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Post by Digi on Oct 6, 2020 4:45:01 GMT
Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The original Lon Chaney classic. The restoration they've done on this film is incredible. Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version) Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982) Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931) Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Oct 6, 2020 15:07:54 GMT
Digimon: Last Evolution Kizuna A grand and bittersweet send-off to the Adventure story-line.
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Post by grinch on Oct 6, 2020 16:57:56 GMT
Jexi (2019)
It’s fine although Adam Devine is very miscast. Comes across most of the time like a sketch that has been stretched into a full length feature.
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Post by timegirl on Oct 6, 2020 20:08:16 GMT
Felidae
The notoriously bizarre and very very adult animated movie about cats. This was interesting. It didn’t shock me too much because I knew of its reputation and I am also currently listening to Watership Down on audiobook which is also a notoriously dark story about animals. I enjoyed the murder mystery aspect, the strange dream sequences, and the world building. I watched the English dub which was was good if slightly awkward in places. It’s definitely a unique animated movie. It was interesting how the animation looked very Disney despite the dark sometimes horror movie-esque subject matter. Glad I watched this!
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Post by melkur on Oct 7, 2020 1:53:22 GMT
I was given today off from work, so took the opportunity to go to one of my local cinemas before it closes down (due to Covid).
After We Collided - I was originally going to say "problematic in places, incredibly dumb in others, but not the worst thing I've ever seen...", and then the last few minutes happened. To say that the ending irritated me is an understatement... (In fact I might have been giving my finest Michael Scott impression. "No! No! Nooooooooooooooo!!").
The Elfkins: Baking A Difference - I might not be in the target age-group, but that was ok enough. "I've seen better kid's films, I've seen worse kid's films".
Rocky V - Is it sacrilege to say that I preferred this to the original (which I saw last night)?...
Before leaving this morning, I also watched 'The Other Half', which I really enjoyed (and would happily consider one of my favourite films of the month so far).
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Post by Digi on Oct 7, 2020 4:00:58 GMT
Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The original Lon Chaney classic. The restoration they've done on this film is incredible. Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version) Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982) Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931) Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 8:10:06 GMT
Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The original Lon Chaney classic. The restoration they've done on this film is incredible. Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version) Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982) Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931) Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015) Love The Invisible Man movie i remember watching it around 7 yrs old on Sunday CH4 & it scared the crap out of me Claude Rains voice was deep & foreboding as he slowly decends ino madness.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 8:32:03 GMT
Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015) Love The Invisible Man movie i remember watching it around 7yrs old & it scared the crap out of me Claude Reigns voice was deep & foreboding as he slowly decends ino madness. Oh, and it well and truly keeps its energy. Coming to it as an adult the first time, that whole performance from Rains is still fantastic, the laugh just cut right through me. What a positively unnerving individual Dr Jack Griffin is.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 7, 2020 9:30:50 GMT
Love The Invisible Man movie i remember watching it around 7yrs old & it scared the crap out of me Claude Reigns voice was deep & foreboding as he slowly decends ino madness. Oh, and it well and truly keeps its energy. Coming to it as an adult the first time, that whole performance from Rains is still fantastic, the laugh just cut right through me. What a positively unnerving individual Dr Jack Griffin is. Fantastic film. Claude Rains is brilliant. & of course the camp genius of Una O'Connor's performance.
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Post by timegirl on Oct 8, 2020 3:05:19 GMT
Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra Had seen some clips of Tim as well as seeing his versions of Matilda and Groundhog Day and loved them. This concert film was magnificent! I had never seen any of his full concerts before, but I loved every one of his songs! They have so many small and big truths to them and I love his odd performance style!
