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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 21, 2012 0:57:41 GMT -5
Just finished Evil Bong a Full Moon picture, and I now understand what that means. I think. Better than I expected. But, not a must see, but good times nonetheless.
It featured a plethora of boobies! and strippers, a guest appearance by Tommy Chong, and a quick cameo by Bill Moseley. Fun times.
I have five words for you, Tommy Chong with a chainsaw.
All hail Tommy Chong, a fire inhaling and smoke blowing legend! A Hurray Beer Cheers! of Red Stripe (Jamaican liquid gold) to Tommy and Cheech, why the Hell not?
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 21, 2012 1:06:18 GMT -5
God Bless Tommy Chong, I just found this. Smoke 'em if you got them.
I need to watch The Expendables 2.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 21, 2012 4:06:28 GMT -5
"Yo Adrian, we did it"!
Just watched Rocky Balboa. Wow. Full circle for a movie franchise and for a more seasoned in life, little old me. I applauded twice and I am loathe to admit it, I teared up twice. This is what sports movies are all about. Not perfect but still very inspiring, just like all the Rocky movies I have seen. I still haven't seen Rocky 5 with Tommy "Gunn" Morrison, the "Great White Hope" that never was.
Sylvester Stallone has made me a fan again with his last two movies that I was lucky enough to be open to watching. A Cheers! to Sly Stone!
This movie had a cameo by Mike Buffer and Mike Tyson. Holy shit, man.
Sadly, this movie is the most compelling boxing I have seen from the Heavyweight Division since the days of Holyfield's first run as "The Man" (and a "Fuck you very much" Iron Mike and Don King for killing the great sport of boxing). I have no idea who has been "The Man" since Riddick Bowe. How the sport has fallen.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 22, 2012 12:54:17 GMT -5
First I watched Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. First off the cinematograhpy and soundtrack of this movie was great the Rainforest looked beautiful and the way the happy soundtrack clashed with the horrific events worked great. I thought the acting in this movie was complete crap ,because otherwise it would've been a good movie. The shootout at the beginning was some hoky shit ,but the rest of the kills (I mean the fake ones) looked great. Especially all the revenge by the tribes at the end. The special effects looked incredibly realistic and whoever did them deserves an award. Now something that pissed me off about this movie was the animal cruelty and hypocrisy. I'm not a vegetarian ,but killing something for real in a movie just because it'll add to realism is wrong and a bullshit idea, it's also dumb when the effects that weren't real looked real. That turtle seen especially pissed me off. It's hypocritical because the point of the movie was how Western Society are the true cannibals and we should respect nature ,but they killed animals for no reason and the depiction of the natives was pretty racist. Also apparently he took advantage of the native actors and screwed them over on the payment ,because he knew he had an advantage due to the language barrier.
Then I watched a trifecta of Kim Ji Woon.
Second I watched The Quiet Family a South Korean horror-dark comedy which you can find on youtube with English subtitles. It's about a family who open a lodge in an isolated mountain range and how one way or another they keep having to bury more and more bodies. The movie is really funny, the cinematograhpy is great, and when it wants to the gore and violence can be realistic. The final shot of the movie leaves you with this uneasy feeling though and you're left wondering what it means. The soundtrack is also great and pretty funny as well.
After that I watched A Tale of Two Sisters. Which is about a pair of sisters who move in with their dad and their new step mom. This movie also has great cinematograhpy and a great soundtrack. Eventually the step mom get's abusive towards the youngest sister and other unexplained events. The gore and violence in this film is well done and it mixes superntural with psychogical horror. In the end you more or less find out what's happening and the last shot, mixed with the song at the end is incredibly moving.
Finally I watched horror-thriller I Saw The Devil. This was a great film. It's about a man who's wife gets killed and his subsequent interactions with her killer. The fights and gore in this film are incredibly realistic, the cinematograhpy is great, and the soundtrack goes well with what is going on. I highly reccomend this film as the good guy played by Lee Byung Hun and the killer played by Choi Min Sik (who also played Oldboy) do a great job acting in this movie. It's pretty long ,but so good that you never feel like it's long. I don't want to spoil anything ,but I highly reccomend this movie, hell I reccomend all three of these movies.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 22, 2012 21:15:32 GMT -5
"I'm not a vegetarian ,but killing something for real in a movie just because it'll add to realism is wrong and a bullshit idea, it's also dumb when the effects that weren't real looked real. That turtle seen especially pissed me off. It's hypocritical because the point of the movie was how Western Society are the true cannibals and we should respect nature ,but they killed animals for no reason and the depiction of the natives was pretty racist". I agree with every word. The killing of the pig served a reason, to infuriate the natives, so it did serve a purpose, but that said, fuck that shit. If it was killed instantly and shown on film to be used as food by the cast, then maybe I would be okay with it. But these killings were total crap. I still can imagine that tree dwelling furry critter screaming in pain and terror.... Fuck that director.
