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Post by reaperg on Sept 12, 2010 10:00:25 GMT -5
"Battle Royale"
One of my favorite movies. A Japanese high school class is transported to an island and forced to kill each other. The last film by Kinji Fukasaku ("The Green Slime") and one of his best, and Beat Takeshi is typically awesome as the teacher.
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 12, 2010 12:00:45 GMT -5
"Battle Royale" One of my favorite movies. A Japanese high school class is transported to an island and forced to kill each other. The last film by Kinji Fukasaku ("The Green Slime") and one of his best, and Beat Takeshi is typically awesome as the teacher. I'm going to have to search this one out.
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Post by Ratso on Sept 12, 2010 12:03:51 GMT -5
"Battle Royale" One of my favorite movies. A Japanese high school class is transported to an island and forced to kill each other. The last film by Kinji Fukasaku ("The Green Slime") and one of his best, and Beat Takeshi is typically awesome as the teacher. I'm going to have to search this one out. It's actually not that bad.
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Post by Ratso on Sept 12, 2010 12:05:47 GMT -5
Rollergator 1996 Every time I think I've seen all of the worst movies ever, a new contender throws its hat into the ring. This one wears a mighty big hat. A young woman finds a talking baby alligator on the beach. He's hiding from Joe Estevez, owner of a small amusement park, who hopes to make a fortune by adding the gator to his freak show. Mr. Estevez sends a skateboarding female ninja after our rollerblading heroine. They skate around the LA drainage system while baby gator tosses out wisecracks. Eventually our heroine is assisted by a skating teen girl with a slingshot. Can they escape the evil ninja and deliver baby to Conrad Brooks of Plan 9 fame? You'll have to suffer through it like I did to find out. I suppose you could google it if you really wanted to know. But why would you? The story isn't really as good as I'm making it sound. The dialog is inane. I think much of it was made up on the fly. Fortunately the awful soundtrack frequently drowns it out. The girls are cute but the alligator is irritating and unbelievably fake. No one can act but in their defense they didn't really have anything to work with. I'm not sure if this was meant for kids or just a lame attempt at comedy but it is so inept that I totally enjoyed it. Where the hell do you find these movies? "I live in a swamp but I'm no Forrest Gump" That makes no sense.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 12, 2010 13:50:01 GMT -5
Rollergator 1996 Every time I think I've seen all of the worst movies ever, a new contender throws its hat into the ring. This one wears a mighty big hat. A young woman finds a talking baby alligator on the beach. He's hiding from Joe Estevez, owner of a small amusement park, who hopes to make a fortune by adding the gator to his freak show. Mr. Estevez sends a skateboarding female ninja after our rollerblading heroine. They skate around the LA drainage system while baby gator tosses out wisecracks. Eventually our heroine is assisted by a skating teen girl with a slingshot. Can they escape the evil ninja and deliver baby to Conrad Brooks of Plan 9 fame? You'll have to suffer through it like I did to find out. I suppose you could google it if you really wanted to know. But why would you? The story isn't really as good as I'm making it sound. The dialog is inane. I think much of it was made up on the fly. Fortunately the awful soundtrack frequently drowns it out. The girls are cute but the alligator is irritating and unbelievably fake. No one can act but in their defense they didn't really have anything to work with. I'm not sure if this was meant for kids or just a lame attempt at comedy but it is so inept that I totally enjoyed it. Where the hell do you find these movies? "I live in a swamp but I'm no Forrest Gump" That makes no sense. ^This. This is why I love this board. What a tremendous find. No one in my real life would ever understand why this would be awesome to watch. So I come here and find a kindred spirit in...Ratso. Life is funny, sometimes.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Sept 12, 2010 16:42:22 GMT -5
Resident Evil 3D in the IMAXSaying a Resident Evil flick is stupid and unoriginal and poorly acted is like saying a car has wheels that go round and round... uh, no duh? I'm not a zombie fan or a video game player, I watched this for Milla. I like chicks who kick-ass - from Honey West to the autistic martial artist in Chocolate. It's starts off with much butt kickin', then slows waaaaay down. Too much talking, too much 'splainin. I'm watching a giant IMAX screen with 3D glasses on, if I wanted talking I'd have stayed home and popped on Citizen Kane. Thankfully it picks up with a cool fight with a giant. I like what one critic said about the 3D, it doesn't have the depth of Avatar - but is pure spectacle (flying stars and bullets fly right at you) and perfect for the medium. I agree (when it moves). I wasn't happy with the way they brought back Jill Valentine. I was happy they didn't try to computer perfect Milla's face (as in the 3rd), and let her look her age. It's better than the 3rd (which dragged) but not as good as the first 2 (good is a relative term here - these are B-movie fun at best). If your not a RE fan, skip it. Otherwise, enjoy the ride. I did... mostly.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Sept 13, 2010 4:22:17 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Jack on Sept 13, 2010 13:05:57 GMT -5
Thanks Bix, I'll check it out.
