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cleopatra jones
cleopatra jones and the casino of gold |
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And yeah, old Daisy. I really couldn't stand her either at first, but she started revealing layers to her character. She tried to maintain this level of narcissism, self-assurance and diva-ness, but you began to see that it was really a cover for her fragility, and she truly had a big heart. Plus, Laura Harris was gorgeous and did such a great job with the character. I loved the relationship between her and Mason, too, which was given a halfhearted, fleeting mention in the film in that theatre scene. Oh well. I heard that the sales from this DVD are supposed to induce a revival of the series, but if it's going to be like this, what's the point? |
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Dušan Makavejev's darkly humorous film is a fanciful, bizarre collage of documentary footage, free-form fiction, found footage, narration, and musical numbers. Starting off as a mocking, satiric (but real) documentary about controversial psychiatrist/philosopher Wilhelm Reich, the film begins to cross over into a fictional story about a young Yugoslavian revolutionary/Reich-follower's seduction of a Russian figure skater. Throughout the film, he also juxtaposes scenes from a Stalinist propaganda film, shots of performance artist Tuli Kupferberg in a solider's uniform stalking New Yorkers on the street, "plaster casting", transsexual monologues, and more. It sounds silly and outrageous, and it absolutely is, but it works. By making grotesque those things which keep us so serious (communism in Russia, sexual paradigm in America and human sexuality in general, psychology), Makavejev seems to hope for a better sense of humor about those things, important self-realization, and a greater flexibility of love and mind and body (and hopefully in this, a cure for what ails humanity). It is offensive, bold, funny, fascinating, and the work of a true anti-authoritarian. The final result is truly a wonder. Certainly recommended for, um...well, I'm not sure I could say. Take a chance on it, I guess. |
The Descent Unrated. Got to watch it on a decent tv with a working dvd player so it was much better this time around. I could see what was going on and it was skipping a lot less. Such a brilliant movie. 10/10
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The Gene Generation (2007/8)
low budget sci fi crap. >>: C- Dario Argento's Opera (1987) Last night saw this brilliant giallo for the first time! Undoubtedly one of the best Argento films! >>: A |
The Mothman Prophesies
Good old fashioned horror storytelling. |
The Cottage.
this one annoyed the hell out of me. i was totally turned off at the very beginning by the shoddy rip off Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice score. thats some lazy shit. just a lot of talk. nothing new to offer in the way of horror/gore either. should have been a hell of a lot better. |
I went from bad to worse last night
The Butterfly Effect 3.....then OGRE. BE3 wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great....OGRE was some SCI-FI channel POS with a really bad CGI monster. http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/Ogre3.jpg |
Day Watch
Pretty tough following along wth this Russian flick, and i am sure that i missed a ton, but i still really liked it. It may have helped to have seen Night Watch just last week. Ashe.
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Sadomania and Succubus - 2 Jesse Franco films
Sadomania was a typically goofy chicks in prison film - loaded with T&A but Succubus was one of the most rediculous pieces of crap i've ever seen. i think i'll go watch Goldfinger now - to clense my tortured brain |
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