I Saw the Devil was a long movie? I didn't even notice. I agree with Jake's recommendation here. And I read about The Quiet Family, sounded awesome.
Watched my third Ed Wood, Jr. flick. Bride of the Ghoul, starring Tor Johnson and that old junkie, oops I mean good ol' Bela Lugosi.
Jeez, Bela was awful. Not a good actor. Wood recycled but shot better (huh, how is that even possible?) scenes of Bela's from Dracula like the close-ups of the oh so, yawn, spooky piercing Hungarian eyes, or his entrancing hand gestures. I did like Tor using a front headlock and his name, Lobo. Fun yet awful movie.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 22, 2012 21:51:10 GMT -5
Yeah I think sometimes Lugosi gets more credit than he deserves. Just because something is older doesn't mean it's a classic.
Also In Apocalypse Now they killed the yak for real ,but they were already going to kill it for some ritual and then eat it as part of a feast so they figured they might as well get it on camera.
Also I was wary about watching I Saw The Devil because of the length ,but it's funny how subjective time can be. It could be a short movie ,but if it's really bad or boring can seem like it's going forever or it can be a long movie ,but so entertaining that you don't really notice.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 22, 2012 23:43:57 GMT -5
I'll name six classic horror actors better than Bela Lugosi, in my jaded opinion. Max Schreck, Boris Karloff, John Barrymore, Lon Cheney Sr., Lon Cheney Jr., and Christopher Lee. Bela was a mess, a bloody mess. Credit www.modernmythmuseum.com/homepage.html
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 24, 2012 22:02:11 GMT -5
This weekend I watched The Serpent and the Rainbow, a movie I saw a few scenes of back in my childhood in the very scary eighties. It was possibly one of the two best made horror films, in my opinion, of Wes Craven's. Very good stuff, a very good Vodun movie. Great actors and performances, and creepy, creepy, creepy.
This morning before work I watched Night of the Ghouls, my fourth Ed Wood, Jr. flick, and truthfully, his best made movie in my limited experience. Among other "actors", this movie starred Criswell and Tor Johnson, no Bela, and was actually a sequel to Bride of the Monster. Lobo, Tor's monstrous character, finally dies in this movie. The main villain and Lobo's new master is Dr. Acula (rhymes with Dracula), a con artist. What a lousy and lazy name. This movie would be the result of Vincent Price's The House on Haunted Hill making a kid with Don Knott's The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Fun times. A craptastic classic.
Drinking a Sixth Point Sweet Action ale from Brooklyn, New York. Hoppy goodness. But sweet. But hoppy goodness. A Cheers! to the different, a Cheers! to Ed Wood for not giving a flying fuck and just producing no matter what limitations or obstacles (like daylight at nighttime) stood in his way.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 25, 2012 1:16:51 GMT -5
Watching a dull movie. Taking a break. The highlight so far has been Peter Cushing entering the scene at the 18 minute mark. I loves Peter Cushing. Also starring Donald Pleasance.
So re-reading some of the posts in this thread, and I am going back to one of Jake's, this:
"Now something that pissed me off about this movie was the animal cruelty and hypocrisy. I'm not a vegetarian ,but killing something for real in a movie just because it'll add to realism is wrong and a bullshit idea, it's also dumb when the effects that weren't real looked real. That turtle seen especially pissed me off. It's hypocritical because the point of the movie was how Western Society are the true cannibals and we should respect nature ,but they killed animals for no reason....". Credit JAS.
I watched this movie finally a very few years ago. The woman on the pole.... I know you all know the history of this movie's premier, so I won't re-hash it. This movie feels like a snuff film, and I am a life-long Chainsaw fan. This movie just feels wrong, not in a good horror movie way. I know it is visual effects, but the movie is soaked in wrong, and not in a fun horror genre way.
