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    Cat O Nine Tails - I don't think this is anyone's favourite Argento film ... but it's a classic murder mystery with enough style and giallo flavour to make it worth a look.

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      Night of the Creeps has a TV version with different scenes like a lot of films. That's what I've been told. And it has the best Vacation Rusty.

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        ^I'm not sure what version it was but it was a great-looking transfer so I'm guessing it's the unrated/uncut print. One I saw back in the day was the UK rental version, which was likely slightly pruned.

        Gonna rewatch a GREAT, tonight. NORTH BY NORTHWEST. It's gonna be awesome!!!!

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          PS [MENTION=4034]Atticus[/MENTION], I don't think I've ever watched C.O.N.T. despite having owned it on DVD for two decades.

          Really need to crack open that dusty, old C.O.N.T.

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            Watched NORTH BY NORTHWEST. It's still a great movie but by god did it start to drag towards the end! I also felt Cary Grant's onscreen mum looked a lot younger than he did.

            Is it possible to be just 'whelmed'?

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              The Ring (Japanese)

              My wife had never seen this so we watched it last night.

              The actress who plays the film’s first victim passed away a few days ago. Spooky!

              The film itself is very good and it creeped us out a lot. Also, we've been to both the Izus mentioned in the film(Shizuoka and Oshima).

              Netflix has Spiral(which I've never seen or even knew about until yesterday!), The Ring 2(which I didn't like the first time) and Ring 0(which I really liked). We'll go through those soon enough.

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                Spiral is a bad movie but it’s an interesting curiosity seeing actors who are also in Ring 2 playing the same characters yet in sort of parallel worlds where different things happened.

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                  Finally got round to watching Baby Driver last night. Once the rhythm and the visuals clicked I was hooked ... so pretty much from the very start Thoroughly enjoyable film.

                  Originally posted by JazzFunk View Post
                  PS @Atticus, I don't think I've ever watched C.O.N.T. despite having owned it on DVD for two decades.

                  Really need to crack open that dusty, old C.O.N.T.
                  Took me a long time to get round to it too. It's been sat on my shelf long enough. Don't expect Deep Red (and it's certainly not as visually bold as his other films) and there's an enjoyable watch to be had.

                  Originally posted by JazzFunk View Post
                  Watched NORTH BY NORTHWEST. It's still a great movie but by god did it start to drag towards the end!
                  I watched it yesterday afternoon. Still a great watch but there are much better Hitchcocks.

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                    Originally posted by Dogg Thang View Post
                    Spiral is a bad movie but it’s an interesting curiosity seeing actors who are also in Ring 2 playing the same characters yet in sort of parallel worlds where different things happened.
                    That's sort of why I want to see it - apparently Ring 2 was a result of people not being happy with Spiral - so this parallel world stuff is intriguing.

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                      Originally posted by randombs View Post
                      That's sort of why I want to see it - apparently Ring 2 was a result of people not being happy with Spiral - so this parallel world stuff is intriguing.
                      If you find you want to dive deeper after watching them all, the books add a whole other layer of interest because Spiral is based very closely on the second book and it’s easy to see how the movie ended up like it did. With the first Ring being shot at the same time, it’s Nakata who veered from the books in tone causing the split. The books are quite bizarre and go off the rails completely.

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                        Originally posted by JazzFunk View Post
                        Is it possible to be just 'whelmed'?
                        No, whelmed is just short for overwhelmed in some older poetry.

                        I agree with you though, it fits better as a description that the dismissive "meh".

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                          Universal Soldier

                          Jean Claude Van Damm is a soldier who died in Vietnam, but was resurrected as part of a team of robotic super-soldiers by a secret rogue US military project. He's a Poundland Robocop, essentially, joined by a handful of other Poundland Robocops, who get driven around in what can only be described as a sort of battle bus with a secret lab inside it, dealing with terrorist threats and so forth.

                          But when Van Damme escapes and begins to reclaim his humanity, fellow Rent-A-Robocop Dolph Lundgren is on his tail - and not just because he hates slackers (although you get the impression he very much does) but because both men have history back in Nam before they got cyborgified.

                          This film is incredibly fun to watch. There are numerous explosions, hand to hand fights, people firing large-scale artillery at each other and buildings (motels, petrol stations, cars), and lots of terrible, terrible quips.

                          After watching it, I viewed the alternate ending on the Blu-ray. It's pretty bizarrely different and was obviously the original ending in the script, before the studio wanted a more cheerful one. It makes more sense honestly, although it does leave you on a bit of a bum note for a film which is otherwise a smorgasbord of explosions, car chases, and exchanges like:

                          Dolph: Say goodbye, asshole
                          JCVD: Goodbye, asshole

                          Highly recommended schlock.
                          Last edited by wakka; 28-09-2020, 11:26.

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                            Casino Royale - I thought I'd seen this but I hadn't. I grew up with Bond films on the telly but never really bothered after the Roger Moore era. Last one I saw at the cinema was Goldeneye and I thought it was pants ... just ticking Bond boxes, not authentic, and definitely not as good as the video game. Fast forward to now and I was blown away by Casino Royale. What a brilliant film ... a brilliant Bond film. Great action, lines, story, characters, the lot. Didn't mind that I hadn't seen it on the big screen either ... Bond was always a sofa watch for me. Loved it. So I was eager to watch the next Daniel Craig one.

                            Quantum of Solace - This was disappointing. I knew it reviewed badly but I was in such a Bond mood I was determined to enjoy it despite what the snotty critics might have said, but it was a shadow of Casino Royale. Similar to the Goldeneye experience it felt like just an action film with a couple of Bond boxes ticked ... I guess that's part of what happens when you run out of books but it could have and should have been so much better after CR. Also, the action suffered from Greengrass-itis, cutting all over the place, hammering you with so much info you don't know what's going on. Very poor. Bond shouldn't copy Bourne. Reading about it afterwards it looks like they arrived at the writer's strike at precisely the wrong time ... but went ahead and made it anyway. Big mistake. Big shame. Still, Skyfall next.

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                              Parasite

                              Second viewing of this and it only got better. I think it's actually one of my favourite films.

                              I'm not going to bother to summarise the plot because really, anyone who hasn't seen it should just go in cold. This film exhausts superlatives. Here are a few which apply to it:

                              Tense
                              Funny
                              Dark
                              Profound
                              Clever
                              Beautiful
                              Innovative

                              If you haven't seen it, just go and watch it please. And if you have the equipment, get the UHD on import from the US. It's an absolute banger of a 4K disc.

                              EDIT: I've just realised none of those are actually superlatives. Whatever, you get the idea. It's good.
                              Last edited by wakka; 29-09-2020, 13:14.

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                                Originally posted by wakka View Post
                                If you haven't seen it, just go and watch it please. And if you have the equipment, get the UHD on import from the US. It's an absolute banger of a 4K disc.
                                +1 for that ... but worth noting that the 4K UHD release is coming out in the UK in November

                                Bong Joon Ho (Director) | Bong Joon Ho (Producer) | Yang-kwon Moon (Producer) | Kwak Sin-ae (Produce Parasite: Black and White Edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Free shipping over £20

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