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[Joe Molotov]

The Brain (1988)



I'd been meaning to see this one for a while because of how hilarious the brain looks. It's definitely a throwback to 50's creature features, when all you needed was a rubber suit and a dream. The plot is basically It Conquered the World + Invasion of the Body Snatcher. Our hero is rebellion teen Jim Majelewski, who gets sent to see the local tv doctor ("He wouldn't be on TV if he wasn't good.") to cure his antisocial behavior. The doc's tv show and psychiatric institute are all just a front for a giant, evil brain from outer space to suck up our brainwaves and take over our planet. Everyone that watches the show either falls under the brain's hypnotic suggestion or are driven insane by monstrous hallucinations. Jim discovers the plot while he's at the institute and escapes to warn others, but most of the town has already fallen under the brain's thrall and now the doctor's tv show (ironically named "Independent Thought") is about to go nationwide.

The best part of this movie was definitely the brain. The brain was amazing. I like how the actress who was only in the movie to get topless for one scene and only has three movie roles listed on IMDB, her IMDB bio pic is just her getting eaten by the brain.



This movie also had the guy that played the evil doctor from The Re-Animator, this time playing....the evil doctor. That's just good casting.
2.5/5

[The Sceneman]

If millenials reward that shyte with a good box office, you deserve all the garbage that follows.

It looked like a movie that was shelved in 2005 and Paramount just won the rights to distribute it. All it was missing was Dean Cain as the lead "good guy" and Don Lafontaine doing the voice over for the trailer.

Was Dean Cain even relevant in 2005?

Was Sonic the Hedgehog?

I may have purchased Sonic Rush for my DS

[The Sceneman]

It's a different continuity they don't have to look the same

This is a really good argument for the look of Sonic in the new movie.

Did the MARVEL COMIC BOOKS FAN GEEKS complain when mighty THOR didnt look like THIS



No, they accepted that the version that is portrayed to them in the movie(S) is the real Thor version.

Can we please have more Fast and Furious car movies

[headwalk]

the lore runs deep.

[toku]

[Mandark]

James Mardsen is on West World, HBO's other current show people claim is the best show ever but is actually incredibly stupid and terribly written that everyone has forgotten all the plot points from weeks after the season ended.

Dean Cain in 2005 was deep into made for TV/DTV movies and doing one off roles on long running shows and being the star of shows so shitty they got cancelled mid season and didn't even finish airing.

Yeah, I'd say it's more a circa-2005 Sean William Scott movie.

At first I was thinking Brendan Fraser but I won't disrespect him like that.

[TVC15]

The Brain (1988)

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I'd been meaning to see this one for a while because of how hilarious the brain looks. It's definitely a throwback to 50's creature features, when all you needed was a rubber suit and a dream. The plot is basically It Conquered the World + Invasion of the Body Snatcher. Our hero is rebellion teen Jim Majelewski, who gets sent to see the local tv doctor ("He wouldn't be on TV if he wasn't good.") to cure his antisocial behavior. The doc's tv show and psychiatric institute are all just a front for a giant, evil brain from outer space to suck up our brainwaves and take over our planet. Everyone that watches the show either falls under the brain's hypnotic suggestion or are driven insane by monstrous hallucinations. Jim discovers the plot while he's at the institute and escapes to warn others, but most of the town has already fallen under the brain's thrall and now the doctor's tv show (ironically named "Independent Thought") is about to go nationwide.

The best part of this movie was definitely the brain. The brain was amazing. I like how the actress who was only in the movie to get topless for one scene and only has three movie roles listed on IMDB, her IMDB bio pic is just her getting eaten by the brain.

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This movie also had the guy that played the evil doctor from The Re-Animator, this time playing....the evil doctor. That's just good casting.
2.5/5

You’re like the only person here that watches good shit anymore.

[TVC15]

under the silver lake

I wish I liked this more, but it's still worth watching as a curiosity, and the first half hour or so is pretty great. You can see Lynch and De Palma's fingerprints throughout the movie, but it never really pulls it together. I'd like to read a synopsis of what this mess was going for. That said, the movie remains watchable and intriguing. I think the trick to saving this would have been focusing on tightening the mystery and noir-y elements up and toning down the up-its-own-assedness.

[Momo]

"Gangster's Paradise"

Day 1, full imax

[clothedmacuser]

In Avengers

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If they can time travel and their goal is to travel to a point where all the stones are why don't they just go to the part where Quill shows pussy emotions and hold him back? That seems the most efficient.  It would be awkward when they have to give him back his power glove a second later. 

