casualotter21 said:That’s exactly why I’m stoked to catch Van Helsing in theaters. It’s one of those movies that’s just so gloriously over-the-top and ridiculous that you can watch it on loop. 😁
I'm planning on hitting the theater too...
All I want is a massive big-budget spectacle paying homage to those classic Hammer Gothic horror flicks—you know, the ones with the high-end, moody production design (thick fog, full moon, more fog, some creepy little town, more fog, a spooky castle, *extra fog*), packed with intense action and cheesy one-liners.
The first one isn't complete garbage. The only reason I didn't hate it entirely is because everyone kept telling me it was absolute trash. Usually, when people insist a Film is pure garbage, my experience ends up being that it's just mediocre vulgaris without being quite that extreme... 😁
As for the sequel, I’m not setting any expectations...
__________________________ *Something similar happened with Battlefield Earth
I caught the movie last Saturday and I’m with Nathan Anderson44 on this one. The ending was a bit of a letdown—the whole plot felt like it was missing a central point—but I will say the caricatured protagonists were great. They felt totally Coen, especially with Tom Hanks and J. K. Simmons (you know, the editor from Spider-Man) leading the pack. He’s basically a dead ringer for Griffin, particularly in that scene with the dynamite (those who've seen it know exactly what I mean...)
I’d guess it might be the worst film by the Coen brothers,
but then again, I haven't sat through their entire filmography yet.
Just caught a segment on CNN about that movie, and I figured I’d pop onto the forum to see what everyone thinks... 😲
They were saying the film is a massive hit over in Russia—apparently, it’s totally blowing Lord of the Rings and The Matrix out of the water in terms of box office numbers there.
It’s structured like the first part of a trilogy, and word is they’re already filming the sequel...
From the trailers I managed to catch, the special effects look solid, but some of the scenes felt almost ridiculous...
Especially that bit where the guy falls from the plane straight into a tiny cup, like I was watching a damn Nescafé commercial...
I was blown away. Honestly, this movie is to horror what Blade Runner is to SF. I’ve been wanting to catch this for ages but never really had the chance. Well, that's one more thing checked off the list. One less mystery to deal with. To-do list. Always something. It’s like trying to bail out the ocean with a cocktail napkin—you make a dent for a second, then reality hits you right in the face. Just one more task after another, circling around like a shark that forgot why it was hungry in the first place. Life doesn't stop just because your inbox is full. I don't know what you're looking for. You just dropped a single word and walked away. If you've got a list you want me to look at, or if you're trying to start a debate about some Top Ten rankings, just lay it out. I'm sitting here, but I can't read your mind. Give me something to work with. 😁
I had this feeling like Mickey was just playing himself again, honestly. It felt like he was recycling that same old persona from his role in... Barfly. A classic. It’s got that gritty, lived-in feeling you just don't see much anymore. It’s like looking at a faded Polaroid of a dive bar in New Orleans—you can almost smell the stale beer and regret through the screen. It’s very Bukowski. That raw, unpolished way of looking at life where everything is a bit broken, but somehow still works. There’s no gloss here, no Hollywood sheen. Just people existing in the margins. It’s honest, in its own messy way.It feels like I’m watching some Bukowski movie where he just wanders through dive bars trying to untangle a case...
It’s always been kind of funny to me how they advertise these little domestic experiments of ours... they love to brag about those awards won at the Sundance Film Festival...
I mean, what are you actually winning, right? A trophy from a competition that only had five or six films in it...
steelviper6 said:So you're basically an encyclopedia of every zombie flick ever made? 😁 👏 Look, just drop the list on me... I live for this stuff. 😁
Honestly, what you brought up is pretty much the peak of the genre. Everything else is mostly garbage—probably 80% of it is just some Italian studio trying to rip off Romero's classics...
If you really want to dive deep, just head over to Google and search for "zombie" paired with two names: Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. That'll get you where you need to go.
Oh, one more popped into my head that actually holds its own: Dellamorte Dellamore (known here as Cemetery Man), based on an episode of Dylan Dog. It isn't your typical horror movie, though; it's more like a dark comedy set in a zombie apocalypse... but it's easily the only one I'd rank alongside the heavy hitters from Romero. Definitely worth a watch. 👍
steelviper6 said:I watched that third one where the crew realizes pretty early on that the zombies are slow, so they just start swinging at them and eventually end up torturing them, hanging them from trees and stuff. What was that called?
That's the Night remake...
steelviper6 said:Then I watched the one where some toxic rain falls and raises zombies from their graves. At the end, some guy drops a nuke on the city. What's that one called?
That’s Return of the Living Dead. Narratively, it has nothing to do with Romero's zombies; it was basically designed as a tribute—or a middle finger—to his films. The director is Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Lifeforce, etc.).
Richard Hernandez13 said:The perfect way to kill a Saturday afternoon. A staple of any American childhood. Though, I'm not sure if they even broadcast them on our cable networks anymore.
They don't... honestly, they're pretty hard to track down these days...
The last thing I watched from Ray Harryhausen was Clash of the Titans 👍
The real question is how his legacy survives in this era of CGI.
Jason Voorhees... seriously, they’ve killed him off eleven times already, and yet nobody has ever actually bothered to try and understand him...
The guy is just an misunderstood sociopath; give him a cabin by a lake, a machete or some garden tool, and a pile of clueless teenagers... and honestly, who wouldn't be happy?
I get why people call Boyle's work genius, I really do. But man, that whole "system breakdown" mess in the third act? Total drag. If they hadn't dragged in those soldiers, the movie would’ve been way, way better...
Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad flick. It's just that Dawn of the Dead hits different for me...