Slayed Necros
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I'll extend my list to top five Angel Witch songs in general:
1. Waltz the Night
2. Sorceress
3. Baphomet
4. Angel of Death
5. Angel Witch
1. Waltz the Night
2. Sorceress
3. Baphomet
4. Angel of Death
5. Angel Witch
The Top 5 List Thread
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HamburgerBoy
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What's the definitive way to hear Baphomet and other early Angel Witch songs? There's a five minute version on YouTube that sounds decent but apparently the 1978 version is two minutes longer and there might be other stuff I don't know about. I haven't heard anything they've done prior to the S/T.
I did download their late 80s demos semi-recently and they have some surprisingly good songs, intense melodic thrash.
I did download their late 80s demos semi-recently and they have some surprisingly good songs, intense melodic thrash.
Slayed Necros
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rms
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all right, Blade RUnner over the thing and first blood is ridiculous
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ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU
CiG
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rms
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Blade Runner bastardized the source material and attempted a dystopian detective film w/ a vague hint and question of "what is reality?" -- should go down as one of the largest failures of 'ol Scott.
The Thing is just perfection, in all the ways Blade Runner gets praise for depicting the universe, The Thing takes all elements and actually perfects them and creates the ultimate film experience. Sound, acting, special effects, story -- superb. One of the greatest films in the last 40 years.
First Blood is just cool and good which automatically makes it better than Blade Runner. And it's depiction of Vietnam was pre-Platoon and has tragically been forgotten as such. Superb.
The Thing is just perfection, in all the ways Blade Runner gets praise for depicting the universe, The Thing takes all elements and actually perfects them and creates the ultimate film experience. Sound, acting, special effects, story -- superb. One of the greatest films in the last 40 years.
First Blood is just cool and good which automatically makes it better than Blade Runner. And it's depiction of Vietnam was pre-Platoon and has tragically been forgotten as such. Superb.
EspaDa
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Top 5 Draconian Times tracks:
1. Hallowed Land
2. The Last Time
3. Forever Failure
4. Yearn for Change
5. Jaded
1. Hallowed Land
2. The Last Time
3. Forever Failure
4. Yearn for Change
5. Jaded
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no country for old wainds
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i always forget he did THE COUNSELOR not too long ago, that was a very unhollywood little cormac mccarthy adaptation.
CiG
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Speaking of vague, what the fuck is this criticism? Thanks for saying nothing to me while reiterating your preference for the other two films.
Also, I didn't even say they were listed in order. Only #1 is ordered and for that year it was Conan the Barbarian.
Top 5 Ridley Scott films:
- Alien
- Blade Runner
- Gladiator
- Black Hawk Down
- Hannibal
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CiG
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Top 5 films from 1990:
Top 5 films from 1991:
Top 5 films from 1992:
Top 5 films from 1993:
Top 5 films from 1994:
Top 5 films from 1995:
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Top 5 films from 1998:
Top 5 films from 1999:
- La Femme Nikita
- Goodfellas
- Tremors
- Boiling Point (Kitano)
- Jacob's Ladder
Top 5 films from 1991:
- Terminator II: Judgement Day
- Riki-Oh
- Out for Justice
- Barton Fink
- Showdown in Little Tokyo
Top 5 films from 1992:
- Unforgiven
- Braindead
- New Dragon Gate Inn
- Bad Lieutenant
- L.627
Top 5 films from 1993:
- Red Rock West
- The Sandlot
- Sonatine
- Iron Monkey
- Menace II Society
Top 5 films from 1994:
- Once Were Warriors
- Clerks
- Léon: The Professional
- Legends of the Fall
- Natural Born Killers
Top 5 films from 1995:
- Braveheart
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Casino
- The Usual Suspects
- Waterworld
Top 5 films from 1996:
- Fargo
- Crash
- The Glimmer Man
- Black Sheep
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Top 5 films from 1997:
- Hana-bi
- Jackie Brown
- Starship Troopers
- Donnie Brasco
- Gattaca
Top 5 films from 1998:
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- BASEketball
- The Big Lebowski
- Thin Red Line
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Top 5 films from 1999:
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
- Office Space
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- The Matrix
- Fight Club
CiG
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Top 5 thrash metal albums from 2005:
- Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth
- Insane - Wait and Pray
- Barbatos - Fury and Fear, Flesh and Bone
- Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
- Witchburner - Final Detonation
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Top 5 thrash riffs from 1985:
1. Exodus - Piranha
2. Exodus - Deliver Us to Evil
3. Ulysses Siren - The Reich
4. Destruction - The Ritual
5. Slayer - Necrophiliac
Most difficult list I've ever made tbh. For ease, I excluded the main Killing is My Business riff on the grounds that it's more bluesy and traditional, and the middle break of Artillery's Time Has Come on the grounds that it's the drumming playing off the riff that really makes it an all-time great.
