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The Exorcist II, the heretic - Richard Burton gets drinking money and the sight of Linda Blair semi naked filled me with a uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling.
The Exorcist III - The Blatty version, a very nice sequel to the first one and has his moments of great scare. A nice sequel that fits the shoes as straight sequel to the first one rather better than the Burton movie.
That part was made-up.
Glad you enjoyed, I can see those paralells now you mention it but it never struck me at the time.
Yeah Stevens is my no. 1 for the role and I can't see anyone else getting near that.
At home I watched Huckleberry Finn (1920), the first film adaptation of Twain's classic and still one of the best. Filmed only a decade after Mark Twain's death, it's free from the slickness of later Hollywood adaptations and has a truly convincing young lead, instead of a cutesy child actor. Lewis Sargent's Huck is completely convincing, a ragged, likable mutt that Twain would have liked. George Reed plays a mature, sometimes sedate Jim, but he's under-served by the script and missing footage. Huck and Jim's friendship doesn't comes across as deeply as it should, despite the excellence of the actors, and that is a major flaw.
Director William Desmond Taylor is better known for his unsolved murder than his movies, but he was a skilled filmmaker with a fluid, advanced style. His film's pacing and style were advanced for 1920 and hold up well today. The settings and art direction have rustic, old-time authenticity: the filmmakers emulated Edward W. Kemble's illustrations and shot the outdoors scenes in the Sacramento River Delta (where later Finns were also shot, since it was closer to Los Angeles than the Mississippi River and looked just as good).
There has yet to be a great film made from this classic novel, but Taylor's production features the best Huck and is the closest to Twain's own time, which makes it worth seeing more than many later films of Huckleberry Finn.
Yes I gathered that. One of the corniest scenes I’ve seen in a film for sometime.
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
The Client
An often overlooked TV movie about the invasion of the Falkland Islands. Bob Peck is the highight of a superb cast and the director does a great job on a tiny budget. Check out this battle scene set piece (the tracers from the hills are done very well) and plenty of dark, ironic British humour.
Though considered a Horror film first, I think it would be more fitting to call this a Drama, with slight Horror elements. Jena Malone gets an all too infrequent lead as a mother who risks her sanity to protect her child from a supernatural force.
The Greengage Summer (1961)
It's nice to see Kenneth More get to play something a little different to his usual type.
Haven't watched this in years, and only recently acquired it on dvd!
It has aged well, a dark drama about a British Army prison, in North Africa, run by tough but fair, Harry Andrews, where inmates are broken on the Hill, a man made structure which they are forced to build, and climb over and over.
New inmates Sean Connery, Jack Watson, Roy Kinnear, Ossie Davis and Alfred Lynch, are put through their paces by sadistic new guard Ian Bannen. When the weak Lynch dies from the endurance Connery character seeks justice.
Excellent film, well directed by Sidney Lumet with sweeping photography by the great Oswald Morris, it really keeps you gripped through to the devastating final scene!
This was certainly different. Top five Dracula.
It was entertaining if somewhat convoluted, it's far bloodier and gory than the Raid 1 & 2 and nowhere as near compelling. Those that said this will do if we don't get a Raid 3 are obviously easily satisfied this doesn't even approach the imagination and ambition of those 2 films.
Glad I watched it but don't see a need to return.
3/5
Three Amigos
The Great Silence
Death Rides a Horse
Carrie (2013)
I'm a big fan of this one. Dracula comes to a small town in the 1950's. Francis Lederer is one of the most refreshing interpretations, IMO. He looks cool with the over coat draped over his shoulder and has a menacing presence throughout. Great score by Gerald Fried.
Great one
It is quite esoteric.
It was always going to be tricky as The Right Stuff is in my top 2 of all time but I really did not take to this film. The overiding theme of a man dealing with the death of his daughter overides the much more inspiring, exciting and unique theme of space exploration. All posiive emotion seems to have been taken out, leaving the main character either on the edge of tears or in robot mode. Effects are great but no greater than in 1983 IMHO. The sound track adds to the detached, sombre mood of the whole film. This is space travel!! it should be exciting, uplifting and inspirational. All of the Apollo crew had the "right stuff" but there was little evidence of it within this movie. There is more to cheer about in the six minutes below than the one hundred and fourty minutes of First Man.
Overall, I'd have to say it's a pretty glorious return to Haddonfield for the World's Worst William Shatner cosplay.
There's a neat throughline about how serial killers aren't scary anymore in an age of mass-murderers and school shootings, but the film successfully manages to respect the style of Carpenter's '78 film and make Michael Myers an intimidating presence again; seeing The Shape glide around accompanied by his signature 5/4 motif was a joy to behold. The level of gore is perfectly judged, and the violence hits hard (usually a wall of some description) without seeming exploitative.
Curtis owns the film. The story delves fairly deeply into the pyschological scars left by her first go-around with Myers, and she 100% commits to crazy Laurie Strode.
There are a few blips. The knock-off Loomis subplot is an automatic one-star deduction (awful in concept, worse in execution), and the kids are the usual annoying kitchen knife fodder. Some of the dialogue is ropey, but mostly the actors manage to pull it off.
Big kudos to David Gordon Green; he very clearly understands what made the first film have such an impact and what made Myers such a terrifying force, unfortunately diluted by Halloween 4-6. While he was never going to make a film as instantly iconic as that first film, he has certainly managed to give it a worthy sequel. Very much enjoyed, and very relieved I did so! I was terribly afraid as I walked in that I was going to dislike it, but the credits soon put my mind at ease.
3.5/5
This - I really enjoyed it, wasn't remotely close to being weak like he noted. Sure, the script wasn't anything special, but the action is where it's at and boy does it deliver. It's also easily the bloodiest, most unrelenting action film I've ever seen. Doesn't get more insane than watching someone yank their pinky finger off or somebody literally hold in their guts while still fighting. Pure insanity and I loved it.
I didn't say it was weak it just didn't enage me like the Raid films, I found it overly violent and almost cartoonish, the action is impressive but the plot didn't grab me infact outside of the action which was eye popping at times it was just not engaging.
I'm glad others are enjoying it, yes it had some outstanding choreography throughout but the overall story was nothing like Rama's in both The Raid 1 & 2.
I think maybe I went in with too much of an expectation as some people who had seen this at one of the festivals were putting it up there.
I remember going to the cinema to see The Raid and both my Wife and I walked out the cinema literally exhausted but exhilerated by the experience and that was repeated but on a more epic scale with the sequel and that was experienced again while watching it subsequent times on Blu ray since.
I didn't feel that at all with The Night Comes for us, sorry.
Thanks! I need to see this now!