Recently Watched Films

 

Recent bad watches - so bad they're just plain bad:

Often considered a So-bad-it's-good movie, but I reckon that's giving it too much credit:

And I fucking loved this! Sadly also the final on-screen roles for both Richard Briers and Honor Blackman:

I used to have Django on DVD but I got rid of it because the picture quality was shit and it didn't have the original Italian soundtrack (I read once that the English dub doesn't accurately translate the film). This version however is fully restored, looks fantastic and has the Italian audio and English subs. 

I don't recall if I saw this in English or Italian before, but I watched with the Italian audio this time. As I said earlier, I'm pretty sure when I saw this before it was the only one of the three in decent quality. Like Django it also stars Franco Nero and actually copies a small part of its plot in a homage sort of way. 

Considered as the Zapata Western (although Duck You Sucker has a claim on that status too), I definitely enjoyed this one more being able to watch it in quality. I'm pretty sure when I saw this before I was watching an upload on Daily Motion or something so not exactly legal.  I stuck with the Italian audio as with the other two films in the set, but I'm thinking maybe this one should have gone with the English: there were a few parts in the film where the soundtrack reverted to English due to Italian audio not existing. I've seen this happen in other films before in collector's editions where the English and Italian versions have different cuts but the modern blu-ray is uncut and makes do with the soundtrack. It's a little jarring, but it doesn't happen often. If I recall that this happens when I eventually want to see this again, I'll probably try it with the English audio. 

All in all an excellent little collection. 

A contender for the most mental superhero movie ever made. 

Hayao Miyazaki's return is quite possibly his strangest film but in typical Studio Ghibli style it is beautifully animated and enjoyable. If this does turn out to be his last, which we have to face reality that it might be at his age, he's at least ending on a high note. Apparently though he's still working so we never know!

Just a bit nuts...

I just read the book this was based on so seeing as there was a movie and it was on Prime I gave it a look. As usual the book was better. Too many plot alterations for my liking including absent characters swapped with characters who weren't even in the book, characters having different fates, removing most of the historic scenes from the end of WWII including most the prologue that lets up the mystery in the first place, downplaying just how sadistic one of the main villains in the book was (gender swapping him into a woman in the process) and also they not only completely changed the ending they changed the ending in a way that it no longer become a real ending and instead is left open with the suggestion that the characters will meet a bad end. 

Honestly given everything that was done to this you'd think it was an adaptation by anyone but the Icelanders themselves. 

Yep, just as bad as the title and picture suggest... It's great!

A slight deviation from the usual Liam Neeson typecasting by setting it historically during The Troubles in Ireland. Pretty solid overall. 

Textbook unnecessary legacy sequel although it was entertaining for it was and I maybe liked it a bit more than the third one of the original trilogy. Not sure this franchise ever needed to be one though. 

Surprisingly solid, if basic, western. Didn't expect much of this but it's alright. 

Demons are so much cooler than zombies. Not seen this in years. Love the soundtrack.