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« Reply #345 on: April 08, 2020, 05:36:03 PM »
Finally got to sit down and finish watching Avengers: Endgame. And have to say that overall I liked it. Theres a few low moments. But they are brief or not too onerous, or both. Captain ManHater is not a huge presence and is not the show stealer Marvel was building her up to be in this. Definitely did not go in the directions I expected.

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« Reply #346 on: April 14, 2020, 12:48:39 AM »
Who Fears the Devil sometimes goes by The Legend of Hillbilly John. Not sure if that helps but you never know.

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« Reply #347 on: April 14, 2020, 06:28:47 AM »
Yes. Though that version is apparently edited. Not sure what was edited.

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« Reply #348 on: April 14, 2020, 09:25:42 AM »
I don't know about the movie, but the Silver John stories are great. Manly Wade Wellman does a good job of keeping them grounded, but creepy. The idea of a man-eating house-monster is ludicrous, for instance, but he makes it work.

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« Reply #349 on: April 14, 2020, 12:04:22 PM »
I watched Garm Wars, The Last Druid last week. At least, I put it on Netflix and watched it out of the corner of my eye while playing video games. It looks interesting, in a B movie level of acting and story. The visuals are superb. I plan to give it another go after finishing up season 3 of The Good Place.
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« Reply #350 on: April 15, 2020, 04:50:58 AM »
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I watched Garm Wars, The Last Druid last week. At least, I put it on Netflix and watched it out of the corner of my eye while playing video games. It looks interesting, in a B movie level of acting and story. The visuals are superb. I plan to give it another go after finishing up season 3 of The Good Place.

Saw it as well. Its a collab between a Japanese crew and I believe a Canadian one. The plots really murky, but there. But dang it looks good. This is what Abrams should aspire to.

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« Reply #351 on: April 15, 2020, 05:08:57 AM »
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I don't know about the movie, but the Silver John stories are great. Manly Wade Wellman does a good job of keeping them grounded, but creepy. The idea of a man-eating house-monster is ludicrous, for instance, but he makes it work.

Yes. I've read that one and he makes it a very believable threat and its fairly well thought out a trap. All the more diabolical because it just sits there waiting, looking like an old shack.

Oh and this is the guy that can make killer bunnies disturbing. If polite.
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« Reply #352 on: April 17, 2020, 12:41:03 PM »
Since it's a TV series but I don't think it warrants it's own thread

The Good Place Seasons 1-3
Because the final Season 4 hasn't been put up yet.

I got turned on to this series by a pastor (Paul Vanderklay on youtube) talking about philosophy. I wound up binge-watching season 1, and finishing up seasons 2-3 the week after.
Great series. It's superbly written. Very funny. I'd laugh out lout at least once per epiosde, and usually a few times.
The creator was inspired by Lost, and I'd say the twists are very Lost-ey, except so far there is actually something of substance behind the twists, and not just plot black holes.
If you're interested, I won't even spoil the series setup, because part of the fun is not knowing what's going to happen next. A woman dies and goes to "heaven". Don't spoil the show for yourself if you can help it.

SPOILER (Hover over section below to view.)

After the big reveal of season 1, they go into this annoying cycle of having lots of drama, and then resetting the characters so they can go through it all again. It gets tiresome and while I'm still looking forward to season 4, the constant resets are not part of the reason. It feels like a soap opera where everyone gets amnesia all the time.

Occasional social justicey jokes pop up, and those fall really flat for me. I give them a quick eye roll and move on.

Reccomend.
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« Reply #353 on: May 01, 2020, 09:41:01 PM »
The Platform

I made it to three minutes before getting tired of the film smacking me in the face with a sledgehammer.
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« Reply #354 on: May 02, 2020, 05:33:27 AM »
Haven't watched any movies lately, but I've been watching standup on Netflix.

I'm a big fan of Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Norm MacDonald, Joe Rogan, Demetri Martin, Anthony Jeselnik and John Mulaney, but among the newer / lesser known comedians, I highly recommend checking out Todd Barry, Kanan Gill, Ryan Hamilton, James Acaster and Lavell Crawford.

As for comediennes, I think Kathy Madigan has no equal, but Ilza Schlesinger does a very good job. Also, just discovered Gina Brillon whose opened for Fluffy (Gabriel Inglesias) and she's a fellow Bronx born, but she did a very fun special.

The whole Comedians in Cars is extremely hit and (mostly) miss.

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« Reply #355 on: May 04, 2020, 02:12:44 AM »
Just finished watching the 1975 movie The Hindenburg, with George C Scott and many other familiar faces gaceing a really well done movie. The sets look great and from all accounts were very accurate, and the cast all plays off well. Havent had a chance to see this since it came out.

Interestingly enough the movie plays out more as an investigative mystery rather than a disaster movie. And it spends probably 90% of the movie on that and taking its time the various passengers, crew, investigators and law enforcement go about trying to solve the mystery both on board and groundside.

