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Post by Spark Doll King on Oct 21, 2023 23:57:42 GMT
Is the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre any good? I've been salivating over pictures of Jessica Biel in it and I wondered if it's worth watching the actual thing. It's watchable. R. Lee Ermey is hilarious, he's a fun Drayton replacement. I love the found footage sequences. I'd say the film is my 4th favourite behind the Hooper duology and the 2022 reboot. Nice to see someone else who likes the Chainsaw movies. It's always nice to see someone who appreciates Part 2. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the 2022 movie was good. I don't rate it as high as yourself but it was a fun. A hell of a lot better then that Leatherface prequel one. |
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Post by rushy on Oct 22, 2023 0:58:48 GMT
It's watchable. R. Lee Ermey is hilarious, he's a fun Drayton replacement. I love the found footage sequences. I'd say the film is my 4th favourite behind the Hooper duology and the 2022 reboot. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the 2022 movie was good. I don't rate it as high as yourself but it was a fun. A hell of a lot better then that Leatherface prequel one. I don't rate the 2022 film particularly highly, mind you. It's just a decent slasher. Outside of the Hooper films, there isn't a lot of merit to any of them. He was the only one to give the family real depth, even in Part 2. Drayton's speech about how the mechanization of the slaughterhouse led to his grandfather leaving in protest (and presumably to the Sawyers' downfall) is more interesting than almost anything else we see in the later films. I know the Platinum Dunes films briefly touched on this subject, but they didn't add anything new to what Hooper had already written. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2023 14:54:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2023 15:32:48 GMT
Looks like bland, generic tripe. Typical of hard-line conservative logicians. What happened to the artists? Movies are so complicated to make nowadays that it's difficult for one person to assert creative control, with a lot of work being outsourced or controlled by the studio. Also digital cinematography f*cking sucks fight me |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2023 22:44:57 GMT
Is the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre any good? I've been salivating over pictures of Jessica Biel in it and I wondered if it's worth watching the actual thing. It's watchable. R. Lee Ermey is hilarious, he's a fun Drayton replacement. I love the found footage sequences. I'd say the film is my 4th favourite behind the Hooper duology and the 2022 reboot. This is very much a penis inspired purchase. I mean, look at Jessica in this. Dear lord..   |
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 23, 2023 10:51:15 GMT
Had a double bill of the Shanghai films, (continuing the Jackie Chan theme.)
These are probably his best films. Unlike say Rumble in the Bronx, which is only really a good film because of Chan's charisma, action scenes and stunts, these are both great films overall. Two of my favourites in fact.
They both have great stories that are loving pastiche's of very distinctive genres (right down to the villains names, Marshal Van Cleef and Lord Rathbone.) Also the chemistry between Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson is an absolute joy to behold. Those two just go together so perfectly.
Chan as always is a perfect blend of being able to laugh at himself and bringing some gravitas to it, whilst Owen Wilson's character of Roy is one of the best sidekicks in anything.
Roy is such a prick LOL. He's lazy, he's a philanderer, he's always trying some kind of con, and he's always so f*cking useless he gets caught out and spends most of his time in jail cells, on the run or escaping by the skin of his teeth. Yet in spite of this he is so laid back, so charming and hilarious you can't help but love and root for him haha. His charm and love for the ladies is also why he survives in universe too. By all rights he should have been killed dozens of times, but his friends like Jackie Chan find him so amiable and fun, and the ladies in particular like him so much they'll always bail him out, even if he completely deserves to be punished LOL, like the barmaid that smashes a bottle over someone beating him ups head, or the Native American babe that saves him about 8 times in the first film, or Jackie Chan's sister in the sequel. Shows you why it's always important to be nice to the ladies haha.
I honestly can't decide which is better of the two? I might lean to the second as I do love the Victorian gothic setting and dear god that Jack the Ripper scene where Chan's sister beats the shit out of him and calls him a f*cking loser is possibly the best moment in anything LOL. That's exactly what Jack was!
I also think Aiden Gillan is an amazing villain in the second movie. I mean the bad guys in the first are excellent too, but he is top tier action movie badguys. His smarmy, hateful, yet charismatic performance, and his Draculaesque look are just perfect, and he actually beats Jackie. It's quite a nice twist and clash of cultures, that Jackie the kung fu master is kind of useless against Lord Rathbone who always fights with swords, which is obviously a completely different type of combat.
Honestly Aidan Gillan is so underused and underrated. This guy based on his performance in this should have been the Master. I mean he'd be as good if he played him like Rathbone as Delgado, and he should have been a Bond villain, a comic book villain and a really f*cking evil, hateful Dracula like the Christopher Lee version. Instead however he was in Queer As Folk living out RTD's sexual fantasies. I know he had a role in Game of Thrones at least, but still he should have been in more.
