Aunty Treats
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Post by Aunty Treats on Sept 24, 2024 10:28:39 GMT
Presumably it was originally made for the Japanese market though. I think I read that the hentai scenes were added because they needed to make their money off the perverts (and hentai wasn't censored). Same as all the fan service you get in anime now. I don't think it actually sells that well, which is why it's so expensive and pandering - they rely on the weirdos buying them
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Post by britesparc on Sept 24, 2024 10:31:01 GMT
I remember reading Empire in the mid-nineties and it being full of ads for anime movies that either looked like they were full of violence or full of tits (or Legend of the Overfiend, which I seem to remember being full of both?)
On the subject of videogame nudity, there was a top-down cyberpunk-y adventure game on the Amiga, that I think might have been called Dreamweb or something? It leaned very heavily on being all grown-up and gritty. Anyway, that was the first game I played that had a pixelated tadger in it.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 24, 2024 10:49:42 GMT
Ahhh, Legend of the Overfiend. Memories.
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Post by clemfandango on Sept 24, 2024 10:52:13 GMT
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 8/10
Really good, but slow in parts (like a lot of 1970s movies). The beginning and last third are great. Sutherland and Nimoy are brilliant too. Not seen this for over 30 years and it was a real treat.
Also That end scene is about as good as it gets 😳
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Post by rawshark on Sept 24, 2024 11:05:16 GMT
It's all Akira's fault, basically.
When that became a hit in the west it opened up the floodgates for adult animation from Japan. The most well known were heavy on violence and sex - Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Devil Man, that sort of thing. It also brought over series that were basically full on Hentai, like Legend of Overfiend (albeit heavily edited).
Barring the Franch-Japanese animated collaborations like Dogtanian and the Muskahounds or Ulysses 31 in the 80s, the more family-based animation from Japan didn't really land properly in the west until the advent of Pokemon, which led to similar series like Yu-Gi-Oh getting picked up and Disney into buying the distribution rights to Studio Ghibli's films in the 2000s.
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Post by barchetta on Sept 24, 2024 11:54:30 GMT
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 8/10 Really good, but slow in parts (like a lot of 1970s movies). The beginning and last third are great. Sutherland and Nimoy are brilliant too. Not seen this for over 30 years and it was a real treat. Also That end seen is about as good as it gets 😳 That's on the agenda for the weekend. Starting a Sci-Fi movie course at my local cinema and wanted to rewatch this in advance.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 24, 2024 12:09:07 GMT
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 8/10 Really good, but slow in parts (like a lot of 1970s movies). The beginning and last third are great. Sutherland and Nimoy are brilliant too. Not seen this for over 30 years and it was a real treat. Also That end seen is about as good as it gets 😳 That's on the agenda for the weekend. Starting a Sci-Fi movie course at my local cinema and wanted to rewatch this in advance. That sounds cool. Is that being run by the cinema itself?
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Post by zisssou on Sept 24, 2024 12:22:33 GMT
Weirdly I've never seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I think it's on Prime.
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Post by barchetta on Sept 24, 2024 12:29:15 GMT
That's on the agenda for the weekend. Starting a Sci-Fi movie course at my local cinema and wanted to rewatch this in advance. That sounds cool. Is that being run by the cinema itself? Yeah, they do various seminars, events and workshops over the year. This is a 10 week history of Sci-fi movies. Looking forward to finding some nuggets I've not seen too.
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 24, 2024 22:48:13 GMT
Blade runner live.
So it was blade runner on a huge screen with full orchestra underneath the screen doing the movies score.
Was great. I’ve probably seen the film too many times now to fully appreciate it again but it was the first time I’ve seen it on a big screen and it was the Final Cut they showed.
Highlights were love theme and tears in rain.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Sept 24, 2024 22:59:48 GMT
Rebel Ridge
Netflix in decent film shocker.
It's basically Rambo: First Blood by way of Jack Reacher. Well shot and acted with some smarts and not necessarily the balls out action flick you were expecting
Recommended
7/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 24, 2024 23:15:10 GMT
I very slightly prefer the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (though tbf it's pretty different, more a conspiracy thriller than a horror movie).
But yeah, the ending for the 70s remake is an absolute all-timer.
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Post by BeetrootBertie on Sept 26, 2024 16:31:42 GMT
The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears
No idea what to make of this. I kind of enjoyed it but my mind is still reeling as it's quite dizzying. I guess it's a psychedelic horror/mystery, revolving around a guy who comes home from a work trip to this fantastic-looking art nouveau style apartment building to find his wife is missing, and his need to solve the mystery. This leads him to a fever-dream series of interactions with various characters in the apartment building to try and reveal the truth.
It's artsy, unsettling and confounding at times and feels like something that could have been from the 60s or 70s with some retro-styled camera choices and editing. The dialogue's a little unnatural (or it could be the subs as I don't understand french, but reckon it's deliberate) and you're not sure at times if you're seeing dream sequences, flashbacks or hallucinations. It's quite bewildering but the trippy visuals do, I think, hint at what's going on. There's oodles of symbolism, strong use of colour and it's visually striking at times.
