i see i gave it a 2 on letterboxd. probably about right, although remembering back it feels a bit worse.
but on the other hand, you gotta leave some space for real frauds like luca guadagnino, or horror films as bad as the descent, the babadook and bodies bodies bodies.
but on the other hand, you gotta leave some space for real frauds like luca guadagnino, or horror films as bad as the descent, the babadook and bodies bodies bodies.
the first descent was good, man.
in that same period, i remember seeing a horror/thriller with fassbender: eden lake. the monsters in that film are the brits. of course they are. also a good movie.
in that same period, i remember seeing a horror/thriller with fassbender: eden lake. the monsters in that film are the brits. of course they are. also a good movie.
By WoodenLung Go To Postso it is bad?Malignant was also really bad, but at the very least it did commit to the bit for the last 30 mins. The rest of it was terribly boring, but it’s better than the whole thing I suppose
By n8 dogg Go To PostWhy is guadagnino a fraud
I thought Challengers was really good but it's the only one of his I've seen.
Wooden watched Bones and All and got really upset about it iirc.
its because he skipped through challengers and was expecting to have a wank over zendaya and he couldn't find enough to get off
By n8 dogg Go To PostWhy is guadagnino a fraud
Only he can answer that.
Bones and all like bottom 5 films I've watched all the way through. Despite having quite a few actors I like.
Watched like 40 min of challengers and decided no more butchie. No more of this.
anything after the 'monster' (bald men) was introduced was really shit. before that... it could have been pretty cool horror of being stuck in a cave. but nothing about the rest of the film was remotely scary or good.
The Crow 2024 is an absolute disaster. Awfully script, unlikeable characters, bad CGI, bland visuals and a soundtrack that feels out of sync with the movie at times.
Let's start with the positives, there's one pretty good action scenes and that's it, it was the only part of the movie I thought that was actually decent.
Bill Skarsgård is awful to the point that I was actually kind of rooting for the villain at the end because he was at least a bit interesting.
His only character attribute is that he is broken. On one for the worst lines in cinema history, he asks Shelley what was the first thing she liked about him and she answers "I thought that you were quite brilliantly broken".
How did she arrived to that conclusion? Because in a scene on a reformatory/jail/whatever, all the "prisoners" are doing physical exercises and he refuses because he doesn't care about anything.
The love between Eric and Shelley is on the biggest problems of the movie. It's supposed to be a love so powerful that even death can't stop but I just don't see it on screen.
Their love is mostly them fucking, doing drugs and going to raves. There's very little chemistry there. Doesn't help that I think FKA Twigs isn't a great actress.
The plot is so fucking stupid. Movie starts with an early teen Eric walking through the fields and finding his horse almost dying because he got tangled on barbed wire, Eric's mother was at home but couldn't hear the horse because she was drugged off her mind.
Eric tries to save the horse, gets wounded on the palm of his hands from the barbwire but the horse dies.
So now you know everything you need to know about Eric, he is sensitive because he liked the horse, he is willing to endure pain to save what he loves because he got hurt trying to save the horse and he is broken because the horse died and his mother is an addict.
Oscar worthy writing if you ask me.
Cut to present time, a girl calls Shelley and sends her a video of something awful that we don't see, girl gets caught by the villains henchmen, Shelley gets herself caught by the police to escape.
She goes to a building that can't be a prison because men and women are all in the same place but are not supposed to socialize. It kind seems like some kind of juvenile reformatory, which would mean that 36 year old FKA Twigs is playing a teenager.
She meets Eric, they talk two times for a couple of minutes and decide to escape together when the bad people come looking for Shelley.
Now for the more spoilery part.
Shelley's friend is brought to Vincent Roeg (played by Danny Huston), a older man who whispers in her ear in a strange language, her eyes turn white, she picks a knife and stabs herself in the neck twice.
You see, Roeg is a man or demon that made a deal with the devil or something to keep on living by trading the souls of innocent souls.
He does this through his power of connecting people with their dark side and kill someone or themselves and go to hell.
