Favourite movies

Dazz wrote:Carne is basically the beginning of I Stand Alone where The Butcher narrates his life with the photographs, its certainly worth watching and I don't think you'd be disappointed.

Great. Now it's going to drive me crazy not being able to find it.

BTW Naps have you ever read; Journey to the End of the Night? It always comes to my mind when watching I Stand Alone.

No, but it's been mentioned to me twice before. I should probably check it out.

Would you at least agree that Regan/Linda is annoying before possession?

Actually, no. I think she puts in a good performance and I have zero tolerance for kids, on or off film. She doesn't act flatly like most child actors from that period and Friedkin doesn't go out of his way to make her all cute and innocent. At least that's my take. Speaking of Friedkin, have you seen "Killer Joe"?

Isn't it supposed to be shot for shot? The only reason I can think of to watch the US version is that it has prettier psycho teens, one of whom was a sociopath in a decent, watch once, film called Simon Killer.

It is shot for shot. Except for the last shot. In the original, Arno Frisch looks in the camera and smiles. In the US version, Michael Pitt looks at the camera with an emotionless and sickly expression. But I prefer the killers in the German version because I like how one is tall and skinny and the other one is short and plump. Brady Corbett was a little too creepy for the role. He's got an interesting face where he can look awful (Funny Games, left) or beautiful (Melancholia, right).



wtf

plus I like Michael Pitt a lot. He's a very underrated, underused actor. Did you see Larry Clark's Bully?

ok, i'll give a more thoughtful list

i used to have a guy friend who was really into movies...intelligently like Dazz...but i will give my own list based on my own limited exposure as i am not a movie buff

28 days later was a good movie. despite the racial and political agenda i could barely stomach it was good enough to make me forget all that and actually get into the movie. great scenery. just really well done in making the viewer feel as alone and helpless as the main character felt in the beginning

and making the zombies run fast was brilliant...although they weren't really zombies

i despise popular horror films like Jason and Freddy Cruger...i do not understand the cult following behind these films they suck

anything by Queintine Tarentino (i know i am butchering these names lol and my not bothering to google them is partially to convey my lack of respect). i do not understand Kill Bill. it's a stupid movie. i can't tell if it's suppose to be humour or what. his films just seem stupid, i know they are suppose to be some kind of different genre with chopped up story line but it just ruins the flow and it's all retarded

waterworld was good

the ring was good. another horror that didn't merely rely on thrash and kill crap that gets old fast...that relies more on subtlely and plausible scenarios

in other words, i like films that do not depart from reality much, that are plausible occurrences, though very unlucky, because the more realistic something is, the more it draws you in, and the more you'll actually be moved by what's going on

jurassic park was cool

i am probably the only person on the planet who has yet to see Avatar lol

lord of the rings was awesome

Cannibal Holocaust was actually really good...and was recommended to me by someone on this forum.

the Human Centipeted II was also really good...also recommended by someone on this forum

naps wrote:

Would you at least agree that Regan/Linda is annoying before possession?

Actually, no.

Oh I hate you now.



As for Friedkin, I have Killer Joe, I keep intending to watch it but when I go to get it, can't find it. My favourite film of his is gay serial killer classic Cruising, Al Pacino's best acting too.

naps wrote:plus I like Michael Pitt a lot. He's a very underrated, underused actor. Did you see Larry Clark's Bully?

I like Pitt too, by the time I figured out I did, the last film I'd bother watching that he’s in was Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

I have to re-watch Bully, I think I remember Pitt being the best thing about it and liking Bijou Phillips get raped and Rachel Miner fuked, lol I also remember the gay kid from Mean Girls being in it. Larry Clark is an exploitation filmmaker in the truest sense of the term and I can't say I'm a fan of him or he's ephebophilic bisexual skater obsessions.

His best films to me were unsurprisingly written by Harmony Korine, who's Gummo is a fave of mine (though the rest of his filmography is crap and gets crapper with each film until you finally get to trash, literally, Trash Humpers, never seen Spring Breakers), Kids and Ken Park, but the former was better, it also was about broke teen inner city losers, while the latter was about middle class teen suburban losers. To give some praise to Clark, he at least exposes the meaningless affecting youth today and the 3rd world being created or already in place in certain areas.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:28 days later was a good movie. despite the racial and political agenda i could barely stomach it was good enough to make me forget all that and actually get into the movie. great scenery. just really well done in making the viewer feel as alone and helpless as the main character felt in the beginning

and making the zombies run fast was brilliant...although they weren't really zombies

Actually Zombies or zombie-types ran before 28 Days e.g. Return of the Living Dead (great 80's comedy-horror), Nightmare City, Zombie Flesh Eaters 2/Zombi 3. Zombie Flesh Eaters/Zombi 2 has a zombie underwater fighting a shark lol.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:i despise popular horror films like Jason and Freddy Cruger...i do not understand the cult following behind these films they suck

You can say that about the retarded mommy's boy Jason (though I like all the Friday the 13th films from 1 - 8, fave being the sixth one Jason Lives...and yes I know they are objectively crap, but dammit I love them and they are nostalgic, not to mention heavily White), but don't you dare say that about child murderer (possibly pedo) turned dream killer Freddy Krueger! A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of my fave top two films forever (the other being Sunset Boulevard), sure the series as a whole ain't great (but there are three great films; 1, Dream Warriors and New Nightmare) but I like all of them.

Just look at the opening scene of the original, its spectacular:

crystal_richardson_ wrote:i am probably the only person on the planet who has yet to see Avatar lol

Never seen and never will, haven't even seen the film it ripped off; Dances With Wolves.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:Cannibal Holocaust was actually really good.

Best film of 1980.

