Film/moving picture show you most recently watched

[Brock Manson 0]

The Hitcher.

 

The original that is. Quite enjoyed it although I fell asleep for the last 10 minutes.

[Dr Gloom 21761]

I've decided that my mind is too fragile and needs to be a bit more fucked up so I'm looking for recommendations for disturbing films, so far I've got:

 

Requiem for a Dream

Irreversible

The Idiots

Cannibal Holoucaust

Blind Beast

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pink Flamingoes

 

Anyone seen any of these or recommend anything else to warp my head a bit?

 

if you want a really disturbing mind fuck you'll struggle to find anything better than eraserhead. most other david lynch films fall into this category too.

 

i'd also recommend jacob's ladder and pi (greek symbol thingy directed by darren aronofsky)

Edited August 15, 2007 by Dr Gloom

[Dr Gloom 21761]

Transformers (with spoilers)

 

There's a prologue at the start of this film, to lay the foundations for people like me who weren't fans of the cartoons. Actually, I don't know if it's faithful to the cartoons or not, but this prologue says something about a planet being uninhabitable and a cube called a 'spark'. I'll be honest, I was confused. But I presumed all would be explained. Problem is, it wasn't.

 

An hour in I still couldn't see why any character was doing a single thing they did. Another half hour and my confusion was at overload. Why didn't the kid tell his dad there were robots in the garden? Why were the subtitles in autobot (or deceptacon) before translating to English? What was the name of any robot other than Optimus Prime? Am I supposed to be able to tell them apart? What's going on? Is that collection of rotating bits of metal the only baddie? He is more irritating than Jar Jar Binks, so that's pretty scary. Why do they want a map that was created 70 years ago, to a cube that's since been moved? If we got all our technology from the robots, why did they come 'to harness our technology against us'? Why must everything spin around so much? Why's that computer nerd girl and her fat, black mate in the film?

 

As the film strode into its second hour I had lost any capability I might once have had for rational thought. It didn't matter that Optimus Prime held two humans in his hand one minute, then in another a pair of spectacles were similarly proportioned, who cares about perspective when you can fly a plane into a tall building. Hang on; they didn't do that did they? Christ! An actual plane into a sky scraper. My mind was so numb I never thought about it at the time. In fact it's coming back to me now. The main catchphrase in the film is ''Sacrifice leads to victory" or something like that. Holy shit! It’s Al Quaeda propaganda. They're promoting the suicide bomber mantra. I thought it was bad, but I've come to the realisation that it's actually evil. It has a terrorist agenda and it's indoctrinating all who see it by stripping them of any will to think straight, then hitting home the dodgy ideology.

 

This film isn't just the shittest film of all time (though it is the shittest), it's a scourge on mankind and should be banned as facilitator in the war of terror being waged on the west.

 

quality post.

 

and you're SO right about the length. i would have enjoyed it much more for what it was if it had been 90 minutes instead of 144

[Kid Dynamite 6969]

Ferk Off. Transformers was class! Not least cos Megan Fox gave me a rock on for most of the film!!! She is so fit!

[ewerk 30167]

I've decided that my mind is too fragile and needs to be a bit more fucked up so I'm looking for recommendations for disturbing films, so far I've got:

 

Requiem for a Dream

Irreversible

The Idiots

Cannibal Holoucaust

Blind Beast

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pink Flamingoes

 

Anyone seen any of these or recommend anything else to warp my head a bit?

 

if you want a really disturbing mind fuck you'll struggle to find anything better than eraserhead. most other david lynch films fall into this category too.

 

i'd also recommend jacob's ladder and pi (greek symbol thingy directed by darren aronofsky)

 

I had added Pi, the plot of Eraserhead does sound completely fucked up, adding it too.

[ewerk 30167]

Bastarding easycinema/Lovefilm don't have Eraserhead available.

[ewerk 30167]

120 days of sodom is a bit naff tbh. Not really all that shocking now tbh - despite the torture, rape and the scene where they all eat shit.

 

Just watched it, 1 hour 54 mins of sexual abuse and torture without any sort of plot or character development. Load of shite (no pun intended).

