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Vato said:
It Comes At Night

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.
Shame because it could have been great.
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I think the it is meant to be fear/paranoia. But agree, misleading title.
 
American Made Went to see this "film" earlier. Please save your precious time and money by avoiding same. Its meant to be based on a true story regarding the Central American drug cartels of the 1980's and the Iran/CONTRA scandal when Reagan was president of the USA.
Tip, watch an episode of "Narcos" or "Gomorra" instead, you'll be much better entertained. I like Tom Cruise as an actor but this is definitely his worst movie to date. He smiles a lot and says very little. They tried to add a semi-comedic element to the story which I thought was stupid considering the subject matter. 5/10
 
mother! - how...unpleasant. There are cheaper and easier ways to apologise to your ex for being a cnut, Darren. Is it an allegory about misogyny, or climate change? Who cares, it's shit and has very little to say about either of those things that hasn't been said a million times better.
 
Archie Leach said:
mother! - how...unpleasant. There are cheaper and easier ways to apologise to your ex for being a cnut, Darren. Is it an allegory about misogyny, or climate change? Who cares, it's shit and has very little to say about either of those things that hasn't been said a million times better.
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Crap. Was really looking forward to this
 
I keep thinking about American Gigolo (1980). What a seriously stylish movie that is. Also, Richard Gere's outfits were great. And sunny Los Angeles...
 
Aronofsky might just be the most rubbish "arthouse" director out there. Him and Winding Refn are up there fighting for the lightweight champion title of being the most empty director.
 
Coma (1978): 7/10

Creepy medical thriller with some great directing and sets.
 
I don't agree with the contention that directors aren't taking risks. The big studios aren't taking risks (and judging by mother's awful opening that isn't about to change) but plenty of filmmakers are.

The comparison to Refn is apt because Aronofsky's films have all the trappings of arthouse but lack the heart and brain. Except for The Wrestler.
 
Archie Leach said:
I don't agree with the contention that directors aren't taking risks. The big studios aren't taking risks (and judging by mother's awful opening that isn't about to change) but plenty of filmmakers are.

The comparison to Refn is apt because Aronofsky's films have all the trappings of arthouse but lack the heart and brain. Except for The Wrestler.
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I haven't seen much of Refn's recent work. Except for his early work and Drive. I really enjoyed the pusher trilogy. I think Aronofsky's work always has an element of risk attached to it. Just the way he decides to shoot them(requiem, Black Swan) or in terms of the budget(Noah) or weird special effects(The Fountain).
 
Alien Covenant. Had sworn never to watch this.

Getting to know the crew, the links to Alien, the links to Prometheus, James Franco were all dull as heck.

All that hoary Milton stuff, David's Pandemonium, the finger fecking incest reworking of Narcissus, the Laurel and Hardy slip n sliding landing craft disaster, the Christ/Vitruvian neomorph, the obnoxiously smug crew getting Agatha Christied, the chop socky and the telegraphed end was all fun as hell.

Glad I did.
 
SwansonsTache said:
@pauldyson1uk , @Dirty Schwein

You guys seen Devil's Candy?

Here is the reviews, sounds good and right up your alley: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_devils_candy

Considering watching it tonight and thought I'd check before wasting my time.
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Seen this one a while back, reviewed it here also, but can't remember what I said. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen but didn't love it either. You'd have to appreciate heavy metal a fair bit to enjoy this at its fullest intentions I thought at the time. Give it a go, there's worse out there.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Seen this one a while back, reviewed it here also, but can't remember what I said. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen but didn't love it either. You'd have to appreciate heavy metal a fair bit to enjoy this at its fullest intentions I thought at the time. Give it a go, there's worse out there.
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Just read your review, sounds like a decent watch.
 
Watched Zodiac last night. Very good film. Loved the scene with the cops and the main suspect. Very creepy.
 
Heaven's Gate - In an ideal world, this would have been regarded as a classic and The Deer Hunter panned for decades. It's not without it's faults, diffuse storytelling, hazy characterizations and Kris Kristofferson wasn't the greatest of leads but it looked gorgeous and there was a nice nihilistic scope to it all that reminded me a bit of Kurosawa's late epics. It was weird seeing Isabelle Huppert playing such a young and (by her standards) sweet girl.
 
Misery weekend:

Vozvrashchenie (The Return): 8/10
Second time watching this. Slow, morose and desperate tragedy of a couple of kids getting to (not) know their absent father as he takes them on a trip. Deeply moving - especially the ending. Despite his penchant for evoking a brooding misery Zvyagintsev is definitely one of my favourite Russian directors and I'm looking forward to his new one - the upbeat slapstick comedy 'Loveless.'


