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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Apr 2, 2024 18:54:38 GMT -5
I want a Muppet movie where it’s all like a deadly serious kitchen sink drama with only human characters except there’s a subplot where the family are setting traps for a rat living in the house who is played by Rizzo the Muppet rat, who gets maybe two or three minutes of screen time, but is prominently featured in all promotional material for the film. and a dream sequence where Rizzo performs "Rapper's Delight" Excellent Kangaroo Jack reference, Rosa.
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 2, 2024 19:01:00 GMT -5
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie. I only saw this movie once and I remember nothing about it. However, I am pretty sure that the Muppet Christmas Carol has more than one scene of a human talking to another human. Scrooge's nephew Fred and his wife are both played by humans. Those are short scenes, but they are in the theatrical version. I think? I never watch the theatrical version. But what the theatrical version cuts is the song between Scrooge and Belle, while a short dialogue scene remains. Anyway, the Muppet Christmas Carol is far superior to their Treasure Island. Though, again, I only saw it once and it was likely 15+ years ago. I thought with most, if not all, of the scenes between Fred and Scrooge there were also Muppets hanging about though I could be wrong. As for the scene with Scrooge and Belle I must be misremembering lore about what actually got cut. I'd only ever seen the movie with the song reinserted and for whatever reason assumed that that entire scene got axed but if it did not and it was just the song that scene too would only be a couple minutes tops. Muppet Treasure Island, on the other hand, has multiple scenes that are just Tim Curry and a child actor with a mullet having a talk which is fine if you just wanted to do a live action Treasure Island movie in 1996 but you slap "Muppet" on that title and at least one of those two characters had better be Fozzie Bear or something.
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 2, 2024 19:07:07 GMT -5
I watched a heap pile of cinema. Here are words. 9 Deaths of the Ninja (1985) - This movie was weird. There were ninjas and spies and army guys. Anthony Kiedis’ dad was a Nazi drug dealer in a wheelchair with a pet monkey in a diaper. There were paramilitary lesbians and a giant terrorist who just laughed and bellowed “Ya! Ya! Ya!” At times I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a parody or if it just seemed like it because of how ineptly it had been made. The fight scenes were mostly decent 80s Filipino ninja action but for a movie with the title and poster this movie has it seems like there should have been more of them and less guys randomly flying around in helicopters or talking to each other on their wrist watches. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie. Brawl Busters (1978) - I don’t know if it’s the terrible dubbing in them but not a single one of these Korean kung fu movies make a lick of sense until the last 20 to 30 minutes. While the plot might not make any sense the fight scenes are insanely good. It’s all flying kicks and weird weapons (including bladed oven mitts) and people bursting through furniture and/or buildings and it fucking rules. Head of the Family (1996) - This was a surprisingly decent Full Moon movie that married a nearly noir-esque story of infidelity, murder, and blackmail with some classic Full Moon Features little freaks. This had everything one could want out of a Full Moon flick: boobs, gore, a little freak, and an incessant synth score that would feel out of place in any other movie but it also had characters that were actually interesting which is kind of a treat in these movies. Also just because I have nowhere else to mention this, the version I watched was up on Full Moon’s YouTube page and for most of the movie there was no effort to conceal tits or ass or full frontal female nudity but there was one instance towards the end (the scene where the titular Head of the Family licks a titty) that got poorly blurred out for some reason and then the block that I guess was supposed to blur out the breast (but didn’t really) randomly stayed on the screen for like another 10 seconds which was weird. Death Kiss (2018) - I've watched a lot of movies in my time but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Death Kiss is more or less the cinematic equivalent of a cover band in that it's got a random dude who looks like Charles Bronson doing Death Wish shit in 2018. Sure I've seen remakes and movies that are paying homage to earlier cinematic works but that's not what this is. Like Samuel L. Jackson was in a Shaft remake but he wasn't out there trying to look like Richard Roundtree in it. This shit's wild. The plot is kind of non-existent: A guy that looks like Charles Bronson does Death Watch shit in 2018 and Daniel Baldwin is also there as an Alex Jones style shithead on the radio but honestly that's all I'm going to guess anyone could possibly want out of a Death Wish clone with a Charles Bronson lookalike. I want a Muppet movie where it’s all like a deadly serious kitchen sink drama with only human characters except there’s a subplot where the family are setting traps for a rat living in the house who is played by Rizzo the Muppet rat, who gets maybe two or three minutes of screen time, but is prominently featured in all promotional material for the film. I'd rather the deadly serious drama just randomly have a single Muppet as one of the characters but it's never brought up that the sad sack male protagonist's romantic rival is a felt bear puppet. No other Muppets to do antics with. No references to him being a bear or anything just "Fozzie Bear got cast in this indie romantic comedy and is playing a guy named Tony that's dating Adam Driver's character's ex-girlfriend."
