The Return of Even More Movies You've Watched This Week III

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Elizabeth Olsen is a really, really good actress. People wrote her off in the past because she’s the sister of the Olsen twins. I was actually excited when they revealed she was in the MCU although I didn’t know anything about the character she was playing at the time since I’ve never read any of the comics.

Check out Silent House if you want to see how well she can really act. I didn’t like the movie, though. It’s a concept movie where the concept eventually becomes pointless IMO and it also gave me motion sickness. Others who don’t get motion sickness from POV handheld camera kind of movies might dig it.

*It’s not one of those silly horror movies where one character is holding the fucking camera filming everything and you’re wondering why the fucker is still filming, and the camera is relatively unshaky but some parts were enough to give me motion sickness.

I’m into WandaVision now because it’s getting more and more ridiculous but in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way IMHO.

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For kids:

  • We Can Be Heroes on Netflix- You’d think this is cheezy, it’s not
  • Enola Holmes (Netflix)

For Adults:

  • Radium Girls (netflix)
  • Girl Lost (Amazon Prime)- this one is very very heavy, but extremely well made and powerful
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OMFG!!!

Sam Raimi is directing the Dr Strange sequel. Sam Fucking Raimi. He’s THE REASON why I got so interested in films in the first place. It was The Evil Dead and it’s sequel that did it. (Wong Kar Wai’s Days of Being Wild had a large part to play too but I was too young at the time to fully understand it).

Good job, MCU.

I’ve already forgiven him for his shitty Spiderman trilogy(part 2 had it’s moments, but overall it was crap IMO). Let’s hope nothing fucks up this time. I’m hoping for some crazy, badass shit with really black humor like Darkman.

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Work shed!

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Saw a bizarre movie two nights ago. Lone Star. Matthew McConaughey plays Chris Cooper’s dad (both are Sheriffs at different points in time). This movie was kinda all over the place (multiple story lines at different decades), and took until the end to put it together. This movie was not predictable (I like that). Really bizarre twist in the end. 7.5/10.

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Did anyone watch Overlord? D day, Nazis, experiments, pseudo-zombies, blood and gore all over the place. It’s kind of tough to say how “good” of a movie it was, but I was very entertained.

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There is only one Lone Star.

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I watched that one quite a while ago. I like war movies and I like zombie movies. It was a winning combo for me. You hit the nail on the head with entertaining. That’s pretty much all I require from the movies I like.

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Yeah, I talked a while back on here about how if I’m rating a movies true quality, taking into account acting, dialogue, soundtrack, cinematography, and treating it like a real work of art, I can rate a movie 4/10 but still enjoy the fuck out of it.

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Almost the same here but I sometimes refrain from giving them rating since I like terribly made shit that’s also either much weirder and/or more unpalatable than the average viewer can tolerate so it’s going end up in decimals under 1/10 lol.

An example that more people would know about than the average obscure piece of crap is that I somehow enjoy is Troll 2. How do you rate shit like that lol?

I’ll also give a film I don’t like a good rating if it’s well made according to most of the terms you described, although I have certain terms of my own, since everyone’s taste is subjective and I’m trying to be as objective as possible even though my perception of movies may be a little distorted from watching so much crap.

But then, there are some seriously well made movies like the Suspiria remake that nobody here, including myself (with the exception of maybe @theBeth lol) will like, so I don’t know how to rate them. Technically, it was a masterful piece of work. But the plot either went full retard or it’s too deep for me to comprehend.

I thought it was a little too full of movie cliches(like that scene near the end where they’re trying to manipulate the audience into thinking one character is going to get shot and die but anyone who’s watched these kinds of movies before will know it’s just a fakeout) and they didn’t really know how to blend the war aspect with the horror aspect but I liked it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m fine with movie cliches. But the obvious fakeout kinds irritate me because they have to waste time setting it up and then doing the actual fakeout but you know exactly what’s going to happen from the start so there’s no suspense at all.

IMO it was also a clever but wasted premise that could have been executed much better but I’m not really complaining. Competently made stuff like this with ample budgets are rare nowadays.

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Lol, man that was just awesome.

There were so many great scenes filmed in a way I had never seen before. Spent so many hours rewatching both movies just to figure out stuff like how they managed to get certain camera angles.

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Aww man Suspira was awsome - I.e. tucked up enough to hold my attention. I didn’t think it was as terribly done as most of the B through F horror that I watch but it also was terribly unrealistic for a horror premise.

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You would like Brest Fortress. It has a very good plot line, with lots of gore

It’s free on YouTube with subtitles

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One of my favourite movies of all time

It does not let up for one single moment.

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I think I’ve posted this a few times before, but one of my favourite “bad” horror movies that was probably the first movie to feature running zombies(a.k,a the “Demons” in this movie), which you can watch on YouTube, is Demons (1985).

