I’ve never seen it, but always meant to.
Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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- beware the dog killer club sword attack craner's got herpes damn well 'urts! don't be so basic eye-watering dick nailage gay cowboy death squad greek dudes herzog i went to oxford italo jamaican voodoo gang from marked for death jamaican voodoo gang from predator 2 opium smoking independent business owners roger spooner i'm the manager rolling sultry voodoo sweat sex chicken stuff the 'novels' of jack kerouac the piccadilly circus rampage versioncore u know the score vicarious yyaldrin what's the frequency kenneth?
I’ve never seen it, but always meant to.
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IdleRich
IdleRich
True apart from the first bit. With me it's a part-time job.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I was thinking just the other day about this kind of thing. In the context of the amazing film Hard To Be A God, I guess in most of our minds (just lazily) the middle ages or whatever are kinda like today except everyone lived in a castle and moved around in wagons instead of cars... but what that film is good at (amongst other things) is getting across how most people lived, not just in poverty, but in absolute filth... the film is so visceral and dirty and horrible with mud and shit everywhere and, I guess, basically, that cleaning and bathing hadn't been invented and that was life then. Cold and wet and dirty and horrible.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Devils is great of course... it doesn't have that feel to it of Get Carter though to me. Probably I've asked before but have you read the book (The Devils of Loudun)? It's got a completely different emphasis and explanation of what happened to the film but it's fascinating in its own right.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Sure, but Catalog said so at the start I think. It's all mixed up who is replying to whom but it's all good I guess.
IdleRich
IdleRich
They're really spoiling us today on Portuguese telly today. Now they are showing Memento, a film I've loved since I first saw it. One of my favourite creepy scenes is when he's on the phone... well, I think he's on the phone for the first half of the film or something, but suddenly he reads the tattoo on his arm that says "Never answer the phone" and he says "Wait a minute, who is this?" and it just clicks dead... genuine hairs on the back of the neck moment.
I think it's a shame that these days most often in films phones are relegated to one scene where they say "I've got no signal" precisely when they need it most. Good old-fashioned phones have often been used really inventively in some scary scenes in the past.... like, er, The Ring for example. Can it be that still directors haven't got to grips with technology that has been around for years beyond thinking it might spoil their plot by allowing the protagonists an easy way out?
There are a few exceptions I guess... Personal Shopper when suddenly all these blocked texts arrive at once and you can see the bad guy has been coming closer and closer and now he's really close. Something like that anyway.
I think it's a shame that these days most often in films phones are relegated to one scene where they say "I've got no signal" precisely when they need it most. Good old-fashioned phones have often been used really inventively in some scary scenes in the past.... like, er, The Ring for example. Can it be that still directors haven't got to grips with technology that has been around for years beyond thinking it might spoil their plot by allowing the protagonists an easy way out?
There are a few exceptions I guess... Personal Shopper when suddenly all these blocked texts arrive at once and you can see the bad guy has been coming closer and closer and now he's really close. Something like that anyway.
IdleRich
IdleRich
What fresh hell is this?
But yeah I totally agree that there is invasion of the unknown into your world, anyone could be on the other end. And I have a feeling that people are not exploiting it as much as they could with mobile phones.