Recent viewings

[Rev. Powell]

Triangle (2009) Blu-ray

Tense thriller and quite the beautiful mindf**k if that is your kind of thing. As I recall one of the most discussed Terror flicks from last year. Not necessarily here at badmovies (haven't noticed a thread) but pretty much on every other message board I frequent. Great flick and the gimmick never wears off. 5/5

You should watch TIMECRIMES for comparison if you haven't already.

[Nightowl]

Black Dynamite (2009)  3/5

[theedinburghbteam]

Black Dynamite (2009)  3/5

Only 3/5! I loved that movie.

DYNAMITE! DYNAMITE!

[Jack]

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) - A group of totally hot babes are invited to a tropical island for a martial arts competition.  There may be some guys there too, if I remember correctly.  Anyhow, it turns out the organizer of the event has some nefarious plan, and the babes must team up to defeat him.  Think Baywatch crossed with a Jackie Chan movie - lots of slo-mo martial arts action, all of it silly, and lots of toned bodies (usually not overly dressed).  This actually got to be kind of fun towards the end;  I guess its featherbrained exuberance finally won me over.  3.5/5.

[Doggett]

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) - A group of totally hot babes are invited to a tropical island for a martial arts competition.  There may be some guys there too, if I remember correctly.  Anyhow, it turns out the organizer of the event has some nefarious plan, and the babes must team up to defeat him.  Think Baywatch crossed with a Jackie Chan movie - lots of slo-mo martial arts action, all of it silly, and lots of toned bodies (usually not overly dressed).  This actually got to be kind of fun towards the end;  I guess its featherbrained exuberance finally won me over.  3.5/5.

'Eric Roberts in a silly wig Vs. Hot Babes' is what this film should be called. 

I agree with your score. 

[retrorussell]

The Untold Story.  The movie cracks me up; the antagonist (star) of the flick is a complete scumbag and vicious murderer, and the cops are dim as a subway during a blackout.  They delight in laying on the brutality on hiis scumball @$$, though.

[Jack]

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) - A group of totally hot babes are invited to a tropical island for a martial arts competition.  There may be some guys there too, if I remember correctly.  Anyhow, it turns out the organizer of the event has some nefarious plan, and the babes must team up to defeat him.  Think Baywatch crossed with a Jackie Chan movie - lots of slo-mo martial arts action, all of it silly, and lots of toned bodies (usually not overly dressed).  This actually got to be kind of fun towards the end;  I guess its featherbrained exuberance finally won me over.  3.5/5.

'Eric Roberts in a silly wig Vs. Hot Babes' is what this film should be called. 

I agree with your score. 

Holly Valance is just...WOW!  I'll be making a point of checking out some of her other movies   

[dean]

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) - A group of totally hot babes are invited to a tropical island for a martial arts competition.  There may be some guys there too, if I remember correctly.  Anyhow, it turns out the organizer of the event has some nefarious plan, and the babes must team up to defeat him.  Think Baywatch crossed with a Jackie Chan movie - lots of slo-mo martial arts action, all of it silly, and lots of toned bodies (usually not overly dressed).  This actually got to be kind of fun towards the end;  I guess its featherbrained exuberance finally won me over.  3.5/5.

'Eric Roberts in a silly wig Vs. Hot Babes' is what this film should be called. 

I agree with your score. 

Don't forget the sunglasses that give you super powers.     

I do love this silly movie, but only because people kept telling me I'm too much like the computer guy who gets with the hot blonde in the end.  That isn't such a bad comparison I suppose...

[indianasmith]

Last night I watched a mega-cheap CMH flick (Cannibal Mutant Hillbilly) called RED RIVER from a company called "Bloody Earth Films."  Voice impaired fundamentalist with a mutant son kidnaps hikers, college kids, and rangers in order to feed them to his CMH child.  Grossest scene was when he sliced off a woman's breast and made it into stew for his kid.  Good deal of gratuitous nudity and decent gore effects, but the dialogue was lame to the point of painfulness.  One college couple must have snuck off into the woods to make out at least four times before they finally got the axe.  But, if you like cheap movies with a lot of gore and nudity, looks like Bloody Earth Films is the next Brain Damage-type company!

[ChaosTheory]

RED - Liked this one a lot; John Malkovich was hilarious and Bruce Willis was badass and awesome.  Also, for anyone who's ever wanted to see Dame Helen Mirren handling heavy artillery, well, this movie has it.  7/10

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Trying to get as many Oscar-nominated pictures watched as i can before the ceremony.  To be honest I was kind of underwhelmed by this one; the performances were good but if they were trying to make Jeff Zuckerberg intriguing, it didn't work.  If I were going to give David Fincher an Oscar, it would've been for SE7EN or ZODIAC, not this.  5/10

ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE (MST3K'd) - For a bad 80's slasher, this movie has a pretty sweet soundtrack 

[Raffine]

BOWANGA BOWANGA aka LOST WOMEN (1951)

Three adventurers in Africa discover a tribe of primitive women called the Ullala living on top of a rocky escarpment. The man-hungry women kidnap the men and force them to fight their strongest warrioress. The winner becomes the queen's new hus-band and the losers will be fed to the hungry volcano god!

