Film

[CorkonianHunger]

The song "Thunder Road" appears in the short. Cummings couldn't afford to license it for the full length film that he built around it - which I find odd, he managed to get the cash for one of The Boss' biggest hits for a self-funded short but not for a feature film. Perhaps there's different costs for films that could be seen by a wider audience, I don't know. 

Sorry, I brain-jammed halfway through my comment on "Thief" but you finished the thought for me. It has all the looseness of 70s Hollywood but it definitely has a sharpened 1980s edge. The soundtrack by Tangerine Dream is great too. I would have loved to see a film based on Willie Nelson's character.

Yeah I noticed that, which is why I was left waiting for it in the opening scene, but the stereo not working made it a bit funnier, and I guess added a lot of cringe. I'd say he had to pay a lot more hands and just cut it out, if anything it works just as well.

Yep, Nelson wasn't in Thief nearly long enough for me, was surprised by his character. Caan had the tough/normal guy thing but with added genius side. I liked it cause it wasn't the typical happy ending you'd get with later 80s films, instead had the flawed antihero character of the 70s. TD soudntrack is second to their Sorcerer soundtrack for me.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched The Bounty tonight, I think it's on the MGM channel on Amazon Prime which we have for a couple of months. I remember it used to be on Sky Movies all the time way back when everyone had that for free, and on paper it should be amazing: Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Vangelis doing the soundtrack. But, while entertaining, it just wasn't as good as it should have been, so then I looked up the director to see that he's not exactly been responsible for many, um, great films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Donaldson#Filmography

[blessed1]

Underwater. Decent monster film. Nice to see cthulhu at the end.

[Blizzard Beast]

Kong Godzilla trailer is up,looks cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItkD1Od3Ts

[CorkonianHunger]

Rewatched Dragged Across Concrete last night, enjoyed it just as much. Big fan of the director/writer.

[G-Force]

Rewatched Dragged Across Concrete last night, enjoyed it just as much. Big fan of the director/writer.

He sure knows how to film a brutal kill based on Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99.

Dragged Across Concrete is on the to do list.

[Carnage]

Same as that, but those other two are decent. Some proper brutality in both.

[Ollkiller]

Dragged across concrete I found so so. Bone Tomabawl was class. Will check out Brawl in Cell 69.

[astfgyl]

Ah fuckin Bone Tomahawk. Haunted me so it did.

[Slaughterday]

Zahler is  brilliant. Dragged Across Concrete gets better with each watch and the other two are instant classics. Him and Joe Begos are two of the best directors to come out in the last decade. Heavy metal cinema.

[Eoin McLove]

I rewatched Brawl... recently and remembered the whole build up but all the prison scenes had slipped my mind so completely that I wonder if I fell asleep watching it the first time. It gets so unbelievably brutal and over the top it seems highly unlikely I'd forget it. Mental fucking film. Bone Tomohawk was decent as well.

I rewatched Enduring Love this evening. It's a really great adaptation of the fantastic Ian McEwan novel. It's not often that a film can capture a novel so well but this one succeeds.

[open face surgery]

Bone Tomahawk was fine. Will check out Brawl In Cell Block 99.

Any western recommendations? Preferably with as much Indian action as possible.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Any western recommendations? Preferably with as much Indian action as possible.

https://www.desiblitz.com/content/5-classic-bollywood-cowboy-movies-to-watch

[Kurt Cocaine]

 

Ya divil Kristoph...

[StoutAndAle]

"Vampyr" - 1932. Trippy and genuinely creepy. Almost like a fever dream. The visuals are what is key here - Dreyer and Maté were masters of framing, close-ups and shadows.