El Santo
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Post by El Santo on Dec 23, 2023 17:13:15 GMT -5
"Boy and the Heron" (2023) last night. Not the first time I've been left confused/bemused by a Studio Ghibli film. I don't know if it was cultural differences or what, but both of us were , "Wut?" afterwards. Juniper and I just got back from that one. She liked it; I don't entirely understand yet why I hated it so much, beyond "What if Spirited Away was as twee and boring as My Neighbor Totoro?"
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 25, 2023 10:26:49 GMT -5
Watched "The Legend of Hillbilly John" (1978) and "The Body Stealers" (1969) yesterday. Both were underwhelming. I'd been meaning to get around to the former for a WHILE, too.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 26, 2023 23:17:23 GMT -5
Creed Rocky Balboa trains Apollo Creed's son for The Big Fight.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 26, 2023 23:20:08 GMT -5
Bad Santa The perfect heist movie.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 26, 2023 23:21:45 GMT -5
Bad Santa 2 The much-maligned sequel.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 27, 2023 14:00:34 GMT -5
Dumb and Dumber that was something.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 28, 2023 21:37:23 GMT -5
Ben Hur Chariot racer Charleston Heston takes on ancient Rome.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 29, 2023 1:24:22 GMT -5
Cherry 2000 --what the FUCK did I just watch?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 2, 2024 10:34:10 GMT -5
Take a pinch of "The Shining", and a sprig of "Night of the Demons". Add a dash of "Evil Dead" and whatever's in the Australian water that makes them so bonkers down there and you get "Bloody New Year" (1987)! I don't know how this gets such low scores online, but fuck the haters. I thought it was great!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 6, 2024 15:20:39 GMT -5
I don't know what possessed me, but over the last two nights I've caught a couple of holiday-specific horror movies that I'd meant to get to around their respective due dates. I've never done post-holiday watches like this before.
One was "All Hallow's Eve 2" (2015). This one is an anthology horror that looked dumb but potentially fun from a trailer I saw for it. In fact, it was feeble (and I'm usually very forgiving with anthology horrors). I did like that it had quite a few sequences, but they felt too much like the kinds of things director hopefuls would send out to studios/producers. I've never seen the first movie. Not to be confused with the movie that features the first appearance of the Art the Clown character.
The other was "Christmas Bloody Christmas" (2022). I attempted watching this twice prior to Christmas, but just wasn't feeling it from the first scenes. Imagine if a Terminator robot was walking around in a Santa suit, slaughtering everyone it runs into, as lensed by Gaspar Noe. Seriously. I felt like my water was dosed with Molly watching this; it's almost obscenely colorful. The banter is snappy and I came to like the characters before all hell breaks loose. You get to see Jonah Ray cleaved in two, so there's that. Nice budget f/x work for the final scenes.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 7, 2024 11:44:11 GMT -5
"Moloch" (2022) last night. Next to "Talk to Me" (2023), probably the best horror I've seen in many months. Ending fucked me up.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 12, 2024 12:22:46 GMT -5
Wes Craven's "Shocker" (1989) last night. I had seen it eons ago and didn't care for it. A postal contact in Mexico is interested in a print, so I went ahead and downloaded it again and had a look. Still didn't think much of it. Has it's moments (like the big fight scene running across various TV channels), but just not an overall good movie. Too bad, as Mitch Pileggi gives it his all as crazed murderer Horace Pinker.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 12, 2024 12:30:35 GMT -5
Saw a new documentary called "The Mission" (2023) the other night. It's about the doomed attempt by that young Christian guy to contact the North Sentinel Islanders a few years ago.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 12, 2024 12:35:49 GMT -5
Also saw "Shadowman" (2017) about Richard Hambleton, a contemporary of New York street artists like Jean Michel Basquait and Keith Haring who despite numerous drug issues continued to paint and explore artistically right up to the end.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 15, 2024 12:41:02 GMT -5
"When Television Attacks" (2000) last night. I'd seen it before, but it'd been a while. It's a crazy great collection of bad television moments. Mr. Beckles must have pored over countless hours of public access and network TV crap to compile the three TV Carnage collections.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 21, 2024 13:36:15 GMT -5
Recentish views include:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour S02E13 "The Magic Shop" which weirdly was aired the very day, month, and year of my birth. It was recommended by a correspondent after they'd received the recent twisted kidders issue of Hypno. With Leslie Nielson!
"The Stalls of Barchester (1971) I've never read the original story by ghost story master M.R. James, so I can't compare, but this took it's time and had the right chilling sorts of moments like a good ghost story ought. Recommended.
"The Hermit of Treig" (2022) about a Scottish fellow who over 50 years ago just said "Fuck it" and found the most remote part of his country to call home. It's poignant towards the end as it's obvious the years are catching up with the wizened chap. Dude's a hundred times tougher than I'll ever be.
"One Million B.C. (1940) Was hard to concentrate on this one, as we were trying to have a doggy play date with Harlow and the guru's white lab puppy. Didn't matter though, as I'd seen other versions of the same story previously. Was fun noting the original cheesy battling reptile scenes that I've seen show up countless times in video compilations over the years.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 26, 2024 12:16:51 GMT -5
Saw a matinee of "Poor Things" yesterday. Quite the change from the cookie-cutter fare coming out of Hollywood these days. Almost X-rated, too. Long-as-hell at 21/2 hours. Worth it, though.
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Post by Deeky on Jan 27, 2024 19:18:30 GMT -5
Trancers 2 I don't even know what that was about.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 27, 2024 19:33:43 GMT -5
Trancers 2 I don't even know what that was about. For heaven's sake, just leave it at those two. They go downhill fast in that franchise. The very definition of hours you will never get back.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 30, 2024 11:34:10 GMT -5
"Homebodies" (1974) last night. Jesus. I didn't know what to expect, but it sure wasn't that. One of the most tragic and depressing movies I've ever seen. I suppose I was hoping it would be closer to "Home Alone", but with old folks. There are brief moments of levity, but even those are pretty dark. There's a "Weekend at Bernies"-like scene, for instance. There's also a death-by-wrecking-ball-while-in-porta-potty scene that brought a grin, but most of this is tough going. Stellar cast of old folks leads. It's a good movie, just terribly sad.
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