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 7, 2024 18:52:30 GMT -5
The Beast: Weird-looking guy in his 30s falls for Léa Seydoux but they’ll never be able to get together. Can’t relate.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2024 2:19:30 GMT -5
Dunc: Part The Second. My daughter hadn't seen part the first, so we ... found a way to see it on Saturday night, then saw this in Imax on Sunday. I loved it, but not as much as I wanted to? Hadn't really thought about it until I started typing this, but with BR 2049 and this both 'exploding' the Chosen One narrative in different ways, I wonder if that's part of what drew Villeneuve to them. As long as all this is, both movies should have been longer. The timeline is still too compressed, and moving some of the 'problematic messiah' elements up from the sequels messes up some of the characterization. Jessica comes across as borderline evil, the relationship between Paul and Chani is either going to radically depart from the books or is just under-served here, and some scenes that should have had a bigger payoff still get shorted. Everything about the Houses and CHOAM (is it even mentioned?) is reshuffled. The final couple of scenes don't make much sense, even if he's departing further from the books for Part the Third. V. keeps things weird but a different kind of weird than Lynch. Whatever homosexual subtext people were expecting from the Harkonnens probably paid off very differently. Butler still sounds a bit like Elvis, but also mimics Skarsgård's vocal patterns pretty well. There are a few scenes of Paul that evoke Tetsuo, in Akira. I can't find matching shots, but a scene with Paul sitting on stones after the Water of Life, cape draped out behind him particularly stood out. There's a lot more to be said about all of this, and in comparison to the novels, but I'm lazy and should actually do some work.
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 9, 2024 3:12:06 GMT -5
I watched several movie-films this past week. Here are words about them.
Ninja Scroll (1993) - I've never really been much of an anime guy. I liked Robotech as a kid but other than that my exposure to the genre has been relatively limited. I'll occasionally decide that I shouldn't ignore an entire form of media and make myself watch random Japanese cartoon movies but these attempts at making myself into an anime guy are generally fairly short-lived and I quickly go back to ignoring Japanese animation. Oh how different things might have been if back in 1996 or 1997 I'd actually listened to my one anime nerd friend who was like, "All you watch are kung fu and ninja movies...you'd probably love this," and watched Ninja Scroll. This fuckin' ruled! It was just ninjas and decapitations and boobs and weird freaks and a guy that I think was supposed to be the monk that invented, and gave his name to, those yellow pickled radishes (or at least shared a name with that dude). It was dudes howling at each other and hacking off limbs. There were plagues and secret gold mines and it was all terrific. Had I watched this back in '97 I'd probably be a weirdo with little polyvinyl anime figures on a shelf in my house now so maybe it's for the best that I didn't see this until now...
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) - It’s kind of wild how little Gamera there is in this Gamera movie. My man’s got maybe 15 minutes of screen time in this one hour and forty minute long flick and that includes the recap of the first Gamera movie stuff in the beginning of this. Luckily Barugon is here shooting rainbows and punching things with his ice tongue but even he doesn’t show up until like 40 minutes in and even after he does there’s still just a lot of scenes with guys just talking to each other which makes for a pretty boring giant monster movie.
Wish (2023) - The way people shit talked this I expected it to be like the worst thing ever but it was just a Disney movie and like every Disney movie there was a real basic-ass plot and a bunch of songs. I don’t know what else the folks that were heaping scorn on this were expecting out of a cartoon movie for children.
