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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 5
    Better than expected. But I'm all full now, because none after 1 are really any good. Except maybe 3. But the slasher formula is so dull.

    Magnum Force
    The second Dirty Harry film triumphs the first. A great film with neat sets, pacing, setting, action and suspense. I really dug this and would recommend it to anyone who wants some prime 70's crime.

    Doctor Strange
    It is what it is. Avengers this week.

    Puzzle
    One of the best giallo out there. Stylish as hell and set in a wonderful small holiday resort called Portofino which imbues the film with so much flair. The italian title is L'uomo senza memoria, which translates to Man without memory. An apt title.

    Man from Deep River
    Umberto Lenzi directs the first italian cannibal film, with hardly any cannibals in it. Supposed to be a riff on The Man called Horse, and it's much more of a that kind of film. The cannibals just show up at the end for like 5 minutes. Still, it spawned the cannibal boom.

    The Enforcer
    Third Dirty Harry. Dull by comparison. It's too clean, neat, orderly and the story and characters are just not very interesting.

    Dead Line
    A Swedish disaster film about a toxic cloud that engulfs a small town beach resort. It's from the 70's. Neat idea, but in the end - dull and distant as only 70's films can be.

    Viva L'Italia
    Roberto Rosselini directs the tale of how Guiseppe Garibaldi storms Sicily and southern Italy to unite the Italians under one flag. The sets and vistas are amazing. The plot is there, but overall it's kinda tough to follow because it's the kind of epic that squeezes several months (years?) of military campaigning into a film of a mere 2 hours. There's a digressing plot which comes out of nowhere about a woman who helps Garibaldi land in mainland Italy. Overall, it was a good film but a bit incoherent. Lots of epic war scenery.

    Kes
    The one with the falcon. I could not understand a word of what they were saying. I believe they're speaking old english, or perhaps orcish.

    Night of the Scorpion (and again with commentary)
    Watched a trio of spanish gialli (or amarillo?). This one was first up. A widower marries a beautiful young woman and invites her to his family mansion - where his sister and widowed stepmother lurk in the shadows. Gothic and moody. A neat little film, if a bit slow in the first part of it. I also have to say that while there are some murders on screen, they are all fairly dull. All are of the variety "... and then a pair of gloved hands emerge from out of frame with a razor and slits her throat!". No flair to it at all. I believe this may be the dividing line between genre directors who often worked in horror and those who didn't. Horror directors from the time would stage their murder scenes as lavishly as they could, as that was pretty much the trademark of the genre. This guy didn't, probably because he had no experience and didn't understand the genre or audience. Watched the film again with commentary for some reason.

    In the Eye of the Hurricane
    Another spanish giallo, this time in the vein of Umberto Lenzis early works like An Ideal Place to Kill - no wait, I mean the one before that: A Quiet Place to Kill, you know The one with the alternative title Paranoia (Altough not to be confused with the earlier yet Lenzi giallo Paranoia, with the alternative title Orgasmo). Anyway, a Jet Setter giallo about a woman who leaves her husband for a new lover who just happens to be played be Jean Sorel. I liked this one. Twists and turns, lovely scenery and all that comes with it. The spanish title translates to In the Eye of the Hurricane, the Italian title translates to The Fox with the Velvet Tale. There's no fox in it, but you've gotta keep up with those animal titles.

    The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
    Paul Nashy headlined 3 giallo, of which this was the middle one. He did have bit parts in some others, but here he's the star. This one comes in between the rather dull and ugly 7 Murders for Scotland Yard and the later fantastic A Dragonfly for Each Corpse. The plot is basicly the same as most spanish giallo I've ever seen: A group of seedy characters hole up in a grand estate as a murderer lurks in the shadows. See also the two films above, as well as The Killer is one of 13.

    Jeremiah Johnson
    Robert Redford as a trapper in beautiful nature scenery. It's got all the visuals, but none of the emotional depth. Again, something that 70's cinema seemed to lack. There's just something very distant about it. Also, Redford can't really deliver a character in despair. Should have cast someone else.

    The Weekend Murders
    A great not-quite giallo. Humorous, whismy yet clever. Very Agatha Christie like with it's british setting, but still clearly italian. Well made, paced and edited. I liked this one alot. There's little to no gore in it tho, this is purely a procedeural giallo but the upside is that the characters all feel fleshed out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post

    Magnum Force
    The second Dirty Harry film triumphs the first. A great film with neat sets, pacing, setting, action and suspense. I really dug this and would recommend it to anyone who wants some prime 70's crime.
    The best of the sequels, no doubt. Brilliant Lalo Schifrin music again.




