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Post by loverofbeers on Aug 31, 2012 22:30:05 GMT -5
Brother Jake, not to sound gay (which there is nothing wrong with being for the record), but you and I have achieved moments of synchronicity. Back around January we both I believe had Japanese movies on our minds. And it was a good month, an awesome month, even though Grave of the Fireflies was (AGAIN) the saddest movie I saw this year. Tragic memories of a loved one crush my withered and blackened heart when I watch that movie..... I have been thinking movies never watched before and with the honor system at play, I have no worries having this competition with the likes of you, Sir. I like it. Let's make it so (if you want) and a Cheers! of a collaboration beer between New Belgium Brewing Company (Colorado) and Alpine Beer Company (California), The Lips of Faith Series of too limited of a release beer, Super India Pale Ale. And as I am finishing this wonderful beer, my hats off to the two guilty brewing parties. This is one of the better to best American IPAs I ever done drank. One more Cheers! to watching movies and the metamorphosis in how we learn to watch movies as it almost becomes a scholarly pursuit of a pastime and hobby. Especially of the great genre of HORROR! And my other thoughts on ideas? Hong Kong Month and my still secret "Mystery Box #1" Month. And I challenge you someday to a THIRD Foreign Film Competition. I empty the glass now of Super India Pale Ale. Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 1, 2012 15:01:25 GMT -5
I was going to start it yesterday but fell asleep for the first time in four days. This months theme is movies you've never seen before. 1 point for any non horror movie and 2 points for any horror movie. The competition ends at the end of the month at midnight California time. Also any movie you've never seen in one full sitting counts. Bring it on LOB!
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 1, 2012 19:39:44 GMT -5
How about one amendment?
Movies we saw only once, before we turned six that we don't recall? For me that would be July 1974-July 1980. Too bad I have rewatched King Kong, Jaws, Star Wars, and Alien since my wee-one days. I think that actually only leaves The Muppet Movie, Bambi, Orka, The Rescuers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, James Bond's (Sean Connery's) Moonraker, Star Trek the Motion Picture, and the late seventies version of Dracula.
You like that idea?
Somebody has got to bottle puppy's breath. Instant millionaire, I tell ya what.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 1, 2012 19:53:58 GMT -5
Yeah I do I like that idea after all I know that I saw Puppet Master when I was like 2 or 3 ,but recall nothing about it. So movie's you know you watched when you were really young ,but don't remember at all also count.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 3, 2012 19:12:19 GMT -5
First I watched Bernard Rose's Candyman from 1992 starring Tony Todd and Virgina Madsen. I thought this movie was really good. All the acting was really good especially the aformentioned actors. I also liked the soundtrack and all of the little grafitti, the gore was good as well. The movie got me early in the beginning man and I really liked the part near the end with the fire man it just was so cool looking man. The only part of this movie that I didn't like was the girl that the protagonist's husband was cheating with, man she was atrociously bad at acting. Instead of looking terrified she looked like she was laughing. Otherwise it was a good movie.
Then I watched Miner's Massacre from 2003. Now a little background on this movie, this was a movie that as a kid I'd always see at the rental stores and would always want to rent because of the cover ,but my parents would never rent it for me. Now nearly a decade later I finally watched it and it wasn't good at all ,but I'm still glad I finally watched the thing. It's about an evil miner who made a deal with the devil that if anyone ever found his goal he'd be able to come back and kill them. The acting in this movie was horrendous, the makeup wasn't good, and the characters were unlikeable. However, there was a genuinely funny moment near the beginning that involved one of the protagonists buying a "genuine" wanted poster of the evil miner for $40 and then it pans over and you see he's got dozens of them he's been printing out and letting hang on the wall to get worn. The only noteable actor was Karen Black and she didn't do a good job at all.
After that I watched Guillermo Del Toro's second feature film Mimic made in 1997 which is about this bug that was gentically modified so that it'd kill most of the cockroaches in the New York subways that were carrying a disease that was killing off children ,but the new bug soon evolves. Overall it wasn't that bad of a movie ,but it wasn't anything special. Some of the giant bugs looked surprisingly good ,but the one at the end and the flying swarm looked really bad. I also didn't like the overly happy ending, now I have nothing against happy endings ,but it's just bad when it's crowbarred in the way it was here.
