Films & TV Shows

[Spastic Hamburger]

Yep! Was pretty fun even if it is followed the usual pattern of protective mother bear that was impregnated by artificial insemination using the extraterrestrial version of sperm 😛

Still haven’t seen the Craig films but I really liked the Dalton ones. After a time, though, they do get a bit repetitive. That said, Christopher Walken was a great Bond villain. Walken is always a lot of fun!

Getting in the mood to get more 4k discs, just need to decide on what I’m in the mood for 😛 Maybe some of the classics from Criterion?

Still enjoying Fairy Tail. Lots of fun! Still have around 100 episodes to go until I’m done with it but I may take a break next week to watch some more old films. Been in the mood for B-movies lately 😛

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Try The Jacket in Tubi, good cast including Craig, best to watch it without a clue of what it’s going to be about.
Same with Hard Eight really, it starts beautifully until the first shock, from which the film itself doesn’t quite recover.
I, Robot popped up again on FTA, the previous viewing had to be more than ten years so a recap was due. Rather surprised at the low RT rating, one gripe was the wooden acting. Well, not an issue here with Will Smith in fine fettle, providing more than enough pace and tension to compensate. And – er – what’s the issue with mechanical acting in a movie about robots? And a plotline made too intricate may detract from the point of the movie in any case. OTOH, it’s fair to say a rerun of the movie won’t be undertaken until most of the details have (again) left memory. 🙂
Quantum of Solace is fairly standard Bond fare, the upside is the action scenes play at warp speed. 🙂

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Finally got around to watching Monster from the Ocean Floor. Pretty fun. It’s mostly an adventure film instead of a straight creature feature, which is a nice touch. You don’t actually get to see the monster until the end of the film, which is rather unique for the genre.

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Yeah Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is also worth a gander.
The ending in Calvary is disturbing, the motivations of the antagonist (IT Crowd’s O’ Dowd) just don’t add up, setting the movie off on a rather lop-sided course. The recipe of character types doesn’t really mix in well with the screenplay, yet it’s watchable given a bent towards the genre.
The twists and convolutions at the end of The Prestige didn’t agree with what had transpired, or no doubt something was missed from this viewpoint. A little heavy on story line elaborations, and something about the rhythm and delivery was off. And not enough Michael Caine!
Offered through the state channel’s website Long Weekend is an odd affair. It’s possible I’m the only one who has seen it within the last ten years. 😛
The channel also provides the screening of Irresistible, the bum RT ratings possibly due to a rather undigestible mix of morality and horror. A bit churned out, but the jumpy music and one or two good startles made it watchable. 🙂

[Spastic Hamburger]

Corman’s films are always fun! Need to watch Little Shop of Horrors again (in black and white, of course!). It’s been too long since I’ve seen it.

Haven’t really turned the TV on in a couple of weeks, just been reading a lot. Not sure what’ll be on next but I’ve been itching for Space Mutiny. It’s always a fun one!

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Normally shy away from anything given a 13% rating from RT, the critics were a little kinder but still short on redeeming features.
Boogie Nights is unforgettable with laughs and licks-a-plenty, and worth a re-watch.
Streaming The Gulf, a basic boondocks police procedural with barely enough content to push the plot of the underlying theme through to its inevitable conclusion. In stark contrast, the theme is quite psychedelic:

[Spastic Hamburger]

As we know, I’m quite fond of older films with low scores. I find them a lot of fun! 😛

Been watching some of the old, pre-Loony Tunes rebrand shorts lately. They’re pretty good! Don’t make much sense, however. 😛

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Got a link for those? There’s quite a bit of that stuff on Youtube as well as IA – just a simple matter of girding one’s trawling nets. 😛
The Little Things from a few years back, flows nicely along almost as a mood piece until something predictable or gawkish pops up in the plot of dialogue leading up to a rather nothing ending. Something about it speaks half-done, despite the excellent cast.
If you like movies centred on obnoxious individuals flying off the hinge, then pencil in Sympathy for the Devil (2023 film) for a quiet night. No hesitation for recommendation – especially when old disco numbers like the following juke up:

[Spastic Hamburger]

I was watching them on Tubi but can’t seem to find them now in their library so they may have left the service the other day even though I didn’t see a notice.

Looks like plenty of services have Space Mutiny so I’ll plan to watch it sometime during the week.. With taglines like that, you can’t go wrong! 😛

Can’t get Sympathy for the Devil but I can get The Atomic Cafe. Definitely looks worth watching 😛

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There was discussion back here as to whether it could be classed as a mockumentary, perhaps it was intended as a documentary, but lines got blurred somehow in the making of it. Who knows – will have to see it. 🙂
Natural Enemy is a bad film, bad in the sense that a well-rounded cast must needs be slotted into the square hole of a pretty vacant plot. Crummy dialog and action make for a rather generous RT rating of 39%. Quick snappy scene changes and alarming music do nothing special other than speed up the bad. The scene with Chris Robards and Jeremy Harper in the tub was the high point. 😛
Currently streaming I, Jack Wright, more for seniors perhaps, modest fare with a rather enticing storyline. 🙂

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[Spastic Hamburger]

Haven’t watched The Atomic Cafe yet but I did catch Space Mutiny yesterday. It was a lot of fun! Terrible acting, high-speed bumper car chases, laser pistols that all sound different even though they’re all the same model…. 😀

Looks like I can get Creature from the Black Lagoon until the end of the month so I may need to give it another watch. It’s a classic!

