Trench 11, 2017. 6/10




Maniac Cop 2, 1990. 7/10

Agreed, tense, it's well made... it's interesting, good pace, effective shot direction, decent effects and acting. More enjoyable for those who haven't see The Happening or Quiet Place.

I liked this more than you did. I saw it with a buddy at the theatre high. I was impressed with the trippy cinematography. It wasn't a great or notable story, wasn't particularly funny, except like you said, I think there were some funny parts, like there was in A Nightmare Before Christmas. Personally, I wouldn't say the film would have had to try very hard to be better than a TV ep... but although I saw a good 6 eps, I wasn't a fan, so you've confirmed I'm probably wrong about that. Anyway, I enjoyed for it for what I think it was attempting cinematically, and I'm not sure what anyone was expecting considering the source material. ::big grin::

Sounds good, looking forward to it. How close to Pulp Fiction is this?

The Lobster (2016) (netflix)
8/10

An emotionally reclusive widower (Colin Farrell) is forced by society into a hotel where singles have 45 days to find a mate, but if they fail they will be turned into an animal.

This is an odd, subtly funny, satire on the perceived importance of a significant other -- focused more on those who have trouble establishing relationships -- and delivered in rather appropriate Nineteen Eighty-four style.


Secret Window (2004)
6/10

Johnny Depp plays a writer harassed by a man claiming he plagiarized his story, in this Stephen King story, screenplay/directed David Koepp.

I thought this about a someone researching a satanic happening. Must be confusing it with another film. (Maybe someone can tell me what film I must be thinking of?) Mostly nice direction, although I didn't think the reveal was particularly effective, considering this is fairly old hat here, and a stripped down story that's often waiting. Restrained role by Depp.


Civilizations: Encounters, S1:Ep 4 (2018) (netflix)
8/10

Documentary how art is affected when foreign cultures first meet.

Far from it.

It’s more like a blend between Jackie Brown and The Hateful Eight.

First half is an interesting build-up, then in comes Chris Hemsworth and it all goes downhill from there, even tho he shines in the role as some kind of Charles Manson. All in all the movie is quite a mess.

From Hell

“What Happened to Monday” 7/10

By the director of the Dead Snows.

Not horror/comedy but sci-fi/action with a bit of dark humor and starring Noomi Rapace playing 7 different siblings. Definitely not flawless but it is entertaining.

A mess? Really? I fucking loved it! And yeah when Chris Hemsworth came into it it took the film in an entirely different direction but I liked it. And yes, it's nothing like Pulp Fiction. It has the element from Jackie Brown where you see things happening from different points of view which is awesome and then the hateful eight element of Mystery.

Secret Window is badass! I think it's one of Johnny Depp's better movies actually where he isn't playing some ridiculous feminine sounding guy in a top hat.

Subconcious Cruelty - fuck this movie and whoever wrote it.

I'm all about some art house but give me a fucking break... I could tolerate the baby scene in a Serbian film just fine because of the ridiculousness behind it but they went too goddamn far with this one and even then I was still willing to give it a chance hoping maybe it would redeem itself but then that going to people pulling up clumps of grass and dirt in the ground only to reveal giant puddles of blood that some people were even fucking was just downright stupid. I hate to sound so negative but seriously, fuck anybody that was involved in that piece of shit.

Thanks, Bro!

Yes, I agree, Depp did a good job, I said 'he was restrained', for him, but still engaging, and not a wack job. For me 6/10 is mildly entertaining, but I certainly was not on the edge of my seat for this film. I saw what was coming about Depp (which as I said, is an old hat plot, cause we've seen it many times), and so his wife, wife's lover, sheriff, PrivateEye and all that stuff was very simple and stripped down; so pretty quickly it just feels like we're waiting. The scenes with John Turturro (angry writer) are the best, no doubt.

I'm glad you loved it, and I thought it was alright (& peaking at RT.com Critic 46% Audience 65%, I think I saw it right), but I don't think the ending quarter was riveting or surprising at all; rather I found it obvious, cliche, short, tame, unsuspenseful, unfunny, generally blasè.

Well, Deadbeat At Dawn said this was a kids movie, so I don't know why you were miffed! ::big grin:: (I'm just kidding, folks, Deadbeat didn't say that.) We're all friends here, what part in the movie went too far? I'm curious, and I'm not gonna see this.

I am Jesus. Do you believe that too? ::big grin::

But seriously, I don't care what other people think, if anyone enjoys watching babies getting sliced up and blood spraying out of their arteries in their mothers face as they die, who am I to say that's extremely fucked up?

But seriously, watch bad times at the El Royale. That movie is fucking amazing! And angra, I found the character of Billy Lee to be quite necessary to the story. His message was there is no difference between right and wrong rather than how people perceive it. I loved his message and what it brought to the last Act of the film. Those scenes got pretty intense.