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[GaijinPunch]

Urgh, can't stick animal cruelty, especially for some dumb fuck movie. Apparently Kubrick shut down production of Full Metal Jacked for the day when he found out a hedgehog had been killed in a bonfire on set.

Wow... having just watched this at a late night showing, I find that... bizarre... so many feels this one gives... and now I have think of that poor hedgehog, too.

[Mischief Maker]

I heard A Dog's Purpose was notorious for its poor treatment of dogs.

Animal cruelty aside, I can't believe it was even greenlit as a concept.

It's about a dog being reincarnated through several different lives. Were you traumatized as a child by the death of Old Yeller? Now you can traumatize your own children by taking them to a movie that features not one but four dog death scenes! They'll be bawling and inconsolable for a week!

No wonder they dumped that film in "Fuck you, it's January!"

[BrianC]

I did like Garfield: His Nine Lives, which was a similar concept, but that was animated and not entirely realistic.

[neorichieb1971]

Midnight special.

Have no idea why its called its name. A kid that has special unknown powers needs to be in a certain place at a certain time. Problem is, his powers have been identified by the FBI and they want the kid in custody ASAP.

I would give the movie 6.5/10. If your into home theater and like subwoofer action, this blu ray disc got me into trouble.

[Lord Satori]

That sounds like a codename that they forgot wasn't the actual name. Like if Star Wars came out as "Blue Harvest".

[Zen]

Have no idea why its called its name.

The boy had to catch a train.

[xxx1993]

Got around to seeing Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters on Netflix.

[BryanM]

Hearing a bit about the various drafts of Prometheus is a bit headache inducing:

* Cosmonauts keep their helmets on, just in case.

* Cosmonaut lady decides not to trust the unreliable robot and doesn't repair him, just in case.

* The expedition is a profit-seeking endeavor, looking to get that alien terraforming technology.

* Engineers hate humans because they killed Jesus.

The premise of technological gods isn't awful by itself I suppose (though it might not be what the Alien fan base wants to see), but just having rational characters and events would mean a hell of a lot.

[BIL]

Ironically enough, following the releases of Prometheus and Covenant, Dan O'Bannon is now spinning fast enough in his grave to power an intergalactic space vehicle! "Alien?" Wazzat mean?

[xxx1993]

Den of Thieves. It was... okay, I guess, but the pacing is almost as bad as in Power Rangers, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Blade Runner 2049. At least it made up for the epic final shootout at the end which was very similar to the famous street shootout from Heat.

[EmperorIng]

Ugh, those draft notes for Prometheus. Someone save the series from Scott, Fox, and now Disney! Preferably with a bullet to the brain. Or better yet: Nuke the studio from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

I wanted to brush up on my shmup movie cred, so I finally sat down and with my preciously small free time watched The Last Starfighter. Corny and beautiful. The special effects made me look like I was watching a laserdisc game from the 80s, with gameplay to match! Now I know where they all took inspiration. You can't help but love that the entire damn trailer park came to cheer Lance Guest's character getting that sweet, 1CC. If only my neighborhood validated my arcade accomplishments like that! That kid has some great shootemup reflexes though, with a pilot to match. greedy arcade/space armada fuckers try spawning from the bottom of the screen for surprise lethal ship-to-ship buttsex, and you circle around and burn their asses off!

Dan O'Herlihy playing a stuffy, well-mannered lizard man and Robert Preston playing a Music-Man inspired space con. Clearly the standouts with the best lines and moments, with a small kudos for Catherine Stewart as the movie's eye-candy girl-next-door.

Makes me wonder what other movies are out there all about being a shootemup master?

[Mischief Maker]

The Wizard?

[TransatlanticFoe]

Ha holy shit I did not realise the guy under the lizard makeup was also the head of OCP

[soprano1]

Little Caesar (1931)
This was a swell picture, see? Rico is the toughest mug around, I tell ya!

Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932)
More Marx Brothers movies to the watched list, pretty cool setting in both movies.

[BrianC]

Little Caesar (1931)
This was a swell picture, see? Rico is the toughest mug around, I tell ya!

Spoiler

Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?

I watched The Public Enemy recently. Another early 30s gangster classic. Tom Powers is the toughest mug, see?

Spoiler

He ain't so tough.

[Zen]

The Best Offer (2013) - Giuseppe Tornatore

God almighty, I loved this!
Tornatore, so obviously its a thing of beauty.
The story was, for me, just perfect.

And this magnificent bastard right here;


Wonderful.

[soprano1]

Little Caesar (1931)
This was a swell picture, see? Rico is the toughest mug around, I tell ya!

Spoiler

Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?

I watched The Public Enemy recently. Another early 30s gangster classic. Tom Powers is the toughest mug, see?

Spoiler

He ain't so tough.

Late 20's/Early 30's lingo is very interesting.
Oh, I just noticed, Edward Robinson was in Ten Commandments and Soylent Green with Charlton Heston, two great movies I watched last year.
Speaking of old movie trivia, anyone here listens to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast? Mondays are pretty fun with that show. Sure, it's fucking irritating when he starts laughing, but the stories i've heard there are great. Funny guests.

[BryanM]

Ugh, those draft notes for Prometheus. Someone save the series from Scott, Fox, and now Disney!

Rumor mill says Covenant didn't perform as well as the suits wanted it to, so that series might be dead.

Some hopeful fanboys hope that it'll lead to a Resurrection of Bumcamp's Alien. Crazy idea: maybe have characters the audience can get invested in, who aren't just dumb idiots that exist for David to murder horribly. Ripley wouldn't fall for his shit, no way. (Prometheus 3 was allegedly going to be nothing but robots and almost zero aliens.)