Finally I watched Vincent D'Onofrio's Don't Go in the Woods which is a horror-musical from 2010 about a band that's trying to get away and focus on writing some songs in the hope of scoring a record deal with an executive they're meeting in the woods. Now to begin the cinematography of the woods in this movie was great, they looked ominous yet beautiful. I thought that the gore looked good as well. Being a musical the soundtrack was great as well ,but I didn't like the musical parts because I felt it messed with the flow of the movie I didn't mind the parts where the band was singing because that makes sense ,but when groupies start singing for no damn reason it just takes me out of a good movie. It's also something Neal's been wanting for awhile a smasher instead of a slasher. Half of the death scenes were good ,but half also looked pretty fake. The acting is good and unlike alot of horror movies where your bored until the horror starts in this the characters are actually likeable and have differences in their personality. I think it's a prime canidate for a remake where you could excise the random singing and make the actual killings look better.
JAS-8
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 3, 2012 20:41:06 GMT -5
I agree with you about Candyman. Great horror movie but that young actress DID look like she was laughing in her most scared moment. She was single handedly the only bad part of this movie.
Check out the special features if you have the dvd, the hypnosis part of the folklore in the making of this film is something else.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 3, 2012 23:57:39 GMT -5
Just watched Friday the 13th Part 7, The New Blood.
The only horror-con that I have been to was a Fangoria event. It featured a reunion and Q&A with the cast of Friday the 13th Part 7. The story told that stuck out the most for me was the sheer size and power of the explosion at the end of the movie. Kane over did it. He WAS the stunt coordinator.
I met Kane Hodder at this Fangoria event, and had a great fifteen minute or so conversation with him. What a great guy! What a fun event. I recommend if you can, visit a horror convention. Good times.
This is the second movie after Hatchet that I have seen Kane Hodder set on fire. The guy is a freaking god! A (Hurray Beer!) Red Stripe Cheers to Mr. Hodder and a Jeers! to the MPAA for nearly castrating this movie. You pussy-assed un-American sissy bastards!
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 4, 2012 0:00:16 GMT -5
Oh yeah, LOB-2.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 5, 2012 2:27:26 GMT -5
Well, I hate computers. After typing for ten minutes.... Everything I typed is gone.
To make it quick, as I grudgingly rehash my thoughts, but very more briefly....
Before last October I never had seen a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie. So to quickly rehash what the interwebs made disappear, Jake you would love both the 1920 and 1942 Dr. Jekyll movies. Trust me. They are up your alley. They both are smart films.
The 1942 version with Spencer Tracey was a minimalistic masterpiece. I said more before but I was made angry by technology pushing my buttons. So I say less now.
Drank a collaboration beer between Stone, Victory, and Dogfish Head, Saison Buff, and followed that with five Alaskan Whites. Cheers to seventy year old movies that kick the living shit out of today's horror in terms of class, intelligence, and psychology, but not gore. And a Cheers! to the whiff of puppy's breath that I am so lucky to detect in the night's air.
LOB-4
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 8, 2012 15:33:38 GMT -5
First I watched Jeff Lieberman's Satan's Little Helper which is a horror comedy about a serial killer that's dressed as Satan during Halloween and gets discovered by a kid who thinks he's the hero "Satan" from his favorite video game. Now this is still so bad it's good ,but slightly intentional and I did laugh a few times during this movie. The serial killer doesn't speak and is a good example of body acting and he does a good job ,but it's comedic not threatening. The cinematograhpy is nothing special ,but there was one great shot of this beautiful ,but ominous sunset. Most of the acting is bad ,but since it's a horror comedy I guess you can get away with that.
Then I watched Clive Barker's Hellraiser which is a movie I'd always heard of as good ,but never really seen. I thought this was a really good movie ,but first I'll start with the negative. The CGI magic effects are horrible and look really fake and the Cenobites got defeated too easily at the end and unfortunately there was much aforementioned CGI magic effects. Now I thought the actors themselves were really good. Kirstie does something alot of horror movies fail to do and that is be likeable so you actually feel her horror, confusion and desperation. I also thought the dad and step mom were actually sympathetic as well even though the mom becomes evil, and the uncle does a great job as this menacing depraved person. I thought the gore looked great and that the Cenobites, particuarly Doug Bradley as Pinhead were awesome. Pinhead and the female Cenobite just have such a presence and the other two did a good job as enforcer types looking menacing in the background. Especially Chatterer. The Bone Dragon was legitimately creepy looking and the chase was tense, and the part at the end with all the chains was just great, masterful art. I'm so glad I finally watched this movie and wasn't dissapointed.
