Risselada

Member since 9/21/2006, last signed in awhile ago.

"Home Alone is like a kid's version of Straw Dogs without the rape."

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Interested in everything about film. I'd like to sample every different kind of film possible, and every different kind of art for that matter, just to see what's out there.

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The Legend of Bigfoot

The Legend of Bigfoot
By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"The Legend of Bigfoot The last of the four Bigfoot movies we watched. This one is supposed to be a documentary. It clearly was made to cash in on some kind of Bigfoot craze. It's quite boring. Lots of narration and a whole bunch of nothing happening. I don't care enough to say much more about it. Rating: 2/10 " [More]

I Am Sam

Search for the Beast
By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"Search for the Beast I, like my friend joem18b, agree that people way too often use the hyperbolic description of a movie they hate as "the worst movie ever". You will not hear me use this phrase unless I really mean it. For a long time I claimed the my least favorite movie ever was I Am Sam. Now, I haven't seen it in a while, nor would I want to, but I think I have finally found a movie that is so horrible in every single aspect of filmmaking that it surpasses even my disdain for the despicable, manipulative, false sentimentality of that film. Yes, Search for the Beast, the third of the Bigfoot themed films available on the four movie DVD Bigfoot Terror. I'm sure if I were able to go through the VHS collections of enough Americans I would be able to find some shitty movies that people made in their backyard in the 90s with no budget, and a lot of these would be worse than this film. The only difference is that somehow this movie was able to get video distribution through a dec ... " [More]

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

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By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"I have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by QFLW. The Draughtsman's Contract I've appreciated QFLW's comments here and there around the groups. She seems to have a similar taste in film as me and an enthusiasm to always check out new stuff. She gave me several recommendations, several from some of my favorite directors. But I decided on The Draughtsman's Contract because I wanted to see another Peter Greenaway movie, but wasn't sure which one to select. The other two of his movies I've seen were A Zed & Two Noughts and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover with the former being my favorite. After seeing three of his films I'm going to make an assumption that he has a pretty distinct style that would be found in all of his films. If you enjoyed one, you'll probably enjoy most of the others. His films usually seem very clean and structured, which contrasts wi ... " [More]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"This is the sixth feature length film I've seen by director Sergio Leone. I chose to watch this film based on previous good ratings I've given other films by this director and to better my favorite directors by algorithm listing. Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker) (A Fistful of Dynamite) Sergio Leone is the author of my very favorite film, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The similarly styled and A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, both starring Clint Eastwood as essentially the same character were highly enjoyable lead ups. You could see Leone's style developing and improving along the same path. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was the perfect climax of that style. You could say every single one of his films took place at an era in history bit later than his previous one. His next film Once Upon a Time in the West is also fantastic and shares a lot in style with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but there is a definite change in direction as well. I guess he ... " [More]

Watchmen

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By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"I have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by Tenenbaums. Breaking Away Tenenbaums has been a pretty active blogger on this site as well, so I was glad to get a recommendation from him. Breaking Away was not a film I had not really heard of before. Maybe I briefly noticed it once amongst a filmography list of director Peter Yates, but I did not realize at all that it featured Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern in such young roles. Honestly, I didn't recognize either of the actors when they first showed up on screen. Stern looks like the perfect dork. I like that they cast such goofy looking kids instead of just trying to find the attractive ones (well apart from Quaid). Jackie Earle Haley is one of the strangest looking guys around. Check him out as an adult as a brilliant piece of casting in Watchmen. Unfortunately I found the dialogue really horrible, and the plot and pac ... " [More]

Shriek of the Mutilated

Shriek of the Mutilated
By Risselada in Risselada Blog
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"Shriek of the Mutilated The second film on the quadruple feature DVD set Bigfoot Terror that my girlfriend and I watched from Netflix. This is probably the most well known of the films in this seat. It's the one that's poster dons the cover. And a clip of this film we saw on youtube was one that had terrified us and we watched over and over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zn3oW 5wocA This was actually my favorite of the films, although it might actually be the one that fits the least on this set. It gets really strange at the end. And one of the most exciting parts was actually a strange violent scene near the beginning before we even encounter any Bigfoot type monsters. Rating: 3/10 " [More]

