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« Reply #9060 on: August 01, 2015, 06:36:02 AM »

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) - documentary about the making of the 1996 version of Dr. Moreau. They hired the director who did Hardware, and there are numerous interviews with him. He seems like a really normal, nice guy on camera but I guess he's a bit odd. He rented a house in Australia where the movie was filmed, and it almost seemed as if he got agoraphobic and didn't want to leave it. He also hired some shaman to cast good mojo on the production - he really believes in that stuff. Anyhow he didn't work out so they fired him and brought in John Frankenheimer. He apparently yelled at people a lot. 

They don't have any interviews of Marlon Brando or Val Kilmer but everyone agrees they were egomaniacal a-holes. Kilmer sat down with the head of New Line studios and told him "I"m a really busy man, I don't have time to listen to you talk, so I'll talk, you be quiet, and then I'll leave." Brando sat in his trailer and refused to come out until Kilmer came out of his trailer first, while the rest of the cast, crew and hundreds of extras sat around doing nothing but collecting overtime. I remember thinking Brando's character in the movie was pathetic and now I know that was because of various decisions he himself made, telling others to rewrite the script around whatever dopey nonsense popped into his head.

I guess nothing in it was too surprising, it was moderately interesting if you want a look inside the screwiness that is Hollywood. 3/5.
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« Reply #9061 on: August 01, 2015, 05:42:52 PM »

Intruders (2011): Two children from different times and places are terrified by Hollowface, a faceless monster typically unseen by others, who has designs on ripping their faces off when they sleep in order to finally have a face of its own. Can they find relief from this unseen menace and is it really what it seems?

This has some clever moments and at times feels something like a haunted, eerie, creepy, ghostly fairy tale. Biggest problem was the unconvincing CGI used to create Hollowface (personally I feel practical effects would have brought it to life in a more believable fashion). Some may well be disappointed with the ending to this psychological thriller but it seemed to fit well to me. Clive Owen gave a pretty good performance as the father trying to protect his daughter from a monster than seemingly only he and her can see.  ***1/2 out of ***** stars.

Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978): Brothers clean-laced preacher Eli and gun-toting wildman Wild Bill Bloodshy (both played by Jim Dale) both are set to inherit an old West town but only if one brother defeats the other in a cross country race, otherwise crooked Mayor Ragsdale (Darren McGavin) will get the town and its riches for himself.

This was pretty light Disney fare, more in the vein of adventure with Jim Dale's Eli, his new girlfriend and his orphan kid friends trying to outwit Ragsdale's henchmen. It does have some funny and mildly amusing moments but it's never outright funny. Don Knotts is on hand but in a much too short bit role as an incompetent Sheriff who constantly has showdowns with Jack Elam's Rattlesnake, a rough around the edges character. OK viewing for a boring evening but nothing truly stands out aside from seeing McGavin in a villainous role and Jim Dale's different characterizations. Mildly good but not great or anything. ***1/4 out of ***** stars.
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« Reply #9062 on: August 02, 2015, 07:42:24 AM »

Lotsa movies this weekend... cuz the family & I are breaking in our brand spankin' new Blu-Ray player! TeddyR

"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I" (2014)
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Katniss Everdeen steps up to become the face and voice of the Districts' revolution against the corrupt Capitol in the action packed, next-to-last installment of the dystopian sci-fi franchise. I haven't read the books but this flick seems to be setting up a pretty epic final chapter to the saga.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015)
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Tedious housewife porn based on the inexplicably popular novel. A naive grad student enters into a relationship with a dashing, handsome young billionaire - who also happens to be a sadistic bondage freak. Hilarity ensues. Yeah, my wife wanted to see this one... so I took a bullet for the team. TeddyR
Unless you are in a similar relationship situation, however, there is absolutely no reason for anyone with a penis to sit through this movie. This one is for the wimmen folk!!

"Superman vs. the Elite" (2012)
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Superman meets a quartet of new super-humans whose ideas about justice and morality don't exactly jive with his own, leading to the usual heaps of animated destruction and mayhem.
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« Reply #9063 on: August 02, 2015, 09:10:07 AM »

Avengers Grimm (2015) - the Asylum's attempt to put "Avengers" on the cover of something and hope people rent it by mistake. This one's got the fairy tale princesses - Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel and non-princess Little Red Riding Hood, travelling through the magic mirror to our world where Rumpelstiltskin (Casper Van Dien) is using his magic to take the place over. Much fighting and swordplay follow. This was fairly fun with a touch of humor here and there. Absolutely no character development but the action moved along briskly and the girls were cute. Van Dien seemed quite comfortable in his villain role. 3.5/5.
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« Reply #9064 on: August 02, 2015, 09:21:13 AM »

