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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
The movie starts okay, though it strained a bit of credibility that the new church librarian completely hooks up with the woman who is restoring a fresco in the cathedral. Gives her a ride home from work and then spends the night. Okay?
The supernatural stuff lacks a cohesive theme and mainly seems to consist of low budget hijinks that were improvised on the set. There is an inappropriate scene where the gaze dwells overly long on the bare legs of a 13 year-old Asia Argento, soon followed by an attempted rape. In the second half of the movie, a bridal fashion photo shoot and a school field trip both end up in the cathedral, only to find themselves trapped inside. Lots of random things happen to too many characters as the movie falls to unmanageable chaos. With about 35 minutes left, I gave up on The Church. I haven't deleted it from my queue, but I might.
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One the one hand his stuff seems right up my alley, but on the gripping hand it just might be too over the line for me now. In my 20's stuff like Nekromantik, troma films, and Italian horror was great with pizza and beer on a friday stag night. These days, not so much.
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Shellhead wrote: Watched a Dario Argento movie called The Church (1988).
It's not directed by Argento - it's by Argento's assistant Michele Soavi. He also directed The Sect (like The Church a bit of mess), Aquarius/Stage Fright (which is a very ruthless slasher - I'm not a fan of the genre but I liked this) and his masterpiece Dellamorte Dellamore or Cemetery Man - Rupert Everett plays a VERY jaded custodian of a graveyard during a zombie apocalypse. It's the one Soavi film you should check out (though you've probably already seen it.)
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Anyway, like all films set in a male dominated sphere, like a WW2 bomber, there is a certain amount of contrivance to get a female on the plane but this one you will NOT see coming and I'm kinda surprised I've not seen it before. There is a fair amount of gross chauvinism, far more than is typical even in these sorts of film, so be warned. This must be a post-covid film, it is almost exclusively focused on Moretz and even on a plane they find lots of ways to just have her in the scene or one of the other cast members. She handles the role well and does a great job as a woman in a very tight high pressure situation.
Still, it is pretty entertaining, even if it doesn't go all the way to the bomber segment from Heavy Metal (which would have been AWESOME!).
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jason10mm wrote: Still, it is pretty entertaining, even if it doesn't go all the way to the bomber segment from Heavy Metal (which would have been AWESOME!).
I thought Heavy Metal was amazing the first time I saw it in the theater, because I was a teenager. The animation has not aged well, and some aspects of the movie have become downright embarrassing. But that bomber segment is still classic.
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The film is the same way. At the time the producers went to metal bands and asked them to write material for it and some did. There's some great stuff out there by the metal bands of the time that never made it to the film, replaced oddly enough by Fleetwood Mac, Journey and a couple of other odd choices. There's a packet of albums from that era with some kick-ass songs clearly recorded for the film. Fire of Unknown Origin has two, but the film didn't use either, choosing a third song that wasn't related instead. I suppose metal isn't the best choice for background music in a film.
The thing I remember most from the film is that Vette dropping out at the very beginning. What a bad-ass start for a film that . . . was only somewhat bad-ass. A couple of A-grade segments.
I need to see if there's a book that has all the Heavy Metal covers compiled. The covers were always the best part of the magazine. Some really dynamite art over the years.
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HM2K, eh, not so much. I liked the comic but more of the stories were pretty non-sensical, I think I dumped them all during a move quite a while back. Druuna, Den, Lorna, not sure how much I'd want to revisit some. A digital archive would be nice, but they REALLY value that IP and the current digital subscription is brutally expensive.
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Yeah, I thought Heavy Metal was awesome when I was a teenager. I also probably smoked a little too much weed back then.Sagrilarus wrote: Heavy Metal the film was (is) a lot like Heavy Metal the magazine, where one or two segments are excellent and the remainder is largely fill. As I got older I always felt that the editors made it a point to parse out their A-grade material in appropriate doses so that each issue got some.
The film is the same way. At the time the producers went to metal bands and asked them to write material for it and some did. There's some great stuff out there by the metal bands of the time that never made it to the film, replaced oddly enough by Fleetwood Mac, Journey and a couple of other odd choices. There's a packet of albums from that era with some kick-ass songs clearly recorded for the film. Fire of Unknown Origin has two, but the film didn't use either, choosing a third song that wasn't related instead. I suppose metal isn't the best choice for background music in a film.
The thing I remember most from the film is that Vette dropping out at the very beginning. What a bad-ass start for a film that . . . was only somewhat bad-ass. A couple of A-grade segments.
I need to see if there's a book that has all the Heavy Metal covers compiled. The covers were always the best part of the magazine. Some really dynamite art over the years.
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Nodens wrote: Just saw Solo with my kid. It isn't as bad as I remembered, but still.
Space Cthulhu and that little taste of Darth Maul were about the only things I really liked from that film, though most of it was passable.
I sooooo want to see the Lord cut, or at least what they had done that was so egregious the powers that be shitcanned the whole thing and had Ron basically reshoot it nearly from scratch. I don't know if it is just the heavy scrutiny levied at a Star Wars project or if they just run a loose ship at LucasArts, but I don't recall many other films with such public problems.
Oh wait, Snyders Justice League drops in like a week, right?
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jeb wrote: The tap dance number by Chadwick Boseman is amazing and gets more and more amazing as it goes on.
You must be talking about Channing Tatum's scene in the Swingin' Dinghy. Thought I'd lost my mind for a second there...
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Isn't Assault a remake of Rio Bravo? Now that movie is an all-time classic.hotseatgames wrote: I love John Carpenter's work. The Thing is one of my favorite films of all time. One of his films I had never seen is Assault on Precinct 13, from 1976. We saw that it was on HBO Max, along with the 2005 remake. We watched both of them back to back.
Final verdict... neither film is good, but the Carpenter original is superior.
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