Recently Watched Films

Have you seen My Name is Nobody? That's another comedy western with Terrence Hill (and Henry Fonda). My Dad and I found it on YouTube a while back (it's a hard film to get in the UK normally) and we were thoroughly entertained. 

I've been meaning to watch this one soon.

What a waste of time that was. Takes an hour for anything meaningful to the advertised plot to actually happen and it's barely a 90 minute movie. Then it tries to make up for it with excessive gore that makes upon conclusion the bear attack scene in The Revenant look like Hugh Glass just had a tussle with Winnie the Pooh, but by that time the movie's dragged you along for so long that you'll probably end up rooting for the bear. The remainder of the movie proceeds along a plodding chase scene. The movie is loosely based on a true story except it kills the man off instead of the woman, because a horror movie's got to have it's final girl even when it's a dirty great black bear instead of Michael Myers knocking people off and it just proves that not every horrifying true event needs a movie based on it. Not only one of the worst but also most pointless movies I've seen in ages. 

Not a bad De Palma movie but it doesn't feel worthwhile until the second half. 

Starting to wonder of there even are any really good De Palma's post-Carlito's Way, or whether that's his last great movie. 

And a couple of re-watchs:

Another J-Horror rapid re-watch which was inspired by how much Pulse floored me even after not waiting very long between viewings. Unfortunately lightening didn't strike twice, but this is still a great movie. I will probably revisit the English language one again as well soon to see how they hold up against each other. I've had the other movie for years otherwise I probably wouldn't bother to watch it, like I have no plans to watch the re-makes of Pulse or Dark Water.

Great 1949 film noir. The truck crash scene is very well done for its time.