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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 8, 2012 7:06:23 GMT -5
I thought it always looked dumb ,but got convinced by my cousing to watch and yeah it's a great comedy. Also Slim Pickens was one hell of an actor.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 8, 2012 15:36:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I couldn't convince myself to watch Blazing Saddles no matter what people said. I guess I like my westerns to be a bit more serious, but Blazing Saddles rocked. That said, I love Goin' South and Straight to Hell, two very funny westerns, one of which is very freaking surreal.
So I watched Young Frankenstein, 1974. I heart Terry Garr. When I was a tyke, Dave Letterman had the champagne taste to bring back Ms. Garr on to his show over and over. I remember a cobbled together episode where Dave interviewed Terry from his shower in his NBC office. Late Night With David Letterman was a great show to catch back then. Boo Jay Leno. Hisssssss.
Drank my second and last (sold out in Texas) Bottleworks 13th Anniversary Ale. I incorrectly pegged it as Stone's 13th, just brewers are good co-operative people. Stone gave over their brewery so Bottleworks could brew a bigger batch of celebratory beer. So, 13 grains, 13 hops, and 11% abv. American brewers are good folk. Support them. USA! USA! USA!
LOB-12 EDIT AGAIN, "Oops", Lucky 13, LOB-one-three.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 8, 2012 22:48:07 GMT -5
My first full watching of Carrie. Wow. A really great horror film. I just didn't like the sound effect lifted from Psycho, but otherwise nearly a perfect movie for me. Sissy Spaceck was incredible. And I love sweet PJ Soles.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 9, 2012 19:28:39 GMT -5
The Wrestler. I thought I was going to hate it, but it was really good. Here is Wikipedia.
The Wrestler is a 1974 independent film produced by professional wrestler Verne Gagne and starring Ed Asner as "Frank Bass", a wrestling promoter.
Verne Gagne also stars in the movie as Mike Bollar, the current wrestling champion of his "league." Billy Robinson plays Bollar's latest challenger, Billy Taylor. After a long reign as champion, Bollar is getting older and feeling pressure from all sides, including his wife and wrestling promoters, to pass the championship to Taylor and retire. Bollar's resistance to their requests that he step aside is the central conflict in the film.
Gagne not only acts in the movie but also wrestles during a few of the wrestling scenes. He faces Larry Hennig in the first match at the Cow Palace, located just outside San Francisco. Appearances
Many American Wrestling Association performers appear in the movie. Among them are "Superstar" Billy Graham, "Rick Flair" (credited with that spelling in the credits), Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, Dick the Bruiser, Dory Funk, Jr., Ray Stevens, Pedro Morales, Ken Patera, Nick Bockwinkel, Dan Gable, Eddie Graham, Jim Brunzell, and more. Some of the said wrestlers are simply featured in clips from wrestling shows without adding to the actual plot or having them on the set of the film in actual roles.
Former World Wrestling Federation chairman, Vincent J. McMahon, makes an appearance in an actual acting role and not a clip from a wrestling broadcast.
So Ray Stevens kills a fellow wrestler in the ring, because it is real, damn real. It is Ric(K) Flair's rookie year, he is a little brown haired beefcake compared to soon in his career. And it is a who's who of seventies wrestling.
The tag teams were the most charismatic and fun, whether Da Crusher and Da Bruiser or Dirty Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch. The bar brawl was my favorite scene. They also showed a mug-shot of The Original Shiek and the plot centered on a soon to be "Super Bowl" of wrestling seeing all three "leagues" champs wrestle each other, Gagne, Morales, and Dory Funk, Jr.
Fun times.
Drank a Coney Island Lager from the Schmaltz Brewery in Saratoga Springs, New York. Cheers!
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Post by luditesupreme on Jul 9, 2012 22:33:30 GMT -5
oh ; that wrestler ; haven't seen it did't like the other one as much as i thought i would
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 10, 2012 4:54:37 GMT -5
First I watched Maniac a slasher from the 1980's by William Lusting starring a psychologically disturbed man with a hatred for woman played by Joe Spinell who also wrote the movie. Spinell does a really good job showing a man who's psychologically broken, who is good at making himself appear harmless and does a great job at acting crazy. The special effects were done by Tom Savini and he does a great job here, he also plays disco boy who ends up getting his head blown off in this awesome scene that was apparently infamous when this movie came out.