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Post by Digi on Oct 8, 2020 3:11:46 GMT
Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version) Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982) Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931) Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015) Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005)
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 8, 2020 4:40:00 GMT
Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra Had seen some clips of Tim as well as seeing his versions of Matilda and Groundhog Day and loved them. This concert film was magnificent! I had never seen any of his full concerts before, but I loved every one of his songs! They have so many small and big truths to them and I love his odd performance style! Such a well known versatile Aussie performer. He is good value
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Post by mark687 on Oct 8, 2020 15:23:20 GMT
Uncle Pe**ker Wood
(Quite a funny Zom-Com)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 21:29:49 GMT
Man-Thing (2005)
I've been re-reading Marvel's series from their horror heyday recently. Man-Thing is, in my opinion, superior to DC's Swamp Thing in every way. I love the way they've taken a shaggy monster story and made it somehow spiritual, a slice of very cosmic horror. I'm soon to start on 2017's eccentric re-imagining by RL Stine.
This film cost £30 million, and made about £1 million at the box office, as I understand it, and was panned universally on its release. I don't think it's that bad! It has only tenuous links with the strip, but contains characters named after some of the comic's creators and maintains at least some hold on the intentions of the original story-tellers. The recreation of the swamp is terrific, and even though the Australian actors' US accents occasionally slip, I've heard a lot worse (although lead actor Matthew Le Nevez is very flat). The monster, when we eventually see him, is magnificent, and there are some surprisingly gory moments.
It's not the greatest adaption ever, but I really enjoyed it. Here's the trailer.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 8, 2020 21:51:16 GMT
The Big Ugly
(Action/Revenge thriller Vinny Jones plays Bodyguard to Malcolm McDowell's Crime Boss as they head to New Orleans to take advantage of a money laundering service run by Ron Perlman, however when Pearlman's character's Son kills Jones on/ off lover , he launches unsanctioned revenge. Decent action and better supporting Artists than it probably deserves.)
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Post by melkur on Oct 8, 2020 23:01:49 GMT
"So, we have this super-important Mcguffin that the bad guy wants in order to restore himself back to life, where shall we put it?..." "How about in a vault far far away, locked safe under lock and key?" "Nah, that sounds too easy... Why don't we hide it in the castle behind four simple challenges that even a first year could solve?" "That... That sounds a little easy, Albus." "GODDAMMIT MINERVA, *I'M* THE HEADMASTER, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!
One two and a half hour film later... "Well, a teacher might be dead, but it all worked out in the end!"
Rocky III - Could have been a few minutes shorter, but I really enjoyed it (even if Mr T. was a little... OTT in places). My Grandmother's Grandfather clock started chiming moments after 'the passing', which was weirdly fitting.
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Post by Digi on Oct 9, 2020 2:39:24 GMT
Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version) Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982) Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931) Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015) Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005) Spooktober - Day Eight: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Ghostbusters (1984) -- my 300th movie of the year!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 6:27:32 GMT
After the conversation about monochrome classics yesterday, I decided to revisit Metropolis while I worked. There's a version of the film out there with a score by The New Pollutants, which breathes this fantastic new life into the piece. The destruction of the workers' city is an astonishing sequence in it, still. The violins, the rushing energy, the vocals for Maria's lone voice as the walls come crashing down. Definitely worth the watch (or even just re-listen).
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Post by timegirl on Oct 9, 2020 13:56:41 GMT
The Witches (1990 version)
After being unimpressed by how overly kiddy the trailer for the remake was I decided to rewatch the original movie. This movie is legitimately a brilliant horror movie, yes it is made primarily for children, but the atmosphere, the effects, the acting, and camera angles create something legitimately disturbing and and at times times actually uncomfortable to watch.
When I first tried to watch this as a child (I was about 7) the part where the Grand High Witch takes off her human mask scared me so much I burst into tears and had to turn the tv off, it didn’t help that my mom tried to lighten the mood by teasing me pretending to take her “human mask” off. Like Doctor Who I don’t think I revisited this movie until my early twenties! The makeup effects when the witches reveal their true selves and the mouse transformations actually still make me feel a bit sick to look at. Also the the flashback in the beginning about the fate of Erica is tragic and horrifying. Seriously this “kid’s movie” is actually more disturbing than than some “adult horror movies” I’ve seen!
