Recent viewings

[Cthulhu]

I watched Interstella 5555 last night.
It's an animated movie set to Daft Punk's Discovery album.
I really enjoyed it. It was trippy, the art was awesome, and the animation matched the music perfectly.
There is no dialogue, so no awesome quotes from this one.

Rev, you should check this one out.

Yeah, I almost did when it came out on Blu-ray but I read the transfer wasn't very good so I decided to skip it. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

I hope you will.
It's not that weird, but it's pretty fun.
Also, I'm still waiting for your Cemetery Man and Dororo reviews.

[lester1/2jr]

The death of the Incredible hulk - Saw this on FX or FMC. Lour ferrigno and Bill bixby are back fighting some russian spies. This starts off pretty good, then gets a little boggy but ultimately is pretty good. bixby's odd dramatic acting style is such a good match for the Hulk. the russian spy lady is pretty. decent 3.5/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"Casino Royale" (1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnoKqiGJFI
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OK, so here's the deal: when I reserved a stack of DVDs from my library I THOUGHT I was getting the Daniel Craig 007 film but this 1967 spoof starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Orson Welles is what turned up instead. Still not sure if I reserved the wrong movie, or someone at the library screwed up. But anyway, I'd never seen this flick so I figured I'd give it a try.

and the final verdict is...what a mess. Ugh. There are a lot of gorgeous women in this one, which prove to be its saving grace. Otherwise, it's an overlong, choppy, absolutely nonsensical film that feels like it was made up as it went along. Supposedly there was a lot of behind-the-scenes troubles and drama during the film's production, all of which was likely more interesteing than the film itself.

Maybe this film made more sense in 1967 when everyone in the audience was trippin' balls on LSD. File alongside the Monkees' "Head" and the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" as one of the odder relics of the 60s.

[tracy]

An excellent movie indeed...

[alandhopewell]

"Casino Royale" (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnoKqiGJFI

OK, so here's the deal: when I reserved a stack of DVDs from my library I THOUGHT I was getting the Daniel Craig 007 film but this 1967 spoof starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Orson Welles is what turned up instead. Still not sure if I reserved the wrong movie, or someone at the library screwed up. But anyway, I'd never seen this flick so I figured I'd give it a try.

and the final verdict is...what a mess. Ugh. There are a lot of gorgeous women in this one, which prove to be its saving grace. Otherwise, it's an overlong, choppy, absolutely nonsensical film that feels like it was made up as it went along. Supposedly there was a lot of behind-the-scenes troubles and drama during the film's production, all of which was likely more interesteing than the film itself.

Maybe this film made more sense in 1967 when everyone in the audience was trippin' balls on LSD. File alongside the Monkees' "Head" and the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" as one of the odder relics of the 60s.

     Peter Sellers did a lot of this sorta thing then....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_JWywDqgRs
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[lester1/2jr]

Tracy- I just couldn't buy KC as a firefighter.

[indianasmith]

I watched a truly awful film called SUMMER OF MASSACRE tonight - a mishmash of four short tales whose main purpose seemed to be cheap gore effects, lots of screaming, and a body count over 100.  Unless you are a died in the wool low budget gorehound, avoid this one at all costs.

[Vik]

Enter the Dragon
Still one of the best and coolest martial arts movies ever. 5/5

[Jack]

Leprechaun's Revenge (2012) - watched this on SyFy last night. There's this CGI "leprechaun" thing (looks like any other forest-themed CGI critter) attacking people in a small town. And of course there's this old Irish guy that knows of its existence but all the other townsfolk think he's crazy. So it falls to a young couple (the totally hot Courtney Halverson and the totally unremarkable Billy Zane) to figure out how to defeat it. This was very average SyFy Original stuff with a fairly uninteresting plot and characters. And you just knew it was going to end in exactly the same way as every other movie of this type. Towards the end a couple people who were very close to the main character got killed, and she showed almost no emotional reaction at all - that's just bad writing and directing.  3/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Octopu$$y" (1983)

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Roger Moore's next-to-last turn as James Bond takes 007 from India to East Germany, where an Afghan jewel smuggler and a crazed Soviet general have plans to kick off World War III. As usual, cool stunts and hot babes abound in a story that's needlessly complicated. (Honestly they could've left Maud Adams' "Octopu$$y" character out altogether and it wouldn't have affected the story at all. On the other hand, her private all-female army of hotties provided much of the film's eye candy.)

