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John dies at the end - very strange romp involving a drug called 'soy sauce' which turns into little bugs, phone calls from dead people, a baseball bat covered in pages of the bible and a paintball gun turned into a flamethrower oh and a dog called Bark Lee.......i enjoyed it;)
 
Profondo Rosso - A masterclass in Giallo. Looks and sounds brilliant. Love it.

Skin Game - James Garner and Lousi Gossett Jnr (with hair) in a film about a white man and his free black man posing as a slave and slave trader to con cash from town to town. All of which goes tits up requiring them to plan and scheme their way outta shit creek! A film clearly seen by Tarantino a few times. The last time I saw this was on a Saturday night on tv when I was about 10....and I remember enjoying then. When I enjoyed it this time too, but shame on WB for the rotten transfer to DVD which was graint as hell.....
 
The Bride Wore Black - Jeanna Moreau as the bride hunting down her husbands killers. Good but just not quite tight enough IMO. Moreau is good though and there a some top scenes.

Killer Joe - poor, I'm a Matthew McConaughy fan, he doesn't get enough decent non-shitty rom-com roles but this was just a bit of a mess. It was originally a play and I often think that films adapted from plays can be problematic, far too many of the plot developments are just utterly unbelievable, and I wasn't sure whether the film was trying to go for a realistic scenario or do more of a Greek tragedy thing, in the end it doesn't work on either level.
 
McConaughy has had a career turnaround and nothing but critical acclaim since The Lincoln Lawyer. He left romantic comedies behind at the end of the last decade and has carved himself a niche as the new Michael Douglas, being good as shady sleazeballs. Agree with you that Killer Joe was poor. He was very good in the underrated Bernie and the surprisingly decent Magic Mike.

I watched Wild River, a lesser known Elia Kazan film starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick, a low key, yet powerful drama which I prefer to his more famous films. It's about a government agent who has to evacuate a small town in 1930s Tennessee for a new dam and who is up against an old woman who refuses to leave. It's an "issue film" (the is a vital subplot about racism) which is much less heavy handed than other Hollywood films of its type of the late 50s/early 60s. Long difficult to see, now out on Blu-ray in the US, this looks glorious in Technicolor and Cinemascope.

Also The Corridor, a "cabin in the woods" style horror film which has an intriguing premise, but which falls apart towards the end and is undone by one of the most distractingly poor hairstyle choices ever.
 
redsquirrel said:
Killer Joe - poor, I'm a Matthew McConaughy fan, he doesn't get enough decent non-shitty rom-com roles but this was just a bit of a mess. It was originally a play and I often think that films adapted from plays can be problematic, far too many of the plot developments are just utterly unbelievable, and I wasn't sure whether the film was trying to go for a realistic scenario or do more of a Greek tragedy thing, in the end it doesn't work on either level.
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Which was a real shame! it looked good, great cast, soundtrack etc....but yeah, it kida fell flat and is all quite forgettable aside from the chicken scene....
 
Reno said:
McConaughy has had a career turnaround and nothing but critical acclaim since The Lincoln Lawyer. He left romantic comedies behind at the end of the last decade and has carved himself a niche as the new Michael Douglas, being good as shady sleazeballs. Agree with you that Killer Joe was poor. He was very good in the underrated Bernie and the surprisingly decent Magic Mike.

I watched Wild River, a lesser known Elia Kazan film starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick, a low key, yet powerful drama which I prefer to his more famous films. It's about a government agent who has to evacuate a small town in 1930s Tennessee for a new dam and who is up against an old woman who refuses to leave. It's an "issue film" (the is a vital subplot about racism) which is much less heavy handed than other Hollywood films of its type of the late 50s/early 60s. Long difficult to see, now out on Blu-ray in the US, this looks glorious in Technicolor and Cinemascope.

Also The Corridor, a "cabin in the woods" style horror film which has an intriguing premise, but which falls apart towards the end and is undone by one of the most distractingly poor hairstyle choices ever.
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I think of Mathew McC. as being, like Vince Vaughan, one of those stars who missed their era. His role in Lone Star suggested that his ideal era would have been that of Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do westerns. . . an era which has largely closed.

Speaking of which, last night I watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. And again, it's one of those classic westerns I should have seen years ago. I'm not going to give any of the important twists away, just to note that at times the political didacticism verged on Soviet socialist realism.