Game

Re:Film Content
By Risselada in Spout Customer Care
"[quote user="sictransitsuzy"] Gamer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10 34032/ [/quote] It's already on spout, although for some reason it's listed as "Game" instead of "Gamer". Check out the link: Game's detail page " [More]

Re:Halloween viewing... NOTLD
By Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
"[quote user="Dr_Gor"] Every Halloween I make it a point to watch at least a couple good horror films. This year, with the popularity of Paranormal Activity following on the heels of Blair Witch , I decided to go "old-school" with the original ultra-low-budget blockbuster that started them all. Night of the Living Dead (1968) was THE drive-in hit movie of it's day that set the standards for horror movies - and ZOMBIE movies - for years to come. I first saw this at the drive-in during it's initial release (my Dad took me) and I have seen it about 100 times since then. I have no less than 6 (!) DIFFERENT copies of this movie in my collection including TWO different colorized versions and the infamous "30th Anniversary Edition" that includes newly filmed added scenes. This year I watched the original version. What a great movie. I have memorized every scene and every line of dialogue and it never gets old! I followed this up with the 1990 remake directed by T ... " [More]

Re:True Horror
By Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
"[quote user="Dr_Gor"] Just in time for Halloween... It has been several years since I've had anything truly unexplainable or blatantly paranormal happen to me, but just last week something happened that I have absolutely no explanation for. I am still kind of reeling from this and trying to figure it out. Word for word this is all true EXACTLY as it happened... Last Wednesday morning I woke up feeling like I was getting sick... you know the feeling, the burning sensation in the back of your sinuses and throat that tell you that a cold or the flu is coming on... I went to work and as the day progressed I found I was getting sicker by the minute. By 10:00 am I was too sick too go on so I left work and by the time I got home I was REALLY sick. I don't know if it was H1N1 or just a REALLY bad cold but I was in bad shape. The next day, Thursday, I was basically too sick to get out of bed except to go to the bathroom and get some water. At times I thought I was g ... " [More]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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"My favorite film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly always gives me huge goosebumps at the very end. Tuco yelling, "Hey, Blondie! You know what you are?! Just a dirty son of a --" and then the famous wa-ah-ah-ah-aaaaah sound burst forth to drown out his last word. I love it! Robert Bresson's movies always have great last images, but great last lines too I'd say. From Diary of a Country Priest - "All is grace" Pickpocket - "Oh, Jeanne, what a strange way I had to take to meet you" Last lines of Badlands after Kit the mass murderer is being brought in by the cops: KITSir... Where'd you get that hat?TROOPERState.KITBoy, I'd like to buy me one of those. TROOPERYou're quite an individual, Kit.KITThink they'll take that into consideration? Dr. Strangelove - "Mein Führer! I can walk!" Stroszek - "We have a 10-80 out here, a truck on fire, we have a man on the lift. We are unable to find the switch to turn the lift off, can't stop the dancing chickens. Send an electrician, we're ... " [More]

Logan's Run

Re:The Gorehouse
By Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
"[quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="Risselada"] Ooooh Jenny Agutter. She's hot in Logan's Run. I'll have to see that. I wonder how the wolf transformation will be in the new Wolfman movie. I heard they were gonna do it all with make up but then gave in and used CG. [/quote] If you would like to see a young Jenny Agutter nude and you are into Italian westerns (which I know you are), then you must check out Amore, piombo e furore (1978) . (aka "China 9, Liberty 37" ... this enigmatic title is taken from a signpost at the beginning of the movie) . This Italian/Spanish production is about a love triangle in the old west involving Agutter, Warren Oates and the aptly named Fabio Testi... And with a brief appearance by none other than Sam Peckinpah as a "dime-novelist"! < GOR > [/quote] And it's directed by Monte Hellman I see. Thanks Gor! This is on my list to see for sure! " [More]

Logan's Run