The Films You Watched Thread VI: The Undiscovered Movie

[JazzFunk]

A couple. Pete Walker's SCHIZO from 1976. It was a very boring film but very atmospheric seeing England in 1976. So loooooong....not really recommended, tbh, even for fans of Psychotronic movies.

I've actually had about seven pints or so with the writer of this, David Mcgillivray...Kim Henkel, who wrote the original Texas Chainsaw was there, too, drinking bourbon. A weird little film convention in Bradford in early 1999. We were all wazzed but I'm sad to say I honestly have no goss, it was just a very warm, 48hr long horror convention. In Bradford, West Yorkshire.

SCHIZO is pretty much entirely rubbish but also reminds me how mesmerisingly beautiful Stephanie Beacham's eyes are.

She's just swoony in this, plus lives, also.

Then onto JACKASS: THE MOVIE, tonite. I *needed* to see this. It always cheers. It's about being robust and keeping on going when you get smashed down. And always smiling about it

My philosophy.

[Neon Ignition]

Conan the Barbarian
To be honest, didn't get that much from watching this after so many years and I think more than anything it comes down to how aged it is. It has some interesting elements still but is mostly a very flat viewing experience these days.

Home Alone 3
Ah, the emergence of Scarlett Johansson who I forgot was in this entry. All the elements are there but they completely fail to pull together in the third entry.

Grease
It's been a long time since I've seen this as we finally break the seal on the films of 1978 and to be honest it was a fun watch, way more light and easy to watch than I remember it being with most of the songs being decent and a surprising amount of decent jokes and lines in it.

[JazzFunk]

Just rewatched MIDNIGHT RUN, first time I've seen it since about 1990.

Was it good? Yes, it was. It was bloody brill, it only lags at the end third.

I was impressed by it. It's still brill. And both stars bang their performances out, proper-style.

Very good!

[Atticus]

I watched La Haine last night. Quality film. Really enjoyed it. For a film that came out 25 years ago it hasn't really dated either.

[JazzFunk]

^only seen that once but, oh, what a proper banger of a movie.

Looked in my wardrobe about six weeks back and noticed I have it on DVD. Also found my Werner Herzog boxset with EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL on it. About four or five films on, had it over a decade, never watched any!!!

Music Zone, that was the place. I've still got oodles of stuff I bought from there sitting sealed with the price stickers still on. Such a bargainous shop, sad it had to go but streaming, innit.

[Baseley09]

Casually saw Transformers Last Knight I can confirm it's one of the worst things I've witnessed.

Picked up Gattaca on blu recently and gave that a spin, still one of the greatest unheralded sci-fi movies and robbed of best score awards.

[charlesr]

Casually saw Transformers Last Knight I can confirm it's one of the worst things I've witnessed.

Picked up Gattaca on blu recently and gave that a spin, still one of the greatest unheralded sci-fi movies and robbed of best score awards.

Gattaca is an achingly beautiful film in all areas. Timeless and relevant. A future that looks vaguely good too, rather than dystopian.

[CMcK]

I watched La Haine last night. Quality film. Really enjoyed it. For a film that came out 25 years ago it hasn't really dated either.

I cheaped out buying the UHD version but have an £8 HD-DVD copy en route instead.

[charlesr]

Taking Lives on Netflix. Acting is a bit ropey, but what a plot! Had me fooled to the end

[Brad]

Wonder Woman 1984

An absolute turd in every way, and I really liked Justin League so that should hit at the level of garbage this move is. The whole thing felt really amateur too.

[Cassius_Smoke]

I Am Mother
Enjoyed this. Its kind of a cross between Moon and Ex Machina. It keeps you guessing and has a sense of foreboding throughout.
The final act and conclusion take a bit of a dip but it's worth a watch.

[Dogg Thang]

I watched I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, which is an obnoxiously long title and hardly crucial to the film so they should have gone with an easier title. I mean, I’ve had to look the film up via Elijah Wood even to remember what it was called. Anyway, title aside, I thought it was great. It’s about a woman who has stuff stolen in a burglary and the police are useless so she tries to track it down herself with the help of a weird neighbour played by Elijah Wood. It’s kind of funny but maybe not a comedy, quirky and it goes darker than I expected but it’s got it’s own feel and really comes together. I hadn’t heard of it at all, probably because most people who might talk about it have forgotten the title, but it’s worth a watch.

[Neon Ignition]

Boss Baby
Jr1 watched this every day for five days straight, sometimes more than once, so I've been beaten round the head with it somewhat of late but seeing it on asuch an aggressive schedule has at least been interesting to an extent because you really pick up on the small stuff. It's a very easy film to take in as a somewhat generic offering but really it is very smartly done and well thought out particularly when you factor in that it's all told from an unreliable narrative perspective. Presumably the upcoming sequel will kill that nuance though.

The Babysitter 2: Killer Queen
To be honest, there are one or two moments to gleam from the film but by and large it's a fairly hollow retread of the first film.

The Croods: The New Age
A bit like the first film, not amazing but still better than it probably should be.

Debbie Does Dallas
Fascinating to reach on the road through the films of 1978, having not seen it before I'd heard about it and was aware it broke into the mainstream somewhat at the time of release so was curious what separated this from the rest of the... genre. Nothing as it turns out, from the bad acting to the bad direction, the barely there plotting used to simply justify the... scenes... and so on, I couldn't tell anything about it that would explain its fame. Biggest notable things were that the title is incredibly inaccurate, one shopkeeper being the extent of her tale, and the utter joy in watching the actress attempt to act flirtatious in scenes when her idea of acting flirty is to look at the shopkeeper like this

[Brad]

SOMEONE... left the old thread unlocked so I'm reposting my in-depth review of Wonder Woman 1984 here:

Wonder Woman 1984

An absolute turd in every way, and I really liked Justin League so that should hit at the level of garbage this move is. The whole thing felt really amateur too.

[cutmymilk]

Haha, Neon are you seriously reviewing classic porn here now? You should do a decade by decade watch starting from the 1920s lol.