Now I’m not confused at all: he kills himself to get out of a movie full of obnoxiously neurotic, cartoonishly narcissistic showbiz types, which is pretty much everyone else in the film, even the film critic at the bar. As for the tracking shots…

lol, that fits my memory of the movie.

I thought that Last House on the Left was awful, and I didn’t like The Hills Have Eyes, but I like all the Craven I’ve seen from the 1980s onward (except for one or two of his six Twilight Zone episodes), so I’m interested in seeing them again. I also want to rewatch The Virgin’s Spring, so maybe I’ll watch them together.

there’s a very brief shot of one of the gang members (the female one, I think) pulling her intestines out. Was this the first movie to show something like that?

The original Night of the Living Dead shows zombies fighting over intestines. I don’t know if that’s enough for you.

The Evil Dead - I thought that even this one was camp fun back in the day. I haven’t rewatched it in over 25 years, and I don’t know if I’d still take a movie who’s major set piece is a (tree on human) rape that way.

Evil Dead 2 - I liked this one the best.

Army of Darkness - Only saw once, and it was my least favorite. I thought the second one struck a better balance and was funnier.

I liked Shaun Of The Dead and not Hot Fuzz but I don’t remember either one very well.

28 Days Later - I saw this a couple years after it came out and liked it alot. I watched it again c2020 and was dissapointed, but I want to give it another go. Do you like 28 Weeks Later?
I bugs me that one drop of zombie fluid in your mucus membrane infects you, but they stand around and watch that zombie on a chain projectile vomit.

I’m not forgetting Scorpio in Dirty Harry

Rolls eyes Well don’t ever bash his performance in DS9 around here or the knives will really be out. How could you not at least bring up the cops in Last House on the Left here?

Ebert’s claim was that the people in the audience seemed to enjoy it because they enjoyed rape scenes

How did the audience react to all of this? Those who were vocal seemed to be eating it up. The middle-aged, white-haired man two seats down from me, for example, talked aloud, After the first rape: “That was a good one!” After the second: “That’ll show her!” After the third: “I’ve seen some good ones, but this is the best.” When the tables turned and the woman started her killing spree, a woman in the back row shouted: “Cut him up, sister!” In several scenes, the other three men tried to force the retarded man to attack the girl. This inspired a lot of laughter and encouragement from the audience.

The first time I saw Brazil I thought that it was really good, but somewhat overlong. Then I saw it on the big screen and thought that there was not a wasted second, and that it was one of the best movies of the 1980s. Seeing it a third time in HD on a plasma TV I’m closer to my opinion in the theater.
12 Monkeys is great, but Brad Pitt is awful in it. I guess it has stronger characters overall than Brazil does.
There aren’t very many things that I would describe as a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Philip K. Dick.

Nothing about the Snyder Dawn of the Dead is better than the original. The Snyder one is another movie I watched again in 2020 and found alot weaker. I have fuzzy memories of seeing it in the theater though.

I liked Slacker but I just remember it in a general sense. None of the scenes you mentioned are familiar.

I can’t image that I’d ever watch Pink Flamingos.

I should go back and watch all the Scorsese movies, which I mostly haven’t seen in a while after being really into him for year and then missing his last couple, but at least from my memories/tastes in previous years Mean Streets is one of his pinnacles. Has it really been a “push in recent years” or is that what people always thought? Wait, let’s ask They Shoot Pictures (as I type this, I really haven’t checked yet)

MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese) 127 - 132 - 149 - 146 - 127 - 115 - 114 - 212 - 208 - 222 - 218 - 227 - 239 - 256 - 263 - 270 - 262 - 295 - 298 - 303 - 302

See that??? You’re WRONG!!! bwahhahahahahahah. I win…kind of. I didn’t really predict that its reputation had gone down.

I liked Suspiria. We talked about it a couple of years ago when I watched it. Last Halloween I watched Tenebrae and it was fine but I liked it alot less.
I kind of want to hate watch the Suspiria remake, but it’s so long.

I actually thought that the Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida scene in Manhunter was the most entertaining part. I don’t remember the rest of it at all.