American Kickboxer (1991) - This was a weird movie because for like two thirds of it there’s not a single character one could possibly get behind. The main character, the titular American Kickboxer, is a total asshole who commits criminally negligent homicide in the first 10 minutes of the movie after drunkenly getting into a fist fight at a party and punching someone trying to break up that fight through a table. The villainous kickboxer who he fought with and later became champion while ol’ American Kickboxer was in prison was also a total dick as was the bargain basement Owen Wilson looking kickboxing reporter who was a dick to both the alleged hero and the villain alike. The hero guy does become a slightly better person about 20 minutes before the movie ends but nothing that happens prior to that is interesting enough to make spending an hour plus with three of the least likable martial arts movie characters I’ve seen…and that includes all the xylophone scored comedy goofs in the no budget Taiwanese kung fu flicks I love watched over the years.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2024 3:30:15 GMT -5
I watched several movie-films this past week. Here are words about them. Ninja Scroll (1993) - Had I watched this back in '97 I'd probably be a weirdo with little polyvinyl anime figures on a shelf in my house now so maybe it's for the best that I didn't see this until now... It's never to late to claim your destiny. Besides, you've already reproduced, so it's not like you have to impress chicks anymore.
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Post by chalkdevil's night 😈 on Apr 9, 2024 13:21:43 GMT -5
I watched several movie-films this past week. Here are words about them. Ninja Scroll (1993) - I've never really been much of an anime guy. I liked Robotech as a kid but other than that my exposure to the genre has been relatively limited. I'll occasionally decide that I shouldn't ignore an entire form of media and make myself watch random Japanese cartoon movies but these attempts at making myself into an anime guy are generally fairly short-lived and I quickly go back to ignoring Japanese animation. Oh how different things might have been if back in 1996 or 1997 I'd actually listened to my one anime nerd friend who was like, "All you watch are kung fu and ninja movies...you'd probably love this," and watched Ninja Scroll. This fuckin' ruled! It was just ninjas and decapitations and boobs and weird freaks and a guy that I think was supposed to be the monk that invented, and gave his name to, those yellow pickled radishes (or at least shared a name with that dude). It was dudes howling at each other and hacking off limbs. There were plagues and secret gold mines and it was all terrific. Had I watched this back in '97 I'd probably be a weirdo with little polyvinyl anime figures on a shelf in my house now so maybe it's for the best that I didn't see this until now... I did see Ninja Scroll around 1998 but it failed to turn me into an anime guy. I mean, I thought it was great. I watched other bootleg anime that a legit anime dude from my physics class would lend to me (like Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Neon Genesis, etc), but it required so much effort and socialization with other nerds to actually be an anime fan in the 90s that I just couldn't go deeper. I kept thinking one day I'd turn out to be cool and obviously couldn't associate myself so deeply with a subculture. Jokes on me though, I was never cool and anime is fully mainstream now.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2024 19:33:21 GMT -5
I watched several movie-films this past week. Here are words about them. Ninja Scroll (1993) - I've never really been much of an anime guy. I liked Robotech as a kid but other than that my exposure to the genre has been relatively limited. I'll occasionally decide that I shouldn't ignore an entire form of media and make myself watch random Japanese cartoon movies but these attempts at making myself into an anime guy are generally fairly short-lived and I quickly go back to ignoring Japanese animation. Oh how different things might have been if back in 1996 or 1997 I'd actually listened to my one anime nerd friend who was like, "All you watch are kung fu and ninja movies...you'd probably love this," and watched Ninja Scroll. This fuckin' ruled! It was just ninjas and decapitations and boobs and weird freaks and a guy that I think was supposed to be the monk that invented, and gave his name to, those yellow pickled radishes (or at least shared a name with that dude). It was dudes howling at each other and hacking off limbs. There were plagues and secret gold mines and it was all terrific. Had I watched this back in '97 I'd probably be a weirdo with little polyvinyl anime figures on a shelf in my house now so maybe it's for the best that I didn't see this until now... I did see Ninja Scroll around 1998 but it failed to turn me into an anime guy. I mean, I thought it was great. I watched other bootleg anime that a legit anime dude from my physics class would lend to me (like Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Neon Genesis, etc), but it required so much effort and socialization with other nerds to actually be an anime fan in the 90s that I just couldn't go deeper. I kept thinking one day I'd turn out to be cool and obviously couldn't associate myself so deeply with a subculture. Jokes on me though, I was never cool and anime is fully mainstream now. Ninja Scroll didn't do much for me. I was already a weeb by then, and living in Korea at the time. It was fun enough, but I don't care for Kawajiri's art style, or even the general shift to the slicker looking works of the '90s. Even then, I was too nostalgic for '80s anime.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 10, 2024 10:17:37 GMT -5
