movies

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

Didn't you just watch this a couple months ago, or were you just talking about it? I wound up watching it at that time since I was intrigued and liked it a lot.

Probably when I posted Au Revoir Simone's "Crazy" video, which compresses the narrative into three minutes.

[revbob]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

Great movie.

[Dr. Medulla]

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The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

Great movie.

His girlfriend killed herself tonight. Is that a coincidence? No, because the same girl who I came downtown to see was dead, too. That's because they're the same person. They're both dead!

[daredevil]

Nightmare Alley (2021) Bradly Cooper as Stan Carlisle a young man who literally burns his past and ends up joining a carnival. His talent for "reading" people leads to a clairvoyant act that brings fame and money. He then meets a female psychiatrist (Kate Blanchett) who might have hidden intensions. Damn this was good.

[tepista]

[matedog]

Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) A low level newspaper reporter tries to advance her career by uncovering a suicide which she believes may be spontaneous combustion. She ends up getting involved with Maud (Octopussy) Adams and her coven of witches or pagans, with help from homeless Clint Howard and a bunch of dog-sized roaches and and some slimy centipede-like creatures. Brian Yuzna, who also directed the ReAnimator sequels and Society, has all the gross-out body horror you’d expect from him. I enjoyed this a lot more than my notes indicated ten years ago, perhaps due to the beautiful, and sometimes naked Neith Hunter, who played the lead.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) This is a re-working of Pinocchio, Mickey Rooney (in a straight to video slasher!?!?) is the old toy maker, and his son Pino, and their toys attack and kill the recipients. It started slow, but there was a good scene late in the film where a babysitter and her boyfriend were mauled by assorted toys, and then the twist ending ending was kinda twisted/interesting. Neith Hunter and Clint Howard form part 4 had cameos.

They really just gave up on the christmas theme, huh?

[tepista]

Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) A low level newspaper reporter tries to advance her career by uncovering a suicide which she believes may be spontaneous combustion. She ends up getting involved with Maud (Octopussy) Adams and her coven of witches or pagans, with help from homeless Clint Howard and a bunch of dog-sized roaches and and some slimy centipede-like creatures. Brian Yuzna, who also directed the ReAnimator sequels and Society, has all the gross-out body horror you’d expect from him. I enjoyed this a lot more than my notes indicated ten years ago, perhaps due to the beautiful, and sometimes naked Neith Hunter, who played the lead.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) This is a re-working of Pinocchio, Mickey Rooney (in a straight to video slasher!?!?) is the old toy maker, and his son Pino, and their toys attack and kill the recipients. It started slow, but there was a good scene late in the film where a babysitter and her boyfriend were mauled by assorted toys, and then the twist ending ending was kinda twisted/interesting. Neith Hunter and Clint Howard form part 4 had cameos.

They really just gave up on the christmas theme, huh?

They took place around Christmas, and there were some decorations, but Xmas was not key to the story for sure.

[matedog]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

"Thomas Chong?" Was that a short lived bid for respectability? Cheech Marin is in it too.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

"Thomas Chong?" Was that a short lived bid for respectability? Cheech Marin is in it too.

Ha! The Boss made the same observation when we watched it.

[tepista]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

"Thomas Chong?" Was that a short lived bid for respectability? Cheech Marin is in it too.

Ha! The Boss made the same observation when we watched it.

They should get together and call themselves Chong & Cheech.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Boss showed me an on-demand movie channel we have—apparently we've had it for years, something I was wholly unaware of—so I picked After Hours, one of my favourites. Fantastic black humour within a Kafkaesque New York night.

"Thomas Chong?" Was that a short lived bid for respectability? Cheech Marin is in it too.

Ha! The Boss made the same observation when we watched it.

They should get together and call themselves Chong & Cheech.

David is here.

[Mimi]

Anyone watch Don't Look Up! ? I tried it yesterday, but meh. It just seemed like it was trying too hard to be funny. And I don't know what it is about Neflix movies, but 99% of the time, I hate them. The Dig is about the only one that I really liked.

[Flex]

Anyone watch Don't Look Up! ? I tried it yesterday, but meh. It just seemed like it was trying too hard to be funny. And I don't know what it is about Neflix movies, but 99% of the time, I hate them. The Dig is about the only one that I really liked.

I watched it, I thought it was pretty good although it needed some editing. It's an obvious movie, but I think the obviousness I warranted given the targets.

Netflix generally doesn't produce good movies or television. they're designed to be binged with the viewer only paying half (or less) attention. None of it is meant to be consumed end to end. Even here, where you have actual movie talents making the movie, it can't help but add algorithmically inspired flab.

[revbob]

Anyone watch Don't Look Up! ? I tried it yesterday, but meh. It just seemed like it was trying too hard to be funny. And I don't know what it is about Neflix movies, but 99% of the time, I hate them. The Dig is about the only one that I really liked.

My wife and I watched it New Years eve into New Year. It was ok. I'm not at all a fan of Leonardo and found the whole notion that women on social media and the TV personality played by Cate Blanchett were swept up by his sexiness was a bit far fetched but maybe that was part of the critique.

All that aside I found it slow to start, it improved over time but yeah.

I decided to look up Dig on IMDB and was entertained by this in the Parents Guide:

A woman and a man have sex behind a wall. He is on top of her. For those who want to fast forward, it happens briefly at 1:41:51.

Was that meant for people who want to FF to that scene or away from it?

[Mimi]

Anyone watch Don't Look Up! ? I tried it yesterday, but meh. It just seemed like it was trying too hard to be funny. And I don't know what it is about Neflix movies, but 99% of the time, I hate them. The Dig is about the only one that I really liked.

My wife and I watched it New Years eve into New Year. It was ok. I'm not at all a fan of Leonardo and found the whole notion that women on social media and the TV personality played by Cate Blanchett were swept up by his sexiness was a bit far fetched but maybe that was part of the critique.

All that aside I found it slow to start, it improved over time but yeah.

I decided to look up Dig on IMDB and was entertained by this in the Parents Guide:

A woman and a man have sex behind a wall. He is on top of her. For those who want to fast forward, it happens briefly at 1:41:51.

Was that meant for people who want to FF to that scene or away from it?

It must have happened so briefly that I don't remember it. lol

But, yeah, what better way to draw attention to something...