1. Exodus - Piranha
2. Exodus - Deliver Us to Evil
3. Ulysses Siren - The Reich
4. Destruction - The Ritual
5. Slayer - Necrophiliac
Most difficult list I've ever made tbh. For ease, I excluded the main Killing is My Business riff on the grounds that it's more bluesy and traditional, and the middle break of Artillery's Time Has Come on the grounds that it's the drumming playing off the riff that really makes it an all-time great.
EspaDa
Damage Case
Top 5 Slayer tracks
1. Seasons in the Abyss
2. Tormentor
3. Angel of Death
4. Black Magic
5. Raining Blood
1. Seasons in the Abyss
2. Tormentor
3. Angel of Death
4. Black Magic
5. Raining Blood
Einherjar86
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One of the most troubling things about Blade Runner is the rape scene, in my opinion; and I partly think it's a product of '80s star power (i.e. who could possibly resist Harrison Ford's rough and persistent "charm"?). That said, the film makes some intellectual sense if you've read the novel and if you extend the film some philosophical concerns inaugurated by the book. I've always read the scene as implicitly commenting on exclusionary humanism, with "human" standing in roughly for "white male." Deckard doesn't feel remorse over his actions toward androids b/c they're "not human" (which invites a list of objections). Of course, if we really want to psychoanalyze here, it's likely Deckard wouldn't feel remorse anyway, since he's an asshole. The movie suffers from the "Gecko effect"--i.e. that a character is supposed to be someone we don't like, but is presented in a way that elicits our support, as with Oliver Stone's Wall Street (casting Harrison Ford as Deckard is one element of this).
It's really too bad that the film wasn't able to incorporate the serious empathetic reflections featured in the book, but that's one of the inevitable drawbacks of film, so I don't seriously hold that against it. P.K. Dick wasn't the most enlightened person when it came to women, but his novel is far more engaged with what it means to acknowledge others as human than what Blade Runner manages to achieve (in this regard, I'd say that a film like Ex Machina is significantly more developed than Blade Runner).
Aside from that, if we consider lighting, mood, set design, world-realization, and the general vacancy of most (if not all) characters, the film definitely lands somewhere in my top five from Scott. I absolutely love how the film manages to make Deckard look like a hollow, cold, soulless shell while Roy Baty becomes an emotionally conflicted/confused and passionate being. It's an expected reversal for those familiar with the book (not that it happens in the book, but we're better prepared for it), but it's a wonderfully orchestrated shift for those unfamiliar with the original material.
Anyway, I still haven't seen the new one. Been thinking about BR a lot lately.
It's really too bad that the film wasn't able to incorporate the serious empathetic reflections featured in the book, but that's one of the inevitable drawbacks of film, so I don't seriously hold that against it. P.K. Dick wasn't the most enlightened person when it came to women, but his novel is far more engaged with what it means to acknowledge others as human than what Blade Runner manages to achieve (in this regard, I'd say that a film like Ex Machina is significantly more developed than Blade Runner).
Aside from that, if we consider lighting, mood, set design, world-realization, and the general vacancy of most (if not all) characters, the film definitely lands somewhere in my top five from Scott. I absolutely love how the film manages to make Deckard look like a hollow, cold, soulless shell while Roy Baty becomes an emotionally conflicted/confused and passionate being. It's an expected reversal for those familiar with the book (not that it happens in the book, but we're better prepared for it), but it's a wonderfully orchestrated shift for those unfamiliar with the original material.
Anyway, I still haven't seen the new one. Been thinking about BR a lot lately.
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