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« Reply #21780 on: January 11, 2015, 10:48:11 PM »


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« Reply #21782 on: January 11, 2015, 10:56:31 PM »
The first Toxic Avenger rules.

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Don't care about the sequels.

Watch 4. It was made like a decade after the originals and it is super awesome.

Also, once you are educated in the Troma-verse, you can move on to Terror Firmer for advanced studies. Slightly nsfw:

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« Reply #21783 on: January 11, 2015, 11:06:08 PM »
Also, while Toxie 2 and 3 do suck, they both have entertaining opening fights.
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« Reply #21784 on: January 11, 2015, 11:07:17 PM »
The first Toxic Avenger rules.

:bow Troma :bow2

Don't care about the sequels.

Watch 4. It was made like a decade after the originals and it is super awesome.

Also, once you are educated in the Troma-verse, you can move on to Terror Firmer for advanced studies. Slightly nsfw:

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I see it reused the scene of the car flipping from Toxic 4 lol.
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« Reply #21785 on: January 11, 2015, 11:12:31 PM »
Poultrygeist is also pretty fun, but it kinda suffers in the same way that Return to Nuke Em High does in that it feels like there's a bit too much fat and it goes on a little too long. Many of these are on Netflix, too.

re: car flip

"Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. is perhaps best known for its car chase scene that happens midway through the film where several carloads of gangsters chase Harry Griswold, wearing a clown costume, through the streets of Jersey City, which climaxes when one of the cars, a blue sedan, strikes another vehicle, flips upside-down 30 feet in the air, lands, and then inexplicably explodes. Five years later, exactly the same footage was used in a scene in Tromeo and Juliet for not only being cost-effective, but also because Kabukiman had yet to be widely distributed on video (and thus brought some confusion as to which movie the footage originated from).
Despite obvious continuity flaws, Troma has managed to fit in the same footage into each of their films as a tongue-in-cheek homage, including Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, Poultrygeist, and Return to Nuke 'Em High Vol.1."
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« Reply #21786 on: January 11, 2015, 11:14:48 PM »
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« Reply #21787 on: January 11, 2015, 11:38:41 PM »
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« Reply #21788 on: January 11, 2015, 11:40:27 PM »
Inherent Vice is awesome filmmaking, but people will probably hate it because they're stupid and can't just sit back and appreciate a glorious mess in the hands of a master filmmaker. Don't be a fucking wanker, go see this movie and if you hate it, just know that in 10 years you probably won't. Probably gonna see it again soon.
Out of curiosity, did you like The Master? It was such a well done boring movie

I've yet to see a PT Anderson movie that I haven't loved. Master is probably top 3 of his stuff for me, tbh.
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« Reply #21789 on: January 12, 2015, 06:33:03 AM »
Saw A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and wasn't too into it.  You'd think "western Iranian vampire film" would be my thing, but it couldn't capture my attention (probably due to the cinematography; shots would lose focus, lens flare everywhere, etc).  Best thing in the movie is the adorable obese cat.  An alternate reading of the film makes the cat the protagonist and dooms the lovers). 
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« Reply #21790 on: January 12, 2015, 06:44:52 AM »
I was really looking forward to that movie until the reviews started rolling in. It doesn't seem like anyone has anything nice to say about it.
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« Reply #21791 on: January 12, 2015, 06:49:15 AM »
it never clicks.  it's not really about anything and the vampire is close to being a somber pixie dream girl.
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« Reply #21793 on: January 13, 2015, 08:37:22 AM »
Wetlands, the body horror romantic comedy is on Netflix now

http://vimeo.com/103464637
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« Reply #21794 on: January 13, 2015, 12:11:19 PM »
Der Fan / Trance - this is coming out w/ a new HD master in the near future so i dug back into not having seen it in a while.  Very good psychological film with a lot of story enhancing nudity in the final act.  Too classy to be really trashy, but too trashy to be taken seriously.  If you like weird, dark SLOW burn films, check this one out
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« Reply #21795 on: January 14, 2015, 11:02:42 AM »
I just watched Brainscan starring Edward Furlong. It was very early 90s. It probably would have been a cyberpunk movie if it had spent another year or two evolving, but it ended up being some sort of, uh, CD-ROM game movie. Also, Edward Furlong is a terrible fucking actor and you should never watch anything with him in it. 5 stars.
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« Reply #21796 on: January 14, 2015, 02:24:10 PM »
Have you seen Evilspeak, TVC? It's pretty hilarious and comes with the Anton LaVey seal of approval.
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« Reply #21797 on: January 14, 2015, 02:35:57 PM »
John Wick,  that was pretty good.  Takes the best bits of Tarantino, sin city. and Hard Boiled. 

