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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 121.219.157.75
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 04:04 pm: | |
Have watched a superb trio of films, over the last weeek or so:
[REC]
The Orphanage - I know, a lot been said already about these two.
And, most surprising of all, Darkness. Surprising because I'd read a lot of negative reviews about it. I loved it - a lot of 'Campbellian' touches, in particular the (for those that have seen it) architects train trip!
Anyone else seen it? |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 61.216.34.115
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 04:50 pm: | |
There were a couple of things about it that, for me, didn't quite seem to work, but overall I liked DARKNESS. A few bits really gave me the shivers (those gaunt figures in the photographs, who later appear on the subway, especially). Balaguero is really developing as a filmmaker, isn't he? |
Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 121.219.157.75
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 10:47 pm: | |
Huw, he certainly is. The two things I really like about him - he takes the genre very seriously, and, his films always have a fantastic climax!
The final 10 mins of both [REC] and Darkness were particulary 'nightmarish', I thought. |
Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.22.237.56
| | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 12:09 am: | |
Giancarlo Giannini is such a great actor - capable of exuding both grandfatherly concern and maniacal menace. Simultaneously, if necessary. |
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