What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Martin]

Banlieue 13 : Ultimatum

Not bad, but far from the greatness of the first. Points deducted for not keeping that guy's sister who was also a porntar in real life...

[Captain Russ]

Listening to a handful of the tracks from its score made me curious to revisit a black comedy/horror gem: Ravenous.



I still really like it.

Boasting a great cast (and especially good performances from Jeffrey Jones and Robert Carlyle), disturbing subject matter handled in bizarre yet entertainingly effective ways, and a score to match, it is an odd beast of a film that I'm sure most here would scoff at or worse, downright detest. I can't help but be held at attention by it.

[Abraham Smashington]

fucking love that flick.

[Martin]

Love Ravenous. Caught me offguard the first time I saw it. That score was so wicked. I'll always remember that theme. Add the great performances. and the great setting, and you have a classic. OF CANNIBALISM!

Rewatched another favorite:

Frailty

Delivers so fucking much. The Paxton FTW!

And don't FUCK with Otis.

[Captain Russ]

Fun fact: it was written by the creator of Terriers.

[BillyG]

Haven't seen Ravenous in years. It on Instant?

Frailty is amazing. Saw it in a tiny audience of about 15 people, and after the credits rolled everyone kind of shuffled out, stood in the lobby of the theater and we all shared a "what in the FUCK was that?!" moment.

[Captain Russ]

Nah, it was in my dvd libarry.

[Anderson]

Listening to a handful of the tracks from its score made me curious to revisit a black comedy/horror gem: Ravenous.



I still really like it.

Boasting a great cast (and especially good performances from Jeffrey Jones and Robert Carlyle), disturbing subject matter handled in bizarre yet entertainingly effective ways, and a score to match, it is an odd beast of a film that I'm sure most here would scoff at or worse, downright detest. I can't help but be held at attention by it.

When I first started writing about movies, Ravenous and Office Space were the first two films that I really got behind.

Ravenous was the only wide-release studio film to make less than $1 million dollars on opening weekend in 1999.

[Ben Thomas]

Yeah, I've got Ravenous on my "select" shelf (there is no room for all my DVDs to be out at once, so I circulate about 100 at a time that I want to re-watch or I want guests to pick up so I can convince them what is in their hands is great). And that score is fucking incredible.

Really good film, with a wickedly comedic performance from Robert Carlyle.

[Abraham Smashington]

Now I want to see your "Select" shelf.

[V]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[Captain Russ]

Ravenous was the only wide-release studio film to make less than $1 million dollars on opening weekend in 1999.

I imagine marketing a movie involving cannibalism would be pretty tough.

[V]

If I recall the promos correctly, they were not pushing it as a comedy type film... but more horror.

[Ben Thomas]

Which they should. I thought it was a horror film and I was so surprised by the film. Its a much harder sell as a black comedy.

[Ben Thomas]

Now I want to see your "Select" shelf.

Well, its many small shelves, but the one with Ravenous on goes like this, at the moment:

Once
Ravenous
Raising Arizona
Zodiac: Director's Cut
The General (Brendan Gleeson, not Buster Keaton)
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Departed
Jackass: Number Two
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Audition
The Secret in Their Eyes
Tell No One
Carlos the Jackal
Time Bandits