Recent viewings

[Psycho Circus]

you gave it a 2/5

LOL, dude, I'm Not Roger Ebert! 

2/5 is alright. Not great. It's a slow movie with bad acting, what can I say. 

[Jack]

Mimic Sentinel (2003) - The third film in the Mimic series.  A guy who's allergic to everything lives in his bedroom, spending his time taking pictures of the things that happen outside.  His sister stops by often and even brings him a girl.  Of course he sees people disappearing due to the overgrown cockroaches.  A police officer investigates, and gets interested in bubble boy's mom.  Not too much really happens until the finale, and unfortunately the movie doesn't really build up to the finale, it just idles along until this tacked-on stuff with Lance Henricskon suddenly begins.  It's still an interesting watch because of the likable characters and good atmosphere.  I enjoyed it.  4/5.

[Mr. DS]

Planet Hulk - The Hulk gets exported to another planet by his Avenger buddies for his own good.  However, he ends up detouring into a planet where he is forced to take part in gladiator-like matches.  The story was a bit weak but the annimated violence was wonderful. 

[lester1/2jr]

Dr Heckyl and Mr Hype- Man, i've seen some weird stuff on Thistv but this takes the cake.  it must be some kind of tax shelter, there's not way they thought people would pay money to go and see this.  The great Oliver Reed does a duel role as the ugly but nice Dr Heckyl then he becomes the rakish handsome arrogant Mr Hype. It's the opposite of the original where the doctor was normal looking and the fiend guy was ugly.  It's a comedy, I guess, but it's more sort of funny -wtf than funny haha.   Reed is great and thats what kept me watching.  The pacing is bad the story is very thin.  I enjoyed it in a demented way but it certainly wasn't good.  ?? / 5

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE: Mike Nelson's first episode as host.  The riffing isn't spectacular but BRAIN is a sleazy classic that's easy to watch, and the host segments are very good.  Jan in the Pan shows up at the end; it's nice to see she landed on her feet (so to speak).  I remember tuning into this one just to see how they were going to handle Joel's departure; I half expected them to bring him back to the ship.  Mike was good enough that I decided to keep tuning in for the rest of the series.  4/5. 

DEAD MAN (1996): Mild-mannered accountant Bill Blake heads West, shoots a man because he's in the wrong place at the wrong time, and flees to the wilderness where he's befriended by an Indian named Nobody who believes he is the poet William Blake.  Strange, mystical Western that never exactly turns surreal but always feels like a dream; the once-in-a-lifetime cast of Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Lance Henrikson, and Iggy Pop is reason enough to watch it.  Probably Jim Jarmush's best movie.  4.5/5. 

[Leah]

Troll

[Jack]

The Blob (1988) - A meteor hits Earth, and some old guy investigates and gets goop on his hand.  Our teenage heroes take him to the hospital, where the goop grows into the Blob - threatening the entire town with destruction!  This is just pure '80s cheese at its finest.  Great characters, plenty of action, subplots, fun fun fun!  4.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Freaky Farley (2007)-  Okay, I'm sick and on mind slowing drugs so bear with me a little here.  This starts off like a kind of film school quality,  "Napolean Dynamite" type , PG but hip, small towner story about an outcast named "Freaky" Farly.  He always wears a frenchmans style striped shirt and likes to sit in trees outside pretty girls houses and spy on them (theres no nudity or even strong language).  His father is a local Dr Phil type radio host advice guy who everyone loves though at home he's really self righteous and annoying.  Is any of this making sense? I'm resting my head on my knee between sentences.

                 Farley finally has some good luck and meets a cool impulsive chick who befriends him , hangs out with him and then convinces him to go out into the woods in hopes of seeing some mythical "trogs" who live there.  Going on would give too much away, but this is a fun movie.  Charmingness aside, I must point out they definately needed one of those things where you put the camera on a little train and have a track that goes around because the camerawork is tres shaky.  It's like if the cast of Chris Elliots "Get A life' decided to go out on a weekend and make some kind of absurd horror movie or slightly gory and violent Hardy Boys episode.  I love klonopin

    These are the same people made something called "Murder and Mystery in Manchvegas" (2009) which is of similar quality so if you have randomly seen either one check the other one out though I liked this a litttle better.  4/5

p.s the acting and writing are pretty bad but its fun

[Jack]

Girl's Night Out (1984) - Slasher movie.  A college basketball team wins some game, and they're so excited about it that we get to watch them getting drunk and grinning stupidly for a solid hour.  These people are utterly bereft of personality - I've never in my life seen a more generic batch of jock douchebags.  Eventually somebody dresses up in the school mascot's bear costume and starts killing the basketball players' girlfriends (who are every bit as boring as the guys).  The cops investigate, blah blah blah.  Took me three nights to finally finish this damned thing.  2/5.

