...flirting with a rare 9/10 here. Had never seen it before. Goldblum is mesmerising, as are the fx. Fantastic all round.
Lord of the Flies (1990)...another one not seen since childhood, at the time i was around the same age as the boys...jaysuscripes...this was wilder than i remembered. Boys will be boys x100. Really good film, another one flirting with a 9/10. I got the 60's original film (the british one) on dvd now too, so will give that a bash at some point.
Paris, Texas...lovely colours...the mystery captures you at first, but then where it goes is too dull for me...to arty for art's sake. Difficult to recommend unless you enjoy slow ponderous conversations about barely-there emotion. I just didn't buy into their relationship. Lovely colours, tho'...5/10.
we attempted the Back to the Future trilogy. 1 was daft but fun. That scene with his teenage mum is still awkward as fook. I say teenage but both Fox and the actress playing his mum were already in their mid-20's. Still, a watchable decent flick with positive messaging about how to stand up to bullies, 7/10. Lloyd is great value.
2 was silly, sometimes watchable but aged badly...seemed like a cheap knock-off of the first one...4/10...hence we didn't bother with 3.
Dog Soldiers...rip-roaring good honest fun, tho' has as much depth & meaning as that 5-1 result did. 7/10.
Deliverance...that scene is so damn uncomfortable...arguably unnecessary. The rest is very good. Typical 70's the-world-doesn't-revolve-around-the-main-characters feel. 8/10. Boorman's greatest flick remains Excalibur.
Mulholland Drive. Very fine first hour, two beautiful beguiling leads...but the final third just has too many switcheroos for its own good. Still clearly worth a watch, 7/10. Lynch's finest hour for me is his Gotta Light ep from the recent Twin Peaks season.
Big Trouble in Little China...one from my childhood 80's where i wasn't sure if it was still any good...and it is! Great fun, nice mix of humour, action and mystery. Maybe lacking in oomph but deffo aged well. 8/10.
Tenet...started off interesting, loved the music and was enjoyong the stoic main character...but that stoicness didn't go anywhere, and neither did the film. In the end the incomprehensibility was just boring...i didn't care. 4/10. Nolan is very hit-n-miss but his films all have one thing in common: cold dry dull characters. Heath's Joker excepted. Prestige & Inception are his good films for me...the rest i can leave.
Batman Returns...easily the best Batman film, maybe the best superhero film overall (or that might be Superman from 1978). Three memorable antagonists all in one film: Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't just outrageously sexy, she's up there with Heath's Joker in greatest Batman movie characters. Expert performance! Keaton's amiable Bruce contrasted just right with his stiff Batman. Gotham looked alive, and the story got nicely twisted too. It's still a costumed superhero film, mind...not normally my thing. 8/10.
They Live...they say it's a cult flick, and i see why. Some of its messaging seems relevant even today. But still felt a little detached from it. Worth a go, tho' 6/10.
The Omen (original)...jesus wept, that scene where Peck cries: "oh God, forgive me!"...my boy's around the same age as Damien...i could barely watch that bit. Powerful film, tho' also quite tropey and some scenes don't hold up that great now. Overall still a strong 8/10.
The Fly (1986)...flirting with a rare 9/10 here. Had never seen it before. Goldblum is mesmerising, as are the fx. Fantastic all round.
Lord of the Flies (1990)...another one not seen since childhood, at the time i was around the same age as the boys...jaysuscripes...this was wilder than i remembered. Boys will be boys x100. Really good film, another one flirting with a 9/10. I got the 60's original film (the british one) on dvd now too, so will give that a bash at some point.
Paris, Texas...lovely colours...the mystery captures you at first, but then where it goes is too dull for me...to arty for art's sake. Difficult to recommend unless you enjoy slow ponderous conversations about barely-there emotion. I just didn't buy into their relationship. Lovely colours, tho'...5/10.
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That's my #2. My next fave boxing film is Fat City.
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Possibly a rites of passage film too, deserves a #9 and is better than Excalibur. ;-)
dholliday
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uff! i'm a bit biased, mind...Excalibur is my all-time favourite alongside Kubrick's 2001.
Haven't seen all of Boorman's work yet...have Zardoz next on the watchlist, tho' not sure if i wanna spend two hours staring at Sean Connery's hairy bum.
1408
An old one - 2007
It’s a Stephen King, so you kind of know what you’re gonna get.
John Cusack ( very good ) is a non believing author, who writes cynical reviews of allegedly haunted hotels.
He goes to stay in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel in New York, where the average guest lasts ten minutes before checking out and in which there have been over 50 deaths over the years.
Needless to say, things really start to go bump in the night for him.
Remove brain and enjoy.
Just out on Netflix.
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Oh yes, the Herzog Nosferatu film is actually my favorite vampire/Dracula movie! I've adored it ever since I first saw it on TV as a kid. So atmospheric and evil, I love it.
Not sure if I've seen Shadow of the Vampire, but I'll make sure to give it a go if I can find it. Sounds like a great concept!
Hated Blair Witch though lol
I watched the Blair Witch, thinking it would be a load of cheap, B movie plop.
It really unsettled me, which considering some of the stuff I’ve seen, is quite an achievement lol
I enjoyed it but thought it was very up and down. Some really, really good stuff and some pretty dull, poor stuff. It really picks up in the second half though and I thought all the performances were good.
I wasn’t in a very busy cinema but I imagine the number of nerdgasms at the Illuminati scene will be off the charts
It's weird, I came out of it not knowing if I thought it was actually good or not. I mean it was nerd overload and had so many characters in it but I still was like hmm. Maybe it's just because the last few I've seen have been a bit more grounded like Spider-Man, newest Batman and parts of Moon Knight. I did like all the What If? moments in it. End credits scene was a bit of a waste of time too.
dholliday
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evil as an atmosphere...that's an interesting top 10 list. The Omen would get on that too.
i'm a fan of found-footage horror...think i've been through most of the good ones now. Blair Witch i also enjoyed (in that unsettled way we enjoy good terror)...my favourite has to be the first two REC films. If yous haven't seen them yet, make sure to watch in original spanish with subs (as the dubbed english shouting is awfully mixed) and watch back-to-back as it's essentially one film about one crazy night in a Barcelona block of flats. It's a rush...one of the few films i like to repeat-watch.
Honorable mention to The Taking of Deborah Logan...little-known gem with a golden performance from senior actress Jill Larson, up there with Ellen Burstyn's turn in Requiem of a Dream.
dholliday
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Coppola's Bram Stoker's Gary Oldman's Dracula for me...actually a beautifully-twisted love story. The ending where
she protects Dracula
Literally just finished this and came here to talk about it. Seen it once before, years ago. The ending was defo inspiration for the ending in Inception. Cracking film.
Had a lot of Shining influences in it too.
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