I love this flick. I remember it being super weird as a kid when it came out. Not the best film overall, considering films like The Matrix also came out in 99’, but I liked it. It has that Cronenberg grossness to it. Good cast, also.
This movie is super fucking hilarious. Cult classic dark humor all over.
i wanna watch a vampire movie anyone have any recommendations?
Ive seen the dracula’s from th 80’s on
ive seen dusk till dawn
ive seen the buffy vamp movie…
dracula untold…
basically im just looking for any hidden gems that i may have missed…
Unpopular opinion but I actually really enjoyed Daybreakers. Cool vampire take.
Also “The Strain” - is an excellent vampire series. Not a movie, but, one of my favorites.
Interview with the Vampire is a classic, also.
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Daybreakers i never saw…
the strain…eh
IwA I saw…already
Right so I just watched the trailer for a sharknado…
It’s literally like as if they scrubbed the entire internet for shitposts and decided to make an entire movie out of it…
And now I’m like I’ve had enough internet for as long as I live.
I saw that, nice straight-forward parabole with a touch of gore. It looked like it could have been adapted from a novel, something written by ray bradbury nodding at stephen king.
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Movie was such a fucking let down. I really loved the start of that trilogy, but damn the third installment was such a fucking bore. And the climax was just… bleh. Woody Harrelson tried but he was miscast imo. 4/10 is apropos.
Oh man, I was not so kind to Blade Runner 2049. I have several problems with it (spoiler alert):
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Too much nudity for nudity’s sake. Maybe morals in this society are supposed to have deteriorated since the first movie, IDK, but it felt like they were just taking advantage of their R rating compared to the first movie. And also, that phased out double love scene was the one place more nudity would’ve been technically impressive (like most of the effects in this movie, TBF), and they chose not to give it to us there because… reasons?
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Lets talk some more about special effects. I thought most of them were really good. BUT, I also thought there were some scenes that should’ve just been done practically. Like, rain on a windshield needs to be CGI? Come on, build the front of a car and get a sprinkler. You have the budget for it.
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Arguably the main villain of the movie is left completely unaddressed at the end. There’s A bad guy killed sure, but the boss honcho? Nothing. Not even a mention after we see him for the last time 20 minutes from the end of the movie. Is there supposed to be setup for a sequel? Is this supposed to be ambiguity? I think it’s just sloppy and leaves a thread undone.
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Speaking of loose threads, WTF was that replicant revolution thing about? That was a thing for about 3 minutes and on screen for 2 of them. Our main character could’ve gotten all the information he did around the fire he woke up at, there was no reason whatsoever to show a bunch of replicants marching in formation in the background. Another setup for what sounds like a bad sequel that really walks away from the previous movies or just another loose thread? You be the judge.
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I’m OK with some fight scenes, and I get that in the modern avengers world, they’re going to have to be cranked up to 11 to get some members of the audience interested. But, I feel like there was a bit too much action. A few too many explosions. At it’s core, OG Blade Runner was a noir detective film in cyber-punk drag. I expected more of the same, but I felt that core was bit too diluted.
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TBH, I wasn’t impressed by the look of most of the film. It made a bad first impression as we were flying over LA for the first time that everything was so GRAY. The first movie didn’t have a lot of color either, but like I said earlier it was noir, so it did play with a lot of shadows and light. This movie was just so much brighter, but without any color either.
Now, to be fair, the movie did do a good job of throwing me a couple of curveballs as we try and figure out who “the child” is. There are some good characters and some good scenes to show them off - a standout for me was our dead baddie getting her nails done while murdering hobos by the dozens, though I didn’t like the rest of that scene… And, our big baddie’s lair, the square water room, is a DAMN cool piece of set design. He might be a little under-motivated to me, but I would like to get his architect’s number. And lastly, for some of my gripes with it, I did think the ending was pretty good with the last scene. Call it a 7 out of 10. It’s an OK movie, but it seems like the people involved either didn’t get or forgot what the original movie was, even if they understood the story.
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It’s fun to be an American and watch movies in your language, I guess. Because I’m here watching your movies in translation.
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The only good Planet of the Apes movie is the very original one with Gun Advocate Heston. Some of the original sequels have some merit but aren’t great. Nothing but love for Roddie McDowell. The only reason I am grateful for Ape films is because they gave Alan Ladd Jr. the will to take on some upstart Lucas when he was touting his Star Wars thing because they’d unexpectedly made money from them, after everyone else had turned Lucas down.
Tim Burton’s effort was a highly polished turd and the recent(ish) trilogy has great CGI/motion capture but is meh at best.
I still have my original copy of this with the VIPER liquor stickers that it came with.
That movie is filthy as hell, it literally makes you feel like you just survived a homeless experience in a scrapyard. For that, I rate it pretty high - and also people melting and getting flushed down toilets was pretty creatively hilarious for that era. Good b-flick, for sure. 
@moodorf given your movie selection I HIGHLY recommend that you watch “Father’s Day” if you haven’t already seen it… (not the old comedy film, the grindhouse one)
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Looks like the Snyder cut of Justice League is happening. It will be mediocre.
The best DC-based movies had nothing to do with him. Man of Steel is probably his best and thats pretty good but not brilliant.
Despite what I’ve written above I’m still interested to see it. It would be nice to be dead wrong.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the second one, is also excellent in my opinion. The mutants with mental powers wearing masks are creepy, General Ursus played by James Gregory is fantastic. “The only good human, is a DEAD human!” Zaius, Cornelius, and Zira all return as does Chuck and Nova. James Franciscus was cool as the new guy trying to find out what’s going on. And the ending is classic 70s pessimism.
“You bloody baassssstard!”
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Well I ran out of luck and watched The Meg.
Some laughs for sure but jeebs, a bad film. Some very fun touches though like instead of ‘The End’, it finishes on ‘Fin’. It just meh’d the shit out of me but in fairness I’m not even a fan of the genre so part of it is my lack of enthusiasm for that kind of thing.
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Robocop (original)
Awesome. It should be terrible but its imbued with so much under the skin its still a joy every time I see this. The sequels and remake not so much.
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Got through “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” on Friday with my parents. I’d say that’s a 6/10 (where 5 is passing). I don’t see myself watching it again, because the absurd (and I use that in academic terms, not derisive) twist ending isn’t going to work again, and barely worked the first time.
I loved the characters. I love how well built up most of them were. I loved the acting that went into them. Unfortunately, it was like watching two and a half separate movies that only had tangential connections to one another. Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio’s characters do have some sort of buddy story going on, though we spend a surprisingly large portion of time with them not sharing the screen for that being the case. And then off on her own we have Margot Robbie doing her own thing and really not interacting with either of our other two main characters until the last shot of the movie. And the movie takes a lot of time explaining her situation for someone that frankly didn’t figure into how the movie actually played out. I suppose the twist ending wouldn’t have worked without it, but it felt like there had to be some fat somewhere in here to trim down. I was ready for the movie to be over about halfway through, but it just kept going and going and going. Again, it was enjoyable once.
Kinda hard watching the trailer for Bill & Ted Face The Music and there’s no Rufus.
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I did like the A-Team movie because it was proper stupid though I didn’t like the way they changed B.A. Barracus. Other than that, can’t think of any and even A-Team was a cheesy shitfest but it just tickled me.