I watched Metal Man - if Peter Parker and Tony Stark had a baby... well, they'd have produced something better than this turkey. Teen become an encased in an Iron Man style suit, fights a bad guy whose living room is decorated to look like a Frech whorehouse. It has the pony tail guy from Phantasm in it... he doesn't help. Looks worse than a student film, I wonder if it was a fan made flick?
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Post by PimPamPet on Sept 15, 2010 2:59:39 GMT -5
Moontrap. I stumbled upon this one by accident and I'm glad I did! A campy sci-fi flick from the 80's starring Walter Koenig (Chekov from TV's Star Trek) and none other than b-movie legend Bruce Campbell. Much recommended. Nosferatu (1922). Nightmare fuel aplenty in this one.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Sept 15, 2010 3:27:47 GMT -5
I watched and reviewed the Phantom sy-fi TV Mini-seriesIts out on DVD & Blu-ray. While it's nowhere near as good as the Billy Zane flick, it starts off promising... then finishes up stupid.
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Post by solgroupie on Sept 15, 2010 10:02:38 GMT -5
i'm running late on this one, but i finally saw juno. i knew it had good reviews, but i wasn't that interested in seeing it because i didn't think i'd find much to relate to in it - being mostly about being pregnant (i've never gone there) and a teenager (been about 100 years since i've been there). but man, i really liked it a lot. they didn't try too hard on the quirky factor, and though i could see where the music would be annoying to most people, i didn't mind it and found it perfect for the film. it was perfectly cast.
i haven't seen j.k. simmons in anything since the ladykillers (he was beyond hilarious in that), so that was a nice surprise. i thought juno was the female version of napoleon dynomite - it had that same vibe.
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Post by Torgo on Sept 15, 2010 10:10:48 GMT -5
"Battle Royale" One of my favorite movies. A Japanese high school class is transported to an island and forced to kill each other. The last film by Kinji Fukasaku ("The Green Slime") and one of his best, and Beat Takeshi is typically awesome as the teacher. I'm going to have to search this one out. It's definately worth a watch, Sky. However it hasn't been officially released in the US. Netflix has a region 0 copy of it from Korea, though. I suggest checking out www.yesasia.com , which is a site that collects Asian films released on different regions and offers them to the American consumer. They're all still region coded from where they came from though. That's where I got my copy, which is the same one Netflix is using. I got it for $30 in a two pack with the much inferior Battle Royale II. Buyer beware though, since you may have to seek out exactly what you want. Something with a matching region code, and with English subtitles (mine has Korean subtitles as the first option, and it needs to be switched before I play it). If possible, pick up the novel as well. It's pricy, but it's amazing.
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 15, 2010 19:13:10 GMT -5
Attack of the Sabertooth 2005
Harmless Sci-fi Channel fare with a good sense of humor. Some fairly graphic violence is damped by the absurdity of it all. All the leads. including Robert Carradine, chew up scenery like its going out of style. Not a bad way to kill an hour and a half.
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Post by Joker on Sept 15, 2010 21:51:21 GMT -5
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
A young woman who survived an arson attack is trying to rebuild her life at the mall that sits on the grounds of her former boyfriend's immolated house. She thinks he's dead, but he's actually severely scarred and lives beneath the place. He trains when he's not killing people. Meanwhile, the mayor (Morgan Fairchild) is in cahoots with the mall's owner to make sure it stays open since this is a big deal in this town to have a mall. That's a very small town. When the scarred-up Eric kills someone the owner hires a local psycho to cover it up. But Eric is a romantic psycho hero who defends his former girlfriend from rapists and works towards a final revenge against the conspiracy that made this mall possible. There's some good fights and decent gore, but it's pretty dull. Ken Foree is the ineffective head of security in the place so we can get our familiar "mall horror" star in here. Unfortunately, perpetually dazed Pauly Shore stars as the loser who works at the frozen yogurt stand, and moons a camera in case you can't get enough of him.
Machete (2010)
"Where are my wife and daughter?!!"
Three years after getting betrayed while working as a federale in Mexico while trying to take down a drug lord (Steven Seagal), Machete (Danny Trejo) works as a day laborer in Texas. He gets hired to kill a racist senator (Robert DeNiro), but gets double crossed and has to go into hiding with a local "network" for illegales to recover. Then he decides to go after the massive conspiracy that tried to kill him in brutal fashion. This movie is probably the most badass film of 2010 with gore, explosions, intestines used as an escape device, Lindsay Lohan standing upright somehow, Lohan's left nipple, the informative doctor and hot twins from Planet Terror, crucifixion, Tom Savini in a decent modern movie for once (well, a second time because he was in Planet Terror), a showdown between Trejo and Seagal, and an army of Mexican day laborers vs. a militia of right-wingnuts. All it needed was to be set in Arizona to generate more contreversy for more business to make sure a sequel will happen.
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 16, 2010 21:10:59 GMT -5
Julie and Jack 2003
My head is pounding. I've felt the full range of human emotion.
From James Nguyen, director of Birdemic: Shock and Terror, is a love story for the ages. Surely it is filled with static shots and awful sound. And no, there are no screaming eagles pooping on people's heads. But there is the undying love of Julie and Jack and the never ending story of it.
This movie should be required viewing for all mankind.
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