After that I watched Dan Curtis's Trilogy of Terror a horror anthology that stars Karen Black in each story. The first has to do with a student harassing a teacher, two sisters that are polar opposites and hate each other, and the final involves a zuni fetish doll that comes to life with murderous intent. The first story was really good and the student played by Robert Burton does a good job at playing a charming sociopath (who was her husband at the time), the second story was sort of predictable, and the third story was hilarious. Instead of having some framing twist there's a twist at the end of each tale and the end of the third one ended up being pretty creepy despite the comedy for the majority of the tale.
Then I watched Daniel Haller's The Dunwich horror which is based on the Loveraftian story and stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whately. Stockwell did a great job as the charming monster, the cinematography was surprisingly good, and they'd use this effect whenever something crazy was happening where there would be all these different color tints that looked really cool. Surprisingly for such an old movie the monster was done pretty well. The problem with the movie though is that the protagonist are really unlikeable, while Wilbur who's meant to be the bad guy is the most likeable. I also dug the movies soundtrack especially the drumming during the final standoff.
Finally I watched The Gore Gore Girls by Herschell Gordon Lewis which is a splatter horror comedy. There's lots of comedy ,but HGL lives up to his nickname The Godfather of Gore as it is done really well here. I've only seen one other HGL movie Color Me Blood Red and it didn't really seem that extreme, but I finally understood the idea of a splatter movie. When someone is killed there body's are just completely butchered and it really is quite brutal. However the bad acting and comedy ruined what might've been able to be a scary movie. Like Color Me Blood Red I really like the soundtrack especially the drum solos that go on forever. In particular a scene that stood out involves a stripper being killed by getting hammered in the ass with a meat tenderizer which had me laughing my ass off.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 10, 2012 18:54:25 GMT -5
I helped a friend at his cafe for a few weeks back around Halloween. He played The Gore Gore Girls and I, misogynist that I am, I apologized to all his female customers assuring them that no movie like this would be playing the next week. He dug the movie as his custies walked. My friend burned his bridge with me, and this week I was told his shop that he co-started with an old and dear friend of mine (who bailed) finally closed down. Se la vie. Cheers! to good customer service and not being a fucking moron.
Still, I liked The Gore Gore Girls, just such bad judgement to play in a dieing business full of women reading books. God Bless Hershel Gordon Lewis!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 10, 2012 21:00:52 GMT -5
I watched the pilot to Battlestar Gallactica, 1978. Good stuff, fun sci-fi, not my genre of choice.
And here is Wikipedia, twice. And really, it's not that I go out of my way to bash George Lucas or find crap on his talent or lack of, but the more time that goes by, the more I learn what a cheap hack he was/is. It just rolls in.
"Saga of a Star World" (or "Battlestar: Galactica") is the pilot for the American science fiction television series of Battlestar Galactica which was produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson. A re-edit of the episode was released theatrically as Battlestar Galactica in Canada, Australia and some countries in Europe and Latin America before the television series aired in the U.S., in order to help recoup its high production costs.
Glen A. Larson, the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, said he had conceived of the Battlestar Galactica premise, which he originally called Adam's Ark, during the late 1960s. However, he was unable to find financial backing for his TV series for a number of years. Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. In fact, the movie studio 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios (the studio behind Battlestar Galactica) for copyright infringement, claiming that Universal Studios had copied 34 distinct ideas from Star Wars. Universal Studios promptly countersued, claiming that Star Wars itself had stolen many ideas from its motion picture Silent Running (1972) (notably the robot "drones") and the Buck Rogers movie serial of the 1930s.
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EDIT- Drank a Boulevard Smokestack Series Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, a delicious Saison from Kansas City, Missouri. Cheers! to beer.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 11, 2012 19:15:08 GMT -5
Just watched Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. 'Nuff said.
Drinking the Godfather of American IPAs, Anchor Brewing Company's Liberty Ale from San Fransisco, California. Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 12, 2012 5:55:32 GMT -5
First I watched Friday the 13th for the first time and I really liked it. Savini's effects were good and it managed to do something a lot of horror movies can't nowadays, have likeable characters. The only part I'd ever seen of this movie was the ending (numerous times) ,but it still got me, which shows how good it is. I was legitimately surprised when the first girl was killed.
Then I watched The Sentinel which was about a woman who ends up in a New York apartment that seems to be haunted. This movie is really good and had me guessing til the end what exactly was going on. It has something of a small ensemble cast featuring John Carradine, Eli Wallach, and Christopher Walken (man it was weird seeing him look that young). One thing I have learned from horror movies is if the apartment is really nice and you get it for cheap then get the hell out. The movie slowly builds up pace before descending into madness at the end ,but it all makes sense by then.
