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El Muerto
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Hundreds of Beavers. Went in with low expectations and not sure what i was in for. The movie is pretty genius. If you like comedy that's part slapstick, visual, and physical then you will like this.
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Darkest Hour (2017)
Winston Churchill biopic during WW2.
And it is absolute utter nonsense, portraying him as emotionally weak, indecisive, and needing the constant reassurances of those around him. At one point he is sobbing and ready to capitulate to Hitler and needs to be talked out of it by his wife and then the king, to whom he continues crying and whining in front of. At another point he goes on the tube and asks everyone for their opinions and whether, again, should Britain capitulate to Hitler.
0/10, emasculation fantasy and a disgrace to history
Winston Churchill biopic during WW2.
And it is absolute utter nonsense, portraying him as emotionally weak, indecisive, and needing the constant reassurances of those around him. At one point he is sobbing and ready to capitulate to Hitler and needs to be talked out of it by his wife and then the king, to whom he continues crying and whining in front of. At another point he goes on the tube and asks everyone for their opinions and whether, again, should Britain capitulate to Hitler.
0/10, emasculation fantasy and a disgrace to history
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I started Heretic last night but got too tired part way through so I need to pick it back up tonight, but I really liked what I saw I can’t wait to finish it. I plan to watch Conclave after that.
bender
What time is it?
Drunken Master - Drunken Master 2 is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've tried to watch this a handful of times over the years and always peter out around the training montage. I need to track down a subbed version of this at the dub is of the time (see: atrocious) which makes the comedy fall flat. Maybe that stuff lands better in its' original form. It has some wonderful choreography throughout and the back half of the movie is much stronger than first. I really want to watch Snake in the Eagle's Shadow now.
mansoor1980
Member
rewatched it after many years , excellent flick
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SJRB
Gold Member
rewatched it after many years , excellent flick
Still insane they got Seagal at peak popularity, gave him top billing and killed him off in the first 10 minutes.
mansoor1980
Member
his death scene was supposed to be more gory , with his head exploding in the depressurized cockpit.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
One of the movie channels days ago had Braveheart, followed by Matrix 1.
Hadnt seen either in a while. Braveheart was predictable from what I remember. But Matrix, I totally forgot about many characters like Apoc, Mouse and Dozer. I knew Hugo Weaving was good in it, but didnt remember he was this good! Keanu Reaves is actually pretty shit in the movie. Weaving and Fishbourne were leagues better than the rest of the cast. Cypher was decent too.
Hadnt seen either in a while. Braveheart was predictable from what I remember. But Matrix, I totally forgot about many characters like Apoc, Mouse and Dozer. I knew Hugo Weaving was good in it, but didnt remember he was this good! Keanu Reaves is actually pretty shit in the movie. Weaving and Fishbourne were leagues better than the rest of the cast. Cypher was decent too.
bitbydeath
Member
Went in thinking this would be like Diehard, but it’s more like Phone Booth. Not bad, bit slow in parts. 7/10
Andyliini
Member
Darkman
I don't have much to say about this. It is a cheap action film from 1990 that leans heavily on horror tropes of the 80's. I can't say how it felt back then, but it felt extremely cheap today. Still somewhat amusing seeing Liam Neeson in one of his first leading roles, but there wasn't much more substance to it than that.
I don't have much to say about this. It is a cheap action film from 1990 that leans heavily on horror tropes of the 80's. I can't say how it felt back then, but it felt extremely cheap today. Still somewhat amusing seeing Liam Neeson in one of his first leading roles, but there wasn't much more substance to it than that.
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Doom85
Member
After having never gotten around to watching it, I was checking Fandango yesterday and saw my theater was doing a 10th anniversary IMAX showing of Interstellar.
My reaction through the whole film:
SO GLAD I hadn’t got around to it, seeing this in IMAX was an incredible experience. I skipped it initially because a lot of people were bashing it when it released, saying it had a stupid message of love and some other complaints. Big L on my part listening to those Negative Nancy’s.
