Recently Watched Films

And starting off the James T. Kirk movies:

OK, so it's not actually a Star Trek movie, but it has Shatner in it, and there's a heap more Bond movies, so I'll run out of actual Star Trek movies well before the Bond films.

This was filmed in 1965, which is pre-Star Trek, and it was thought lost for many years. It's a black and white art house sort of film, scripted in Esperanto, which the actors learned phonetically. Experts on Esperanto were highly critical of the pronunciation. It had very limited runs, mostly in festivals and specialist cinemas, and quite possibly would have been forgotten had not William Shatner starred in it. The original master copies of the film were destroyed in a fire, and was thought lost until a copy was discovered in France. The copy had burned in French subtitles. It was remastered in the 1990s (but it's still not great quality) and had prominent English subtitles added to the version I saw.

Overall, it's quite a sexy movie without any actual sex. It's a very low budget film, but it's beautifully shot and framed, and the black and white contrast is quite stunning at times. It explores themes of good vs evil, and love vs hate, with demons, black rituals, and visitations to Hell. It's not a long movie, and it's not too hard to watch. And Shatner was a very handsome man in his younger days...

Basically Psycho all over again, just hyper-sexualised and perhaps with a nod to the Italian giallo movies of the 70s.

I really liked this one, more twisty and psychological than most slasher movies. 

My latest random horror pick off of a streaming service. Verdict: Crap. A great steaming pile of it. I lost interest shortly after the ghost showed up. Couldn't even tell you how it ended that's how much attention I had on this by the end. 

Very good Italian movie. 

OK, so like I said, there are a lot less James T. Kirk movies than James Bond ones, so in the most tenuous of links, this is a sci-fi film (like the Star Treks), except it has Sean Connery in it.

Anyway, Connery made this film after retiring as Bond, basically wanting to play an anti-Bond character. He succeeded. Zed still kills people and likes shagging pretty girls, but he's not subtle or smart. The plot is a bit fucked up, and the whole film is drowned in hippie mystical shit (this is the 1970s, so that means lots of boob shots), but once you stop trying to understand what's actually going on (I'm not sure anyone actually in the film really fully understands either), you have a visually whimsical film with the odd bit of senseless violence.

Incubus was easier to understand, but Zardoz is prettier to look at.

And finally into the real Star Trek movies.

A clever story, a welcome reboot, and... it wasn't near as successful as it was expected to be. Apparently there was a lack of action scenes. True, there's not a lot of action, but this isn't that sort of movie. It's slow moving, but visually spectacular, with the best special effects money could buy for 1979. And best of all, it sets up the franchise for a recharge, a reboot, and a reimagining.

this movie fuckin rules

Watched this one again tonight. Damn I think it´s both sweet and funny:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8580274/