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Pt 3 is one of my favourite F13 films, but if I had one gripe with the film, then it is the 3D parts of the film. The Final Chapter is another one that is among my favourites, though I would put 3 above TFC in my list of the films.
@bondjames,
I fully agree with what you wrote there. I went to see the film ten days ago and found myself neither super-enthused nor super-bored. If it hadn't been for the previous two, I might have found it more interesting than I do now. I wouldn't disparage the filmmakers' efforts, I merely wish they had been given the chance to do something more. Like you wrote, perhaps budget constraints are to blame here.
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 That's too bad; I enjoy the heck out of the movie. Didn't really bother me at all, especially since it was a separate adventure without the full gang in the first place.
I was just jesting, really.
It makes the animation and output of the cartoons easier, I'd say. More changes in clothing mean more animation strain with more character models.
A classic, in every sense of the word. I can't for the life of me see how anyone could label this film "boring". Utterly inane. The duel of the anthems scene is one of my favourite scenes of all time.
One of my favorite action films. The car chases are off the charts, and the cast is insane - Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, Sean Bean, Jean Reno, Michael Lonsdale, Stellan Skarskgard. 2 hours of pure entertainment.
Two things I noticed- in the scene where Wanda goes to Archie's house to seduce him, Lee Curtis looks uncannily like Caroline Bliss' Moneypenny with those glasses on.
In the scene where Otto forces chips up Ken's nostrils, he's says "The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip", which reminds me of Drax's cucumber sandwich line from Moonraker.
Best of the franchise yet! Embraces the fact that it's a B-movie and is consequently full of laughs. Ted and Jimmy's quests for sex hold the running time very well, and Jason is a little scarier than he was in Part III. Some of the deaths are creative, and the characters are much more endearing. Good stuff, but certainly not scary. And I'm afraid I didn't care for Tommy or the obvious attempts to set him up as the next Jason.
8/10
Ranking
The Final Chapter
Part II
Friday the 13th
Part III
@MajorDSmythe
Haha I'm not sure at the moment but I hope to watch all of them eventually. But I hear the first few are the best anyway.
Most of my favourites are the later films. Pt 3 & 4, then all of the films, with the exception of Freddy vs Jason, from Jason Lives through to the reboot.
Always a "sleeper" and forget just how good it is. Shows that grown up, traditional movies can still be made but it flopped , most likley due to not having an explosion every 10 mins. I tend to use this as a litmuss test movie because, if I find someone who likes this movie, then they do appeciate the ellements of cinema that I really like.
I wonder if those who dont like SF because its too slow have seen this and what they thought?
A really strong portrait of just what it would mean to live the life of a an agent who has seen everything and lost so much. Clooney plays a great weary spy, and though it's a quieter film from time to time, there's plenty of kinetic sequences in the film that really get the pulse going and simple moments of character interaction that are as tense as any action sequence could be. The film has fantastic acting, crippling atmosphere, breathtaking cinematography and a great attention paid to minute character detail and development. Every time I watch it, I pick up something new I hadn't spotted before, and though it's never listed amongst his best work, this film represents to me one of Clooney's strongest performances ever.
Back when the film was being promoted all the trailers showed essentially all the action that happens in the entire film, giving the public the false impression that what they were going to see was an action film as opposed to a deep character study of a Flemingesque spy. When they went into the theater and didn't get that, they weren't so kind to it.
As with so many movies I've seen the truly glory of, it was panned and now nobody gives it any notice because of the mob mentality phenomenon we always see enveloping today, which films like QoS are always a victim of for daring to be different. Tragic, as it's such a strong film. If I had to extend a Bond comparison to The American, it feels close to the Young films. It's got the atmosphere, duplicity and danger around every corner evoked by FRWL and the lone man fighting against the enemy in one location as we see in DN. Clooney plays it like Sean in DN and FRWL, quiet and forceful, and always 12 steps ahead and very clever.
I would highly recommend the movie to anyone who appreciates films like FRWL that really focus on character, character interaction and with a depiction of spy work closer to how it occurs in reality, with meetings out in the field with people you are constantly gauging the loyalty and character of.
