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Only just saw that you gave "L' innocente" a go, thanks for checking it out! :) Sorry you couldn't get out of it what I did, but I'm glad you at least didn't dislike it :)
You're welcome and thanks for the recommendation ;)
I have never seen this film before, but given the Lovecraft connection, and it's from the team behind the Re-Animator, I did have an idea what I was in for.
I like this film very, very much. As far as the Gordon / Yuzna adaptations of Lovecraft are concerned, my ranking is:
1) DAGON (also an adaptation of my favorite Lovecraft story: The Shadow Over Innsmouth)
2) FROM BEYOND
3) RE-ANIMATOR
If the man’s gonna make the same narrative over and over again, he could at least improve upon it. Which, alas, is not the case. One of his worst. Abismal even. Both Crimes and misdemeanours and Matchpoint were better versions of this film. By now, he’s ran out of ideas, and that’s painfully obvious.
In English, this is The Bridge At Remagen, with a plethora of great acting performances and also a magnificent Elmer Bernstein score. Loved it (and having seen it at least fifty years ago), not least since it did not portray the "German" protagonists (i.e. Robert Vaughn and a few others) as fanatical Nazis but as characters torn between their conscience and obedience to the Nazi regime.
That's much as I would like to remember my own father (1915 - 1996), who was an artillery batallion commander in the German army until the Soviets captured him (for five years or so) until he was released on Jan 1, 1950, and allowed to return to his family (which didn't include me at the time).
Ratings/Rankings so far:
1. The Hunger Games Catching Fire - 4.5/5
2. The Hunger Games - 4/5
Going to try and get Mockingjay Part 1 done tonight, I remember enjoying this one at the cinema, Part 2 less so.
Funny: I had the opposite reaction. Pt.1 is just a bunch of talking heads, shot by a sea-sick cameraman, in a film that fails to exist on its own. It's so clearly a drawn-out first part of a book (the setup) somehow stretched to an entire film. Pt.2, at least, has major action scenes and a dramatic ending to offer.
Catching Fire is my favorite.
That's how I felt. It was entertaining enough for a viewing, nothing special but not horrible either. I'm really looking forward to Statham's next one, The Beekeeper.
Very good noir/crime story, directed by the legendary Fritz Lang. I'll probably watch another one of his movies tonight.
Psycho III 1986 There is a better film here than i remember, a few good idea's and Perkins is on good form in front and behind the camera in his directional debut. admittedly the trashy sleazy element still put me off a bit though don't last long. Relatively speaking I think this is a better film than quite a few of the Jason and Michael Myers sequels.
HD certainly gives Psycho III a new lease of life.
Man that probably doesn’t bode well for me then…
A classic from the "hagsploitation" era. :D
Crawford and Davis certainly got an extra lease of life in cinema after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. .
The Final Chapter, i.e. part IV, is my favourite, but for lots of reasons that happen to come in pairs. ;-)
There's also Freddy vs. Jason, which is quite a delight.
To be honest, I'm a huge slasher fan. I find these old-fashioned '80s (and '90s) flicks interesting as well as amusing.
And Bride of Chucky!
This is in fact quite a gripping spy/war movie made in 1946. US nuclear scientist Alvah Jesper (Cooper) is commissioned by the OSS to get an Italian colleague out of the German occupied country, since intelligence showed that the Germans were also working on an atom bomb.
Among his qualifications is "speaking a little German", so he is to impersonate a German scientist from Berlin in order to get to the Italian professor. This is really my major gripe with the movie, since he speaks with the worst American accent imaginable, and nobody who has learned at least a little German would have accepted him in that role. The Gestapo would probably have captured him as soon as having said "Guten Morgen" for the first time. But I guess it was the studio who insisted that Cooper play the role... in a movie that is otherwise stacked with German/Austrian actors who all speak with nothing worse than a Vienna accent.
On the bright side, Austrian actress Lilli Palmer actually steals the show in her role as an Italian resistance fighter named Gina, who of course ultimately falls in love with Cooper's character.
For 1946, the film is surprisingly ambivalent about the atom bomb and the danger it poses for the world in the future. However, there are at least rumours that Fritz Lang had to cut the entire final reel of the movie at the studio's request, since it did not have the semi-happy ending with Jesper being flown out to safety and promising Gina to come back after the war. In Lang's ending (as I read somewhere), Cooper's character dies, while the Americans must keep searching for the German labs, ultimately coming to the conclusion that those had probably been relocated to South America and still pose a threat.
You know your stuff, @j_w_pepper.
Thank you, @DarthDimi.
I'd say it is noir as noir can be, with a femme fatale (Gloria Grahame) being at the centre of the entire story. Plus, it is probably the most railroad-centred movie I know. Ahead of From Russia With Love and Murder on the Orient Express. Railroad fans, take heed of this!
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