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    The Enforcer
    Third Dirty Harry. Dull by comparison. It's too clean, neat, orderly and the story and characters are just not very interesting.
    I liked Tyne Daly. But, yeh the whole people's revolutionary bladdy blah Patty Hearst crowd were terrible.

    It's where I stop with Harry.

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    Kes
    The one with the falcon. I could not understand a word of what they were saying. I believe they're speaking old english, or perhaps orcish.
    Tis oop Norf lad.

    Great film. In fact, I don't think the likes of Ken Loach or Mike Leigh have ever made a bad film.

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    Jeremiah Johnson
    Robert Redford as a trapper in beautiful nature scenery. It's got all the visuals, but none of the emotional depth. Again, something that 70's cinema seemed to lack. There's just something very distant about it. Also, Redford can't really deliver a character in despair. Should have cast someone else.
    I think his coldness and distance is sort of the point. He wants to live in the mountains after all.
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    Monster
    The Charlise Theron movie about Aileen Wuornos, written & directed by Patty "Wonder Woman" Jenkins.

    Good movie, although from a writer's perspective you can see the clear guiding hand of Jenkins on the narrative through the murders themselves (i.e. what occurs, when it occurs, how it occurs shows a clear journey for the central character). Not a bad thing as it makes for a good movie, but it's interesting to read the true story to compare it to the fictionalised version. Various things are accurate, some things have been shifted around a little for narrative and structural reasons, and the usual 'compositions of multiple characters/events into one person/event' happen, of course. Theron's (award winning) performance is great, she absolutely nails the character and personality of Wuornos, getting across the very different sides of her - the life-long victim looking for kinship and love on the one hand, while on the other hand there is the dangerous woman with a hair trigger temper and ability for sudden, shocking violence. Kane Hodder also has a cameo role as one of the undercover cops who arrested her (he was also stunt coordinator on the movie).

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    RE: "Magnum Force" and "The Enforcer" - yep, the second flick is the best of the sequels and really lives up to the quality of the first and is most akin to the first. Excellent film. The third in the series, though, while the last one to have the look and general cinematic feel of the first two, does drop the ball with the villains which never really work, and the 'positive discrimination' angle that gets set up early on (the verbal Q&A exam where Harry and others question prospective candidates for detective duty on the streets) is kind of abandoned somewhat - although she does prove her mettle, which is what it's all about (yet ultimately that's all thrown away quite quickly).

    I recall the fourth movie - Sudden Impact - being pretty good, but I've only seen it once at this point (and many moons ago). The fifth is quite silly, but I've seen it a couple of times.
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    'Ken Park'

    Larry Clark gives us another teenage apocalypse, hot on the heels of 'Kids' and 'Bully'. But, unlike those previous horror shows, 'Ken Park' plays out with no plot and is laced with unsimulated sex, abuse, drugs and depression. It's hard to believe anybody's life is truly like this, though I'm aware that there are people out there that would mirror the on screen characters very closely. But Clark's films portray nothing else. There's no light at the end of anyone's tunnel in his three benchmarks films and if there is, it's at the end of a bong, a roll of tinfoil, or dangerous promiscuity.

    Opening with the suicide of the titular character, 'Ken Park' settles into a slice of life focusing on the daily brutality meted out to the youngsters who were in his circle of friends or acquaintances. Each of the have their own cross, of varying weight, to bear.

    Shawn is carrying on with girlfriend's mother, who uses him sexually in a vain effort to stave off her own aging. He probably has the least of the teens worries to contend with, to be honest, but there's delicate hints that the husband knows something is up and is biding his time before acting.

    Claude lives with his trailer trash parents, both of whom are twisted in their own ways, fuelled by alchohol and impending destitution. His recently unemployed father, who seemingly despises Claude, is abusive and disparaging toward him. His mother, heavilly pregnant, is whimpish and deliberately oblivious to the state of her household. There are obvious issues she won't address properly and deeper ones she's unaware of.

    Peaches, the only girl of the group, lives with her widower father. A religious nut in the usual Hollywood vein, who dishes out his own relatively subtle tortures and harbours what appears to be an innate sexual attraction to his daughter, who reminds him a bit too much of his dead wife.

