Recent viewings

[Doggett]

Star Trek
4/5
I cried when Kirk was born....

[InformationGeek]

I just finished watching Cool World.  Whoa, that was weird. 

It pains me everytime I hear you use the word "weird" as a negative.   

Weird doesn't automatically mean I use the word negatively.  The movie is weird, but it is weird in a sense that movie is pretty interesting or something I'm not use to.  Same as Monkeybone and Raggedy Ann, they were both weird, but it was what made them somewhat enjoyable to watch (Though Monkeybone was pretty bad).

[Rev. Powell]

I just finished watching Cool World.  Whoa, that was weird. 

It pains me everytime I hear you use the word "weird" as a negative.   

Weird doesn't automatically mean I use the word negatively.  The movie is weird, but it is weird in a sense that movie is pretty interesting or something I'm not use to.  Same as Monkeybone and Raggedy Ann, they were both weird, but it was what made them somewhat enjoyable to watch (Though Monkeybone was pretty bad).

I'm glad to hear that -- to me, it sounded like you were using it as a negative and equating weird = bad.  Not in the quote above, but in your last three reviews as a whole.  MONKEYBONE was pretty awful, I thought, I had no interest in getting through it--COOL WORLD too.

[Jim H]

I just saw Adios, Sabata.  Yul Brynner is no Lee Van Cleef.  Movie was OK, but like a lot of spaghetti westerns I've seen, feels too long.  I love the gimmicks this series has though, reminds me of kung fu films from the 70s. 

[Jack]

Anaconda 3 - John Rhys-Davies is a bazillionairre with cancer, so he pays some hot babe to grow giant snakes in order to find the cure.  Of course they get loose, quickly going through the first group of snake hunters sent to kill them, and so uber-snake hunter David Hasselhoff has to be called in to bring order to the chaos.  This is a very average Sci-Fi Channel Original, with bad CGI, the exact same plot structure as every other Sci-Fi Original, etc.  The more I watched it, the more disappointed I became with the acting of the hot babe.  She is the star of the movie, yet lacked the ability as well as the ambition to do a damned thing with her character other than speak her lines in an aggravated, self-righteous tone.  She's about as one-dimensional as the character could have been played.  The Hoff blows her right off the screen every time he says a line.  I really can't give it any more than a 3/5.  Pity.

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: PARTS - THE CLONUS HORROR:  A decent Sci-fi channel season 8 episode.  The movie is a dull science fiction story about clones being raised in a secret camp to supply organs for wealthy politicians like Peter Graves.  Best line occurs when we get an unfortunate close-up shot of a man's junk in a Speedo, which someone refers to as "his shrinkwrapped batch."  I'm going to have to use that one if the opportunity comes up.  Back on whatever planet Pearl is currently on (it's hard to follow that season 8 "plot" without viewing episodes in order), she runs into some adorably omnipotent Space Children who demand her and her underlings entertain them.  Not a bad episode at all, 3.5/5. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

Bloody Pit of Horror- Terrible acting, terrible production quality, terrible blood effects, terrible choreography... In short, absolutely awesome movie!    Okay, so it's good-bad.  It definitely has kitsch.   

[RCMerchant]

OUTPOST (2008)-Mercenariy soldiers are hired by a secretive business man to secure an old WWII Nazi bunker somewhere in Eastern Europe. Ends up that the joint is overrun by Nazi zombie/ghosts from the 4th dimension. I was pretty impressed-an original (well-kinda-Nazi Zombies been done before) horror story in this age of remakes and rip-offs. One of the best of the new horror films I've seen this year!!!

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIZ5x2UJNY

[Torgo]

THE GREAT OUTDOORS  *** out of ****

[indianasmith]

I watched THE UNINVITED Saturday night.  Neat little evil stepmother/ghost story with an EXCELLENT twist ending!

[lester1/2jr]

I saw the clonus without the mystery science theatre stuff.  it was a cliche but I thought good movie.  late 70's early 80's is so my era, I'll watch just about anything from then.  always with the backdrop of a political campaign that's important.


Dancehall Queen (1997) -  This is sort of a jamaican Saturday Night Fever or something.  The plot is corny and the writing is amateurish but it's entertaining and definately unique.  A single mom is struggling to raise her kids in Jamaica by selling beer out of a sidwalk cart.  long story short she begins designing and wearing outrageous night club outfits and creates another identity for herself as a dancehall "mystery lady" .  Yeah, you are thinking, this is really right up my alley.  nothing i love better than rags to riches cheesball stories AND repetitive  dancehall reggae with the impossible to understand rapping over it.  There's also a clark kent type thing where a guy she sees all the time likes the mystery girl and doesn't see that it's her.  subtitles are absolutely mandatory.  bumble clot!  Hollywood sohuld remake this with sarah silverman in the lead.    4/5

[Rev. Powell]

I saw the clonus without the mystery science theatre stuff.  it was a cliche but I thought good movie.  late 70's early 80's is so my era, I'll watch just about anything from then.  always with the backdrop of a political campaign that's important.

It looked to be OK, but sort of dull, with some major plot holes.  Certainly not total dreck.  The director was interviewed as an extra on the disc, and he was a very good sport about being spoofed. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

House by the Cemetery- Watched it again last night.  A bit slow at points, but once it picks up it gets pretty good.  I went lurking at the message board for this film at IMDb, and heard a pretty decent theories there.  I still think the kid is annoying. 

[InformationGeek]

Twice Upon A Time

Talk about one of the rarest and most unknown films of all time.  It was very interesting to watch and I did find the animation style very nice.  It was very creative, had some good humor, and unquie story.  The biggest problem for me was that it felt a bit boring and bland to watch after a while.  Also, some of the humor wasn't that good and felt a bit forced.  Voice acting was so so with some great voice work, but some flat preformances in some scenes.  Either way, it was one of the most interesting movies I have seen in a while that wasn't insane or crazy.  I say buy it, but since it is so rare and so expensive, you'll probably just end up watching it on YouTube.

[Torgo]

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE  **1/2 out of ***
BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY   *** out of ****.
FINDING NEMO   ***1/2 out of ****.
RATATOUILLE   ***1/2 out of ****.