Film What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[MilkmanDan]

Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö/The Match Factory Girl

Stir of Echoes

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I didn't really care for the first movie and unfortunately this is more of the same. Aaron Eckhart deserves so much better than this but atleast him and the dog are easily the best part of these crappy movies.

5/10



This is basically about a samurai fighting cannibals on a deserted island which is a really fun premise and while the last 30 minutes is pretty awesome it takes a bit too long to get going IMO. Its worth atleast a one time watch though if you can stick with it.

6/10



The cast is easily the most interesting thing about this movie outside of the occasional, entertaining action sequences. He's not on the poster but Tony Dalton actually makes a pretty fun appearance and while he's above films like this I kinda wish he was in it more although maybe that was for the best.

5.5/10

 

[Hunter Rider]

Lighthearted, fun entertainment with some solid action sequences and plenty of laughs.

7.8/10

 

[Brutikus]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Salon Kitty (1976)

Italy/West Germany/France co-produced Nazisploitation, directed by Tinto Brass, and starring Helmut Berger. Ingrid Thulin, and Teresa Ann Savoy.

It's loosely based on the true story of the 1939 'Salon Kitty' operation, in which the SS took over a Berlin brothel, and replaced all the 'working girls' with girls (made auxiliary members of the SS) specially selected and trained by themselves. The intention was to catch clients saying things in 'unguarded moments', perhaps giving themselves away as spies, or at least disloyal to the Nazi cause.

It's a weird mixture of musical numbers, comedy, a lot of softcore, intermixed with scenes of cruelty, murder, and suicide; think a serious WWII drama, mixed in with Cabaret, Springtime for Hitler, Monty Python, and Benny Hill.

Visually the film is very good. The sets look far more expensive than than they probably were (production designer Ken Adam - perhaps most famous for the Bond movies - was desperate for something lighter and more fun after the stress of working for Stanley Kubrick on Barry Lyndon!), and the costuming is perfect (from the immaculate Nazi uniforms, through the clothes of various people struggling to get on with their ordinary lives and just survive the war, to the more 'casual' apparel of the girls).

Berger, Thulin, and Savoy are very good, as is giallo regular John Steiner - almost unrecognisably clean-shaven and short-haired - as a very senior (and fencing-obsessed) Nazi officer.

The uneven tone does jar a bit, and it certainly didn't need to be over two hours long, but this was more (bizarrely) enjoyable than I expected. 6/10