Last Film You Watched

Double Impact - 1991

Hong Kong mobsters, murder, long lost twins yada yada, hilarity ensues, take back what's ours, end of second act relationship crisis, big end fight.


Twice the Jean Claude Van-Damme
Bolo Yeung pulling Bolo Yeung faces and twisting necks as the evil henchman
JCVD softcore soft lens lurve scene
Corinna Everson using neck breaker thigh clenches as the evil henchwoman
Geoffrey Lewis being that guy you've definitely seen somewhere else but can't place him
Very final shot of the film being an abrupt freeze frame of JCVD doing an A-OK gesture with cheesy grin pretty much straight at the camera - We don't need no stinking epilogue.


Peak JCVD era stuff. I really enjoy it but it's quite obviously not the peak of artistic endeavour from a film-making point of view. Does what it sets out to do and there's a good few acclaimed directors who could do worse than drop a bit of self-indulgence and take an editing or pacing lesson from this sort of film.
 
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Sometimes you get a film which almost predicts your intentions after sitting through the first sizeable chunk of the film, this film did just that and couldn't have been more appropriately titled.

I appreciated the fine acting, although the storyline were all the cops are implausibly painted as spotless saints and the criminals sketched as barely human, seemed hugely implausible, It was though the shakycam gimmick that really succeeded in irritating me beyond belief. Other genres, most notably horror films, went through similar phases thankfully now a thing of the past, unfortunately the method of filming distracted far too much from the good points for me and made me decide to END MY WATCH.
 
SuperTimCahill said:
The Redwood Massacre (2014)

I commend the filmmakers for the effort as the gore and the visuals were decent. However, the acting was bottom tier, the characters were even thicker than most other slasher teen characters, and the fact the movie had zero tension and zero nudity didn't help. There was literally no reason whatsoever for me to want any of the kids to survive, as most of them were just insufferable whiners (even before the slashing started).

Oh, and the girl named 'Jessica' had worst painted-on eyebrows I've ever seen in a movie. Wow. It took me out of the movie even more than the ridiculously wooden acting.
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2/10

Still watching the sequel though, as Danielle Harris is in it.
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Getting a strong Pink Flamingos vibe from those eyebrows.
 

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