The musical choices remind me of Tarantino's stuff too, so I'm assuming it's similarly a love letter to something I'm unfamiliar with. Edit: I've since read up it's a genre or sub-genre called Giallo.
6 symbolic knife blades/10
P.S. The cover art is lovely.
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Post by Binky on Sept 26, 2024 18:46:34 GMT
The Crow (2024) I spotted this on Prime for a £5 rental, so decided to take our chance; my wife being a big fan of the original/long black coats/NIN. I think the original is an overrated, hard to watch mess. But it has Ernie Hudson. The new one really isn’t as bad as the reviews made out, but I mean that comparatively speaking. It is a load of rubbish, but it doesn’t stand out as being the worst thing ever. It spends way too much time trying to convince you how in love Eric and Shelly are/were without ever actually being convincing. There is zero chemistry between the two leads, and FKA (weird first name) Twiggy isn’t a very good actor. Perhaps she was brought in for the very tiny bit of singing she had to do? The whole thing plods along with lots of snogging and naked Skarsgard action. There’s a bit of boogeyman action which might make Crow purists raise an eyebrow. There’s very little crow action (aside from lots of shots of cgi crows flapping around and crowing) until the last 15-20 minutes. When it does kick off, it is VERY visceral. Nasty, gruesome stuff. I didn’t expect that from this. It takes such a turn that I was actually a bit shocked, and not in an exciting way. It isn’t as shit as the reviews would have you believe, but it also doesn’t have Ernie Hudson. So, meh. 4/10 Just noticed my Amazon account has been charged £5 for renting Civil War, which I haven’t seen. A quick look shows that The Crow is very much not out, so I guess I must have clicked a cock up and seen the film before it was out. Not that it was very good.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 26, 2024 18:59:40 GMT
The Substance - 11/10
Absolutely ___insane___.
Think I might need to revise my fave film of the year. What a ride.
And in a mad turn of events, my girlfriend agreed to come to cinema to watch it. She barely watches two films a year. First film she's seen at cinema since Barbie :DDDDD
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 26, 2024 19:47:23 GMT
The Substance - 11/10 Absolutely ___insane___. Think I might need to revise my fave film of the year. What a ride. And in a mad turn of events, my girlfriend agreed to come to cinema to watch it. She barely watches two films a year. First film she's seen at cinema since Barbie :DDDDD About to see it now. Hopefully I agree with you.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 21:26:10 GMT
That’s exactly what I need in a film right now. Going to have to fit that in.
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 26, 2024 22:06:51 GMT
Fuck me that was brilliant! Don’t want to say anything really except that was bat shit crazy and the director nailed what I assume they were going for.
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 26, 2024 22:09:36 GMT
Heard Kermode and a whole bunch of listeners gushing about The Substance on this week's podcast. Need to try to get to see it this weekend or some evening next week.
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 26, 2024 22:30:18 GMT
Best hurry. I doubt it will be in the cinema more than a week or two. Shame but it’s that type of movie that gets rave reviews but not a big box office so every screen will the joker 2 next week.
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 26, 2024 23:06:55 GMT
You're all mad. It's a film about how badly treated boomers are by the youth. And it's 30 minutes too long.
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 26, 2024 23:17:06 GMT
That is an extremely bizarre take on what it was about.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 26, 2024 23:20:20 GMT
I didn't even notice the time, on account of me clapping like a seal for the last 30 minutes of it.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 27, 2024 5:44:09 GMT
You're all mad. It's a film about how badly treated boomers are by the youth. And it's 30 minutes too long. Pete Bradshaw?
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 27, 2024 6:03:31 GMT
Ah, that's the kind of movie that'll get released 15 months later over here, by which time I'll have forgotten all about it.
Does it have big explosions though? Don't really see the point of going to a cinema if the movie doesn't have big explosions.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 27, 2024 6:05:05 GMT
There is an explosion of sorts at the end.
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Post by convercide on Sept 27, 2024 6:41:52 GMT
Yeah, The Substance is my film of the year too. Absolutely brilliant satire about chasing the perfect image and Hollywood's obsession with youth. Trying to craft a likeable personality while losing out on what actually matters. The last 10 minutes had me in absolute tears laughing. It was like the entire film was a lead up to that punchline.
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Post by zerimski on Sept 27, 2024 6:50:14 GMT
The last 10 minutes had me in absolute tears laughing. It was like the entire film was a lead up to that punchline. Yup, very much the same here. Although while I wasn't the only one laughing, I was definitely in the minority in the screening I was in.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 27, 2024 7:41:39 GMT
Two walkouts in my showing during/after the mirror scene .
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Post by convercide on Sept 27, 2024 7:47:20 GMT
The last 10 minutes had me in absolute tears laughing. It was like the entire film was a lead up to that punchline. Yup, very much the same here. Although while I wasn't the only one laughing, I was definitely in the minority in the screening I was in. I think it was just me at my local cinema. To be fair there were only like 12 people in there tops. I did hear a couple leaving saying it was fantastic so at least I wasn't the only one who got it.
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