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It’s already here. 🙂
So watched Distant Cousins on Tubi, terrible and left it on autoplay. Up came The Night Caller, then The Perfect Tenant followed by 100 feet. All terrible, and there was about them an aura and feeling that the production crew in all these films were escapees from some institution for the criminally insane, (as was the terminology then). Turns out that fitted in quite well with an underlying theme found throughout all of these flicks. 😛
On a lighter note, FTA had A Serious Man where the Coens had a bit of fun with dybbuks and professors followed by a few chuckles from While We’re Young.
On a much lighter note, Are You Being Served is on FTA again, a genuine crowd pleaser thanks to the pausing for, and pacing of the punchlines, clear diction and well-defined stereotypes. Recommended for its general good cheer. 🙂

[Spastic Hamburger]

The trick is getting the opportunity to watch it 😛

Going to try and watch it today 🙂

Yep, Tubi is a weird place. It’s a gold mine if you love B-movies but quality films do sneak in from time to time. 😛

They’ve also got a decent selection of classics.

Speaking of, it’s been years since I watched the Benny Hill Show. Kind of been in the mood lately but I suspect I’d need something like BritBox. Going to need to check out the British streaming services at some point as the quality of British television is much better than our stuff, in my opinion. Too many soap operas! 😛

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There’s movie gold in dem dere vaults for sure – you just have to dig it out!
Speaking of which, a friend recommended Tron for its striking musical score – so caught it at IA. Not one for hard core movie buffs, more for those just wanting a spectacular sight/sound/motion hit. The balance and arrangement of the colours on screen exhibited certain harmonies.
There aren’t too many recommended IA lists – we could start our own blog if time. For example here’s two pages of classics from Letterboxd, another one from IA is an old Film Noir list.
Mum wanted to see Gaslight, so embedded it here:

Adds a bit to the page load time! The click to play image doesn’t appear to work with direct links however (IA’s one doesn’t either), fortunately a click in the black soup gets the movie on the go. 🙂
Staying in the time capsule, TV’s Greatest Game Shows has plenty of surprises in store along with games I never new ever existed. 🙂

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[Spastic Hamburger]

Tron is great. Haven’t seen it in a while, though. Looks like the 4k version is hard to find. Supposedly, a Steelbook was released on Amazon two weeks ago but the listing says it’s unavailable and that they don’t know if it’ll be in. The regular 1080p version is easy to get, however. See something similar with a lot of Disney films. 🙁

Gaslight looks fun, will need to watch it at some point 🙂

Saw The Atomic Cafe yesterday and it both sobering and fun at the same time. Interlaced with the serious message were some very odd scenes that didn’t make much sense in the context, such as a guy in the shower randomly slipping on a bar of soap and happy music while everyone was donning hazmat suits 😛

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Soap on a rope for extra convenience? Atomic Cafe at YouTube is on the list!
Mum also wanted Brief Encounter at IA, recommended, especially for Angela Lansbury’s debut and Rachmaninoff’s score.
Have you seen No Country for Old Men? Will have to rescreen it as some details were missed – although being a Cormac McCarthy construct, there is no hope for a satisfying closure in the ending scenes.
One of the high points of The Infernal Machine is a Goldberg machine. The plot is a nice idea, just more meat on the bones along with astute editing would have made it more palatable.
Looper had some weird bang pop timeline transitions at the start which seemed unnecessarily heavy, otherwise it was pretty good B grade action stuff.
If in the mood for gritty action revenge fare, don’t go past The Foreigner – it’s a smooth, well-choreographed affair that will keep you hanging on all the way until the end! Recommended! 🙂

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Watched the Atomic Cafe as well – could have done with a little more curation, e.g. the electric chair segment didn’t appear to have much relevance.
Missed the bar of soap action – is it towards the end?
The government would want to actually consider issuing Bert the Turtle hazmats for likely affected populations – if nothing but for a morale boost!

[Spastic Hamburger]

Yep, the boar of soap was near the end. Yep, the turtle portion was fun! Duck and cover! 😀

Saw Night Tide yesterday. Wasn’t bad but it didn’t do much to actually build the conflict. It felt more like a narrative than a film

Haven’t seen No Country for Old Men but, then again, Westerns aren’t exactly my cup of tea.

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