What movie did you watch today?

[drizzle]

Yea, kinda wasn't enough of him I think but at the same time I got a good lol out of the two biggest names in the movie getting the Segal in Executive Decision treatment

[Rabbi Jihadovich]

Never seen Executive Decision. God doesn't die in movies that i watch.

[drizzle]

Nah that shit is dope. Sad to see but the gawd went out like a g

[Rabbi Jihadovich]

Just added it to my netflix. Will have to marathon Driven To Kill to atone for the sacrilege.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

1971 Double Bill

Klute (1971) - Jane Fonda, the score and the stylish look of the film holds it all together, but it's not very interesting to see after the theme of the troubled callgirl has been done to death. The thriller elements seem almost like an afterthought added to make people pay attention.

Walkabout (1971) - Classic OZ film and a must for fans of nature. The 16 yr old girl might make you feel awkward at times though. I wonder where people who are really good at watcing movies would rank it in terms of the best Australian films.

[Spartan]

Don't know if I would qualify, but I would definitely rank it in my top five Aussie movies.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Let's have it?

In no order:

Walkabout
Wake In Fright
Animal Kingdom
Wolf Creek
Picnic At Hanging Rock

Awful list, objectively speaking. And no Mad Max for me.

[Spartan]

no order

Walkabout
Wake in Fright
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Long Weekend

[zombie]

the gambler - was alright

into the woods - chris pine was a troll and hilarious, anna kendricks cute as fuck.

inherent vice - so fucking awesome

imitation game - great acting. also very informative. didnt know a lot about enigma machines before this movie besides what you learn about it in highschool and call of duty games.

whiplash - intense as fuck

going to watch foxcatcher now

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Loved whiplash. First drama movie since maybe 12 Years a Slave that made me actually feel something.

[zombie]

foxcatcher was great. i didnt know about the end before watching the movie so it caught me off guard when it happened.

i tried to watch gone girl and gave up ten minutes in...holy shit what a dull movie. couldnt get into it. ill try again this weekend.

[varick pyr]

early-morning Stroszek

[Blockhead]

i tried to watch gone girl and gave up ten minutes in...holy shit what a dull movie. couldnt get into it. ill try again this weekend.

GIve it a chance. The first ten minutes are done that way for a reason. It lulls you into feeling one way then flips everything on you. It's a dope flick for sure.

[T Rav]

The first 10-20 minutes of Gone Girl feel like a lifetime movie. I absolutely hated the wife's narration. But Block is right, stick with it, kid.

[Blockhead]

The first 10-20 minutes of Gone Girl feel like a lifetime movie. I absolutely hated the wife's narration. But Block is right, stick with it, kid.

Yup.
Pretty certain that was the point and 100% on purpose.

[zombie]

it feels fucking fake and not authentic

but since you guys say give it a second chance, then fine...

[LilLeftBrain]

loved the gone girl
screenshot challenge:
force majeure or grimes' oblivion video

[Y@k Bollocks]

it feels fucking fake and not authentic

Pretty sure that's intentional too.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Good Cop (2012) - BBC miniseries about an honest copper who goes vigilante after his partner dies. A lot of the elements were there but the ending was a bit of a letdown for me. Apparently the final episode was delayed for weeks because of a real copkilling in Liverpool and the show wasn't given another season.

Dust Devil (1992) - I respect this movie a lot because it's about a shapeshifting hitch-hiker in South Africa/the Namib. But I didn't like it all that much. The South African accent is always good for a laugh tho.

The Seven-Ups (1973) - This is a decent enough thriller but it's a bit confusing too and the story lacked some intensity for me. Cool carchase.

[Tommy Bunz]

i might have to challenge you to a knife fight after that post

[Comedy Quaddafi]

I don't have a good reason for not liking those movies that much, but it's not unreasonable. Dust Devil is a fairly unusual film and some will like it more than others. Seven-Ups is a competent 70's crimethriller but not even close to the best US crimefilms from that era.

The Naked Prey (1965) - This is like Apocalypto set in the 19th century Africa. A guide for some ivory hunters runs from a tribe one of his mates pissed off. Lots of great animal cameos in this film and the scene at the village is excellent.

[Tommy Bunz]

Word. I'm just a huge Dust Devil fan, one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years. Its just so unique/out there and is shot so beautifully and I'm fascinated by the back story (very troubled production and Stanley claims its loosely based on his own experiences with the real killer). It's become one of my all-time favorite 90's horrors.
And I remember liking the Seven-Ups a lot. Been forever since I've watched it though.
At least you liked The Naked Prey. Great film.

[alpha]

John Wick-This is my favorite Keanu movie since Street Kings. Solid guest spots from Tyra from FNL, Theon Greyjoy, and Russell from True Blood. Solid fucking action all the way through.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Tyra from FNL, Theon Greyjoy, and Russell from True Blood.

LOL

The Little Death (2014) - OZ sexcomedy for/about adults which is something I support. But it's not very funny.

