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Mimi wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 11:41am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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In a dream last night, I was watching Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates, so I'm going to watch that while riding the bike this morning. I know all those A & C movies from being a kid and them being shown Saturday mornings (cartoons went from 6 am to 10 am, then an old movie). In retrospect, it seems weird, given the radical social and cultural shifts of the 60s and 70s, to show comedies from the 40s and 50s to kids, stuff that was so removed from cultural sensibilities. That was stuff for parents and grandparents, not kids on Saturday morning. But we watched it because it was on.
Have you ever seen The Times of Their Lives? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_Their_Lives

I always loved that one.
I'm sure I've seen them all (albeit most 40+ years ago) but the plot of that only vaguely rings a bell.

edit: Having rewatched Buck Privates, I can say that the Andrew Sisters bug me. There's something version antiseptic and artificial about their voices.
The Andrew Sisters were the voice of joy and happiness for the GIs fighting in WWII. Why do you hate freedom so much? :lol:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 12:14pm
Mimi wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 11:41am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 11:35am
Mimi wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 10:20am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
07 Jan 2023, 8:50am
In a dream last night, I was watching Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates, so I'm going to watch that while riding the bike this morning. I know all those A & C movies from being a kid and them being shown Saturday mornings (cartoons went from 6 am to 10 am, then an old movie). In retrospect, it seems weird, given the radical social and cultural shifts of the 60s and 70s, to show comedies from the 40s and 50s to kids, stuff that was so removed from cultural sensibilities. That was stuff for parents and grandparents, not kids on Saturday morning. But we watched it because it was on.
Have you ever seen The Times of Their Lives? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_Their_Lives

I always loved that one.
I'm sure I've seen them all (albeit most 40+ years ago) but the plot of that only vaguely rings a bell.

edit: Having rewatched Buck Privates, I can say that the Andrew Sisters bug me. There's something version antiseptic and artificial about their voices.
The Andrew Sisters were the voice of joy and happiness for the GIs fighting in WWII. Why do you hate freedom so much? :lol:
Listen, lady, *these* colours do run!
:lol:

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Wife has been wanting to see this Avatar movie. I finally ran out of excuses so we went yesterday. The most interesting thing was I bought the tix onlne and when we got to the theater nobody checked our tickets. I bought some popcorn and the guy I sked if we needed tickets I said no and then we just walked ahead to the theater area and went in.

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revbob wrote:
08 Jan 2023, 10:52am
Wife has been wanting to see this Avatar movie. I finally ran out of excuses so we went yesterday. The most interesting thing was I bought the tix onlne and when we got to the theater nobody checked our tickets. I bought some popcorn and the guy I sked if we needed tickets I said no and then we just walked ahead to the theater area and went in.
Everybody trusts everyone in your hippie dippie socialist hellscape.

Also, I watched Buck Privates Return Home this morning. It was not very good and so thin that the opening five minutes were lifted from the first film.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Jan 2023, 11:22am
revbob wrote:
08 Jan 2023, 10:52am
Wife has been wanting to see this Avatar movie. I finally ran out of excuses so we went yesterday. The most interesting thing was I bought the tix onlne and when we got to the theater nobody checked our tickets. I bought some popcorn and the guy I sked if we needed tickets I said no and then we just walked ahead to the theater area and went in.
Everybody trusts everyone in your hippie dippie socialist hellscape.

Also, I watched Buck Privates Return Home this morning. It was not very good and so thin that the opening five minutes were lifted from the first film.
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The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Arty film from Spain about two little girls in 1940 who go see a showing of the 1931 film Frankenstein. The older sister tells the younger one that the the monster's spirit lives in and old shack, so the younger one, obsessed with the monster, hangs out there and waits for him. Eventually, a fugitive from the law goes to the shack to hide, and the girl thinks he's the monster and brings him food and clothes. And later on she has a dream that recreates the lake scene. Regarded as a classic in Spain. (TCM/cable)

Sissy (2022) A likeable influencer (that sounds weird, I know) runs in to her childhood BFF and is invited to her weekend bachleorette party, and is surprised to find her childhood enemy is there too. A series of unlikely events snowball into weekend of violence. A thoroughly entertaining Aussie outing starring Aisha Dee as the title character, and Hanna Barlow (who also co-wrote and co-directed) as the friend. (SHUDDER)

I Like Bats (1986) A beautiful vampire who works at an antique shop with her vampire aunt goes man-hunting at night, and eventually checks herself in to a psychiatric hospital when she grows tired tired of the ol’ vampire grind. This Polish oddity was a pleasant surprise, I would certainly revisit one day. With nudity. (SHUDDER)

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster (1974) Space aliens who turn into monkeys when you punch them have created a robot Godzilla who easily defeats Anguiris, before having his way with Godzilla too. If only King Caesar, a god who protects a small island, were here to help. King Caesar is a furry lion-like creature on two legs who has floppy ears and shoot lasers with his eyes. When he arrives he and Godzilla are able to take down the big robot with the help of humans with magnets. Caesar wouldn’t appear in another movie until Final Wars in 2004. (Midnight Pulp)

Violent Night (2022) David Harbour (Stranger Things) is Santa, who while making a delivery at the home of billionaires, must thwart a Die Hard-type army of burglers. It’s dumb and fun, don’t expect anything else. With John Leguizamo and Beverly D’Angleo, and from the director of the Dead Snow movies.

