What was the last movie you saw?

[Rodders]

Didn't realise there was a live action version, Baylor.

 

[BAYLOR]

Didn't realise there was a live action version, Baylor.

It was made back in 2010, It never made it to the states not did it really have worldwide cinema distribution.

The Yamato looked amazing, they duplicated perfect , a little too perfectly to the point where looks like science fiction film from the 1970's. They didn't update things. They change a number of thing including the nature of Gamelans and Iscandarans and I didn't like those changes all. Nor did I like the Gemalan ship which looked liked they belong in a different film.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Dredd (2012). Such a great representation of the character. Superb acting from the entire cast. I think if it had retained more of the look from the comic then American audiences might have been more inclined to see the film in the cinema to make it the success it should have been.

Dredd was a great action movie, but it really has little to do with the 2000ad universe; with a little editing it could easily have been a generic (albeit still great) futuristic cop movie. If only it had had some of the budget of the Judge Dredd movie to make it a living, breathing representation of MegaCity One.

The hate for the original Judge Dredd movie still baffles me. I get the anger of fans with Dredd removing his helmet, but there surely has to be more to it than that? The visuals were amazing (and at a time when CGI was still in it's infancy) and it captured the dry humour of 2000ad in ways that the later movie didn't. I still think that it's a brilliant (and perhaps) only true representation of the 2000ad universe.

What staggers me more though is that a world with so many great characters , worlds and storylines that there haven't been more movies based on it. Perhaps someday someone will realise this and we will see a 2000ad universe similarly represented to that of Marvel's superheroes.

 

[KGeo777]

Judge Dredd 1995 had a lot of potential. Good design work--the city look, the costumes, and score--I don't think Stallone was the best choice but he was ok with the helmet on. It went off the rails with the clone plot. I can watch it and it works until a certain point.
It gets too noisy in the last part. "Eat recycled food."


ARK OF THE SUN GOD 1984 - Rewatch--At one point, David Warbeck says "this is a job for Roger Moore" which is funny because he often comes across as a poor man's Roger Moore. The story takes place in Turkey and there is good use of actual ruins and temples. Antonio Margheriti employs miniature cars for a chase sequence and the inserts are pretty good--I am always impressed by the quality of the car miniatures in his films--they match the live-action set well enough that you could be tricked into thinking it's an actual real car now and then.
Obviously this is an Indiana Jones cash-in but it's set in modern times (the 80s...why do I call it modern times? Or does it feel like the last few decades are just expendable?).

 

[Vince W]

What staggers me more though is that a world with so many great characters , worlds and storylines that there haven't been more movies based on it. Perhaps someday someone will realise this and we will see a 2000ad universe similarly represented to that of Marvel's superheroes.

There is a Rogue Trooper film in development but when we might see it is anyone's guess.

 

[Rodders]

There was a lot wrong with the Judge Dredd movie, (and it remains a guilty pleasure of mine), but Mega City looked awesome and was very faithful to the comic. I also think that Stallone and his chin were well cast. (Outside of removing his helmet, of course.)

What the new film does well is the feeling of the scum element of the Mega-City population, which was missing in the firm one. Lena Headey steals the movie as Ma Ma.

 

[Vince W]

I never liked Stallone as Dredd. When I heard about Judge Dredd being developed my first thought was Dolph Lundgren. Now there's a chin.

 

[KGeo777]

OSS 117 -Mission For A Killer 1965 --yet another euro spy film--I revisited this because I had remembered it to be one of the better ones. Visually impressive use of Brazilian waterfalls in the last scene (though I am surprised the actors would actually go into the aterfall so close to the edge). The fight scenes are lively as well. The difference between the standard euro spy and the Bond ones is that they don't crank up the romance to distracting extremes. It's rare in a James Bond movie that it doesn't feel tacked on as a joke. I always expect Eric Idle to pop up with a pint in his hand and say "nudge nudge, wink wink, knowwhatImean? KnowwhatImean?"

 

[paranoid marvin]

I never liked Stallone as Dredd. When I heard about Judge Dredd being developed my first thought was Dolph Lundgren. Now there's a chin.

I'll see that and raise you Jesse Ventura - best chin in Hollywood!

 

[KGeo777]

I am trying to think who would have better for it in 1995?
Ideally you want someone who reminds you of Clint Eastwood--wasn't he the reference for it.
Maybe Gary Graham, Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe, or Scott Glenn?
The voice has to be good.
Stallone was speaking very forced when he had the helmet on.

 

[Vince W]

I'll see that and raise you Jesse Ventura - best chin in Hollywood!

I can't think of who Jesse Venture is. Remind me?

 

[JunkMonkey]

La Nuite des Traquées (aka Night of the Hunted) - another slice of my Learning French by watching movies without the subtitles project. La Nuite des Traquées is a piece of cheapo Eurosleeze directed by Jean Rollin - "The plot is uncharacteristically coherent" - says the top user review on IMDb. Good god! If this was one of the more coherent ones I have to see more of this guy's films. (And not just for the copious amounts of nudity which they seem to contain - do French women actually wear underwear?) I'm not sure what Rollin was trying to do in this film (or possibly even say) but what he ended up with at the end of his two week shoot looked like a colourised softcore porn remake of Alphaville. Lots of dialogue delivered with the actors staring past each other as they deliver screeds of oblique dialogue before taking their clothes off and indulging in very uninteresting sex. Then there's a bit of running around with hand guns in a railway yard for some reason which isn't explained. Then it's the end. Utter crap. I loved it.

