Last movie you watched

[questorminator]

Helter Skelter — Sawajiri Erika plays fashion icon Lilico, an evil, manipulative bitch at the height of her popularity. There's nowhere to go from there but down.

My first thought was "wow, she'll fit the role".

That aside, I kinda miss her nowadays. I probably won't be her fan like I used to, but I do want to see some activity from her.

The movie This is the End was pulled from the lineup from local cinema though. Still not clear, but poor reception might be the case. The sad fact is, films like this rarely get good box-office returns in my country partly because most people do not get the humor.

[Mirai]

^ Sweet! Do you know where I can buy the insignia, or did you have to make them yourself?

I made mine myself, as this was a few years ago. There might be a premade one by now

[rikkikow]

I watched JOHN RABE (2009) last night.
John Rabe, was a German businessman living in Nanking, China, who in 1937 used his Nazi party affiliation to save some 200,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter at the hands of the Japanese army. Brutal occupation of Nanking, China in WWII by Japan. I couldn’t finish watching it. I skipped to the end when a girl was probably about to be …

[erilaz]

The Housemaid (하녀/下女) — An excellent South Korean melodrama from 1960, about a music teacher whose life is destroyed by a manipulative housemaid.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/522066?playlist_id=1750

[erilaz]

The World's End — More hilarity from the folks who brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Five friends reunite after more than twenty years to have another try at a legendary pub crawl called the Golden Mile. But the residents of their old hometown have changed....

[erilaz]

Elevator Trap (悪夢のエレベーター) (2009) — A man wakes up, trapped in an elevator with a weird guy in a track suit, a slimy-looking crook, and a goth girl. Eventually, the four of them start to reveal their secrets. But what's really going on here?

It's a fun movie, with some crazy twists and turns.

[rikkikow]

Elevator Trap (悪夢のエレベーター) (2009) — A man wakes up, trapped in an elevator with a weird guy in a track suit, a slimy-looking crook, and a goth girl. Eventually, the four of them start to reveal their secrets. But what's really going on here?

It's a fun movie, with some crazy twists and turns.

I will watch it. It's Japanese?
This reminds me of another elevator movie (a subtitled French movie from 1957 in black and white - very Alfred Hitchcocky)
Elevator to the Gallows
1957 NR 92 minutes
A couple's plot to kill an unsuspecting husband didn't count on a technical glitch a broken elevator getting in the way of a perfect murder.

[erilaz]

I will watch it. It's Japanese?

Yep. Both Netflix and Amazon have it streaming.

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Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) — Luc Besson's live-action adaptation of Jacques Tardi's comic. Adèle is sort of like a French female Indiana Jones, but the story is set a quarter-century before Raiders. The costumes, make-up, and sets are wonderful. It's a rather silly movie, but quite enjoyable, and definitely better than Spielberg's Tintin.

Sextette (1978) — 85-year-old Mae West plays movie star Marlo Manners, who has just married her sixth husband, a British lord played by Timothy Dalton (in his early 30s at the time). The cast is mind-blowing. Dom DeLuise plays Marlo's assistant, Tony Curtis is one of her ex-husbands, a Russian diplomat, Ringo Starr is another ex-husband, a Hungarian film director, and George Hamilton is her most recent ex-husband, a gangster. The Who's Keith Moon plays a dress designer, Alice Cooper a piano-playing waiter, and Ian Abercrombie (Seinfeld's Mr. Pitt) a BBC announcer. George Raft, Rona Barrett, and Regis Philbin play themselves. Mae West's final film is a musical train wreck that has to be seen to be believed.

[Moh]

Cujo. It was terrifying. If I watch it again (doubtful), it'll be in the daytime.

[erilaz]

Tonight on the local PBS station:

Wait Until Dark (1967) — Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who has to deal with crooks who have come to her apartment in search of a doll filled with heroin.

Strangers on a Train (1951) — Classic Hitchcock crime thriller.