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Post by Deeky on Aug 24, 2022 10:54:13 GMT -5
With the recent news stories swirling around Gary Busey, I decided to finally catch him in Stephen King's "Silver Bullet" (1985) last night. Werewolves were my favorite monster when I was a kid, but there don't seem to be that many decent werewolf movies. This one was alright, though. The book is great. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 25, 2022 11:05:47 GMT -5
So, someone sent me two factory DVDs, both from 2019. I had a choice between "Devil's Revenge" or "Pentagram". I knew it wouldn't matter much, as neither makes it to 3 (out of 10) on the IMDb. Settled on the former, mainly because it has Wm Shatner. There's no point explaining what it was about or anything, because that would take more time than they actually put into the plot, from what I could gather.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 2, 2022 11:19:44 GMT -5
A 2019 documentary called "Fantastic Fungi", which I thought was going to be a straight nature doc but veered into the psychoactive properties pretty heavy in the second half. Nonetheless, an excellent documentary.
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Post by Deeky on Sept 2, 2022 22:13:43 GMT -5
Mikey Oh lord.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 3, 2022 0:10:46 GMT -5
Is that the film about the autistic kid that Johnny is/was a fond of? Do you ever hear from him, Deeky? Man, been a few years... |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 3, 2022 8:49:42 GMT -5
Is that the film about the autistic kid that Johnny is/was a fond of? Do you ever hear from him, Deeky? Man, been a few years... No, it's about an orphan who murders his way through a string of families. I'm not sure what film you're referring to. I hear from Jon on occasion. He's active on Instagram. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 3, 2022 19:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 3, 2022 21:17:58 GMT -5
With the recent news stories swirling around Gary Busey, I decided to finally catch him in Stephen King's "Silver Bullet" (1985) last night. Werewolves were my favorite monster when I was a kid, but there don't seem to be that many decent werewolf movies. This one was alright, though. The book is great. The movie left me so underwhelmed that I never sought out the book. Maybe I should check it out after all? |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 4, 2022 19:27:18 GMT -5
Top Gun: Maverick Better than I was expecting.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 4, 2022 22:47:26 GMT -5
Top Gun: Maverick Better than I was expecting. I haven't seen it, but I haven't heard a single person speak ill of that movie, either online or in person at work. It's not a genre I gravitate to, but I will eventually get around to seeing it. I need really good movies every now and then to serve as palate cleansers for the garbage I typically watch. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 4, 2022 22:58:47 GMT -5
Speaking of garbage, I watched "Bloody Hell" (2020) last night. It didn't sound at all like my kind of view, but I kept seeing stuff about it, and took a chance. It's garbage, but it's frightfully well-done garbage that moves right along with tight editing. The genre listing on the IMDb gets it right: Comedy Action Horror in that order. Better than I expected, anyway.
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Post by Deeky on Sept 5, 2022 11:33:30 GMT -5
Top Gun: Maverick Better than I was expecting. I haven't seen it, but I haven't heard a single person speak ill of that movie, either online or in person at work. It's not a genre I gravitate to, but I will eventually get around to seeing it. I need really good movies every now and then to serve as palate cleansers for the garbage I typically watch. It is by no means a great film. It's fairly predictable, hits all the right beats along the way into a solid third act. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 5, 2022 11:43:35 GMT -5
Kolobos (1999) late last night. Never heard of it, but it came recommended. I don't think non-horror fans would like it, but I enjoyed.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Sept 5, 2022 19:53:22 GMT -5
I haven't seen it, but I haven't heard a single person speak ill of that movie, either online or in person at work. It's not a genre I gravitate to, but I will eventually get around to seeing it. I need really good movies every now and then to serve as palate cleansers for the garbage I typically watch. It is by no means a great film. It's fairly predictable, hits all the right beats along the way into a solid third act. Re: the original Top Gun --about 10 years ago I took my mom to the local Air & Space Museum (Tucson has the AMARC Boneyard). Docent was very excited to lecture the cute little old lady about the F14, which she'd surely seen in Top Gun... ...and then my mom started pointing out various mechanical bits in the flaps and undercarriage as well as the electronics and correcting him. Poor fellow didn't know my maternal grandfather's company had designed most of the aircraft --and my mom had seen the first batch of them being put together at the factory up in Bethpage. |
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Post by El Santo on Sept 6, 2022 15:15:56 GMT -5
