The Last Movie You Watched?

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haha, right…

Watched The Stranger (1967). An Italian film(Lo straniero) based on the Albert Camus book of the same title. Quite faithful to the book, although not quite as strong a presentation. Its certainly directed with skill, a shame the video quality is so poor- an improvement here may lead to a better appreciation of the film. Luchino Visconti (the director) and Marcello Mastroianni (the lead) really succeeded with bringing the ending to life on screen.

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[quote=“tomas, post:8079, topic:1923”]me too, although i see in Pandorum a lot of unused potential
last time i watched Event Horizon i was surprised how it lost some steam over the years
anyway, a better one of Anderson’s efforts[/quote]

Haven’t watch Pandorum yet so can’t say much about it, but Event Horizon was a good surprise for me at least not a masterpice none of Anderson really is, but the feeling I had was that he manage to deal in a very positive way yo combine both action and meaning, adding that extra that was terror, and watching Sam Neil that the other side was even more evil is sacry. Also Sam Neil was a extra item that improved the fim even more. The build in tension was well done, and so a very very commum and ordinary story became a good film. Not a film that many directors would risk doing, the chances of rip-off acusations were a big thread but Anderson turned the table into is favour and with so many references in one film is hard to tell wich one he’s ripping off.

So in my perpective really can’t complain much

Scott knows how to film a story, the only positive side of Prometheus was the fact that it kept entertained to the end, but when the film finishs I thought to myself - what the hell - and its not the small details of how and why. With the 4 Alien film Scott didn’t many choices, one was to do a more contemplative movie a moral tale of some kind away from Alien, from the monster and closer to the human element (the inital scene made me believe the film would go that way), the other more risky was to bet all in an action based story. Being a prequel both ways were risky we know wwhat is going to happen, people know where the story will end. In the end a more easy way was chosen let’s find a new stoic heroin a new Ripley and tell how the monster was created. But there’s only one Ripley, and they even managed to clone her, making her travel to the past would have been a better choice.

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[quote=“El Topo, post:8082, topic:1923”]Haven’t watch Pandorum yet so can’t say much about it, but Event Horizon was a good surprise for me at least not a masterpice none of Anderson really is, but the feeling I had was that he manage to deal in a very positive way yo combine both action and meaning, adding that extra that was terror, and watching Sam Neil that the other side was even more evil is sacry. Also Sam Neil was a extra item that improved the fim even more. The build in tension was well done, and so a very very commum and ordinary story became a good film. Not a film that many directors would risk doing, the chances of rip-off acusations were a big thread but Anderson turned the table into is favour and with so many references in one film is hard to tell wich one he’s ripping off.

So in my perpective really can’t complain much[/quote]

objectively - in comparison Event Horizon is probably better movie than Pandorum - i wouldn’t think i’d say that but even direction is better in EH
well, now comes subjective part - in 1954 Brian W. Aldiss published a groundbreaking scifi novel Nonstop about people on huge spaceship, who don’t know they are on a huge spaceship and i somehow am sucker for such a stories, and Pandorum shares some similarity with it
since, there is not many movies of this kind out there, i’m happy for it and i quite like it - and first 25 min. are fantastic

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I said this about PANDORUM two and a half years ago:

[size=12pt]Pandorum[/size] (2009, Christian Alvert)

Interesting premise, so so execution. Two astronauts awake on board of a space ship, not remembering who they are or what they’re doing. In a brief prologue, we have learned the earth is suffering from massive overpopulation. The space ship is sent to an earth-like planet, in order to start a colony, but scientists have tampered with human DNA (to prepare the people to the slightly different circumstances on the new planet), causing a disease called ‘pandorum’.

German director Alvert is called a great talent by many, mainly because of his movie Antikörper /Antibodies (which I have not seen). This movie has some good ideas – and some remarkably good performances - but the disease turns humans into creatures that are not called zombies, but behave exactly like them (the fast kind that is). What looks promising first, soon deteriorates into the umpteenth film about the living threatened by the undead. I’m not into those movies (but some of you might) On another level I didn’t like the digital look of the movie. I did like Antje Traue though, and she was the main reason the watch the movie to the very end…

Otherwise: not my cup of pandorum

2/5

I’m working on an article on PROMETHEUS, not really a review, more written from a scientific/philosophical angle.

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i knew it!

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Act of Violence. Okay noir, with Robert Ryan. Far from his best role.

