Seen and not seen's, recommendations and queries on top films in general.

[ConcreteMascara]

Yeah, typo on my part. This was the first movie by him I've seen. I know the Re-Animator is supposed to be a cult-classic and all that I've just never got around to watching it.

I did get halfway through the The Resurrected last night. It's okay... but I think it try too hard to be SpoOooOOOkkkyy. And it's not. Plus the setting and characters are different. Eh....

I wasn't convinced so I just started re-watching the first season of Twin Peaks instead.

[P-K]

i was SO looking forward to the last Reel23-release:

turned out to be a worthless piece of junk, avoid!!! 70minutes of blurry & glitchy phone-cam were almost nothing happens, and the stuff that happens is way too out of focus to make sense. worthless   :-(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014783/

[Levas]

Last weeks:

Children... - Very nice Korean movie about 5 missing children. Based on true events. It's more not a crime movie, but psichological overview of persons who take part in these events. 7/10

Hellfire - Rather boring movie about unfinished symphony that is connected with murders and thus the woman wants to finish this symphony and everyone starts to die. 3/10

Centre Forward / Jungang Gonggyeogsu - North Korean movie about football player. Politics, fires in human hearts and so on. I'm always fascinated by North Korean movies. Love them 10/10

Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw - Artsy movie about a boy who did something horrible and now he's traveling on his bike. So it's mainly about the picturesque environment he passes though the movie itself is not that good. 6/10

Dust Devil - Very nice horror flick. Shamanism, killings of women, deserts and so on. Just didn't like the end of this. Overall - good 8/10

Eréndira la indomable - Movie about how a woman fights against conquistadors. It's not only the storyline, but also the movie itself is very beautifully filmed, Spanish people with masks, locals etc etc. Very good 9/10

Finisterrae - Didn't expect anything from this, but it's indeed very calm and good movie about two ghosts who travels to some place where they could leave the earth. Quite artsy, but nice and slow. Recommended to those who are into such weirdnesses. 10/10

Girls Town - Was expecting more of this movie. Now it's just meh. some rape, some tits and loads of shit-talk. 4/10

Twins - Rather smart movie. I see he's won many prizes and so on. Not bad, but nothing too excellent. Twins are travelling to arabic country where their mother was born and so little by little they know MANY DARK SECRETS ABOUT blah blah their mothers' life and so on. 8/10

Summer Rental - Very nice comedy with John Candy. Nostalghia, heh. But apart from that it is also funny and cute (!!!) movie 9/10

Meet the Applegates - Another old-school comedy that most of you should've seen i guess. Applegates are in fact mantis that came to live with people for their destructive plan and so on. Nice 7/10

Memories of Murder - Yet another good Korean psychological crime about unsolved murders. Liked it even better than the children. 9/10

Mutilation mile - Two brothers are going on the killing spree after they find their uncle dead. I don't know if there exist any other movie where the word FUCK is repeated more often. Quality product of Ron atkinson. Good. 8/10

My Demon Lover - Boring supposed to be comedy/horror. the man becomes a demon when he gets a boner. avoid. 2/10

O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization - Polish postapocalyptic movie. Various dramas etc etc. Not very good 5/10

Odgrobadogroba - Slovenian comedy. Excellent comedy in fact about the guy who gives funeral speeches. Dark one. Love it. 9/10

P - Usually Thai horror is not bad, but this one was awful. It's like seeing some soap opera, but with some voodoo and so on involved. barely finished watching it. avoid. 2/10

Pouta - Perhaps the best or one of the best movies from this whole bunch. Political regime vs single person. It's not as good as Brazil, but truly better than 1984 for me. 10/10

Põrgu - Visually very nice short animation from Estonia. 8/10

Susuk Pocong - Indonesian horror. As always, voodoo, love, etc etc. At first it was very good, then the middle of the movie was quite boring, but at the end it was also quite interesting to watch. 6/10

