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slik 02-05-2023 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5600778)
There are a few moments that would be good as a 20 second tik tok video, but making a whole movie out it is just a bore.

I do wish it was about 65 -70 min long...it needs to shave some time off

slik 02-05-2023 12:51 PM

Trying to find Knock at the Cabin online but not having luck on the sites I use so far...

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:35 PM

I’ve just stuck “Skinamarink” on.

I will do one of my in-action reviews.
If I hate it badly enough, the juice might be worth the squeeze…

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:41 PM

This is painfully slow already. No dialogue… just things moving slowly or not at all.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:43 PM

This is going to get me twitching and angry if it stays like this.

It’s filmed in some static effect.
This was made in an app wasn’t it

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:43 PM

Cool, somebody spoke and a light turned on.
It took 9 minutes to happen.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:48 PM

This is bad man.
This is deliberately bad.
Or made by an autist…not auteur.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 05:53 PM

Camera angles deliberately obfuscate every occurrence, not that there are many. There’s a terrible static effect, the audio is rank and it all seems to be played as though somebody left a camera recording on the floor despite the constant scene shifting.

The dialogue is all oblique, the footage is all oblique.

It isn’t interesting, most importantly.
I am 19 minutes in.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 06:02 PM

I’m done.

I can’t watch that shit.

Well done to the creator for conning the money men into buying it. That takes the cake.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 06:19 PM

Washing my eyes and ears out with a classic Western “The Professionals”.
It will undoubtedly have lots of occurrences and dialogue, probably cost £15,000,000 instead of £15 though…. worth it.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 06:23 PM

Trying to decide which western to watch next because I am going round the big stars and trying not to focus on anybody too much. Might be back to Clint, John Wayne or Sam Peckinpah… cannot decide. I could start on the Jimmy Stewart stuff but he’s awful gangly for a cowboy.
High Noon was good, not as great as everyone says but for when it came out it had a lot of great stuff.

Hmmm

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 06:57 PM

Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin are great in The Professionals, it’s a classic pairing of tough and unforgiving matched with cool, risky and fun. I like Burt Lancaster, I should watch more of his stuff…he’s not hard to like. Lee Marvin is also great but it strikes me funny that all of these actors likely fought in at least one war so they were all a lot tougher than today’s lot.
Burt Lancaster wouldn’t be a pretty boy today. He’d be the Lee Marvin guy. Lee Marvin would have to play a baddie…

Fignuts 02-05-2023 07:28 PM

About a year ago, I watched a bunch of amatuer, found footage horror movies on youtube, hoping to find a hidden gem. There was no hidden gem. Just the worst attempts at cinema I had ever seen. Skinamirink fits right in with those abortions.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 08:42 PM

There was nothing good in the half hour I watched. Literally nothing.
When that happens you have to cut your losses. No film deserves more than half an hour to get the ball rolling.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 08:43 PM

If it was sold as maybe some sort of art experience then ok, but it’s not a movie.
Things have to move in a movie.

Seanny One Ball 02-05-2023 08:44 PM

They don’t call them stilly’s

Blonde Moment 02-06-2023 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5600864)
Trying to decide which western to watch next because I am going round the big stars and trying not to focus on anybody too much. Might be back to Clint, John Wayne or Sam Peckinpah… cannot decide. I could start on the Jimmy Stewart stuff but he’s awful gangly for a cowboy.
High Noon was good, not as great as everyone says but for when it came out it had a lot of great stuff.

Hmmm

Once Upon a Time in the West

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 10:19 AM

A fine Western. Probably the best role Charles Bronson ever had because they keep him quiet for most of it and Henry Fonda is playing evil incarnate as the antagonist. Best use of a harmonica too.
I’m watching a wide array of Westerns right now. I’m not tired of them and I doubt I ever will be. Tonight I’m going to check out:

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Rio Bravo
Any Randolph Scott film

I am due a deep dive into the Audie Murphy stuff but I am saving that so I can link it up with his War stuff. I’m still holding off on the Jimmy Stewart stuff because he’s just awful isn’t he? Jimmy Stewart is too wimpy for the genre.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 10:25 AM

Randolph Scott makes the best short westerns. Almost none of them are 90 minutes, loads are 78-80 minutes…
You can see the money was used sparingly but I will always love practical effects and every Western uses them. It’s a box that has to be ticked if you are making one.
I can’t accuse most Westerns of feeling too natural but a few of the big players always know their role. John Wayne, Randolph Scott and Henry Fonda can carry the atmosphere that the film needs, guys like Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster and Van Heflin all just play essential character roles every time. Strother Martin is always a name you want to see involved if there’s moral ambiguity. Warren Oats too, both have marvellous western faces.

Men with a purpose.

I love Westerns.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 10:44 AM

Think I have to watch “Soldier Blue” again. I remember thinking it was a bit more grown up when I saw it as a kid.

