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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 9, 2020 10:18:23 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock Hour 'An Unlocked Window' The best ep out there - Escapee from a Mental Ward disguises as a nurse ........ Twilight Zone up next  |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 9, 2020 13:58:08 GMT
I am going to watch "The Wall" tonight at an improvised drive-in at the airport parking lot, as part of the Festival de Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal. I love the Pink Floyd album but I don't think I've seen the movie more than once, probably when it came out.
On Saturday they are going to show all Mad Max movies back-to-back-to-back-to-back, from 8 PM to 4 AM. Twenty years ago I would feel seriously tempted to go, but nowadays, no way - and that's even though I would LOVE to have the chance to watch "Fury Road" on a big screen again.
The Wall is a really interesting film, but it's not fully successful for me as a fan of the album. I think it really could have worked as a film with an abstract narrative, but it's disparate creators' visions keeps it from coalescing I think, which feels odd since the album is so cohesive. And I hate the movie version of Mother. Both the song and the filmic sequence. And I think Bob Geldof kinda sucks. If you saw the Roger Waters tour of the Wall from a few years back, I think in some ways that's a much stronger narrative representation, even though much of it uses the same footage and it's not presented as much like a narrative. If you didn't see that tour there's a really good concert movie from a few years ago as well.
It was good to watch the movie again. I remembered some of the most iconic sequences but a lot of it I didn't.
I agree about Bob Geldof. When I first watched it all those years ago I don't think I disliked his performance, but yesterday I did.
Tonight, to honour John Lennon who would be turning 80 today if he hadn't been murdered, I think I will watch "Help!". I have never watched any of the Beatles' movies. This is the only one that I own, so it's an easy choice.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 9, 2020 14:08:44 GMT
F13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
On AMC
One of the better F13th sequels with a young Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover
Fun watch
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 10, 2020 11:53:06 GMT
I watched “Help!” (1965) last night, in honour of John Lennon’s birthday (in an alternate universe he had a cake with eighty candles on it). I had never watched any Beatles movie and I had no idea what to expect. It is an extremely silly comedy. Ringo has a ring that he received from a fan that marks him as a target for a ritual sacrifice by a vaguely Indian religious sect (as an aside, this movie would generate a tsunami of outrage if it were made today). So the fanatics try all manners of crazy schemes to retrieve the ring, and when that fails, to kill Ringo.
I don’t know, I guess I was lucky to be in a good mood and to be able to laugh at the absurdity of it. I can perfectly well imagine that if I had not been in the mood for it, I would have turned it off after 15 minutes.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 10, 2020 14:48:41 GMT
The Visit
Fun creepy flick from M Night - one of his better ones
Kids go to visit their grandparents(?)
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 11, 2020 7:52:51 GMT
Halloween Watching - SyFy - Leather: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Coming up at 4am on AMC - Cult of Chucky |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 11, 2020 16:29:58 GMT
Bride of Chucky - AMC
Around the time (might be off a movie or 2) Chucky turned into a spoof of himself - like Freddy did in the Nightmare in Elm Street series - i.e. lots of comedy mixed in
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 12, 2020 9:22:22 GMT
Mini Twilight Zone Marathon on SyFy right now
Ends at 9am
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 12, 2020 11:28:01 GMT
Mini Twilight Zone Marathon on SyFy right now Ends at 9am Talking about The Twilight Zone, has anybody been watching the new series? There was a first season with eight or ten episodes last year that I didn’t like all that much, but the two episodes of the second season that I’ve watched so far were pretty good. I think it is on some streaming service in the US, but here in Canada it’s on a regular channel.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 12, 2020 11:43:11 GMT
I finished watching the first season of “Raised by Wolves”, a new science fiction series about the attempt by survivors of the final war between religious fanatics (not of any of our real present-day religions) and atheists to save humanity by colonising a distant planet. The atheists get there first, with a small, fast craft crewed by two androids and loaded with frozen embryos. Years later, a gigantic ark sent by the religious fanatics arrives.
