What's The Lastest R-rated Movie You've Watched?

[Mikéy]

As the thread title may imply, beware of what you may see posted in this thread. To anybody who may be blissfully unaware, I'm obligated to say that R means "Restricted"; not meant for the younger viewers. Please don't feel peer-pressured into watching one if they aren't your thing, either.
(I also quite couldn't figure out where to post this either; I almost posted it in Animation / Comic discussion, but I figured that was a bad idea, so I just went with General.)


As for starting the thread trend itself, I'll be providing a little background on the movie "Phone Booth", (marked as Suspense) which was the latest movie I've watched. I'd give it 4/5 stars.

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Mkay, so there's this italian agent/journalist person. I forget the exact word, but he promises to make people stars and stuff; but ultimately, just lies to people (including his own wife, cheating on her even) and actually uses a phone booth to call his separate lover every day so that his wife won't see calls to that number on his cell phone bill.

It just so happens that this particular day, he told a pizza man who was giving him a free pizza at the booth to essentially screw off (put lightly), and after he finishes the call with his lover, the phone booth rings. It's a man with a synthetic voice that begins telling Stu (that's his name) things that only a stalker would know. The caller threatens to expose Stu to his wife, and Stu gets mad and hangs up. Stu backs out of the phone booth and stares it down, for a time period of between 15-20 minutes. Time fast forwards to emphasize this.

Stu, still being at the phone booth, picks up right as the unknown man calls again. This time, the man threatens to kill Stu if he hangs up again. The man reveals himself to be a sniper aiming right at Stu. As of now, Stu's a bit screwed, since the Sniper has him right where he wants him. Eventually, people start wanting to use the phone booth. A couple of annoying hookers end up bothering a merchant about Stu, and the merchant breaks through the glass, and the sniper decides to kill the merchant. The hookers blamed Stu, even though there was never a gun present. Media and police attention, blah blah.

In all, the sniper ends up wounding Stu once when the Sniper saw Stu try and make a cell phone call, blew up a small toy robot, and killed the merchant. The Pizza Man, who is assumed to be the sniper, was just a pawn of the sniper himself. Stu ultimately ends up getting out of the sticky situation by shouting into the sky for the sniper to "take him instead" when the sniper threatens to kill his wife or his other love-life that he called on the payphone. Ultimately, the movie ends on a bitter-sweet note because the sniper gets off scot-free due to intricate and malevolent planning. Stu learns to be more "honest" by force when the sniper threatens him of "consequences" if he doesn't by the end too.

Sadistic.

And Body Count (Suspense, 1997), which I actually just finished watching. 4/5 also. (Also featured Ice-T as one of the bad guys!)

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So the movie starts off boring, put bluntly. A couple is driving to the boyfriend's dad's house for a dinner-party, and the movie starts off pretty mellow. Then, things shake up when a big U-haul style vehicle shows up, and three men hop out. They go into the house and kill everyone inside, except for the couple, who were hiding in the basement. Long story short, the boyfriend kills the three thieves, but the boyfriend's brother manages to secretly remain alive despite all of the killings.

The boyfriend, who supposedly painted an interesting depiction of Lot and his wife walking away from Sodom and Gomorrah, was comparing the entire thing to that story from the book of Genesis in the bible. He wanted to be able to "start over" with just him and his girlfriend. But, then he made the inference of her being similar to Lot's wife. To anyone unfamiliar with the story, God allowed Lot and his wife to leave Sodom and Gomorrah before he burned it down only if they promised to not look back. Lot's wife, however, didn't obey, and looked back. Due to this, she died too; having instantly turned into a pillar of salt.

The boyfriend then claimed that he had to kill his girlfriend too, since she betrayed him. Ultimately, with the boyfriend's brother still alive in the house, the two of them manage to kill the boyfriend. The movie ends with the two of them driving away from the house full of dead bodies. In all, I'd say there were approximately around 15-17 dead people. That's more than Dragon Romper, folks!

(The entire plan was the boyfriend's, by the way. He hired the thieves to kill everyone and steal the house art as a part of a job. The thieves weren't aware that he was going to betray them; and probably had no clue that it was his dad's house that they were robbing and massacring.)

Also kinda sadistic. Wheee~

[falcouge]

Last R-rated movie. I don't remember. I haven't watched any movies in a while.

