Brilliant adaptation. Every quote is epic.
The best representation of Batman EVER! Part I and II are just amazeballs.
Ok. I admit it. I missed Mel. Good to see him back in fine form. But he is still a schmuck offscreen.
the fight between Godzilla and King Kong was nothing special, but it was still great to see the 2 most iconic monsters duking it out. despite popular belief there are not 2 different endings, its the same ending in Japan and America
Even after almost 80 years, The Most Dangerous Game still holds-up. The lighting, design, and cinematography all contribute to an effetively creepy mood. The performances are adequate-not stellar, but not so far over the top as to be off-putting. Highly recommended.
Eerie and suspensful, even after 40 years. Probably Hammer's best.
Its is not "So bad it makes it good" It is just bad.
On par with the "The Curse I" and "The Grudge I", this last part of the "Ju-On" series is another good horror flick. I finally understood that the sequences aren't shown in chronological order but rather randomly...
This was better than I expected, helped by a strong performance from our heroine and some beautiful photography that really made you feel you were in the water with her... and the shark. I had a good idea what was in store but a few surprises and clever use of cameras made the difference. This was solid genre filmmaking with some bite that is definitely worth your time and money. 7/10
Can anyone tell me what the f**k was this movie about?
Pseudo-girl seduces guys, guys get an erection and then drown. WTF..?!
Who was that partner in crime?
Why were the aliens doing this?
Why did they needed so many human skins?
What was the aliens energetic input (didn't ate and their skin was covered)?
Crappy stupid movie IMO.
I wish I could rate it a 0. I've seen a lot of terrible movies over the years and this ranks up there as one of the worst.
Cool, sleazy little Spanish gothic tale. Man, they really liked showing boobs in these Paul Naschy movies...lol
Meh. Pretty lousy for a Naschy film. The story is convoluted and hard to follow. Without any scares, and music that is completely mismatched, it's hard to recommend. There is some gorgeous cinematography though...
Normally I would not review a different cut seperately, but with this movie things are most definately different. "Lisa e il diavolo" is the original Italian title that was first translated into English as "Lisa and the devil", and should have been released in 1972. It was the one movie that Mario Bava put most of his work into, his final great movie, where everything should have been the way he wanted it to be. However, due to some problems with finding potential buyers, producer Alfredo Leone forced Mario Bava into editing the movie. This was not because of bad critics - everyone at the filmfestivals who saw the movie was excited, however noone was in the market. Leone acted like an businessman, analysed the market and jumped on the train that was currently hyped. And that of course was "The Exorcist"; so Leones vision: Let's turn the movie into an Exorcist movie. So even years later after the movie was already finished, Leone reassembled the cast, and made them shoot additional scenes that should alter the movie entirely. What used to be a nightmare like reallity is this time turned into the wild dreams of a girl (Lisa) posessed by the devil. So we get as new scenes how she gets possessed, then how she is deliverd to a hospital, how she turns crazy and how finally priests are gathered to exorcise the demon in her. And while this is happening, we always cut into scenes of the old movie showing her nightmare-visions. It is a totally different movie, and it is totally bad. The atmosphere that Bava created with his original is totally broken, the new scenes that mostly consists of disgusting pictures, obscenities, and nudity are bait-like and where shot despite the explicit whishes by Bava to not have such scenes in his movie (he actually - as a director - left the room when these scenes where shot, because he wanted no part of it).
What we end up with is a movie that is more direct than Bavas original, easier to grasp, with fewer wearisome lenghts, but also movie that loses nearly its entire atmosphere, that has no originallity anymore, no metaphors or symbolism, plus some things that are actually never said in the original movie but are implied for the viewer to find out himself, are simply put into the dialog by just watching Lisa and the Devil the first time I did not grasp that this movie has for example a part that is about impotence. So in the end this movie gets irrelevant, and that is something that even the critics realized - Leones vision backfired - instead on hopping on to the Exorcism train and giving the people yet another movie they would want to see, people realized it to be a blatant rip-off and therefore was denounced.
That already being bad enough, Bavas original vision was litrally butchered, and he was not okey with it (he actually changed his name on the credits to 'Mickey Lion' because of this), and never even saw this version which was the only one in cinemas. He still read the critics and those made him really sad - it should have been a master piece and his final great work before retiring, but in the end it became a cold and soulless movie created for just financial profit-making. The sadest thing: Mario Bava did not even see his original version being released - he died with the knowledge of nearly no one having seen his masterwork (except for France, where it was released in the original cut at cinemas, but for the home release also only this cut was released) and thinking that no one will ever see it. Only in 2012 where for the first time both versions released - and the original version is much better rated by critics and is today seen as the far superior version.
So I waited for this one every since they announced it. Then covid delays. Bought the fist tickets for the first show days ago. Got to the theater, got snacks, sitting there with my son and nothing on the screen. The camera broke. No more tickets for the rest of the day available. Grrrrrr. Went home, watched on HBO max. Well at least the movie was awesome.
Not terrible but not exactly great either. Far too reliant on jump scares to the detriment of the atmosphere. Every time the tension would start to build it would get cut far too short by one of the jump scares. Less would have been so much more in this particular case. Still, not a bad rental if you're up to some Insidious brand fun.
The Forgotten Sequel made to the Original King Kong. It touches on the aftermath of Kong's rampage and Denham be sued for damages. He ends up needing to escape from New York. There is a very awkward relationship Between Denham and Helene.
This is the weirdest piece of cinema I have ever seen. And that's not just because they use old Saab 900 Turbos as police cars...in Japan.
An insane mix of gore, sex, extreme body modification, and intense violence makes Tokyo Gore Police...not for everyone. A rather select few probably would enjoy this, but it just wasn't for me. I wouldn't have finished this one if I hadn't been made to do so by a friend.
