Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 922112)

Awesome movie. Michael Shannon is so good in it.

Originally Posted by Медвежуть (Post 922275)

definitely not for everyone. i think one of the reasons is that they reeeally slow-paced. though i enjoyed some slow-paced stuff like Hidden, Benny's Video, Seventh Continent and Dogtooth. well, then i don't know. i guess Trarkovsky lacks something that would touch my soul, if i'd have one.

Originally Posted by Fearonsarms (Post 922309)

LOL I wish I was but sadly not.

Finally saw Benny's Video (1992) by Austrian director Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Hidden, The Piano Teacher). Luckily I knew nothing about the film before I saw it. Had I known about it there's no way I would have watched it. I'm really in a huge dilemma with this film. It starts with a video of animal slaughter which I abhor with all my heart BUT I didn't switch it off there and then instead watched the rest of it basically because I know I will encounter similar scenes by accident in the future (maybe I should try to desensitize myself). It turns out that this is extremely important to the plot and character development. I just despise such manipulative tactics like this. However the film is very well done, bleak, stark, genuinely upsetting and very effective in the points it makes. Bottom line is I will never watch this film again nor recommend it to anyone because of that scene (which is repeated again later in the film) but that is my personal choice and view, I completely understand how this film could be very well liked, even enjoyed by some regardless of that scene. Challenging stuff.

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba (Post 922297)

Just got done watching Freejack.
For some reason I've had an urge to revisit some early 90's sci-fi titles that I didn't have much recollection of.

Funny, it goes to show how your taste changes...I remember seeing a preview on a VHS for this movie and thinking WOW it looks awesome.
Then I watched it, I must have been maybe 13?
I didn't actually like it.
Maybe it was that I didn't really have an understanding of what was going on, though I had no fond memory whatsoever of this movie, in fact I remember being pretty disappointed.

Yknow, I actually quite enjoyed this - kind of similar to another one of my sci-fi action favourites of around that time (Total Recall) though doesn't really fall at all into "rip off" territory.
It was a cool idea, lots of twists and turns, and a damn trippy ending.
Glad that I had the random inclination to check it out again.

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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ (Post 922287)

I think Mordum is a brilliant film. There's plenty of story in the August Underground series. Maybe they aren't plot driven but they are definitely a character study that puts you in the killers world.

Originally Posted by Медвежуть (Post 922275)

definitely not for everyone. i think one of the reasons is that they reeeally slow-paced. though i enjoyed some slow-paced stuff like Hidden, Benny's Video, Seventh Continent and Dogtooth. well, then i don't know. i guess Trarkovsky lacks something that would touch my soul, if i'd have one.

Originally Posted by Fearonsarms (Post 922310)

Couldn't agree more-I really felt sorry for him as an actor because I can imagine how much hell inside himself he had to draw upon to perform some of those scenes. He reminded me of David Thewlis' mancunian vagabond character in Mike Leigh's "Naked". Unforgettable.

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba (Post 922414)

Drive.
While I'm not about the jump on he bandwagon, it was a solidly entertaining film with a soundtrack I enjoyed.