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  • #2427

    Wasn’t aware that Nightmare Alley had an older version. Will definitely add it to the list. Been meaning to see the newer one, just haven’t gotten to it yet.

    Watched Child’s Play 2 and 3 the other day. The second film was a lot of fun with Chucky taking revenge on Andy. 3, though, wasn’t that good. Most of the film focused on Andy’s plight in military school while Chucky just ran around trying to transfer his mind into another cadet. Going to try and catch Bride of Chucky soon 🙂

    #2440

    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman has been watched again. Just as much fun as last time! 😀

    And Bride of Chucky has been watched. Absolutely hilarious. 😛

    #2442
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      Yes, do remember giggling at Chucky, on the list again. 😀
      Dying on the Edge is flicked in the idiom of true B-Grade, possessing elements that both move and intrigue. The screenplay is rather smooth, formed with a professional touch, and is well directed with a solid supporting cast. And it’s very sad, 3.5/5 here.
      Right now streaming The Vanishing Triangle, a bog standard production with a hint of mystery. 🙂

      #2443

      And got Seed of Chucky lined up for this weekend. 🙂

      Going to plan to watch The Brain that wouldn’t Die again soon, too. That should be fun!

      Turns out that Tubi has Classic Who in their library. Could be fun to watch the old ones! I do miss British comedies. PBS used to show them on weekend nights but stopped doing that about ten years ago. They were a lot of fun!

      #2459

      Watched Maximum Overdrive and it was so bad that it was hilarious. Too many things to list about it but it opens to people sliding off a bridge (Wheeeee!) and slipping on watermelons like banana peels. Definitely worth watching! 😀

      #2489

      Rewatched Killer Klowns the other day. It pretty much speaks for itself. It’s a blast! 😀

      #2493

      Mansion of the Doomed wasn’t bad, if a tad repetitive. Eventually, they go into a montage of kidnapping and harvesting but I feel as though they overdid it a tad. Would have been much better if it focused more on the actual transplant research, like The Island of Dr Moreau, than the constant stream of victims.

      #2505

      Grandmother’s House was pretty good. It relies mostly on story telling with little violence, language, or sex which made it a nice breath of fresh air. The star attraction? It features Uncle Leo! 😀

      #2516
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        Have to explore Tubi again.
        Never knew Stephen King tried his hand at directing, bad luck with an Italian crew, should have just stuck with fixing the script though.
        The idea of Mansion of the Doomed could have been extended to animals, a real hoot if the vision was restored with the eyes of a regular barn owl, for instance.
        Yeah, those kinds of movies can be scary too, especially when your favourite comic actor turns out to be a spookaloo psycho. 😛
        The lead in the Disaster Artist carried around with him an aura of irritation, which adds weight to the journey of the film. Things pick up towards the end though, which transforms the arduous exercise into uproarious hilarity.
        Found Snatch rather entertaining with lively one-liners and nicely paced changes. An all star cast endows it with a feel good crowd pleaser vibe in such a way the blend and interactive mix of characters comes out with a streak of bland. The director knows it, but doesn’t care, thus we don’t either. 😛

        #2531

        My favorite part is where he was supposedly drunk and on crack the whole time. He even got barred from entering the studio as the guard thought he was a random nutcase. Sounds about right 😛

        Really need to watch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels at some point. Its Talk page is a pretty fun read, too! 🙂

        The Rift was pretty enjoyable, even if it was a pretty typical underwater adventure film. The acting helped it stand out even though the plot wasn’t anything to write home about. 🙂

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          A LS & 2SB DVD was gifted by a family member for a birthday some time ago, probably ~2012. Replayed it later, in case something was missed. The earlier Lock, Stock and Barrel had nothing much in common other than the name, it does have Claude Akins however, ubiquitous in 50s, 60s and 70s movies and shows.
          Remember seeing bits of Rift awhile back, tend to shy away from sub movies unless there’s a standout focal point in the description, funny there are not too many submarine-centric comedies, if ever one comes out, it’s odds on to be a hoot, if a crock instead, it won’t have too far to sink! 😛
          Completed streaming Fargo Series 5, where it seems the writers have been commissioned to concoct a farrago of stuff with random set of weird events and characters in a neo-western format. Found it entertaining enough, and some surprising lines, especially from Tillman:

          Well, you don’t get it, do you? This is the path I’m on. Starts at birth and it ends here. This isn’t a trip to Starbucks on the way to the office. This isn’t an idea. God cuts our names into bone and that’s who we become. He blows His holy trumpet and the walls fall down. You all came here to find Lot’s wife, but she’s already a pillar of salt and she ain’t turning back. So, go and live, or stay and die. It’s up to you.

          The audio, sweeps, zooms and transitions in A Perfect Murder make it a joy to watch as the story unwinds. Disagree with the Rotten Tomatoes assessment, although the development in the last few minutes of the film came off a little underdone. Buddy Boy was terrific. 😛
          The New Corporation is well put together and armed with a provoking tilt, it tends to promote the conclusions of the film makers through the us_versus_them angle, thus the idea of engaging in protest is the only way to change the fixture. (As an alternative, “common sense” has its attractions. 🙂 )
          Although the basic premise of 222 is hokey, the visuals and effects are very slick, thus very easy on the eyes, the work from the lead actors was convincing, some of the supports wanted a second take though. Rotten Tomatoes took it down too much, more like a 6/10 here.
          And wow, after seeing Dredd, and half expecting the detractors at RT rapping it up for the bomb squad again, pleasantly surprised to see that everyone liked it, as was the case here. Recommended. 🙂

          #2576

          Yep, can see where it would be a good name for a Western. Recently got confused by Apple’s new series Dark Matter due to SyFy having an older space opera show by that name (which was great!) 😛

          Started watching Andy Sidaris’s films the other day and they’re a lot of fun if you like cheesy action flicks (I do!).

