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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 16, 2018 4:55:06 GMT -5
Magnum Force- Second Dirty Harry outing is barely passable '70s high-gloss trash, and with juvenile right wing fantasy shit to sit through to boot, although I guess Harry's statement that "If everyone could shoot like that, I wouldn't mind if the whole force was queer" counts as progress of sorts. Pre-Three's Company/political stupidity Suzanne Sommers shows up briefly for some of the requisite nudity and violence.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jun 16, 2018 10:30:23 GMT -5
The Depahted A bunch of rats in Boston's Irish mob try to outmaneuver other rats in the Boston police department. Apparently this won Best Picture for no reason I can understand.
I don't know if the misspell is intentional, but it's hilarious to me because that's exactly how they'd say it in the movie. I keep misreading it as "The Depanted" |
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Post by Deeky on Jun 16, 2018 11:45:08 GMT -5
I'd watch that.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 17, 2018 16:15:12 GMT -5
King Cobra Crime drama about the real-life murder of gay pornographer Bryan Kocis by two rival filmmakers trying to free barely legal twink Brent Corrigan from his exclusive contract with Cobra Video.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 18, 2018 1:57:55 GMT -5
There's a sequel to that called Silky Python in the works.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 23, 2018 9:55:43 GMT -5
The Raiders of Atlantis A bonkers mix of post-apocalyptic violence, action adventure gunplay, and sci fi lasers, about two mercenaries who lead the battle to save humanity against a motorcycle cult after Atlantis rises from the sea off the coast of Miami.
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Post by Mayzshon on Jun 23, 2018 11:47:39 GMT -5
RIFFTRAX Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy, plus Mary Jo Pehl, Bridget Jones, Paul F. Thompkins, and the Mads themselves Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff. The final short "The Baggs" macde me realize two things:
1) Drugs were cheap and plentiful in the 1970's
2) The reason I don't do drugs now is because watching these films in elementary school has given me a 40 year contact high.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2018 12:23:52 GMT -5
The Raiders of Atlantis A bonkers mix of post-apocalyptic violence, action adventure gunplay, and sci fi lasers, about two mercenaries who lead the battle to save humanity against a motorcycle cult after Atlantis rises from the sea off the coast of Miami.
I have that, but have never taken time out to properly watch it. You make it sound essential.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2018 12:24:32 GMT -5
RIFFTRAX Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy, plus Mary Jo Pehl, Bridget Jones, Paul F. Thompkins, and the Mads themselves Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff. The final short "The Baggs" macde me realize two things: 1) Drugs were cheap and plentiful in the 1970's 2) The reason I don't do drugs now is because watching these films in elementary school has given me a 40 year contact high.
I hope this makes it to our local theater. They've shown some of their others in the past.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 23, 2018 12:34:18 GMT -5
The Raiders of Atlantis A bonkers mix of post-apocalyptic violence, action adventure gunplay, and sci fi lasers, about two mercenaries who lead the battle to save humanity against a motorcycle cult after Atlantis rises from the sea off the coast of Miami. I have that, but have never taken time out to properly watch it. You make it sound essential.
It was kind of amazing. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2018 12:42:57 GMT -5
I have that, but have never taken time out to properly watch it. You make it sound essential.
It was kind of amazing. Did the lasers make pew pew sounds when they fired? |
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Post by Deeky on Jun 23, 2018 12:46:43 GMT -5
OBVIOUSLY.
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Jun 23, 2018 18:36:19 GMT -5
I have that, but have never taken time out to properly watch it. You make it sound essential.
It was kind of amazing. I for one didn't know Atlanteans were born bikers. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 24, 2018 11:23:11 GMT -5
I guess that explains why they didn't make it when the continent sunk.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 28, 2018 4:56:09 GMT -5
The Great Train Robbery - This is one of those movies that I saw multiple times in my youth, mostly thanks to cable, and thought was cool and sophisticated. Sad to say, it doesn't seem as much of either in revisiting. It's still a decent enough watch in parts, but it evaded me in my earlier years how cringe-inducing some of the sexually-themed "humor" is. Lesley-Anne Down is still sexy as hell, Connery is still relatively cool (although his regressive personality has robbed him of some of that in my eyes over time), and Donald Sutherland is always good to watch (enhanced here by his garish mid-18th century style). Still, didn't hold up as I would have hoped. 
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jul 10, 2018 5:37:32 GMT -5
Eyes of Laura Mars- Terrific cast (Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Raul Julia, Darlanne Fluegel) in only so-so thriller about a photographic artist specializing in sexualized images of violence who starts having visions from the viewpoint of a nutball who's ice-picking people close to her. A little topicality thanks to story author/co-screenwriter John Carpenter, a bit half-assed, although I do like the fact that the story takes place at a moment when the title character has just moved into shooting for advertising. For what it's worth, this is, in places, one of the closest I've ever seen to an American movie getting the feel of a giallo. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 15, 2018 12:46:16 GMT -5
Confessions of a Campus Virgin (1979) was hardly the wacky tale of young students trying to get laid I was expecting from the title. Instead, I got this dreary German tale of a pretty brunette madly in love with a hopeless junkie who will go to any lengths to help him along his destructive path. Another boy tries to win her heart, and other students and people lead their own bleak lives full of bad choices and terrible mistakes. I will say this: The movie did make me feel a tad better about my own miserable existence. But only by comparison.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 25, 2018 14:15:34 GMT -5
Last night was a documentary twofer.
First up was American Swing (2008), about the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat in NYC back in the 70's/80's. Everyone from Buck Henry to Jamie Gillis chime in with recollections of those halcyon nights. Quite good.
Next up was one called Cult Killer: The Story of Rick Rodriguez (2006). I had zero idea what this one was about popping it into the player. Turned out to be about the infamous "Children of God" cult (nowadays known simply as "The Family") and a young, very troubled man who sought to avenge the unknown number of children abused by the cult. I already have a book and another doc on this elusive group, and this story was a welcome addition to the growing collection. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 26, 2018 17:43:50 GMT -5
There turned out to be a lot more layers to this story than I realized:
This is not the concert-video-with-protest-footage movie I expected. It was almost all interviews, not only with Pussy Riot and their supporters but with a succession of, essentially, museum docent types who explained the religious and philosophical underpinnings of what Pussy Riot is about and what they were trying to say with their shows. They explicated all this by literally taking the filmmakers on tours of museums and cathedrals and saying things like "this painting shows the history of Ste. So And So who did this and this and this and was martyred for it, and the statement Pussy Riot is making by taking the role of this saint is..." One thing they never explicated is the art/protest movement at the base of all things Pussy Riot, the Voina, which people mentioned over and over without ever saying who they were.
All of this told me something about Pussy Riot, but what told me more was watching them testify at their own trial, shut inside a glassed-in enclosure as if they were serial killers, kicking in the teeth of the prosecution with statements about what really happened and what it really meant after all the prosecution's speeches about heresy -- yes, this was a 21st-century heresy trial. I learned something from their stifled laughter when the prosecutors ignored them and plowed ahead with their blathering about heresy, and more from their brave smiles as they were shipped off to fucking Russian penal colonies for disturbing the peace -- a crime that might not even get you a $50 ticket here in the States. |
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Post by Deeky on Aug 5, 2018 1:54:53 GMT -5
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon In which a shark attacks Mexico/Bulgaria and fights against Dr. Who and a Lady Scientist.
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