What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Captain Russ]

Riddick.

I enjoyed it for the most part, though moments that really should have been intense or pulse pounding were lost due to the sound mix (I have a feeling that had more to do with the theatre and less with the actual film...I hope).

Sackhoff nipples, going halfsies on a decapitation, Johnny Tapia getting his ass beat, Rick's zebrahyenadog, and the nighttime hoverbikin' (basically batmobile turbines mixed with Dredd's Lawmaster) were all pretty cool bits in what was a return to more focused storytelling and a fine restart to those sorts of adventures for the Furyan with the nitelite eyes.

The slow burn of Riddick navigating the shithole planet was actually my favorite part.

[IggytheBorg]

Is this supposed to be a sequel to Chronicles, or a remake of Pitch Black?

[Captain Russ]

It's got ties to both but is more in the vein of the OG.

[Ben Thomas]

Heard some venomous, misogynistic things about Riddick and nothing so far that makes it worth seeing in the cinema so, fuck it.

[B_Metal]

NO BEN, FUCK YOU!!!!*



*not really but jeeze man, it's Riddick, he's killing shit. What more do you need?

[Captain Russ]

The "balls deep" line was crossed.

But then I didn't expect likeable characters.

[Captain Russ]

My final words on the subject:

It's totally a small-screen venture and it shows in spots, but I enjoyed the big screen moments that shone through (most of the spots I had previously listed as pluses).

The "venomous misogyny" is completely in character in context. Whoever is crying about it can eat the loosest of stools.

[gravedigger]

Could you say Sackoff went StarBUCK naked? OLOLOLOL, good one, grave.

[Captain Russ]

I could. But I have to look at myself in the morning.

BOOM

(But nah, it's mostly a side view affair to be lewdly candid.)

[B_Metal]

I would look at all of Sackoff's views be they side, top, bottom, or whatevs. Even my wife wants to bone her.

[Ben Thomas]

Upstream Colour

I'm not really sure what I just watched, but it was hypnotic and quite brilliant at times. Languid and occasionally frustrating, but operating on a different stylistic and intellectual level to almost anything else out there. You know, like Primer.

Still, at least one walkout in the first half hour and a fair few confused laughs when the end credits came around. The girl next to me said to me as she left with her family, 'I feel sorry for you that you've got no-one to discuss it with'. Er, cheers love.

[Captain Russ]

I loved it, pig worms and all.

Not to sound like a man who loves the smell of his own farts (they are pretty great) but how Carruth weaves a voyeuristic, diagetic nightmare into the visual element

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with the farmer's recordings and how it is involved in the cycle of the parasite

might have been my favorite moment in a film this year. Unlike any other filmmaker, he engineers the sound to be just as vital a part of the body of a film as any other aspect.

As challenging as it is, it felt just as singular a vision as his first feature. It may not reveal itself in the plot mechanics, it certainly does in the attention to other aspects of the storytelling.

[gravedigger]

Carruth's films make me feel like a real dum-dum but I like them a lot.

[Captain Russ]

Open your third eye*, man.

*Not the butthole.

[BillyG]

Open your third eye*, man.

*Not the butthole.

Maybe the butthole.