TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2012

It could be worse. It could be one of the countless sequels where the dogs talk.

Today:

Law & Order-SVU
Benny Hill

DallasBlack wrote:

It could be worse. It could be one of the countless sequels where the dogs talk.

Oh, believe me, I've seen my share of those too. My kids own "Snow Buddies," "Spooky Buddies," and "Santa Buddies." They make the earlier "Air Bud" movies look like Shakespeare.

Fat Freddy wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

It could be worse. It could be one of the countless sequels where the dogs talk.

Oh, believe me, I've seen my share of those too. My kids own "Snow Buddies," "Spooky Buddies," and "Santa Buddies." They make the earlier "Air Bud" movies look like Shakespeare.

I guess the beauty of having no kids is being spared that drivel.

As an antidote to "Air Bud: Golden Receiver"...

"PIRANHA" (1978)


Classic fishy B-flick from Roger Corman in which a horde of hungry piranhas escape from a secret Army testing lab into a Texas river, and immediately begin munching on the local population whilst a skip tracer and the local drunk try to stop them. Nothin' fancy here, just good ole fashioned action packed gory mayhem. This is one of the best "B's" of the '70s in my book.

Fun fact: Steven Spielberg hired director Joe Dante to do "Gremlins" on the strength of his work on this film, which he called "The best Jaws ripoff I've ever seen."

Believers

"Whip It" (2009)


Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a quirky dramedy about a dorky Texas teenager (Ellen Page) who discovers a whole new side of herself when she joins a rough-and-tumble women's roller derby league. The trailers I'd seen promised something a bit more action packed and slap sticky, but I was entertained.

Extra props for Page's character owning a vintage Stryper t-shirt that becomes a major plot point, and for Juliette Lewis still being hot in a totally skanky way as Page's arch-rival from another derby team.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Whip It" (2009)


Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a quirky dramedy about a dorky Texas teenager (Ellen Page) who discovers a whole new side of herself when she joins a rough-and-tumble women's roller derby league. The trailers I'd seen promised something a bit more action packed and slap sticky, but I was entertained.

Extra props for Page's character owning a vintage Stryper t-shirt that becomes a major plot point, and for Juliette Lewis still being hot in a totally skanky way as Page's arch-rival from another derby team.

Whip It! is a very cool film, nicely done.

Burn Notice - SEason 4

Attack The Block

(glow in the dark teeth????)

World's Dumbest

MasterChef - Season 2

"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" (2007)



Absorbing documentary set in the high pressure world of competitive classic arcade gaming (yes, there really is such a thing), focusing on the battle to set a new world record high score on Donkey Kong. The main players are Billy Mitchell, a smug prick with a mullet who's held the Donkey Kong record since the 1980s, and challenger Mike Wiebe, a middle school science teacher and family man who simply yearns to make his mark on the world somehow. Color commentary is provided by a variety of other major playas in the competitive video game world, i.e. a bunch of sad sack middle aged fanboys who have probably never seen a naked woman.

I swear this movie plays like one of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries ala "Best in Show" or "This Is Spinal Tap," but this is the real deal... these people actually exist. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll roll your eyes and say "Wow, I am *really* glad I don't live next door to *that* guy."

Transformers - Dark Side of the moon

Fat Freddy wrote:

"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" (2007)



Absorbing documentary set in the high pressure world of competitive classic arcade gaming (yes, there really is such a thing), focusing on the battle to set a new world record high score on Donkey Kong. The main players are Billy Mitchell, a smug prick with a mullet who's held the Donkey Kong record since the 1980s, and challenger Mike Wiebe, a middle school science teacher and family man who simply yearns to make his mark on the world somehow. Color commentary is provided by a variety of other major playas in the competitive video game world, i.e. a bunch of sad sack middle aged fanboys who have probably never seen a naked woman.

I swear this movie plays like one of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries ala "Best in Show" or "This Is Spinal Tap," but this is the real deal... these people actually exist. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll roll your eyes and say "Wow, I am *really* glad I don't live next door to *that* guy."

I saw this a few years ago. It was great. That Mitchell guy is such a douche, but you can't turn away.

And staying on topic...
A few more episodes of, er, um 'Episodes' on Showtime.

Bait Car

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