I like that flick too. Me and Crabby are big fans of it.

Last watched:

Feast

This could have done without the dumbass captions under the names of the characters but that aside I thought it was a ok watch. Henry Rollins in pink sweatpants made me laugh. I liked this better than Slither.

Black X-Mas

I avoided watching this for ages and ended up surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Not a patch on the original of course (not point comparing the two) but its a pretty fun slasher with some gory moments. Not nearly enough nudity for a film set in a girls dormitory. It was a lot like People Under Stairs surprisingly enough. But yeh like I said good fun not intended to be taken as seriously as a lot of people have/will do because its a remake of a genre classic.

"Undead Or Alive" (2007)
- Chris Kattan, James Denton, Navi Rawat

Plot:IMDB

Army deserter Elmer Winslow and local cowboy Luke Budd are on the run after robbing the evil Sheriff Claypool, stealing his money and fleeing the town, they find themselves with an angry posse on their trail. Joining Elmer and Luke is an Apache warrior, who's out to wreak vengeance on behalf of her decimated people; her plan is to attack the U.S. Army wherever she can find it, and she takes Elmer up on his offer to go with her to the nearest Army outpost he knows. Their plans become complicated when they discover that, as a result of the great Apache Geronimo's curse on the white man, all the people of the surrounding areas have turned into zombies.


Phantoms Review: If your a fan of Westerns, horror, or comedy then do yourself a big favor and....AVOID THIS MOVIE LIKE THE PLAGUE!! Bad in almost every respect. The western aspect of the film is obviously made by people who should not be making westerns. The attempts at horror fall flat and the comedy is pathetic. The only good thing about this film is a lovely actress named Navi Rawat, but even she can't save this loser of a movie.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

>>: C


Alone in the Dark (1982)

Pretty decent slasher with the great casts!

>>: B+

Escape to Athena

Perdita Durango (Dance With the Devil) (1997)

Well, it took me long enough, but I finally got to watch this on Rod's recommendation.
This is super-energetic action/road movie stuff done with a flair of exploitation and some truly excellent performances. It's certainly hyper, cheesy fun.
Interesting cast, by the way: Javier Bardem, Rosie Perez, James Gandolfini, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins in a smaller role.

Dead Like Me: Life After Death

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Wow, what a disappointment.

I was a huge fan of the series and was sad when it ended (quite before its time), so I was pretty excited to see what they would do with the movie. Unfortunately, it came with a number of issues:

1. No Mandy Patinkin and no Rube. I had expected this, knowing that part of the reason why the show ended was Patinkin going on to do other things. But the fact of the matter is: He made the show. He really did. And his disappearance was a vague plot point in the movie with a very dissatisfying result. I was hoping that perhaps they could do Dead Like Me with no Rube, but I was wrong. Dead wrong.

2. No Laura Harris, but still Daisy Adair persisted this time played by the voluptuous and mannish Sarah Wynter. Now, I can appreciate curvy women, but part of Daisy's charm was her waifish narcissistic facade, portrayed with awkward but beautiful earnest by Harris. Wynter, however, was more of a caricature of the facade, throwing away any depth that we had learned about Daisy toward the show's end.

It makes me wonder... If you can't secure Patinkin and you can't secure Harris, why would you push on with the movie? I was so distracted by their absence that I could barely focus on the awful plot.

But anyway...

3. Awkward and bad acting. I've already complained about Wynter's portrayal of Daisy, but even Ellen Muth (George), Callum Blue (Mason), and Jasmine Guy (Roxy) seemed to struggle with their previous Dead Like Me personas. Each seemed to be awkward portrayals of caricatures of the characters I once knew and loved.

4. Poor plot line. The movie felt like an extended episode... One of the bad episodes (hey - every show has them).

5. General sloppiness. The movie felt as though it was thrown together and was riddled with mistakes. From characters wearing different clothes from an earlier scene to a later scene (within the same day, when they SHOULD have been dressed the same) to cause and effect plot holes.



It makes me wonder - Why bother? Oh, wait; just to appeal to the fanboys. I know that I was onboard, but MAN am I dissatisfied. :(

1.5/5

War of the Worlds II: The Next Wave


The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Yeah, I really, really wanted to like it. I kind of forced myself to, actually. In fact, I think I gave it a decent review after I first watched it. But with time has come the realization that it was really quite disappointing. Ugh, and the new Daisy drove me nuts. In the show, she was such a great, complex character and now she's annoyingly flat and irritating. Plus, yeah...Rube's gone. I don't know. I wanted it to feel epic, but I'm afraid you're right.

I felt the same way. I really REALLY wanted to like it. I found myself laughing at bad jokes and getting sappy at manipulative moments... I came out of it thinking, "OK, that was a 2 - 2.5/5," but the more I thought about it, the more I realized how incredibly bad it was.

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who missed the old Daisy. It's funny; during the show, when they first introduced her, I hated her. But then she grew and developed and I fell in love with her - her facade - her weakness - just, her. I was horrified that the movie did away with all that and completely miscast this womanbeast. There's a certain charm in Daisy's frailty and this brute was nothing but the narcissistic facade. Bleah.

I don't really think they should have made the movie. :(

"The visitors" 8/10


Sweet 'n sour. Especially sour.

Hated how it ended.

cleopatra jones
cleopatra jones and the casino of gold

Absolutely. Same here with the laughing at bad jokes and getting sappy at the manipulative moments, only in retrospect realizing (and finally accepting, too) how flat the whole thing was.