It’s a real “so bad it’s good” kind of movie. The purest of it’s kind.

The interesting thing about this movie is that it was produced and written by Dario Argento (director of the original Suspiria), who is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time when it comes to horror movie aesthetics who was also the same guy who wrote the script for Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in the West, which is considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

And the plot makes no sense. Absolutely no bloody sense. The acting is equally horrible. But it’s fantastic because the filmmakers took what they were making seriously without any “winks” at the audience implying they intended to make a silly movie. It was also one of the first movies to actually go meta on the audience and this was a bloody ‘B’ grade Italian movie made in the 80s by a director who only made ONE “good” movie in his life, which was this.

There’s even a claim during a voiceover in a movie within the movie that Nostradamus predicted the coming of “Demons” with a quote that I’ve never verified to be real or not made with deadpan seriousness without any hint of irony that we would see in most movies of this kind today lol.

The gore effects were way ahead of it’s time(even better than lots of movies TODAY) and there’s a scene with a dude on a motorbike slicing up zombies with a samurai sword. Seriously, watch it and compare the special effects to even Overlord without the CGI if you don’t believe me.

Plus, the soundtrack features Motley Crue, Saxon, Billy Idol and lots of 80s hair metal bands and a bloody amazing instrumental theme by one of the guys who did the Dawn of the Dead soundtrack lol.

If y’all wanna find a higher resolution version which is not on YouTube, I would still suggest you watch the English dubbed version because the dialogue is so absurd and delivered so badly it greatly complements the “badness” of this movie.

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You’re gonna love this if you haven’t seen it. Think 80s zombie movies made with the pacing of the HK horror/action movies of the late 80s. The ending of Bio-zombie(I think you probably know this one. It’s the one starring Jordan Chan whose director would later make the Ip Man series) was an obvious nod to this movie.

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Last weekend I rewatched Caché. I saw it for the first time in class a couple years ago and find myself thinking about it every now and then. The cinematography is fantastic. I want to watch more of Haneke’s films soon.

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I’m fairly certain I’ve seen this. I’ll run it by my wife who is an authority on horror

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Watched Iron Man 2 the night before, and Iron Man 1 last night.

I was surprised Iron Man 1 still holds up as one of the best movies in the MCU after 12 years and a large part is due to Robert Downey Jr’s acting IMO. Not saying the direction and writing wasn’t great, They were. It’s just that they made the right choice by casting a real actor like RDJ. The dude was getting mostly shit roles after pulling off such an epic performance in Chaplin. I can’t believe no one saw or knew how to make use of his talent at the time and it had to be a bloody super hero movie that allowed him to fully display it.

Seriously, watch it again and look at his acting and see the different emotions and little nuances he used to bring to his character alive. Then imagine ANY other actor other than maybe Tom Hardy in that role with the same script saying the same lines. I’ll bet you can’t. And even Tom Hardy sucked in Venom but I put the blame mostly on the filmmaking. Everything about Venom - from the direction to the CGI to the editing - sucked so bad I nodded off DURING the final fight. The only good thing about the movie was the Eminem song and the Eminem music video was like 10x better than the movie.

I remember watching Iron Man ONLY because of RDJ since I had never read the comic and had no interest in comic book movies. I only watched some of the previous comic book movies because my friends made me tag along and I only liked the first X-men, and that was because of the direction, fight scenes AND they also cast real thespians like Patrick Steward, Gandalf, and Hugh Jackman in it. No, wait, The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton wasn’t too bad. Hulk(The first one) confirmed what I had been telling people for ages before Lee Ang started making Hollywood movies that he was a hack. Yeah, I thought Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was rubbish and Chow Yun Fatt looked ridiculous in the movie although he did act his ass off. The Replacement Killers was a better movie. Sue me.

Anyway, it was Iron Man that turned me on to super hero movies although it was The Winter Soldier that made me really take them seriously. 8/10

Iron Man 2 wasn’t really good but that’s only relative to the other MCU movies. It was still a cut above the average action flick at the time. It was part 3 that really sucked balls. Mickey Rouke’s performance was excellent but they didn’t give him him much to do. When you have Mickey Rouke in full out thespian mode, you bloody hell use him as much as possible. Even Stallone had the good sense to give him that extended monologue in The Expendables which sounded like it was half improvised but he still kept the entire scene in the movie uncut.

Also, the Black Widow fight scenes were bloody amazing although the fight scenes in Civil War beat them hands down but this was in 2010. I honestly thought they hired someone like Donnie Yen or Corey Yuen to choreograph them until I looked up the names of the film crew in the imdb page. 7.5/10

I’m like 50% sure they’re going to screw the fighting part up in the Black Widow solo movie, which is one of the main things I love about her. The trailer doesn’t give me much confidence.

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Love your reviews man!

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Much appreciated!

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