The depiction of Popeye, John Wayne's - assistant? worker? man? boy? - might well have been considered brave for its time, but is less groundbreaking than that of Sam in Casablanca which was twenty years earlier. But the reality of ethnic and racial exclusion on the frontier would probably have been a bit too much for a western of that era, especially one with Jimmy Stewart in it.
 
Idris2002 said:
I think of Mathew McC. as being, like Vince Vaughan, one of those stars who missed their era. His role in Lone Star suggested that his ideal era would have been that of Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do westerns. . . an era which has largely closed.
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My point was though that unlike the once promising Vaughn, who has only starred in sub-par comedies over the last decade, McConaughey has managed to re-invent himself as an acclaimed character actor in recent years. He's stopped doing romcoms and mostly appeared in smaller and independent films by respected directors, playing sleazy and/or unsympathetic characters and has finally been taken seriously as an actor.
 
Vaughn either didn't get the breaks, or annoyed some powerful people, or just plain squandered his talent. McC has got the better end of the deal, I agree.
 
Orang Utan said:
He still does the shitty romcoms for spliff and bongo money though, doesn't he?
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Not for the last few years. Starting with The Lincoln Laywer he's been romcom free, playing sleazy anti-heroes or villains in edgier films, turning his fading pretty-boy-looks to good advantage. Even Soderbergh's Magic Mike isn't a romcom. Beneath the surface glitz it's a fairly bleak film about the current economic situation in the US.
 
Boys Don't Cry. I haven't seen it for ages and had completely forgotten the ending and got all shocked.
 
Reno said:
Not for the last few years. Starting with The Lincoln Laywer he's been romcom free, playing sleazy anti-heroes or villains in edgier films, turning his fading pretty-boy-looks to good advantage. Even Soderbergh's Magic Mike isn't a romcom. Beneath the surface glitz it's a fairly bleak film about the current economic situation in the US.
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I'm sure I saw a tube poster of him recently with a pic of him simpering, shirtless, in front of Sarah Jessica Parker
 
Orang Utan said:
I'm sure I saw a tube poster of him recently with a pic of him simpering, shirtless, in front of Sarah Jessica Parker
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Why not check imdb yourself instead of banging on about recent films he hasn't been in. :p

He currently is in The Paper Boy, but that's not a romcom and it doesn't star SJP.
 
Marjoe (1972) - documentary following evangelist preacher Marjoe Gortner who as a 4-year-old was the "world's youngest ordained minister". Now grown up he lets a camera crew follow him around the gospel preaching circuit to exposes the tricks of the trade behind evangelism. It's fascinating to watch if utterly bonkers in places, some great gospel music too.
This documentary launched Marjoe's career as an actor and he went on to become a cult favorite in films such as Starcrash.
 
watched 'it's all gone pet tong' seen it before but really enjoy it, and the new Dredd - was pretty good much better then the previous.
 
Citizen Kane, which I had not watched in a while. There is not a single shot in the film that is conventional and I'm always amazed at the sheer amount of special effects in the film.

Paranormal Activity 4. More of the same, but still fun and not nearly as bad as the reviews made it out to be. You either enjoy them or you don't and I do.
 
Reno said:
Citizen Kane, which I had not watched in a while. There is not a single shot in the film that is conventional and I'm always amazed at the sheer amount of special effects in the film.

Paranormal Activity 4. More of the same, but still fun and not nearly as bad as the reviews made it out to be. You either enjoy them or you don't and I do.
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A very unusual double bill.
 
War Witch - very good little film about a young girl taken for a child soldier - actually fleshes out a few characters their motivations and their developments here rather than just the expected exploitation (look how murderous he is, look at that!) style that is so often seen in these type of films. Still pretty slight to be honest though, but what it did, it did well - interesting stylistic choices and elements of surrealism etc
 
DJ Squelch said:
Marjoe (1972) - documentary following evangelist preacher Marjoe Gortner who as a 4-year-old was the "world's youngest ordained minister". Now grown up he lets a camera crew follow him around the gospel preaching circuit to exposes the tricks of the trade behind evangelism. It's fascinating to watch if utterly bonkers in places, some great gospel music too.
This documentary launched Marjoe's career as an actor and he went on to become a cult favorite in films such as Starcrash.
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Starcrash guy? Wow, now that's a film. Every part of the plot goes nowhere. Gotners character can see into the future but can't act on it or tell anyone so the only part it plays in the plot is that it is mentioned.
 
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