I know some people are instantly going to tell me, “well, hang on, THAT film is another matter”, but I’ve had Tenet in my Blu-Ray collection since it released, and never watched it (Tenet being the only other Nolan film I’ve not seen) due to being bummed I had to pass on seeing it in theaters because of the idiotic decision to release it in summer 2020, and I was just frustrated my first viewing wouldn’t be on the big screen like every Nolan film had been for me since Batman Begins (and now Interstellar is a part of that track record thanks to yesterday). I will now continue to wait on watching it, and maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll do a 5th anniversary theatrical showing.
My reaction through the whole film:
SO GLAD I hadn’t got around to it, seeing this in IMAX was an incredible experience. I skipped it initially because a lot of people were bashing it when it released, saying it had a stupid message of love and some other complaints. Big L on my part listening to those Negative Nancy’s.
I know some people are instantly going to tell me, “well, hang on, THAT film is another matter”, but I’ve had Tenet in my Blu-Ray collection since it released, and never watched it (Tenet being the only other Nolan film I’ve not seen) due to being bummed I had to pass on seeing it in theaters because of the idiotic decision to release it in summer 2020, and I was just frustrated my first viewing wouldn’t be on the big screen like every Nolan film had been for me since Batman Begins (and now Interstellar is a part of that track record thanks to yesterday). I will now continue to wait on watching it, and maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll do a 5th anniversary theatrical showing.
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Grildon Tundy
Member
A perfect movie. A "Tetris" of movies: I can't think think of anything I would change, add or take away that would improve it.
Doom85
Member
A perfect movie. A "Tetris" of movies: I can't think think of anything I would change, add or take away that would improve it.
One of my personal top 10 favorite films of all time.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
A perfect movie. A "Tetris" of movies: I can't think think of anything I would change, add or take away that would improve it.
The ending. I love the movie but the ending didn't work for me at all.
Grildon Tundy
Member
It was #15 when I made my personal Top 100 movies list five years ago (...I have a lot of time on my hands.), but I think it's top 10 now.
I'm sure you know what they were going for with that ending, so I won't try and condescend by saying what I got from it and why it works for me.
How would you have preferred they ended it?
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Doom85
Member
The movie is about Tommy Lee Jones’ character Sheriff Bell’s personal journey. The chase between Moss and Chigurh is to highlight the world Bell lives in, our world, and how at the end Bell has lost his sense of nostalgia and now has a better understanding of his limitations and the nature of the world.
“What you got ain’t nothing new. This country’s hard on people. You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.”
The discussion of the two dreams at the end, IMHO, means this: the first dream, where Bell is a child and loses the money his father gave him, is showing how Bell grew up with this inaccurate view of his father as this larger-than-life hero, and thus he felt like he could never live up to that which blinded him to how the horrors he witnessed weren’t anything new and he mistakenly believed he hadn’t lived up to his father’s image, and the second dream, where Bell is in the dark and cold and then sees his father carrying a light and heading ahead of him to make a fire and Bell knowing his father would be waiting for him to join him, shows Bell is thankfully not broken by the experience (as was hinted as a possibility in the opening narration by Bell, “a man would have to put his soul at hazard”) and knows that the work he did and his father did had meaning in spite of the unconquerable darkness around them, and that he’ll someday see his father again in the afterlife.
Now, I know some, including possibly yourself, understood what the ending was going for, and just simply didn’t like it, which is fine. I just know also there have been some who didn’t follow what the movie was going for with the ending and appreciated it more once it was elaborated on by others.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
How can you remember the days and what movies you saw?
jshackles
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I've been typing out on this list throughout the year, so when I see a movie, I add it to the list!
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
I thought I was the only person in the world who did this.