El charro de las Calaveras - If you ever start wondering whether westerns could be interesting anymore or not - watch this mexican weirdnes. The guy with the mask vs werewolf and so on. Excellent 8/10

Vulgar - I was expecting much more. and this is only some whining about the misfortunes blah blah. very mediocre. 5/10

Also there was a bunch of dystopian movies that i watched, but i'm too lazy to write about them:

[1990 - Hardware - Uncut Red Edition]
[Absolon]
[Avalon]
[Casshern]
[Cherry 2000]
[CL.One]
[Code 46]
[Creation of the Humanoids]
[Cyborg.1989.DVDRip.XviD-Thunder]
[Dark City]
[Death Machine]
[Encrypt]
[Escape From N.Y]
[Escape.From.L.A]

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Electric Glide in Blue. I remember I saw this from TV sometime back in 80's as youngster. I was in DVD shop and the owner ask am I looking for something specific. So I said "Machine Girl" and then said there's ton of biker films, but I saw this one thing years ago about.... and with just couple details given and c. 30 seconds of search in shelves, he had the dvd in his hand.
Back then it felt like very brutal movie, and... in a way it is. I hope movies still looked like this. Quality of film, colors and sound is just perfect. Arizona biker cop waiting for more from his career. Violence, funky music, drugs, erected nipples, bikers, hippies, police brutality,...

Machine Girl is Japanese ultra gore. Yakuza boss son is leader of youth gang who bullies other kids. Boy get killed and his sister takes revenge on the gang. With machine-gun attached to her amputated hand. Extremely exaggerated orgy of blood. It's better than many of the very amateurish japanese splatter flicks, but this is more like humor film after all. In Finland released by Night Vision with subtitles.

[bitewerksMTB]

ELECTRIC GLIDE IN BLUE is pretty good. I've seen it on tv a few times over the years.

CROPSEY- this is a documentary about the disappearances of a handful of mentally handicapped children on Staten Island NY in the '70s- '80s. Worth checking out as it has EVERYTHING great about '80s crime: rumours of devil worship (The Process Church is dragged into it as some happened at the same time as Son of Sam), homeless men passing around children in sex rings in an abandoned hospital for fucked up kids, lots of footage roaming around underground tunnels underneath the hospital, creepy witnesses, creepy man who was arrested for the crimes basically on no real evidence (where's the ACLU?!? wait, he's not the right color)... There's footage from when the hospital was in operation taken by Geraldo Rivera investigating on how bad the conditions were (kids nude, in filth laying on bare floors).

[Stridulum]

There's this US film that in Italy is called ELECTRA GLIDE, which as far as I remember has the same plot you guys are talking about... could it be the original title is actually ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE?


EDIT - I checked and it is ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE indeed.

[GEWALTMONOPOL]

I have this on DVD and recently saw it again. It IS Electra Glide in Blue. After the motorcycle called Electra Glide used by the cops in the film. It was directed by the guy who managed Chicago at the time. Several members of the band are in the film and the rockband playing live in one scene might even be them. This is from the time when Chicage were still a decent rockband. Hard to believe I know but check the first album. Not bad at all.

It also has the tragic Robert Blake who is slowly becoming a favourite actor. While EGIB has its flaws (director ran out of money and had to finish it sooner than planned) it's a good watch. Very 70's American which could be my favourite "genre". Before that I watched another film featuring Blake called In Cold Blood. The Truman Capote book about the murder of an entire family in Kansas in the 50's. Now this is a fucking great film all the way. Great soundtrack by Quincy Jones as well.

If anyone knows more good films featuring Robert Blake then let me know.

[Jaakko V.]

Fitzcarraldo

Obsessed with opera and the vision of bringing european style operahouse in middle of south american jungle, he goes into absurd goal of pulling full size steam boat through jungle covered mountain.. to reach another river and untouched rubber trees. No tricks used in film, but they did it just like movie depicts. Two and half hours of utmost brilliance.

