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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 25, 2022 12:43:34 GMT
Woo Hoo! New Season of Creepshow just dropped Odd - S3 E1 is dated 9/23/21 (don't recall seeing it) yet - S3 E2 is dated 9/30/22 S3 E1 - Mums; Queen Bee 'A boy mourns the loss of his mother; a couple of teens sneak into a hospital and end up getting a little more than they bargained for' Let's Do It!  |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 25, 2022 12:57:40 GMT
I watched “Cinderella Man” last night. I missed it when it came out, even though I was interested in it, and always had it in the back of my mind that I should watch it one day. It only took me 17 years. For those who might not know, it is based on the true story of boxer James Braddock, who had a promising career cut short by injuries, struggles during the depression, and mounts an unlikely comeback. Russell Crowe stars and Renee Zellweger plays his wife. Ron Howard directs.
I thought it was a good biopic even though it is very academic, as would be expected from Ron Howard. Good performances, good fighting scenes. A little bit too heavy on the depression drama, but I suppose that couldn’t be helped considering that it is based on a true story.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 25, 2022 13:01:45 GMT
The Fugitive (1993) First-time viewing. Going in, I'd heard about the famous "I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care!" dam scene, knew nothing else. I normally struggle to watch movies late at night - I usually end up pausing halfway through and going to sleep - but found this one pacy and engaging enough to hold my attention throughout. As a hardcore Bond fan, I certainly wasn't expecting to see Jeroen Krabbé of The Living Daylights fame (though objectively among the worst Bond villains, I've always liked his performance in that film) not to mention Andreas Katsulas (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Babylon 5) in major roles.  Not to mention a young Julianne Moore! Klaw loves the redheads.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 25, 2022 13:04:32 GMT
I watched “Cinderella Man” last night. I missed it when it came out, even though I was interested in it, and always had it in the back of my mind that I should watch it one day. It only took me 17 years. For those who might not know, it is based on the true story of boxer James Braddock, who had a promising career cut short by injuries, struggles during the depression, and mounts an unlikely comeback. Russell Crowe stars and Renee Zellweger plays his wife. Ron Howard directs. I thought it was a good biopic even though it is very academic, as would be expected from Ron Howard. Good performances, good fighting scenes. A little bit too heavy on the depression drama, but I suppose that couldn’t be helped considering that it is based on a true story.
One of my favorite movies
One of my favorite scenes in movie history
As he's almost down and out - he has images of his wife and children struggling through poverty - digs down deep - Lasky gives him a look like 'What's this guy made of...' Similar scenes with Apollo looking at Rocky this way and real life imitating art with Deontay Wilder looking at Tyson Fury this way -
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 25, 2022 13:05:19 GMT
The Fugitive (1993) First-time viewing. Going in, I'd heard about the famous "I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care!" dam scene, knew nothing else. I normally struggle to watch movies late at night - I usually end up pausing halfway through and going to sleep - but found this one pacy and engaging enough to hold my attention throughout. As a hardcore Bond fan, I certainly wasn't expecting to see Jeroen Krabbé of The Living Daylights fame (though objectively among the worst Bond villains, I've always liked his performance in that film) not to mention Andreas Katsulas (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Babylon 5) in major roles. It's an awesome flick that still holds up...as long as you can get past the police not investigating the guy who had the keys to Richard's house the night his wife was killed.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 25, 2022 13:17:41 GMT
The Fugitive (1993) First-time viewing. Going in, I'd heard about the famous "I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care!" dam scene, knew nothing else. I normally struggle to watch movies late at night - I usually end up pausing halfway through and going to sleep - but found this one pacy and engaging enough to hold my attention throughout. As a hardcore Bond fan, I certainly wasn't expecting to see Jeroen Krabbé of The Living Daylights fame (though objectively among the worst Bond villains, I've always liked his performance in that film) not to mention Andreas Katsulas (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Babylon 5) in major roles. It's an awesome flick that still holds up...as long as you can get past the police not investigating the guy who had the keys to Richard's house the night his wife was killed. They didn’t give Ford’s story about the fight in his home much in the way of consideration, either. “A one-armed man? Yeah right! What next? He had two heads?” |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 25, 2022 13:33:27 GMT
I was wondering about this one. I saw that it was no. 1 on Netflix the other day, and the premise is intriguing to me, but then nobody seemed to be talking about it. Your review is kind of disappointing to hear, although a good a warning. If it was a 2 hour movie I'd still probably give it a shot, but it sounds like yet another thing that might have been good at that length but was stretched out to 8 hours for no good reason, other than that's what people seem to for (and those same people will still complain that a movie is slightly over 90 minutes...go figure). The concept is good though. I've often liked that idea of a character investigating or working on a thing that then takes over their whole attention an consumes the narrative, to sometimes psychedelic psychological effects. It's a good mystery/thriller/horror template. I just recently watched a newish movie called Censor that had shades of that idea. It's not exactly the same, but involves some of the sort mind bending obsession with a film that leads to altering reality and whatnot. It's set in the 80s and is about a woman on the British film board working on censorship of cheap exploitation