Thoughts On The Last Movie You've Seen

[The Time Ranger]

 

 

Scott Adkins stars as Cain, a man with vengeance on his mind as he strides into a pub ready to bare blood and give out a few beatings. 

 

The plot is straightforward and serviceable, but it's the dialogue and performances which elevate the movie, there are some  moments of dark humour, and the back and forth arguing and comebacks that take place can be reminiscent of a Guy Ritchie movie at times. Adkins pulls off the slightly manic man on the edge well. It's a fun ride overall. If you think you'd enjoy a fusion of British crime drama and martial arts action you might just enjoy it, a solid B-movie flick.

[Gilbert_Gotfried]

I saw top gun and it definitely made me reminisce about the first movie but I definitely recommend 

[Graven]

The Exterminator (1980)

Print: Arrow Video Bluray

Director: James Glickenhaus

 

John Eastland returns from the horrors of Vietnam war, only to realize that the alleys of Big Apple are just another war zone plagued by crooked scum.

After his best buddy is assaulted by the "Ghetto Ghouls", ending up paralyzed from neck to toes, Eastland takes the law in his own hands.

He exterminates the street gang, the mob collecting protection money from the docks where he works and any other wrongdoer who gets on his way.

 

Sounds familiar? The plot isn't original, Taxi Driver and Travis Bickle come to mind first, loony Vietnam vet in New York cleaning the streets.

So the plot is thin and character development isn't deep, but the raw violence and pleasure from payback bring some satisfaction.

I like that The Exterminator uses a diverse set of cleaning tools. He uses fire, tranquilizer, assault rifle, 44 with mercury bullets and some other.

What's funny is that 20% of the budget was used for the relatively short war scene in the beginning. It is explosively nice and brutal.

 

If you like Taxi Driver or revenge films in general it could be for you too!

 

 

 

[Big Molio]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

 

Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is a stressed out, under-achieving laundromat owner who has husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) that wants to divorce her, daughter Joy in a gay relationship, Gong Gong, an overbearing, traditional father and a fearsome tax auditor on her case.

 

She then gets confronted by “Alpha Waymond”, the Waymond from an alternate, parallel universe (of infinite multiverses), who informs her that she is the key to stopping evil being Jobu Tupaki destroying all universes.

 

What follows then is a kind of insane, batsh*t-crazy mash-up of The Matrix and Back to the Future, where Evelyn hops from one reality to another, picking up skills and knowledge from other, alternate Evelyns to do battle with Tupaki. 
 

This film is absolutely nuts, but pretty funny in parts and just rammed with stuff happening from start to finish. Michelle Yeoh is really good, but for me, the star is Ke Huy Quan (yeah, that one, “Data” from The Goonies and “Short Round” from Indiana Jones) who is just great as the various Waymonds.

[Graven]

Underground Werewolf AKA Cellar Dweller (1987)

Print: NSM Records Bluray

Director: John Carl Buechler

 

Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs) is a comics artist. He uses an old sorcery book for inspiration and draws a creature. The creature comes into being.

Childress tries to send the creature back by burning his art, but gets killed himself in the fire.

30 years later another comics drawer Whitney Taylor rents a room in the same house, the house has become a community for artists.

Whitney is curious about the cellar, it's prohibited area. But she wants, and is allowed to move to work there.

She finds the book with a pentagram cover and the drawer's block is gone. The cellar dweller is evoked again...

 

This was alright fantasy horror movie with comics (drawn by Frank Brunner) immersed in the story.

If you like Tales from the Crypt, Swamp Thing, I Madman or just low-budget comedy horror in general this should work.

 

 

Edited June 19 by Graven
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[not_a_robot]

bill burr's "I'm sorry you feel that way". it's from 2014 so no covid/pandemic jokes in there, very refreshing.

9/10 - this man is really hilarious, I had no idea!

 

Edited June 19 by not_a_robot

[Graven]

They Live (1988)

Print: Studio Canal Bluray + Extras

Director: John Carpenter

 

Nada (Roddy Piper) is unemployed, wandering in L.A. looking for work. He gets work in a construction site.

Without a place of his own he resides in a shantytown outside center. Across the street is a small church, but there's something strange going on.

Nada sneaks inside the church, discovering it's a hiding place for some underground movement.

He finds a pair of special sunglasses and after trying them starts to realize what's going on around in the world.

The sunglasses are able to reveal subliminal suggestions and hidden messages that are used to subdue people to obey and consume.

