I'm bored and on painkillers. Ask me about a movie and I'll let you know if I liked it, didn't like it, haven't seen it, don't want to see it. Probably no explanations. I've mostly watched horror movies the last eight years or so but I used to watch a little bit of everything. Feel free to ignore.
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What is the best horror movie you have watched recently?
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Endless (2017, a semi-sequel to Resolution (2012), which I didn't like. You don't need to see Resolution to get it, but it does tie in)
The Beast Pageant (2010)
Brooklyn 45 (2023)
Coherence (2013)
Scrooge (1951)
The Conspiracy (2012)
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, etc -- would like to see so many more, but availability, similarly titled films/remakes/similar source material -- and my cultural ignorance -- makes it very confusing to keep things straight.
Weird, funny, creative, thoroughly enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIu4_lPQPxU
and/or
Midsommar?
I watched Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. for the first time recently, it’s nuts.
Godzilla Minus One is amazing, even on the small screen, treat yourself.
A businessman hypnotized into thinking he's a bird, an English gangster, a man whose dead wife returns each night to kill him, an ad exec, and a gang of wannabe thugs converge.
https://youtu.be/9uWnhWngefI?si=FrbjECB2_KlBnaPE
Probably not a second viewing kind of deal, but that movie does stay with you.
if you haven't seen it yet, you absolutely should
But if we're dying horror, which I also love, what's your opinion of Bone Tomahawk?
Bone Tomahawk - liked the build up, once they approached the cave I thought the wheels started coming loose, in the cave (terrible set) it fell apart for me. So there's gore, I stopped caring.
Also, don't miss old Mexican horror movies - they slap. Powerhouse/Indicator put out an awesome boxed set a few years ago called "Mexico Macabre" - the critic commentary track is not good, but the discussion with Abraham Castillo Flores is great.
The Great Race
Big Trouble (2002) - just rewatched last night, fresh on my mind… :)
The Great Race is a lot of fun and pretty much all The Blake Edward's I need in my life.
Haven't seen Big Trouble, looked it up. I dunno. I'd watch it on a plane, maybe? Just doesn't look up my alley.
The Wizard feature is on YouTube, sourced from a laserdisc. Well worth giving a watch, IMHO.
What about “The Shout?”
Nope, totally wrong, I'm thinking of The Last Wave for some reason. Which I also haven't seen. I'm a ding-dong.
Definitely a movie you have to commit to. The hyper-emotionality in every scene takes some time to vibe with. Great movie once you adjust.
I don't own it on VOD because I don't think it goes on sale.
Maniac Cop II is fun, it ramps up the crazy from the first one with the precinct scene, etc, but trading out Bruce Campbell for Robert Davi always bummed me out. Davi's such a humorless creep.
Fiction: The Green Mile
The prequels or sequels, I think I’ve seen but are so bad I can’t believe I saw them?
The composer for it is on Bluesky. I chatted with him a little about working on the film. Really interesting. He also put up the soundtrack on Bandcamp. https://bsky.app/profile/aardman.bsky.social/post/3lfggfsrbys2l
What'd you think of Brian Cox as Lecter? I find him more frightening than Hopkins.
I did enjoy bombing around the east side as a student. Saw lots of crazy shit, did lots of crazy shit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4P-26kHAw&pp=ygUbaHVuZHJlZHMgb2YgYmVhdmVycyB0cmFpbGVy
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(UK 1968)
a.k.a.
The Assassination Bureau
(U.S. 1969)
poster illustration by Robert McGinnis
The Fall Guy-- Which was one of the BEST action movies of 2024 and I can't believe it bombed and the viewing public are morons.
https://youtu.be/trcxQojkNg8?si=eos2ADWOMwPrd3VQ
I'm a big fan of the color grading, though!
The Craft (1996)
It's based on a book. In the book, the golden retriever is the young idiot and the bully breed is the wise old dog.
I also hate "Finding Nemo" because it perpetuates the idea that fish can survive being flushed. Not with today's sewage treatment.
Dean Stockwell played their son, Nick Junior in the last film in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_Thin_Man