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Post by Joker on May 8, 2009 1:13:42 GMT -5
Werewolf Shadow
This is the last movie in the Waldemar Daninsky werewolf film series. I haven't seen any of those. This was a kind of bad, kind of good Hammer-type film from Spain.
The Thrill Killers
This is probably the best Ray Dennis Steckler film. I've only seen a few others by Steckler: Eegah!, Blood Shack, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.
This one gets intense when three escaped mental patients attack a married couple. And this is after a psychotic serial killer (played by Steckler under his Cash Flagg pseudonym) kills a couple of people. Mayhem aplenty! And the beginning is narrated by Coleman Francis!
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Post by Crowfan on May 8, 2009 18:26:43 GMT -5
The Reaping. I know this got panned when it came out in theaters, but I really enjoyed it. Hillary Swank investigates mysterious happenings in the small town of Haven...is it a sign of the end of the world?
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Post by Joker on May 9, 2009 0:44:31 GMT -5
The Green Slime
When an asteroid is found to be on a collision coast with Earth a ship of led by a square-jawed hero is sent up to a space station. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend are there. They manage to destroy the space rock, but they brought some mysterious slime back from the asteroid. It grows into rapidly reproducing monsters that overrun the ship and the Earth itself...
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 9, 2009 3:24:57 GMT -5
Watched me some older Cary Grants I'd never seen before (and there are few I've yet to find)
Born to Be Bad Filmed before they enacted all the censorship rules. So you get to see a very young, and actually pretty Loretta Young in her underwear and not wearing a bra in several scenes -gasp- scandalous! She plays a bad mother who loses her son. Cary Grant (not yet fully Cary Grant at this point) is the guy who gains custody. Young seduces him in order to get back her son.
It's very short (61 minutes), very talky. Grant is rather non descript actually, though Young shines. Okay film, not stellar.
Once Upon a Time Grant was one of those guys who bucked the system (that seemed happy to keep him playing bland and handsome) and turned himself into a star.
This one he's fully the Cary Grant I know and love. What a fantastical fairy tale of a story. Grant is the owner of a dying theater, who sees his big chance to get it all back due to a little boy and his... dancing Caterpillar
Some overly sentimental moments, but overall it was a fun little flick. The kid from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" was in this, and is very good. William Demerest doing his gruff and grumpy guy, had a small part.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on May 9, 2009 12:03:10 GMT -5
I caught the last ten minutes or so of a film on TCM Friday morning. No idea what it's called. In fact, I don't want to spoil it by finding out more about the film, because those last ten minutes were so great. It's a late '50s or early '60s high-school story, in which the squeaky-clean student body goes all rebellious because they want to talk and write about subjects that the adults want to forbid. What those subjects are, I don't really know. At the end of the film, the lead girl reads her mom an essay about how she feels about her boyfriend and how they're trying to save themselves for marriage, but "sometimes kissing just isn't enough." And somehow this is a big triumphant moment, because then everything ends happily. Anyway, what was so great about it? OK. A very young Beau Bridges is one of the students. Edward "The Chief of CONTROL" Platt is the principal of the school. The mother who listens to her daughter's essay is freakin' Joan Crawford--as a blonde. And the earnest young teacher, who apparently starts the whole ball rolling by having the kids in his class writes essays on things they'd like to talk about, or something, is none other than a very young, very earnest William Shatner. To top it all off, there's an annoying bongo-based soundtrack to give it that real hepcat beat vibe, man. Good times.
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Post by ometiklon on May 9, 2009 21:17:06 GMT -5
The Green SlimeWhen an asteroid is found to be on a collision coast with Earth a ship of led by a square-jawed hero is sent up to a space station. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend are there. They manage to destroy the space rock, but they brought some mysterious slime back from the asteroid. It grows into rapidly reproducing monsters that overrun the ship and the Earth itself... Commander Jack Rankin is My hero!! Unfortunately He's also the jackass the brought the green slime back to the station in the first place!!
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Post by mccloud on May 11, 2009 7:52:08 GMT -5
I saw the new Star Trek last night, with my son and his gf. I was impressed. It was a pretty damn good movie, and the actors they cast were perfect for their roles. The guy who plays Kirk even throws in a few early Shatneresque mannerisms which were funny as hell.
The Romulan ship was da bomb.
