I prefer The Pact. That's really quite weird in places, with strange visions of oddly fractured people and lots of dark corner moments.

Dries van Tonder wrote:Watched 10 000 BC last night. Worst movie ever.

It's quite funny if you treat it as a historical comedy though.

willhud9 wrote:

Animavore wrote:While looking up the Wiki for Dracula Untold I came across an article on vampire movies which had this to say.

The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date.... By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_film

I'd like to contest that.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0006201/

I don't think people want to open the can of worms of whether or not Jesus was a fictional character.

I don't think there is any can of worms. There is fictional Jesus and, possibly, real Jesus. It is the latter which opens a can of worms, not the former.

BlackBart wrote:

NamelessFaceless wrote:I just watched Nosferatu, the restored version of the 1922 original on Netflix. It was impressive, to say the least. Much better than I expected of such an old film. Filmed on location and not just in a studio and it included some very artistic shots of scenery that I really didn't expect. I don't think I'd call it scary necessarily, but definitely eerie. Maybe it was the color, or just the ancient feel of it. I don't know. There was one scene where a line of townspeople were carrying coffins down a cobblestone road and it was truly haunting. Definitely worth seeing.

Wonderful movie isn't it? I saw a Halloween showing at the Brixton Ritzy a few years ago.

Werner Herzog's 1979 remake is also well worth watching:

Should have remained untold...

Shrunk wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

NamelessFaceless wrote:I just watched Nosferatu, the restored version of the 1922 original on Netflix. It was impressive, to say the least. Much better than I expected of such an old film. Filmed on location and not just in a studio and it included some very artistic shots of scenery that I really didn't expect. I don't think I'd call it scary necessarily, but definitely eerie. Maybe it was the color, or just the ancient feel of it. I don't know. There was one scene where a line of townspeople were carrying coffins down a cobblestone road and it was truly haunting. Definitely worth seeing.

Wonderful movie isn't it? I saw a Halloween showing at the Brixton Ritzy a few years ago.

Werner Herzog's 1979 remake is also well worth watching:

Oh that looks bloody amazing. I wonder where I could get my hands on it.

Afternoon Delight. I torrented a load of films and put this one as the last on the list to watch, thinking it might well be a dumb generic sex in the city style ripoff. Turns out it was the best of the bunch by a country mile. Really good. 9/10. There's even a scene near the end where their back seat religion plays a part and I thought - oooh; you lucky bastards! Rare - highly recommended.

Technically the last film I watched was Interstellar but Not Gunna Get into that one here.

So the one I watched before that I loved was


Sintel,

Beautiful and subtle animated short from 2010.

Animavore wrote:

willhud9 wrote:

Animavore wrote:While looking up the Wiki for Dracula Untold I came across an article on vampire movies which had this to say.

The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date.... By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_film

I'd like to contest that.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0006201/

I don't think people want to open the can of worms of whether or not Jesus was a fictional character.

I don't think there is any can of worms. There is fictional Jesus and, possibly, real Jesus. It is the latter which opens a can of worms, not the former.

Fictional or not, he still performed the miracle to appear in 14 "archive footages" !!

I just saw Interstellar.

Worst Bourne film yet.

DarthHelmet86 wrote:

Shrunk wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

NamelessFaceless wrote:I just watched Nosferatu, the restored version of the 1922 original on Netflix. It was impressive, to say the least. Much better than I expected of such an old film. Filmed on location and not just in a studio and it included some very artistic shots of scenery that I really didn't expect. I don't think I'd call it scary necessarily, but definitely eerie. Maybe it was the color, or just the ancient feel of it. I don't know. There was one scene where a line of townspeople were carrying coffins down a cobblestone road and it was truly haunting. Definitely worth seeing.

Wonderful movie isn't it? I saw a Halloween showing at the Brixton Ritzy a few years ago.

Werner Herzog's 1979 remake is also well worth watching:

Oh that looks bloody amazing. I wonder where I could get my hands on it.

Hmm. The DVD seems to be out of print, so if it's not on Netflix or whatever, you'll have to go to your local video rental store, (if they still have those where you live). Interesting note: It's available in English and German versions, and neither of those are dubbed. Herzog actually shot two versions of the film, one in each language. IIRC, there are no major differences between the two versions otherwise.

Do search it out. The opening shots of the Mummies of Guanojuato are enough to cause nightmares by themselves. And the film's also a helpful reminder that vampires don't have to be sexy.

Apparently the English version is risible.

I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix.

Really nice.

Mauster and Commaunder.
It was good, except for the action scenes, where I couldn't who was killing what. I couldn't see anything.

Brilliant as usual. Stay to the end.

Bad Words is a good movie. That is all.

Macdoc wrote:

Brilliant as usual. Stay to the end.

5/5 hands down.

Not just saying that as a Disney fan.

It was a very well-done disneyfication of a comic book series I really enjoy.

The_Piper wrote:Mauster and Commaunder.
It was good, except for the action scenes, where I couldn't who was killing what. I couldn't see anything.

Paul Bettany made that movie good.


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