@GirlVersusGame just saw your reply on the TV thread and 👍. I just wanted to let you know, if you’ve not seen it before, you might like “The Legend of Hell House” (Roddy McDowell). Just watched it and I don’t think I’ve seen it since I was a kid (and it scared the crap out of me ). It’s got that bleak “70’s haunted house investigation” vibe. I found it on archive.org (I just remembered the name). Britain was full of that spooky vibe in the 70’s and early 80’s (The Stone Tapes, Children of the Stones, The Wicker Man which came out the same year as TLoHH). There’s no incidental music, but it’s so atmospheric. I’ve got The House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting lined up next. I was going to wait until Halloween, but I’m going to start Spooky-Season early
@Neuromancer, I will have to take a look for them . It looks like Sci Fi Breakfast Club Thanks, buddy . I used to have the Michael J Fox haircut. It was the 80’s, it was allowed
The Class of 1999 is such a good movie and if someone asked me who I thought liked that movie I would instantly say Nueromancer. I knew it before even checking, I'm surprised he didn't mention this.
@DrVenture69 I was just working on a Various Artists movie soundtrack playlist in the music thread, it might be the biggest one I've seen on there, I went for more obscure titles.
just saw your reply on the TV thread and 👍. I just wanted to let you know, if you’ve not seen it before, you might like “The Legend of Hell House” (Roddy McDowell). Just watched it and I don’t think I’ve seen it since I was a kid (and it scared the crap out of me ).
I actually haven't seen that in so long, what is archive.org? a movie site?
I’ve got The House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting lined up next. I was going to wait until Halloween, but I’m going to start Spooky-Season early
I was about to mention House on Haunted Hill by saying I get the name mixed up with Hell House.
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@GirlVersusGame I’m not sure if it’s available in all territories, but archive.org has tonnes of archived content. I go there for old video game magazines (80’s & 90’s) and browse them, but they’ve got a movie and tv section too, loads of old movies from the 40’s & 50’s (like The Haunting and House on Haunted Hill). Probably not strictly legitimate, but I tend to try-before-I-buy. They’ve got some really obscure stuff, “The Day Today” was a news parody with Chris Morris (Denholm from The IT Crowd) from the 90’s and it’s disappeared from iPlayer, no DVDs, so it’s the only place I could get it.
@DrVenture69 It sounds a like a page I can't say the name of, it's like our Tor version of what you just mentioned. We have our own Youtube too, but it's kind of extreme and even uses the same layout and logo too. I know recently someone converted the old television show Sightings, there are surface-web peers too so it's probably over here. I don't mind when people do that if something is so old or it's never made it passed VHS. It's keeping the original media alive somewhere. I have so many VHS movies that never saw a DVD reprint let alone 4K or BluRay. Lost media is a very real thing, and when it happens it feels like everyone misses out. Be it a movie, music or a television show.
I like browsing those shady sites and charts to see what people are watching and why. I think that's how I found The Outer Limits and one called Dark Skies. I watched some episodes of each. Another was Are You Afraid of The Dark, it was after I found out that Goosebumps was also a show. I can't really do the before you buy thing because just like in Batman the chances are I bought them already (the line when Joker puts the smiling chemical in all of the different products) That's something I did get through the entire Batman Animated, those were really good and well drawn, coloured, and acted.
Talking to you about shows and things removes a little of that overwhelming feeling of 'there are millions of shows I can never watch these' and it becomes less forced, less 'I need to experience this to experience normality'. Example I did watch some Archer this weekend, granted I was and still am sick in bed so I have to do something, I watched some X-Files too but cheated by using the books that came with each box, they say what the episode is about, I picked what sounded fun. My favorites were about two girls in a small town who were witches, one with a man who was actual spontaneous human combustion, a strange carnival one with a mermaid and so many great cameos, and a man called Pusher who used psychological persuasion to do his thing. I don't think I'll watch an entire series of anything too big, Black Books was small, easy to digest and very funny. I did get through Top Buzzer too, that was fun. I've been trying Ally Mcbeal too, which has great music, but I think to a lot of people might seem dated. It also has Peter MacNicol who plays Janosz in Ghostbusters and Stingo in Sophie's Choice.