Try it if you dare.
A dry but interesting take on the old tale, where the Hyde alter ego is the cleaned up charming version, albeit with a complete lack of morality. There's not much horror on display though, it plays out more like an infidelity fable.
Was looking forward to watching this, but I felt the film was a bit all over the place. I also dislike the whole "camera angle view" thing in films, and this featured elements of that.
I'm kind of surprised by the view count which seems unusually high for this sort of movie. Is that the nudity on the poster ;)?
Personally I never thought this would see a release anytime soon with anything English but here we are!
Anyone that is not weirded out by the plot synopsis or thinks that makes a good movie will probably enjoy this (I'd add necrophilia and rape to the not-be-offended list though).
The weakest part of the movie is definitely the wrap-around story which serves as an excuse to tell us the story of the "Gun Woman" in the form of flashbacks. The mute woman itself is portrayed quite well by "Asami" which seems to have made the switch from the JAV industry to the gorefests of Noboru Iguchi and friends. You can definitely see her transformation from crackwhore to assassin...
The action is solid and there is plenty of blood. The budget is notably limited and the CG barley passes. Still, it's an entertaining movie that is as sleazy as it sounds (the IMDB rating is falling through the roof though).
PS: I would also like to know how Tatsuya Nakadai got cast in this, it's kinda funny.
I love this movie for some reason. Effects were rotoscope. Its got great dry humor only the British can master. Its so satirical. Great 1960's period adaptation of the original wells book. Worked well as a movie. And staring out in the current age (late 60's) and then telling the story from one man's point of view years after I event happens. Great play with time.
As I continue to slowly wade through all of the Godzilla movies, it's getting harder to distinguish memories of one from the other. This is not the case with "Godzilla Vs. Hedorah", however. This movie features Hedorah, a monster who actually sucks smog from smokestacks, seeps and pukes pollution on anything and everything, and manages to morph from slow-moving slug to odd flying creature. Oh, and this is the movie that features Godzilla flying by using his atomic breath as a thruster.
The people that made this movie were likely drug-addled at the time. There are many inexplicable moments like animated scenes that pop into the movie out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly. There is a scene where everyone at a party suddenly appears to have fish heads. Hedorah flies over people which melts their heads into a blue goo. There's a psychic little boy a score featuring hippies playing awful '60s music and an anvil-heavy environmental message.
I tried my best to relay just how strange this is but you really have to see it to appreciate its B-movie badness.
Christian Bale is really good and there are a lot of familiar faces in the supporting cast too. The movie is too long and slow though. There are some tense moments and man, can they be brutal, but there is too much time between them.
A plot would be nice to accompany all the moving and running around with cool music!... Also some god performances.
Plain bad, stick to the trailer.
This movie is really dumb. In the opening moments of the film they set up that the brothel is all an imagined reality, and everything that happens there had no meaning. We then spend the entire movie in this space, except for a few moments when the main character dances and enraptures everyone somehow (I have no idea what this translates to in the asylum). These moments look cool, but again they hold even less meaning to what is happening. So then at the end of the movie they reveal that it was an asylum the entire time and we are meant to be shocked by this, even though the movie told us at the beginning. None of the story is interesting or makes any sense or holds any meaning. The only good parts of the movie are the ridiculously stylistic action scenes, however they are only mildly amusing. This movie was a big disappointment, as I was expecting mind bendy reality dream like story telling but I only got a meaningless drivel with over the top action scenes connecting them.
Pleasantly surprised by this one. Despite the low reviews scores, it is actually pretty good. The setup is creepy, the body horror is suitably icky, and the narrative holds the attention. Watch it, and let it be another reason why you shouldn't visit the beach in 2020.
There are some effective creepy moments at times and the film is competently acted and directed, with some atmospheric cinematography and a story from the original creator. Yet the original film was effectively a closed story with nowhere to go and the film can do very little except repeat elements from the first film. So we have the initial tragic event to set the scene for the protagonist, the journey to the haunted house that is drenched in atmosphere, the central heroine discovering elements of the backstory that audiences are already aware of and slight variations on scenes to create those jump moments that were so effective in the original. The film is heavily reliant on sudden bursts of volume to shock, though there are one or two scenes that work as well as the first did visually, but generally the film obeys the laws of diminishing returns on horror sequels. Not as bad as it could have been, but still largely unnecessary.
Alita: Battle Angel is like inviting all the coolest people to a Sunday afternoon kid's party.
Because the cast is there, but they get stuck in the muddy story lines and overshadowed by the monumental effects, which is a pity, really, because it's quite a cast. Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Christoph Waltz, Ed Skrein... and a cameo by Spoiler Alert!? In a movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron!?
You'll go for the CGI but you'll stay for the CGI because that's really all there is. The story, as is often the case with Rodriguez films, is a little all over the place and the plot changes more often than a model in a cheap fashion show. Then, once he's finally decided on an ending, he has to rush to get there before the film ends so the last 20 minutes has to hold all of the plot developments before giving up and deciding to prepare for the worst and hope for a sequel.
PS [and minor spoiler alert]: I did have some questions concerning the human boy and his relationship with with the cyborg teen. Because we saw her naked enough to know that she's as anatomically incorrect as a Barbie Doll, so... she has no port into which he might insert his flesh drive?
delivers exactly what you would expect from a movie called Godzilla vs Kong, 2 giant monsters kicking the crap out of each other. even when monsters were not on the screen, there was plenty to keep you engaged
the runtime, which was just under 2 hours, flew by and i was never bored. yes, the parts that featured human characters were less interesting, but who watches a giant monster movie for human characters anyway?
having said that, the human characters following Kong's arc were infinitely more compelling than those following Godzilla's, and Kong's story overall had an emotional arc that made you care about him
