Apr 1, 2016

Anyone got some good thriller/horror movies on netflix to recommend?

 

Apr 2, 2016

Watching the original matrix, forgot how awesome some of these scenes were. From what I remember I didn't care for the sequels really but the original was real good.

 

Apr 2, 2016

Se7en

 

Apr 3, 2016

Wolf Creek 2
The Ward
Dark Touch
Twixt

idk if they are still streaming on there..but those are some underrated ones to check out

 

Apr 3, 2016

 

Apr 3, 2016

Wolf creek 2 is awesome, already saw that one. I'll look for the other ones, thanks.

Watching the last house on the left 2009 remake now, it's pretty intense so far...

 

Apr 3, 2016

No problem man..and I agree it is awesome

d---, I haven't seen that film since 2010..lol might need to check it out again, it was great when I did see it

 

Apr 3, 2016

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  Eyes Without a Face 1960
  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Apr, 2016
  
  A gentle ballet. a performative horror fantasy fairy-tale rife with quiet tension and haunting images.
  
  92/100 - Amazing
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Janis: Little Girl Blue 2015
  ★★★ Watched 31 Mar, 2016
  
  A well told, if a bit overly conventional, document of Janis Joplin's turbulent life.
  
  74/100 - Good.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Only Yesterday 1991
  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Mar, 2016
  
  A beautiful, magical, nostalgic anime with one of the most heartfelt endings in cinema. Takahata has this way of silently lingering on faces to express their deepest feelings which imbue his films with great emotional resonance.
  
  88/100 - Excellent
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Cloverfield 2008
  ★★ Watched 29 Mar, 2016
  
  Relatively entertaining have you ignored the contrived/cherry picked storytelling and cinematographic inconsistencies.
  
  56/100 - Mediocre.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
  ★★★★ Watched 29 Mar, 2016
  
  A measured and furtively developed story of one's determined will to fight back, whether against human or alien foe.
  
  81/100 - Great.
  

 

Apr 6, 2016

Proxy off netflix

Was rated like 1/5 star


Wtf this movie.

Ugh. So mixed. I cant decide. f--- this
I mean. Storytelling is awful. But its almost intentional

I cant tell if this is stupidness turned genius

Or hidden genius underneath stupidness

2/5

Side note: anyone else get a kick out of roasting bad movies while watching?

s----s great

 

Apr 6, 2016

Babadook

Solid 4/5

I definitely slept on this film, saw it talked about alot n thought id ignore it. But i think its pretty good.
Intense, jaw dropping. All fit here. Great horror flick
The tv scene was trippy as s---. This was a thrill

 

Apr 6, 2016

Just watched
Now, i love Jim Jarmusch movies, i like this guys true to life, at times mundane moviemaking style. His films generally interest me, this one most f---ing certainly doesn't though. This movie, about a guy wandering through new york, philosophizing on life, meeting new people, is the most radically jarmuschy movie i've seen. It takes the simple, mundane, real life style to an absolute extreme, & i do not like the result. This film is SO slow-paced & in f---ing credibly unentertaining & unengaging. So brutally hard to sit through. One of the most boring films i've ever seen in my life.

4/10

 

Apr 6, 2016

Narc (2002) ★★★★✩


Maybe one too many plot twists and flashbacks, but it's the best episode of Law & Order ever made. A masculine character study with a vulnerable heart. Carnahan doesn't want you to praise the violence that defines the dingy underground of narcotics work, he wants you to feel it's weight. When a character is desensitized by it, as most audiences are, we notice that. While holding the momentum of an investigation, there is still time and patience for a silent marital fight. The final reveal isn't just stage magic, but a plunge back into consequences and regret.

http://boxd.it/9ggmP

 

Apr 8, 2016

The Seventh Continent (1989) ★★★★★


Michael Haneke employs a two act structure, emphasizing the routine of the picturesque nuclear family before dissolving it. The opening 15 minutes of the picture contain few words and even fewer faces, instead focusing on action and object. Having read many reviews before writing my own, I find the bourgeois, consumerism, and the "vacuity of modern life" to be a little out of my depth, but essential thematic elements of the film.

One aspect that I found my most writers did not touch on, however, is exploration of the partition between the mind and the world at large. A character describes an alternate reality where heads are replaced with screens so that you can tell what the people around you are thinking. That premise is the prime mover of the entire film. From the opening shot in the car wash, to the closing shot of white noise, our characters are drowned out by the world around them. "There is nothing holding us here."

As Fernando Croce of Slant Magazine put it, Haneke is Zeus-on-depressants and this picture is no less technically perfect than any of his other creations. If you find it ideologically, spiritually, or ethically repellent, that's not by accident.

http://boxd.it/9gFw1

 

Apr 8, 2016

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  Koyaanisqatsi 1982
  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Apr, 2016
  
  An audio-visual fugue manipulating the rhythm of time to present disruption & psychic imbalance on a pure emotional level.
  
  90/100 - Amazing.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Night Mayor 2009
  ★★★½ Watched 07 Apr, 2016
  
  Brilliant, mad, and uniquely Maddin. If only this invention were real...
  
  75/100 - Very Good.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Room 2015
  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Apr, 2016
  
  Even better on rewatch after reading the book.
  
  So here's an article comparing book to film:
  bit.ly/1Shj5p5
  
  Herein, I will outline the major differences between the novel Room by Emma Donoghue, and the film Room, adapted for the screen by Lenny Abrahamson. To be sure, I believe the film is a fine example of the adapted screenplay, and I think over the alternatives it should have won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2016 Oscars. There are many details in the… more
  
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  Short Term 12 2013
  ★★★★ Watched 05 Apr, 2016
  
  A subtle and strongly performed drama of adolescent angst, abuse, frustration, and those willing to help them through.
  
