What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Batgirl0202]

7/10

 

[squeekness]

Joker : Folie a deux ( not too bad if you fast forward through the songs).

 

[emielaen]

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

Red Son (2020)

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Guts of a Beautiful Woman (AKA Entrails of a Beautiful Woman ~ 1986)

The second part of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu's 'Guts Trilogy'. A young woman looking for her missing sister is kidnapped, drugged, and raped by a Yakuza gang. She discovers that her sister suffered the same fate before being taken to Africa and sold into slavery. The young woman escapes and manages to reach a clinic where she tells a nurse everything that happened. Then, with the drug still in her system, she runs to the clinic roof and jumps, killing herself. The nurse decides that she will seek revenge on the Yakuza gang responsible for the girl's rape and death. Unfortunately, her plan backfires, and she herself is captured, forcibly drugged, and raped. However, the gang overdo the drug dosage and the nurse dies - only to be resurrected as a hermaphrodite, inside-out, zombie/corpse, who promptly seeks revenge on all responsible for her own rape and murder.

If the first movie (Guts of a Virgin/Entrails of a Virgin) was Gaira's attempt at a 'cabin in the woods' type slasher, this is his take on the 'rape-revenge' genre. The sex/nudity is dialled back a little from the first film, but it's still pretty heavy. The gore, though, is amped up. Gaira obviously had a bigger budget this time around, and the prosthetics/splatter work is consistently pretty good. He even manages to work in a homage to the Alien chest-burster. The performances are still cartoonish, with inept Yakuza gang members serving as light-relief (these guys are definitely more Sopranos-style henchmen than Godfather), and as with the first film we have to wait too long before the blood 'n' guts start flying around, but it's well-shot, and overall is a slight improvement. 5.5/10

 

[Link]

Doing some sequels and spin-offs. Very enjoyable, all of them. I honestly wasn't expecting 28 Weeks Later to be particularly good, mostly because the original creative team wasn't involved, but it really works. Such a tense film.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

The second one is Yakuza Graveyard.

 

[Frodo]

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[squeekness]

A perfect getaway

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Rusted Body (AKA Female Inquisitor ~ 1987)

The third and final part of director Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu's 'Guts Trilogy'. Four criminals - two male, two female - 'make' their money by abducting business people and bankers who have embezzled company funds and torture them until they give up the location of the missing loot so they can appropriate it for themselves. Once they've got the information they continue to torture their victims anyway until they die. They then place the bodies in a mincer and feed them to their pigs. They kidnap one businessman whose crime should guarantee the gang their biggest payday yet, but he turns out to be made of stronger stuff...

So, Guts of a Virgin/Entrails of a Virgin was Gaira's 'cabin in the woods' type slasher, and Guts of a Beautiful Woman/Entrails of a Beautiful Woman was his take on 'rape-revenge'; this one is his venture into 'torture porn'. The sex/nudity is less again than in the previous movie - although there is still a lot of it. The gore is less too - but it's more convincing (e.g. toenail and tooth extraction (both with pliers), finger breaking/removal). Also, this time we get to the gore pretty early. Prosthetics work, again there's less of it, but what there is is the most convincing of the three films. Some scenes go on too long, to the point of becoming repetitive, and a couple of the performances border on parody. The tone also wavers, with it not being really clear whether we're supposed to detest this gang, or (given that their victims are also criminals) quite like them. Generally, though. it's the best of the bunch. 6/10

 

[MilkmanDan]

Speed
Widows

 

[3rdstone]

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IMO a slightly forgotten but underrated excellent sci-fi drama thriller which still holds up today. It even managed to make a slight homage to classic western movie "High Noon" in the story. Highly recommended.

 

[3rdstone]

A Quiet Place Part II

It came up on the telly, and I realised I'd forgotten most of this film since I watched it first time. It kinda just.. came and went. But it really is a damn good sequel with a perfect short flashback intro taking place just before the first film, in which John Krasinski have a minor role.

Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy are of course excellent as expected, and Millicent Simmonds as the young daughter is a real stand out character in this sequel. I'd love to see more from her in the future. It also always felt like Djimon Honsou is cursed to play minor roles like here which is totally undeserved IMHO, he's always really good.

Lots of high tension moments here I'd forgotten (many without dialogue), and highly recommended.

 

[3rdstone]

Fair Play

I almost forgot about this one, which I watched some week ago. A drama/thriller that takes place in a high status office which deals with money broking, at a very typical American Wall Street level. Two of the employees suddenly becomes a couple, and one of them is seemingly more talented hence gets more successful within the firm. Of course serious drama will ensue and affecting their relationship.

This was a quite good drama/thriller with some good tension according to the premise. The actors Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich did really good - especially Dynevor from whom I'd like to see more. The ending probably might feel divisive, and I'm still not sure about it. I'd like to rewatch this in a couple of years.

Still recommended.

 

[Rozen Thorne]