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Atonement.

How do movies of this kind of epic scale and grandeur even get made? I'd seen it when it first came out and purposefully waited a long time before watching it again.

There's not a single fault I have with this flick. Every single aspect is movie making perfection. The acting by the 2 leads is mind blowing.

And that 5 and a half minute single tracking shot at Dunkirk beach??? Doesn't matter if some CGI was used to make it happen, as the viewer it's a single tracking shot.

Spoiler: Don't click on the video if you've never seen the movie.

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Mondo Bungle

The Saws seem to be getting more violent and more gay at an even ratio

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The City of Violence (Jjakpae) (2006)




Finally seen this after hours of looking for a player copy online with English subs

With no luck I ended up just buying it physically


Great film, good pacing, good choreography, nice stylistic direction

The only gripe I had if I had to choose is that the direction (eccentric though it may be in execution) can be a bit too fact paced in cut which makes me feel like it's the kind of film that's better upon the second watch

But you know, I guess that could also be a positive considering it would most likely be better each time you watch it

Defo a must see for a martial arts and/or revenge film enthusiast

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Deliverance.

45 years old and hasn't aged one bit. "That scene" all the way up until its resolution is still absolutely mind blowing in its intensity.

This was Ned Beatty's first motion picture. Talk about giving it his all. There's such a thing as brave acting. This is the very definition of it.

Jon Voight deserved an Oscar. Best work Burt Reynolds did in his entire career.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

When I first saw the movie I was really surprised at just how well it held up compared to my expectations. It's an excellent film that earned its cred and then some.

Come to think of it, The Descent makes a lot of nods towards Deliverance. I thought that the opening kayak scene felt familiar.

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I really need to watch this. Been putting it off forever.

Back to Deliverance. Can you imagine how hard it was to film some of those scenes considering they were either in the woods or on the river? Just mindblowingly brilliant stuff.

Today they'd just resort to CGI or enhancements.

Re: Jon Voight

The trifecta of Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and Coming Home cement him as an icon. He was awesome in Heat too.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Dude111

I last saw Problem Child 2 (1991) on VHS (Recorded from analogue cable in the 90s)

LoathsomePete

Martin (1978)

With the sad passing of George A. Romero I've taken it upon myself to try and track down his non-zombie films. I've only actually seen his Dead movies and Creepshow, and even that I didn't know was directed by him until I was looking up his filmography. Not that it's been an easy task trying to track down his movies, so this may be a long term project, but I digress.

Martin is Romero's take on vampires, except not really. The film stars John Amplas as the titular Martin, a young man who moves to Pennsylvania to live with his great uncle Cuda, and cousin Christine. On the trip though, Martin reveals himself to be a serial killer, who uses sedatives on female victims and then slit their wrists to drink their blood. Cuda warns Martin that he knows what he is (although he treats Martin like an Old World vampire, complete with crosses, garlic, etc.) and that should he kill anyone in the town they live in, he will kill Martin. Martin tells him that he's family and to not treat him as a "nosferatu" which creates this tense living condition between Cuda who despises Martin, Christine who thinks Cuda is crazy and wants to befriend Martin, and Martin who is a rapist/ serial killer. Throughout the movie Martin befriends a DJ to set the record straight about what vampires are, and even begins an relationship with a local lonely housewife.

I thought this movie was incredibly well done and maybe the best Romero movie I've seen. It's kind of incredible given that Dawn of the Dead came out the same year, but this feels like it was more artistically directed, where as Dawn always felt like Romero just shot a whole bunch of footage and made it into a cohesive film in editing. Martin feels much more staged and arranged with a degree of deliberation. There's some really cool bits, like when Martin kills the woman on the train, he imagines it like an old black and white Hollywood movie, all very dramatic and.. I dunno, dignified, but in real life the woman had just finished using the toilet, had a face mask on for her skin, and was using every curse word under the sun as he was attacking her.

Tom Savini is great as always for doing the practical effects, and just like with Dawn, you get that super fake looking hammer horror blood. Savini even acts in this, playing Christine's douchenozzle boyfriend who she eventually settles down with because she's that desperate to get away from her insane great uncle and cousin.

The music also deserves mention because it has a very old school romantic Gothic vibe throughout. It does kind of clash with the modern (at the time) scenes showing the urban blight of the late '70's, but I thought that it worked well given the subject matter and goes well with what Martin probably imagines as his own personal score.

Overall I'm incredibly pleased with this hidden gem of a movie that really made me look at Romero in a different light.

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Saw 6 was so gay it turned me straight

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