Recent viewings

[lester1/2jr]

Head: the monkees -  This is hard to review.  On the one hand it has alot of the color and wackiness of the monkees long running tv show and the "experimental"  elements are  occasionaly clever.  On the other hand,  it's got more than enough of the by now bitter monkees whining abuot how they were a fabricated boy band and the plot if there is one makes no sense.   bratty, self indulgent, but what's left of that monkees physical goof ball comedy and so forth works.  a high point is a cameo by heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston , not really anyhting he does it's just cool that he's in it.   great movie to talk over and point at but if you actually watch it you might find it annoying.

a mixed bag, I think that's the expression.  some decent musical numbers but nothing as good as daydream believer or one of the other famous Boyce Hart gems.

[Jack]

Bloodlines (2007) - A girl is kidnapped by inbred hillbilly's - wow, the originality!  They've kidnapped several other girls as well, all for breeding purposes.  Unfortunately for the hillbilly's, their latest victim has two brothers who are macho paramilitary types.  When I say macho, I mean one of them gets an arrow through the arm, breaks it off, and plunges it into the forehead of his attacker.  The good:  Excellent atmosphere, you can almost smell the body odor coming off these people.  The bad characters are great, really sick psychos, well written and acted.  The soundtrack is excellent for the most part.  Plot moves along at a good pace.  The bad:  The good girl is just soooooo good.  Aw c'mon, gimme a break.  The movie would have been a lot better if she had a more interesting personality.  It's gets a bit cheesy, especially near the end.  The dialogue is way too soft compared to the rest of the soundtrack on the DVD.  Overall, 3.5/5.  If you're looking for an inbred hillbilly movie, you could certainly do a lot worse.

[Doggett]

Alien
4/5

Aliens
5/5

Alien3
4/5

[3mnkids]

Grace~ A pregnant woman gets in a car accident and is told that her baby is dead, she decides to carry it anyway and its stillborn but somehow comes back to life with a taste for human blood.     So many things wrong this movie.*spoilers*

They dont explain anything about how or why this happened to the baby but kind of hint around at it. She is a vegan and so is her cat apparently. At one point the cat is killing rats and her husband explains that its because the cat is only given soy milk. so, im assuming since she only had a vegan diet while pregnant they are saying thats why the baby wants blood.    The MIL in this movie is one of the most bizarre characters i have seen in a long time. After her son is killed in the accident she becomes obsessed with breast feeding... its weird and made me extremely uncomfortable.

Is the baby dead or alive? Is it all in her head? well you dont really know until close to the end.  The baby has flies all around it and it smells so im thinking its dead but then other people actually hear the baby crying so its not all in her head. then why does the baby stink and have flies all around it?  After it was over all i could say is WTF was that! 

[trekgeezer]

Head: the monkees -  This is hard to review.  On the one hand it has alot of the color and wackiness of the monkees long running tv show and the "experimental"  elements are  occasionaly clever.  On the other hand,  it's got more than enough of the by now bitter monkees whining abuot how they were a fabricated boy band and the plot if there is one makes no sense.   bratty, self indulgent, but what's left of that monkees physical goof ball comedy and so forth works.  a high point is a cameo by heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston , not really anyhting he does it's just cool that he's in it.   great movie to talk over and point at but if you actually watch it you might find it annoying.

a mixed bag, I think that's the expression.  some decent musical numbers but nothing as good as daydream believer or one of the other famous Boyce Hart gems.

You failed to note that one of the writers of this film was Jack Nicholson.

[lester1/2jr]

it had writers?? 

[indianasmith]

Bloodlines (2007) - A girl is kidnapped by inbred hillbilly's - wow, the originality!  They've kidnapped several other girls as well, all for breeding purposes.  Unfortunately for the hillbilly's, their latest victim has two brothers who are macho paramilitary types.  When I say macho, I mean one of them gets an arrow through the arm, breaks it off, and plunges it into the forehead of his attacker.  The good:  Excellent atmosphere, you can almost smell the body odor coming off these people.  The bad characters are great, really sick psychos, well written and acted.  The soundtrack is excellent for the most part.  Plot moves along at a good pace.  The bad:  The good girl is just soooooo good.  Aw c'mon, gimme a break.  The movie would have been a lot better if she had a more interesting personality.  It's gets a bit cheesy, especially near the end.  The dialogue is way too soft compared to the rest of the soundtrack on the DVD.  Overall, 3.5/5.  If you're looking for an inbred hillbilly movie, you could certainly do a lot worse.

