Film

[Sworntothecans]

Chopping Mall

From Beyond

A Barbara Crampton double bill!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched The Doors last night, as herself had never seen it. Again, Kilmer is just great, but apart from that it's a film that strikes me as requiring an altered psychic state simply to be fully enjoyed (rather than enhanced, to paraphrase Otto).

[Sworntothecans]

Watched The Doors last night, as herself had never seen it. Again, Kilmer is just great, but apart from that it's a film that strikes me as requiring an altered psychic state simply to be fully enjoyed (rather than enhanced, to paraphrase Otto).

There's a ton of cringe and the usual 90s Oliver Stone indulging himself but Kilmer carries the film.
Have it on the watchlist as it turned up on Prime this week.

[Ollkiller]

I remember the rest of The Doors saying the film was total nonsense.

[Sworntothecans]

I remember the rest of The Doors saying the film was total nonsense.

Yeah, lots of artistic license for the majority of it.

They enjoyed the royalties from the soundtrack though!

[Mr Barlow]

Late to the party as usual, as I tend to wait for stuff to come out on disc. Finally watched Nosferatu today and absolutely loved it. I'm a bit of an Eggars fan boy anyway, but thought it was brilliant.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Can't really explain why I hadn't already watched it but, What We Do In The Shadows tonight. Lived (undeaded?) up to expectations.

[open face surgery]

It's savage. Got into the series as well but only last year or two.

[Emphyrio]

Last season of the show was a bit disappointing by the very high standards they'd set. I thought the show was every bit as good as the movie.

[Necro Red]

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.

the film is quite close to the book to be fair. Pretty good film and book

[Mooncat]

Chopping Mall

From Beyond

Both awesome! From Beyond and Reanimator is a good double bill too.

Chopping Mall is fun in that it is pure 80s fluff in the best possible way.

A Barbara Crampton double bill!

[Mooncat]

Watched The Doors last night, as herself had never seen it. Again, Kilmer is just great, but apart from that it's a film that strikes me as requiring an altered psychic state simply to be fully enjoyed (rather than enhanced, to paraphrase Otto).

It's a weird one because Kilmer is insufferable in it, but I think that's the exact point! He's certainly engaging. There's a fun episode of Entourage where he shows up as this kind of holistic guru weed dealer who I think is a spiritual sequel character to his Jim Morrison performance.

[Mooncat]

Watched Dragged Across Concrete. It was interesting enough to hold my attention for the quite long runtime. Interesting casting to have Mel Gibson playing someone who is a bit anti-woke and also subtly racist (and also pro-police brutality, though it did come out just before George Floyd was murdered). I think how much you identify with Mel Gibson's character would be an interesting litmus test for where you fall on the political spectrum 

[Sworntothecans]

Watched Dragged Across Concrete. It was interesting enough to hold my attention for the quite long runtime. Interesting casting to have Mel Gibson playing someone who is a bit anti-woke and also subtly racist (and also pro-police brutality, though it did come out just before George Floyd was murdered). I think how much you identify with Mel Gibson's character would be an interesting litmus test for where you fall on the political spectrum 

It does get tagged with that due to Gibson and apparently one of the producers is some sort of neoconservative, but I think Zahler's just a dude that wants to bring back the meanness of 70s crime & westerns.

He does need to cut the running times down on his stuff though.

[Carnage]

I got about an hour into that and gave up, I found it dull as dishwater. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 were much more watchable.