[Tommy Bunz]

Notable stuff I watched this month:


A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, 2014) - This was pretty excellent. Liam Neeson plays and ex-cop/private eye who is recruited by a drug dealer to find the men who murdered his wife. This is a throwback film to an extent, a meat-and-potatoes piece of film noir that understands that you can make riveting entertainment without the flashiness of the ADD generation of filmmaking. It also goes into some fantastically dark places. Neeson is great here and I thought the villain was rather unnerving, even though I'm pretty sure the guy was just doing a Phillip Seymour Hoffman impression the entire time.


Terror Train (Roger Spottiswoode, 1980) - Horror queen Jamie Lee Curtis in an early role as part of a group of college students that throw a new years eve party on a train, only to find out that a former classmate that they had played a particularly nasty prank on in years past is now murdering them one at a time. Features a very young David Copperfield as a rather creepy magician.


Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014)- Loved this. Sure, the science behind the plot makes fuck-all sense if you think about it whatsoever (Scarjo is given a drug that enhances the power of her brain and essentially develops superpowers which she uses to seek revenge on her abducters), but who cares when the action is this much fun and vibrant. This is basically the Face-off of this generation.


Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman, 1966) - From the new Criterion release. This is a more traditional western than its companion film The Shooting (they were shot at the same time), but it looks great for being shot on a shoe-string budget and is an excellent spin on the man-on-the-run trope. Another thing that makes these movies so great is that they were shot in Glen Canyon, which in less than a year later became the man-made Lake Powell. Pretty cool to see these beautiful landscapes before they were put under water.


The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) - Late pass on this one but holy shit. This thing sucked me in and had me on the edge of my seat in horror the entire time. It opens with one of the most horrifying red herrings in cinema history (the tunnel scene) and from that point on it never lets its hooks out of you and makes the world seem like a terrifying place where no one is safe anywhere. Stanley Kubrick called this the scariest movie he ever saw and I can't argue with him. And Jesus fucking Christ, THAT ending.


The Boxtrolls (Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi, 2014)- New stop-motion animated film from the makers of Coraline and Paranorman and they are now 3 for 3 in my eyes. Lots of fun, the trolls are amusing little creatures and the cheese-loving but lactose-intolerant villain makes for good fodder.


Fury (David Ayer, 2014) - I always thought it was odd that despite the popularity of the war film genre that movies about tank crews were so rare, and its even more rare when they are actually good. Happy to say that Fury ranks up there with The Beast of War as the best the genre has to offer. This was way better than I expected. I've always had my doubts about Ayer as a director, thought he was coasting on his Training Day crudentials and couldn't really understand how he kept landing new directing jobs and attracting major star talent. When you compare this to his other work, its hard to believe that they were even directed by the same person. But this is a well-crafted, beautifully shot piece of rugged cinema that does an excellent job of transporting you into its violent world. The story isn't anything that special, it follows a lot of standard war tropes and I could pinpoint several scenes that were borrowed from other films but the cast here do an amazing job of bringing the material to life. Even Shia Labeouf is great in this.


Panic Room (David Fincher, 2002) - Been wanting to revisit this for a while now. Its definitely still lower-tier Fincher but its a well-crafted thriller, even if it misses a few notes here and there. Also, its kind of awkward for me watching a teenage Kristen Stewart in this now, since I have a huge boner for her and want to make soup with her panties.


Alien From LA: MST3K (Albert Pyun, 1988) - Oh Kathy Ireland, you were the fire in a young Tommy's loins and your SI swimsuit edition holds a special place in my heart. This movie is hilariously dumb though and Kathy's innocent mousey voice has got to be the most annoying thing ever recorded.


The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) - Wanted to like this a lot more than I did. It looks pretty good for being a low-budget affair and has a cool little ambience to it but it ultimately doesn't go anywhere and has a pretty silly representation of life as an escort in general. Sasha Grey is pretty great in this though, I'm surprised that, despite her porn affiliations, that she wasn't able to use this to get better roles afterwards.


Armour of God II: Operation Condor (Jackie Chan, 1991) - Even though Jackie is one of the most famous action stars in the history of film, sometimes I still think he's somehow underrated. You can never take your eyes off him and I always catch myself rewinding to get a second look at all the crazy shit he's able to do.


Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Don Taylor, 1971) - The third Apes sequel pulls off one of the greatest sequel plot-flips of all time, forgetting the mostly terrible/silly first sequel and this time making the protagonists the apes, whose spaceship lands in present-day earth. At first the humans are welcoming to their new inhabitants but become hostile once they discover that the apes are from Earth's future and are a threat to their existence. Excellent.


Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990) - Nightbreed was a huge critical and commercial flop when it was first released. The studio took final cut of Barker's strange but unique horror film about a group of monsters living under a cemetery and tried to edit it into a slasher film for marketing purposes. Shout Factory licensed it for home video release and somewhere along in the process the thought-to-have-been-destroyed original film elements were discovered and Clive Barker got involved and actually reassembled his original vision for the film. I wouldn't go as far as saying its a lost classic or anything, but its unlike anything else that's out there, with a bizarre world and some really great creature design and is certainly worth a revisit for fans of the genre.


