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^ Watched that recently myself for the first time and enjoyed it too!

I slept through some of this the first time around and for some reason never rewound back to pick it up again or re-watched it until today. I liked it a lot more than the bits I remember from the first time. Has a surreal, dreamy style to it.

Such a great film but oh boy do I wish I had a better copy of it. Film quality on my DVD is all over the place.

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adg211288 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22008	Post Options Post Reply Quote adg211288 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 Oct 2021 at 12:24pm
	^ Watched that recently myself for the first time and enjoyed it too! I slept through some of this the first time around and for some reason never rewound back to pick it up again or re-watched it until today. I liked it a lot more than the bits I remember from the first time. Has a surreal, dreamy style to it. Such a great film but oh boy do I wish I had a better copy of it. Film quality on my DVD is all over the place.
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Vim Fuego Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Death, T/S/G, Grind, VA Teams Joined: 05 Jul 2015 Location: Canterbury, NZ Status: Offline Points: 6530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vim Fuego Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 Oct 2021 at 2:09am
	Never seen this before. Wasn't what I was expecting, but highly entertaining!

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	As sharp as ever.

adg211288 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22008	Post Options Post Reply Quote adg211288 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 Oct 2021 at 4:50pm
	This one gets a bit better each time. Seemed a slightly lesser Argento at first and compared to some of his others still is, but I enjoy it a lot. First step on going through the Hitchcock films I own in order (though I'll be skipping Jamaica Inn and The Wrong Man on account of having not that long ago watched them). Known as the first true Hitchcock film, this is a pretty great silent, though the modern score is up and down in terms of fitting the movie. The grand orchestral bits are fine and suitable to the developing plot, but then it throws in vocal tracks that feel extremely wrong in the movie. Second watch. Far from a normal comic book movie. I feel like I appreciated more the second time around (though I hardly disliked it the first time), but his manic laugh really starts to grate after a while. I liked the Elvira movie from the 80s. It was good, stupid fun. This isn't. Knocking off the kind of movies that Roger Corman was making with Vincent Price in the 1960s (The Pit and the Pendulum being a major point of reference to the point of being name checked in the dialogue), it just comes across as poorly acted, badly made parody.
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	meh. pretty stupid

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	This shit ain't for kids! I have to admit I only watched it because I'd heard Dee Snider talking about Twisted Sister's small role in this. This is just a riot from start to finish. Besides TS, you've got Elvira out of costume, the voice of Tommy Pickles/Babe the pig/Mumble from Happy Feet, Milton Berle, and Large Marge. The juvenile humour is perhaps too juvenile in places, but it's also multi-layered. And this looks like it would make a great stoner movie.

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	A good war story without too much actual war and spread over 40 years.

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	I haven't seen Cool Hand Luke in about 30 years. Probably due for a revisit.

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	One of the few horror films that genuine disturbs me, though it does lose some of that impact on re-watch. Still a great and otherwise very rewatchable movie though. Hush was among the first films I watched on Netflix. It's a great home invasion flick from the creator of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House/Bly Manor and most recently Midnight Mass, which I haven't watched yet and was surprised to find an Easter egg for in this one, a whole five years before that series was made. One of Paul Newman's best roles. I've only seen it once before and I only remembered bits. Great film that I'm happy to finally picked up.
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Vim Fuego Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Death, T/S/G, Grind, VA Teams Joined: 05 Jul 2015 Location: Canterbury, NZ Status: Offline Points: 6530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vim Fuego Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Oct 2021 at 3:45am
	What's Lord Of The Rings? Never heard of it. This is just a movie about an unlikely bunch of adventurers going for a long walk in a country full of not-orcs and a giant spider that's definitely not called Shelob, and there's comic relief from a short guy who's most definitely not a hobbit. Oh yeah, and this movie was not a success... (I still quite enjoyed it in my second nostalgia hit of the day though!)

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Vim Fuego Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Death, T/S/G, Grind, VA Teams Joined: 05 Jul 2015 Location: Canterbury, NZ Status: Offline Points: 6530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vim Fuego Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 11:06pm
	Saw this at the movies when I was a kid (and my best friend's name was and sill is Darryl!) It's at least as silly as War Games but doesn't have the same sense of peril, and it's a heap better than Megaforce. Still, pleased I've managed to see it again. And I think I may give a copy of this to the real Darryl for Christmas.

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	unsatisfying I liked the first half but the 2nd and especially 3rd acts were just a boring cliched mess Edited by Triceratopsoil - 11 Oct 2021 at 10:21pm

Vim Fuego Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Death, T/S/G, Grind, VA Teams Joined: 05 Jul 2015 Location: Canterbury, NZ Status: Offline Points: 6530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vim Fuego Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 8:09pm
	Softcore porn masquerading as a movie. Visually quite striking, but the story is a bit shit. (And this was the least NSFW picture I could find on TMDB!)

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	Fucking brutal!

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	Top Gun 1939! A bit lightweight, but quite enjoyable. Olivia DeHavilland smoulders... The best character is the wise-cracking Scat Allen played by Frank McHugh.

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	As much as I love Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, and Pete Postlethwaite, the only actor to come out of this with any real credibility is Mia Farrow, playing an incredibly sinister and creepy Mrs. Baylock. There's nothing majorly wrong with this movie, it just didn't need to be remade, and while the production values are higher than the original, it doesn't have near the same atmosphere.

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	liked this one