[Servbot42]

According to Netflix, the last R-rated movie I watched was Agora, about a month ago. I have no idea how to hide spoilers like Mikey did, so please avert your eyes away from the rest of this post if you don't want this movie you probably never heard of spoiled for you. Avert!

Agora (Historical drama, 2009) is set in the late 300s to early 400s CE in Alexandria, Egypt. I chose to watch this movie because I love all things Roman history and this is a time period when Egypt was part of the Roman Empire. If there are Romans in it and it isn't some film student bullcrap, I'm going to watch it. The joke was on me in the end because the movie was light on things Roman and heavy on I don't even know what. A message about how religion makes people real stupid, or how the greatest of human quibbles are infinitesimal in comparison to the vastness of the universe.  Or whatever.

So basically there are two main characters, but they primarily serve as a window for the audience to see the downfall of religious stability in Alexandria from two different perspectives. You see, Christianity is on the rise in the ancient world and the pagans and Jews of Alexandria are none too pleased about this. The confrontations grow more violent and intense every day. In the midst of the this we have Hypatia, a brilliant female scholar and lecturer who has a passion to advance human knowledge, particularly about the role of the Earth in the movements of the heavens. Over the course of the film, she will try her best to ignore the increasingly violent, dogmatic Christians who are more and more becoming masters of the city as she works to disprove the common belief that the Earth is at the center of the universe and all things move around it in favor of the more modern reality that we know.

The other character is Davus, who starts out as a slave owned by Hypatia's father. He is an assistant to Hypatia in her lectures at a local school, and at the outset he has a keen interest in the material and a reasonable understanding of it. It's clear that he is in love with her, but though she values him as a friend and even family, she doesn't feel the same way about him or even seem to be aware of his feelings. Unlike Hypatia, over the course of the film he will find refuge in Christianity, which promises more than his life as a slave, his interest in science, or his hopeless love of Hypatia could offer. He will join the ranks of the Christian thugs who harass, beat, and even kill anyone who will not follow their new religion. Despite his choice to follow this path after being freed by Hypatia about halfway through the film, he is shown to be very despondent among his Christian "friends", often trying to ignore their ignorance towards science when he knows better. It's clear that he has found no more happiness in this life than he had in his old one. 

So as far as characters and set up for the end, that's all you really need to know. But before I get to that, I'd like to mention something I found to be strange when watching the film. Throughout many scenes there are shots of Alexandria from space, usually with echoed audio from events happening on the ground. A character playing some weird instrument in a grand attempt to woo Hypatia, the sounds of an angry Christian mob storming and destroying a great repository of knowledge, etc. (Here's a clip of the former example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIoAXEoO4Bs .Skip to the one minute mark to see what I mean.) This is where I'm getting my interpretation that one theme of the film is that our greatest endeavors and hardships, everything we take so seriously, is actually all very small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Anywho.

So towards the end of the film, Agora has a revelation that the Earth...or maybe it was the moon? Eh, something doesn't move in a perfect circle, but in an ellipses. For reasons I don't remember, this proves that the Earth is not the center of everything. (It just occurred to me that probably goes along with the previously mentioned theme as well on multiple levels, but I don't feel like elaborating on that because this is already absurdly long. I think you get it anyway.) So things would be great for her if it wasn't for the fact that the Christian leadership now has her in their crosshairs for being an uppity, non-believing, emasculating witch. After that she goes to a place, or is taken there, and she's about to be executed. Davus appears and everyone else leaves, I think because he came up with a reason for them to? Regardless, they both know he can't save her from being killed, so she allows him to smother her to death. The other goons come back, he tells them she fainted and they proceed to viciously stone her corpse as Davus just kind of walks away. Uh, the end. 

So I was really annoyed with the movie when I finished it, mainly because it all felt pointless. I have a greater appreciation for Hypatia's plot now, which I previously thought was just a waste of time. To me, this is one of those films that really seems like it might have a lot of meaning or non at all and I'm just giving it too much credit. It could be about examining our place in the universe, not just on a species or societal level, but individually. People in powerful moments are reduced to looking like insects in overhead shots, Hypatia finds that we are not the center of the universe, Davus struggles to find his place in a complicated world. to me, there is a defining connection in these things. I have no idea if I like this movie or if I couldn't care less about it, but it does make me think. And that's something. I guess I would encourage you to watch this film if interpreting it for yourself sounds interesting. The acting was ok, the sets and costumes were great, though the pacing felt a pretty disjointed to me. Uhhh....3/5 I guess? I really am in the middle on this.

