Currently watching some films I've either bought, rented, or had on my computer for a while and never watched them, The seventh one: 8MM.

A very well done thriller about a private detective looking for a missing girl, with the only piece to a big puzzle: A snuff film. One of Nicolas Cage's finest roles and one of Joel Schumacher's finest director outings. Very well paced, thought provoking, and at times, down right disturbing.

Check it out.

Grimy, silly thriller that's as utterly preposterous as it is strangely compelling. Joel Schumacher's take on pornographic squalor mightn't be subtle but it is occasionally effective.

With shades of Paul Schrader's Hardcore, William Friedkin's Cruising and prefiguring the murky investigative elements of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series by a number of years, it gets a grip on the atmospherics but lapses into absurdity. Chief among these lapses is a score that features the worst kind of ill-judged, needless use of ethnic influences that bear no relation to anything onscreen.

Cage's performance gives rise to some of his trademark histrionic displays (especially when meant to be displaying turmoil) but that's part of the territory. His performance here is as big and outlandish as the scaremongering plot from Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker.

Dark actions breed an even darker aesthetic but it's lacking in acute emotional heft.

You small time motherfuckers!

This is about 20 minutes too long.

Very disturbing and thrilling...

Probably one of the freakiest movies I've seen in a long while

Dark, depressing and surprisingly absorbing. Joaquin Phoenix plays a loveable sidekick next to Cage's transparent performance. Not necessarily pacey or clever, but thrills you nonetheless.

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It manages to be one of the most disturbing films I've seen. Not because of anything on-screen, but because of what's off-screen. The character of "The Machine" is handled perfectly, and unnerving every time he's visible.

Currently watching some films I've either bought, rented, or had on my computer for a while and never watched them, The seventh one: 8MM.

A very well done thriller about a private detective looking for a missing girl, with the only piece to a big puzzle: A snuff film. One of Nicolas Cage's finest roles and one of Joel Schumacher's finest director outings. Very well paced, thought provoking, and at times, down right disturbing.

Check it out.

It was an interesting movie with Nic Cage going all over looking at porno and stuff.

Very disturbing and thrilling...

Probably one of the freakiest movies I've seen in a long while

Por lo que me habían contado de esta película pensé que iba a ver cosas explícitas e iba a estar buenísima, pero no, es entretenida pero mediocre en general, siento que trataron de tocar un tema escandaloso y no les salió, la sentí como si hubiera sido una película de penes y en el guión siempre les hubieran dicho pipí o pollito.

What a fucking brutal movie. It's like Running Scared in a lot of ways, only without the frantic tension. The story alsokills itself in the third act, finishing kind of lamely.

There's a lot to like about the movie, though, mostly through the first 2/3 of it. Nic Cage is great as a man in over his head and the soundtrack is awesome. It's also interesting to have an exploration of the forgotten world of pre-internet fetish porn. It's easy to forget that before google, if you were into that kind of thing you actually had to go seek it out. I'm not into that kind of stuff, but it gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.

Grimy, silly thriller that's as utterly preposterous as it is strangely compelling. Joel Schumacher's take on pornographic squalor mightn't be subtle but it is occasionally effective.

With shades of Paul Schrader's Hardcore, William Friedkin's Cruising and prefiguring the murky investigative elements of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series by a number of years, it gets a grip on the atmospherics but lapses into absurdity. Chief among these lapses is a score that features the worst kind of ill-judged, needless use of ethnic influences that bear no relation to anything onscreen.

Cage's performance gives rise to some of his trademark histrionic displays (especially when meant to be displaying turmoil) but that's part of the territory. His performance here is as big and outlandish as the scaremongering plot from Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker.

Dark actions breed an even darker aesthetic but it's lacking in acute emotional heft.