Film

[astfgyl]

Rewatched Adaptation for first time in about 20 years. Quality movie, and def one of Nicolas Cage's best performances.

Leaving Las Vegas is the benchmark for Cage

one of my favorite movies that. For all the stick Gage gets, he can deliver the goods when he wants.

No matter what he's done bad in his time, all is forgiven for that performance in what has to be one of the bleakest things I've ever seen

[Emphyrio]

I really liked the movie. I've a pretty high threshold of what I'm able to tolerate Dracula-related, but only taking a small portion of the book, I thought they did a great job.

[Sworntothecans]

Yeah, and revealing the creature so early took a lot of tension out of it too.

It was wrecking my head where I knew the woman from, turns out she was the teenage babysitter with the crush on Spector in The Fall.

The Count in creature is played by the guy from [REC]

[Carnage]

Ah yeah, a bit more creepy in that.

[Ollkiller]

Watched The Substance last night. Fucking hell. Absolutely mental. I'll never watch it again though.

It's very good, but shaving about 20 mins off the running time would have helped it. Watched the making of recently and it's worth checking out.

Agreed. The premise was brilliant but could have shaved 15 mins easily. The end is nuts.

[Mooncat]

Watched Anora the other night. Enjoyed it overall. It had that same kind of hectic, stressed out quality of Uncut Gems. Anora basically being the New York version of a smick was entertaining and frustrating in equal measure. She's smokin' hot though, in a slightly unconventional way. I don't think Sean Baker has missed yet with any of his films.

[Sworntothecans]

Watched Anora the other night. Enjoyed it overall. It had that same kind of hectic, stressed out quality of Uncut Gems. Anora basically being the New York version of a smick was entertaining and frustrating in equal measure. She's smokin' hot though, in a slightly unconventional way. I don't think Sean Baker has missed yet with any of his films.

Definitely a little over praised but a good movie nonetheless. Neon spent 18 million on the awards campaign which is daft.
Madison was great in it.


Watched The Monkey last which was great craic.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Willow and Tombstone last night. In hindsight the wee lad may be a bit young yet for Willow, but sure what's a childhood without precociously traumatic film experiences! Kilmer and Biehn are on absolutely top form in Tombstone. Just a pity theirs isn't the central storyline, as the rest of it is pretty uneven in quality: some great bits, some that feel little better than TV western schlock.

[Carnage]

Is the Costner version any good? I saw Tombstone years ago and thought pretty much the same, been meaning to compare them for a while though.

Only saw Gunfight At The O.K. Corral recently actually. Better than expected.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Will watch the Costner one soon. If I ever saw it, I can remember nothing of it.

[Ollkiller]

Is the Costner version any good? I saw Tombstone years ago and thought pretty much the same, been meaning to compare them for a while though.

Only saw Gunfight At The O.K. Corral recently actually. Better than
expected.

Costner version is decent. Bit uneven but a good watch.

[Carnage]

Johnny Got His Gun - 1971 film written & directed by Dalton Trumbo, based on his novel abiut a first world war soldier who's hit by a shell and loses all his limbs, his face, sight, hearing - everything except a vague awareness of his condition and the outside world. Supposedly a profound antiwar statement, it said everything it had to within the first few minutes, and hammered it home in a generally hamfisted way for the next hour and a half. It must have worked better as a book.

Clips if it are used in the video for One, which is loosely based on it.

[Emphyrio]

The Substance. Not my usual bag, horror-wise, but I really enjoyed it. Longer than it needed to be, perhaps, but the 2 female leads were great, on more than one level, and it was properly fucked up.

[Abandon All Hope]

Chopping Mall

From Beyond

Lolita (1997)

[The Butcher]

The Substance. Not my usual bag, horror-wise, but I really enjoyed it. Longer than it needed to be, perhaps, but the 2 female leads were great, on more than one level, and it was properly fucked up.

On the horror front actually, my main pet peeves is the cliche horror tropes + characters doing stupid things drives me mental. It's why I like JCs The Thing for example - just wondering am I missing out on somewhat clever/well written horrors out there? *ponders*