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (1969): A young hobo meets a man covered from head-to-toe in tattoos; each illustration tells a (science fiction) story if you gaze it at long enough. Adapted from stories by Ray Bradbury, ILLUSTRATED MAN illustrates all the usual problems of anthology movies, but Rod Steiger is so good as the tattooed man bent on vengeance that he makes you wish that they had just made the framing story into the feature. 3.5/5.
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« Reply #9065 on: August 02, 2015, 11:16:22 AM »

I saw the Illustrated Man when I was a kid and it has always stuck with me, particularly the one with the kids and the time machine thing.
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« Reply #9066 on: August 02, 2015, 08:02:06 PM »

Homer and Eddie (1989): Mentally delayed Homer Lanza (James Belushi) meets up with and befriends Eddie Cervi (Whoopi Goldberg), a criminal sociopath terminally ill with a brain tumor. Together they embark on a road trip across America first in search of the thieves who stole Eddie's money but eventually they go in search of his parents who Homer has not seen in years.

This was a surprisingly touching, moving film on some levels. It also feels like watching an impending train wreck in some ways as you get a sense life is never going to deliver much good to our protagonists here. Still you can't help getting to know and care for these characters. You get to enjoy their highs and suffer their lows with them. This film shows that sometimes the journey is in fact better than the destination. I think fans of Goldberg and Belushi may well enjoy this. A big part of why I liked it quite a bit is it felt like a journey through a darker, more dank side of America (yet our leads still made the most of things regardless) and the soundtrack is filled with great 80s music. Think this one is a bit underrated by people. Personally I'd give it ***1/2 out of ***** stars.

Teenage Vampire (1987): Young high school student Jeremy Capello (Robert Sean Leonard) finds himself suddenly and slowly transforming into a vampire following a risque encounter with a female vampiress. This naturally throws our teen's life into disarray especially when vampire hunters begin searching for him in hopes of staking him through the heart, he finds himself wanting to bite his love interest Darla (Cheryl Pollak) on the neck on their date, and he finds himself being followed by a mysterious stranger who casts no reflection in mirrors.

I enjoyed this somewhat silly 1980s comedy. The acting is no great shakes but we do get David Warner as vampire hunter Professor McCarthy, Paul Wilson as his bumbling assistant Grimsdyke, and Rene Auberjonois as vampire instructor Modoc. Leonard makes for a likable lead and he gets nice support from Evan Mirand as his best buddy Ralph. There are some funny moments in this one and it has a certain charm to it but it always feels more low budget than you'd like. Great 80s music and youthful fun vibe helps it a bit though. ***1/2 out of ***** stars.

The Initiation of Sarah (1978): Quiet and withdrawn Sarah Goodwin (Kay Lenz), who seems to possess psychic and telekinetic powers, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she gets rejected by her sister Patty(Morgan Brittany)'s popular mainstream sorority and instead winds up part of a rival sorority of outcasts overseen by Mrs. Erica Hunter (Shelley Winters), who seems to have a penchant for practicing witchcraft. Patty's sorority is led by mean-spirited Jennifer Lawrence (Morgan Fairchild) who takes wicked delight in humiliating and tormenting Sarah and his sorority sisters.

This one takes its sweet time to really build and build up its suspense. It has its moments but it never really seems to fully deliver as much as one hopes it will. There are definite Carrie inspired moments here yet this seems quite a bit tamer in a lot of ways no doubt in part due to being a TV movie. Mainly too it's just a few stars who stand out here and numerous characters seem there just to populate the background or be one-dimensional. Best performances given here were by Lenz, Fairchild, Winters, and Tisa Farrow as the meek and fearful "Mouse"/Alberta, Sarah's main friend in her sorority. Brittany is fine in her role. Everyone else just seems very one-dimensional or forgettable. ***1/4 out of ***** stars.

Are You in the House Alone? (1978): A teenage girl named Gail Osborne (Kathleen Beller) finds herself being stalked by some mysterious stranger who leaves threatening notes in her locker and makes chillingly disturbing harassing phone calls at whatever location she's at. Who is this monster?

This story is told via flashback in large part so we already know the disturbing result of a large part of these events. Beller's sympathetic performance really enhances this one as she proves a very likable character and one easy to care about and root for. Probably partly inspired by Black Christmas, this does build some disturbing suspense sequences where we see things from the stalker's point of view and realize just how close and constant a presence he is in the film. The ending taking a surprisingly realistic cynical turn which is also somewhat disturbing and says a lot about how screwed up it is that not more is done to bring some of these type of criminals to justice. ***1/2 out of ***** stars.