[vukxfiles]

In Hell (2003)- One of the best Van Damme movies. Great story line, great fight scenes, and since it's a prison movie I must like it. Too little words for such a great movie. 9/10.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)- It's been more than 40 years since this movie was made, and I'm amazed to how the special effects look genuine, especially the outer look of the various space ships. I love the way you can interpret the movie in many ways, and Kubrick was a genius to never give a statement to the meaning of his movie. Maybe it doesn't have any meaning at all, but since everyone who watches it is determined to translate what they saw into some simple explanation they can understand can only prove how great of an influence this movie has on the viewer. Since I really don't like movies in outer space, I gave it an 8/10.

Lost Reality 2: More of the Worst (2005)- A fun collection of offensive "reality" programs that have never been emmitted. Although some of the skits here are funnier than in the first movie, I loved the editing of the first and even the greater shock I got watching it. This one doesn't give you much of a shock, since in between scenes the crew gives comments about the previous scene, which doesn't give you a sense of being alone as the first one did. 8/10. I gave the first movie 10/10.

The Jungle Book (1967)- I finally refreshed my memory of this fun cartoon, but since I'm older now and much time has passed since it was produced, I find the plot a bit cliche. I also expected more danger with Shir Khan the tiger. Still, i have to consider it's a children's cartoon, although I would have loved many of the disney classic cartoons to be a bit more mature. I gave it a 7/10

Dr. Caligari (1989)- A fun, crazy, terrifying, erotic and just a little bit of everything else movie. This is very hard to find, and by bad-movie fans like me, it is considered a cult film. I was suprised by the amount of neonic colous and cigarettes used in this movie, and by the many philosophical lines said in it. To the average person it might seem like a worthless piece of crap, but to the others it can seem as an art film. I'm still trying to figure out the symbolism behind many scenes in this movie. If you are willing to watch this, I have to warn you that it contains much nudity along with terrifying scenes, and I think smokers will get a sudden urge wo smoke a few packs after watching this. 6/10

[Leah]

The Star BORES ( ) Holiday Special

[lester1/2jr]

Stooges LIve in Detroit- I love the Stooges.  To me they were just about the greatest band ever.  This video is mainly two part 1. a good live set of the reunited (4 piece ) band in yes Detriot going through songs from the first and most popular albums. I happen to be partial to search and destroy and the later unreleased materiel ( the stooges have 3 official albums, I have like 13)  but it was still good.  the real treasure though was an in store performace in NYC featuring iggy on vocals, scott asheton on guitar and ron asheton on a bunch of crates made to resembles some drums.  It's bascially the same set but it's quiter and iggy explains the different moments in the band when the songs were written and what they meant and stuff. it was INCREDIBLE.  If you are into the stooges you have to see it.  order, not recomendation 5/5 your head will fall off


The Screwfly Solution- starring Elliot Gould and Jason Priestly.  were Judd hisch and Corey Haim busy?  This is a good addition to the master sof horror series about how someone has messed with mens sex drive so instead of wanting to have sex with women they want to kill them.  The similarities between their behaviour and those of rapists and so forth are obvious. It's a good idea for a movie.   Construction workers, instead of just leering and doing wolfwhistles at women  try to physically murder them.  Christian Fundamentalism becomes popular. Women are under siege.  you get it? it's an hour long friggin rent it

[Jack]

Warriors of the Wasteland (1982) - Italian Road Warrior ripoff.  Some guy named Scorpion wanders the post apocalyptic wasteland in a silly looking car with a big bubble on the roof.  There are also the bad guys, called the Templars, who wear goofy shoulder pads and drive around in cars made out of plywood.  They're trying to kill Scorpion, and that would be really easy, so to make the movie last 90 minutes, the Templars have to be really stupid.  A few other things happen, they're not really worth mentioning though.  It made me chuckle a few times, especially in the climax when the bad guy shoots Scorpion and he takes his shirt off to reveal he's covered in the silliest looking clear plastic "armor" you can imagine.  It rates very low on the '80s post apocalyptic charm scale, and is pretty darned dull for most of its run time.  I've seen worse though.  2.5/5.

[Jack]

Camp Utopia (2002) - Back in the '60s, a hippie commune was set up in the forest, but the leader of the group took some bad acid and went on a killing spree.  In the present day, a couple of guys and their revoltingly b***hy girlfriends go on a camping trip to the spot of the massacre.  Need I say more?  This might not have been too terrible if not for the repulsively b***hy women in it.  Script was bad, acting was passable.  Music was actually pretty good, it didn't fit the mood of any of the scenes, but it wouldn't be bad to listen to as a soundtrack or something.  2.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

42nd street forver 5 :the alamo - this is another one of those collections of grindhouse trailers.  It's got some rare ones like the little kids ninja spectacular "lucky 7" , various movies with "Force" in the title, Godfrey Ho ninja campiness and one sci fi one where all characters are played by farm animals.  Also some more familiar titles like "Poor Pretty Eddie (aka Redneck country) and Caged virgins, two of my personal favorite movies ever.  I listened to the commentary the whole time it was very entertaining including tales of showing r rated trailers at the very wrong times at drive ins in the south, and trying to impress a hungover Jerry Seinfeld with their library of trailers when he just wanted to watch the one for his " B movie". 

an obvious recomendation to anyone here.  The Alamo is some movie theatre, it's not like western themed trailers.