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That seems the most efficient

[Crash Dummy]

In Avengers

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If they can time travel and their goal is to travel to a point where all the stones are why don't they just go to the part where Quill shows pussy emotions and hold him back? That seems the most efficient.  It would be awkward when they have to give him back his power glove a second later. 

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That seems the most efficient

yeah but then you miss out on all the fanservice

[Momo]

Scarlett Johansson wasnt given enough screentime for me to have a full fanservice experience

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America's ass though 

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[Joe Molotov]

You’re like the only person here that watches good shit anymore.

My love for cult cinema has been rejuvenated lately. 

I watched Candyman last night. One of the few great horror movies of the 90's. Tony Todd is terrifying without even having to do anything, delivering lines that almost drip honey. When he whispers "Be my victim" to Virginia Madsen while a somber Phillip Glass score plays, it makes most mainstream horror movies, filled with scare chords and cats jumping out of closets, seem pretty silly.
4/5

[TVC15]

I listen to the Candyman soundtrack at work all the time. Prob in my top 10 work albums.

[Steve Contra]

Endgame was pretty good, but infinity war is the superior movie. Better action, less dumb sad superhero stuff.

[Joe Molotov]

[TVC15]

Btw I watched Under the Silver Lake again last night and liked it a lot better. I’m not sure if it’s because I knew what to expect this time or what, but I dug almost the whole thing this time. May go back for thirds.

[Joe Molotov]

Maybe if you watch it enough times, you'll figure out who the Dog Killer is. 

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I mean, the most obvious guess is that the MC is the dog killer. He has the weird dog dreams, he's violent (he beats up Jesus, kills the Songwriter, and kicks the shit out of the those 12 y/os ), he has the dog treats in his pocket at the end which pisses off the Homeless King (who has an affinity for dogs/coyotes), and generally seems to be an unreliable narrator. But maybe that's just what THEY want you to think. 

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[TVC15]

Maybe if you watch it enough times, you'll figure out who the Dog Killer is. 

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I mean, the most obvious guess is that the MC is the dog killer. He has the weird dog dreams, he's violent (he beats up Jesus, kills the Songwriter, and kicks the shit out of the those 12 y/os ), he has the dog treats in his pocket at the end which pisses off the Homeless King (who has an affinity for dogs/coyotes), and generally seems to be an unreliable narrator. But maybe that's just what THEY want you to think. 

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And women bark at him!

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I saw a comment comparing it to The Crying of Lot 49, my fave book, and the comparison really fits well. Def watching a third time now.

[toku]

Yeah really weird but rewarding movie in a way a lot of more modern films/mysteries aren't.

[TVC15]

Other TVCy things I liked

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Gratuitous sex
Perving on neighbors
Smelling dildos
Beating children
Andrew Garfield getting sprayed in the face by a skunk and vomiting
Closeup of a fully satisfied toilet
Patrick Fischler

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[TVC15]

"Smelling dildos"

Does this mean the act of sniffing dildos, dildos that give off an odor, or dildos that smell things?

Well, I meant the first one, but the movie doesn’t really get into the latter possibilities. It could be all three!

[team filler]

 

[chronovore]

Watched Pacific Rim: Uprising. Heaps of fun. It was even more of what was great in the first movie. What the hell is wrong with people? When you go to a movie to see live-action giant robots fighting kaiju and destroying Asian cities, THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR.

Philip Glass! So good.

[Joe Molotov]

The Ark of the Sun God (1983)



I'm back on my Amazon Prime deep dive (and my bullshit) again. Glancing at the title and the boxart for this one, you'd probably think it's a cheap Italian Indiana Jones ripoff, and it certainly is, but it's really closer to the 60's and 70's Italian James Bond ripoffs than it is to Indiana Jones. The boxart and title are basically just straight up bullshit, there's no "ark" in this movie. There's also no Nazis, and I don't remember anything about Semiramis, Queen of Babylonia. Maybe she was mentioned once and I was on my phone. I didn't give this one my full attention because tbh it was kinda boring.

