Last Film You Watched

[fish]

Miseryguts.

I know you mean that in a caring and sharing way.

[Ian]

Well of course.

[triddy]

Basterds is great.

Perhaps I'm the only sentient being in the universe who disagrees but as a comedy I found it only mildly amusing.
If it was meant as a more serious work it probably sits there with the worst of Stallone's Rambo efforts.
Even as just a bloodfest film I didn't feel it offered anything not seen before.

I felt "Basterds" paled in comparison with Tarantino's best film "Pulp Fiction", which had well constructed characters and at least moderately believable situations.

Obviously I'm completely wrong about this film, but I can't see myself watching it again in an effort to change my mind.

I don't really see Basterds as a comedy at all. To me, most of Tarantino's films seem like playgrounds where he plays around and does exactly what he wants. He's famous for breaking all the rules in filmmaking, and provoking people. And that is what I like about him - he is not exactly a conventional filmmaker. In Pulp he obviously played with the rules of how to write scripts, but in Basterds I felt like he rather played with storytelling itself. He did things that no one has ever dared to do on screen before, since some things are too touchy. Killing Hitler for example. Who would come up with the idea of chaning the ending of ww2? Pretty daring I think.

All that set aside, I thought that Inglorious Basterds was one of the most capturing films I've seen, I was at the edge of my seat most of the movie.

[Ian]

[fish]

...I thought that Inglorious Basterds was one of the most capturing films I've seen, I was at the edge of my seat most of the movie.

I'm glad that you (and Ian as well) enjoyed it.

I guess I'm just out of step with everyone else in lots of things, this film included.

[Ian]

Just to give you the heads up, fish (and anyone else who's interested in our neck of the woods), Icelandic thriller Jar City is on SBS next week. Definitely one to tape, supposed to be excellent (so Hollywood's planning to remake it, of course). Tuesday, I think.

[snaps]

I bought Jar City for 3 quid from Blockbuster sale last month (Don't be eating when the guy eats his boiled sheeps head) and 101 Reykjavik for 3 quid last week, thats a long way down from their original pricings of 16 quid.

[Ian]

Any good?

[bruno]

Death Defying Acts (british-Australian film)
a different take on magician Houdini story.
Quite good.

[Ian]

Saw Bubba Ho-Tep again last night. Perhaps the very definition of a 'cult movie'. An elderly Elvis Presley (who swapped lives with an Elvis impersonator, then lost his chance to swap back when said impersonator snuffed it) is wasting away in a Texas convalescent home when he and a fellow resident, an elderly black man who claims he is really JFK ("they dyed me!" he says) discover that their rest home has become the hunting ground for an ancient Egyptian mummy that is stalking the corridors at night and sucking the souls out of their fellow residents (via their backsides!). Elvis and JFK must saddle up for one last face-off against the murderous mummy! Hilarious, spooky and oddly melancholy, Bubba Ho-Tep is that rare thing in cinema - a genuine one of a kind. A cult classic.

[Ian]

Jar City is in fact on Thursday night on SBS.

[Ian]

Saw Bad Taste again last night, Peter Jackson's directorial debut, the infamously uber-low budget, uber-gross out gory comedy horror. Cheap as all hell, but oddly charming in its way. Best bit: The alien leader slurping up the vomit of one his underlings, and then cackling: "Aren't I lucky? I got a chunky bit!"

[fish]

..."Aren't I lucky? I got a chunky bit!"

Sounds like a great film.

[bruno]

Saw Bad Taste again last night, Peter Jackson's directorial debut, the infamously uber-low budget, uber-gross out gory comedy horror. Cheap as all hell, but oddly charming in its way. Best bit: The alien leader slurping up the vomit of one his underlings, and then cackling: "Aren't I lucky? I got a chunky bit!"

Peter Jackson is an underrated genius! Did you see Braindead? There's a cult scene where the hero goes to the zombies' house with a lawn mower in hand (blades toward them), saying "the party is over!" and starting to cut everyone to pieces!... And the girl which takes a still living head and puts it in the mixer? Did you see this gem of a movie?
Ahhh, the memories ....

[Ian]

Yes, I have. Very funny as I recall, though I haven't got the dvd and thus haven't seen it for donkeys years. It's on my list...