Recent viewings

[bob]

This is a classic and dare I say the first ever action movie? Not sure about that, but Seven Samuari is easily one of the most influential movies ever made and one of the best.

5/5

[Vik]

Wizards
I dug it. Loved the trippy ending.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Scream 4"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlaZfOiGaCU

Sidney, Gail, and Dewey are back, along with a whole new set of good lookin' teenyboppers/potential victims, for yet another round of brutal stabbings and biting sarcasm.

Unnecessary, but enjoyable sequel.

[Vik]

Phantasm
Pretty weird, which I guess was the point. Not bad.

[tracy]

[Flick James]

Phantasm
Pretty weird, which I guess was the point. Not bad.

I love the Phantasm series. You should keep going. It gets weirder and the plot elements get progressively more ridiculous. The Phantasm movies, for me at least, are a great combination of being bad movies with plenty to make fun of, yet also have some cool atmospheric elements, and of course, Angus Scrimm, which is worth the watch alone.

[Vik]

Phantasm
Pretty weird, which I guess was the point. Not bad.

I love the Phantasm series. You should keep going. It gets weirder and the plot elements get progressively more ridiculous. The Phantasm movies, for me at least, are a great combination of being bad movies with plenty to make fun of, yet also have some cool atmospheric elements, and of course, Angus Scrimm, which is worth the watch alone.

I didn't know there were any sequels, I'll definitely check them out 

[Vik]

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Awesome documentary on Hunter S. Thompson. 

[lester1/2jr]

Rev- The Baby was kind of the Happiness or Sleepaway Camp of it's day. It's revolting and that's the point. Amazing that it has a PG rating.

Jim H- I know what you mean about 9th configuration but I ended up really enjoying it.


Until When.. (2004)- This is a pretty typical low budget documentary about Palestinians. There's a loose theme about the "right of return" (for Palestinian refugees in neighboring countries to be able to come home) but mainly it's just talking with various normal seeming (non Hamas or political type people) Palestinians about their lives. It's sad because for whatever reason, whoever you blame, these people are kind of left to hang. They will have a job that takes 20 minutes to get to, then one day the Israelis will say the road can only be used by Israelis and now they have to take some other road that takes like 2 hours. They also talk about how they used to live in nice villages with trees but now they have to live in these ugly walled off areas. People talk about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in symbols and stuff, these people don't really exist or people kind of wish they didn't it seems. They are like inconvenient.

It's slight but interesting. 4/5

Countryman (1982) - This is the kind of movie thats a little too poorly paced and amateurish to quite reccomend but it's very colorful and authentic, kind of the same feeling I had about Paul Morrisey's Mixed Blood. Mixed Blood took place in 80's NYC, this one in Jamaica. The plot is not all that strong, two white people incluiding a hot girl are on the run from the corrupt Jamaican authorities for some reason. Countryman, who is a fisherman with some crazy mystical vibe/ powers, helps them.  Basically, the stuff with him in it is good, the scenes with the authorities are boring. I enjoyed it but I have had less time to see movies lately and so I felt the faults a little more than usual.

3.75 /5

[Rev. Powell]

Rev- The Baby was kind of the Happiness or Sleepaway Camp of it's day. It's revolting and that's the point. Amazing that it has a PG rating.

I know it has its strong defenders but I don't really get it.  Revolting?  There are a few strong scenes nothing up to grindhouse standards.  But as far as rating goes, yeah, it probably should have been "R."  In 1973 the "PG" rating had only been in existence for 1 year and I guess they weren't really sure how they were going to use it yet.  There's no nudity and only implied sex, but there is violence and cruelty.  I someone smokes a cigarette in it, so it would probably get a NC-17 today. 

MST3K: THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS: Someone pushes a button (offscreen) and things happen in Coleman Francis' mind-numbing sci-fi epic starring Tor Johnson as the Beast ("that's just smart casting," Mike observes).  Probably about what you would expect; the movie doesn't give them a lot to work with so there are lots of generic "this movie sucks" jokes.  There are two shorts: a spendthrift teen boy gets a lesson in money management from Ben Franklin, and the Puerto Rico tourist board tries to get people interested in the "Island of Progress, USA."  Back in the lab the mads are campaigning for "Proposition Deep 13," which apparently involves showing bad movies to hostages in space.  The Shout! Factory DVD contains two extras: "No Dialog Necessary: Making an Off-Camera Masterpiece" and "Coleman Francis: The Cinematic Poet of Parking," which are definitely worth watching to gain some insight into poor Coleman Francis.  With the extras this disc is easily 4/5.

[bob]

I just finished this.....and honestly don't know what to make of it



if the whole movie was supposed to be about the twist at the end it works on some levels but doesn't on others

3/5???

[InformationGeek]

Inception: I finally sat down and watch this thing (I had the DVD since Christmas, what was my problem?).  It was incredible and so fasincating.  I loved listening to everyone talk and trying to figure out all the things going on, even before they explain it themselves.  While it is a bit talky, I didn't mind it since it was so much fun to listen to them explain their world.  Like Paprika, I am going to have to watch it a few more times, however, to get every single detail down.  Regardless, I loved this movie and I am sort of disappointed with myself about not seeing it sooner.

[Psycho Circus]

Quiet Cool (1986)

James Remar is a NY cop who travels to some woodland village to help a woman and kid who's family have been killed by guys growing marijuana. That's about it for the plot, which is just my assumption of what was going on as nothing is properly explained because there's barely any dialogue in the whole film and all the scenes are extremely rushed. There's zero character development and I got the impression the screenplay was written in about 5mins. I was very disappointed with Quiet Cool. Two or three decent actions sequences and a great theme song by Joe Lamont make this a 2/5.

[Vik]

Phantasm 2
Maybe I was in the mood, but I liked it better than the first one. Weird, entertaining movie. The scene with the chick rubbing the bald head probably creeped me out more than anything else.

[Rev. Powell]

TO DIE LIKE A MAN (2010): A pre-op transsexual drag queen lives with a suicidal junkie.  There's an interesting story here but it's buried underneath an unnecessary gimmick: all the characters mouth their lines but no sound comes out (we read their words in subtitles).  This alienating device robs the actors of half their expressiveness and is more annoying than it sounds.  2/5.