Seeing as we have a music & a reading thread,how about a DVD thread?
I'll start it off with the DVDs I've been watching over the last week or so.
Been making my way through the 14 DVD box set for Monty Pythons Flying Circus. The Star Wars trilogy box set. Shaun of the dead Tombstone FX:Murder by illusion Black Adders christmas carol LA Confidential Firefox Dragnet Beetlejuice
I, too, have been enjoying Shaun of the Dead. I finally finished watching the bonus stuff today.
Started Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1 Chappelle Show: Season 1 Rebecca: The Criterion Collection (bonus stuff...the movie was great) Zombi 2: The Shriek Show edition, not Blue Underground's Devil's Nightmare My Little Eye (I'll watch this after I get through the others)
Last night, Mrs G-man and I watched the "Homer Alone" ep from "the Simpsons" on DVD.
Mrs G always claims to hate cartoons but whenever I get her to watch an ep of the Simpsons, King of the Hill or the Family Guy, she always ends up laughing her head off.
Anyway, I'm watching the Diff'rent Strokes first season this weekend. I also watched G.I. Joe the Movie but my disc was defective (the picture kept shaking slightly) so I have to return it.
Well, currently I'm working my way through the A-Team 1st season DVD set for the 3rd or 4th time. Last Night we (that's Mrs. Monkey myself and our exchange students) watched Cowboy Bebop. Tonight my wife is watching Ghost World as I type this. I regularly watch Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There and Raising Arizona on a weekly rotating basis. (Big Lebouski is in the mail from Columbia House)
I'm catching up on my Netflix account. This week's movies are Where The Money Is, with Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino; A Knight's Tale; and Simone. I keep shuffling my rental queue (and what's up with that? We're in America, dumbass!) around, but I want to get through the stuff I ordered six months ago. I now own the first three seasons of Good Times. Love that show.
I'm currently watching that one. Man! I'd pay $20.00 for that concert! It's that good.
Recent buys have been The Star Wars Trilogy, Chinatown, Thelma and Louise, Later With Jools Holland Presents "Cool Britannia", Mayor of the Sunset Strip (recommended!) and some 70's spy stuff such as Three Days of the Condor, Parallax View,The Day of the Jackal, Capricorn One, the 'Airport' box set, From Here to Eternity, The Punisher, The Seige, Roswell, Justice League: Starcrossed and The History of Rock and Roll Box set.
So you can see why comics have been in steady decline for me. I definately get more 'bang for buck' not to mention a complete story from DVD.
So Christianne F is on DVD? I gotta get that one too!
Quote: whomod said: So Christianne F is on DVD? I gotta get that one too!
I don't know if it's been released officially on DVD. The one I got seems to be from some Brazillian magazine. I see a lot of those cheap Brazillian DVDs here. No extras, but they do the trick.
It's very good. Funny and sometimes spooky and loyal to the story. Coscarelli (the director) has a ton of respect for Lansdale's work (the original story), and it shows. The ending was really nice.
Its weird but in a good way. If you hear the story premise you might expect it to be a slapstick barrel of laughs,but its not,its a lot more subtle than that but is still very funny in places!
Ah fuck its been so long since I posted in this topic that I've gone through god knows how many DVDs.
This is just as sampler:
Uncle Buck
Van Helsing
Van Wilder,party liason
Theres something about Mary
Shallow Hal
Sunset
Old school
The Principal
The Punisher (1989)
Star Wars
The great outdoors
The office christmas specials
I just bought Fulci's The Beyond, Hitchcock's The Birds, and Aladdin. I started to watch The Beyond, but four hours of sleep won out and I ended up taking a nap before leaving to catch WS Game 2. I'll try again tonight. Tuesday sees the '04 re-imagining of Dawn of the Dead, so I'll use my Best Buy Bucks (thanks, McDonalds) towards grabbing that. I still have to sift through the super-duper special edition of ROMERO'S Dawn Of The Dead that I got for my birthday. Not to mention Tomie and a few other flicks.
I bought "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", "Labyrinth", and a bootleg copy of "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (including a short called "The Image" from 1969), but I haven't watched those (or "Christiane F.") mainly because I haven't had the time, but also because I'm saving them for when I get Bowie's new "A Reality Tour" DVD.
I just can't picture NWM watchin Finding Nemo or Joe watching Aladdin ;p
But anyways.......Im watchin Day After Tomorrow (saw it over the weekend-really cool), 13 going on 30 (cute girly movie but you guys probably wouldn't like it), White Oleander which is yet another girl movie (mother/daughter), and the old Gary Grand flick, "My Girl Friday."
Watching Red Dwarf series 5. Spent yetserday in bed with a cold and was not in a good mood, then it arrived (with limited edition Starbug model). Brightened up my day.
Ray Bradbury Theater. I think it's all five seasons of the TV series.
I just watched the episode called "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Basement!" and was staggered at how bad it was - it didn't remotely hold a candle to the old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode of the same story (the AHP episode was called "Special Delivery", and it terrified my young self). Bad acting, poor directing, and a predictable script killed this episode. But I know the episode with Shatner in it, called "The Playground" will kick some serious arse!
By the way, does anyone know if "Special Delivery" is available in an AHP collection?
I got Mulan (special edition) for my gal, and Shrek 2 for me. So those are on the "must watch" list. I bought them at Best Buy and, while standing in line, got sucked into the impulse buy: horror movies for $1. That's right, ONE DOLLAR each. I ended up with Little Shop Of Horrors, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Ghoul, Dementia 13, and two or three others. Granted, they're not exactly John carpenter's The Thing, but they're fun little flicks that didn't make that much of a dent in my wallet.
Truly excellent. The scene with the mime cracked me up (I hate mimes). The scenes in Amsterdam almost made me wet my pants (that poor David Spade lookalike), as did the Vatican fire. 'Matter of fact, I wondered what our more...devoted...posters would have thought about all the Vatican moments.
I didn’t know Carrott had a DVD out. I’ll have to have a look into that. Saw him live in ’98 on his last big tour, really good.
I’ve just bought the original Manchurian Candidate. I don’t know when I will get to see it though, I also just bought a SNES and Mario Kart and that is winning the battle for my affections and spare time.
The Carrott DVD is a concert he did where the sketches he performed were all voted for my the fans prior to the show! You have insurance claims,nutter on the bus & Tony Butler but sadly no mole,no Magic Roundabout & no Reliant Robin!
Disney masterworks-the war years. I got this at the library. Its all the old disney cartoons that were made during WW2. It includes everything from propaganda movies to military training cartoons. Very interesting. Something I might buy when I have the money.
Watched 12 Angry Men last night. My favourite film. Haven’t watched it for a couple of months as I lent it to a friend. Love it, no matter how many times I see it.
Ultimate whiny excuse making liberal turns everyone around film!
The Bourne Supremacy.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Bugsy.
Rear Window.
and
Ghandi
Now Ghandi was quite a surprise. I didn't expect it to be as inspiring as it was.
Just goes to show. When you toss someone off a train for not being white, you just don't know who you may be fucking with.
man the worst movie i have seen in years is THE RING it was stupid and really fucked up. I mean there was like 1 or 2 scary parts but it was so stupid i laughed
Collateral
Judgement at Nuremburg
Tank Girl
Simpsons Season V
Fat Man & Little Boy
Gene (live)
The Verve (the singles DVD)
LOTR: Return of the King ext. ed. DVD
DD: The Directors cut.
A Life Less Ordinary
Placebo: Once more with Feeling (videos DVD)
Peggy Sue Got Married.
I dunno... I wasn't expecting it to be so.... devestating.
I usually associate that kind of realism and relevance to more contemporary fare (such as Schindlers List). But man... I highly recommend this film. It touches on so many topics, many which are relevent to this day such as the nature of patriotism, the ends justifying the means and collective guilt.
The Holoucast footage (real footage) was particulary hard to watch and bear. It's one of those rare times in a film where I was actually brought to tears.
Man, this one is gonna affect me for some time. Right now I feel as spent as when I saw Schilndlers List.
Quote: But this trial has shown that under a national crisis, ordinary -- even able and extraordinary -- men can delude themselves into the commission of crimes so vast and heinous that they beggar the imagination. No one who has sat at the trial can ever forget them: Men sterilized because of political belief; a mockery made of friendship and faith; the murder of children. How easily this can happen.
There are those in our own country too who today speak of the "protection of country" -- of "survival." A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient -- to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is "survival as what?" A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult!
Before the people of the world let it now be noted that here, in our decision, this is what we stand for: justice, truth, and the value of a single human being.
The super-duper special edition of Lord Of The Ring: Return Of The King. Great movie. Exhausting. I did notice that, as the movie wore on, I was getting more and more annoyed with Frodo though.
Well got a bunch of DVDs for christmas so working my way through them:
Only fools & horses:To Hull & back
Only fools & horses:Dates
Only fools & horses:Time on our hands
Escape from Alcatraz
The Brittas empire series 3
Quote: PrincessElisa said: The Munchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep...sucked big time compared to the 60s version I think anyways!
Agreed.
My biggest gripe with the film was the tacked on happy ending. WTF??!
It reeked of test audience manipulation. Can't leave the theatre too disturbed now can we?
Vertigo...amazing movie. I always wondered, though, how different the movie would've been (and how Jimmy Stewart's career would've changed) if the suits hadn't forced Hitchcock to change the original ending.
I'm a big Hitchcock fan...I watched Rope last night on TCM. Another great movie.
The fact that TCM was showing old Hitchcock movies last night was what initially inspired me to go out and rent Vertigo and Rear Window... as they've been on my 'to see' list for a while. Can't wait to sit down and watch them!
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: The fact that TCM was showing old cock movies last night was what initially inspired me to go out and rent Vertigo and Rear Window... as they've been on my 'to see' list for a while. Can't wait to sit down and watch them!
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: The fact that TCM was showing old Hitchcock movies last night was what initially inspired me to go out and rent Vertigo and Rear Window... as they've been on my 'to see' list for a while. Can't wait to sit down and watch them!
I had a similar jones the other month so I bought Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho and North By Northwest.
I was particularly impressed by how good Vertigo was and dissapointed by how surprisingly average North By Northwest was. That compounded with Cary Grant's annoying, very overtly acting, way of talking.... OY!
So your picks are the best picks from Hitch's best known works. Man, that Vertigo is one haunting film.....
oN new years eve we watched old school and then dodge ball! Greatest thisgs ever !!!! Then last night i watched Anchorman!!! I almost died!!!"LOUD NOISES!!!!!"
You see? She has used a capital 'I' on the misspelled "Im"... thus proving that she is not an alternate ID of one Robert J. Kamphausen. For, we all know that 'Rob', as he is known in these circles - does not use capital letters.
I just finished watching an all-region, subtitled, un-cut version of Jackie Chan's "Project A" for the second time. I often prefer original Chinese version to the American versions.
I'm currently in the process of trying to unload my collection of American versions of Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies on VHS, which are dubbed and significantly cut, and I wanna use the money to buy the original Chinese versions, for seveal reasons:
1) The dubbing is so atrocious that it ruins the entire movie for me. I don't mind English subtitles - I've seen enough subtitled movies where I can read subtitles and follow action at the same time.
2) American versions often take HUGE chunks out of the movie and change the script to Westernize it. Disney and New Line are notortious for this. If I'm gonna watch a movie, I wanna see the whole thing. Besides, Disney and New Line didn't make the movies - what right do they have to take stuff out of them?
BTW, it's actually illegal to buy the original versions of these movies WORLDWIDE - including in China and Hong Kong! Disney bought the rights to them, and only their versions are allowed to be sold. And they only sell the edited dubbed versions, and refuse to release the movies as they were originally presented.
If you don't believe me, go here: http://alliance.hellninjacommando.net/purpose.htm. This is a website called The Web Alliance For The Respectful Treatment Of Asian Cinema, which appeals to Hollywood movie studios to release Asian movies as they are, un-cut and in their original langauge.
Dunno bout Disney owning the rights over here. Most of the Jackie Chan DVDs I own are available with both Chinese & English audio & have been released by Hong Kong Heroes.
Anyway just got a load of DVDs through the post so I aint gotta buy anymore now for ages. Kindergarten cop I-Spy Quantum leap:season 1 Starsky & Hutch:season 2 Magnum P.I.:season 1
"The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher was AWESOME!!!! VERY well done, nonpredictable plot, and the special effects were amazing....I really liked the end...if only guys could be soo sweet in irl
Just watched an evening with Kevin Smith yesterday. Laughed my bloody tits off! Highlights being the story of the Superman film and the first time he slept with his wife.
I heard it has something to do with the kidnapped girl's boyfriend or something.
Spoil away, please.
Now I know what I'll watch tonight!
I've only watched this disc once, and I think I fell asleep mid-way through listening to the audio commentary. I'd seen "Toolbox" years ago on VHS, but it's plot has been blurred by years of slacker/stalker flicks....
Basically, Cameron Mitchell portrays the killer of the piece, who during the course of the film kidnaps his nephew's girlfriend, tying her up in a hotel room and tormenting her....
Then, close to the end, boyfriend saves the day by killing Uncle Nutcase. The boyfriend then goes into the bedroom to free the gal, and everything seems kosher, until....
Boyfriend practically rapes the gal, and reveals he murdered her brother....seems he was as nutty as Uncle Fruitcake, and that there may have been more than one killer.
Girl catches sight of a pair of scissors on the nightstand...then a quick cut to her in the parking lot walking away from the hotel in a blood stained nightgown....the end.
It's pretty brutal...the murders, but it's all obvious special effects.
The implied rape....is exactly that, implied.
I know the film pretty much became a big target after the nailgun scene was featured predominantly on an early 1980s episode of "60 Minutes" that was condemnin exploitation films, which gave it it's "bad" reputation.
As for being banned, the only place I can think of was the UK, when it was caught up in the notorious "Video Nasties" scandel from around the same time.
I saw this a few weeks ago, loved it, so of course Bravo has no plans of showing it again, since that would interefere with their "Project Runway" marathons.
I taped this on Halloween. I was pretty happy with most of the selections. Nice to see Audition rank so high - John Landis' comments made me watch it again, then regret doing so for a few days after (I love that damned movie!). The movie ranked #1 wasn't much of a surprise, which kinda bummed me out. But a good list overall.
And I'll be picking up Toolbox Murders after I finish watching Freaks...and some Hitchcock flicks...And Un Chien Andalou...and M...and The Beyond...so many great flicks to watch!!!
Watched Inu-Yasha: Affections Touching Across Time Saturday, and will more than likely watch it a couple more times before I return it (thank you, Netflix). It's not tied to the continuity of the manga or the anime series, but it is a good stand-alone feature.
Picked up these two DVD releases after work tonight....already had the earlier releases of both on disc, but I'm a.) a sucker for supplementary material and b.) a huge fan of director Luc Besson and actors Jean Reno and Gary Oldman.....
About the Professional DVD: What does this new one have that the previous super-duper special edition doesn't? I'm quite happy with the previous disc...
Its special features include: Ripping off people who bought previous editions The ability to make the DVD company more money A little button you click on the screen that gives you a presentation of a fat bloke in a suit pointing at you,laughing uncontrollably while bathing in money!
Quote: Nowhereman said: Its special features include: Ripping off people who bought previous editions The ability to make the DVD company more money A little button you click on the screen that gives you a presentation of a fat bloke in a suit pointing at you,laughing uncontrollably while bathing in money!
I was in Best Buy today, buying my XM radio, and I saw this DVD. Thanks, but I like my version better. Pricks...
Quote: Nowhereman said: Its special features include:
Ripping off people who bought previous editions
The ability to make the DVD company more money
A little button you click on the screen that gives you a presentation of a fat bloke in a suit pointing at you,laughing uncontrollably while bathing in money!
Only had a chance to watch the first two episodes so far, which are very good and quite trippy. The direction style is very familiar if you have seen Shaun of the Dead.
Got another bunch of stuff through the mail. I love Amazon as I been picking up loads of real cheap DVDs recently. It gives me a chance to pick up films I've never seen or films I like,but would never pay full price for. With the films I've not seen,I'm paying less than rental price so if I dont like em I can just sell em again for the same money & I dont lose out.
Hudson Hawk Bandits Dark Angel (Lundgren film,not tv series) Two days in the valley Magnolia
Got a ten dollar Wal-Mart gift card at work at dove into the Wally-world Cheap-Ass DVD bin and came up with these:
Figured it'd be the only way I'd ever get purchase the damn thing (basically get it for free). I seriously despise this version of the film, yet sadly it's the only one available in any format (VHSs of the original theatrical cut went out of print over a decade ago, and luckily I've run across to or three of the early releases of it and bought them used). And, it doesn't help that I'm an obsessive compulsive completist about these sorta things....I just love Blade Runner ...just not this version.
Quote: HEROKILLER v.2.0 said: Got a ten dollar Wal-Mart gift card at work at dove into the Wally-world Cheap-Ass DVD bin and came up with these:
Figured it'd be the only way I'd ever get purchase the damn thing (basically get it for free). I seriously despise this version of the film, yet sadly it's the only one available in any format (VHSs of the original theatrical cut went out of print over a decade ago, and luckily I've run across to or three of the early releases of it and bought them used). And, it doesn't help that I'm an obsessive compulsive completist about these sorta things....I just love Blade Runner ...just not this version.
Neither could I. Got it today along with the other two stuff included in my post. It even has the "Almost Got'em" Episode on it. The one where they are all playing poker and telling about how they almost got the Batman.
Quote: Glacier16 said: Neither could I. Got it today along with the other two stuff included in my post. It even has the "Almost Got'em" Episode on it. The one where they are all playing poker and telling about how they almost got the Batman.
Horatio Hornblower. The first six DVDs at least. And some scenes from that last movies are going to find they're way to the Woman's forum after Wednesday...
I bought Open Water and Sky Captain in Friday. Open Water has extra stuff only available when bought at Best Buy. Very cool - I'll bust that open first.
The prices at Best Buy make buying anywhere else seem silly, too. And they've got an exclusive deal to distribute MGM's "Midnite Movie" line, which is cool if'n ye like cheesy horror/sci-fi. The only way Best Buy could get any better is if I could buy the Criterion Collection DVDs there.
When I lived is Sacramento I had three Best Buys within 20 miles of my house. I went there at least twice a week. I think they open here in about a month.
There's one in Kingston - 30 minutes away - and one in Braintree - 20 minutes away and on the way to work. I'll be picking up The Grudge tomorrow when I drive in.
Inuyasha vol. 18, which Netflix had to send to me three times because the first two were broken. The first one was literally in two pieces! Luckily the third time's the charm, as they say.
Last night it was Dodgeball,tonight its a VCD I just burned,Heat vision & Jack! Anyone seen this unaired pilot? Not exactly Jack Blacks best work,but funny none the less.
I converted a Bowie-phobic friend yesterday by showing him the Reality Tour DVD (11 bucks in Amazon). I dare anyone to watch that DVD and not love Bowie.
I Love Huckabees. This is some seriously funny shit!
"What are you, a bitch. You're a bitch! How many kids do you have bitch!" - Got to be the greatest line in comedy history, I pissed myself laughing for about ten minutes.
I'm watching the Live Aid 4-Disc set. Disc 2 is amazing. From the first Disc 1 I liked U2 (I'm not a U2 fan) and Bob Geldof's band, The Boomtown Rats. Their song I Hate Sundays is excellent.
I finished Disc 2 of the Live Aid set, and I think it's hard for any of the other Discs to top this. First Queen, then Bowie, then The Who. The version of Won't Get Fooled Again, a song I don't really like, made me wish I had some Who DVDs.
Just finished watching, "Secondhand Lions"! Wow, what an awesome movie!
My favorite part was when Robert Duvall said, "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most; That people are basically good. That honor virtue and courage mean everything; that money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. That true love never dies. Doesn't matter if they're true or not. A man should believe in those things anyway. Because they are the things worth believing."
Isn't that good??? Ya'll need to get it from Blockbuster, wow!
A Love Divided....WOW it was so good. My favorite part was the theme song wow! I posted it here so you guys could enjoy that part of the film as well Really moving!
By Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me.
I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy: But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Fare-thee-weel, though first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, though best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Saw it in the theaters. Got pissed off by it. Felt no need to buy it on DVD. I just finished watching the special edition of Get Shorty...I love the movie, and the bonus shit was worth the money I paid. And, hey, I got a free ticket to see Be Cool. That's a $9 - $10 bonus!!!
I bought Garden State tonight solely on the merit of The Shins' "New Slang". The fact that so many of you liked it helped ease my mind about this blind buy.
It's not a DVD, but the kids are coming over tonight and we're going to watch THE GODFATHER. My oldest wants to see it all the way through, uninterrupted.
Yes, I thought the movie really picks up once she's in it. She is also one of the few actresses that can pull off a role like that. Who else could pull off a dog on leg sex scene and make it believeable?
I actually don't think she's that hot, she's too thin for my taste. But when I see her in roles like Garden State and Beautiful Girls, I think she's extremely hot.
Without a paddle The Bourne identity The Bourne supremacy The last castle The Punisher Ren & Stimpy season 1 & 2 Dodgeball Eurotrip Mystery Men Blade trinity Idle hands Pirates of the Caribbean Shaun of the dead Saw The grudge Ricky Gervais live:Animals Ricky Gervais live 2:Politics
the only reason i had a vhs player was to play my only vhs tape: spice world. but i was just in best buy and bought it on dvd for fiiiiive dolllars. i also bought crossroads for 6. faaantastic
Terrorist training video. Last week I watched a film called Learn to fly a cropduster in 1 hour. I never watched the last 15 minutes because that was the part on how to land the plane. I won't be needing to learn that. *laughing maniacly*
Dog Day Afternoon K-19: The Widowmaker 48 Hours Less than Zero 9 Songs (a Michael Winterbottom porn music video) Starman The Firm The Negotiator Lethal Weapon I, II, and III Rocky III Bonnie and Clyde Born on the Fourth of July American Pie Rain Man The Pianist Animal House Jaws II Singin' in the Rain
Circuit City has been having some unreal deals on DVD's lately. So I took advantage and bought all these $4.99-$6.99 DVD's!
Just got done watching the Oliver Stone Collection edition of JFK which has, I feel, the only decent Kevin Costner performance in existence. That, and Gary Oldman is a genius. That is all.
I'm watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, and when I'm done I'll watch the movies (except "And Now For Something Completely Different cause I don't have it yet).
I'm pissed off at the Holy Grail Collector's Edition DVD. It's a two DVD set packed with extras, plus it includes a little book with the screenplay and a cardboard with a replica of one of the frames in the movie to show off to your friends. But it has one practical problem: the box is made so it's nearly impossible to remove the discs without breaking them. So far I've only managed to remove disc 1, and I ain't putting it back in that stupid fucking box. I think maybe the Pythons themselves designed it.
Quote: Im Not Mister Mxypltk said: I'm watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, and when I'm done I'll watch the movies (except "And Now For Something Completely Different cause I don't have it yet).
Well seeing as thats just a compilation of the tv series,you have already seen it!
Sleepers is excellent, by the way... I'm tempted to watch From Dusk 'Til Dawn again, maybe watch Frailty, finally... I dunno. I have way too many movies that I haven't watched.
Recent rewatches & new additions: Constantine The Punisher Indiana Jones trilogy The Rock Man on fire Saturday night live:The best of Eddie Murphy Anchorman Dead man on campus Coupling series 1&2 Scorpion King Resident evil:apocalypse Young Ones series 1&2 Smokey & the bandit trilogy Se7en Shaft
Right now i'm trying to catch up on an incredible backlog of bought DVD's.
I saw "Guess who's Coming to Dinner" last night.
Incredible, powerful film. Incredibly subversive for it's time with some powerhouse performances from Sidney Poitier to Spencer Tracy and Kate Hepburn all the way to Isabel Sanford. That one's a keeper.
Right now i'm finally watching the first "Godfather" film for the 1st time ever. I had bought the box set a while back when I had some extra cash as I'm trying to buy every film in the AFI top 100 list. I dunno, for some reason, i imagined that it'd be boring. Boy was I wrong!
Most likely after I'm done, i'll go on to Godfather Part II
the rest of my recent views:
Jaws
The Negotiator
The Maltese Falcon
The Philadelphia Story
Meet John Doe (Capra)
The Aviator
Crimson Tide
The Wild One
Deliverance
i bought that one a while ago. It's funny how when you see certain films, other films you saw previously look like so derivative. With this one, it's pretty much Scorsese.
I also recently bought 'The Wild One' and James Dean just won't ever look as cool again...
Comic Book: The Movie was filmed two years ago... No Uschi-TK Tag Team action yet.
I'm wearing a funky Spider-Man shirt (not a tee); it has a bunch of different covers on it. I haven't seen the film itself, but I'm in line of sight plenty of frickin' times. AND I'm in the crowd near the end of the movie.
I was in "Be Cool". Technically. I was in the crowd during the Aerosmith concert. And, when they do that wide angle shot from behind what's-her-face, you can see where I was. You can't necessarily see me (what with me being on the lawn), but I'm there. Which is my "Six Dgrees Of Kevin Bacon" moment:
1) Joe Mama was in "Be Cool" with John Travolta
2) John Travolva was in "Broken Arrow" with Christian Slater
3) Christian Slater was in "Murder In The First" with Kevin Bacon
Quote: Joe Mama said: I was in "Be Cool". Technically. I was in the crowd during the Aerosmith concert. And, when they do that wide angle shot from behind what's-her-face, you can see where I was. You can't necessarily see me (what with me being on the lawn), but I'm there. Which is my "Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon" moment:
1) Joe Mama was in "Be Cool" with John Travolta
2) John Travolva was in "Broken Arrow" with Christian Slater
3) Christian Slater was in "Murder In The First" with Kevin Bacon
Got this off my buddy's site (s8.org) - he's a huge Gargoyles fan and actually attended the Gargoyles convention out in Las Vegas a week or two ago. About a third of the way down, they report Dec. 6th for a release date.
I don't care what the courts say, Underworld ripped off a good-sized chunk from the White Wolf series of games. The movie was crap! And the director jacks off to his blue filter!!!
Don't forget Kate Beckinsale with four or so werewolves on her tail at that guy's apartment. She has two fully-loaded hand cannons and what does she do? Shoots out the floor beneath her feet so she can fall to the bottom floor and escape! Good use of ammo, stupid! Right out of a bad gamer's brain! STOOPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched about half of it before I had to return it to the library (blasted busy schedule!), so I don't have enough to write a review. What I did see, though, I absolutely loved! Really quite funny stuff!
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: I watched about half of it before I had to return it to the library (blasted busy schedule!), so I don't have enough to write a review. What I did see, though, I absolutely loved! Really quite funny stuff!
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: I watched about half of it before I had to return it to the library (blasted busy schedule!), so I don't have enough to write a review. What I did see, though, I absolutely loved! Really quite funny stuff!
Picked up a selection of DVDs today,to work my way through: Maximum risk Nice dreams Nowhere to run Red dragon Rollerball (2001) Things are tough all over Timecop Whoops apocalypse
Miller's Crossing. Fantastic mob flick that flew under the radar. People always mention The Godfather or Goodfellas, et. al., when they talk about gangster movies, but no one ever talks about this one - they're missing out.
Quote: harleykwin said: Miller's Crossing. Fantastic mob flick that flew under the radar. People always mention The Godfather or Goodfellas, et. al., when they talk about gangster movies, but no one ever talks about this one - they're missing out.
Amazing movie. That is all. Dammit, I need to watch this before I leave for Atlanta!!!
Saw The Usual Suspect this weekend - after Miller's Crossing got to see more Gabriel Byrne. Both movies are unbelievabley good...
Next: Hitchcock's Notorious - Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman - although not as popular at Psycho, NBNW, To Catch A Thief ,etc. its my fav'rit Hitchcock movie. The man was an incredible director.
Just got done watching The Jacket. Not a bad movie. Oddly reminiscent of The Butterfly Effect, really. The performances by Adrien Brody, Kris Kristofferson, and Daniel Craig really made the movie, though...
Mrs G and I rented the first season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" from NetFlix.
It rated a big "meh" with us.
Some funny moments, but it seemed as if every ep was basically "Larry gets in trouble, Larry finds a person who will fix his problem, Larry says something stupid or offensive to said person and then the person won't help him. Meanwhile actors who play wife and manager giggle and crack up more than Harvey Korman on the old Carol Burnett show."
The Untouchables Dog Day Afternoon The Godfather I & II L4yer Cake Snatch 13 Going on 30 Shakespeare in Love The Long Kiss Goodnight (a movie so bad that its good.) The House of Flying Daggers
Quote: Nowhereman said: Ran outta new purchases to watch,so pulled out a few from the collection I aint watched in a while: The lost boys Payback US Marshals
Quote: Nowhereman said: Ran outta new purchases to watch,so pulled out a few from the collection I aint watched in a while: The lost boys Payback US Marshals
The Parole officer The thin blue line:series 1&2 Bottom live 2003:Weapons grade y-fronts tour Billy Connolly:Billy bites yer bum/Picked by Billy Blue streak Critters 1-4 boxset
North Dallas Forty, borrowed from a friend. I'm not a sports fan, but I had only seen the last 10 minutes of it in the past and was curious. I never knew those coaches were so nitpicky.
I actually liked Daredevil! I dont usually rebuy a DVD,but seeing as the directors cut is 30 mins longer,and I could buy that & Elektra in a double pack for cheaper than the individual DVDs,I thought it was worth a shot.
I will admit Daredevil does have some stupid moments,but overall I think its a pretty decent film!
Just saw 2 movies with the wife.....The Door in the Floor and Monster-In-Law.......Monster-in-Law was good for a few chuckles.....
The Door in the Floor was an amzing movie starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. What a fucking movie. Bridges plays an author who drives his wife to sleep with his young assistant after the death of their sons. What a fucking movie. I never heard of this movie till today. Came out in 2004. I highly reccomend it.
Napolian Dynamite I was babysitting my sisters kids today and after I put them to bed I started to do some work on her computer. I started the disk defragment and started to watch Napolian Dynamite. What a worthless piece of crap that was. Watching the computer defragment itself was more exciting than the movie. Anyone who liked this movie should be ashamed of themselves. http://brianjonopulos.blogspot.com/2005/01/napolian-dynamite.html
The Family Guy Stewie movie was cute, but with the exception of a joke or two that may not have made it past the censors it was not much different than what you would see on TV. Rent it, don't buy it.
we walk the streets at night we go where eagles dare they pick up every movement they pick up every loser
with jaded eyes and features you think we really care I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch you better think about it baby I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch you better think about it baby baby
Quote: Joe Mama said: A Tale Of Two Sisters and Wishing Stairs just came in. I'll be watching them at some point soon. I likes the Korean horror.
You ever hear of a movie called "The Audition"?
Freaky, freaky shit.
I've mentioned this movie several times. The first hour is the most wonderful, cute, funny, kinda slow movin' romantic comedy you've ever seen with only a couple notes of discord. The last half-hour is the film equivalent of someone kicking you in the balls/ovaries with a steel-toed boot, followed by a brass knuckled-fist to the bridge of the nose. It's terrifying for men. Our worst nightmare unravelling in front of us. A brilliant Japanese horror flick.
The Simpsons Season Six (HOMER HEAD! YEAH!) The Core (Don't know what's so great about it but I've seen it about 10 times) HOGAN'S HEROES SEASON TWO!!!!
Just watched the new Billy Connolly live DVD. The crowd were a buncha frickin morons. Yes,they laughed at jokes but their biggest reactions were when Billy mentioned the names of various cities around the world during his various stories. How the fuck can an audience get more excited about the word Dublin,than the story its connected to?
Gone With the Wind four disc collector's edition. I think I'm learning why it won 10 academy awards, and why it was a favorite of my mother's even though it was before her time.
In a nice DVD case as I havent taken it out yet.
Thats just the DVDs I have picked up today & am working my way through (I'll prolly be finished by tomorrow,so will let ya know. I just hope its better than shit like The Grudge & White Noise).
No. Brad and Angelina look pretty and have chemistry, but the movie needed a good editor and after awhile watching them fight each other and blow up shit got boring.
Quote: harleykwin said: No. Brad and Angelina look pretty and have chemistry, but the movie needed a good editor and after awhile watching them fight each other and blow up shit got boring.
Quote: Hell fucking no. I saw it a couple months ago and it was horrible. Its crappy chick flick man hating feminazi bullshit.
It is not.....makes some really good points i.e. girls saying they want a career, not interested, etc. when they just want you to pursue them.
And guys going only 90% of the way kissing leaving it up to the girl to come closer. Especially the fiddling with the key thing: if a girl sticks her keys in the door and leaves DONT TRY TO KISS HER! But if she lingers to talk some more.....it means she wants you to! Plus you can tell a lot about a guy by the goodnight kiss.....seriously!
Especially the best friend thing: if the guy isn't liked by the best friend, the girl is NEVER going to go out with him! It's a true fact of life! Most of my guy friends forget and sadly, lose the girl they want.
And last but not least, I really like the Hitch date rule: don't stare at her lips, her breasts, or her body! Look at her in the eye and LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS! That way, it shows you are into her for who she is not just what she looks like. Don't spend the entire date just staring at the girl, TALK TO HER! Tell her about life/growing up/work etc.
Anyways, now ya'll dont have to see the movie :P I still liked the first part of it anyway (last part of the movie turned out kinda long but the first part was grreat!).
Since this is a DVD thing, I just got done watching Deception.....an old Viggo movie from back in the day, my sister had lying around...wasnt all that but Lord of the Rings extended day sounds like an awesome way to chill on vacation!
PE said: And guys going only 90% of the way kissing leaving it up to the girl to come closer. Especially the fiddling with the key thing: if a girl sticks her keys in the door and leaves DONT TRY TO KISS HER! But if she lingers to talk some more.....it means she wants you to! Plus you can tell a lot about a guy by the goodnight kiss.....seriously!
Especially the best friend thing: if the guy isn't liked by the best friend, the girl is NEVER going to go out with him! It's a true fact of life! Most of my guy friends forget and sadly, lose the girl they want.
And last but not least, I really like the Hitch date rule: don't stare at her lips, her breasts, or her body! Look at her in the eye and LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS! That way, it shows you are into her for who she is not just what she looks like. Don't spend the entire date just staring at the girl, TALK TO HER! Tell her about life/growing up/work etc.
PI says:
what? what is this high school? All a guy has to do is initiate conversation so the gal can hog it all-she's happy. Then he has to look down at his drink and back to her eyes catching any glimpses he wants to glimpse along the way, because he's looking at her eyes. Don't bring up any ex relationships and take her home. If she wanted a free meal then you'll know and if she liked you well, you'll usually know...but aren't we all adults? .I guess not... I guess the game playing crap is why I'm still single, because I absolutely refuse..
SHUTUP JM!! At least the first hour......or read my insanely quick summary and spare yourself the horror.....it really was good guy dating advice though, I thought!
