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By Hatter313
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static14 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:43 am This was fun last night. :)

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Would love to catch this on the big screen. its one of those movies in an admittedly long list of "at least once a year, possibly more" for me.
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By inksb
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No, not nearly as disturbing as Salo. Honestly, I'm not sure I would even call Holy Mountain disturbing at all, just more of a mind fuck weird shit with some odd stuff that can make you feel uncomfortable. I highly recommend watching it if you haven't seen it, it's just not a "must rewatch" all the time type film. And while you're at it you should probably watch El Topo too.
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By ScoJo
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When I first discovered Holy Mountain back in the early 90s, when someone traded me a 3rd or 4th generation Dutch VHS I think it was, I honestly couldn't watch it in more than 15minute chunks. Perhaps it was the strict alcohol and drug regime that I was adhering too (aherm), but I just found it too fucking wild, too packed, too head-shakingly GREAT to take in all in one shot. Then I showed it at a couple of midnight festival things, to mashed up field-dwellers monging out into the small hours, and kinda got it out of my system for a while. Then later a big group of us headed down to London town to see remastered prints of both El Topo and HM with Jodo in attendance, and seeing/hearing it in all it's true glory (the soundtrack is fucking amazing) blew my head apart all over again. I haven't watched it since then.
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By maxlevel
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Saw the new Godzilla instalment over the weekend, as cheesy as it was I enjoyed the spectacle and the complete demolition of Boston. Decent cast phoning in some routine performances, horrendous dialogue at times and preposterous crap, but actually some sense of humour amongst the plot craters. It should be titled ‘your mums a genocidal maniac’
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By inksb
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I watched two Lonely Island productions over the last few weeks.

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This is essentially just a string of music videos themed around the "Bash Brothers". It's stupid and hilarious. I loved it. They seemed to have way too much fun making this.

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I've wanted to see this one for ages and could not find a digital copy for the life of me. Finally found a way to watch it. It's great, John Cena was the standout and his older version cracked me up, same for Andy Sanbergs older version of himself. I wasn't expecting that and thought the casting was quite perfect. I'm really surprised that Andy was able to get Lance Armstrong to do this film. Both of these were much better than the Tennis one but that still has it's moments.
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By ScoJo
#119043
Taking a punt on a Prime horror flick (also known as Asylum Blackout it seems) and looks pretty interesting so far, 15min in. (I certainly perked up during opening credits when I saw script was by S.Craig Zahler!)

Buddies in a fuckabout garage rock band work in the kitchen of a hospital facility for the criminally insane. Power fails one night. Brutality ensues.
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By maxlevel
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Noticed that Shudder has a ton of new films on there, in particular this

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Really enjoyed it, especially the awful bits where you see the boar close up. Great sense of humour, wonky pace, screams, and a huge boar
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By inksb
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I've been hearing a lot of great stuff about Boar, it's in the queue so hopefully I'll be watching in the next week or so.
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By maxlevel
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@inksb the sense of humour is like Reno 911. The horror is like sharknado I guess.

Anecdote: couple of mates worked on the UK instalment of sharknado (5 or 6? Dunno). They had an American guy who would shout SHARKNADO at the extras when it was their time to flee on camera
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By inksb
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I like Reno 911 but I didn't realize that was a horror comedy. Either way I'll still give it a watch.


I started Refn's Too Old To Die Young, every episode is around 90 minutes. I barely have time to watch it but I've finished the first episode and I'm about half way through the second. I can see why people don't like it, it is the slowest of burns. The music is quite good when it shows up, there are long stretches of what feels almost like nothing but it's interesting enough for me to keep going.
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By Bezulsqy
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I wish I had Shudder in the Netherlands... But at least I have a very fast internet connection with no download limit...

Just now finished:

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A fun movie. Exactly what I needed this evening after a long drive.
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By ScoJo
#119129
skeletonbutt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:15 pm check out the second one, it's like an '80s time travel throwback. lots of fun.
I rather enjoyed the first one but felt a follow would surely be classic rehash of 'original' high concept idea. I'm willing to give it a go though!
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By inksb
#119132
ScoJo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:34 pm
skeletonbutt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:15 pm check out the second one, it's like an '80s time travel throwback. lots of fun.
I rather enjoyed the first one but felt a follow would surely be classic rehash of 'original' high concept idea. I'm willing to give it a go though!
I had no interest in the sequel when I saw the trailer but I've seen some fairly positive responses to it so I'll give it a go
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By ScoJo
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A GREAT film, with a GREAT P.S. Hoffman performance, and a killer Carter Burwell score. Lumet was like a hundred when he shot this, whatthefuck??


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By inksb
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I haven't watched that in a long time but I definitely agree it has a fantastic PS Hoffman performance.

Any of you watch Dark? Season 2 just showed up on Netflix and I'm struggling piecing together who the hell every one is in each timeline and what they did. So much happened last season and I need a recap.
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By Hatter313
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i loved the first season but i feel like maybe i need to rewatch it before i watch the second one, between the language barrier and the multiple timelines it takes some effort. plus i feel like its been too long between seasons for met o have retained more than a small bit from the first
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By inksb
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I'm 3 episodes in and still kind of lost. Definitely rewatch or at least find some sort of recap video. I love the time machine tech, it's so simple looking and not really explained which I appreciate.


The wife and I love our cartoons, we watch a lot of them and we try to have cartoons on every sunday morning while we have our coffee and eat breakfast. We watch both old and new, some of our more recent favorites have been TMNT (2012), Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Ducktales (2017) and My Hero Academia. Well I stumbled upon an article about a show having it's series finale on the same night as GoT, it was a show I had never even heard of called Star Vs the Forces of Evil. So I decided to check it out, it seemed to come from the same group CalArts kids who created Steven Universe and Gravity Falls (they all have a very similar art and character style). Well we have blown through 3 seasons and are on the final season now. The show is quite amazing, it's cute fairly kid friendly but goes quite dark for a Disney show with themes of loss and deep seeded hatred, losing everything you have, love and friendship. It has a great voice cast, some really clever stories and most important for something like this, characters you grow to love. The very basic set up (and it's much more than this) is a Princess from another dimension comes to Earth as an exchange student to learn responsibility and what it's like to be a normal person. She lives with a family becomes best friends with their son and he helps her fight off the evil guys who want to steal her magical wand. This is just season one, everything beyond that get's much crazier, they pretty much leave Earth about half way through season 2 and you only see it once in a great while after that. It's not going to be for everyone but if you love cartoons, looking for something new that actually has a well thought out story and characters and is fun give it a shot.

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By Bezulsqy
#119233
Paolo Lombardo's 1973 Dagli archivi della polizia criminale
score by Elvio Monti

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This was not a good movie. But it did have a very nice score.
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By maxlevel
#119245
I have a confession. Couldn’t stand Seymour Hoffman. He even annoys me in Big Leb
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By Bezulsqy
#119303
Umberto Lenzi's 1975 Il giustiziere sfida la città a.k.a. Syndicate Sadists
score by Franco Micalizzi

not Umberto Lenzi's best. I expected more violence.

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By maxlevel
#119333
Been watching Year of the Rabbit. Great script, but it’s actually quite a gentle romp
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By maxlevel
#119346
Watched the disappointing Sicario 2 last night, but the end credits has Hildur Gudnadottir and a dedication to Johann Johannason. Which was nice. She’s just done Chernobyl as well. Always a silver lining
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