ROB ZOMBIE HORROR
Heavy metal artist Robert Bartleh Cummings, better known as Rob Zombie, loves horror flicks. And not just horror flicks but horror flicks of the 50s, 60s and 70s especially. Since 2003, he's made about 7 horror films - "horror" in air quotes - many of which find at best a limited audience. They provide gore, sleaze, a lot of brutal violence and satanic symbols. Every film casts Zombie's wife Sheri Moon, but Sid Haig, Ken Foree and Malcolm McDowell are usually present too. Even the likes of Meg Foster and Judy Geeson, well into their sixties now, aren't afraid to take off their clothes in a Zombie film. On top of that, Zombie's movies are typically filmed to resemble the bleak, dirty and cheap looking style of many 70s horror films. Even the music cannot conceal Zombie's love for the decade in which we were introduced to Leatherface, Damien, Michael Myers and Pazuzu. No wonder his films gravitate almost exclusively towards a cult audience.
Since his first film, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, I've been a Rob Zombie devotee. Behind those layers of graphic violence, aggressive language, disturbing images and overall ugliness resides a genuine love for the horror genre. Rob Zombie is a nice guy who will not succumb to Hollywood dictated trends but who, like the true artist, shall stick to his love for the 70s horror genre and do what he can with what little money he can find to please those who, like me, wish they could take a time capsule back to when the original THE HILLS HAVE EYES was first released.
DAY 22
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
As if THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was waiting for a Lovecraftian update, this film introduces us to the dysfunctional Firefly family, the infamous Dr. Satan and the charismatic Captain Spaulding to go completely Leatherface on a bunch of stranded youngsters. Epic soundtrack, wonderfully eerie mood, sick and twisted - still my favourite Zombie film.
DAY 23
THE DEVIL'S REJECTS
Sequel to Corpses, this film goes completely "road horror" and delivers a deliciously juicy William Forsythe as a cop who's lost control and wants nothing better but to get even with the Fireflies. Lacks the fantastical element from the first film but is probably the most 70s of all the Zombie films.
DAY 24
HALLOWEEN
Platinum Dunes remade a couple of slashers, the best of which is undoubtedly THE TEXAX CHAINSAW MASSACRE. However, neither that one nor the FRIDAY 13TH, nor the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake - all produced by Platinum Dunes - have done what Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN has done. Redoing Carpenter's original with an added back-story for Michael whilst also amping up the tension to fit our modern sensibilities is exactly what Zombie managed to do. The iconic scenes are still in place. The added brutality is a bonus. I love the original Halloween to death, but I'm a pretty big sucker for the remake as well. Second best film of Zombie in my opinion.
DAY 25
HALLOWEEN II
This is where Zombie may have gotten a little full of himself. This film is barely a sequel to HALLOWEEN but instead a complete re-imagining of the twisted world of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Pulling supernatural layers over Michael's arc whilst giving us a "retcon" of other characters' back-story, wasn't quite the thing fans of the original were waiting for. But the bleak and dour storytelling still does it for me. On a purely aesthetic level, this is a film I can still very much appreciate, even if it's sickeningly far removed from the almost mythical power of the "night he came home"...
DAY 26
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Barely horror, unless you count the zombie Nazis and Frankenstein creatures as horror, this sleazy animated sex comedy conjures up a slew of Hollywood fame for the voices in the film. The comedy is good, the animation is lovely, the tributes to the horror genre in good taste and the accompanying comic book a blast!
DAY 27
THE LORDS OF SALEM
One of those films RT will crap on - but then I will crap on RT so no hard feelings - THE LORDS OF SALEM is an experimental witch movie full of interesting cast members and with a wonderful visual style which I guess the self-proclaimed geniuses behind RT simply don't understand. The atmospheric power of the film cannot be overstated.
DAY 28
31
Zombie's latest project, a crowdfunded one no less, is another great film right up my alley. Think SAW and HOSTEL but then set in '78 and full of killer clowns and an epically scary Richard Brake as "Doom-Head". It's not that any of this is original, it's about what Zombie does with this stuff that was very much in vogue ten years ago. The man lives in the past, but that's his trademark and I love him for it.
