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revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 11:46am
The Boss is watching Gangs of New York right now. I'm wandering around the house, doing the dumb things that I do, but every time I come within earshot, I hear a tin whistle being played. So I've come to conclude that in 1860s New York, Tammany Hall mandated tin whistles around the clock, all throughout the city. But why? That's the part I don't understand.
Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
It's never intrigued me enough to sit down and watch it. Part of it, I suspect, is that I don't find organized crime movies appealing, and this seems too close cousin to it. I'm sure it's all well done and merits its critical adulation, but the subject matter just doesn't appeal to me.
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revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 11:46am
The Boss is watching Gangs of New York right now. I'm wandering around the house, doing the dumb things that I do, but every time I come within earshot, I hear a tin whistle being played. So I've come to conclude that in 1860s New York, Tammany Hall mandated tin whistles around the clock, all throughout the city. But why? That's the part I don't understand.
Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
The movie is so so. But the documentary about the 5 points that came with it is excellent.
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:42pm
revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 11:46am
The Boss is watching Gangs of New York right now. I'm wandering around the house, doing the dumb things that I do, but every time I come within earshot, I hear a tin whistle being played. So I've come to conclude that in 1860s New York, Tammany Hall mandated tin whistles around the clock, all throughout the city. But why? That's the part I don't understand.
Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
The movie is so so. But the documentary about the 5 points that came with it is excellent.
I remember not liking it either.
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tepista wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 1:42pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:42pm
revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 11:46am
The Boss is watching Gangs of New York right now. I'm wandering around the house, doing the dumb things that I do, but every time I come within earshot, I hear a tin whistle being played. So I've come to conclude that in 1860s New York, Tammany Hall mandated tin whistles around the clock, all throughout the city. But why? That's the part I don't understand.
Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
The movie is so so. But the documentary about the 5 points that came with it is excellent.
I remember not liking it either.
It's a movie that could've been so much better than it is. I don't think it depicts the era as grimey as it was and the reality of all the nastiness.
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 1:51pm
tepista wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 1:42pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:42pm
revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 11:46am
The Boss is watching Gangs of New York right now. I'm wandering around the house, doing the dumb things that I do, but every time I come within earshot, I hear a tin whistle being played. So I've come to conclude that in 1860s New York, Tammany Hall mandated tin whistles around the clock, all throughout the city. But why? That's the part I don't understand.
Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
The movie is so so. But the documentary about the 5 points that came with it is excellent.
I remember not liking it either.
It's a movie that could've been so much better than it is. I don't think it depicts the era as grimey as it was and the reality of all the nastiness.
I barely remember.
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tepista wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 2:09pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 1:51pm
tepista wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 1:42pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:42pm
revbob wrote:
15 Sep 2018, 12:33pm


Ive never been able to stomach more than a few minutes of that movie.
The movie is so so. But the documentary about the 5 points that came with it is excellent.
I remember not liking it either.
It's a movie that could've been so much better than it is. I don't think it depicts the era as grimey as it was and the reality of all the nastiness.
I barely remember.
But you were there though. :mrgreen:
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Godzilla vs Gigan aka Godzilla on Monster Island (1972) Cockroaches from space infiltrate Earth and plan to wipe out the population with space monsters Gidorah, and the new guy, Gigan, who has hooks for hands and a functional buzzsaw in his belly. The good guys are Godzilla and Anguris, who take a long swim across the Pacific looking for a fight. The roaches have built an amusement park with a Godzilla-shaped tower as headquarters. The humans are a cartoon artist, his karate-kickin' girlfriend, and a few other whistleblowers. The fight scenes were pretty good, bloodier than in previous entries.

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) 10 years after the monster wars, some rogue Jaegers (robots) attack the military under the control of Kaiju brains that somehow survived. With most of the pilots killed the last hope lies with teenage cadets to work the robots. Action, yeah, but I’m sure it was better suited for a big screen than my living room TV, not mention better suited for kids. I’m surprised I lasted the entire runtime. Charlie from Sunny returns, it’s hard for me to believe him playing a literate character. I liked the first one, but I couldn’t recommend this.