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« Reply #356 on: May 06, 2020, 11:24:27 AM »
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The Platform

I made it to three minutes before getting tired of the film smacking me in the face with a sledgehammer.

*looks up movie*

Oh, THIS piece of schlock. Yeah, I saw the trailer for this and was like... 'uh huh... that's not pushing a sociopolitical view, no, of course not *snort*'

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« Reply #357 on: May 17, 2020, 05:39:19 PM »
Lifeforce

Much maligned movie from the 80's. Accused of being cheesy, exploitative and schlocky. Mostly due to Mathilda May being nude for most of her scenes.
Summary: Astronauts exploring Hayley's Comet (Hayley's Comet comes up in a few movies of the time, due to it's real world passage near the earth) find a seemingly derelict spacecraft 150 miles long. They investigate and find a bunch of "dead" bat aliens and three nude humans whom they take to earth. Turns out they're space vampires who suck the life force from other beings.

I remembered this movie fondly, and recently bought it on Blu-Ray. On rewatching, I still love it, warts and all. And there's a lot of warts.
A lot of the dialog is goofy. Many important plot points happen off-screen. And the story goes off into a pointless goose (vampire) chase for the middle of the film.

I'm not going to use spoiler blocks for a 30 year old film.

But there's so many great scenes! One of the most memorable is when they're flying back to London in a helicopter, and the space vampire girl creates a body out of the blood and goo from two bodies they were transporting with them. The bodies are clearly mannequins and look terribly fake, but the blood-body is very convincing and freaky.
There's some very shitty FX, but a lot of good stuff too, especially for the time. And it's all practical, of course. None of this fake, glossy CGI crap.

I love the end where London is in flames, soul explosions everywhere, and it gives a proper creepy end of the world vibe.

One thing I noticed on rewatch is one of the last scenes is Carlsen and the space girl flying up into the alien ship as disembodied "life force", and there's a quick scene, only lasts a few seconds, where they show the crystal coffins reform full of space babies. It's at  that point, 30 years later, I realized the space girl was mating with Carlsen.
Another small detail is, at home on blu-ray in high-def, you can see the vampires and their "zombie" victims have spiral contact lenses on their eyes.

So, I thoroughly reccomend this flick. I bought the Blu-Ray because it's only occasionally available on streaming services, and I especially wanted to make sure I got the Director's Cut, because the US theatrical release was butchered.


Watch the crazy space vampire movie!
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« Reply #358 on: May 17, 2020, 05:54:22 PM »
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Lifeforce

Much maligned movie from the 80's. Accused of being cheesy, exploitative and schlocky. Mostly due to Mathilda May being nude for most of her scenes.
Summary: Astronauts exploring Hayley's Comet (Hayley's Comet comes up in a few movies of the time, due to it's real world passage near the earth) find a seemingly derelict spacecraft 150 miles long. They investigate and find a bunch of "dead" bat aliens and three nude humans whom they take to earth. Turns out they're space vampires who suck the life force from other beings.

I remembered this movie fondly, and recently bought it on Blu-Ray. On rewatching, I still love it, warts and all. And there's a lot of warts.
A lot of the dialog is goofy. Many important plot points happen off-screen. And the story goes off into a pointless goose (vampire) chase for the middle of the film.

I'm not going to use spoiler blocks for a 30 year old film.

But there's so many great scenes! One of the most memorable is when they're flying back to London in a helicopter, and the space vampire girl creates a body out of the blood and goo from two bodies they were transporting with them. The bodies are clearly mannequins and look terribly fake, but the blood-body is very convincing and freaky.
There's some very shitty FX, but a lot of good stuff too, especially for the time. And it's all practical, of course. None of this fake, glossy CGI crap.

I love the end where London is in flames, soul explosions everywhere, and it gives a proper creepy end of the world vibe.

One thing I noticed on rewatch is one of the last scenes is Carlsen and the space girl flying up into the alien ship as disembodied "life force", and there's a quick scene, only lasts a few seconds, where they show the crystal coffins reform full of space babies. It's at  that point, 30 years later, I realized the space girl was mating with Carlsen.
Another small detail is, at home on blu-ray in high-def, you can see the vampires and their "zombie" victims have spiral contact lenses on their eyes.

So, I thoroughly reccomend this flick. I bought the Blu-Ray because it's only occasionally available on streaming services, and I especially wanted to make sure I got the Director's Cut, because the US theatrical release was butchered.


Watch the crazy space vampire movie!

Oh yeah, I liked it, now I gotta find that fabled bluray.
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« Reply #359 on: May 17, 2020, 06:11:33 PM »
Lifeforce is epic nonsense, with gloriously cheesy special effects and actors chewing the scenery. Can't forget the "I am the feminine in your mind" scene with Patrick Stewart (if it matters, major spoilers -- it's the movie's big infodump):


Another fun 1980s movie is The Night of the Creeps. It's not as epic, and has less cheesecake and chewing the scenery, but it has equally fun special effects, and better characters and plot.
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