'Everything you’re doing is bad, I want you to know this', he's really funny.
The latter is based on William Styron's 1979 novel about what is to me a tragedy. Peter (Stingo) is a writer who gets very interested in his neighbors. He sees Sophie, she's a survivor of the Auschwitz camp (somewhere I've visited, it felt like nowhere else on Earth) There's a complicated relationship there involving another man, but isn't there always. The other man is violent. Stingo creates a bond with Sophie and starts to learn about her past, which is extremely rough and raw. I don't think you'll watch it, but I don't like spoilers either so I'll just say it's a very good movie when you have the mind to handle it. I know it was banned too, the book at least, more-so because of the politics. The movie was Produced by Alan J. Pakula, he's worked on some good pictures like To Kill Mockingbird (1962) and The Pelican Brief (1993) the latter is based on a John Grisham novel and stars Denzel Washington and Yulia Roberts, it's quite good.
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@GirlVersusGame Hope you feel better soon! It's the perfect time to watch TV though. I do tend to binge watch only, usually when I'm playing games downstairs (I've got a little TV on a coffee table and the regular TV to watch shows). You've got really good taste in X-Files episodes too (Fire and Pusher are some of the best, I end up binging the whole series every 5 years or so). I think I've seen Outer Limits and Dark Skies ages ago. Millennium is another you might like (made by the original X-Files team).
I liked the Batman Animated series too, it didn't feel like a typical kids cartoons, quite a bit darker. I'm way to old for this, but I love Adventure Time too. The first season starts off like a typical kids cartoon, but over the rest of the seasons there's a really cool story arc (I won't spoil anything), some of the best writing I've come across (especially since it's aimed at kids). Someone I followed on Twitter kept mentioning it and I finally checked it out. It's very funny in places too
And yeah, I know of Sophie's Choice, but I know it's the kind of film that would mess me up. I've hit the age where I tend to stick to comedy/spooky/weird/sci fi, but I still appreciate the recommendation.
That's the thing about recommendations, they're always there, like a PlayStation wishlist
@DrVenture69 Hope you feel better soon! It's the perfect time to watch TV though.
Thank you it's taken a lot longer than it should, but the silver lining is lightly forcing myself to sit still and watch those shows. Archer was a lot funnier than I thought too, I'd like to see a live action movie of it but so much of it seems to be a take on Bond and other movies. I'm trying Bob's Burgers later today, it looks (from trailers) really wholesome. I like the idea of a little television, it reminds me about sneaking movies and videos onto tablets and quietly watching them under the blankets once my Partner goes asleep, he has caught me before but insomnia has no switch and it counts as bedtime. For X-Files I have a monster of a set that is probably twice as long as a PS5. I watched the movies too, I think the last one had Billy Connelly. He's a Scottish comedian that I have deep respect for. He grew-up with nothing, real poverty and he made himself a star. He has real talent but I think I met him too late in life, he's very old and I think he might be losing some of his faculties. I like how he worked his growing-up into his work, I'd never heard of things like tenements and he used comedy to educate. I'd seen him in Boondock saints.
This movie, it's so good and Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus work so well together. I call movies like that bullet ballets, it might be a real term too. I do think violence can be framed as art and some movies do get it. Mainly there's a smaller budget, or often a European Director attached.
Dobermann is a perfect example. It's hyper violent, but shot so well and very stylish. When I watch action movies that's what I key in on, I think it's because Russia is by nature a lot more violent than people think. I can't go into details (tagging you in Tjuz) but as @Tjuz told me I might be desensitized to it and I think violent cinema is something I've found that helps me frame it in a different light. If I don't then it's harder to work through that something, cinema and music are very therapeutic.
