That poster looks really odd. Temple of Doom is awful.
But Raiders is one of my favourite films. It never lets up, great characters, spooky atmosphere, and funny in the right places. Surprising violent for a PG.
Love the way that Indy doesn't have any agency in the film, which is more a script issue than by design.
@Kermit1 I've seen about 5 mins of that while visiting someone. I dont really care for Last Crusade either, although I can see why people like it and find it to be their favourite (mainly, I dont like what they did to Brody's characterisation).
So as there's nothing on the telly due to some biddy's boring funeral I've just watched X. It's a tragic story about an elderly couple who live on a farm isolated from life rediscovering their self worth and passion by killing the cast and crew of porno which is being filmed in their barn. It feels a lot like Texas Chainsaw Massacre which seems like an intentional homage but also has some otherworldliness to it so I give it an Oscar and maybe a BAFTA too.
Now to decide if I want to watch Black Phone or Kimi next.
@Kevesilanz One thing I did realise about X is the sex scenes weren't really pornish. Normally it's filmed in a way to see the thrusting and penetration which didn't happen in their film. I take back the Oscar I gave it!!!
@Rambler I've never gelled with his films for some reason. I've seen The Idiots, Melancholia and Dogville but I wasn't overly impressed with him for some reason. Lars is just no Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer!
@jump I think he's great, but I've not seen any of his films for yonks, so I'm not sure if they would still appeal. He does have female characters at the forefront, but they do get horribly abused. I'm not sure if a cinema of suffering is much fun to watch over and over again.
But he directed Europa, Breaking the Waves, Dogville and The Kingdom, and the Dogme '95 thing was lots of fun (and brought us Festen and Julien Donkey-Boy at least).
He does come across as a bit of a ***** though, and it sounds like the work culture at the production company he helped set up was bad.
But you just know that if he directed an entry in the scary movie franchise it wouldn't be as good as the first one
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I've still not seen them all the way through - I may have not seen The Two Towers at all! They came out at a time when everything was a bit of a blur.
I did have fun with the bit when the head Nazgul gets the chop. There's a huge descending legato tone when it happens, so we stuck it through an amp, and I pitch-shifted down into a monstrous rumble that made everything vibrate. Lots of fun
@TheJGG The JGG starter pack: Xenoblade, F1 and Lord of the Rings!
I do need to get around to watching those films myself. Once I'm done with my current Indiana Jones marathon, I'll probably check them out. By the way, as NLife's resident LOTR expert, have you seen The Rings of Power yet and, if so, what do you think about it?
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Ah yes, The Lord Of The Rings movies are amazing. They took a series of books and made the most epic and cinematic version of a bunch of people walking possible, even the trees walk because they are that god damn good!
@Kermit1 I’ve got no idea who Jeremy Jahns is but Google tells me his a little man who lives in the YouTube where he reviews shows and movies so yeah, Legion a critically acclaimed series based on pop culture titans Marvel/X-Men made by Noah Hawley who was coming off the red hot hit show Fargo and shown on a major tv channel makes sense to have been reviewed. It just a shame there’s not female hulks and black stormtroopers in it for the internet to get angry enough to pay attention to it.
I’m not too fussed about YouTube or other bloggers opinions myself as I have always prefer word of mouth.
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