I’m just happy that netflix is coming to Brazil, the i will finally get to see some movies for cheap like you guys!
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
My friend thought that they overplayed the religious aspects of the movie, but they have become more significant following the recent events in Norway. Also, without those aspects there’d be no real villain for the heroes to contend with.
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I thought the religious additions were a neccesity to be honest. When you’re dealing with animalistic vampires then really it’s just another zombie movie, but with fangs. They focused on societal breakdown and man turning on man, despite a common beast to fight. Made a much more interesting film in my opinion!
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That’s how I felt! It was pretty obvious that they tried to push the boundaries of the plague scenario beyond mindless carnage, but my friend (actually a smart guy who likes his politics) thought the spread of the Aryan brotherhood was unconvincing. When I said it could quite easily have happened because the brotherhood came from the Southern bible belt (which is established in the movie), he said “but they weren’t in the South, though” - meaning that Mister and co. were travelling across the country.
Which they were, but he missed the point that the brotherhood had spread across the U.S. I gave up after that.
It didn’t help that there was a gang of shouty, twitchy teens in the cinema with us, commenting and giggling at everything. Nervous laughter in a horror is a classic sign of displacement: in this case, displacement of their bowels into their underwear. Horror noobs!
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Is Stakeland on netflix?[/quote]
Yes.
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bonus[/quote]
Here’s another bonus. I found a bunch of Stake Land character prequels
on Youtube (they may or may not be on the DVD):
Roy is this a show or a movie?
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Have you watched Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? yet? I want to know what you think about it after you do. PM me.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Have you watched Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? yet? I want to know what you think about it after you do. PM me.[/quote]
10-4 will do
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Movie.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Movie.
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Well if the movie is anything like those posts I am excited to watch this tonight.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Movie.
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Well if the movie is anything like those posts I am excited to watch this tonight.[/quote]
Enjoy! BTW, I don’t know if you’re able to watch Youtube clips in work now, but those character prequels don’t spoil the movie - they are all required viewing except for the Jedidiah one…the rest fill in some narrative blanks - especially Mister’s mini movie, which strengthens what I previously thought was a comparatively slow and anti-climactic ending.
Watch 'em before or after. Watch 'em before and after. It makes no odds…just watch 'em…
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Movie.
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Well if the movie is anything like those posts I am excited to watch this tonight.[/quote]
Enjoy! BTW, I don’t know if you’re able to watch Youtube clips in work now, but those character prequels don’t spoil the movie - they are all required viewing except for the Jedidiah one…the rest fill in some narrative blanks - especially Mister’s mini movie, which strengthens what I previously thought was a comparatively slow and anti-climactic ending.
Watch 'em before or after. Watch 'em before and after. It makes no odds…just watch 'em…
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Yea IT is fucking with people I guess, Facebook is now blocked but Youtube is not. I watched them that was why I was excited.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Roy is this a show or a movie?[/quote]
Movie.
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Well if the movie is anything like those posts I am excited to watch this tonight.[/quote]
Enjoy! BTW, I don’t know if you’re able to watch Youtube clips in work now, but those character prequels don’t spoil the movie - they are all required viewing except for the Jedidiah one…the rest fill in some narrative blanks - especially Mister’s mini movie, which strengthens what I previously thought was a comparatively slow and anti-climactic ending.
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Watch 'em before or after. Watch 'em before and after. It makes no odds…just watch 'em…
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Yea IT is fucking with people I guess, Facebook is now blocked but Youtube is not. I watched them that was why I was excited.[/quote]
Ah, ok…blocking FB in work is understandable. It’s digitized crack. Just say no, kids…
[quote]roybot wrote:
Another film from the director of Oldboy that I enjoyed was Thirst. It’s about a Catholic priest who volunteers as a test subject for an experimental vaccine and becomes a vampire.
It is slightly bonkers, and the switches from horror to comedy are so abrupt that you may not realize it at first (had to rewind a few times because there is some very subtle comic dialogue going on in some very dark visual situations).
The effects, showing the priest’s growing vampire abilities, were great. [/quote]
Just watched this last night and really enjoyed it! Tae-ju is absolutely bonkers and I found myself sickly cheering for her towards the end. Very well done and as you say - lots of curiously funny dialogue. Still not sure what to make of the ‘ghostly husband’ thing they kept experiencing, but that’s that crazy Korean for you ^^
Cheers for the recommend!