Some people, mostly of the upper class are in this group who have fallen under control and become part of the brainless livestock.

Nada and his construction site buddy find their way into the small resistance movement and supply themselves with arms.

The transmitter, on a roof of a Cable 54 TV station must be destroyed to open people's eyes.

 

The message about authoritarian control, inequality and consumerism is very current in these days.

Was funny too, some crazy over-the top action and Roddy Piper was much better than I expected.

Good movie from Carpenter. Does he even have a bad one?

I recommend it wholeheartedly for fans of his other work, particularly Escape From New York. Cronenberg's Videodrome is also matching.

8/10

 

 

Edited June 20 by Graven
Bold

[Graven]

Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989)

Print: Third Window Films Bluray

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

 

Plot-wise this movie has not much to offer. A guy is heavily into metal...nope, not metal music but scrap metal.

His fetishism is so profound he inserts pieces of metal into his body. After ramming a pipe into thigh the guy gets wild, runs out and collides with a car.

This sparks a transformation process into a full metallic monster. Bit like a man to werewolf, the transformation is violent and real funny.

Then he seeks for a revenge for those who collided with him.

 

Visually the movie is surreal and stunning. It's black and white, 4:3 and partially very shaky. Lot of stop-motion and other unique editing.

I don't read or watch manga/anime, but the end battle craziness looked like a scene straight from Japanese cartoons.

There's only few lines of dialogue and weird screams, that made me think the whole movie had been also nice if it was made like silent movie without any dialogue.

The music was great, industrial beats and eerie effects mostly.

 

You will either like or dislike this movie. I liked it, it is original.

 

 

[Graven]

Anguish (1987)

Print: Illusions Unlimited / Sunfilm Entertainment DVD

Director: Bigas Luna

 

Super duper glad I had put this on my wish list, solely because of bumping into it on imdb around a month ago.

Latter 1980s, at least in my books was generally bad time for horror. The airy hairy yuppie scene was too apparent. The grittiness of early 80s, not to mention the 70s was gone.

That's the first reason why this movie impressed me from the very beginning, it's an exception. It's also bizarre but not too bizarre to scare away every horror film fan.

Acting is great, direction is fantastic and the structure is a work of wonder.

 

There is more to this movie than meets the eye, while it's bizarre it's philosophically and psychologically more interesting than your average horror movie.

You can note a Hitchcock influence. Rear Window was sort of a role model the director says.

In the first 10 minutes I could tell this movie was likeable. Then it got so weird I lost my mind, and that's a good sign right?

Can't believe it is "cult", so well made. Maybe the hypnosis/mind control themes and the gore were too much.

8+ out of 10.

 

 

 

[Algonquin Assassin]

Lately I’ve been watching a few pre and post millennium favourites of mine such as Jay and Silent Strike Back, American Pie and so on.

 

The more I think of it I rarely watch new movies anymore unless it’s something I’m dying to see. Even if some of these late 90s/early 00s movies aren’t necessarily all that great the fact I remember watching them in my teens when they were new leaves me all fuzzy and nostalgic.

Edited June 27 by Algonquin Assassin

[your best pal]

zombieland! I don't like zombie movies, but it was good.

[universetwisters]

Saw Top Gun Maverick. A lotta action movie cliches but otherwise it was a good movie and stuff

[Queenic]

I haven't been going to the movies as much lately, but we used to go with friends a lot.
 Mostly we used to go to a cinema, it's near me, it was convenient, and the cinema itself is very nice, everything there looks and smells very nice, good atmosphere and good food.
 I really like the acoustics. 
The sound is very good and nothing is in the way.
 And you can rent a private cinema if you want.
 So I can recommend it to you because I think it's one of the best I've been to.
 I hope I'll have time to go to the movies soon too, I haven't been there in a long time, I forgot what it was like to watch a movie on the big screen.

Edited July 7 by Queenic

[Graven]

Re-Animator (1985)

Print: Second Sight Bluray + Extras Disk

Director: Stuart Gordon

 

Re-Animator is based on H.P. Lovecraft's short horror story Herbert West–Reanimator from 1921-1922, which itself is a parody of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

 

Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is arrested in Zürich Institute of Medicine after testing his experimental "reagent" on another doctor.

Zap. He arrives in Miskatonic University, Arkham Massachusetts as a new student.

The mad scientist is instantly at loggerheads with the leading Doctor Carl Hill (David Gale) about brain death.