kruis
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I'm keeping score of the movies I've seen on IcheckMovies.com, IMDB and in a spreadsheet. This is what I've seen this year. (List doesn't include TV series)
| Date Rated | Title | Your Rating | IMDb Rating | Year | Directors |
| 2024-12-15 | Jamaica Inn | 7 | 63 | 1939 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2024-12-11 | The Finishing Touch | 8 | 72 | 1928 | Clyde Bruckman,Leo McCarey |
| 2024-12-11 | From Soup to Nuts | 7 | 67 | 1928 | Edgar Kennedy,Leo McCarey |
| 2024-12-11 | Leave 'em Laughing | 6 | 67 | 1928 | Clyde Bruckman,Leo McCarey |
| 2024-12-09 | Juror #2 | 7 | 71 | 2024 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2024-12-08 | Play Misty for Me | 6 | 69 | 1971 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2024-12-07 | Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary | 7 | 77 | 2024 | Garret Price |
| 2024-12-01 | Beatles '64 | 6 | 73 | 2024 | David Tedeschi |
| 2024-11-30 | Abigail | 7 | 66 | 2024 | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin,Tyler Gillett |
| 2024-11-15 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | 7 | 80 | 2024 | David Hinton |
| 2024-11-06 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | 8 | 81 | 2024 | Ian Bonhôte,Peter Ettedgui |
| 2024-10-20 | The Seventh Victim | 6 | 67 | 1943 | Mark Robson |
| 2024-10-20 | The Substance | 8 | 74 | 2024 | Coralie Fargeat |
| 2024-10-20 | Body Double | 6 | 68 | 1984 | Brian De Palma |
| 2024-10-17 | The Wild Robot | 9 | 83 | 2024 | Chris Sanders |
| 2024-10-13 | Beetlejuice | 7 | 75 | 1988 | Tim Burton |
| 2024-10-05 | Strange Darling | 8 | 71 | 2023 | JT Mollner |
| 2024-10-04 | A Man Escaped | 8 | 82 | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
| 2024-09-30 | Deadpool & Wolverine | 7 | 76 | 2024 | Shawn Levy |
| 2024-09-29 | The Shining Hour | 7 | 64 | 1938 | Frank Borzage |
| 2024-09-28 | Running Scared | 7 | 73 | 2006 | Wayne Kramer |
| 2024-09-28 | The Naked City | 7 | 75 | 1948 | Jules Dassin |
| 2024-09-28 | The Man in the Iron Mask | 8 | 70 | 1939 | James Whale |
| 2024-09-27 | Trap | 6 | 59 | 2024 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2024-09-22 | Where the Crawdads Sing | 6 | 72 | 2022 | Olivia Newman |
| 2024-09-18 | X | 6 | 65 | 2022 | Ti West |
| 2024-09-16 | Harsh Times | 7 | 68 | 2005 | David Ayer |
| 2024-09-07 | Andrew Schulz: Infamous | 7 | 76 | 2022 | Mark Gagnon,Alexx Media |
| 2024-09-06 | LaRoy, Texas | 7 | 65 | 2023 | Shane Atkinson |
| 2024-09-06 | A Kiss Before Dying | 7 | 67 | 1956 | Gerd Oswald |
| 2024-09-06 | Prince of Darkness | 7 | 67 | 1987 | John Carpenter |
| 2024-08-25 | Longlegs | 6 | 67 | 2024 | Osgood Perkins |
| 2024-08-23 | Twisters | 7 | 65 | 2024 | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2024-08-10 | The Coffee Table | 4 | 67 | 2022 | Caye Casas |
| 2024-08-03 | Let's Dance | 6 | 61 | 1950 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 2024-07-30 | Rocky | 6 | 81 | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
| 2024-07-28 | The Barefoot Contessa | 6 | 69 | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 2024-07-20 | Illegal | 7 | 70 | 1955 | Lewis Allen |
| 2024-07-13 | Fail Safe | 8 | 80 | 1964 | Sidney Lumet |
| 2024-07-12 | The Bad Guys | 7 | 68 | 2022 | Pierre Perifel |
| 2024-07-12 | Descendants: The Rise of Red | 2 | 47 | 2024 | Jennifer Phang |
| 2024-07-07 | Human Desire | 7 | 71 | 1954 | Fritz Lang |
| 2024-07-04 | Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 | 8 | 67 | 2024 | Kevin Costner |
| 2024-06-29 | Ghost Story | 7 | 63 | 1981 | John Irvin |
