looks like a great transfer (even on YT) @JohnnyShoulder so i'm going to nudge you into the financial ruin choice, @FuriousMachine do it, do it, do it.
I'd never heard of it, to be fair, but it looks alright.
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@FuriousMachine@Ravix I've seen it, but it would be decades ago at this point on either V/H/S or one of the 4 tv channels we had back then lol.
This is when my rental service I used for discs came in handy. They would have most of these 4K's so could try out films before buying them. Shame a dodgy Royal Mail service scuppered that. Thanks Royal Mail,
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@Ravix@JohnnyShoulder It's available to rent on PVOD for a quite affordable price and it does look interesting so I'll probably walk into that trap in the not too distant future... damn it...
I just got back from the cinema, having seen Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and it pains me to my very soul to know that only a happy few will get to see this on the big screen. It being a Netflix movie, a physical 4K release will probably never see the light of day either, which borders on being a crime against humanity.
For it is a thing of sheer beauty.
Like almost every Del Toro movie, it is visually stunning; the costumes, the set design, the cinematography, his use of colours (particularly the reds and greens that have almost become a trademark of his) are all so lovingly crafted and pleasing to the senses; even the blood and gore - of which there's plenty - holds a kind of grim and grisly beauty.
The soundtrack is simply fantastic - stirring and so achingly beautiful it actually brought tears to my eyes at one point.
The first hour or so may feel a bit long, but it grows into such a fantastically wonderful movie that it becomes a non-issue by the time the credits roll. The tale should be familiar to most by now, but it has never been told so well before; especially in bringing the theme of the pain fathers can visit upon their sons closer to the front than any of the other adaptations I've seen. Nor has the creature ever been more tragically beautiful and beautifully tragic than this and Jacob Elordi, which I've not seen in anything else before, does a fantastic job of bringing him to life in both his tenderness and his rage.
The rest of the cast, consisting of Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, David Bradley and Charles Dance (among others), are solid, though Mia Goth felt weirdly out of place to me, for some reason. Her character felt a bit underserved and overshadowed and constitutes the only weak part of the movie for me, though not through any fault on Mia Goth's part.
This is close to a masterpiece and only the slightly slow first hour and somewhat mishandling of the movie's only female character keeps this from being Del Toro's very best. That honour still belongs to Pan's Labyrinth, in my opinion, but this one gets close, oh so close.
@FuriousMachine I'm so Jealous that you got to see it in the cinema. You lucky man.
I was gutted when neither of the chains here in Aberdeen were screening it. Will have to wait to see it on November 7th.
@Elfuggingjefe Just back from seeing Blackphone 2, I highly recommend this one. A fantastic sequel. Even better than the first, although without that the sequel wouldn't be a thing.
Got The Amateur on tonight and I could tell within minutes it would be insipid, from the camera angles, the setting, the "standardised couple talk" their relationship's entire gimmick being a shared love of coffee (how fun and unique!!!) 🤢🤮
Oh! Remember when action movies and thrillers were made with their own style, flavour and passion? The creators of this clearly don't 😂
Maybe it gets some redeemable qualities in a bit when the revenge events eventually start to unfold, but wow... it is so bland. Grey porridge has more artistic appeal.
Apologies, movie thread, but it is such an offensively bland opening I had to write something about it. Carry on 😁
Loved your passionate write up about Frankenstein by the way, @FuriousMachine it sounds fantastic! Hopefully Del Toro has a Netflix release clause where he can have, at the very least, a limited edition 4k release
(I think pinocchio has a criterion)
Man I forgot to check in with all my halloween watches again. I will do a lightning round.
Stream - made by the Terrifier team, a love letter to slashers and their fans, very low budget but heaps of fun.
Pumpkinhead - A rewatch of a movie I loved in the past, liked it less on a rewatch.
Pumpkinhead 2 - a more traditionally slashery version of Pumpkinhead, but its so much worse as an overall film, I thought this was kinda terrible honestly
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead - No relation to the other Pumpkinheads, but an enjoyable close to halloween, autumnal, horror. Really cool looking killer scarecrow that isn't allowed to do much cause this is clearly designed for a younger audience.