The logic of this whole thing falls apart if you think about it for 5 seconds.
In another incredible piece of screen writing, the "lovely couple" are comparing tattoos, Eric compliments Shelley's on her "laugh now, cry later" tattoo but says in his case it would be "cry now, cry later".
In case you didn't realise yet, Eric is broken. I fucking hate Eric.
The bad guys find the couple and kill them by suffocating them with clear plastic bags so they die looking at eachother.
Eric awakens in purgatory, which looks like an abandoned train station, gets explained the whole "love stronger than death and opportunity to right a wrong" thing and gets pushed in slow motion into a puddle back to the real world.
There are a couple of middling action scenes, Eric talks with some people who are afraid of Roeg and finally tracks down Shelley's phone with the video.
The video shows a party with Roeg and Shelley's friends, Roeg goes to Shelley, speaks in her ear, she gets turned and kills one of her friends.
Eric is shocked, goes to a friend's house but Roeg's henchmen track him down, they fight but somehow Eric seems to die again.
He is back in purgatory, the old man that's there explains that he lost his chance because his love wasn't pure enough, that hate is the enemy of love but it's doubt instead and he doubted his love for her after watching the video.
Eric then makes a deal, he will exchange his soul for her's and take her place in hell.
Deal accepted and we get the big CGI transformation with crows.
Eric comes back to life, kills some guys, paints his face with tattoo ink and grabs a sword. This is more than a hour into the movie.
We then get the big action scene and the only good scene from the movie. Roeg is in another location so Eric goes there for the final confrontation.
Roeg tries to get Eric transformed, it seems to be working but Eric reverses the incantation or whatever it is and pushes Roeg into purgatory.
After a weak fight, Roeg is defeated and sent to hell.
Shelley comes back from hell, Eric tells her she is free but he can't go with her and she should live for him or something.
Shelley is brought back to life by paramedics, which I thought it was stupid because she has been dead for at least a couple of days at this time and the movie agreed…
…so they decided to go an even stupider way and so we are actually in another dimension or different timeline, it's now just a few minutes after they were originally murdered.
So do all people Eric murdered are still dead? Is Roeg?
Who cares, we get a final scene of Eric walking in purgatory on his way to hell with a crow on his shoulder and the Foals "What Went Down" starts playing.
I hate this movie with a passion. Even the sound mixing is fucking awful, it goes from really quiet to stupidly loud and then back to quiet again.
Let's start with the positives, there's one pretty good action scenes and that's it, it was the only part of the movie I thought that was actually decent.
Bill Skarsgård is awful to the point that I was actually kind of rooting for the villain at the end because he was at least a bit interesting.
His only character attribute is that he is broken. On one for the worst lines in cinema history, he asks Shelley what was the first thing she liked about him and she answers "I thought that you were quite brilliantly broken".
How did she arrived to that conclusion? Because in a scene on a reformatory/jail/whatever, all the "prisoners" are doing physical exercises and he refuses because he doesn't care about anything.
The love between Eric and Shelley is on the biggest problems of the movie. It's supposed to be a love so powerful that even death can't stop but I just don't see it on screen.
Their love is mostly them fucking, doing drugs and going to raves. There's very little chemistry there. Doesn't help that I think FKA Twigs isn't a great actress.
The plot is so fucking stupid. Movie starts with an early teen Eric walking through the fields and finding his horse almost dying because he got tangled on barbed wire, Eric's mother was at home but couldn't hear the horse because she was drugged off her mind.
Eric tries to save the horse, gets wounded on the palm of his hands from the barbwire but the horse dies.
So now you know everything you need to know about Eric, he is sensitive because he liked the horse, he is willing to endure pain to save what he loves because he got hurt trying to save the horse and he is broken because the horse died and his mother is an addict.
Oscar worthy writing if you ask me.
Cut to present time, a girl calls Shelley and sends her a video of something awful that we don't see, girl gets caught by the villains henchmen, Shelley gets herself caught by the police to escape.