Watched this recently, and got totally hypnotized. Also saw the documentary Pestdemon mentioned, My Best Fiend. Utterly amusing, especially this assassination detail, and the story about Herzog threatening to shoot both Kinski and himself..! Men of passion. However, Both Herzog's vision and how they practically managed to do this movie seems so interesting that one is almost prompted to get hold of this.

One of the most revered of contemporary filmmakers, Werner Herzog kept a diary during the making of "Fitzcarraldo", the lavish 1982 film that tells the story of a would-be robber baron who pulls a steamship over a hill to access a rich rubber territory. Later, Herzog spoke of his difficulties when making the film, including casting problems, reshoots, language barriers, epic clashes with the star, and the logistics of moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill without the use of special effects.

[Stridulum]

If anyone knows more good films featuring Robert Blake then let me know.

Wasn't he also the lead star in the US cop drama series BARETTA?

That one was heavily broadcasted here in Italy during the 80's, even in prime time, alongside other cop dramas like Kojak. Now it's all late night stuff.

[ConcreteMascara]

Watched two very different movies last night. First, Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Great spaghetti western meets samurai action style. Over all I thought it was more humorous than anything. Admittedly I have not watched too much Kurosawa for some reason or another but this was great.

Second was In The Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima. Pretty much the most sex I've seen in a film that wasn't a porno. I honestly thought some of the best scenes had nothing to do with fucking at all. Having it pretty accurately depict real events definitely adds to the movie. I felt there was a real weight of fatalism on both of the characters, like they knew it was going to end poorly the whole time. The main actor was quite good and had me laughing a lot which I didn't expect.

[P-K]

another film featuring Blake called In Cold Blood. The Truman Capote book about the murder of an entire family in Kansas in the 50's. Now this is a fucking great film all the way. Great soundtrack by Quincy Jones as well.

def a must-see , classic !

[GEWALTMONOPOL]

If anyone knows more good films featuring Robert Blake then let me know.

Wasn't he also the lead star in the US cop drama series BARETTA?

That one was heavily broadcasted here in Italy during the 80's, even in prime time, alongside other cop dramas like Kojak. Now it's all late night stuff.

He certainly was. Then things took a bad turn for him. Poor guy. Good actor though. Underrated perhaps.

another film featuring Blake called In Cold Blood. The Truman Capote book about the murder of an entire family in Kansas in the 50's. Now this is a fucking great film all the way. Great soundtrack by Quincy Jones as well.

def a must-see , classic !

I stumbled upon it in my local Tesco and although I had no idea what it was it just reeked of quality so I bought it. Cost me all of 1 pound. I've watched it several times now and I'm yet to find any flaws in it. Great film!

[Levas]

Deep Down - Nothing special. Thriller about the youngster who falls in love with the nice neighbor lady and he dreams about her and fucks her and so on and finally it appears that she was not such a good woman after all. 6/10

Escape from New York - Nice dystopian movie about the future New York, gangs in it and searches for president that should be somewhere there. Enjoyable flick. 8/10

Diary of a rape - Good calm movie. The main role in the movie - tits of Christina Lindberg. Not many things happening. She loves her boyfriend, but also she quite likes when someone slightly punishes her and is not so tender towards her. 8/10

Blood Diner - Horror flick about the cannibalism and human meat. Two brother tries to bring back some goddess and kills various women. Easily watchable flick. 9/10

[martialgodmask]

Watched "The Lovely Bones" the other night. Poor. Made by Peter Jackson and stinks of it. Story could have been interesting but spoilt by over-indulgent dreamy sequences with rubbish effects and characters portrayed unconvincingly by the likes of Wahlberg. Even Susan Sarandon was a let down.

Annoying narrative too, with central murdered character telling the story as if alive but after her own death.

[Niko]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AexrcI6mXng

Pretty intense rant(finnish language only), have to check out the whole movie.