Silence: 7/10
Been wanting to watch this Scorsese flick all year. He's so much better when he does his religious stuff and this brutal meditation on faith approaches his best work. A bit flabby, but beautifully presented and extremely discomfiting. Definitely a film that lingers.


Du Levande (You, the Living): 6/10
Roy Andersson's hard to judge really. His films are a series of bizarre individual lives sewn together into a weird allegorical whole. Here we look through the windows of another dour Scandinavian town a few days before it's presumably bombed to smithereens. Individually there are some superb, comic, sharply satirical scenes - but these are balanced by a sense of disconnect and tedium that grows as the film proceeds. Definitely not as good as his previous work (Songs from the Second Floor) but some of the set pieces are magnificently conceived nonetheless. This one for instance:

 
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dumbo said:
Alien Covenant. Had sworn never to watch this.

Getting to know the crew, the links to Alien, the links to Prometheus, James Franco were all dull as heck.

All that hoary Milton stuff, David's Pandemonium, the finger fecking incest reworking of Narcissus, the Laurel and Hardy slip n sliding landing craft disaster, the Christ/Vitruvian neomorph, the obnoxiously smug crew getting Agatha Christied, the chop socky and the telegraphed end was all fun as hell.

Glad I did.
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Yeah, I thought it was great fun. Correct decision to make Fassbender so central to all the drama.
 
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Ekkie Thump said:
Misery weekend:

Vozvrashchenie (The Return): 8/10
Second time watching this. Slow, morose and desperate tragedy of a couple of kids getting to (not) know their absent father as he takes them on a trip. Deeply moving - especially the ending. Despite his penchant for evoking a brooding misery Zvyagintsev is definitely one of my favourite Russian directors and I'm looking forward to his new one - the upbeat slapstick comedy 'Loveless.'


Silence: 7/10
Been wanting to watch this Scorsese flick all year. He's so much better when he does his religious stuff and this brutal meditation on faith approaches his best work. A bit flabby, but beautifully presented and extremely discomfiting. Definitely a film that lingers.


Du Levande (You, the Living): 6/10
Roy Andersson's hard to judge really. His films are a series of bizarre individual lives sewn together into a weird allegorical whole. Here we look through the windows of another dour Scandinavian town a few days before it's presumably bombed to smithereens. Individually there are some superb, comic, sharply satirical scenes - but these are balanced by a sense of disconnect and tedium that grows as the film proceeds. Definitely not as good as his previous work (Songs from the Second Floor) but some of the set pieces are magnificently conceived nonetheless. This one for instance:

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Yeah, Du Levande was pretty forgettable. Not a patch on stuff like En duva satt på en gren + Härlig är jorden.
 
Drag Me Too Hell

Watched this first 4 years ago, it was on Horror tonight so watched it again.
Enjoyed it better the second time round, still think it is cheesy has hell, but its Raimi, its the way he intended it to be.
Alison Lohman was excellent and carried the film.
Still think the ending was very predictable.
Last tine I gave it a 5 , this time it gets a solid

7/10
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Drag Me Too Hell

Watched this first 4 years ago, it was on Horror tonight so watched it again.
Enjoyed it better the second time round, still think it is cheesy has hell, but its Raimi, its the way he intended it to be.
Alison Lohman was excellent and carried the film.
Still think the ending was very predictable.
Last tine I gave it a 5 , this time it gets a solid

7/10
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Defo a solid 7/10. Knowingly cheesy, with that massively over the top old crone, but that's part of its charm.
I like it when her nose starts pissing blood at work.
 
The Gracefield Incident

In Gracefield, three couples are spending a long weekend in a luxurious cabin when suddenly an uninvited guest in the form of a meteorite, comes crashing the party.
Below average found footage Sci-Fi.
The plot is ridiculous the found footage is though a camera hidden in an eye !
The full creature fx are poor, with very poor animation.
I would only reccommend watching this , if you either blind drunk so you dont care or there is really NOTHING else on.

3/10

The Devils Candy

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted-house tale.
Much better than the average horror, acting is pretty decent.
Pruitt Taylor Vince is good has the clearly deranged Ray.
The thing I loved about this film is that is never cheats. No scare is a false one. Nothing is suddenly revealed to be a dream sequence. No super-natural elements were required simply to make the story work.
I recommend this.

8/10
 
Annabelle: Creation

12 years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they soon become the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
It was OK, better than the first one.
The doll actually scared the shit out of me, more than the film to be honest, there was a few predictable jump scenes and some of te acting was just dreadful.
Devils Candy was better, but still worth watching.

6.5/10
 
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