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Day of the Fight
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™posted 15 hours ago -
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Nightwatch
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"He's the prime suspect in a terrifying mystery. The police are after him and so is the murderer."
Nightwatch, which was apparently an English-language remake of the Dutch film Nattevagen, both from director Ole Bornedal, was a dark horror murder mystery. It has a great cast in Ewan McGregor, who has a good American accent, Patricia Arquette, John C. Reilly, and Nick Nolte. It's sad that they weren't asked to do anything impressive. There was a very existential tint to it, but it was too little, too late to add any depth. It did make me think, though. Still, it was nicely shot, and the gross parts are enough to make you shiver without making you sick, and they were done quite effectively. Nothing was unnecessary.
Martin Bells: How do you know it's just the one guy?
Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you?
Martin Bells: Well yeah, absolutely.
Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you with a bit of privileged information?
Martin Bells: Oh yeah.
Inspector Thomas Cray: He has his signature.
Martin Bells: Signature?
Inspector Thomas Cray: He takes their eyes.
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posted 4 days ago -
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Directed by:David Dobkin
Released:January 1, 2010
Plot
While touring the crime scene lab of his uncle, Barry Allen, teenager Wally West is doused in chemicals after a lightning bolt strikes them, which enables him to run faster than any other human being on earth. Becoming the Flash, Wally sets out to protect the people of his city from the villainous threats that arise.posted 9 days ago -
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Cassandra's Dream
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"How far will you go to make your dreams come true?"
Two London Brothers Are Hard-Up For Cash, And Both Have Girls To Look Out For, Too. When Rich Uncle Howard Comes To Town And Agrees To Help Them Out, He Admits His finances Are Under Investigation, And He Asks Them To Do Him A Favor And "Take Care Of" An Old Business Relation To Keep His Trouble Under Wraps -
He Says That They're Family, And Since He Always Takes Care Of Them, The Least They Could Do Is Help Him Out This Once, As They're The Only Ones He Can Trust. The Film Follows Their Struggle With The Immorality Of This Request And How Each Brother Chooses To Deal With It. But At The End The Brothers Ended Up Dying
Ian: Would you sleep with a director to get a part?
Angela: Well, that depends on the part, and who the director is, and how much I'd had to drink.
Ian: It's not a very comforting answer.
Angela: I didn't like the question.
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posted 11 days ago -
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Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"Angel faces hell-bent for violence"
Antoine is a French boy in his early teens who has difficulties both at school and at home. His teacher singles him out for criticism and punishment, while his mother is cold and demanding, and frequently argues with her husband (Antoine's stepfather). The family is financially insecure, and Antoine must sleep in a sleeping bag on a cot crammed next to the back entrance to the apartment. Also, to make things worse, Antoine soon discovers that his mother is having an affair with a co-worker.
Antoine engages in a childish mischief, often at the instigation of his friend René, but is caught and punished after each incident. He eventually steals a typewriter from his stepfather's workplace, planning to pawn it, but Antoine and René are unsuccessful in their attempt to pawn the typewriter. When Antoine visits the office to return it he is apprehended by the concierge; his stepfather turns him in to the police.
After his arrest, Antoine's parents place him with the investigating magistrate, saying that he is incorrigible. Antoine's mother requests only that Antoine be sent to a work camp by the sea, as he has never seen the ocean before. After some time in a juvenile detention center Antoine is indeed sent on to a work camp near the sea.
During a session with the psychiatrist at the detention center, Antoine reveals that he had spent most of his childhood living with his grandmother. His own mother had not wanted to take care of him. In fact, she had not wanted a child at all, and had planned to have an abortion.
Antoine eventually escapes from the work camp and runs toward the sea. Once Antoine reaches the shoreline of the sea, the film concludes with the camera zooming in and then freezing on Antoine's face (which seems to gaze into the audience).Hey, you should really see this!
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Invaders from Mars
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"NATURAL or SUPERNATURAL?"
One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans,
but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It's up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans.Hey, you should really see this!
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Young and Innocent
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"A romantic murder-mystery drama"
Eight years after the famous movie actress, Christine Clay, thought she was rid of him, her husband shows up from nowhere. He's furious that she left him, outraged over her "silly Reno divorce" and indignant that she is now spending her time with "boys."
That's his view of things, but she'll never get the chance to give her own side. The quarrel is barely over before her body washes up on the beach near her home. She didn't drown. She was strangled with the belt of a raincoat. The person who finds her is the "boy" she's supposedly seeing, Robert Tisdall, a young screenwriter, down on his luck. He runs to get help, and two young women see him. It looks as if he is escaping the scene of a crime.