    Then there's Tate who probably deserves an entire movie about just him. Tate lives with his grandparents, who he hates, despite the fact that they are a nice old couple who take care and watch after him. His grandmother especially dotes on him, but has none of her affection returned. Tate is deeply disturbed and suffers from a violent psychopathy, which he takes out on his poor three legged hound, and subjects his grandparents to ill tempered outbursts, which they have no idea how to handle.

    All of the young actors handle their parts well - in more ways than one where Tate is concerned - and Clark manages to get decent performances out of them. The adults are are largely non-stars, apart from Amanda Plummer, and this lends a certain heft to their parts. Everybody is in for a penny, in for a pound, in 'Ken Park' and I suppose that was the only way a film like this was going to work, and work it does on certain levels. But it's too easy to question what the whole point was at the finale.

    Ken Park, himself, plays no real part in the film and only serves as bookends. It's difficult to know what effect his suicide has on the teens in the film, because Clark doesn't tell us and, more than likely, the teens would carry on like they do in any case. Their casual sex and drug taking are conduits away from their awful family lives and not a consequence of teenage tragedies elsewhere.

    'Ken Park' is a tough film to watch and certainly not one for people who are sensitive to pornographic images. Although, while it doesn't leap the wall into outright pornography, it does dance along it waving its parts at you. But it's sexual scenes, though very explicit, are not merely there for the gratification of the viewer. It's violence, on the other hand, is fairly low key, though nonetheless tragic. But, the "worst" thing about the film - like the aforementioned 'Kids' and 'Bully' - is what it has to say about sections of society, that thankfully most of us will never experience.

    6/10
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    blind2d - I've not seen PR2 yet, but will give it a squizz when it rolls around on the telly. When I first saw they were doing a sequel it was like "Really? Did we need a sequel?"

    What were the fight scenes like in terms of their physical impact? I ask because in the trailers it appeared as if physics and weight didn't mean an awful lot (jaegers and kaiju getting swung through entire buildings as it they were knives through butter).

    Quite enjoyed the original Pacific Rim, but I think I was sated with just that one film, personally.
    Yeah, the physics were pretty um... Unrealistic, honestly, now that I think about it. Felt like a Transformers movie for a bit, but if they were kind of good. Honestly yeah, this film didn't need to really be made, but it was kinda fun, as I've said. But yeah, old Gojira films are probably better when it comes to physics, since y'know, not CGI. Rent it if you like, but yeah, not really worth seeing in the cinema.

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    Four of the Apocalypse (1975) 6/10
    Directed by Lucio Fulci w/Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian

    Brutal, weird and sad spaghetti western. What else would you expect from Fulci?

    This sums it up better than I could: https://www.popmatters.com/184803-fo...495627166.html

    It's on youtube and tubitv.com if you are interested in watching it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by beat_truck View Post
    Four of the Apocalypse (1975) 6/10
    Directed by Lucio Fulci w/Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian

    Brutal, weird and sad spaghetti western. What else would you expect from Fulci?

    This sums it up better than I could: https://www.popmatters.com/184803-fo...495627166.html

    It's on youtube and tubitv.com if you are interested in watching it.
    It's grown on me immensly after having watched it about 2 years ago.
    As you say, it is rather tragic and sad. The title is apt. You really get a feeling that they live in an immensly depopulated world.

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    Ghost Stories - A nice throwback to 1980s style films with a number of individual stories in them. Nice low key horror flick. 7.5/10

    A Quiet Place - Good tension, but a large number of frustrating logic bombs in the script! 7/10
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Sleepaway Camp

    Had it not been for that reveal in the finale, I don't think this slasher would have stuck around in the public consciousness all that much. There's some bits where just a bit more finesse could have made a few subplots or background details shine (e.g. the financial troubles that the camp is enduring, the opening sequence which seems to suggest a 'post-slaughter' ghost-town of a camp). It's pretty damn light on gore, but the few effects you do get are quite well done and creepy. The vein of humour throughout is patchy, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it's downright weird (the beret-wearing woman who sends her son and niece off to camp - all those chin-tapping asides). There's a surprising element to this one, too, as most slashers had a propensity to perv over women, this one features numerous scenes where buff dudes are wearing very tight short-shorts (meat and veg jumbling about), crop tops, or hanging about topless (or a combination of all three). One scene is particularly interesting in that regard - a bunch of dudes are trying to get the girls to come skinny dipping at night, but the girls are having none of it, so the guys all strip to their tighty whities and frolic off into the water together as the (conservatively dressed, for the most part) girls roll their eyes and split.

