tokyoracer
(Not actually from Tokyo).
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Worst film you've seen recently?
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I would agree with this. Out of every 10 movies released...1 might be alright for me.
I love movies from (like someone else said) 1988 and earlier..but the 90's changed the movie industry in the US. The 90's ushered in the age of bubblegum polished crap staring the latest teen idol..even horror was soft bubblegum crap in the 90s, with Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and other copycat films. Sure in the 2000s horror movies have gotten their balls back in terms of gore, but the new horror films are garbage or highly inferior remakes of classics. I also agree that most US comedies suck. It is all gross out immature humor. Farts and throw up..or very lowbrow sexual humor. And Hollywood wonders why piracy is so rampant. No one wants to drop $25 (after popcorn and drinks) to go see a movie that MIGHT be alright...MAYBE.
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Event Horizon was good.
Yes. 1997, It was sci-fi and horror mixed together.
I never considered that horror, but I also never seen it. Is it worth checking out?
I've watched it 4 times so far and think it's great as mentioned it's a mixture of the two. Even my daughter enjoy's it although not the wife's cup of tea. Still it's every one to themselves, we all have different opinions on what we like and dislike.
I must confess there aren't many films I really enjoyed the last few years - I think partly because after a good few years of watching films you realise just how many "new" films are either remakes of older films (which were done better) or sometimes even remakes of remakes (!!) or just the same old storylines. After seeing a few of the popcorn action or horror films they all start seeming the same.
For me it's what are now regarded as "classic" films such as alien, aliens etc and other films around the time that I remember best - I guess as that was when I first got into films.
I tend to be drawn to japanese anime and foreign films now - since the fact that it's not my native language and are based on a foreign culture to me add a layer of interest.
The films nowadays seem to be flooded with films made to make money - there's not too many interesting or unusual films around and are often hard to track down. Sequels seem to be everywhere too.
As an example - I saw "let the right one in", a nice relatively low budget (russian?) vampire film that I enjoyed - which was shortly after remade into a big blockbuster movie called "Let them in" or something like that, which is the same film, just for the US/english market. Why can't the original one be redubbed or released under it's own merits, rather than having to be remade as a US blockbuster? Le Femme Nikita is another example.
Anyway - I do tend to buy blu rays on impulse, which I'm going to stop now as I tend to watch most of them once and just stick in the cupboard.
...and to keep on topic, worst film I've seen recently is "monsters" on blu-ray. Pretty much fell asleep through it, and as for the ending..... eh? :S
For me it's what are now regarded as "classic" films such as alien, aliens etc and other films around the time that I remember best - I guess as that was when I first got into films.
I tend to be drawn to japanese anime and foreign films now - since the fact that it's not my native language and are based on a foreign culture to me add a layer of interest.
The films nowadays seem to be flooded with films made to make money - there's not too many interesting or unusual films around and are often hard to track down. Sequels seem to be everywhere too.
As an example - I saw "let the right one in", a nice relatively low budget (russian?) vampire film that I enjoyed - which was shortly after remade into a big blockbuster movie called "Let them in" or something like that, which is the same film, just for the US/english market. Why can't the original one be redubbed or released under it's own merits, rather than having to be remade as a US blockbuster? Le Femme Nikita is another example.
Anyway - I do tend to buy blu rays on impulse, which I'm going to stop now as I tend to watch most of them once and just stick in the cupboard.
...and to keep on topic, worst film I've seen recently is "monsters" on blu-ray. Pretty much fell asleep through it, and as for the ending..... eh? :S
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Justin
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not worst but best film i've seen lately Tucker and Dale VS Evil, seriously funny film with a good twist on the usual killer hill billy story line.
Thor is OK for a mindlesss romp.
and Far Cry the movie sucks the big one (sorry Z)
Thor is OK for a mindlesss romp.
and Far Cry the movie sucks the big one (sorry Z)
@Fizzy: how about Vanilla Sky vs "Abra los ojos" (the Spanish original film)...
Hollywood is in major creative crisis since a long time, few films deserves to be marked as good, about 98% is just more of the same garbage over & over.
Last film I really enjoyed was the Firefly "goodbye".
Hollywood is in major creative crisis since a long time, few films deserves to be marked as good, about 98% is just more of the same garbage over & over.
Last film I really enjoyed was the Firefly "goodbye".
