Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
they're some kind of vampires in the will smith version, aren't they?
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i prefer zombies, it is a more realistic situation. (i'm not talking about adaptions of that novel specifically)
Reno
The In Kraut
In the Matheson novel the creepiest thing is that the vampires, his former friends and neighbours, shout out to him every night. The fact that they are articulate and that they fuck with his mind makes them much more scary than shuffling zombies. That they are "classic" monsters is also important for the pay off at the end and of course for the films they always had to come up with an extra explanation why they don't come out during the day.
That said, I haven't seen the Vincent Price film since I was a kid. I should check it out again.
I don't have a zombie/vampire preference. It depends on the approach you take. I'm not a huge fan of vampires as such, but my favourite horror film of the last decade was Let the Right One In, which showed that you can still have a fresh take on that particular sub-genre.
avu9lives
famous five member
Just finished season 1 of In treatment" Feckin loved it" Tonite im gonna have to watch the first series of Farscape coz the girlfriends a big sci fi fan (Yawn) I hate feckin sci fi!! Already thinkin up sum good excuses not to sit through it.. Spose thats the price you have to pay when she's lookin over yer shoulder while yer on the mega***** forum.
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
Dylan - Masterpieces vol1 : one of those 'it's legal honest' "unauthorised" live compilations from poundland
mostly 90s looking vintage concert/tv concert footage, in various degrees of pixel smudge (plus a 80s looking US tv studio You Gotta Serve Somebody, in fuzzy converted video). Amazing sound quality though.
Dylan's a bit croaky and in guess the song mode on some of the tracks, (during Just Like A Woman he seems to be playing Singing One Song To The Tune Of Another while everybody else plays the right tune) and there's a cheesy 'surprise' guest appearance dueting on Mr Tambourine Man with David Crosby.
mostly 90s looking vintage concert/tv concert footage, in various degrees of pixel smudge (plus a 80s looking US tv studio You Gotta Serve Somebody, in fuzzy converted video). Amazing sound quality though.
Dylan's a bit croaky and in guess the song mode on some of the tracks, (during Just Like A Woman he seems to be playing Singing One Song To The Tune Of Another while everybody else plays the right tune) and there's a cheesy 'surprise' guest appearance dueting on Mr Tambourine Man with David Crosby.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
the final episode of spartacus. fucking hell! how gory was that? was up there with the goriest of japanese gorefests.
i wonder how they're gonna do a season 2?
i wonder how they're gonna do a season 2?
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
The Road - Great movie about a father preparing his child for the crudeness of the world and on how to live when he is no longer.
Possibly the best 'father & son' movie since The Champ.
And just as sad.
And using a dystopian world/ cannabilistic world as a setting is always a plus.
Dog eat dog and all that.
Good writing and accurate to the book,
Possibly the best 'father & son' movie since The Champ.
And just as sad.
And using a dystopian world/ cannabilistic world as a setting is always a plus.
Dog eat dog and all that.
Good writing and accurate to the book,
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
bestial type vampires- might as well be zombies for all the relation thy bear to classical vamps.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I kathodos ton 9 - fantastic film about a greek group of Partisans/communists on the run at the end of the greek civil war.
Shadows of a Hot Summer - same vague sort of theme as above, this time it's about a Czechoslovakian peasant family dealing with a group of right wing Ukrainian guerrillas fighting their way across Europe in the post war years. Bandera's lot. Another good one.
Shadows of a Hot Summer - same vague sort of theme as above, this time it's about a Czechoslovakian peasant family dealing with a group of right wing Ukrainian guerrillas fighting their way across Europe in the post war years. Bandera's lot. Another good one.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Ah yes, two of Norman Wisdom's best!
Reno
The In Kraut
No, they are more like infected type zombies in the likes of 28 Days Later, only more self aware. The are rendered via the most unneccessary and crap CGI ever. As they are humanoid they could have easily been played by actors in make up but these things never look like they inhabit the same space as the real people. Despite keeping the title of the book, the latest version is the one that departs the furthest from the novel.
Yes it is.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
rocky balboa. i rather enjoyed it - stallone was excellent as the battered mumbling punchdrunk old man. it had some great scenes of working class philadelphia, esp the deprived environment his coach paulie still dwells in. some great scenes in rocky's restaurant where he half-heartedly spins his old fighting yarns to a bored local audience. the obligatory training montage is done with humour, showing rocky and his trainers' age - instead of running up the steps, he jogs up a gentle incline. it's shamelessly sentimental, but i love that about it and the other rocky films. the boxing match itself is ludicrously far-fetched and unbelievable but just as exciting as the matches in the other films and of course it uses bill conti's theme tune to great effect.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
I cried to that film.
More human than when he was setting about defeating Communism then.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I still rate the one where he gets battered by Mr T at the start
"Pain."
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
I only like Mr T as a good guy.
Clubber Lang was well mean.
Yeah, 3, is perhaps the best of them all.
This scene makes me, kinda happy.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
2 is the best. i think they're underrated films, as is stallone as an actor. many people seem to dismiss them as just fight films.
Reno
The In Kraut
The much hated 1976 version of King Kong, for sentimental reasons. It is pretty crap and the effects look dire now, but there are some good things about it. Some of the satire on US corporations is genuinely funny, John Barry's score is lovely and Jessica Lange is still the cutest girl in the monkey's paw. The end on top of the World Trade Centre has aquired some unintentional poignancy since.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
oh, i almost forgot, i also saw seven pounds. dreadful schmaltz with will smith grimacing a lot and killing himself with an octopus in the bath at the end. yes, i know it's a spoiler but i don't think anyone should watch this awful film.
Reno
The In Kraut
Is it a suicide pact over a love that can never be ? Never wanted to see this until now.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That sounds fantastic - do you men he kills himself by using the octopus or it's just in the bath with him whilst he kills himself?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
oops, i meant jellyfish
he uses a jellyfish he's bought in specially for the purpose. he talks about his childhood fascination with the box jellyfish earlier in the film - canny bit of foreshadowing
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
no, it's guilt at being a bad driver
eta: here's a synopsis to save you the bother of watching it:
will smith is sad. you know it cos he's frowning and the film's first scene is a flashforward to him reporting his own suicide. then he's driving around being horrible to people. it turns out he's some kind of medical insurance claims adjustor. so you think, oh that's why he's horrible to people. he's even horrible to a blind woody harrelson. oh, and at some random point he does a soliloquy about how fascinating he found jellyfish as a kid or summat. but anyway, then he starts being nice to people. downtrodden people who need a break in life, like blinds, abused wives, sick people. then it turns out that he's not a medical bastard, but he's just pretending to be one, using his brother's credentials. people are puzzled about why he is being nice all of a sudden, including a beautiful lady with a weak heart. he fixes her printing press and they fall in love, but he's all hot and cold and she's all hurt and confused. then it transpires that he's feeling sad cos a while ago he wasn't paying attention to the road and he crashes his car, killing his wife and some people in an suv. it turns out that the number of people he's helped (guess how many?) is the exact number he's killed. then he gets in the bath filled with ice water and releases a box jellyfish. he has a hilarious fit and then dies.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
I remember thinking Stallone was superb in Copland but it was so long ago that I wonder if my memory is playing tricks on me. Anyone care to agree with me/shoot me down in flames?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
He played quite an understated role in a not very good film- I saw it at the cinema and recall thinking that sly showed a side to his acting that I'd not seen before even though I was underwhelmed by the actual film. Many years since I saw it though.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
copland is the james mangold film in which he plays a dimwit fatty cop who's deaf in one ear. so not much of a stretch from playing a washed-up punchdrunk boxer.
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