Soon, Tisdall is arrested for murder. But before the trial begins, he escapes, determined to find the real killer. Along the way he finds an unexpected ally in Erica Burgoyne, the police constable's daughterHey, you should really see this!
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Hannibal
by AmandaI like this film a lot, but of course it suffers - as all sequels do - by comparison to its predecessor, in this case 'Silence of the Lambs' The main reason for having a sequel at all was to showcase again the character of Hannibal Lecter, a monstrous creation everyone wanted to see more of after the first film. It could have bombed badly therefore if writer and actor had let us down by failing to catch the magic again. It was after all a decade after the original was made. But they don't, and Anthony Hopkins turns in another delicious performance as the man with the evil intent cloaked in inestimable, menacing charm.
Julianne Moore drew the short straw in having to re-create the Clarice Starling role that had been so memorably played by another actress. She does well in my opinion, but inevitably we keep thinking 'where is Jodie Foster?', and this lends her portrayal a lack of credibility which is entirely unfair. Gary Oldman's Mason Verger is suitably loathsome and manages to make Lecter seem almost like the hero in their battle of wits. If there is a weak link, Ray Liotta's Krendler seems a bit misplaced.
The direction deserves special mention. The lush, beautiful settings are mocked by the horror of what is happening in them and the perfectly-selected atmospheric music stayed in my mind long after the film had ended.
Once again, the film lacks realism, but as with the original, it doesn't matter. Of course things like this don't really happen - but so what? It's a film. Get over it! I was prompted after seeing it to read the books, and the right decision was made in changing the ending of this story from that written by Thomas Harris.
We were subsequently treated to another look at Lecter in a decent prequel movie, 'Red Dragon,' but I will not be alone in hoping that some day we will see yet more of him in a further instalment. Unlikely I suspect - but not impossible.
I´m giving a serious though in to eating your wife.
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posted 23 days ago -
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Intolerance
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™"The Cruel Hand of Intolerance"
Griffeth's design for this film is to juxtapose four stories from different periods of history that illustrate "Love's struggle throughout the ages." These include a selection of events from the life of Jesus; a tale from ancient Babylon, whose king is betrayed by those who resent his rejection of relegious sectarianism; the story of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of French Protestants by King Charles the IX of France on the perfidious advice of his mother;
and a modern story in which a young boy, wrongly convicted of the murder of a companion, is rescued from execution at the last minute by the intervention of his beloved, who gains a pardon from the governor. These stories are not presented in series. Instead, Griffeth cuts from one to another and often introduces suspensful crosscutting with the stories as well.Hey, you should really see this!
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posted 26 days ago -
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The Starfighters
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™**WORST MOVIE EVER**
This movie was made. That's about it.
Actually this movie should have less than half a star. The story arc looks like this: .......'........'..... The bumps indicate the two and only two scenes that were supposed to provide tension - namely, the "hydraulics problem" and the "weather system" problem.
Too bad the hydraulics problem turned out to be a no-plotter, and too bad the weather system problem did not itself show up on the film.
Despite that there existed a conflict between one fighter pilot and his father, this conflict was poorly explored at best. See, the married couple who have no conflict of interests. Thrill as every minute of refueling is splashed across the screen.
All shown in graphic blandness.Hey, you should really NOT see this!
posted 28 days ago -
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Marnie
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™Marnie Edgar (Hedren) is a troubled young woman who has an unnatural fear and mistrust of men, thunderstorms, and the color red. She is also a compulsive thief. She uses her charms on Sidney Strutt (Martin Gabel) to get a job without references. Then late one night, she steals the contents of the company safe and disappears.
Mark Rutland (Connery), a widower who owns a large printing company, is a good customer of Strutt's. He learns about the theft from the victim, and remembers the woman. So when Marnie applies for a job at his company, he is intrigued. He is robbed too, but unlike Strutt, Mark manages to track Marnie down. Instead of handing her over to the police, he blackmails her into marrying him.
On their honeymoon, he finds out about her frigidity. At first, he respects her wishes, but her undisguised hostility to him incites him to rape her. The next morning, she tries to commit suicide, but Mark finds her in time.
He attempts to discover the reasons behind Marnie's behavior. In the end, Marnie and Mark learn that her mother, Bernice (Louise Latham), had been a prostitute. When Marnie was six years old, one of her mother's clients (a sailor played by Bruce Dern) had tried to calm her after she became frightened by a storm. Bernice thought he was trying to molest her daughter and began attacking him. Seeing her mother struggling with the man, Marnie struck him with a fireplace poker, killing him. The bloodshed led to her fear of the color red. Once the origin of her fears is revealed, Marnie decides she wants to try to make her marriage work.Hey, you should really see this!
posted 31 days ago -
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Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate)
by AmandaI love historical movies set in Mexico and this wonderful movie shown on BBC last night simply reinforced that feeling.