West rents a room and a basement in a house of another student, Dan Cain and his girlfriend Megan (Bruce Abbott & Barbara Crampton).

In the basement laboratory he continues testing and refining the reagent, using first a dead cat as a subject to reanimate.

His ultimate objective is obvious, to reanimate freshly dead human. West and Cain sneak into the Miskatonic University morgue and pick a corpse to revive.

 

The glorious mayhem of gore that follows is so over-the-top, unpredictable and hilarious it's hard to believe.

Jeffrey Combs in his best role and stunning Barbara Crampton, what a pair. They did another one following year called "From Beyond".

David Gale was also great and you will not be able to forget David Sampson's performance as Megan's loony zombie father.

 

Like Evil Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Brain Damage? Then this undying gore classic is for you. The sequels are also worth a watch.

9/10, ranks very high in my all-time favorites list.

 

 

 

 

 

[petrderbikov]

The last movie I saw was Animal Farm. It's a synopsis of George Oriel's story about communism and what it leads to. I like this movie with these animals, they're like the real thing, a very good movie. I also like Requiem for a Dream, it shows a lot of life problems, mostly about our addictions and stuff. Very dramatic movie with lots of tears but I recommend it! By the way, does anyone know where you can download different movies to watch without the internet? I can't find any. (I have already find it on The Pirate Bay thanks!)

Edited July 20 by petrderbikov

[Graven]

Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)

Print: Vinegar Syndrome 4K + Bluray + 3D

Director: Paul Morrissey

 

This has to be the weirdest Frankenstein adaptation ever. Baron Frankenstein of Serbia (Udo Kier) creates a female and a male zombie,

intended to fill the earth with a zombie master race under his control. He needs a brain of a virile man for the headless male corpse,

but accidentally beheads a guy who totally lacks interest for sex. Baron Frankenstein's wife Katrin is also his sister and a nymphomaniac.

First she test drives their new servant, a friend of the asexual zombie. Then she wants to test the freshly stitched zombie but the zombie does not respond accordingly.

Frankenstein's master plan does not seem to go as desired and the laboratory turns into a grotesque locus of blood bursting gore.

 

Despite being very graphic it isn't really a horror film in my opinion. It's a semi-gothic avant-garde gore in a beaker.

Add a heavy German accent to the over-the-top acting and you have a rectified camp concoction to enjoy.

Otto, Frankenstein's helping hand in the laboratory was funny, he's got the madman stare up, down, left or right almost in every scene.

I liked this enough to want the counterpart with same lead actors on board, Blood for Dracula.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 18 by Graven

[Graven]

China Girl (1987)

Print: Eagle Pictures Bluray

Director: Abel Ferrara

 

Chinatown chick and pizza boy from Little Italy fall in love, but it isn't easy to get a chance to dance prone mambo because their families are so-so gangsta.

The younger generation of kid criminals couldn't care less about their old Dons' code of honor and traditions.

They engage on fist fight, stabbing and shooting each other when someone steps their foot on wrong turf.

The lovebirds Tony and Tye meet secretly. Tye's control freak brother is furious when he finds about the relationship.

One does not need to be a prophet to foresee that a revenge leads to revenge and that cycle can only end tragically.

 

Okay crime/gang drama. It's certainly different than your traditional mob movies, inspiration from Romeo and Juliet is obvious.

David Caruso plays a really nasty character. 6/10

 

 

 

 

[wise_man]

Just watched The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) out of curiosity after watched a video about Ray Harryhausen, the special effect artist known for blending stop motion in live-action film.

 

Story-wise, this film makes me feel young again. A classic fantasy film that I do missed these days, no matter how silly and simplistic it is. I like how they blend Arabic, Hindu, Greek, and ancient Meso-American culture here. The lost continent. The Arabic city. The world feels very rich. 

Visual-wise, I understand by today standards the visual is not that decent, but by 1970s? People back then probably losing their minds when watching this for the first time. For me the special effect stands out to this day too. The six-armed statue of Kali feels real when fighting against Sinbad and his crew, and that floating head in the temple also looks better than one in Thor: Love and Thunder (lol).

Character-wise, they're not perfect, not really fleshed-out to well-written standards IMO. The grand vizier stands out for me, especially for its iconic Sargon of Akaad-like helmet. I like how the antagonist, Prince Koura, is a powerful but flawed character; he cheat with his dark magic at a cost of himself. Sinbad is a cool protagonist, likeable personality, a wise man, but a bit of Gary Stu at the same time. Margiana is your cliche candy eye and Haroun is the stereotypical rookie guy.

