I’ve just watched it. I generally liked it, but could have been better - a little overlong in some places and the choice of soundtracks wasn’t always perfect. I didn’t mind rap, I must say it kinda worked. The major flaw for me was that towards the end the music seems to never end and it all feels overpacked with rap, classic spaghetti western music and other tunes. It almost turns to an opera which isn’t a good thing. Uneven in quality and style and it sometimes doesn’t work for me. Not as entertaining as IB, but still strong enough. The first part was tremendous though and I thought it was going to be a classic Tarantino, but well… it wasn’t. 7/10
I rewatched Conan the Barbarian (1982) on Blu Ray.
One thing I would like to point out. The woman who plays young Conan’s mother at the beginning of the film. I understand she was once a German softcore performer, and I don’t think she gets enough credit for this, but when watching this film again, I took note of how how incredibly subtle her performance was. She didn’t have any lines but her face says it all. She captures the moment perfectly, from protecting her son to lowering her guard when James Earl Jones puts her under the spell. I don’t think she gets enough recognition for how great she acted in this brief little scene:
Enemy Mine - Hadn’t seen it since I hired it on VHS when it first came out. I couldn’t remember that much about it (apart from the general story) so it was like watching it fresh. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the transfer is absolutely stunning.
Pieta - It’s about an enforcer for a loan shark who cripples those who don’t pay up and takes the money they get from the insurance to pay their debt. A woman turns up who claims to be his mother who abandoned him when he was a baby. Quite a fucked up film, I really enjoyed it but I did get a bit lost towards the end.
I Don’t Want To Be Born.
Joan Collins stars in this 70’s horror, and she acts on full tacky mode. All about her giving birth to an evil child. It has Caroline Munro in though which is a bonus, but have read she was dubbed by Liz Fraser in this one ! It sounds like Fraser anyway. Film is just a bit flat with alot of good actors wasted. This type of thing was done better in Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive.
Just watched [size=12pt]ARGO[/size]
Good film, after the first forty minutes or so, which are a little confusing, it’s really suspenseful, well-acted and well-directed. The main flaw probably is that it goes a bit to much for multiple crisis situations, especially towards the end. Affleck then wants to build up the suspense by cross-cutting between three, four events that all come to one great climax at the airport. That too much, that looks artificial, but hey, I had a good time with this movie.
Black Dynamite (2009).
Enjoyable piss take of the 70’s blaxploitation films about a guy who goes on the revenge path after his brother is killed. Film benefits from not taking its self to seriously. The actors are playing it real dead pan style in delivery which makes you smile. Nice not to have loads of cameo appearances of 70’s blaxploitation stars for a change.
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing, 1942… Outstanding salute to the Dutch Underground in real-time, as depicted through the exploits of a downed British bomber-crew… as they skulk-and-weave their way to the North Sea coast. Historically superb on many levels, sans sappy melodramatics. Well worth a watch.
major flaw for me was last 20-25 minutes, just after the showdown in Candie’s house - but even this showdown was quite unimaginative - just lots of blood and no real thrill and ideas - boring
Tarantino probably thinks that it must be the coolest thing ever to see people exploding after they got shot but i don’t
but i like Dicaprio and Waltz very much, great characters and first hour or so was satisfying
on the other hand the main character Django seemed to me uninteresting - Jamie Foxx is good actor, but his charm didn’t work for me this time
[quote=“tomas, post:9368, topic:1923”]major flaw for me was last 20-25 minutes, just after the showdown in Candie’s house - but even this showdown was quite unimaginative - just lots of blood and no real thrill and ideas - boring
Tarantino probably thinks that it must be the coolest thing ever to see people exploding after they got shot but i don’t
but i like Dicaprio and Waltz very much, great characters and first hour or so was satisfying
on the other hand the main character Django seemed to me uninteresting - Jamie Foxx is good actor, but his charm didn’t work for me this time[/quote]
The ending is decidedly flawed and Tarantino could have got rid of some unnecessary scenes which rendered the ensemble overlong and less effective. I must say I like those oceans of blood - quite Tarantinesque - but just like you say - what it lacks is some sort of stylisation. Likewise, Tarantino overwhelms a viewer with slow-motion shots which look kinda cool, but after 10 minutes of slow motion it all almost gets unintentionally funny - it virtually transforms from Django Unchained into “Django Matrixed”. The dynamism does not derive from slowing down the sequence, but from filming the same scene utilising several cameras with different speed of recording. This would be something. I had anticipated something more and I got a very good (only very good) Tarantino western. Anyway, I hope it isn’t his last.
Mickey13 @ I must say I like those oceans of blood -
Did you say [size=14pt]BLOOD[/size], you got it…Toyota!
IMO, Tarantino went overboard with the splatter blood.
i didn’t mind the slo-mo that much, or at least there wasn’t so much slo-mo i would start to mind it
anyway, i was expecting whole movie Jamie Foxx to dig up a machine gun from somewhere … no, just kidding
but i was expecting whole movie to see at least something that good as digging up a machinegun from somewhere
but road not taken - it is probably bad for a movie when you start contemplating that this scene would suit better Jonah Hex movie than Tarantino’s spectacle
I liked it, because it was so unrealistic… 
Fulci Style. Now I know why Tarantino considers Four of the Apocalypse to be one of his favorites - the flick has those bloody squibs!
This one was quite bloody too (and unrealistic):
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[quote=“tomas, post:9368, topic:1923”]major flaw for me was last 20-25 minutes, just after the showdown in Candie’s house - but even this showdown was quite unimaginative - just lots of blood and no real thrill and ideas - boring
Tarantino probably thinks that it must be the coolest thing ever to see people exploding after they got shot but i don’t
but i like Dicaprio and Waltz very much, great characters and first hour or so was satisfying
on the other hand the main character Django seemed to me uninteresting - Jamie Foxx is good actor, but his charm didn’t work for me this time[/quote]
Possibly the ending after the ending was tribute to The Mercenary? Or maybe it was tribute to something else, you never know with Tarantino and his references. I liked the showdown in the house, it felt quite dynamic in the theater when I watched it. Thing I didn’t liked was scene when woman was shot and was blown away, not because she was shot but because she blowing away looked so computer-generated. Then again, maybe this was intentional joke too 
Finished off Breaking Bad Season Four today. I can’t stress how good this fucking show is. Giancarlo Esposito has to be one of the coldest most ruthless bad guys I’ve ever seen ot a TV show.
The Deer Hunter.
Fancied a long classic 70’s one tonight, and this one did the job perfect. Spot on acting all around. Was reading up on actor John Cazale who co starred and forgot he died so young, shame as such an interesting actor.
Deer Hunters great, I do think it would improve it if the wedding scene wasn’t as long though.
Watched The Running Man this evening. It seems quite dated now but it’s still a hell of a lot of fun.
I really like The 14 Amazons, seen it a few times. The unrealisticness you mention adds to the joy of the film for me. Especially when they are crossing that chasm. Great bit of Shaw cinema, I’d like to see a blu ray release of this one.
Funny story about this. They made a preview of The Deer Hunter and the audience mostly liked the film, but claimed about the wedding scene as overlong. They made another preview with a shortened wedding scene, but now the audience disliked the film.