The Official Movie Thread
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"She has no pussy hairs. I like pussy hairs." - Fred Williamson
Okay yeah I already love this movie and I'm not even 30 mins in yet.
Edit: That was insane and awesome. So much over-the-top violence and the score is pure John Carpenter.
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Directorial debut from the guy who produced Turbo Kid, Deathgasm, The Greasy Strangler and those ABCs of Death films. Been looking forward to seeing what he can do behind the wheel.
Directorial debut from the guy who produced Turbo Kid, Deathgasm, The Greasy Strangler and those ABCs of Death films. Been looking forward to seeing what he can do behind the wheel.
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Agreed, total classic siege movie stuff. At times it felt very zombie survivalish too. Loved how David Patrick Kelly basically just smokes weed the whole movie.
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Yeah in some ways it was like the b-movie version of The Expendables. Without the cast and the nostalgia it falls apart to some degree. This might also be one of the more openly patriotic films in recent memory too. Having a bunch of old ass actors playing old ass veterans brutally murdering young punks/addicts/gang members is pretty much a dead formula since like Death Wish 3 or something.
Was watching interviews with Begos and he said the cast were hesitant to join the film (in some cases even rejected the project) until Stephen Lang said yes and then everybody else more or less followed, so in more ways than one the cast was essential to the film working.
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I think Stephen Lang was also a producer or something, remember seeing his name in the credits
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Yeah saw that, executive producer. I'd be willing to bet he had a big hand in getting it funded, if anything just with his attachment to the film alone.
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you see HBO has a show for this book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft_Country_(TV_series)
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Watched a bunch of stuff between Saturday and Today:
Medium - Polish supernatural horror/detective movie from 1985. Best way I can think to describe it is like Brian De Palma's The Fury meets Richard Franklin's Patrick, set in Nazi-occupied Poland. One of my favourite things about Netflix right now is its selection of Polish cinema, and according to Polish Wiki this is the first film from Poland to deal entirely with the occult.
Three Times - Hou Hsiao-hsien doing what he always does so well with his dreamy patient romantic style. This one consists of 3 short stories set during different periods of Taiwan (1966, 1911 and 2005 aka present day Taiwan) but using the same lead actors in each. Shu Qi is so great, at times almost reaching Maggie Cheung levels of screen presence. Very interested to see Alan Yang's new film on Netflix called Tigertail as he explicitly stated Hou Hsiao-hsien was a big influence while making it.
Burning - Not what I was expecting at all but in a good way. Really uneasy tense atmosphere and no definitive reveal or conclusion to the plot. I like that a lot. Steven Yeun was so good in this too, smug without being cartoonish, charming without being cliche, ambiguous enough to be perceived as a sociopath or as innocent but misinterpreted by Jong-su's wild writer's imagination. Had I seen this when we did the 2018 lists it would have made my top 10 for sure. Also SK cinema taps into class consciousness themes so well (this one at times goes into feminism more specifically, but Ben's relationship with the two country bumpkin main characters definitely has a class angle IMO).
Maps to the Stars - Pretty messy psychological drama that comes across more like a soapie a lot of the time. I honestly thought I wouldn't like it as I was watching it, but at some point maybe 30 or so minutes in it started to click with me and I found myself engrossed. Evan Bird was entertaining as fuck, such a little prick yet sweet in the scenes with his sister. Julianne Moore was so melodramatic and at times it bordered on insufferable but the culmination and eventual conclusion of her character made this kind of portrayal so much more essential and satisfying to me.
Medium - Polish supernatural horror/detective movie from 1985. Best way I can think to describe it is like Brian De Palma's The Fury meets Richard Franklin's Patrick, set in Nazi-occupied Poland. One of my favourite things about Netflix right now is its selection of Polish cinema, and according to Polish Wiki this is the first film from Poland to deal entirely with the occult.
Three Times - Hou Hsiao-hsien doing what he always does so well with his dreamy patient romantic style. This one consists of 3 short stories set during different periods of Taiwan (1966, 1911 and 2005 aka present day Taiwan) but using the same lead actors in each. Shu Qi is so great, at times almost reaching Maggie Cheung levels of screen presence. Very interested to see Alan Yang's new film on Netflix called Tigertail as he explicitly stated Hou Hsiao-hsien was a big influence while making it.
Burning - Not what I was expecting at all but in a good way. Really uneasy tense atmosphere and no definitive reveal or conclusion to the plot. I like that a lot. Steven Yeun was so good in this too, smug without being cartoonish, charming without being cliche, ambiguous enough to be perceived as a sociopath or as innocent but misinterpreted by Jong-su's wild writer's imagination. Had I seen this when we did the 2018 lists it would have made my top 10 for sure. Also SK cinema taps into class consciousness themes so well (this one at times goes into feminism more specifically, but Ben's relationship with the two country bumpkin main characters definitely has a class angle IMO).
Maps to the Stars - Pretty messy psychological drama that comes across more like a soapie a lot of the time. I honestly thought I wouldn't like it as I was watching it, but at some point maybe 30 or so minutes in it started to click with me and I found myself engrossed. Evan Bird was entertaining as fuck, such a little prick yet sweet in the scenes with his sister. Julianne Moore was so melodramatic and at times it bordered on insufferable but the culmination and eventual conclusion of her character made this kind of portrayal so much more essential and satisfying to me.