(Also it's a little headachey that these guys think the monster overly matters, that introducing a bunch of monsters that look different is a big deal. When it's really not - the ghost can be an alien, michael myers, giant worms, giant ants, a cursed saw blade at the lumber mill - they're just a plot device, not characters.)

[GaijinPunch]

The Best Offer (2013) - Giuseppe Tornatore

God almighty, I loved this!
Tornatore, so obviously its a thing of beauty.
The story was, for me, just perfect.

And this magnificent bastard right here;


Wonderful.

How was Sylvia Hoeks? Would bang day 1.

[Zen]

How was Sylvia Hoeks? Would bang day 1.

Any comment about her and I might well give away too much of a spoiler.
In fact any comment on the film in general, beyond praise, would risk giving away too large a hint.

For me, it had a perfect story, was beautiful to look at and I found the main character, played by Rush, to be very engaging.

Even better on the second viewing. A keeper.

[GaijinPunch]

Aight -- bookmarked. Not sure when I can get to it... since my GF has fallen asleep, without fail, for the last 5 movie nights (with one being in a theater), I'll probably just pick this whether she wants to see it or not.

[emphatic]

Not sure when I can get to it... since my GF has fallen asleep, without fail, for the last 5 movie nights (with one being in a theater), I'll probably just pick this whether she wants to see it or not.

I bet she'll be awake, complaining the whole movie.

[soprano1]

The Public Enemy (1931)
You was right, BryanC: Tom Powers sure was no yellow.
This seemed liked a propaganda movie, with the warnings at the beginning and the end. Guess it had to do with the rampant gangster organizations at the time.

[BrianC]

The Thin Man (1934) - Fun movie about a heavy drinking detective and his wife and a mysterious disappearance of an eccentric inventor. The dog in the movie was fun to watch, as well. I wonder what I should watch After The Thin Man.

[soprano1]

The Thin Man (1934) - Fun movie about a heavy drinking detective and his wife and a mysterious disappearance of an eccentric inventor. The dog in the movie was fun to watch, as well. I wonder what I should watch After The Thin Man.

I'm only half hour in and this is chaotically funny as hell, so much going on at the same time! The interactions and dialogue between the detective and his wife are the best.

[lilmanjs]

The Thin Man (1934) - Fun movie about a heavy drinking detective and his wife and a mysterious disappearance of an eccentric inventor. The dog in the movie was fun to watch, as well. I wonder what I should watch After The Thin Man.

More Thin Man movies! Not all of them are amazing, but none of them are awful.

[BryanM]

All this talk about Neil Blamcamp got me to finally get around to watching his short movies.

A lot of gruesome sci fi stuff. One major problem in a couple of them is that they try to cram too much information and backstory into too small of a container. Still, you can do much worse.

Zygote

My favorite of the bunch, because it isn't suffocated with exposition. One clean 20 minute long narrative. A simple Alien-esque romp in a derelict office on some moon or something.

Rakka

The thingy he shot starring Lady Weaver. A more modern style V for Visitor style alien invasion flick.

It has a lot of good stuff, but really could use a lot more running time to let it all breathe.

Firebase

Dr.Manhattan in the Vietnam War. Don't really like this one.

Cooking With Bill

Excellent 90's style infomercials where they try to sell you crap you don't need. One fan theory is that Bill is trapped in hell and has to spend eternity hosting this accursed show for the amusement of Satan. Secretly is the best thing to have happened in 2017.

Bad President (Trailer)

Supposedly this hasn't been released yet because this was made before the 2015 election season, and wasn't meant to be some mirror projection of the future.

[Arasoi]

Barefoot Gen - A well done but highly depressing anime movie (not an OVA, actually) about a happy family in Japan in 1945. Then an atomic bomb is dropped and everything goes to shit. Mostly depressing because of the jarring dichotomy between style and script (the gore is tame compared to late 80s/early 90s OVA schlock).

[EmperorIng]

All this talk about Neil Blamcamp got me to finally get around to watching his short movies.

A lot of gruesome sci fi stuff. One major problem in a couple of them is that they try to cram too much information and backstory into too small of a container. Still, you can do much worse.

You've convinced me to give this stuff a chance over the course of the week/weekend. Maybe I'll start with Zygote.

A movie I've watched tonight: Highlander III: The Sorceror/Final Dimension

Good lord, this is the dumbest movie I've seen since Alien Covenant. Well, it's better than Alien Covenant. But it's so bad. Editing is done by a schizophrenic mentally-handicapped monkey, and character appear and pop up in locations for no reason, all the time. The music choice is obnoxious butt rock which escalates the sloppy feeling of the editing. The story is fucking lol.

The only good thing about it is Mario Van Peebles mugging it up as a total asshole, sporting nipple rings and Wesley Snipes shades. I had some laughs but damn did this "series" go to shit after the first movie. More proof that franchises are not things to be so lightly invoked.

Oh well, there are worse movies, right? Even something laughably bad gets a few yucks, right?

EDIT: Hey, speaking of Alien, Brian Johnson, effects supervisor for Alien, did the effects for this movie??? Man....

[BrianC]

The Thin Man (1934) - Fun movie about a heavy drinking detective and his wife and a mysterious disappearance of an eccentric inventor. The dog in the movie was fun to watch, as well. I wonder what I should watch After The Thin Man.

More Thin Man movies! Not all of them are amazing, but none of them are awful.

I guess you missed the reference? There was a reason I capitalized "After the Thin Man".

I just watched it too. This one was also hilarious and even had an early (and memorable) appearance of Jimmy Stewart.