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**Matt** · 24-11-2011, 17:38

Nic Cage can be atrocious, or he can be brilliant. I imagine it's something like 3 Parts Bad for 1 Part Good. He makes some shocking script choices, but credit to him, he mixes genres up and doesn't worry about expectation.

Bad Lt New Orleans was great, Cage.... you couldn't take your eyes off him.

**Kieran76** · 24-11-2011, 19:21

Originally posted by JazzFunk View Post

Needed to clear some space on the Sky box, so decided to watch a couple of cult classics, again from The Horror Channel. First up, Island Of Death, a film I thought I'd seen as a child (turns out it was a different film with the same name). It's a bit of a bonanza, this, and is probably the first film I've seen where a bloke

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, plus acres more rape, murder and depravity, and you've got a bit of a winner. Not only that, all the carnage takes place on the sunny Greek isle of Mykonos, and much of the movie seems like footage shot for a TV travel show, it's pretty lush. An odd combo, but a very memorable one.

Followed that up with City Of The Living Dead, a film I haven't seen for over a decade. The Horror Channel are showing a spectacularly good uncut print of this, I've never seen the film looking so good. Forgot how atmospheric this is, all dusty and windswept but the sound design is what really makes this film, oppressive howls and buzzes, it's truly nightmarish stuff. Not only that, I forgot how gory it was, the bit where the girl

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are proper yuck. It's a wondrously atmospheric film and I'm chuffed to have finally seen it in such a quality state after all these years.

I saw most of Island of Death as I couldn't sleep. What a totally crazy film. as for City of the Living Dead I actually saw this as kid, this was just before the whole video nasties thing. It freaked me out for years.

**Dogg Thang** · 24-11-2011, 19:56

I love City of the Living Dead. It's total mentalness and, for me, manages something that seems to be pretty difficult - takes the gore to high levels while remaining really creepy.

How uncomfortable must it have been to be the actress doing the

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**JazzFunk** · 24-11-2011, 20:05

^I was thinking that myself. Two of the actresses

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and Catherine McColl. Also, there's that bit where they all get

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, must've been a horrible scene to film!

Yeah, it's still definitely creepy. One scene I didn't remember was when the

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. That was freaky. I saw this as a kid and it was always one of those films that scared me to death, don't know why but I ended up watching it several times purely for that reason.

The gore in this is quality, it's quite unlike anything you see these days. It's also splendidly done, like that inexplicable

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sequence, however they did that is amazing.

**QualityChimp** · 25-11-2011, 13:05

I'd like to see that City of the Living Dead if it's on again on The Horror Channel, but a quick skim of this week's guide shows it isn't on.

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It does look like Hell Comes to Frogtown is showing though. I've not seen that for decades, so I'll see if it's still as fun as I remember!

**megatron** · 25-11-2011, 16:57

The Guard - Might need to re-watch In Bruges again but I think I enjoyed this more. Gleeson was brill. Especially his banter with Cheedle.

**'Press Start'** · 25-11-2011, 17:21

Originally posted by megatron View Post

The Guard - Might need to re-watch In Bruges again but I think I enjoyed this more. Gleeson was brill. Especially his banter with Cheedle.

It looks amazing! I can't wait to watch it.

I watched 127 hours the other night and thought it was brilliant. I loved how they begin with a montage of crowded areas then they cut to him being alone and 'free' in the wilderness. It pricked an emotion in me which was ' Peace and quite, just me and the world'. Then towards the end they use the same montage

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The music during the end scene was so emotionally charged and I am man enough to say it nearly brought a tear to my eye, especially being a new'ish' father myself and

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James Franco does well to hold your attention for the whole film though. Not seen him in many films but I have new found respect for him.

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**prinnysquad** · 27-11-2011, 15:25

Moneyball

Brad Pitt stars as the GM of a lesser baseball team who adopts an unorthodox approach to build a squad, signing nobodies and has-beens based on statistics and percentages. Consequently, the team achieves some success, and his methods change the game.

A very decent little sports film. It's fascinating to see the battle between the old guard sportspeople and a man trying to level the playing field a bit based on economics and mathematics. There's not much of the traditional cheese, either, because it's based on a true story, so the film-makers were limited by what actually happened. It's amusing in places and well performed, if perhaps 15 minutes too long. I don't know much about baseball, yet a rudimentary knowledge was all I needed to enjoy an accessible, interesting film about a sports pioneer.

**kryss** · 27-11-2011, 18:19

Just slept through Elf.

**Matt** · 27-11-2011, 19:14

Finally watched The Man Who Fell To Earth. ****ing bizarre. Good though. Let down by some poor techniques that were still popular in the '70's - ZOOMS. Every other bloody shot is a zoom. lol.

**QualityChimp** · 28-11-2011, 09:07

My memory tells me that I've seen The Man Who Fell To Earth, but I can't really remember anything about it other than screenshots, so maybe I haven't?

Isn't it like a freaky freaky David Bowie take on Escape From Planet of the Apes? I know there are parallels with the plot...

**Matt** · 28-11-2011, 12:59

I don't think so. But it may of been, it is freaky.

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**QualityChimp** · 28-11-2011, 13:24

I just meant in the context of aliens, they travelled from the Planet of the Apes. The original film alludes to the astronauts landing on this alien planet and

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When they arrive on earth from their planets, both Bowie and the chimps become media superstars and get distracted by the vices of modern living, namely "grape juice plus" and f f f f fashion. It all goes pear-shaped when they try to escape the Government...

**figflair** · 28-11-2011, 13:33

Originally posted by kryss View Post

Just slept through Elf.

WTF!?! Apologise or die!!!!

**Fader209** · 28-11-2011, 15:45

Chicken Little - for a non-Pixar animated movie this is quite enjoyable if a little cheesy in places. Best character by far was the random Fish Out of Water.

TMNT - CGI flavour. Still amazes me how fluid they make the movements of the Turtles when fighting or jumping across rooftops. Human characters look a bit dodgy with their plain faces that contrast to the higher level of detail of the Turtles.

TMNT (the old movie) - Should have left this one in the past but watching the newer film made me want to dig it up. The martial arts is quite cool still considering these guys are in huge turtle suits!

Up - Gorgeous CGI as per usual from the Pixar team. The start of the film especially had a big emotional punch that I wasn't expecting, I guess the trailers couldn't capture the simple beauty of this one.

The Man With Two Brains - Steve Martin back when he was funny

Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Same as above.

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