It's typical Asian shock fare, I think it was done decent, not great, but it had some suspense moments others didn't... I'd probably take Oldboy and a couple of others over it, but it was good.
I liked Oldboy, at least that had a plot and some action. If Audition was going for some deeper message it was certainly lost on me. Japanese culture eludes me though, I guess I should be grateful there were no tentacle rape monsters at least.
I get you, the Japanese ones are pretty high on imagery and bereft of story, and the sad thing is that they are what our own country was striving to become and in some aspects still is, it's a blurgfest. But hey, we have tow truck shows, so fuck those bitches.
FYI - Just saw this. Save your time and money. Interesting, but very boring. You spend half the entire documentary watching the guy build his scenery and paint. The whole story could have been done in about 15 minutes.
Hehe, well I already have it and didn't spend a dime. The scene building and painting was what I was really interested in, actually, but that's another convo. I'll save it for when I run out of fun stuff to watch.
If you can find a copy, Cemetary Man http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery_Man Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the cemetery caretaker in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He lives in a ramshackle house on the premises, constantly surrounded by death, with only his mentally handicapped assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro) for company. Young punks in town spread gossip that Dellamorte is impotent. His hobbies are reading outdated telephone directories, in which he crosses out the names of the deceased, and trying to assemble a puzzle shaped like a human skull. Gnaghi, whose interests include spaghetti and television, can speak only one word: "Gna." The Latin inscription over the Buffalora Cemetery gate readsRESVRRECTVRIS ("They will resurrect"), and indeed, Dellamorte has had his hands full of late. Some people rise from their graves on the seventh night following their death, reanimated and ready to assault the living. Dellamorte destroys these creatures, whom he calls "Returners", before they overrun the town. Buffalora's mayor (Stefano Masciarelli) is so fixated on his campaigning that he seems unable even to hear Dellamorte's pleas for an investigation. In any event, being an outcast in the village and almost illiterate, Dellamorte doesn't want to lose the job. He opens up to his only friend, Franco, a municipal clerk, but doesn't file the paperwork necessary to get assistance: "It's easier just to shoot them." At a funeral, Dellamorte falls hard and fast in love, with the unnamed young widow (Anna Falchi) of a rich, elderly man. The widow only begins to show an interest when Dellamorte tells her about the ossuary, which she adores. While consummating their relationship by her husband's grave, the husband returns, attacks, and bites her. She seems to die from the bite, but the coroner claims it was a heart attack. Fearing the worst, Dellamorte stays near her corpse, and shoots her when she rises. Gnaghi becomes infatuated with the mayor's capricious daughter, Valentina (Fabiana Formica). This would seem to end tragically when she is decapitated in a motorcycle accident. Instead, Gnaghi digs up her reanimated head, and an innocent romance begins. The young widow also rises again, causing Dellamorte to believe that she was not really a zombie when he first shot her, in which case it was he who killed her. He plummets into a depression and is visited by the leering figure of Death, who tells him to "Stop killing the dead", asking him why he doesn't shoot the living instead. Dellamorte encounters two more unnamed women, also played by Falchi. He goes to outrageous ends to be with the first of these, an assistant to the new mayor: when the object of his affection says she is terrified of sexual penetration, Dellamorte pretends that the rumour about his impotence is correct, and visits a doctor to have his penis removed. The doctor talks him out of it, giving him an injection for temporary impotence instead. Meanwhile, the woman has been raped by her employer, and then fallen in love with her rapist, discarding both her phobia and the cemetery man. His grip on reality slipping, Dellamorte heads into town at night with his revolver, shooting the young men who have made fun of him for years due to his rumored impotence. He meets a third manifestation of the woman he loves, but upon finding out that she is a prostitute, he kills her and two other women by setting their house on fire with a room heater. His friend Franco is accused of these murders after killing his wife and child, and attempts suicide the same night by drinking a bottle of iodine. Dellamorte goes to visit his friend in the hospital, to find out why Franco stole his murders. Sitting by the hospital bed, he casually murders a nun, a nurse, and a doctor. Franco doesn't even recognize him, so even these acts fail to change Dellamorte's situation. He screams out a confession, but is ignored. Gnaghi and the caretaker pack up the car, and head for the Buffalora city limits and the mountains beyond. Gnaghi's head is injured when Dellamorte slams on the brakes. They get out of the vehicle and walk to the edge of the road, where it drops into a chasm. Gnaghi begins to seize, and collapses to the ground. Dellamorte, realizing that the rest of the world doesn't exist and fearing that his assistant is dead or dying, loads a gun with two dum-dum bullets to finish them both off. Gnaghi wakes up and drops Dellamorte's gun off the cliff. He then asks to be taken home, speaking clearly. Dellamorte replies: "Gna."
Well...yeah, I guess. Its been around so long, its like telling people Bruce Willis is really dead the whole movie. And you can look it up on youtube, the whole movie is on there. I should have thought of that before. You have seen Motel Hell, right? Another old classic.
Heh, I get your meaning, but you'll never have to preface anything about the Sixth Sense with "if you can find a copy".
Even reading that, it won't take away from watching it, one of the coolest zombie movies you'll ever see. In the vein of Dead Alive, arguably better but maybe not quite as good.
Liked it, forgot I had already seen the second half of it years ago, but it was great anyway. Costner and Hurt worked really well together. Halfway through The Lives Of Others. Usually it takes me a good 10-20 mins to get into a foreign film, but I was enthralled with this one from the moment it started.
Finished The Lives of Others today. Very good movie. I can't really compare foreign movies since I have seen a lot. But I've seen a shitload of American movies that move me more. Is it the cultural barrier?
