I loved the first Shrek and parts of the second one. Boy did it get shit by the end though.

nick_md wrote:

I've been on a right French extreme thing recently, rewatched Seul Contre Tous, Irreversible and Baise Moi. Really liked SCT, what a powerhouse of a film. Can anyone recommend my next? I've seen Martyrs, 90% of Inside, and Sheitan. Frontier(s)? Ils?

I'll be hitting up the dark media thread with requests.

This is probably a paging Dr.DS kinda moment.

Theres loads but it's not necessarily extreme.

I'll knock up a list when less stoned. Try Calvaire, Angst and Dans ma peau for now.

Cinty is Shrek's biggest fan.

I will go out on a limb and say that Toy Story 4 is the worst of a glorious quadruple, but (and perhaps predictably) the most stunning to look at. 

I use the term 'worst' loosely, it's not terrible by any means.

Shrek was never good!

Back from Aladdin and was pleasantly surprised. Of all the Disney remakes this was by far the best I’ve seen and I actually thought Will did a good job of the Genie. Enjoyable stuff, well made but nothing amazing. Pretty much what I expect from all of these cash cows.

afgavinstan wrote:

Oh man, if someone could find that legendary Shrek rant.

He should have submitted that as part of his job application.

Dark Soldier wrote:

I've been on a right French extreme thing recently, rewatched Seul Contre Tous, Irreversible and Baise Moi. Really liked SCT, what a powerhouse of a film. Can anyone recommend my next? I've seen Martyrs, 90% of Inside, and Sheitan. Frontier(s)? Ils? I'll be hitting up the dark media thread with requests. This is probably a paging Dr.DS kinda moment.

Theres loads but it's not necessarily extreme. I'll knock up a list when less stoned. Try Calvaire, Angst and Dans ma peau for now.

Aye Dans Ma Peau, Angst (though it's Austrian).  
Upvote for  Haute Tension, Trouble Every Day, Anatomy of Hell.  Gaspar Noe in general, but if you've done SCT and Irr. you're clear of the heaviest stuff.  Ils and Frontieres have their moments but rate a rung down for me.  À ma sœur! is worth a shout.

Funny Games (original, also German), probably Benny's Video while we are on Haneke.   Also try Tras el Cristal, Spanish and about Germans, so not very French.  There's a really heavy and very long pysch-arthouse horror in that mode the name of which escapes me; if I can think of it I'll add it.  It's pretty fucking nasty, and boring.  Sellin' it.

Remembered it, Melancholie Der Engel. Don't watch it, or read about it first if you do. Seriously.

Skerret wrote:

Remembered it, Melancholie Der Engel. Don't watch it, or read about it first if you do. Seriously.

Geez, reads like a laugh a minute viewing.... All 2 and a half hours worth...

Skerret wrote:

German nihilist

Is this a German who pees standing up?

Yossarian wrote:

Skerret wrote:

German nihilist

Is this a German who pees standing up?

That's vertspinkle

Just watched The Terminator again.
Still a brilliant movie.

Got me thinking though about how it tapped into the minds of the audience at the time.
Computers were coming out of labs and into the average work place. They were there and given a task would achieve it or die trying. Like the Terminator.

Come the sequel computers had developed, AI was becoming a thing. The idea of communicating with them and them adapting was real if crude. The T1000 communicated and shape shifted but was still very much a singular machine.

It led to me thinking about this new movie.
No doubt it will be crap, they all have been since T2.
Where we are now though, the idea of a singular robot (or iron filings exo, solid endo) is so, so simplistic.
In the world of deep fakes, false news, social media the concept of an AI taking a physical, humanoid form to kill one person almost seems like show boating.


While I can happily go back to the first two movies and treat them as from their time I feel a modern movie, set in modern day (which it appears to be) just doesnt really work.

The T-800 and T-1000 models worked perfectly as unstoppable killing machines that were eventually stopped, anything more advanced would probably get an eye-roll anyway.  Whatever it was in T3 with the inflatable wabs?  Nope. They'd be better off doing a rubber-skinned 600 series prequelsequel than attempting to present anything snazzier than mimetic polyalloy imo.