I once saw a baby goat castrated with a dull pocket knife (senior year in high school, Animal Science, the only F.F.A. class I took, for shits and giggles during my last semester, oh the fuckin' horrors I saw right before lunch time). That scream and the tree critter's scream have stuck with me for years, and I think I will take those screams someday, as a VERY old man, to the grave.
This is one of the few times I will call a director a scumbag who needed a severe ass-whoping. I would love to meet the old man.
Take the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beginning, which I loved, fuck the critics. When that cow was hit by the jeep-like vehicle, it exploded in gore. It looked so real, so real. But it wasn't. A Cheers! to Jonathan Liebesman, the director for showing everyone how to get it done, the right way. Made in Texas, correctly. A Cheers! to my state and the horror therein.....
Back to my dull movie....
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 25, 2012 19:06:25 GMT -5
First I watched George A. Romero's The Dark Half starring Timothy Hutton which is an adaptation of a Stephen King story about an author who's character comes to life once he decides to stop writing books featuring him. I really liked this movie the acting and gore was good and it's amazing how different Hutton was in regards to playing the protagonist and antagonist. The CGI birds and portal at the end looked like crap ,but all the other effects were great especially the end where one of the characters played by Hutton is ripped from existance bit by bit. I also liked the mini scanners-esque duel between the two at the end. I reccomend.
Then I watched Herbert Wise's 1989 adaptation of The Woman in Black which I thought was really good. It's available on youtube in it's entirety and is unfortunately lacks a DVD release and had a very short VHS release. Anyway it's about an insurance man who's tasked with putting the affairs of a recendly deceased old widow in order in her remote mansion in the marshes. There's great use of fog and audio scares in this film. The sounds are incredibly frightening and there's one moment that made me jump. I reccomend this one. On a sidenote funnily enough Daniel Radcliffe's dad in Harry Potter is the same actor who stars in this version of The Woman in Black.
After that I watched Zev Berman's Borderland which is based on a true story about a cannablistic cartel cult. The movie shows you why to beware in Mexico. The acting is good, combat scenes are good, and the gore looked really good. I don't want to spoil the plot ,but I reccomend this movie.
Finally I watched Dario Piana's The Deaths of Ian Stone which is about the titular character who continuosly is killed and then begins a new life. The acting was good and the story was interesting as well. I liked the whole vampire eating other vampire-esque idea. The monsters in this movie looked ok the CGI was bad ,but the practical effects looked great. Another reccomend.
It's nice to watch another set of all good films.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 28, 2012 20:05:41 GMT -5
First I watched Ti West's The House of the Devil which is about a college student in the 80's who takes a babysitting job and has weird things begin to happen. It's really inspired and stylized like alot of horror movies from the 80's which I liked. The acting is good in this movie and the characters are actually likeable. I liked the soundtrack and the fact that the characters weren't morons just people who went against their better judgement. I thought the gore looked good. I also liked how all the things the people hiring the main character said were a little off and how it slowly got to her. I thought the end was a little too rushed ,but overall it was a good movie and I reccomend it.
After that I watched French animated horror anthology Fear(s) of the Dark I was looking forward to this one ,but felt kind of let down. There were parts I really liked and others I didn't. I thought the framing device story involving a rich man with a pack of angry dogs was awesome and the ending was great, if there'd been more of that stuff I'd of loved it. The problem was there was alot of pretentious monologue's about fear and the first story wasn't very good. The last three stories were better ,but they just weren't that entertaining or scary. I sort of reccomend just trying to find the framing device story which was awesome. It's unfortunate they didn't get more out there or brutal since animation makes it easier to do these things effectively.
After that I watched C.H.U.D. which is about mutated creaturess who live in the subways of New York that start killing people. This was an ok movie I mean it was entertaining ,but not a masterpiece or anything. The acting was ok, I liked the soundtrack , and the special effects ,especially the creatures, wasn't that good. It was kind of neat seeing a young John Goodman though as an extra. Also I hate it in movies when cars explode for no reason.