I can't believe I typed all that about this movie...And to think that it occurred to me halfway through it that the most recent R-rated film I've watched was actually through Amazon and it was Akira. Brace yourselves.

[Mikéy]

Chained. Suspense, 2012. I suppose I'd give it... 3/5 stars.

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I'm gonna be somewhat to the point on this.

A kid (9-year old) and his mom take a taxi from a movie theatre home. Except, when the mom realizes that the driver misses their exit on a highway, she starts getting agitated when the driver begins taking them to a house in the middle of nowhere. The taxi driver takes the mom into the house, leaving the kid in the taxi. The man rapes and kills the mom. After the man deals with the corpse, he comes back out for the kid, and takes him inside. He then decides to keep the kid alive and lay down some ground rules.

His name is Rabbit, and he is to clean his house, wake up his master on time, and do everything the master says. Any insubordination results in a beating. Any attempts at escape results in a beating. If he gets in his master's way, it results in a beating. For a good portion of the movie, Rabbit is put on a long chain that's chained to one of the house's walls. He can still reach just about anywhere inside the house, but obviously, is unable to leave.

The master still continues his hunt-and-rape spree, bringing in different women each time. Rabbit is unable to do anything to help them, even when one temporarily stuns The Master and begins frantically looking for a way out. She begs and pleads with Rabbit, even though Rabbit knows there is no way out, and The Master throws a knife into the back of her neck right in front of Rabbit. Several years go by, and Rabbit goes past puberty. He's at least 19 or 20 by now. By this time, The Master decides to try and teach Rabbit about the human body, how it works, and he eventually even goes so far as to bring Rabbit home a girl to rape and kill himself.

At this point (and this is way late in the movie), is where things actually begin to get interesting. He learns that the girl's name is Angie when he doesn't make a move after awhile, and they begin talking. The Master said that if Rabbit didn't deal with Angie, then he would. So after/during an emotional scene, The Master walks in on Rabbit, and Rabbit stabs her, shouting at The Master to go away. Right as soon as The Master closes the door, Rabbit is extremely apologetic to Angie, and he begins frantically thinking of a plan to get away. The stab wound isn't serious, since Rabbit intentionally missed internal organs, but he knows that it's still serious enough to cause sickness/problems after two days. He tells Angie to go limp so that he can move her into the basement.

He then approaches The Master, bloody and with a "satisfied" look; informing him that "he wants to hunt". In response, The Master takes Rabbit out in the cab, and sooner or later, The Master realizes that Rabbit wrote "help" on the side of the taxi in blood. The Master whipes the blood off the taxi, drives home, and informs Rabbit how disappointed he is. He stuns Rabbit, then heads into the house to find Angie. However, Rabbit left a blade with Angie, and as The Master heads into the crawl space for her, she slits his ankle. Meanwhile, Rabbit recovers from the blow, and takes a crowbar out of the taxi in hot pursuit of The Master.

It's unclear what happens to Angie, but Rabbit kills The Master. While growing up, Rabbit learned that his dad remarried in a newspaper ad (and he found a disturbing letter that his father wrote), so he seeks him out. Rabbit sees his dad's new wife and child, right before they go upstairs. Rabbit presents the letter to his father, which was essentially addressed to his "brother" (or who I believe to be "The Master"), and Rabbit puts together the sad reality right as his father starts forcing him out the door. Father starts beating him, and the wife rushes downstairs to stop it. But, in doing so, that forces Father onto her instead, and he begins to move as if he's going to rape her, and Rabbit gets flashbacks of The Master as it happens. He reacts by tackling and killing his own dad, and ironically enough, the wife tells him to get out; and she calls the police saying that a "man broke into her house and killed her husband."

The movie ends with Rabbit closing the garage door (with him inside) of The Master's house. Evidently Rabbit, and only Rabbit, lives there now. Not lacking in sadism, but takes too long to reach its point; which is why I'm on average standing with it.