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post #1 of 21
7/1/04 at 11:42am
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HOLY SHITCAKES!!!!!

This movie was amazing!!!!!

I watched it last night and it just blew me away. It is so much better than Man Bites Dog (as it is really the only movie I could compare it to) and I LOVED Man Bites Dog...

One of my pet peeves is people who bash violence inthe cinema and say that it influences impressionable people to commit violent acts as well...MY answer to those people has always been -DON'T WATCH IT!!!!!

This movie hit that nail on the head...His dialogue comes across as so natural- that you actually begin to forget that he is an actor and really think that he MIGHT ACTUALLY BE this person....

The scene where the camera intentionally cuts away from the violence only to focus on him after the act is done- to have him ask the camera "Didn't you want to see what's going on? Weren't you the least bit curious about what I was doing?" was great because once you are that far into the pic- you are hooke don it and DO want to see what he is doing. Once he told the camera to look away- I was actually kind of bummed and it just proved his point...

I cannot wait to show this movie to everyone I know as it has such great points about society, violence, life in general...And is all so well done- It keeps you wondering what ihe is goingto do next...And the ending- I can appreciate it for what it tried to do...Not ground breaking- but very very cool...

Anyone out there seen it yet?

Later
Tony D
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post #2 of 21
7/1/04 at 11:47am
I have!

Oh, wait, sorry. That's how you got it, isn't it? Huh. Small world.
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post #3 of 21
7/1/04 at 11:49am
Where can i see this?
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post #4 of 21
7/1/04 at 11:54am
You're gonna have to wait for it to do an art house run, which I really hope Fango's going to do with it soon, or for the eventual DVD.
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post #5 of 21
7/1/04 at 12:16pm
Maybe I need to see this again. Or maybe I need to not be British. We passed on putting this out incidentally.

I liked some of the ideas but found Kevin Howarth to be a bit of a charisma blackhole in need of a good slap. For about 20 minutes it's a neat idea. And I think it should have stayed 20 minutes. There's no enough plot to sustain the central thesis and the central thesis is too thin to stand up to lack of plot.

That whole violence debate seems utterly dated to me. The whole looking away and wanting to see but ultimately becoming implicated in the violence by that desire to watch, was done far better -- with no drawing attention to itself -- in Reservoir Dogs, of all things and fantastically in Alejandro Amenabar's Tesis -- a text book case of how to instill self-consciousness into a picture.

The Last Horror Movie just smacked of clever-clever film school filmmaking -- everything was a commentary but what it was commentating on was just more commentary. Very much like portentous supernatural horror films come under fire for their symbolism only being symbolic of more symbols and nothing tangible -- you get what Howarth's character and Richards and his screenwriter are trying to say, but there's no context to it. So it falls flat. For me.

A shame.
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post #6 of 21
7/1/04 at 12:37pm
Yeah? Well....who asked you? Limey.

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post #7 of 21
7/1/04 at 12:49pm
Hush you, let me curmudge in peace...

Anyway, disparity is healthy. At least Tony and me agree on the finer things in life. Like Kolobos. and TCM posters. And strippers.
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post #8 of 21
7/1/04 at 3:45pm
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Here Here Strax...Strippers ARE good...Not sure about the TCM posters though.. I don't have one at my place yet...

I def have to disagree on him being a charasmatic black hole. I found myself completely engrossed in what he had to say and was anxioulsy awaiting his next philosophical speech. I thought his performance was chillingly deadpan, very matter of fact- with just a twinge of mockery thrown in...

I have to say that the violence discussion IS very old..but it is still going on - and I think it will ALWAYS go on as long as we have video games, music that goes against the norm and horror movies...

This one takes alot of the same points that others have made and I DO think that it takes them one step further... Where as Man Bites Dog was a very very very black comedy horror- This was total horror. A very menacing character that seems almost like the rest of us... and that is the scary thing...

And the plot is very repetitive as you COULD bring it down to the raw denominator of a guy documenting his killings.. But it is the fact that you want to SEE how it is going to go and HOW he is going to take you there...