Alright penissa, there were some good parts of the movie. I thought Will Smith and the fat white guy were funny together. Other than that the movie was horrible.
Now for some of the horrible parts. Will Smith fucking jumped on a fucking moving car and did not get fucking hurt. The only conflict in the movie was because the main characters were lying to each other and couldn't sort out a simple misunderstanding. Will Smith fucking kicked that chick in the face and knocked her into a polluted river, then reminded her of the most embarrassing part of her family history. The chick the fat guy was in love with was not attractive. If she was attractive like the movie wanted us to believe, she would have absolutely nothing to do with him. The fat guy quit his job over a chick he could never get in real life. The whole movie says its good to lie about your job to someone your in love with. Its a goddamned chick flick. There were no boobies in it.
One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures. The Monster Geneology cracks me up, as does Vincent "GOD" Price's monologue at the end of the movie. Great stuff.
Gargoyles, season 2 (So fuckin' awesome!) Batman:TAS, vol. 4 The Muppet Show, Season 1 Family Guy, Vol. 3 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Hitchcock's Dial "M" for Murder
White Stripes - Under Blackpool Light The Doors - VH1 Storytellers Pulp - Ultimate Live Queen + Paul Rodgers - Return of the Champions Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter Soda Stereo - Last Concert
"The Fury" Pretty sweet movie although in my mind Robin and the chick meet up, he goes to the good side, they fall madly in love and have kids....instead of most of the main characters dying anyways ;p
Quote: harleykwin said: Gargoyles, season 2 (So fuckin' awesome!)
... I love you.
I too am watching this and it is indeed fucking awesome. Also, Slave Labor Graphics, in association with creaturecomics.com and Disney, will be publishing a brand new Gargoyles comic, written by series creator Greg Weisman! Awesome!
Quote: harleykwin said: Gargoyles, season 2 (So fuckin' awesome!)
... I love you.
I too am watching this and it is indeed fucking awesome. Also, Slave Labor Graphics, in association with creaturecomics.com and Disney, will be publishing a brand new Gargoyles comic, written by series creator Greg Weisman! Awesome!
I'm honestly amazed that there aren't more fans of this show on these boards - this show had it all: myth and legend - from Shakespeare to Camelot and everything in between; good vs. evil; great battles; romance; betrayal; that whole beauty and the beast element; and fantastic subplots that were never forgotten, but allowed to develop into secondary stories - this was one of the best shows out there - and I'm not qualifying it as best animated show - I mean best show. It was brilliant.
Saw the first disk over the weekend - I loved "The Mirror" with Demona stealing Titania's mirror and Puck wrecking havoc on the whole City. And it was kinda sweet to see the Twin Towers in the skyline again...
Interesting that SLG is the one putting out the comic - I always think of them as putting out "darker" stuff - though I can definitely see Gargoyles taking a very gothic turn...
And did you know that there were SIX planned spinoffs? Pendragon (focusing on King Arthur), The Dark Ages (set in the time when Hudson was leader), Timedancer (where Brooklyn gets sent through time by the Phoenix Gate), Bad Guys (focusing on some reformed villains, like Fang and Dingo), The New Olympians, and Gargoyles 2198 (set in the future, those aliens that Nokar was sent to fight finally invade).
Quote: harleykwin said: Gargoyles, season 2 (So fuckin' awesome!)
... I love you.
I too am watching this and it is indeed fucking awesome. Also, Slave Labor Graphics, in association with creaturecomics.com and Disney, will be publishing a brand new Gargoyles comic, written by series creator Greg Weisman! Awesome!
I'm honestly amazed that there aren't more fans of this show on these boards - this show had it all: myth and legend - from Shakespeare to Camelot and everything in between; good vs. evil; great battles; romance; betrayal; that whole beauty and the beast element; and fantastic subplots that were never forgotten, but allowed to develop into secondary stories - this was one of the best shows out there - and I'm not qualifying it as best animated show - I mean best show. It was brilliant.
Saw the first disk over the weekend - I loved "The Mirror" with Demona stealing Titania's mirror and Puck wrecking havoc on the whole City. And it was kinda sweet to see the Twin Towers in the skyline again...
Interesting that SLG is the one putting out the comic - I always think of them as putting out "darker" stuff - though I can definitely see Gargoyles taking a very gothic turn...
It seemed interesting, like the Gummi Bears on steroids. strong guy, leader guy. damsel, smart guy, goofy guy..all gargoyles and a cop of course, but standard formula. I think I saw it more than a few times, but very scattered. all the disney TV toons from that era were pretty darn good actually.
It seemed interesting, like the Gummi Bears on steroids. strong guy, leader guy. damsel, smart guy, goofy guy..all gargoyles and a cop of course, but standard formula. I think I saw it more than a few times, but very scattered. all the disney TV toons from that era were pretty darn good actually.
It's funny you say that, because Gummi Bears was actually one of the inspirations for the show.
Quote: harleykwin said: Gargoyles, season 2 (So fuckin' awesome!)
... I love you.
I too am watching this and it is indeed fucking awesome. Also, Slave Labor Graphics, in association with creaturecomics.com and Disney, will be publishing a brand new Gargoyles comic, written by series creator Greg Weisman! Awesome!
I'm honestly amazed that there aren't more fans of this show on these boards - this show had it all: myth and legend - from Shakespeare to Camelot and everything in between; good vs. evil; great battles; romance; betrayal; that whole beauty and the beast element; and fantastic subplots that were never forgotten, but allowed to develop into secondary stories - this was one of the best shows out there - and I'm not qualifying it as best animated show - I mean best show. It was brilliant.
Saw the first disk over the weekend - I loved "The Mirror" with Demona stealing Titania's mirror and Puck wrecking havoc on the whole City. And it was kinda sweet to see the Twin Towers in the skyline again...
Interesting that SLG is the one putting out the comic - I always think of them as putting out "darker" stuff - though I can definitely see Gargoyles taking a very gothic turn...
It seemed interesting, like the Gummi Bears on steroids. strong guy, leader guy. damsel, smart guy, goofy guy..all gargoyles and a cop of course, but standard formula. I think I saw it more than a few times, but very scattered. all the disney TV toons from that era were pretty darn good actually.
mmmmm....gummi bears....
Um, yeah, I never watched the gummi bears - actually, until I read your post I didn't even know that there had been a cartoon about them - so I can't comment on them. Gargoyles may have started off with the "formula" in its first season, but the show completely hit its stride and broke away from the standard cartoon formula in it's second season. I really recommend seeing the whole thing - especially if you're a fan of the '90's Disney animation.
Tonight it's a toss-up between King Kong, the Sin City bonus stuff, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, and House By The Cemetary as I sift through my XMas gifts. I'm holding off on Murder-Set-Pieces for now...
Its one of those movies that has its funny moments but then gets too slushy for its own good. If even half of what was said in the movie,we'd all be able to date the hottest chicks in the world.........lies all of it!
Quote: Nowhereman said: Damn good movie. Are you really old enough to understand it?
Yeah. I am. And YES it's a damn good movie. That's why I was kinda pissed he was taking so long giving it back to me. Bastard I loaned it to watched it every weekend. While he was drunk/stoned to the point of retardation. At least I got it back in good shape...
Just saw 40 Year Old Virgin yesterday. I laughed my ass off.
I just picked up Airplane (The Don't Call Me Shirley Edition) and seasons one and two of Titus (the first season is classic tv. The second season pretty much sucked.)
Also picked up Murder One Season One.
Just finally got caught up and watched seasons 1-4 of Aqua Teen Hungerforce, even though I've probably seen every episode a half dozen times...
Just picked up a bunch of DVDs in the sales to work my way through: Duel Raw Swingers Airheads Monster I'm gonne git you sucka Jacobs ladder Bird on a wire American beauty Pulp fiction
"I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (pretty good) Brothers Grimm (was ok. I was hoping for something more along the lines of Time Bandits or Baron Munchausen, though)
picked up cheap: Once Upon a Time in Mexico Return of the Pink Panther Species I & II Ghosts of Mars Spaceballs
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Duel is nothing special?
Keep in mind PCG's age. Is That Eddie Murphy: Raw you picked up? Swingers is one of those movies that I'll watch on TV no matter how late in the movie I find it. If it's on, channel surfing stops. It has one of the most excruciating, squirm-worthy scenes ever put to film. Great stuff...great haul, NWM.
Last night I picked up Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the new edition) and Eraserhead.
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Duel is nothing special?
Keep in mind PCG's age. Is That Eddie Murphy: Raw you picked up? Swingers is one of those movies that I'll watch on TV no matter how late in the movie I find it. If it's on, channel surfing stops. It has one of the most excruciating, squirm-worthy scenes ever put to film. Great stuff...great haul, NWM.
Last night I picked up Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the new edition) and Eraserhead.
Yeah its the Eddie Murphy concert film! I love Raw,but Delirious was so much better. When the fuck they gonna release that on DVD?
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Duel is nothing special?
Yeah... never heard of it. Recommended? What's it about, my man?
Yeah its the Eddie Murphy concert film! I love Raw,but Delirious was so much better.
So true.
That was Eddie Murphy in his heyday, before the kiddie movies came along.
Die Hard - Alan Rickman was such a badass.
Delirious, if I remember correctly, was Eddie either during or just after his SNL run. Brilliant stuff. They broke this show up into two parts and made albums out of them. Also brilliant. Raw was Eddie at his high point. Either just before or just after Coming To America, where he could demand any salary and had his pick of scripts. But while Delirious displayed a lean, hungry Murphy who just wanted to "make it" (he wasn't a star yet), Raw shows the star, angry and a bit disillusioned. Rumor has it that he'd just had a relationship end, which is why so much of the stand-up is directed at divorce and relationships.
Both are amazing pieces of stand-up, but I agree that Delirious was the better of the two. And, yes, they need to release it pronto.
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Duel is nothing special?
Yeah... never heard of it. Recommended? What's it about, my man?
Its a 35 year old classic,and what I believe was Spielbergs first movie! Its a about a guy going for a long drive & this guy who drives a big dirty truck,who for no reason,decides to chase him and kill him!
There has been many copies of this movie,but its never been bettered,usually cause they try to give the psycho guy a motive!
Quote: PCG342 said: "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was pretty funny. And "Pulp Fiction" is good. All the others... well, I don't see anything bad in the bunch, but nothing spectacular.
Duel is nothing special?
Yeah... never heard of it. Recommended? What's it about, my man?
It's the film that made Steven Spielberg bankable.
Basically the plot is working class maybe corperate type douche cuts off a truck driver.
Truck driver then relentlessly persues said douche in game of cat and mouse.
Not great,but not totally shit! The scene towards the end where its first person perspective was straight out of the game,and The Rock ending up being the bad guy was a surprise!
I'd say its watchable if you just want simplistic,unoriginal entertainment,but I'd wait til its cheap on DVD before buying it,rent it or download it for free like me!
Quote: Nowhereman said: Not great,but not totally shit! The scene towards the end where its first person perspective was straight out of the game,and The Rock ending up being the bad guy was a surprise!
I'd say its watchable if you just want simplistic,unoriginal entertainment,but I'd wait til its cheap on DVD before buying it,rent it or download it for free like me!
Thanks for ruining the movie dick-head!!!
I've been waiting for this DVD for, like, ten years!!!
I rented KINSEY this week from the library. Very, very good movie. Nice nude scene with Peter Sarsgaard. Liam Neeson totally conveyed "Prok" Kinsey and his physical mannerisms and the movie didn't duck the issues of how much their clinical approach to sex took its toll on the personal lives of Kinsey, his wife, their son, and the research team whom Kinsey directed at IU.
Writer/director Bill Condon's voiceover commentary portion was great too. Watched the film without it then with it. Bill's screen credit is dropped in as the young Kinsey's laying in bed jacking off...Condon said he would never again get a better screen credit LOL.
Watched Constantine during end of Physics, and after Trig test [portable DVD player]
Little sister's watching Brother Bear right now. I'm not really paying it that much attention. I'm a lil' out of it.
Ordered a few movies today. Pretty excited. "Big Lebowski: Special Edition" "Fargo" "Mexico Trilogy: El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon A Time in Mexico" WOOHOO!
Season 1 of The Muppet Show - the very first ep. has that "mnamanah" tune and I can't get that song outta my head - I've been singing that fucking song all morning.
The Superstar Graham Story Dead Man (great fucking cast: Depp, Robert Mitchum, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton) The Early Films of David Lynch
Boxed-set DVDs of television series are so popular and prevalent these days that it might seem like everything is out there to be bought and savored.
But it isn't. Some shows on DVD have vanished after only the first season was released on disk, and others have yet to come out at all.
I've been dying, for example, for more of "Twin Peaks." The movie-length pilot was released six years ago, and the rest of season one came out a year later, but that's it. Season one of "The Larry Sanders Show" came out four years ago, but nothing since. And while "The Wonder Years" was one of the first series to make an appearance on DVD, with two best-of six-episode sets arriving in 1998, nothing else has followed - and fans who track down those original releases may be sorely disappointed.
"Those episodes don't have the original music," says Gord Lacey, founder of the Web site www.TVShowsonDVD.com. The high fees required to secure music rights is what held up the release of such shows as "Miami Vice" (recently released by Universal) and still complicates any potential boxed sets of such music-heavy series as "EZ Streets" and "China Beach."
Lacey's site, launched five years ago, has more than 237,000 registered users, many of whom request the series they'd most like to see on disk. According to Lacey's data, the five series most-requested for release are, in order: "Beverly Hills, 90210," "JAG," "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.," "The Wonder Years" and "The Facts of Life."
Lacey tells the Daily News the surprisingly popular "JAG" is rumored to be released later this year - and "Brisco," Lacey's favorite, finally will be released in July, probably due in no small part by feverish lobbying from Lacey.
"Once 'Brisco County Jr.' comes out, I'm shutting the site down," Lacey jokes. He adds, though, that he still longs for the release of other fairly obscure personal favorites, such as "Vengeance Unlimited," "Cupid" and "Brimstone."
Two out of three ain't bad ("Brimstone"?) - but when it comes to pining for obscure TV shows not yet out on DVD, I'm afraid I'm even more of a loner.
"Twin Peaks," for example, has been requested by 1,898 of Lacey's registered TV fans. Another big one on my wish list, "thirtysomething," gets 1,268. But the more shows I asked Lacey to rank, the lower his totals - and the louder his laughter.
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"? Only 596 other fans, apparently, are looking for that Norman Lear soap spoof. Jay Tarses' "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd," starring Blair Brown? Only 373 other votes for that brilliant dramedy. "Honey West," with Anne Francis and her ocelot? Just 322.
And on the really low end, the Thurberesque "My World and Welcome to It" got only 179 votes, while the PBS classic "Great American Dream Machine" earned only seven. And the mid-'70s CBS series "Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School," other than my query and support, got no votes at all. Not even from Efron. ("You're including that?" Lacey asks incredulously.)
Others on my wanted list are, I suspect, more popular objects of desire. Other than a six-episode compilation in 2000, "Ally McBeal" hasn't been released, but Lacey suspects that with Fox's announced release of season one of "Boston Legal" this May, other David E. Kelley series soon will receive the boxed-set treatment. If that includes "Picket Fences" as well as "Ally," I'd be doubly happy.
Another test release, the first season of "Hill Street Blues," has done well enough for Fox to schedule a second season quickly. According to Lacey, that bodes well for the eventual release of one of my all-time favorite shows, "St. Elsewhere."
Season one of "Mission: Impossible" could be out, Lacey predicts, to coincide with the home-video release of the third Tom Cruise "M:I" movie. As for "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," Lacey says there's no word, but there's definitely a demand. I'd add "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." Maybe that's just me.
But no matter how loudly Lacey laughs, I don't think so.
Finally, that reminds me - what about "Get Smart"? When will that be released on DVD?
Would you believe ... later this year? That's the rumor, anyway. And if it turns out to be untrue - sorry about that, chief.
Boxed-set DVDs of television series are so popular and prevalent these days that it might seem like everything is out there to be bought and savored.
But it isn't. Some shows on DVD have vanished after only the first season was released on disk, and others have yet to come out at all.
I've been dying, for example, for more of "Twin Peaks." The movie-length pilot was released six years ago, and the rest of season one came out a year later, but that's it. Season one of "The Larry Sanders Show" came out four years ago, but nothing since. And while "The Wonder Years" was one of the first series to make an appearance on DVD, with two best-of six-episode sets arriving in 1998, nothing else has followed - and fans who track down those original releases may be sorely disappointed.
"Those episodes don't have the original music," says Gord Lacey, founder of the Web site www.TVShowsonDVD.com. The high fees required to secure music rights is what held up the release of such shows as "Miami Vice" (recently released by Universal) and still complicates any potential boxed sets of such music-heavy series as "EZ Streets" and "China Beach."
Lacey's site, launched five years ago, has more than 237,000 registered users, many of whom request the series they'd most like to see on disk. According to Lacey's data, the five series most-requested for release are, in order: "Beverly Hills, 90210," "JAG," "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.," "The Wonder Years" and "The Facts of Life."
Lacey tells the Daily News the surprisingly popular "JAG" is rumored to be released later this year - and "Brisco," Lacey's favorite, finally will be released in July, probably due in no small part by feverish lobbying from Lacey.
"Once 'Brisco County Jr.' comes out, I'm shutting the site down," Lacey jokes. He adds, though, that he still longs for the release of other fairly obscure personal favorites, such as "Vengeance Unlimited," "Cupid" and "Brimstone."
Two out of three ain't bad ("Brimstone"?) - but when it comes to pining for obscure TV shows not yet out on DVD, I'm afraid I'm even more of a loner.
"Twin Peaks," for example, has been requested by 1,898 of Lacey's registered TV fans. Another big one on my wish list, "thirtysomething," gets 1,268. But the more shows I asked Lacey to rank, the lower his totals - and the louder his laughter.
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"? Only 596 other fans, apparently, are looking for that Norman Lear soap spoof. Jay Tarses' "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd," starring Blair Brown? Only 373 other votes for that brilliant dramedy. "Honey West," with Anne Francis and her ocelot? Just 322.
And on the really low end, the Thurberesque "My World and Welcome to It" got only 179 votes, while the PBS classic "Great American Dream Machine" earned only seven. And the mid-'70s CBS series "Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School," other than my query and support, got no votes at all. Not even from Efron. ("You're including that?" Lacey asks incredulously.)
Others on my wanted list are, I suspect, more popular objects of desire. Other than a six-episode compilation in 2000, "Ally McBeal" hasn't been released, but Lacey suspects that with Fox's announced release of season one of "Boston Legal" this May, other David E. Kelley series soon will receive the boxed-set treatment. If that includes "Picket Fences" as well as "Ally," I'd be doubly happy.
Another test release, the first season of "Hill Street Blues," has done well enough for Fox to schedule a second season quickly. According to Lacey, that bodes well for the eventual release of one of my all-time favorite shows, "St. Elsewhere."
Season one of "Mission: Impossible" could be out, Lacey predicts, to coincide with the home-video release of the third Tom Cruise "M:I" movie. As for "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," Lacey says there's no word, but there's definitely a demand. I'd add "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." Maybe that's just me.
But no matter how loudly Lacey laughs, I don't think so.
Finally, that reminds me - what about "Get Smart"? When will that be released on DVD?
Would you believe ... later this year? That's the rumor, anyway. And if it turns out to be untrue - sorry about that, chief.
Just finished Four Brothers. Friggin' great movie! Wahlberg actually delivers a flat-out good performance. I gotta admit, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this movie as much as I did. Good flick.
Yeah, I watched that the other night and felt the same way. I was also didn't like their treatment of the Hulk. The whole "Banner's in control" angle seemed to take away from his savagery and the switch back to the monster was so instantaneous that even I was wondering how the heck it had happened.
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: Yeah, I watched that the other night and felt the same way. I was also didn't like their treatment of the Hulk. The whole "Banner's in control" angle seemed to take away from his savagery and the switch back to the monster was so instantaneous that even I was wondering how the heck it had happened.
At any rate: Rounders.
I took it that the Hulk was always in control - the brief moment where he hugs Betty and speaks to her as Banner after he becomes the Hulk was just that: a brief moment. Even during the battle where he tells Cap its his fight (or something like that) you can already see that the Hulk is taking over. To me, that wasn't really a surprise. I think they got Black Widow and Fury's characters totally right. Pym was done well, too - though they didn't touch the whole wife beating incident and I thought that they were showing signs of a potential relationship between Widow and Cap, not Wasp and Cap. Overall, it was still pretty good.
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And before you comment...it's even worse than it seems. The fuckers (midway through the most horrendous song ever recorded) point to the screen and declare that the veiwer is 'a princess too'. Indeed.
And before you comment...it's even worse than it seems. The fuckers (midway through the most horrendous song ever recorded) point to the screen and declare that the veiwer is 'a princess too'. Indeed.
You now have to move to Texas & have you brain removed!
That was a fucking great movie. I watched it last week...and couldn't help but think how good a Catwoman movie done as a caper flick might have turned out....
I started on a journey just about a year ago,
To a little town called "Morrow" in the state of Ohio
I'd never been much of a traveller and I really didn't know,
That Morrow was the hardest place I'd ever try to go.
So I went down to the station for my ticket and applied
For tips regarding Morrow not expecting to be guyed
Said I, "My friend, I'd like to go to Morrow and return,
No later than tomorrow for I haven't time to burn."
Said he to me, "Now let me see if I have heard you right
You'd like to go to Morrow and return tomorrow night
You should have gone to Morrow yesterday and back today,
For the train that goes to Morrow is a mile upon its way
If you had gone to Morrow yesterday now don't you see,
You could have gone to Morrow and returned today at three
For the train today to Morrow if the schedule is right,
Today it gets to Morrow and returns tomorrow night.
Said I, "I'd like to go to Morrow so can I go today,
And get to Morrow by tonight if there is no delay?"
"Well, well," he said to me, "and I've got no more to say,
"Can you get anywhere tomorrow and get back again today?"
Said I, "I guess you know it all, but kindly let me say,
How can I get to Morrow if I leave this town today?"
Said he, "You can not go to Morrow anymore today,
For the train that goes to Morrow is a mile upon its way."
I was so disappointed, I was mad enough to swear
The train had gone to Morrow and it left me standing there
The man was right in telling me, "You are a howling jay
You cannot go to Morrow." Well I guess in town I'll stay.
I was glad that I waited to pick up the uber-edition of Sin City. Great movie and the extras were suh-weet!
Last night, I watched Capote with my gal. Great performance by Phillip Seymore Hoffman, but Truman Capote (if this film was to believed) was a dick who deserved everything he got after In Cold Blood was published.
Been watching the Highlander series. Season 1 sucked - thank gob they eventually killed off Tessa. Seasons 3 and 5 have been kicking ass, though. I love Adrian Paul.
Terror Firmer. I Made it through the Director's Cut version and some of the deleted scenes. I still have to finish watching the rest of the deleted scenes and a few other extras, plus there's a whole second disc of bonus shiznit. Cripes, I got my money's worth! And Lloyd Kaufman even signed my DVD...aweshome!
Quote: harleykwin said: Been watching the Highlander series. Season 1 sucked - thank gob they eventually killed off Tessa. Seasons 3 and 5 have been kicking ass, though. I love Adrian Paul.
Ha! Season 5 was excellent. After that the series went completely in ther crapper.
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Al Murray the pub landlord...My gaff, my rules
Al Murray the pub landlord...and a glass of wine for the ladies
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Quote: harleykwin said: Been watching the Highlander series. Season 1 sucked - thank gob they eventually killed off Tessa. Seasons 3 and 5 have been kicking ass, though. I love Adrian Paul.
Ha! Season 5 was excellent. After that the series went completely in ther crapper.
Are you serious? I love Vincent Price - this was one of the first horror/suspense movies I saw as a little kid (that and Jaws - the theme music plays inside my head everytime I go diving) and it scared the fuck outta me. I'm trying to make my way through the Price/Poe movies. Also been reading Poe for the first time in years -The Cask of Amontillado is one of my favorites. Cold, calculated revenge - you have to love it.
what was the Poe/Price movie where he buried someone in the wall and his guilt made him hear their heartbeat until he ripped the wall down and revealed his crime?
Quote: PJP said: what was the Poe/Price movie where he buried someone in the wall and his guilt made him hear their heartbeat until he ripped the wall down and revealed his crime?
I think you're confusing two of Poe's stories - The Cask of Amontillado is where he buries his ex-friend behind a wall of bricks (and he doesn't feel remorse - yay!) and The Tell Tale Heart was the tale of the guilt getting to the narrator and that's when he reveals his crime.
Quote: PJP said: what was the Poe/Price movie where he buried someone in the wall and his guilt made him hear their heartbeat until he ripped the wall down and revealed his crime?
I think you're confusing two of Poe's stories - The Cask of Amontillado is where he buries his ex-friend behind a wall of bricks (and he doesn't feel remorse - yay!) and The Tell Tale Heart was the tale of the guilt getting to the narrator and that's when he reveals his crime.
I was.....I love both those stories...haven't read them in years. I must rectify that.
Masque is probably the best of that series. also the closest to the source material, although they tried to stay as close as they could for most (which is more than a lot of early filmmakers who "adapted" Poe's stuff can say).
Rene Auberjon. . .damn I can't remember how to spell it. . .he was Clayton on Benson and Odo on DS9, starred in a great version of Amontillado that was filmed for a special about Poe several years ago.
Quote: PJP said: what was the Poe/Price movie where he buried someone in the wall and his guilt made him hear their heartbeat until he ripped the wall down and revealed his crime?
I think you're confusing two of Poe's stories - The Cask of Amontillado is where he buries his ex-friend behind a wall of bricks (and he doesn't feel remorse - yay!) and The Tell Tale Heart was the tale of the guilt getting to the narrator and that's when he reveals his crime.
I was.....I love both those stories...haven't read them in years. I must rectify that.
There's a book called Complete Tales & Poems: Edgar Allan Poe that is awesome! I'm currently making my way through it now - some are old faves and a few I've never read before - pick it up - it's totally worth it.
Quote: PJP said: what was the Poe/Price movie where he buried someone in the wall and his guilt made him hear their heartbeat until he ripped the wall down and revealed his crime?
I think you're confusing two of Poe's stories - The Cask of Amontillado is where he buries his ex-friend behind a wall of bricks (and he doesn't feel remorse - yay!) and The Tell Tale Heart was the tale of the guilt getting to the narrator and that's when he reveals his crime.
I was.....I love both those stories...haven't read them in years. I must rectify that.
There's a book called Complete Tales & Poems: Edgar Allan Poe that is awesome! I'm currently making my way through it now - some are old faves and a few I've never read before - pick it up - it's totally worth it.
I'll definitely do that!! I am heading to bed.....don't be a stranger!
Quote: harleykwin said: Are you serious? I love Vincent Price - this was one of the first horror/suspense movies I saw as a little kid (that and Jaws - the theme music plays inside my head everytime I go diving) and it scared the fuck outta me. I'm trying to make my way through the Price/Poe movies. Also been reading Poe for the first time in years -The Cask of Amontillado is one of my favorites. Cold, calculated revenge - you have to love it.
Vincent Price is the man. Masque Of The Red Death was the second horror movie I ever saw and I remember being terrified by the whole thing. Even Hazel Court's ample bosum couldn't soothe me. I've been trying to track down his whole catalog on VHS and DVD. "The Cask Of Amontillado" was part of a segment of Tales Of Terror (Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone are in it as well) - though it was played a bit more for laughs (the drinking contest between Price and Lorre is hilarious), it's still well done. I also recommend Theatre Of Blood, an underrated and little-seen Price flick that also stars Diane Rigg.
Quote: Nowhereman said: I remember the time Vincent Price did that little rap about LLance! "The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of 40,000 years"
Ah, Thriller. Michael Jackson when he was still black...I remember it well...
Quote: harleykwin said: Are you serious? I love Vincent Price - this was one of the first horror/suspense movies I saw as a little kid (that and Jaws - the theme music plays inside my head everytime I go diving) and it scared the fuck outta me. I'm trying to make my way through the Price/Poe movies. Also been reading Poe for the first time in years -The Cask of Amontillado is one of my favorites. Cold, calculated revenge - you have to love it.
Vincent Price is the man. Masque Of The Red Death was the second horror movie I ever saw and I remember being terrified by the whole thing. Even Hazel Court's ample bosum couldn't soothe me. I've been trying to track down his whole catalog on VHS and DVD. "The Cask Of Amontillado" was part of a segment of Tales Of Terror (Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone are in it as well) - though it was played a bit more for laughs (the drinking contest between Price and Lorre is hilarious), it's still well done. I also recommend Theatre Of Blood, an underrated and little-seen Price flick that also stars Diane Rigg.
But I thought ample bosums made everything better? Oh, Dave, you've just disillusioned me...
Quote: harleykwin said: Are you serious? I love Vincent Price - this was one of the first horror/suspense movies I saw as a little kid (that and Jaws - the theme music plays inside my head everytime I go diving) and it scared the fuck outta me. I'm trying to make my way through the Price/Poe movies. Also been reading Poe for the first time in years -The Cask of Amontillado is one of my favorites. Cold, calculated revenge - you have to love it.
Vincent Price is the man. Masque Of The Red Death was the second horror movie I ever saw and I remember being terrified by the whole thing. Even Hazel Court's ample bosum couldn't soothe me. I've been trying to track down his whole catalog on VHS and DVD. "The Cask Of Amontillado" was part of a segment of Tales Of Terror (Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone are in it as well) - though it was played a bit more for laughs (the drinking contest between Price and Lorre is hilarious), it's still well done. I also recommend Theatre Of Blood, an underrated and little-seen Price flick that also stars Diane Rigg.
But I thought ample bosums made everything better? Oh, Dave, you've just disillusioned me...
Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
Quote: Joe Mama said: Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
....or the men in white coats who came with tranquilizers and restraints...
Quote: Joe Mama said: Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
....or the men in white coats who came with tranquilizers and restraints...
Oh no. They were a welcome sight. They bring the good medicines what make me happy and smile and calm.
Quote: Joe Mama said: Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
....or the men in white coats who came with tranquilizers and restraints...
They're coming to take me away Hee hee, ha ha To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time They're coming to take me away!
Quote: Joe Mama said: Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
....or the men in white coats who came with tranquilizers and restraints...
Oh no. They were a welcome sight. They bring the good medicines what make me happy and smile and calm.
Quote: Joe Mama said: Ample bosums make everything better unless they're just images on a TV, which makes suckling difficult. I don't know what traumatized me more: the terrifying images that I watched, or the static shocks I got on my lips whenever Hazel appeared.
....or the men in white coats who came with tranquilizers and restraints...
They're coming to take me away Hee hee, ha ha To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time They're coming to take me away!
Points for anyone who gets the reference...
I just figured that was something you say at the end of a work day!
Venture Brothers - Season One: I hate the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the cartoon animals AND the action ones (Johnny Quest and the like). I love this spoof of those cartoons. Comedy gold in every episode! And the bonus stuff is well worth the time spent watching. I'll be watching the episodes with the commentary next, and then picking up Robot Chicken Season One. God bless Adult Swim!
Quote: harleykwin said: When I'm done with the Poe/Price flicks...
Fall Of The House Of Usher Masque Of The Red Death Tales Of Terror The Raven The Pit And The Pendulum Twice-Told Tales (actually these are Nathaniel Hawthorne stories, but at the very least similar in tone, if not creative team) The Haunted Palace (actually it's based on Lovecraft's Strange Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, but it was sold as a Poe tale by the same creative team) Tomb Of Ligeia/An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe (two flicks on one DVD, "Evening" is brilliant!!!)
You might also want to check out:
Theater Of Blood (Price killing theater critics in Shakespearean ways) Last Man On Earth (Price stars in this adaptation of I Am Legend) Monster Club (goofy fun...a guilty pleasure of mine...) The Abominable Dr. Phibes & Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Price is a criminal genius who seeks revenge on the doctors who "killed" his wife. To say any more will spoil it for you.)
The great thing about these Price flicks is that you can pick up DVDs with two of these flicks on them for cheap change.
Quote: harleykwin said: When I'm done with the Poe/Price flicks...
Fall Of The House Of Usher Masque Of The Red Death Tales Of Terror The Pit And The Pendulum
All excellent, though The Pit and the Pendulum holds a special place in my heart because it was the first film to scare the hell outta me.
Quote:
The Haunted Palace (actually it's based on Lovecraft's Strange Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, but it was sold as a Poe tale by the same creative team)
Ok, I was wondering about this - I thought it might've been Lovecraft, but its presented as a Poe story - for a moment I thought I might've gotten Poe and Lovecraft mixed up...
Quote: Tomb Of Ligeia/An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe (two flicks on one DVD, "Evening" is brilliant!!!)
You might also want to check out:
Theater Of Blood (Price killing theater critics in Shakespearean ways)
Last Man On Earth (Price stars in this adaptation of I Am Legend)
Monster Club (goofy fun...a guilty pleasure of mine...)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes & Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Price is a criminal genius who seeks revenge on the doctors who "killed" his wife. To say any more will spoil it for you.)
The great thing about these Price flicks is that you can pick up DVDs with two of these flicks on them for cheap change.
I know - they have a few DVDs with two of these flicks on them - awesohme! Is Monster Club really worth it? I've heard mixed things about it... Hmm...I'll check it out on your rec. BTW: You can also go to www.netflix.com if you wanna check them out before buying them.
Wait, this is bugging me now - wasn't The Haunted Palace the title of a Poe tale? But the story they used was based on a Lovecraft story? Something like that, I think...
Quote: harleykwin said: When I'm done with the Poe/Price flicks...
Fall Of The House Of Usher Masque Of The Red Death Tales Of Terror The Raven The Pit And The Pendulum Twice-Told Tales (actually these are Nathaniel Hawthorne stories, but at the very least similar in tone, if not creative team) The Haunted Palace (actually it's based on Lovecraft's Strange Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, but it was sold as a Poe tale by the same creative team) Tomb Of Ligeia/An Evening With Edgar Allen Poe (two flicks on one DVD, "Evening" is brilliant!!!)
You might also want to check out:
Theater Of Blood (Price killing theater critics in Shakespearean ways) Last Man On Earth (Price stars in this adaptation of I Am Legend) Monster Club (goofy fun...a guilty pleasure of mine...) The Abominable Dr. Phibes & Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Price is a criminal genius who seeks revenge on the doctors who "killed" his wife. To say any more will spoil it for you.)
The great thing about these Price flicks is that you can pick up DVDs with two of these flicks on them for cheap change.
you forgot Comedy of Terrors. not a Poe story, but it stars Price, Karloff, Lorre, and Rathbone, and the screenplay was written by Richard Matheson.
Quote: harleykwin said: Is Monster Club really worth it? I've heard mixed things about it... Hmm...I'll check it out on your rec.
