Recent viewings

[Rev. Powell]

EDMOND (2005): A latently racist and mentally addled accountant (William H. Macy) leaves his wife, tours the NYC commercial sex trade, and ends up in prison. Macy's performance is interesting, but not interesting enough to inspire the viewer to try to make sense of David Mamet's confused script, which is full of vague philosophizing and obscure references (the main character shares his name with an 18th century Irish philosopher/statesman).  2/5.

[indianasmith]

Very bizarre film that I caught on IFC one night . . . I think I even started a thread on it somewhere.  Utterly weird.

[Doggett]

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
5/5
Comedy/musical/monster/romance movie.

The plant is a better actor than Vin Diesel   


They should've kept the original ending, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddIK3CIMzFs

[asimpson2006]

MASH (1970) *** out of **** The movie is about is mobile hospital unit during the Korean War.  The soldiers use lots of humor to keep their sanity during the war.  One of the funnier films I have seen in a quite a long time.  It was a bit over the top at times, but I think that was needed to make the film even better.

[Jack]

Raptor Planet (aka Planet Raptor, 2007) - a small group of soldiers and scientists go to an alien planet and find an uninhabited Elizabethan village - and raptors.  Rates really high on my so-bad-it's-good scale.  Steven Bauer gives a "Better take some No-Doze, I'm gonna start acting" performance as the military commander.  Vanessa Angel is the hot babe scientist.  The raptors are completely comical, they keep getting shot in the head, producing a large splash of blood, but they don't seem to be effected at all.  When they die, it's like a plastic lawn ornament being tipped over.  They even move in a humorous manner, like the rest of the film is at 60 frames per second, and they're at about 5.  Plenty of subplots, which is good because the main plot is pretty uninteresting.  4/5.

Oh, almost forgot - at one point they toss 3 or 4 small pieces of C-4 on the ground, which causes a huge volcano to erupt!  What the?!?!   

[lester1/2jr]

idle hands (1999)  -  embarassed to admit I hadn't seen this one.  wacky, unpretentious horror comedy most memorable for the constant pot smoking and an early role for Jessica Alba, who could not possibly look better.  I'm not a big fan of Seth Green but even he can't ruin the fun.  If you have a glow in the dark pen of some kind, write "I'm under the bed" over your friends bed and see what they do.  4/5

[Jack]

Quantum of Solace - We start with a car chase/shootout, edited with machine-gun rapidity so you haven't got a clue what's going on.  Cars fall off a cliff.  Why?  No idea.  A bit later we're treated to a shootout on boats, edited the same way.  Bond tosses a grappling hook onto the bad guy's boat;  next thing you know, bad guy's boat goes hurtling a hundred yards through the air.  Why?  Not a clue.  Bond barely has any lines for the first three-quarters of the movie, so we've basically got a film built around an anonymous lead.  Although the main plot is easy enough to figure out, what people are doing in various scenes, much less why, remains a complete mystery.  On the bright side, it's not as if you'll care.  The people at MI6 do their work on some sort of holographic consoles straight out of Star Trek.  It made me roll my eyes and say "oh gawd".  And what the hell was up with that ending?  Did that house have a container of nitro glycerin in every room?  There wasn't even any Bond theme music until the closing credits.  1.5/5.

[Doggett]

Hairspary (re-make) 5/5, the chirpiest film ever made !
Chicago 4/5, What's the point of the stage set dance sequences ?

[Doggett]

2 Fast 2 Furious - 3.5/5, Not bad. The film is as deep as a puddel, and I'm not a petrolhead, but even I got a kick from seeing the cars. The car jump at the end was awesome !
I'm gonna watch the third one tonight, I wonder if the first is any good.

[Doggett]

Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
1/5
Don't. Just don't.

[Wag]

I watched The Bride Of Re-Animator last night on Zone Horror and enjoyed it; I find Jeffrey Combs to be entertaining (I liked him as Weyoun in ST: DS9) and wished I had managed to stay awake when I watched Re-Animator now. 3½/5

(Oh and Doggett, I was gonna warn you about Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift; sorry I didn't get round to it)

[Joe the Destroyer]

Caught Superstition (1982) this morning for the first time.  It was lots of fun!  Maybe not the most solid 80's gore flick I've run across, but it's modest, and that's all I need. 

[lester1/2jr]

JOe - is that the one where the guy carries around the metal cross?  house by a lake?



MST3K:  gunslingers -  this is one of those early mst3k's where the movie isn't actually that bad.  The sound is a little quiet though on the movie part.  It's good, as is typical of this classic show.  that's all I have to say.

[Doggett]

(Oh and Doggett, I was gonna warn you about Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift; sorry I didn't get round to it)

I'll never get that time back !

[Wag]

I'll never get that time back !

Nope. No you won't. Try not to think about it too much.