My weekend was pretty nice in terms of movies:
Shivers (1975) -- Another David Cronenberg classic; this one is perhaps weirder than
Rabid, though not in the terror form. The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact. With that in mind, this movie is certainly 'out there'. The direction is obviously not as polished as in later features, but you can begin to see his signature style translated well into a full-length format. With all that, the movie isn't really that good, but a must for Cronenberg fans. 6.5/10
Frog River (2002) -- Kind of a very underground movie, it's about a record shop clerk and aspiring DJ who searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel. The movie is Japanese and I have to say that despite its shortcomings, it was quite enjoyable. The music's cool and the acting's alright, though the movie falls short of being anything epic because ofthe insignificance of the final scene. Still, it's a
light movie that can be enjoyed when you have a couple of hours to kill. 6/10
The Seven-Ups (1973) -- It's pretty much your average mob vs. police crime movie of the 1970s, except for one little thing:
BEST CAR CHASE EVER!!1!. A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money. The movie itself has been very underrated and Roy Scheider's acting is above par in it. But yet in a time when almost every movie was about crime in some major US city, the car chase wasn't enough toset this one above the rest. However, the car chase is amazing! 7/10
Days of Heaven (1978) -- Back in college I remember watching
The Thin Red Line and thinking it was one of the best movies around, and why hadn't the director made more movies?! In the last couple of years I've looked for (and eventually found) Terrence Malick's previous movies: this one and
Badlands. Although
Badlands and
Red Line are amazing movies, this one falls short of anything amazing and maybe it was one of the reasons why Malick deisappeared for so long. Despite having an okay cast at the time (Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard), none of them helped the movie be any good, though the writing was petty good. Perhaps it was too romantic for what happened in the end of it. 6/10
[REC] (2007) -- Alright, I'm sure some of you have gone and seen
Quarantine in theaters... Well, following in Hollywood's amazing creative talent,
Quarantine is a remake of
this movie. And
this movie is amazing. It has the horror/suspense movie I think was missing in most so-called terror movies... and it was made on a very low budget. You can always reference it to
Blair Witch Project, but I was much more scared in this one. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that once you knew the 'secret' behind
BWP, it was all pretty funny. Still, REC is amazingly scary, even though it's abut an overly exploited topic (zombies). It may also be because I'm living in Spain and the production and people's reactions are very typical of Spanish documentaries, and the movie starts up as one. I haven't seen
Quarantine, though I don't think I want to. Honestly, between this movie and
El Orfanato, horror is back... Spanish style. 9/10
The best part about the Shogun mini-series is that it stars Toshiro Mifune. But the mini-series is quite bad compared to the book.
). There were some really freaky scenes that were unexpected walking into the movie (dont think i'll be able to sleep tonight). I thought the cast did a spectacular job portraying the roles of the characters. The acting really sold it for me. So...a pretty good movie im my opinion.
2/10 for the movie, 7/10 for the episode. 
