mrbasehart's Film Challenge! - COMPLETE

[mrbasehart]

Le Dernier Combat (or The Last Battle) is a French post-apocalyptic drama, filmed in 1983 and is the feature length directorial debut of Luc Besson.  Entirely without dialogue, the film concerns a lonely man who is looking for a female companion.  Starting out in a sand blasted office building, before moving to a decrepit apartment complex, the film is beautifully designed and shot entirely in a gritty black and white that seems to only enhance its crumbling atmosphere.  Not a great deal happens in the movie, hence the real lack of plot summary in the review, but there are some really nice moments sprinkled throughout - for example Jean Reno's repeated and frustrated attempts to breach the defences of the complex.  I felt the ending was a bit of a whimper, and never felt particularly satisfying, but it's obvious why Besson would go on to bigger and better things in the future.

[mrbasehart]

Il Postino is a rather wonderful little comedy/drama set in the 50s about the friendship between an internationally renowned poet, exiled from his homeland in Chile because of his Communist leanings, and the poet from the village that delivers him his mail.  Their relationship is fleeting at first, with the postman being a little starstruck and the poet a little wary, but when the postman falls in love with a beautiful barmaid and enlists the poet for his help, they become close friends.  Firstly, the film is gorgeous.  Taking advantage of the stunning locale of a small Italian island and the medieval town the inhabits it, there's no bad shot in the movie.  The performances are charming - the poet is played by veteran French actor Phillipe Noiret and has a depth and experience that's invaluable, but the beating heart of the movie is Massimo Troisi as the simple-hearted postman, who sadly died the day after principal photography had finished.

[mrbasehart]

Rhinestone is a romantic comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.  Parton plays a country singer who makes a bet with her sleazy manager that she can make anyone a country star and gets lumbered with Stallone, a very New York/Italian cab driver who loathes the country genre. Having 2 weeks to train him, she takes him home to Tennesse where she gives him singing, walking, talking, and life lessons to help him convince as a cowboy.  Yeah, it's cliche ridden, unfunny junk, with only the natural presence of Dolly Parton saving it from total awfulness.  God knows what Stallone was thinking.

[Doctor Who?]

Rhinestone is a romantic comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.  Parton plays a country singer who makes a bet with her sleazy manager that she can make anyone a country star and gets lumbered with Stallone, a very New York/Italian cab driver who loathes the country genre. Having 2 weeks to train him, she takes him home to Tennesse where she gives him singing, walking, talking, and life lessons to help him convince as a cowboy.  Yeah, it's cliche ridden, unfunny junk, with only the natural presence of Dolly Parton saving it from total awfulness.  God knows what Stallone was thinking.

Who could survive Rhinestone,He's not Human I tell you!

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Rhinestone is a romantic comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.  Parton plays a country singer who makes a bet with her sleazy manager that she can make anyone a country star and gets lumbered with Stallone, a very New York/Italian cab driver who loathes the country genre. Having 2 weeks to train him, she takes him home to Tennesse where she gives him singing, walking, talking, and life lessons to help him convince as a cowboy.  Yeah, it's cliche ridden, unfunny junk, with only the natural presence of Dolly Parton saving it from total awfulness.  God knows what Stallone was thinking.

Who could survive Rhinestone,He's not Human I tell you!

The question is, has he made it throughOscar?

Depending on who you listen to, that could be an inhuman feat.

[mrbasehart]

Rhinestone is a romantic comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.  Parton plays a country singer who makes a bet with her sleazy manager that she can make anyone a country star and gets lumbered with Stallone, a very New York/Italian cab driver who loathes the country genre. Having 2 weeks to train him, she takes him home to Tennesse where she gives him singing, walking, talking, and life lessons to help him convince as a cowboy.  Yeah, it's cliche ridden, unfunny junk, with only the natural presence of Dolly Parton saving it from total awfulness.  God knows what Stallone was thinking.

Who could survive Rhinestone,He's not Human I tell you!

The question is, has he made it throughOscar?

Depending on who you listen to, that could be an inhuman feat.

Sure have.  And Don't Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!

[THE QUEEN!!!]

Il Postino is a rather wonderful little comedy/drama set in the 50s about the friendship between an internationally renowned poet, exiled from his homeland in Chile because of his Communist leanings, and the poet from the village that delivers him his mail.  Their relationship is fleeting at first, with the postman being a little starstruck and the poet a little wary, but when the postman falls in love with a beautiful barmaid and enlists the poet for his help, they become close friends.  Firstly, the film is gorgeous.  Taking advantage of the stunning locale of a small Italian island and the medieval town the inhabits it, there's no bad shot in the movie.  The performances are charming - the poet is played by veteran French actor Phillipe Noiret and has a depth and experience that's invaluable, but the beating heart of the movie is Massimo Troisi as the simple-hearted postman, who sadly died the day after principal photography had finished.

I take it then that you liked it. I'm so glad! Makes you want to go to Italy, though, doesn't it?

[mrbasehart]

Il Postino is a rather wonderful little comedy/drama set in the 50s about the friendship between an internationally renowned poet, exiled from his homeland in Chile because of his Communist leanings, and the poet from the village that delivers him his mail.  Their relationship is fleeting at first, with the postman being a little starstruck and the poet a little wary, but when the postman falls in love with a beautiful barmaid and enlists the poet for his help, they become close friends.  Firstly, the film is gorgeous.  Taking advantage of the stunning locale of a small Italian island and the medieval town the inhabits it, there's no bad shot in the movie.  The performances are charming - the poet is played by veteran French actor Phillipe Noiret and has a depth and experience that's invaluable, but the beating heart of the movie is Massimo Troisi as the simple-hearted postman, who sadly died the day after principal photography had finished.

