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All I can say is...what the watch did I just f***? Imprint is Miike's contribution to the Master of Horrors series. It's kind of like Rashomon meets Audition meets Total Recall.

Anyhow, if you guys wanna check out this movie here ya go

Masters Of Horror - Imprint - Takashi Miike - YouTube
 
They have that on youtube? :O

Hey Diehard, do you have films on cue? :P

I am impressed that someone recommends you a movie and you end up watching it (and reviewing it here, no less) quickly.

I on the other hand sit on recs forever. Don't worry Adgy, lol, I'll still watch that Fist of Legend movie you recommend to me five years ago. Haha! :D
 
Well, I feel like I've almost run out of things to watch, seems like I really have to look hard to find movies that I'd find worth watching. So when someone with a good taste in films recommends me movies I haven't heard of I jump at the chance to see them lol. Plus I'm the biggest film buff amongst my friends so almost nobody in real life gives me recommendations, I'm usually the one telling them what they should watch, and I'm the guy they go to for good recommendations. It's nice being on the other side once in awhile.
 
watched the first 3 Saw movies, pretty entertaining stuff. Liked the first and third ones the best. Not planning on watching the other ones in the series, heard they aren't as good.
 
watched another movie Adgy suggested

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I love Chan-Wook Park, every film I've seen from him has been brilliant. I'm not a fan of vampire movies, but I really liked Thirst. Not my favorite Park film, but it's worth a watch.

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I always love a good espionage film, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy certainly delivers. The plot is not unfamiliar - a government agent attempts to find a mole in the agency - but the film separates itself from your typical spy flick by the exceptional acting (especially by Gary Oldman) and the intricate plot. The film is pretty slowly paced, which might bore some people, but I certainly was engaged by the movie. Don't expect big shootouts or car chases - it's not that kind of spy movie. If you liked The Good Shepherd and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold then you'll definitely appreciate this movie.
 
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The fourth French Horror film I've watched this month. Haute Tension is a decent flick, pretty slow paced. Not sure why so many people hate the ending, I thought it was fine. Didn't like it as much as the other 3 French horror movies I watched.

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Damn, just finished watching this flick. Thought it was ****ing awesome! 11:14 follows a few different storylines that are all interconnected. In contrast to Haute Tension, 11:14 is a fast-paced thriller that'll have your adrenaline pumping from start to finish (at least it did for me). Reminded me of Go, except better.
 
watched Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, enjoyed both. Not sure why Rising got such bad reviews, I thought it was pretty good. I was also pleasantly surprised that Gary Oldman was in Hannibal, he's such an awesome actor
 
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This movie was so sad! Hachi is about a man who takes in a homeless dog, loosely based on a true story. It was such a wonderful movie, just don't watch it if you're not prepared for an emotional roller coaster.
 
Man has nobody else been watching movies?

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I liked this one a lot. Three Extremes consists of 3 short films. The first is directed by Fruit Chan, the second by Chan-Wook Park, and the third by Takashi Miike. The first one is fairly straightforward, the other two are really enigmatic. All three are unique and brilliant.

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This film was pretty weird. The Ordeal is about a singer who gets stranded in a farm with a guy who's completely ****ed up in the head. Pretty much everyone in the movie is ****ed in the head except for the main character. Pretty bizarre movie, not my favorite horror film.

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I really liked this flick. 5150 Rue Des Ormes is about a college boy who winds up getting kidnapped by a religious and chess fanatic. It's definitely a unique thriller, worth checking out.
 
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Was pretty underwhelmed by Ils (Them). It reminded me of Eden Lake except not as good.

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I thought Lake Mungo was really beautiful. It's a documentary style paranormal ghost story. Some people may be put off by its slow pace, but I was fully engaged by the story. It's one of those films that sticks with you after you watch it. Thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
 
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holy **** this movie was intense. A Serbian Film is far and away the most depraved, sickest, disturbing movie I've ever seen. I can't believe some of the **** that they put into this movie. I don't know how I feel about it, it was really well done no doubt but man, so much horrible **** goes on in this movie. I thought the style was pretty similar to films by Gasper Noe and Nicolas Refn, except more insane and stomach-turning. Not for the squeamish.
 
