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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 12:38:36 GMT -5
By the way, I'm kinda upset at ya Jake.
I have begged people not to support Tobe Hooper, but you have watched two movies of his since I brought up that he is a meanie and (breaking gossip here!) a possible sourpuss and just plain naughtie and mean to Islam.
I beg you JAS, don't ever watch his version of The Toolbox Murders, even if it is great stuff that makes my black atrophied heart smile. Hooper needs to be run out of film and Hollywoodland on a pole! Boycott Toby Hooper people, stop watching his movies, NOW!
Well time for my next movie, Tobe Hooper's classic of classics, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Gawd I love this low-budget masterpiece! Been watching it since I discovered it around the age of ten. This delicious American classic, Anchor's Liberty Ale is dedicated to my fellow Austinite, Mr. Tobe Hooper, Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 16:20:50 GMT -5
Just watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, probably for the thirtieth time in my life. This film was filmed all around my backyard of Central Texas. Drank a Shiner Bock out of The Spoetzl Brewery located in the small town of Shiner, Texas. It is the beer in the hand of the drunk at the start of the film in the cemetery and in the radio station scene in the sequel. This Cheers! is for UT Austin where I graduated from and where Tobe Hooper found his cast. LOB-26
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 19:34:36 GMT -5
Just watched John Carpenter's Halloween. This movie like the previous two movies watched are among my favorites ever. The psychology and mood of this film should be worshiped by all students of the genre. What makes this movie great to me is what the ending symbolizes, the shape could be anywhere and he comes from your average American family in your average American neighborhood. He could be growing up next door to you now. THAT is horror!
Drinking a Jimmy Buffet brand Landshark Lager. I thought it was from Florida. No more. Now brewed by the folks at Annheuser Busch in St. Louis, Missouri. Sad. No Cheers! Ahhhh, who am I kidding, a Cheers! to John Carpenter. Too bad it is a shitty beer Cheers!
Margaritaville and other songs as performed by Steve Austin and Rocky Maivia. One of my favorite WWF moments, ever. Enjoy!
LOB-28
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 13, 2012 22:38:33 GMT -5
Just watched Elvira's Movie Macabre's version of George A. Romero and John Russo's revolutionary and iconic zombie film, The Night of the Living Dead, another of my all-time favorites that I have seen countless times.
The first time I saw it was on USA Network when I was eight. USA used to have a great show on on weekends for several hours at a time called Night Flight which introduced me to so much weird Americana at an impressionable young age. For that, I Cheers! that old syndicated treasure trove. Clips from that show, I hope you enjoy.
LOB-30
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 14, 2012 0:26:06 GMT -5
Just watched Friday the 13th. I was never into this series as a kid, even though Jason Voorhees was the only horror villain I was terrified of as a kid. I never saw the original movie until my late twenties, about a dozen years ago.
I discovered Friday the 13th Part 3-d on the USA network in the early eighties on a fun show called Commander USA's Groovy Movies.
This Cheers! is for The Commander!
LOB-32
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 14, 2012 21:53:14 GMT -5
Good Times. LOB-33
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 16, 2012 1:51:58 GMT -5
Well I'm going to upset you a little further because I watched Eaten Alive, it didn't seem too good, but there was so much chaos going on I couldn't really pay attention too well.
JAS 34
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 17, 2012 0:47:57 GMT -5
I have to say it, a must watch of must watch American movies. A blow to censorship in myriad ways, and a Hell of a subversive movie about The Korean War but actually about Vietnam, humanity, madness, and the gift of humor in the face of horror. MASH, from 1969 or 1970, it's all a "matter of view". Every American of every generation should watch this film, and it IS the kind of movie that will add a few days to your lifespan just by the act of watching.
A great scene and a better song....
Drank three beers watching this wonderful movie, all Micro-Breweries' canned beers, an American small business revolution that is further leaving Europe in our dust. Drank a Maui Brewing Company Coconut Porter (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii), an AustinBeerworks Black Thunder German-style Swartzbeir (Austin, Texas), and a Scapegoat Pale Ale from Big Sky Brewery (Missoula, Montana). Cheers! to great American brews in little aluminum cans, portable mini-kegs if I whheeeeeell (think The American Dream, ol' Dusty).
LOB-34
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 17, 2012 0:54:14 GMT -5
Oh yeah JAS, I am pissed at you. I have wanted to see Eaten Alive for years. Too bad I can't ever watch it, y'know ban Tobe and all that nonsense and foolishness I stand for. Just opened another canned beer from Longmont, Colorado, USA, Oskar Blues Brewing's Mama's Little Yella Pilz. This Cheers! is for Jake and Tobe.....
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 17, 2012 2:13:07 GMT -5
All apologies.....
So a rant might be coming. Yep, here it fucking is and about to erupt.
Just started Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1978, a "must see". Paranoia erupts in this movie almost immediately.
