Flight to Mars (1951) Filmed in dense Cinecolor - lots of deep greenish and reddish-brown tones. First rocket to Mars encounters underground civilization with a fabulous sense of style. Not many women but they all look fantastic in their satin micro-dresses, and the men wear red capes over black tunics with a lightning-bolt insignia on the chest. Great chairs too, and the walls and doorways are all crazy angles. Not super-thrilling but pleasing to the eye. 6/10
Movies I have been unable to finish watching:
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) Dario Argento is a unique cinematic genius, and I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of cutting and bleeding to see where his complex psychodramas end up, but there is way too much raping in this one to suit me.
Krabat (2008) German film about a boy who becomes apprentice to a sorcerer. Takes a long time to develop and too much of that is squalor and humiliation.
The Room (2003) Some people seem to find a Transcendent Badfilm experience in this clumsy vanity flick, made by a guy with money and nothing else. Having made the study of Badfilm a pastime for some 30 years I found it to be merely Poorfilm (a term I have not yet succeeded in popularizing) - tedious and uninteresting.
Uzumaki (2000) Based on the most bizarre and grotesque manga I have ever read, or rather on the first few volumes before it really gets going. This is an amateurish production which seems to take the approach of slavishly reproducing every panel of the manga, presenting it in that dull greenish tone popular among beginning filmmakers these days who mistake style for substance, and using mediocre visual effects as a substitute for drama. A very disappointing experience for me, and an extremely dull and lousy movie.