After that I watched Phillipe Gelatt's The Bleeding House a horror movie about an ostracised Texas family who live in the coutry by the woods and get visited by a charming doctor who's traveling across the country. I thougth this was a pretty good movie ,but I think it lacked suspense which sort of hurt it as you find out pretty quickly who the killer is. The acting and gore are pretty good ,but the best part of this movie was the evil doctor played by Patrick Breen who does a god job as the composed, intelligent, charming killer who is extremely amused at what he is doing. I think this movie had some good ideas ,but could have been executed better especially the ending.
Then I watched Henry Bromell's Panic which is about a hitman who's having a midlife crisis and starts seeing a shrink. This was a really good movie; the acting was good, the violence realistic, and you really felt bad for the main character played by William H. Macy I reccomend this film and was surprised at how good it is.
JAS-15
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 10, 2012 0:57:50 GMT -5
Just watched a very fun and decades old black comedy horror film with much Yiddish (Gefilte!) humor and a tad of slapstick. And murders! Reminded me of an Old Catskills stand-up act (Jackie Mason), The Big Leibowski, Mr. Ed era teevee sitcoms, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And I think this was my first Roger Corman movie. A Tecate Cerveza Cheers! to that ol' trailblazer! Take it away oh great and powerful Wikipedia! The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called "Green Thoughts", by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $30,000 in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.
The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the b movie in a double feature with Mario Bava's Black Sunday and eventually with The Last Woman on Earth. The film's popularity increased with local television broadcasts, in addition to the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. The movie was the basis for an Off Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors, which was made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a Broadway revival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film.LOB-6
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 10, 2012 2:01:52 GMT -5
I've never seen the original Little Shop of Horrors only the remake which I saw dozens of times as a kid at my aunts house. I need to check it out some time see how they compare.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 11, 2012 0:27:52 GMT -5
And it ended with a Vince Russo style swerve on the audience. A very young Jack Nicholson (miscast as a French soldier, Mr. Nicholson failed here) and a seasoned Boris Karloff. Some believe that this was one of Corman's Edgar Allen Poe films. It wasn't, just felt that way. The giveaway should have been Karloff's character's name: Baron Victor Fredrick Von Eppe. Oh, yeah, a ghost story. And Jack kisses a dead woman, again.... Take it away Wikipedia, my crutch.... The Terror (1963) is an American horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman, and famous for being filmed on leftover film sets from other AIP productions, including The Haunted Palace. The movie was also released as Lady of the Shadows, The Castle of Terror and The Haunting, and was later featured as an episode of Cinema Insomnia and of Elvira's Movie Macabre.
Although sometimes linked to Corman's series of so-called "Poe films," which were inexpensive films loosely based on the public domain works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Terror is not actually based on any text by Poe.
Set in 1806, the film tells the story of a lost French soldier named Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) saved by a strange young woman named Helene (Sandra Knight). She looks like Ilsa, the baron's (Boris Karloff) wife, who died 20 years before.Drinking a Rye on Rye from the Smokestack Series from the Boulevard Brewery. Aged in Templeton Rye Whiskey barrels after being brewed with two types of rye. One of the very best beers I drank this year. One more Cheers! to Roger Corman! LOB-8
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 13, 2012 20:31:18 GMT -5
Watched Death Note from Japan that started off as a manga and has been remade as anime and a series of three films. Watched the first movie.
Light is our hero, a teenaged son of a police head detective who wants to be a DA some day. He wants to make this a better world. A God of Death, Ryuck, drops a Death Note, a powerful notebook for Light to pick up....
Ryuck at first was a terrible CGI character to me. Either the CGI got better or the movie was so well done that I let go and suspended my disbelief, and Ryuck became my favorite part of the film.
Our hero develops a "God Complex" and becomes our villain. Ryuck, a terrifying winged God of Death, actually tries to become a moral compass, but finally declares Light to be worst than a God of Death and calls the good looking son of the law, a monster. Rightly so....
Drinking a Real Ale Hans Pils from Blanco, Texas, which along with Oskar Blues' Mama's Lil Yella Pils and Lagunitas Pils, is one of the three best pilseners I ever have had. Take that Germany! We own you in the lager department too. Cheers! to Ryuck!
Back to Death Note. Here is the trailer.
Here is the full movie subtitled in English if anyone wants to watch it.
LOB-10
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 14, 2012 0:46:27 GMT -5
I thought the anime series was great and it's a personal favorite ,didn't like the ending not because it wasn't well done ,but didn't like who won. The series was all around good the God stuff and all the mental duels were awesome. Haven't seen any of the films because I think it's hard to adapt anime/video games into movies due to the difference in media ,but since you got it up there for me I think I'll check it out.
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