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Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

Le Pacte de Loups! That was a weird one, but the right kind of weird.

You all are making me remember "Blood of Heroes". Fantastic post-apocalyptic sports action movie. Rutger Hauer.

Nimcosi wrote:

Not to poke the dead horse, but "I am disappoint" that the 4k home release of Tenet did not include an Atmos track (or even a DTS-X one). Kinda makes me wonder if Nolan is being a little more petty than I thought (re: theater/home viewing). I should say the DTS-HD track is glorious, but can be overpowering to the point of missing dialogue. Which, to be honest, is a trademark of Nolan's films.

Bane wrote:

Ah, yes, I was wondering what would break first. Your spirit, or your body hearing?

After the criticism I assume I’ll watch it with subtitles.

Hobear wrote:

Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

That movie was awesome, so much so that that sometimes got in the way of it being good. I know Bloodborne kinda reminded me of it, but I didn't know it was a direct inspiration. Now I'm more interested in the video game. That one's still PS4-only, right?

Vargen wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

That movie was awesome, so much so that that sometimes got in the way of it being good. I know Bloodborne kinda reminded me of it, but I didn't know it was a direct inspiration. Now I'm more interested in the video game. That one's still PS4-only, right?

Yes, ps4/5, once you play through and dive into lore videos the movie has several tie backs. Also see Lovecraft.

Tenet is overrated. Yeah, I said it. Badly edited, awful sound design, paper-thin characters.
The last movie I really enjoyed from him was Inception.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Possessor Uncut

This was written/directed by Cronenberg's son, so the weirdness doesn't fall far off from the tree.
I liked it.

Spoiler:

The assassin had to kill the daughter. It was part of the job. Father and daughter had to be dead, so the stepson could inherit everything. I don't think we ever see the stepson. By the way, the father didn't die, but was in critical condition. Sean Bean said "enough is enough!"

As for knowing that the possessed would go the possessor's house, that's pretty logical. The possessor's company knew something was wrong and that the possessor and possessed were fighting for control of the possessed's body and this implies having access to each other's mind and memories. It's reasonable to infer that the possessed regain control of his body, while having accessed the possessor's memories, including her family's location.
As for possessing the possessor's kid, I guess he's more non-threatening, which gives an additional element of surprise? This one's debatable.
Did you notice at end when the possessor talked about the butterfly? Earlier, she said she felt guilty about it, but at the end, nothing. She finally became what her boss wanted.

Phew, the word "possess" go a lot of usage on this reply.

Robear wrote:

You all are making me remember "Blood of Heroes". Fantastic post-apocalyptic sports action movie. Rutger Hauer. :-)

I never saw that one, but I did catch a commercial for it when I taped a Godzilla marathon off channel 66 decades ago. I always wanted to see it, but local video rental places didn't carry it.

I ordered the Criterion box set of the Lone Wolf and Cub series as a birthday treat. I watched sword of vengeance tonight and it remains a strange mix of samurai film, exploitation cinema and splatter but I really enjoyed it. Onward to the river Styx!

My buddies had a band in college called Lone Wolf and Cub, made an album, Wonder is ground on frost? Highly recommend a listen. Instrumental rock. Well done, only related by name.

Oh, and Vincent D'Onofrio. Forgot about him.

Hobear wrote:
Vargen wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

That movie was awesome, so much so that that sometimes got in the way of it being good. I know Bloodborne kinda reminded me of it, but I didn't know it was a direct inspiration. Now I'm more interested in the video game. That one's still PS4-only, right?

Yes, ps4/5, once you play through and dive into lore videos the movie has several tie backs. Also see Lovecraft.

I might pick up a PS4 to catch up on the platform exclusives, and if I do Bloodborne will be near the top of the list. Then again I still have a pile of games for the PS3 that I bought for the same reason...

slazev wrote:

Tenet is overrated. Yeah, I said it. Badly edited, awful sound design, paper-thin characters.
The last movie I really enjoyed from him was Inception.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Possessor Uncut

This was written/directed by Cronenberg's son, so the weirdness doesn't fall far off from the tree.
I liked it.

Spoiler:

The assassin had to kill the daughter. It was part of the job. Father and daughter had to be dead, so the stepson could inherit everything. I don't think we ever see the stepson. By the way, the father didn't die, but was in critical condition. Sean Bean said "enough is enough!"

As for knowing that the possessed would go the possessor's house, that's pretty logical. The possessor's company knew something was wrong and that the possessor and possessed were fighting for control of the possessed's body and this implies having access to each other's mind and memories. It's reasonable to infer that the possessed regain control of his body, while having accessed the possessor's memories, including her family's location.
As for possessing the possessor's kid, I guess he's more non-threatening, which gives an additional element of surprise? This one's debatable.
Did you notice at end when the possessor talked about the butterfly? Earlier, she said she felt guilty about it, but at the end, nothing. She finally became what her boss wanted.