[Lazarus 0]

The Happiness of the Katakuries:

 

Totally bonkers.

 

 

The Tit and the Moon:

 

A film about mans two greatest past-times - farting and tits.

[Jimbo 172]

The Bourne Ultimatum

 

Fooking loved it, best of the three for my money, fight scenes and car chases that literality take your breath away, heard quotes this week that it’s the final film of a trilogy but judging by the end I doubt that very much.

 

Bourne > Bond

[Brock Manson 0]

Rush Hour 3.

 

HUGE fan of the other 2. This one wasn't nearly as good, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

[Geordie Boyo 24]

Them.

 

Subtitled, but quite a good watch if you like your horror/suspese films.

[Happy Face 29]

Bringing Out The Dead

 

What an absoloutley fantastic film. Never bothered myself with it because I'd always been led to believe it wasn't one of Scorsese's best, but it shits all over his recent output. It's his leanest film in the last 20 years clocking in right on the two hour mark, and I think he should get back to being this succinct. All his Oscar chasing fodder like the Aviator and Gangs of New York that push three hours are flabby and without energy. This is as full of adrenaline as Mean Streets or Raging Bull.

 

The Soundtrack is excellent, when Janie Jones kicked in the hairs on my neck went up. It's hilariously funny ("I swear to god you'd better hold this or I won't kill you!" ), whilst also being unflinchingly bleak. It's very reminiscent of Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader screenwrote both), without ever feeling like a rehash, in fact the freshness of the camerawork belies the fact that Scorsese was entering his 4th decade as a director at the time.

 

Far too underrated, the fact it got no Oscar nominations in the year Shakespeare in Love cleaned up just confirms it as a classic.

 

And just £3.89

Edited August 19, 2007 by Happy Face

[Happy Face 29]

Them.

 

Subtitled, but quite a good watch if you like your horror/suspese films.

 

The one about the Ant invasion?

 

Reading a book at the moment which has quite a lot of interpretation of it.

 

http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publicati.../lm_8_intro.pdf

[Geordie Boyo 24]

Them.

 

Subtitled, but quite a good watch if you like your horror/suspese films.

 

The one about the Ant invasion?

 

Reading a book at the moment which has quite a lot of interpretation of it.

 

http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publicati.../lm_8_intro.pdf

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465203/

 

 

http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?film_id=11792

Edited August 19, 2007 by Geordie Boyo

[Happy Face 29]

Them.

 

Subtitled, but quite a good watch if you like your horror/suspese films.

 

The one about the Ant invasion?

 

Reading a book at the moment which has quite a lot of interpretation of it.

 

http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publicati.../lm_8_intro.pdf

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465203/

 

 

http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?film_id=11792

 

Ah well.

 

If you do like the sound of the '54 version...

 

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/111073/-/Pr...html?P36=5Y36Q6

 

[Holden McGroin 6457]

The Specialist.

 

Sharon Stone was one fit lady a decade ago...

[Lazarus 0]

Bringing Out The Dead

 

What an absoloutley fantastic film. Never bothered myself with it because I'd always been led to believe it wasn't one of Scorsese's best, but it shits all over his recent output. It's his leanest film in the last 20 years clocking in right on the two hour mark, and I think he should get back to being this succinct. All his Oscar chasing fodder like the Aviator and Gangs of New York that push three hours are flabby and without energy. This is as full of adrenaline as Mean Streets or Raging Bull.

 

The Soundtrack is excellent, when Janie Jones kicked in the hairs on my neck went up. It's hilariously funny ("I swear to god you'd better hold this or I won't kill you!" ), whilst also being unflinchingly bleak. It's very reminiscent of Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader screenwrote both), without ever feeling like a rehash, in fact the freshness of the camerawork belies the fact that Scorsese was entering his 4th decade as a director at the time.

 

Far too underrated, the fact it got no Oscar nominations in the year Shakespeare in Love cleaned up just confirms it as a classic.

 

And just £3.89

 

I found that completely unwatchable.

