I normally enjoy body horror and the like, this one was just paced waaay too slow for my liking and not enough of anything to truly make it memorable. But didn't know it was a debut, in which case I would be more forgiving, bringing it up to a 4
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Great recommendation, thanks man.
The arthouse criticism is an odd one because It Come at Night is as much arthouse horror if not more.
It's not Frenchy though.
Hope you like it.
It Comes At Night is an art house horror I liked. Raw wasn't.
It Comes At Night is also barely a horror to be fair, it's more a thriller if anything...
I quite like it, my wife hated it.
I quite like it, my wife hated it.
The Meetings of Anna - After having seen a couple of Chantal Akerman's films, this is the first one that has really hit home for me. I thought it was a brilliant and honest depiction of detached lonely souls across Europe.
Nobody Knows - I really liked the sounds in this, the noise of the city, cars passing by and the cinematography really placed the kids all alone in the middle of this swarm. I found the tinkling guitar score to be really grating though.
Jauja - I thought it was a little slight in a few ways but at the same it possessed an enigmatic quality that still lingers on after watching it. Way better though than other recent pretty, airy westerns, like Meek's Cutoff and Slow West.
Nobody Knows - I really liked the sounds in this, the noise of the city, cars passing by and the cinematography really placed the kids all alone in the middle of this swarm. I found the tinkling guitar score to be really grating though.
Jauja - I thought it was a little slight in a few ways but at the same it possessed an enigmatic quality that still lingers on after watching it. Way better though than other recent pretty, airy westerns, like Meek's Cutoff and Slow West.
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Hell or High Water - slick, atmospheric modern Western. Jeff Bridges is as great as ever as the Ranger on the hunt, while Pine and Foster as the two bank-robbing brothers manage their typical "psycho/brains" duo portrayal well enough. Always lurking in the background is a picture of small-town America gone to shit. Nice ambiguous finish to it as well. A solid 8/10, I love this type of stuff.
Jauja looks interesting. I like Viggo.
I bet Viggo would like that too.
The last films I've seen with Viggo were A Dangerous Method, The Two Faces of January, On the Road and Captain Fantastic which were various shades of meh.
Have you seen Far From Men? Camus, desert, Viggo. Could be cool.
The last films I've seen with Viggo were A Dangerous Method, The Two Faces of January, On the Road and Captain Fantastic which were various shades of meh.
Have you seen Far From Men? Camus, desert, Viggo. Could be cool.
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I haven't, could be.
He's a really good actor but has starred in so many 'kinda interesting but ultimately meh' movies lately.
I'm still unsure as to how David Cronenberg made such a boring film. Didn't know he had it in him.
He made an even duller film the year after in Cosmopolis.
I remember this being an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end. Loved it as well.
Oh my God that was so bad.
Went on a small South Korean style blood and guts binge.
The Wailing - 6/10
Decent enough horror movie with a bit too much kiddy torture for my taste. Basically folk keep dying in various horrible ways as a strange, supernatural infection sweeps through town causing folk to dabble in familicide. Only a fat cowardly cop can stop it. Some decent twists to keep you guessing, excellent cinematography and the director had a decent sense of mood most of the time. A lot of the acting seemed comically overwrought at points though and the plot was convoluted rather than complex. Plenty of religious allegory to make you think it's smart. Better than most horrors, but that's not saying all that much.
The Chaser = 3/10
Extremely bloody South Korean thriller with a nonsense plot and crap characterisation. Based on a supposedly true story an ex-detective turned pimp has to investigate why all his girls are disappearing (hint - they're getting horribly murdered by a vacuous noddy with erection issues). No decision he ever makes, the police ever make or the killer ever makes makes any sense. A big barrel of shite.
I Saw the Devil = 6/10
A nonsense vengeance flick but with better acting and slightly less overall stupidity than the above. Intelligence agent's fiance gets brutally murdered by a particularly nasty serial killer. Determined to avenge her death a thousand fold the agent sets out to continuously brutalise the bad guy before releasing him and doing it over and over again. The pace was good, the plot fun and the violence creative enough to hold your attention. It didn't make much sense, but who cares about that? 'tis a silly, brutal morality tale that Tarantino would have made better. Still decent gruesome fun though.