Severance (2006) Office workers on a team-bulding trip in the woods end up at the wrong lodge and find themselves on the wrong side of murderous mountain militants! Pretty funny and very violent. Cool Small Faces song over the opening credits. Brit director Christopher Smith also did Triangle and Creep (the subway one, not the boring FF one), why the hell isn’t this guy working more?

Terrifier (2017) The clown killer from a barely watchable 2013 anthology, All Hallow’s Eve, gets his own movie, and the results are better this time, though not great. Two pretty girls meet a psycho clown after hours on Halloween in a pizzeria, and he stalks them to an abandoned apartment building a few blocks away. One problem I had was that the pizza employees got murdered and the news reported it instantly, but the rest of the action took place about 2 blocks away and there wasn’t a cop in sight! Some of the FX here were pretty good, that was watchable, but I wouldn’t see it twice.

Tenebre (1982) An American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) on a promo tour in Milan becomes a suspect when pretty women around town are being killed and having pages from his book shoved into their dying mouths! The kills scenes are outstanding and borderline iconic, highlighted by an unforgettable arm-chop. Lots of beautiful women and many of them nude. It would be hard for me to say this could rate any lower than Dario Argento’s 3rd best movie (tied with Bird with the Crystal Plumage). Also with John Saxon and Daria Nicoletti. Absolute must-see, whether you like giallo or not.

Phenomena (1985) Jenifer Connelly uses her telepathic connection with incects and her friendship with entomologist Donald Pleasence and his monkey assistant to thwart a serial killer who has been terrorizing young girls at a boarding school. Much of the plot is a stretch and the heavy metal soundtrack seems out of place in some scenes, but this supernatural giallo from Dario Argento still delivers the goods. With Dario Nicoletti and lots of maggots.

The House on Sorority Row (1983) A prank-gone-wrong leaves a dead body just moments before the big graduation party, so a group of sorority sisters hide the body and continue on. As the party goes on, the sisters get brutally murdered one by one. Some pretty good kills, a little nudity and some east coast accents. You could do worse.

Pieces (1982) “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chansaw massacre” said the VHS cover of this campy 80s gore classic, you have to go to Spain posing as Boston! A mysterious killer is chopping pretty girls to bits and removing body parts from the crime scene. Christopher George is the lead detective and his real-life wife Linda Day is an undercover cop posing as a tennis instructor, who delivers a Tour de Force performance with her BASTARD scene. This movie wastes no time at all, gore and boobs show up right away and are constant throughout. Director J. Piquer Simon also did Slugs and Satan’s Blood, while writer-producer Dick Randall has a list of softporn and sleazy grindhouse titles a mile long. Also known as The Night has 1,000 Cries, I could not get tired of this movie in 1,000 years.

Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) Made for TV flick about a small cozy hotel being infested by poisonous ants. A construction team (including Bernie Casey) lets them loose and they make their way over to the adjacent hotel and terrorize manager Linda Day George (Pieces) her wheelchair bound mother Myrna Loy (Mask of Fu Manchu 1932) and a jerkwad who's trying to buy the hotel with his girlfriend, Suzanne Sommers! Fairly tame, but cheesy. I didn't have trouble watching this one, Svengoolie hosted.

10 to Midnight (1983) Charles Bronson is an LA police detective looking for a serial killer who gets naked before he kills his female victims, as to not leave any evidence. Bronson tracks the killer, but with not enough to keep the scumbag, Chuck plants some false evidence and gets fired for it. As a civilian, Charles still does his best to make the psycho's life miserable, but the tables turn when the killer sets his sight on Charles' daughter. Lots of blood, plenty of nudity (including Ola Ray who played MJ's girlfriend in the "Thriller" video) and Wilfred Brimley plays a police captain. Sleaze classic from Cannon. Brit director J Lee Thompson's long career includes the original Cape Fear, Happy Birthday to Me and the last two Planet of the Apes (70s) sequels.

Freeway (1996) Reese Witherspoon is an illiterate teenage runaway with parents in jail, who hitch-hikes with “The I-5 Killer” (Kiefer Sutherland) who’s been murdering young women up and down the freeways of Los Angeles. She shoots him in self defense and winds up in juvie, escaping, and meeting a colorful cast of characters along the way. Don’t let Reese’s presence fool you, this movie is about as sleazy as it gets, and a real wild ride. With Brooke Shields, Amanda Plummer, Sidney Lassick, Britany Murphy, and more. Writer-Director Matthew Bright was an original member of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo before they shortened their name. No wonder he was able to get Danny Elfman for the score!

