Recent viewings

[lester1/2jr]

shaolin Fox Conspiracy: if you are a fan of stuff like "Zu warriors from Magic Mountain" or "Drunken Wutang" you could do worse than this though it's not on the level of either of those.   The reproduction quality is terrible, I don't know why, there are definately better versions of this.  I saw it as "Jade Diggar Ninja" on a Ocean Shores video like 10 years ago and it was fine.  It's sword fighting with colorful weird special effects of the type I could personally watch continuasly till the end of time but are not very popular now because hong kong over did them.  some nice looking girls too.  3/5

[Criswell]

Kagemusha it was amazing!

[Psycho Circus]

Alligator II: The Mutation (1990) 

Awful, just awful. Looks and plays like a TV movie with horrible dialogue, bad effects and no originality. The movie seems to speed from one scene to the next, yet it felt like I'd been watching it for a zillion years. It's a total re-hash of the very competent first film, thus rendering this sequel pretty pointless.

1/5

[indianasmith]

I watched LAST RESORT this week.  Not too bad; kind of a combination of HOSTEL meets 13 GHOSTS, but with less nudity than either.  Definitely worth the rental fee.

[asimpson2006]

Cause of the snow on the East Coast, decided to make the best of the weather and got some movies under my belt.

Gremlins ** 1/2 out of ****.  I though it was an okay film, but I didn't find it special at all.  It dragged on too slowly for my tastes and I wish it moved a bit faster.  I was suprised by the violence in it for a PG film, though from what I read, this was one of the films that led to the PG-13 rating being created.

Ghostbusters II *** out of ****.  Not as good as the first film but still enjoyable.  It didn't have quite the charm as the first film had, but overall I was thrilled by watching it.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians *** out of ****.  My dad begged me to show him this film when I told him about it last year.  Since I seen the MST3K version last year, this was the first time I watched it by itself.  My dad got too much of a kick out of the film, and I think he got addicted to it, since he keeps talking about the film a lot.  He has the opening song stuck in his head, along with what he called the "child molesting" Santa because of his laugh.  My dad couldn't believe that there was worse movies than this and I told him there is.

[3mnkids]

I bought another "collectors" set dvd from walmart, this time horror. Why do I keep doing this. 

Bloody Mary(2006)~~ I had to turn it off after 40 minutes. It was awful. AWFUL.

Salvage~ This one wasn't too bad. A young woman keeps having visions, dreams.. of being killed and seems to be living the same day over and over.   It kept me interested which is saying something considering how disgusted I was with the movie I tried to watch prior, see above.   

Mortuary~ A family buys a run down and I must say very nasty mortuary and things dont turn out so well for them. Apparently the soil is..bad.     Eh, it was watchable. Its not good and not really bad either.

one more left, memory, but I haven't gotten around too it yet.

[lester1/2jr]

the dream sword (early 80's) -  this is part of a series called "rare-scope" which puts out previously unavailable kung fu movies mostly, I gather, for your hard core collectors.  I had to see this as I happen to be a huge fan of lung jun erh, one of it's stars.  It was a decent to mediocre flick with average martial arts and a lot of attention paid to costumes and interior decorating, the palaces are like really nice chinese restaurants. lung jun erh looks good but doesn't do any fighting which was dissapointing.  In the begining it had a weird sort of atmosphere but it eventually settled in to be pretty non descript.  taiwanese production I believe.  next .

2/5

[vukxfiles]

A good modern exploitation flick, it could easily be the heir of Russ Meyer's work. I gave it a 5/10 (since it is'nt great compared to good movies I've seen). This movie is about a killer penis, I'm not kidding.

[lester1/2jr]

Karz (1980)- I have to confess I only watched half of this.  Bollywood movies are too long, I just don't have the stamina.  Western movies can be long too but usually they have some sort of epic thing going on if they are this long, this is just a regular movie.  I SAW the rest of it but it was just kind of on in the background.  

                   It was pretty much a combination of every bollywood movie from this era I've seen:  pop stardom, hindu reincarnation theme, visit to an authentic rural village, good songs, and really hot leading lady.  I'd going to give this 4 stars so the bollywood mafia at netflixdoesn't give me tons of unhelpfuls and it's a good, moderatly entertaining, mainstream sort of picture, but ,again, i couldn't finish it.  I'd recommend "Disco Dancer" or "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" they are more colorful.

[Rev. Powell]

DARKMAN (1990): After being immolated in an explosion set by gangsters, a hideously burned scientist undergoes an experimental treatment that gives him super strength and fits of uncontrollable rage, and seeks revenge using a synthetic skin that allows him to mimic the facial features of anyone he chooses (and also changes his height, build and eye color).  Completely preposterous and not meant to be taken seriously; the hammy acting by Liam Neeson is somewhat entertaining, but otherwise its full of action movie cliches that aren't funny enough to count as parodies.  I know many here probably love this thing, but I thought this was an "intentionally bad" movie that actually turned out to be a legitimately bad movie.  Not one of Raimi's better efforts IMO.   2/5.

MST3K - SWAMP DIAMONDS: The guys can't really get any good riffs going on this dull as swampwater Roger Corman flick about a girl gang taking hostages while seeking a chest of diamonds hidden somewhere in the unexplored Louisiana bayous.  The flick needed more, and muddier, catfights, and less scenes of people aimlessly paddling canoes.  The best part of the disc is the "What to Do on a Date" short, but the three host segments featuring Tom asking Gypsy out on a date are only mildly amusing.  A very forgettable episode.  2.5/5.       

[SkullBat308]

skullbat- I read a mst3k thing on line written by someone from the show saying Overdrawn was the dullest, most depressing thing he'd ever seen, of all the movies they ever did which is saying something

Yeah it was pretty excruciating lol

Oldboy- Great movie

[lester1/2jr]

harvey Birdman attorney at law season 1 (2000)=  If you are at all a fan of the Boom network  and/or the cheap endless litany of cartoons hanna barbera put out in the 60's and 70's do not under any circumstances miss this.  Birdman is now a lawyer who represents various of these characters in sort of Daily Show does Night Court scenerios, about 10 minutes each. Scooby Doo, the Flinstones, Thundarr the barbarian, Apache Chief from the SUperfriends, and those little gangsters from Penelope Pitstop all turn up as well as some of Birdmans enemies who I admit I did not know the names of.  It's as much a hanna barbera homage as a show unto itself.  In fact, it's much better than alot of the shows it takes characters from.  5 stars, helped just a little by the senitmentality factor

[InformationGeek]

I recently watched Tentacles.  I thought was going to be very boring, but it turns out it was actually pretty interesting.  Still, there were a lot of problems with it.

[venomx]

Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

[Jack]

Galaxy Hunter (2004) - Sci-fi movie about a government agent who gets kidnapped on some backwoods planet, and the hot blonde silicone enhanced spandex bodysuit babe who goes to rescue him.  She hooks up with some local female bounty hunters, infiltrates the bad guys' organization, and of course this all leads to the inevitable showdown at the end.  Good cheesy fun!  Lots of boobs, bad acting, chuckle inducing action scenes, primitive special effects, and boobs.  4/5.