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Jason and the Argonauts - Fantastic adventure--fantasy with a super impressive script, a great cast and striking visuals. As good as all these things are, the real star here is Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion animation which is brilliant, and there's especially two moments that stands out for me. The skeleton fight and the Hydra fight, both exceptionally good. Same with the bronze giant to be honest. They look so good and they feel so real. And it shouldn't come as a surprise that the skeleton scene is so highly regarded, after all all it's a three minute scene in which Ray Harryhausen spent four month creating. There was also a tribute to this scene in the last season of Game of Thrones. A fun fact regarding the great skeletons: all of the seven skeletons' shields are adorned with thte faces of other creatures did in the past. Fantastic film!

1. Fast Five (8/10) 2. Furious 7(8/10) 3. Fast & Furious 6(8/10) 4. Fast & Furious (5/10) 5. The Fast and the Furious (4/10) 6. 2 Fast 2 Furious (3/10) 7. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2/10) I'm not a big fan of Fast & Furious (2009), but I feel like this is the film where things started to change a bit. At this point I felt like they shifted focus from ugly cars and a very teenage-esque feeling to a cooler cars and a more mature feeling. Not that I consider it a good film, not at all. But it was a step in the right direction. But the real change came with Fast Five which felt like a completely different film from a different series. The focus was shifted from poor street-racing action-nonsense to a badass heist film that's got more in comon with The Italian Job and Ocean's Eleven, than with the previous F&F films. Same goes for the two after Fast Five as well. Completely different movies from the first four. Love the last three films! Can't wait for the next one.

Dear god, why would you hope for such a thing?

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - The third and final of Columbia's Sinbad films with Ray Harryhayusen, and sadly a disappoinnting entry. In Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Sinbad is played by Patrick Wayne who doesa fine job with what he's given, but as usual the star of the show is Ray Harryhausen, and that is despite this ranking among his worst work. Which tells you everything you need to know about this genius. But Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger lacks the story, the great adventure and the antagonist of the other two films. The films antagonist, played by a good Margaret Whiting, never feels powerful or threatening enough. I never get the feeling that she'll be able to cause proper problems. And the rest of the characters, isn't all that interesting either. The most interesting character is probaby Kassim, a man turned into a baboon that's beautifully stop-motion animated by Ray Harryhausen. The last "big battle" is fantastic though. Two stop-motion animated creatures who fight. It's so well-made. A real treat to the eye.

Those type of films are clearly an cquired taste, but if you're into splatter films like Bad Taste, Braindead, Herschell Gordon Lewis flicks, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, or even stuff like Hobo with a Shotgun, Machete, Planet Terror, Ichi the Killer and so on I'd highly recommend checking out a few of these. Funky Forest is great. Weird as fuck. If you want more weirdness I' say yyou should dcheck out Rampo Noir, Visitor Q and Japanese cyberpunk films like Death Power, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 964 Pinocchio and Rubber's Lover. Some really weird and twisted stuff right there. Burst City and Electric Dragon 80.000 V. Weird, different, cool and punk-as-fuck. I really want to see Sogo Ishii''s Crazy Thunder Road too, a film that looks like something beyond awesome.

This thread needs som Japanese insanity: The Machine Girl Tokyo Gore Police Mutant Girls Squad Meatball Machine Robo Geisha Helldriver Yakuza Weapon Samurai Zombie Alien vs Ninja Haha! Hellz fuckin' yeah, baby! I just love these trashy films. Only thing that could've done them even more enjoyable is if the CGI were dropped for ONLY practical special effects. Other than that these are hard not to enjoy as long as you have a few beers, a friend or two and love trash cinema.

A Woman Called Sada Abe - Visually stunning, superbly directed and well-acted pinku/roman porno, and no, roman porno isn't a regular porno film. But as with pinku films in general, they have plenty nudity and sex-scenes, but there's only a few titties to be seen. A Woman Called Sada Abe is an erotic drama with elements of crime and horror that for most part is shot within a small room, which is where we really get to see Noboru Tanaka's excellent skills. When filmed in one small room it's easy for the film to get a monotonous and claustrophobic feeling, but Noboru Tanaka's playfull variation of cmaera angles and movement makes it all feel a lot bigger than you'd expect it too. A Woman Called Sada Abe is based on a true story that caused a lot of fuzz in Japan in the mid 30's, and I'd totally recommend this. Great film! Conquest - A very disappointing Lucio Fulci fantasy film with a few elements of horror here and there, and even a few god damned zombies. Conquest is Fulci trying to make a Sword & Sorcery flick, but he just couldn't fully let go of the horror which makes it a very weird blend of different elements. Some great gore and cool special effects, but the story drags on and and nothing much happens, aside from a few fights here and there. Claudio Simonetti's score is great though and the hihlight of the film, though it's not very fitting. But it's good!