I take it then that you liked it. I'm so glad! Makes you want to go to Italy, though, doesn't it?

Yeah, although I've seen a few films that do that.  Check out a movie called Respiro for the same effect.  It's not as good a movie, but the movie is beautiful. 

[mrbasehart]

The Prodigal Planet - Halle-fucking-lujiah, this Christian apocalypse movie series is over!  Rounding out the series by giving us more of the same, but this time stretching it out to over TWO HOURS, we have some latent Christians battling Satan's ground troops in the days before Armageddon.  What sounds kind of interesting summarised in one sentence become incredibly tedious in practice, with lengthy sermons plopped in between the sub-A-Team action.  Random things I enjoyed: The bad guy's moustache changes in every movie, but it's outstanding in every iteration.  The guy who plays the fallen preacher is actually pretty decent (and is one of the screenwriters), has a semi-believeable story arch, and has an AWESOME post-rapture flow chart that he navigates like a weatherman when he describing the disasters that will fall on the Earth.  A teen girl rocking out to song that is later revealed to be the public domain classic, Yankee Doodle Dandy.  The movie titles, all of which are much more evocative than the movies themselves.  Bands of roving mutants, mis-shapen because of nuclear fallout, all wearing matching robes and dressed like monks.  Apart from all of that, these movies are the sorts of things I'll be watching when I'm consigned to Hell because of the piss I've taken out of them.

[mrbasehart]

Oh, and I've also updated the front page with the amended list of movies I've seen and italicized the ones I haven't been able to find yet.  I'll keep searching, but in the worst case scenario, I'll have to remove them.  I would buy them, but with my London trip coming up next month, I'm saving my pennies for that.

[Tripe]

The Prodigal Planet - Halle-fucking-lujiah, this Christian apocalypse movie series is over!  Rounding out the series by giving us more of the same, but this time stretching it out to over TWO HOURS, we have some latent Christians battling Satan's ground troops in the days before Armageddon.  What sounds kind of interesting summarised in one sentence become incredibly tedious in practice, with lengthy sermons plopped in between the sub-A-Team action.  Random things I enjoyed: The bad guy's moustache changes in every movie, but it's outstanding in every iteration.  The guy who plays the fallen preacher is actually pretty decent (and is one of the screenwriters), has a semi-believeable story arch, and has an AWESOME post-rapture flow chart that he navigates like a weatherman when he describing the disasters that will fall on the Earth.  A teen girl rocking out to song that is later revealed to be the public domain classic, Yankee Doodle Dandy.  The movie titles, all of which are much more evocative than the movies themselves.  Bands of roving mutants, mis-shapen because of nuclear fallout, all wearing matching robes and dressed like monks.  Apart from all of that, these movies are the sorts of things I'll be watching when I'm consigned to Hell because of the piss I've taken out of them.

You're welcome 

[mrbasehart]

The Prodigal Planet - Halle-fucking-lujiah, this Christian apocalypse movie series is over!  Rounding out the series by giving us more of the same, but this time stretching it out to over TWO HOURS, we have some latent Christians battling Satan's ground troops in the days before Armageddon.  What sounds kind of interesting summarised in one sentence become incredibly tedious in practice, with lengthy sermons plopped in between the sub-A-Team action.  Random things I enjoyed: The bad guy's moustache changes in every movie, but it's outstanding in every iteration.  The guy who plays the fallen preacher is actually pretty decent (and is one of the screenwriters), has a semi-believeable story arch, and has an AWESOME post-rapture flow chart that he navigates like a weatherman when he describing the disasters that will fall on the Earth.  A teen girl rocking out to song that is later revealed to be the public domain classic, Yankee Doodle Dandy.  The movie titles, all of which are much more evocative than the movies themselves.  Bands of roving mutants, mis-shapen because of nuclear fallout, all wearing matching robes and dressed like monks.  Apart from all of that, these movies are the sorts of things I'll be watching when I'm consigned to Hell because of the piss I've taken out of them.

You're welcome 

Did them though.  So, ha! 

[Tripe]

Think they might make for fun riffs?

[mrbasehart]

Think they might make for fun riffs?

I think someone could do something good with them.  It's probably the only chance I'll ever go near them again. 

[mrbasehart]

Surf Nazis Must Die, in the hands of someone who has talent, could have been The Warriors, but set on the beach and with a little more political satire, but with the Troma team behind it, it's an unmitigated piece of shit.  Even by their low standards, it commits the worst Troma crime of all: it's boring.  Chronically the rise of the neo-Nazi surfers on a Californian beach, who take the names of prominent Nazis during the war - so Adolf, Mengele, and Eva are some of the characters' name - they bully rivals and eventually escalate to killing a black man who stops a mugging.  Unfortunately for them, this draws the wrath of the man's mother, who declares her own personal war on the Nazis.  There are a couple of Troma-worthy scenes, such as a scene with lots of throat-slitting, but it's really just a tedious mess of people spewing racial hatred in some attempt at humourous irony, and getting it all wrong.  Eva Braun has nice tits though.