McLegend 02-06-2023 12:45 PM

John Wayne’s last movie The Shootiest is one of the better last movies by a star you are going to see. Directed by the guy is does Dirty Harry

Also one you might like. There is some decent stuff in it, and I think it’s his only directing credit “One eyed Jacks.” Brando also stars alongside old co star buddy Karl Malden. It’s not - great movie, but I think it’s enjoyable.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 06:52 PM

“The Shootist” is one I always loved and it’s a note-perfect ending to a great career, but “One Eyed Jacks” is one I have not seen and had debated so so will stick it on my list. Is that the one with Brando in loads of disguises? If not I should stick that on the list too.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 06:54 PM

Currently interrupting my Western viewing to watch this new Alan Partridge live show “Stratagem”.
I had no idea it was a thing but it is very good.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 07:53 PM

That was great but I’m watching Josey Wales now and 20 minutes in the violence is relentless.
Classic Clint.

Seanny One Ball 02-06-2023 07:54 PM

Sam Peckinpah is accused of gratuitous violence… it’s like they never even saw a Clint pic before or any Spaghetti western really…

Blonde Moment 02-06-2023 09:58 PM

They just can't make stuff like that anymore. I feel like Unforgiven was the last great western

slik 02-07-2023 12:23 AM

Backrooms - 7/10

Good horror short


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Seanny One Ball 02-07-2023 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blonde Moment (Post 5600973)
They just can't make stuff like that anymore. I feel like Unforgiven was the last great western

Great westerns are being made to this day.

Check out “Never Grow Old”

weather vane 02-07-2023 10:48 PM

A Man Called Otto

7.2/10

Helmsphere 02-08-2023 02:12 PM

Teen Wolf: The Movie: 6.5/10

Entertaining affair if you were a fan of the Teen Drama about Supernatural. All the usual things are here. Derek getting his ass beat, Lydia being weird, Malia being a slut and Linden Ashby being the national treasure that he is.

XL 02-08-2023 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by slik (Post 5601005)
Backrooms - 7/10

Good horror short


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I’ve been following the Film Theory err theories on this for months.

ron the dial 02-09-2023 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slik (Post 5601005)
Backrooms - 7/10

Good horror short


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i just heard this brought up elsewhere last night so i watched it. this is the runtime skinamarink should have had. i also read the kid who directed it is 17 (16 when this was released), and a24 have signed him on for a feature length of this. hope it's not another skinamarink but seems likely...

Seanny One Ball 02-09-2023 05:35 PM

If they want our nightmares for film plots they can try making my “every girl I kiss turns into a faceless dummy” nightmare into one.
I used to have that when I was a kid, one weird part was not being able to let go of anything I picked up.
I think it was puberty anxiety mixed with self control worries.

I had nightmares about Rutger Hauer terrorising me for years after I saw “The Hitcher” too.

No nightmares nowadays…used to have a recurring nightmare about my teeth all coming out into my hands, they looked like coal. Fake fireplace coal specifically. The glass stuff.

Seanny One Ball 02-09-2023 05:36 PM

Going to watch a horror movie by Clive Barker called “Nightbreed” because I saw a bit and it looked fucking mental.

ron the dial 02-09-2023 07:04 PM

it's so fucking stupidly satisfying

Seanny One Ball 02-09-2023 07:16 PM

Is it good? It looked pretty high value for Clive Barker. I just liked the term “Midian” because I bet that’s where the wrestler nicked it from.

Fignuts 02-09-2023 09:29 PM

And Soon, The Darkness (1970) - 6/10
Decent little who-dunnit thriller

Slaves of Satan - 8/10
I think this is the first Indonesian horror film I've seen and it was really good. Likeable characters, some great scares, and a fun twist towards the end.

Slaves of Satan: Communion - 8.5/10
Didn't quite feel like the story flowed as good as the first one, but it's better in other ways so it all evens out for me.

Fignuts 02-09-2023 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5601268)
If they want our nightmares for film plots they can try making my “every girl I kiss turns into a faceless dummy” nightmare into one.
I used to have that when I was a kid, one weird part was not being able to let go of anything I picked up.
I think it was puberty anxiety mixed with self control worries.

I had nightmares about Rutger Hauer terrorising me for years after I saw “The Hitcher” too.

No nightmares nowadays…used to have a recurring nightmare about my teeth all coming out into my hands, they looked like coal. Fake fireplace coal specifically. The glass stuff.

My dreams/possible waking hallucinations while I had covid would make great cinema.

Lock Jaw 02-09-2023 10:59 PM

You best write them down then

Seanny One Ball 02-10-2023 03:15 AM

Nobody is buying a Covid dream when they could have a healthy one for the same price.

Get real Fignuts


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