Machine Gun McCain (Giuliano Montaldo, 1969) - Decent piece of euro-crime starring John Cassavettes as a man who gets out of prison and dragged back into the criminal underground.


Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) - Seen it before but first spin on the new Criterion blu-ray. This is one of Frankenheimer's best films, about a man who is basically blackmailed into faking his death, undergoing appearance-altering surgery and assuming a new identity. Truly a surreal bit of science fiction where even though it takes place in our world, it seems almost alien in nature. This is a really creatively-shot American film for the time, you can certainly tell the influence that the European films of the time had on its structure and sensibilities. A truly amazing film and the ultimate indictment of the American Dream.


Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010) - Excellent documentary about the financial crisis of 2008 which does a great job at breaking down all the circumstances that led to the collapse in an easily understandable manner. Even though I thought I had a pretty solid understanding of what happened and had read a lot about it, I still learned quite a bit and its put together in a compelling manner.


Sniper: Legacy (Don Michael Paul, 2014) - I thought I was done with the Sniper movies but then they brought Berenger back for Sniper 5 so I thought fuck it why not. The script is really bad, its a story thats been told a million times (warrior goes rogue and starts killing off all the people that wronged him during a mission gone wrong) and the dialogue is pretty bad (literally I'd say about 90% of the dialogue is straight-up exposition). But yet I still found it pretty entertaining. The budget is big enough to support some nice shooting locales and action sequences and I can never get sick of watching Berenger blow out the back of peoples faces. This also reminded me of how mad I am that the first Sniper still hasn't been released on blu-ray.

[Spartan]

Can't believe any sane person would shit on Beneath... and prefer Escape... over it. Also, how the fuck did they find Icarus to begin with, let alone retrieve and fly it?

Here are a few films I watched recently that I can be bothered talking about:

Dracula Untold | 2014
Expected this to be a monumental shitfest and was completely surprised by just how fucking awesome it was. Props to whoever was responsible for turning a pop icon from a badly written yet highly revered literary classic and turning him into a supernatural King Leonidas featured in a Game of Thrones meets Dynasty Warriors type mash-up. Well done, son!

Blood Tracks | 1985
Sweden's answer to Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes albeit with an eighties hair metal band that make Bon Jovi sound like Napalm Death. This has been a holy grail movie to me for a number of years and I'm glad I finally caught it. It's a silly slasher but good fun with some pretty great kill scenes and some fine T&A. Not even fucking with the Michel Soavi's GOAT bork slasher, Stagefright, though

How to Seduce A Virgin | 1973
Nothing to do with Dids, but another Marquis de Sade inspired gem from Jess Franco. Better than some of his other movies I've watched in recent months, probably because there's an actual decent plot for once, and also because the camera man doesn't go ape shit with the zoom lens whenever he tries to focus on unwaxed bush. I did wish Lina Romay played the lead instead of the retarded maid, as I have never found Alice Arno remotely attractive as she reminds me of Joan Sims from the Carry On movies. Hard to believe Franco directed ten other films in the very same year.

[Tommy Bunz]

Can't believe any sane person would shit on Beneath... and prefer Escape... over it. Also, how the fuck did they find Icarus to begin with, let alone retrieve and fly it?

I don't think its an unpopular opinion. Escape has a slightly higher rating on imdb and a much higher rating on rotten tomatoes.
To me, the original Apes and Escape take themselves a lot more seriously and are better off for it. The whole underground world of telepathic humans that worship a nuclear bomb from Beneath was just too ridiculous to me and looks pretty damn cheesy in retrospect.

That's good to know about Dracula Untold, I had completely written that shit off too.

[Spartan]

Two thousand years in the making for a bunch of subterranean, telepathic, bomb-worshipping mutants sounds way more feasible than a team of chimps finding a submerged space ship in a vast lake, fishing it out and learning to fix and fly it when they had no idea how to make a fucking paper airplane in the first film.

imdb and rotten tomatoes are just as flawed as metacritic, btw.

[jamrage]

Conquest... is the best apes sequel, fuck the bullshit you guys are talking about.

[Spartan]

Well, yeah. It might be my fave sequel in the franchise too, but we were discussing which was the better film out of Escape or Beneath, Jamz!

All Cheerleaders Die | 2013


Easily Lucky McKee's worst movie. The only thing that's genuinely creepy about this Jennifer's Body meets The Craft stinker are the Harmony Korine levels of fetishism. Felt like it was meant for old dudes to ogle at slutty teens and somehow along the way it got misinterpreted for feminist-horror because it's by the same guy who made May. Tumblr babies who probably just graduated into the horror film genre via the recent Carrie remake might probably like this piece of shit movie, but I for one hated it with a passion.

Also, cliques passing lockers in slow-motion down a hallway has got to be one of the over-used high-school movie clichés ever.