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BrianBlessedsBitch wrote:I love Jason X, it is the second best film in the entire franchise. It is unbelievably dumb but with some great one liners and death sequences. Obviously as a horror film it is rubbish but who cares.

I've seen that film so many times. It's great. Because of how bad it is. I like the ending when they're in the escape ship thing and Jason is flying towards them. They're all like "NOOOOO" then just as he reaches them the black dude flies into the scene out of strawberry floating nowhere pushing Jason away. Then rides on his back as they enter the atmosphere of Earth 2

Just brilliant.

Control - *****

Atmosphere

Edit: The fact I keep calling this film Closer is really, really annoying.

Closer is only good for being Exhibit B in the case of 'Do Pink Wigs Make All Girls Hotter?'.

Jaxley wrote:Source Code - *****

I enjoyed it, a bit of a strange ending that didn't really suit the rest of the film, but overall a very good film.

The ending I felt made it kinda very confusing attempt at a twist... However, the rest of the film was a very good concept played out well...

A lot of timey wimey stuff though... Very worthwhile viewing and rather tense build-up... They wrote it very well and it showed by how the film flowed very well throughout all the sequences and what-not...


One thing I would have changed though would have been to make Jake the bomber instead... Would've made for a rather interesting ending, but it worked all the same regardless of how my brain works...

Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

Exxy wrote:Control - *****

Atmosphere

Edit: The fact I keep calling this film Closer is really, really annoying.

Control.

Atmosphere

Corazon de Leon wrote:Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

The Green Mile.

Corazon de Leon wrote:Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

Probably Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Corazon de Leon wrote:Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

The Shawshank Redemption

BrianBlessedsBitch wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

Probably Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Unless there are other films where people are choked to death with their own intestines, I'm fairly sure it's this.

Edit: In hindsight, should have been the winner of R for the alphabet thingy.

Corazon de Leon wrote:Lads, I'm trying to find a film I saw in a pub last year. It's a Chinese or Japanese film set in a prison, and the only major things I remember happening are that the protagonist chokes another inmate to death with his own entrails, and the prison warden mutates into a monster at the end of the film. Does anyone have any ideas?

Riki-Oh

Lads, your amazing speed at figuring that out with only my vague ass description has done me proud. I'mma get that gooseberry fool downloaded right now. That's been annoying me for over a year, thanks!

Poncho wrote:Unless there are other films were people are choked to death with their own intestines, I'm fairly sure it's this.

Hatchet 2 uses the same death sequence and I've seen it in at least one other film too but the name escapes me.

Of course combining it with Japanese, prison and mutant guard does limit the possibilities.

Scream on BBC1 at 11:15pm tonight.

I think I will watch it as I haven't seen it for yonks.

BOR wrote:Scream on BBC1 at 11:15pm tonight.

I think I will watch it as I haven't seen it for yonks.

I've been itching to watch Scream after reading Empire's piece on the latest one (and going over the previous trilogy).

I'm looking forward to it, so will probably be disappointed due to my anti-horror leanings. Hopefully it'll be a lot o' fun.

I watched On the Waterfront last night, which is hard for me to score.

My head is saying 8/10 as the film is class. My heart is perhaps saying 6/10 as the main plot of the corrupt union isn't really that tense until the last third (around the time the "I coulda bin a contendah" speech kicks in, which was a brilliant scene).

Brando was ace as well. You can see why he was such a revelation at this time, as he is so natural and has that edge to him in every little scene.

I'll probably get it a 7/10, though the more I think about it, the more my "head score" pervades.

Source Code 9/10 Loved it.

Parksey wrote:

BOR wrote:Scream on BBC1 at 11:15pm tonight.

I think I will watch it as I haven't seen it for yonks.

I've been itching to watch Scream after reading Empire's piece on the latest one (and going over the previous trilogy).

Watching it now confirms that yes, it still manages to scare the crap out of me. Couldn't really do a dramatic cellphone drop nowadays however.

Looking at some of the titles in the IMDb Top 250, Scream should definitely be in there.

Saw Suckerpunch at the cinema - worst film I've ever seen at the cinema. Boring, exploitative and it thinks it's prefound. I heard in a lot of reviews that this is a 13 year olds fantasy - it's a boring strawberry floating fantasy if that's true.

Marwencol - 7/10
After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.
Wasn't sure what score to give this, nearly give it an 8 but i don't think it quite deserves it... its good and its interesting but its more like something you'd watch an Arena documentary of, scored with plinky-plonky music. His art / therapy is excellent but by the end things get weirder and it doesn't seem so healthy when he admits he'd prefer to live in the safety of his own created world.

Monsters 8/10

Really wasn't sure what to expect from this. I remember hearing about it last summer on some podcast and being interested. Since then I've seen Empire give it 5 stars and call it one of the best of 2010, while others have called it a load of boring old rubbish. I've also seen some harsh criticism of the main two actors, so when I got around to watching it last night, the first thing that suprised me was how good they were. I knew there wasn't going to be a ton of creature shots, so I think that helped to get my expectations right before going into it, and ended up really, really enjoying it.