She goes to a building that can't be a prison because men and women are all in the same place but are not supposed to socialize. It kind seems like some kind of juvenile reformatory, which would mean that 36 year old FKA Twigs is playing a teenager.
She meets Eric, they talk two times for a couple of minutes and decide to escape together when the bad people come looking for Shelley.
Now for the more spoilery part.
Shelley's friend is brought to Vincent Roeg (played by Danny Huston), a older man who whispers in her ear in a strange language, her eyes turn white, she picks a knife and stabs herself in the neck twice.
You see, Roeg is a man or demon that made a deal with the devil or something to keep on living by trading the souls of innocent souls.
He does this through his power of connecting people with their dark side and kill someone or themselves and go to hell.
The logic of this whole thing falls apart if you think about it for 5 seconds.
In another incredible piece of screen writing, the "lovely couple" are comparing tattoos, Eric compliments Shelley's on her "laugh now, cry later" tattoo but says in his case it would be "cry now, cry later".
In case you didn't realise yet, Eric is broken. I fucking hate Eric.
The bad guys find the couple and kill them by suffocating them with clear plastic bags so they die looking at eachother.
Eric awakens in purgatory, which looks like an abandoned train station, gets explained the whole "love stronger than death and opportunity to right a wrong" thing and gets pushed in slow motion into a puddle back to the real world.
There are a couple of middling action scenes, Eric talks with some people who are afraid of Roeg and finally tracks down Shelley's phone with the video.
The video shows a party with Roeg and Shelley's friends, Roeg goes to Shelley, speaks in her ear, she gets turned and kills one of her friends.
Eric is shocked, goes to a friend's house but Roeg's henchmen track him down, they fight but somehow Eric seems to die again.
He is back in purgatory, the old man that's there explains that he lost his chance because his love wasn't pure enough, that hate is the enemy of love but it's doubt instead and he doubted his love for her after watching the video.
Eric then makes a deal, he will exchange his soul for her's and take her place in hell.
Deal accepted and we get the big CGI transformation with crows.
Eric comes back to life, kills some guys, paints his face with tattoo ink and grabs a sword. This is more than a hour into the movie.
We then get the big action scene and the only good scene from the movie. Roeg is in another location so Eric goes there for the final confrontation.
Roeg tries to get Eric transformed, it seems to be working but Eric reverses the incantation or whatever it is and pushes Roeg into purgatory.
After a weak fight, Roeg is defeated and sent to hell.
Shelley comes back from hell, Eric tells her she is free but he can't go with her and she should live for him or something.
Shelley is brought back to life by paramedics, which I thought it was stupid because she has been dead for at least a couple of days at this time and the movie agreed…
…so they decided to go an even stupider way and so we are actually in another dimension or different timeline, it's now just a few minutes after they were originally murdered.
So do all people Eric murdered are still dead? Is Roeg?
Who cares, we get a final scene of Eric walking in purgatory on his way to hell with a crow on his shoulder and the Foals "What Went Down" starts playing.
I hate this movie with a passion. Even the sound mixing is fucking awful, it goes from really quiet to stupidly loud and then back to quiet again.
By WoodenLung Go To PostOnly he can answer that.I liked Bones and All. Liked the directing and the whole vibe of the movie. Had no idea it was his
Bones and all like bottom 5 films I've watched all the way through. Despite having quite a few actors I like.
Watched like 40 min of challengers and decided no more butchie. No more of this.
By LFMartins86 Go To PostThe Crow 2024 is an absolute disaster. Awfully script, unlikeable characters, bad CGI, bland visuals and a soundtrack that feels out of sync with the movie at times.
Let's start with the positives, there's one pretty good action scenes and that's it, it was the only part of the movie I thought that was actually decent.
Bill Skarsgård is awful to the point that I was actually kind of rooting for the villain at the end because he was at least a bit interesting.
His only character attribute is that he is broken. On one for the worst lines in cinema history, he asks Shelley what was the first thing she liked about him and she answers "I thought that you were quite brilliantly broken".
