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Post by Phoenix on Nov 17, 2006 11:22:05 GMT -5
I've never been into exploitation (aka "grindhouse") films but my husband has a buddy that really knows a lot about them, so he recommended Fight for your Life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_for_Your_Life). This was in prep apparently for Tarentino's new film.
You can see why Fight was banned and caused a big hub-bub. It's still pretty controversial and violent. Felt long at 86 minutes because of all the uncomfortable scenes.
Still, it was interesting. A good intro for me into shock exploitation cinema.
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 17, 2006 12:43:55 GMT -5
Paris je t'aime - a crazy mixture of short films set in various disctricts of Paris. I watched it mainly for Wes Craven's entry but the best one was undoubtedly the Steve Buscemi-starring episode directed by the Coens. Good stuff, overall.
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Nov 17, 2006 13:03:34 GMT -5
Frankenstein (1930) - Excellent. While in the case of the books, Dracula was more enjoyable, Frankenstein made a much better movie. Sorry, Bela. You're Karloff's sidekick. A+ It's from '31, not '30. It came out after Dracula. My bad. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Nov 17, 2006 13:57:35 GMT -5
Paris je t'aime - a crazy mixture of short films set in various disctricts of Paris. I watched it mainly for Wes Craven's entry but the best one was undoubtedly the Steve Buscemi-starring episode directed by the Coens. Good stuff, overall. Oh man I want to see that! Especially because one of my heroes, Alfonso Curaon, did a part of it. |
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Nov 17, 2006 18:23:31 GMT -5
Don't Torture A Duckling(Fulci) 2/4- Not bad, I liked this one.
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Post by frankenjohn on Nov 18, 2006 9:44:53 GMT -5
Casino Royale- The perfect reincarnation of bond that does everything right. My only beef is that they did suspend reality for some parts and I thought that making a 100% realistic Bond would be awesome. But this film is still amazing. ***.
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Post by frankenjohn on Nov 18, 2006 21:57:09 GMT -5
Life is Beautiful- A funny and hopeful movie that is wonderfully enchanting. ****.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Nov 18, 2006 22:25:54 GMT -5
Penny Dreadful One of Horrorfest's 8 Movies to Die For 1/4- Not horrible, but being as it was advertised as one of the movie's "too graphic & disturbing for most audiences",it was far from that, hopefully the other 7 movies were a lot gorier & disturbing. The cinematography was pretty cool though. Oh, and the ending was CRAP...
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Post by frankenjohn on Nov 18, 2006 23:04:07 GMT -5
Saving Private Ryan- Realism is what makes it so good. Otherwise it's not much. ***.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 19, 2006 9:17:03 GMT -5
RUMBLE FISH (1983)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Chris Penn and Laurence Fishburne.
With credits like that, it's gotta be great, right?
Sorry to say, but I found it ridiculous and BORING.
From the director of THE GODFATHER & APOCALYPSE NOW?? Yikes!
2/10
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Nov 19, 2006 16:21:07 GMT -5
Saving Private Ryan- Realism is what makes it so good. Otherwise it's not much. ***. Dude. That's the best war movie ever. Just realism? Man oh man. One thing Spielberg always does, sometimes to a fault, is get you to sympathize with his characters, and I don't think that Saving Private Ryan is any exception. Oh well, different strokes I guess. Casino Royale -- again, I have to disagree with you Frankenjohn because Bond has never been rooted in realism, even when Fleming wrote the character originally. And the new Bond movie is the best since GoldenEye which was probably the best since the one Sean Connery departed in. I have to give props to Daniel Craig for being the second best James Bond (because you simply cannot beat Connery) who carries the movie with his quiet intensity, wit, and charm. I think Craig needed to work on the Charm part a little more but oh well. The film kinda dragged towards the end, but it is the first one actually based off a Fleming novel in a long while and the novel dragged too so oh well. I like how the theme was incorporated throughout, but just subtly (unlike how it was entirely forsaken in Batman Begins -- the Batman theme I mean). I'll give it an A- I think and probably the second or third best Bond film ever. |
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Nov 20, 2006 2:51:37 GMT -5
Casino Royale - What Pulp said. Daniel Craig was a great Bond. Still trying to decide whether I liked him or Brosnan better, but Connery will always be the best, regardless of what some critic said about Craig being the best.
Casino Royale WAS the best Bond film since GoldenEye, that's for damn sure. And Chris Cornell's theme song kicked ass in a major way. A-
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 20, 2006 12:53:42 GMT -5
Oh man I want to see that! Especially because one of my heroes, Alfonso Curaon, did a part of it. Do you by any chance know which episode was Cuaron's? If it was the one with Nick Nolte - and I think it could be this - then it's one of the best ones here. I saw: Casino Royale. What frank thought: it's good but I was hoping for a more realistic Bond this time; and hey - as a Bond fan I know that realism is not necessary... but they went too over the top here and there. I loved the Craig-Green dialogues, though. Still: I wouldn't say it's one of the most impressive Bond films ever. Myself I preferred Die Another Day, for example. Sorry. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Nov 20, 2006 14:15:35 GMT -5
Yeah, Bart, Nick Nolte was in the Afonso Cuaron segment.
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Post by Bartwald on Nov 20, 2006 14:56:31 GMT -5
I was impressed with this one, then. Won't tell you why until you watch the film - that would be spoiling its magic.
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