TODAY I WATCHED... (Movies, TV) 2018

Fat Freddy wrote:

Kevin Smith's hilarious, foul mouthed micro-budget debut (shot in black and white at the same South Jersey grocery store that Smith himself worked in during the daytime) is mandatory viewing if you were a disaffected, surly twenty-something in the early '90s, if you ever worked in retail, or if you grew up in New Jersey. I happen to fulfill all three of those requirements, so this flick will never get old for me.

Yup, that movie is insanely quotable and never gets old for me either. I too was disaffected, surly, worked in a supermarket, loved Star Wars, collected comics, and grew up across the river from Jersey. That movie could've been any one of us.

tohostudios wrote:

I watched that scene again on Youtube after I posted that and I STILL laughed out loud multiple times.  I love the way it ends.

"Get back here!"

...and then later in the film when she comes back to the store, she sez "Hi" to Randal, and Randal simply replies "37?"

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Kevin Smith's hilarious, foul mouthed micro-budget debut (shot in black and white at the same South Jersey grocery store that Smith himself worked in during the daytime) is mandatory viewing if you were a disaffected, surly twenty-something in the early '90s, if you ever worked in retail, or if you grew up in New Jersey. I happen to fulfill all three of those requirements, so this flick will never get old for me.

Yup, that movie is insanely quotable and never gets old for me either. I too was disaffected, surly, worked in a supermarket, loved Star Wars, collected comics, and grew up across the river from Jersey. That movie could've been any one of us.

When I first joined the IT Production Support team 6 years ago I used to whine about having to do so many different things at the same time and the team lead would just look at me and say "I'm not even supposed to BE here!!".   I learned to shut up. 

That's how quotable that movie is.

Friday The 13th:The Series season 1, episodes 9 & 10. Some dated special effects but still a good watch

"Piranha" (1978)


Genetically modified flesh-eating fish escape from a remote Army testing facility and wind up in a Texas river, which turns out very badly for a group of summer campers and vacationers at a fancy resort farther downstream.
Joe Dante's tongue-in-cheek "Jaws" knock off is fast paced, gory fun. This has been one of my favorite "B's" since I saw it on Sunday afternoon TV as a kid, and it still holds up pretty well even after all these years.

Continuing the man-eating fish theme...

"Mega Piranha" (2010)


A secret agent must stop a ravenous strain of gigantic mutant piranhas before they can eat their way out of the rivers of Venezuela and reach the ocean, where they will menace the entire world.
The Asylum's "Piranha 3-D" mock-buster features their usual no-budget CGI, terrible acting, frequent lapses in logic and some absolutely brilliant stunt casting, with Barry "Greg Brady" Williams appearing as the U.S. Secretary of State and '80s pop tart Tiffany (!) as a crusading marine biologist.
This was one of the Asylum's better pre-"Sharknado" offerings... but that really isn't really saying much.

Yet another "Piranha" movie...

"Piranha Sharks" (2017)

It's Christmas time in New York City and the season's hottest gift items are Piranha Sharks - genetically altered sharks shrunk to the size of goldfish and sold via TV infomercials. Unfortunately some of the little suckers escape into the city's water system, and soon they're multiplying - and eating - like crazy. Can a trio of slacker pest exterminators figure out how to stop the critters before the government authorizes a nuclear strike on NYC?
This ultra-cheap, campy on purpose "Sharknado" wanna-be fails on just about every level aside from the presence of several hot girls wearing low cut tops. It makes the other two "Piranha" movies I've watched this weekend look like the Royal Shakespeare Company.
AVOID.

Son Of Frankenstein (1939)



Second sequel in the Universal Movies series. Basil Rathbone stars as the titular character as he tries to "fix" his father's creation (Boris Karloff's last appearance as the monster). However, the monster is used as a weapon of vengeance for the deranged Ygor (Bela Lugosi) against those who sentenced him to hang. I've seen every Frankenstein movie countless times except this one. If you like the Universal Monster Movies then this one is for you. I'm glad I finally caught this.

Avengers:Infinty War (2018)



The Avengers assemble to oppose their biggest threat as yet, the mad Titan Thanos, who is gathering the six Infinity stones that would make him the most powerful being in the universe and allow him to wipe out half of the population in the universe. This is an excellent film, with wall to wall action. It's about 2 and a half hours long but doesn't drag one bit. Fans of Marvel,or superhero movies in general, will not be disappointed.

Barney Miller
Coach
Carol Burnett Show

Castle Rock episodes 5 & 6

Deadpool (2016)




The Merc With The Mouth's big screen debut. Over the top violence vulgarity and funny as hell. I can't believe it took me this long to watch it.

Fates Warning "Alive In Athens" dvd

"Billy" on MLB Network.

It's a doc about Billy Martin.  I've seen this before but it's a good one so I'm watching it again.