Let me be completely up front with you. Monster Club was intended to be an "all-ages" horror flick. I saw it as a wee lad, loved it, caught it any time it was on, and finally bought it on DVD when it finally came out. It holds a special place in my heart for nostalgia's sake. It's not as scary as, say, Pit & The Pendulum or Masque Of The Red Death (the second movie to scare the shit outta me as a kid) - in fact, I'd hesitate to say it's all that scary. But it's a fun little movie with Vincent Price and John Carradine. Worth checking out.
Quote: Grimm said: you forgot Comedy of Terrors. not a Poe story, but it stars Price, Karloff, Lorre, and Rathbone, and the screenplay was written by Richard Matheson.
Dammit, you're right. This is what I get for going off the top of my head and using Amazon to assist. Next time, I'll just peruse my collection. I also forgot to mention Tower of London & The Oblong Box...
Quote: Grimm said: you forgot Comedy of Terrors. not a Poe story, but it stars Price, Karloff, Lorre, and Rathbone, and the screenplay was written by Richard Matheson.
Dammit, you're right. This is what I get for going off the top of my head and using Amazon to assist. Next time, I'll just peruse my collection. I also forgot to mention Tower of London & The Oblong Box...
See, I thought Oblong Box (the story, not the movie) wasn't so much scary as just...sad. I felt sorry for the guy, so deep into mourning his belove wife that he went mad. More tragic than spooky.
Quote: harleykwin said: Is Monster Club really worth it? I've heard mixed things about it... Hmm...I'll check it out on your rec.
Let me be completely up front with you. Monster Club was intended to be an "all-ages" horror flick. I saw it as a wee lad, loved it, caught it any time it was on, and finally bought it on DVD when it finally came out. It holds a special place in my heart for nostalgia's sake. It's not as scary as, say, Pit & The Pendulum or Masque Of The Red Death (the second movie to scare the shit outta me as a kid) - in fact, I'd hesitate to say it's all that scary. But it's a fun little movie with Vincent Price and John Carradine. Worth checking out.
Kiss Kiss, bang Bang - awesome movie - old school crime story set in modern day and both Downey and Kilmer were excellent in it. Some great lines too...
The Hills Have Eyes: Unrated - Not too bad, but the "mutant rape" scene was so bad it was funny... Wolf Creek: Unrated - Pretty good, though it reminded me quite a bit of Hostel. Interesting that it was based on true events. Unfortunately at the end, they basically admit that they totally made up what happened to two of the main characters... Leon: The Professional - Still awesome. The Ring Two - Not even sure if I'm going to watch this.
The kids got me THE GODFATHER, PT 2 and Season 6 of M*A*S*H (the first season with Winchester) on dvd this Father's Day, so I've been spending the week catching up on MASH eps I haven't seen in ages. I'd forgotten how good the first season with Winchester was, really invigorated the show.
But after that, every season to the end is spotty at best...maudlin, preachy, lacking in comedic bite.
The kids want to do a GODFATHER marathon maybe this weekend.
Tell me, is it cool or just geeky that I downloaded that song that's playing when Roc shoots up the deli? [By the way, it's "Holy Fool" by The Boondock Saints]
Later this weekend, I'll watch the original French director's cut of the same flick just for comparison's sake. Why they Americanized the title - Haute Tension - is beyond me, but this flick kicks ass. Scared the shit outta my gal.
You know... that movie looked AWESOME when I saw ads for it a few years back. Then I [and basically everybody else] totally fucking forgot about it, but if you say it's good, I'll look for it.
It's actually not on DVD yet, but I'm getting addicted to an anime show on youtube called Bleach. It's going to be on Adult Swim starting in September.
Quote: Nowhereman said: That ones only just hitting the cinema here. Obviously didnt do too well in the USA then!
Dunno...I live in Canada (heh). But it was just bad all the way around. From the lame ass suspensless 'plot'....to the cut and paste high school level CGI 'effects'.
The Oblongs: The Complete Twisted Series. I can't believe that there was just one season of this on Adult Swim. This show was hilarious and should've been renewed...
Quote: harleykwin said: The Oblongs: The Complete Twisted Series. I can't believe that there was just one season of this on Adult Swim. This show was hilarious and should've been renewed...
It's the same sob story that happened to Dilbert, the Critic, Clerks, This Just In, Gary&Mike, and Duckman: A bad timeslote.
....Well, I gues Duckman had a fairly long and healthy air-life--But it still had a few more seasons left dammit!
How was that anyhow? I think they'll have a hard time topping 'kid smashed with giant pane of glss' from the second outing...
I bought Final Destination 3 as well, but haven't watched it yet. The second one is brilliant, if for no other reason than they upped the gore and comedy because they knew they couldn't make the movie creepier than the first. It's a live-action Warner Bros. cartoon!
Speaking of which, I'm watching Animaniacs Vol. 1. It's amazing how well that show holds up
Nowhere near as good as the second, which for me was the best of the series!
Some interesting gory ways for people to die, but overall the film just lacked something!
Most interesting aspect of the DVD, which I assume is the same in other countries, is the "Pick their destiny" version of the film!
Basically, at certain points of the film you are asked to make one of two choices. Some choices dont make a big difference, but other choices radically alter the film (such as the fact you can actually save at least one character who died in the theatrical version).
New scenes were filmed for this version!
As for what I am watching now: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (watched this afternoon) Baseketball (watching now)
I liked the First Final Destination a lot more than the second, it had a better story but I do agree the deaths were better in the second one. I've seen the entire trilogy for sale at Target for about twenty seven bucks. I'd probably get it if I had the extra cash right now.
Quote: Joe Mama said: How was the animated shorts, or do you ignore the bonus shit?
Mr. & Mrs. Smith was a good flick. Baseketball was funny.
I do pretty much ignore bonus material! I did watch some of the documentaries on the FD3 disc, but dont remember seeing any animated shorts on it. Maybe I just missed them or they aint on my version.
Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes - Honestly, the way people talked about this, I thought it would be good. Instead I've found it really boring - I keep waiting for it to get funny. How disappointing.
Quote: harleykwin said: Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes - Honestly, the way people talked about this, I thought it would be good. Instead I've found it really boring - I keep waiting for it to get funny. How disappointing.
You have to remember the era...Ren and Stimpy was an edgy cartoon back when there wasn't really such things (even Simpsons hadn't really begun pushing the envelope yet). It was refreshing to wastch a cartoon cat nurture a fart like it was his only child....and Yaks are always funny!
Quote: Nowhereman said: And Harley has finally had her humour bypass operation!
Dude! It's boring! Compared to Family Guy/ATHF/Robot Chicken/ th Oblongs, etc.? No contst! C'mon, it's kinda cute (not funny, but cute) at first, but gets dull wicked quick!
Quote: harleykwin said: Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes - Honestly, the way people talked about this, I thought it would be good. Instead I've found it really boring - I keep waiting for it to get funny. How disappointing.
You have to remember the era...Ren and Stimpy was an edgy cartoon back when there wasn't really such things (even Simpsons hadn't really begun pushing the envelope yet). It was refreshing to wastch a cartoon cat nurture a fart like it was his only child....and Yaks are always funny!
Ok, I understand your point, but then I think of shows like Anamaniacs which was awesome then and has still managed to seem funny years later...
You just dont get it thats all. Comparing it to Family guy is like comparing Monty Python to Friends, both comedies, but complete opposites of eachother!
Quote: Nowhereman said: You just dont get it thats all.
I get that it's boring!
Quote: Comparing it to Family guy is like comparing Monty Python to Friends, both comedies, but complete opposites of eachother!
I used FG and other examples only to show that there are other cartoons out there that are geared towards adults that are funny.
Which quite frankly, I find boring! They dont push the envelope anything like Ren & Stimpy! I wouldnt even compare Ren & Stimpy to adult cartoons like South Park as its just totally on a different level. Both are funny, but their only similarity is they are cartoons!
Ren & Stimpy is a sureal comedy more akin to live action comedies like Monty Python.
I say you find it boring cause you just dont get what the creators are doing. If you are more in tune with the likes of Family guy, Simpsons & Futurama etc, then so be it, but quite frankly, for me, they are the boring ones as they are too linear in their humour!
Quote: Nowhereman said: You just dont get it thats all.
I get that it's boring!
Quote: Comparing it to Family guy is like comparing Monty Python to Friends, both comedies, but complete opposites of eachother!
I used FG and other examples only to show that there are other cartoons out there that are geared towards adults that are funny.
Which quite frankly, I find boring!
As is your right - we just disagree.
Quote: They dont push the envelope anything like Ren & Stimpy! I wouldnt even compare Ren & Stimpy to adult cartoons like South Park as its just totally on a different level. Both are funny, but their only similarity is they are cartoons!
Ren & Stimpy is a sureal comedy more akin to live action comedies like Monty Python.
I say you find it boring cause you just dont get what the creators are doing.
Why is it if I don't like it it means I "don't get it"? How condescending. I "get it" - the creators are pushing the envelope, etc., but I find it dull. Just because its not to my liking and I don't find it all that entertaining or funny, doesn't mean that I don't get it - it just means that we have different tastes as to what is funny.
Quote: If you are more in tune with the likes of Family guy, Simpsons & Futurama etc, then so be it, but quite frankly, for me, they are the boring ones as they are too linear in their humour!
Ok, fair enough. Like I said, just different tastes.
Quote: Nowhereman said: Layer cake was a great film, but I still dont see Craig as being Bond!
Craig may not be the stereotypical Bond guy, but he is tres (and I never thought I'd say this about a blond guy) sexy! (note the dif btwn "sexy" and "goodlooking" -- two dif things...) He just has an appeal to him - he's not a pretty boy like Bronson...
Quote: Anyway, watching "Men at work" and "Nacho libre"
Quote: Nowhereman said: Layer cake was a great film, but I still dont see Craig as being Bond!
Craig may not be the stereotypical Bond guy, but he is tres (and I never thought I'd say this about a blond guy) sexy! (note the dif btwn "sexy" and "goodlooking" -- two dif things...) He just has an appeal to him - he's not a pretty boy like Bronson...
Quote: Anyway, watching "Men at work" and "Nacho libre"
How was Nacho Libre? Worth a rent?
I dont care how "sexy" Craig is, he does not look like Bond! He looks like Gollum!
As for Nacho Libre, its good but dont think its on DVD yet......at least not officially!
Heh, this is quite humorous to me! Been waiting for the film Grand Prix to be released on DVD for years. So long in fact that I couldnt be bothered waiting for a UK release and bought the US version!
Just making ny way through the bonus features, and one of them is all about the race track Brands Hatch, which is my local race track, being only 10-15 mins ride from my house!
The race footage they show in this feature is of last years A1 GP race that I attended! Basically, although you cant really make out any of the crowds faces or anything, it means I am on this DVD as I was right up the front leaning on the fence!
Never watched it before. This show is hysterical...Been watching it with my sister - we are constantly cracking up. I love the older brother with his stupid magic tricks...
I just got Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" (Berlin Olympics), Tod Browning's "Freaks" (one of us, one of us, ooglogle oogleogle), and Jean-luc Godard's "Weekend" (French because it is too fucked up to be made in America - we would have censored the shit out of it) in the mail just today. I've seen the closing 'dive' sequance of Olympia, the wedding reception dinner scene in Freaks, and the whole of Weekend. I'll be watching all of these before school starts Monday.
Quote: Uschi said: The Princess Bride sucks, in my opinion. I was finally convinced to watch it last weekend. I went in with low hopes and ended up still dissappointed.
Quote: Im Not Mister Mxypltk said: For 3) I was gonna say "Oooh, I'm watching Godard, ooooh, look at me", but... I like Breathless.
I never saw that one. Weekend totally blew me out of my seat though. It's great how he forces the audiance to participate in the fucking thing and then you think Oh fuck, I totally just went for that!
Quote: Uschi said: The Princess Bride sucks, in my opinion. I was finally convinced to watch it last weekend. I went in with low hopes and ended up still dissappointed.
Quote: Uschi said: Ah yes, one last thing today. I also was loaned "Darkman" for viewing. It sucked but was funny in the way only Sam Ramis (sp) could make it.
"If you aren't going to kill me, I have things to do."
The best part of Darkman was the Bruce cameo at the end.
I watched The Man Who Laughs yesterday. While I'm a fan of silent cinema anyways, this was a very well constructed film. There are lots of tense moments and I really got into the story. Funny (not ha-ha) thing, the woman playing the Dutchess (who's after Veidt's character) is also the main actress in Freaks, the movie I'm gonna watch tonight.
Also, update, I'm retarded and never connected that the movie was based on Victor Hugo's book.
Freaks was rather dissappointing. All the tension and emotional involvement to draw the audiance into the film was hinged on the assumption that the audiance would be horrified by the players' physical and mental abnormalities. The editing had a choppy pace and the dialogue was unbelievable (this last aspect I can excuse as it WAS made shortly after the advent of sound in pictures).
Quote: Uschi said: Freaks was rather dissappointing. All the tension and emotional involvement to draw the audiance into the film was hinged on the assumption that the audiance would be horrified by the players' physical and mental abnormalities. The editing had a choppy pace and the dialogue was unbelievable (this last aspect I can excuse as it WAS made shortly after the advent of sound in pictures).
The thing you have to remember about Freaks is that the technology we take for granted wasn't there when this film was made. And the audience was very much horrified by the fact that real freaks were used instead of regular people in make-up. It's a no-brainer that this movie doesn't stand up to more recent films. But for it's time it packs one hell of a wallop to it's audience.
One thing that Browning meant to imply is that the freaks castrated the strong man. I don't care who you are, where you're from, or in what time period you live, that's some nasty scary shit.
No, I understand the social message. That wasn't a problem with the movie. I didn't like the editing cuts, mostly. And I understand that to have also engaged the audiance in other emotions with the film would have been too heavy and alienated the audiance from participating due to its shocking nature, I just find it missing from my standpoint. The lack of character involvement was probably heightened by my watching The Man Who Laughs the day before because that film had such magnificent tension in the characters and plot.
I liked that show. I don't give a shit what anybody says.
I just got it from netflix. While it was on TV I never really watched it, so I can't say if I like it or not yet. The three eps I saw I liked so far, but people seem to either love it or hate it - no middle ground.
I liked that show. I don't give a shit what anybody says.
I just got it from netflix. While it was on TV I never really watched it, so I can't say if I like it or not yet. The three eps I saw I liked so far, but people seem to either love it or hate it - no middle ground.
I started to appreciate it once JLU started incorporating it into TAS continuity. Seemed more relavent after the fact. I recently hooked myself up the full second season of Justice League.
I liked that show. I don't give a shit what anybody says.
I just got it from netflix. While it was on TV I never really watched it, so I can't say if I like it or not yet. The three eps I saw I liked so far, but people seem to either love it or hate it - no middle ground.
I started to appreciate it once JLU started incorporating it into TAS continuity. Seemed more relavent after the fact. I recently hooked myself up the full second season of Justice League.
I agree in some part. On its own, BB is a pretty good cartoon, but it definitely was better, and I enjoyed the episodes on disk 2 more, because they started to reference certain things regarding Bruce's tenure as Batman. Though the revelation that Babs and Bruce had been a couple at one point was a moment...
Quote: NotWedge said: Arrested Development Season 3
Watched it over the holiday weekend. Love this show - was this the final season, or was there a 4th?
Ultimate Avengers 2. I know people slammed the first one, but I didn't think that the first one was so bad. Not great, as it flowed better in comic form, but it wasn't nearly as bad as people said - at least IMO. It was ok. Kinda Cute. That said, I thought 2 was much better, though. They fleshed out some of the characters more. I liked it.
Quote: harleykwin said: Ultimate Avengers 2. I know people slammed the first one, but I didn't think that the first one was so bad. Not great, as it flowed better in comic form, but it wasn't nearly as bad as people said - at least IMO. It was ok. Kinda Cute. That said, I thought 2 was much better. They fleshed out some of the characters more. I liked it.
Quote: harleykwin said: Ultimate Avengers 2. I know people slammed the first one, but I didn't think that the first one was so bad. Not great, as it flowed better in comic form, but it wasn't nearly as bad as people said - at least IMO. It was ok. Kinda Cute. That said, I thought 2 was much better. They fleshed out some of the characters more. I liked it.
Just picked up a few DVDs cheapish: Clerks X Four rooms Mortal kombat annihilation
Watching the MK film at the moment. I heard it was really bad, but liked the first film despite its flaws, so I thought I'd at least give it a shot! I gotta say, it is hilariously bad!
Quote: harleykwin said: Ultimate Avengers 2. I know people slammed the first one, but I didn't think that the first one was so bad. Not great, as it flowed better in comic form, but it wasn't nearly as bad as people said - at least IMO. It was ok. Kinda Cute. That said, I thought 2 was much better. They fleshed out some of the characters more. I liked it.
I'm watching the first one right now.
I dug em both. My main quam was the animation quality.
I tell ya, I aint seen that one in years (probably since it came out on VHS all those years ago), and only vaguely remember it, but from what I do remember, it was a fun film!
V for Vendetta. I loved it, though I admit that I never read the comic book, so how close it was to its source, I dunno. But as a stand alone movie, I really enjoyed it.
El Espinazo del Diablo - which was translated here as The Devil's Backbone - saw this over the weekend, and it is a poetic ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War. I tend to think that as foreign horror movies go, we focus a lot on the Japanese horror films - especially their subpar Americanized remakes (The Grudge comes to mind) and forget so many others. Backbone should not be missed. Yes, its subtitled, but don't let that deter you - it was totally worth it - del Toro is a genius. For those who love straight up slasher/bloody movies, this is prolly too tame for you, but I found this beautiful and haunting - as the tag line says - "The living will always be more dangerous than the dead" and del Toro shows us why brilliantly. I totally recommend it.
Quote: harleykwin said: El Espinazo del Diablo - which was translated here as The Devil's Backbone - saw this over the weekend, and it is a poetic ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War. I tend to think that as foreign horror movies go, we focus a lot on the Japanese horror films - especially their subpar Americanized remakes (The Grudge comes to mind) and forget so many others. Backbone should not be missed. Yes, its subtitled, but don't let that deter you - it was totally worth it - del Toro is a genius. For those who love straight up slasher/bloody movies, this is prolly too tame for you, but I found this beautiful and haunting - as the tag line says - "The living will always be more dangerous than the dead" and del Toro shows us why brilliantly. I totally recommend it.
An absolutely gorgeous film. I'm dying to see his newest - Pan's Labyrinth - when it comes out!
Quote: harleykwin said: El Espinazo del Diablo - which was translated here as The Devil's Backbone - saw this over the weekend, and it is a poetic ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War. I tend to think that as foreign horror movies go, we focus a lot on the Japanese horror films - especially their subpar Americanized remakes (The Grudge comes to mind) and forget so many others. Backbone should not be missed. Yes, its subtitled, but don't let that deter you - it was totally worth it - del Toro is a genius. For those who love straight up slasher/bloody movies, this is prolly too tame for you, but I found this beautiful and haunting - as the tag line says - "The living will always be more dangerous than the dead" and del Toro shows us why brilliantly. I totally recommend it.
An absolutely gorgeous film.
I know! Don't get me wrong, I like the typical horror movie as much as the next chick (and, yes, I have been known to scream or jump at the scary parts), but this one was pure poetry.
Quote: I'm dying to see his newest - Pan's Labyrinth - when it comes out!
I hadn't even heard about this! When does it come out?
Right now,I'm watching Gojira,the original Japanese Godzilla movie from 1954,subtitles and all.The two disc set alson icludes the 1956 "Americanized" version starring Raymond Burr.I usually don't care for subtitles of any kind,but this hasn't been too bad.
Laura - great '40's whodunnit. And Vincent Price was great as a foppish playboy, which is a role I've never seen him play. He was a huge man - he had to be well over 6 feet tall! - he made everyone else in the movie seem so short...
Hero - I like martial arts films, but does anyone else miss the days when the fights were more hardcore and didn't have the fighters fighting/flying on treetops and lakes?
Hero - I like martial arts films, but does anyone else miss the days when the fights were more hardcore and didn't have the fighters fighting/flying on treetops and lakes?
Hero - I like martial arts films, but does anyone else miss the days when the fights were more hardcore and didn't have the fighters fighting/flying on treetops and lakes?
Hard Candy. Easily the most disturbing movie I've seen this year. Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson gave great performances, though I'm at a loss as to why Sandra Oh needed to be cast - she was wasted in her role. Not that I'm complaining - I likes me some Sandra Oh.
I got a call from my brother this morning - he actually called my office from his commute into work to yell at me about Miike's Audition. Apparently he FINALLY watched it yesterday (I gave him my old DVD about a year ago) and was so disturbed by what he saw (though he admits to liking the movie) that he needed a day to calm down. My Dad asked him if he'd talked to me and my brother told him that he "had a bone to pick with" me. I'm so proud!
Quote: Joe Mama said: Hard Candy. Easily the most disturbing movie I've seen this year.
It was really good though...one of those 'it's horrible, but I can't turn away' kinda movies. Well done all the way around!
Absolutely. I can't say I "enjoyed" it - how do you enjoy a movie with that type of subject matter that plays out the way it does? But I can say I thought it was brilliantly done. The performances were solid, the direction and cinematography was great, and the use of color was amazing. I'm glad I bought it.
Quote: Joe Mama said: Hard Candy. Easily the most disturbing movie I've seen this year.
It was really good though...one of those 'it's horrible, but I can't turn away' kinda movies. Well done all the way around!
It's on my netflix list.
Just saw Brick. Excellent movie. I'm a fan of the noir whodunnits, which this is modelled after, 'cept its set in a high school. I was afraid it would be Noir:90210, but it was really well done, and the acting was excellent. The kid from 3rd Rock is the Bogart-esq lead and he was fantastic. I kept trying to guess who the murderer was. Recommended.
Got so many DVDs to watch at the moment as been buying a load of complete tv series box sets, but never seem to find the time to watch them.
Managed to make my way through season 1 of Highlander & series 1 of Doctor Who, but still have seasons 2-4 of Highlander to watch (with 5 & 6 on the way), plus today I got Quantum Leap seasons 3 & 4 as I spotted em cheap on Amazon over the weekend! Still at least this way I wont have to buy much in the near future!
On top of this, I still havent got round to watching Carrie I picked up weeks ago & must finish watching Michael Winslow live!
Quote: harleykwin said: Laura - great '40's whodunnit. And Vincent Price was great as a foppish playboy, which is a role I've never seen him play. He was a huge man - he had to be well over 6 feet tall! - he made everyone else in the movie seem so short...
Hero - I like martial arts films, but does anyone else miss the days when the fights were more hardcore and didn't have the fighters fighting/flying on treetops and lakes?
Both are great movies. hero is better than Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers IMO..
Quote: harleykwin said: Laura - great '40's whodunnit. And Vincent Price was great as a foppish playboy, which is a role I've never seen him play. He was a huge man - he had to be well over 6 feet tall! - he made everyone else in the movie seem so short...
Hero - I like martial arts films, but does anyone else miss the days when the fights were more hardcore and didn't have the fighters fighting/flying on treetops and lakes?
Both are great movies. hero is better than Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers IMO..
I hated Couching Tiger - I was so bored during it, but Flying Daggers was awesome! But I still wish there was more "fight" and less "fly" or "dance" to the fight scenes....
NWM: You enjoying Highlander? And Dr. Who is also on my list of things to see when I get the time...
I've always been a fan of the Highlander tv series as its more faithful to the first movie than any of the sequels, although you'd probably have to say its set in an alternate time line, and I found Duncan to be a more engaging character than Connor.
The only problem with the show was that I missed so many episodes due to the fact the tv channels here showed it so sporadically.
I just got through watching season 1, and I'd probably only seen 50% of the episodes before!
I think I have seen most of season 2, so this should be familiar ground (currently watching episode one).
From what I remember, this is the season they killed off the annoying Tessa and finally gave up teasing that Richie was an immortal in the making by finally turning him!
Once I get round to recieving & watching the final few seasons, I will probably be looking at 100% of the episodes for the first time!
Quote: Nowhereman said: I've always been a fan of the Highlander tv series as its more faithful to the first movie than any of the sequels, although you'd probably have to say its set in an alternate time line, and I found Duncan to be a more engaging character than Connor.
Agreed. Not to mention that Adrian Paul is the hotness. But that aside, he was just so much more entertaining...
Quote: The only problem with the show was that I missed so many episodes due to the fact the tv channels here showed it so sporadically. I just got through watching season 1, and I'd probably only seen 50% of the episodes before!
I started watching them during law school and the were only on at 3 in the morning on Sundays - they were my study breaks back then, but so much was deemed "unsuitable" by censors that even at 3 a.m. they edited out a whole buncha stuff. When I finally saw it on DVD, it was like wathcing completely different episodes!
Quote: I think I have seen most of season 2, so this should be familiar ground (currently watching episode one). From what I remember, this is the season they killed off the annoying Tessa and finally gave up teasing that Richie was an immortal in the making by finally turning him!
Aye. They thankfully do away with Tessa and Richie starts becoming less annoying once he becomes an immortal.
Quote: Once I get round to recieving & watching the final few seasons, I will probably be looking at 100% of the episodes for the first time!
I've said it before, but seasons 3, 4, and 5 are phenominal... not a bad ep in the bunch!
Quote: Nowhereman said: I've always been a fan of the Highlander tv series as its more faithful to the first movie than any of the sequels, although you'd probably have to say its set in an alternate time line, and I found Duncan to be a more engaging character than Connor.
There are no other Highlander movies. Especially none dealing with aliens.
Quote: harleykwin said: I've said it before, but seasons 3, 4, and 5 are phenominal... not a bad ep in the bunch!
I remember the episode where the guy dies for the first time, loses his shit, and thinks he's a messenger of God. That was an interesting episode.
They switched to France about half way through season one, then back to America (or Canada as it really was) in the first episode of season two! From memory, I seem to remember they switched back again in season 2 (or maybe 3), possibly after Tessa died or something!
I think they switched back & forward as the show was some sort of co-production between Canada & France!
Quote: harleykwin said: I've said it before, but seasons 3, 4, and 5 are phenominal... not a bad ep in the bunch!
I remember the episode where the guy dies for the first time, loses his shit, and thinks he's a messenger of God. That was an interesting episode.
Quote: Nowhereman said: That was season 1.
It was episodes like that that set this show aside from the usual good vs evil tv shows.
Agreed. One of the many things that made this a good show was that good vs. evil wasn't always black and white. It was the shades of grey that made it interesting...
Quote: thedoctor said: I thought it was at least Season 2 since it happened in France. But I never watched the show with much regularity due to school and work.
It's worth picking up the DVDs - or netflix 'em - and if you don't have all that much time, skip Seasons 1 and 2 and go directly to 3-5. If you know the basics of the show, you won't miss much and the show really kicks into gear in season 3. I highly recommend it.
Only episode I ever had a sorta dislike for was the one in season one with Anthony Stewart Head in.
I never understood why Duncan would put his friends at risk, and be willing to kill people to defend a rapist.
Maybe at the begining he might have defended him, when there was some doubt, but even after he knew the guy raped the other immortals adopted daughter, he still kept killing the human mercenaries and had a sword fight with the immortal.
I have decided to take a page out of Pros "Who" themed avatars, and go with an immortal theme! Was gonna go for Richie next, but Fitzcairn just had to be next.
I have decided to take a page out of Pros "Who" themed avatars, and go with an immortal theme! Was gonna go for Richie next, but Fitzcairn just had to be next.
Should mention that I am just starting season 5. Watched the first 4 episodes so far!
As I said, from season four I was pretty much in new territory having only seen a minimal amount of episodes, so this is pretty much like watching a new series!
I have decided to take a page out of Pros "Who" themed avatars, and go with an immortal theme! Was gonna go for Richie next, but Fitzcairn just had to be next.
I have decided to take a page out of Pros "Who" themed avatars, and go with an immortal theme!
Was gonna go for Richie next, but Fitzcairn just had to be next.
Quote: Nowhereman said: Should mention that I am just starting season 5. Watched the first 4 episodes so far!
As I said, from season four I was pretty much in new territory having only seen a minimal amount of episodes, so this is pretty much like watching a new series!
Season 5 was great.
Right up until the season finale. Then the entire series goes to almost complete shit.
I finished 42nd Street Forever. It's a collection of trailers that played in the old grindhouses and porno theaters in New York back in the 60s and 70s. Fascinating stuff. Some real film gems that I'm tempted to track down...
Quote: Nowhereman said: Should mention that I am just starting season 5. Watched the first 4 episodes so far!
As I said, from season four I was pretty much in new territory having only seen a minimal amount of episodes, so this is pretty much like watching a new series!
Season 5 was great.
Right up until the season finale. Then the entire series goes to almost complete shit.
Ok, just worked my way through season 5 & onto season 6, and I agree!
The first two episodes continue the story from last season, and aint too bad, but the four I have watched after this are rather piss poor!
There doesnt seem to be any sort of continuity between episodes. All the supporting cast appears to have vanished (Dawson, Methos & Amanda). And the flashbacks lack the detail of the previous seasons!
No wonder this season only ran for 13 episodes rather than the normal 22 (or 18 of season 5).
Season five built up so much, then season six seems to forgotten all about it! There should have been alot more interaction between Macleod, Dawson & Methos, and Richies death shoulda had more far reaching ramifications!
All this season was set up to do by the look of it, was launch The Raven tv series, as most of the female immortals in this season were created with the possibility of being the main character before they decided to go with the established Amanda!
Yeah. I really disliked season six. It was hard to watch too. The only station in my area to air it only ran it at three in the morning, and only aired it once.
I often wonder if the show went down hill because of the change in networks and the new network demanded changes that killed the show(for ex:No more beheadings).
Apparently the original plan for the end of season 5 & the begining of season 6 was for Mac to have gone into seclusion for 30 years (instead of only six months), and the demon guy was sposed to take over Earth! Mac comes back & the world is a dark place, but he finally beats the demon with the aid of Methos & a god knows how old, wheelchair bound Dawson!
The powers that be nixed the idea because it would have been too expensive & they didnt think a dark tv show would be popular with the viewing public!
It had some good moments, but overall it was pretty piss poor! I hope the new films will be better as I hear that Methos & Dawson will be more involved just like in the tv show!
Done with season three of Quantum leap and half way through season four. Just taking a break to watch the complete series of Police Squad........in color!
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: Working my way through "Alias" season four...
What do you think of it? I remember loving the first episode of that season and kinda enjoying the rest.
The season finale cliff hanger is one of the best I've ever seen for any show.
I'm getting ready to start Disc 3 (of 6), so I still have a ways to go. It feels like they've been reaching ever since Season 2 to try to get back to where they were in those first couple of seasons. Mia Maestro is hotter than any woman who has yet been on the show, so that's a plus. Other than that, I really feel like I'm just waiting...
Season two was the best season on this show. I really can't remember too much about season four but in season five they try to do all the good parts of season one and two again. They also spend a lot of time setting up two new characters (brooding guy and tits) for a spin-off that never happened. The season finale was great though.
Quote: Chewy Walrus said: It feels like they've been reaching ever since Season 2 to try to get back to where they were in those first couple of seasons.
Because you said they were reaching from the 2nd season to try to be like the first couple of seasons. The first couple of seasons would have been seasons 1 & 2, so how could season 2 be reaching to be like season 2?
If it helps, I meant that they were reaching since the end of Season Two or from Season Two on.
At any rate, I just finished Season Four tonight and will probably be need to getting to Season Five ASAP. Great cliffhanger... and one that totally broadsided me (and the characters).
Still, I'm off to watch "Battlestar Galactica 2.5" now...!
Fantastic Four - 16 episodes from the original, first Fantastic Four cartoon from 1966. A friend made this for me, and we both wonder why this has not been released to the public on a commercially produced dvd, as it is the best FF show, IMO, and that is counting the two or three other FF cartoons that followed it, and the mediocre movie from summer '05.
Ok, so I got my copy of Superman Returns in the post this morning, so finally got round to seeing it. Now I will be the first to admit that Superman is quite possibly my least favourite superhero of all time, but the first two Superman films have a special place in my heart as I went to see the first movie at the cinema when it came out, and as an 8 year old, the film blew me away. The second one of course featured the Phantom zone criminals, so that got extra points as well!
Now, I had heard this new film continued on from 2, and ignored 3 & 4 ever existed, which obviously isnt a bad thing.
First opinions going in was that I didnt like the look of Routh of Bosworth as Supes & Lois, but Spacey was perfect as Luthor! Upon watching the movie, my opinion remains unchanged!
Routh is just too skinny as Superman & as Clark he looks almost plastic. And as for Bosworth, she neither looked like a Lois Lane or acted like a Lois Lane. Both Kidder & Hatcher were awesome, and natural as Lois, but Bosworth could have been called "Random chick" for all I cared.
Langella, a guy who I do like, just didnt say "Perry White" to me either.
Spacey though, was awesome as Lex, so of course he didnt get anywhere near enough screen time.
Special mention should go to the guy who played Jimmy Olsen, who I felt was perfect for the role.
And just as a quick question, Parker Posey seemed to be playing an almost identical role to the Miss Testmarker (sp?) character from years ago.
Now I was incredibly happy to hear the theme music remained unchanged, as it is an important part of linking this to the original movies, and defo brings back memories of better times.
As for the story, I found myself incredibly bored during the first hour or so, as like Batman Begins, they stretched this movie out longer than would be normal, to fit in all the backstory, but unlike Batman Begins, there was nothing here to really grab the audience, and was to dull & slow paced!
Once you get into the meat & potatoes of the film, it just seemed like a rehash of the older Superman movies. As much as we accept Luthor as Supermans main nemesis, it would be nice to see Supes go up against someone equal to, or more powerful than himself to create some great fight scenes. I mean, with modern special effects, how many people would love to see a return of Non, Ursa & Zod? There are so many other enemies to draw on from Supermans rogues gallery that would make an interesting protagonist in a movie!
While I felt the film wasnt bad, it could have been so much better.
Rather than watching a new film, I felt I was watching a remake of the first film.
I know its unfair to compare Routh to Reeve, but it cant be helped, and quite frankly he didnt hold a candle to him! As sad as it sounds, purely based on "the look", I'd have rather seen Dean Cain return fer fucksake!
Dean Cain? No way dude. Sure this guy wasnt as classic as Reeve but he did him justice. He really studied Reeve's idiosynchratic Clark AND Supes in my opinion. Especially when he speaks to the plane passengers in Superman's old school deadpan delivery. This kid brought to the table much more than I expected from him.
Thats why I said "based on looks", and that was my problem with him. He was great as a Reeve clone as far as the acting, but the way he looked just ruined it all!
If they coulda got Dean Cain to learn to act, then that woulda been great!
With Reeve, he trained with Dave "Darth Vader" Prowse to bulk himself up without being overly muscular, but Routh looked like he worked out for tight muscle rather than bulking up, which isnt what the Superman look should be about. Its not really his fault, as he would not be able to bulk himself up like that due to his physique. Also, another minor quibble was that he looked way too young (ditto for Lois). Neither of them looked much older than Olsen!
