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Post by loverofbeers on Dec 16, 2015 11:08:12 GMT -5
Been a busy month. Simply to copy and paste JAS's rules from last year, here we go:
This month's theme due to the late beginning is simply December Holiday films (Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanaza, New Year's Eve, etc.). This includes movies with even one holiday scene.
1 point for any non-horror film 2 points for any horror film
And one addition. To celebrate the re-awakening of my favorite movie series, all Star Wars movies released in theaters are worth one point including any animated films including The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Not the episodes, but the hour plus long introductory features. Happy Holidays and may the Force be with us, allways. Cheers!
Now bring it Jake!
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Post by loverofbeers on Dec 18, 2015 13:38:00 GMT -5
The New Centurions sounds awesome. I loved Tora, Tora, Tora and George C. Scott is great. The seventies were a great decade for film....
So gained my first point, and saw it at seven this morning with my best friend and ex, Kristin who I am glad to have in my life. Weeks ago my friend Daniel tracked me down to the restaurant I am helping out at until my beer bar opens. Daniel, mi hermano Latino, brought me two tickets because he works at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, which we re-opened up a year and a half ago as the new bar staff. Well I love this wonderful degenerate and he loves me. So today my wait that started back during third grade a long, long time ago in 1983 and far, far away in El Paso, Texas, finally ended. I saw the proper continuation to my childhood love and obsession. Right now I open a Real Ale Fireman's #4 and toast a thankful Cheers! to J.J. Abrams for doing it right and with magic and soul. And I Cheers! all those listed in the credits that I watched till the absolute last moment. I Cheers! Star Wars The Force Awakens. And now I just have two years or so to wait for Episode Eight. Today was a good day. I followed the movie with a great burger for breakfast and a walk through an art gallery featuring Star Wars paintings that moved me and Dr. Seuss art that made me laugh and smile.
LOB-1
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Feb 1, 2016 5:40:24 GMT -5
I watched Lewis Jackson's 1980 American horror film Chirstmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out and Terror in Toyland, about a crazy man who begins to murder people whilst evnsioning himself as Santa Claus. The acting was good-great (mostly the former), the soundtrack was good (an eclectic mix of Christmas songs and a more traditonal film score: for example there's disco, blues rock, choir music, traditional instrumental music, guitar shredding, random drum solos similar to Requiem for a Vampire, and lots of synth), the cinematography is good-great (again more of the first, but some of the interior shots looked menacing), the gore is ok, and the acts of violence look ok. The weakest elements of the film are it's lackluster gore and violence, its passable at best, but not ridiculously bad enough that it is funny. While this film has been labled as a slasher, it really isn't one (as previously mentioned the kills in the film aren't particuarly interesting, besides the choice of weapons) and is instead more of a psychological horror film focusing on a mentally unstable man on the brink of breaking with an unhealthy obsession with Christmas and becoming Santa Claus. The actor playing him (Brandon Maggart) does a great job showing the character's mild mannered facade and his eventual descent into full on madness, seeing how beneath his calm exterior he is full of rage and ready to explode at any moment, and I particuarly loved the scenes showing him trying to become Santa accurately and the scene where he puts on his figurative mask while looking at the mirror and then going back to his sinister expression. The character is also voyeuristic (something he developed from watching his parents when he was younger) and it was genuinely creepy when he's spying on the neighborhood kids and watching his brother being intimate with his wife. There were some (what I presume to be) unintenitonally hilarious moments in this film such as the city crowd using torches like an old style angry mob and the use of a toy solider, a a Christmas Star, and Santa's sack as weapons. I thought it was dumb how the man who initiates the angry mob chase, pulls out a switchblade on him prematurely (why even give the guy you believe is a killer the chance) before making sure all the kids are away from him and can't be used as hostages and/or shields. While not what I was expecting (either a ridiclous over the top film or a so bad its good movie), the movie was still good overall.
I also watched Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (I'll discuss my thoughts more in depth later).
Sorry, for being over a month late. Are you on for February?
JAS-3
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