"Runaway" (1984)


At the height of his "Magnum" popularity, Tom Selleck tried to cross over to movie stardom in this high-tech (by 1984 standards anyway) sci-fi/action flick from Michael "Jurassic Park" Crichton. He plays a cop in the near future whose specialty is stopping rogue robots, on the trail of a mad genius (Gene Simmons of KISS, making his acting debut) who's re-programming ordinary household droids to commit murder. This chintzy looking flick has decent performances by its two leads and even features a young Kirstie Alley (when she was still hot) but otherwise, it has aged horribly. Interesting in a time capsule sort of way but pretty much worthless beyond that.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Runaway" (1984)


At the height of his "Magnum" popularity, Tom Selleck tried to cross over to movie stardom in this high-tech (by 1984 standards anyway) sci-fi/action flick from Michael "Jurassic Park" Crichton. He plays a cop in the near future whose specialty is stopping rogue robots, on the trail of a mad genius (Gene Simmons of KISS, making his acting debut) who's re-programming ordinary household droids to commit murder. This chintzy looking flick has decent performances by its two leads and even features a young Kirstie Alley (when she was still hot) but otherwise, it has aged horribly. Interesting in a time capsule sort of way but pretty much worthless beyond that.

I've seen that one but the only thing I remember are those mechanical spider things.

tohostudios wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Runaway" (1984)


At the height of his "Magnum" popularity, Tom Selleck tried to cross over to movie stardom in this high-tech (by 1984 standards anyway) sci-fi/action flick from Michael "Jurassic Park" Crichton. He plays a cop in the near future whose specialty is stopping rogue robots, on the trail of a mad genius (Gene Simmons of KISS, making his acting debut) who's re-programming ordinary household droids to commit murder. This chintzy looking flick has decent performances by its two leads and even features a young Kirstie Alley (when she was still hot) but otherwise, it has aged horribly. Interesting in a time capsule sort of way but pretty much worthless beyond that.

I've seen that one but the only thing I remember are those mechanical spider things.

I always liked the programmable bullets that could go after a specific target but yet moved slow enough that you could run from them.

"Super Bitch" aka "Mafia Junction" aka "Blue Movie Blackmail" (1973)

The shifty Inspector Cliff, an Italian narcotics agent, wants a piece of that sweet European drug money for himself. He sets two cartels - one based out of a London escort service, the other an Italian crime family run by a little old lady called "Mamma" - against each other and then sits back as they start killing each other off. Lotsa dudes get shot, cars crash, bullets fly, and girls get naked. In other words, this is a pretty typical early 70s Euro-crime outing.
By the way, I have no idea why this movie is called "Super Bitch"... but none of the other alternate titles make much sense, either. I guess they had to come up with something catchy cuz the literal English translation of the original Italian title is "Can Anyone Be More of a Bastard Than Inspector Cliff?" and that would have been hard to fit on a theatre marquee.

Head Of The Class

Doctor Detroit


Boy has this movie not aged well. I haven't seen this movie since I was probably 14 or so and thought it was hilarious. Fast forward 30+ years and whoooo boy. I can only imagine the massive amounts of cocaine that was involved in the writing and filming of this movie.

Also something I noticed, there was an odd trend of "an unlikely nerdy guy that becomes a pimp" theme in movies back in '82-'83. 'Night Shift', 'Risky Business' and 'Dr. Detroit' all came out within a year of each other. Weird.

Christine


I'm happy to say this movie from the same era as 'Dr. Detroit' has fared much better with age. I'm pretty sure this was the first Stephen King adapted movie I ever saw and was one of the first King books I read. Arnie's girlfriend was smokin' hot too and I only just realized that she was the same actress years later that played the "plain Jane" short-haired lifeguard Stephanie on 'Baywatch'.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I only just realized that she was the same actress years later that played the "plain Jane" short-haired lifeguard Stephanie on 'Baywatch'.

She was also "The Virgin Connie Swail" in the Dan Aykroyd/Tom Hanks take off on the old cop show "Dragnet."

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I only just realized that she was the same actress years later that played the "plain Jane" short-haired lifeguard Stephanie on 'Baywatch'.

She was also "The Virgin Connie Swail" in the Dan Aykroyd/Tom Hanks take off on the old cop show "Dragnet."

So she was! How 'bout that. That's another movie I haven't seen in ages.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

So she was! How 'bout that. That's another movie I haven't seen in ages.

I actually saw that "Dragnet" flick twice in theaters when it came out. To this day, whenever I see Alexandra Paul in anything I'm like "Hey, it's the Virgin Connie Swail!"

I just re-visited "Dragnet" about a year ago. It's a pretty typical slice of '80s action/comedy cheez, but as Dan Aykroyd star vehicles go, it's certainly aged better than "Doctor Detroit," haha. My ten year old thought it was hilarious.

It's kind of funny now to see Tom Hanks playing second-banana to ol' Dan in that flick. That must have been one of his last co-starring roles before he became a legit leading man in his own right.