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« Reply #21798 on: January 14, 2015, 04:04:52 PM »
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
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« Reply #21799 on: January 14, 2015, 05:03:36 PM »
Lucy: WTF Why did I pay for this?

Wick: HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME! I loved that movie more than I thought I would.

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« Reply #21800 on: January 14, 2015, 06:02:17 PM »
I thought Lucy was supposed to be good?
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« Reply #21801 on: January 14, 2015, 06:06:08 PM »
Inherent Vice is awesome filmmaking, but people will probably hate it because they're stupid and can't just sit back and appreciate a glorious mess in the hands of a master filmmaker. Don't be a fucking wanker, go see this movie and if you hate it, just know that in 10 years you probably won't. Probably gonna see it again soon.

I've been ripping through the book this week in forward of a hopeful weekend viewing. Hopefully I'll be able to appreciate the mess more.
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« Reply #21802 on: January 14, 2015, 06:56:16 PM »
Lucy: WTF Why did I pay for this?



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« Reply #21803 on: January 14, 2015, 07:30:45 PM »
Nah I was hoping for another Luc Besson classic, sadly he hasn't made a good film since Transporter.

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« Reply #21804 on: January 14, 2015, 07:32:54 PM »
Nah I was hoping for another Luc Besson classic, sadly he hasn't made a good film since Transporter.

Adele Blanc-Sec was a fun movie.
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« Reply #21805 on: January 14, 2015, 07:48:39 PM »
Watched Birdman. Good artsy sort of slightly surreal dark version of a Woody Allen movie. I don't think its 92% good ala Rotten Tomatoes but I did find myself compelled as I watched it wondering what would happen next. Keaton is very good.
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« Reply #21806 on: January 14, 2015, 08:06:28 PM »
Lucy is terrible. Worst fucking ending ever

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« Reply #21807 on: January 14, 2015, 08:19:37 PM »
New justice league.  better than the last one.

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« Reply #21808 on: January 14, 2015, 08:48:56 PM »
Have you seen Evilspeak, TVC? It's pretty hilarious and comes with the Anton LaVey seal of approval.

No, I've actually never heard of it. I will check it out.

For advanced Edward Furlong studies, see. . .



Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Danny Trejo, and a very weird Dennis Hopper at possibly his all-time entertainment low. It appears to have been made toward the end of Boreanaz's "fat period" of the Buffy/Angel years, when he'd often be filmed as though he were some pregnant chick trying to play a non-pregnant chick on a soap opera or something.
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« Reply #21809 on: January 15, 2015, 01:10:46 AM »
Watched Birdman. Good artsy sort of slightly surreal dark version of a Woody Allen movie. I don't think its 92% good ala Rotten Tomatoes but I did find myself compelled as I watched it wondering what would happen next. Keaton is very good.
All that means is that 92% of dudes who reviewed it said "not bad" :obama or better. A movie could have a 95% RT but still have an average review score of like 7.5.

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« Reply #21810 on: January 16, 2015, 04:56:56 PM »
Dead Snow 2 - I haven't seen the first movie since its release but I remember not caring for it very much. Maybe it's due for a rewatch as I highly enjoyed the sequel. The budget has obviously been increased compared to the original as well as its humor and "anything goes" attitude. The film starts with a brief recap of the previous movie then starts right into the action and rarely slows down. Humor wise it's on a plane similar to Evil Dead 2/Braindead. While it doesn't quite reach those movies' highs, it is perfectly serviceable for those who like their horror gooey, fun, and twisted. One of my favorite moments seemed to be straight out of a particular dream sequence in American Werewolf in London. If there are any knocks I have against it it would be some poorly forced Star Wars references that come from one of the characters and a climatic battle that feels a tad limp (but totally makes up for it with its
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« Reply #21811 on: January 18, 2015, 05:57:21 PM »
I've been seeing alot of Jupiter Ascending trailers on Hulu.  The cg looks ugly and excessive.  Nothing about the plot or action looks enticing.  I am amazed that the Wachowski's still manage to get big budgets for this kind of stuff. 

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« Reply #21812 on: January 18, 2015, 07:03:53 PM »
Hot damn, American Sniper took in $90 Million this weekend, more than double the biggest January opening ever and just a few million shy of the biggest R-rated opening ever.

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« Reply #21813 on: January 18, 2015, 07:23:45 PM »
I've been seeing alot of Jupiter Ascending trailers on Hulu.  The cg looks ugly and excessive.  Nothing about the plot or action looks enticing.  I am amazed that the Wachowski's still manage to get big budgets for this kind of stuff.
Yeah, I’m the same. It looks like some kind of elf-variant on Vampire soccer-mom porn. It doesn’t seem like there’s any way to make it good. Oddly, I felt a lack of hope for Speed Racer as well, so I’m ready to be wrong.

