I'm so conflicted about watching Toni Erdmann. Everyone is raving about it but I still can't help but have trepidations about a 3 hour German comedy about an old man in a wig.
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Same. It slipped out of cinemas here while I was mulling it over. I know trailers are trailers but the one I did see didn't exactly suggest a laugh riot.
Slightly prophetic .
Jack Nicholson is stepping out of retirement for the Toni Erdmann remake, think I'll just wait for that instead. He's really cornered the grumpy old man market in hollywood.
Halloween 3 - Season of the witch
Strange one. I really don't understand why they included this movie in the Halloween franchise. It is a scifi horror - no Michael Myers, no slasher features and if it didn't carry the Halloween name I would never link it to the franchise. The only thing it has in common with the Halloween franchise is a brilliant synth score by the master himself, Carpenter.
It is widely acknowledged as the ugly duckling and the worst movie in the Halloween franchise, but how can that be since it is a totally independent movie? I guess the only reason for this movie being named something with Halloween was that Carpenter at the time (1982) had a lot of success with the franchise, and they wanted to glue on to the hype. The movie is directed by one of Carpenter's protegees, so that might be why they hitched on to the Halloween franchise, to give him a flying start since that franchise was all the rage back in the 80's, well, big fecking mistake.
It is a very good 80's horror\scifi movie and I loved every minute of it. After seeing a lot of modern movies lately this one reminded me what I really love - 80's and 90's movies - decades that actually had soul. Will now go on a 80's binge since everything made after 1992 sucks.
7/10
Strange one. I really don't understand why they included this movie in the Halloween franchise. It is a scifi horror - no Michael Myers, no slasher features and if it didn't carry the Halloween name I would never link it to the franchise. The only thing it has in common with the Halloween franchise is a brilliant synth score by the master himself, Carpenter.
It is widely acknowledged as the ugly duckling and the worst movie in the Halloween franchise, but how can that be since it is a totally independent movie? I guess the only reason for this movie being named something with Halloween was that Carpenter at the time (1982) had a lot of success with the franchise, and they wanted to glue on to the hype. The movie is directed by one of Carpenter's protegees, so that might be why they hitched on to the Halloween franchise, to give him a flying start since that franchise was all the rage back in the 80's, well, big fecking mistake.
It is a very good 80's horror\scifi movie and I loved every minute of it. After seeing a lot of modern movies lately this one reminded me what I really love - 80's and 90's movies - decades that actually had soul. Will now go on a 80's binge since everything made after 1992 sucks.
7/10
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I'd hardly say it's pure reflex. In fact it's completely founded. Are there any notable videogame adaptations that were wrongfully panned?
One in a thousand ain't a bad hit-rate.
The people under the stairs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A classic and one that inspired so many movies since. Directed by Wes Craven who actually was a good director before he turned shit. Some brilliant black comedy elements which just adds to the whole surreal feel of the movie. It almost plays like one of those Hansel and Gretel stories, has a bit of that "Fright Night" feel to it and it just draws you in.
Another welcome escape from the sleep inducing Oscar baiting tripe directed by wheat grass sipping poofs you get these days.
8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A classic and one that inspired so many movies since. Directed by Wes Craven who actually was a good director before he turned shit. Some brilliant black comedy elements which just adds to the whole surreal feel of the movie. It almost plays like one of those Hansel and Gretel stories, has a bit of that "Fright Night" feel to it and it just draws you in.
Another welcome escape from the sleep inducing Oscar baiting tripe directed by wheat grass sipping poofs you get these days.
8/10
Yeah, fecking gays, ruining cinema.
That is a word for gays? I geniunely didn't know, I thought it meant sensible or over sensitive people or something like that 
It's a slur for homosexuals, at least in Britain and Australia.That is a word for gays? I geniunely didn't know, I thought it meant sensible or over sensitive people or something like that
I think at one point they were going to make the Halloween series as a collection of unrelated films all set around Halloween time.
Whoops, didn't know.
They would probably be better off to be fair. This sequel totally unrelated to the original or the series in general is actually the best one outside of the original.
As Above So Below
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Not a big fan of found footage film , but this is maybe the best I have seen.