Third I watched Magic which starred Anthony Hopkins who was unrecognizeable to me and Burgess Meredith. Man Hopkins does a great job in this movie. I'd been meaning to see this movie for while and figured it'd be good ,but I thought it was great. It's about a man who becomes a sucessful magician/ventriloquist and how he ends up going mad. Hopkins does a great job at playing a crazy man who can't really help himself and just him acting by himself with that damn dummy Fats is some scary, intense stuff. The way that his regular self is almost innocent and how the dummy is cold and calculating was a really nice touch. The ending actually managed to be quite sad as well. If you haven't seen this I highly reccomend this one.
Finally I watched The Car a film I watched numerous times during my childhood on the SciFi Channel about a killer car , starring James Brolin. I remember thinking it was so bad it was good ,but it's a little more than that. This movie is uneven in the sense that you've got some great acting going on and then you'll have some absoulutely god awful acting. You'll have some great looking car deaths and then you'll have some absoultely horrible looking ones. I liked the idea of the ending where the car explodes and you see some kind of huge monster/demon screaming in the explosion ,but it just ended up looking really silly. There's also some surprisingly good cinematography in this film and on a sidenote Brolin looks exactly like his son did in No Country for Old Men in this movie.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 12, 2012 5:56:57 GMT -5
The Godfather is a movie that I didn't watch for years and thought wouldn't live up to the hype ,but man it sure did this movie deserves all the credit. Just a great movie. Coppola was on a role in the seventies man.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 12, 2012 10:22:30 GMT -5
Yep, I had no interest in The Godfather or Part 2 for decades. Saw them both in the last eight years. Two perfect movies. Coppola was on a role during these years as well as other young Turks of the time like Lucas, Spielberg, Dante.... Here is a quick read from the mighty Wikipedia. American Zoetrope is a studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Founded on December 12, 1969, American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV. The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tetro, etc.) but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films, THX 1138 and American Graffiti, as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders, and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi).
Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations. Lost in Translation (2002), written and directed by Sofia Coppola, won 2003's Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.Just finished watching a nifty B-movie from 1977, The Crater Lake Monster. Fun times. LOB-20
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 0:29:43 GMT -5
Just watched a bad but good 1974 B-movie, Horror High, a re-interpretation of Jekyll/Hyde film or as I'd rather, Banner/Fixit. The kind of movie that would have given a young Joe Bob Briggs a stiffie, and I mean that with respect and love.
This Abita 25th Anniversary Vanilla DoubleDog (from Abita Springs, Louisiana and a survivor of Hurricane Katrina) is dedicated to the Abita Brewery itself, the makers of the first craft beer I tasted at the tender age of twelve (Abita Amber) while visiting N'awlens, specifically at Mother's where I had my first bowl of gumbo, Satan's favorite Stew, and mine by default as Satan's favorite nephew. Cheers! Louisiana and the Cajun and Creole peoples.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 0:31:41 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Jake my friend........
Second Gear!!!!! Dog WILL hunt! Cheers brother, it ain't personal, what's coming......
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 12:24:32 GMT -5
Art. Kubrick is god. A (nearly) perfect movie, The Shining. I missed last night's show 'cause I got the email last minute so I can guess at The Betsy Awards. But I have a good guess. I was thinking of a Horror Oscars thread for this website. If I'm not talking out of my ass, then I will nominate Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and John Barrymore in the silent classic of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. After all these years I spotted the helicopter filming the mountain road during the intro ( at 1:09-1:10). Or it's shadow actually. So is that the only imperfection in this movie or did Mr. Kubrick catch the shadow of the helicopter in the lower right hand corner of the "screen" to give the artist a one second cameo? Hey he was that freaking good. I'm talking Kubrick here, a master. Drank a Left Coast Brewing Co. Voodoo American Stout (delicious and from Richard Nixon's birthplace, Presidential Library, and the gravesite of him and his poor plastic wife, Pat, San Clemente, California. Been there and visited the Old Man's grave about ten months after he died). This Cheers! of a dark American nightmare ale (but delicious) is for Hunter S. Thompson, Carl Bernstein, Ed Bradlee, Mark Felt, Bob Woodward, and Kathryn Graham. And 'cause I am celebrating America, warts and all, this Cheers! of darkness goes out to the Old Man himself, Richard Nixon, and my favorite bigotted talking head "uncle", Pat Buchanan, a genius, but a hateful one. But I love him regardless, somehow. I am a political junkie after all...... LOB-24
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