Recent viewings

[Rev. Powell]

BIG MONEY RUSTLAS (2010):  Thought this might be good for a laugh; I was wrong!  It's a western comedy, but the gimmick is the stars are the guys from Insane Clown Posse, acting in face paint and ten gallon hats and speaking in hip-hop lingo.  That concept wears thin in about 5 minutes, and the rest of the jokes are pure corn.  You may like this if you like Troma comedies, but it has far less craziness and no nudity.  2/5 (and I think I'm being a little generous).

We used to drink and watch BIG MONEY RUSTLAS a lot. it was so horrible because it was lingering on seriousness. I heard they tried putting more comedy into this and it was also terrible but not watchable terrible.

You're thinking of BIG MONEY HUSTLAS, right?  This one has only been out for a month or so, and it's all comedy.  There's not a bit of seriousness in it (it would have been funnier if they tried to be serious!)

[Rev. Powell]

The city of lost children~ A crazy scientist kidnaps children for their dreams.

I really love this movie. It's weird, creepy, and dark, but beautiful(If ya like that sorta thing and I do)      

Great movie! Very good! I thought I was the only one who ever seen this! 

I'm a HUGE fan.  Not at all surprised 3mnkids likes it, but I didn't think it'd be up your alley, RC.  Cool to see you like it too!

[Couchtr26]

The city of lost children~ A crazy scientist kidnaps children for their dreams.

I really love this movie. It's weird, creepy, and dark, but beautiful(If ya like that sorta thing and I do)      

Great movie! Very good! I thought I was the only one who ever seen this! 

I'm a HUGE fan.  Not at all surprised 3mnkids likes it, but I didn't think it'd be up your alley, RC.  Cool to see you like it too!

I keep hearing good things.  Is it really as good as everyone makes out? 

[claws]

[Rec] 2 (2009) (Blu-Ray) (Region B)

Wow. I'm starting to like this new trend. Minimalistic Cam-Horror is so much more terrifying and entertaining than those overblown big budget remakes. [Rec] 2 continues with sick and slick thrills, spills of blood, jump scares and some of the best CGI shown on cam. But what helped matters was the excellent HD presentation. So much detail it was like looking through a microscope. 4.5/5

[Rev. Powell]

The city of lost children~ A crazy scientist kidnaps children for their dreams.

I really love this movie. It's weird, creepy, and dark, but beautiful(If ya like that sorta thing and I do)      

Great movie! Very good! I thought I was the only one who ever seen this! 

I'm a HUGE fan.  Not at all surprised 3mnkids likes it, but I didn't think it'd be up your alley, RC.  Cool to see you like it too!

I keep hearing good things.  Is it really as good as everyone makes out? 

Depends on what you like.  It's a dreamlike fantasy with lots of crazy characters (brain in a jar, strongman, mad scientist, evil Siamese twins) and great production design.  People who don't like it find it too weird, pretentious, and confusing to follow.

[Rev. Powell]

VALHALLA RISING (2009): A mute, one-eyed slave escapes from his Viking captors and joins a group of Christians sailing to the Holy Land to join the Crusades.  Although it has the trappings of an adventure story (and plenty of gory violence), this is actually an arty religious allegory with obscure and confusing symbolism; not completely successful, but the beautiful cinematography (filmed in Scotland) and menacing score are immersive.  3/5. 

[lester1/2jr]

claws- I haven't sen [rec]. I recently saw the Nameless, one of the directors earlier works and was unimpressed.

Also, while I'm here I'll just mention that I am halfway through a japanese horror movie about hair extentions that come to life and kill the people who wear them.

[indianasmith]

This weekend I watched TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE  (Yes, I have a 16 year old daughter!)  It was the best of the series so far, and the pitched battle between vampires and werewolves at the end was actually pretty cool - not to mention seeing the evil redheaded vampire Victoria get her comeuppance at the hands of Edward!  the Volturi are downright nasty - unlike the Cullens, they actually seem to ENJOY being vampires!

