vurt on 1/1/2024 at 10:04
There's also a remake of robocop. didn't see.
Coherence is decent. I guess you've seen The Man From Earth already? Must watch otherwise..
Sulphur on 1/1/2024 at 11:24
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My god, there's a Robocop 3? That can't be good. But I'll still watch it when I get around to watching those again one day.
Oh, boy. You have no idea. Best get some mates and some beers when you do.
vurt on 2/1/2024 at 07:59
Stalker.
I tried watching it some 15-20 years ago, didn't finish it. Tried a couple of more times over the years. Now when i saw it in its entirety i realized i actually have watched the entire thing at some point. Duh.
Anyways, i just love how it looks, breathtaking. My favorite movie in terms of photo. Sound design is also great and hypnotic. Worth watching for that alone, the story itself is amazing.
This isn't as good as his Solaris though i think. Big fan of both the book and the game, so that helps, but i think anyone can appreciate just how this movie looks (Solaris has nothing on this, even if that movie is stunning too). I need to watch the rest of his movies, The Mirror up next..
Tocky on 4/1/2024 at 18:32
They made a movie of the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ? I would not have thought that would translate very well at all. It's a fairly standard shooter. They couldn't even do a decent Max Payne so I can't see that one flying in terms of plot at all.
Anyway, I just came to recommend the first season of True Detective. It's about a series of child murders along the Louisiana coast in the nineties. Like the fifties pulp it is named for it is fictional despite the name. But it is good. Don't start it unless you have a full evening clear because you won't want to stop. Unfortunately I found it late and was only going to watch an episode or two before bed. The same thing happened with Queens Gambit. It pulled me in and I just could not quit. I had to know what happens next.
Ordinarily I stay away from things too real in crime drama. I just can't stand assholes who hurt people, least of all kids, but this one was so gritty and the Mathew McConaughey character so deeply involved in solving the case that I had to watch till the end. Fair warning. Set aside time. Jesus, the biker gang scenes were so tense you think it can't get any worse.
There are lots of very dangerous amoral people in the world and they are not playing. This captures that. It also captures the flawed but good people the rest of us generally are. And then there are the very few dangerous moral people. It's hard to capture that but this does a fair job of it.
demagogue on 4/1/2024 at 19:34
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They made a movie of the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ?
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They made a video game of the movie S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
With a little editing of your question, I can answer yes.
Both of them came from the Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic though.
Here's the timeline:
Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic, 1971
Tarkovsky's movie Stalker, 1979
GSC Studio's game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, 2007
It's interesting to compare the three of them.
Some elements that all of them have include the exclusion Zone, the stalkers (although they're variously described as artifact hunters in the book and game and guides for people exploring the Zone in the movie), mutations (in the book and game), the practice of throwing nuts to avoid deadly invisible phenomena & at least one victim of the Zone, and the final
wish-giving artifact.
But what's different include the source of the Zone--the first is set in the US (it's heavily implied) after an alien event, the second in the USSR and I don't think it's ever made clear what it is, the third is set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine after some possibly alien-instigated event--also different are the characters entering the Zone, their motivations for exploring it, and the final climax at
the wish-giving place.
It's just interesting how these differences bring out different punchlines about the meaning of the Zone and human motivations. All three of them are classics in their own medium. Clearly the setup is great fodder for soul searching art.
Tocky on 20/1/2024 at 04:34
You have
got to see Rebirth on Netflix. It is labeled a thriller but to me it is a horror. And it is EXACTLY what I think Scientology is. None of us are as free as we want but we aren't fully caged either. We have to give to society to get from it. Sometimes that feels like a tether. And it is a kind of bind we do for those we love, to take care of them. There is honesty in most work and in the trade of our lives that makes us do it willingly. THIS movie? This movie is horror.
When I went to LA I photographed this horror on Hollywood boulevard. To me all religion is scary. Anything that asks me to give up my mind sparks fear in me. But this? Shear terror.
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/OrftOSy.jpgI like to think I am beyond all my traps now. I like to think I always was. But there are snares still set to step over.
Fire Arrow on 20/1/2024 at 09:15
I've really enjoyed Oscar from 1991. It uses a lot of cliches in unexpected ways and it come very close to having unity of time and place. I've watched three times now, once on my own, and the other two times with different sets of people. Really inspired by it's writing.
PigLick on 20/1/2024 at 15:27
[video=youtube;ryNtckMT49M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNtckMT49M[/video]
CZmeltdown on 20/1/2024 at 17:21
Anyone else think that modern horror movies kinda suck?
Fire Arrow on 20/1/2024 at 17:53
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Anyone else think that modern horror movies kinda suck?
Yeah, especially Ari Aster. Most overrated modern director ever. If The Wicker Man (2006) killed the original, Midsommar danced on it's grave.