movies during the 'video nasty' era who becomes obsessed with figuring out the hidden meaning behind a particular cheapo horror film which seems to invoke a repressed memory and might unlock a mystery in her past...or something like that. I'm trying to explain it without giving too much way. It's not perfect, but it's worthwhile and the first time writer/director shows a lot of promise. I'll definitely keep an eye out for what she does next. There was also John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns which was an episode of the series Masters of Horror on showtime that Mick Garris was in charge of. It was just an hour long and clearly made on a modest budget, but was really engaging and had a great premise. It was about a down on his luck movie theater owner who is tasked with potentially very lucrative job of finding the only copy of a lost old film that was shown only once and was said to drive its audience to madness and murder in its sole screening. He goes on the hunt for the lost print and delves into the underworld of unsavory locations and characters, and his own haunted past, etc.. kinda like that movie 8mm in a way, but with a bit more of a cerebral bent to it. It was a strong episode for an anthology show, but it really made me wish John Carpenter had been able to get a real budget and studio backing for it, because there was so much more potential for that story. There are a lot of things I could point to that are somewhat related to that idea (havent seen it in a million years but Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is similar, I think, and Mullholland Drive flirts with the same themes),but those two came to mind mostly. Funny, during the penultimate episode (which did have the show's best moment, which I'll mention below) I was thinking that this would be better served as a movie, rather than a stretched out mini series. There's just not nearly enough meat on the bones to fill these 8 hours, or whatever it ended up being. Trimming the fat would have made it a lot more engaging. I'm with you, I gravitate towards those types of stories as well. I remember when Censor came out, and wanted to watch it. Maybe I'll give that a go this weekend, I'm fairly certain it's available on Hulu. So throughout the series, there's this repeated, demonic chant thing that the main character encounters. It's meant to be creepy, but it's just annoying and omni-present. But during this episode, which takes place 100 years ago, there's a big-band-swing version that gets played at a banquet, and it's kind of hilarious and amazing. I dunno, it just struck me as a great moment in a show completely devoid of even moderately enjoyable moments. The wife and I were discussing what to watch and she mentioned this show, which made me recall this warning not to bother. It's still a shame because the premise is so good, but these things never seem to stick the landing for some reason. It's type of premise that seems to be attempted often, but I can't really think of a great version of that idea. I watched a movie with a similar premise a couple of weeks ago called Broadcast Signal Intrusion from 2021 that was almost really good. It's about a video archivist in the late 90s who becomes obsessed with a pirate broadcast that occurred many years earlier. It's a weird, cryptic scene of people in bizarre and unsettling masks either mocking the sitcom their interrupting or communicating something much darker. The archivist tries to track down the source of the video which leads him to different weird characters and down strange paths towards what might be nefarious sources, or it could be nothing and he could be wasting his time pursuing it... like everyone says in these types of investigations in movies. This one gets so much right, and is so engaging and unsettling for most of the runtime, and then it has one of those endings where it seems like it's resolved in a perhaps less than satisfactory way, and then adds a moment that tells you there's no resolution at all and you're just left being pissed off. A surprise, or ambiguous ending can often work, but when a mystery just doesn't have any answers and the movie uses an ending like that it feels like a cop out. It's hard to rate this one because so much of it really worked, but the ending annoyed me so much... and not in a good way. It felt cheap and like they ran out of ideas. I really wish there was a great version of this idea, but I can only come up with pretty-good-at-best examples: the above title, In the Mouth of Madness, 8mm, Cold in July (sort of.. and I like this one), Cigarette Burns (John Carpenter's Masters of Horror Episode), Archive 88, The Ninth Gate, Censor, Barbarian Sound Studio, and I'm sure there are more. But it seems like there's a great film still to be made out of the guy-tracking-down-answers about an underground film, or broadcast, or video tape, or even web video kind of idea, but it hasn't been fully pulled off yet. By the way, I did finally watch Under the Skin a few weeks ago. I haven't checked in her much, but among many other things I've seen recently, this one really did stick with me. It's very vague and unusual, and feels truly alien. Not just in the way the protagonist behaves, but the way the film behaves. It's very much a singular film, but I was reminded, bit, of Annihilation which also presents an alien life that feels very alien and inhuman, and beyond humanity. Both films similarly present a lifeform without really passing judgment on it, but rather just present it bluntly. It's strange and fascinating, but I also don't know if I care for the ending. Good watch though. Glad I finally got around to it. |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 25, 2022 13:43:12 GMT
I watched “Cinderella Man” last night. I missed it when it came out, even though I was interested in it, and always had it in the back of my mind that I should watch it one day. It only took me 17 years. For those who might not know, it is based on the true story of boxer James Braddock, who had a promising career cut short by injuries, struggles during the depression, and mounts an unlikely comeback. Russell Crowe stars and Renee Zellweger plays his wife. Ron Howard directs. I thought it was a good biopic even though it is very academic, as would be expected from Ron Howard. Good performances, good fighting scenes. A little bit too heavy on the depression drama, but I suppose that couldn’t be helped considering that it is based on a true story.