 

 

 

 

 

A Very Long Engagement (with audrey tautou) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/

 

[Happy Face 29]

Bringing Out The Dead

 

What an absoloutley fantastic film. Never bothered myself with it because I'd always been led to believe it wasn't one of Scorsese's best, but it shits all over his recent output. It's his leanest film in the last 20 years clocking in right on the two hour mark, and I think he should get back to being this succinct. All his Oscar chasing fodder like the Aviator and Gangs of New York that push three hours are flabby and without energy. This is as full of adrenaline as Mean Streets or Raging Bull.

 

The Soundtrack is excellent, when Janie Jones kicked in the hairs on my neck went up. It's hilariously funny ("I swear to god you'd better hold this or I won't kill you!" ), whilst also being unflinchingly bleak. It's very reminiscent of Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader screenwrote both), without ever feeling like a rehash, in fact the freshness of the camerawork belies the fact that Scorsese was entering his 4th decade as a director at the time.

 

Far too underrated, the fact it got no Oscar nominations in the year Shakespeare in Love cleaned up just confirms it as a classic.

 

And just £3.89

 

I found that completely unwatchable.

 

 

Why?

[Lazarus 0]

Bringing Out The Dead

 

What an absoloutley fantastic film. Never bothered myself with it because I'd always been led to believe it wasn't one of Scorsese's best, but it shits all over his recent output. It's his leanest film in the last 20 years clocking in right on the two hour mark, and I think he should get back to being this succinct. All his Oscar chasing fodder like the Aviator and Gangs of New York that push three hours are flabby and without energy. This is as full of adrenaline as Mean Streets or Raging Bull.

 

The Soundtrack is excellent, when Janie Jones kicked in the hairs on my neck went up. It's hilariously funny ("I swear to god you'd better hold this or I won't kill you!" ), whilst also being unflinchingly bleak. It's very reminiscent of Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader screenwrote both), without ever feeling like a rehash, in fact the freshness of the camerawork belies the fact that Scorsese was entering his 4th decade as a director at the time.

 

Far too underrated, the fact it got no Oscar nominations in the year Shakespeare in Love cleaned up just confirms it as a classic.

 

And just £3.89

 

I found that completely unwatchable.

 

 

Why?

 

For one of the same reasons you enjoyed it - the soundtrack.

 

Too loud, too jarring, too 'in your face'. i found the same with mean streets, but to a lesser degree. its almost as if the soundtrack was a character in the film itself.

 

I like scorseses stuff, the neighbourhoods and streets of his films are just as much characters in his films as the human ones.

 

Just didnt like it.

[Magma 0]

Dude, Where's My Car

[Ketsbaia 0]

I Want Candy

 

Shite.

[Guest alex]

Terminator 2.

[Radgina 1]

Simpsons....disappointed

[David Kelly 1217]

Bringing Out The Dead

 

What an absoloutley fantastic film. Never bothered myself with it because I'd always been led to believe it wasn't one of Scorsese's best, but it shits all over his recent output. It's his leanest film in the last 20 years clocking in right on the two hour mark, and I think he should get back to being this succinct. All his Oscar chasing fodder like the Aviator and Gangs of New York that push three hours are flabby and without energy. This is as full of adrenaline as Mean Streets or Raging Bull.

 

The Soundtrack is excellent, when Janie Jones kicked in the hairs on my neck went up. It's hilariously funny ("I swear to god you'd better hold this or I won't kill you!" ), whilst also being unflinchingly bleak. It's very reminiscent of Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader screenwrote both), without ever feeling like a rehash, in fact the freshness of the camerawork belies the fact that Scorsese was entering his 4th decade as a director at the time.

 

Far too underrated, the fact it got no Oscar nominations in the year Shakespeare in Love cleaned up just confirms it as a classic.

 

And just £3.89

 

I found that completely unwatchable.

 

 

 

 

 

A Very Long Engagement (with audrey tautou) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/

 

What did you think of A Very Long Engagement? It's one of the best foreign films I've seen.

[Magma 0]

School for Scoundrels