  82/100 - Great.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  A Zed & Two Noughts 1985
  ★★★★ Watched 04 Apr, 2016
  
  An eccentric and highly formalist film with rather abstract intellectual content unique to Greenaway's obsessions.
  
  83/100 - Great.
  

 

Apr 12, 2016

Evil Dead (2013) ★★★★✩
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Anybody ragging on this beautiful bloodbath for its mediocre acting is watching the original through rose-tinted glasses. If you told me Raimi shot a porno and cut out the good stuff, I'd believe you. Sure, this doesn't have the hokey charm of a shoe string budget, but it's far more visually interesting. The script paints in broad strokes so the lack of characterization seems to be what people rag on, but it's the perfect vehicle for chaos and honestly has a higher caliber premise than the original. Calling it studio tripe is pure hypocrisy when the same people would probably cream their jeans for something like À l'intérieur (2007) because of it's transgressive French extremism. Fede Alvarez did a great job with this soft reboot of a cult classic. I have high hopes for both him and where ever this rebirthed franchise goes next.

http://boxd.it/9kJPT

 

Apr 15, 2016

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  Everybody Wants Some 2016
  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Apr, 2016
  
  Fun, spirited, warm, and nostalgic. Pairs uproarious comedy with nuanced conversation and honest exchanges.
  
  86/100 - Excellent (4.5)
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Blood of the Beasts 1949
  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Apr, 2016
  
  Such incredible formal precision, aesthetic expression, and candid observation. Hard to watch but needs to be seen.
  
  85/100 - Excellent (4.5)
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Le lion volatil 2003
  ★★½ Watched 14 Apr, 2016
  
  A playful expression of fantastic cinema which feigns whimsy at sight of the pseudo-magical. insubstantial.
  
  62/100 - Decent. (2.5)
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Poison 1991
  ★★★★ Watched 13 Apr, 2016
  
  A triptych of abstract queer cinema with narratives connected through themes of alienation, disgrace, and shame. Each allegory calls towards the experience of being queer; Haynes likens the alienation of a young boy, the restraint of a victimized male, and the monstrosity of a self-denying doctor to comment on the general malaise of a judgemental society and its abuse of those deemed 'different'.
  
  84/100 - Great
  
  No likes
  
  
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  La Haine 1995
  ★★★★ Watched 10 Apr, 2016
  
  [REVIEW] 83/100 - LA HAINE (Kassovitz, 1995)
  
  'a system can’t change from 24 hours of constructed hatred'
  
  Link to review:
  aestheticsofthemind.com/?p=2154
  
  
  La Haine is clearly an important precursor to films like American History X and French Blood (and probably many others).
  
  The stark black and white works really well to give the film that gritty feel of urban decay and desolation, and the cinematography is pretty d--- impressive with all the circling tracking shots to show both the front and… more
  
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  Final Destination 5 2011
  ★★ Watched 08 Apr, 2016
  
  Cinematically, it is perhaps the blandest in the series, though some conceptual turns are refreshingly original.
  
  51/100 - Mediocre.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  The Final Destination 2009
  ★★ Watched 08 Apr, 2016
  
  Entertaining throughout, though the overuse of bad CGI is probably only appreciable as part of the 3D thrill-ride.
  
  54/100 - Mediocre.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Rocco and His Brothers 1960
  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Apr, 2016
  
  A social, humanist drama using the shifting ideals of eldest to youngest to chart Italy's transformative period.
  
  93/100 - Amazing.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  The Old Mill 1937
  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Apr, 2016
  
  Sweet, thrilling, innovative. One of Disney's finest early films.
  
  85/100 - Excellent
  

 

Apr 16, 2016

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
I always enjoy Tom Cruise movies especially the mission impossible series so I was excited when I finally got around to watching the 5th installment this week. After watching the movie twice. I can say it is without a doubt my personal favorite MI film. Rogue Nation seeming took all the good things of the previous Ethan Hunt stories, found the right balance and discarded the negatives that made previous MI movies disappointing. I definitely recommend seeing it.
8/10.
Favorite part: Director Hunley and Brandt's meeting with the Prime Minister. The underwater scene was also a favorite of mine, very intense.

Pulp Fiction
Watched this movie 3 times so far this week (as I'm making a project inspired by and themed around it). Nothing I can really say, this movie is classic material. One of the greatest films of all time. If you haven't seen it drop what you're doing right now, make a Netflix account and watch it. This is Tarantino at his best. This is Jackson at his best. This is Trivolta at his best. Add roles from Willis and Thurman making Pulp Fiction a fantastic, revolutionary work of art. One of my all time favorites.
10/10
Favorite part: The whole movie.

 

Apr 16, 2016

Tbh i can't really think of any recent horror movies that are great. I watched "The Witch" yesterday, don't bother with it, it was terrible. The only good part was the last ten minutes.

The boy was just ok so i would only recommend that if you have nothing better to do.

A movie that I would recommend would be "The Trust" Nic Cage and Elijah Wood star in it. It isn't a horror but it's a good robbery/crime flick.

 

Apr 17, 2016

Carol (2015) ★★★✩✩

"Half of these Cate Blanchett movies — they’re all just like these arty things. I’m not saying they’re bad movies, but I don’t think most of them have a shelf life." - Quentin Tarantino

What an average picture for the critics to spill so much ejaculate over. An absolutely banal narrative and execution compensated for with shallow visual talent and a period setting. Even the performances, which received so much praise, barely left an impression on me. Watch The Duke of Burgundy (2014) instead.

http://boxd.it/9nWSd

 

Apr 17, 2016