Phew, the word "possess" go a lot of usage on this reply.

I completely missed the reason for the hit. I thought it was never stated. That clears things up.

Yeah, it's stated during the mission briefing.

Watched Capone and really liked it. I didn't know anything about this movie before watching it. I thought it was going to be a gangster movie. This was instead a movie about a guy slowly declining mental faculties. The entire movie takes place after he was released from prison. The feds are still up his butt. Everyone wants the money he is hiding. His kids wants love. Capone can barely talk and spends a good amount of time crapping his pants.

Hobear wrote:

Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

I just rewatched this two weeks ago. I was amused to discover that Mani, the Native American ninja, was played by "The Chairman" from Iron Chef America.

I believe he’s done a bunch of martial arts roles. He’s fun to watch.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Unrelated but I watched an early 2000 french movie called Brotherhood of the Wolf as it helped inspire Bloodborne elements. If you love Bloodborne and want to put up with a french suspense political drama that eventually turns to action and has a penchant for native american stereotypes, boy do I have a movie for you.

I just rewatched this two weeks ago. I was amused to discover that Mani, the Native American ninja, was played by "The Chairman" from Iron Chef America.

Holy cow how did I not notice that. Even the podcast that led me to it didn't note it. I was trying to place him.

Mark Dacascos. Most recently of John Wick 3 fame, I will always remember him as lead in the capoeira movie Only the Strong. Not a good movie, but a fun one.

Didn't he also do a movie about being an assassin that always cried whenever he killed someone? I don't remember it being any good.

Grenn wrote:

Mark Dacascos. Most recently of John Wick 3 fame, I will always remember him as lead in the capoeira movie Only the Strong. Not a good movie, but a fun one.

He spent quite a while in Agents of Shield too if I remember correctly.

slazev wrote:

Tenet is overrated. Yeah, I said it. Badly edited, awful sound design, paper-thin characters.

[always was moon meme about Nolan's films]

I don't know how Tenet can possibly overrated when the general consensus is that it's underwhelming. Where are all these diehard Tenet stans hiding that I'm not seeing them?

Alternatively, it's underwhelming and yet even then still over-rated.

Grenn wrote:

Mark Dacascos. Most recently of John Wick 3 fame, I will always remember him as lead in the capoeira movie Only the Strong. Not a good movie, but a fun one.

Ba Na Na Way....Ba Na Na Way

Been watching several of these films by a guy name Justin Benson. He writes/directs these slow burn strange sci-fi/horror films. Probably best known for The Endless (Netflix/Hoopla) about two brothers who re-visit a cult they used to belong to and some crazy stuff starts happening.

In any case recently watched his movie Spring (Shudder/Hulu) about a young guy who visits Italy and falls for this girl that isn't what she appears to be. Like this directors other films it starts off normal enough, basically a bit of an indie romance film, but eventually some odd things start happening and runs from there. Really enjoy it. Well made and wanted to find out what was going on as I was watching it. Only quip I have is it has one of those endings that just stops when it needed another 5-10 seconds.

That got me interested in watching his other films. So watched Synchronic (Hoopla) , which I liked even more. About two paramedics in New Orleans who keep getting called to these emergencies that have bizarre injuries/deaths caused by this new drug that's going around. This one moves a lot faster into the sci-fi elements than Spring and The Endless but is equally as compelling as you want to find out what's going on. And thankfully this has a main character that also wants to find out what's going on and is smart about doing that. Very refreshing.

He has one more film I have queued up to see, Resolution (Prime/Hoopla) So looking forward to that. But wanted to mention this guy if your looking for some well made, but slow burning, Twilight Zonish type films.

Sounds interesting. Strange that his movies are scattered across so many different streaming services.

Benson and Moorhead are an outstanding filmmaking team. Resolution was their first release, and it was made for next to nothing. They were kind of finding their footing in that movie, and they reworked it extensively in preproduction, but the result is definitely worth watching. It’s in the same universe as The Endless.

I can’t stop watching their movies repeatedly not just for the writing and camera work, but to try to figure out how they make such wonderful films on such small budgets.

Benson and Moorhead, along with Mike Flanagan, are responsible for some of the most unique non traditional horror of the last decade.

Hi Crawley!I too am a big fan of Benson and Moorhead. I adore resolution and the endless and whilst spring has its issues for me it was still more interesting than most films. I haven’t got to synchronic yet. If you enjoy them you might like a film called After Midnight another slightly off kilter Sci Fi horror or coherence from a few years ago If you never got round to it.

Edit to correct to name of director as opposed to u.k cigarette brand. I dont even smoke, note to self never post pre morning coffee.