Later that night I watched a British zombie flick entitled DOGHOUSE - a group of obnoxious guys go to a small town in rural England to help a friend recuperate from his divorce, only to find that some bizarre military experiment has turned all the town's women into evil, flesh eating zombies!  Imagine SEAN OF THE DEAD with a mysoginistic twist and you've got it.  Best line of the whole film:  "Bloody h---, mate! This is no time to stop objectifying women!"

[Rev. Powell]

This weekend I watched TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE  (Yes, I have a 16 year old daughter!) 

Sure you do, Indy, sure you do.   

[Doggett]

Later that night I watched a British zombie flick entitled DOGHOUSE - a group of obnoxious guys go to a small town in rural England to help a friend recuperate from his divorce, only to find that some bizarre military experiment has turned all the town's women into evil, flesh eating zombies!  Imagine SEAN OF THE DEAD with a mysoginistic twist and you've got it.  Best line of the whole film:  "Bloody h---, mate! This is no time to stop objectifying women!"

 

One of my fave comedies !
I'm glad someone here has seen it.   

[spongekryst]

My Name is Bruce- Extremely cheesy, but out of all the movies that are meant to be, this is TRULY the driving point of the movie. A quasi-autobiographical story about B-Movie star, Bruce Campell being abducted by a small town in Oregon in order to fight a recently re-summoned Chinese demon, Quan-di (God of War and Protector of Bean Curds). The washed up, a-hole antics of Campell alone make this worth watching. The gore is minimal, with a lazy decapitation theme and the effects are altogether are modest, but it works.

Visitor Q- Watched this right after, My Name is Bruce. Not what I'd call a compatible double feature, but a fun one.

I love Takashi Miike a little more with every film I see of his. This is a bizarre story of a disfunctional family and how they are brought back togoether by the antics of a stranger. To give you a a summarized list of the debauchery that takes place in the daily life of the family; The movie opens with a little father/daughter "bonding" (daughter's a prostitute), the son mercilessly beats his mother (lashing out, due to being bullied everyday), and the mother also sells her body in order to support a heroin addiction.

To give a summarized list of the ways the stranger helps; hits the dad in the head with rock...twice, uses reverse psychology on the son (so as not to beat his mother), introduces the mother to a lactation fetish, and seeimingly just beats some sense into the daughter.
All this and much more takes place in this disturbing little number, I implore you all to watch it for yourselves.

[Doggett]

City of Ember.


For unknown reasons, the human race has to live in an underground for 200 years in city called Ember. There is a box that tells the mayor when time is up and they're allowed to go to the surface. This box got lost and so the inhaitabts continue to live underground while the city is slowly falling apart. Two kids find the box and put the pieces together to leave the city, having to deal with villians along the way...

Its a family, fantasy adventure, its a little underwritten, but I liked it.

3.5/5

[lester1/2jr]

ecte: hair extentions (2007) - all the stuff with the hair extentions going into peoples ears and coming out their eyes and so forth was great but the rest of the movie was too much comedy and poor pacing. 3/5

[ChaosTheory]

HORROR EXPRESS (1972): A paleontologist finds what he thinks to be the missing link in a Siberian mountain cave; he doesn't know his discovery has a little "something extra" embedded in its carcass, and digging it out of the ice and packing it onto a train unleashes all kinds of havoc. Starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with guest appearance by Telly Savalas as Cossack Kojak!  How had I never seen this flick before? I hang my head in b-movie-lover shame.  7/10

[Couchtr26]

Depends on what you like.  It's a dreamlike fantasy with lots of crazy characters (brain in a jar, strongman, mad scientist, evil Siamese twins) and great production design.  People who don't like it find it too weird, pretentious, and confusing to follow.

Thank you, Rev. Powell.  I will have to track down a copy.  "Weird, pretentious and confusing", those tend to be a good indicator for something I enjoy.