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Looking forward to it

Have not seen Pandorum or Event Horizon. Maybe will have a look

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House of the Devil (2009)

I like the whole 80s feel and the film has plenty of suspense. Nothing much really happens, its pretty much just the main character going from place to place and wondering about the house, yet it holds your interest because you expect the payoff to happen any minute now. I’ve always said that the anticipation of the kill is scarier than the actual kill itself and this movie proves it. Ti West is a talented horror director. I’m looking forward to seeing his other film, The Innkeepers.

I thought the end was a bit dumb, and the lunar eclipse thing was silly but overall, a good old fashioned horror filmed, and it really is old fashioned.

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“The Trial” - difficult to get through…

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Bought this DVD blindly some years back and I had pretty much the same impressions. I liked the ending though. I was trying to get my girlfriend to remember this movie just the other day, and she thought it was actually a real 80s movie. It does successfully pull off the 80s imitation in basically all aspects, much better than some other more popular attempts to look like older films. The music was great.

I didn’t know the director had anything else lined up, will also be looking forward.

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[quote=“autephex, post:8091, topic:1923”]Bought this DVD blindly some years back and I had pretty much the same impressions. I liked the ending though. I was trying to get my girlfriend to remember this movie just the other day, and she thought it was actually a real 80s movie. It does successfully pull off the 80s imitation in basically all aspects, much better than some other more popular attempts to look like older films. The music was great.

I didn’t know the director had anything else lined up, will also be looking forward.[/quote]

Yeah I’ll probably end up buying the blu ray. Its a good film and I also liked the music and sound. I think it should’ve been at least nominated for a Saturn award in that department. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that Tom Noonan of Hells on Wheels fame was in it!

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Enjoyed the Prometheus analysis scherp. I agree with you on many points. The philosophical dialogue is mostly pretty weak for me and the “watch and the watch maker” moment produced just the same reaction in myself.

I had not thought about the comparison you make with Christian mythology and its an interesting point. Maybe this is obvious, but you also have the droid literally “forsaken by his father” - Weyland created David and even gave him the name he wanted for his son, and in the film proceeds to tear him down shortly before the end, and the effect on David is quite obvious that of being “forsaken”. Although I did find his dialogue a bit weak also, he provides the only real source of philosophical substance in the film. The parallels with Jesus are scattered throughout this character-

Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.

Well, I guess David found a place:

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A double tour (1959) - Claude Chabrol’s third feature skewers the bourgeoisie, centring on marital infidelity and murder on a vintner’s misleadingly idyllic family estate. It’s sexy and savage, with commendable performances all round (Jean-Paul Belmondo is particularly good fun), ravishing colour and some judicious tributes to Hitchcock.

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[quote=“autephex, post:8093, topic:1923”]Enjoyed the Prometheus analysis scherp. I agree with you on many points. The philosophical dialogue is mostly pretty weak for me and the “watch and the watch maker” moment produced just the same reaction in myself.

I had not thought about the comparison you make with Christian mythology and its an interesting point. Maybe this is obvious, but you also have the droid literally “forsaken by his father” - Weyland created David and even gave him the name he wanted for his son, and in the film proceeds to tear him down shortly before the end, and the effect on David is quite obvious that of being “forsaken”. Although I did find his dialogue a bit weak also, he provides the only real source of philosophical substance in the film. The parallels with Jesus are scattered throughout this character-

Well, I guess David found a place:
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It seems to me that this refusal to give any reason for the enactors wanting to get rid of their creation, is a clear indication that Scott wants to do something with it in the sequel. Otherwise he would have given some kind of basic explanation (it’s not so hard to find one). It’s the element that fascinated me most; It could turn the whole thing into a more compelling and interesting affair.

But we’ll see.

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you even sicked Darwin’s Rottweiler on Ridley …
a good treatise, although i’d focus on confrontation of christianity and lovecraftian cthulhu mythos (in my supposed article, which i probably never write)

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[quote=“tomas, post:8096, topic:1923”]you even sicked Darwin’s Rottweiler on Ridley …
a good treatise, although i’d focus on confrontation of christianity and lovecraftian cthulhu mythos (in my supposed article, which i probably never write)[/quote]

I haven’t read any Lovecraft in over thirty years, time to pick him up again maybe

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UTU - When a Maori scout finds his village slaughtered he becomes a renegade and swears revenge against the white man. The realistic, brutal fights dominate the film however there’s plenty of things going on that will give food for thought. Overall its a highly enjoyable one even though the story is a bit predictable. Time to check out some other films from Geoff Murphy who directed this effort.

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For a look at Clint’s dark side:

[b][size=12pt]Filmrecensies.net

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Interesting Eastwood had to return to the cop genre again in the 80’s after a few films that did not do well financially as expected. And how different a cop Eastwood is in Tightrope compared to his role in Sudden Impact.