I watched several movie-films this past week. Here are words about them. Ninja Scroll (1993) - I've never really been much of an anime guy. I liked Robotech as a kid but other than that my exposure to the genre has been relatively limited. I'll occasionally decide that I shouldn't ignore an entire form of media and make myself watch random Japanese cartoon movies but these attempts at making myself into an anime guy are generally fairly short-lived and I quickly go back to ignoring Japanese animation. Oh how different things might have been if back in 1996 or 1997 I'd actually listened to my one anime nerd friend who was like, "All you watch are kung fu and ninja movies...you'd probably love this," and watched Ninja Scroll. This fuckin' ruled! It was just ninjas and decapitations and boobs and weird freaks and a guy that I think was supposed to be the monk that invented, and gave his name to, those yellow pickled radishes (or at least shared a name with that dude). It was dudes howling at each other and hacking off limbs. There were plagues and secret gold mines and it was all terrific. Had I watched this back in '97 I'd probably be a weirdo with little polyvinyl anime figures on a shelf in my house now so maybe it's for the best that I didn't see this until now... I did see Ninja Scroll around 1998 but it failed to turn me into an anime guy. I mean, I thought it was great. I watched other bootleg anime that a legit anime dude from my physics class would lend to me (like Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Neon Genesis, etc), but it required so much effort and socialization with other nerds to actually be an anime fan in the 90s that I just couldn't go deeper. I kept thinking one day I'd turn out to be cool and obviously couldn't associate myself so deeply with a subculture. Jokes on me though, I was never cool and anime is fully mainstream now. Freshman year, 2001, people in my dorm basically forced me to watch Ninja Scroll upon learning I hadn't. I had seen some anime feature basics and I liked it well enough but now I solely remember the wasps and nothing else.
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Post by chalkdevil's night 😈 on Apr 10, 2024 10:36:37 GMT -5
I did see Ninja Scroll around 1998 but it failed to turn me into an anime guy. I mean, I thought it was great. I watched other bootleg anime that a legit anime dude from my physics class would lend to me (like Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Neon Genesis, etc), but it required so much effort and socialization with other nerds to actually be an anime fan in the 90s that I just couldn't go deeper. I kept thinking one day I'd turn out to be cool and obviously couldn't associate myself so deeply with a subculture. Jokes on me though, I was never cool and anime is fully mainstream now. Freshman year, 2001, people in my dorm basically forced me to watch Ninja Scroll upon learning I hadn't. I had seen some anime feature basics and I liked it well enough but now I solely remember the wasps and nothing else. Ninja Scroll was a staple with my high school friends. I own it VHS but I don't think I've seen it 20+ years. I think for me, because I've seen it a bunch, it would still need to have the shitty English dubbing to really work for me.
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 13, 2024 17:46:03 GMT -5
Sign o' the Times (1987)
Peak Prince. Peak Stage Show. Peak performances, even if most are lip synch'd. Incredible choreography.
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Post by ganews on Apr 13, 2024 20:01:52 GMT -5
Sign o' the Times (1987) Peak Prince. Peak Stage Show. Peak performances, even if most are lip synch'd. Incredible choreography. As I have seen the three Prince movies which aren't just concert footage, I'll have to put this on my list - I didn't realize it had vignettes.
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Post by Trurl on Apr 15, 2024 8:53:03 GMT -5
Saw Monkey Man in the theatre yesterday and I have to say I was expecting a lot more ska in the soundtrack.
My daughter and I had the entire theatre to ourselves, so we got to joke and cackle through the whole thing. We liked it - had some nice cinematography, some good fights. A bit too shakeycam-y, but at least it mostly let you see what was going on. I like Dev Patel and The Green Night was one of my favourite movies of the past few years - I expect his pitch was "what if Gawain was John Wick?"
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Post by LazBro on Apr 15, 2024 9:02:54 GMT -5
Saw Monkey Man in the theatre yesterday and I have to say I was expecting a lot more ska in the soundtrack. My daughter and I had the entire theatre to ourselves, so we got to joke and cackle through the whole thing. We liked it - had some nice cinematography, some good fights. A bit too shakeycam-y, but at least it mostly let you see what was going on. I like Dev Patel and The Green Night was one of my favourite movies of the past few years - I expect his pitch was "what if Gawain was John Wick?" I like Dev Patel and think this looks good. I'll catch on streaming for sure. But I kinda crack up at the idea of this being a passion project he's been trying to make for years. Like, really dude? Your passion project, the role you just had to play and the story you just had to tell, is one in which you beat and murder the absolute fuck out of dudes? What does that say about a man other than, I guess, that we never really evolve past, "Damn, that's a cool stick. Have you seen this stick? Hell of a stick."