For example John Woo, I see him as an Artist, each bullet is a Master's stroke on a canvas, he takes something that should shock (and entertain?) and makes it into a whole other art-form. This is also why I like martial arts too and defended The Phantom Menace when Wavey mentioned it this weekend. Ray Park (Darth Maul) is a true martial artist, he was so good that Liam Nesson had to train day and night to keep up with him and in the end the cameras had to be adjusted to even catch it properly. The same for Bruce Lee, he was 'the ghost' because he moved so fast the camera couldn't see him, only falling bodies. I tend to avoid most action movies, the ones I do watch have that style and flair, it's hard to get it right.
Here's another example, I saw this recently and was so impressed. It's basically Dredd done differently. It's an Indonesia movie that Sony Distribution picked up in the West.
Another French one, I love this movie. Banlieue 13 by Pierre Morel, I spend a lot of time in France and catch a lot of French cinema. They really understand violent cinema. I arrived late to American action movies, they don't have the same flair (in my opinion)
Another, The Transporter, I like Jason Statham and could watch him roll around and fight in grease all day (great scene) but Transporter was again a French affair. Luc Besson understands that art too.
Millennium is another you might like (made by the original X-Files team).
I checked it has Lance Henrickson, that alone is why I'd watch it. I think he's a fantastic actor. My favorite of his roles would be Pumpkinhead, he plays a distraught Father who calls up a vengeance demon. Then there's Hard Target, John Woo again. He's good in The Quick and The Dead too. Near Dark I have to mention too, it's one of Kathryn Bigelow's (Hurt Locker) first movies.
I liked the Batman Animated series too, it didn't feel like a typical kids cartoons, quite a bit darker.
That's exactly how it felt to me too, it understood so much and crammed music, art, architecture and psychology into so little screen-time.
I'm way to old for this, but I love Adventure Time too.
I don't that one, I'll look into it.
And yeah, I know of Sophie's Choice, but I know it's the kind of film that would mess me up. I've hit the age where I tend to stick to comedy/spooky/weird/sci fi, but I still appreciate the recommendation.
Movies tend to not do that for me, I'm interested in the psychology of why people are who they are, why they do what they do. I can see why it's heavy viewing for a lot of people, visiting the camps certainly was. It was one of the quietest places on this Planet, i felt like I had no right to be there. It's not something I ever really talk about, the actual experience. I felt something similar when we visited Alcatraz, some kind of complete lack of hope, utter despair. For me it was educational, I think Auschwitz is the last place on this Planet that I ever want to visit again. Movies made it easier for me to digest the truth. The Pianist and Schindler's List to name but a few. I watched Romper Stomper and American History X to see that more modern madness, humans are capable of some very horrible things. And cinema is capable of educating people of those risks, and to form a moral compass.
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@GirlVersusGame I think you’ll like Bob’s Burgers (there’s even an Archer cross-over episode, and a Bob’s Burgers cross-over episode in Archer). And yeah, Billy Connelly was huge when I was a kid, I think he was a welder on the Scottish shipyards before he was a comedian, I think he had a really tough life growing up. Ray Park/Darth Maul is awesome too, the way he moves is just ‘precision’.
I haven’t actually seen Boondock Saints, but I’ll add that one to the list. I loved Enter The Dragon (and Mr Vampire), and of course The Matrix trilogy (not really martial arts, but just for the spectacle of it).
Before you said Romper Stomper (which I haven’t seen), I thought you might like “Chopper”, it’s got Eric Bana (who was in The Hulk), but it’s a biography of an Australian criminal. I haven’t seen it in ages, but it made an impression on me.
