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The Returner. Japanese action flic that released to "Mmmmeh. 7 outta 10"
Mostly ignored because it's basically Back to the Future + The Matrix + gun-fu + every-hongkong-action-movie-ever-made, when really that's EXACTLY why you would want to see it.
Godawful CG aliens and stunted plot, but totally worth the crazy-slow-mo-timestop-gunfights, cool use of time travel, and WAY OVER THE TOP villain who's death scene is at first anti-climactic, but actually pretty brilliant when you turn your brain back on.
This is one of those foreign movies I only saw a part of on TV years and years ago and then went, "What the hell was that!?" It actually took me years to find it, but now that I did, I think it's fair to call it a classic B-movie.
If you can enjoy Equillibrium, you can probably enjoy The Returner.
In The Mouth of Madness. Thriller which made people go... "Yep. That's a movie."
Stephen King-style character writes horror books more popular than Harry Potter. The twist is he's been visited by The Old Ones and anyone who reads his books goes insane. Sam Neil is sent to find him and slowly goes mad as he starts having nightmares, blacks out for periods of time, and cthuloid monsters start destroying reality.
I've never read a Lovecraft novel, nor seen a movie inspired by Cthulu mythos before, but if this is anything to go by, I like it. And horror movies are most definitely not my thing.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. General response was "they're still making these?"
There's this weird trend where the first part is a classic, the second part sequel might as well have killed the series, and the third part brings it all home with an epic prequel. By trend I'm of course referring purely to Devil May Cry.
The worst part of Underworld 3 is that it's Romeo & Juliet.
The best part of Underworld 3 is it puts Twilight to shame (which isn't hard, but this is a vampire/werewolf movie).
The vampires are classic gothic aristocratic covens, and the werewolves are badass slaves. Naturally, Romeo starts a rebellion and we basically get Helms Deep Halloween Edition. The romance, BAFFLINGLY, isn't painfully awkward to sit through and the two main actors who get killed off in the first movie have this one almost entirely to themselves, and they kick ass at it. Cool speeches, cool swordfights, told like a fantasy epic.
Good stuff.
And... one more...
The Stuff. General consensus: "You mean, The Thing?"
No, I mean The Stuff, a movie that just BEGS to be remade.
Guys find alien white substance pooling up from underground. Idiots eat it and discover it's the next best thing since ice cream. Queue evil corporate marketing campaign to sell The Stuff as everything from a diet food to drain clog remover (okay not really). People buy it, eat it, become addicted, and start walking around and talking like advertisements.
The twist is... IT'S ALIVE! AND EATING PEOPLE! OH THE IRONY!
Some very oldschool cliches in this one, but otherwise a very simple and clever parody of commercialism.
That's all. For now. Phew.