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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 27, 2023 20:37:37 GMT -5
It wasn't a bother to FF on through their performances though... Remember how Billy used to fast forward through entire movies? It's happening!  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 27, 2023 20:40:43 GMT -5
I love The Thing with Two Heads. Classic. I loved how nonchalant about EVERYTHING going on around (and to) him Rosie Greer's character was the whole film. I thought he did a good job in it, too. Haven't looked to see if he had any other movie parts. There were a bunch of former pro-football jocks that transitioned to movie roles back then. Some more successful in the transition than others. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 27, 2023 20:43:40 GMT -5
I saw the original "The Invisible Man" (1933) for the first time. It occurred to me that Dr Jack Griffin may have had the highest kill-count of any of the Universal Monsters. Well, I suppose Dracula is still tops if you include his countless victims over the centuries. For "in-a-single-movie" though? It's got to be The Invisible Man. He gleefully sends a passenger train off a cliff, killing a hundred-or-more during his brief reign of terror. I love that one. How about the sequels? I have them here, and am finally running low on 1940's horrors... |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 27, 2023 20:48:52 GMT -5
How about the sequels? I have them here, and am finally running low on 1940's horrors... Haven't seen 'em! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 27, 2023 22:29:31 GMT -5
How about the sequels? I have them here, and am finally running low on 1940's horrors... Haven't seen 'em! Did you catch the updated remake from a few years ago? It was alright. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 28, 2023 5:05:24 GMT -5
Abbott and Costello in "Hold That Ghost" (1941) yesterday. From what I can tell, this was their first foray into horror/comedy and I think it holds up as one of THE greatest horror/comedies of that or any time. It's right up there with "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Lou Costello and Joan Davis are in top form and their timing (and the mining for laughs in the old-dark-house trope) was all that I needed yesterday.
Could have done without the time-gobbling Andrews Sisters and Ted "Is everybody happy?" Lewis bits though.* You know how most movies will offer some kind of rationale for the singing and dancing interludes? This one does only in that they take jobs as waiters at a nightclub that mobsters frequent. It wasn't a bother to FF on through their performances though, it was just a totally different energy than the rest of the movie. But all the rest was gold.
*Don't get me wrong. The Andrews Sisters and Ted Harris sounded fine doing their numbers. I have to admit that big band era sound isn't a big draw here.
I would never fast forward through the Andrews Sisters. But that's me. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 28, 2023 9:30:39 GMT -5
Did you catch the updated remake from a few years ago? It was alright. Which one? I saw the Kevin Bacon one. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 28, 2023 9:45:24 GMT -5
Abbott and Costello in "Hold That Ghost" (1941) yesterday. From what I can tell, this was their first foray into horror/comedy and I think it holds up as one of THE greatest horror/comedies of that or any time. It's right up there with "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Lou Costello and Joan Davis are in top form and their timing (and the mining for laughs in the old-dark-house trope) was all that I needed yesterday.
Could have done without the time-gobbling Andrews Sisters and Ted "Is everybody happy?" Lewis bits though.* You know how most movies will offer some kind of rationale for the singing and dancing interludes? This one does only in that they take jobs as waiters at a nightclub that mobsters frequent. It wasn't a bother to FF on through their performances though, it was just a totally different energy than the rest of the movie. But all the rest was gold.
*Don't get me wrong. The Andrews Sisters and Ted Harris sounded fine doing their numbers. I have to admit that big band era sound isn't a big draw here.
I would never fast forward through the Andrews Sisters. But that's me. That's probably because you're musically inclined, while I'm musically declined. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 28, 2023 9:46:59 GMT -5
Did you catch the updated remake from a few years ago? It was alright. Which one? I saw the Kevin Bacon one. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 28, 2023 21:44:58 GMT -5
Never heard of it! The trailer looks promising... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 29, 2023 9:45:47 GMT -5
Never heard of it! The trailer looks promising... It's pretty intense. Definitely worth a look if you get the chance.
Last night was a twofer. First up was "Everything Is Terrible! Presents: The Great Satan" (2018), which is this mind-ripping audio-visual collage monstrosity and right up there with their "Doggy-Woggies/Poochie-Woochies" collage genius. I can't even imagine the editing work that goes into these things.