The Director, Arau, laid before the viewer a magical cornucopia of settings and in this case, tastes, that tempted the eye as well as a palette that had to remain unfulfilled. Esquivel's novel and subsequent movie script were superb and were certainly not the normal fare dished out by Hollywood. Berstein and Luezki's rich cinematography painted a superb background upon which the rich character development and plot could be traced.
There are a few movies set around this revolutionary period in late Mexican history and i have loved everyone that i have seen-this is certainly no exception.
Like Water For Chocolate is a movie lover's movie and I would highly recommend anyone with a interest in or love for Mexico to make an effort to seek out this gem.Hey, you should really see this!
posted 31 days ago -
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Batman and Robin
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™This is a 15 episode serial based on the Bob Kane comic. It wasn't the first version of Batman brought to the big screen. In 1943, there was another serial that had Japanese villains. This one is pretty innocuous, and also pretty forgettable. I am almost completely ignorant of the medium of serials. The only other one I've seen is Feuillade's Les Vampires, which is strikingly similar in form, even though made much earlier and in France.
American serials are generally known for their cheesiness, their quick pacing and their cliffhangers. If I've gotten that stereotype correctly, Batman and Robin is a perfect example of the form. Some of the cheapness is a lot of fun. Like you notice the one bat that is perpetually flying around in circles in the bat cave. You think he'd die of exhaustion after a while. Vicki Vale appears. While she was in the comic books before this, Bob Kane only incorporated her as a main character after this serial (though he based his design on Marilyn Monroe). Vale here feels a lot like Superman's Lois Lane (I can't say which character in this form was first; I don't know enough about their relative histories to say for sure). It's fun how difficult a time Batman and Robin have at keeping their identities. Half the time Batman is visiting Commissioner Gordon as Bruce Wayne, and he keeps having to tell people that Batman wants him to convey certain information.
The best moment in the series comes when Vicki Vale pulls up behind Bruce Wayne's car (the Batmobile does not exist in this version) and Batman and Robin pop out. "Does Bruce Wayne know you're driving his car?" Vicki asks. Without a pause, Batman replies: "Of course he does." Their capes and costumes always get in the way when they're fighting. One time Batman's cape almost pulls him down, and he's often shifting his mask so he can see better. I wish the villain had been one of the familiar faces from the Rogues Gallery (which literally appears in the serial as a filing cabinet). Instead we have "the Wizard", a dull guy in a black hood and cloak. The serial as a whole is amusing, but hardly worth spending four and a half hours watching.
By the way this movie is NOT aniamted because some people think it is and its notHey, you should really see this!
posted 35 days ago -
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Baat sin faan dim ji yan yuk cha siu baau (The Untold Story) (Human Pork Chop)
by AmandaThe Untold Story is one of those nasty flicks that most horror fans whisper about, or have heard of, but because of its ridiculous premise, foreign nature, and Category III rating (the Hong Kong version of X or NC-17 in U.S.A), most of us have rarely gone out of our way to see it. Or if you?re like me, you made the mistake of getting a hold of the second one before the first film and, consequently, never wanted to see the first film because of the shit nature of the sequel. The Untold Story, despite all of the odds that are stacked up against it, deserves to be mentioned right up there with the heavies of the serial killer genre. Sure, it?s cheaper, more brutal, and quirkier than something like Silence of the Lambs or Se7en, but its originality, coupled with the fact that the film is based on a true story, packs those deficiencies in a delicious barbecue pork bun and washes it down with liberal doses of urine and feces laced gore.
The film follows the story of Wong Chi Hang, a notorious serial killer in 1970?s Macau. Wong Chi Hang has three loves in life, gambling, killing, and grinding up corpses to serve as tasty meat filling in his delicious barbecue pork buns. Chi Hang, a criminal wanted for murder after killing someone in another part of China, flees to Macau, where he unceremoniously becomes the owner of a restaurant entitled The Eight Immortals. The restaurant?s original owner has disappeared along with his family? it doesn?t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened to them. The cops are soon on his tail, led by the prostitute courting Officer Lee, a tomboy female cop trying to get the attention of her co-pigs, and a couple of other generic silly cops.
One of the major problems with the film is that it is so uneven. For a movie about a dude who kills the fuck out of people and grinds them into dumpling filling, the movie feels ridiculously light as the group of cops engages in Police Academy style hijinks and banter. They eventually tone it down a little bit, but it?s kind of an odd decision to make to inject a little humor in what is clearly a dark story. I don?t know what to be more disturbed by, the lighthearted approach the co-directors took with the film or the disgusting and over the top brutality with which Wong Chi Hang dispatches his mostly undeserving victims.
