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Diary of the Dead
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We watched this during breakfast one morning.. The effects are bad, the make-up as well and the acting couldn't be worse. Watch rec. instead for a great documentary style zombie flick.
Down by Law
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Gorgeous cinematography and atmosphere with a great staff (who doesn't like Roberto Benigni with his crazy hair :))
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Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
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my all time favorite, an unique movie with a magical atmosphere, great colors and the perfectly fitting music by yann tiersen. somehow this movie has the power to make me feel better about myself and my life. everyone should be a little more like amélie.
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Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-ever)
R
this is one of the most touching movies I've ever seen. incredibly real... not easy to watch.
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Mulholland Drive
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for me this is a dream captured on film. it doesn't have to make sense in every detail... unlike "lost highway" it's very entertaining with a brilliant atmosphere. I will have to watch it a third time soon, to collect some more pieces of the unsolved puzzle.
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Into the Wild
R
The amazing cinematography is breathtaking. This movie aims right into the heart of anyone, who has ever felt the urge to break away but lacked the courage to actually do so. Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch, btw his performance is stunning) had the courage to escape from our artificial society completely, without even bringing a map, which finally cost him his life. The end of his story is tragic but in my opinion it fits his ideology.
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Alejossposted 15 hours ago -
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Hell Ride
by El HombreIf you think back to the original concept for Grindhouse, Rodriguez and Tarantino were going to make their films based on the premise, "What if the drive-in/grindhouse movies had been as good as the posters made them seem?" Rodriguez lived up to the premise. He made a movie with all the CGI frills, all the gore, and all the action that were never actually in those films back in the day. Essentially, he made a Robert Rodriguez movie from a 1969 movie poster. Tarantino, however, did not make a modern Tarantino movie. He basically just made a perfect clone of the period films. Just about everything that was wrong with drive-in films was also wrong with QT's clone.
Which brings us to Hell Ride, another type of drive-in film: the biker flick. Writer/director Larry Bishop got Tarantino's "mark of approval" for this one and gave QT a producer credit ... and went about making the same mistake Tarantino made with Death Proof. He recreated a late 60s biker flick, bugs and all. Was there anything you disliked about biker flicks? Bad acting? Hell Ride has it. Incoherent plot line? Check. Long stretches of nothingness while bikers ride the open road while a rock song plays? Check. Ludicrous dialogue? Check. Gratuitous macho posturing? Check. Complete absence of character development? Check.
A classic example of what results when filmmakers and actors buy into their own egos.
posted 1 day ago -
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Una Lucertola con la pelle di donna)
by El HombreCapturing all of the debauchery of the drug soaked late 60's into a wonderful murder mystery including some trippy dream sequences, an excellent Ennio Morricone score, a strong sense of suspense, an odd assortment of characters, a strong ending, and it even manages to throw in some Hitchcock references without letting them take over the movie.
The film also takes its sweet time establishing the outline of its central puzzle and where the various characters fit into it. Fortunately that puzzle happens to be a good, engaging mystery. Despite a relatively small ring of suspects, guessing as to "whodunit" will have to be reevaluated with each new twist in the plot.
Hey, you should really see this!
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Heima (Sigur Ros: Heima)
by El HombreDuring the series of free gigs around Iceland, Sigur Ros created a concert film that doesn't quite follow the usual standards of the genre. They concentrated on the people, the places, and the amazing country around them, and the beautiful film Heima was born.
All the performances are strong, and the music haunting. Combined with the images, you find an audio/visual treat that really does act as a great opening to the band's music, or if you are a fan already, something different and very personal from the band. Iceland should be proud, not only of what the band has achieved, but also of how they portray this beautiful land.
Hey, you should really see this!
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Alive
by El HombreVERSUS was a low-budget zombie/yakuza film meshing chaos and stylized action, Alive is a slightly bigger budget attempt at Cube-like tension and atmosphere. Unfortunately for Kitamura, while he may very well be the next John Woo when it comes to cool action, he needs a lot of work when it comes to creating tension and atmosphere out of very little.
The thing about Alive is that it's full of untapped potential. Even the film's second half, which is filled with action, still managed to find long stretches where nothing happens, and people are either just sitting or standing around chatting about their past. In the end, I suppose Kitamura boxed himself in with the intention of testing himself, trying to prove that he can direct without resorting to fisticuffs every other second.Hey, you should really see this!
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The Last Wave
by El HombrePeter Weir is known for some excellent Hollywood commercial films such as Witness, The Year of Living Dangerously and Master and Commander, but earlier in his career he made more challenging films in his native Australia. The Last Wave gives a perspective on law we don't find in Hollywood films.
Richard Chamberlain gives a great performance as David Burton, a lawyer hired to defend a group of aborigines accused of murder and is drawn into a nightmarish world of customs and folklore, history and the supernatural.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 4 days ago -
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Six-String Samurai
by El HombreIt's The Road Warrior Picture Show with a Buddy Holly doing his best Toshiro Mifune starring in a Sergio Leone gang picture set in a fantasy future, directed with the flash of a Hong Kong action flick and the nice and slow style of a samurai film and I was still bored
Would've made a better short film if 20 minutes or so were cut.
posted 6 days ago -
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Kichiku dai enkai
by El HombreWhat little plot there is follows some kind of political student group on their shared descent into madness and sick violence. This is about as far from mainstream cinema as you are likely to get and most people are unlikely to enjoy it. Whatever pretensions the makers may have had are swept away in a sea of blood as the sickening scenes pile up.