OCTOBER 2016 HALLOWEEN MARATHON
Excellent
Ju-On: The Grudge
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
Friday the 13th
Freddy vs. Jason
House Of 1000 Corpses
Halloween (remake)
Great
Evil Dead
The Babadook
It Follow
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The Devil's Rejects
The Lords Of Salem
31
Good
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th (2009)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Halloween II (2009)
Tolerable
400 Days
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Awful
Troll 2
Jason X[/quote]
Here goes:
THE GREAT
1) Halloween ('78)
2) Halloween (remake)
3) Halloween H20
4) Halloween 2 ('81)
THE ACCEPTABLE
5) Halloween II ('09)
6) Halloween III
7) Halloween IV
THE GOSH-WHAT-JUST-HAPPENED?
7) Halloween VI
8) Halloween V
Infinite seas of sadness...
THE BOWELS OF HELL, THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT
9) Halloween Resurrection
How does your ranking go, sir?
I don't mind the films with Jamie as much as some others, but the retcons are annoying. I respect the Halloween films more than the other horror film series out there because many of them really focus on character and play cleverly with camera work and light and shadow to keep the "monster" (Michael in this case) hidden from view most of the time until a reveal is necessary. When done properly, tension is sky high and there's a real mystery to Michael's character.
As the films went on, however, this kind of cinematic craftsmanship was lost (along with good Michael masks that didn't look embarrassingly bad), and by the time we got to Halloween Resurrection Michael was basically the star of the films he was out in the open so much. And trust me, the last thing I want to see in a Halloween film is Busta Rhymes racially stereotyping a Chinese fighter and doing a karate kick to send Michael out of a window. Talk about a horrific sight...
The same was done with Leatherface in the remake. Ooh he was bullied at school because of his facial disfigurement...boo hoo! Give me a break.
I'm certain these modern director's don't understand how the films that influenced them work.
I'm watching the three films Lewis Collins did after his very successful role of Bodie in The Professionals.
Code Name: Wild Geese (1984) – Captain Robin Wesley
Commando Leopard (1985) – Enrique Carrasco
The Commander (1988) – Major Jack Colby
@chrisisall do you know them, I know you and I are suckers for cheesy 80's action flicks :D
Harris fell in love with his own creation.
And to explain away Lecter's madness because soldiers eat his sister was just unforgivable.
Red Dragon is my favourite novel and the Lecter in it is a frightening and mysterious figure, plotting behind bars in a lunatic asylum.
Set him free and he loses all what made him interesting in the first place.
Much as I like the Hannibal novel, Harris turned him into the serial killer equivalent of James Bond!
To be honest I don't know why Zombie bothered remaking such a revered classic. Much as I thought The Devil's Rejects was ok, he isn't a great director and I must admit I struggled to get through his Halloween remake and thought it was abysmal.
Instead we got Hannibal, the book and the movie, the latter being a sort of artistic masturbation act from which the character barely recovered. In an attempt to restore the balance, Red Dragon was given another adaptation, and not a bad one though hardly worth the effort in my opinion considering that Manhunter had already been made. Of course we had to complete the Hopkins canon, darling Lecter had a lot more to do and isn't that, ultimately, what everybody wanted?
More Lecter? Yes, still more Lecter please. So now Harris was tasked with digging out yet another Lecter adventure. And this one went to all sorts of crazy places. The cannibal angle was forced upon us in such a heavy-handed manner, it practically ruins everything for the Hannibal character. His family history and native origin is a joke. How we got from a barely comprehensible dude with a thick Eastern European accent who spends most of his time in his Chinese aunt's lap, to the suave, culturally sophisticated British doctor is beyond me. In a matter of a few years, this savage brute had to undergo such a laughably unconvincing transformation, like Tarzan turning into Lord Greystoke overnight, the only thought I can have is that Hannibal is an X-Men with the same powers Mystique has.
I don't care if Harris wanted or had to write an "origin story" for Hannibal. I don't care if we return to Hannibal at a very young age. Show us the student Hannibal. Show us the tween Hannibal. But surely a WWII refugee from behind the Wall who trains to become a samurai and coincidentally has a thing for scary masks early on, is impossibly far fetched. Hannibal Rising is the most ironic title ever given since it really was, for better or worse, Hannibal Falling.