Recent viewings

[3mnkids]

The poker Club~ a group of friends run into a burglar during their weekly poker game and accidentally kill him setting off a chain of events that are... stupid.     This movie was predictable and kind of boring.

Stormforce~ Think the guardian with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher only its Belgian and not done as well. Considering how bad the guardian was that's not saying a lot.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor~ what can I say other than I turned it off after suffering through 40 minutes of obnoxious nonsense.

Im getting a little bummed out by redbox. Here lately maybe 1 or 2 movies out of ten are worth watching.

[Doggett]

Quantum of Solace
3/5
Not entirely sure what the plot was.
JB just seems to go from one destination to the next and occasionally runs into bad guys.
Still, it was alright.

[3mnkids]

Downloading Nancy~  An unhappy wife(bello) meets a guy online and ask him for a favor.. I dont want to say much more than that because if you watch the movie you dont really know what she wants him to do until later.

It was disturbing and depressing. I cant fault Bello, she is amazing in this, but the subject matter is a little extreme for my taste. It was uncomfortable to watch.

[Sister Grace]

Alien Raiders- bad...just bad.

Paul Blart....curse you dad for making me watch this crap. I love dorks and nerds, but this just tried wayyy toooo hard to be touching instead of funny.

Pineapple Express...pretty good; I am in love with Seth Rogen  (he is eye-candy) so maybe my opinion is somewhat misconstrued.

Severance...hilarious and gorey. The actors were pretty generic but overall it was pretty funny.

[Doggett]

Gremlins
4/5
Little weird watching a Christmas flick in the summer heat.
Anyway, I'm sure we've all senn this and it's great, but I do slightly prefer the total anarchy of the second one !

[InformationGeek]

Deep Blue Sea:

I watched the film yesterday.  Anyways, the film was a bit half half for me.  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.  It was an even balance throughout.  The shark effects range from good to bad, music was great, casting was a bit questionable, acting was plagued with blandness, characters most often were one dimensional, and the entire setting was extremely weird to me.  I mean, the underwater base was breaking apart, making me think it wasn't structely sound to begin with.

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: FINAL JUSTICE: "I wish I was illiterate so I didn't have to read that," says Crow when Joe Don Baker's name appears onscreen.  Something about Joe Don brings out the best in these guys.  This one is even worse than MITCHELL, a cliched cop story with the twist that Baker's a fish-out-of-water shoot-first-ask-questions-later wannabe-cowboy in Malta (Crow: famous for it's "crosses, knights, and falcons.") A funny episode.  4/5 stars.

[Leah]

taking of phelom 123 (2009) Insane
the creeping terror (1960 something oh its creeping alright

[Jack]

Petrified (2006) - An alien mummy attacks people in a house clinic full of nymphomaniacs.  Yeah, you'd think that with a premise like that, this would be pure gold.  Unfortunately, the characters are dull and lifeless, the whole thing's so tongue-in-cheek that you're never drawn into the plot at all, and there's really only about 30 minutes of plot in this 65 minute movie (plus about 7 minutes of credits).  The rest is just filler.  At least there are some nymphos in their undies, that's about the only thing it's got going for it.  2.5/5.

[Doggett]

I've recently been seeing a lot of spam.

It's rubbish.

[lester1/2jr]

American Ninja- chuck norris inspired straight to video production. 

[Doggett]

Cloverfield
4/5
It's good but the characters are just so dull !...and that stuff at the party ? *snooze*
It should have ended when the monster attacked the helicopter.

[lester1/2jr]

The Cremator (1968) - this is a lot more substantitive than most of the czech new wave films, but it still has that clever new wave feel with all the quick cuts and black and white and so forth.  The reason it isn't very well known is the first half really drags.  it's well shot and the acting is good, namley the peter lorre-ish cremator /funeral home guy himself, but it takes too long to get to the point, which is about how the nazis rose to power in the satellite countries.  It was kind of like the housing bubble,  everyone was convinced the nazis were going to win so they treated them like rock stars and did whatever they could to hitch a ride to the shooting star, which first and foremost  meant throwing their jewish friends under the bus.    really shocking  and effective in places but  I would have preferred something more straightforward.

[lester1/2jr]

Paprika (2007) -  A while ago I was obsessed with TRON, whch I hadn't seen since it's original theatrical run.  I was disspointed when I rented it because the story was so dumb and it really didn't take advantage of the TRON ness all that much until the final scenes.  You wanted something mesmerizing but then you have two guys jabbering about a bunch of stuff laying in some tron world rubble and it's like what the hell.  that was kind of how I felt abuot Paprika.  The opening sequence implied this whole fantasy world but it ended up being a pretty tedious story about a scientist who goes into other peples dreams.  many of the dreams are repeated more than once and the whole thing just doesn't really come off.   I liked the cute theme song though they didn't play the whole thing unfortunately.  watch it on youtube "girl from byokkola" or something.

[Rev. Powell]

THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981): In this post-apocalyptic sequel to MAD MAX, drifter and gasoline scavenger Max (Mel Gibson) reluctantly helps a village ship a load of petroleum across a wasteland ruled by a brutal gang of motorcycle punks. The unique, jury-rigged look of this universe is remarkable, the chase sequences are unique and among the most thrilling ever filmed, and Max drives an armored eighteen-wheeler through any plot holes so fast you hardly notice them.  This was one of those holes in my moviegoing, a film I'd meant to see for over 20 years and finally got around to!  4.5/5.

CHASE STEP BY STEP (1974): A fast-paced chopsocky about two circus performers guarding a crate full of gold across a countryside filled with bandits.  Pretty standard kung-fu action, it's got the usual disregard for the laws of physics and some ridiculous sequences (such as when on of the performers climbs up on stilts in the middle of a fight, which would have put him at a tremendous disadvantage if the bad guys had thought to knock him off of them).  Not great, but chopsocky fans will be happy. 2/5.