          #2622
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            Never screened any Sidaris over here, at least as far as the recollection goes, does sound a lot of fun. 🙂
            Men is interesting, with a few nods to films – like the the Scissor-Hands of Conscience or The Shining. Early on there’s the feeling of something lightly amateurish about the delivery, but once you accept the sparseness of the sets and dialogue with the clean edges of light, shade and sound, it’s okay, and the buildup to the shock of the ending works well. While there is no pressing urge to view it here a second time, it remains a candidate for the recommended list. 🙂
            Right now, streaming (Hieronymus ‘Harry’) Bosch, nothing too spectacular out of the park, enough for a home run all the same. Harry is much gentler than say DCI Matt Burke from Taggart or Sup. Dalziel from Dalziel and Pascoe, but he is not all sweetness and sunshine.
            Gorky Park (do recall the Mad Magazine Satire but it wasn’t entitled Dorky Park, the name of a dance troupe later) had a diverse cast including Hurt, Dennehy, Marvin, and Richard Griffiths from Pie in the Sky. Golodkin looked like Alexei Sayle from The Young Ones – it couldn’t have been him – but it was – Stuff was a standout. 🙂

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            #2628

            Gorky Park is a classic! Still haven’t read the book, though. 🙁 I really need to change that

            Watched High Spirits again yesterday and it’s always a lot fun. Really don’t understand the 31% RT rating. It’s a good romp with a lot of actors just entering their careers with a few well-known names.

            #2661
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              Unusual to see Liam Neeson in a comedy, does RT rate on casting, and could any of them be convinced to revise their score after a second viewing?
              Only Lovers Left Alive didn’t work over here. The dull dialogue, empty characters and tawdry backdrops was all B-grade, the movie purported to be more than it was. It was one of those movies from which after 10-15 minutes, there’s a strong temptation to switch off, the only reason for continuing is that it must get better, to compensate for the wasted time on viewing the introductory sequences.
              Conversely, the critics liked it, could it be that some of them decided to change their minds on the second time round?
              Edit: Never knew any of the “laughing gas” movies discussed here, the Carry On team did it best in Carry on Nurse:

              Vincent Price is classic as Egghead in Batman:

              Saw this recently on FTA:

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              #2672

              Not sure how RT works but I think it mostly pulls from older reviews so it can be a bit problematic when sentiments change.

              Saw Death Race 2000 finally and it was fun. Weird film but fun 😛

              Didn’t Egghead make a “die laughing” joke in that episode? I think so 😛

              #2713
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                Haven’t seen that one, did see the remake which, although not boasting a particularly intricate plotline, was memorable enough.
                As a consequence, many of the innocent bystanders immediately dropped to the floor and egg-spired, no doubt. 😛

                It’s easy to see what is wrong with Hollow Man, notably the wonky script and the implementation of Kevin Bacon as the mad scientist gone off the rails. Not sure if anyone else could have done better – Danny DeVito anyone?
                Every one of those RT 26 points was well earned in the action sequences including the escape out of the compound at the end, the film perhaps deserving a few more points for the supporting cast.

                They’re re-running Merlin on FTA, second viewing here as well. it’s very good, albeit slightly hamstrung by the regulation 45 minute episode limit.
                When very young, read a translation of The Arthurian legend, can’t remember a thing of course, except perhaps a notion the actual stories were different from Merlin. Main similarities and differences are touched on here, no matter though, they are all cracking good stories!

                #2741

                Yep, remember Merlin. Only caught the first couple of episodes, though, before school got in the way. Really need to rewatch it in full at some point. Interesting that they named the Lady of the Lake Freya. Freyja. Freyja was the Nordic deity of sex and foresight.

                Saw The Nesting yesterday. As far as ghost stories go, it wasn’t bad but it also lacked plot, another consequence of being a ghost story. Not many of them have a well formed plot, sadly.

                #2748
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                  Merlin’s name was actually Emrys, only used by Druids and diviners in the show.
                  Their reason for ethereal plots is that ghosts are of that composition, an idea that could have been conveyed in the film’s prologue, Carradine would have been the perfect choice. 🙂
                  Original Sin is not so much a film to watch as a film, but to play as a mood piece, the Cassanova voice of Banderas, the musical voice of Jolie amidst lilting and seductive Latin arrangements of guitar and strings. Costumery, set arrangements and actor dynamics are accentuated with nice camera work. Despite the very voluptuous Angelina in the intimate scenes, the 12% at RT is a thing, in that the events in the film don’t interrelate all that well, along with the incongruities – Jack Thompson’s American accent is a hoot. 😛
                  As Good as It Gets offers an intriguing interplay of disparate characters in a block in downtown Manhattan, film evolves nicely too, ending could have been condensed a little perhaps.

                  #2794

                  Saw The Lift yesterday and that was pretty fun, if somewhat cheesy. In one scene, the elevators play hide and seek with a girl before eating her teddy bear. 😛

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