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Post by **taraswizard** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:19 pm

The cook, the thief,his wife and her lover 1989. Vulgar, gross in a grisly way.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:44 pm

Oh my god, I just ordered Manos on DVD for 8 dollars. Me and my friend Seth are gonna watch it at Josh's house. Oh my god, Josh is going to hate us forever.

God help us all.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:18 am

Loremaster wrote:Any film of Clive Barker's books.

I disagree too

I do however agree with Brinn, I thought both Hell-Raiser and NightBreed were great films. The biggest problem I had with them was that unlike the standard occurence of the books being far better, the books on which they were based gave no extra details.

I spent a long time tracking down Cabal and The Hell-Bound Heart in the fond expectation that they would give more detailed information about the Cenobites and the NightBreed. They didn't.

BTW, I quite liked The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Once you get round the fact that it's not really a movie, but a series of surrealistic fugues that are all interconnected, it's an interesting visual (and mental) experience.

At all costs, avoid Mom and Dad Save the World. Kitsch, cheesy, and painful.

--Avatar

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:53 am

Brinn wrote:Disagree. Clive Barker's original "Hellraiser" is a cult classic and certainly nowhere near the bottom of the barrel in terms of horror movies.

I didn't mind Nightbreed, but Hellraiser seemed, to me, poorly directed.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:59 am

I certainly agree that more could have been done with it, but then I feel the same way about many films.

--A

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:15 pm

Good point.

Post by **Gart** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:54 pm

I actually quite liked Hellraiser 2. A lot of it was mediocre but for me it was rescued by the ultra-cool scene when Pinhead remembers who he was and confronts new cenobite (and by implication, Leviathan).

Post by **Brinn** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:15 pm

Agreed Gart. Hellraiser II was a fun sequel and expanded the mythos a bit! Cool Movie.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:38 pm

Starship Troopers, A Million To Juan, MVP (Most Valuable Primate), Nothing But Trouble, Wagons East, Highlander 2, Superman 3, Batman 2, Battlefield Earth, Short Circuit 2, Police Academy 4 and up.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:52 am

Lord Foul wrote:Oh my god, I just ordered Manos on DVD for 8 dollars. Me and my friend Seth are gonna watch it at Josh's house. Oh my god, Josh is going to hate us forever.

God help us all.

Let us know if its as bad as its reputation suggests.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:05 am

duchess of malfi wrote:
Lord Foul wrote:Oh my god, I just ordered Manos on DVD for 8 dollars. Me and my friend Seth are gonna watch it at Josh's house. Oh my god, Josh is going to hate us forever.

God help us all.
Let us know if its as bad as its reputation suggests.

I've seen parts of Manos on Mystery Science Theater, but the DVD I ordered was the movie by itself in all its unadulterated horrificness. Ah, Manos, I don't know how you do it, but you make Plan 9 from Outer Space look like it was directed by Francis Ford Coppolla, rather than Ed Wood.

Post by **taraswizard** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:45 am

OK, considering "The cook..." as a piece of surrealism...well...maybe. It's truly a strange bit of cinema, and the movie critical community swooned over it very shamelessly.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:41 am

taraswizard wrote:OK, considering "The cook..." as a piece of surrealism...well...maybe. It's truly a strange bit of cinema...

It certainly is, and for me, therein lies the majority of its appeal. I had no idea that it was given good reviews/whatever, just got dragged to see it by my aunt years ago, (her husband wasn't interested) and ended up enjoying it so much that I've seen it several times since.

It's the "surrealism" that does it for me. (Dali is one of my favourite artists

)

--Avatar

Post by **Lorelei** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:12 pm

If you liked The cook et al. you may also find Prospero's Books interesting. Very inventive take on The Tempest.

Post by **matrixman** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:27 am

That's all fine and well, Lorelei, but where's your anti-recommendation?

You, too, Avatar. C'mon, tell us the stuff to avoid! I want to feel the hate pouring from you!

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:18 pm

Short Circuit 2, Superman 4, Batman 2 & 4, Swamp Thing 1 & 2, Supergirl, Police Acadamy 3-6, White Girls, Most Valuable Primate, A Million To Juan, Star Trek V.....

Post by **Nathan** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:49 pm

Solaris.

Most boring piece of ill-concieved bollocks ever to have blighted the planet.

Post by **Cail** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:06 pm

Ohhh yeah, the Solaris remake was terrible.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:40 pm

The remake of the Time Machine. X-Men.

Post by **matrixman** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:42 am

The thing about X-Men that ended up bothering me to no end was Mystique (or however you spell it)--the shape-shifting mutant. I think it's just lazy and convenient to have someone who can effortlessly impersonate anyone she chooses. With that kind of talent, why was Mystique being wasted on small potatoes like that senator? Why not go right to the top? Why doesn't Magneto and his gang just kill off the President of the United States and have Mystique impersonate him? What's to stop them?

Ah, maybe they're just doing things "subtly." Oh, really? Guys and gals in capes and tights wanna do the subtle approach? Sure, if your name is Alan Moore and you wrote Watchmen, then yeah, you could pull that off. But the plot contrivances of something like X-Men just drove me to distraction (despite the good performances of the cast). I think Watchmen has rendered the standard superhero comic book genre basically irrelevant in my mind. It would be funny and damn ironic if the people developing the Watchmen movie ended up turning it into a standard superhero comic book adventure--the very thing that Watchmen ripped to shreds.

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