The last 40 minutes are pure gut-wrenching horror. The patient viewer is given an experience that will not easily be forgotten. Is it a good film? In many ways, yes, but not without its flaws.
Filled with gore and extremely graphic
posted 6 days ago -
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Baise-Moi
by El HombreThis is a film that deals with the ideas of losing one's humanity, our views on sex and violence, and the obliteration of the soul. Nadine and Manu have been so harmed by the world that they become monsters, killing with blind rage. They are the epitome of random violence. Thinking they have found power in their murders and sex, the two women are still slaves to their pasts and their own self-images. In essence this is sort of a mean-spirited feminist film.
There are a lot of interesting things that are going on in the film, and really, for two women that had seemingly not done a "regular" film before, both leads are very good. It's a shame the movie isn't.
What could've been a very well made film about such a controversial subject turns out to be a sloppy mess.
posted 6 days ago -
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Kataude mashin gâru (The Machine Girl)
by El HombreRevenge is a dish best served with a prosthetic arm that's a machine gun in a movie whose over-the-top attitude reminds me of Story Of Ricky. Sadistic and hilarious.
Wanton bloodshed.
posted 11 days ago -
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Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru)
by El HombreBattle Royale is one of those films so controversial that its reputation has eclipsed its content. The problem with this kind of public profile is that it focuses all attention on the films' violence, and it is a very gory film. But it's also witty, satirical, engrossing, and thought provoking.
Obviously the concept of school kids murdering their classmates seems tasteless, but Battle Royale handles it with maturity, thanks to the talented directing of Kinji Fukasaku. The kids are forced to become killers, but the movie provides them with interesting personalities and human reactions to the horrible situation in which they find themselves. Throw Takeshi Kitano, great music selection and awesome cinematography into the mix and there you have it.
Hey, you should really see this, but by all means, stay away from the sequel. Take my word for it.
posted 12 days ago -
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Mah nakorn (Citizen Dog)
by El HombreA surreal and comical love story about Bangkok's less significant people. Citizen Dog depicts their unending search of happiness in a rapidly changing environment; a world overflowing with dreams but void of love and understanding.
You never know what you will see on the screen next, but it will almost certainly be unique, surprising and vividly colourful. Very rewarding film that's non-stop and highly enjoyable.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 13 days ago -
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Jigoku (The Sinners of Hell)
by El HombreJigoku is supposed to be the first picture that used gore as a serious special effect, making it the grandfather of movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser and such. Of course, you can't watch the end of the movie without the beginning, so you really have to make the choice of suffering through the first half of tedious exposition so you can enjoy the last half before giving up on it, entirely.
I can't tell you not to see Jigoku, just that it's no longer the terrifying journey it apparently was back in the sixties. The first hour is long enough that I feel confident saying I don't really think I'll ever feel compelled to sit through it again. Western cinema such as Hellraiser owes a great debt to the stylization of the torture sequences, but they are tame in comparison to Clive Barker's far more sexual and visual depiction's two decades later. It is more interesting from cultural and religious perspectives than from a horror angle, but not very.
Hey, you may want to give it a chance and see for yourself.
posted 18 days ago -
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Phantasm
by El HombrePhantasm is Don Coscarelli's acid trip on the dark side. His low-budget film is just a bit dated in the special effects department, but remains a scary, bizarre trip centering around Morningside Mortuary.
While some of the effects are low-tech, they play on the absurd terror of the situation, and the eerie, almost dreamlike situations that reveal more of the Tall Man's nature. Sometimes the film seems to be all over the place with one random thing after another, but deserves its' status as a cult-film for bringing new ideas to horror. One of the many movies I saw at the drive-in which surely added to its charm for me.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 18 days ago -
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Come and See
by El HombreUnlike any war film I've seen before. The story involves a rite-of-passage of a young Byelorussian villager who is drafted into the army to fight the Nazis during WWII.
This film not only shows the horrors of war, but throws you right in the middle of it, showing the receiving end of the Nazi's raid that spread to over 600 villages being burned. An unrelenting, waking nightmare with sounds and visuals unmatched by any other war film.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 20 days ago -
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The Dinner Game (Le Dîner de cons)
by El HombreThe Dinner Game plays out with all the spontaneity of a Seinfeld episode and would be even more popular if people will get over reading subtitles. A very clever comedy that was a successful play before it became a film, as it shows, and is a great one for low-budget filmmakers to examine. Great fun.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 20 days ago -
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Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes)
by El HombreThis darkly, beautiful and hypnotic tale works perfectly well if taken on a purely aesthetic level. The most immediate and striking thing about it is the look. Complimented by the minimalist soundtrack by Toru Takemitsu, Woman in the Dunes is a powerful piece of work with leisurely pacing that is not going to prove for all tastes.
Hey, you should really see this!
posted 21 days ago -
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The Thing
by El HombreI sometimes wonder if horror movies could be any better than this. The first thing the movie has going for it is a cast of excellent actors bringing life to its' characters. Something today's horror films sorely lack with poor decisions to cast actors who seem to be fresh out of high school without life's experiences to portray a wide range of emotions, unlike this wonderful cast who convey so much with even the smallest glances.
Secondly, as if The Thing's nail-biting psychological horror and memorable cast weren't enough, Rob Bottin's creature effects are so gruesomely awesome that they mostly hold up over a quarter of a century later. To top things off, John Carpenter turns the music over to longtime favorite composer Ennio Morricone for one of the most effective Carpenter-like scores that's as brooding as the film itself. Paranoia is the key factor here with an ending that still has fans talking.
Hey, you should really see this with the lights out.
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