Overall this is just a well made found-footage film. It has the chills, it has the thrills, and the added bonuses of good acting and an excellent premise.
If you like found footage film , you will like this, even if like me its not your thing you will also like it.
7/10
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Not a big fan of found footage film , but this is maybe the best I have seen.
Overall this is just a well made found-footage film. It has the chills, it has the thrills, and the added bonuses of good acting and an excellent premise.
If you like found footage film , you will like this, even if like me its not your thing you will also like it.
7/10
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10 cloverfield lane.
A very good, claustrophobic film, with really good chemistry between the actors and really strong dynamics between the characters, top performances from a very small cast. Good pacing, and its keeps you guessing. Unfortunately marred by an absolutely terrible and pointless conclusion.
8/10 for the first 90% of the film 1/10 for the rest.
A very good, claustrophobic film, with really good chemistry between the actors and really strong dynamics between the characters, top performances from a very small cast. Good pacing, and its keeps you guessing. Unfortunately marred by an absolutely terrible and pointless conclusion.
8/10 for the first 90% of the film 1/10 for the rest.
I strongly recommend you force yourself and watch it, you won't regret it.
Bland, emotionless and plotless with wooden acting (the main characters weren't good dancers either). The missus and I are both suckers for a good musical and having our heartstrings pulled but we did not like this film at all, not even a little bit. It looked good in bits is all.
I agree although I'd go more like 8.5 or 9. I though they overplayed the emotional detachment scenes with the background classical music a little too much but a very good film. Not always easy watching.
I enjoyed it although not an 8. I also didn't hate the end that much. It was a Cloverfield film so it had to be
aliens at the end
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Cloverfield: Kinds reminds me of a Julianne Moore film called The Forgotten, in that an intriguing story was knackered by a crap revelation.
La La etc: Even stills make it all look so artificial - even for something as unrealistic as a musical - and soulless: Gosling looks like he was dressed by Matalan, and both leads look like what they are - actors engaging in amateur-level dancing.
La La etc: Even stills make it all look so artificial - even for something as unrealistic as a musical - and soulless: Gosling looks like he was dressed by Matalan, and both leads look like what they are - actors engaging in amateur-level dancing.
I'm a huge fan of mary Elizabeth winstead (faults and smashed are great) and psychological thrillers so this film was right up my street. I think you could leave the link to cloverfield without spoiling this film. One way would be for her to get into the car and as she's driving away hear the same radio broadcast, just without the weird alien bit beforehand which completely took me out of the experience. Or alternatively like human centipede, john goodman could have watched cloverfield and thought it was real, in fact you could have made quite a good meta twist out of it, if amongst the dodgy 80's dvds she found cloverfield.
Totally agree.
It could be that I expected it to be utter shit and it turned out to be OK.
Collateral Beauty Jesus Christ, this is shit. I toyed with the idea of packing it in but a sort of morbid curiosity engulfed me at around the 20 minute mark, and I soldiered on to see just how bad this pretentious bollocks could get. It didn't disappoint on those terms. We all have "so bad it's good movies" we like, but this isn't that. It's so bad it'll give you apocalyptic nightmares where you destroy the planet just to ensure nobody ever has to sit through it again. I seriously doubt the intelligence and sanity of Norton, Smith, Mirren et all to have allowed their careers to be ass-fecked so badly by this movie. Even a cracked out Nic Cage would turn this movie down. I don't think I'll be able to sit through another film of any of theirs in, probably forever.
I'm off to watch the directors cut of Alien to help sort my head out.
I'm off to watch the directors cut of Alien to help sort my head out.
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty - 30 years of evocative home movie footage compiled into a 5 hour film, a rumination of the filmmakers life and life itself. Mekas himself gave some droll narration. It was quite lyrical and unabashedly joyous, a masterpiece of 'nothing'. I did think it fizzled out a bit during the last hour or so but the first half was 10/10.
What are the Caf's favorite war movies? I've seen the following as far as I can recall:
- Saving Private Ryan
- We Were Soldiers
- Windtalkers
- Platoon
- Hacksaw Ridge
- The Thin Red Line
- Black Hawk Down, technically not about a war but a military conflict.