And that being HIS point of the movie- Why do you choose to watch this far(as he keeps asking us)(with a great opening scene of him in a talking head shot until a quick flash of a hammer murder cut right in - only to instantly flash back to him seated asking us..."Now Do I have your attention?").. He is almost DARING us to keep watching and by us making it through the entire movie- He (it-the movie) proves it's point and we did it for it...

Cannot wait to watch it again with others that have not seen it...

later
Tony D
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post #9 of 21
7/1/04 at 5:07pm
My burning question is "Do I blind buy this or not?"




saw it over at BB
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post #10 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:26am
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I do not think that we are talking about the same movie- This one has not been released yet...

I think there is a movie out there called the Last Horror SHOW and it pretty much ate the goats ass...

But the Last Horror MOVIE is def worth the blind buy when it comes out...

Later
Tony D
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post #11 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:28am
Isn't The Last Horror Movie also the title of a picture with Joe Spinell and Caroline Munroe set during the Cannes Film Festival that was ostnesibly a follow up to Maniac ?
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post #12 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:33am
It's not a terrible movie, but methinks Tony's enthusiasm is laced with more than a little hyperbole...
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post #13 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:34am
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Yup- You are right on that-

You are just the eternal spring of movie information...

Strax- How does the Nawlins trip looking for Oct?

Later
Tony D
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post #14 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:42am
Simply put: G.R.A.N.D.

It's in the planning stages. Which is a step up from the "thinking about planning it" stages.

*Though I have to admit the full size beast from the movie Alligator that I'm breeding as a gift for the Butane's wedding is draining my cash resources in living costs -- who knew they'd eat so many old women's feet ?!! Who knew old ladies cost so much ?*
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post #15 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:52am
Like Strax, I found the movie nowhere near as provocative or relevant as it thought it was. Already covered it otherwise in a previous CHUD column: http://chud.com/news/june04/jun19underground.php3

Hey... you're going to New Orleans?
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post #16 of 21
7/2/04 at 10:54am
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Sounds good...

My girlfriend and I and her somewhat attractive blonde friend are heading down to Nawlins for the Halloween weekend (29, 30,31, and coming home on the first)

So it would be great if we could plan it so we all (us and you and Dave and possibly the Butanes if at all possible) could be there together...

We can talk about it all later on..Do not want to hijack the thread with this...

But next time you are in the country, mainly in NYC- On the corner of 8th ave and Broadway- there is a guy with a hat who can sell you women cheap..Really cheap... Or so he told me...

later
Tony D
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post #17 of 21
7/2/04 at 12:56pm
HEY HEY HEY!!!!


That is where I live




/stalk
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post #18 of 21
7/2/04 at 1:12pm
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Well...It looks like we will have a guide while we are in the Big Easy...

You up for the task Bunnymud?

And Dave, You should know that I never venture out of the corner, it's dangerous out there with all of the talk of sex and music and I hear there are roving bands of Devlins out there...

- But I still liked the movie...

Later
Tony D
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post #19 of 21
7/2/04 at 3:18pm
I'd love to, but you'd probably want to ditch me once we got to a bar due to my 5th arm. The least I could do is point out some of the finer spots that are off the beaten path. Like Holt Cemetary, where human bones can be picked up and taken if one were so inclined.

Here a few pictures I took not too long ago






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post #20 of 21
7/2/04 at 3:46pm
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OK, Bunny...You need to either take me there or send me directions on HOW to get there...

That is creepy man...Just plain creepy...

And really a fifth arm is actually an advantage for some people...

actually a third would be helpful..But fifth. Damn man.. The ladies must LOVE you...

Later
Tony D
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post #21 of 21
7/26/08 at 11:51am

Summer Scars

The director of THE LAST HORROR MOVIE has a new film on DVD called SUMMER SCARS which also stars Kevin Howarth from TLHM.

Possibly worth a look...

http://www.tlareleasing.com/details/...sn=1&id=264336
LL
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