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Keeping It Simple I'm with you. Graphic rape scenes are really the only time in movies that give me pause. It took me a few years to get the courage to watch "Irreversible", even though I heard good things about it over-all. I like horror films in general, but I'm not fond of these new horror films that feel the need to really push the limits by having a graphic rape scene in it. Movies like "I Spit on Your Grave", both the original and the remake.
Ghostchase I saw "Outrage" this past weekend and really liked it. Yakuza films are so much fun. Johnnie To makes really good mafia movies as well with "Vengence" and "Exiled". |
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I suppose humour is a lot like sexual attraction. It's possible to acknowledge that someone's beautiful without necessarily feeling physically attracted to them. In that sense I'd put Groucho in the same category as, say, Greta Garbo. |
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The director, Zulawski, is definitely an acquired taste. He does have a few interesting films, though. "On the Silver Globe" is a three hour sci-fi film about a group of people starting a new civilization with lots of mud and screaming. "The Devil" is also good- it concerns a soldier wandering through a forest who confronts some pretty heavy shit. But honestly, Zulawski's movies can be maddening. He employs alot of fish-eye lens, wild handheld shots and characters that are quite shrill- basically they scream and go way over the top throughout the entire film. There's not much on DVD, but downloads are abundant for his films out there. A cult status. |
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I love L&H. I think a major thing for me with comedians is a need to in some way empathise with them as people. Although caricatures, I always think there are rounded people behind the L&H persona, as I do with WC Fields and Mae West. With Groucho, I can never get beyond the persona. His lines always feel like just that. (I have the same problem with early Woody Allen movies.)
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That's obviously brilliant, to the extent that I don't even think it matters that it doesn't physically make me laugh. The thing with Groucho is I can enjoy him on a number of levels - not all related specifically to comedy - which in my book elevates him above a lot of what I'd describe as those 'lesser' comics, who just happen to tickle my funny bone (say Gene Wilder). In that sense I'd put him in the same category as Mae West - despite their otherwise very obvious differences. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom.
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Yeah, there's the original BBC version which is excellent (but incomplete on DVD) and a later remake which isn't so great. Hammer made three Quatermass films: Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2 and Quatermass and the Pit. Opinion seems divided as to whether Xperiment is better than Pit (Quatermass 2 is definitely the least interesting of the three). I go for Pit because I prefer the story but Xperiment is perhaps the creepier. Anyway, just watched:  L'Atalante I don't fall to my knees in reverence to this as some do but it is undeniably spectacularly beautiful. And I can't think of many films more deserving of the word dreamlike. I'm sure Lynch must've watched it a load of times prior to making Eraserhead. |
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YESS!! When they send the nun up to get him down. Laugh out loud funny. And as you say, very beautiful. The scene when the peacock appears in the middle of a snowball fight is one of my favourites in any film. |
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that's a beautiful, beautiful movie. just stay clear of the hollywood remake featuring the ghoulish nicolas cage and duck-billed blonde meg ryan. fucking criminal. faraway so close rules too. i think i posted a clip for hayden the other day but it's a possible spoiler so don't look for it. |
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 Way Out West I'll always prefer L&H's short 20 minute films over their feature films. There's zero padding to the short films, making the features invariably feel a bit drawn out in comparison. But of their full length movies this is definitely one of my favourites. If L&H were a band though, they'd be celebrated more for their singles than for their albums. Hollywood's answer to the Pet Shop Boys. And this is their Behaviour.  Thicker than Water This was a short that came with the Way out West DVD and it's worth the price on its own. Twenty minutes of pure, in your face, no diverting sub-plots Laurel & Hardy. So this'd be their Suburbia. |
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Yes!, I loved the second part probably as much as the first, I can't really fault the film at all but there's just one thing I didn't get and that is why Willem Dafoe's character could be seen by the humans that are alive and also talk to the angels... did I miss something? Anyway... really fantastic film(s). |
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ahh of course yes. makes sense now. I fell stupid for not picking up on that! :o |
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