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Post by Trurl on Apr 15, 2024 9:11:42 GMT -5
Saw Monkey Man in the theatre yesterday and I have to say I was expecting a lot more ska in the soundtrack. My daughter and I had the entire theatre to ourselves, so we got to joke and cackle through the whole thing. We liked it - had some nice cinematography, some good fights. A bit too shakeycam-y, but at least it mostly let you see what was going on. I like Dev Patel and The Green Night was one of my favourite movies of the past few years - I expect his pitch was "what if Gawain was John Wick?" I like Dev Patel and think this looks good. I'll catch on streaming for sure. But I kinda crack up at the idea of this being a passion project he's been trying to make for years. Like, really dude? Your passion project, the role you just had to play and the story you just had to tell, is one in which you beat and murder the absolute fuck out of dudes? What does that say about a man other than, I guess, that we never really evolve past, "Damn, that's a cool stick. Have you seen this stick? Hell of a stick."
I don't know, my dream film project would probably have lots of spaceships shooting at each other.
But there is quite a bit of politics in it, and it does explicitly have the thesis that "oppression is violence, and sometimes the only way to respond to violence is with violence."
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 15, 2024 12:19:26 GMT -5
Saw Monkey Man in the theatre yesterday and I have to say I was expecting a lot more ska in the soundtrack. My daughter and I had the entire theatre to ourselves, so we got to joke and cackle through the whole thing. We liked it - had some nice cinematography, some good fights. A bit too shakeycam-y, but at least it mostly let you see what was going on. I like Dev Patel and The Green Night was one of my favourite movies of the past few years - I expect his pitch was "what if Gawain was John Wick?" I like Dev Patel and think this looks good. I'll catch on streaming for sure. But I kinda crack up at the idea of this being a passion project he's been trying to make for years. Like, really dude? Your passion project, the role you just had to play and the story you just had to tell, is one in which you beat and murder the absolute fuck out of dudes? What does that say about a man other than, I guess, that we never really evolve past, "Damn, that's a cool stick. Have you seen this stick? Hell of a stick." We do need more movies about cool sticks.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 16, 2024 9:49:43 GMT -5
Malignant (2021)
Finally caught up with this one, meaning I now have only 7,999 recent horror flicks to see. Who has the time other than Nudeviking? Anyway, despite not generally caring for James Wan's horror (I despise Saw and barely remember a thing about Insidious) I thought this was a decent genre exercise. The good cinematography and strong female characterizations forgive the utterly nonsensical story.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 17, 2024 1:32:05 GMT -5
Malignant (2021) Finally caught up with this one, meaning I now have only 7,999 recent horror flicks to see. Who has the time other than Nudeviking? Anyway, despite not generally caring for James Wan's horror (I despise Saw and barely remember a thing about Insidious) I thought this was a decent genre exercise. The good cinematography and strong female characterizations forgive the utterly nonsensical story. I considered the nonsensical story the high point in this case, I was laughing SO HARD at the police station scene! I've interacted with a guy on Threads who is a small-time actor who ended up being one of the few people to NOT die in that scene! He loves that.
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Post by LazBro on Apr 17, 2024 8:18:18 GMT -5
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The Mrs. was out of town, which is pretty much the only time I watch horror or horror-adjacent movies. This is really more of a comedy using the backdrop of a slasher to have some fun with Zoomer stereotypes and all the things that would make Drunk Uncle mad. The cast is very game, likeable even when their characters are not, it moves at a quick pace, and most importantly of all: it's a short-ass movie. And even though her character was detestable, I think I have a crush on Rachel Sennott.