| 2024-06-28 | Blood Work | 7 | 64 | 2002 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2024-06-21 | Poor Things | 6 | 78 | 2023 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2024-06-13 | A League of Their Own | 7 | 73 | 1992 | Penny Marshall |
| 2024-06-09 | Anatomy of a Fall | 5 | 77 | 2023 | Justine Triet |
| 2024-06-07 | Angel Face | 7 | 72 | 1952 | Otto Preminger |
| 2024-05-25 | The Fall Guy | 6 | 69 | 2024 | David Leitch |
| 2024-05-20 | My Cousin Rachel | 7 | 70 | 1952 | Henry Koster |
| 2024-05-19 | Mothers' Instinct | 6 | 63 | 2024 | Benoît Delhomme |
| 2024-05-18 | Late Night with the Devil | 7 | 70 | 2023 | Cameron Cairnes,Colin Cairnes |
| 2024-05-17 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 7 | 70 | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 2024-05-12 | Godzilla Minus One | 6 | 77 | 2023 | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 2024-04-28 | The Woman in Black | 7 | 71 | 1989 | Herbert Wise |
| 2024-04-26 | The Beekeeper | 6 | 63 | 2024 | David Ayer |
| 2024-04-21 | Emily the Criminal | 7 | 67 | 2022 | John Patton Ford |
| 2024-04-20 | The Strawberry Blonde | 7 | 72 | 1941 | Raoul Walsh |
| 2024-04-19 | Harold and Maude | 7 | 79 | 1971 | Hal Ashby |
| 2024-04-16T21:35Z | Dance, Fools, Dance | 6 | 63 | 1931 | Harry Beaumont |
| 2024-04-14 | Wonder Boys | 6 | 72 | 2000 | Curtis Hanson |
| 2024-04-14 | It | 7 | 73 | 2017 | Andy Muschietti |
| 2024-03-31 | The Taste of Things | 8 | 74 | 2023 | Anh Hung Tran |
| 2024-03-26 | Sweethearts | 6 | 62 | 1938 | W.S. Van Dyke,Robert Z. Leonard |
| 2024-03-23 | Mother | 8 | 74 | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 2024-03-20 | The Cameraman | 7 | 80 | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick,Buster Keaton |
| 2024-03-17 | The Mystic | 8 | 67 | 1925 | Tod Browning |
| 2024-03-16 | Monkey Business | 6 | 69 | 1952 | Howard Hawks |
| 2024-03-14 | Last Man Standing | 7 | 64 | 1996 | Walter Hill |
| 2024-03-10 | Written on the Wind | 7 | 73 | 1956 | Douglas Sirk |
| 2024-03-03 | Late Spring | 6 | 82 | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 2024-02-25 | A Face in the Crowd | 8 | 82 | 1957 | Elia Kazan |
| 2024-02-19 | Army of Shadows | 6 | 81 | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2024-02-17 | Phantom of the Opera | 7 | 64 | 1943 | Arthur Lubin |
| 2024-02-10 | Midnight Run | 8 | 75 | 1988 | Martin Brest |
| 2024-02-09 | Children of a Lesser God | 7 | 72 | 1986 | Randa Haines |
| 2024-02-04 | Broadway Serenade | 8 | 57 | 1939 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 2024-02-03 | Monster | 8 | 78 | 2023 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 2024-01-31 | The Family Plan | 5 | 63 | 2023 | Simon Cellan Jones |
| 2024-01-21 | Unfaithfully Yours | 8 | 75 | 1948 | Preston Sturges |
| 2024-01-19 | The Marvels | 6 | 55 | 2023 | Nia DaCosta |
| 2024-01-15 | Mr Bates vs. The Post Office | 6 | 85 | 2024 | |
| 2024-01-14 | Society of the Snow | 9 | 78 | 2023 | J.A. Bayona |
| 2024-01-06 | Way Out West | 7 | 76 | 1937 | James W. Horne |
| 2024-01-05 | The Killer | 6 | 67 | 2023 | David Fincher |
JimmyRustler
Member
Why don’t you use an app? Been using MyMovies for years. It’s great. You can even add comments. Helps me remember how I actually liked it instead of just the rating. Have already 1500 entries.
Grildon Tundy
Member
You folks are being open about your superfan habits, so I'm encouraged to share mine. The Top 50 movies of my Top 100 list from a couple years back:
Some data analysis on my list:
This list needs a revision, if only because Dune and Dune Part Two need to be on it.
Some data analysis on my list:
This list needs a revision, if only because Dune and Dune Part Two need to be on it.
