[inksb]

Another good choice. The Devil's Candy is a strong follow up to The Loved Ones. I have one minor issue with the film and that's the fire. You'll know what I'm talking about after you finish watching it. Ethan Embry is crazy good in this. Apparently he got in that shape by just running 5 miles a day every day for a long time.

[ScoJo]

I really liked this film. In my mind, a perfect double bill (2nd feature, for obvious reasons...) with

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The VVitch! ;)

[Bezulsqy]

I love the Witch. Really loved it.

[inksb]

Curious on your thoughts on The Void @Bez. I have mixed feelings that I'll discuss after you finish it.

[Mateo Sanboval]

Bez is just getting after it right now.

[ScoJo]

Puppet Master: Littlest Reich.
Well, that happened!

Very very daft, very rubber-gory, and plays like an offensive low-budge Small Soldiers. Highly watchable, in other words! Wish I'd experienced in a packed, rowdy cinema setting like @deaf, who is completely on point btw- the Fabio score is pretty great.

Oh, and Michael effin' Paré!!?!

[Mateo Sanboval]

Oh, and Michael effin' Paré!!?!

[Bezulsqy]

Curious on your thoughts on The Void @Bez. I have mixed feelings that I'll discuss after you finish it.

I did not like it. All the time I was thinking how irritating the stroboscopic hallway scenes were. You have some sort of creature that is hardly visible probably because they were not able to create it in such away that I would look believable in a camera shot with better lighting.
I did not care for the characters. Some visuals remained of Hellraiser other of Silent Hill.
The score is terrific though.

The Devils Candy I liked more. Mostly because of the metal :-)

Jane Doe I though was great. The last act not so much, but that still didn’t take away how I loved the suspense in the rest of the movie.

[inksb]

Yeah The Void is a love letter to the films I grew up loving. It's cool to spot the influences but nothing in the story, acting, cinematography interested me all that much. I did appreciated using as much practical effects as they could but the ending bothered me a lot, the Hellraiser nods were too much. Agree on the score though, it's pretty solid.


Curently watching.....

[deafmetal]

@ScoJo - Paré really steals a scene, heh. I do agree that daft is a good description. It's in Braindead/Dead Alive territory for me. Frizzi's score was pretty good standalone listen as well.

Late night viewing:

[ScoJo]

Curently watching.....

Oh jesu.... THAT film!

Vincent Gallo. Is all I'm saying. Right??

Matthew Bright is a very unheralded talent for sure. From his involvement in the completely insane Forbidden Zone, to the first Freeway (a classic!) to his Bundy (good) and weird take on bloodsuckers in Modern Vampires, I'll watch anything he does. (He wrote the much-loved 90s Full Moon flick Dark Angel: The Ascent which I'm pretty keen to check out).

But Freeway 2... man, that film had me talking about it for days!

Here's the imdb plot for Modern Vampires:

A borderline fascistic Dr. Van Helsing unwittingly hires crack smoking gang-bangers to pursue the decadent vampires who secretly control Hollywood and the United States.

Oh, and he directed Tip Toes. You know- that Mconaghey flick where Gary Oldman PLAYS A DWARF??!!! :-O

[Bezulsqy]

^ I have no idea what you are talking about but I do feel the need to know more :-)

For me something completely different. And that first scene was very entertaining.

[Mateo Sanboval]

Tip Toes is insane.

[ScoJo]

^ I have no idea what you are talking about but I do feel the need to know more :-)

For me something completely different. And that first scene was very entertaining.

I hope you enjoyed @Bez - I couldn't get on with this film at all, found it unbearable in fact. After seeing at the flicks and being
very bummed by how much I actively disliked it, and because I'm a fully payed up Edgar Wright fan, I tried three more times t watch it, each time only getting about 10 minutes in then having to bail. Just not for me. Might have lved it if I was 15 mind...and had never seen another movie...specifically True Romance and The Driver and Drive and *list 100 way better/more original films* :-D

[inksb]

Oh man, I love Baby Driver, the editing is so damn good. I feel like criticizing it because it actively borrows from other films like "True Romance, The Driver and Drive" is strange after saying you like Wright films. Considering he's built his entire career on borrowing heavily from other films, paying homage and showing his love. That's like claiming Shawn of the Dead isn't good because other films are better and more original like Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead and insert what ever buddy film you want in this comparison. ;P

Hot Take! I don't think True Romance is all that great. I enjoy parts of it but always felt it was overpraised :P

[Bezulsqy]

@ScoJo
I have to agree with @inksb on this one. I enjoyed it a lot. I found it to be a very fun and entertaining flick. Thought the choreography in some scenes was brilliantly done.