Chocolate.
If you decide to rent/buy it - be sure to check out the bloopers/cut scenes. It really opens your eyes at how dangerous it was to film this movie.
City of Violence.
Equally as brutal.
Ichi The Killer.
Pretty odd movie. I enjoyed it. But still quite odd.
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Another film from the director of Oldboy that I enjoyed was Thirst. It’s about a Catholic priest who volunteers as a test subject for an experimental vaccine and becomes a vampire.
It is slightly bonkers, and the switches from horror to comedy are so abrupt that you may not realize it at first (had to rewind a few times because there is some very subtle comic dialogue going on in some very dark visual situations).
The effects, showing the priest’s growing vampire abilities, were great. [/quote]
Just watched this last night and really enjoyed it! Tae-ju is absolutely bonkers and I found myself sickly cheering for her towards the end. Very well done and as you say - lots of curiously funny dialogue. Still not sure what to make of the ‘ghostly husband’ thing they kept experiencing, but that’s that crazy Korean for you ^^
Cheers for the recommend!
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No problem, Stern.
[Thirst spoilers]
I think the ghost is supposed to represent the priest’s guilt at having killed an innocent man. Tae-Ju tricks him into thinking he beat her. She got even worse after Sang-hyeon turned her. Imagine spending an eternity with that! I felt sorry for him by the end.
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[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Another film from the director of Oldboy that I enjoyed was Thirst. It’s about a Catholic priest who volunteers as a test subject for an experimental vaccine and becomes a vampire.
It is slightly bonkers, and the switches from horror to comedy are so abrupt that you may not realize it at first (had to rewind a few times because there is some very subtle comic dialogue going on in some very dark visual situations).
The effects, showing the priest’s growing vampire abilities, were great. [/quote]
Just watched this last night and really enjoyed it! Tae-ju is absolutely bonkers and I found myself sickly cheering for her towards the end. Very well done and as you say - lots of curiously funny dialogue. Still not sure what to make of the ‘ghostly husband’ thing they kept experiencing, but that’s that crazy Korean for you ^^
Cheers for the recommend!
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No problem, Stern.
[Thirst spoilers]
I think the ghost is supposed to represent the priest’s guilt at having killed an innocent man. Tae-Ju tricks him into thinking he beat her. She got even worse after Sang-hyeon turned her. Imagine spending an eternity with that! I felt sorry for him by the end.
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/Spoilers cont…
I thought that too but then why would she also be seeing him? The scene where they’re shagging - they both appear to be aware he’s between them and there are a few scenes where each of them, individually, have to deal with the ‘haunt’, for lack of a better word. I assumed it was psychological at first but then it seemed they were sharing the same vision at times; unless of course that was her again playing along…
I did feel sorry for him but at the same time she seemed so batshit insane that she made an excellent vampire/killer. She just fell in to the assumed role perfectly. ^^
/End Spoiler
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Another film from the director of Oldboy that I enjoyed was Thirst. It’s about a Catholic priest who volunteers as a test subject for an experimental vaccine and becomes a vampire.
It is slightly bonkers, and the switches from horror to comedy are so abrupt that you may not realize it at first (had to rewind a few times because there is some very subtle comic dialogue going on in some very dark visual situations).
The effects, showing the priest’s growing vampire abilities, were great. [/quote]
Just watched this last night and really enjoyed it! Tae-ju is absolutely bonkers and I found myself sickly cheering for her towards the end. Very well done and as you say - lots of curiously funny dialogue. Still not sure what to make of the ‘ghostly husband’ thing they kept experiencing, but that’s that crazy Korean for you ^^
Cheers for the recommend!
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No problem, Stern.
[Thirst spoilers]
I think the ghost is supposed to represent the priest’s guilt at having killed an innocent man. Tae-Ju tricks him into thinking he beat her. She got even worse after Sang-hyeon turned her. Imagine spending an eternity with that! I felt sorry for him by the end.
