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EvanCampbell wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:37 am Hatter313 It is like kids building a really bad clubhouse but like you said the effort was there. Some of the effects stuff was cool and the awkward amueturaty is fun to watch.I Called a friend of mine after watching it who used to work for the OTHER Jay mansion (family was prolific in these parts) as a guide and archivist. I literally described it like "We would have made this movie. its a mess, but its really kinda charming for all of that"
inksb wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 12:45 pmyou and me both ;) i agree about modern action movies. the hk stuff from the 80s and early 90s just gets better with age. you can appreciate the element of danger and skill required for the scenes, and it makes them that much more effective when you see two people 'really' fighting or performing stunts. john wick, etc. are fun for what they are, but when the camera moves too much to clearly see, the editing makes it difficult to follow, or the obvious cgi takes you out of the scene, the suspension of disbelief crumbles. i also notice this with car chases. technology has certainly made it easier to keep the actors and stuntmen safe but at the expense of realism and tension.
inksb wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:14 pm A word of warning though there are two scenes of real animal violence, I skipped past them but I read about them before hand. The opening of the film involves a mouse having a nail forced through it's head and you are left to watch it suffer, the second is way worst and it is a cat being thrown out of a second or third story window and landing in razor barbed wire, trapped and mutilating itself to death.Jesus christ! This is an excellent warning mate, as there's no effin way I'd even risk seeing this shit, by intention or accident. That sounds genuinely horrific - a cat?? But surely they feel about cats pretty much the same way we do, even in the early 80s, in that part of the world? Oof.
ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:40 pmYeah, I was warned by the person who recommended me the movie, I skimmed through the the film and found the moment right before it happens, it's the only spot in the film with a cat framed in full view so I just skipped ahead about a minute and it was over so I actually didn't see it, I read about the two scenes prior to this as well. I'm not sure what it is with animals that folks liked to make them suffer on film but Asian and Italian filmmakers were the worst in the 70's & 80's with this shit.inksb wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:14 pm A word of warning though there are two scenes of real animal violence, I skipped past them but I read about them before hand. The opening of the film involves a mouse having a nail forced through it's head and you are left to watch it suffer, the second is way worst and it is a cat being thrown out of a second or third story window and landing in razor barbed wire, trapped and mutilating itself to death.Jesus christ! This is an excellent warning mate, as there's no effin way I'd even risk seeing this shit, by intention or accident. That sounds genuinely horrific - a cat?? But surely they feel about cats pretty much the same way we do, even in the early 80s, in that part of the world? Oof.
Hatter313 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:23 am Watching the bloodthirsty trilogy. Just finished “the Vampire Doll” (1970) and started up “Lake of Dracula” (1971)I've been meaning to pick this set up and keep forgetting about it. Looks really good.
Oh man where have these been all my life! I probably first heard about them from an essay from Kim Newman a while ago but could never track them down until arrow put out the Blu-ray recently. Finally using this “extra time” to watch them.
Great scores too, composer is Riichiro Manabe, who did a bunch of genre work in this period including some Godzilla’s. (And some serious prestige Japanese cinema as well from the looks of it, an Oshima or two in there) looks like there’s a CD set from Japan I’ll keep an eye out for, not wax release that I could find.
Hatter313 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:42 pm About to throw the third one on soon, they are fun and gloomy and a real treat.Yeah I recently did a similar thing, I went through all my shelves and pulled forward the discs I haven't watched yet (this pains my OCD not having everything look neat and even but it had to be done). I realized I have blurays from 3 years ago that I never watched. I've been trying to make my way through them but it's tough because a handful my wife wants to watch and she's limited on movie watching time as this is her final semester of getting her Masters degree. Hopefully this summer we will work our way through more of them. For now I just find the stuff I think she'll have no interest in.
I’m on a strict “nothing you’ve seen before” binge right now combined with a “watch everything you own” rule.
I went through my blus last week and pulled out everything I had blind bought...there were like 50 titles I had never actually seen, lots of sequels to thing I liked, random one offs that shout or arrow out out that sounded interesting or had been on my radar etc.
I also compulsively buy spaghetti westerns and Cushing/Lee outings, most of the major and second tier titles of both of those groups I’m very familiar I with, but some hard to find deep cuts have only recently made their way to a good print on Blu-ray so I’m catching up on those, the stray amicus anthology or Django sequel.
One of those what Horror Express, a movie I had always been trying to watch but was always in such poor quality I never got past the first few minutes. Picked up the arrow blu a while back and finally watched it the other night....possibly the most underrated Cushing/Lee outing ever. It’s the type of genre mashup that’s always hard to pull off and be liked by most people, but the combination of gothic horror, political thriller, sci fi, and adventure really played well for me. It’s like The Thing, Murder in the Orient Express, and Lifeforce kinda wrapped up into one ball starring Cushing, Lee, and Telly Savales.