The eventual answer to the whodunnit - who IS the slasher? - is fantastic, and I really didn't see it coming, but once you figure it out in the final moments, it takes too long to reveal itself. Like it becomes very obvious and then it's still another 15-20 seconds before it confirms it. Should have been a little tighter there. Otherwise, yeah, a fun, bloody, shout-y mess of a horror comedy. I liked it.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 17, 2024 9:15:44 GMT -5
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The Mrs. was out of town, which is pretty much the only time I watch horror or horror-adjacent movies. This is really more of a comedy using the backdrop of a slasher to have some fun with Zoomer stereotypes and all the things that would make Drunk Uncle mad. The cast is very game, likeable even when their characters are not, it moves at a quick pace, and most importantly of all: it's a short-ass movie. And even though her character was detestable, I think I have a crush on Rachel Sennott.
The eventual answer to the whodunnit - who IS the slasher? - is fantastic, and I really didn't see it coming, but once you figure it out in the final moments, it takes too long to reveal itself. Like it becomes very obvious and then it's still another 15-20 seconds before it confirms it. Should have been a little tighter there. Otherwise, yeah, a fun, bloody, shout-y mess of a horror comedy. I liked it.
I actually LOLed at the reveal. I was enjoying the movie before then, but that just made it worthwhile to me.
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Post by LazBro on Apr 17, 2024 10:30:43 GMT -5
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The Mrs. was out of town, which is pretty much the only time I watch horror or horror-adjacent movies. This is really more of a comedy using the backdrop of a slasher to have some fun with Zoomer stereotypes and all the things that would make Drunk Uncle mad. The cast is very game, likeable even when their characters are not, it moves at a quick pace, and most importantly of all: it's a short-ass movie. And even though her character was detestable, I think I have a crush on Rachel Sennott.
The eventual answer to the whodunnit - who IS the slasher? - is fantastic, and I really didn't see it coming, but once you figure it out in the final moments, it takes too long to reveal itself. Like it becomes very obvious and then it's still another 15-20 seconds before it confirms it. Should have been a little tighter there. Otherwise, yeah, a fun, bloody, shout-y mess of a horror comedy. I liked it.
I actually LOLed at the reveal. I was enjoying the movie before then, but that just made it worthwhile to me. It's a brilliant twist.
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 17, 2024 15:24:27 GMT -5
Next Goal Wins (2023)
Taika fits a flick into his busy, busy schedule. One that overlays existing reality previously detailed in a documentary. Nice Samoans from NZ do the heavy lifting. Taika does his vicar/presbyter/minister befuddled by their own exuberance; distracted by their own authority. Just like real life!
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 18, 2024 19:05:51 GMT -5
Here are movies (if you can call such things movies) that I watched this past week.
The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980) - Three Bruce Lees and a Chuck! This is pretty much the Mount Rushmore of Brucesploitation movies as you’ve got Dragon Lee, Bruce Le and Bruce Lai all playing clones of Bruce Lee as well as fellow Brucesploitation actor Bruce Thai showing up as a dude named Chuck who just also happens to look slightly like Bruce Lee. The plot is utter nonsense with the Bruce Lee clones working for Her Majesty’s Secret Service busting up gold smuggling movie directors and Thai drug lords with dreams of world domination. The fights are fine if somewhat workmanlike but this was a lot of fun all the same. There were “bronzemen” in underpants, Bolo Yeung with a Prince Valiant haircut, boobs, mad scientists, gross looking 1970s British guys and killer green onions. It’s all dumb as fuck but kind of a blast.
The Urge to Kill (1989) - This felt like something that aliens with only a passing familiarity with humanity made. The impossibly named Bono Zorro is a record producer/horndog with a house that is run entirely by a computer known as the Central Environment Control System or S.E.X.Y. for short. Yes, I know that there is no possibly way to abbreviate Central Environment Control System as S.E.X.Y. but that's honestly like one of the least weird or offputting things about this movie. S.E.X.Y. ends up getting jealous and murdering all sorts of naked women (primarily via bath tubs and showers) and in spite actually finding severed limbs and shit Bono Zorro and his girlfriend just act like all the various hookers and groupies that have seemingly disappeared are just hiding somewhere in the house. It's all genuinely unnerving not because it's particularly scary or gory (though a couple of the kills are decent enough) but just because of how weird it all is. No one in this movie acts like an actual person. Nothing that happens in the movie makes sense. People refer to going up into an attic as going "in the roof" and call meat cleavers "axes," and there's a naked lady with either green or gold body paint and wild-ass 80s makeup that does jump scares. Grade A freak shit for mutants!
