A drama by Gregg Araki.2 boys are sexually abused by their baseball coach at a young age. As they are growing up, they lead opposite lives. When they are young men in college, they meet and one tells the other what really happened when they were children.At first I was confused when the film switched from one boy to another, but eventually the plot developed and made sense. The style was decent and the film was well made. The characters and plot were done very well too. The subject matter isn't what I would normally watch though. For a well made film about homosexual pedophilia, I'm rating it o.k.
A horror by Augusti Villaronga.A man in an iron lung used to be a nazi child abuser. One of his former victims shows up as a nurse to care for him.The iron lung sound was the most annoying thing ever. It dominated the soundscape of this film for the 40 minutes that I watched it. Unable to bear it any longer, I turned the film off and am rating it shit.
A kung fu starring Ting Hwa Chung.A pair of fools are trained by a kung fu master and get into fights in town.This is one of the worst kung fu films ever made. It follows every stereotype including having nothing to do with drunken boxing. It may have been funny in China in the '70s, but in America now it's just lame. I'm rating it shit because I had to turn it off.
A drama by Gaspar Noe.A butcher who has lost his shop moves in with his girlfriend's family. After arriving home late and having a fight, he leaves to go to Paris alone with very little money and little chance of finding work.Most of the words spoken were a monologue by the main character. The film is French and the subtitles go by quickly, so I had to pay close attention. This butcher character is very angry at the world in general and likes to explain exactly why he's so pissed. I found it amusing that most of the French curse words were extremely short compared to the English equivalent. The camera-work was interesting because it had a lot of abrupt changes. I'm rating this adequate.
A kung fu by Joseph Kuo Nan-Hong.A pair of young men who are caught stealing grapes learn "the 18 falls of the drunken immortals" from their master. After a fight in which their master dies, they are separated for 30 years. Both men then arrive at a meeting location indicated by their mutual romantic interest whom they believed to be dead.The plot was obviously terrible and the characters unidentifiable. There was a lot of kung fu, but fighting for no reason doesn't make a good film. I have to rate this crap because that's what it is.
A science fiction horror directed by Stuart Gordon.A group of tourists crash their boat on some rocks near a town in Spain. When they go for help, they discover that the inhabitants of the town are mutant human/fish monsters.I really regret watching this. Every film element was cheesy except for the special effects. People had tentacle limbs that looked real and there was convincing looking dismemberment. Otherwise it sucked. I'm rating it bad.
A horror directed by Umberto Lenzi.In New York City, a pair of gangsters are looking for a missing man who ran away with their money. They hound his tour guide girlfriend while the police tail her. Meanwhile in the Amazon rainforest, a group of Americans meet the boyfriend while they are searching for cannibals that they don't think exist. The group of 5 Americans is taken prisoner by the cannibals.Ifg you thought Cannibal Holocaust was gruesome, you should watch this grizzly film. There's the obligatory turtle dissection scene along with more animal deaths and some human mutilation. Every time that the city is shown, Rocky-esque "city music" plays with a strong brass section and a little bit of funk groove. The first time it was o.k., but the following dozen times it gets redundant. If I were to rate this on a gore factor, it would get a 10/10. As a film, I'm rating it good.
