Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

[Birdjaguar]

Not great but certainly watchable and looked good. I waited for the director's versions before watching. I did think the ending parts were quite good.

Spoiler :

I was sad that my favorite, Bai Doona, will not be around for Chapter 3 if that happens.

 

[lymond]

Spoiler :

I was sad that my favorite, Bai Doona, will not be around for Chapter 3 if that happens.

Oh yeah, Nemesis was a great character and we needed more of her.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Yeah, I need to watch that again. I recently saw that Netflix has an extended version of THE. I believe it is broken up into parts and over 4 hours. (edit: yep ..4 parts totally 3:30 hours. And even has a separate IMDB Page)

Someone i knew got this @cinema -

Below are shots that of the special souvenir program that was given away if you saw the special roadshow version of the film -

When i started Red Dead Redemption 2 the early story/missions were set in the snow/mountains, so i watched the following snowy westerns -

Hateful 8 ( Talky Agatha Christie style who-dunnit western set mostly in a hut, i liked the ''shut the door!'' gag)
Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford's buffoonery adventures in the wilderness)
Ride The High Country (Peckinpah must of been sober and likely had a very tight studio leash around his neck)
The Revenant (Leo rocks a trampy beard and pretends to be very cold)
Day of the Outlaw (You will feel the cold and icy chills from this one once they leave town, really admired those horses...damn, they was tough)

Saved the following for RDR3 -

The Grand (Great) Silence (Snowy Spaghetti by Django director Sergio Corbucci and starring Kinski)
Seraphim Falls (Starring Neeson and 90s Bond)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

My fav' snowy western of all time (Canada/Mounties though), Bronson go's Rambo out in the Rockies with Marvin on his tracks -

Death Hunt is a 1981 Western action film directed by Peter Hunt. The film stars Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carl Weathers, Maury Chaykin, Ed Lauter and Andrew Stevens. Death Hunt was a fictionalized account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pursuit of a man named Albert Johnson.

Marvin and Bronson interview -

If you can handle 480p, you can watch it here :

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

Finished rewatching Angel Heart.
As always, great

 

[Smellincoffee]

Freaks, 1932. My movie-watching buddy decided this was appropriate for our 'horror' theme at the moment, but I found it more sad than anything. The majority of the cast are genuine circus perfomers, most of whom have some kind of genetic/birth challenge: conjoined twins, a woman without arms, a man who has no limbs whatsoever, and many 'little people' or those living with various forms of dwarfism. The entire movie is rather sad, with a trapeze artist learning that one of the little people is heir to a huge fortune, and deciding to marry & then kill him to gain his fortune: not only does she destroy his relationship with a woman who actually cares about him, but he discovers her duplicity and we get a genuine horror scene at the end. Still, it was sad and felt exploitative, though it did show all of the carnival players in a positive light, and the truly 'deformed' person is the woman who plots seduction and murder for money. My friend and I have time for one more horror movie and I'm hoping it's not the slasher flick he wants to watch, Terrifier. Going to argue for something classic like Nosferatu.

 

[Birdjaguar]

^^^ An oldie but goodie!

 

[Clubber Lang]

Brian De Palma planning new movie -

Are you planning to make another film?

De Palma: Yes, I have one other film I’m planning to make. And we’re in the process of trying to cast it. I can’t tell you what it is until it happens. Then I’ll be very happy to announce it.

When Body Double opened, it was not a success. Over the years, it’s become one of your signature movies, and a lot of us think it’s your best work. Why do you think it’s endured?

De Palma: Well, you never can tell with these things. You have to get over the emotional and financial catastrophe. I’ve done a lot of interviews about Phantom of the Paradise recently, and it’s the same thing. It wasn’t successful when it came out, and now, 50 years later, it’s considered a classic. You’re always judged by the style of the day, but sometimes the style of the day is not the right way to appraise something innovative. There’s something obviously enduring in the way it was done. I was always doing innovative things, always dancing on the edge, to some extent, and that upset a lot of people.

I think why my type of movies last so long is they’re very cinematic. Cinema kind of died with celluloid, because you don’t have the same cinematographers anymore. You don’t have film anymore. It is now completely dominated by the writers and showrunners, and the movies and shows are basically radio plays, full of people talking to each other. Plus they’re all shooting digitally, so it doesn’t look very interesting. That form of cinema went out with celluloid. That’s why I think people look fondly upon these movies, because they’re quite stunning visually, and you don’t see that anymore.

A lot of people will say that you can’t really make a movie like Body Double today. They might be right. And yet it’s more beloved than it’s ever been. That’s an interesting paradox.

De Palma: What I find interesting when you see contemporary people watch these movies is they’re shocked by the nudity. They go, “Oh my God.” I’m thinking, What, are we living in the Victorian Age here? You know, they have these things on YouTube where they have two people watching a movie and reacting as they watch it? I saw two people watching the opening of Carrie. I thought they were going to have a heart attack! I was like, What has happened to this next generation? They seem to have gotten very Victorian.

You’ve noted that at the time you made Body Double, Columbia was owned by Coca-Cola. And they were worried about the film because corporations care so much about their public image. Nowadays, movie companies are all owned by publicly traded conglomerates — giant companies that can’t afford any kind of reputational risk. Hollywood was never known for being edgy, but it was edgier than it is now.