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Post by Crowfan on May 11, 2009 16:41:04 GMT -5
The Marsh.Claire, A young successful author of childrens' books, is having recurring nightmares that are getting worse. Her therapist recommends a vacation so she goes off to the country to stay at the Rose Marsh Farmhouse. Trouble is, the farmhouse is haunted and Claire has to unravel the secrets in the town before it's too late. Really spooky and highly recommended.
Dark Remains. I had high hopes for this one, but it was just a confusing mess. A young couple suffer the murder of their child by persons or persons unknown. Grieving, they escape to a cabin in the mountains, where apparently if you go there when you're in a negative state of mind, ghosts come out or something. It was never explained and by the end of the movie, I didn't even really care. The female lead was a whiny, self centered person, and her husband was shallow and not much of a character until the end of the film, when he was supposed to become the hero. Skip it.
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Post by angilasman on May 11, 2009 18:35:14 GMT -5
The Green SlimeWhen an asteroid is found to be on a collision coast with Earth a ship of led by a square-jawed hero is sent up to a space station. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend are there. They manage to destroy the space rock, but they brought some mysterious slime back from the asteroid. It grows into rapidly reproducing monsters that overrun the ship and the Earth itself... I love this film. Movies like this make me mad at MST-ied movies: this movie had cheesy monsters and acting and was generally loopy and was really fun. What's your problem?
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Post by Crowfan on May 12, 2009 11:40:26 GMT -5
Outpost. A group of mercenaries is hired by a "mineral expert" for protection as they explore an abandoned WW2 bunker. Turns out the "mineral expert" is looking for a machine the Nazis used to turn soldiers invisible(think The Philadelphia Experiment with soldiers, rather than ships). Anyway, the bunker is in some sort of time warp and everyone involved is in danger. The special effects were pretty cool, but it was hard to keep the mercenaries apart.
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Post by lisalovelace on May 15, 2009 9:51:07 GMT -5
The Reader. I love kate Winslet. The basic plot is an older women who takes a very young lover, basically the poor kid spends a life time suffering for it. The movie was not as good as all the hype but I still liked it.
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Post by Joker on May 15, 2009 22:30:27 GMT -5
Phantasm II
I forgot how good this film was. It had been well over a decade since I had seen it. It's like a nightmare put to film.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 16, 2009 20:33:30 GMT -5
Punch Drunk Love I enjoyed this one quite a bit - as I expected, it really turns the typical Adam Sandler film on its head by taking a pretty standard premise and putting it in a more serious and surreal light. I don't think the conclusion was as strong as it could have been, but I liked it overall.
Taken Great fun, one of the better action films I've seen in a while. I wish Liam Neeson was in more movies.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 17, 2009 0:40:14 GMT -5
^ I was working at a theater when Punch Drunk came out (at customer service). We had more walks out on that thing than any other movie, I grew to hate it because I knew I was going to be issuing dozens of passes during each showing.
I would have understood walkouts on "8 Crazy Nights" (never had a one). For all the complaints I see how about Sandler's comedy style, there sure seems to be a lot of people who want and expect those antics.
BTW - Reign on Me (sp?) was another outstanding "serious" Sandler film.
And for Taken, a lot of people really liked that one, good reviews too but I couldn't stand it. Very cookie cutter, but not in an entertaining way (at least for me). Weird how that works out.
Anyway... I watched Cashback - a full length film drawn from a short about an artist with insomnia who can freeze time. In the short, he does this and draws nudes of the women in the grocery store he works at. That sounds creepy, but knowing the character and who he is, it really captures what it means to be an artists, how we see beauty.
I'm not sure if the feature works as well as the short. To fill it out there are several boorish characters, who are the traditional, lust driven, slobbering animals. I guess they were there to show the difference between how the protagonist see beauty and how other men just see meat to pursue. But it doesn't flow well and feels out of balance.
The 2 bits when the artists freezes time to draw, the nudes as well as the face of a cashier her is falling for, are stunning.
I once tried to explain to a few friends how I saw the naked body, that it wasn't always about sex, that it could be about shadow and landscape and beauty and I could be in a room with a model and not want to jump her bone or feel anything in a sexual manner. They rolled there eyes and didn't believe me. It's nice to see a short that " got" that and was able to convey what it meant.
Course Sean Ellis could just be a perv who found an excuse to show naked bodies, but still -with the short, less so in the feature- he captures the eye and mind of an artist.
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Post by Joker on May 17, 2009 1:30:14 GMT -5
Demons 3: The Ogre
This was a dull film where barely anything happens. It bears no resemblance to the first two Demons films, which are far superior.
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