 

[alexvss]

La Nuite des Traquées (aka Night of the Hunted) - another slice of my Learning French by watching movies without the subtitles project. La Nuite des Traquées is a piece of cheapo Eurosleeze directed by Jean Rollin - "The plot is uncharacteristically coherent" - says the top user review on IMDb. Good god! If this was one of the more coherent ones I have to see more of this guy's films. (And not just for the copious amounts of nudity which they seem to contain - do French women actually wear underwear?) I'm not sure what Rollin was trying to do in this film (or possibly even say) but what he ended up with at the end of his two week shoot looked like a colourised softcore porn remake of Alphaville. Lots of dialogue delivered with the actors staring past each other as they deliver screeds of oblique dialogue before taking their clothes off and indulging in very uninteresting sex. Then there's a bit of running around with hand guns in a railway yard for some reason which isn't explained. Then it's the end. Utter crap. I loved it.

I really like French movies, notably the ones from the "New French Extremity". Martyrs (2008) is my favorite. High Tension (2003), Frontiers (2007), Raw (2016) and Under my Skin (2002) are also pretty great. The only one I don't like very much is Revenge (2017), for it doesn't add anything relevant to the genre. High Tension kickstarted Aja's career, and he remains as one of my favorite directors of all times. Have you seen Oxygen (2021)? It's his return to French movies. There are also Gaspar Noé's movies, which are, well, Gaspar Noé's movies! The man is a whole genre unto himself. I like some of them, but I'd never watch again. And these are the ones I remember off the top of my head right now

I don't like French cinema as a whole though. As Peter Griffin puts it: "People of France, a good-looking, deppresed guy smoking a cigarette is not a movie!"

 

[alexvss]

Pandorum (2009) "Event Horizon done right."

I re-watched this after many years. And man, it was worth it! What a movie. I really couldn't find any major flaws here.

Well, it starts off a little cliché, I must say. A member of the flight crew of a colonial ship wakes up from hypersleep after a malfunction. He finds out that the ship, that has been sent out of Earth after the planet's collapse, now became some kind of Lovecraftian anarchy or smth, and he's been sleeping for much more time than he thought he was. Ok, until now, nothing more than the old sci-fi obsession with dark futures caused by climate change and war. But the execution is outstanding. It keeps you hooked.

The lovecraftian monsters are not very lovecraftian because they try to (poorly) explain them. The concept of uncanny is thrown away. However, the monsters are very effective nonetheless. The action scenes also work. Normally, the breakneck editing would be a downer, but they work like a charm here.

This is, without a doubt, an enhanced version of Event Horizon (1997) as Paul W. S. Anderson, the director of the original movie, serves as the producer.

Make sure you don't sleep on this.

 

[CupofJoe]

I don't like French cinema as a whole though. As Peter Griffin puts it: "People of France, a good-looking, deppresed guy smoking a cigarette is not a movie!"

But a pretty woman looking for a lost cat in Paris is great cinema.
When the Cat's Away. Highly recommended!

 

[JunkMonkey]

There are also Gaspar Noé's movies, which are, well, Gaspar Noé's movies! The man is a whole genre unto himself. I like some of them, but I'd never watch again.

I watched half of Love and loathed it. Irreversable is in my TBW pile - I think it's going to be a long time before I get to it.

 

[hitmouse]

I really like French movies, notably the ones from the "New French Extremity". Martyrs (2008) is my favorite. High Tension (2003), Frontiers (2007), Raw (2016) and Under my Skin (2002) are also pretty great. The only one I don't like very much is Revenge (2017), for it doesn't add anything relevant to the genre. High Tension kickstarted Aja's career, and he remains as one of my favorite directors of all times. Have you seen Oxygen (2021)? It's his return to French movies. There are also Gaspar Noé's movies, which are, well, Gaspar Noé's movies! The man is a whole genre unto himself. I like some of them, but I'd never watch again. And these are the ones I remember off the top of my head right now

I don't like French cinema as a whole though. As Peter Griffin puts it: "People of France, a good-looking, deppresed guy smoking a cigarette is not a movie!"

I think that is a very amusing characterisation, and I love all that gloomy existential left bank stuff with Gitanes and Pastis and Anais Nin, but consider also:
L’Atalante
Jules et Jim
A Bout de Souffle
Mon Oncle
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
Diva
Delicatessen
Amelie
Jean de Floret
Manon des Sources
Cyrano de Bergerac
La Femme Nikita
Leon
Brotherhood of the Wolf

 

[alexvss]

I think that is a very amusing characterisation, and I love all that gloomy existential left bank stuff with Gitanes and Pastis and Anais Nin, but consider also:
L’Atalante
Jules et Jim
A Bout de Souffle
Mon Oncle
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
Diva
Delicatessen
Amelie
Jean de Floret
Manon des Sources
Cyrano de Bergerac
La Femme Nikita
Leon
Brotherhood of the Wolf

Watched some of those. Gonna check out the ones I still haven't.

 

[hitmouse]

Also:
Harry, He’s Here to Help
Les Choristes

 

[JunkMonkey]

I'm sad to say I have never seen Jules et Jim or A Bout de Souffle. The others on Hitmouse's list are all well worth looking out - apart from maybe L’Atalante. I have seen it and was greatly underwhelmed. I really don't see what there is to rave about - and people do rave about it. I really do suspect it's one of those films that would have sunk into obscurity if the director hadn't died so romantically young and either gone on to great things or squandered an early promise.


At the risk of turning this into a different thread - my favourite French films discovered over the last few years :
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Le Bossu
La belle saison
Diner du cons
Les yeux sans visage