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« Reply #9067 on: August 03, 2015, 07:14:15 AM »

Starship Invasions (1977) - Christopher Lee and cohorts come to Earth in a fleet of flying saucers; their sun is going to go nova and they need to conquer us so they can take over our planet ASAP. Luckily there are also some nice aliens here who have a secret base on the bottom of the ocean (and a convenient fleet of their own flying saucers nearby) so with the help of Robert Vaughn they're able to save us measly Earthlings. This was all very cheesy and silly but managed to get by on its retro charm. 3/5.

Curse of the Dragon Slayer (2013) - sort of a Lord of the Rings type thing, with an evil shadow lord needing to gather up some ingredients to bring back some ancient demon to take over the world. It's up to an unlikely band of anti-heroes to stop him. I thought this was excellent. They certainly didn't have a LOTR budget but they did pretty good with what they had. The charters were well developed and well acted, and there was plenty of action. And the elf babe was HOT Thumbup 4.5/5.

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« Reply #9068 on: August 03, 2015, 09:46:53 PM »

"American Ninja 2: The Confrontation" (1987)

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Michael Dudikoff and Steve James are back and this time they're sent to a Caribbean island to investigate the kidnapping of some U.S. Marines. Soon they discover that the island paradise is also home base to a drug cartel who are protected by an army of genetically-engineered (wait for it) SUPER NINJAS...needless to say, much ass kicking ensues. This virtually plotless, woodenly acted, so-'80s-it-hurts slab of chop socky cheez is basically 90 minutes of guys beating the crap out of each other. Silly as hell but such fun!!
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« Reply #9069 on: August 04, 2015, 06:15:44 AM »

The Day the Earth Stopped (2008) - watched this again. Some pretty crummy looking giant CGI robots take up positions all over Earth (666 of them) and meanwhile a naked alien babe also arrives, wanting to see if there's any reason to let our species survive or if she should just let the robots blast us at sundown. Of course the military decides to imprison her and even shoots her later on. Good plan! It's up to C. Thomas Howell to help her escape and then show her the value of us hairless apes. This was slow moving, stupid, then it got even more stupid. Hot alien babe though. 2/5.
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« Reply #9070 on: August 04, 2015, 11:26:07 AM »

C thomas Howell movies "Side Out" from the early 90's is a personal favorite. It's about beach volleyball and has tons of shots of him and the other guy spiking the ball from on high, even though they are clearly way shorter than the other guys and short in general.
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« Reply #9071 on: August 04, 2015, 12:18:21 PM »

AFTER LAST SEASON (2009): A pair of med students who may have psychic abilities stumble into a serial killer, or something like that, in this strong candidate for the worst feature length film ever made. Between the baffled actors reciting bewildering dialogue, sheets of paper taped to walls to identify sets, and the crude trial software animation used to bring the characters' mental visualations to life, it's like listening to your dullest friend relate his strangest dream. A film to watch because it exists and for no other reason. Rating is hard. If you are a bad movie fan you may want to watch it just to say you've seen it, but it's not like a laugh-a-minute kind of bad movie. No rating; watch at your own peril.
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« Reply #9072 on: August 04, 2015, 11:04:06 PM »

Dead Snow - this Norwegian movie turns from an extremely rote, cheap, and useless winter cabin horror movie into an okay Asylum style over the top CGI cheese fest. For that, someone thought it justified a sequel. I don't know where I stand on that.

There are one of two funny things like when the girl is hiding out in a tree and the momma bird starts fighting her to protect her nest that would suck. If you can make it through the dumb, unscary first part the parts with the zombies are entertaining and it's clever in places, if more funny than scary.

3/5 I can see how people would like it but I don't really have a lot of time for this kind of thing myself
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« Reply #9073 on: August 05, 2015, 07:48:29 AM »

AREA 51 (2015) After a guy named Reid has an alien experience when he wanders away from a party, he becomes obsessed with aliens and with trying to find out what the government is hiding in Area 51, a huge complex of military facilities in the Nevada wilderness.   He and his two buddies, joined by a girl named Helena whose father once worked there and tried to blow the whistle on America's secret contact with aliens, steal an identity badge and sneak into the most heavily guarded base in America by night.  What could possibly go wrong?

Everything, as it turns out.

This wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either.  3/5
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« Reply #9074 on: August 05, 2015, 08:46:30 AM »

DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS (1977): A possessed bed eats those who lie upon it. This lost 1977 feature, rediscovered and released on DVD in 2003, isn't incompetent, or outsider art made by an insane person; it's just an ultra-low budget film with an absurd monster that makes consistently strange directorial choices. In its way, it works; it's by no means a "good" movie, but highly recommended to collectors of cinema mutants. Rating is anywhere from 3 to 5 stars depending on your tolerance for slow-moving films told mostly in voiceover.
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