The Wailing - 6/10
Decent enough horror movie with a bit too much kiddy torture for my taste. Basically folk keep dying in various horrible ways as a strange, supernatural infection sweeps through town causing folk to dabble in familicide. Only a fat cowardly cop can stop it. Some decent twists to keep you guessing, excellent cinematography and the director had a decent sense of mood most of the time. A lot of the acting seemed comically overwrought at points though and the plot was convoluted rather than complex. Plenty of religious allegory to make you think it's smart. Better than most horrors, but that's not saying all that much.
The Chaser = 3/10
Extremely bloody South Korean thriller with a nonsense plot and crap characterisation. Based on a supposedly true story an ex-detective turned pimp has to investigate why all his girls are disappearing (hint - they're getting horribly murdered by a vacuous noddy with erection issues). No decision he ever makes, the police ever make or the killer ever makes makes any sense. A big barrel of shite.
I Saw the Devil = 6/10
A nonsense vengeance flick but with better acting and slightly less overall stupidity than the above. Intelligence agent's fiance gets brutally murdered by a particularly nasty serial killer. Determined to avenge her death a thousand fold the agent sets out to continuously brutalise the bad guy before releasing him and doing it over and over again. The pace was good, the plot fun and the violence creative enough to hold your attention. It didn't make much sense, but who cares about that? 'tis a silly, brutal morality tale that Tarantino would have made better. Still decent gruesome fun though.
IT - I liked it well enough. It's certainly not a horror film - it has jump scares galore - but they don't last after the fact, and nothing fills you with dread at all... but then this isn't trying to be a horror film.... It's a typical coming of age, Spielbergian/Goonies style film with horror elements - and the "horror" element is just a backdrop to their journey and them coming together as a group of 'losers', and it's that element that I think works the best. The child actors are all great and the relationships and rapport they have with each other and their parents all seem and feel quite genuine.
The biggest problem for me is the lack of rules, and the lack of establishing the film does for this "fear" element that seems to be the crux of the film. There's no real idea how the Clown works or how it can do anything it does, or even what it is and the what/why... this for me was the reason the horror elements don't work as anything more then a quick jump scare.
The biggest problem for me is the lack of rules, and the lack of establishing the film does for this "fear" element that seems to be the crux of the film. There's no real idea how the Clown works or how it can do anything it does, or even what it is and the what/why... this for me was the reason the horror elements don't work as anything more then a quick jump scare.
I'm hoping this appears as a quote on the DVD cover.Ekkie said:
Just boring or shit and boring? Loved Cronenberg's body horror stuff.
Frank Vincent (Billy Batts from Goodfellas) passed away.
Mostly boring.
Shame. Just realised that I haven't seen his last three.
Phil Leotardo in the Sopranos as well. Very good actor.
What wha wut?
The Chaser is brilliant.
Captain Fantastic was fantastic, captain.
Did you watched it? (It comes at night)
fecking crap!
ill be generous because the acting was good.
3/10
Yeah I really liked it
First They Killed My Father
Angelina Jolie's new Netflix film on the Cambodian genocide. Well made, looked good but ultimately failed to convey the scale of the atrocities well. If you come into this thinking you'll learn about the genocide, you won't, it expects you to already know all the timelines and details. I do like how intentionally un-hollywood she tried to make it though.
Decent watch but could've been much better. 7/10
Angelina Jolie's new Netflix film on the Cambodian genocide. Well made, looked good but ultimately failed to convey the scale of the atrocities well. If you come into this thinking you'll learn about the genocide, you won't, it expects you to already know all the timelines and details. I do like how intentionally un-hollywood she tried to make it though.
Decent watch but could've been much better. 7/10
John Wick 2 You will never get the near 2 hours it takes to watch this back. The first one was brainless entertainment. This one has (far) more of the same and kinell it's boring. That the whole plot is totally idiotic (to be generous) doesn't help. Avoid at all costs. 2/10- the 2 being because it was shiny rubbish
I gave up on John Wick 2 after about 3 minutes. It's like they made a parody of the first one. Really weird.
I think it was great. Loved it.
It Comes At Night
There was a really good film in this but I felt like they forgot something. Like..
Shame because it could have been great.
There was a really good film in this but I felt like they forgot something. Like..
something that actually comes at night? What comes at night? Ebola? I mean wtf.. talk about a misleading title.