While Superman doesnt need muscles to be powerful, his size was always one of the things the older movies & the comic books have used to make him look more imposing & impressive!
Just picked up Star Wars 1-3 as I had avoided seeing them til a box set came out, but as I was able to pick them up in a 3 for £20 sale, I decided I couldnt be bothered waiting for a box set.
I am doing what I had originally planned, and am watching all three back to back!
With christmas presents and a buncha stuff I ordered from Amazon etc, my to watch pile is rather large. Slowly working my way through: Only fools and horse series 4 Only fools and horse series 5 Only fools and horse series 6 Only fools and horse series 7 Heavens prisoners Superman 1-4 box set Hots shots/Hot shots part deux Benchwarmers King of beggars Doom Junior Quantum leap season 5 Charlies Angels Charlies Angels 2:Full throttle Over the hedge House party Mission Impossible 2 Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead mans chest Hard target Wheels on meals Waking up in Reno Escape from LA Escape from New York Naked gun trilogy Cool surface
Quote: Nowhereman said: With christmas presents and a buncha stuff I ordered from Amazon etc, my to watch pile is rather large. Slowly working my way through: Only fools and horse series 4 Only fools and horse series 5 Only fools and horse series 6 Only fools and horse series 7 Heavens prisoners Superman 1-4 box set Hots shots/Hot shots part deux Benchwarmers King of beggars Doom Junior Quantum leap season 5 Charlies Angels Charlies Angels 2:Full throttle Over the hedge House party Mission Impossible 2 Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead mans chest Hard target Wheels on meals Waking up in Reno Escape from LA Escape from New York Naked gun trilogy Cool surface
That's a LOT of movies! I have almost 25 years of movie collecting here, myself. I don't know how many I have, never bothered to count em, although someday, I might.
Have recently seen "The Thing" directed by John Carpenter and based on John W. Campbell Jr's short story "Who Goes There?". Kurt Russel seems to have better when he was younger; saw him him in an another SF-film in which he was rather woody. Anyway, this film made a great job in capturing the mood of the short story and had for its time great - and icky - special effects.
"Barbarella" was good too, but for other reasons. Gotta love a young Jane Fonda.
You have to be immoral to have a retard as your avatar, but even I could only keep the Snarf one for so long and had to switch to my current dashing avatar!
Quote: Nowhereman said: You have to be immoral to have a retard as your avatar, but even I could only keep the Snarf one for so long and had to switch to my current dashing avatar!
Sooooo, Harley. When they do a movie like Bandidas with 2 spanish speaking actresses do you think they do 2 versions with the actors voices in spanish and english or do they use just anybody to dub the spanish, or was it a spanish language movie dubbed into english....i only ask because I'm too lazy to look it up...
Last night I watched Demons 2. Tonight, if I don't go out and catch Pan's Labyrinth again, I'll watch either Thriller (A Cruel Picture) or Faster, Pussycat! Kill...Kill! I might also catch a few Zs early because TCM UNderground is showing Curse Of The Demon and Fall Of The House Of Usher (starring Vincent Price) tonight.
Track listing is: Billy Idol - Scream Blue Tears - Rockin with the radio Vince Neil - Cant have your cake and eat it Fozzy - With the fire (cant take me down) Tigertailz - Livin without you Stryper - Always there for you Steve Stevens - Atomic playboys Yngwie Malmsteen - Heaven tonight Bret Michaels - Raine Chrissy Steele - Love dont last forever Twisted Sister/Alice Cooper - Be chrool to your scuel Bulletboys - Smooth up in ya Cats In Boots - Her monkey Wrathchild - Stakk attakk Wildside - Hang on Lucy Ratt - Shame shame shame Roxy Blue - Rob the cradle Tyketto - Forever young Warrant - We will rock you Winger - Seventeen Blackeyed Susan - None of it matters Pink Cream 69 - Shame Pretty Boy Floyd - Rock n roll (is gonna set the night on fire) Glenn Hughes - Pickin up the pieces Britny Fox - Dream on Cinderella - Comin home Hardline - Hot Cherie Lillian Axe - No matter what Lita Ford - Shot of poison Lizzy Borden - Me against the world Slaughter - Days gone by Tora Tora - Walkin shoes Spinal Tap - Bitch school Southgang - Tainted angel Saraya - Love has taken its toll Steelheart - I'll never let you go Quiet Riot - Metal health (bang your head) Contraband - Loud guitars, fast cars & wild wild livin Whitesnake - Her I go again Romeos Daughter - I cry myself to sleep at night Sven Gali - Tye-died skies Trixter - Road of a thousand dreams Baton Rouge - The price of love Bangalore Choir - Loaded gun
Quote: Pig Iron said: Sooooo, Harley. When they do a movie like Bandidas with 2 spanish speaking actresses do you think they do 2 versions with the actors voices in spanish and english or do they use just anybody to dub the spanish, or was it a spanish language movie dubbed into english....i only ask because I'm too lazy to look it up...
Why do you automatically assume that just because Harley is latina that she knows everything about Spanish-speaking culture? That's rassist, Piggie...
Quote: Pig Iron said: Sooooo, Harley. When they do a movie like Bandidas with 2 spanish speaking actresses do you think they do 2 versions with the actors voices in spanish and english or do they use just anybody to dub the spanish, or was it a spanish language movie dubbed into english....i only ask because I'm too lazy to look it up...
Why do you automatically assume that just because Harley is latina that she knows everything about Spanish-speaking culture? That's rassist, Piggie...
Quote: Pig Iron said: Sooooo, Harley. When they do a movie like Bandidas with 2 spanish speaking actresses do you think they do 2 versions with the actors voices in spanish and english or do they use just anybody to dub the spanish, or was it a spanish language movie dubbed into english....i only ask because I'm too lazy to look it up...
Why do you automatically assume that just because Harley is latina that she knows everything about Spanish-speaking culture? That's rassist, Piggie...
Awww, Chewy, Piggie just likes latinas....which just means he's a man with excellent taste in women....
And Pig-Dave, I'm sorry, but I don't have the answer to your question. But if the women are hot, does it really matter what language they are speaking?
Watching season 2 of Highlander - I know, I'm watching them out of order - I've only ever seen 2 eps of season 2, but watching in a row now...gobdamn! It's even more apparent how much better the show got once they killed off Tessa! It's like, bam! - tessa's dead, the show can stop sucking now!
Every single episode (plus the 2000 movie) spread over 26 discs is gonna take a while, especially when I keep watching other stuff as well!
And since I got a new 42" plasma tv last Friday, I feel like watching some "epic" movies from my collection that need to be seen in big screen for the first time!
Oh, and speaking of overrated movies, I just watched Happy Feet. How could such a dull movie with such unremarkable characters and such a hamhanded "moral lesson" win the Oscar for best animated feature? Even Open Season was 100 times better than this.
Ok, I gotta say something about Casino Royale. I hadnt been too happy about the relaunch of the franchise, and I wasnt happy about the choice of Craig as Bond, but like I said, I'd still give it a chance, and I had to buy it for the collection anyway, so I finally got round to watching it tonight!
While I felt the film was good, it just didnt feel like a Bond film. Although they tried to make you feel "at home" with certain little trademark Bondisms (The names Bond, James Bond..........vodka martini etc), there was very little else that felt like I was watching the same character I'd watched since a kid!
My biggest gripe though was the traditional Bond bullet shot sequence. It looked fucking horrible, and lacked the standard "walk on, turn, shoot and blood flows" motif. We got the shooting and the blood, but the rest (including the music, was missing). It might seem a small point, but as a Bond purist, that is the one thing that should not have been altered too heavily.
Quote: Nowhereman said: Ok, I gotta say something about Casino Royale. I hadnt been too happy about the relaunch of the franchise, and I wasnt happy about the choice of Craig as Bond, but like I said, I'd still give it a chance, and I had to buy it for the collection anyway, so I finally got round to watching it tonight!
While I felt the film was good, it just didnt feel like a Bond film. Although they tried to make you feel "at home" with certain little trademark Bondisms (The names Bond, James Bond..........vodka martini etc), there was very little else that felt like I was watching the same character I'd watched since a kid!
My biggest gripe though was the traditional Bond bullet shot sequence. It looked fucking horrible, and lacked the standard "walk on, turn, shoot and blood flows" motif. We got the shooting and the blood, but the rest (including the music, was missing). It might seem a small point, but as a Bond purist, that is the one thing that should not have been altered too heavily.
Cunts!
i understand what your saying with the bullet sequence. i just took it as kind of a origin for the bullet sequence as if they were saying "this is where it comes from." But i would expect it to be back to normal for the next bond...
And I kinda have to agree with you, Pig-Dave. I didn't like Transporter 2 as much as I did the first one. It was too over the top in some places. It was decent action movie and story. I just wish they hadn't gone so CGI happy. They should have kept some stunts simpler.
Crank was fun and, I don't think, as over the top as Transporter 2. As Pig-Dave said I was basing this movie on the previous one. I'm not saying that it was bad or even completely over the top. It's just that there were some moments, like the car flip, that were too much. Had they only done one, I'd probably dismiss it; but they did several which got kinda Michael Bay on us.
I liked the first Transporter as well, but I think they made the right decision to change styles for the sequel. I think the way the first film was structured, a sequel in the same style just woulda been a bit boring.
Quote: Nowhereman said: Yeah yeah, I downloaded them so I am a criminal:
I don't know whether to be in a jealous awe of you, or to generally hate you because you'll see it before I do. So I'll do both out of respect for you. Bastard.
Quote: Nowhereman said: Yeah yeah, I downloaded them so I am a criminal:
I don't know whether to be in a jealous awe of you, or to generally hate you because you'll see it before I do. So I'll do both out of respect for you. Bastard.
It comes out on DVD here in June, so those of you with multi region players will be able to buy it!
I just got done watching it, and once again, as with Shaun of the dead, at times it takes itself to serious and tries to be a real action film, but unlike SOTD, it does have a lot more laugh out loud moments!
The cast is awesome, with some fantastic cameos from guys like Tim Dalton, Bill Nighy, Bill Bailey, Martin Freeman, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Merchant, Cate Blanchett & Steve Coogan.
The bit when Pegg does a flying kick into the face of an 80 year old woman is a sight to behold!
Just looking at the trailers, I can tell they did their homework, much like they did with SOTD. Plenty of homages to American action flicks AND Hong Kong action. I'll see this next week and still buy the European DVD release. Best creative team in years!
Quote: Joe Mama said: Just looking at the trailers, I can tell they did their homework, much like they did with SOTD. Plenty of homages to American action flicks AND Hong Kong action. I'll see this next week and still buy the European DVD release. Best creative team in years!
agreed. My father and i loved shaun of the dead. Its a shame we were the only ones in our family to get it...
Quote: Joe Mama said: Just looking at the trailers, I can tell they did their homework, much like they did with SOTD. Plenty of homages to American action flicks AND Hong Kong action. I'll see this next week and still buy the European DVD release. Best creative team in years!
One of the ongoing jokes in the film is Nick Frosts characters DVD collection and how Simon Pegg has never seen any films. "Have you seen Lethal weapon? "No" "Die hard?" "No" "Bad Boys 2?" "No" "Point break?" "No"
Had 1 & 2 for a few years as they were available in a two disc set, but they never did release the final two for some reason (although they were nowhere near as good, which is probably why).
Decided to buy this set when I spotted it a few months back on Amazon.com, but waited til it appeared on the .co.uk site as postage would be cheaper, even though its still region 1, shipped from USA!
This was one of those movies that I thought was overrated the first time I saw it. The poor man's Braveheart, as it were. So we watched it and while it was much, much better than I remembered, I still didn't love it as much as 300 or BH. And while Crowe was very good, Phoenix should have won an Oscar - he was fantastic as the corrupt and smarmy emperor.
I saw Smokin' Aces in the theater. It was a completely ape-shit, violent, mindless flick and I loved it. The big reveal at the end is kinda WTF, but you don't mind because you're seeing the flick for the gunfights and for Piven's meltdown. Great stuff.
It actually made it into the theaters? Seriously, I don't even remember seeing previews for it - just posters, but it had a cool cast, so I figured it was worth a look. Hope its as good as you say it is.
Quote: harleykwin said: It actually made it into the theaters? Seriously, I don't even remember seeing previews for it - just posters, but it had a cool cast, so I figured it was worth a look. Hope its as good as you say it is.
As long as you go in realizing that this movie was made as an excuse to show a LOT of people get shot, you'll be fine. The story itself is paper thin. Kick back, enjoy the characters, laugh at how gay Ryan Reynolds is for Ray Liotta, enjoy Alicia Keys as eye candy and for how well she does with what little she's given, and dig on what an underrated actor Jeremy Piven is.
Quote: Joe Mama said: I saw Smokin' Aces in the theater. It was a completely ape-shit, violent, mindless flick and I loved it. The big reveal at the end is kinda WTF, but you don't mind because you're seeing the flick for the gunfights and for Piven's meltdown. Great stuff.
alicia keys is fucking hawt in that movie...Harley you should dress like her.
Quote: Joe Mama said: I saw Smokin' Aces in the theater. It was a completely ape-shit, violent, mindless flick and I loved it. The big reveal at the end is kinda WTF, but you don't mind because you're seeing the flick for the gunfights and for Piven's meltdown. Great stuff.
alicia keys is fucking hawt in that movie...Harley you should dress like her.
Well, I do have those boots...
Mindless violence with a sense of humor and a good soundtack? Looks like something I would watch...
Quote: Nowhereman said: Much better than Shaun of the dead I thought!
I disagree, but only because I think of them as apples and oranges. Shaun is a brilliant send-up/love letter to zombie flicks, and Fuzz is a brilliant send-up/love letter to cop/buddy flicks. Both play with the conventions without lampooning them. Rather than say one is better than the other, I just say they're both fantastic.
Quote: big_pimp_tim said: seriously? i heard it was good but not as good as shaun of the dead.
Depends on what you want. I just thought Fuzz had more laugh out loud moments whereas Shaun tried to hard to actually be a zombie movie rather than a parody!
Just finished watching season 1 of the JLU - I had forgotten just how damn good that show was. Good stories; great action and characterization - pity its no longer on.
Quote: harleykwin said: Just finished watching season 1 of the JLU - I had forgotten just how damn good that show was. Good stories; great action and characterization - pity its no longer on.
see its stuff like that that makes u so popular around here...
Just finished Fearless, and now I'm watching One Night with the King, about the Biblical Queen Ester, and Chef! this British comedy about a very mean cook...think 'House' but with quicker insults.
Fantastic film, very well done, though I've never been keen on the whole lion look for the Beast. Still, the film was a great interpretation of the fairy tale, and Philip Glass's music is, as always, good to hear.
An update! Severance was a lot better than expected! Little miss sunshine wasnt so good! Saw III is on now and it looks just as gruesome as the previous films.
Ok, so I've recently watched both seasons of JLU and while season 2 had its moments (the Flash eps in particular and the Huntress/Canary one as well) it didn't even begin to hold a candle to season one. Not even close.
Season one with its whole shady government sponsered Cadmus operation, which was being set up as a counter method just in case the JLU ever went rogue, a la the Justice Lords, was phenomenal. It had intrigue, character development and some of the best physical and emotional confrontations the JLA/JLU ever had. Supes vs. Captain Marvel? Fuckin awesome fight. Batman taking a bullet for Supes and then questioning Superman's integrity? The Question and his conspiracy theories? And then going in to kill Luthor so that Superman never will in order to avoid the possibility of the Justic Lords ever becoming a reality? His interactions with the Huntress? GA (not golden age) and Black Canary?
And then there was Amanda Waller. She had to be one of my favorite characters. The confrontation between her and Batman, both when she called him "rich boy" letting him know she knew who he was, and again when he confronts her when she is getting out of the shower were brilliant. And how Luthor played them all was fantastic as well. But one of the best moments had to be the Flash taking out Luthor. I don't really follow his character, and on the show he was always comic relief, but that episode where he is racing around the planet in order to build up enough momentum so that his punches have the force to literally knock Brainiac from Luthor's psyche? I think it was the first time that I could see why he belonged with the original members. Probably my favorite moment - in a season filled with great moments - in the entire first season.
After that, season two just seemed cute and cartoony. Enjoyable, but not with the same depth.
Just wanted to say this while the seasons were still fresh in my mind. People who think that cartoons are just for kids need to see season 1.
Presactly. The second season set (which was actually the third season) had fun moments that were reminiscent of old school Superfriends. But the Cadmus stuff and the culmination of the Justice Lords characters (best alternate reality characters since the Justice Guild) were just aweshome.
Quote: Jeremy said: Presactly. The second season set (which was actually the third season) had fun moments that were reminiscent of old school Superfriends. But the Cadmus stuff and the culmination of the Justice Lords characters (best alternate reality characters since the Justice Guild) were just aweshome.
What do you mean it was supposed to be the third season?
And, yeah, the whole "Legion of Doom" throwback was cute for those of us who grew up with "Superfriends" but in the first few episodes Luthor had gone from ruthless, calculating bastard, to goofy man talking to his "imaginary friend," Brainiac. Only when he tasered Grodd did it start to get better, but even then. I will say, the way he killed Grodd in the end - trapping him in a pressure chamber and releasing him in to space - was great. They kinda brought Luthor back full circle with that.
I saw it with babygirl when it first came out and we both reallt liked it. I happen to love RD, jr. and he was great here, as was Kilmer. I have it up as the next flick, so I'll let you know if its as good as I remember once I see it again.
Quote: Joe Mama said: I bought and watched the special edition of Meatballs over the weekend. It's a great flick. Tonight I'm going to start watching:
This does not look art faggy. Joe faggy, mebbe, but that's a whole different level of gay.
It actually looks like another Asian horror flick, kinda like Audition...
Oh, and Meatballs was one of my fav'rit movies as a kid. Haven't seen it in years, but I remember loving Bill Murray... "Rudy the Rabbit! Rudy the Rabbit!"
Quote: Joe Mama said: I bought and watched the special edition of Meatballs over the weekend. It's a great flick. Tonight I'm going to start watching:
This does not look art faggy. Joe faggy, mebbe, but that's a whole different level of gay.
It actually looks like another Asian horror flick, kinda like Audition...
Oh, and Meatballs was one of my fav'rit movies as a kid. Haven't seen it in years, but I remember loving Bill Murray... "Rudy the Rabbit! Rudy the Rabbit!"
It's an Asian horror flick. And y'know what Meatballs and your opinion of anything have in common?
"IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!"
Quote: Joe Mama said: I bought and watched the special edition of Meatballs over the weekend. It's a great flick. Tonight I'm going to start watching:
This does not look art faggy. Joe faggy, mebbe, but that's a whole different level of gay.
It actually looks like another Asian horror flick, kinda like Audition...
Oh, and Meatballs was one of my fav'rit movies as a kid. Haven't seen it in years, but I remember loving Bill Murray... "Rudy the Rabbit! Rudy the Rabbit!"
It's an Asian horror flick. And y'know what Meatballs and your opinion of anything have in common?
"IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!"
I fuckin' forgot how great that movie was!!! (and we both know it so to does matter! what would you be without I'll tell you what you'd be! A sad, bitter Red Sox fan! [well, ok, you're that already] but with me, you're less sad! Face it! You need me! bwahhahahaha!)
Oh, and let me know if the creepy ass looking flick is worth netflixing...
Great soundtrack. What does the DVD have for bonus shiznit?
2 discs! Hot Funk.........same as the feature on Shaun where they replaced all the swear words. 4 audio commentaries. Outtakes 22 deleted scenes Dead Right: an early cop movie made by Edgar Wright Making of dead right Trailers The other side of the flick book Story boards Plot holes (same as Shaun) Various documentaries, featurettes and video blogs Making of Hot fuzz Galleries Special effects
Quote: Joe Mama said: I bought and watched the special edition of Meatballs over the weekend. It's a great flick. Tonight I'm going to start watching:
This does not look art faggy. Joe faggy, mebbe, but that's a whole different level of gay.
It actually looks like another Asian horror flick, kinda like Audition...
Oh, and Meatballs was one of my fav'rit movies as a kid. Haven't seen it in years, but I remember loving Bill Murray... "Rudy the Rabbit! Rudy the Rabbit!"
It's an Asian horror flick. And y'know what Meatballs and your opinion of anything have in common?
"IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!"
I fuckin' forgot how great that movie was!!! (and we both know it so to does matter! what would you be without I'll tell you what you'd be! A sad, bitter Red Sox fan! [well, ok, you're that already] but with me, you're less sad! Face it! You need me! bwahhahahaha!)
Oh, and let me know if the creepy ass looking flick is worth netflixing...
"And even if we win! If we win...hah! Even if we play so far over our heads that we get a nosebleed for a week! Even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his finger at our side! Even if every man, woman, and child joins hands together and prays for our team to win! If just wouldn't matter, because all the really good-looking girls would still date the guys from Camp Mohawk cuz they got all the money!!!"
Did you know that the guy who played Spazz was also the Casting Director? S'true...
I saw it with babygirl when it first came out and we both reallt liked it. I happen to love RD, jr. and he was great here, as was Kilmer. I have it up as the next flick, so I'll let you know if its as good as I remember once I see it again.
See it! See yesterday! See it tomorrow! See it right now! Seeitseeitseeit! It is so damn good!
I am a huge - huge - fan of a lot of the noir-ish mysteries from the 30's and 40's - Bogie is a fav'rit - love him! Not Elvis level love, but much love just the same - and this murder mystery harkens back to that kinda vibe. The dialogue is sharp - you ever see His Girl Friday? It's that kinda sharp and rapid fire in its delivery; the humor, slick, dry and laugh out loud funny; and the chemistry between Downey (Harry) and Kilmer (Perry) impressive.
Look:
Perry: Look up idiot in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry: A picture of me?
Perry: No! The definition of idiot. Which you fucking are!
Harry: [after meeting "Gay Perry"] Still gay?
Perry: No, knee-deep in pussy. I just love the name so much I can't get rid of it.
Harry: I swear to God, it's like somebody took America by the East Coast, and shook it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on.
See?
Shit, I laughed out loud when they said the lines, and I just giggled again readin' 'em.
Fuckin' love this movie. Go. See it. You can thank me later.
No, I haven't, though I've heard good things about it. Will put it on my netflix list. You might also like Brick if you like KKBB.
Noirish murder mystery with dialogue that is reminiscent of a Bogie movie all set in a modern day high school. For real. Sounds strange? Wrong. It's brilliant.
Aye. When I first heard he was cast, I was like WTF? But he was incredible in the Bogie type role. It was the first time I thought of him as an actor and not as "that kid from 3rd rock".
To be fair, though - everyone in this movie was great. One of those amazing movies that flew under the radar.
Lots of violence, but none of it exactly on-screen. It is tasteful 'cause you don't get exposed to the gore. Now, I just watched Reservoir Dogs again (only bought it for Steve Buschemi) and that is way more violent, although less people die in less "creative" ways.
I just now watched American Psycho for the first time. So, does he just get away with it or was it all in his head?
My understanding of it was that it was all in his head, which is why the sequel is worthless!
Say what? Who the fuck sequels something like that?!
It was on tv here last year. I get the feeling it was straight to DVD or a tv movie. It was sposed to be something about one of the girls in the first movie, who wasnt killed or witnessed one of the kills, and she becomes possessed with his psychosis or something after he dies. Pure shite!
I just now watched American Psycho for the first time. So, does he just get away with it or was it all in his head?
My understanding of it was that it was all in his head, which is why the sequel is worthless!
Say what? Who the fuck sequels something like that?!
It was on tv here last year. I get the feeling it was straight to DVD or a tv movie. It was sposed to be something about one of the girls in the first movie, who wasnt killed or witnessed one of the kills, and she becomes possessed with his psychosis or something after he dies. Pure shite!
i had seen them a few times already, i got'm, but the chick i had over hadn't seen any of them, she still didn't see much of tenacious d,
talledega nights, great ghost rider, better than hulk or daredevil, but not much nacho, good for a pg rated movie, but not great tenacious d, also hilarious. even better drunk, or wasted
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though.
best scenes in the movie were just ghost rider being bad ass. namely riding up and then especially down the building. him slamming down to street level
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Kind of like how Uma Thurman is absolutely terrible in anything not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though.
best scenes in the movie were just ghost rider being bad ass. namely riding up and then especially down the building. him slamming down to street level
aye. I also liked seeing modern Ghostie with western horse riding Ghostie - it looked good on the screen...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Kind of like how Uma Thurman is absolutely terrible in anything not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I dunno - I like Uma in most things. Cage, not really. To each their own...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though.
best scenes in the movie were just ghost rider being bad ass. namely riding up and then especially down the building. him slamming down to street level
aye. I also liked seeing modern Ghostie with western horse riding Ghostie - it looked good on the screen...
yeah but that was another gay point in the movie for me cause they make it all dramatic like the two of em were gonna go kick ass all up and down the desert. then outta nowhere the other one just leaves like "well so long i just wanted to ride with u to make this scene look cool"
i had seen them a few times already, i got'm, but the chick i had over hadn't seen any of them, she still didn't see much of tenacious d,
thats my dog...
yeah, cuz we decided to play cards, or somthing
theres no way i could have been ur alt...
See, when I'm spending some quality time with my lady, I like to play a game after making sweet love. I call it "How long can you keep quiet and let me sleep?" The object of the game is for her to go at least 8 hours without any sort of pillow talk. If she wins, I take her out for an expensive meal. But if she loses, she has to sleep out in the living room.
So far all I can say is, it's nice to have all that bed to myself.
i had seen them a few times already, i got'm, but the chick i had over hadn't seen any of them, she still didn't see much of tenacious d,
thats my dog...
yeah, cuz we decided to play cards, or somthing
theres no way i could have been ur alt...
See, when I'm spending some quality time with my lady, I like to play a game after making sweet love. I call it "How long can you keep quiet and let me sleep?" The object of the game is for her to go at least 8 hours without any sort of pillow talk. If she wins, I take her out for an expensive meal. But if she loses, she has to sleep out in the living room.
So far all I can say is, it's nice to have all that bed to myself.
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though.
best scenes in the movie were just ghost rider being bad ass. namely riding up and then especially down the building. him slamming down to street level
aye. I also liked seeing modern Ghostie with western horse riding Ghostie - it looked good on the screen...
yeah but that was another gay point in the movie for me cause they make it all dramatic like the two of em were gonna go kick ass all up and down the desert. then outta nowhere the other one just leaves like "well so long i just wanted to ride with u to make this scene look cool"
Um, yeah, honey we've already established that the whole movie sucked 'cept for some of the CGI visuals...pay attention and try to keep up...
i had seen them a few times already, i got'm, but the chick i had over hadn't seen any of them, she still didn't see much of tenacious d,
thats my dog...
yeah, cuz we decided to play cards, or somthing
theres no way i could have been ur alt...
See, when I'm spending some quality time with my lady, I like to play a game after making sweet love. I call it "How long can you keep quiet and let me sleep?"
In today's production Harley will be playing the role of the naughty junior high school teacher, and Knurkel will be playing the role of the naive for his age, impressionable youth.
In today's production Harley will be playing the role of the naughty junior high school teacher, and Knurkel will be playing the role of the naive for his age, impressionable youth.
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Kind of like how Uma Thurman is absolutely terrible in anything not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I dunno - I like Uma in most things. Cage, not really. To each their own...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Kind of like how Uma Thurman is absolutely terrible in anything not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I dunno - I like Uma in most things. Cage, not really. To each their own...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Kind of like how Uma Thurman is absolutely terrible in anything not directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I dunno - I like Uma in most things. Cage, not really. To each their own...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Never saw Wild at Heart so I can't say.
Haven't seen Arizona in years. Maybe I'll check it out and see if Cage was good then...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
oh yes. raizing arizona is the dumbness...
. . .fired. . .
that means i liked it grimm. bay area slang for ya...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
oh yes. raizing arizona is the dumbness...
. . .fired. . .
that means i liked it grimm. bay area slang for ya...
Ghost Rider pisses me off because it could've been kick-ass if they'd just cut the shit with the PG-13 rating and the campy humor. You make an R-rated Ghost Rider movie with a balance of horror and action, then throw in a little dark humor, and you could cast a local high school drama club - it'll still be an great flick.
what he said. It was too camp, and Nick Cage can't act. Period.
I will say that the CGI Ghost Rider moments looked cool though. It was the only thing the movie had going for it...
Actully a director or two have been able to get a good performance out of Cage.
Coen Bros. (Raizing Arizona) Lynch (Wild at Heart)
oh yes. raizing arizona is the dumbness...
. . .fired. . .
that means i liked it grimm. bay area slang for ya...
Okay, on Monday I wathed Foreign Correspondant and the first hour of Rear Window in class (Alfred Hitchcock week), tomorrow we view the rest of Rear Window and follow with North By Northwest.
Okay, on Monday I wathed Foreign Correspondant and the first hour of Rear Window in class (Alfred Hitchcock week), tomorrow we view the rest of Rear Window and follow with North By Northwest.
make that two things i never rolled with him on...
but i will roll with this...
UmmmUMMMM, BITCH!!!!
What's the red-headed guy's name? He had an HBO special and he was funny as fuck.. Rob needs to make a Sam Jackson avatar....don't have to mean anything, it would just be nice to use it sometimes.
make that two things i never rolled with him on...
but i will roll with this...
UmmmUMMMM, BITCH!!!!
What's the red-headed guy's name? He had an HBO special and he was funny as fuck.. Rob needs to make a Sam Jackson avatar....don't have to mean anything, it would just be nice to use it sometimes.
cant remeber the guys name but he's funny. he was also a commentator in the racial draft.
and ya we should have a sam jackson avatar or emoticon or something...
This movie was FUCKING AWESOME!!! If you love the slasher genre, you need to watch this flick. If you dislike the slasher genre, you need to watch this flick. If you wanna watch a horror flick, but want to avoid both torture porn and "quiet" horror, you need to watch this flick. Just a solid movie. Great stuff.
tomorrow i got someone coming over, a movie named deja vu? iono what it's about, but, i don;t intend to watch it. also, the cartoon transformers movie. that i do intend to watch
Satan's Little Helper because we saw part of it last October and pissed our collective selves laughing -- it came @ $8 attatched to some other shit film I never saw before in my life, Phil the Alien
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The Ultimate Alfred Hitchcock Collection
Jamaica Inn
Young and Innocent
The Skin Game
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Manxman
Juno and the Paycock
Champagne
Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase
The Farmer's Wife
Easy Virtue
The Ring
Blackmail
The Lady Vanishes
Rich and Strange
Sabotage
Secret Agent
The 39 Steps
Number 17
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Lodger
At $20 for the whole thing, I figured even most of them being shit (it's possible) would be worth it.
Jean Renoir Collector's Edition
Whirlpool of Fate
Nana
Charleston Parade
The Little Match Girl
La Marseillaise
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment
The Elusive Corporal
"bonus featurette" with Martin Scorsese, Michael Ballhaus, Alain Renoir, etc.
Satan's Little Helper because we saw part of it last October and pissed our collective selves laughing -- it came @ $8 attatched to some other shit film I never saw before in my life, Phil the Alien
I saw that on tv, or at least part of it. The kid in it is just so annoying.
Ha ha ha! No, this was a shitty class! I just have to do a basic film analysis: content, techniques, and philosophy of the film. And it being made in 1946 means nothing to the teachers 'cause they lectured on womens' roles in the 50s and 60s. Like, they were describing suburbia lifestyles before the suburbs were even invented. And they ignored the Rosie the Riveter stuff and the war and basically made themselves look like total idiots.
Man, nothing about, say, how Raines' Nazi was one you actually felt a bit sorry for at the end despite the war being very fresh in the audiences' minds? Or how Hitchcock got aroudn the censors of the day with the length of the kissing scene between Grant and Bergman? Or just about anything other than a summary? Shit.
The teachers seemed a bit green. Except they taught this course a handful of times before. Which translates into "shitty teachers."
The one I had didn't even write anything on my in-class essays. Just "good!" on random paragraphs and a number out of ten (7,9,8,9 and she never graded the last one and we have this final). With that kinda variety (especially the 7) I expect constructive criticism. Something to tell me what I need in order to improve.
I don't need help. Thank you, but I'm fine. I know how to write, I've made a ten-page bullshit history paper and got an 'A' on it (in a class with a History Nut -- he almost never gives As according to my sister with half a masters in history in his department).
Noice...my is a nerd with a taste for the classics...
I'm still your !
I've got a couple of the sci fi classics (including some of the Dr. Who series) up next in my netflix list. I figured, I love the classic screwball comedies, mysteries and horrors so maybe the scifi will be good too...
Noice...my is a nerd with a taste for the classics...
I'm still your !
I've got a couple of the sci fi classics (including some of the Dr. Who series) up next in my netflix list. I figured, I love the classic screwball comedies, mysteries and horrors so maybe the scifi will be good too...
Of course you are! Why wouldn't you be? All those Johnny-come-latelys can serenade you and talk up their drinking prowess and try to bribe you with cookies and sex you up (buncha Color Me Badds...) all they like. You'll always be my
Noice...my is a nerd with a taste for the classics...
I'm still your !
I've got a couple of the sci fi classics (including some of the Dr. Who series) up next in my netflix list. I figured, I love the classic screwball comedies, mysteries and horrors so maybe the scifi will be good too...
Of course you are! Why wouldn't you be? All those Johnny-come-latelys can serenade you and talk up their drinking prowess and try to bribe you with cookies and sex you up (buncha Color Me Badds...) all they like. You'll always be my
Noice...my is a nerd with a taste for the classics...
I'm still your !
I've got a couple of the sci fi classics (including some of the Dr. Who series) up next in my netflix list. I figured, I love the classic screwball comedies, mysteries and horrors so maybe the scifi will be good too...
Of course you are! Why wouldn't you be? All those Johnny-come-latelys can serenade you and talk up their drinking prowess and try to bribe you with cookies and sex you up (buncha Color Me Badds...) all they like. You'll always be my
What's up with the ending in Curse of the Golden Flower?!? Does the Empress live/die/become imprisoned/tortured?!? I watched two hours of Kung-Fu manliness to not find out THE most critical part of the whole dang movie.
Someone...please help. Google says it's based on a Macbethian play but hey even Shakespeare even had a thing called an ENDING to the story. GRRRRRR!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
Quote:
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
Quote:
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
Fred, that's not really saying much...
Yup, sense of humour removal surgery! Tis most sad!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
Quote:
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
Fred, that's not really saying much...
Yup, sense of humour removal surgery! Tis most sad!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
Quote:
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
Fred, that's not really saying much...
Yup, sense of humour removal surgery! Tis most sad!
And yet, you still amuse me...hmmm...