And yeah, old Daisy. I really couldn't stand her either at first, but she started revealing layers to her character. She tried to maintain this level of narcissism, self-assurance and diva-ness, but you began to see that it was really a cover for her fragility, and she truly had a big heart. Plus, Laura Harris was gorgeous and did such a great job with the character. I loved the relationship between her and Mason, too, which was given a halfhearted, fleeting mention in the film in that theatre scene.

Oh well. I heard that the sales from this DVD are supposed to induce a revival of the series, but if it's going to be like this, what's the point?

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

Dušan Makavejev's darkly humorous film is a fanciful, bizarre collage of documentary footage, free-form fiction, found footage, narration, and musical numbers.
Starting off as a mocking, satiric (but real) documentary about controversial psychiatrist/philosopher Wilhelm Reich, the film begins to cross over into a fictional story about a young Yugoslavian revolutionary/Reich-follower's seduction of a Russian figure skater. Throughout the film, he also juxtaposes scenes from a Stalinist propaganda film, shots of performance artist Tuli Kupferberg in a solider's uniform stalking New Yorkers on the street, "plaster casting", transsexual monologues, and more. It sounds silly and outrageous, and it absolutely is, but it works. By making grotesque those things which keep us so serious (communism in Russia, sexual paradigm in America and human sexuality in general, psychology), Makavejev seems to hope for a better sense of humor about those things, important self-realization, and a greater flexibility of love and mind and body (and hopefully in this, a cure for what ails humanity). It is offensive, bold, funny, fascinating, and the work of a true anti-authoritarian.
The final result is truly a wonder.

Certainly recommended for, um...well, I'm not sure I could say.
Take a chance on it, I guess.

The Descent Unrated. Got to watch it on a decent tv with a working dvd player so it was much better this time around. I could see what was going on and it was skipping a lot less. Such a brilliant movie. 10/10

The Gene Generation (2007/8)

low budget sci fi crap.

>>: C-


Dario Argento's Opera (1987)

Last night saw this brilliant giallo for the first time! Undoubtedly one of the best Argento films!

>>: A

The Mothman Prophesies


Good old fashioned horror storytelling.

The Cottage.

this one annoyed the hell out of me. i was totally turned off at the very beginning by the shoddy rip off Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice score.
thats some lazy shit.

just a lot of talk. nothing new to offer in the way of horror/gore either.

should have been a hell of a lot better.

I went from bad to worse last night

The Butterfly Effect 3.....then OGRE.

BE3 wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great....OGRE was some SCI-FI channel POS with a really bad CGI monster.

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Day Watch
 

Pretty tough following along wth this Russian flick, and i am sure that i missed a ton, but i still really liked it. It may have helped to have seen Night Watch just last week. Ashe.
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Sadomania and Succubus - 2 Jesse Franco films

Sadomania was a typically goofy chicks in prison film - loaded with T&A

but Succubus was one of the most rediculous pieces of crap i've ever seen.

i think i'll go watch Goldfinger now - to clense my tortured brain

Yeh Mr Franco has made some terrible films. The only one of his I've really dug is Faceless. I haven't seen Sadomania I'll have to try and grab a copy especially since its a Blue Underground release.

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

>>: C+

Incendiary (2008)

A Slow paced drama about a terrorist attack on a soccer stadium at London and how a woman's life is torn apart after losing her husband & only child.

>>: B

Pumpkinhead

A great example of "urbanoia."

"Wut killd yer boy?"
"CITY FOLK."

Haha I never looked at it that way.

Goldfinger.

my kids first exposure to Mr Connery as Bond.

How'd he like it?

he enjoyed it.

the one thing i've always done since he was little was to show him older films as well as new.

i want him to be able to appreciate films of the past - and he does.

Cecil B. Demented

Outrageously hilarious. John Waters is a modern day genius. Nobody else can make black humoresque satire come off so well on the silver screen. Stephen Dorff easily steals the show with a near flawless role.

Ms. 45

It was not as nasty as I was expecting, but it was a good revenge movie. The music is stuck in my head.

7/10

Planet Terror
 

No suprises here, just bloody good fun. Ashe.
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The Grudge 3

Monster Man

An enjoyable, if daft, take on Duel. Instead of a tanker its a monster truck with a fucked up driver.
Quite funny and over the top, worth a watch.


Bubba Ho-Tep

enter the ninja

Alex Aja's Mirrors

I watched The Wild One last night. Thought it was pretty great, Marlon Brando is fantastic in this.

Let the Right One In :


enjoyed it very much - although it made me cold just to look at it.










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loved the happy ending :)

also made me wonder if the dumb ass old man helping her was once a 12 year old boy as well...

It's a good habit to get into, allowing younger people to appreciate film of any era when it's simply good cinema. I have always drummed a sense of appreciation and active thought into my little brothers any time they watched and liked/disliked anything I always made them tell me why and talked about it why I didn't like/liked it.

They are all young adults now and have formed there own well justified tastes, even better is they are strong enough in there understanding to argue and defend it. Makes me proud.

nothing horrifies me more than the thought of my kid not liking old films, or black and white films, or films with subtitles.

he's been digging the old origional Lucy and Dick Van Dyke shows as well.

I'm sure he'll be well versed in cinema with your collection to check out :cool:

Oh yeh... last thing I watchd was The Van cheered me up after getting bummed on old age by Gran Torino.