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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:55:31 PMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 07:24:30 PMAny onscreen cat-death?
Yes, at least two I recall (faked, of course, once quite absurdly).
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 09:33:45 PMBUZZCOCKS Singles Going Steady If interested in PUNK, this album is the best there is
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 09:04:26 PMQuote from: HappyGilmore on Today at 08:57:23 PM88.) Roxanne
The Steve Martin flick
And for ADHD sake:
89) Cyrano de Bergerac, (1950) or (1990)
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by HappyGilmore - Today at 08:57:23 PM88.) Roxanne
The Steve Martin flick
The Steve Martin flick
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Humorous Captions / Re: Oh no. He comes to Greece ...
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 08:32:51 PMAlong with many of the Greek canines.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 08:29:36 PMWell, yesterday I was going to make a BLT sandwich for lunch. I even made extra bacon for my dad so he could have bacon with his salad. All was going well until I got out the bread, which was all nice and moldy. Ugh. So then I had the bacon, sliced tomatoes, and egg for lunch minus the bread. Lately we seem to have such a problem with bread becoming moldy. I've been looking on line to see if there's anything we can do to eliminate the problem. And as I said before, ugh.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 08:26:49 PMWell my brother is planning to bring bacon cheeseburger pizza over tomorrow for dinner. I'm hoping that he'll at least listen after I asked for either a pepperoni or a taco pizza. It's all kind of dependent on what my nieces want for dinner. He said he was going to get three pizzas for tomorrow. One bacon cheeseburger, one pepperoni, and one cheese. I hope he'll swap out the pepperoni or cheese for a taco pizza. I'm thinking that if he doesn't I'll just sit out dinner tomorrow evening.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:43:48 PMFREAKS OF NATURE (2015):
Humans, vampires, and zombies all cohabitate in an uneasy and inequitable truce in a small suburban town run by Trump-like megalomaniac bully Denis Leary - until extraterrestrials show up, first turning the town's inhabitants against each other in (all-out, splattery) class warfare, then uniting them at last against a common foe. For about 40 minutes FREAKS OF NATURE fires on all cylinders and appears to be a really sharp-witted, mean, weird sci-fi/horror satire like they used to make 'em in the 80s. The benchmark is set about 5 minutes in by Keegan-Michael Key delivering a truly hilarious extended set-piece as a vampire English teacher who's deeply disgruntled after 91 years on the job. There are a bunch of laughs after that, too, and then things get bloody, and then, roughly midway through, the movie decides its a heartfelt romance/character drama
and then in the final stretch it just takes several quite dumb turns. 
Besides Leary and Key, there are plenty of good actors onscreen, including star Nicholas Braun from "Succession", who makes a reasonable male lead in spite of his distracting height; Mackenzie Davis (from BLACK MIRROR: SAN JUNIPERO) as a lithe and charming love interest; Josh Fadem (TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN) as an abused nerd w/ a chip on his shoulder; Joan Cusack (looking great) and Bob Odenkirk (funny as always) as Braun's parents; Mae Whitman playing a zombie girl as a young person with developmental disabilities; Vanessa Hudgens trying to shake off her Disney roots as a filthy slut; Rachael Harris, oddly brunette as the nerd's mom; Ed Westwick from "Gossip Girl", who is kind of a crap actor but does his part by looking exactly like Pattinson in the "Twilight" movies; priceless Patton Oswalt for about 3 very funny minutes midway through; and, incredibly, Werner Herzog in a surprise cameo at the end. I mention Herzog even though his appearance is kind of a spoiler, as there's no other good reason to endure FREAKS OF NATURE until the ending except to enjoy his one-of-a-kind delivery. All the actors deserve better.
My biggest gripe w/ FON is that it pulls no punches when it comes to the bad guys' cruel abuse of the protagonists early on, but then at the end those vile characters either get somewhat punished but then redeemed (the nerd's father and brother) or get let entirely off the hook (Leary). The movie isn't making any point about injustice or lack of accountability - it seems to just be pulling some lame eleventh-hour Dickensian change-of-heart bull$#!t. I wish FREAKS OF NATURE was a lot smarter than it ends up being. 3/5 But it does have some real laughs in the early going.
Humans, vampires, and zombies all cohabitate in an uneasy and inequitable truce in a small suburban town run by Trump-like megalomaniac bully Denis Leary - until extraterrestrials show up, first turning the town's inhabitants against each other in (all-out, splattery) class warfare, then uniting them at last against a common foe. For about 40 minutes FREAKS OF NATURE fires on all cylinders and appears to be a really sharp-witted, mean, weird sci-fi/horror satire like they used to make 'em in the 80s. The benchmark is set about 5 minutes in by Keegan-Michael Key delivering a truly hilarious extended set-piece as a vampire English teacher who's deeply disgruntled after 91 years on the job. There are a bunch of laughs after that, too, and then things get bloody, and then, roughly midway through, the movie decides its a heartfelt romance/character drama
and then in the final stretch it just takes several quite dumb turns. Besides Leary and Key, there are plenty of good actors onscreen, including star Nicholas Braun from "Succession", who makes a reasonable male lead in spite of his distracting height; Mackenzie Davis (from BLACK MIRROR: SAN JUNIPERO) as a lithe and charming love interest; Josh Fadem (TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN) as an abused nerd w/ a chip on his shoulder; Joan Cusack (looking great) and Bob Odenkirk (funny as always) as Braun's parents; Mae Whitman playing a zombie girl as a young person with developmental disabilities; Vanessa Hudgens trying to shake off her Disney roots as a filthy slut; Rachael Harris, oddly brunette as the nerd's mom; Ed Westwick from "Gossip Girl", who is kind of a crap actor but does his part by looking exactly like Pattinson in the "Twilight" movies; priceless Patton Oswalt for about 3 very funny minutes midway through; and, incredibly, Werner Herzog in a surprise cameo at the end. I mention Herzog even though his appearance is kind of a spoiler, as there's no other good reason to endure FREAKS OF NATURE until the ending except to enjoy his one-of-a-kind delivery. All the actors deserve better.
My biggest gripe w/ FON is that it pulls no punches when it comes to the bad guys' cruel abuse of the protagonists early on, but then at the end those vile characters either get somewhat punished but then redeemed (the nerd's father and brother) or get let entirely off the hook (Leary). The movie isn't making any point about injustice or lack of accountability - it seems to just be pulling some lame eleventh-hour Dickensian change-of-heart bull$#!t. I wish FREAKS OF NATURE was a lot smarter than it ends up being. 3/5 But it does have some real laughs in the early going.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:24:30 PMAny onscreen cat-death?
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 05:53:47 PM87) Stroker Ace