This is apparently the second of three Sinbad films. Not really sure to watch the two others, though. One thing for sure, it convinces me to watch another Harryhausen work soon: Jason and the Argonauts.

Edited July 21 by wise_man

[Big Molio]

On 7/21/2022 at 5:59 AM, wise_man said:

This is apparently the second of three Sinbad films. Not really sure to watch the two others, though. One thing for sure, it convinces me to watch another Harryhausen work soon: Jason and the Argonauts.

 

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a great film. Jane Seymour was very beautiful in it too.

 

[AmigaMix]

"The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" is also an immensely entertaining movie, and Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack adds a healthy dose of wonder to it.

[sabitsuki]

Training Day, probably one of my all-time favorites

 

 

You can't go wrong with Denzel in this, especially as Alonzo. He's the kind of guy you'd love to hate, carrying Denzel's brand of charisma and confidence while also remaining grounded and believable as a small fish in the big, corrupt pond that is the LAPD. His monologue at the end is probably one of the most iconic in modern cinema, if not constantly impersonated by others, and the manner of which he receives his comeuppance is very satisfying.

 

Ethan Hawke deserves credit as well as Jake, he plays a very good foil to Alonzo in this film and has a naturally 'green' demeanor about him that makes him perfect for the role.

 

Last but not least, the movie has one of the most interesting and gritty depictions of LA I've seen in films, just right behind The Shield TV show, Falling Down and 90s hood films like Menace II Society and Boyz N Tha Hood. 

[Big Molio]

The Gray Man (2022)

 

This is new on Netflix, so we watched it last night. All you need to know is that this is a kind of Bourne Identity / James Bond / Mission Impossible type knock-off where a former-prisoner-turned-super-secret-agent known as "Sierra 6" (Ryan Gosling), goes on the run with a host of other agents trying to catch him.

 

Netflix seem to have thrown everything at the wall with this in the hope of making an action blockbuster stick. It looks slick, there's plenty of action, the special effects are half-decent, and the cast is pretty good. As well as Gosling, it stars Chris Evans, Billy Bob Thornton, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick and Regé-Jean Page. 

 

My verdict is that it was just okay. It passed the time for a couple of hours but I wouldn't watch it again. Ryan Gosling is his usual expressionless self.  I suspect that Netflix are hoping this is the start of a franchise maybe.

 

5/10

[Graven]

Patrick Still Lives (1980)

Print: Severin Bluray

Director: Mario Landi

 

By title you could mistake this for a sequel to Richard Franklin's Patrick (1978), but it is a copycat, thing that was very common in the era.

Some of these rip offs are just plain boring, and some are entertaining like couple of the Bruno Mattei/Claudio Fragasso clones.

 

Patrick is in eternal coma, staring into the eternity after getting a bottle thrown on his face from a bypassing van. Plausible?

He's hospitalized in a Villa with 3 other patients. His father, a doctor is taking care of the patients in the basement. Where else you might want to ask, a sunny daylight room?

Few years later the suspects are invited to the Villa. The visitors begin to die one by one, in uncanny and brutal ways.

The doctor is using his son as a telekinetic killer to revenge. The other patients in the basement serve as a power source to get psychic energy for the telekinesis.

 

I noticed immediately this movie, shot year earlier takes place in same location, VIlla Parisi as Burial Ground (Excellent zombie movie from Andrea Bianchi).

The writer is also same person and I think it shows in the picture. Both movies are gory and sleazy but this one goes to extremes.

Nudity is constant, strong and there's one graphic scene that may potentially cause nausea.

The dialogue is silly and acting awful, if there was a solid plot it would have hundred bleeding holes yet it's highly enjoyable for the genre fan.

8/10

 

[Graven]

Caged Heat (1974)

Print: 101 Films Bluray

Director: Jonathan Demme

 

Jacqueline (Erica Gavin) ends up in women's prison, run by a warden McQueen (Barbara Steele) who is in a wheelchair.

During a forced labor at orchard Jacqueline escapes with another prisoner, and they decide to save the others.

 

Caged Heat isn't anywhere as sick and zany as some other Women-In-Prison exploitation movies but I liked it.

With all the clichés, nudity, shower scenes, cat fights etc. it remained interesting all the time, which was positive.

The dialogue did not offer much humor, it was mainly rough language, but the action gave reason to giggle.