Not Moore's best Bond flick but not his worst either.

[Jack]

Bikini Girls on Ice (2009) - some girls are doing a bikini car wash to raise money for something. Unfortunately they decide to have the car wash at an abandoned gas station - where a psycho killer lives. This was actually a bit more serious than the title would lead one to believe;  I was half expecting some sort of horror/comedy, but it was standard low-budget slasher fare. Characters were okay but certainly not memorable, plot was the usual picking-them-off-one-at-a-time thing. Suspense was average, killer was okay I guess, and it got pretty stupid towards the end.  I never could figure out why they didn't all just leave. So I'll subtract half a point for stupidity, but add it back for the bikinis. The blond in the yellow bikini was especially noteworthy    3/5.

[claws]

Terminal Invasion (2002)

Due to severe snow storms a small group of people are trapped in an isolated small airport. When one of the passengers is accidentally shot and turns out to be an alien all hell breaks loose. Made for TV sci-fi starring Bruce Campbell, with goofy cgi and passable practical FX. Interesting setting, but director Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th) makes little use of it or the plot. By-the-numbers with hardly any suspense or appealing characters. It's Campbell's show anyway and the only reason to watch this. Mindless entertainment for a boring afternoon. 3/5

[Rev. Powell]

THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (1971): Using paranoid purple prose, fictional scientist Dr. Hellstrom narrates this documentary about the evolutionary superiority of insects compared to humans and the inevitability of their eventual triumph over us. Edifying, entertaining and vaguely psychedelic in its presentation; it's like a mondo horror documentary, with scenes of a bulbous termite queen spitting out eggs, a battle between invading wasps and a swarm of bee defenders, and a horde of millions of army ants marching across the savannah consuming every plant, insect or reptile in its path. Highly recommended. 4.5/5.

[JaseSF]

Watched two vastly different films involving World War II...

The Good German (2006): Set in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II, an American military journalist sent to cover the Postdam Conference named Jake Geismer (George Clooney) is drawn into trying to solve a murder mystery involving a former mistress named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), whose own primary interest is escaping Germany. How might all this tie in with Brandt's missing and thought to be dead husband for whom everyone seems to be searching?

For the most part, I enjoyed this 40s style film noir that was actually filmed as though it were made in that very era. It's very stylistic and the plot is intriguing. Still something just doesn't quite click here. I think it may be the casting as the actors here lack that approach old-time character actors would have taken to their roles IMO. They just don't quite seem to fit their parts even though they look good on the surface, underneath they don't quite seem to fit. I really wanted to like this one more and there's a lot here I did enjoy but it just lacked that certain something. *** out of ***** stars.

Letters From Iwo Jima (2006): We get to see the war effort of Japanese soldiers assigned to protect the island of Iwo Jima from invading American forces in the face of overwhelming odds.

This was superb. This one grabs you from the beginning and doesn't let up. It doesn't pull back or hold any punches with regards to the horror and pointless loss of life that comes with war. It also shows how soldiers are alike no matter where they're from and shows a little of each soldier's story although it focuses more on some than others. Only flaw perhaps is we don't get to see much of the American point of view in this story. Still this was fascinating to watch and I found it completely riveting. It definitely feels more like a Japanese film than an American one directed by Clint Eastwood. Great stuff! ****1/2 out of ***** stars.

[lester1/2jr]

Jump Off a Building -  just a skate video circa early 2000's with Bam Margera and others. ONly 38 minutes and has a good crazy energy to it along with the impressive manuvers along with the occasional jackass like antics. 4.5/5