Looking for films to check out.

[Dead Blue]

So after several years of self debate on if I should buy a PS3 as a blu-ray player or if I should just buy a blu-ray player, I recently decided on the later. That being said, I've been on a movie kick lately. I'm not really a movie kind of person but I figured if any one could suggest me some good films it would be the shmups forum.

I'm looking to make a few "blind" purchases based of recommendations. I've bought a few of my favorite films already if they help gauge what kind of stuff I like. Those being Matyrs, I Spit on Your Grave (remake), and Tortured. I just ordered Grotesque and Haute Tension off amazon without really seeing either. I like euro horror and jap horror films. I dig really gory violent stuff but I also like it to have a little bit of meaning because other films such as The August Underground trilogy are just flat out boring.

I also really dig the whole space marine slaughtering aliens theme. I ordered Pandorum in hopes of it fulfilling that itch.

Any one have any suggestions?

 

[BUTCHER 206]

pandorum is like a psychological thriller more than anything being slaughtered, and the ending was wack imo. its definitely a mind-fuck type movie, not an action movie at all. i enjoyed watching it and its worth seeing at least once if youre into space / aliens / science fiction at all, but its not a great movie in any sense


actually i take it back after thinking about it more. i liked pandorum and how it engaged me, and the ending had a good payoff / twist. not enough movies take risks like this movie did

 

[BUTCHER 206]

i really dont know what you want to watch lol. sounds like youd be better off signing up to documentingreality.com and watching videos there


uhh, check out Repo Men if you havent seen it i guess

 

[BUTCHER 206]

actually dont. that movie kind of sucks lol. looks pretty on blu-ray though.

honestly youre pinning yourself into a very narrow set of movies. seems like you like those movies that are pale-grey the whole time and involve torturing and beating and raping women, with intense gruesome violence. the only type of movies i can think of that are anything like the movies you said are pretty shitty. i cant think of anything that falls into the euro / jap category.



im bored and ended up searching around comparing movies you liked and came up with this one that looks like it might be worth checking out, but ive never seen it and have no idea if its any good or not so i wouldnt really recommend spending your cash on a blind purchase of it, but i failed so hard in this thread i had to come up with something lol. theres also a 2007 americanized remake from the same director it looks like

Funny Games (1997)

Storyline

Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known. But soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/

First things first, Michael Haneke HATES Quentin Tarantino's films. He hates the way violence and death are shown as being 'cool' - Cool gangsters executing their enemies whilst saying cool lines (And you will know, that my name is the Lord! etc,etc)with a cool song playing in the background. This is not how violence is in the real world, violence is a horrible fact of life, not a glamourous thing for youths to copy, and I think Haneke intended Funny Games to show it how it really is. I watched Funny Games without the slightest clue what the film was about, so I just had to sit back and take it as it comes. At first, I wasn't too impressed. I thought the scenes were too long and dragged out, yet at the same time, I felt a strange feeling of suspense. The incredibly long camera shots leave you that bored, that you think "Something bad is going to happen soon, I can tell...". The suspense also lasts right through the film 'til the very end. You don't want to watch it, but at the same time, you feel hypnotised by it.

I will not detail any events of the film, to save spoiling the atmosphere, but I will note one thing that people tend to be confused about:- "Why did the family let them into the house in the first place?" The two characters of Peter and Paul are let to walk all over the family because of one flaw in the bourgios psyche - 'The more polite a person is, the better a person they are.' This absurd way of thinking is played on by Peter and Paul and they obviously score, plus 'getting into the house without breaking in' is also one of their 'games'.For those who haven't seen the film, I definitely wouldn't recommend this for a night in with the parents/girlfriend, but I definitely would for people who want to see the difference between death and Tarantino-glam. Prepare for a highly suspenseful yet sickeningly violent, non-Hollywood, edge-of-the-seat piece of art. 8/10

 

[Mike Manson]

I like Funny Games. He remade it a couple years ago in English. Exactly the same though.

Based on your post I can recommend

I Saw The Devil, Event Horizon, Battle Royal, Frontiers, A L'Interieur, The Crimson Rivers...all I can think off right now.

 

[BUTCHER 206]

[h=1]Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)[/h]
When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door" and the serial killer. Low budget movie, with some graphic murder scenes. Written by Rob Hartill

*** This review may contain spoilers ***
'Henry' is a hard film to sit through, plain and simple. It lacks any theatricality to it whatsoever and engages in utmost realism in it's presentation of it's title monster. The fact is that people like Henry have existed without the soundtrack, without the dramatic tension, and without the stylized body count. 'Henry' isn't interested in creating a film merely for entertainment's sake. 'Henry' isn't really an entertaining film in the traditional sense of the word. It is a well acted and well paced drama about evil.

Michael Rooker gives a tremendous performance as the title character. Henry is by far one of the most frightening characters in film and he does so with subtly. Henry is a sad looking fellow. Most of the time he is at a loss for words and with a blank solemn expression on his face. He's the kind of guy you bump into on the street and don't think twice about. Rooker is brilliant in portraying Henry in this restrained fashion. It isn't what we expect that frightens us. Look at Anthony Hopkins in 'Silence of the Lambs', a brilliant performance but it lacks any suspense or fear to it whatsoever. Henry is the anti-Hannibal. The characters in this world underestimate him until it is too late. Rooker's delivery of the minimalist dialogue is outstanding. Cold, blank, and with a sad gravel we are intrigued by Henry and yet we don't know what exactly intrigues us about him. This fascination is brilliantly played with in the character of Becky, fascinated by Henry to the point where she convinces herself that she loves him. Tragically for her Henry is incapable of love or any humanity.

In keeping up with this realistic view, director John McNaughton has created a brilliant portrayal of the cold rainy streets of Chicago. The film feels almost like a documentary as the camera work is very static and gritty. I can't think of a better place to set the film than Chicago. It's capable of being a very ugly city and McNaughton's haunting trip into the back alleys and seedy neighborhoods at night is filmed beautifully. We get to comprehend the environment and yet McNaughton doesn't over empathize it.

Henry is a brilliant film. Well acted and brilliantly conceived. It isn't an easy film to sit through but often the most challenging works of art aren't. Kudos to Rooker and McNaughton for taking this subject matter with utmost sincerity. Violence is either glorified on one extreme or attacked viciously on another. 'Henry' is an honest look at the capabilities and evil power violence has.

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[illuminati_guy]

[video=youtube;oGeV7ejT74Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeV7ejT74Y[/video]

this is great

 

[Dead Blue]

Inside & Frontier(s) aren't on blu-ray yet (region a at least) otherwise I would have picked them up already.

Battle Royale blu-ray comes out in like 3 days.

I have I Saw The Devil in my torrent queue from the last time you mentioned it. Never heard of that crimson movie, I'll give it a look on amazon when I get home from work.

 

[Dead Blue]

The amazon synopsis of crimson rivers doesn't make it sound too good :/