It's a perfectly nice movie. It's not really anything special, and a bit cloying, but it's good. My prevailing memory of it though, is Paul Giamatti being furious at the ref and yelling, "unBELIEVable bullshit!" which repeated in his same tone, and adopted into my regular rotation. |
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Post by tristramshandy on Sept 26, 2022 17:10:06 GMT
Saw a clickbait list of worst television shows of all time. Didn't know this was a thing.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 28, 2022 10:35:23 GMT
80s Horror Movie Marathon - The Funhouse (1981) - 'Naughty teens are locked in a carnival fun house with a man in a Frankenstein mask.' 39% Popcorn Score Let's Do It! |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 28, 2022 18:26:14 GMT
Finished “Shinging Girls” on Apple TV last week. It’s a serial killer TV series with a time travel twist, starring Elizabeth Moss and Jamie Bell.
Fairly entertaining, and Moss thankfully keeps the gurning to a minimum, unlike in The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 30, 2022 16:44:38 GMT
WOO HOO! Just like Discovery Channel starting Shark Week a day early - AMC has started AMC FearFest 2022 a bit early On now - Misery followed up by Pet Sematary (1989 - not as good as the remake but still good) Here's Day 1 of AMC's FearFest 2022 - Saturday, October 1st, 2022 - 12:20am – Carrie (1976) 6:00am – Underworld: Evolution 8:00am – Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 10:00am – Underworld: Awakening 12:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 2:00pm – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers 4:00pm – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 6:00pm – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 8:00pm – Halloween (1978) 10:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Cloudy and Chilly around here with leaves fallin' - time to light some candles |
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 30, 2022 16:46:35 GMT
That time of year already? Great stuff! I'll have to watch a horror flick over the weekend. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 30, 2022 16:48:31 GMT
That time of year already? Great stuff! I'll have to watch a horror flick over the weekend. I'm like legit 'Giddy' - like a kid on Christmas morning
Favorite time of year - celebrate Halloween 365/12 but when the Calendar rolls over to October it's my Christmas - love this time of year up until Christmas
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 30, 2022 16:56:22 GMT
That time of year already? Great stuff! I'll have to watch a horror flick over the weekend. You can watch that movie "Smile" if you are into those creepy ass people showing at up baseball games.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 30, 2022 20:25:37 GMT
That time of year already? Great stuff! I'll have to watch a horror flick over the weekend. I'm like legit 'Giddy' - like a kid on Christmas morning
Favorite time of year - celebrate Halloween 365/12 but when the Calendar rolls over to October it's my Christmas - love this time of year up until Christmas
Been very busy recently so I haven't seen much, but I think I'm gonna finally sign up for Shudder and catch up on a whole bunch of stuff in October. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 1, 2022 14:16:09 GMT
WOO HOO! Looks like some of the old school Universal Monster movies are free on Peacock again right now Frankenstein followed by Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman Let's Do It! |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 1, 2022 21:54:22 GMT
I gotya tell ya folks,
Halloween 4 (on AMC right now) - is one of the better Halloween sequels....
** Spoilers **
Just can't believe they killed the lead chick off when she returns in Halloween 5 - kind of like how Friday the 13th did with 1 & 2
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 1, 2022 22:49:34 GMT
Elvira Marathon on 'Comet' - Channel 253 (Comcast) right now
'The Satanic Ries of Dracula'
Need more of this stuff on today - i.e. late nights on Fridays/Saturdays - Horror Hosts hosting bad B Horror Movies.....
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 1, 2022 23:23:36 GMT
Slow Horses on Apple TV
About a group of misfits working for MI5 with Gary Oldman as team leader.
Oldman is pretty funny and the plot and action sequences are decent enough. Worth a watch
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