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**Wendigo** · November 5th, 2016, 06:23 PM

The Lost Tribe (2009) aka Lost Island and Primevil
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811124/

There's an intro involving an island and some odd murderous Vatican cult. A small group are on a pleasure cruise when they find a stranger hanging on to wreckage, they rescue the guy but before long he is instrumental in their ship running aground on rocks.
Stranded on the island they must face a strange primitive tribe and a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEtfrgBuF8U

**mungy** · November 5th, 2016, 07:42 PM

Schindlers List

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/

**Sir Honkers** · November 5th, 2016, 07:47 PM

Cabin In The Woods. All I'll say is I'm glad no one ever gave the plot away. Brilliant!

**trailmaster** · November 5th, 2016, 08:50 PM

Today's three hour movie was the 1961 production of El Cid starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren and others. This is a sprawling epic of a picture filmed entirely in Spain using all spanish people as extras. Charlton Heston plays a Castillian knight in 11th century Spain called Don Rodrigo. He was just about to be married to Dona played by Sophia Loren when he hears that the North African Moors intend to attack all the cities of Spain and conquer them. His king enlists him to aid in the cause, but the trouble is that all of the cities in Spain all have their own kings and they are always making wars on each other. Heston over time convinces them to stop their bickering and concentrate on their common enemy, the African Moors. He then is given the title El Cid which means The Lord. This movie is fantastic. There were 30,000 extras in the film all with their own costumes that had to be sewed by hand by hundreds of spanish seamstresses. The score of the movie was composed by the great Miklos Rozsa who also wrote scores for films like Ben-Hur, King of Kings and dozens of other great films. The defeat of the Moors eventually led to the unification of Spain as history tells us. The Spanish consider El Cid to be in the same high regard that Americans feel of George Washington.

**trailmaster** · November 6th, 2016, 01:17 PM

Battleship is a 2012 science fiction film. It stars Taylor Kitch who I don't know that much and Liam Neeson as the Navy commander. In 2005 a scientific group similar to S.E.T.I. sends out a tremendous radio signal to a planet they detected that is similar to Earth. 7 years later the aliens respond, but not the way we expected. They sent an expeditionary force intending to see if our planet could be conquered by them. The aliens look humanoid, but their faces are slightly apelike and they are extremely sensitive to our Sun's light, and their technology is several hundred years ahead of ours. There is a good amount of action and the ending is good.

**Wendigo** · November 6th, 2016, 01:25 PM

Grave Encounters (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/

One of the better found footage movies about a paranormal investigation team who lock themselves up overnight in an abandoned asylum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8FBRATbJoA

SPOILERS !!!!

**Wendigo** · November 6th, 2016, 03:11 PM

Godzilla 1985 (1984) aka The Return of Godzilla
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087344/

A reboot of the original with a new super-charged Godzilla heading towards Japan. Good old fashioned city stomping by men in rubber monster suits.

**Brecht** · November 6th, 2016, 07:23 PM

Narc (2002)

Narc lacks the depth and mystery of an intelligent crime thriller but it's a decent film nonetheless. The plot is alright and so is the acting. Ray Liotta was finally given another opportunity to unfold his strengths as a talented performer.

Undercover narc Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chases the drug dealer Dowd through the streets of Detroit after his cover was blown. Dowd holds a child hostage but is shot by Tellis before he can hurt the child. However a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to lose the baby. Tellis is fired and under investigation. Eighteen months later, he is asked by the Detroit Police Department to investigate the murder of a fellow undercover narc called Michael Calvess (Alan Van Sprang). As he's out of job and options, Tellis reluctantly agrees to pursue the matter but insists that Det. Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) be assigned to the case as his partner since he started the investigation in the first place. Oak is praised by his superiors as a great detective with a high conviction rate but also as a problematic and mentally unstable person, especially since the death of his close friend Calvess, but Tellis wants him as a partner despite all warnings. Naturally the investigation doesn't exactly thrive as they keep facing a myriad of difficulties such as informants ending up dead which results in more questions than answers. In addition, Tellis is facing domestic problems because his wife is very unhappy about him being back on the street due to the bitter aftertaste left behind his previous assignment...