The hero of this movie is basically James Bond. He's the dashing super-spy, he's not a rugged adventurer. He even says something like "You should have called Roger Moore for this assignment." More of the action takes place in Istanbul, in hotels and street markets and mansions and car chases. He's supposed to be a world-class burglar and he was brought in to open the vault of the tomb of Gilgamesh and retrieve his scepter, which has "the power to rule the world" (although it's never explained how this works). The bad guys are the Cult of Gilgamesh that want the power. They all looked vaguely middle-eastern, if there were supposed to be Nazis, apparently I missed that too. Only the end involved any tomb robbing adventure. It was not good, and also not bad-good.
1/5

[BlueTsunami]

I keep thinking about LVT Melancholia. Not so much its particular cinematic arch but the egomania contained within. Its gross af but familiar.

[TVC15]

Oooo, I still need to see Von Trier's newest movie. I'll maybe watch it tonite!

[BlueTsunami]

Oooo, I still need to see Von Trier's newest movie. I'll maybe watch it tonite!

The serial killer flick? Fuck I'm about to be disturbed

[Don Rumata]

The House that Jack built is good.
Well, if you already like his edgy stuff, otherwise you'll hate it.

Also watch the uncensored one.

[D3RANG3D]

[toku]

It's all about the colors bro

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The Ark of the Sun God (1983)

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to be entirely honest, stuff like this on Amazon Prime makes the service waaaay more enticing to me than all the prestige drama series in the world.

the new Criterion release of Police Story 1 and 2 is pretty gol-dern great. Great suppliments, image quality that makes a mid-80's Hong Kong film look great (which shouldn't really be a thing), and of course Jackie is there daring God to kill him like a dozen times or so. Five Stars.

[chronovore]

The New New Testament (Le Tout Neuveau Testament) - Belgian comedy about what happens when God, who lives in Flanders, Belgium, loses track of his biblically unmentioned daughter as she covertly bumps the apostle-count from 12 to 18 by adding 6 modern witnesses. It was fun, beautifully shot, very well acted, but unevenly paced.

[Joe Molotov]

The Ark of the Sun God (1983)

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to be entirely honest, stuff like this on Amazon Prime makes the service waaaay more enticing to me than all the prestige drama series in the world.

the new Criterion release of Police Story 1 and 2 is pretty gol-dern great. Great suppliments, image quality that makes a mid-80's Hong Kong film look great (which shouldn't really be a thing), and of course Jackie is there daring God to kill him like a dozen times or so. Five Stars.

It looks like a great package and you can never go wrong with some golden-age Jackie Chan

[clothedmacuser]

I heard what the crazy, mind blowing twist is in this movie and had to see it.



It's still not as fun as it should be.  But, if you really want long, languorous shots of Matthew McConaughey's sculpted naked buns this is the movie for you.


"If you really want long, languorous shots of Matthew McConaughey's sculpted naked buns this is the movie for you." - clothedmacuser

[team filler]

what's the tweest?

[Transhuman]

Reavers were made accidentally by the Alliance

[Nintex]

Extremely wicked shockingly evil and vile
The movie about the events surrounding serial killer Ted Bundy. Most of it focuses on Ted himself and his girlfriend Liz, who is 'trapped' by his spell of charm.
Overall it is a compelling watch even though you already know how it is going to end if you know the story of Ted Bundy.
It doesn't have the definitive answer on why women flocked to this guy even when he was already on trial but it does show a very human side of this shocking story.

Efron's performance is great so it is well worth a watch.

[Joe Molotov]

I've been watching foreign arthouse films, specifically Italian auteur Andrea Bianchi's Strip Nude for Your Killer. You guys probably wouldn't understand the dense allegories.

But for real though, it pretty much delivers exactly what the title implies, which is lots of sex and violence. Take some hot eurobabes, throw in a masked killer, add a dash of sex farce and you got a movie you'd be proud to take home to your mother. If your mother was Joe Bob Briggs.
4/5

[BisMarckie]

After making fun of comic book movies for a decade without ever seeing one single MCU movie, me and the wife took on the challenge of seeing all 21 of them.
Iron Man was alright, but I fell asleep the second half of that movie. 
The Incredible Hulk was terrible, none of it made sense, The whole motivation of the Bruce Banner character doesn’t make any sense,
Iron Man 2 was pretty good, Mickey Rourke as the Russian dude was pretty cool casting, however the final battle was kinda anticlimactic.
Thor was a cute fish out of water story, then I fell asleep on the couch. 

[BisMarckie]

Oh yeah and we started Captain America The first Avenger, but stopped because I had to prepare dinner. Has the potntial to be my favorite of those one hour in,

[Joe Molotov]

That lady is pretty, how furry was she

It was the 70's, so...you know.