Finally I watched Srðan Spasojeviæ's debut film A Serbian Film with no subtitles. I wish I'd of had subtitles ,but I'd been wanting to watch this film and wanted to watch it while it was still available on youtube. Though I can't give a fully acurate analysis due to the fact I didn't know what they were saying I still thought the movie was near great. The special effects were incredibly realistic, the soundtrack was great as well and had this unrelenting feeling, the combat was great, and I really liked the main bad guy. Just like Neal said he's just so into it man. I didn't like the very end though, while I thought the climax was great, I felt the very end was uncalled for and should've been left out. I wasn't really too disturbed by this film ,but it could be because I knew what was coming. If anybody wants to see it then it's available on youtube right now in it's entirety.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 29, 2012 0:24:42 GMT -5
So this is only a half excuse. Without this half excuse and adding the maelstorm known as seven week old puppies that have been trying to eat me, feet first, I could not have beat JAS this month. The man is an animal and he has been on a bender this month. I bow to no god. BUT, I bow to JAS this month. I would love to re-do this competition down the road. I made horrible choices this month I won't repeat. Ever.
My half excuse is that I have tried and failed multiple times to watch some awful freakin' movies. Before this month, I have tried to watch Weird Al Yankovik's UHF two or three times in 23 years. This month, I tried to watch it over four nights, over and over, never getting more than a half hour into it. I listened to the commentary track while surfing here and there and reading other sites and news some seven or eight times. I WILL WATCH THIS PIECE OF SHIT, THIS MONTH!!!!! I swear!
One night I tried to watch Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood. After five minutes I popped that out and I tried Corman's Wasp Women. After a few minutes of that I tried another Corman movie. I fell asleep. The next night I think I watched Rocky Balboa.
I tried to watch Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda one night. I couldn't pull it off.
One night I tried to watch Island of the Minotaur, a joint Greek/British horror film starring Donald Pleasance and Peter Cushing, and co-starring a plethora of murderous cultists of the Minotaur "faith" who looked like the Skittles version of the Ku Klux Klan. I watched half that movie. I will revisit it someday, if only for the actors.
I spent four nights trying to watch Leonard Part 6 starring a sweaty and very weird and flawed Bill Cosby as our hero Leonard Carter. Bill showed some very odd, racy, and homoerotic behavior in this film, and he was very sweaty as in dieing with a fever or on lots and lots of coke or amphetamines. Just saying. I finally finished the Crap Sandwich last night. Shit, that was one of the worst movies ever made by Hollywood in the 1980s. And since I was a kid I always wanted to see this god awful turd.
I love Bill Cosby, I grew up with The Cosby Show, but no Cheers! for Bill for this celluloid abortion/train wreck. This Modelo Especial Salud! is for "The Man", JAS.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 29, 2012 0:31:24 GMT -5
Hmmm. I don't want to watch a Serbian Film, but you made it sound less scarring to the soul. Debating....
C.H.U.D. I love. Campy goodness.
I also recommend House of the Devil. I liked how they got away from the "cell phone problem" by setting the film during the Satanist paranoia wave of the 1980s. Good stuff.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Sept 29, 2012 1:15:48 GMT -5
Yeah I definately like the idea of doing this competition again it's just a good theme you know?
I've noticed that whenever I hear how messed up a movie is it just makes me want to watch it. It's happened with A Serbian Film, The Last House on the Left, and I Spit on Your Grave.
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 30, 2012 13:12:08 GMT -5
Yesterday I watched Son of Dracula from Universal. Credit the great and powerful Wikipedia:
"Son of Dracula is a 1943 American horror film directed by Robert Siodmak – his first film for Universal studios – with a screenplay based on an original story by his brother Curt. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. and his frequent co-star Evelyn Ankers. Notably it is the first film where a vampire turns into a bat on screen. It is the third in Universal Studios' Dracula trilogy, beginning with Dracula and Dracula's Daughter."
A good movie and far superior than "Episode One". No armadillos or 'possums here, even though it is set in New Orleans. The Special effects were ahead of their time. Again, Wikipedia, "The film was the first to show on-screen the bat-to-man transformation of a vampire. The effect was the work of special-effects wizard, John P. Fulton, A.S.C. Fulton was Universal's chief special-effects artist starting with 1933's The Invisible Man. He won an Academy Award in 1957 for his work on The Ten Commandments, most notably for his work on the parting of the Red Sea."
All the acting was good, but Lon Cheney, Jr. just doesn't look like he would be Dracula's son, Count Alucard (first appearance of this name, Dracula spelled backwards, in the different medias that have portrayed vampires like Castlevania). Good actor, but his grey hair, mustache, and lack of fangs just didn't work for me. But a good Universal Monster flick, the best of their main "Dracula Trilogy".
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