2069: A Sex Odyssey (1974) - I didn’t know it when I put this on but this is actually a movie I’d seen before as I’d gotten a dubbed copy of it from a friend whose dad owned it on VHS back when I was in high school. I’d not seen or thought about this movie since the mid-90s…heck, I didn’t even remember that it had this title, but in like 2 minutes it all came back to me. The plot is pretty standard issue softcore sex romp fare: a group of Venusians land in a small mountain village in Austria in order to collect sperm and save their dying race. “Hilarity” ensues. This was in no way a great work of art but the women were cute, a couple of the jokes actually landed and the pacing was pretty good so nothing ever wore out its welcome.
Thunder Cat Woman (1985) - Undercranked Taiwanese ninja nonsense with a ninja in hot pants, dirt bikes, and random transformation sequences. Half the time I didn’t really know what was going on in this beyond the fact that the hot pants ninja was trying to get revenge on some dudes for maybe killing her dad or something but who cares? There was a ninja in denim hot pants doing undercranked kick punching and sometimes that’s enough.
Ice Cream Man (1995) - This is a weird one. Like for most of its runtime it kind of feels like an episode of the Nickelodeon show, Are You Afraid of the Dark with kids having slightly creepy adventures in the suburbs but then in the last twenty minutes or so things go completely off the rails with people getting decapitated and their severed heads displayed on oversized ice cream cones and people getting stabbed in the brain through the lower jaw. It gets real gnarly real fast which I don’t mind I just wish it was a bit more consistent tonally. There was a lot of stuff I liked here. The effects are pretty stellar save for the fact that one kid is supposed to be fat but very clearly just has a pillow stuffed into his shirt and the main actors are all pretty good. Clint Howard brings an off-kilter menace to the titular Ice Cream Man and the kids playing his victims are surprisingly natural. Also the movie made ice cream look disgusting and not even when it had like eyeballs and roaches in it just like a scoop of regular-ass ice cream looked nasty as hell in this. It’s put me right off ice cream which is probably for the best because I’m trying to lose weight.
Black Mama, White Mama (1973) - A women in prison film where the women were in prison just long enough for an overlong shower scene, the introduction of an evil lesbian warden, and a food fight before turning into a wildass chase movie where guerrillas battle cops and cowboys and gangsters and Pam Grier and Margaret Markov wander around the Philippines chained to each other while sometimes dressed as nuns and occasionally murdering scumbags who try and catch them. This isn’t the best Pam Grier movie I’ve ever seen but she’s one of those actors that even in pretty average fare has so much charisma you can’t help but be into it.
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 18, 2024 22:02:31 GMT -5
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The Mrs. was out of town, which is pretty much the only time I watch horror or horror-adjacent movies. This is really more of a comedy using the backdrop of a slasher to have some fun with Zoomer stereotypes and all the things that would make Drunk Uncle mad. The cast is very game, likeable even when their characters are not, it moves at a quick pace, and most importantly of all: it's a short-ass movie. And even though her character was detestable, I think I have a crush on Rachel Sennott.
The eventual answer to the whodunnit - who IS the slasher? - is fantastic, and I really didn't see it coming, but once you figure it out in the final moments, it takes too long to reveal itself. Like it becomes very obvious and then it's still another 15-20 seconds before it confirms it. Should have been a little tighter there. Otherwise, yeah, a fun, bloody, shout-y mess of a horror comedy. I liked it.
Have you seen Shiva Baby? You should see Shiva Baby - it will solidify that crush of yours.
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Post by LazBro on Apr 19, 2024 7:52:09 GMT -5
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
The Mrs. was out of town, which is pretty much the only time I watch horror or horror-adjacent movies. This is really more of a comedy using the backdrop of a slasher to have some fun with Zoomer stereotypes and all the things that would make Drunk Uncle mad. The cast is very game, likeable even when their characters are not, it moves at a quick pace, and most importantly of all: it's a short-ass movie. And even though her character was detestable, I think I have a crush on Rachel Sennott.
The eventual answer to the whodunnit - who IS the slasher? - is fantastic, and I really didn't see it coming, but once you figure it out in the final moments, it takes too long to reveal itself. Like it becomes very obvious and then it's still another 15-20 seconds before it confirms it. Should have been a little tighter there. Otherwise, yeah, a fun, bloody, shout-y mess of a horror comedy. I liked it.
