Recent viewings

[3mnkids]

In an Asian Horror mood.

Audition~ Hollywood could really learn something from these film makers. Oh they try with their stupid remakes but miss the mark. Whats great about this movie is its pace. Its slowly telling the story, letting you know the characters. You get that feeling that something just isnt right with her but you dont know what and then.. the last 20 minutes tells you all you need to know. Its crazy and twisted. I love this movie. The sounds in this get me every time. when she is throwing up in the bowl or when she has the piano wire around his foot.. I cant listen to it.   

Re-Cycle~ A writer gets pulled into another world. its a little confusing at first but its so worth watching. There are several scenes that remind me of silent hill, the game not that sorry excuse of a movie. Really creepy and beautiful at the same time.

[bladerunnerblues]

Road Games-Found this at my brothers house.It's official;Stacy Keach is now one of my favorite actors.

Uptown Saturday Night-Even though I had seen this a few times before,I never realized just how funny this movie is.Just last night I came across In The Heat of the Night on TCM and thought it kind of bizzarre that the same guy that starred in and directed UTSN,was also Virgil Tibbs.Now I really wanna' see Let's Do it Again..again

[Jack]

Dark Waters (2003) - Some dopey schlock about intelligent sharks attacking people at the bottom of the sea.  Lorenzo Lamas is called in (since he owns a submarine), and soon enough he and his sidekick Simmone Mackinnon (the ONLY reason I've watched this about 4 times is because Simmone is H-O-T!) are fighting with everyone on a top secret Navy submarine where the shark project is headquartered.  I'll give it a full extra point for Simmone's hotness:  3/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Metalheads:  the good , the bad, and the evil (2008)-  this isn't a documentary about metalheads, instead it is the new movie by Bill Zebub, director of "The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made" and " The Most Offensive Comedy Ever Made".  This one isn't quite so ambitious, he isn't reaching for any sort of title,  it's simply a tale of a new jersey  acid fueled love triangle with death metal, violence, and LSD and strippers interwoven.  Zebub has basically settled in to being a working mans Larry David and this reminds me most of "Curb Your enthusiasm".   Is it is amazing as "Borat" ?  No, but what is?  I'ts funnier than you probably deserve.   I'm surprised this guys stuff hasn't been picked up by MTV or comedy central yet it would be a perfect fit.

[3mnkids]

Up~ Its cute like you would expect from pixar.     Its not one of my favorites, that would be monsters inc, and its not my least favorite, that would be cars but somewhere in between. I found it a little boring and it lacked the traditional cute characters.  I teared up a few times and laughed a few times but it didnt wow me. My youngest really enjoyed it though. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

Stripes- Very funny old school comedy. 

Prince of Darkness- Good movie, though it starts to weaken towards the middle.  I always thought the hand of the Prince coming out of the mirror was creepy looking.   

Dr. Giggles- Still fun after all these years.  Staberrific! 

The Dentist- Having now finally seen the whole thing, I feel complete.  It's a good psychological movie.   

He's Just Not That Into You- Watched it with my fiancee.  Not terribly impressive.  It breaks some of the old date movie formula, but maintains it for the most part.  The one major drawback: I hate 99% of the characters in it.  With so many basic date movie characters, it felt like I was watching a slasher flick without a slasher.  I could only imagine Jason running in on ever scene and hacking everyone to bits.  [thumbs in the middle]

[3mnkids]

Perfect Creature~ a different take on the vampire story. The vampires dont kill people but they do drink blood. They are revered by humans and they co exist peacefully. Until a rogue vampire starts hunting humans.
I really enjoyed it. There wasn't a lot of action or tons of bloody scenes but it was a nice, different look at vampires.

A bittersweet life~ This one is going on my to buy list for sure.  A guy (Sunwoo) works for a gangster as an enforcer. He is good at his job and is loyal. His boss ask him for a favor and thats where the problems start. The favor has to do with a woman, not a surprise im sure.     It goes downhill quickly and becomes a movie about revenge. Its sooo good. The acting is top notch and the fight scenes kick ass. I loved it. 

[indianasmith]

I watched a bizarre little flick called KILLING ARIEL last night.  A guy believes his mother and father were murdered years before by an incubus, and suddenly, when he turns 40, he begins to stray from his wife, and picks up a girl named Ariel who seems to know an awful lot about him and his background . . . he slowly becomes convinced that she is the incubus that tormented his family years before, returned in female form, and kills here again and again, only to wake up in bed with her the next morning. . . . or does he?

