Last Film You Watched

[Amw79]

Watched an old one that had always passed me by - Scanners.

Decent watch, including that classic head explosion scene, but the lead actor was properly terrible and couldn’t deliver a single line convincingly.

 

[maccavennie]

Watched an old one that had always passed me by - Scanners.

Decent watch, including that classic head explosion scene, but the lead actor was properly terrible and couldn’t deliver a single line convincingly.

That head explosion is absolutely fantastic. I absolutely love watching how that kind of stuff was done and made, the sane with special fx in horror films ( when special effects were proper special effects )

 

[Amw79]

That head explosion is absolutely fantastic. I absolutely love watching how that kind of stuff was done and made, the sane with special fx in horror films ( when special effects were proper special effects )

Likewise. I read afterwards that for that scene they filled a prosthetic head with offal, and shot it with a shotgun.

 

[maccavennie]

Likewise. I read afterwards that for that scene they filled a prosthetic head with offal, and shot it with a shotgun.

Yep, they couldn't get the explosion right until the end when they realised firing a shotgun done the trick.

There's a brilliant documentary about "The Thing" and how they had to do the scene where the head slides off the table. A real insight into the painstaking work that goes on behind the scenes and it takes a real creative person who can think quickly and outside of the box for people's ideas and imagination to become reality.

 

[COYBL25]

Blade runner 2049....head is well and truly kettled

You need to watch it again mate.

Treat the first watch as an overview.

First time I watched it, I was really unsure about it, but after watching it many many times since, it`s up there with my all time favourite films.

 

[f.t.r.s]

You need to watch it again mate.

Treat the first watch as an overview.

First time I watched it, I was really unsure about it, but after watching it many many times since, it`s up there with my all time favourite films.

Don't think it helped that I nodded off about halfway through for 20 minutes...
Do I need to watch the first one to understand it better?

 

[Goat]

Watched Stowaway, I thought it was really well done, enjoyable watch.

 

[COYBL25]

Don't think it helped that I nodded off about halfway through for 20 minutes...
Do I need to watch the first one to understand it better?

Regardless, 100 % watch the first anyway.

It’s the best sci-fi film ever made and will massively help you out understand the second.

 

[Nymzee]

Don't think it helped that I nodded off about halfway through for 20 minutes...
Do I need to watch the first one to understand it better?

Nah

 

[summerisle]

On Talking Pictures on Friday night, aka Death Line. Great sleazy film about cannibals on the London underground, featuring Donald Pleasance and Christopher Lee, what's not to like.

 

[navidson]

The Godfather

Still wonderful after all these years - Never has a 3 hour film with such deliberate pacing flown by so quickly

 

[mahermi1]

Watched an old one that had always passed me by - Scanners.

Decent watch, including that classic head explosion scene, but the lead actor was properly terrible and couldn’t deliver a single line convincingly.

Michael Ironside stole the show easily, funny watched that myself the other night, enjoyable hokum.
another one i watched was Deliver us from Evil, which I quite enjoyed Devilish caper with a cop and a priest as leads. Eric Bana starred not bad at all.

 

[Sennott Street]

One Night In Miami

 

[mahermi1]

That head explosion is absolutely fantastic. I absolutely love watching how that kind of stuff was done and made, the sane with special fx in horror films ( when special effects were proper special effects )

American Werewolf in London and The Thing 1982 are as good if not better than any of that FX rubbish nowadays. At least they try and make it realistic.

 

[maccavennie]

American Werewolf in London and The Thing 1982 are as good if not better than any of that FX rubbish nowadays. At least they try and make it realistic.

100% mate. There's a brilliant documentary about the scene where David turns into the Werewolf. Also a really good one about Hellraiser as well which had some quality artists on board.