Well, this wasn't a bad choice either. Another Carpenter film I give 10/10 and have watched something like 50 times. From his debut in 1974 to 13th film in 1988 he just didn't have it in him to make something bad. Everything's great and you just can't go wrong with any of them. Elvis is one hell of an udnerrated film and a must-see, just FYI. The Do-Over - While this offers a few laughs every now and then, The Do-Over is just another Adam Sandler film that just isn't good enough. Aside from Punch-Drunk Love, Hotel Transylvania and to some degree 50 First Dates, have this guy been involved in anything that's not shit since The Wedding Singer? Jesus, how this man can earn so much money on being shit is a mysterium to me. I've got no idea how or why he got a 4-film deal with Netflix. Of all the actors they could pick they went with Adam Sandler? Shocking. Special Correspondents - The Office, Extras, Life's Too Short and Derek are all examples on how much quality lives within Ricky Gervais, but despite this he just isn't capable of putting out a great film. He's got so much talent, but it seems to only work in TV-series for somereason. Special Correspondents isn't a bad comedy at all, and at times it's quite funny, but it's so very uneven and a tad too long. I liked the cincept, but the jokes just isn't good enough.

A lot of bands can be awfully productive and keep releasing quality every single year. A fine example of this is Njiqahdda/Oaks of Bethel/Funeral Eclipse. Three bands that consists of two members, and from 2007-2016 they've released 28 albums, 66 EPs, and some splits, demos and stuff. In other words we're talking about a highly productive duo here. Now, I haven't heard every single release, but I guess I've heard 15 albums and 15 EPs, and it's all quality music, and I expect the same from the rest. Boris who released 22 albums from 1996-2011. 8 of these albums was released in 05-06, and they are all fantastic. Nadja is another band with a big amount of releases. 22 albums from 2002-2016. I'm not gonna say anything about the quality of their later albums, but their 16 albums from 2002-2009 are very good. Now these are a few very extreme examples, but the amount of albums doesn't say anything about the quality itself. You can keep releasing ten albums a year and only release brilliant albums, just like you can release one album every five year and keep releasing mediocre-to-bad albums.

With a title like that they sure as fuck gotta do something different.

Finished the main-story in Borderland with my brother and two friends. It was way too easy and the ending was such an anti-climax, but overall it was very fun and playing together with someone just made the entire game much better. But I wish the bosses were much harder and more difficult to destroy. Shooting some fat fuck in the eyes for two minutes just isn't much fun. Started on some of the DLCs now. Will play some of them before we start on Borderlands 2. Looking forward to that! But all in all I'm happy with the game. 7,5/10. Great atmosphere, much due to the soundtrack and good humour.

Since we already have a thread like this I thought I'd put up a list of my favourite Japanese films, and films I consider quintessential as far as Japanese cinema goes. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi) Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo) Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri) Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo) Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita) Gojira (Ishiro Honda) The Street Fighter (Shigehiro Ozawa) Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (Teruo Ishii) Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) The Magic Serpent (Tetsuya Yamanouchi) Castle of Owls (Eiichi Kudo) Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) Sex and Fury (Noribumi Suzuki) Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa) Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi) Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi) Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito) Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito) Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito) Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa) Lone Wolf and Cub (all 6 films!) Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi) Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa) Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi) Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa) Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda) Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo) Ringu (Hideo Nakata) The Snow Woman (Tokuzo Tanaka) Mu thought was to keep it at a maximum of 15 movies, but that was just too hard. Japanese cinema is too good to keep it at such a low amount. And even now I feel like I left out way too many movies and I can think of at least 25 samurai films that should be on a list consisting of what one think of as quintessential. But I feel like I managed to cover everything I wanted to cover, ranging from classic Japanese samurai films to classic Japanese horror films, trashy horror films, exploitation and anime. It's a little something for everyone. But I could go on forever to be honest.