Other than the horror elements I love all the side characters: grandmother (she’s such a badass), Rowan Atkinson as the hotel manager ( glad he’s more Blackadder with a touch of Basil Fawlty than Mr. Bean in this) ,Angelica Huston as the Grand High Witch (is it weird that she kind of reminds me of a female Davros?), Bruno’s parents ( I think the sleaseball cheapskate Scottish dad is hilarious, and the mother’s over the top screams are amazing) Also the puppetry with the mice done by Jim Henson is amazing! Why can’t we go back to using practical effects like this? My only criticisms are that the child performances are a bit iffy( I would also have preferred if they cast a British boy as Luke) but this is understandable and the far less understandable tacked on happy ending that doesn’t fit the dark tone of the rest movie at all! Seriously this tacked on happy ending made Dahl so angry he stood outside of a movie theater with a megaphone begging people not to see the movie!
But other than a few flaws this movie is amazing and a perfect Halloween watch!
Side note: I will forgive the remake if they reveal the adult version of Luke who’s narrating is still a mouse at the end!
Side note: Glad we got cynical smartass Rowan Atkinson in this and not Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson. I’m one of those weird people who adore Blackadder but think Rowan was a bit wasted as Mr. Bean.
Side note: I have noticed that their a lot of children and family horror shows and movies are more disturbing and mature than many of their “ more adult horror”🤔Why is this I wonder?
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Post by grinch on Oct 9, 2020 16:48:27 GMT
The Witches (1990 version) After being unimpressed by how overly kiddy the trailer for the remake was I decided to rewatch the original movie. This movie is legitimately a brilliant horror movie, yes it is made primarily for children, but the atmosphere, the effects, the acting, and camera angles create something legitimately disturbing and and at times times actually uncomfortable to watch. When I first tried to watch this as a child (I was about 7) the part where the Grand High Witch takes off her human mask scared me so much I burst into tears and had to turn the tv off, it didn’t help that my mom tried to lighten the mood by teasing me pretending to take her “human mask” off. Like Doctor Who I don’t think I revisited this movie until my early twenties! The makeup effects when the witches reveal their true selves and the mouse transformations actually still make me feel a bit sick to look at. Also the the flashback in the beginning about the fate of Erica is tragic and horrifying. Seriously this “kid’s movie” is actually more disturbing than than some “adult horror movies” I’ve seen! Other than the horror elements I love all the side characters: grandmother (she’s such a badass), Rowan Atkinson as the hotel manager ( glad he’s more Blackadder with a touch of Basil Fawlty than Mr. Bean in this) ,Angelica Huston as the Grand High Witch (is it weird that she kind of reminds me of a female Davros?), Bruno’s parents ( I think the sleaseball cheapskate Scottish dad is hilarious, and the mother’s over the top screams are amazing) Also the puppetry with the mice done by Jim Henson is amazing! Why can’t we go back to using practical effects like this? My only criticisms are that the child performances are a bit iffy( I would also have preferred if they cast a British boy as Luke) but this is understandable and the far less understandable tacked on happy ending that doesn’t fit the dark tone of the rest movie at all! Seriously this tacked on happy ending made Dahl so angry he stood outside of a movie theater with a megaphone begging people not to see the movie! But other than a few flaws this movie is amazing and a perfect Halloween watch! Side note: I will forgive the remake if they reveal the adult version of Luke who’s narrating is still a mouse at the end! Side note: Glad we got cynical smartass Rowan Atkinson in this and not Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson. I’m one of those weird people who adore Blackadder but think Rowan was a bit wasted as Mr. Bean. Side note: I have noticed that their a lot of children and family horror shows and movies are more disturbing and mature than many of their “ more adult horror”🤔Why is this I wonder? I quite agree. Dahl’s dark sense of humour in his works is perhaps the closest we’ve come to a modern day Grimm fairy tales and certainly influenced me a great deal growing up. Ending is by far the weakest part of the entire film. A tacked on happy ending presumably to appease some brainless Hollywood producer with more sterling than sense I’ll wager.
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