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Asylum. An Amicus portmanteau of four stories linked to a young doctor applying for work at a remote English asylum. Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom and Robert Powell amongst others. 7/10.
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The sequel to the Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night takes a slightly different approach opting to drop most of the socially-charged racial politics and proceed as a (largely) straight-forward gritty cop drama. Unfortunately without the social relevancy of the original or the exciting action of contemporaries like Bullitt or Dirty Harry, it winds up feeling pretty lackluster. Even the murder mystery which the story revolves around feels anti-climactic. Sidney Poitier is in fine form, however, and his strong central performance is enough to salvage the film. Worth a look, but not in the same league as the original.
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- The second Dario Argento movie. A good murder mystery but not quite as good as the debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden and Catherine Spaak. Nice theme by Ennio Morricone.
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I'm a huge fan of Dario Argento's work and love Cat o' Nine Tails. Besides that and The Bird with the Crystal Plummage which you already mentioned, he also made two other terrific Hitchockian thrillers in the '70s: Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Deep Red. And in 1977 he made arguably his best - and my personal favorite - film, Suspiria.
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I can never make up my mind about that. Every time I watch either Alien or Aliens, I think that it was the best in the series.
What did you think about Alien III and Resurrection?
I actually liked III -- the setting, story and additional characters, made for a great film. It gets a lot of flak, but I don't think it deserves it.
Resurrection on the other hand, was ****e. I actually saw this at the cinema with some friends where it came out, and at the time I enjoyed it. After seeing it again recently, it was easily the worst in the series.
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Yeah, it's a tough call between Alien and Aliens. The first one gets points for originality, but the second has more action. I think I'd give the edge to Aliens.
I agree with you about Alien 3 - I think it's unfairly maligned. And actually after watching the extended edition which attempts (as best they can) to restore David Fincher's original director's cut, I gained an even greater appreciation for it.
Ressurrection is just plain bad. The story is silly and they didn't even try to maintain any continuity with the first three. Jean-Pierre Jeunet disavowed the established cinematography and Alien "look" and just made it look like one of his films instead. And Winona Ryder is embarassingly out of place. On the other hand, it's still nowhere near as bad as either of the AVP movies.
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The AVP movies are the biggest anti-climax in cinema history. {Slight Exaggeration } How could anybody screw that up :/
I preferred the first one, but, yeah it was still bad.
Did you ever play the AVP games? I use to play both of them on-line. A 3rd one is being developed at the moment -- It looks promising.
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All they had to do with the AVP movies is follow Ridley Scott's backstory on the ship from the first film. Instead they went with the Alien Olympics premise - dumb move.
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Frenzy. Hitch's penultimate film. Brilliant depiction of early 70's London scene with a great cast. Jon Finch, Barry "Van Der Valk" Foster, Bernard Cribbins and a host of British talent.
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ATomiK, have you seen See No Evil, Hear No Evil? If you enjoyed Silver Streak you should definitely it check out. I think it's Wilder & Pryor's best pairing. Stir Crazy is pretty good too.
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Yeah, i saw See No Evil, Hear No Evil back in the day. It was a good one but Stir Crazy is the best IMO.
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HOW TO KILL A JUDGE-1974... great italian thriller with Franco Nero.
THE HEROIN BUSTERS-1977... classic italian action flick by Enzo G. Castelarri.
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Meatballs 1979... Classic!
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Island Of Terror (1966) - Great Cushing film. A doctor's trials to cure cancer backfire into these horrid creatures that kill and then suck out the bones from the bodies of people and animals. They're seemingly unkillable and are multiplying every 6 hours. What to do, what to do
Demons Of The Mind (1972) - Most confusing Hammer, but bloody good all the same
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I remember the car from an old video magazine. I doubt that i´ve ever seen the flick though...
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Freaks (1932) - About a group of sideshow performers who get a most gruesome revenge on a horrid trapeze artist muahaha. Good film.
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The Brood - The best one of his films I think. Wonderfully creepy with a fabulous ending Posts: 4057 | From: uk | Registered: May 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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