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Caught up on a few episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which is ridiculous but ace.

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Diary Of The Dead - a lot better than I thought it would be but still a long way short of Romero's best.
 
I watched the remake of Romero's The Crazies last night. It's one of the very few horror remakes that are better than the original film, but then the original wasn't that great in the first place. It's beautifully shot, well acted and exciting enough, but it's let down somewhat by the over proliferation of the "infected" sub-genre in recent years
 
I watched Akira after many years yesterday, but a DVD edition I borrowed from a friend, and which was released about 8 years ago. I knew it already, but annoyingly it has different dubbing. For childhood nostalgia reasons I prefer the old Streamline Pictures dub, with him who voiced Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles cartoon series back in the 1980s/early 90s. Although it looks like a fan has the cleaned-up DVD release by adding the old dubbing. Either that or it's a recent Australian release of the DVD which kept the old voice-overs.
 
"Grizzly Rage". it is actually the worst film i have ever seen, and i have ssen lots of bad ones, it is just awesomely terrible, i didn't think they made those kind of films any more.
 
That new A-Team film. I quite liked it, it seamed to have made a stab at keeping a bit of the feel of the original series if iff it got a bit ott with shootings etc towards the end. I actually missed the end due to dropping off to sleep but it had been a hard day so i cant really blame the film totally.
 
I think I might watch the thing tonight, it's on the telly.

The John Carpenter version! I do like that film :cool: Went to see it at the pics when it first came out. I presume it was an X certificate so had the added fission of us being too young to see (I was about 15 when it came out!)
 
The John Carpenter version! I do like that film :cool: Went to see it at the pics when it first came out. I presume it was an X certificate so had the added fission of us being too young to see (I was about 15 when it came out!)


Yeah, the Thing coming out the huskies head scene is a classic. Can't wait. :cool:
And good work, the first illegal film age for me was La Bamba. Lame :facepalm:
 
I dug out my DVD of John Carpenter's The Thing - the detached human head with the scuttling spider legs is still the creepiest, most unsettling thing I've ever seen in a film.
 
The bit with the dogs not far into it is the most disturbing for me.

It is a good horror film. Carpenter has got some stick for being 'shit' but he made his name by making relatively lower budget mainstream films that can pull in audiences. And tongue in cheek with it. He's got a fair few classics under his belt. His music can be pants though. His best scores, however, are Escape and Assault.
 
the music for the thing is pretty good i thought. he's awful these days, but when he was on form he was a master.
 
The chest cavity grows teeth and chomps the blokes arm off at the elbow. I caught this film as a curiosity without warning late one night when I was a teenager. Didn't sleep.


anyways, I watched latest trueblood again to catch the nuances. Blatant HBO 3rd-ep pay off. Her that was Chris's girlfriend in sopranos shows up n all.
 
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