The other huge problem with the film is how poorly it is put together. The film?s entire crux relies on the fact that there is an ?untold story? somewhere in the film. The untold story is of course what happened to the original owner of the restaurant and his family. The last half hour to thirty minutes of the film focuses on the cops? efforts to figure out exactly what happened to the family? even though they?ve got a sack full of body parts that screams ?missing family? sitting in their evidence locker. The ideas behind the structure and form of the film are off. Instead of taking the true crime direction, the directors turn the film into a Shakespearian like tragedy where the big payoff is one hellacious slaughter and the reveal to the police that they have in fact eaten the remains of humans. This all may seem like spoiler material, but any five year old that has ever seen a horror flick would be able to guess all of this stuff and it?s basically thrown in your face during the film. The Untold Story deserves credit for trying to take a non-traditional approach to the serial killer flick, but it?s light-hearted tactics leave a little to be desired.
The two directors, Danny Lee and Herman Yau, make some pretty solid decisions throughout the film, if you throw out some of the Police Academy type vibe that?s going on with the detectives? seriously I expected to see the Hong Kong version of Michael Winslow to pop up and start making annoying sound effects. The scenes that focus on the serial killer are solid, menacing, and intense as fuck. It?s a shame they shit in their bed and roll around in it by getting too experimental with the tone. There is a lull in the middle of the film, after the serial killer is arrested, and the film?s torture sequence where the cops try to pry information out of Wong feels a little drawn out, but the rest of the film flows rather nicely.
The gore and the brutality is what this film is famous for, and for good reason. You?ve got your over the top rape and murder scene, you?ve got your crazy human butchering montage, and quite possibly the world?s worst and most brutal family massacre scene. The gore and the special effects are all laid out with a reverent flair that is disturbing and pulls no punches. If I liked children, I might have been tempted to turn the film off near the end, instead of laugh insanely. Good stuff.
The Untold Story has some major flaws, but the sheer ballsiness of the flick is enough to counterbalance the good against the bad, creating a delicious Hong Kong classic that is unlike any movie out there. The film?s complete lack of sensitivity to people that may have actually been killed in this true crime tale is appalling, but who gives a damn? It looks cooler than a pile of used profos, gives your stomach a couple twists, and sticks in the memory like that time you played hide and seek with your naked Scoutmaster at the annual Boy Scouts overnight campout.
Final Synopsis: This movie is only for the diehard horror fans out there, as it may be a little over the top and odd for the more casual fans. It?s a great flick that pulls no punches and delivers on the gore without wimping out in typical bullshit cinema-style. Give it a rent, or buy a copy if you?re a sick fuck. Like I am.
Points Lost: -1 for trying to combine Police Academy with Se7en tonally, -1 for a lame approach at telling the story; there?s no real mystery here, so stop pretending like there is one
Lesson Learned: The best recipe for barbecue pork buns includes urine, poop in a bucket, and human bodies ground into filling. Enjoy.
Burning Question: Why is it so fucking hard to find information on foreign serial killers? excluding the lame British serial killers?
The Untold Story.
Enoy and keep a bag next to you.Hey, you should really see this, be warned it has many disturbing material
posted 36 days ago -
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Terminator Salvation
by -♥-(¯`v´¯)иisαsbéllα™This movie was alright i can say but after i saw this one i probably think the second is still the best and although there is some boring parts through the movie like a the begining but i thought Christian Bale as John Connor and Anton Yelchin as Kyle Resse and others as well did great in this movie
but it did have a good plot and storyline and great speacial effects throught the movie but then the end was kinda stupid but not gonna explain why you can just see the movie too yourself but i do highly recommened it and also at first i thought this movie was gonna be a disapointment but i ended up being wrong it was acually an ok movie but not that great and one of McG best flims so far even though he only directed like 4 movies or so.
but one of my biggest problems about this movie is that why would a computer, that is building its own empire, create its buildings to accommodate humans? why is there a need for so many computer monitors, especially the giant one where marcus gets all his info and the touch pad lock for the prison doors! there is absolutely no reason for them, you'd think they could connect via bluetooth or something and Marcus was a machine, he must have weighed 300 pounds at least. but he can swim just fine? he didnt notice his incredible strength? and also How did an extremely distinct noticeable Terminator kill damn near an entire police station, shoot up a packed club, murder people in broad daylight at their front doorstep, and not have every cop in the city on a massive manhunt for him? and How did an oh so heavy Terminator not just ride but jump a Harley Davidson off a bridge and not burst the tires? Why would a trained soldier under orders to protect and escort a subject stop at a motel and have sex with her? this movie was kinda dumb in some ways.Hey, you should really see this!
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