Have you seen Shiva Baby? You should see Shiva Baby - it will solidify that crush of yours. I have not, but I've heard OF it, and only good things. Consider it on the radar.
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Post by chalkdevil's night 😈 on Apr 19, 2024 11:33:09 GMT -5
Have you seen Shiva Baby? You should see Shiva Baby - it will solidify that crush of yours. I have not, but I've heard OF it, and only good things. Consider it on the radar. I watched Shiva Baby a while back and remember liking it well enough. It might have skewed a little too far into the cringe humor territory for my tastes, but lots of people find cringe way funnier than I do. And, speaking of Rachel Sennott, I saw Bottoms the other week. It was pretty decent. I may not be the target audience but it was amusing enough. It's sort of your standard teen "sex" comedy except the leads are two girls who are "ugly, untalented gays." Through a series of comic misunderstandings, the girls end up starting a school fight club for women in order to try and woo their popular, cheerleader crushes. I think the stuff I liked the most is when the movie goes way over the top, and it veers more towards Anchorman than something like American Pie. It's interesting to see a Gen Z comedy and what that's like. It does seem to be set in a pretty nebulous time period. Phones/social media aren't really present, but otherwise it seems to be squarely modern. Although I realize if it was set in like 2012, I wouldn't have the fashion knowledge to pick up on those queues, versus, say, easily picking out a movie set in 1987 vs 1997. Anyway, I dug it. Worth a watch. Moving slightly up the generational spectrum, I also watched the Millennial comedy No Hard Feelings, in which Jennifer Lawrence gets to be funny in a movie. And she does a pretty good job. She plays an adrift 30 something townie who drives for Uber but has her car repo'ed and is now in danger of loosing her childhood home because of the gentrification of her coastal town. One of the rich gentrifiers agrees to give her an old car in exchange for sleeping with his 19 year old, shut in son. What follows is some awkward seduction that sometimes leans a little too heavily on the "kids today with their safe spaces and helicopter parents." Eventually, Lawrence starts to actually connect with the kid, some what predictable drama and hijinks ensue. Overall it's pretty decent. Lawrence is funny and able to pull of the emotional bits as well. The story is fine and a nice example of the mid-budget adult comedies that don't really exist anymore.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Apr 19, 2024 13:38:45 GMT -5
Moving slightly up the generational spectrum, I also watched the Millennial comedy No Hard Feelings, in which Jennifer Lawrence gets to be funny in a movie. And she does a pretty good job. She plays an adrift 30 something townie who drives for Uber but has her car repo'ed and is now in danger of loosing her childhood home because of the gentrification of her coastal town. One of the rich gentrifiers agrees to give her an old car in exchange for sleeping with his 19 year old, shut in son. What follows is some awkward seduction that sometimes leans a little too heavily on the "kids today with their safe spaces and helicopter parents." Eventually, Lawrence starts to actually connect with the kid, some what predictable drama and hijinks ensue. Overall it's pretty decent. Lawrence is funny and able to pull of the emotional bits as well. The story is fine and a nice example of the mid-budget adult comedies that don't really exist anymore. Oh hey, my best friend's current favorite movie! I was actually surprised by how entertaining it was, given the predictability of the plot. Although there's a bit I definitely was not expecting (the one on the beach - you know) that had me in tears laughing because it caught me off-guard. I've seen it twice now and each time I'm left feeling a little wistful that I can't just spontaneously jump in my car and go see a movie like this on a whim when I want something to do, because those are really not the offerings movie theaters have anymore.
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Post by ganews on Apr 21, 2024 8:09:28 GMT -5
I watched The Red Balloon (1956) for the first time and teared up. That hasn't happened to me with a movie for a good while. I put it on my saved list for the next time I'm feeling angry or cynical and need to come down.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 21, 2024 19:05:40 GMT -5
Civil War (2024)
Hard meh. Effective enough in style with an awesome soundtrack (De La Soul, Silver Apples, Sturgill Simpson, 2 classics from Suicide). But laughably vague and noncommittal in its storytelling. Who are these characters and why's it so damned important for them to get an interview with a feckless and losing President? What exactly are the political schisms at play and what's motivating the death squads? Why did Jesse Plemons' character steal Elton John's pink-tinted glasses?
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