[Tasty]

Rewatched Iron Man 1 recently, I was so convinced it'd hold up really well but it mostly doesn't. Probably cause the rest of the MCU took that formula and ran it into the ground lol.

[Joe Molotov]

omg, Drive is on Amazon Prime. Not the Ryan Gosling one, but the late 90's DTV kung-fu Mark Dacascos one. That movie sucked, but it has some amazing fight scenes and stunt work. I saw it for the first time on the USA Network at like 10:30am in between classes in college. I still own the DVD, but like....the DVD is way over there....and Amazon Prime is right here.

[Dickie Dee]

Rewatched Iron Man 2 yesterday. Surprised by how much I liked it - much more so than I did at the time. The Avengers bits they stuffed in don't seem to derail the film as much as it did at the time.

[bork]

Man, that new Spider-Man trailer deflated any excitement I had for it. Its just typical

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cg monster
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and on and on...

Exact opposite for me.  Because...

TEH SPOILERZ + FANBOY DRIVEL

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The claim that Mysterio (who appears to be a good guy AND has super-powers- the original Mysterio is a villain and does not) is from another world changes everything up.  If this is true, they're introducing multiverses into the MCU, which will allow for crazy shit to happen (and is an easy way to bring in the X-Men and Deadpool, lol) and maybe even multiple versions of characters...including characters who died coming back from other realities.  HINT HINT.  But it also could be Mysterio being full of shit.  In fact, some already are are speculating that this being a trailer means it's all a ruse and that the Nick Fury in the film is NOT Nick Fury, but might be another classic Spidey villain, the Chameleon.  But then how would they know who Spider-Man really is?

And if there is multi-verse stuff in this movie...the name "Far From Home" takes on a completely different meaning.  The black-suited Spider-Man in the trailer...did we see his face in any other trailers?  If not, maybe that's MILES.  Holy fuck, totally excited now.    Betting that's not it and it's just Peter though.

This can be backed up by a mini-series Marvel did a few years ago, BTW, called "Spider-Men."  Main comic universe (616) Mysterio found a way to access what was the "Ultimate" universe (separate comic line based on the various movies and is where the design for Sam Jackson Nick Fury came from, plus Miles Morales as Spider-Man) and the Mysterio in the Ultimate books was actually the 616 guy remote controlling a robot.  Then the two Spider-Men meet each other to stop him when a portal opens.  People will go insane if this actually happens.

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[BisMarckie]

Are these MCU movies getting better by the way? As I said, the first half of Captain American is my favorite so far and I‘d rate that as a 7/10 movie if iI‘m being generous.

[toku]

omg, Drive is on Amazon Prime. Not the Ryan Gosling one, but the late 90's DTV kung-fu Mark Dacascos one. That movie sucked, but it has some amazing fight scenes and stunt work. I saw it for the first time on the USA Network at like 10:30am in between classes in college. I still own the DVD, but like....the DVD is way over there....and Amazon Prime is right here.

classic toku movie

[Tasty]

I literally thought "this sounds like a toku movie" reading Joe's post

[CatsCatsCats]

Finally saw end game.

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So Thor stole mjolnir from a timeline that’s totally fucked now

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[Joe Molotov]

Finally saw end game.

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So Thor stole mjolnir from a timeline that’s totally fucked now

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Cap took it back at the end.

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[Tasty]

Hate to be that guy but plz mark spoilars

[CatsCatsCats]

KSorry

[clothedmacuser]

After making fun of comic book movies for a decade without ever seeing one single MCU movie, me and the wife took on the challenge of seeing all 21 of them.
Iron Man was alright, but I fell asleep the second half of that movie. 
The Incredible Hulk was terrible, none of it made sense, The whole motivation of the Bruce Banner character doesn’t make any sense,
Iron Man 2 was pretty good, Mickey Rourke as the Russian dude was pretty cool casting, however the final battle was kinda anticlimactic.
Thor was a cute fish out of water story, then I fell asleep on the couch. 

So that is married life?   Hmm.

[BisMarckie]

It was a rainy weekend.

#giantdadlife

[toku]

[Great Rumbler]

Oh yeah and we started Captain America The first Avenger, but stopped because I had to prepare dinner. Has the potntial to be my favorite of those one hour in,

Cap 1 is pretty meh. Cap 2 and 3 are legit, though.

[Great Rumbler]

Nah

I haven't seen Thor 2 or Avengers 2, tho

[Great Rumbler]

Civil War is on par with Age of Ultron