The movies you've seen recently thread

[SemiShadowDancer]

'Paradise Lost'

Rubbish. Rubbish acting, rubbish script, rubbish plotting, rubbish directing, rubbish. Very little happens for a long time, then some pantomime sadistic Brazilian bad guys appear, then you realise you've long since stopped caring what happens, then it ends.


'KM31'

Quite effectively creepy Mexican ghost story with HUGE elements of J-horror thrown in. Has some striking images and moments but goes to pot at the end with some CGI gibberish that poos on the sinister, nightmarish atmosphere of the first two thirds. And the plot itself is pretty weak. But then, it is in J-horror, most of the time.


'Cabin Fever'

Unbelievably poorly made "horror" that isn't IN ANY WAY scary, involving or even particularly repulsive (the overuse of fake-looking bright red blood puts paid to that). Eli Roth really is an appalling writer and director. Any film in which the protagonists accidentally shoot someone only to forget about it five minutes later.....then burn a man to death and still act like they're on a Club 18-30 holiday is badly written shite, right?.....


'Bug'

A rarity: a William Friedkin film from the past 25 years that isn't crap. In fact, it's really good.
Obviously based on a play due to its motel room setting, but superbly acted (Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. are particularly good, which left me all confused) and extremely well scripted....it's a very talkie film, yet there isn't a wasted line of dialogue.

I can only imagine that, at some point, David Cronenberg was lined up to direct this.....it's very reminiscent of his older body-horror / mental illness / very dark humour shenanigans, before he went all diverse, genre-wise. I kind of wish Cronenberg had made this as, 'French Connection', 'To Live And Die In LA' and 'The Exorcist' aside, William Friedkin is a massive bellwinch....