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« Reply #21814 on: January 18, 2015, 08:27:38 PM »
John Wick :lawd
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« Reply #21815 on: January 18, 2015, 10:41:54 PM »
Stretch was really great! Great characters, great pacing, super slick. Really fun and funny. Patrick Wilson should be a household name, and I really can't wait to see him in Fargo season 2.
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« Reply #21816 on: January 19, 2015, 08:02:22 PM »
The Sacrament:

I really don't know why this was even made. There are, like, 500 documentaries on the Jonestown Massacre, so you already know going in how a story like this ends. Just doesn't seem like it has much of a point. The real thing is waaay more horrifying, as well.  The Sacrament is fairly well-acted, and the found-footage/documentary stuff isn't too obnoxious, but there is ZERO suspense here. You can pretty much write the rest of the movie in your head just from watching the first five minutes.  Dropping the thriller music cues and going with no background music at all would have been a better choice. Also, everyone keeps talking about there being hundreds of people in the community but the most you ever see on screen are 20-30, tops. I busted out laughing at the end
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« Reply #21817 on: January 19, 2015, 08:22:51 PM »
Yeah The Sacrament was a big letdown.
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« Reply #21818 on: January 19, 2015, 08:40:09 PM »
Ti West has been floundering since The House of the Devil
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« Reply #21819 on: January 19, 2015, 08:55:25 PM »
The Innkeepers was awesome though

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« Reply #21820 on: January 19, 2015, 09:07:41 PM »
Eh. Hated the characters and the big finale was weak as hell.
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« Reply #21821 on: January 19, 2015, 09:38:38 PM »
cinema paradiso's directors cut  :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck

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« Reply #21822 on: January 19, 2015, 09:46:19 PM »
I need to see The Innkeepers.

I still think House Of The Devil was missing one more "scare" moment. The part where
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« Reply #21823 on: January 19, 2015, 09:54:57 PM »
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark ダークフェアリー : I figured Guy Pearce and Guillermo del Toro with faeries would be an automatic win. Nope. Self-indulgent suspense scenes instead feel like lingering establishing shots. Casting of the daughter was odd; she looked like she /could/ be Katie Holmes’ daughter, but she’s Guy Pearce’s daughter, and Katie’s the stepmom. I guess a daughter that looked like Guy Pearce would be a different kind of horror movie. I quit halfway through this turd.

Justice League: The New Frontier: Lots of fun superhero stuff, cast against the Cold War and McCarthyism. I liked the older costumes, including a costume transition for Batman. I want to pick up the Darwyn Cooke original works now.

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« Reply #21824 on: January 19, 2015, 11:29:48 PM »
Selma :tocry

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« Reply #21825 on: January 20, 2015, 12:16:00 AM »
cinema paradiso's directors cut  :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
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« Reply #21826 on: January 20, 2015, 06:37:09 AM »
Eh. Hated the characters and the big finale was weak as hell.

Yea House of the Devil is the only thing Ti has done that has impressed me as well and even that could have been a little tighter.

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« Reply #21827 on: January 21, 2015, 01:00:26 AM »
Saw The Interview. I like Rogan and Franco together. I'm easy to please; I thought it was stupid and fun, and laughed my ass off until the action-packed finale began. Then I was like, "ho-hey, camera movement added in post, muzzle flash and ricochet added in post, laaaaame," but up until then I was giggling my full six dollars' worth. It was better than This is the End, which I thought I'd enjoy much more than I did.

They honestly got a guy who was too charismatic for Li'l Kim. I guess we're supposed to find ourselves empathizing with him, however briefly, but it would have been easier to find someone closer to the real kid. Hell, they didn't really get the haircut right, nor the military/leisure suit cut correctly.

My only complaint is that the movie doesn't really have any continuity or flow; it's just a series of situations for them to play off of. Whatever. It was OK.

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« Reply #21828 on: January 21, 2015, 04:22:42 AM »
I just watched the Interview as well. It was pretty painful for me. I don't think I even sniggered more than a couple times. I like Seth Rogan but he's just Seth Rogan as Seth Rogan like usual. He's just there. Franco was cringe worthy. Dude was effortlessly funny in Pinapple Express but whatever he was going for in this movie just didn't work at all, and was pretty much the worst thing about it. Glad I didn't pay for this.

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« Reply #21829 on: January 21, 2015, 04:27:15 AM »
After having time to reflect on it, I think it's about on par with This is the End. I'd say This is the End was more consistent throughout, but he Interview had some serious highs to contend with. I dig This is the End, but I also have to subtract points from it for being a big in-joke. Not really a big deal to me, but it means that when I recommend it I have to add a caveat that "You'll like it, but only if you specifically like these certain people." I happen to like them.