Deathcember (2019) 25 holiday themed shorts framed by an advent calendar, they all clock in at about 5 minutes each, and some of them were not bad. The most recognizable director names were Lucky McGee and Ruggero Deodato. Barbara Crampton and Tiffany Shepis are among the castmembers. (Peacock)

Bloody New Year (1987) Fleeing a beatdown from angry carnies, a group of young cockneys steal a rowboat and find themselves stranded at an island ghost motel where it’s perpetually New Year’s Eve 1959. Mostly nonsense, but it has a few fun moments. This would the last feature directed by Norman J Warren, who had a handful of decent low budget Brit-horror in the 70s and 80s. (TUBI)

Ganja & Hess (1973) Duane Jones is Hess, a rich doctor who happens to have a blood addiction and also happens to be immortal. Madeline Clark (Lamont’s girlfriend Jenny from Sanford & Son) is Ganja, the widow who comes to stay with him while looking for the husband that he disposed of. They end up having a relationship, draining their share of blood along the way. I think Ganja was supposed to be a sympathetic character, but she was constantly rude to the butler, a big turn-off for me. Very interesting, low budget vampire oddity, with plenty of blood as well as male and female nudity. 2nd watch. (cable)

War Between the Planets (1966) The 3rd in Antonio Margheriti’s Gamma One quadrilogy has all the same FX miniatures, but the cool cast from the first two films are replace by a far less charismatic one. At least I thought so, how do you replace Franco Nero. Anyway, it has one of those “meteor is coming at us” plots, and the lead constantly volunteered for suicide missions, most likely to get out of an engagement with the Generals daughter. (TUBI)

Ballad in Blood (2016) A dealer and a couple friends wake up from an all-nighter to find their other friend naked and murdered and try to putt he pieces together. The story is kind of all over the place, but it is loaded with blood and nudity, the lead girl is very good to look at, and it is the last feature film from Ruggero Deodato. (Midnight Pulp)

Terror on Tour (1980) Like any good horror-rock band, The Clowns kill women in their stage show, but which of the identically dressed band members is offing topless groupies at the after party? The music in this is actually pretty decent. The copy I had was a muddy VHS rip. Directed by Don Edmonds of Ilsa fame (DVD)

The Menu (2022) Rich people get what’s coming to them satire, with Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes, directed by a guy who mostly does TV shows. I thought it was pretty enjoyable if you don’t think too hard. (HBOMAX)

Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022) I barely remember the first one, but this is a anthology with comedy-horror stories heavily inspired by VHS-era film with a Saw-type wraparound. Nothing mind blowing here, I enjoyed it as a one-timer. (SHUDDER)

The Fox with a Velvet Tail aka In the Eye of the Hurricane (1971) A woman leaves her husband to live in a villa with her new boyfriend when suddenly she seems to be constantly dodging life threatening accidents in the Spanish-Italian giallo starring Analia Gade and Jean Sorel. (DVD)
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M3GAN (2023) A young girl (Cody) is sent to live with her aunt after her parents are killed in a car crash. The aunt (Gemma) who works for a toy company, is not prepared for parenthood. She decides to utilize a new toy artificial intelligence doll she is developing (M3GAN) to help watch Cody. At first M3GAN has good intentions, but she outgrows her programming and develops a mind of her own. 3 out 5 stars imho.

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Double post again.
Might as well give a shout out to the The Menu(2022) Guests at a super high priced restaurant get more than the usual dishes that are listed on the menu. But an invited guest (Ana-Joy Taylor) is not part of the chef's (Ralph Fiennes) plans for the night.

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Sick (2023) Kevin Williamson on the screenplay and the result is Scream meets Covid, simple as that, and though it was a serviceable slasher, the protagonists, ugh, I could not stand them. OK for a one-time watch. I think a lot of people liked this a lot, and I’m perfectly OK with that. (Peacock)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) The 15th and final Godzilla title in the Showa era sees Ishiro Honda return to direct after a four film absence. Space aliens reassemble the robot version of Godzilla from the parts left on the bottom of the ocean from the last film and team him up with a dumb-looking Loch Ness type called Titanosaurus. There was a long shot of some boobies in this when they were fixing a human heart in a robot woman, I think they were prosthetic, but still, this movie is for 9 year olds! The big fella would return in 1984. (Midnight Pulp)

A Quiet Place to Kill aka Paranoia (1970) Down on her luck, Helen is invited to the mansion of her ex-husband’s new, rich wife, who tries to scheme her in to murdering him for profit. These plans never go off as expected, and a wild ride ensues in this fun, Diobolique-inspired giallo-thriller from Umberto Lenzi, starring Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel. Top notch giallo. (SHUDDER)