I am the prescription to your sad condition. Looks like the docs are gonna have to up the dosage!
hustle is my 2nd fav movie....i like the fighting being kick ass at times... like the musicians 3 masters, and the humour... like the landlady slapping the man in the middle of a shampoo. i even got someone who expected it to suck hard to like it. laugh more than expected anyway. i will have to look for shaolin soccer if it is half as good as hustle.
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
Quote:
Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
Fred, that's not really saying much...
Yup, sense of humour removal surgery! Tis most sad!
And yet, you still amuse me...hmmm...
I am the prescription to your sad condition. Looks like the docs are gonna have to up the dosage!
Sweet Jesus! The cure is worse than the original problem!
I couldn't finish Kung Fu Hustle - it was so fucking boring...
Dude, seriously, the previews looked so cute and then...bleh... zzzzzzzzz...
there are so many better Kung Fu movies out there....
Dude, the movie is hilarious! It's got great fight scenes like a chop-socky flick should. It's got scenes that are straight out of Warner Bros./Tex Avery cartoons. It's got a cute little romance subplot that ruins through it. And it ends on such a great note! When you sat down with it, were you expecting a straight Kung Fu flick, or did you know that the director (who also did Shaolin Soccer) mixes a lot of humor with his martial arts? Did you have your sense of humor removed when you passed the bar?
Sweetie, I knew it wasn't going to be Enter the Dragon and was supposed to be funny - unfortunately, it wasn't. My sense of humor remains, even after passing the bar, m'dear. Afterall, I find you funny -even when you're not trying to be...
I dont know a single person that doesnt find both Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, to be hilarious! Not just funny, but HILARIOUS!!!
Well, now you do! (Well, at least with KFH - never saw SS)
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Shaolin Soccer is the better of the two, and even with that said, Hustle pisses on most Brit and American comedies!
Fred, that's not really saying much...
Yup, sense of humour removal surgery! Tis most sad!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
See? That was cute and funny...
As for your injection, JM, I'm not worried - I know its not big enough to hurt...
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
See? That was cute and funny...
As for your injection, JM, I'm not worried - I know its not big enough to hurt...
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
but you never tell rob that...
Just cause they use you as a novelty condom, does not detract from your own gayness!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
See? That was cute and funny...
As for your injection, JM, I'm not worried - I know its not big enough to hurt...
That's right, guys. She KNOWS!!! Enjoy my sloppy secoWAITAMINNIT!!!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
but you never tell rob that...
Which does not distract from the fact that you wanna touch my pee-pee. Y'know, Beardguy likes the black bears...
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
See? That was cute and funny...
As for your injection, JM, I'm not worried - I know its not big enough to hurt...
That's right, guys. She KNOWS!!! Enjoy my sloppy secoWAITAMINNIT!!!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
but you never tell rob that...
Which does not distract from the fact that you wanna touch my pee-pee. Y'know, Beardguy likes the black bears...
sorry JM. thats not how i roll. not to mention that id have better luck finding a tic-tac under the couch cushions...
You dont find KFH funny, yet the fact I didnt like another Chow movie as much, thats funny?
She's a lawyer. The only things they find funny are semantic arguments, legal puns, and Carrot Top.
\ Don't you call Fred "Carrot Top"!!!
Oh, and "fuck you" to the rest of that...
That joke might work if I knew who Carrot Top was. And please, dont post a picture like someone did once before as that shows me what they look like, not who they are!
Here's how you know you're wrong: me and Nowhereman completely agree on a point. Both flicks are hilarious (SS more than KFH, but that takes nothing away from the latter). And both flicks are better than the vast majority of American and British comedies. You need a sense of humor implant and, since you admittedly find me funny (even when I'm not trying to be), I volunteer to give you the injection you need.
Ill take that responsibility of your hands since you would have to go up to NY to administer the shot...
You keep your hands off my meat injector, you homo!!!
but you never tell rob that...
Which does not distract from the fact that you wanna touch my pee-pee. Y'know, Beardguy likes the black bears...
sorry JM. thats not how i roll. not to mention that id have better luck finding a tic-tac under the couch cushions...
Then what? Dating Beardguy? I don't think you'd have that much trouble. He could call you Worf and you could call him Scotty, or some shit.
You dont find KFH funny, yet the fact I didnt like another Chow movie as much, thats funny?
She's a lawyer. The only things they find funny are semantic arguments, legal puns, and Carrot Top.
\ Don't you call Fred "Carrot Top"!!!
Oh, and "fuck you" to the rest of that...
That joke might work if I knew who Carrot Top was. And please, dont post a picture like someone did once before as that shows me what they look like, not who they are!
Here is a pic of Carrot Top - he's a very unfunny "comedian":
Which removes me from his field of interest. Enjoy your buttsex. Be sure to grunt in Klingon.
oh trust me i belive it which is why i must commend you for whatever you did to make him changes his taste. JM has proved that once you go black you actually can go back...
You dont find KFH funny, yet the fact I didnt like another Chow movie as much, thats funny?
She's a lawyer. The only things they find funny are semantic arguments, legal puns, and Carrot Top.
\ Don't you call Fred "Carrot Top"!!!
Oh, and "fuck you" to the rest of that...
That joke might work if I knew who Carrot Top was. And please, dont post a picture like someone did once before as that shows me what they look like, not who they are!
Here is a pic of Carrot Top - he's a very unfunny "comedian":
It took me a tic, but I got it - though I admit that I thought he was talking about Skokie at first.
Ok, saw Forbidden Planet finally - I didn't expect to love it, but I did. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the story and it struck me that thought the special effects seem quaint now, for 1956 they were pretty advanced. And Leslie Nielson! Totally didn't recognize him! Great movie.
It took me a tic, but I got it - though I admit that I thought he was talking about Skokie at first.
Ok, saw Forbidden Planet finally - I didn't expect to love it, but I did. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the story and it struck me that thought the special effects seem quaint now, for 1956 they were pretty advanced. And Leslie Nielson! Totally didn't recognize him! Great movie.
Not only is there a US version coming, but a UK spin off:
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In December 2006, it was reported that the BBC had commissioned a Life on Mars spin-off series, to be titled Ashes to Ashes after another David Bowie song of the same name. The Times reported that this spin-off would pick up the lives of Gene Hunt and other characters from the series in 1981.[12] Julie Gardner confirmed that the spin-off was to be produced during an interview for BBC Radio Wales in March 2007.[13] The series was confirmed by the BBC on the day of the finale's airing. Ashes to Ashes will see Philip Glenister return as DCI Gene Hunt, but this time in London in 1981. He will be joined by female detective DCI Alex Drake from the 21st Century, a new character. She will be a modern woman who has risen through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police by using psychological profiling to capture suspects, producers said. But when she and her daughter are kidnapped, she is injured in a rescue attempt, and finds herself in 1981.[14]
I used to wear a cowpoke outfit to school on occasion. Had my cap-gun six-shooters and boots and vest, neckerchef, hat, and a little sherif's star my sister got me at the Grand Canyon. That was back when a kindergartener was still allowed to wear fake guns with just the little orange tips and not be arrested. I was too cool for school, I tell you what. All the little boys wanted to play with me. So I used them; I had a posse. ...good times.
Watched "23" tonight. Three hours of gratuitous sex with 20 minutes of poorly executed weak conspiracy theory. Sorry, 23 minutes of crap numerology. I can't say I'm surprised after realizing it was a Joel Shitmakker.
Watched "23" tonight. Three hours of gratuitous sex with 20 minutes of poorly executed weak conspiracy theory. Sorry, 23 minutes of crap numerology. I can't say I'm surprised after realizing it was a Joel Shitmakker.
Ultimate Jaburg53: There was gratuitous sex in The Number 23?
Uschi: yeah, like 23 incidents of such (we watched unrated, thinking it was the director's choice, later realizing our mistake that it just meant more sensationalistic crap)
Ultimate Jaburg53: I never would have guessed it from the trailer Ultimate Jaburg53: Jim Carrey nudity Ultimate Jaburg53: Kinda makes me sick a bit
Uschi: He toned up a little, and didn't talk with his butt-cheaks.
Ultimate Jaburg53: Where is the fun in that?
Uschi: heh. well, 'know how in his comedies he pretends to cry and does that little lip-quiver thing? He did that in a dramatic (loose definition of the term) moment.
Ultimate Jaburg53: Ha. Ultimate Jaburg53: I bet they send it for Oscar consideration.
Uschi: No, it's really crap. There are lines like, "I *used* to be good... but NOW i'm BAAAD."
Ultimate Jaburg53: How did it end?
Uschi: killer goes to jail, after a brief scene where the chick trys to convince him "he's a new person!" and ignoring the guy that's been in prison for years. Uschi: It's totally weak. The begining sucks 'cause they fail to make us give a shit about the characters before the characters are conflicted mentally and spiritually -- we never know the norm that is to be deviated from. Uschi: middle sucks 'cause it's so so weakly written (like that line I mentioned). It's like the worst quality pulp fiction you can imagine, based on loose numerology connections that are so contrived as to be retarded.
Ultimate Jaburg53: You didn'y buy this did you?
Uschi: the end is bollocks because they take 30 minutes to hammer all the little bits so far down your throat that a bug would have a hard time missing all the "nuances" Uschi: NO! ha ha! No, Netflicks.
Finally got around to watching that 300 bootleg I got fer free. It was ...whatever. Never was interested much in the comic itself. But at least I got a little bit of money back from when Frank Miller robbed me of the cash paid for DKSA.
I saw Derailed last week with Clive Owen and Aniston. I loved it. I guessed the ending about 20 minutes into it though so that kind of bothered me that I figured it out so easily. But a greta movie if you guys haven't seen it.
Watched Mario Bava's Shock (aka Behind The Door 2) a coupl'a nights ago. It was the last film he made, and it had some creepy scenes to it, but it wasn't nearly his best work. Last night I bought Monster Squad, The Host (Korean giant monster movie that was great), and Django (Italian western). I'll probably start tearing through those soon enough.
I still have to hit Best Buy for the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited sets...
never watched pan's labrynth. bought it, but it's still in the wrapper. i got it home and heard bad things, then forgot about it. i might watch it tonight
never watched pan's labrynth. bought it, but it's still in the wrapper. i got it home and heard bad things, then forgot about it. i might watch it tonight
Your friend apparently doesn't have good taste in movie. It's obvious that you've just been enamored by her tah-tahs. Pan's Labyrinth is fucking great.
and later tonight i will give my 2 cents on whether it's good or not. if it's great i shall mock weenie til the end of time, or more likely til next week
Your friend apparently doesn't have good taste in movie. It's obvious that you've just been enamored by her tah-tahs. Pan's Labyrinth is fucking great.
Bust a nut in her face just before you watch it so she doesn't have to see it. That said, I'm rollin' with Harley and Doc - Pan's Labyrinth is fucking brilliant. Your friend, however, is not.
nah, but that is what i have called her since i met her back when she was an apprentice at the shop. it stuck. even when i try and call her by her given name i wind up callin her winnie. so i settled on weeniferd when she decides my full name is needed.
dammit, i am soon as i finish checkin email. my son wants to play a game on here, and i am gona watch it and either be captivated, or take a nap. i'll let the movie decide.
well, after havin to restart it twice, and then pause it for bout 10 minutes when the soemtime sorta gf stopped by, i finally watched it. and for the most part i was meh, til the ending, i rather liked it, and the questions it left you asking
Watched Robin Hood for the first time since I was eleven or so. It earns its place in our VHS library. I didn't realize Alan Rickman was Nottingham! I thought the first movie I saw him in was Dogma. He's one fo my favorite actors, and the only reason I find for watching Harry Potter or that shit Galaxy Quest (seriously, Alan Rickman playing the Spock character... fangirl!).
well, after havin to restart it twice, and then pause it for bout 10 minutes when the soemtime sorta gf stopped by, i finally watched it. and for the most part i was meh, til the ending, i rather liked it, and the questions it left you asking
you should watch The Devil's Backbone, also by Del Toro. deals with similar themes. it's also quite good.
Yeah, Devil's Backbone is great, but I liked PL more.
I just watc hed 300 again. I kinda enjoyed it more in the theatre - I think when you see something with other fans (I saw it opening weekend) and they are as into it as you are you enjoy it more...
Also saw Ninja Scroll a few days ago - it was good - better than I thought it would be, and it was good enough for me to get past the fact that I dislike the anime look intensely. Though the woman getting naked/almost raped is something that seems to be prevelant in anime and something I find to be always gratuitous and a complete turn off.
I just watc hed 300 again. I kinda enjoyed it more in the theatre - I think when you see something with other fans (I saw it opening weekend) and they are as into it as you are you enjoy it more...
I just watc hed 300 again. I kinda enjoyed it more in the theatre - I think when you see something with other fans (I saw it opening weekend) and they are as into it as you are you enjoy it more...
Also saw Ninja Scroll a few days ago - it was good - better than I thought it would be, and it was good enough for me to get past the fact that I dislike the anime look intensely. Though the woman getting naked/almost raped is something that seems to be prevelant in anime and something I find to be always gratuitous and a complete turn off.
Also saw Ninja Scroll a few days ago - it was good - better than I thought it would be, and it was good enough for me to get past the fact that I dislike the anime look intensely. Though the woman getting naked/almost raped is something that seems to be prevelant in anime and something I find to be always gratuitous and a complete turn off.
"almost" raped?
Honey, it wasn't hentai - she was rescued before the actual rape was completed.
Yeah, it wasn't graphic, but it was still rape -- if I recall, she had to be penetrated for her poison-snatch to kill the rapist.
Yeah, but he kissed her mouth and when they were referring back to how the poisin got into his system, they flashed back to the kiss. Hmmm, maybe I chose to see it as "attempted" and not completed.
Eh, either way, its the whole rape/attempted rape/all women must be naked at some point in the adult anime that I've seen that annoys me.
Though the woman getting naked/almost raped is something that seems to be prevelant in anime and something I find to be always gratuitous and a complete turn off.
I completely agree with you. Its that way in any entertainment for me. I've stopped reading books I was half way done with just because there was a rape in it. Too many writers use it as an excuse to trick you into hating or feeling sorry for someone. Its the reason I never got past the first few pages of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I didn't enjoy Ninja Scroll and everyone hates me because of that for some retarded reason. I also don't like Vampire Hunter D or Perfect Blue. I hate anime.
Yeah, it wasn't graphic, but it was still rape -- if I recall, she had to be penetrated for her poison-snatch to kill the rapist.
Yeah, but he kissed her mouth and when they were referring back to how the poisin got into his system, they flashed back to the kiss. Hmmm, maybe I chose to see it as "attempted" and not completed.
Eh, either way, its the whole rape/attempted rape/all women must be naked at some point in the adult anime that I've seen that annoys me.
This was still a good movie. though.
i didn;t see a rape in ninja scrolls. i thought it was proven by the fact she mentions that her poison has become so deadly that even a kiss can kill now. i believe she said that while speaking to the lead character once when he attempted to kiss her.
also why i didn;t think it was too gratuitous. i mean there was a lil more than necessary, but at the same time, he did have to try and get down at least to have gotten a kiss to be poisoned with.
I just watc hed 300 again. I kinda enjoyed it more in the theatre - I think when you see something with other fans (I saw it opening weekend) and they are as into it as you are you enjoy it more...
Yeah, it wasn't graphic, but it was still rape -- if I recall, she had to be penetrated for her poison-snatch to kill the rapist.
Yeah, but he kissed her mouth and when they were referring back to how the poisin got into his system, they flashed back to the kiss. Hmmm, maybe I chose to see it as "attempted" and not completed.
Eh, either way, its the whole rape/attempted rape/all women must be naked at some point in the adult anime that I've seen that annoys me.
This was still a good movie. though.
i didn;t see a rape in ninja scrolls. i thought it was proven by the fact she mentions that her poison has become so deadly that even a kiss can kill now. i believe she said that while speaking to the lead character once when he attempted to kiss her.
also why i didn;t think it was too gratuitous. i mean there was a lil more than necessary, but at the same time, he did have to try and get down at least to have gotten a kiss to be poisoned with.
He could have been poisoned with just a kiss, so everything else was - to me - gratuitious. Same with her stripping naked and begging the hero to fuck her. Struck me as pandering. No doubt we'll just have to agree to disagree here, hon.
Yeah, it wasn't graphic, but it was still rape -- if I recall, she had to be penetrated for her poison-snatch to kill the rapist.
Yeah, but he kissed her mouth and when they were referring back to how the poisin got into his system, they flashed back to the kiss. Hmmm, maybe I chose to see it as "attempted" and not completed.
Eh, either way, its the whole rape/attempted rape/all women must be naked at some point in the adult anime that I've seen that annoys me.
This was still a good movie. though.
i didn;t see a rape in ninja scrolls. i thought it was proven by the fact she mentions that her poison has become so deadly that even a kiss can kill now. i believe she said that while speaking to the lead character once when he attempted to kiss her.
also why i didn;t think it was too gratuitous. i mean there was a lil more than necessary, but at the same time, he did have to try and get down at least to have gotten a kiss to be poisoned with.
He could have been poisoned with just a kiss, so everything else was - to me - gratuitious. Same with her stripping naked and begging the hero to fuck her. Struck me as pandering. No doubt we'll just have to agree to disagree here, hon.
cool beans.
i just don't see a that tye of character going for just a kiss. granted, some the extra touchin might have been a bit much, lol
Dead Alive (aka Braindead). Motherfucker, who hid this movie from me my whole life? Since Evil Dead II was made in '87 and this was '92, I'm positive they either ripped off or made homage to a lot of keen Campbell/Rami scenes / gimmicks (like what the dead mom looked like, the bucket over the camera, the animated lobbed-off hand, etcetera). However, the movie had so much wonderful aside from those, I give it an A+.
"Braindead" is the actual and original title of the film and the title that is used everywhere except for in the United States. Due to conflicts with another film of the same name, the title "Dead Alive" was used instead.
This is next up on netflix. The 3rd Rock kid has turned out to be a solid actor, and not some child star has been. He did a film called Brick that was excellent and his performance was stellar in that. I've heard good things about The Lookout and hope he's as good here...
Well, well, well. If it isn't the serious, elusive Leroy Green. I've been waiting a long time for this, Leroy. I am sick and tired of hearing these bullshit Superman stories about the wassa legendary Bruce Leroy catching bullets with his teeth. Catches bullets with his teeth? Nigga please.
I have the bare-bones edition of the DVD. If there was EVER a movie that needed a Special Edition with commentary tracks, interviews, and other bits of goodness (like me and Knurkel debating whether or not a Michael Jackson type really could beat a Bootsy Collins type in a kung fu battle), it's Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.
Hell, why that's never been done is beyond me. It's not like the cast has anything better to do.
Well, well, well. If it isn't the serious, elusive Leroy Green. I've been waiting a long time for this, Leroy. I am sick and tired of hearing these bullshit Superman stories about the wassa legendary Bruce Leroy catching bullets with his teeth. Catches bullets with his teeth? Nigga please.
"Im looking for a bodyguard. You know, someone to guard my body... "
I have the bare-bones edition of the DVD. If there was EVER a movie that needed a Special Edition with commentary tracks, interviews, and other bits of goodness (like me and Knurkel debating whether or not a Michael Jackson type really could beat a Bootsy Collins type in a kung fu battle), it's Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.
Hell, why that's never been done is beyond me. It's not like the cast has anything better to do.
ill roll with that...
and vanity wont be teaching no moves anytime soon. shes a preacher now...
Dude, I'm telling you: Michael Jackson may dominate the pop charts. He may even dominate the R&B charts (is there a funk chart?). But if you put Michael up against Bootsy in a fight, Bootsy kicks his ass every time. You KNOW that Michael gets a contact high just being near Bootsy! And Mikey's skin would soak up whatever hallucinogens Bootsy had taken - after a few punches, Mike's out of the fight.
So it is in music, so it is in kung fu, so it is with Michael vs Bootsy or their clones.
I have the bare-bones edition of the DVD. If there was EVER a movie that needed a Special Edition with commentary tracks, interviews, and other bits of goodness (like me and Knurkel debating whether or not a Michael Jackson type really could beat a Bootsy Collins type in a kung fu battle), it's Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.
Hell, why that's never been done is beyond me. It's not like the cast has anything better to do.
ill roll with that...
and vanity wont be teaching no moves anytime soon. shes a preacher now...
I got a wiggle stick she can use in her preachin'...
Dude, I'm telling you: Michael Jackson may dominate the pop charts. He may even dominate the R&B charts (is there a funk chart?). But if you put Michael up against Bootsy in a fight, Bootsy kicks his ass every time. You KNOW that Michael gets a contact high just being near Bootsy! And Mikey's skin would soak up whatever hallucinogens Bootsy had taken - after a few punches, Mike's out of the fight.
So it is in music, so it is in kung fu, so it is with Michael vs Bootsy or their clones.
mikes got him on speed, reach and technique (those dance moves count for something) meanwhile bootsy would be way too distracted waiting for the mothership to come pick him up to even see mike comming...
mikes got him on speed, reach and technique (those dance moves count for something) meanwhile bootsy would be way too distracted waiting for the mothership to come pick him up to even see mike comming...
Good point...though I'm not sure about reach.
Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Bootsy survived the true King of Soul, James Brown, without a scratch. If he can survive the Godfather, then he can squash the child molester.
mikes got him on speed, reach and technique (those dance moves count for something) meanwhile bootsy would be way too distracted waiting for the mothership to come pick him up to even see mike comming...
Okay, let's say Jackson at his peak (1982) versus Bootsy Collins at his (1976, methinks). Now I'll admit that Mike has speed and quickness on his side. But Bootsy has size and power (being a bassist), plus a constant cloud of smoke around him. Bootsy's on enough drugs to choke a Kennedy, so pain is no issue. I say Mike gets a good amount of shots in, but the weed smoke slows him down. A few shots later (Bootsy thinks he's fighting Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk ), Mike's out.
I watched "Adventures of Tintin: The Calculus Affair", originally a TV-series from 1961 edited as a 51 minutes long movie. Haven't seen it since it went on TV back in the 80's. Fun and a good nostalgic moment but I miss the cliff-hangers, despite it would be silly every ten minutes.
it dragged a bit, but it had it's moments. I hated the Plutonians before, but now I like them. they had their best moments here.
not nearly enough Carl, though.
I was a little disappointed with the final revelations of who actually created the Aqua Teens. they should've just had it be Dr. Weird. the whole Walter Melon stuff was disappointing and useless.
was surprised that Chicken Biddle was actually Bruce Campbell. didn't sound like him, it sounded like someone doing a bad Bruce Campbell impression.
I was just sitting here trying to decide what to watch as nothing on tv, glanced down at my model of the Lotus Esprit from this movie.......well, I think you know the outcome!
I saw them live last weekend with Guster as part of the Download Festival. They tore the place up! Yeah Yeah Yeahs are great live, and I have a full-blown crush on Karen O. If you have the chance to see them, go.
Freaks is alright -- a good film to watch for film history and the cultural relevance. Not the best at standing up to the test of time though. There are a lot of films from that time period I like a lot better.
Freaks is alright -- a good film to watch for film history and the cultural relevance. Not the best at standing up to the test of time though. There are a lot of films from that time period I like a lot better.
we broke that out for "movie night" once a few years back. there's a bit where one the clowns is washing up in his room and the girl says to him: "you're a funny guy" and I immediately popped off with "funny how? like a clown? am I a clown here to amuse you?" ahh, good times.
isn't he a bit old to be wearing that emo outfit? Anyway, you saw him and mentioned he said "fuck" a lot -- but does he actually have good jokes?
a lot of people think his humour is probably gonna be clean and slap stick cause of AFV and Full House. Its not even near that, at all.
"don't fuck small animal. Don't fuck a box turtle it'll bite your shit off son."
"do you even light your farts on fire? fuckin' don't do that, you're caderize your asshole shut. you understand me? If you burn your asshole shut you know where that shit goes? it goes back up and you have a fart attack. and you'll fucking die from that shit. your last words will be a burp and it'll smell like burning shit. you better fucking stop that. "
Danny tanner's not gay song. parody from some boy band song.
In Jr High School my sister and her friends had an obsession with Bob Saget being the devil. If I have money by ...whenever, I should try to get her tickets.
i'd buy her fake tickets then throw the dvd at her.
Actually I mentioned it to her -- apparently he's always been a shit-eater. So she wouldn't find it funny as a gag-gift thing or anything. I wonder though, if he was suck a cock, how'd he score kid programs?
I told you. That sumbitch is viral. Shitload of good quotes. It's a good, fun film. It's not supposed to be taken serious in the least. I actually believe that's it's a lot more clever than most folks give it credit for. The scene with Leroy talking to the Chinese fortune cookie guys is pretty surreal.
Oh, honey, I did not take it seriously at all... I loved Arkadia (such villany!) and Vanity was pretty good too. "Bruce Leeroy" loved that name, but I actually thought the little brother was the funniest...
Wait, I have seen a few but never knew they were John Carpenter movies.
I've watched Big Trouble in Little China(very good), Christine(not bad, not exceptional), They Live(OK), and Village of the Damned(spooky fucking kids).
It totally is. I'm going back watching alot of stuff I had because I recently upgraded to an HD television.
Now I only wish Maury was broadcast in HD.
for the super midget children shows or the train wreck teens?
Personally, I think the "who's the baby daddy?" ones are chock full of entertainment...
Yeah, I like the paternity tests, Lie detector tests, and unruly teens.
The freaks and fat ass babies, not so much.
13 Year Old Pregnant Teens
"I don't care! I don't care! I'm KEEPING my baby! If it's a girl I'm gonna name it America 'cause I love my country, and if it's a boy I'm gonna name it Travis!"
It totally is. I'm going back watching alot of stuff I had because I recently upgraded to an HD television.
Now I only wish Maury was broadcast in HD.
for the super midget children shows or the train wreck teens?
Personally, I think the "who's the baby daddy?" ones are chock full of entertainment...
Yeah, I like the paternity tests, Lie detector tests, and unruly teens.
The freaks and fat ass babies, not so much.
13 Year Old Pregnant Teens
"I don't care! I don't care! I'm KEEPING my baby! If it's a girl I'm gonna name it America 'cause I love my country, and if it's a boy I'm gonna name it Travis!"
Yeah, I liked it. I enjoyed the play on conventions and how they weren't shy about offing the kid early on.
SPOILERS!
Yeah...that was one of the things I enjoyed about Grindhouse: Planet Terror. I knew that kid was gonna die. I just didn't expect him to die the way he did when he did.
I just finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl - which I loved - and am looking back at stuff dealing with the Tudors... Henry and his 6 wives; Bloody Mary; Lady Jane Grey; Mary, Queen of Scots; and, of course, Elizabeth.. its a fuckin' soap opera...love it...
just watched this and I have to say I liked it a helluva lot more than the first film. they worked a lot harder to get things right. Gruffud, especially, did a much better job as Reed in this film.
they tried to fix Doom, but he really didn't have the room to develop as he should've. they still didn't get it.
the Jones/Fishburne combo made for a great surfer, and for most of the movie did really well. but the ending and Galactus were really vague and anticlimactic. they didn't "get" Galactus, just like they didn't "get" Doom in the first film (or this one, really).
but Ben and Johnny remain the best things about the film, and Johnny going Super Skrull on Doom was a high point in the film.
Japanese nunsploitation. The director got as many buxom women as he could find. Lesbians, random nudity, naked torture, taboos broken...what's not to like? Not as graphic as I expected, but still good.
I'm going to put on Abbot And Costello meet Frankenstein" right now seeing as how i'm just starting to get into the whole Halloween mood but really don't want something that "horror movie" at the moment.
It's the right genre somewhat, but it's light and entertaining enough for right now.
I totally disagree - I thought it was excellent. The only point I agree on is that Jack Nicholson is the same character in every movie - I said as much to my family as we watched it - but it works for some parts and I thought it workd for this one.
In all honesty, this is the first HD-DVD that I've bought where I actually noticed the difference.
It may have something to do with the fact that I've owned multiple versions of this film. First on VHS, then Laserdisc and then DVD. So I'm pretty familiar with almost every frame of this film by now.
The HD-DVD presentation is just jaw dropping stunningly beautiful. It's so much more vibrant and majestic to look at and listen to now.
This DVD made the investment in HD more than worth it. which Transformers or 300 really didn't do for me.
I got superman/doomsday from netflix the day it came out. I feel its my duty to society to keep others from watching it.
I saw it this week and I can understand why. First, the superficial: The animation was crap and the voices were awful! Everyone looked like an emaciated version of their JLU/animated Superman version of themselves. And what the fuck was up with the lines on Supes' face? Were they trying to show that he has cheek bones or something? Because it didn't work at all - everytime he was on screen I was mentally trying to erase those lines - they were ugly and distracting. As for the voices - I love James Marsters, but as Luthor his voice just didn't work. When you think of how majestic and commanding Clancy Brown's voice was...well, anything less is going to pale. Anne Heche - I loathe her, but that aside, her voice had a high pitched, squeakiness to it that ruined Lois for me - I kept thinking about how awful she sounded. Adam Baldwin's voice was just ok as Supes.
I don't even know where to begin with the story. I am not a Superman fan by any stretch of the imagination, and even I realized that this wasn't close to the original storyline. I get that in 72 minutes there was only so much they could have included, so the absence of things like the 4 supermen wasn't a suprise, but still... things like Lois sleeping with Superman, but not knowing that he was Clark?!?! WTF?! And Luthor being behind Doomsday? Is that what really happened? (I don't know, I don't read Supes) I seem to recall hearing a different version... The only thing that made some sense - and only because I am an on/off reader of Teen Titans - is that Luthor does some sort of cloning - Superboy DNA was a 50/50 split between Luthor and Supes, so I assume that maybe that the cloning did happen in the comics...
Superman/Doomsday just reinforces the fact that the quality of the current animated shows (I don't include the Fleisher Superman stuff, as that was in a class by itself) has plummeted at a stupifying rate since the B:TAS/JLU/Late '90's Superman animation ended. I realize that the bar was set incredibly high by these shows, but one look at The Batman and all the animated superhero shows confirms this fact - its almost like, "why did they even bother?"
I can't stand her, but I looooove him. Before he did his mediocre English language stuff, he had a slew of incredible Spanish albums and I am basically netflixing this to see/listen to Marc Anthony sing...
I got my 5 free HD-DVD's (finally) in the mail yesterday. It only took about 2X as long as promised.
So I decided to watch 2 of them last night.
First off..
I can't believe I ever enjoyed this film. It was BORING. Worse, the clarity of the HD presentation makes all the FX work look FAKE as FAKE can get.
Next....
This film has always been overblown and pretentious but at one point in time I actually enjoyed watching it. Now i'm just struck at how flat and unmotivated the band sounds thru much of the performances. I have much better bootleg DVD's that I've downloaded. This might have to do with the gargantuan film crew that you can clearly see being all over the damned place and in between the band onstage.
The video quality is top notch of course. A lot of film grain but I'm sure that was deliberate.
I guess it'll be a while until we get people who actually WANT to film in HD and people who film in HD who don't think it's more realistic to ADD grain.
Still, some good performances sprinked throughout, such as the powerful "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
I didn't think it was too bad, but knowing how it was going to end dampened (no pun intended) any enthusiasm I had for the film.
However, my wife decided that she had to see that movie, in no small part to the fact it featured George Clooney and her home state of Massachusetts. So, on a weekend when it was her turn to choose a movie, she dragged me to see it at dingy little arthouse theater at the end of its run. The theater put it on a screen that was (and I am not making this up) only about eight feet high and sixteen feet wide, in a side room that held only about thirty seats.
At the end of the movie, she was in tears. She never thought that George Clooney would die. I guess she missed the whole true story it was based on.
To make matters worse, literally three days later the damn thing came out on DVD.
I watched this show back in 1963 when it was new and on tv every Saturday morning.
Movie description Leading the World Space Fleet in 2063 is FIREBALL XL5, an incredible spaceship steered through space by the steady hand of Captain Steve Zodiac. Encountering strange creatures and mysterious phenomena along the way, Zodiac and his crew have their work cut out for them as they patrol the outer reaches of Sector 25. FIREBALL XL5 is another hit series from the mind of producer Gerry Anderson, responsible for cult classics like STINGRAY, THUNDERBIRDS, SPACE: 1999 and many more. All 39 episodes are included on this 5 disc boxed set, all filmed in Anderson's special Supermarionation.
Credits Producer: Gerry Anderson
Details Edition: 5 Disc Boxed Set
Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Boxed Set Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Alan Pattillo - Director 2. David Graham - Voice Artist Featurette - 1. THE NOBLE ART OF TV21 Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos
All 10 Friday 13th movies Die Hard 4.0 The Sex thief Guns N Roses - Welcome to the videos Desmonds series 1 Bones season 2 Crocodile Dundee 1-3 Rodney Carrington live at the Majestic Lock Stock the tv series The Condemned Straightheads Employee of the month Great rock n roll swindle Walkabout Garfield 2 Spiderman 3 A knights tale (extended cut) Halloween Fantastic 4:Rise of the Silver Surfer The metal years:Decline of western civilisation pt.2 Falling down Paycheck An American werewolf in London Borat K-Pax Anger management The dirty dozen The Flintstones the movie Hollywoodland Black Dhalia Heat Heart of the dragon Clue Murder by death Fierce creatures A fish called Wanda Clockwise Disaster:the movie Clerks 2 Android apocalypse Super troopers Billy Bathgate Manderlay Purple rain Blame it on the bellboy My super ex-girlfriend Necessary roughness Spaced series 1&2 The Goodies...at last a second helping Metal Skool Weird Al Yankovic the ultimate video collection Only fools and horses:Miami twice Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7 Pink panther (2005) Oceans 13 Confessions box set
Its entirely possible I have mentioned some of these before (in fact I am sure I have), but I cannot be bothered re-reading this thread!
I can't stand her, but I looooove him. Before he did his mediocre English language stuff, he had a slew of incredible Spanish albums and I am basically netflixing this to see/listen to Marc Anthony sing...
Finally got around to watching this. I really, really wanted to like this, but it was terrible. Basically, this was just a series of scenes that were meant to be emotional and meaningful, but there was no real thread to hold it all together. You never got the sense of who Lavoe was, despite the fact that he was an incredible force for salsa. And J.Lo just cannot seem to give up the spotlight to anyone else, not even her husband. This movie should have been called "Jennifer Lopez in pretty clothes with Lavoe music sung by Anthony." The music is the only good thing in this movie.
saw Transformer last night for the first time....besides being an incredible movie, i have had an erection ever since seeing Megan Fox. Who is she? Never knew she existed till now.
saw Transformer last night for the first time....besides being an incredible movie, i have had an erection ever since seeing Megan Fox. Who is she? Never knew she existed till now.
saw Transformer last night for the first time....besides being an incredible movie, i have had an erection ever since seeing Megan Fox. Who is she? Never knew she existed till now.
Bloody Sunday. Directed by Paul Greengrass (United 93, Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum)
WOW! Devastatingly good movie. I'd been wanting to see this film for quite some time and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. Powerful powerful stuff.