@DrVenture69 I've seen Chopper and I think I didn't like it because I didn't admire his violent nature, he used violence because he could. I know he was a roof collector (money owed) I like Eric Bana I just found it hard to like the character. I did like Bronson, but that's only because I know people who know him and say that yes he did some running around like everyone back in the day, but being in prison is only warehousing him. And that it might be amplifying his violent nature by keeping him caged like an animal. If and when he makes parole I will definitely take the opportunity to meet him. I never had the opportunity to meet the Krays but a lot of the 'old timers' in London talk about them. I don't trust the media I think they glorify violence and then demonize people without ever really looking at the person and not just the facts. Like what I said about Wilson Fisk, people aren't born monsters, we're all capable of violence we just choose to believe we're not.
This is Bronson. His next parole hearing is in four days. Half a century behind bars is just as inhumane as what he was convicted for, we'll see what happens. I don't really like the legal system, it's broken and corrupt, but that's a whole other thing, I believe everyone deserves a chance. I've been hurt by real monsters, I still have my empathy and I do think people can change.
I haven’t actually seen Boondock Saints, but I’ll add that one to the list.
Oh then you are in for a treat. I'd love to know what you think of it.
I loved Enter The Dragon.
That's the movie that made me fall in love with his work. Dragon helped me to understand the man himself.
Dragon The Bruce Lee Story.
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@GirlVersusGame , ah, sorry. I thought it was similar to Romper Stomper. I just remember the ear scene in Chopper, but it has been a long time since I saw it.
@DrVenture69 All good, I watched Romper Stomper to try to understand that hate mentality, it still made no sense. American History X was in my opinion a better Teacher, I can't imagine anyone but Edward Norton pulling it off. He has a fudge you speech you might not know.
25th Hour, he said fudge you to my People too, to everyone. It's a very harsh scene but it's an amazing performance. It's a really good movie, I don't hear it mentioned much.
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@Neuromancer You might like Once Were Warriors. It's based on the 1990 novel by Alan Duff, about a Māori Family suffering through domestic abuse, gang affiliation and poverty. It stars Temuera Morrison, he plays one of the Fetts in StarWars. It's a heavy watch but a really good one. That song 'what's the time Mr wolf' is burned into my mind, I watched it again a couple of months ago, the sequel too.
Even the trailer is rough, and probably age-restricted.
Because Spotify greyed it out for me again.
Damn Resident Evil has a 97% rating on rotten tomatoes?!? I know I've been skepical on this ever since it first got shown but I was always going to watch it and if it actually turns out that reviews are correct then I'll happily be wrong on this occasion.
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@Oram77 Seeing it tonight and I am stoked🙂 I've become a huge fan of Cregger's after Weapons and I'm not that vested in Resi lore, so I might be the perfect target for his version of this (though I've read many say that even though there are no characters from the games present, it very much feels like a proper Resi movie.
Martin Mcdonagh's latest Wild Horse Nine looks set to be another hit, too. I thought it was worth mentioning as a lot of people here like his work, and, to me, John Malkovic plus Sam Rockwell = "yes, please" even if it wasn't guided by a Mcdonagh script. But it is, and thus it is even more perfect for those of us this way inclined.
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@FuriousMachine it has got to the point where even the trailer makes me think "that's In Bruges, that's Banshees, that's the Guard etc etc" Mcdonagh is up there with the Coen's and Tarantino in terms of that recognisable brand and style, now. Familiar but new, maybe it is his opus, certainly for his american cast releases. The crossover between Coen's and Mcdonagh continues, too. Malkovic in Burn After Reading is awesome, and this feels like he gets to do more of that kind of thing again 😄
Was there a reason for not watching Banshees? I feel like we maybe discussed it once. I don't think it got a 4k release, but it has has a blu-ray, and it was on Disney originally, I believe. I definitely recommend it.
@Ravix It looks good, welcome back from the land of Witcher Come Deliverance. I see Henry is still sporting his Alice Cooper look. Which by the way like I told Northern_Munkey is about to tour England with his new book. I don't know if he's your thing, the press-kit said he'll be speaking too. I probably won't go but I will see about getting some things signed, I have the Wayne's World vinyl, it's a good fit.
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