How did she arrived to that conclusion? Because in a scene on a reformatory/jail/whatever, all the "prisoners" are doing physical exercises and he refuses because he doesn't care about anything.
The love between Eric and Shelley is on the biggest problems of the movie. It's supposed to be a love so powerful that even death can't stop but I just don't see it on screen.
Their love is mostly them fucking, doing drugs and going to raves. There's very little chemistry there. Doesn't help that I think FKA Twigs isn't a great actress.
The plot is so fucking stupid. Movie starts with an early teen Eric walking through the fields and finding his horse almost dying because he got tangled on barbed wire, Eric's mother was at home but couldn't hear the horse because she was drugged off her mind.
Eric tries to save the horse, gets wounded on the palm of his hands from the barbwire but the horse dies.
So now you know everything you need to know about Eric, he is sensitive because he liked the horse, he is willing to endure pain to save what he loves because he got hurt trying to save the horse and he is broken because the horse died and his mother is an addict.
Oscar worthy writing if you ask me.
Cut to present time, a girl calls Shelley and sends her a video of something awful that we don't see, girl gets caught by the villains henchmen, Shelley gets herself caught by the police to escape.
She goes to a building that can't be a prison because men and women are all in the same place but are not supposed to socialize. It kind seems like some kind of juvenile reformatory, which would mean that 36 year old FKA Twigs is playing a teenager.
She meets Eric, they talk two times for a couple of minutes and decide to escape together when the bad people come looking for Shelley.
Now for the more spoilery part.
Shelley's friend is brought to Vincent Roeg (played by Danny Huston), a older man who whispers in her ear in a strange language, her eyes turn white, she picks a knife and stabs herself in the neck twice.
You see, Roeg is a man or demon that made a deal with the devil or something to keep on living by trading the souls of innocent souls.
He does this through his power of connecting people with their dark side and kill someone or themselves and go to hell.
The logic of this whole thing falls apart if you think about it for 5 seconds.
In another incredible piece of screen writing, the "lovely couple" are comparing tattoos, Eric compliments Shelley's on her "laugh now, cry later" tattoo but says in his case it would be "cry now, cry later".
In case you didn't realise yet, Eric is broken. I fucking hate Eric.
The bad guys find the couple and kill them by suffocating them with clear plastic bags so they die looking at eachother.
Eric awakens in purgatory, which looks like an abandoned train station, gets explained the whole "love stronger than death and opportunity to right a wrong" thing and gets pushed in slow motion into a puddle back to the real world.
There are a couple of middling action scenes, Eric talks with some people who are afraid of Roeg and finally tracks down Shelley's phone with the video.
The video shows a party with Roeg and Shelley's friends, Roeg goes to Shelley, speaks in her ear, she gets turned and kills one of her friends.
Eric is shocked, goes to a friend's house but Roeg's henchmen track him down, they fight but somehow Eric seems to die again.
He is back in purgatory, the old man that's there explains that he lost his chance because his love wasn't pure enough, that hate is the enemy of love but it's doubt instead and he doubted his love for her after watching the video.
Eric then makes a deal, he will exchange his soul for her's and take her place in hell.
Deal accepted and we get the big CGI transformation with crows.
Eric comes back to life, kills some guys, paints his face with tattoo ink and grabs a sword. This is more than a hour into the movie.
We then get the big action scene and the only good scene from the movie. Roeg is in another location so Eric goes there for the final confrontation.
Roeg tries to get Eric transformed, it seems to be working but Eric reverses the incantation or whatever it is and pushes Roeg into purgatory.
After a weak fight, Roeg is defeated and sent to hell.
Shelley comes back from hell, Eric tells her she is free but he can't go with her and she should live for him or something.
Shelley is brought back to life by paramedics, which I thought it was stupid because she has been dead for at least a couple of days at this time and the movie agreed…
…so they decided to go an even stupider way and so we are actually in another dimension or different timeline, it's now just a few minutes after they were originally murdered.