The Police are Blundering in the Dark (1975) A journalist tracks his missing girlfriend to the mansion of an eccentric, wheelchair-bound photographer where he finds that she is not the only model who has recently gone missing. During his stay he must encounter sexual advances from a hot niece and a hot maid. The plot is pretty bad here, and there is some Sci-Fi that is downright ridiculous, but this lower echelon giallo has enough blood and boobies to make it an enjoyable watch. (SHUDDER)

Bloody Moon (1981) An unseen killer knocks off the beautiful students at a Language College in Spain. Plenty of nudity and lots of gore, including a show-stopping table saw decapitation, Jess Franco’s stab at a slasher does not disappoint. (Midnight Pulp)

Shin Godzilla aka Godzilla Resurgence (2016) A sloppy, gooey sea-creature with some Godzilla-like features plops up on land and slithers though the city, but thanks to some radioactive aided rapid evolution, it quickly turns into a more traditional looking Godzilla. Military weapons don’t seem to hurt it; Japanese scientists scramble for a solution before TEAM USA’s deadline to nuke Tokyo for the sake of the planet’s safety. The destruction scenes are a tremendous upgrade from the days of rubber suit stepping on models. ‘Zilla’s fire breathing capabilities are also much improved. Second watch for me, honestly one of the top movies in the franchise. (DVD)

Raiders of Atlantis aka Atlantis Interceptors (1983) Shipwrecked scientists and mercenaries team up to fight a post-apocalyptic biker gang in Ruggero Deadato’s mash-up of several different genres. As you’d expect from him, a few of the kill FX scenes were over the top! With genre faves Ivan Rassimov and George Hilton in supporting roles. (Midnight Pulp)

Night Game (1989) “You’re gonna need a bigger bat.” Woulda been cool if Roy Scheider actually said that, but instead he’s a 60 year old cop in Galveston (with a 30 year old wife) who listens to Astros games on the radio while hunting down a serial killer who targets blonde prostitutes at the pier when he suddenly figures a connection between the baseball scores and the killer’s strikes (pun intended). Pretty bad movie but the zany explanation at the end almost made it worthwhile. (TUBI)

Violent Naples (1976) A heavy-fisted cop makes life tough for the local street thugs and eventually the crime syndicate, which includes John Saxon. No female lead in this, oddly enough, but the violent scenes were great. I prefer Umberto Lenzi’s horror/giallo output to his cop/gangster pics, but I’m trying to check off the bulk of his resume. (TUBI)

Caligula…The Untold Story (1983) After the success of the mainstream, X-rated biopic from 1979, Italy produced a handful of rip-offs, this one is from prolific, and sometimes good gore-and-pornmeister Joe D’Amato. The title character beheads and impales his enemies, and throws glutenous orgies with background gladiator fights and horse shows, and falls in love with the beautiful Laura Gemser. Make sure the wife and kids are in bed before you pop on this sleazefest. (Midnight Pulp)
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Anyone see this movie? It looks shockingly awful and the worst tendencies of films of that era. Plus it turns the boozing, womanizing Babe into an infantile buffoon.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Anyone see this movie? It looks shockingly awful and the worst tendencies of films of that era. Plus it turns the boozing, womanizing Babe into an infantile buffoon.
And that little boy? Why, that's Tom Hanks!
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Red Dawn is on AMC right now. It's impressive how it outdoes the propaganda movies of the 1950s Red Scare. It's what grouchy leftist cultural critics called pre-digested—it does all the work for the viewer. Hilariously inane.
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29 Jan 2023, 1:08pm
Red Dawn is on AMC right now. It's impressive how it outdoes the propaganda movies of the 1950s Red Scare. It's what grouchy leftist cultural critics called pre-digested—it does all the work for the viewer. Hilariously inane.
Not that Ive tried too hard or that many times but Ive never been able to stay awake for that whole movie. I recall it being fairly popular when I was in high school.

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revbob wrote:
29 Jan 2023, 1:52pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
29 Jan 2023, 1:08pm
Red Dawn is on AMC right now. It's impressive how it outdoes the propaganda movies of the 1950s Red Scare. It's what grouchy leftist cultural critics called pre-digested—it does all the work for the viewer. Hilariously inane.
Not that Ive tried too hard or that many times but Ive never been able to stay awake for that whole movie. I recall it being fairly popular when I was in high school.
I said to the Boss that it was the kind of movie for meatheads in high school because they could go "fuck yeah" at the right times, but it was also fine to get misty when them freedom-loving kids died.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
29 Jan 2023, 2:02pm
revbob wrote:
29 Jan 2023, 1:52pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
29 Jan 2023, 1:08pm
Red Dawn is on AMC right now. It's impressive how it outdoes the propaganda movies of the 1950s Red Scare. It's what grouchy leftist cultural critics called pre-digested—it does all the work for the viewer. Hilariously inane.
Not that Ive tried too hard or that many times but Ive never been able to stay awake for that whole movie. I recall it being fairly popular when I was in high school.
I said to the Boss that it was the kind of movie for meatheads in high school because they could go "fuck yeah" at the right times, but it was also fine to get misty when them freedom-loving kids died.
Way to ruin the end for me.

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