I still need to watch Apocalypse Now. For some reason I didn't really thought much of Full Metal Jacket.
I'm planning to watch Casualties Of War (1989).
- Saving Private Ryan
- We Were Soldiers
- Windtalkers
- Platoon
- Hacksaw Ridge
- The Thin Red Line
- Black Hawk Down, technically not about a war but a military conflict.
I still need to watch Apocalypse Now. For some reason I didn't really thought much of Full Metal Jacket.
I'm planning to watch Casualties Of War (1989).
The Thin Red Line would my favourite.
You should try Letters From Iwo Jima, Paths of Glory and The Pianist which are all great films.
Without the conclusion the movie would have gone straight to video. A story of some delusional nutter holding a couple of people prisoner in an underground vault? Cinema-goers wouldn't line up around the block to see that.
Come and See.
You really can't go back to watching and enjoying regular war films after experiencing it.
50 Shades Darker
As a peace offering to a female friend, I agreed to go see this with her.
What a load of crap this movie was, from start to finish. I could not discern any tangible plot structure. The acting was laughable. The only thing mildly interesting about the movie was their lame attempts at recreating a SM sex scene. I actually told my friend I had to use the bathroom, so I could leave the cinema and get some fresh air for 10 minutes.
Apparently this is a series? I'm going to start making movies now.
0/10
As a peace offering to a female friend, I agreed to go see this with her.
What a load of crap this movie was, from start to finish. I could not discern any tangible plot structure. The acting was laughable. The only thing mildly interesting about the movie was their lame attempts at recreating a SM sex scene. I actually told my friend I had to use the bathroom, so I could leave the cinema and get some fresh air for 10 minutes.
Apparently this is a series? I'm going to start making movies now.
0/10
That's not true as people don't go in knowing the ending, they just go in knowing it is linked to cloverfield and you can easily keep it faithful to that universe without some dreadful and irrelevant ten minute scene which actually takes you away from any tension. Obviously for box office purposes you want to keep that link alive.
As an aside you would think fans of cloverfield would dislike this movie given its link to that film only becomes apparent about 80 minutes in and the style of the film is wholly different. If you went in hoping for a sequel you would be gutted surely.
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Not the usual ones but I quite enjoyed these...
Apocalypse Now is the best I've seen by a distance.
Also, I'm convinced this is a parody post:
Agree with this. The ending just seemed to be a tacked on (Yes i know thats what happened but they could have had it be much less painful).
I actually saw the trailer and the part about it being some delusional guy keeping prisoners in ( because of something outside) and the people (well woman) trying to escape is what intrigued me and was the best bit of the movie. In fact it seems based on reviews thats what most people enjoyed about it and the ending is what sucked
The problem with Cloverfield Lane for me was...
It was a decent little film, but a really weirdly marketed one, that can't quite fully commit to either of the things it's trying to be.
Because it was Cloverfield, you knew there'd be aliens at the end, but when you got there it wasn't the Cloverfield alien, it was some other random aliens. Which was just confusing.
If it hadn't had the Cloverfield tag at all, that ending might have potentially been quite absorbing, as you'd have spent the whole film genuinely curious about what was outside the bunker.
But because it had the Cloverfield tag, you knew already, so when it was, but also sort of wasn't, it was at once both confusing and disappointing. The irony being they probably made it "sort of wasn't" precisely to swerve the obvious expectation (especially as the whole thing was tacked on to non-alien centric script) But that only ended up being unsatifying on every level.
If it hadn't had the Cloverfield tag at all, that ending might have potentially been quite absorbing, as you'd have spent the whole film genuinely curious about what was outside the bunker.
But because it had the Cloverfield tag, you knew already, so when it was, but also sort of wasn't, it was at once both confusing and disappointing. The irony being they probably made it "sort of wasn't" precisely to swerve the obvious expectation (especially as the whole thing was tacked on to non-alien centric script) But that only ended up being unsatifying on every level.
It was a decent little film, but a really weirdly marketed one, that can't quite fully commit to either of the things it's trying to be.
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'Glory' & 'Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War' are two of my favourites
Letter from Iwo Jima, Battle of Algiers (not sure if it will qualify as a war movie)
Oh yeah, add that one to mine as well.