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Mr Hyde
Member
Willow
Grabbed the 4K edition and it looked glorious. Vibrant and vivid. Very well made conversion
the movie itself is still rocking. One of my favorite fantasy movies. Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis has such good chemistry. The plot is engaging, the action is fun, the cast of characters are great. And not to forget, the beautiful musical score by the late James Horner. It really sets the mood. I fucking love this movie. One of the all time greats. Peak 80s.
Grabbed the 4K edition and it looked glorious. Vibrant and vivid. Very well made conversion
the movie itself is still rocking. One of my favorite fantasy movies. Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis has such good chemistry. The plot is engaging, the action is fun, the cast of characters are great. And not to forget, the beautiful musical score by the late James Horner. It really sets the mood. I fucking love this movie. One of the all time greats. Peak 80s.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
It is really one of the movies where the sound works to make you feel as disoriented and lost as the character. It is beautiful. And so loud.After having never gotten around to watching it, I was checking Fandango yesterday and saw my theater was doing a 10th anniversary IMAX showing of Interstellar.
My reaction through the whole film:
SO GLAD I hadn’t got around to it, seeing this in IMAX was an incredible experience. I skipped it initially because a lot of people were bashing it when it released, saying it had a stupid message of love and some other complaints. Big L on my part listening to those Negative Nancy’s.
I know some people are instantly going to tell me, “well, hang on, THAT film is another matter”, but I’ve had Tenet in my Blu-Ray collection since it released, and never watched it (Tenet being the only other Nolan film I’ve not seen) due to being bummed I had to pass on seeing it in theaters because of the idiotic decision to release it in summer 2020, and I was just frustrated my first viewing wouldn’t be on the big screen like every Nolan film had been for me since Batman Begins (and now Interstellar is a part of that track record thanks to yesterday). I will now continue to wait on watching it, and maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll do a 5th anniversary theatrical showing.
saintjules
Gold Member
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Heretic:
Really liked it. I thought the ending was the weakest part of the movie. It wasn't terrible, but it was a little out of control. But Hugh Grant was great, it had an interesting premise, it was tense all the way throughout.
Really liked it. I thought the ending was the weakest part of the movie. It wasn't terrible, but it was a little out of control. But Hugh Grant was great, it had an interesting premise, it was tense all the way throughout.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
ROBOTS have to be robots even if they are there for sex.Does she need to?
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I'm watching Carry-On and Sofia Carson, my god.
Londo
Neo Member
I've enjoyed a lot watching Frankie Freako.
Funny, loud, and beautifully hand-made, with almost zero CGI for puppets and effects (except some optical, for obvious reasons).
Also, I've decided to teach myself some silent movies knowledge lately, and among several gems I had the pleasure to watch this great work of art: The Phantom Carriage (1921)
A worthy companion for your favourite version of A Christmas Carol (mine's the muppet one, of course).
Funny, loud, and beautifully hand-made, with almost zero CGI for puppets and effects (except some optical, for obvious reasons).
Also, I've decided to teach myself some silent movies knowledge lately, and among several gems I had the pleasure to watch this great work of art: The Phantom Carriage (1921)
A worthy companion for your favourite version of A Christmas Carol (mine's the muppet one, of course).
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Also, I've decided to teach myself some silent movies knowledge lately, and among several gems I had the pleasure to watch this great work of art: The Phantom Carriage (1921)
A worthy companion for your favourite version of A Christmas Carol (mine's the muppet one, of course).
Which ones have you seen so far?
bender
What time is it?
Maybe better for its' own topic and inspired by some of the lists posted above, but I've been thinking about if any of the movies I watched in 2024 would make my personal top 10 list. I first time viewed a lot of great movies this year, and I adore the Lone Wolf and the Cub series, but there is one movie that would: Hara Kiri.
Which also got me thinking what the other 9 would be and just spit-balling with no particular order: 12 Angry Men, Old Boy, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies, Pulp Fiction (you could almost slap any QT movie in here and I'd be fine with it and I do seem to love Jackie Brown more than most which is tempting), Shane, Legend of the Drunken Master, The Thing, The Killer.