The movie left me so underwhelmed that I never sought out the book. Maybe I should check it out after all? Just so that you go in with your expectations correctly calibrated, The Cycle of the Werewolf began as nothing more than a project for an illustrated calendar in which a dozen drawings by Berni Wrightson and a dozen paragraph-length captions by Stephen King would sketch out the story of a year's worth of werewolf attacks in a small New England town. King, as is his wont, went uncontrollably overboard with the text, until the calendar had to be turned into a book instead. Nevertheless, it remains noticeably underwritten by ordinary novel standards-- but in a way that I found very appealing in contrast to King's usual tendency to spell out every last narrative detail down to (for example) the wicked fart the mailman cuts on his way up the front stoop of the house where Cujo lies in wait to eat him. |
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Post by El Santo on Sept 6, 2022 15:22:58 GMT -5
It is by no means a great film. It's fairly predictable, hits all the right beats along the way into a solid third act. Re: the original Top Gun --about 10 years ago I took my mom to the local Air & Space Museum (Tucson has the AMARC Boneyard). Docent was very excited to lecture the cute little old lady about the F14, which she'd surely seen in Top Gun... ...and then my mom started pointing out various mechanical bits in the flaps and undercarriage as well as the electronics and correcting him. Poor fellow didn't know my maternal grandfather's company had designed most of the aircraft --and my mom had seen the first batch of them being put together at the factory up in Bethpage. Now there's a screwy coincidence. My maternal grandfather was part of the team that developed the guidance system for the Tomcat's main armament! |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Sept 6, 2022 16:18:36 GMT -5
Re: the original Top Gun --about 10 years ago I took my mom to the local Air & Space Museum (Tucson has the AMARC Boneyard). Docent was very excited to lecture the cute little old lady about the F14, which she'd surely seen in Top Gun... ...and then my mom started pointing out various mechanical bits in the flaps and undercarriage as well as the electronics and correcting him. Poor fellow didn't know my maternal grandfather's company had designed most of the aircraft --and my mom had seen the first batch of them being put together at the factory up in Bethpage. Now there's a screwy coincidence. My maternal grandfather was part of the team that developed the guidance system for the Tomcat's main armament! I came within a hair's-breadth of saying my Grandpa Chuck worked on the airframe for the F-14. This is, however, impossible based on the chronology of his various assignments during that era. The A-6 Intruder (aka "the flying drumstick" and "double ugly") was definitely his, though... Your Grandpa worked on the AIM-54? Kewlness...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 6, 2022 22:46:44 GMT -5
Is that the film about the autistic kid that Johnny is/was a fond of? Do you ever hear from him, Deeky? Man, been a few years... No, it's about an orphan who murders his way through a string of families. I'm not sure what film you're referring to. I hear from Jon on occasion. He's active on Instagram. That "may" be the movie. 
Or it "could" be one I found a long while back on VHS about a younger brother who worships his older brother like a hero, only to go nuts when the older brother gets a girlfriend. I think I burned off a copy for Jonny. We're talking easily a decade or more ago now.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 6, 2022 22:50:31 GMT -5
Now there's a screwy coincidence. My maternal grandfather was part of the team that developed the guidance system for the Tomcat's main armament! I came within a hair's-breadth of saying my Grandpa Chuck worked on the airframe for the F-14. This is, however, impossible based on the chronology of his various assignments during that era. The A-6 Intruder (aka "the flying drumstick" and "double ugly") was definitely his, though... Your Grandpa worked on the AIM-54? Kewlness...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 6, 2022 23:08:45 GMT -5
The movie left me so underwhelmed that I never sought out the book. Maybe I should check it out after all? Just so that you go in with your expectations correctly calibrated, The Cycle of the Werewolf began as nothing more than a project for an illustrated calendar in which a dozen drawings by Berni Wrightson and a dozen paragraph-length captions by Stephen King would sketch out the story of a year's worth of werewolf attacks in a small New England town. King, as is his wont, went uncontrollably overboard with the text, until the calendar had to be turned into a book instead. Nevertheless, it remains noticeably underwritten by ordinary novel standards-- but in a way that I found very appealing in contrast to King's usual tendency to spell out every last narrative detail down to (for example) the wicked fart the mailman cuts on his way up the front stoop of the house where Cujo lies in wait to eat him. I nearly gave up on Dreamcatcher for all the farting. I mean it's different. Farts were a plot element in Dreamcatcher, rather than minutiae about a single character's flatulence, like you mentioned above. |
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