hylian_elf wrote:

Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas - his easy top 3. The Departed and Shutter Island are good too. No Irishman in my top 5 Scorseses.

I'd throw Cape Fear in there too.

Cruella
Pleasantly anarchic Disney villain origin story with a frankly outstanding soundtrack. Daft, but charismatic. Emmas Stone & Thompson seem to be having marvellous fun in their roles.

It is indeed. Top stuff. And a young Kim Catrall is a bonus.

I'll take any age Kim Catrall if I'm honest.

Which one of her songs did that?

Better that Stardust?!

For context, I thought Stardust was massively overrated.

I got more excited to see Halloween Kills when I heard Jim Cummings was in it. Webbins knows who I'm talking about. Been meaning to watch his werewolf movie for a while plus he has a new one out called the beta test which sounds interesting

davyK wrote:

Just back from cinema where we watched Halloween Kills which is what you think it would be - a selection of gory deaths fitted into a nonsensical script. But it's fine for a Halloween night and at 100mins goes by quickly.

It actually almost becomes a pretty good film in places - there's a mob scene that strikes a chord in these chaotic times. But it is what it is. There's a sequel for next year (surprise, surprise) and we will probably go and see it on Halloween night.

My sister and I saw it Saturday. I enjoyed it, loved the kills and stylistically I thought it was strong. Flawed no doubt, I felt it served purely as a bridge to next year's Ends but I left the cinema wanting to watch it again. Michael is still cool as fuck and I think David Gordon Green has retained the core of the character, tried to extend certain traits without jumping the shark.

Webbins wrote:

Just back from cinema where we watched Halloween Kills which is what you think it would be - a selection of gory deaths fitted into a nonsensical script. But it's fine for a Halloween night and at 100mins goes by quickly. It actually almost becomes a pretty good film in places - there's a mob scene that strikes a chord in these chaotic times. But it is what it is. There's a sequel for next year (surprise, surprise) and we will probably go and see it on Halloween night.

My sister and I saw it Saturday. I enjoyed it, loved the kills and stylistically I thought it was strong. Flawed no doubt, I felt it served purely as a bridge to next year's Ends but I left the cinema wanting to watch it again. Michael is still cool as fuck and I think David Gordon Green has retained the core of the character, tried to extend certain traits without jumping the shark.

Thinking about it now that whole crowd/mob aspect of the film was an interesting idea. The film felt a bit all over the place in the first 20mins or so but once it settled down it got better. I'm not really a fan of the slasher genre (I've only ever watched the original in this series for example) but it was enjoyable.

What surprised me is that it passed the next morning test. I find if a film pops into my head the next day it means it was of some merit.

Webbins wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

I got more excited to see Halloween Kills when I heard Jim Cummings was in it. Webbins knows who I'm talking about. Been meaning to watch his werewolf movie for a while plus he has a new one out called the beta test which sounds interesting

You might be disappointed, his part is minor. Thunder Road though, great film.

Probably the best sequence for me.



103. Jaws
Not much to say really. Still not topped in a lot of areas. I love how it proves the direction doesn't have to be quick cut or shaky to be exciting and scary (the Pond sequence is still an all-timer for me) and it shows that you gotta spend time making your characters have some depth.
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104. Antlers
Hooooooboy was this a stinker. Sometimes a drama directors comes to horror and adds a nice layer of humanity to a spook piece and sometimes a non-horror director tries to make a horror and has no idea what makes horror work. You also can't get away with people making stupid decisions anymore, call the police before you go into the creepy death house plz. Please just watch The Ritual instead for something similar about dealing with trauma. Points only for creature.
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105. Halloween Kills
Made it a double feature with Antlers and it was nice to watch something that was competent. Not sure I bought the whole mob thing and I can't help but feel that Michael shouldn't really revel in the pain of his kills which seemed more for the gorehound audience than to aid in the film. I need to rewatch the original but I feel he just 'got the job done'. Some more stupid decision moments in this but Antlers also made them feel less egregious.
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Could be maybe a 6 even, not that it really matters. I enjoyed it enough. Had the whole cinema to myself too so that was awesome. Soundtrack was the best bit of the movie by far though.

The 4K blu-ray of Jaws is shmick btw. They do an amazing job doing up these old films. Bought T2 as well and from the short snippet I watched it looks insanely crisp but without ruining the look of the film.

@Shabby shmick is a good thing? I’ll have to grab it if so.

g.man wrote:

I was channel-hopping the other night and came across the last twenty minutes of Carpenter's OG Halloween. 40-odd years later, and fuck me, it's still an absolute masterclass in tension. The direction, the cinematography, the music, it really does knock it out the park.

It's a classic OK. It takes a while to get going perhaps but I consider it a keeper - one of the few I have on BluRay.

davyK wrote:

g.man wrote:

I was channel-hopping the other night and came across the last twenty minutes of Carpenter's OG Halloween. 40-odd years later, and fuck me, it's still an absolute masterclass in tension. The direction, the cinematography, the music, it really does knock it out the park.

It's a classic OK. It takes a while to get going perhaps but I consider it a keeper - one of the few I have on BluRay.

The score really was a work of absolute genius.