Dellamorte Dellamore
Very interesting contribution to the horror genre. It is fun and different to what I expected (due to the trailer). Very surreal in the end. I liked it pretty much, although it had some lengths.
The german BluRay is very mediocre. It comes from Starlight Film. It is the follow up of Marketing and the main guy thinks that he can do everything on his own. But he is truly not the restoration genius he wishes to be.
[glow=red,2,300]La Polizia Ringrazia[/glow]
Nice, very political movie with Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf and [glow=blue,2,300]Jürgen Drews !!![/glow].
Glad you enjoyed The Guard, Scherp. And I did think you might need subtitles. The accents are quite strong.
My latest viewing is another I would recommend.
Four Lions (Morris / 2010)
The fact that this is a story about a group of hapless British Pakistani suicide bombers from Yorkshire is probably more than a small clue as to the blackness of the humour (and the probable need for more subtitles for non Brits) but it is well worth going with it as it is in turns uncomfortable, hilarious and thought provoking. The subject matter is clearly fraught with potential pitfalls for a film maker but I think the writers trod very skilfully through it and wound up making it work very well. A good job from first time film director Chris Morris too who is probably more well known here for his his acting as the original boss, Denholm Reynholm in The IT Crowd TV series.
Oh yes, and the scenes in the terrorist training camp in Pakistan are clearly shot in a region quite familiar to us here. You can see patches of it in the trailer.
Glad you liked it, Phil. I was massively impressed by Four Lions. Although I watched it in german first, which I found very dangerous because it changes the Pakistani guys into some german/turkish kinda guys due to the dubbing and conversion to a “common” german dialect.
Saw it again in english without any subs in England. Surely, I did not get all the jokes. Subtitled vision required 
@ Lode (quote function still not working it seems)
Glad to hear its qualities cross borders successfully. It is a very good film I think.
As for the accents, I think they are are a very important facet of the film because, despite being mostly of Pakistani origin, the characters are very much British and a product of their upbringing in British Asian communities so their accents are pure Yorkshire for the most part with some Pakistani and Islamic terms thrown in. This obviously adds to the humour as well but makes an important point and adds another edge to the satire.
Yet for me, I can quote posts on a thread just like normall ??? :-. Could it perhaps be something to do with what internet browser you use?
@ Bluntwolf
I like La polizia ringrazia, but not a top-notch poliziotteschi for me. Something’s missing to leave me fully satisfied. Nonetheless it’s always nice to see Enrico Maria Salerno in an Italian Cop Movie. 
The quoting worked 2 hours ago, now it again doesn’t
@John Welles
Could be, John but I’ve been using Google Chrome ever since it came out and have never had any problems until now.
[size=12pt][size=14pt]Dredd[/size][/size] 2012 Pete travis
One thing takes to another, and after speaking of Judge Dredd in anether thread decided to take a look at this one, always liked the comic and the character.
A decent modern style B movie if I can call it so, actually the kind of thing that some people think Tarantino should be doing.
Karl urban fits the part much better than Sly Stallone he’s a great Dredd, more vulnerable and apolitical but never letting is humanity behind , even if he never takes is helmet, the actress who plays the Rookie Judge Anderson also gives a fine rate performance, a nice match for the always helmet on Dredd.
Liked the colour saturation, but I can understand if other think it’s a bit over the top, the film of course its much more in context with the original comics.
The story is pretty simple and the film has a great start and a great ending, and from time to time we really feel the influence of …here we go… Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”, still after all these years.
It does fail in building enough or more tension for a plot that takes part in a close environment, and being a very violent film I confess that a t some point I become really indifferent to all the blood going around, that’s the problem with this type of films for me at least.
Apart from these flaws the director made a good work in my view, he did a very decent film Omagh (more than decent to be honest), but apart from that I haven’t seen anything more from him
In the overall a good film, seen much worst in this genre (forget about the nonsense that the resident evil franchise has become), calling it a good modern day B movie works like a compliment.
Ah I saw it in 2D
Killer Joe (2011) D.William Friedkin, with Mattew McGonaughey, Emile Hirsh and Gina Gershon.
Just finished watching this, and what a find this film was. Story about a young drug dealer from a broken down white trash family who is having trouble paying off his debts, decides to hire Joe Killer(McGonaughey) a detective who doubles as a hit man to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance.
McGonaughey gives a strong performance as the slimey hit man, probably his best in a long time as does the rest of the cast, especially Gina Gershon who gives a piece of chicken a very good time :P. It’s a film not for everyone’s taste, disturbing to say the least. I believe it will be a cult hit with some, though! 7/10
I enjoyed Killer Joe too. This and his previous film with the same writer (Tracy Letts) are fine proof that Friedkin is still an excellent director. If you haven’t seen Bug yet and you liked Killer Joe I’d recommend it.
Yes Phil, I remember watching BUG with Ashley Judd along time ago, will have to rewatch it again.
[B]Soo[/B] - Soo’s brother is killed and he exacts brutal violent revenge, really enjoyed this one.
[quote=“El Topo, post:8930, topic:1923”][size=12pt][size=14pt]Dredd[/size][/size] 2012 Pete travis
One thing takes to another, and after speaking of Judge Dredd in anether thread decided to take a look at this one, always liked the comic and the character.
A decent modern style B movie if I can call it so, actually the kind of thing that some people think Tarantino should be doing.[/quote]
I was interested inseeing this in the cinema, but never quite made it. I will know either pick it up on DVD and/or Blu-ray. I’ve read 2000 A.D. for years (the comic Judge Dredd appears in every week for the last 36 years!) and I have always been a fan of the character, the storylines, the writers and the artists etc, etc, so it’s good to hear that being a fan of the comic won’t be mutally exclusive with liking the film like it was with Stallone’s “version”.
Prefer Dredd over the Stallone outing. Dredd is alot darker and it stays there.
I like the simplistic beauty of this movie, I think it has a lot in common with good sphagetti westerns. Back then the main message of the movie and artistic vision of the director were more important than realism and special effects, with which everybody seems to be obsessed nowadays. I don’t mind both ways, but maybe today technical aspects of the movie too often detract attention from good story and original ideas in film making and storytelling. Difference is most obvious in SF, but it is actually like that in any genre.
Soylent Green is set in future just for the purpose of the point it has to make, “scientific” aspect of that future is not that important, and the future in the movie doesn’t look that different from the '70s.
Emphasis in the movie is on the future state of the humanity, not on how the clothes, flats or vehicles in the future will look like.
And it is still adventurously and originally directed movie, begging from its opening sequence.
I’ve watched Dredd 3D in cinema after reading review which has stated that it is the best action movie of the 2012., but I was not that thrilled. There are better movies about few people being trapped in closed buildings, after positive reviews I was expecting more from Dredd. It is OK at best. As for the 3D effects, they as is often the case, feel totally forced in the movie.
I’ve never seen on of these recent 3D films, always have watched the 2D versions.
I think in a few cases, such as the recent Life of Pi, the 3D has aided the storytelling. Most films though use it sadly as a gimmick without exploring it’s full potential.