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I really liked this movie. Fragile is about a children's hospital that suddenly comes under attack from an unknown source. Definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, and the ending was really touching.
 
oh yea, I almost forgot

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on JD's recommendation I watched Pontypool. I thought it was okay, definitely not what I expected. Had no idea the whole movie was going to take place in a radio station. For the first 15 minutes I kept wondering when they'd go out and kick zombie ass lol. Anyhow, I enjoyed it, thanks for the recommendation JD!
 
oh yea, I almost forgot

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on JD's recommendation I watched Pontypool. I thought it was okay, definitely not what I expected. Had no idea the whole movie was going to take place in a radio station. For the first 15 minutes I kept wondering when they'd go out and kick zombie ass lol. Anyhow, I enjoyed it, thanks for the recommendation JD!

Would make a hell of a play. McHattie is just so damned good in this movie.
 
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I really liked this movie. Fragile is about a children's hospital that suddenly comes under attack from an unknown source. Definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, and the ending was really touching.

I see this showing on Showtime or something all the time, but never gave it any attention. I'll have to check it out now. Thanks, DH.
 
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The Secret World Of Arrietty - The new Studio Ghibli film, this one written but not directed by Hayao Miyazaki. A young boy is sent out to his aunt's house in the country to rest in calm surroundings before a heart operation and he discovers little people living beneath the house. I thought it was a really sweet, enjoyable movie that works for kids and adults. It's not on the same plateau as some other Ghibli stuff, but it was still a pretty good film.


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Voice - Hadn't seen this Korean movie in a few years and BoobyTrap DVR'ed it not knowing that I owned it. It's the fourth in a series of haunted schoolgirl films (known as the Whispering Corridor series). All 4 are completely unrelated, but involve ghosts and schoolgirls. This one stars Kim Ok-bin (from Thirst), as a young music student with a tremendous singing voice. One day, she stays at school late to practice and ends up being murdered by a ghostly apparition with a really sharp piece of sheet music. She ends up as a ghost, forced to roam the school oblivious to all except her best friend who can hear her voice. The two of them have to figure out who killed her and why before more students end up dead.

It's a decent movie that I liked better the last time I saw it. Despite the cover, it's really not much of a horror movie at all. It's more of a supernatural drama. Some of the cinematography is really nice (and I'm a sucker for emergency back-up red lighting) and the music is beautiful, but it's not worth much more than a rent. In the series, I'd say it's 2nd or 3rd best, with the definite top being Memento Mori, which is also more drama than horror.


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Hobo With A Shotgun - Rutger Hauer is a hobo and he gets tired of people preying on other people so he buys a shotgun with the small amount of money he has and takes justice to the streets. Really violent and funny. I liked it better when I saw it in the theater, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly. BoobyTrap even liked it.


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The Conversation - Had never seen this before, but I've read that this is Francis Ford Coppola's favorite movie that he directed and IMDB says it's Hackman's favorite movie of his and I felt like a douche for never having seen it. Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who records a conversation between a man and a woman in a busy park. As he's filtering the recordings, he becomes worried that the people he's taped might be killed because of what they're saying. It's happened to him before and it left a mark on him, but his employers really want the tape and are willing to go the extra mile to get a hold of it.

Very good movie. Pretty tense, very well acted and interesting. It's nowhere ****ing near the level of Coppola's better work, but it was a solid thriller worth repeat viewings.


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Rebecca - Another film that I was sort of embarrassed I hadn't seen. I could say that about a bunch of Hitchcock movies, but this one I'd heard a lot about, so it was a little higher on my list. Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier get married somewhat impulsively after a short romance and go back to his large mansion to live. Joan Fontaine finds out that Laurence is a widower whose wife, Rebecca, died at sea not too very long ago and still haunts him. Really liked this movie. Especially the ending.


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Jane Eyre (1944) - Watched this not cognizant of the fact that it was another Joan Fontaine movie. I just knew it was Orson Welles playing Rochester this time and that was enough for me. This is only the second version of Jane Eyre I've seen, but after liking the recent Fassbender/Wasikowska one so much, I'd be open to watching pretty much any of the other adaptations (and there have been many).

I didn't like this one as much as the recent one, but I still liked it a lot. It didn't have the supernatural atmosphere of the recent one, but it was still really dark and moody. The cinematography was ****ing awesome (and done by George Barnes, who also did Rebecca) and pretty much stole the show for me. Orson Welles was great and intense. He plays a good *******. Having said that, there were some story elements missing that I wouldn't have noticed (or probably cared about) if I wasn't already familiar with the story. The entire second half of the story feels rushed, like they had shot the first half of it and then realized that the movie was going to end up being 5 hours long so they had to cram the rest of the book into 45 minutes. I also didn't like Joan Fontaine's Jane anywhere near as much as Mia Wasikowska's. She was much less fierce and independent seeming most of the time. A lot more obviously emotional. Overall, though, I still liked it a lot and would definitely watch it again. Might even buy it at some point.