I'll definitely be rewatching The Interview once it hits Netflix in a few days.
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« Reply #21830 on: January 22, 2015, 03:14:26 AM »
Watched Interstellar


It was good. I was hooked throughout although if I'm being honest I preferred the first half of the movie to the second half of the movie.  I preferred the "sciencey" stuff. The slow moody parts. The mystery parts. And the bleak depressing parts.

The love trumps all elements of the movie were far less interesting and compelling to me although I understand for a more mainstream audience you need those pieces to keep them hooked.

But I think for me a movie that followed through more with the science bits and how they would proceed would have probably suited me more.

Still I stayed up pretty late to watch a long movie which shows me I was very into it because I don't often do that anymore.

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« Reply #21831 on: January 22, 2015, 04:18:36 AM »
American Sniper is good.  Not six Oscar nominations good, but good.  In all honestly, its flawed as hell (problematic might be the better term), but the battle scenes are tense and exciting, and the film only seems like a rah-rah action flick, it does a good job of making those cheers it elicits stick in ones throat.  Perhaps its its tremendous popularity has occurred due in part to a mass misreading of the film.  Its surface pleasures are substantial, and its subtext isn't very deep, but its there.  Verhoeven would have made hay with this, but Clint's version ain't half bad.

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« Reply #21832 on: January 22, 2015, 04:21:12 AM »
American Sniper is good.  Not six Oscar nominations good, but good.  In all honestly, its flawed as hell (problematic might be the better term), but the battle scenes are tense and exciting, and the film only seems like a rah-rah action flick, it does a good job of making those cheers it elicits stick in ones throat.  Perhaps its its tremendous popularity has occurred due in part to a mass misreading of the film.  Its surface pleasures are substantial, and its subtext isn't very deep, but its there.  Verhoeven would have made hay with this, but Clint's version ain't half bad.
Verhoeven’s American Sniper
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« Reply #21833 on: January 22, 2015, 04:21:53 AM »
I hate to be That Guy, but I can't get behind American Sniper knowing what a huge piece of shit its main character was in real life. I know I should be judging a movie based on its own merits, but when I see a zillion people on Facebook treating this as a hagiography, and knowing that it was directed by a right-wing piece of shit, I can't even begin to endorse it. Seth Rogen was right--this really is like the movie about the Nazi sniper in Inglorious Basterds.
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« Reply #21835 on: January 22, 2015, 07:22:39 PM »
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« Reply #21837 on: January 22, 2015, 11:37:26 PM »


Looks great, but one scene in the preview tells me they're going to go the same unnecessary step Ridley Scott went in Blade Runner. Still, will pay full price to see. I like the screenwriter.

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« Reply #21838 on: January 23, 2015, 12:14:55 PM »
Watched Gravity since I watched Interstellar a few nights ago just because.


I knew nothing about Gravity other than that it had Sandra Bullock and it was the space movie that scientists didn't like compared to Interstellar.

As far as the science stuff none if it bothered me. I watch a movie for entertainment, not super-realism so nothing in the movie offended me on a fundamental level that I found distracting, frustrating, or irritating. I'm completely fine with it on those terms science nerds be damned.

The problem with the movie is really what it is and whether Sandra Bullock is an actress that holds your attention. She doesn't for me so that's a bigger problem because she isn't interesting to me generally as an actress and specifically in this role. It's also not really a movie about space or science. It's really just a disaster movie that happens to take place in space. You could have easily swapped out Mt. Everest, A submarine in deep sea, trapped near a tornado, or any remote dangerous place. It's a man versus nature movie. But the movie wants extra gravitas points because its set in space and I'm not sure it ever really earns that.

It's sort of a textbook definition of an average movie to me. My face was neutral the entire time watching it. I neither hated it nor loved it really. It just kind of exists. The special effects are very good for the most part. It's a bit surprising to me that it made so much at the box office but then its probably a better experience than most Sandra Bullock material so maybe that was the appeal here along with the space angle. 


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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #21839 on: January 23, 2015, 01:54:26 PM »
Gravity is a movie I wished I saw in the theaters. I think part of it's draw was the visual impact of being in space on such a massive screen. I didn't really feel that sense of awe watching it on my 60" hdtv in my living room. Something was lost and the movie felt more like an everyday disaster movie in the way you described it.

It does a great job in ratcheting up the tension early-on. i don't think a movie has made me as tense as when that space junk comes ripping through the second time. The sense of dread it evokes was palpable. But it keeps trying to go back to the well too many times. I think by the time she reaches the Chinese space station I'm just waiting for the damn resolution. Then when she almost drowns in the water, I'm rolling my eyes at that point. Luckily, that very last scene is beautiful and really saves it.

I still liked the movie, even though I'm critical of it. I just think it's one of those 'event' movies you need to be in the right setting to fully enjoy.