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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 26, 2012 19:25:39 GMT -5
I'm no beer expert from what I've heard America has been kicking Europes ass as far as alcohol is concerned.
Anyway, I watched Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht a German horror film by Herzog with Klaus Kinauski, that was filmed in the 70's the cinematography is great, as are some of the special effects. In this version Van Helsing is a useless fool and Jonathan is either possessed by Dracula or has become a vampire himself.
JAS-23
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 26, 2012 23:04:37 GMT -5
Watched Outrage a yakuza film by Kitano which I highly reccomend. Apparently it was made the way old comics were with all the deaths thought out ahead and then a story made around them.
JAS-24
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Post by loverofbeers on May 27, 2012 13:11:15 GMT -5
Yep Jake, America makes world-class wine, whiskey, gin, beer, sake (rice beer not rice wine so ya know), and I guess vodka, but vodka is for girls who like jolly rancher-like candy and other effeminate "fru-fru" drinks full of colas and juice blends, and for the worst and saddest drunks/clinical alcoholics I have met yet in life.
So, I don't pay much attention to the vodkas of the world. But the most ridiculous ones out there are from Three Olives: Loopy-tastes like fruit loops, Dude-tastes like Mountain Dew, Cake-tastes like a wedding cake, Super-Cola.... I've never tried these, but I'm in awe of the fucktards out there play-acting as adults (and personally, I am for young people drinking, all people drinking if that is their choice, but drinking like an adult responsibly and moderately, not like a teenage chick or gutter worm. Four Locos? C'mon! Have some dignity. So if you are a minor, I Cheers! you with beer, rum, tequila, gin, and whiskey.) while drinking these fruity rot-gut chemically flavored grain-alcohol conCOCKtions. But to each their own I guess.
Today is my second day off in 21 days, so yeah, the above was cranky. I just slept 15 hours or so since yesterday evening. Now I have to take a couple dogs down to the creek and enjoy a beer, or two. Happily.....
Over the last few nights, I popped in Babbete's Feast, an Oscar winner in the eighties for best film. I watched eleven minutes, switched to Once Upon a Time in the West, and past out after hitting the one hour mark, so I'll rewatch it from the beginning. Re-started watching it last night. watched thirty minutes, now I just have two more hours or so to go.
Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 27, 2012 13:16:51 GMT -5
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 28, 2012 4:04:47 GMT -5
Thanks LOB I enjoyed it though it took me awhile to finish it. I agreed with them ,but disagreed with Vampyr. While I thought it had some good camera angles and some cool scenes overall I found the movie to be highly boring. And yeah Kinski's death was pretty awesome.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 28, 2012 19:11:10 GMT -5
Watched Valhalla Rising a Denmark-British movie production that had the same director as Drive. Like in drive this movie has great combat scenes and it also has beautiful cinematography. It was filmed in Scotland and is about a Viking slave who escapes with another and embarks with crusaders ending up in Northa America. I reccomend this film.
JAS-25
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 28, 2012 21:46:48 GMT -5
Watched House of Shadows an Argentinian-American horror movie starring Yvonne De Carlo of Munsters fame. God this movie sucked.
The story, dubbing, soundtrack, kills, and fight scene were just horrible. My god I'm glad I finished this movie.
JAS-27
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Post by loverofbeers on May 29, 2012 6:28:02 GMT -5
Watched Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, a movie about the railroad being built through Arizona, water, the birth of a town, and ultimately about the transplanted woman who would end up as the boss-lady of this soon to be booming speck in the Southwest desert.
I thought this movie was shot in Spain. I kept thinking, "That looks like Utah" or "That looks like Arizona". Well that's where most of the movie was shot. Really beautiful country out there....
LOB-24
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 29, 2012 8:01:11 GMT -5
Man Fonda is one crazy evil man in that movie. That part with Harmonica's brother comes off as especially evil. Yeah I thought the same thing about the geography. It surprised me when I found out it had actually been filmed in the states.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 29, 2012 11:51:10 GMT -5
Fonda played a heel so well.
So just re-watched a movie I've seen a half a dozen times. Stuart Gordon's (of Re-Animator fame) Castle Freak. A truly underrated and extremely creepy and plausible movie, filmed in Italy. Good stuff.
LOB-26
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 30, 2012 7:10:24 GMT -5
Watched Rituals a Canadian horror movie from the 70s staring Hal Holbrook stars. It's about 5 doctors who go into the Canadian wilderness and get killed one by one. Found about this one while listening to horroretc ,but man this movie was uneven. There would be parts that had crappy acting ,but then there'd be really good acting. Holbrook did the best acting throughout the movie and the cinematography on the cliffs was great.
JAS-29
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 30, 2012 11:02:32 GMT -5
Watched Roman Polanski's British horror film Repulsion which is a great movie. Man this movie messes with you psychologically, two of the scene particuarly scared me. I did like how it all made sense in the end instead of just being some mind fuck like some psychological horror films are.
JAS-31
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Post by loverofbeers on May 30, 2012 13:32:40 GMT -5
So somehow I'm not working today. My third day off in 24 days, but who is counting. Good day for housecleaning and movie watching.
My third Hammer Dracula movie and it begins with the ending of the last one, kinda like a Friday the 13th movie. Taste the Blood of Dracula. The best scenes were with Christopher Lee. His rebirth was great but those contacts must have killed him. And his character is still a beast purely motivated with vengeance. What a great villain.
Oh yeah, this movie contained a deviant, perverse, and decadent "circle" of three wealthy old farts and they naturally made a deal with the Satanic young Sir Courtley, and bam!, Christopher Lee starts fucking people up. A Satanic church. Oh Hammer, how I love you, and nary a word about faith or religion, just secular blood and mayhem. Drinking a Modelo Especial from Mejico, Arriba!
LOB-28
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Post by loverofbeers on May 30, 2012 13:41:10 GMT -5
Hey JAS, I'm glad you like that resource, I found it two months ago and kept thinking how much you would DIG IT. I love Repulsion, and Luckily I watched it on the beautiful and grand screen of the Paramount Theater, which has got to be about a century old. I'll have to wiki that. I like Polanski's work except The Seventh Seal with Johnny Depp. Awful.
Yvonne DeCarlo? Was she at all attractive? I loved her and that show so much growing up. It was always on the old teevee, especially in the WTBS years. Good stuff. Can you dig it?
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Post by loverofbeers on May 30, 2012 19:53:26 GMT -5
Nightmare Castle, a 1965 Italian gothic horror flick. Kinda good, kinda not. This was a haunted castle flick AND an evil scientist movie. I felt it was made for an American Audience since the Yanks spoke English and the Italians were dubbed, terribly. But it was actually made for the home audience. The score was by Ennio Moricone, just like all the Leone Spaghetti Westerns.
Earlier I had watched Castle Freak, for the two WYH Lovecraft fans, it was based on the short story the Outsider which was a tribute to Edgar Allen Poe's work. Salud!
LOB-30
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