**movieman88** · November 7th, 2016, 01:31 AM

Halloween (1978)
Halloween 2 (1981)
- The 2 are basically one long film, they accomplish making it feel like the same night almost perfectly, no drop in quality at all.
- It's mind blowing to me that Rick Rosenthal directed both 2 & Resurrection because they are farther apart in quality then they are in years apart. I get he was probably going for the feel of Scream & H20 in Resurrection but the direction in R doesn't have ANYTHING in common with 2.
- Carpenter apparently directed a few specific scenes but nothing stands out as having felt different or better than the rest of the film.
- Change in score is interesting, younger me liked 2's theme more, current me likes the original better but both are good.
- Hospital set is comfy & very moody at the same time.
- Imagery of Myers on unwatched security cams is unnerving and cool.

Shock Waves (1977)
- Scenes of the Zombie soldiers waking up/walking along the sea bed in full uniform is chilling & awesome.
- Brooke Adams is good here although not as fleshed out or lively as she was in the following years Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Godzilla vs Destroyah (1995)
- Fantastic resolution to the heisei timeline.
- Beautiful score.
- Really good homage/rip off of Aliens with the mini Destroyers fighting swat teams.

Eye See You / D-Tox (2002)
- Pretty damn underrated Sylvester Stallone thriller with slasher elements.
- Stallone has opportunity in the first 3rd to bring in some of his better acting and emotional work like he did in Copland.
- Snowbound isolated setting is effective and foreshadows the Norwegian slasher film Cold Prey (2008) which uses the same kinda setting & imagery to even greater effect a few years later.
- Real solid cast

**trailmaster** · November 7th, 2016, 12:45 PM

This is the remake of the 1960 Hollywood version of the movie The Alamo. This 2004 movie stars Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Patrick Wilson as Lieutenant Travis and Jason Patric as Jim Bowie. While this version is more historically accurate I actually liked the hollywood version better. The actors are better ( John Wayne, Richard Widmark and Lawrence Harvey ), and there is more action, and it has a much better musical score and is 30 minutes longer.

November 5th, 2016, 06:23 PM	#8811
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,804 Thanks: 259,912 Thanked 1,139,537 Times in 113,923 Posts	The Lost Tribe (2009) aka Lost Island and Primevil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811124/ There's an intro involving an island and some odd murderous Vatican cult. A small group are on a pleasure cruise when they find a stranger hanging on to wreckage, they rescue the guy but before long he is instrumental in their ship running aground on rocks. Stranded on the island they must face a strange primitive tribe and a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEtfrgBuF8U __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

November 5th, 2016, 07:42 PM	#8812
mungy Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 3,400 Thanks: 8,933 Thanked 64,097 Times in 3,422 Posts	Schindlers List http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/ __________________ My links expire with 1 months inactivity. If they are down PM me and I will re-upload.

November 6th, 2016, 01:25 PM	#8816
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,804 Thanks: 259,912 Thanked 1,139,537 Times in 113,923 Posts	Grave Encounters (2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/ One of the better found footage movies about a paranormal investigation team who lock themselves up overnight in an abandoned asylum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8FBRATbJoA SPOILERS !!!! __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

November 6th, 2016, 03:11 PM	#8817
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,804 Thanks: 259,912 Thanked 1,139,537 Times in 113,923 Posts	Godzilla 1985 (1984) aka The Return of Godzilla http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087344/ A reboot of the original with a new super-charged Godzilla heading towards Japan. Good old fashioned city stomping by men in rubber monster suits. __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

November 5th, 2016, 07:47 PM	#8813
Sir Honkers Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Land Of Glorious Leader Posts: 30,367 Thanks: 287,009 Thanked 386,382 Times in 30,321 Posts	Cabin In The Woods. All I'll say is I'm glad no one ever gave the plot away. Brilliant!

November 5th, 2016, 08:50 PM	#8814
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,905 Thanks: 1,329,115 Thanked 707,314 Times in 60,079 Posts	Today's three hour movie was the 1961 production of El Cid starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren and others. This is a sprawling epic of a picture filmed entirely in Spain using all spanish people as extras. Charlton Heston plays a Castillian knight in 11th century Spain called Don Rodrigo. He was just about to be married to Dona played by Sophia Loren when he hears that the North African Moors intend to attack all the cities of Spain and conquer them. His king enlists him to aid in the cause, but the trouble is that all of the cities in Spain all have their own kings and they are always making wars on each other. Heston over time convinces them to stop their bickering and concentrate on their common enemy, the African Moors. He then is given the title El Cid which means The Lord. This movie is fantastic. There were 30,000 extras in the film all with their own costumes that had to be sewed by hand by hundreds of spanish seamstresses. The score of the movie was composed by the great Miklos Rozsa who also wrote scores for films like Ben-Hur, King of Kings and dozens of other great films. The defeat of the Moors eventually led to the unification of Spain as history tells us. The Spanish consider El Cid to be in the same high regard that Americans feel of George Washington.