I have absolutely no idea why James Nesbitt isn't a name actor here in the U.S. after that performance.
I've seen 'The Hidden Fortress' and 'Yojimbo' by Akira Kurosawa, and 'A Force of One' with Chuck Norris this week. The Kurosawa movies were great, the Norris film was okay.
I've seen 'The Hidden Fortress' and 'Yojimbo' by Akira Kurosawa, and 'A Force of One' with Chuck Norris this week. The Kurosawa movies were great, the Norris film was okay.
I liked 'Yojimbo'. I'll add 'The Hidden Fortress' to Netflick.
Rocki Roads has obvious fake boobs, but she has a nice face (the boobs are still good, too) and you have to appreciate how she puts her ass into her work.
I've seen 'The Hidden Fortress' and 'Yojimbo' by Akira Kurosawa, and 'A Force of One' with Chuck Norris this week. The Kurosawa movies were great, the Norris film was okay.
I liked 'Yojimbo'. I'll add 'The Hidden Fortress' to Netflick.
Currently watching 'Wolf's Rain'
'The Hidden Fortress' is the movie that inspired 'Star Wars'. You'll soon get who's the 'Princess Leia'-character, but you'll be surprised to see the inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO.
Finally! This has been on my netflix list for-fuckin'-ever!
Holy shit, this show is fucking brilliant. I didn't think that I would love a show as much as Arrested Development but this one comes damn close. It literally has had me laughing out loud. Each episode gets funnier than the last - with titles like "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom," "Charlie Gets Crippled," "Charlie Wants an Abortion," and "The Gang Goes Jihad" you'll either find this hysterical or you will find out that you have no sense of humor. I'm buying this - its too good not to own.
Later for us will probably be Neil Gaiman's "Stardust," which is the DVD that G-girl II got. She was assigned to read Gaiman's "Good Omens" in a comparative religions class and liked it so I thought I'd use this as an excuse to introduce her to some more Gaiman work.
G-girl the first got "Hairspray" for Christmas. So "we're" watching that now.
Point and laugh! I'll shoot myself before I have to be put through that. Got the Planet Earth box set, Pirates 3, Hot Fuzz (which I'll watch first probably), and the two Jeff Dunham DVD's.
Point and laugh! I'll shoot myself before I have to be put through [Hairspray].
The music's pretty good, the little fat girl can sing, Jerry Stiller and Christopher Walkin are always entertaining and Michelle Pfeiffer's still a MILF (at least to an old guy like me). I've seen worse.
Travolta sucks, but that's usually a given these days, sadly.
The level of EPICness in that movie did not match the hype.
For all the bluster about the first fifteen minutes being so good, I thought the finale featuring the showdown with the invisible witch was a lot better.
"Viva Las Vegas," which is actually a VHS tape I am dubbing over to DVD as a favor to a friend we are meeting up with and going to Vegas with next week.
The level of EPICness in that movie did not match the hype.
For all the bluster about the first fifteen minutes being so good, I thought the finale featuring the showdown with the invisible witch was a lot better.
Spoilers!
It's a gorgeous film with some genuinely creepy moments and a great opening and finale. Cripes, now I'm genuinely scared to recommend any films to you.
Watched 'The Seven Samurais' and 'Blade Runner - The Director's Cut' yesterday (December the 26th, or Boxing Day in UK). I got my dad to watch 'The Seven...' with me by telling him that the movie inspired 'The Magnificent Seven'.
'Blade Runner' wasn't as exciting as I remembered... which is odd because it's one of those movies I've considered re-watchable in absurdum (like the Dirty Harry movies or the original Star Wars). While I do consider the Director's Cut to be an improvement as so far the ending and the unicorn dream goes, I think this version over all ain't that much different from the 1982 theatrical version, and therefor a bit hyped/over-rated. A pity I don't have the 82 version to compare, especially since I don't remember Harrison Ford's narrative. Another pity is that the DVD didn't have any extra material, no commentatory, not even trailers.
Watched 'The Seven Samurais' and 'Blade Runner - The Director's Cut' yesterday (December the 26th, or Boxing Day in UK). I got my dad to watch 'The Seven...' with me by telling him that the movie inspired 'The Magnificent Seven'.
'Blade Runner' wasn't as exciting as I remembered... which is odd because it's one of those movies I've considered re-watchable in absurdum (like the Dirty Harry movies or the original Star Wars). While I do consider the Director's Cut to be an improvement as so far the ending and the unicorn dream goes, I think this version over all ain't that much different from the 1982 theatrical version, and therefor a bit hyped/over-rated. A pity I don't have the 82 version to compare, especially since I don't remember Harrison Ford's narrative. Another pity is that the DVD didn't have any extra material, no commentatory, not even trailers.
Did you pick up the latest Blade Runner release - The Final Cut, which came out a week or so ago? It has a 2-disc, 4-disc, and 5-disc offering with multiple versions and a ton of extras.
Watched 'The Seven Samurais' and 'Blade Runner - The Director's Cut' yesterday (December the 26th, or Boxing Day in UK). I got my dad to watch 'The Seven...' with me by telling him that the movie inspired 'The Magnificent Seven'.
'Blade Runner' wasn't as exciting as I remembered... which is odd because it's one of those movies I've considered re-watchable in absurdum (like the Dirty Harry movies or the original Star Wars). While I do consider the Director's Cut to be an improvement as so far the ending and the unicorn dream goes, I think this version over all ain't that much different from the 1982 theatrical version, and therefor a bit hyped/over-rated. A pity I don't have the 82 version to compare, especially since I don't remember Harrison Ford's narrative. Another pity is that the DVD didn't have any extra material, no commentatory, not even trailers.
Did you pick up the latest Blade Runner release - The Final Cut, which came out a week or so ago? It has a 2-disc, 4-disc, and 5-disc offering with multiple versions and a ton of extras.
I got the DVD on Christmas 2006, I just got time* to watch it.
I did see a DVD-box with all three versions of Blade Runner on a webshop a week ago, I suppose that's the one you mean. If I had the money I'd buy it.
*The only DVD-player is in the living room, and my retired dad watch daytime TV.
I've owned it since last summer, but I haven't watched it. The last thing I need is another reason to hate what religion (in this case, Fundamentalist Christianity) does to some people.
It's brainwashing 101. I watched it with my sis and brother in law and we were all horrified.
Best line, though: "A third of your friends couldn't be here tonight because they were never given a chance to live." -said to a bunch of 6-10 year olds.
or the lady who runs it who talked about how Muslims have their army of children so "we have to build our own for when the time comes."
or the 9 year old who approached people randomly on the street to preach. She approached three elderly black men at one point who were not interested in her speech or her pamphlets and she says to her friend, "they must be Muslim."
They did, however, have a radio host who was religious, but was like, "this isn't my religion, what this is is brainwashing and abuse."
It's brainwashing 101. I watched it with my sis and brother in law and we were all horrified.
Best line, though: "A third of your friends couldn't be here tonight because they were never given a chance to live." -said to a bunch of 6-10 year olds.
or the lady who runs it who talked about how Muslims have their army of children so "we have to build our own for when the time comes."
or the 9 year old who approached people randomly on the street to preach. She approached three elderly black men at one point who were not interested in her speech or her pamphlets and she says to her friend, "they must be Muslim."
They did, however, have a radio host who was religious, but was like, "this isn't my religion, what this is is brainwashing and abuse."
For some reason when I'm sick, I have to watch Disney movies. Something about chicken soup and Dumbo, I suppose...
This is a GREAT remaster. On my old VHS, Bagherra was just an inky black mess. This is nice...very nice...
And it's one of the few movies that didn't bug me how different it was from the novels. Then again, I was probably the only kid that read Kipling at age nine.
I'm tempted to see if the Chuck Jones's version is on Netflix. I heard it's closer to the book.
For some reason when I'm sick, I have to watch Disney movies. Something about chicken soup and Dumbo, I suppose...
This is a GREAT remaster. On my old VHS, Bagherra was just an inky black mess. This is nice...very nice...
And it's one of the few movies that didn't bug me how different it was from the novels. Then again, I was probably the only kid that read Kipling at age nine.
I'm tempted to see if the Chuck Jones's version is on Netflix. I heard it's closer to the book.
We were told it was funny like Dead Alive was (Braindead out of the USA). It was funny, but not THAT funny. Mostly it was just a fucking awesome scary movie.
Buncha corporates go for a semenar in the woods, get caught up by a bunch of guerrilla militia men that are bug fuck crazy. Hilarity ensues.
(the above is the scene where the nerdy fag steps in a bear trap and they snap the trap on his leg 4 times while trying to get it out and the leg severs and he's basically fucked... but not the first to die)
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Tonight we followed our recent Zombedy (zombie-comedy)trend with Black Sheep.
This is hilarious and so so so disgusting. And that's coming from someone who took home a dog's eye today. Flesh-eating mutant zombie-sheep-humans. TOO RAD!
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Last night we watched a different one, not quite so good as these others. It was obviously made by recent college grads. It did have good bits, though. Rather almost worth a watch. Unfortunately, you have to see this one bloke's weiner about six times. Fat old bastard he is too. NOT pleasing. Now, if I could only remember the damn nam-- Hide and Creep! I remember, 'cause it made no fucking sense as a title! The good bits are almost exclusively the redneck hunting club guys.
The shitty makeup and effects only add to the charm of this movie. I wish to whatever god there is that Mike Nelson come back and MST3K the fuck out of this movie.
(that's the guy who's schlong and taggers you get to peep at)
Hung out with the guys tonight. Watched the Patriots beat the Jags in spite of the refs. Then we put this bad boy into the DVD player:
This movie is fucking brilliant in its awfulness. It was made in 1983 and just reeks of the times. The acting? Awful. The Long Island accents? Excruciating. The plot? Predictable. But the kills are fantastic and the ending is top notch. It's a great movie to watch while drunk or high or just in the mood for a junk food flick. I urge you to go into this movie blind. Don't research it. Don't read anything about it. Just rent it (netflix it) and enjoy. You'll thank me later.
Its on my list. I've gotten into those horrid Thinkfilm pieces of trash.
Thinkfilms? Do tell.
I'm getting a few of my friends (the ones who I think will appreciate 'em) into the various horror and exploitation subgenres. So far, I'm batting a thousand. Let me know if you want the name of a few flicks.
Its on my list. I've gotten into those horrid Thinkfilm pieces of trash.
Thinkfilms? Do tell.
I'm getting a few of my friends (the ones who I think will appreciate 'em) into the various horror and exploitation subgenres. So far, I'm batting a thousand. Let me know if you want the name of a few flicks.
THINK http://www.thinkfilmcompany.com/ Everything I've gotten produced by them is just, horrid, i love it. i can't nag you about devil's nightmare anymore. I shouldn't since I found love for Open Water...
"Ms. 45" "diggers" "life of the party" some horrid one about a man who wants to be a superhero....bunny whipped..ugh.
For some reason when I'm sick, I have to watch Disney movies. Something about chicken soup and Dumbo, I suppose...
This is a GREAT remaster. On my old VHS, Bagherra was just an inky black mess. This is nice...very nice...
And it's one of the few movies that didn't bug me how different it was from the novels. Then again, I was probably the only kid that read Kipling at age nine.
I'm tempted to see if the Chuck Jones's version is on Netflix. I heard it's closer to the book.
One of my favorite Disney flicks. It was the last one Disney worked on before he died. I didn't know that Chuck Jones had a version. Gotta track that down.
don't spend your time lookin' around For something you want that can't be found When you find out you can live without it And go along not thinkin' about it I'll tell you something true
It was heartwarming watching the Federal Government throw all their resources to try to destroy a prominent Ani-war personality.
I own it but have yet to watch.
Same here. I had it for the longest time till I finally put in on the other day. It's a great historical drama and uplifting overall but the oddest thing about this film is that the boxing sequences are the films weakest point.
Right now i just finished watching
Meet John Doe (1941)
Very typical Capra. The premise sounds rather hokey and corny but the execution is masterful. It's a populist fable about a newspaper con that snowballs into a social movement that is then exploited by "the man" for their own gain. EXCELLENT excellent message movie. Plus Barbara Stanwyck looks absolutely HOT in this movie. I was never too big on Gary Cooper as a leading man, but he did a great job in this one. "Baseball's My Racket and I'm Stickin' To It".
If they ever release a decent copy of this film (I have a very crap $1.00 drugstore dVD) I'll be exstatic. This one was watchable but it's obvious you're watching a 10X generation VHS tape transferred over to DVD.
Following, again, our run with Zomb-edies, I present Fido.
What can I say; Lassie meets the Living Dead. It takes place in a 50's-era world that happens to have been inflicted with the undead. There's a lot of sociopolitical commentary on roles of various peoples in the common American Ideal, but who gives a shit? Is zombiez.
Fido in this case takes the place of Lassie -- even to the blatant "What's wrong, Fido? Where's Timmy? Where is he, boy?"
As a zombie film this gets poor marks. There is almost zero gore. The zombies are mostly contained. Aside from that, when there IS a flesh-eating sequence it isn't frightening in the least. Doesn't really even try to be.
As a mopvie in general... it was well made and has an entertaining -- if predictable -- story line. The neighbor is buggering a zombie, too:
I liked Fido BECAUSE, as a zombie film, it had more in common with Lassie or Flipper (the films and the sit-coms) than with Romero's zombies. The zombie genre, in general, is dangerously close to played out (if it isn't there already), so to see a fresher take on it is a relief.
True, and -as mentioned- I give the movie itself a high score. Entertaining, funny, sometimes almost ironiclly poetic. But if you go in expecting a "ZOMG ZOMBIEZ!" film, you'll be let down, if only a little.
I actually didnt watch it. Its been bought to complete my Eastwood collection as he is my fave actor, but you would know that if you have paid attention in the past.
I watched it years ago, hated it, and waited forever to finally buy it on DVD!
Everyman should have a chick flick or two in their collection. They might sit there gathering dust for a while, but its a great tool to have in your arsenal!
Welcome back, Nowhereman. Nice haul, there. The Jeremy Clarkson stuff looks kick-ass and there are a few flicks there (the Danny Dyer one f'r example) that I'll be keeping an eye out for. What you think of Shoot 'Em Up and 3:10 To Yuma?
3:10 is bloody great! I do love me some westerns, and this one was a goodun!
Shoot em up is one of my fave films in ages. So totally over the top and stupid that its brilliant. Its a great parody of the action film genre without actually being a comedy. All the stunts are so over the top, that you just have to laugh (killing someone by punching a carrot out of the back of his head springs to mind).
Not really on DVD (since they're not sold here in America yet), but the files I downloaded were taken from the DVD's.
Very Tom Baker Doctor Who feel since a lot of the same people worked on both (including creator Terry Nation). Goddamn this thing is hardcore. Two episodes in and there's already a body count of about 30.
I made my wife watch The Natural this weekend and surprisingly she loved it.......we also watched Finding Forrester which was a damn good movie. I had never seen it before. Connery was really good in it.
when I was young and this movie first came out on video I believe I watched it something like 100 times in the first few months. I still watch it whenever it's on. One of my favorites.
Its what, 21 years old and its taken til now for me to see it. Always thought that it was like a kids film, but had heard rumours it was one of those films like Shrek or the old Batman tv show where it worked on two levels. Kids can watch it and get their enjoyment out of it as a fairy tale, but there is also another level of humour thats aimed directly at adults, making it essentially a different film to what kids see. Gotta agree, its a great film. I'm annoyed with myself for waiting this long to see it!
Originally Posted By: The New Adventures of Old PJP
Originally Posted By: Nowhereman
when I was young and this movie first came out on video I believe I watched it something like 100 times in the first few months. I still watch it whenever it's on. One of my favorites.
Originally Posted By: Nowhereman
Its what, 21 years old and its taken til now for me to see it. Always thought that it was like a kids film, but had heard rumours it was one of those films like Shrek or the old Batman tv show where it worked on two levels. Kids can watch it and get their enjoyment out of it as a fairy tale, but there is also another level of humour thats aimed directly at adults, making it essentially a different film to what kids see. Gotta agree, its a great film. I'm annoyed with myself for waiting this long to see it!
One of my favorites - so many quotable lines in this!
Just saw this over the weekend:
And boy did it suck. Disney took a cute idea and bled it dry. Then they kicked it's hollow carcass until it was unrecognizable from how good it originally was. Awful.
Not the good V-word. This is the last episode of the season to be released. I'm not holding out a ton of hope. In general, Season Two has been weak.
Great show. Now that I have free cable an' all the channels (thanks to my gal for getting a job with Comcast), I'll probably start watching it regularly.
I was watching this at first, and enjoyed it. Then I just stopped. No good reason for that. Good show - I'll start catching Season Two whenever it starts.
Not the good V-word. This is the last episode of the season to be released. I'm not holding out a ton of hope. In general, Season Two has been weak.
Great show. Now that I have free cable an' all the channels (thanks to my gal for getting a job with Comcast), I'll probably start watching it regularly.
I was watching this at first, and enjoyed it. Then I just stopped. No good reason for that. Good show - I'll start catching Season Two whenever it starts.
Scrubs season 4. Best Buy had all the seasons on sale for 19.99 each and my wife and I bought three of them (Seasons 4, 5 and 6). Oh, and rob want's teh m@nc0ck!!!11!!!1!!!
Picked up Beowulf, The Darjeeling Limited and 30 Days of Night. Thought about the fifth Highlander (to rent) but I'm sure it'll be on cable months down the line.
The first time I saw it I thought it was ok then a couple years later I watched it again and caught everything. It gets better and better with each viewing.
My brother is watching the whole series on abc.com and he's enjoying it. Its one of those shows where its better on DVD. It gets hard remembering what happened to who and when after a while.
I enjoyed season one of LOST. Season 2 wasn't nearly as quality. Season 3 gets going again after a bit.
So far I have watched the first 12 episodes and my feelings are mixed. At first it annoyed me with some of the cliched US tv characters, but after a while certain characters stand out more than others (I like Charlie, Locke and Sawyer).
I love the intrigue on the island, but I do think the back stories/flashbacks tend to drag on longer than necessary (I think some of the footage has been added into the DVD release).
I'm hoping there is more of the present day stuff and less of the past as the series progresses!
I think those characters are the least cliched, and seem to have more depth. The others seem to fit generic criteria for shows like this.
I do like Sayid as well, just but I think its a risky move to have an Iraqi character in a US based show right now, and the fact they have used an Indian actor, just shows how little some people know about the difference between Indians and Iraqis etc.
I also find it strange that on a flight from Australia, there was only one Australian on the plane!
I do like Sayid as well, just but I think its a risky move to have an Iraqi character in a US based show right now, and the fact they have used an Indian actor, just shows how little some people know about the difference between Indians and Iraqis etc.
I know he is English by birth/nationality, but his family are Indian! He is in no way, shape or form an Iraqi or any other Arabic nationality! I have worked with enough Indians and Muslims to know they are nothing alike. Even the Pakistani muslims are different from Indians!
Saw that too, recently. I'm bummed that they made the sick people into superhumans. Weak sauce... but the rest of the movie was far superior to Omega Man. Fuck Charleton Heston!
Also watched Big Trouble in Little China and They Live and The Full Monty. All three were funny and dumb.
The Bourne Supremacy. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bugsy. Rear Window. and Ghandi
Now Ghandi was quite a surprise. I didn't expect it to be as inspiring as it was. Just goes to show. When you toss someone off a train for not being white, you just don't know who you may be fucking with.
The Bourne Supremacy. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bugsy. Rear Window. and Ghandi
Now Ghandi was quite a surprise. I didn't expect it to be as inspiring as it was. Just goes to show. When you toss someone off a train for not being white, you just don't know who you may be fucking with.
how'd that end up for ghandi?
I imagine he must have been quite the pussy magnet after the movie was released.
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
most people go by actor playing the Doctor and the year the show was made. Baker had the longest run (seven years) and has plenty of good and bad episodes. the height of his era is generally considered the period that Douglas Adams was the main writer. but even then, there are several episodes that weren't written by Adams that are good. some are watchable only due to Baker's performance.
there is a lot of the Adams/Baker Doctor in the Ford Prefect character from the Hitchiker's novels.
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
Show us your tits!
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
most people go by actor playing the Doctor and the year the show was made. Baker had the longest run (seven years) and has plenty of good and bad episodes. the height of his era is generally considered the period that Douglas Adams was the main writer. but even then, there are several episodes that weren't written by Adams that are good. some are watchable only due to Baker's performance.
there is a lot of the Adams/Baker Doctor in the Ford Prefect character from the Hitchiker's novels.
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
Show us your tits!
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
most people go by actor playing the Doctor and the year the show was made. Baker had the longest run (seven years) and has plenty of good and bad episodes. the height of his era is generally considered the period that Douglas Adams was the main writer. but even then, there are several episodes that weren't written by Adams that are good. some are watchable only due to Baker's performance.
there is a lot of the Adams/Baker Doctor in the Ford Prefect character from the Hitchiker's novels.
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
Show us your tits!
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
most people go by actor playing the Doctor and the year the show was made. Baker had the longest run (seven years) and has plenty of good and bad episodes. the height of his era is generally considered the period that Douglas Adams was the main writer. but even then, there are several episodes that weren't written by Adams that are good. some are watchable only due to Baker's performance.
there is a lot of the Adams/Baker Doctor in the Ford Prefect character from the Hitchiker's novels.
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
Show us your tits!
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
Originally Posted By: Grimm
Originally Posted By: harleykwin
One of these days I'm gonna have to netflix this show to see what all the fuss is about...
there's good who and there's bad who. forewarned.
How do I tell the difference?
most people go by actor playing the Doctor and the year the show was made. Baker had the longest run (seven years) and has plenty of good and bad episodes. the height of his era is generally considered the period that Douglas Adams was the main writer. but even then, there are several episodes that weren't written by Adams that are good. some are watchable only due to Baker's performance.
there is a lot of the Adams/Baker Doctor in the Ford Prefect character from the Hitchiker's novels.
You fail!
Boobs are not always the answer!
Nope, I'm pretty sure you are wrong there.
Just as a test, get em out and lets see if I am right!
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Tudors season 1 was just ok, which was suprising as Henry 8's reign is only second to his daughter's reign in being fascinating... plus it had the delicious Jonathan Rhys Meyers in it, but that still wasn't enough for me to love it.
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Next Thursday, I'm closing on my first home. In celebration of us getting a house together, my gal went out and bought me a 46" flatscreen LCD TV. Once I set up the home theater (sometime Friday, as we'll be painting and wallpapering all day Thursday after closing, and the leather sectional and entertainment unit come on Friday), I want to watch something that will take advantage of the wonders that the TV and home theater will provide. But what to watch?
I'm leaning towards my Japanese import of Grindhouse, particularly the actual theatrical release that isn't offered in the US. Or Shawn Of The Dead, as it's one of my favorite flicks and deserving of "first movie watched" status. Someone suggested Top Gun to take advantage of the upgraded picture and sound, but I don't own it. So what do all of you suggest? What movie deserves to be the first film watched on the new home theater?
Next Thursday, I'm closing on my first home. In celebration of us getting a house together, my gal went out and bought me a 46" flatscreen LCD TV. Once I set up the home theater (sometime Friday, as we'll be painting and wallpapering all day Thursday after closing, and the leather sectional and entertainment unit come on Friday), I want to watch something that will take advantage of the wonders that the TV and home theater will provide. But what to watch?
I'm leaning towards my Japanese import of Grindhouse, particularly the actual theatrical release that isn't offered in the US. Or Shawn Of The Dead, as it's one of my favorite flicks and deserving of "first movie watched" status. Someone suggested Top Gun to take advantage of the upgraded picture and sound, but I don't own it. So what do all of you suggest? What movie deserves to be the first film watched on the new home theater?
Thinking about it. If you aint a Star Wars fan, you at least need to go for some sort of big budget special effects movie. Something like T2, X-Men, Batman Begins, Transformers, Fifth Element or something similar.
Alternatively, something like Showgirls, with the sound turned off and a box of tissues!
Next Thursday, I'm closing on my first home. In celebration of us getting a house together, my gal went out and bought me a 46" flatscreen LCD TV. Once I set up the home theater (sometime Friday, as we'll be painting and wallpapering all day Thursday after closing, and the leather sectional and entertainment unit come on Friday), I want to watch something that will take advantage of the wonders that the TV and home theater will provide. But what to watch?
I'm leaning towards my Japanese import of Grindhouse, particularly the actual theatrical release that isn't offered in the US. Or Shawn Of The Dead, as it's one of my favorite flicks and deserving of "first movie watched" status. Someone suggested Top Gun to take advantage of the upgraded picture and sound, but I don't own it. So what do all of you suggest? What movie deserves to be the first film watched on the new home theater?
Nice! Now go Blu-Ray to take advantage of it all!
I'm not picking up Blu-Ray yet because, as happy as I am that the format wars are over and that high-def DVD players are backwards compatible, no one has released a Blue-Ray player that is all-region. I have way to many foreign DVDs to give up on my all region player. However, once a hack is available or an all-region Blu-Ray DVD player hits the market, I'll definitely be upgrading.
Thinking about it. If you aint a Star Wars fan, you at least need to go for some sort of big budget special effects movie. Something like T2, X-Men, Batman Begins, Transformers, Fifth Element or something similar.
Alternatively, something like Showgirls, with the sound turned off and a box of tissues!
I agree with your thoughts - better to go with the flick that's meant for Hi-Def picture and stereo sound (like a Star Wars or one of the blockbuster flicks) than something that's worth seeing early but doesn't need the technology to be enjoyed to the fullest.
As much as I like Elizabeth Berkeley's "body" of work, I'm more inclined to watch a muted Bound...Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly makes for some good watching! Or Original Sin, a shitty movie that features Angelina Jolie's deliciousness early enough in the flick that very little time needs to be invested.
Thinking about it. If you aint a Star Wars fan, you at least need to go for some sort of big budget special effects movie. Something like T2, X-Men, Batman Begins, Transformers, Fifth Element or something similar.
All excellent choices - I would add X2, 300 (because of the battle scenes) or either the first or last of the Die Hard movies to that list...
Oh, and Mazel Tov on your first home! Once you get over the nausea of handing over a check with all those zeroes you should be fine...
Thinking about it. If you aint a Star Wars fan, you at least need to go for some sort of big budget special effects movie. Something like T2, X-Men, Batman Begins, Transformers, Fifth Element or something similar.
All excellent choices - I would add X2, 300 (because of the battle scenes) or either the first or last of the Die Hard movies to that list...
Oh, and Mazel Tov on your first home! Once you get over the nausea of handing over a check with all those zeroes you should be fine...
It's funny. Every day that we were house hunting, up until I signed the initial offer sheet, I would get nauseous if anyone asked me about it. But after that sheet was signed and things started moving along (mortgage application, inspections, hunting for home insurance, etc), I was fine. No stomach aches. No headaches. I'm 6 days away from closing and the only thing I feel is eagerness to sign the final papers and anxiousness to get out of the apartment.
Thanks for the suggestions so far. Keep 'em coming!
As much as I like Elizabeth Berkeley's "body" of work, I'm more inclined to watch a muted Bound...Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly makes for some good watching! Or Original Sin, a shitty movie that features Angelina Jolie's deliciousness early enough in the flick that very little time needs to be invested.
There's been no trouble with it at all. I'm still reading reviews saying that the PS3 is still the best blu-ray player around. Since it has a hard drive you can always update to the lately software and the price is still lower than most plain blu-ray players.
(I really hope nowie doesn't see this and think I like him now.)
I checked with my buddy and the PS3 is NOT all-region (at least, as far as DVDs go). So I'll just keep waiting for the Film Geek Holy Grail: All-Region Blu-Ray DVD Player that is Backwards Compatible.
Thinking about it. If you aint a Star Wars fan, you at least need to go for some sort of big budget special effects movie. Something like T2, X-Men, Batman Begins, Transformers, Fifth Element or something similar.
All excellent choices - I would add X2, 300 (because of the battle scenes) or either the first or last of the Die Hard movies to that list...
Oh, and Mazel Tov on your first home! Once you get over the nausea of handing over a check with all those zeroes you should be fine...
It's funny. Every day that we were house hunting, up until I signed the initial offer sheet, I would get nauseous if anyone asked me about it. But after that sheet was signed and things started moving along (mortgage application, inspections, hunting for home insurance, etc), I was fine. No stomach aches. No headaches. I'm 6 days away from closing and the only thing I feel is eagerness to sign the final papers and anxiousness to get out of the apartment.
Both times I bought my apartments I was the same way - once the contract was signed I was totally fine. Wait until the day of your closing and you actually have to hand the checks with those big ass numbers over - your stomach will do at least one cartwheel.
But after that you can watch these movies in your new home on your new TV:
Braveheart (a chick flick with a couple of good beheadings!); Gladiator (like Braveheart, the fight scenes will look cool on your kick ass tv screen); and The Matrix (the first one as the others were teh suck.)
There's been no trouble with it at all. I'm still reading reviews saying that the PS3 is still the best blu-ray player around. Since it has a hard drive you can always update to the lately software and the price is still lower than most plain blu-ray players.
Yeah, the PS3 has already had an update to blu ray version 2, and as most people connect them to the net, it will allow you to use the extra features on the v2 blu ray discs. I must admit, I dont really care much for blu ray at this time based on price of discs, and dont really use it for DVDs, but I have never had the synching problem that the PS2 had.
I have heard though, that there are some stand alone multi region players surfacing already. I doubt they are very cheap though.
At this moment in time, I would say a DVD player with HDMI upscaling is more than adequate!
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(I really hope nowie doesn't see this and think I like him now.)
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Ok, so its not out yet, but given my work hours, it'll prolly be the next thing I do watch. I've seen clips of all 6 segments, and its the first time that anything anime has gotten my attention. I'm actually psyched to see this.
Bought and watched "When Worlds Collide" today. Produced by George Pal (War of the Worlds, Destination Moon) and based on a novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie (the latter creator of The Gladiator, which inspired the creation of Superman).
Pretty good, naive and a bit short by today´s standards.
I haven't had a chance to watch it - its still lying in a netflix envelope waiting for when I have a free hour or two - Its del Toro, so I can't imgine it will be anything but good... I'll let you know when I've had a moment to watch it...
It was a fairly decent movie, but could have been stronger considering the talent on hand. My biggest gripe is that most of the characters lacked any real "character" as such. Only one of the "Outlaws" showed any degree of being defined, and he is the most dislikable of them all. The others, including Bean and Dyer, just seemed to be fairly bland.
The story is vastly different to an American vigilante flick as there is some serious moral ambiguity to pretty much everything that happens in the movie, with you constantly asking yourself if there are any actual "good guys" in this film.
Overall though, its enjoyable, but should have been more than this!
and the Man With No Name four-set Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Hang 'Em High.
Is that some kind of boxset? If so, why the fuck is Hang em high in it? The first three are all Sergio Leone, spaghetti westerns, and Hang em high is not!
As much as I like Hang em high, the Man with no name set was a trilogy, and that is not one of em!
One of the best Bond films ever. I should never have doubted Daniel Craig as Bond because he may be the best one yet. I loved the origin story. I like how he was just trying to figure out what drink to order. Great action and mystery. I didn't see the twist at the end......I knew she was going to die but I didn't think she was bad. And lastly it goes to show you that you really should let the director make the movie he wants with the actors he wants and wait to see the final product before you say the movie will suck. I was wrong about Craig as Bond and Bale as Batman.
and the Man With No Name four-set Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Hang 'Em High.
Is that some kind of boxset? If so, why the fuck is Hang em high in it? The first three are all Sergio Leone, spaghetti westerns, and Hang em high is not!
As much as I like Hang em high, the Man with no name set was a trilogy, and that is not one of em!
No, it was a Target thing. $12 for a DVD with two movies on it. There were two Clint Eastwood ones. I've seen Hang 'Em High, but not the others. I read the descriptions for the others and they blah blah Man With No Name, so I made an assumption.
and the Man With No Name four-set Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Hang 'Em High.
Is that some kind of boxset? If so, why the fuck is Hang em high in it? The first three are all Sergio Leone, spaghetti westerns, and Hang em high is not!
As much as I like Hang em high, the Man with no name set was a trilogy, and that is not one of em!
Had Bronson not turned down the role for A Fistfull of Dollars, it would have been a fourogy ( ) with Once Upon A Time In the West as the last of the series.
Originally Posted By: The New Adventures of Old PJP
I saw Casino Royale yesterday.....few things....
One of the best Bond films ever. I should never have doubted Daniel Craig as Bond because he may be the best one yet. I loved the origin story. I like how he was just trying to figure out what drink to order. Great action and mystery. I didn't see the twist at the end......I knew she was going to die but I didn't think she was bad. And lastly it goes to show you that you really should let the director make the movie he wants with the actors he wants and wait to see the final product before you say the movie will suck. I was wrong about Craig as Bond and Bale as Batman.
An early birthday present from the wife. Really great in Hi-Def and the Blu-Ray has the opening bank robbery from The Dark Knight. Really fuckin' cool!
Originally Posted By: The New Adventures of Old PJP
Originally Posted By: Joe Mama
That was on cable last night. Pretty funny flick.
that's where i saw it too last night. Then watched Casino Royale again which was on cable as well.
Nowie....why did you think Casino Royale was not a good Bond film? It was an origin story.
It just did not feel like a Bond film. You coulda changed the name of the main character, and it would not have made a difference to the film. Most of the essence of what has been part of the Bond movies for decades, was completely missing.
I grew up with Bond, and have been a fan since I was old enough to remember, and this to me just doesnt sit well with the others.
I've read it's controversial; some say it's crap while for some it's cult. I don't expect anything from it apart from being a decent turkey. (At least it has music by Sting and Max von Sydow has a part.)
BTW, I haven't read the DUNE books yet but I own most of Frank Herbert's and some of the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson novels. The rest I can get at the library.
How was "The Brave One?" I heard it was terrible, but I thought it looked interesting.
well there was this guy that committed fake internet suicide by pretending to be his brother, but overall the rest of his story was a complete waste of time.
Hill Street Blues, just finished season 1, gonna watch 2 then go my parents and raid my dad's video collection for the rest! I wish they'd bring them out on DVD dammit!
I just watched Hulk for the first time yesterday. Pretty cool movie: I had no idea William Hurt played Ross! And they even threw in an Altered States reference!
I watched kung fu panda until I got sick of jack black saying how awesome he was.
I made it five minutes.
I really, really hate Jack Black. Though, I did watch "Kung-Fu Panda" with some friends. Wasn't a bad movie; by no means what I'd usually watch. But what the hell, I was half-asleep anyway. Though, on a side note, learning that Dustin Hoffman provided the voice of the old guy was a bit of a surprise.
The film's about an ex-monk who can see people's karma along with his or her past life, and a perky young CID agent who was a sadistic japanese soldier in her past life.