Dances with Wolves...i think i recall that one

that's related to Avatar? whoa..lol.

Dazz wrote:

naps wrote:

Would you at least agree that Regan/Linda is annoying before possession?

Actually, no.

Oh I hate you now.

You've just given Wolfgrave an erection. Good work.

"Killer Joe" is great, although it suffers from a mild claustrophobia of scope frequently seen in stage-to-screen adaptions. I like Friedkin. He's one of the only one of the old 70's directors who is still able to make cool movies despite being an old bag. I liked "Bug". I haven't seen "Cruising" in years. I should probably get a copy if it's on Blu-ray.

By all means watch "Killer Joe". Especially if you like Gina Gershon. She's not the best actress in the world, but she's well used. I'm sure you've heard of the infamous "chicken wing blow job " scene. Also, there's a shot early on when she opens the door of her trailer for Emile Hirsch with no pants on. All you see is her unshaved pussy. Her finest acting moment and a truly iconic trash shot, IMO. I have a thing for white trash movies, and Killer Joe nails the whole white trash aesthetic beautifully.

Larry Clark is an exploitation filmmaker in the truest sense of the term and I can't say I'm a fan of him or he's ephebophilic bisexual skater obsessions.

Well put. Bully is flawed only in the sense that Clark hyperbolically amps up the homoerotic aspects of the story. I really despise gay directors who have to infuse their films with gratuitous homoeroticism just because. The opening of "Bully", where Brad Renfro is having for-pay phone sex with some old queer probably alienated a whole lot of people who would have otherwise enjoyed the movie. I admire Gus Van Sant Jr. greatly, but it really pissed me off in "Elephant" when he had the two shooters kissing in the shower. Stop it. Rub one out before you get to the set or something.

Also I heard a rumor that Clark only actually directed the scenes in "Bully" that involved nudity or sex. Quite an accusation, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. If you watch it again, take note on how well (the non-sex/nudity) scenes are directed. The murder scene is beautifully done, and the tension that builds before it is excruciating. The line "Say alligators" will always be chilling to me. "Bully" also was an example to me of my impaired sense of empathy and morality. Most people I speak to about it say they immediately lose sympathy for Renfro's character the second he starts stabbing Nick Stahl, but I was thinking "Yes! Kill the #####&!"

Harmony Korine can suck $#%^. You'll have a hard time convincing me otherwise. I've seen three or four of his films and I don't see the point in any of them. "Gummo" was pretty memorable, though, I will admit. More white trash culture. But "Ken Park" convinced me that Corine likes getting his dick sucked by pedo photographers more than he likes writing. Ooo. The "good" girl with the loving hyper-religious father who beats the crap put of her when he catches her pulling her boyfriend's pants down. Cliche. The psychopathic kid who kills his grandparents as they plead "But we love you!" Cheap, forced pathos. I downloaded "Spring Breakers" but haven't watched it yet. Too much T&A makes my eyes glaze over after a while.

To give some praise to Clark, he at least exposes the meaningless affecting youth today and the 3rd world being created or already in place in certain areas.

True, I guess, and he does it well, but so do many other filmmakers. It's practically a genre at this point.

I was somewhat impressed with the scene in "Ken Park" where the kid is masturbating as a women's tennis match plays on the TV. While I never really jerked off to women's tennis, it really did evoke those impossibly horny teenage afternoons when all it took was an Irish Spring commercial to make me whack it like six times in a row.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:i despise popular horror films like Jason and Freddy Cruger...i do not understand the cult following behind these films they suck

You done fuked up but good with that one, crys.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:i am probably the only person on the planet who has yet to see Avatar lol

What's Avatar?

Godfather, Godfather 2, Goodfellas, Casino, Black mass, Legend, The Revenant, Hateful Eight, Gone Girl, Lone survivor, Bad words, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, Inception, NightCrawler, The Heat.

Long fukin list, i like movies.

Marebito, Sweeney Todd, Antichrist, But I'm a Cheerleader, Last Girl, When Nietzsche Wept, Blind Beast, Inside Out, Blood Sucking Freaks is hilarious, Oldboy, Blade Runner, Bound, District 9.

TheScaredGirl wrote:Blood Sucking Freaks is hilarious.

"Don't you dare ruin my dinner."



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naps wrote:By all means watch "Killer Joe".

I'll watch it over the weekend, I'll look for it tomorrow and put it next to my PS4...Friedkin is one of those old filmmakers I had written off, especially after The Exorcist, and considered him just a typical overrated Hollywood hack for money Jew, turns out I jumped the gun. I'm still working my way through he's films and am relying on semi-trusted sources for worthwhile films, have you seen Sorcerer? After having watched Cruising, The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A., its the film I most wanna watch (not available here and fuking region locked blu ray elsewhere). I saw Bug at about 1am on tv when tired, remember liking it but need to re-watch, might buy it on Amazon, a used copy is going for 22p add post/packaging it'll cost about £1.50.

naps wrote:I admire Gus Van Sant Jr. greatly, but it really pissed me off in "Elephant" when he had the two shooters kissing in the shower. Stop it. Rub one out before you get to the set or something.

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Never seen Elephant (except for some killing clips on youtube), is it worth a watch? Apart from Last Days I ain't seen any of the films he's made since Good Will Hunting, I'm guessing he still hasn't made a film to alter my opinion that My Own Private Idaho is his masterpiece.

Martyrs
High Tension
Pi
Spun
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I Saw the Devil
No Country for Old Men
Millennium Trilogy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
American Beauty
Savage Grace
Hard Candy
The Rules of Attraction

Lol Dazz. I appreciate your existence.

I saw Elephant, I don't remember much about it. It frustrated me for some reason, but it's been so long since I watched it, something about a missed opportunity.