Recent viewings

[Cthulhu]

Cthulhu -well futuristic in the sense that it's artifical and contained with no signs of nature like sci fi scenerios sometimes are. Glad to hear about the ticket taking policy shift

Well, if you mean it that way, okay.
About the ticket policy (and in general): In Hungary, we don't do things that are "simple" or "efficient" or things that "make sense".
Well, at least the people who run stuff that concerns a lot of people don't.

[lester1/2jr]

lol we don't in the US either

[3mnkids]

The hangover~ Friends go to Vegas for a bachelor party..

Im soooo ashamed.    I liked it. I dont usually watch comedies and I hate stupid frat boy kinda comedies but I couldn't help myself, I laughed. Dont hate me.   

[Vik]

The hangover~ Friends go to Vegas for a bachelor party..

Im soooo ashamed.    I liked it. I dont usually watch comedies and I hate stupid frat boy kinda comedies but I couldn't help myself, I laughed. Dont hate me.   

All my friends say that movie is hilarious, haven't seen it though 

They Live

A fantastic alien movie, awesome directing by John Carpenter, definately check it out !!

[lester1/2jr]

They live is really one of the great b movies of all time.  whoever cast Roddy Piper was a genius. 

[Vik]

Yes, it's definately one of te most entertaining movies I've ever seen. Awesome 

[lester1/2jr]

either put on these glasses or start eatin that trash can

[Vik]

 I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

[Psycho Circus]

either put on these glasses or start eatin that trash can

Put the sunglasses on!! 

[Sleepyskull]

Yesterday I watched A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors (1987).

I would not describe it as being anywhere near perfect, but I still can't think of too much wrong with it.  My favorite in the series so far.  I give it 13 out of 13 stars.

I have a chance to meet Robert Englund in September and I think I will have him sign something (probably my DVD multipack of the first 4 NOES movies) with a quote from this movie:

Freddy Krueger: "I said, "Where's the f**king bourbon?"

[InformationGeek]

Commando: I just watched this with my dad and it was so action packed, cheesy, over the top, and bad that it was just plain awesome!  Great cheesy lines, things blowing up, and so much else that it has to be one of the best/amusing action films around.  Curiously enough, Die Hard I hear was suppose to be a sequel to this movie!

[Jack]

Star Odyssey (1979) - Aliens invade Earth, and a rag-tag team of screwballs is assembled to thwart their evil plans. It's Italian and it's from the '70s...need I say more?  It's like a skid row version of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.  Ten times as dumb on 1/10th the budget.  My favorite parts were where they inserted black and white stock footage into their color movie.  Or the scenes that were obviously out of order.  Or the camera flash unit that one guy was using as a ray gun.  Or the computer which was made out of 4X8 sheets of plywood.  It's kind of obvious because each panel is about 4' X 8'.  Acting was generally abysmal.  2.5/5. 

Andrew reviewed it over here:  http://www.badmovies.org/movies/starodyssey/

[lester1/2jr]

As Far as My feet will carry me (2003) -  Kind of daunting to rent a 2 hour movie that you know is about a guy trekking across Siberia. I whined a little as I put it in "I should have gotten something LIGHTER" but it was really good. German soldier gets captured by the communinks and brought to Siberia. It's a german film and it goes to great lengths to compare the plight of the POW's to the jews in the camps: from the cattle cars, to the random shootings whenever it fancies the officers to the forced labor and so forth. Duly noted Germany. Except at this camp there are no guard towers because no one is dumb or crazy enough to escape into the frozen tundra untill our hero, Clemens Forell goes for it.

     The film does a great job conveying the tedium of the journey while also keeping it interesting with him bumping into hunters, siberian eskimo people dn't know what they are called and fighting the elements while also attempting to get passed the various policed borders and one particularly persistent pursuer (this is based on a true story but some of this stuff seems invented or at least embellished, I have no idea)

  One interesting scene is where he is helped by a jewish guy whose family perished in the holocaust. "We didn't know those things were going on" explains Forell "Yeah, I'm sure you would have dropped everything, shot your commanding officers and came and got us from the camps if you had" says the guy, who is pretty sanctimonius about helping him but then he's entitled to be you'd have to say considering what happened to his family, and now possibly getting himself in trouble with the KGB by helping an escaping German POW.

Amazing story, amazing movie. no real complaints 5/5


this clip shows the path of his 8,000 mile journey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-88229D80

[God the Worms]

BASKET CASE (1981):  Duane checks into a fleabag Times Square hotel carrying a basket under his arm; inside is something about 1/4 the size of a normal person that eats about 4 times the hamburgers a normal person.  Beneath the pic's grubby exterior is a well-told tongue-in-cheek monster story with unexpectedly sympathetic characters; director Henenlotter nails the aesthetic of sleaze and keeps on the right side of the fine line between trash and crass. 4/5.

Yyyyyyes!!!!! Henenlotter and Basket Case rule!!!!! Has anyone seen the third one? I've seen 1 and 2, loved them both obviously.

[JaseSF]

Is Anybody There? (2008): Set in 1980s England, a crotchedly, ill-tempered old man named Clarence (Michael Caine), formerly a magician named the Amazing Clarence, reluctantly moves into an retirement home. There he befriends a strange ten year old boy named Edward (Bill Milner), the son of the retirement home owners who just haven't enough time to devote to him, who has adopted an obsession for ghosts he's so surrounded by death and morbidity. Clarence eventually teaches Edward the value of looking for and appreciating the living in life and not the dead.

At times, this works very well at portraying an unlikely friendship that provides companionship and understanding for two diverse but very lonely people - an old man full of regrets and a young boy just wanting to be heard, be loved and accepted (preferably by his parents). Caine is terrific as Clarence and Milner does well as Edward, the boy Clarence eventually chooses to pass on his magic tricks. It doesn't quite work as well in terms of magic and charm as one might like in some ways and isn't some sugary sweet film about kindly old folks. Clarence is crotchedly, regretful, emotionally high strung and ill-tempered throughout most of the film's running time. It is a more realistic style story that shows off mainly the value of living, even in old age. *** out of *****