It starts out as a typical HK commercial flick, with cute popstar leads, fight scenes from people who are obviously not martial artists and run of the mill rom-com antics, with the obligatory scene hinting that everything will be alright and they may just get away with a moral lesson and another poppy love song..
Then it gets weird as the film seems to shift to a darker, depressing, and confusing tone. It has one of those crappy endings that you need to interpret on your own (basically, it doesn't make much sense).
The movie is really worthless if you just want a good plot and a moral lesson, but the shift in tone and mood is interesting, with the bubblegum romance aura of the film's beginning contrasting greatly with the gory, violent ending. Spoiler alert: there is a happy ending but the lead female ends up beaten to death in front of a videocamera, her head bashed in with a huge boulder, then cut off and hung on a tree. It was shown in one of those blairwitch-type camera shots, which makes things look disturbing.
Grindhouse Releasing puts together a great package for their DVDs. The previews alone have given me a decent-sized list of DVDs to buy, and the bonus features (and Easter eggs) are great.
Four flicks by director Pete Walker.
I've been in a horror/exploitation mood for the last few months.
Not sure what to think about this flick. I love the original, and I can't stop laughing that the Asian ballplayer from Major League 2 is in this flick.
I wanted to pick both up but couldn't find Shaolin Soccer. Nowie, you own too many fucking movies. You can store some at my house if you don't have space.
Justice League Unlimited Volume 2. I just watched the ep where Flash and Luthor switch brains. Clancy Brown was AWESOME as Flash pretending to be Luthor.
While leaving the Legion of Doom restroom Dr. Polaris: Aren't you going to wash your hands? Lex Luthor: No. 'Cause I'm EVIL.
Cause it was £2 and I have never seen it before. You must have watched it to find out what its like at some point as well.....unless your name is Pariah that is!
I watched the first one and was subjected to part of the second one against my will. They're... They're... I used to like Mr. Bean, man. I'll never laugh again.
of course, now that I've brought them down so much you're gonna love it. Also because you're a poof.
The first movie was horrible as Atkinson only 'acted' as Mr. Bean and didn't do anything else. An American writer just sewed together a bunch of Mr. Bean sketches with a cliché plot to try and make a quick buck at the Box Office. Haven't seen the second one.
I watched the first one and was subjected to part of the second one against my will. They're... They're... I used to like Mr. Bean, man. I'll never laugh again.
of course, now that I've brought them down so much you're gonna love it. Also because you're a poof.
But what I am saying Mr Mxypoopoodick, is that you should realise that if I judged it before watching it, then I would be no better than your boyfriend, Pariah!
I think in this case it would be fair to declare that it's most likely crap based on how much the first one stank, and the fact that the trailers and shit made no effort to distance the sequel from the original. You can't tell for sure unless you've seen it, obviously, but still. If someone paid me to watch that movie I'd probably take the money, kick them in the chin, and run away.
Finally gave in and bought it for £3 to give it another try
Been against buying this one for a while because the last lot of parody movies have been pretty lame (last decent one was Not another teen movie), but some friends told me it was great........they lied!
Just watched "Zach and Miri Make A Porno".Pretty funny.Lots of use of the word "fuck"....it is a Kevin Smith film after all.Some titties,a full frontal shot,some actual fucking and Jason Mewe's penis.....yeah.At any rate,for a non-Jay & Silent Bob movie,it was a Jay & Silent Bob movie minus Silent Bob.Mewes' character Lester was just this side of Jay and without long hair.Jeff Anderson was also in it being very Randall-esque.I enjoyed it.All in all a good flick.
Damn good movie. What the fuck happened to Ernest 'the Cat' Miller? The only cat he looks like now is Garfield. Did he eat one of the midget wrestlers?
Also damned good. Just bought it last night and am already lending it out to friends as a must see.
For a long time G-girl #1 had the worst taste in movies: Bring it On, Coyote Ugly, Crossroads (the Britney Spears film, not the Walter Hill blues movie)....even Glitter.
I was told by someone that it was a decent flick, but I didnt believe them. That was years ago, but saw it for a few quid and thought I'd give it a go.
Well they are sposed to be Piper Perabos, but I think its a body double! Not upset either way, as tits are tits, and Piper got hers out in Lost and delrious, which involved lesbian sex with Jessica Pare!
Not as good as Life On Mars, but still pretty durned good.
Flawed, but still good. Glad I saw it.
Fun little slasher flick. Nice gore, and the killer's look was cool as hell. If you rent/buy/Netflix it, check out the deleted scenes - there's a funny little gem that Blade Runner fans will appreciate.
Last night I watched Boys Don't Cry. I remember it coming out when I was in, like... jr.high. something like that. I remember the commercials. I was interested to see it, but I was afraid I'd be labeling myself gay if I did... this was around the same time Mom had us stop watching The Ellen Show 'cause she came out as gay. Anyway, so with NetFlix, I finally watched it.
OMG. The movie was... respectful and horrifying and well filmed and really put you THERE (i.e. the rape scenes were *entirely* devoid of any eroticism, something that irritates me when otherwise...) and was like a stab in the soul, over and over. It reminded me of myself, my friends, people I've met briefly... it was like watching American History X only with more personal application to my life.
And it really happened. And that makes my gut churn.
It is a good movie. You know what else I like? America's Sweethearts. Yeah. That's right. The one with Cusack and Catherina Zeta Jones. I said it, bitch. Wanna make something of it?
Just saw George Pal's Destination Moon yesterday for the first time...Gads, what a frickin' letdown. Even making allowances for the fact that '50s moviemakers didn't have the advantage of being able to work with CGI or Industrial Light & Magic, this movie stunk to high heaven. If it hadn't been for the Woody Woodpecker cartoon at the ten-minute mark explaining the basics of rocket propulsion, I would have written Moon off as a total failure.
The Last Boy Scout - A co-worker loaned this to me. I'd never seen it before. I regret not watching it sooner. Perfect example of why I love 90s movies.
I didn't know too much about this band before I watched this but to me they seem like a band with talent but absolutely no brains. Its both hilarious and depressing watching them fuck up every good opportunity they've gotten over the last 20 years.
The best part of the documentary was when a guy said he would be their manager and make them popular again and they don't ever do anything about it. This whole this has a snarfian vibe to it.
Annoyingly, its not the directors cut, so I am pretty pissed off. Will probably put this up for sale and import a copy.
Warners are wankers!
I was disappointed with the directors cut. Alot of what they cut out is crap. Some shit was added in that had to do with Curse of the Black Freighter but COTBF isn't edited into the film.
The murder of Hollis Mason was fucking awesome though.
There's a version with 20 extra minutes going around the torrent sites. That's not the director's cut. The Director's cut comes out at the end of the month and it has 40 extra minutes, I believe.
There's a version with 20 extra minutes going around the torrent sites. That's not the director's cut. The Director's cut comes out at the end of the month and it has 40 extra minutes, I believe.
Ohh, I thought the one called "Director's Cut" would be the one the Director has been telling people to wait for, but apparently that's called "Ultimate Collector's Edition" and comes out in December:
Originally Posted By: Wikipedia
In December, 2009, an "Ultimate Collector's Edition" will be released. The five-disc set will include the director's cut of the film with Tales of the Black Freighter woven in, new commentaries by Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons, the complete Watchmen Motion Comics, and over 2 hours of bonus content including Under the Hood, which was previously released on the Tales of the Black Freighter DVD.
I'm waiting for that one to come out to watch the thing again. No way I'm seeing this movie three times in a year.
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vantage point A shitty movie that is made worse by a shitty gimmick that tried to make a political statement. I'm hoping the recession will make it harder for movies like this to be made.
Probably the funniest damn thing Murphy's ever done.
26 years later, and its still as funny as ever. Yeah some of the material is dated (stuff like the naivity over AIDS), but the humour itself is still fucking hilarious, and even funnier as its before all the PC bullshit got its claws into comedians.
Raw isnt quite as funny, but I see it more as an extension of Delirious rather than a sequel or whatever. It certainly has moments that are equal to Delirious though.
My brother had a bootleg of the album Comedian, which was pulled from this film. We'd listen to that shit constantly. When I started working in high school, a lot of the managers were my brother's friends who also listened to it over and over. We'd walk around the store quoting it to each other out of the blue, totally confusing everyone else who worked there. It got to the point that all we had to do was whistle the Old Spice tune to crack each other up.
The two comedy albums they made out of Delirious were among the first ones I ever bought for myself. My friends, brother, and I memorized those bits. They saved me many times from getting yelled at by my mom (it's hard to reprimand your kid for not cleaning his room when your laughing at his rendition of "The Barbecue" and "Shoe-Throwing Mothers"). That stand-up is among my favorites of all time.
This past Halloween, my wife and I had a couple friends over to watch Amityville Horror and Poltergeist, as my wife had never seen them before. Halfway through Amityville, I was doing Murphy's bit about "why don't white people leave the house?" As my wife had never seen Delirious, we watched that in between the two horror films. Needless to say, we were all cracking up at the concert (no real surprise that it still holds up). Now my wife quotes Delirious almost as much as I still do.
Bout 14 or 15 years ago, a bunch of us at work used to watch the VHS all the time, and I dont think a day went by where someone didnt quote something from this. As doc says, anyone who hadnt seen it used to wonder what the fuck we were all going on about. Of course, any of them that had the same sorta humour as us would then go and buy/hire/borrow it and then join in with all the quoting.
Robocop is and will always be awesome. Especially the director's cut.
I watched the Criterion Collection DVD. It was an extended directors cut or something.
All the brutal killing edited back in.
Awesome.
I have a feeling that since its been on DVD, the directors cut has always been available. I bought an early(ish) set that came out in 2002, with all three films in it, but it includes the theatrical and directors cut of the first one.
Yeah, there were some good concepts and the lead actor was a talented guy.
But the story had a few serious structural weaknesses (and petered out at the end) and some of the supporting performances verged on anti-semitism/self-loathing judaism.
In addition, how many more movies do we need about 50s-60s suburbia hiding a dark underbelly?
Series one is probably the weakest as they were finding their feet. Edmund was a sniveling wretch in that one, but everything after that he was a true bastard. Still cowardly, but in a much cooler way.
Series 2 is the best by a long shot, and essential viewing.
I wasnt overly impressed with series 3 initially, but it has certainly grown on me over time to the point that I really like it. I think its cause it just had so much to live up to following the classic that was series 2.
Series 4 was great. While still not as good as series 2, it was certainly a lot more instant than series 3.
The two one offs (Back and forth and Christmas carol are ok, but not essential viewing.
Which was always one of the never explained elements of the show. How did all the characters have descendants when they never had children and died young.
Obviously its not the sort of show where you worry about stuff like that, but its still something interesting in the scheme of things. I mean, does this mean Snarf will have descendants?
Snarf has been considering buying a chimp so that he can rape it, and finally feel what it is like to have the sex with a living thing. Perhaps their genetic material is similar enough for them to reproduce. I wouldn't be shocked.
Chimps have hair. Chimps fuck. Chimps are popular with everyone. Chimps dont have piss poor taste in shirts. Chimps would never be sacked from GameStop. Chimps would win writers digest competitions. Chimps are funny. Chimps arent fat.
Which was always one of the never explained elements of the show. How did all the characters have descendants when they never had children and died young.
Obviously its not the sort of show where you worry about stuff like that, but its still something interesting in the scheme of things. I mean, does this mean Snarf will have descendants?
I have pondered that from time to time, but it doesn't ruin my enjoyment of the show.
Was just experimenting to see if my PS3 can play VOB files from the external drive (which it can), so I decided to rip this one as aint watched it in ages. Great film.
Watched this on Saturday.I liked it.Some cameos by Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher,William Shatner...also Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes.Wasn't overly funny but had a toned-down Clerks vibe too it.So....kinda cool.
See I really liked it up until the end, and then it kinda seemed a bit cut short. We didnt really see the end for Brolin. McDonald may or may not have been killed. And what was the point of the crash with Bardam?
Plus, when Bardam leaves he checks his boots. Which I'm guessing was for blood.
The car accident did seem kind of pointless. It probably had something to do with the scene earlier when Brolin buys that coat and beer from the guys on the bridge.
It just annoyed me that so much of the key stuff ended up as off camera. Brolin went through hell and back, and ends up with an almost throw away ending.
With McDonald, I just hated the ambiguity of it. Yeah, it seemed like he killed her, but you never know for sure.
I dont really see what the car crash would have to do with the coat and beer.
I also wasnt overly impressed with the way it played out with Tommy Lee Jones either.
The film was going great guns, setting up for what seemed like a big finale, and just seemed to end with little or no pay off.
While it was great to not have a cliched 'good guy' style ending, I do think it could have been a lot more clear, rather than the damp squib ending that we got.
I think the ending was supposed to show how pointless the whole struggle was. In the end, neither man got what he wanted and a shitload of death was left in their wake. They were both left running, trying to keep from getting caught.
Killed while running. And not even killed by Bardam.
Yes, but not left running. And as for Bardams character, he was a killer so it was just his status quo, not pointless for him as thats exactly how he lives his life. To him everything is pretty much black and white, you live or die, and he just sees himself as being part of the process.
Brolin was a family man (or sorts) who saw the money as a get rich quick scheme, and got involved in something he was not used to. He was taking a risk and it didnt pay off. His death was actually not pointless as it was all part of a gamble for him, what was pointless was that after concentrating the film on him, his death was then treated as less important somehow than Harrelsons on the guy from Dodgeball.
I think that ending is a very good commercial strategy: whenever the film is on I watch it again to see if I catch something new. Meanwhile, I just saw Iron Man for the second time recently and it's very good, but I'm done with the movie.
Yeah?Huh...I found it entertaining and decent enough.I thought "The DaVinci Code" was better but overall I could watch it again at some point.It's on Netflix's "Watch Instantly" if you wanna check it out without getting it.
i just instaflixed angels and demons. didn't care for it. i really liked the first film, this one just seemed a bit tame, if not forced, in comparison.
I loved it! I didn't see it at the cinema because I thought "I've seen Payback, I'm not gonna pay to see it again", but it's actually a very different sort of movie, and in my opion a much better one. That poster is shit by the way.
See, I watched Taken recently and that was another reason I didn't go see this at the cinema. I mean, it was good, but I didn't feel like sitting through the same type of story again.
The truth is, they aren't even close. This is based on an old BBC serial and it's very offbeat.
Quote:
“I am writing this story about a detective who turns into a tree” was what writer Troy Kennedy Martin told his colleagues when asked what he was working on during the early nineteen-eighties.
Been Netflixing like mad lately. Love the streaming. I've watched hours of it the past week.
The last three are from a production company called The Asylum. Good, old school B-movies with cheap CGI, weak acting, and crazy scripts. Their plan seems to be to copy whatever a major studio is doing by finding public domain works that are either the same or mirror the big films. The Sherlock Holmes one is probably their best.
What's your problem with that company? Not enough Japanese pedophilia movies for you?
If a major studio ever released a Japanese pedophilia movie with even the barest whiff of horror or sci-fi, Asylum would rip it off and you'd declare its brilliance. SyFy movies shit on Asylum's output. Of course, you probably love those turdburgers, too, ya mook!
Seriously, though, as I said before, I've begun to realize that these films, SyFy's and Asylum's, are the same as the old Drive-in B movies of years gone by. They're not meant to be art but just cheap, quick to produce, commercial films. Some are better than others. I find that Asylum's tend to be less exploitation and more just base fun.
I get it. It's a live action anime. Not bad, really. I think they paced the movie well by using the flashbacks to keep the film from overdoing the 'on the run from the mob' bit as most films of this kind do. A little too CGI dependent, though. The most interesting fight scene was in the chick's apartment with her flashlight as the only illumination and the two ninja's disappearing and reappearing. Could have done more with that. I also like how the ninja's are given supernatural powers and actually meld into the shadows instead of hide in them.
My brother loves all of his movies, even the recent straight to DVD ones, but I have tended to avoid them because I dont want them to tarnish the early ones. As I said before, they are dumb fun, but they have a certain charm that could be tainted. Its the same with pretty much all those straight to DVD guys like Ludgren, Snipes & Van Damme etc.
I think the most recent Seagal movies I have seen were Exit Wounds (which I liked) and the one with Kurt Russell, where he dies in the opening scene (Executive decision?).
Netflix streamed That Mitchell and Webb Look because of NWM's posts here. Overall, I liked it. Some of the stuff was kinda meh, but that was few and far between. Numberwang got annoying until the German version, then it got boring again. My favorite skits were the Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Ceaser and the Snooker announcers. Going to see if there are anymore available for Instant View.
As annoying as Numberwang was, I do think I'm going to start randomly exclaiming, "That's Numberwang!" in conversations to people.
In the third series (I think it was), they stop with the normal numberwang sketches, and replace them with things like the history of numberwang and The Numberwang Code, a parody of the Da Vinci Code.
As annoying as Numberwang was, I do think I'm going to start randomly exclaiming, "That's Numberwang!" in conversations to people.
In the third series (I think it was), they stop with the normal numberwang sketches, and replace them with things like the history of numberwang and The Numberwang Code, a parody of the Da Vinci Code.
Numberwang is a great thing to randomly shout.
I found bits and pieces funny (like the rotating of the board bit). The overall sketch was just kinda useless. It wasn't until they did the German version that I found it really funny. I guess that's just because I find anything done for English speaking audiences totally in another language to be funny for some reason.
The main joke in Numberwang is the pay off, with how the woman always loses. The only time she won, the prize was that she was killed, so in essence she still lost.
Lebrock was great when she showed her muff in The Woman In Red. I really dont remember anything else from that film.
HAH!
We had to wait all the way to the end to see it!
I remember watching that film with my Mum when I was 10! Next day at school, half the kids had watched it with their Mothers!
What's really funny was when it was first shown on UK TV, films were usally heavilly edited - nudity, swearing, scenes just for the fun of it*, Silly cunts must have missed this full frontal!
They probably thought there would be no nudity in a Gene Wilder vehicle! Wilder being in 2 of my all time favourite films, Willy Wonka & The World's Greatest Lover! I remember buying the worlds greatest lover in the US, the girl who sold it to me, wanted to make sure if I wanted to get this film because it was so old.....
*I hated a lot of films because I first saw them on TV, whilst I knew they were edited, I didn't realise how much/badly! The Man who fell to Earth is one such film!
Thanks to cable I watched Porky's 2 with my little brother when I was like 10, and it aired at 6 PM. Also Life of Brian, even though it was supposed to be banned in my country at the time.
Thanks to cable I watched Porky's 2 with my little brother when I was like 10, and it aired at 6 PM. Also Life of Brian, even though it was supposed to be banned in my country at the time.
We actually got shown the film Walkabout at school.
I was just about to mention this film!
The amount of times they've shown that film uncut on a Sunday afternoon!
There isnt a man our age that doesnt remember Jenny Agutter as our first nudey girl. What made her even saucier is that we all remember her from the Railway children.
There isnt a man our age that doesnt remember Jenny Agutter as our first nudey girl. What made her even saucier is that we all remember her from the Railway children.
As its was the last ever episode of Ashes to ashes tonight, I decided to watch the first series again this week. As I finished it yesterday, and dont own the second series yet, I also decided to start watching both series of Life on Mars today.
Have to say that the finale to Ashes to ashes was superb, and I only saw small parts of this coming, so there was a lot of surprises at the end.
I know Joe is into it, but really think that the likes of Jaburg and Pro should try to seek this one out.
As its was the last ever episode of Ashes to ashes tonight, I decided to watch the first series again this week. As I finished it yesterday, and dont own the second series yet, I also decided to start watching both series of Life on Mars today.
Have to say that the finale to Ashes to ashes was superb, and I only saw small parts of this coming, so there was a lot of surprises at the end.
I know Joe is into it, but really think that the likes of Jaburg and Pro should try to seek this one out.
I never got into any of this!
I do love Gene Hunt but fucking hate John Sim!
I will try again!
I can't believe the US attempt failed with Keitel involved!
Just watched Black Dynamite. Holy Jesus! This is one of the funniest fucking movies I've seen in years. My friend almost fell off the couch he was laughing so hard.
I remember alot people expecting a political comedy, but in true Matt and Trey style instead they used the White House as the backdrop for a commentary about the sitcom itself.
If you never saw it and have Netflix streaming you may want to give it a chance.
And if you were a fan this gives you a chance to see the series again commercial free.
I'm guessing from the looks of things Netflix has struck a deal with Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
I've seen partial lists of the things they've added recently. Lots of Comedy Central shows and stand up specials. Patton Oswalds "No Reason To Complain" is also up. I think that might be his greatest stand up special ever.
The State is up as well. Now I can see what all the hype is about.
Just watched Black Dynamite. Holy Jesus! This is one of the funniest fucking movies I've seen in years. My friend almost fell off the couch he was laughing so hard.
This is a pretty shitty trailer. It makes the movie look like a "Hogan's Heroes" style comedy when a lot of the movie is pretty serious drama (with a few comedic overtones) about a spy in a POW camp and the efforts of the prisoner's to root him out.
Trailer aside, still one of the best war movies ever made.
Ward and Grey were great. But the budget and effects on that movie would have embarrassed the producers of the 1970s Spiderman series.
Had it had a bigger budget, we may just of seen at least one sequel. I remember it being promoted very well. Mostly using the footage at the Statue of Liberty.
Nowhereman, in the same vein as "Falling Down"... well. Sort of... Have you ever seen "He Was A Quiet Man" with Christian Slater, William H. Macy and Elisha Cuthbert? It's basically the the illegitimate child of "Fight Club" and "Office Space."
Dont worry, I will sort it out for you soon. Seeing as I got laid off again (the wankers) last week, I thought I would treat myself to a couple of cheap bits n pieces with the last pay cheque.
Dont worry, I will sort it out for you soon. Seeing as I got laid off again (the wankers) last week, I thought I would treat myself to a couple of cheap bits n pieces with the last pay cheque.
I actually watched the whole series (and limited bonus features) in one sitting. Its been over a year since I last saw that series, and I forgot so much of it. Not the main stories or anything, but the jokes and smaller things.
Just watched Black Dynamite. Holy Jesus! This is one of the funniest fucking movies I've seen in years. My friend almost fell off the couch he was laughing so hard.
I've seen it a bunch of times and never caught the phone conversation Marge has towards the end of the film where she finds out Mike Yanagita, the high school friend she meets up with was completely full of shit and has a history of mental problems.
I didn't think anyone outside of the Uk would enjoy this!
I think it's pretty hit & miss!
Have you ever seen the Mighty Boosh?
I like the IT Crowd. A lot of it makes sense if you've worked in an office. Like the Friendface episode where they're all in the same office communicating online. I've seen that at my own work. Some of the British culture specific stuff I don't get. But that stuff is limited to naming of specific people who are famous over there and not here. Overall, I think the show is very accessible to Americans. We may not be into football(aka soccer) over here, but that episode where they pretended to be football hooligans translates well to sports fans here in the US. The one where they went to the theater is my absolute favorite.
I've seen some of the Mighty Boosh. It's hit or miss with me. The one where they're stuck on the island with the coconut people is funny as hell to me. Others just seem to be weird for weird's sake.
I didn't think anyone outside of the Uk would enjoy this!
I think it's pretty hit & miss!
Have you ever seen the Mighty Boosh?
I like the IT Crowd. A lot of it makes sense if you've worked in an office. Like the Friendface episode where they're all in the same office communicating online. I've seen that at my own work. Some of the British culture specific stuff I don't get. But that stuff is limited to naming of specific people who are famous over there and not here. Overall, I think the show is very accessible to Americans. We may not be into football(aka soccer) over here, but that episode where they pretended to be football hooligans translates well to sports fans here in the US. The one where they went to the theater is my absolute favorite.
I've seen some of the Mighty Boosh. It's hit or miss with me. The one where they're stuck on the island with the coconut people is funny as hell to me. Others just seem to be weird for weird's sake.
Cool!
With the IT Crowd, I feel they always have enough material for half the season, the rest is winged.
What about the Old Greg episode of Mighty Boosh?
The Coconut(Milky Joe) episode is one of the best.
Mighty Boosh works better if you're familiar with the style of the show. I saw bits of the Old Greg episode and the coconut one in Youtube cause people kept linking to them and I didn't get what the fuss was about. Then I saw a random episode on TV and loved it. By the time I got to the Old Greg episode I was pissing myself laughing.
Haven't seen the Old Greg episode. I might just need to see if they have them streaming on Netflix and give them another shot. I do like a lot of what is coming out of this generation of British comedians though. Look Around You is pretty funny. I think the utterly dry presentation of it only helps to elevate the humor. Gareth Marengehi's Dark Place was funny as hell also. The Mitchell and Webb stuff is fucking brilliant.
What I like about the IT Crowd is that it builds on jokes and just keeps topping itself as the show goes on. Also, a lot of the humor is just about regular social stuff that isn't British specific. Like Jen having to smoke outside, the dinner party, or Roy acting like a bastard to get a date.
I had seen it before, in bits and pieces on TV, just never sat an watched the entire thing.
Alot of talent in that movie, and none of it really went to waste.
It from the good ol days when Al Pacino would act as anything other than Al Pacino.
I really enjoyed it.
I also rewatched Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It was really only the second time I had seen it.
It was different than I thought it could be. It certainly was what it said it was the movie version of Star Trek TOS. Which had many many moments of gayness.
In the end Star Trek was about finding strange new life, and having sex with it.
Holy shit, this movie is funny as fuck. If you're a fan of Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) you've got to see this. If not, you might want to skip it.
The trouble with these hollywood actors is that they eventually become so recognizable in real life that it overshadows the characters they play if the story didn't give them a chance to perform really well.
I mean, I doubt anybody could watch Salt and not feel that it's just Angelina Jolie playing someone else.
Watched this last night. It's actually pretty damned good. Written and directed by the same guy who did the 'Batman: Dead End' and 'World's Finest' shorts. A couple of plot holes at the end, but still a cool movie.
Good, ole fashioned AIP fun with Vincent Price.
Ah, 80's TV. Where everywhere in the world looks like southern California.
Forgot who recommended it to me but I started watching How I met Your mother. I'm in season two and I'm enjoying it so far other than the crappy typical sitcom romances. The actors in this are what make it good.
Forgot who recommended it to me but I started watching How I met Your mother. I'm in season two and I'm enjoying it so far other than the crappy typical sitcom romances. The actors in this are what make it good.
A highly fictionalized biopic of the man who trained Bruce Lee in Kung Fu.
The sequel just as highly fictionalized. Especially considering that the same kid plays his son in this movie as the first, even though the events take place about a decade apart with only two years between the actual films themselves.
It popped up on my Instant Que last night (it was way down on my mailing list). Good fight scenes. Samo Hung is in a supportive role in this one. It pretty much copies the basic structure of the first movie with Ip Man defending the honor of China and Kung Fu.
Saw that recently as well. I need to pick up the Blu-Ray of it.
That street that Conan made the "no one lives in this town" joke is usually really busy. I was going to hang out there on that day but it was freakishly cold and windy on that day. If I would have known they would have been shooting this movie I would have risked it.
I haven't been this sucked into a show since The Shield. I just finished the first season and if they keep up the quality for the other four seasons it will easily be one of my all time favorite shows.
Just finished watching the first four seasons of Mad Men. Damn, it's a really well done show. I like the fact that they'll surprise out from out of no where with some crazy shit. Very good cast, even the little girl who plays Sally Draper is good. Cosgrove is one of my favorite characters of the show. I'm glad they dumped Paul Kinsey. He was just a douche. John Slattery is an amusing motherfucker. I'm also glad to see that Dewey Hogg was able to make something of himself.
I'm thinking of re-watching them again soon. The new season starts in March and I'm already forgetting things that have happened.
I finished Friday Night Lights. I didn't care for the last two seasons. They should have just ended everything with the original cast and not have bothered with the new school. I have no interest is the new movie.
I also started watching Breaking Bad. I wish I would have gotten into it earlier. I already knew just about everything that happened in the first season. I'm hoping there some twists I don't know about.
Uzumaki, it was stupid and crappy, which is a shame because the comic it was based on was awesome in an H.P. Lovecraft sort of way.
I loved Uzumaki.
That said, I love that Sushi Typhoon is taking Japanese horror the opposite way from the "creepy girl with hair over face" school with flicks like Tokyo Gore Police, Helldriver, Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, Alien vs Ninja, and the like.
I loved the story (it works as a summary of the first half of the comic), but the technical aspects were awkward. It's like they weren't sure if it's going to be comedic, stylistic, or whatevs. The comic was plain creepy and had more disturbing moments, like the survivors eating the snail people raw, with one of them actually sticking his body inside the shell just to eat the face of his former friend (the ending was also more confusing, the curse was put by aliens?!).
Just starting BBC Home Video's DVD set of the sci-fi series "Survivors". It's a post-apocalyptic drama in which the proverbial killer virus has wiped out 99% of the human race and the remaining 1% are trying to hold what's left of civilization together.
Just finished watching the Jurassic Park trilogy box set.They're still some pretty cool movies to watch.....even the third one.I picked up Family Guy vol.9 and 14th Season Simpsons for $15 on sale at Target so I'll watch those this weekend.
Damn amusing horror/comedy that plays with the conventions. The college kids are the ones terrorizing the hillbillies.
I was pleasantly surprised by that flick, particularly by just how gory it was.
Really? I didn't find it gory at all. Yeah, there was a ton of fake blood in it; but the gore wasn't anything over standard action movie fair. Even the dude they pried out of the wood chipper was really just a red stump. Even the deformed faces were most just blood to cover everything up.
Damn amusing horror/comedy that plays with the conventions. The college kids are the ones terrorizing the hillbillies.
I was pleasantly surprised by that flick, particularly by just how gory it was.
Really? I didn't find it gory at all. Yeah, there was a ton of fake blood in it; but the gore wasn't anything over standard action movie fair. Even the dude they pried out of the wood chipper was really just a red stump. Even the deformed faces were most just blood to cover everything up.
Just finished watching 'The Captains'. Avery Brooks is the best fucking actor in the world if that's who he is in real life.
caught this on netflix and yeah...that dude is fucking crazy. Good piano player though.
I'M SO GLAD someone else has seen him in this! WTF is he on?!?!? I'm telling you, he's either shroomin', dropped acid, or is smoking peyote. Motherfucker was fucked UP in that.
Also, it could be he wanted the money to do the interview, but hates Shatner and wasn't prepared to talk about himself, personally. A decent tactic, if so...
You know when they announced this, I didn't think that it was going to work. But after watching I have to say, that, yes, I was right. It doesn't work. They spent too much time firmly linking it into the Damon movies while trying to up it with a sci-fi plot twist to make Renner's spy more kick ass than Damon's. But some of it felt like rehash and none of the scenes/stunts top or even match what came before.
I've been having a Sci-Fi marathon over the last couple of days.
Started with Alien Nation--which I will remind myself from now on never to watch again. I keep forgetting how much it ruined the original film with its preachy bullshit.
Right now, I've been switching between DS9 and Voyager. After that, it'll be Enterprise.
All of them can be a tad pretentious, but not as much as TNG, which I'm skipping entirely.
As badly written as much of Voyager is, I always felt it was the superior concept. I just like the "Lost in Space" feel even if a lot of the stories are crap. That's especially why I enjoyed the third season of Enterprise.
It's been a long time since I watched DS9, so I've forgotten a great deal, but thus far, it definitely has much better writing than TNG. My only huge problem with it is that Benjamin Sisko has an irritating tendency to speak out both ends of his mouth on every issue--especially when it came to the 'religion in school' episode at the end of season one. And Dax is consistently annoying too.
As usual, however, the engineer, O'Brien is the most charismatic of the cast. But Quark is a lot cooler than I remember him being.
All in all, not enough Federation-bashing for my taste thus far.
As badly written as much of Voyager is, I always felt it was the superior concept. I just like the "Lost in Space" feel even if a lot of the stories are crap. That's especially why I enjoyed the third season of Enterprise.
Voyager sucks!
Originally Posted By: Pariah
It's been a long time since I watched DS9, so I've forgotten a great deal, but thus far, it definitely has much better writing than TNG. My only huge problem with it is that Benjamin Sisko has an irritating tendency to speak out both ends of his mouth on every issue--especially when it came to the 'religion in school' episode at the end of season one. And Dax is consistently annoying too.
The first couple of seasons are shoddy. I think they were still trying to figure out how to make the concept work. Season three on are damn good though. I think that has a lot to do not only with the whole Dominion storyline, but that's when they really start making a lot of the fun episodes. Especially the ones centering in on the Ferengi.
Originally Posted By: Pariah
As usual, however, the engineer, O'Brien is the most charismatic of the cast. But Quark is a lot cooler than I remember him being.
O'Brien is gold. Colm Meaney is brilliant. I always liked the character on TNG and was excited about him getting his own place to shine on DS9. The episodes where he was captured by the Cardassians and put on trial, when he was put in a 'thought prison' by another alien race, and the one where he thinks the crew of DS9 are plotting a conspiracy are my favorites centered on the character.
Quark is fucking great at pointing out the utopia bullshit that came out of thin air for TNG. The shit with Jeffrey Combs as Brunt are fucking hilarious. TNG tried to make Ferengi evil. DS9 made them fun.
Originally Posted By: Pariah
All in all, not enough Federation-bashing for my taste thus far.
There's more to come. Plus, you have to pay attention. Sometimes they're just one liners that you may miss.
very low budget (the setting is just basically the women's restroom for 90% of the movie), but really good. Some guy at the IMDBs is complaining about the thick British accents and slang but I honestly didn't find anything hard to understand, the accents on Harry Potter films are way more difficult to get. Although the confusion between "Geoff" and "Jeff" is lost on me because I have always pronounced the two names differently.
As badly written as much of Voyager is, I always felt it was the superior concept. I just like the "Lost in Space" feel even if a lot of the stories are crap. That's especially why I enjoyed the third season of Enterprise.
Voyager sucks!
Jebus criminey, I forgot how crappy this series is.
Before Future's End, there were some fun ones here and there, but after that point, it's already on the verge of going full retard.
Future's End is the Trekkies' answer to denial: "We don't accept for a moment that private businessmen concerned only with prophet developed our sophisticated technology! Clearly, it was simply stolen from a brighter Utopian future! IT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION!!"
And, of course--after preaching up a storm about how the technology doesn't belong in that century--Janeway and friends have no problem with holding on to the portable holo-emitter. No, there's no hypocrisy there at all.
Future's End is the Trekkies' answer to denial: "We don't accept for a moment that private businessmen concerned only with prophet developed our sophisticated technology!
The company was concerned only with Jesus Christ? Or was it Moses?
I never understood the utter fascination with Jeri Ryan. She was good looking, yeah; but she wasn't the super hot babe that they tried to play her as. She was nerd show hot, and that's all.
It's the same thing is when Troi had a different uniform then everybody else on the ship in TNG. Apparently in the federation women with big tits get special uniforms.
It's the same thing is when Troi had a different uniform then everybody else on the ship in TNG. Apparently in the federation women with big tits get special uniforms.