Goofier than usual lost tribe of wild woman flick is historically interesting (!) because it features lots of footage from the probably lost notorious early thirties exploitation hit IGANGI. Is this the only IGANI footage left?!? The old footage features men in gorilla suits, naked native women (with blurry breasts!), and shots of a bored-looking orangutan. There's also a great sequence showing two kids (dressed like Little Rascals) and a half naked women being attacked in a hut by a hoard of leopards and a giant snake!

This was featured on the new version of Elvira's Move Macabre recently. I was initially disappointed by the Elvira reboot, but the show has gotten much better with the past few episodes. The Mistress of the Dark has still got it!


The Ullana capture one of the men and perform their forbidden jungle/light operetta dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSw272lq2CM&feature=related
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Be sure to watch for the paper plate and the doggie that wanders onto the set around the 3:04 mark.

[Jack]

Ghost Warrior (1986) - back in the 1500's, a Samurai warrior is killed and falls into a frozen lake, preserving his body.  In the present day, some people find his corpsicle and he's sent to a research lab for an autopsy.  But they decide to revive him instead.  After a while he leaves the research lab, befriends and old man, and slices up a bunch of nasty gang members.  A friendly lady from the research lab helps him find his way through modern society.  This was fairly good.  The Samurai speaks very little, and when he does it's in an old Japanese language that no one can quite understand.  This leaves his character open to the viewer's interpretation.  It's not very exciting, but the Samurai's bewilderment with such things as cars and electric lights is done in a somewhat believable manner.  3.25/5.

[Flick James]

The Runaways (2010)

I watched this last night. I was entertained. It wasn't a standout in terms of movies about rock and roll by any means, it had some of your typical cliches and characterizations, but some decent performances.

All I had ever seen of Kristen Stewart (which is only Twilight), she seemed like a talentless actress that always carried the same bored expression on her face 24 hours a day. I still think that of the Twilight films and of her (lack of) performance there, but here she showed a little more depth. When I first saw her, she did have that same vacant, bored expression, and I thought "here we go." Then as the film developed I was able to see her express a bit more. And what's more, I found myself believing she was Joan Jett, and I've met the woman.

Dakota Fanning turned in a solid performance as lead vocalist Cherie Currie, and I have to admit the performance made me feel like a pervert. She reminded me of the late great actor John Cazale, who was not afraid to truly play a pathetic character as it is. Most actors play that type of character and have in inject their own coolness and not let the character be completely vulnerable and unredeeming. She didn't do that. I certainly hope that was a reflection of her talent and not her.

The solid performances didn't save the film from some of the tired rock and roll movie cliches that made it a little less than a great film, but it was certainly good and worth a viewing.

It would be a 4/5 if it weren't for those awful fake painted on tattoos on Dakota Fanning, making it a 3.8/5. Just kidding. 4/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Masters of the Universe (1987)- This is one of those movies everyone fronts on that is actually pretty good.  It would make a good double bill with The Garbage Pail Kids movie, another unjustifiably scorned gem.

The first 15 minutes or so are kinda clunky where they are lazering and swording around on some planet. Things really pick up when they go through this portal thing and come to Earth. Then there is alot of fun to be had. Courtney Cox is at her career height here. Whatever happened to her? There is some clever stuff. There isn't ALOT of clever stuff but there is some. It's not in as good shape as Dolph Lundgren but it's very much alive and not boring.

Evil Lynn was unexpectedly kind of sexy. One big problem I had was towards the end Courtney Cox wakes up from sleeping and is wearing an old lady nightie, like literally I have seen an old lady, my mother, wearing. It's terrible. In general there could have been alot more cheesecake. I know it's PG but come one. kids are people too.

This movie is colorful and fun and has humor, action and the respectable amount of plot and tension show someone cared at least a little bit, so check it out. There's no Orco and in general it's not very faithfull to the cartoon from what I recall. The Skeletor mask isn't very good.

4/5

[Couchtr26]

Black House (2007) - Korean film.  A man working at an insurance company is asked to approve the claim on an apparent suicide.  He begins to doubt the cause and dig beneath the surface.  He can't find assistance from the police.  Things begin to seem like they are going one direction but take a complete 180 degree turn and it is an excellent little thriller.  A little bloody but nice and very odd story that in a way affirms humanity and makes you wonder on it at the same time. 

4/5