As a fan of science fiction I was enjoying it a lot at the beginning, but a little less towards the end of the ten-episode run - not enough to make me give up on watching the already-confirmed second season when it comes out, though.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 12, 2020 18:10:31 GMT
I watched The Mothman Prophecies the other night, which I see on countless "scariest movies all of time" lists. I don't have much to say about it, other than I just don't get it. Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Will Patton are all going through the motions in this one. Suspenseless, toothless, more of a 90s genre thriller than anything else. By the time the big payoff occurs, I was pretty much divested and waiting for it to end so I could go to bed.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 12, 2020 19:05:14 GMT
28 Weeks Later - a fun respectable follow up to the original masterpiece
wonder whatever happened to 28 Months Later
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 12, 2020 20:36:09 GMT
28 Weeks Later - a fun respectable follow up to the original masterpiece wonder whatever happened to 28 Months Later Great opening sequence. Like, historically great. Movie kinda falls apart after that, but really solid casting with Robert Carlysle (a personal favorite of mine), Catherine McCormack, Idris Elba (he was in the Wire before this but was otherwise a nobody), Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau and Imogen Poots. The whole "lock everyone inside a garage and cut the power but leave the back door open so everyone is trapped in a slaughterhouse" might be the single dumbest plot device ever concocted. One of my favorite parts, though, is right after the kids arrive back at the safe zone, and Robert Carlyle is showing them around. They step inside a building, and Carlyle deliberately trips the building alarm....and then laughs after his kids first become terrified. HAHAHAHAH, a few months after the rage virus decimated the entire country, nothing says funny like tripping the alarm in the middle of a hyper-militarized zone and sending your kids into a panic. LOL!
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 12, 2020 20:41:20 GMT
28 Weeks Later - a fun respectable follow up to the original masterpiece wonder whatever happened to 28 Months Later Great opening sequence. Like, historically great. Movie kinda falls apart after that, but really solid casting with Robert Carlysle (a personal favorite of mine), Catherine McCormack, Idris Elba (he was in the Wire before this but was otherwise a nobody), Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau and Imogen Poots. The whole "lock everyone inside a garage and cut the power but leave the back door open so everyone is trapped in a slaughterhouse" might be the single dumbest plot device ever concocted. One of my favorite parts, though, is right after the kids arrive back at the safe zone, and Robert Carlyle is showing them around. They step inside a building, and Carlyle deliberately trips the building alarm....and then laughs after his kids first become terrified. HAHAHAHAH, a few months after the rage virus decimated the entire country, nothing says funny like tripping the alarm in the middle of a hyper-militarized zone and sending your kids into a panic. LOL! It's one of my favorite openings to any movie.
And I've always loved the musical score.
It begs the question - what would you do in that situation - fight or flight for a loved one.
You'd hope 'fight' -
My jaw dropped -
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 12, 2020 20:47:00 GMT
Great opening sequence. Like, historically great. Movie kinda falls apart after that, but really solid casting with Robert Carlysle (a personal favorite of mine), Catherine McCormack, Idris Elba (he was in the Wire before this but was otherwise a nobody), Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau and Imogen Poots. The whole "lock everyone inside a garage and cut the power but leave the back door open so everyone is trapped in a slaughterhouse" might be the single dumbest plot device ever concocted. One of my favorite parts, though, is right after the kids arrive back at the safe zone, and Robert Carlyle is showing them around. They step inside a building, and Carlyle deliberately trips the building alarm....and then laughs after his kids first become terrified. HAHAHAHAH, a few months after the rage virus decimated the entire country, nothing says funny like tripping the alarm in the middle of a hyper-militarized zone and sending your kids into a panic. LOL! It's one of my favorite openings to any movie.
And I've always loved the musical score.
It begs the question - what would you do in that situation - fight or flight for a loved one.
You'd hope 'fight' -
My jaw dropped -
I'd like to think that I'd fight to save my loved ones, even in the face of certain death. That whole sequence, even the lead-up to it, is so great. In that particular clip, you see him sprinting, looks like there's some daylight between him and the half dozen or so infected running after him. Then the side shot of him running and a ton of baddies are sprinting downhill towards him. Seeing this in theaters, I think I let out an audible "oh fuck."
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 13, 2020 14:18:32 GMT
Tremors - AMC
What a classic
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 13, 2020 16:27:21 GMT
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Wow - that ending kind of ripped off Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 13, 2020 16:28:51 GMT
Tremors - AMC What a classic They shot a movie length pilot for a new Tremors series a few years ago starring Kevin Bacon. For some reason they passed and won't release that, yet they're still making these bargain bin movie sequels with cast members that nobody cares about anymore. Weird. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 13, 2020 20:37:19 GMT
Psycho III
Fun click
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 14, 2020 19:08:09 GMT
I watched the documentary My Octopus Teacher on Netflix. It's about a South African diver who one day notices an octopus in the area where he dives, and then goes back there regularly and is able to gain the octopus' confidence. He keeps going every day for months and filming the octopus with its travails to find food and escape predators. It's pretty interesting stuff for those who like nature documentaries, and the underwater footage is gorgeous. There is some stuff about how the octopus "taught him life lessons" (hence the title) that had me rolling my eyes, but that's a minor complaint. |
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