I followed that with "The Monkey Haters" (2023), a BBC documentary on these horrible YouTube videos and a whole online community of people who take great pleasure in seeing these poor tiny monkeys tortured and abused. In similar fashion to the Netflix documentary series "Don't Fuck with Cats", we meet a couple of people who first signaled the alarm about these horrible videos, then the reporters who help track down the people who sold the videos on Telegram, and finally to the Indonesian fuckwits who were willing to carry out the horrible crimes. As of this airing, the main ring is down and Homeland Security is on it, building cases against the (mostly USA) creeps involved. But apparently, like a hydra, more videos are being done by different Indonesian sickos as a way to make easy bucks. Fuck this world. I need to go watch an hours worth of The Dodo videos now.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 30, 2023 9:32:29 GMT -5
Watched "Strays" on an old episode of TNT's Monstervision yesterday. Pretty silly for most of the show, but good acting helped elevate things. Wish there was more of the cats-eye-vision. Favorite part was probably the little girl crawling through the cat gauntlet to reach the pet door.
Side note: Cute how Monstervision got away with the bong hit sounds and smoke going through the mad scientist tubes in the ad break double take. Seems like that would have been slightly risky for the late 90's.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 1, 2023 11:17:07 GMT -5
"Burial of the Rats" (1995) has lots of women in tiny fur bikinis and that's about all that's noteworthy. Fortunately, they leaned into it (women in tiny fur bikinis) enough that the rest didn't really matter.
"Alien Endgame" (2022) is a collection of interviews and recreations of unidentified flying and underwater phenomena from the view of military retirees (various branches) and their children/grandchildren. Naturally, they touch on Roswell, but they go into a lot of other phenomena occurring near military bases and outposts, flying near planes, and zooming past carriers underwater at impossible (given our current tech) speeds. Throughout the documentary, they ominously return to "What would we/humans do in the event of a full scale alien invasion?". They even have renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on and he explains how a race capable of interstellar/interdimensional travel would be so far advanced that we'd be toast. Then, the rest of the documentary goes on with that dumb "We need to be prepared!"-mindset in the case of alien invasion, even thought just about every former military interviewee agrees with Kaku that, given their own experiences, we wouldn't stand a chance against them.
We were having much more interesting side-discussions about each of the encounters and anecdotes throughout, so we weren't really paying close attention to the whole doc, but that was my takeaway from it.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 1, 2023 11:35:18 GMT -5
They even have renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on That guy will appear on anything. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jul 2, 2023 4:46:40 GMT -5
I used to listen to Kaku's radio show on notorious local lefty public radio station WBAI. He may still be doing it, I'm not sure.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 2, 2023 11:15:56 GMT -5
I used to listen to Kaku's radio show on notorious local lefty public radio station WBAI. He may still be doing it, I'm not sure. I used to try to listen to his radio show, as it was on right as I was leaving work for a period. My God the commercial breaks were bad, though. And since he'd break down what that night's episode was about on return from each break, that was even more time wasted. Real shame, as the topics were usually interesting to me. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 2, 2023 19:30:56 GMT -5
Beware of Mr. Baker (2012) earlier today, about total madman drumming icon Ginger Baker. Music isn't as much of a thing for me as most here, but in truly great documentary style, they explain and then show you why this guy is a legend. And they don't spare his many ugly personal failings. He even bloodies the nose of the producer/interviewer with his cane at one point. Really engrossing doc.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 2, 2023 23:11:47 GMT -5
Commando Arnie shoots up Southern California rescuing his daughter from some real scoundrels.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jul 3, 2023 4:54:26 GMT -5
I used to listen to Kaku's radio show on notorious local lefty public radio station WBAI. He may still be doing it, I'm not sure. I used to try to listen to his radio show, as it was on right as I was leaving work for a period. My God the commercial breaks were bad, though. And since he'd break down what that night's episode was about on return from each break, that was even more time wasted. Real shame, as the topics were usually interesting to me. Ah, the benefits of listener-funded public radio: no ads (except during pledge drives, when it all sort of becomes a non-stop ad, but better). |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 4, 2023 11:36:49 GMT -5
"Gate 2: The Trespassers" (1990) - The first "Gate" is one of my favorite 80's horror flicks, so I thought I'd take on the sequel. Not bad with terrific practical effects. I don't know if it was the editing or what, but it feels a little off at points in the story. Still, a decent follow up to the great original. I was expecting a blowout finale after the bonkers climax to the first one, and it delivered. Crazy that the stop-motion f/x in this look better than half the recent cgi attempts I've seen of late.
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