I'll say this much for Seven: she's five pegs above Troi in terms of figure and character.
You know, I'm really not enjoying Worf all that much.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he got work after TNG ended, but his character's always been rather boring, and if it weren't for the Klingons' big arrival in season four, his presence would serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
Wow. Serendipity...Or something. I just got the episode For The Cause.
I was just thinking to myself yesterday that the Federation is no less a collective than the Borg. But the difference between the two is that the Federation is far more passive aggressive in its habits of assimilation.
The writers took a pretty unfair route with Dukat. Setting up his character with the whole "inferior/superior race" diatribe comes out of left field for a guy who went through so much trouble to preserve the lives of his Bajoran lover and their half-breed child. He could have been easily characterized as vengefully genocidal without being made out to be a 24th century Hitler.
This was the first time in over 20 years that I watched this movie from beginning to end. Having done, so I was surprised at how much this actually is-in the traditional narrative sense-a Christmas movie.
The entire movie takes place during the Christmas season. It opens with the Christmas song and ends with a Christmas song.
The protagonist is a man who is haunted by his past and contemplating suicide at the holiday season.
He has to save people from an evil businessman. He encounters a white haired fellow with special powers. He is reminded of the importance of friends and family.
And then, at the end, he realizes that his life has meaning and he sits down for a Christmas dinner with his new "family."
It is basically "it's a wonderful life" with drug dealing, Kung fu and machine guns.
I've watched Lethal Weapon again several times over the years and enjoyed the Christmas-festive elements. I love Lethal Weapon 1, 2 and 3.
It's a Wonderful Life is a great movie, especially over Christmas. But another often overlooked Frank Capra classic I love at least as much is Meet John Doe, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. For those who don't know, it begins with a newspaper being taken over by a rich politician and firing a bunch of staff. One of the fired columnists (Barbara Stanwyck) fires off a fake letter to the editor before she picks up her last paycheck, the letter signed an anonymous "John Doe", protesting politics and the state of civilization. It sets off a firestorm of controversy so great that the columnist is re-hired. And they hire an unemployed vagrant (Gary Cooper) to pretend to be the John Doe figurehead for a regular series of columns protesting social injustices, that grows quickly into a Tea Party-like national movement for the "average American".
And it all culminates into a beautiful moment at the end on Christmas eve.
The last season of DS9 was a tad disappointing. Bashir got almost unbearably self-righteous. Ezry was no less annoying than Jadzia. Garak was....off. And the Pa Wraiths were puffed up throughout the season before making only one appearance, at which point they just disappear.
I would rather they had taken a different direction with this 'prophets-wraiths' crap. Sisko could have adopted the point of view that the controlling nature of the prophets made them just as undesirable as the wraiths. A kind of 'make your own destiny' aspect that challenged the 'prophets can do no wrong' narrative that stayed 'til the end.
As it is, the Pa Wraiths only seem to exist to give Sisko a big baddie to kill off at the end--not to mention a reason to leave.
Hangover 3 .. what a pile of cack. I never got the hype around the first one, it was ok, but no more than that. The 2nd one I barely remember. But this one, at which point was it actually a comedy? Too much of it was obvious as hell, and I pretty much knew everything before it happened. And the characters, Alan has to be the fucking most annoying character ever, and through all three films I found myself wishing someone would kill him. That said, none of the characters were likeable to be fair, but he was the worst of the lot.
Had hoped this would be a return to the okishness of the first one, rather than being as forgettable as the second one, but it was just shit.
Is Alan the one with the beard? No matter what film he's in, he has no redeeming features whatsoever. And apparently he's a whiny, obstinate, cunt in real life.
The first "Hangover" was one of the most overrated comedies I'd ever seen. I never bothered with the others. And, yes, Galifinakis or whatever his name is, is a no talent ass. Talk about a flash in the pan.
I had a good laugh when one of the cable stations ran it on Father's Day. He was kind of the ultimate superdad, rescuing his daughter.
Taken 2 was just a contrived retread of the first movie.
Neeson was also in a phycho-drama Chloe, that I found interesting with a lot of unexpected twists. Good as much for Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried as Neeson.
His 2011 film Unknown had him playing a similar character, and was also interesting, but fell apart for me at the end.
The first "Hangover" was one of the most overrated comedies I'd ever seen. I never bothered with the others. And, yes, Galifinakis or whatever his name is, is a no talent ass. Talk about a flash in the pan.
Yep I never got what was so funny about the first one. It was ok, as I say, but nowhere near the classic that some people seem to claim it was.
As for Galifinakis (I will take you word on how thats spelled cause I cant be arsed looking it up), only things I have liked with him have been voicing animations, and The Campaign, but that was only because of Will Ferrel. Even through that film he played the moronic retard who nobody could actually like.
I've been watching Fringe. I watched the first two seasons when they aired and then just lost the show in the shuffle. I started over and watched again. I'm starting to realize that I didn't miss much. It pretty much shits the bed in the third season, crushed under the weight of its own mythos. There are some good ideas that aren't well executed. The show just became dull and predictable.
The previews looked way too pretentious for me to even consider watching that series. They probably would have been more successful if they tried just emulating X-Files instead of attempting a 'Warehouse 13 meets X-Files' format.
......Speaking of which, I think it may be time for an X-Files marathon.
The first two seasons are very X-Files, which is why I liked it. Like the X-Files, the mythos became too great and consumed the show. Whereas it took the X-Files about five or six seasons to do that, Fringe does it after only two. Some shows just work better with a monster of the week format.
I liked it a helluva lot better than Origins. It was fun if not predictable. I kind of wonder how they're linking it to the Days of Future Past considering the mid-credits scene.
The previews looked way too pretentious for me to even consider watching that series. They probably would have been more successful if they tried just emulating X-Files instead of attempting a 'Warehouse 13 meets X-Files' format.
......Speaking of which, I think it may be time for an X-Files marathon.
If you didn't even consider watching the series, how do you know anything about their story formats?
If you didn't even consider watching the series, how do you know anything about their story formats?
It was marketed as a synthesis of the two shows: a government organization solicits two agents (one being more skeptical than the other) and a doctor to work on top secret shit involving the paranormal with a quippy atmosphere (more quippy than X-Files at least). The pitch is less than appealing.
However different the show may have been from its ads, I feel justified in having avoided it for that reason.
Just managed to pick up season one of Arrow on blu ray for £10, so starting on watching that again until the second season starts up here again in a few weeks.
Not that great. I ended up fast forwarding through all the Stand-up parts....and a lot of the acted out scenes. And a full episode about Jesus and Catholic guilt or whatever.
So it only took me less than three hours to get through season 1. The other two should be pretty speedy.
Last few days I have made my way through all 6 Star Wars films, Tango and Cash, Demolition man, Predators, Green Hornet 3D and currently watching Tucker & Dale vs evil.
I just watched the first Ron Burgundy movie. Mostly a silly movie with some funny moments that make it worth watching. Applegate is always easy on the eyes.
Decided to watch some of my least watched/favorite James Bond movies starting with "Moonraker". According to IMDB,this was the highest-grossing Bond movie until "Goldeneye".......
Picked up a few blu rays here and there in the last month or so (some as DVD replacements, some entirely new to me), and rewatched a lot of films I have owned for a while: Old: Indiana Jones blu ray set Priest 3D Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter 3D Death race inferno Batman (89) Broken arrow
New: Escape plan R.I.P.D. 3D 1:Life on the limit Rush Thor:dark world 3D Breakfast club Kick ass 2 Ronin Three musketeers 3D Rock of ages Man of steel 3D Maximum conviction The condemned GI Joe retaliation 3D The Wolverine 3D Push Lucky number Slevin
Decided to watch some of my least watched/favorite James Bond movies starting with "Moonraker". According to IMDB,this was the highest-grossing Bond movie until "Goldeneye".......
"Highest grossing" rarely means "adjusted for inflation" so I wouldn't sweat it.
"License To Kill" was next on the watch list. Nothing of note for this one except that it had Benico del Toro as a secondary villain. It had Wayne Newton too but that's it.
"License To Kill" was next on the watch list. Nothing of note for this one except that it had Benico del Toro as a secondary villain. It had Wayne Newton too but that's it.
One of my favorites mostly because it was the first one I watched when I was a kid. And the Spanish chick was hot.
"License To Kill" was next on the watch list. Nothing of note for this one except that it had Benico del Toro as a secondary villain. It had Wayne Newton too but that's it.
One of my favorites mostly because it was the first one I watched when I was a kid. And the Spanish chick was hot.
Hot Talisa Soto moments aside, the two Bond films starring Timothy Dalton were the absolute worst of the franchise. License To Kill was more like a Miami Vice episode than a Bond movie. Dalton's personality just wasn't Bond.
Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig all have strong runs. Dalton was the only one for me who was a complete dud.
"The Man With the Golden Gun"- Ol' Tattoo in this one makes it more comical but with tweenie karate girls and a very not needed appearance from Sgt. J.W. Pepper,well let's just say there's a lot of fast forwards in this one. Christopher Lee is cool though.
"The Man With the Golden Gun"- Ol' Tattoo in this one makes it more comical but with tweenie karate girls and a very not needed appearance from Sgt. J.W. Pepper,well let's just say there's a lot of fast forwards in this one. Christopher Lee is cool though.
Yeah, if there's a Bond film with untapped potential that deserves a proper remake, that's it.
"License To Kill" was next on the watch list. Nothing of note for this one except that it had Benico del Toro as a secondary villain. It had Wayne Newton too but that's it.
One of my favorites mostly because it was the first one I watched when I was a kid. And the Spanish chick was hot.
Hot Talisa Soto moments aside, the two Bond films starring Timothy Dalton were the absolute worst of the franchise. License To Kill was more like a Miami Vice episode than a Bond movie. Dalton's personality just wasn't Bond.
Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig all have strong runs. Dalton was the only one for me who was a complete dud.
You are talking out of your arse. I like all the Bonds, but if you think these are duds and Brosnan had a strong run, then you are totally fucked in the head. Brosnan started off well, but the ridiculousness of invisible cars etc ruined his run.
Goldeneye was fantastic. The next one vs. Ted Turner was bullshit and turned me off the rest of Brosnan's run. He was a perfect fit for Bond. The scripts were shit. The same for Dalton. I liked him as Bond; but I just found his movies to be lacking.
The only good thing about Die another day was the fact the villain was like a counterpart with his gadget laden Jaguar, but everything else kinda sucked (especially the aforementioned invisiblity on Bonds car).
Goldeneye was fantastic. The next one vs. Ted Turner was bullshit and turned me off the rest of Brosnan's run.
The stuff with Michelle Yeoh was good. The opening of Die Another Day was excellent. If the rest of the movie had continued in that vein it would have been a great film.
Brosnan as Bond had a bit of the same problem as Clooney as Batman: both could have been the best actor to play the character if they hadn't been saddled with shit films (though Brosnan at least had one and A half decent films with Bond)
I'm going to have to say that Roger Moore is my favorite Bond. Part of it has to be the fact that he was the first Bond I saw and saw in good quantity as a kid. So the nostalgia aspect is heavy there. As an adult, though I enjoy the others (especially Brosnan and Connery), I still prefer Moore as I can see just how self aware his Bond is. He plays the character like Bond knows that he's in a campy spy movie.
I'm going to have to say that Roger Moore is my favorite Bond. Part of it has to be the fact that he was the first Bond I saw and saw in good quantity as a kid
...and, being an ancient fart, my first Bond was Connery. Goldfinger on the ABC movie of the week.
He plays the character like Bond knows that he's in a campy spy movie.
That's exactly why he's my least favorite. I like Bond to be played in a more serious tone. That's why Im partial to Timothy Dalton who took it from Moore and made Bond less campy. That...and he was the first one I saw when I was a kid.
Like the Doc,Moore too is my favorite because that's who was in the role when I was a kid and in the early days of HBO,"For Your Eyes Only" was in heavy rotation and I watched it over and over agian. Connery is the best though no question. I actually find Dalton underrated as Bond and thought he himself was good in the role.I just didn't really care for the movies he got stuck in. Same with Brosnan(with the exception of "Goldeneye").
Anywho,next on the list is "The World is Not Enough." Not a terrible movie but very "meh" though. Hate Denise Richards as Christmas Jones(stupid,stupid name) but the chick who played Elektra was smokin' with sultry sexiness. The bad guy was pretty much a throwaway and the action scene with the giant buzzsaw was decent. Brosnan kills the whole movie with the ultimate cheese line of Christmas coming only once a year. UGh!! Done with that one for a while
She's gorgeous beyond belief. And she's also great as the French princess who has at it with Mel Gibson in Braveheart. I also like her in a remake she did of Anna Karenina. I also enjoyed her in a comedy film with David Spade called Lost and Found. And an independent movie she did called Firelight.
After World is Not Enough (in which she looks beautiful, but the movie somehow is incoherent as a whole and not up to par) Marceau kind of disappeared. I know she came from French cinema before the above Hollywood roles, so she apparently had her fill of American cinema and went back to the French market.
Of the Bond players, I too am a Roger Moore man. The first Bond movie I saw in the theatre was Live and Let Die. And with the introduction of an amazing Jane Seymour (only 20 at the time) and a great Paul McCartney title song, how can you possibly go wrong? For my money the best action movie ever made until Raiders of the Lost Ark came along. Moore is the cavalier slightly-snobbish English gentleman that I always thought perfectly captured the Bond role. I kind of retroactively watched the Connery films and appreciate him in the role now too, but for me, Moore was best in the role. Timothy Dalton was awful as Bond, completely out of character. Pierce Brosnan was a return to consistency with Roger Moore's version, with a great increase in epic scale and quality of the Bond franchise.
And I like what Daniel Craig has done as well. Casino Royale was absolute perfection. The one after that was engaging but not quite as good. I haven't seen Skyfall yet.
But the series was very consistent under Roger Moore, and the series declined for a while when they got away from what made Moore's films so appealing.
My favorite line is from Moonraker, as Bond and the girl are floating naked at the end of the movie, in zero gravity, with a bedsheet discretely floating in front of them to avoid an R-rating. "M" and the other MI-6 higher-ups turn on the video monitor and see Bond, and one says "I say, what is Bond doing?" Another responds, "I think he's attempting re-entry!"
As a huge Bond fan I have always said this. To say I have a favourite Bond is ridiculous because each of them essentially play a different character, bringing their own thing to the table and were a product of their era. The classic Connery films were great, but feel very dated in this day and age. Connery was brutal, very dry and had a darkness to him.
Lazenby while not a great actor, starred in what has been my favourite Bond film for years. He was more sauve than Connery, but never really got a chance to put his stamp on the character due to people around him feeding his ego.
Moore was part of a lighter era (the 70s) where things were more over the top. He was more likeable as a person, wittier and yes, somewhat camp.
Dalton brought things back down to a darker era like the 60s Bond, but doesnt look as dated today. Dalton was gritty, had a darker brooding side and was probably the first "real" actor in the role.
Brosnan for me had a bit of all previous Bonds in his character. He was smooth as fuck, but had the mix of Moore campness and the grittier side that Connery & Dalton brought to the table.
Craig for me though is a different kettle of fish. Because the franchise was actually being rebooted, it really was a different character this time, not being the seasons spy everyone was used to. To some respects while I love his films, I still struggle to see him as Bond. Apart from his look (he looks like Gollum), the character just doesnt have the charm and wit that we are used to, but this is a character in development basically being his origin.
He plays the character like Bond knows that he's in a campy spy movie.
That's exactly why he's my least favorite. I like Bond to be played in a more serious tone. That's why Im partial to Timothy Dalton who took it from Moore and made Bond less campy. That...and he was the first one I saw when I was a kid.
I'm not telling you which Bond to like, but just realize that Moore didn't make Bond campy. The producers did. You see it creeping in during Connery's run. Moore just ran with it. I love his wink and nod style he gave Bond letting the audience know that he was in on the joke. The producers started to get more gritty and violent as the 80's went on which can be seen in Moore's final film A View to a Kill. That made Dalton, who's a fantastic actor, a perfect choice to replace Moore for the new direction. Just a Brosnan was replaced by Craig for the new direction of Bond, which has oddly come back around to the Connery era. The realism of Casino Royale has slowly been peeled away for more and more over the top stunts and gadgets that the franchise is well known for.
Dalton brought things back down to a darker era like the 60s Bond, but doesnt look as dated today. Dalton was gritty, had a darker brooding side and was probably the first "real" actor in the role.
Yeah. Connery and Moore seemed to be playing versions of themselves as Bond rather than a character.
Brosnan was the perfect casting. To this day, I believe he was the person all of the other Bonds were trying to be even if I didn't necessarily enjoy his films (I like Golden Eye and Tomorrow Never Dies).
That being said, Dalton is still my favorite since his depiction/stories were the least boring of the franchise, and his character was far more practical--if not truly practical--as a spy. Roger Moore voiced reservations about being more violent and conniving than clever. But, ultimately, Bond's character would have to be as ruthless as Dalton or Craig to get the job done.
As much as I liked Craig's attitude, his physical appearance can't possibly be reconciled with Bond's character. Also, the stories for his films were some of the silliest bit of shitty fucking writing ever conceived. Naturally though, the directors were more concerned with covering up plot weakness and inconsistency with action sequences than they were with making the story coherent.
.....Eeeeeeehhhh....The entire series was a mish-mash of good and bad. Compelling, boring, interesting, annoying, and large chunks of the story arcs were clearly shot from the hip.
Ultimately, if it weren't for Mandy Patinkin, I wouldn't have even gotten through the third episode. Kicking him out of the CIA in the last season basically guarantees I won't bother with the fourth season.
It's pretty sad because I used to have a crush on Claire Danes when I was a teenager, but her character turned out to be one of the show's weakest and most irritating components (see also: Brody's fucking retard daughter).
Damien Lewis' character wasn't much better, but every now and again he would show signs of being a loving father and husband who wanted to put his life back together. Despite this, he kept cheating on his wife with Danes (who was perfectly fine with the idea of being a home-wrecker), the relationship with whom only made worse the fact that he was a traitor. I actually wanted to see him heal, but the writer(s) avoided every single exit route off the road to divorce and misery, and made him totally unlikeable by the third season.
That being said--even though I realize they've been trying to kill him off since season one--his death, I predict, will be the show's inevitable undoing. Despite him being unlikeable, his character has become too ingrained in the show for it to survive without his participation. Bearing in mind his all but complete absence during the third season, every aspect of the series focused on events of which he was at the center. As refreshing as it was not to have to see his face up to that point, the story could only be reconciled with him as a player.
Ultimately, what they should have done was just make a series about the CIA with Danes and Patinkin without unthinkingly entrenching characters in the series that were supposed to die off.
Just finished watching Hell on Wheels' second season.
That fucking sucked.
Every single ancillary character ranges from boring to unlikeable--especially the token angry, home-wrecking black guy for whom I simply cannot give a damn.
The only side-story that held even a modicum of interest for me was the Swede using his lower status to socially engineer everyone into rioting and unrest. But it went in a stupid "Natural Born Killer" direction where he now suddenly keeps this 'likes to kill' ethos that he was trying to attach to Bohannon in an effort to create some sort of archetypal relationship between the two of them. The Swede was a conniving lone shark, not a fucking sociopath.
Killing off Lily Bell was the absolute worst thing they could have done and essentially guarantees that I won't keep watching. Aside from Durant and Bohannon, she was the only reason I kept an eye on the show. Bohannon and Durant could support the show if it focused more on them and less on all the boring sidestories and half-baked romantic drama....But I know that's not going to happen.
I thought with the first season, Hell On Wheels got off to a very engaging start. A possible widening revival of the American Western, even.
But at some point I just lost interest. Likely for the reasons you described, that I just stopped caring what happened to these characters. It's a tough balancing act in film and television, to create characters original enough to be interesting, but familiar (or clichéd) enough to be likeable so that viewers can identify with them.
Another thing that kills many shows is when they change creative staff from one season to the next, and that causes them to change the direction of the series in a very inconsistent and jarring way.
Some examples from a few series I like:
The excellent 1985 first season of Twilight Zone (with talented people like Harlan Ellison and Allan Brennert), that lost its staff (and its quality) in the second season.
And Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, where despite keeping the same cast, the producers completely changed the direction of the series to something insulting to viewers, and the series died about 10 episodes after the change.
Likewise the difference between the first and second seasons of the original Outer Limits series.
I don't know what the story was with Hell On Wheels, but regardless, it just wasn't the same series as when it started out.
The first season was good. Colm Meaney's speech about how history will view him compared to the innovation that he'll bring the country was great. From second season on it's all downhill.
Following a motif (totally by accident), I just watched all of the (current) seasons of Sherlock.
Cumberbatch is a pretentious fuckface and I can barely stand him for some reason, but I suppose that's why the role suits him so well. I really enjoyed his conversations with MyCroft.
All the gay jokes were really annoying--especially since I know they only included them to pay homage to modern society's interpretation of two men living together as friends and colleagues as being subtext for something else entirely.
I realize it's kind of a commentary on modern day London, but you could tell that the show was compelled not to show him smoking. And when it did, it always made sure to call him the antichrist for doing it. Fuck that shit. Besides BBC being apart of prime-time television's silly non-smoking campaign, Holmes snorted coke for fuck's sake. Accuracy is more important than your fucking agenda.
Also, I hate the first name basis. I realize they focused on his first this time around to move away from the older period rendition of the character, but it just didn't feel genuine.
Those things aside, its pretty damn enjoyable. The only one that really wore on me was the Baskerville case. Beyond that, they were all fun.
Picked up a few movies today with gift cards and some cheap used ones.
Zombie hunter X Men days of future past 3D Universal soldier the return Universal soldier day of reckoning 3D Hitman
Zombie hunter was cheap as chips and was unsurprisingly made on a budget smaller than Snarfs sex life (yeah, I exagerate, nothing is that small), but it was ok because it was no worse than expected. The only thing that pissed me off is that it portrays Danny Trejo as the main star on all the artwork (which is the only reason I bought it), but he is little more than a cameo. Hate this tactic with budget releases.
Days of future past I hadnt actually managed to see before, and it was really enjoyable. Yeah there were a lot of continuity errors in a film thats main concept was to correct previous continuity errors, but getting past those and just enjoying the film for what it was is where the real enjoyment comes from.
The two Unisol ones I picked up for the completist factor more than anything. The return I own on DVD from years ago, and I remember it being ok for what it was, but nowhere near a patch on the original. Day of reckoning I expect to be shit, as the one before that was most certainly not a good film. But as I say, completist (and no, I do not count the made for tv films).
Hitman is just a film I like, so I picked it up, nothing more.
It's about two warring Yakuza factions, the daughter of one of the Yakuza leaders (and the obsession of the other Yakuza boss), a group of amateur filmmakers, and a random passerby who got caught in the middle. The two warring factions are going to stage one final confrontation (no guns allowed, just swords and knives) and they've hired the amateur filmmakers to film everything.
It's from Sion Sono, so it's not surprising that there's a lot of gore (hands getting lopped off, people getting shot, people spurting blood in ridiculous amounts, etc.) But unlike Suicide Club or Noriko's Dinner Table, this one isn't gloomy nor is it too ambiguous. It's actually very, very funny. Probably Siono's most accessible film (provided that you're not too queasy. It's not that gory anyway, probably just on the same level as Kill Bill.)
Roughly in the same genre of martial arts action, I recently rewatched Frank Miller's 300 film.
I make fun of it as a bit over-the-top gritty and macho, and in many parts resembles a video game, but it's still very atmospheric and engaging to watch.
I like Sin City only slightly less. Both very true to the original Miller stories.
Good documentary on writer/director John Milius. Lots of good stories about his batshit crazy stunts from good friends George Lucas and Steven Speilberg(who fucking knew?).
Just added Full metal jacket to the list of blu rays. Also waiting for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid & Ghostbusters 2 to arrive.
A seldom shown or mentioned Redford film that I thoroughly loved is The Electric Horseman (1979). It also has a soundtrack with most of Willie Nelson's best songs, and he plays a supporting character role. With Jane Fonda, and Hal Holbrook who also played "Deep Throat" opposite Redford in All the President's Men.
Art: "I mean, he shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in a spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an airplane while he's flying it, parachutes into Harlan County with enough coke and cash to jump-start the economy of a small country, and then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once but two times! He spends a couple of days riding around with you Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen: while you're looking for him, and now he's run off with a hooker that's half his age. That's some bad-ass shit."
Laughed. So. Fucking. Hard.
The series overall has been up and down, but it's been worth sticking to.
Art: "I mean, he shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in a spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an airplane while he's flying it, parachutes into Harlan County with enough coke and cash to jump-start the economy of a small country, and then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once but two times! He spends a couple of days riding around with you Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen: while you're looking for him, and now he's run off with a hooker that's half his age. That's some bad-ass shit."
Laughed. So. Fucking. Hard.
The series overall has been up and down, but it's been worth sticking to.
Also, these last two seasons are so damn predictable. No matter WHAT story development occurs, the Deputy Marshals are always one step ahead of everyone. There really is no point in twisting and turning the plot if the immediate result is always the same.
Ok, so not a DVD, but I watched Age of Ultron at the cinema on Thurs.
Also have a pile of blu rays to work through:
Bad Neighbours The Rock Shrek 1-4 (in 3D) Kung fu panda 1&2 (in 3D) Monsters vs aliens (in 3D) Unbreakable Guardians of the galaxy (in 3D) Drillbit Taylor
Other recent ones I picked up: Sabotage Zookeeper Starsky & Hutch Sex drive No country for old me Ride along
Eeeehhh...I dunno. There's some decent ideas lingering in the fifth season, but it's bogged down by a shitty primary antagonist(s) the greater purpose of whom seems to be establishing a creepy southern white guy narrative that transcends Boyd, Dewey, et al. Obviously they made Boyd the low collar, scumbag, southern white guy that's designed to encompass the racist criminal archetype that the audience is meant to dislike immensely, but the writers also saw a need to establish Boyd's likability so he could be a suitable rival-cum-friend for Raylan. As such, they have needed to, at times, juxtapose Boyd and his crew with significantly more violent, more stupid, more red-in-the-neck, and more overtly racist antagonists to give him the proper anti-heroish image.
In the first season, it was pre-gunshot Boyd and post-gunshot Boyd. In the second season, it was Boyd and the Bennett brothers. In the case of season 3, the situation was reversed with Limehouse being subtly characterized as a lesser evil that's just trying to get by as a black man in a southern world that despises him since--of course--it's the white guy that's the scum of the earth (but other than that, it was Boyd vs Dickie Bennett). Season four made sure to get in a creepy, racist, southern white guy dig through a rich criminal character who got his house repossessed. In season five, we meet Dewey Crowe's cousins. Season six features an arguably worse evil than Boyd, but he's clearly being portrayed as a creepy, unlikable antagonist.
As I pointed out earlier, the Deputy Marshal's become progressively more unlikable as well. Raylan has compromised himself and the allegedly "just(ified)" principles upon which he operates--as a deputy Marshal--a hundred times over in how he ceaselessly violates civil rights, deals out unnecessary beatings, unjustly coerces people to do his bidding, and corruptly uses taxpayer resources to fund his pet "anti-Boyd" projects (Raylan even used the star on his belt as an excuse for acting this way multiple times. Congratulations on vindicating the anti-feds you friggin douche bags). The only problem here is that the show refuses to acknowledge these violations and continues to favor everything Raylan and his federal compadres do. Obviously, it's easy for them to say he walks a gray line with the deaths of Bucks and Augustine, but his everyday behavior is just casually ignored as though it's irrelevant to the larger character. Even with the Marshal's office going into full blown dick-mode with assault, harassment, illegal search and seizures, and outright corruption the show's narrative turns a blind eye to all of it because--in the writers' mind--they're all just a bunch of stupid, racist hillbillies who have it coming to them.
The truly poetic binary behind his relationship with Boyd is honesty versus dishonesty. Boyd is honest about his nature while Raylan lies to himself and others. They both inherited the same brand of anger from their fathers that made them inherently violent men, but Raylan only thinks (falsely) that he's risen above that anger because he wears a federal badge and fashions himself as a heroic cowboy figure. That being said, it must be reiterated that Boyd's character has been put through the ringer and mangled five ways from Friday just to make him seem even more ruthless than you could possibly give him credit for. I do not believe for a moment that the Boyd of the last five seasons (yes, even the fifth for all the crap it pulled) would be as callous as he's turned out to be in season 6. The end result is Boyd being almost totally incomparable to Rylan even though they're supposed to complement one another. As such, it's taken for granted that Raylan is the better man despite the similarity in origin between the two characters.
The last two seasons (especially the sixth) have effectively nullified the aspects of Boyd's character that assigned him so much charisma and likability--not least of which was his capacity for developing personal attachments with his associates. Then, suddenly, along comes season six and he has no apparent capacity for affection aside from his romantic feelings toward Ava--which they've gone out of their way to accentuate with abuse and general creepiness. It all serves to soften the blow of his inevitable downfall for the viewers (think Shield meets Dexter). The shit he ends up doing just cannot be reconciled with the other seasons.
On top of all this was a shitty side-story involving Ava going to prison and becoming disaffected with Boyd. If you're going to watch it, I won't say anymore, but the Deputy Marshals show their true colors when they take advantage of her being wrongfully imprisoned--with them knowing the charges are bullshit the whole time.
Eeeehhh...I dunno. There's some decent ideas lingering in the fifth season, but it's bogged down by a shitty primary antagonist(s) the greater purpose of whom seems to be establishing a creepy southern white guy narrative that transcends Boyd, Dewey, et al. Obviously they made Boyd the low collar, scumbag, southern white guy that's designed to encompass the racist criminal archetype that the audience is meant to dislike immensely, but the writers also saw a need to establish Boyd's likability so he could be a suitable rival-cum-friend for Raylan. As such, they have needed to, at times, juxtapose Boyd and his crew with significantly more violent, more stupid, more red-in-the-neck, and more overtly racist antagonists to give him the proper anti-heroish image.
In the first season, it was pre-gunshot Boyd and post-gunshot Boyd. In the second season, it was Boyd and the Bennett brothers. In the case of season 3, the situation was reversed with Limehouse being subtly characterized as a lesser evil that's just trying to get by as a black man in a southern world that despises him since--of course--it's the white guy that's the scum of the earth (but other than that, it was Boyd vs Dickie Bennett).
I'm in the middle of season 3, and I have yet to see it the way you're describing it here. I think that you're projecting a bit much onto the show here. If anything, the Bennett's have been shown to be a complex bunch. Yeah, Dewey and Coover weren't that bright with Coover being downright foolish. But Doyle and Mama were shown to be more clever and far thinking. Boyd was shown to be using the whole Nazi thing as a ploy from the first episode. I've yet to see Limehouse get a justification for what they're doing. All of the bad guys except for the Dixie Mafia people have given one excuse or another, but they're no less valid than Walter White's were in BB.
I caught the "using white supremacists" aspect, and I agree that the writers were using it to nullify the toxicity of associating with supremacists. But, narratively speaking, it fails to diminish the role he played as a penultimate redneck--especially as a redneck leading a bunch of other rednecks. Disingenuous or no, he's still the anti-establishment guy with a swastika on his arm and southern accent.
Dewey and Coover are the baddies who get most of the face time. I'd say they're far more representative of the antagonism than Mags. Their defining moment in that season was when Raylan and Rachael meet with them for the first time when Coover was disposing of rats with a revolver in a dilapidated hovel before he comes out to greet them with a rodent carcass and a racial slur (as though there was any other reason for her to be in that scene). That being said, aside from representing hillbillies in general, they also represent Mags in particular. And however smart and clever she and Doyle may be, they're still the ones who--literally--dropped the hammer on Coover, giving them a more brutish image than a smart one.
I'll wait til you finish season 3 to talk about Limehouse. I will say though that his motives don't require an elaborate or overt statement of justification to passively assign his position a kind comparative legitimacy or moral authority. Suffice it say, he gets bit pretty bad in that season, but the treatment he receives lacks the same severity applied to anyone else who pulled the same kind of shit he has.
My family came from Kentucky, and my father remembers his grandparents as being very distrustful of the government. There's a very clannish element brought over from Scotland with those people that make outsiders the enemy. The hatred for government goes back to the Whiskey Rebellion and possibly even further back than that under British rule. And racial issues are something that's going to exist in such an environment. I guess I don't have much problem with that being addressed as it's something that I'm used to. There's no real preaching going on with it. It'd be bullshit if they never addressed it.
Dewey and Coover are obviously grunts. Grunts in any TV or movie production aren't going to be that smart or good whether they be rednecks, Chinese, Russian, Latino, etc., etc. If you have a problem with it here against hillbillies, then you'd have to have it anywhere it's used with any ethnic/cultural background.
Binge watching Justified has led me to two major conclusions.
1) I fucking hate the intro music. 2) Art's the one who deserves his own show.
Originally Posted By: Pariah
Art: "I mean, he shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in a spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an airplane while he's flying it, parachutes into Harlan County with enough coke and cash to jump-start the economy of a small country, and then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once but two times! He spends a couple of days riding around with you while you're looking for him, and now he's run off with a hooker that's half his age. That's some bad-ass shit."
I gave this a miss when it was first shown on theaters because local marketing tried to sell it as a Filipino version of Neeson's Taken, and I didn't want another attempt to make money by ripping off flavor of the month films. Turns out the marketing was not only inaccurate, but also a disservice to the film.
Alagwa is not an action film. The lead character is not an action star, and the only fights he got into in the entire film is with a pedophile and a pimp, and it was pretty much one sided because the former was overweight while the latter is a coward who symphatized with him and wanted to help.
It was a very uncomfortable watch. I'm a relatively new father and the events in the film really do happen in the country: children being abducted and sold to god knows who (or where.) The main incident that caused the protagonist's son to get abducted comes off as a stupid move on his part, but it's still all too real. I can imagine less paranoid fathers committing the same mistake.
Some of the situations felt contrived (not going to spoil the specifics, but he did find his son in the end, although it's not exactly a happy ending.) but the actors are good enough that the scenes still work.
Also, these last two seasons are so damn predictable. No matter WHAT story development occurs, the Deputy Marshals are always one step ahead of everyone. There really is no point in twisting and turning the plot if the immediate result is always the same.
I'm in the middle of season five. The machinations between Boyd and the Crowder's are good. But the whole Ava in prison thing is a complete mess and one of the most clichéd things I've seen on television in years.
That being said Art is still the fucking man.
And pariah: note I said I'm in the *middle* of season five.
Right now, I'm watching the absolute greatest movie ever made.
Warning, Spoiler:
Pure goodness.
Checked it out again, had no idea that movie had tons of cameos, and had people that would move on to greater roles (it even had that Japanese chick from Torchwood.)
Really moving!
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theres no way i could have been ur alt...
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It started annoying than got better. I'm glad I didn't pay theater price for this.
I'm in the middle of watching that season! 