DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
sean pertwee
I recall Lifeforce. Sort of a proto-Species* . It starred Patrick Stewart. What a stinker and a blot on his curriculum vitae that was. There was nudity though.
* this one actually was worth it for some of the fuck-death scenes. Although the inclusion of Forrest Whitaker as a goddam empath, yeah that shit concept that nobody liked even when dianna troi did it in a catsuit on star trek, what the fuck were they thinking?
Boxing Helena has to be seen to be believed which you can now for free..
One of the baddies is a rapping gangster who gets one of his henchmen to play his ghetto blaster so that he can rap his threats ..
Tbf Marty you are making that sound like a cult classichttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102618/reviews
The Owl - which was a pilot for a thankfully never made tv series - stars the bloke from the Highlander TV series
Watched it years ago and still shudder at the memory
The Owl is out for vengeance (Orly?) so you get extended flashbacks showing his family being killed and then extended scenes of him doing martial art stuff
One of the baddies is a rapping gangster who gets one of his henchmen to play his ghetto blaster so that he can rap his threats ..
Dog Soldiers is a great film providing you don't try and take it seriously.Due to insomnia, I just found myself sitting up watching Dog Soldiers, which has to be one of the crappest films I've ever seen, and a bit misogynistic:
When the oh so inevitable "plot twist" happens and the sole woman in the cast turns into a werewolf, did she really have to utter the line "Sorry, it's that time of the month" ? Really?
Not to mention the bit where:
.The dog pulls out the sergeant's intestines like a string of sausages and they manage to patch him back up and he's still going strong several hours later. There's a difference between willing suspension of disbelief, and just being downright ridiculous
I have used spoiler tags so as not to ruin this gem of cinema for any who haven't yet endured (oh sorry, I mean "enjoyed" ) it. Any other nominations?
Under The Skin......
Bad Karma, starring Patsy Kensit. She plays a psychiatric patient who believes she is the reincarnated soul-mate of jack the Ripper and that her psychiatrist is Jack the Ripper reincarnated. In the end they fuck and it turns out he is Jack the Ripper. Or not. It's meant to be set in Rhode Island but is so clearly filmed in Ireland. About halfway through the film they just give up the pretence and there's Guardai vehicles in the background and red phone boxes everywhere. It's so, so badly acted. It's just the worst.
"Whole Lotta Sole""Stand Off".
An Irish fish-heist action comedy. Brendan Fraser and Colm Meaney. I'm pretty sure it went straight to DVD. My mum made us watch it at Christmas because they filmed some of it in my home town in Norn Iron (not the Belfast bits). Fraser plays a Boston man on the run from the mob and for some reason decides to run an antique shop in Belfast (well Downpatrick actually). Then some wee lad robs a fish market and hides out in the antique shop. The police (Colm Meaney) then lay siege. The best bit was seeing my local pub in the background.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1545328/
I thought that was pretty good, not the masterpiece it was billed as but some great imagery, interesting ideas, cinematography, haunting 'death' sequences.....and its a British film!
I've sat down to more entertaining bowel movements. Absolute bag o' shite excuse for a film.Under The Skin......
I wanted it to be good. I watched it with my SO. After ten minutes he said "this is shite". And still I wanted to give it a chance. Half way through I was already disappointed that I had wasted my time and his. But I stuck with it to the end. When I am on my deathbed and someone asks me if i have any regrets, watching that film to the end will be one of them....
The storyline was miniscule...really it was a story dot. The characterisation was non existent. Ok.. there was some clever-ish cinematography and a strained glance in the direction of artful effect that came accross as a bit pretentious ...but was not enough to pull this film out of the doldrums, imo.
It goes top of my list of shite films.