    Again, the finale is what gives the film its memorable punch, but a few scenes throughout a quite effective (the scene where the cook gets dealt with). It would have been nice if the film had just had a bit more oomph to it, a couple less filler scenes (the baseball game, which barely has any reason for being, certainly not for that duration), more splatter, and a tighter script. Angela and the camp leader are two standout characters in the movie, though.

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    Ghost Stories - A nice throwback to 1980s style films with a number of individual stories in them. Nice low key horror flick. 7.5/10
    I've heard lots of good things about this one, apparently the stage play was genuinely scary/creepy. One of those portmanteau type deeleys, isn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    I've heard lots of good things about this one, apparently the stage play was genuinely scary/creepy. One of those portmanteau type deeleys, isn't it?
    I saw it on the stage, and rather embarrassingly, hardly remember it
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

    Loads more gore (and boobs) than the first movie, and in some regards it's a better film, but it's also one of those awkward horror/comedy mixes whereby it's never really funny enough to be a good comedy and never scary/gruesome/horrific enough to be a good enough horror flick. The first film had a much more 'authentic summer camp' vibe with a mix of kids of different ages filling out the extras (and some of the principle cast), whereas in the sequel they're all clearly in the 20s but pretending to be teens. The kills tend to lack any real sense of suspense, which is disappointing, but the film looks quite strong visually. Some truly dreadful haircuts in this flick, too ... holy crap. So, in some ways better than the first, but in other ways worse than the first. I'll be giving the third flick a spin tonight (although I saw all three of them many moons ago, but it'd been so long I'd forgotten them).

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    Meh.

    5/10
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    Eddie The Eagle

    Taron Egerton (Kingsman) plays the lone British entrant to the ski jump in the 1988 Winter Olympics. The unconventional figure became a bit of a hero and celebrity. He wasn't the best by any means (he came in last), but it was a new British record in the event and a personal best for the man himself. Indeed, that's what the whole film is about - it's not about winning (which would be the American way of doing a film like this), but it's about doing your own personal best. A true underdog story that wriggles into your heart. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The character played by Hugh Jackman is fictional, mind you, but does help provide structure to the screenplay and the training as well as a B-plot to accompany Eddie's story.

    Sure, it does hit many familiar beats along the way, but the film - and Eddie - is so charming that you can't help but enjoy it.

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    Black Sunday (1960) 7/10
    Italian witch/vampire movie. I'm sure some here have seen it. I thought it was fairly decent. A little light on dialogue and story, but the atmosphere mostly made up for it. Barbara Steele was easy on the eyes, too.

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    War For the Planet of the Apes 3/5
    After the sheer quality of the second movie, this trilogy-closer feels lacking. The human characters are quite underdeveloped, even The Colonel doesn't get much screen time (and he's the antagonist) and it takes quite a while for him to really land in the movie (despite an early appearance). Likewise there's a few plot points or character moments that don't quite land properly during the film, or lead to a bit of confusion, and the film seems curiously riddled with movie references - apparently the filmmakers spent a long time watching movies on the Fox lot in preparation ... I think they could have done with spending more time on the script than watching movies to be inspired by.

    That said, the CGI on the apes is top notch as ever, and there are certain scenes and moments along the way that really tingle the sense or tug at the heart strings, but it does feel a bit messy throughout. It simply needed more time and attention at script stage, because following up Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with this isn't good enough. The movie isn't bad by any means, but it's clearly the weakest of the trilogy, especially after Dawn, which paid attention to all its characters and, amazingly, made all the disparate threads tie together into one cohesive and satisfying whole ... War, on the other hand, is more like throwing mud at the wall and seeing what sticks. Some of it is very good, some of it is disappointing, some of it kinda fumbles about ... far from a disaster or anything, but it's a decidedly mixed bag.

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    Black Sunday (1960) 7/10
    Italian witch/vampire movie. I'm sure some here have seen it. I thought it was fairly decent. A little light on dialogue and story, but the atmosphere mostly made up for it. Barbara Steele was easy on the eyes, too.
    I've not seen it yet, but I did get the Blu-Ray just the other week, so I'll get around to it soon.

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