I like the idea of a short list because you have to make some hard choices and nitpick. I love The Predator except for the intro shot that the studio forced upon the film. I adore Shawshank Redemption and Goodfellas, but really dislike the ending bus ride/beach scenes in the former and feel it would have been better served when Red finds the buried box that Andy left for him and for the latter, the ending leading to Henry becoming an informant just doesn't land for me nearly as well as the rest of the movie. Hard Boiled vs The Killer is a tough choice. As mentioned above, picking one QT movie is nearly impossible for me. How can I not include Seven Samurai? I already hate myself for not doing so. Ditto for Rear Window, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Cousin Vinny, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amadeus, Groundhog Day, Dazed and Confused, and The Princess Bride. And what am I forgetting? Ahhh! Maybe this should have been a top 20 list.
Which also got me thinking what the other 9 would be and just spit-balling with no particular order: 12 Angry Men, Old Boy, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies, Pulp Fiction (you could almost slap any QT movie in here and I'd be fine with it and I do seem to love Jackie Brown more than most which is tempting), Shane, Legend of the Drunken Master, The Thing, The Killer.
I like the idea of a short list because you have to make some hard choices and nitpick. I love The Predator except for the intro shot that the studio forced upon the film. I adore Shawshank Redemption and Goodfellas, but really dislike the ending bus ride/beach scenes in the former and feel it would have been better served when Red finds the buried box that Andy left for him and for the latter, the ending leading to Henry becoming an informant just doesn't land for me nearly as well as the rest of the movie. Hard Boiled vs The Killer is a tough choice. As mentioned above, picking one QT movie is nearly impossible for me. How can I not include Seven Samurai? I already hate myself for not doing so. Ditto for Rear Window, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Cousin Vinny, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amadeus, Groundhog Day, Dazed and Confused, and The Princess Bride. And what am I forgetting? Ahhh! Maybe this should have been a top 20 list.
Londo
Neo Member
Let's see
- Metropolis (1927) (this was a rewatch, actually, the new cut which restores some b-stories cut for other markets it's simply marvelous)
- Nosferatu (1922) (rewatch because I saw the Herzog version recently and I wanted to refresh my memory a little)
- Der Golem (1920) (I always liked the Golem appearances, the movie depicts him like an innocent and apparently calm child, which is absolutely true)
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) (as I said before, I was pleasently surprised at the universal theme of this film, which makes it so terribly modern in our times, plus great SFXs for a movie that old)
- City Lights (1931) (not strictly a silent movie, but I'm not that picky, gentle story like all of the Tramp's, absolutely a classic)
- Faust (1926) (always loved the play, and I was not disappointed, great sets and camera angles)
in the future I'll tackle:
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- The Cat and the Canary (1927)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (of this one apparently only exists a recent cut from 1929 or so, with added scenes and score, so I'm a little undecided)
It's fascinating to learn about the shooting of multiple version for different markets (export and domestic cuts) which often led to lightly off-center shots due to having different camers concurrently on set, if not completely redone scenes, the tint philosophy, the approaching menace of the 'talkies', the huge amount of lost endeavours due to fires or accidents and so on.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Mufasa the lion king
Andyliini
Member
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
From a cheesy title comes a cheesy movie. For some reason, a cheap direct-to-video sequel for the 1990 film was comissioned in 1995. By then, Liam Neeson had become a big star, and obviously did not return for a cheap film like this. He was replaced by Arnold Vosloo, who does a decent enough job. The villain, Durant, who exploded with a helicopter suddenly comes back to life without a scratch, and Darkman has to defeat him again. The film is super cheesy, and couldn't really hold my interest. I have little hope for the third film now.
From a cheesy title comes a cheesy movie. For some reason, a cheap direct-to-video sequel for the 1990 film was comissioned in 1995. By then, Liam Neeson had become a big star, and obviously did not return for a cheap film like this. He was replaced by Arnold Vosloo, who does a decent enough job. The villain, Durant, who exploded with a helicopter suddenly comes back to life without a scratch, and Darkman has to defeat him again. The film is super cheesy, and couldn't really hold my interest. I have little hope for the third film now.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Yep, watched it with the wife and thought the same take as you. Needed a bit more action.
Went in thinking this would be like Diehard, but it’s more like Phone Booth. Not bad, bit slow in parts. 7/10