I actually have a review of that one somewhere here on the site.  It was pretty good for a CMH movie.

[lester1/2jr]

Do or Die (1985)- Circus Circus might well be attracted to Donna Spier and some of the other awesomely 80's chicks in this movie but I cannot fairly say that I really am.  This is a bit of a misfire from Mssr Sidaris.  It's got the pattented Bombs, babes and bottles or whatever it is but it's not up to the standards of "Hard ticket to hawaii", the greatest movie ever made or even "Picasso Trigger".  Still, if you are going to watch a clunker, let it be an Andy Sidaris one as there are plenty of gun fights, silicon enhanced nudity and if you act now, Pat Morita and Erik Estrada. 3/5

[3mnkids]

The Fall~ set in a hospital during the 1920's. An injured stuntman and a little girl with a broken arm become friends and he tells her a story about 5 heroes.

Its by far the most visually stunning movie i have ever seen.  Its not a movie for everyone but i loved it.

iO0LYcCoeJY

[SkullBat308]

Martyrs- Thought this was great, but noticed that opinion is really divided on this movie and can see why.

[lester1/2jr]

3mnkids- the stuntman lee Pace was in a crazy movie called "Soldiers girl" as a transexual who romances a soldier.  If you don't mind somwething a little edgy and about 1/100 of the budget of the Fall check it out


MST3K Prince of Space-  What's remarkable about this is that it's not really at all remarkable but is an entertaining and satisfactory entry  which I would recommed to anyone.

[Pilgermann]

The H-Man - Ishiro Honda's film about Blob-like men created by radiation has some neat effects but it's lacking in plot despite incorporating the mob and stolen drugs.  The scenes of people dissolving into blue, bubbling slime are unsettling, but the climax was kind of whimpy.  Not one of his better movies but I'd still recommend it to fans of Honda's films.

Plan 9 from Outer Space -- At long last I've seen this movie and it did not disappoint me!  I loved it!

[RCMerchant]

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT-the remake.
Just as f**ked up as the original-but no chainsaw. Very unpleasent. Like the original. But doesn't have the low budget cheese factor. The Low Budget Cheese Factor actually contributes to the scarieness of the old 70's splatter films. I knew I was watching a big money movie. The original,DONT LOOK IN THE BASEMENT,The TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE,DERANGED-they benifited from their low budgets-once you take exploitation films and spend millions of dollars in remaking them-they loose their 'charm'.( To use that word loosley.)

Original LAST HOUSE trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0r066kUBUo

New Last House trailer-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfDli2QCuY

[3mnkids]

3mnkids- the stuntman lee Pace was in a crazy movie called "Soldiers girl" as a transexual who romances a soldier.  If you don't mind somwething a little edgy and about 1/100 of the budget of the Fall check it out

I will add it to my watch list. Sounds interesting. I thought Pace was great in the fall and would like to see more of him.

[Jack]

Star Slammer (1987) - In a low budget future, some girl is arrested and put in the Star Slammer, a big prison spaceship.  It's sort of a women in prison movie, but with only two boobs.  You get to see them twice though.  It's just dopey as all get out.  "Relentlessly stupid" as it says on the IMDb.  Here's a message for Fred Olen Ray:  Your movies are plenty stupid to start with.  When you add intentional humor on top of that, it turns them into complete crap.  2/5.

Turbulence 3:  Heavy Metal (2001) - A heavy metal band is giving a concert onboard a 747, and devil worshippers take over the plane and try to crash it into Kentucky.  This had a fairly good budget compared to most of the junk I watch.  I guess the plot moved along pretty well, and it followed the usual routine for all these trouble-in-the-air movies.  It didn't go the cheesy route, which is to say, it could have used some boobs.  It actually had a 6.1 soundtrack    The music was fairly good, acting was decent, it just wasn't terribly interesting.  3.5/5.