One of those, is it real or is it a delusion kind of movies.

Quirky and worth checking out.

[Rev. Powell]

THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE (1989): New Jersey's only superhero goes to work for the evil toxic waste corporation Apocalypse, Inc., in order to make money for an operation to cure his fiancees blindness. Partly made out of unused footage from PART II, by this time the attempts at comedy have become ridiculously cartoonish and juvenile, and there's way too much dull plot; a step backwards for a series that wasn't that great to begin with.  Side note: there's no actually nudity in this one!  Amazing that they were able to sign Phoebe Legere to do these sequels back-to- back, while the contract with her hooters ran out between PART II and PART III.  1.5/5

THE MILKY WAY [LA VOIE LACTEE] (1969): Two down and out men travel from France to Spain for a pilgrimage, along the way meeting various absurd characters who illustrate historical Christian heresies. A remarkable Surrealist assault on religious dogmatism and hypocrisy by the great Luis Bunuel, often using the Church's own texts against them, but it's so academic that it sometimes feels like it's all from the head, with no heart involved at all.  3.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

nightbeast- (1984)  theres a concession in having "beast" in your title, like the director is already asking for charity.  I mean, beast is an old fashioned word, it's scary but corny and old fashioned.  You can't help but think of mystery science theatre and, more to the point, Ed Wood jr.  I had read some thing about a documentary the director don Dohler made talking abuot how he hated all the gore and nudity of b movies.  I thuoght about that when I was watching this and it just added to that feeling of not being able to really "get lost" in the movie.  I was always thinking about the actors and what their lives must be like and where is this town and so forth.   Obviously Troma put no effort into the transfer.  The love scene is extremely ill advised.  Outside of the cute drunk secretary none of these people belong on film.  I'd watch it again

[Doggett]

Solaris

0/5

I shall never watch this again...

I can't even be bothered to write down what little plot it had. So I'll copy and paste a review that has the same gist I got from the film.

One tag-line for this movie is "There are some places man is not ready to go," like into the theatre playing this movie. The other tag-line is "How far will you go for a second chance?" Apparently as far as death by boredom.

This movie is about regret, consequences, and redemption. Regret for actually seeing it. Consequences, waste of an afternoon and money for the DVD rental. Redemption, none.

According to the director, Steven Soderbergh, the movie concentrates on the love George Clooney's character feels for his dead wife. And how far he will go to be with her again. But all he did was take 15-20 minutes of useful story, and stretched it into a 90 minute movie by adding on 70 minutes of useless garbage. Also, it seems as though he ignored the enigma of the living planet Solaris.

Where the whole story could have been made on an episode of the Outer Limits, only a part of the story was used into making a major snooze fest.



I heard the original was over 3hrs. long !!!

[Joe the Destroyer]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen- I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one, but I am a sucker for summer action movies.  I still managed to enjoy this one, despite the fact that the twins got way too much screen time, and you could harldy tell what was going on in some battles.   

[3mnkids]

CJ7~ A really cute kids movie from Stephen Chow. A Father finds a ball for his son and it turns out to be an alien. A really, really cute one.      I absolutely loved this movie. It was very funny. It probably isnt the best movie for younger children though. All three of mine watched it but the older two enjoyed it more.

[Leah]

It Conquered The World(1956) Funny, but the monster is smaller than I expected to be.

Death Race 2000 (1975) Gives the meaning of a hand grenade a new meaning  

[lester1/2jr]

a girl in black (1956) -  This greek movie could have been a classic and the director certainly has a feel for the local scenery and culture, but the script just isn't up to par.  A rich guy comes tothe not rich guy island of Hydra for some reason   and butts heads with the local mildly taliban like young men who are a kind of morality  / goon squad and generally make liefe miserable for people especially the black dress clad female lead.  They certainly dno't like the idea of some snot nosed runt from Athens making time with one of THEIR girls, who won't give any of them the time of day,  and generally disturbing the arrangement which is highly benficial to them.  The romance doesn't really come off though and right when the tension reaches it's high point it goes off into some sherlock holmes business that is neither here nor there.  Probably alot of people won't even make it that far in which is too bad.  I'd love to see a remake with all of this tightened up.