So do all people Eric murdered are still dead? Is Roeg?
Who cares, we get a final scene of Eric walking in purgatory on his way to hell with a crow on his shoulder and the Foals "What Went Down" starts playing.
I hate this movie with a passion. Even the sound mixing is fucking awful, it goes from really quiet to stupidly loud and then back to quiet again.
All I can say is it's quite a lot worse than this. Rupert Sanders should be killed with hammers.
By RAThasReturned Go To PostRebecca FergusonIs this what we call Apollocore?
By s y brev Go To PostGive it 10 years and a dogshit movie will become a cult classic like the originalMaybe if Alec Baldwin was in it
By s y brev Go To PostThe thing is on peacock, might watch it.One of the best
I always assumed there wasn't anything more to it than body horror until I watched it, but it's really a great film all round.
Prime Kurt Russell 😎
By Perfect Blue Go To Posthttps://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men
Oh HELL YES
what a picture
watched the sacrifice
ngl i think most of it went over my head
but i liked it
(just not as much as stalker or andrei rublev)
ngl i think most of it went over my head
but i liked it
(just not as much as stalker or andrei rublev)
https://deadline.com/2024/09/mark-duplass-creep-series-premiere-date-shudder-1236086072/
Didn't know they were doing a series, thought it would be a movie.
Didn't know they were doing a series, thought it would be a movie.
Fistful of Dollars was good. And the two other ones are supposed to be even better, oh bb. Was really surprised by how good it looked - less surprised by the cool soundtrack, obviously.
So now there are THREE good westerns that I have seen (Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma (2007), this). Incredible. A new genre am BORNED, hass.
So now there are THREE good westerns that I have seen (Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma (2007), this). Incredible. A new genre am BORNED, hass.
i watch, on average, one western a decade. Between this trilogy & those 3, I don't think I'm going to make it to the end.
By n8 dogg Go To PostOnce Upon a Time in the West m7watched this a couple of weeks ago
my god what a movie
Most amazing cinematography
Incredible acting
Amazing Italian tits
By reilo Go To Postwatched this a couple of weeks ago
my god what a movie
Most amazing cinematography
Incredible acting
Amazing Italian tits
Claudia Cardinale in OUATITW
madonn
One of the most gorgeous women ever to appear on our screenz
while the searchers is good, it was the cinematography (saw it in 70mm too) that impressed me more than anything else really.
some of my favourites:
the good, the bad and the ugly
once upon a time in the west
unforgiven
open range
blazing saddles
some of my favourites:
the good, the bad and the ugly
once upon a time in the west
unforgiven
open range
blazing saddles
Open Range has an excellent shootout at the end. Ruff and brutal and imprecise and peng
I also like the following recent ones (these are like 7/10s and up)
The Harder They Fall
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hell or High Water (dunno if it counts)
The Hateful Eight
Bone Tomahawk
Slow West
I also like the following recent ones (these are like 7/10s and up)
The Harder They Fall
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hell or High Water (dunno if it counts)
The Hateful Eight
Bone Tomahawk
Slow West
The best John Ford (and probably western in general) is My Darling Clementine. Seen almost 30 of his films as he’s one of my favourite directors. The genre in general is just awesome since it’s the closest thing America has to its own mythology.
Winchester 73, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Man of the West, First Cow, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Forty Guns, The Gunfighter, and Destry Rides Again just some others that come to mind.
Winchester 73, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Man of the West, First Cow, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Forty Guns, The Gunfighter, and Destry Rides Again just some others that come to mind.
By n8 dogg Go To PostOpen Range has an excellent shootout at the end. Ruff and brutal and imprecise and pengNo Meek’s Cutoff?
I also like the following recent ones (these are like 7/10s and up)
The Harder They Fall
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hell or High Water (dunno if it counts)
The Hateful Eight
Bone Tomahawk
Slow West
By Perfect Blue Go To PostNo Meek’s Cutoff?
Haven’t seen it (i’m a misogynist)