Talk to Me - from the Bring Her Back duo. Every negative I have heard for BHB can be applied to this tenfold and I didn't like this much at all.
Slay - an extremely low budget vampire movie, but honestly a kinda shockingly beautiful celebration of all things queer.
@MightyDemon82@Ravix I worry that it won't get a fair shake on streaming, as the first hour can lead people to indulge in device distractions and not fully engaging with it, and it is a movie that truly shines when you're fully invested and engaged. It's much harder to connect with the characters when you're is simultaneously scrolling through social media or other things on your phone, but the temptation is very strong when it's readily available and the movie you're watching slows a bit.
Which is why I love going to the cinema so much - "Frankenstein" was my 36th visit this year - there are (usually) no distractions and I'm fully invested in what's going on. I think it is also the reason I find I typically have a more favourable view of the movies I've seen on the big screen vs. movies I first see at home.
@Metonymy I keep forgetting that a del Toro version of "Pinocchio" exists, but that Netflix deemed to release it on physical is a good sign. Fingers crossed!
@FuriousMachine I love slow movies that repect my time and draw me in, especially if they are steeped in style. (But yes, very much different from the youth of today, so that would be a worry) I think I probably prefer a good slow movie to a good fast paced movie because I want things to develop on a deeper level. And, as confirmed by my thoughts on The Amateur, I dislike movies that just splat things on the screen because they need to add some kind of makeshift driving force for the action part of the movie to exist, so a condensed 10 minute relationship based on "I make coffee for her", and 10 minutes of big bad bully boss straight out of "sh** movie 101" feels like they are not respecting my time, even during a much shorter period. God, that movie annoyed me to my core 😅 all I could think was, "I should be watching The Bourne Identity, because this is like The Bourne No-f***ing-Identity" ... and breathe 😁
You know i'm not big in to regular horror, but anything cerebral, stylish and gothic i'm more in-tune with, so this will be getting a showing, for sure.
You should give Pinocchio a(nother) chance, I remember it being well worth a watch. Mad that it came out the same year as another Pinocchio adaption, which probably helped it stand out as a much better adaption. The stop motion animation is really nice, too
@Ravix I saw "The Amateur" at the cinema and I didn't hate it, but it was definitely a non-entity... Even if pressed, I would struggle to recall anything other than the broadest strokes of the movie. One of those things where it kept me engaged enough not to walk out for its duration and then vanish from my consciousness soon after. Shame, really, as the concept offered the potential for a spy movie with a slightly different angle than we're used to, but this movie is what we got instead, so I understand your anger
@FuriousMachine good concept, poor execution. I'm sticking with my initial feeling, which was that it was insipid. I've watched a bunch of 6/10 spy thrillers *nods in Angelina Jolie's general direction and sometimes it is just what you fancy, and they will at least have some schlocky style or some dumb redeemable quality to them. But this? This I would struggle to watch again, even at gunpoint - it's a 4/10, and i'm being kind at that.
@Ravix Yeah, 4/10 seems about right to me as well. I guess could be persuaded to bump it up to a 5, but I can't imagine anyone having enough enthusiasm for the movie to try
@FuriousMachine that's not an issue for me personally, but I know what you mean. My wife is terrible for that. Glad the movie is great though. Can't wait to hide my wife's phone for a few hours when it appears on netflix 😅 😬
I subscribed to Shudder recently, so far I've watched Oddity, Late night with the Devil & Posseser.
Great films all 3 especially for this time of year.
Have my eye on Monstrum next.
Any recommendations for more would be appreciated.
@FuriousMachine I agree with everything you said about Frankenstein but I'd add 'breathtaking'. I enjoyed it so much that I put in an order for the hardback screenplay.
@MightyDemon82 Hope you both enjoy it when it arrives Shudder is one of those things we Norwegians aren't worthy of. My envy is a mountain. Haven't seen "Oddity" yet, but I hear good things. Enjoyed "Late Night with the Devil", but I'm torn on "Possessor" (assuming it's the one by Brandon Cronenberg). It felt like a good movie, but just didn't resonate with me, for some reason.
@GirlVersusGame "Breathtaking" is indeed a descriptor I can get behind
I'm not big on reading screenplays, otherwise I would probably have done the same.
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