And I am going to chance the last sentence of @inksb's comment to: I don't think Drive is all that great. I enjoy parts of it but always felt it was overpraised :P

[ScoJo]

Good to hear I'm in the minority on BD. As I say, was geared up to enjoy it. But the heart wants what it wants (and doesn't what it doesn't I guess!)
It was around the part that the bland, pouty, aimed-at-hormonal-teens vanilla lead kid was dancing around his poor, black, blind, wise old man that I checked the fuck out. Grisly.
Not to mention by-the-numbers turns from Spacey (shiver) and Foxx, and glib, post Tarantino gun-fetish nonsense (which also ruined Free Fire, another wildly dull film).
It's a really good point about Wright/originality- I think the major mistake I made was having the impression going in that this was his first non-parody feature. Which it was, I guess. But not by much!
He waited over ten years to make a high-concept film idea which, to be brutally honest, he'd already made perfectly well with that music video starring Noel Fielding. Sometimes filmmakers should question their passion projects a little more rigorously in my opinion. See Duncan Jones MUTE for brutal proof of this! ;-)

[Bezulsqy]

Good to hear I'm in the minority on BD. As I say, was geared up to enjoy it. But the heart wants what it wants (and doesn't what it doesn't I guess!)
It was around the part that the bland, pouty, aimed-at-hormonal-teens vanilla lead kid was dancing around his poor, black, blind, wise old man that I checked the fuck out. Grisly.
Not to mention by-the-numbers turns from Spacey (shiver) and Foxx, and glib, post Tarantino gun-fetish nonsense (which also ruined Free Fire, another wildly dull film).
It's a really good point about Wright/originality- I think the major mistake I made was having the impression going in that this was his first non-parody feature. Which it was, I guess. But not by much!
He waited over ten years to make a high-concept film idea which, to be brutally honest, he'd already made perfectly well with that music video starring Noel Fielding. Sometimes filmmakers should question their passion projects a little more rigorously in my opinion. See Duncan Jones MUTE for brutal proof of this! ;-)

I agree with what you say about that dancing scene. I also did not care for the boy - girl twirling around. Too sweet for me. Spacey and Foxx: I agree as well. But still I really liked it :-)
Free Fire was very dull indeed.

[maxlevel]

@scojo It’s a good example of cult director moving into power play Hollywood. EW has long coveted his chance at the big budget, Fox and Spacey(shiver) starring blockbusters in the same vein as Point Break. his involvement with Ant Man proves how hard it is to get anything done with so much outside influence. This is why I think baby driver is pretty remarkable, he’s actually made a massive mainstream film coherent rather than Worlds End which stays just the other side of ‘big budget’ and suffers for it.

Where I think the film falls down, as a jaded 30-something I’ve seen far better motor sequences on far lower budgets. I feel like the Italian Job is waiting just behind the next corner but it’s already sped off onto the sunset

[Mateo Sanboval]

This forum has lost it's got dam mind.

[ScoJo]

I agree with what you say about that dancing scene. I also did not care for the boy - girl twirling around. Too sweet for me. Spacey and Foxx: I agree as well. But still I really liked it :-)
Free Fire was very dull indeed.

It seems like you and I...we agree on a lot of things sir. Fair play that you still enjoyed the flick despite these grievances! I genuinely mean it when I say that- I love oppositional (yet cordial) reactions to art. I also don't mind being the only voice of dissent, which does happen. Having said that (oh sigh, here we fuckin' go...) I also have no problem enlightening deluded fools when they're drooling over Hot Garbage!! ;-)

[ScoJo]

@scojo It’s a good example of cult director moving into power play Hollywood. EW has long coveted his chance at the big budget, Fox and Spacey(shiver) starring blockbusters in the same vein as Point Break. his involvement with Ant Man proves how hard it is to get anything done with so much outside influence. This is why I think baby driver is pretty remarkable, he’s actually made a massive mainstream film coherent rather than Worlds End which stays just the other side of ‘big budget’ and suffers for it.

Where I think the film falls down, as a jaded 30-something I’ve seen far better motor sequences on far lower budgets. I feel like the Italian Job is waiting just behind the next corner but it’s already sped off onto the sunset

You're no doubt spot on as regards EWs ambitions Max, and quite Wright (heh) he is to have them too. I happened to really love World's End as it goes- as with his previous movies, a spot-on parody that's bursting with invention, but still gives us realistic people who we care about going on the journey with. Holy shit, now THAT's the EW miracle IMO! Name me a single other parody film that achieves this?? (Go on- and if you cite Nick/Val Kilmer in Top Secret I doff my feathered cap to you sir...nailed it)

My first reaction to BD was in no way logical/intellectual/film-buff-ey btw...I really wanted to love it! The trailer had me hyped, I was into the idea, and even managed to find myself in a 'secret cinema' advance screening. Everyone there will testify how wildly excited I was when the rating certificate popped up! So I was definitely 'in'. That movie just wasn't for me, no three ways about it. (Tried to re-watch it on a flight to NY, got myself in the Wright (heh) frame of mind, had a hard word with myself. Lasted ten minutes then flipped over to The House. Boom.)

[Mateo Sanboval]

True Romance - A
Drive - A
Point Break - A
World's End - C
Ant Man - C
Baby Driver - C
Forrest Gump - F-

[ScoJo]

True Romance - A
Drive - A
Point Break - A
World's End - C
Ant Man - C
Baby Driver - C
Forrest Gump - F-

[Mateo Sanboval]

Bullshit.