What's the latest movie you've seen?

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Violent Night
This movie is basically Die Hard in a mansion with Santa taking the place of John McClane. It wasn't amazing but it was pretty entertaining. Some decent laughs and some ultraviolence. 

Maybe I should watch this after Crash.  That should counteract my counterphobia for sure. 

[Toy Revolver]

Forgive my ignorance, but, is this film supposed to be a black comedy or something? 

no

ballard was intensely serious

cronenberg would have never turned it into a joke

[Guybrush]

Forgive my ignorance, but, is this film supposed to be a black comedy or something? 

I'm raging with jealousy because I don't have a huge gash like hers, and my brace was much flimsier than hers. 
I do identify with her struggle to get in and out of the car, though - except in my case it didn't attract so much attention!

I think we might share in common that we are a bit counterphobic, Tore:  highly distressing, emotionally bizarre movies are my *car crash*, as well.
 

It's not above occasional comedy, I guess. It certainly makes me chuckle here and there, although most of the movie is quite sombre

I'm definitely counterphobic in my movie watching preference. It's a good way to put it! I'm watching Phil Tippett's Mad God for SCD Film Club, Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool as I'm going through the Cronenberg's and have planned watching The Wolf House and rewatching Lars Von Trier's Antichrist.

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The Yesterday Machine (1963)



I saw this one several years ago but I stumbled across it on YouTube and decided to watch it again. It was every bit as ridiculous and awful as I remembered. A former Nazi concentration camp mad scientist, living in an underground bunker/laboratory/jail with two Nazi brownshirt guards and a female slave from ancient Egypt, beneath an old abandoned house in the woods of Texas, is experimenting with a time machine he invented and intends to go back in time to change the outcome of WW2 in the favor of Adolf Hitler & the Nazis. A high school cheerleader, a night club singer, and a detective, fall into the hands of the mad scientist when they get too close to his lair.

I couldn't find a movie poster for this one, which is a shame because a flick as bad as this should at least have a great poster to promote it and mislead potential viewers.

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New York Confidential (1955)

A B&W crime thriller about the head of a New York crime family and a young hitman he hires for a job and decides to keep on as a top member of his organization. Quite good from start to finish and even though I thought the ending seemed rather predictable, I still think it's one of the better gangster/organized crime/mafia type movies from that time and the genre in general.

 

[Guybrush]

Haha, the guy on the poster looks like a confused Walter Matthau?

[Guybrush]

I saw Infinity Pool yesterday.



It's a movie by Brandon Cronenberg and a sci-fi thriller with a very interesting premise. I don't wanna spoil it, but I can describe it in a spoiler tag for the extra curious.

Spoiler

The movie deals with death penalty, but with the twist that you can pay to get a clone made and they'll execute the clone instead of you.. if you can pay for it.

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It's also ripe with social commentary. One could jokingly describe it as a mix between Crash and The Purge. It's not perfect, but definitely worth your time - especially if you like weird movies and can stomach occasional ultraviolence.



@TheNonSexual OccultHawk, I think you would like this.

[Toy Revolver]

OH, I think you would like this.

i might not stick to it but i'm trying to avoid film and tv completely until the next football season

i'll almost certainly watch it though unless i die before next season

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I sort of drifted into Blade Runner 2049 when I really could find nothing much else on my box (keep passing season five of Gomorrah: it's the last one and I want to keep it for the right moment shut up) but I was very disappointed with it. Very slow, even then hard to follow, no real action for - well, up to the point it cut off. Thing is, it was shown on the Sony Movies Channel, and was for some reason split into two separate programmes which recorded independent of each other. All I had to do was push the green button on my remote to pick it back up and continue. The fact that I did not says perhaps all that needs to be said. Did I miss something? Should I give it another chance, or am I better remembering Blade Runner as the classic cult movie I know and love it as?

[Toy Revolver]

i liked it fwiw

of the film adaptations for dick's works blade runner and the sequel aren't my favorites

i like screamers, minority report, and total recall all more

high castle is a good novel but the tv show stinks

blade runner inspired a lot of good music though

[Guybrush]

I think Dick's book was a little corny and actually prefer Ridley Scott's very loosely based movie. To me, Blade Runner (the original) is brilliant. I enjoyed the sequel too, but it didn't leave much of a lasting impression.

[Toy Revolver]

I think Dick's book was a little corny and actually prefer Ridley Scott's very loosely based movie. To me, Blade Runner (the original) is brilliant. I enjoyed the sequel too, but it didn't leave much of a lasting impression.

do you think he's overrated as a writer

i think his style can be a little too convoluted and he's lackadaisical about drawing the reader in but i know he's extremely highly regarded so i can't deny maybe i'm just too stupid to appreciate him fully

[Guybrush]

do you think he's overrated as a writer

i think his style can be a little too convoluted and he's lackadaisical about drawing the reader in but i know he's extremely highly regarded so i can't deny maybe i'm just too stupid to appreciate him fully

I think I only read Do Androids Dream... and that was a long ass time ago.

I read it because I love the movie so much, so it may be a given that I would prefer the movie. What I remember from the book is (SPOILER ALERT) Deckard having a depressed wife who's addicted to some mood altering machine? And they're very fixated on what sort of fake animal they should get. He's really saving up for that goat. It's partly comical which makes for an odd feel and I vaguely felt like the story lacked direction. Was Deckard motivated in his work? I think he stumbles into stuff and kinda solves his case, but in a way that makes it seem like he has little agency. I don't know. I found it disappointing and haven't read anymore Dick since. But as you say, he's definitely very highly regarded and I also know he was very eccentric.

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I rewatched Lars Von Trier's Antichrist.



I rewatched it because I like the dreary atmosphere and I couldn't quite interpret it the first time around and so.. I was hoping it would make more sense on a second viewing.

The plot is (SPOILER ALERT) a couple loses their only child and the husband, a therapist, tries to treat his struggling wife at a cabin in the woods where she can confront her fears (she fears nature). Weird things eventually happen and it's kinda difficult to understand why.

It didn't really become much clearer and I think I learned that Von Trier himself says these images came to him, but he doesn't know what they mean. A lot of the scenes were improvised, so I guess that means the movie is part flow of consciousness or does whatever it needs to in order to reach whatever imagery Von Trier was aiming for.

Some tangible themes are here in any case, especially the evil and chaos of nature - both literal nature and our inner natures, especially in terms of infanticide.

Von Trier made this while he was in the bowels of depression and it is rather bleak. If you're like me, it's still enjoyable. Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are very dedicated in their roles and do a good job. Some of the imagery is stunning, if brief. I especially enjoy the slow motion shots of Charlotte's character walking in the woods. So atmospheric! Other than that, it's slightly notorious for a couple of scenes of ultraviolence, but it doesn't take up too much of its runtime.

Not for everyone, but.. You know who you are 🙂

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The Flying Serpent (1946)

Low-budget horror from 1946 which is so low-budget that it looks like it was made at least 10 years earlier. Mildly amusing but the plot is a ripoff of 'The Devil Bat' from 1940 and this film was even made by the same company. If anyone hasn't seen either of them and likes these types of flicks, then skip this one and watch 'The Devil Bat' instead. At least that one has Bela Lugosi in the starring role.