What film did you watch last night?

ic1male said:
Alien - 10/10

Watched it last night, in the dark, in an empty house. Even though I've seen it many tens of times, every time I heard the slightest noise (be it the boiler firing up, the wind blowing the trees) I was jumping out of my seat. There is something about the alien xenomorph that scares me witless every time I see it. HR Giger was a genius.
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My favourite movie of all time - was lucky enough to see a 4k remaster/re-release a couple of years back at Showcase flashback. Not a sound from the audience during the entire thing, no one rustling crisp or sweet packets and the screen was at capacity.

It's a masterclass at building suspense, modern movies could learn a lot from it - don't even glimpse the alien for the first hour.
 
Have to mention Speak No Evil again.. definitely disturbing seeing that ending.

Didn't it annoy anyone else how much of a pussy Bjorn was? How passive he was and especially after seeing your family being threatened like that and doing nothing... Stupid decisions made constantly throughout the film.
And the title name makes sense after seeing that ending!

Edit: read a lot of reviews with the same regards to how submissive they were.
 
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ic1male said:
Alien - 10/10

Watched it last night, in the dark, in an empty house. Even though I've seen it many tens of times, every time I heard the slightest noise (be it the boiler firing up, the wind blowing the trees) I was jumping out of my seat. There is something about the alien xenomorph that scares me witless every time I see it. HR Giger was a genius.
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There is a fantastic game that ramps all that up to about 15 called Alien:Isolation. I genuinely couldn't play it before bed because I would get far too worked up to sleep afterwards.
 
I loved the game and completed it but i've never had the nerve to revisit it, keeps me on edge way too much, medical section aged me 10 years in a week :D

Took me close to 2 hours to creep around before the first scripted Alien interaction, hadn't realised you can't see it or be attacked before that, just the atmosphere alone had me creeping like a frightened rabbit.
 
Huxton said:
Have to mention Speak No Evil again.. definitely disturbing seeing that ending.

Didn't it annoy anyone else how much of a pussy Bjorn was? How passive he was and especially after seeing your family being threatened like that and doing nothing... Stupid decisions made constantly throughout the film.
And the title name makes sense after seeing that ending!

Edit: read a lot of reviews with the same regards to how submissive they were.
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It did, but at the same point that was the whole point. It was about middle class pacifism and how easy it is just to go with the flow and hope things turn out ok.
 
Shamikebab said:
It did, but at the same point that was the whole point. It was about middle class pacifism and how easy it is just to go with the flow and hope things turn out ok.
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Yeah I get that but it just annoyed me lol. When Patrick said that line "because you let me" just shows it all. Standing there naked they could have at least tried to run off or something, some survival instinct would kick in for sure at that point. But as you say it was the point of the film but it left me with mixed emotions and I suppose that's what it was supposed to do. That tongue part made me wince, looked so real!
 
SixTwoSix said:
I loved the game and completed it but i've never had the nerve to revisit it, keeps me on edge way too much, medical section aged me 10 years in a week :D

Took me close to 2 hours to creep around before the first scripted Alien interaction, hadn't realised you can't see it or be attacked before that, just the atmosphere alone had me creeping like a frightened rabbit.
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Sounds brilliant!
 
Zhou.

What would happen if director Kevin Ko mashed the scripts of Ringu, Gokseong, and Noroi together, then dropped them from a 7 storey window into a muddy puddle? Let's find out!

It's Taiwan, and some weird ******** is happening for no apparent reason! But don't worry, because protagonist Li Ronan has been making a video diary of her experiences, so she can dump as much exposition on us as she needs to at any given moment.

Anyway, she used to be part of a ghostbusting team until the fateful day when they visited a weird cult and ****** around with some stuff that should definitely have been left un-****** with. Two thirds of the team ended up dead, and Ronan's as-yet-unborn daughter was stricken with a terrible curse.

The movie shifts back and forth in time, revealing fresh pieces of the past to explain the present. Ronan doggedly records her efforts to lift the curse, addressing the audience directly as she urges us to participate in the incantation ritual which is supposed to bless her daughter and restore her health. But is Ronan a reliable narrator? Are we even getting the full story? What happens next will shock you!

I rate Zhou at 24.97 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a respectable 7.5 on IMDB.
 
Bullet Train - 7/10 - It feels like a Guy Richie homage (rather than a knock-off) and it works really well for me. The cast did a very good job of feeling "real" in such an outlandish story which helps prevent it coming across as a mickey take but the 2 cameos were just very, very odd, but not in a bad way. The story uses lots of the same "scene - flashback for context - scene" structure which, for me, felt like it worked as I was quite invested, but if this was a "just on in the background" film then I can see it getting confusing quickly.
 
Amsterdam (2022) - 4/10

A weird historical drama with an odd style and good production values.

It has a top cast full of quirky characters and some great acting performances, but the story was overly long, told slowly and didn’t really pay off in the end.

The seamless blend of voiceover and characters talking made it seem like there was bad dubbing and although it had a style that lent itself to absurd humor and wit, there wasn’t any.

I wasn’t bored by it, but not exactly enthralled either.
 
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