De Palma: Yeah, that’s even worse today. Because they’re owned by tech companies. Does anybody want to affect Apple with some wild, strange movie? Absolutely not. That’s why all that streaming stuff is so bland and boring. It was bad when we had the execs. We’d have to fight through executives, but some strange movies would still get made, because somebody went out on a limb. Not anymore.

So erotic thrillers, are they dead?

De Palma: Boy, I think so. I don’t know what’s going to change. Something new will emerge. But maybe it’ll have to come out of Europe, which still has an independent filmmaking hierarchy. But I don’t see it. As I said, I’m constantly looking for stuff to look at. It’s in the hands of the writers and the showrunners, who are being paid a lot of money by tech companies. This is not a good place for independent art to evolve.

 

[Fippy]

Finished rewatching Angel Heart.
As always, great

Tomorrow is Wednesday..which means anything can happen day.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Predator, Aliens, Speed 3, Agatha Christie murder mysteries, Master and Commander prequel etc...

A Secret ‘Predator’ Movie, An ‘Alien’ Sequel and ‘Speed 3’ on the Table: A Chat with 20th Century Studios Boss Steve Asbell

Bonus: a lightning round on all the 20th franchise titles you lie in bed at night thinking about. Yes, that includes a 'Master and Commander' prequel.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

The next installment in the Predator franchise, PREDATOR: BADLANDS starring Elle Fanning releases in theaters on November 7, 2025.​

But Secret Second Predator Movie Releasing Before Badlands in 2025, Both Directed by Dan Trachtenberg​

Apparently the secret Predator joint is an animated anthology, showing 3 separate tales of predators hunting in different eras.

 

[Kyriakos]

Please don't tell me that Speed3 has Keanu and Sandra Bullock

 

[Clubber Lang]

^

At a 30th anniversary screening of Speed a few weeks ago, Sandra Bullock said Hollywood may not be brave enough for a Speed 3. Response?


Hollywood is brave enough. We are brave enough. We are sitting by the phone. (Laughs)


It is one of those last movies that we haven’t remade. And to really be a reason to come back, it’s got to be a great idea and an idea that excites (Bullock and Keanu Reeves). Because that’d be the reason to see it. It’s obviously a really important title for us, but it’s not something we would handle lightly or just try to press them into service. They’d have to be a part of the development of that idea.

 

[Kyriakos]

What you Wish for.
2023 film. The protagonist is pretty good. Everyone else is unknown.
The plot wasn't great, but it was certainly dark.

 

[Fippy]

Think i saw that and wasn't overly impressed.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Please don't tell me that Speed3 has Keanu and Sandra Bullock

In an episode of The Simpsons, Milhouse talks about Speed 3 being about a milk float and if it goes below 5mph, it'll explode.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Meet the man behind the music that changed our lives.

 

[Voidwalkin]

I watched Oppenheimer.

Meh.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Watched Rosemary's Baby as my most-likely final Halloween movie. A young couple struggling to have a career and a baby suddenly get both, but the wife has an unusual pregnancy, notices her husband and neighbors acting very strangely, and begins to suspect she's been victimized by a satanic cult. The ending is more ambiguous than the book.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Someone i knew got this @cinema -



When i started Red Dead Redemption 2 the early story/missions were set in the snow/mountains, so i watched the following snowy westerns -

Hateful 8 ( Talky Agatha Christie style who-dunnit western set mostly in a hut, i liked the ''shut the door!'' gag)
Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford's buffoonery adventures in the wilderness)
Ride The High Country (Peckinpah must of been sober and likely had a very tight studio leash around his neck)
The Revenant (Leo rocks a trampy beard and pretends to be very cold)
Day of the Outlaw (You will feel the cold and icy chills from this one once they leave town, really admired those horses...damn, they was tough)

Saved the following for RDR3 -

The Grand (Great) Silence (Snowy Spaghetti by Django director Sergio Corbucci and starring Kinski)
Seraphim Falls (Starring Neeson and 90s Bond)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

My fav' snowy western of all time (Canada/Mounties though), Bronson go's Rambo out in the Rockies with Marvin on his tracks -



If you can handle 480p, you can watch it here :

Spoiler :

RDR3 probably won't be seen for a decade. O_O

 

[Smellincoffee]

Ghostworld, 2001. I...really don't know what this is about. We follow two teenage girls (one is Scarlett Johanson, the other is the Hollywood-Ugly Enid) who graduate high school with no plans beyond getting an apartment together. Hollywood Ugly Enid is terrible at customer service, though, so she keeps getting fired and is getting into a weird relationship with a man old enough to be her father, Steve Buscemi. That's really the movie. Main reason to watch would be if you're a SJ fan and want to see her as developing actress. I just saw her and Steve Buscemi and figured, hey, that's a winner.

 

[Synobun]

I rewatched the first Blade a couple nights ago. Still a banger after 26(!) years.

I also finally finished the Ti West/Mia Goth horror trilogy: X, Pearl, Maxxxine. I didn't watch in that order, since Pearl is a prequel despite coming after X.

My final order from best to worst would be Pearl, Maxxxine, X. Pearl was fantastic. Maxxxine was alright but kind of lost the plot at the end. X was fine but overall kind of empty, and most of my enjoyment came from its references to Pearl. I'd say the full trilogy is worth seeing, but if I had to recommend just one, it'd definitely be Pearl. It's the most coherent and contained work of the three.