Thumped's Random DVD trip: Wherein Hector Grey enters the Xtravision across the road and grabs the first couple of things that appear in the shelf. This week: The Devil Inside & Iron Sky.
"The look of the film, the performances, the pace and even the script works and it stays with you. It is engaging and you can’t help but care about the lead characters and their plight." - WatchingCattle revisits his childhood with Les Geants.
"It won’t be to everyones’ taste but then people actually liked Transformers so what do I know about movies, or humanity for that matter. No omniplex will ever sell any popcorn to its audience." - WatchingCattle finds a moment of comfort in Pat Collins' Silence.
"One undeniable thing about Australia is that it is amazing to look at. Tasmania is presented here as a vast, harsh and uninhabitable foreboding expanse of land. The scenery becomes a character in itself." - WatchingCattle on Australian thriller The Hunter.
"The tone of the film - the empty, emotionally detached, high and mighty preaching - all of this is the film. It’s hard wired into every scene and for the first hour at least, the film cannot escape the weight of its own overblown tone. And what’s more…it’s fucking boring."
"Yes, suffice to say, I love the Alien Trilogy. And no, we do not talk about the fourth one." - WatchingCattle gives his views on Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
Thumped's Random DVD trip: Wherein Hector Grey enters the Xtravision across the road and grabs the first couple of things that appear in the shelf. This week: Paranormal Activity 3 & Chronicle.
"Film makers seem to be making an effort to normalise idiocy these days." - WatchingCattle on Jeff, Who Lives At Home.
"Here he differs from every bleeding-heart liberal or hysterical preacher who picks up a camera and slams his point home with fact and fury. Herzog is only interested in humanity." - WatchingCattle on Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss.
Watchingcattle on Take Shelter & Snowtown (plus vampires, werewolves and horror movies in general).