November 6th, 2016, 01:17 PM	#8815
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,905 Thanks: 1,329,115 Thanked 707,314 Times in 60,079 Posts	Battleship is a 2012 science fiction film. It stars Taylor Kitch who I don't know that much and Liam Neeson as the Navy commander. In 2005 a scientific group similar to S.E.T.I. sends out a tremendous radio signal to a planet they detected that is similar to Earth. 7 years later the aliens respond, but not the way we expected. They sent an expeditionary force intending to see if our planet could be conquered by them. The aliens look humanoid, but their faces are slightly apelike and they are extremely sensitive to our Sun's light, and their technology is several hundred years ahead of ours. There is a good amount of action and the ending is good.

November 6th, 2016, 07:23 PM	#8818
Brecht Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 10,657 Thanks: 180,485 Thanked 188,138 Times in 10,453 Posts	Narc (2002) Narc lacks the depth and mystery of an intelligent crime thriller but it's a decent film nonetheless. The plot is alright and so is the acting. Ray Liotta was finally given another opportunity to unfold his strengths as a talented performer. Undercover narc Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chases the drug dealer Dowd through the streets of Detroit after his cover was blown. Dowd holds a child hostage but is shot by Tellis before he can hurt the child. However a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to lose the baby. Tellis is fired and under investigation. Eighteen months later, he is asked by the Detroit Police Department to investigate the murder of a fellow undercover narc called Michael Calvess (Alan Van Sprang). As he's out of job and options, Tellis reluctantly agrees to pursue the matter but insists that Det. Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) be assigned to the case as his partner since he started the investigation in the first place. Oak is praised by his superiors as a great detective with a high conviction rate but also as a problematic and mentally unstable person, especially since the death of his close friend Calvess, but Tellis wants him as a partner despite all warnings. Naturally the investigation doesn't exactly thrive as they keep facing a myriad of difficulties such as informants ending up dead which results in more questions than answers. In addition, Tellis is facing domestic problems because his wife is very unhappy about him being back on the street due to the bitter aftertaste left behind his previous assignment...

November 7th, 2016, 01:31 AM	#8819
movieman88 Vintage Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 7,366 Thanks: 8,195 Thanked 98,169 Times in 7,361 Posts	Halloween (1978) Halloween 2 (1981) - The 2 are basically one long film, they accomplish making it feel like the same night almost perfectly, no drop in quality at all. - It's mind blowing to me that Rick Rosenthal directed both 2 & Resurrection because they are farther apart in quality then they are in years apart. I get he was probably going for the feel of Scream & H20 in Resurrection but the direction in R doesn't have ANYTHING in common with 2. - Carpenter apparently directed a few specific scenes but nothing stands out as having felt different or better than the rest of the film. - Change in score is interesting, younger me liked 2's theme more, current me likes the original better but both are good. - Hospital set is comfy & very moody at the same time. - Imagery of Myers on unwatched security cams is unnerving and cool. Shock Waves (1977) - Scenes of the Zombie soldiers waking up/walking along the sea bed in full uniform is chilling & awesome. - Brooke Adams is good here although not as fleshed out or lively as she was in the following years Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Godzilla vs Destroyah (1995) - Fantastic resolution to the heisei timeline. - Beautiful score. - Really good homage/rip off of Aliens with the mini Destroyers fighting swat teams. Eye See You / D-Tox (2002) - Pretty damn underrated Sylvester Stallone thriller with slasher elements. - Stallone has opportunity in the first 3rd to bring in some of his better acting and emotional work like he did in Copland. - Snowbound isolated setting is effective and foreshadows the Norwegian slasher film Cold Prey (2008) which uses the same kinda setting & imagery to even greater effect a few years later. - Real solid cast

November 7th, 2016, 12:45 PM	#8820
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,905 Thanks: 1,329,115 Thanked 707,314 Times in 60,079 Posts	This is the remake of the 1960 Hollywood version of the movie The Alamo. This 2004 movie stars Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Patrick Wilson as Lieutenant Travis and Jason Patric as Jim Bowie. While this version is more historically accurate I actually liked the hollywood version better. The actors are better ( John Wayne, Richard Widmark and Lawrence Harvey ), and there is more action, and it has a much better musical score and is 30 minutes longer.