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Just finished Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). What can I say.. this movie is batsh*t crazy! The ending was extremely ridiculous, McConaghey plays insane even more insane than Hopper in Part 2. The rest of the cast acts awful but McConaghey was great in this, truely scary. This feels like a teenage version of TCM :P And what happened to Leatherface? Putting lipstick on himself? :-O
True Romance, Terminal Velocity and Get Shorty watched so far.
Two of those films are still very excellent but as for Terminal Velocity; Charlie Sheen may be "Winning!" but the audience is definitely losing!. An absolutely bloody awful film.
2/5
I miss Toby & Sam.
An odd mind ****of a film. Perhaps pretentious but kind of intriguing at the same time, though I probably need to have taken more hallucinogenic drugs to further appreciate it. Certainly not as good as Kill List but worth a watch nonetheless.
Well, there it is. Marvel got away with it. :D This is a darn good film! I had prepared myself a little by doing some reading of the comic in previous months, and I had realised that this might just be a little more than a talking tree and a talking raccoon. I can actually see them merge this thing with Avengers in, what, Phase 3? Anyway, I'm still pleasantly surprised. And I can recommend Guardians Of The Galaxy! :-)
Yes, very bloody death :D
Time for a Jason tribute:
For one of the first times ever, I liked all the teens.
Part VII had the best looking Jason, and first appearance of Kane Hodder (who would play him many times and is generally everyone's favorite) but unfortunately the MPAA did some butchering of their own and it's the LEAST bloody film in the series!
I have to share one funny story about Part VII though: I was watching it on TV as a young kid and there's a scene where Jason rips out an electrical cable to kill all the lights, and a second later I actually lost electricity in the house!! Believe me- pants were shat.
The New Blood definitely has my favourite looking Jason, and favourite final girl. The end is a bit of a cop-out, it's as if the writers didn't know how to end the film. Even in the world that the films are set in, I think that ending was a bit much.
If I were Pressed for a ranking right, it would look like this
1. Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1987)
2. Friday The 13th (2009)
3. Friday The 13th Part III (1982)
4. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
5. Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
6. Jason X (2001)
7. Friday The 13th:The Final Chapter (1984)
8. Frieddy vs Jason (2003)
9. Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1988)
10. Friday The 13th Part II (1981)
11. Friday The 13th (1980)
12. Friday The 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Other than the bottom 3, the films move around. Next week the ranking might look different.
If one defines the F13 series by its best know asset, Jason, this film is of course a let-down. But then I don't think that would fair. It's like saying Star Wars is a bad film because it doesn't have Yoda or the Imperial March. The iconic Jason Vorhees with the hockey mask distracts people from the fact that zombie kid Jason was but an afterthought of the first film and a convenient excuse to get a sequel made, thriving on the thinnest continuity imaginable. But Jason soon became the brand of the series, comparable to how Batman hijacked Detective Comics after his introduction in #27.
I consider myself a fan of Jason's films, though I find Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers more interesting and more 'substantial'. Considering our killers' backstory, Jason's is pretty weak, suffering from an almost crippled continuity between parts 1, 2 and 3. His traits are fairly identical in all the films, except that his immortality evolves from symbolic to very pronounced. Freddy and Michael were given stronger backstories, though not free from their own share of flaws, but more important, their motivation overall seems more prevalent.
Though I watch the entire F13 series at least once every year, usually during the Summer, I do so out of respect for the first film and because I have a soft spot for parts IV and VI, and mostly because I simply love the clever Freddy versus Jason, which I consider a Nightmare On Elm Street film featuring Jason Vorhees. ;-)
Interesting movie in which a story/history is slowly reconstructed by the lead character played by a great Jeremy Irons. It has also a special cameo by the mighty Christopher Lee.
3rd place for The New Blood, that's not too bad. Sad to see Jason Goes To Hell so low. I can understand why some don't like it, but it's indifference is what I like best about the film. The unrated cut is brutal, especially the couple having sex in the tent.
I really liked Jason Goes to Hell as well. I thought it was a decent way for the franchise to shake things up a bit after being around for nine films.
Plus that little demon looking thing body-hopping around was ultra stupid.
I'll say this for the movie though: Jason was definitely at his ugliest! Too bad we didn't get to see him without his mask!
Subtle reference to Jason's Manhattan holiday, Dimi? I'm thinking of going to Manhattan, sink a ship, terrorize some students & teachers and generally have a good time.
I have some affection for the Robocop series but not all that much. I consider the third film and that awful Prime Directives miniseries a waste of time. The first and the second film were good and I've read some pretty decent Robocop comics. But when they announced the new movie, something clicked. Modern filmmaking technology applied to Robocop? I'm all for it! And of course it helps to have some pretty impressive names involved, like Oldman, Keaton, Jackson, Cornish, J.E. Haley, ...
Overall I like this film. It plays out the ambiguity of being a hero like Robocop very well, offers some nice action scenes and still pays respect to the original. Though Joel Kinnaman is no Peter Weller, the suit is cool enough to compensate for that. ;-) This is not a great film, just good entertainment.
Well, at least behind the scenes we can get a taste of what's under there:
*BTW, I can't believe on a JAMES BOND forum nobody's mentioned this yet:
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Adam Wingard's You're Next is a 2013 slasher film and part of the popular home-invasion subgenre. Wingard's effort manages to rise above most other films in the genre, thanks in large part to his lead actress, Sharni Vinson.
The film tells the story of Crispian (A.J. Bowen) bringing his girlfriend Erin (Vinson) to meet his family at his parents' 35th anniversary celebration at their vacation home. His brothers, sister, and their spouses and girlfriends all convene at the vacation house for what is supposed to be a time of celebration.
This is, of course, all interrupted by the siege on their home by men wearing animal masks. The masks themselves lend a certain creepiness to the proceedings, as all good horror masks do. I didn't find them quite as unsettling as those found in The Strangers, which is You're Next's biggest recent competition in the home-invasion subgenre, but they're memorable in that they're rather different from the usual fare.
What really sticks out in this film is the performance of Sharni Vinson. While primarily being known it seems from Step Up 3D, she shines as the film's surprisingly kick-ass heroine, and stands alongside Ti West (who also stars here) alumns Jocelin Donahue and Sara Paxton as part of a recent resurgence in excellent leading ladies in the horror genre. It's refreshing to see characters like these that aren't exploited for their looks in such a film, but rather drive the action forward and carry the film solely on their talents.
As already stated, Sharni Vinson is fantastic. Her athleticism shows through in the role, which asks a lot from her physically, with her character being forced to confront the killer quite often. Without her, I'm not sure that the film works nearly as well, even though it still has other things going for it.
On the downside, it honestly felt like they revealed their twist far too early in the film. And what they present as a twist at the end of the film really is something that could be seen coming from some distance away, which causes the film to slightly limp across the finish line, especially after some memorable sequences, which include the initial assault on the family. The last shot of the film is pretty cool, although it unfortunately means that the writers had to sacrifice any sense of closure in order to achieve it. Even still, You're Next is a terrific entry in the horror genre, and Sharni Vinson, should she decide to continue in the genre, could be its next rising star.
4/5
Many 007 stars here : Paluzzi , Shaw , de Wolff , Murcell , Robinson......
Anyway , I found it meh......for a drama movie it contains very little suspense , then there's the usual "2 men fight over 1 woman" sub plot , yawn.