But paranoia also erupts in the 1950s version from the start, because that movie was a commentary on Joe McCarthy, the Red Scare, blacklisting in Hollywood, and American paranoia towards other Americans and Americans backstabbing each other, which we still suffer from now in this post 9-11 world and allow ourselves to be manipulated as a nation by. (Color-coded levels of fear, remember the W. years)?
I am politically G.D.I., Goddamned Independent. First things first, Democrats are rubes. Second, the GOP, Republicans, are worse, much worse, and they as a party feed on the fear of Americans, and use it and pseudo-patriotism that our Founding Fathers would not recognize as patriotism or their original intent, to manipulate the masses.
I am not a Democrat, but as a liberal progressive and a Strict Constitutionalist/Social Libertarian, this movie and the original make me want to climb on a roof and yell, "Wake the fuck up, and be proud and aware of your TRUE national heritage, stop being sheeple, and DO NOT be cowed by the browbeaters! You ARE AMERICA!". Don't let Democracy be a failed experiment that dies on the vine, because of timidity and class warfare/racial/social issues or skin deep prejudices. We have to do better and be better. We were meant to be better than what we are. We CAN do better and we must.
In the words, AGAIN, of Fredrick Douglas, "Agitate, Agitate, Agitate". It is American Freedom month after all.....
This Ska Brewery (canned) Modus Hoperandi India Pale Ale is dedicated to all rabble-rousers who are color blind and just want better for us all. Cheers, goddamit. Back to the movie.....
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 17, 2012 12:41:02 GMT -5
Split my watching of Invasion of the Body Snatchers between last night and now. What a Hell of a movie. A second movie in a row for me with a stellar cast. Everything was good, more than good about this film. The levels of paranoia oozing from beginning to end, well, it is something to behold and with this being my second watching, I recommend this movie and recommend revisiting it. The paranoia from the onset is more profound on a second viewing.
Drank a canned Southern Star seasonal brew, Le Mort Vivant from Conroe, Texas close to Houston. A very "meh" beer in a Belgian farmhouse style apparently. I just can't support this poseur Texas micro-brewery specifically because of their weak-ass beers. Then I drank a beer that fails even more, Landshark from Bud Lite City, Missouri. No Cheers!
LOB-36
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 17, 2012 20:32:58 GMT -5
The one censorship rule that was abandoned that I support is the banning of showing child nudity. I did not need to see infant Kal-El's little penis. I really did not. I saw this movie as a teenie tyke in the movie theater and growing up on the ol' teevee. Great stuff and a third movie in a row with a stellar cast.
I think it's funny how I like all the Superman movies but "Part Four", The Quest for Peace, but I have only read one Superman comic book, the original issue of Action Comics #1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. So if I was drinking a beer, a Cheers! to those two under-credited gentlemen.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 18, 2012 6:38:11 GMT -5
Just finished watching Sssssss a very good horror movie from 1973 starring a young Dirk Benedict. Here's Wikipedia. SSSSSSS (released as Ssssnake in the UK) is a 1973 horror film starring Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Reb Brown, and Strother Martin. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Hal Dresner and Daniel C. Striepeke. The makeup effects were created by John Chambers and Nick Marcellino. During the transformation of David to the cobra, the special effects were well ahead of their time. The film has developed a small cult reputation and is acclaimed by many horror fans. It received a nomination for Best Science Fiction Film in 1975 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA.LOB-39
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 18, 2012 6:42:34 GMT -5
Oh yeah, drank one of the best beers I have ever had, a 2009 Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout, the original bourbon barrel aged stout, 13% alcohol from Chicago, Illinois. I had been aging this beer for a few years. Black deliciousness. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 18, 2012 23:06:44 GMT -5
So I'd never seen or really wanted to see THX 1138 by good old George Lucas. In 1967 he shot a student film. In true character, he re-shot it in 1971, and it starred Robert Duval and Donald Pleasance (and Sid Haig, but I didn't recognize the young whipper-snapper). So I would have earned a point by watching this dystopic arthouse movie, but the version is George Lucas's Director's Cut he cobbled together into an all new movie. I'm calling it a 2004 movie. He "Special-Editioned" the damned thing. So, LOB+0. Freaking nerf-herding jerk. Here is Wikipedia. In 2004, Lucas finally set about getting a DVD version of the film together. Like he did with Star Wars, Lucas put the film through audio/video restoration, making use of computer-generated imagery to modify certain scenes to his liking, mostly by expanding crowds and sets. In addition, Lucas shot new footage for the film, and even went as far as to reshoot several scenes using computer systems to insert the actors and replace existing footage.Finishing up a 750ml bottle from New Glarus, Wisconsin's favorite brewery New Glarus Brewing Co.'s Wisconsin Belgian Red, made with over a pound of local cherries per bottle. It is a redbrown in color, tartish yet sweet, and over three years in age. I'm glad I drank it now and not young. Like drinking high-octane fortified cherry cider. A classic, but not for me. So this Not For Me Cheers! does not go to George Lucas but for the original producer of THX, Francis Ford Coppola and Zoetrope.
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