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The Proposition - Been a while since I saw this, so when it popped up on one of the HD movie channels, I decided to see it again. Guy Pearce is Charlie, one of the outlaw Burns brothers, known for being particularly brutal and murderous, back when Australia still belonged to Britain and the Brits were attempting to "civilize" it. Ray Winstone is the captain of the local police and he manages to capture Charlie and his younger brother Mikey. He takes Mikey off, but let's Charlie go, telling him that he will kill Mikey in 5 days if Charlie doesn't kill or capture his older brother Arthur (played by Danny Huston), with whom Charlie is on the outs because he doesn't like murder and rape all that much.

It's a dirty, violent movie that feels like it's straight out of a Cormac McCarthy novel. Which is unsurprising given that it's written by Nick Cave and directed by John Hillcoat, whose next movie was the McCarthy adaptation The Road. And just like Cormac McCarthy novels, it's really ****ing good. Great story, great acting, great cinematography, great score... I like pretty much everything about this movie. Danny Huston gives a Colonel Kurtz-ish performance that is still the high point of his career for me in a pretty solid resume. Highly recommended.


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Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo - Rinko Kikuchi is a hitwoman who also works the graveyard shift at the Tokyo fishmarket. She's hired to kill Sergi Lopez (the bad guy from Pan's Labyrinth) because Lopez's girlfriend committed suicide and her father blames him, but she falls in love with him instead which does not please the people who hired her much at all.

Not a bad movie, but not a great one, either. Some good cinematography and not a bad story, but it just didn't have the impact it clearly was expecting to. I never really cared much about any of the characters and so when bad things happen to them, it didn't have much effect. There are some pretty explicit sex scenes that are pretty good, even though neither actor is very attractive, but there isn't a whole lot more this film has to offer. It's ok. Rent it if you like Rinko Kikuchi or meditative, artsy movies.
 
Finally got to catch "The Woman" last night, Adgy mentioned it a while ago. I thought it was pretty awesome, I think the acting was different but that's what I probably liked about it...that and the ending. My gf hated the father and son characters, but i enjoyed their roles.

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The Conversation - Had never seen this before, but I've read that this is Francis Ford Coppola's favorite movie that he directed and IMDB says it's Hackman's favorite movie of his and I felt like a douche for never having seen it. Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who records a conversation between a man and a woman in a busy park. As he's filtering the recordings, he becomes worried that the people he's taped might be killed because of what they're saying. It's happened to him before and it left a mark on him, but his employers really want the tape and are willing to go the extra mile to get a hold of it.

Very good movie. Pretty tense, very well acted and interesting. It's nowhere ****ing near the level of Coppola's better work, but it was a solid thriller worth repeat viewings.
I also recently watched this, very good. Recently read something about John Cazale and The Conversation was the only one of his flicks I hadn't watched.
 
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Finally saw this. If you are not into movies that give you more questions than answers...stop reading now. If you are interested in this, the less you know going in the better. I could give you a it's_____ meets _____ movie combo, but that would not do it justice. It's a fairly straightforward narrative...UNTIL the third act. Upon reflection, there are irregularites throughout that kind of key you into the fact that this is not going to be standard fare...but you don't add them up...till you are deep in. I can tell you in all honesty, when this was over I googled 'Kill List explained' to find out more. So, I hear you asking, if you had to look up explanations(that I still don't have) why are you not screaming to the heavens about what a fail this flick was??? Well, there are so many interesting ideas here, and the vague rationales that I read afterward from the director/writer and folks just dissecting it make this a fascinating overall experience...TO ME. I cannot in good faith recommend this to anyone. You have to have an open mind and be able to live with not having all given to you. And if you do manage to stick through it it will stay with you for a bit and have you doing some serious thinking.
 
I am going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of people haven't watched The Conversation. I haven't, and granted that I am slow, but it is that one film of his that has prestige that people forget about.

And Fontaine is adorable in Rebecca as she is in Suspicion. I wanted to pinch her cheeks. :D
 
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