I read quite a bit about this movie before actually seeing it. I was expecting some incredibly depraved, unholy sickness, just flowing over me and making me wonder why I wasn't turning the film off.
Eh.
That sure didn't happen. There's some unhappy stuff, but nothing shocking to me. It's not disturbing.
There is gore. I like that. I don't like that it's CGI. That about ruined it.
Then there's the story. Whatever. I didn't find it all that interesting, to be honest. WOOHOO SADOMASOCHISM. Yeah, ok. They got the point across fairly early on, and then the movie last another two hours. Really, this film kinda dragged near the end.
At least(MINOR SPOILER ALERT AHEAD) we got to see a little kid die. And in the end, that's what... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Takashi Miike DVD Release Date: Released the 18 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In the hands of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a serial-killer movie is not merely a serial-killer movie. Cure doesn't so much scream and shout as drive the audience slowly crazy--much like Kurosawa's subsequent creepfests, Seance and Pulse (a.k.a. Kairo). Koji Yakusho, the happy-foot husband in Shall We Dance, plays a weary detective on a baffling murder case, which paradoxically becomes even more puzzling as the solution begins to emerge. Kurosawa's use of empty spaces, and his uncanny command of the soundtrack (the eerie collection of hums and drones would win David Lynch's approval) makes for a shivery experience... though not one interested in resolving itself in a conventional manner. And why should it? At some terrible point in this movie you realize... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Masato Hagiwara Director(s): Kiyoshi Kurosawa DVD Release Date: Released the 06 January 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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For those who enjoyed the cyborg-revenge plot of Robocop but felt it was a little light on the violence: fear not. The bloodbath that Verhoeven's film touches on, Takashi Miike's Full Metal Yakuza delivers in spades. Not surprisingly, Full Metal Yakuza is a complete hyped-up retelling of Robocop in futuristic, gangland Japan. The plot is simple. A low-rent gangster accidentally gets killed by the yakuza that are attempting to whack his boss. After a mad scientist reconstructs his body, RoboYakuza is out for revenge. What follows is an avenging tour-de-force of violence and gore that oftentimes dips into the realm of the extremely uncomfortable. Though lacking the artistic merits that made Ichi the Killer, Fudoh, and Audition, interesting... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Takashi Miike DVD Release Date: Released the 25 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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A curse hangs over Kaneto Shindo's primal Japanese classic like a looming storm cloud, but the supernatural has got nothing on the desperation and savagery of the human animal trying to survive the horrors of war. In 16th-century Japan, a hardened middle-aged woman and her young daughter-in-law have turned predator to survive, murdering the soldiers who wander into the sea of pampas grass surrounding their hut and selling their weapons for rice. When their war-deserter neighbor returns home and makes his moves on the young woman, their numb equilibrium is complicated by greed, jealousy, and lust. The consequences are terrible and not exactly surprising, but they are gripping. Shindo's unnerving close-ups, bobbing handheld camerawork, and soundtrack of pounding drums and howling flutes... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Nobuko Otowa - Jitsuko Yoshimura Director(s): Kaneto Shindô DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Elephant, the elegant and unsettling movie from Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting), depicts students at a high school before and during a harrowing, Columbine-style shooting. The movie follows one young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch, then loops back in time and follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then loops back and follows another--all captured in long, unedited tracking shots that are serene and unhurried, even when two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, arrive at the school and begin shooting. Elephant doesn't attempt to explain their behavior; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Alex Frost - Elias McConnell Director(s): Gus Van Sant DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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