Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[hubb]

prisoners was brilliant

[deadly_habit]

prisoners was brilliant

Been meaning to watch that. Isn't it more drama/thriller than horror though?

[hubb]

less chainsaw brilliance or lols and more just feeling really uncomfortable

but its one of the better film in years imo

hugh jack man is excellent in it which is more than odd

[BonerJams04]

prisoners was great. the conjuring, sinister, insidious are all worth watching too imo

[nousd]

Noah's kinda like attending an insane Judaist sunday school.
My fellow audience was going: ah wot the fuk iz this biz?
And what happened to Ham?
Did he find eggs to fertilize?

[nousd]

Was it corny or profound?
I can't make up my mind
cos it was sorta neither
but a melodramatic didactic parable
rife with anachronisms.

[joeki]

Seeing it pop up in this thread (above), I decided to go out on a limb and watch Snowpiercer as well.

First off, the premise of the movie (the novel) is so far-fetched only a mad Korean would tackle it and I can see why this worked for the Asian audience who I suppose are more open minded to this kind of thing than our Western sci-fi fans.

I just couldn't get over the premise so it was difficult to really fully 'enjoy' the movie from a sci-fi perspective, this thing usually works better in written literature as you can sort of imagine how it could work, but putting it into images usually ends up with allegoric stuff (kinda like Brazil, or Dark City where you know what you are watching is so 'unreal' that they had to fill it up with irony and sarcasm and caricatures). So yes, it fails as a sci-fi movie.
However, it does have several amusing mindless action scene's and Captain America isn't half bad in it either. And it was good to see old Ed Harris popping up again.

As a mindless sunday afternoon action flick it worked. But that's it really. 5/10.

[AxeD]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Masterpiece. Brilliant mix of romantic comedy and surrealism.

[Jizz]

yeah thats a great movie, Kaufmann's stories always deliver

[vishes]

Noah's kinda like attending an insane Judaist sunday school.
My fellow audience was going: ah wot the fuk iz this biz?
And what happened to Ham?
Did he find eggs to fertilize?

"Rediscover the epic story of one man and the most remarkable event in our history."

Sorry, what?

[DiegoSapiens]

"history" lol

[OGLemon]

Noah's kinda like attending an insane Judaist sunday school.
My fellow audience was going: ah wot the fuk iz this biz?
And what happened to Ham?
Did he find eggs to fertilize?

"Rediscover the epic story of one man and the most remarkable event in our history."

Sorry, what?

[deadly_habit]

Patrick - a recent indie horror/thiller about a guy in a coma and his new nurse. Really good and recommended.

[hubb]

joeki

What are these rules and in what way do they bring something and not just ruin your experience?

I'm into scifi too, but I don't see a general plane or perspective as such. I relate a perspective to having a personality, but that doens't make sence in this context.

I'm looking forward to snowpiercer and will have to watch it before reading your comment though.

I decided to go out on a limb

Imo watching a korean film is the opposite of that. They are mostly better than western film in every way. Not hating on western cinema btw, just saying.

[magma]

Play (2013)

Very interesting, but ever so slightly too "student" feeling... it felt like the director was trying to hit you over the head with his artiness once too often, but the effect of his fixed camera shots making you feel like one of the many bystanders who fail to step in, does draw you in nicely.

It's definitely designed to make you squirm in your seat.

[+] Spoiler

The Aswad-listening trustafarian deserved it.

[joeki]

I do not follow.

I can't explain it without going into full on spoiler mode.

[hubb]

fair

[joeki]

I'm not an expert on Korean cinema in any way, perhaps that is part of why I didn't fully get into it.

Without spoiling too much:

We all know the movie is about a train carrying the last of humanity around. But because this is a pretty hard concept to materialise and visualise, the situation on the train becomes allegorical and rife with political satire, caricatures etc. I would have liked to have seen a more "realistic" depiction of that society or how it would work out on a train - if that makes any sense - even though the director tried his best to do this (it is no Brazil on a train). Because that wasn't achieved, I personally just looked at it as an action movie.

A lot of Asian sci-fi is less hardcore (I'm no expert on Korea but have a watched a fair old Japanese sci-fi movies) and the audience doesn't care a much as say your average 2001 or Alien fan. Which is OK.

Those were the points I was trying to make clear . It's an enjoyable watch and should deffo give it a go though for sure. I

As a comparison: the only recently produced movie that got more than 5/10 which I have seen this year is Nebraska (an oscar nominee so no I'm not some kind of anti popular movie freak) and those include Gravity etc., I'm not easily pleased .

[CreamLord]

Can anyone recommend some good horrors? Don't mind foreign ones Cause I usually have subtitles on anyway

[DiegoSapiens]

what kind of horror? you want suspense or straight chainsaw business?