THAT movie you keep reading or hearing about but never seen

[Allhallowsday]

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. 

I love Italian cinema.  I will never forget Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo.  Also PASSOLINI, it frightened me, I've not seen it since, and I was about 8.  I've read about Salo for decades, but I am afraid to look at Salo. 

You'll be fine skipping that one. 

I gather.  Torture is bad enough, of that ilk, I avoid. 

Serbian movie. I'm just too old to check it out I believe

Yeh!  Another one like SALO that I just don't have the nerve...

[RCMerchant]

I have no reason or desire to ever watch SALO.

Why would anybody? 

[bob]

I do believe that I am the only person left on Earth that has yet to watch Thelma & Louise (1991).

There is at least two of us

Haven't watched it either.

Me neither.

me too

[Trevor]

I have no reason or desire to ever watch SALO.

Why would anybody? 

I've seen bits of it: not for me. 

[RCMerchant]

I've seen some Naziploitation films. ILSA-SHE WOLF OF THE SS comes to mind. But that was gory exploitation garbage.


http://youtu.be/gbV9V_GxDi0

I have read of SALO- nope.

[zelmo73]

I've seen some Naziploitation films. ILSA-SHE WOLF OF THE SS comes to mind. But that was gory exploitation garbage.


http://youtu.be/gbV9V_GxDi0

Triumph Of The Will (1935) has outstanding cinematography and looks like a black and white movie that came out in the late 1960s in some parts. I own it but haven't watched all of it because it gets boring after a while. I might finish it someday but there's just only so much Nazi propaganda that I can take in one sitting.

[Archivist]

I seem to miss a lot of popular movies, like Troy, First Knight, The Last Samurai, Gladiator, things of that ilk. I'm sure there are dozens of mainstream movies with a lot of publicity that I've never seen.

[Rev. Powell]

I seem to miss a lot of popular movies, like Troy, First Knight, The Last Samurai, Gladiator, things of that ilk. I'm sure there are dozens of mainstream movies with a lot of publicity that I've never seen.

I've never seen any of those and I'm not particularly interested. Unless by "First Knight" you mean "Dark Knight." I did love that one.

[Ted C]

I seem to miss a lot of popular movies, like Troy, First Knight, The Last Samurai, Gladiator, things of that ilk. I'm sure there are dozens of mainstream movies with a lot of publicity that I've never seen.

First Knight definitely qualifies as a BAD movie.
Gladiator is great.
Troy is mediocre.
Haven't seen The Last Samurai.

[The Burgomaster]

Until recently, it was Andy Milligan's TORTURE DUNGEON, but I bought the blu-ray boxed set and finally watched it.

There are still a lot of obscure movies I'd like to see. The struggle is real.

[zelmo73]

Troy is mediocre.

Troy (2005) was pretty good, it just kind of loses itself toward the end. The Fall of Troy could have been more epic, I think.

[jimpickens]

That movie makes Salo look like Marry Poppins.

[Allhallowsday]

 

[Allhallowsday]

I've seen some Naziploitation films. ILSA-SHE WOLF OF THE SS comes to mind. But that was gory exploitation garbage...

Triumph Of The Will (1935) has outstanding cinematography and looks like a black and white movie that came out in the late 1960s in some parts. I own it but haven't watched all of it because it gets boring after a while. I might finish it someday but there's just only so much Nazi propaganda that I can take in one sitting.

I've owned a copy of Triumph Of The Will since the 1980s, on VHS and now the DVD I bought my deceased brother.  I agree there's only so much propaganda I can look at.  Yet, that film can be mesmerizing.  It reads like cinema... it's even stunning.  The DVD remains unopened. 

[zelmo73]

I've seen some Naziploitation films. ILSA-SHE WOLF OF THE SS comes to mind. But that was gory exploitation garbage...

Triumph Of The Will (1935) has outstanding cinematography and looks like a black and white movie that came out in the late 1960s in some parts. I own it but haven't watched all of it because it gets boring after a while. I might finish it someday but there's just only so much Nazi propaganda that I can take in one sitting.

I've owned a copy of Triumph Of The Will since the 1980s, on VHS and now the DVD I bought my deceased brother.  I agree there's only so much propaganda I can look at.  Yet, that film can be mesmerizing.  It reads like cinema... it's even stunning.  The DVD remains unopened.  

Leni Riefenstahl did things with cinematography that no one else involved in filmmaking during that time was doing, male or female; right from the start of the film when it opens to a scene in the clouds during the day, which isn't a big deal by modern film standards until it dons on you that airplanes were only roughly 30-year-old technology at the time that the film was released in Nazi Germany, and that was very likely the first film to ever have an opening aerial scene like that. Then the clouds part and you see the beautiful city of Nuremberg, Germany below; and then that slight revulsion in your gut when you see the first swastika flag and the hundreds of marching soldiers and brownshirts all start to come into view far below. I agree that it is mesmerizing to look at scenes of a pre-war Nazi Germany. I'll have to watch the second half of the film soon, maybe this weekend.