Hereditary (2018) More like Heredi-Scary! The last 20 or 30 minutes, at least, and I think I don’t creep that easily. What can I say about a movie that’s been talked about to death. It’s a very long movie (2hrs 7min) but it never gets dull, and the first 3/4s of it does a great job showing a family dealing with tragedy with a hint of the possibility of something supernatural going on, and the end really hits it out of the park. I didn’t mean to wait so long to see this, that’s just the way it happened, and I only watched the trailer once and avoided all reviews and threads. I was worried the overhype would hurt it, but it it didn’t. Heavy, heavy shit from first time writer/director Ari Aster.
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tepista wrote:
01 Oct 2018, 4:48pm
Hereditary (2018) More like Heredi-Scary! The last 20 or 30 minutes, at least, and I think I don’t creep that easily. What can I say about a movie that’s been talked about to death. It’s a very long movie (2hrs 7min) but it never gets dull, and the first 3/4s of it does a great job showing a family dealing with tragedy with a hint of the possibility of something supernatural going on, and the end really hits it out of the park. I didn’t mean to wait so long to see this, that’s just the way it happened, and I only watched the trailer once and avoided all reviews and threads. I was worried the overhype would hurt it, but it it didn’t. Heavy, heavy shit from first time writer/director Ari Aster.
I wanted to see this until I heard that it was Babadook-level bad. Any crits there?
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Kory wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 1:11pm
tepista wrote:
01 Oct 2018, 4:48pm
Hereditary (2018) More like Heredi-Scary! The last 20 or 30 minutes, at least, and I think I don’t creep that easily. What can I say about a movie that’s been talked about to death. It’s a very long movie (2hrs 7min) but it never gets dull, and the first 3/4s of it does a great job showing a family dealing with tragedy with a hint of the possibility of something supernatural going on, and the end really hits it out of the park. I didn’t mean to wait so long to see this, that’s just the way it happened, and I only watched the trailer once and avoided all reviews and threads. I was worried the overhype would hurt it, but it it didn’t. Heavy, heavy shit from first time writer/director Ari Aster.
I wanted to see this until I heard that it was Babadook-level bad. Any crits there?
I liked the Babadook.
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Silent Majority wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 1:47pm
Kory wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 1:11pm
tepista wrote:
01 Oct 2018, 4:48pm
Hereditary (2018) More like Heredi-Scary! The last 20 or 30 minutes, at least, and I think I don’t creep that easily. What can I say about a movie that’s been talked about to death. It’s a very long movie (2hrs 7min) but it never gets dull, and the first 3/4s of it does a great job showing a family dealing with tragedy with a hint of the possibility of something supernatural going on, and the end really hits it out of the park. I didn’t mean to wait so long to see this, that’s just the way it happened, and I only watched the trailer once and avoided all reviews and threads. I was worried the overhype would hurt it, but it it didn’t. Heavy, heavy shit from first time writer/director Ari Aster.
I wanted to see this until I heard that it was Babadook-level bad. Any crits there?
I liked the Babadook.
I also liked the Babadook. I thought it was a fascinating look at grief and how it can destroy someone.
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tepista wrote:
01 Oct 2018, 4:48pm
Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) Made for TV flick about a small cozy hotel being infested by poisonous ants. A construction team (including Bernie Casey) lets them loose and they make their way over to the adjacent hotel and terrorize manager Linda Day George (Pieces) her wheelchair bound mother Myrna Loy (Mask of Fu Manchu 1932) and a jerkwad who's trying to buy the hotel with his girlfriend, Suzanne Sommers! Fairly tame, but cheesy. I didn't have trouble watching this one, Svengoolie hosted.
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Hated the Babadook.
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Well I liked the Babadook, but they aren't in the same neighborhood. Hereditary was as serious as shit as far as horror movies go, and the last half hour was pretty fucking scary.
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tepista wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 6:44pm
Well I liked the Babadook, but they aren't in the same neighborhood. Hereditary was as serious as shit as far as horror movies go, and the last half hour was pretty fucking scary.
I wonder what the hell that person was talking about then.
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