My only criticism of them is that Lucy Liu was a bit wasted in the first film. Her performance in that is kind of like Anita Mui in Rumble in the Bronx. In both cases you have an amazing, charismatic action girl, who for some reason is cast in the role of the wimpy damsel who gets victimized all the time. I don't know maybe that was the actresses wishes to show they could do other things? I remember big Fam insisted on playing a helpless character in the Taken movies to show she could do more than torture guys and be a scary, sexy monster, but personally I always think in an action movie it's a waste seeing someone like Liu and Mui or big Fam not do anything.
The girl in the second movie meanwhile is brilliant! Her killing the bad guy with a fire work is one of the most badass moments in any Jackie Chan film, and again don't even get me started on the Jack the Ripper scene.
Also to top it all off Alison King is in the second film, and she talks in a cockney accent! That alone pushes it ahead haha. I will say Owen Wilson's characters have the best taste in ladies from Alison King to big Fam in I Spy. He's a man after my own heart.
Maxil you should definitely check out Shanghai Knights. You'd love it. Victorian setting, gorgeous Asian babes, cool action scenes and great comedy. It's totally up your alley.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2023 15:56:20 GMT
About to order Road House (no Blu ray, so DVD will have to do)
I've heard that the film is so bad it's good, pure garbage or truly awesome. I doubt I'll think the one in the middle so it's between the first and the last one.
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Post by iank on Oct 28, 2023 21:38:59 GMT
Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers. 10 years after the events of Halloween and Halloween 2 (sorry modern hack movie makers), Michael Myers awakens from his "coma" upon hearing of the existence of a niece (Danielle Harris) and set off to Haddonfield to kill her and anyone who gets in his way. Fortunately Dr Loomis (the great Donald Pleasance) is soon in hot pursuit. Always loved this one, still do and it looks FAB on 4k blu ray. Sooooo atmospheric.
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Post by rushy on Oct 29, 2023 14:28:11 GMT
The first four Halloween films are the only ones that matter. The original Carpenter-produced trilogy and H4 as an anniversary special type thing. H6 can be a guilty pleasure. The rest are hopeless.
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 29, 2023 14:37:22 GMT
The first four Halloween films are the only ones that matter. The original Carpenter-produced trilogy and H4 as an anniversary special type thing. H6 can be a guilty pleasure. The rest are hopeless. I liked H5 personally. It's ending is probably the best of any film in the series. I think that should have been the end of the series to be honest. Michael is still at large, we never know if his niece is safe or not, or what that mysterious figure is and why it wanted Michael? |
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Post by rushy on Oct 29, 2023 14:53:23 GMT
That cliffhanger is the main reason H6 even got made lol.
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 29, 2023 15:03:53 GMT
That cliffhanger is the main reason H6 even got made lol. Honestly they should have left it there. |
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 29, 2023 15:04:24 GMT
Tucker & Dale vs Evil A pretty fun horror comedy that a parody of the your usual killer hillbilly type horror movies. The basic plot is that group of dumb college students head out to the woods to party, at the same time two friends, Tucker and Dale, are heading to the same area. Tucker has bought an old house out in the woods and they are there to revenant the place and make it a summer home. Due to some misunderstandings, the students think the pair are serial killers and their attempts to kill them often result in their own accidental demise. Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk make for a pretty effective comic duo of down to earth rednecks dealing with some pretty crazy shit, and while the rest of the caste are pretty one note thats kind of the point. A great time and I recommend it. Saw this a few years back and it was absolutely hysterical. |
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Post by iank on Oct 29, 2023 21:34:18 GMT
Halloween 5 is great, 6 sucks (the treatment of Jamie alone is disgusting) but I love H20 too. After that, though, forget it - the 21st century films have all sucked. I was kind of excited when I heard they were going back to the original continuity after the Zombie debacles, only for my heart to sink when I heard they were dragging Curtis back again. I was like "What can they possibly do they didn't do in H20?" As it turned out, nothing - basically just repeating H20 to lesser effect and in a context that made bugger all sense.
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Post by rushy on Oct 29, 2023 21:43:59 GMT
I don't get the love for Halloween 5? It's a glorified Friday the 13th film. Crap teen characters getting slashed. Pedestrian direction. Pleasence is the only thing keeping it afloat, even though Loomis is written to be out of character.
The original script to Halloween 6 was Pleasence's favourite since the original, and even in a butchered state you can see what the writer was trying to do. The direction is incredibly slick and atmospheric (I'm of course talking about the producer's cut). It's not a good film, but I'll give them points for effort and originality, two things lacking in most of the films that came after.
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