Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Taboo (some movie about homoesexual samurais) Then tonight im gonna watch Adaptation, hope its good.

[bloodrayne]

Warlock...Warlock 2...Warlock 3...Again...

[urgeok]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
Then tonight im gonna watch Adaptation, hope its good.

its a good film

[The Mothman]

im wathing the Evil Dead commentary with Bruce Campbell, and it is funny!!!!

[movieman64]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Warlock...Warlock 2...Warlock 3...Again...

I watched Warlock 3 the other day. I am pretty sure it was the first time I had seen it. For me, and no offense tot he fans, there is a good reason it is #3.

[movieman64]

Originally posted by EXTR3MIST
Sounds like some might be feeling the same boredom with this influx of Oriental stuff as me.

How come nobody ever seems to have a bad word to say about anything with subtitles, particularly if it comes from the Far East?

Don't get me wrong, I like Takashi Miike and the Pang Bros. stuff (kinetic, extreme, sometimes very funny) and I'm a sucker for the harsher ends of the Jap torture series and 90's CAT III shockers... but recently these "mystery horror" movies are beginning to all look the same and the novelty value is gone.

I would say people view foreign films through rose-tinted specs sometimes, and consider that because they are intelligent enough to sit through the subtitles and "get" the foreign-ness of it all this gives the movie plus-points that an identical, English-language film wouldn't earn.

How do we know these Japanese/HK actors are not actually wooden as fuck soap-opera quality unless we understand the language they're speaking?

Perhaps it's the subtitle translators who are the unsung heroes of it all...

The only drawback for me with movies w/sub-titles is my eyesight, (happens when you get old). I usually watch them on my laptop so it's much closer. As far as good vs bad, everybody makes s**t, but there may be cultural diffrences at play that aren't as obvious to others in the USA or outside of the country the film orginates from.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by movieman64
As far as good vs bad, everybody makes s**t, but there may be cultural diffrences at play that aren't as obvious to others in the USA or outside of the country the film orginates from.

thats what i was wondering at first ...
I figured a dead girl looking for revenge must be a popular theme culturally .. but then i see the same thing in the Korean films ..
I know there is some simularity in the japanese and korean cultures .. they seem to be compatable ... but then i see Stutter.. a Thai film ...

I dont think all eastern countries are that culturally simular are they ? maybe so, i dont know ...

but its not just the girl with wet hair, freaky looking, crazy moving limbs akimbo visual .. there are other devices being used and reused.

the ghost is visible in reflections one second (mirrors/windows) and then they dissapear .. only to appear visually seconds later ..
This is in every single film !

They can be captured on film or security cameras ...

The funny thing is that most of these things the intended victim is completely unaware of .. its for the viewers benefit only. So the ghosts are fucking with us the audience ??

I understand that the filmmaker is making us jump and yell for fun .. but after the 4th or 5th movie doing the same damn thing its wearing thin ..

and thats not a cultural thing ...

[newb]

Originally posted by urgeok

I know there is some simularity in the japanese and korean cultures .. they seem to be compatable ... but then i see Stutter.. a Thai film ...

Is that the one with Mel Tillis in it.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by newb
Is that the one with Mel Tillis in it.

whoops !!

make that Shutter :D

[urgeok]

to bad i didnt say Tutter :p