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[scriver]

Holy shit, this was easily The Cage's best performance, that I've seen. I doubt he's had any other roles where he's been able to simultaneously go full ham, as well as show genuine human pain and grief, to this degree.

You need to see the vampire movie

[Reelya]

Yup, seconding that one. It's from before he became a big name too.

[Yoink]

The film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime dropped on Netflix yesterday.   
I'm definitely gonna give it a shot, but... the trailer makes it look like hot garbage. Well, what I saw of it, anyway.   
Admittedly I gave up on said trailer pretty quick after it opened with generic, raspy voice-over dude going "The world is in chaos" like something you'd expect from, I don't know, the shitty bootleg action movie my friends made in high school as a parody of shitty action movies. That sort of thing is such a meme these days, I can't even name any movies that actually play it straight off the top of my head, hahaha.   

But anyway, of course it's a tall order trying to do such a snazzy book justice in movie form, especially considering the artwork. It did feel a lot like I was reading a movie the first time I read it, though, so I figured it wouldn't be too far-fetched to bring it to life on the screen. I'll withhold judgement until I've seen it.   



Fakeedit: wow, just popping through Google to grab a Goodreads url for the book, and it seems like the movie's getting thoroughly panned, haha.
Good thing I don't take that sort of thing to heart, but... in this case it sounds like it unfortunately echoes my first impressions.    

[Uthimienure]

At some point in life, watch "Come and See" by Elem Klimov.
It is something I will never forget.
It is Russian with subtitles.

(edit: A woman I know, who is a native of the film's setting, agreed that this was one of the most intense, unforgettable films ever.)

(edit: Please see the warning 2 posts down.)

[Yoink]

Not sure if it'd be my thing, but on your recommendation I've added it to my watch list.   
I've been wanting to watch more war movies of all sorts, lately. I started watching an Australian series, Gallipoli, recently, but the free streaming service it was on turned out to be riddled with obnoxious ads.

[Uthimienure]

Not sure if it'd be my thing, but on your recommendation I've added it to my watch list.   
I've been wanting to watch more war movies of all sorts, lately. I started watching an Australian series, Gallipoli, recently, but the free streaming service it was on turned out to be riddled with obnoxious ads.

Be warned. I was about 35 and had 2 kids when I first watched Come and See, and the movie left me shaken for a couple of days and changed something in me forever. It is not to be watched lightly, there is much horror, pain, and evil. The worst part of it all is that probably thousands of times real people went through similar horrors during the war in the east. Yes, I had already studied WWII much in my life since school age as a hobby, but knowing what I knew of the facts about the war between Germany and Russia could not prepare me for this movie.

(edit: BTW, I finished The Legend of Billy the Kid the other day. It turned out to be well worth reading.)

[Kagus]

On a lighter note: League of Gods (2016), starring Jet Li.

Synopsis: What

[IronyOwl]

Bone Tomahawk is a 2016 horror western starring Kurt Russell. I thought it was recommended here but now I can't find it; presumably I'm being advised by ghosts. Apparently they're pretty good ghosts, because it's a pretty good movie. Fairly gritty and gory (and with a sex scene for no particular reason), but with well done characters and excellent cannibal savages and drifter scum.

My only warning (other than the brutality and such) is that it's a low character count film, so if you're hoping to see forty desperate miners butchered with stone axes this isn't quite that. I might go so far as to say that it's a legitimately good film focused on normally B-fare topics, rather than your typical fun meat grinder.

On a lighter note: League of Gods (2016), starring Jet Li.

Synopsis: What

Oh this is definitely going on the list.

That baby is going to be annoying as hell, though.

[Yoink]

Hmm, pretty sure I saw Bone Tomahawk listed on Netflix and passed over it immediately. Maybe I'll give it another look.   


In other news, I started watching the film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime the other day and oh gods it is a fucking mess. Like, the book was already ridiculously cinematic, right? All they had to do to make a bitchin' movie was just translate it scene-for-scene into live action.   

Should have been simple, but for whatever reason the creators (I'm assuming the creators of the book had nothing to do with this trainwreck) felt the need to alter pretty much everything in at least some way. They even fucked up the badass "interrogating some dude hogtied in a bathtub doused with gasoline before leaving him with a lit cigarette in his mouth" scene, which should have been a quick-and-easy source of cinema gold.   
I turned it off as a narrator was launching into a barrage of exposition, going on about some edgy, nonsensical backstory that had nothing to do with the story whatsoever.

Obviously I am biased, being a fan of the graphic novel it's (very fucking loosely) based on, but I'm fairly certain I would have hated it almost as much if I'd gone into it blind. Hell, I hate movies that are far less terrible than this garbage.   



On a more positive note, this is a bloody brilliant movie in the ridiculous kung-fu vein.   
Watch 'til the end for one of the most gloriously stupid scenes I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing. I'm definitely due for a re-watch.   

[Kagus]

That baby is going to be annoying as hell, though.

Yes, yes it is. So's the plant.

Netflix apparently only has the English dub, the quality of which just enhances the utter cacophony of batshittery that is this movie.

Other notable mentions include:

• Baby farts a crab in half
• Everybody get in the vulva boat!
• Why the fuck are its eyes like that
• Magic gay white child choir
• Gandalf: "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing"

Just be aware that the ending resolves absolutely fucking nothing and there's a post-credits scene that helps the matter not at all.

[delphonso]

This movie looks like a work of blasphemy among other things.

[TamerVirus]

In other news, I started watching the film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime the other day and oh gods it is a fucking mess.

Oh man it’s got big fat 0 on rotten tomatoes.
It probably blows right past the “so bad it’s good” into the “so bad it’s terrible” zone.

[TamerVirus]

So I inflicted The Last Days of American Crime on myself and have been assaulted with boredom and robbed of my time. Such a grey goo rote inaction film inflicted on us by the cinematic genius behind Taken 3. Zzzzzzz

[Yoink]

In other news, I started watching the film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime the other day and oh gods it is a fucking mess.

Oh man it’s got big fat 0 on rotten tomatoes.
It probably blows right past the “so bad it’s good” into the “so bad it’s terrible” zone.

Normally I'm the kinda person to be like, "oh the online reviews are bad? Interesting... those people don't know what they're talking about, anyway, it's probably a gem," but in this case, yeah I reckon so. We might have found a film that is objectively bad, even to those who get off on derpy bad movies like me.    

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/Pabably/status/1272704614060744704

New Jurassic Park.