Shootouts were also likeable, though I've never seen such unprofessional sharpshooting!

My only complaint was the end, it was too happy.

 

Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins and Barbara Steele starring, that's one cult trio for sure.

Give it 7/10.

 

[SB00]

Watched it a few times but You Only Live Twice is a great Bond film and had a good time reliving it the other night.

[Arrows to Athens]

Carter (2022)

 

 

If Hardcore Henry (2015) and The Villainess (2017) had a child, this would probably be it. This movie is a wild ride. It immediately throws you into action. It's basically like an action video game like Hardcore Henry. The cinematography is phenomenal, but there are a lot of cuts and sloppy editing as well as cheap CGI scattered throughout, which can annoy some and make the movie difficult to watch. There is a lot of camera shake, too, but I'm used to it. The fight scenes are over-the-top and crazy, but still very impressive. The premise is very similar to Hardcore Henry as well; a man wakes up in a virus-ridden world with no recognition of himself, no memories, nothing. He is instructed by a female voice to follow specific instructions, which will result in him being terminated if he does not comply. He is pursued by the CIA and some other bad guys.

 

I didn't really pay attention to the story all that much. This is a movie that you watch more for the action than the plot. The movie clocks in at just over 2 hours. Despite its lengthy runtime, the movie didn't feel like it dragged at all due to the non-stop action. All in all, it's a fun and entertaining popcorn flick. If you like the movies Hardcore Henry (2015), The Villainess (2017), The Raid (2011), and John Wick (2014), you'll probably have a fun time with this. 

Edited August 10 by Arrows to Athens

[_iPhaze]

ARMY OF THE DEAD.

 

https://images.app.goo.gl/Sj6QGmvvNBtqcV7Q6

 

Honestly I loved this movie, the FX was dope as well as the acting. Loved the zombie concept too. Just all around a cool ass movie. 9/10 - I would watch this again for sure.

 

Edited August 13 by _iPhaze
Typo.

[Big Molio]

Prey (2022, Disney+)

 

The latest installment of the Predator franchise does something novel and pitches a film set in the year 1719, on the great plains of North America. The predator's prey in this one are some Comanche native Americans and some French explorers (I think)

 

It's an interesting idea and some of the landscape shots are nice. Amber Midthunder, the actress playing the lead character (whose name may or may not have been said, I can't remember) is okay.

 

However,

 

The design of the Predator creature is terrible, absolutely rubbish. What was wrong with sticking with the iconic design from the original, I have no idea. This thing just looks ridiculous. 

 

The film also, besides having some decent enough set pieces, just felt a bit flat to me, with a blink-and-you-miss-it final fight and rushed ending.

 

I was hoping this was going to be good from some of the reviews, but I just found it a bit hokum, with no replay value at all. I'll stick to Schwarzenegger's original, which remains the benchmark.

[Mexicola9302]

On 7/24/2022 at 10:02 AM, Big Molio said:

The Gray Man (2022)

 

This is new on Netflix, so we watched it last night. All you need to know is that this is a kind of Bourne Identity / James Bond / Mission Impossible type knock-off where a former-prisoner-turned-super-secret-agent known as "Sierra 6" (Ryan Gosling), goes on the run with a host of other agents trying to catch him.

 

Netflix seem to have thrown everything at the wall with this in the hope of making an action blockbuster stick. It looks slick, there's plenty of action, the special effects are half-decent, and the cast is pretty good. As well as Gosling, it stars Chris Evans, Billy Bob Thornton, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick and Regé-Jean Page. 

 

My verdict is that it was just okay. It passed the time for a couple of hours but I wouldn't watch it again. Ryan Gosling is his usual expressionless self.  I suspect that Netflix are hoping this is the start of a franchise maybe.

 

5/10

I got no idea why Ryan Gosling is so popular, he is one of the worst actors in history of movies, hmm probably because women like how he looks, i mean he can't act at all. That guy is so overrated, i only watched 2 movies he was in and in both he totally sucked. I only watched Blade Runner 2049 and i think Drive, and in both he was just awful.

[Big Molio]

4 minutes ago, Mexicola9302 said:

I got no idea why Ryan Gosling is so popular, he is one of the worst actors in history of movies, hmm probably because women like how he looks, i mean he can't act at all. That guy is so overrated, i only watched 2 movies he was in and in both he totally sucked. I only watched Blade Runner 2049 and i think Drive, and in both he was just awful.