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/Spoilers cont…
I thought that too but then why would she also be seeing him? The scene where they’re shagging - they both appear to be aware he’s between them and there are a few scenes where each of them, individually, have to deal with the ‘haunt’, for lack of a better word. I assumed it was psychological at first but then it seemed they were sharing the same vision at times; unless of course that was her again playing along…
I did feel sorry for him but at the same time she seemed so batshit insane that she made an excellent vampire/killer. She just fell in to the assumed role perfectly. ^^
/End Spoiler[/quote]
[spoilers]
It could be just a very abstract way of showing their internal states: the ghost isn’t really ‘there’, it’s just a way of showing how the husband’s death both torments Sang-hyeon and delights Tae-ju to think that she made him a killer (I think she had such a hold over Sang at that point, he’d have committed the murder whether he was a vampire or not. In fact, I think it was his human side that was responsible, in this case, not his vampire instincts).
I’d prefer to think of it that way rather than as a straight haunting. That’s just my take on it. S-H was tormented enough by T-J and his vows of priesthood without the need for a ghost vying for his pound of flesh.
Blood-sucking did come (super)naturally to her, but she revelled in his misery every night. She basically did the exact opposite of what he wanted. Kind of takes the edge off immortality. The worm turned in the end, though.
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Stern wrote:
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I was going to make post about this yesterday.
It may be low budget, but it is definitely worth being added into the mix of good zombie movies. No happy endings though. I wasn’t aware the french knew how to make movies like this.[/quote]
Hah neither was I! My woman sighed heartily when I suggested it but both of us were pretty shocked by the size of its baws. Dude with the axe had me howling to be honest and I really enjoyed the way they kept everything localised. I suppose it’s a common trick in zombie movies - to isolate the characters, but like Mulberry Street you really get a sense of entrapment here. They pulled it off very well.
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Bottom line, great action scenes, badass Africans, crazy French chicks with guns, crazy old dudes with rifles and a lot of zombies with ZERO explanations for what the fuck happened…equal “Full Price”(thanks spill.com).[/quote]
Finally got my hands on The Horde about a month ago - it was a blast.
Highs: blurred moral lines between the cops and criminals, the jacked zombie and the head African guy.
Lows: some of the extras need to go back to zombie finishing school. Give some people a pair of tinted contacts and they start posturing like goths practising their best “unholy creature of the night” routine in the mirror before going to the nearest S & M club.
Head tilts are not scary. Mini-rant over. A handful of grandstanding extras aside, it was great.
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Totally agree about Romero’s recent output. He endorsed Zombie Diaries (not to be confused with Diary of the Dead, which was OK, but obviously shot on a shoestring) - it was horrendous.
Apparently directors called George are inclined to rest on their laurels…
Yeah, the “good” zombie was named ‘Bub’ in the original. I can understand why they tweaked the name for the remake. Haven’t seen The Horde yet. Another one that has been on my rental list for months but they never get around to dispatching (!).
As for Rubber, well that’ll teach me to get excited about films featuring sentient tires with psychopathic, psychokinetic tendencies. The movie magazine I subscribe to gave it a thumbs up and I usually trust their reviews. I’ll end up watching it anyway simply because it’s about a killer tire that’s gifted with the ability to make human heads explode. The premise was bound to divide opinion.
I just “got” the vibe of the trailer.
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Without a doubt it’s an original concept and there are a few things about which are good, I mean, they set out within the first couple of minutes to explain, well…meh I’ll not spoil it for you. You do however, lol… can’t believe I’m saying this… but you do see some character development from the tire which is interesting as you can follow it as if it were Peter Parker discovering his new abilities.
But there’s so many odd things about the film which just don’t tie up with any rationality and it’s designed to be that way, if that makes sense.
If you like odd movies just for the sake of knowing you’ve seen them then aye, it’s worth a watch. I’m kinda like that too I guess. 
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I saw Rubber around the same time I saw The Horde. It wasn’t what I expected from the trailer: I thought that it would have a spoofier, quirkier tone throughout, but it was more like an arthouse b-movie.
I enjoyed it, but I won’t recommend it, because you’ll either love or hate the movie based on how you take the opening monologue - which is a mission statement for everything that follows. I tried to find the first few minutes of Rubber on Youtube so I could post it here - I couldn’t find it, so in recommending it I’d just be asking you to roll the dice on what may or may not turn out to be a wasted rental.
It’s really far too off-beat to predict if you’ll like it based on previous likes and dislikes…* And by “you” I don’t mean you, Stern: I’m talking generally to the folks who haven’t seen this already. I had to make that disclaimer because it sounded like I was telling you about a movie you’d already seen.