The Movie Thread

[Jimbuna]

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[Eisenwurst]

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[Exocet25fr]

[ET2SN]

There is a lot I could write about Liquid Sky.
Its better to just endure it and take some aspirin later.
Have a great weekend.

[Eisenwurst]

And the full movie. Highly recommended viewing.

[ET2SN]

One of those movies from the 60's that you hope will be so BAD that its good but, unlike gems such as Turkish Star Wars and Turkish Spider Man, its just so BAD that its bad.

[Catfish]

Some -- interesting films being presented here

I am just watching some made-up stuff i read a few years ago by chinese author Liu Cixin. It is SciFi, and there have been two attempts to make a film of it; one in China and one in the US by Netflix.
I thought it impossible to bring this on the screen and make it available, and understandable, but both adaptions are worth it.

The chinese variant only enters YouTube in small episodes, and afaik it has not been finished and is meanwhile banned in China. Which is a pity because the chinese version seems to be even more radical and close to the book than the Netflix one.
No wonder though it has been banned in China, the chinese 'cultural revolution' under Mao is being described in all of its brutality and uselessness, and things have not really changed. Now it is just being done more indirectly and with better means of control, and supervision.
Different and in a way more civilised than in Russia, i'll give China that.

This is one of the chinese episodes, but when you want to get the whole story it may be better to watch the Netflix adaption, or better: read the book(s). Only the first book has been adapted by Netflix up to now.




Here is one of the Netflix variants, gigantomanic and not too philosophical, just a scarecrow




edit:

Lin Qi, who helped bring "3 Body Problem" to screens, died before the series aired.
He was poisoned in 2020 by Xu Yao, who headed up a subsidiary that oversaw adaptations of the book.
Now, more than three years later, Xu has been given the death sentence.

https://www.businessinsider.com/3-bo...mes%20reported.

[Moonlight]

Mayhem (2017)
Matias Caruso penned the script, which tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Saunders (Yeun) is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.



"Melanie and Derek" are the lead characters in this comedy\gore mashup, it was a decent movie with great chemistry from Mel and Derek but something let the film down, I wonder what it was?. Ah yes I remember now, the gore part, my one complaint is it doesn't show what should be prominent death scenes, "the siren aka Kara" is a prime example of this, yep, I would have loved to see that bitch get it, but, they cut her death scene out when the film needed it in. It was a poor decision from the director and I took 0.5 off the film to show my displeasure at it.

Even though we didn't see the Siren bitch get it in the end, the film still got a generous above average rating.

Movie Rating 7\10

It should have been 7.5\10 but 7 is still a very good rating.

[mapuc]

Markus

[Eisenwurst]

A personal favourite. Film snobs hate it, ignore them. It's a lot of fun.

[Moonlight]

Resident Evil

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.



You can't really go wrong with a zombie movie that has Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez in it, a good sci-fi plot that has aged really well although the CGI hasn't aged to the same level. Some good action scenes and a half decent script made it a decent nights viewing, I even watched Resident Evil Apocalypse straight after it just to make sure that I'd got my zombie fix in for the night.

Resident Evil Apocalypse

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.



Movie Rating for both films, 7\10.

[Jimbuna]