What the fuck? Bleach is still around? I thought they ended it years ago? I thought this series ended with Aizen? What the actual fuck?

If I had to choose I'd go with... fufuck it, I have to say both. They're hard to compare and they're two very different movies too. The Happiness of the Katakuris is only loosely based on The Quiet Family, which makes both worth seeing. The Quiet Family has a darker and more serious tone than The Happiness of the Katakuris and its absurdity. The Quiet Family has a lot of Hitchcockian quality to it, and i f that's your thing you should totally see it ASAP.

You need to watch Strange Circus, Love Exposure, Guilty of Romance and Himizu for sure. Quality films!

You need to watch Deadwood. Ian McShane is one badass motherfucker.

That's a hard pick, but I'd say you should start with Sonatine, Boiling Point, Battle Royale, Violent Cop, Brother or Hana-bi. Those are great films and you can't go wrong with any of them. He's got other films like Tokyo Eyes, Dolls and Zatoichi too that is amazing. And as far as Japanese and unique cinema goes I'd have to agree with Tokage on the New Wave of Japanese Splatter which really ystands out. They took the whole genre to a new level of weirdness with a lot of these films. The 80's and early-mid 90's Cyberpunk scene was pretty unique and of course samurai/chambara cinema. But that's it as far as I can think of.

Start with Big Trouble... Tokage. Coolest film ever made. I've seen it well over 100 times and it's still as entertaining, unique and special as the first time I saw it in the mid-90's. EXCEPTIONAL!

Shit, that looks interesting. Will watch! Thanks.

I have no idea about how many Japanese films I've seen, but if I were to guess I'd say I've seen something like 3-400 or more films and I'll admit that I've never noticed anyhing like that. Japanese films are like films for any other country, America included. Some are slow-paced, some are fast-paced, some tragic, some uplifting or whatever and so on. It just depends on what type of films you see. Love Japanese cinema, just like I love Chinese, Korean, French, American, Danish, Swedish and so god damn on. Got their ups and downs, just like other countries. Got some huge names as far as directors goes too, and I think names like Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Seijun Suzuki, Yasujirô Ozu, Kaneto Shindô, Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kihachi Okamoto, Eiichi Kudô, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Isao Takahata, Kenji Misumi and Ishirō Honda, just to mention a few, should be familiar to anyone with a genuine film interest, and I'm not even joking. Huge, huge names!

I thought the episode was fantastic as well. But...

Some Alcest news: Our new album is getting mastered at the moment... We are almost done ! They're also gonna tour Europe with Mono later this year. I am so fucking going. I've seen Alcest a couple of times now and they're brilliant live, but I've never seen Mono. Missed them twice in Norway if I am not mistaken. Finally!

eah, there's plenty other reasons to watch Ash vs Evil Dead, like Bruce Campbell for example. But I'm a huge fan of all three original Evil Dead films, as well as the remake/reboot, and the special effects are a huge part of what makes all these films so good. They're simply special. Love me some good old-fashioned special effects.

Yes, I have. I liked it a lot even though the special effects were a real let-down. There's just way too much CGI and shit, and they were totally unnecessary. They could've easily made all those special effects practical without spending any more money or time than they did.

Legend - Let me just start by saying that this film is visually stunning with beautiful sets and fantastic cinematography. Visually it just looks very much like a traditional fairly tale for kids, but beneath the lovely style, Tom Cruise and Mia Sara's young and fine faces and a brilliant Tim Curry there's a lot more delving. Ridley Scott's Legend is surprisingly bleak and dark, which is interesting considering how postive and uplifting the visual style is. In one way it totally breaks with the visual style, but it totally works. Totally worth your time IMO. Great soundtrack and brilliant special effects too. And don't forget what I believe would be a refrence/tribute to Häxan. Very cool! Excalibur - A big, majestic and epic Sword & Sorcery adventure based on the Arthurian legend. It's flawed, especially in its lack of good female characters, but it's a big, fat adventure and a really fun one as well. Beautifully shot, lovely told and very well-crafted film that should please any fan of Sword & Sorcery/fantasy. Classic. Totally recommended!