TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2013

Boris2008 wrote:

But I've been watching



Nowhere near as crappy as the trailer suggests, okay, the acting and script are a bit crappy but the story is fantastic! An old favorite of mine revisited cause I'm bored.

I'd have to call this the lesser of all the 90's urban gang movies (one of my favorite...sub-genres?). It has a lot of heart and an engaging story, but suffers on a narrative and dramatic level...very uneven and a lot of improbability. What I enjoyed about Boyz n da Hood and Menace II Society was the gritty realism; you really get thrown in with the gangs and feel the full experience. With BIBO you simply observe. Not a bad movie at all, just not as good as all the others. I also recommend Juice (w/Tupac), Colors, (Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, from the cops' POV), South Central, and of course Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood.

I've seen all of those with the exception of the Leprechaun one (which I think you may have made up!  ) and I couldn't agree with you less. By far my favorite! Maybe because i was expecting it to be really bad but this story gripped me and i actually cared about the characters. It could have been done a lot better but a great story.

I quite liked Boyz n da Hood and Menace II Society, you can keep the rest (I enjoyed Juice at the time but I saw it recently and meh) Best urban gang storytelling that I've seen? The Wire, fantastic show.

If you like L.A. cop/crime stories I'd recommend checking out "End Of Watch" from last year, excellent flick.

If corrupt/psycho cops are your cup of tea then also investigate "Rampart" starring Woody Harrelson, also from last year.

Corrupt/psycho cop movie starring Woody Harrelson sounds exactly my cup of tea.  

"Lifeforce" (1985)



This big budget sci-fi/horror flick from Tobe ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Poltergeist") Hooper definitely ranks as one of the most batsh*t insane movies to come out of the 1980s. A space shuttle studying Halley's Comet discovers an alien craft hidden in the comet's tail, and brings three humanoid creatures that they find inside the craft back to Earth. Unfortunately the three happen to be Space Vampires who are soon causing mass chaos as they drain the population of London.

Lifeforce has decent special effects and lotsa gratuitious female nudity but the movie stops making a lick of sense about 30 minutes in and simply gets more ridiculous from there. Turn your brain off and enjoy it for the carnage and the overacting.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Lifeforce" (1985)



This big budget sci-fi/horror flick from Tobe ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Poltergeist") Hooper definitely ranks as one of the most batsh*t insane movies to come out of the 1980s. A space shuttle studying Halley's Comet discovers an alien craft hidden in the comet's tail, and brings three humanoid creatures that they find inside the craft back to Earth. Unfortunately the three happen to be Space Vampires who are soon causing mass chaos as they drain the population of London.

Lifeforce has decent special effects and lotsa gratuitious female nudity but the movie stops making a lick of sense about 30 minutes in and simply gets more ridiculous from there. Turn your brain off and enjoy it for the carnage and the overacting.

For the longest time after seeing this one, whenever a movie started out decent then went totally off the rails my friend and I referred to it as "going all Lifeforce" or "well, that movie sure Lifeforced in a hurry".  

tohostudios wrote:

For the longest time after seeing this one, whenever a movie started out decent then went totally off the rails my friend and I referred to it as "going all Lifeforce" or "well, that movie sure Lifeforced in a hurry".   

It didn't just go off the rails, it went completely over the cliff!! I may use that reference from now on too!!

I hadn't seen "Lifeforce" since I was in high school, so I remembered almost none of it except for the female space vamp being naked for the entire movie, and the climactic scenes of London under siege by the hordes of zombies/vampires/whatever the hell they were supposed to be. Those bits were cool. Virtually everything else was poop.

With Lifeforce, it's as though the nineteen screenwriters (and three credited for story) gave up after being in a room together for some amount of time and started writing their own shit, mashing it together and giving it to a pack of wild monkeys for editing.

St. Trinian's (UK, 2009)



Essentially this is a British homage to silly National Lampoon style comedies of the 1980s. Every single scenario is a cliche you've seen countless times before, but the filmmaker has such obvious love for those cliches that it ends up working despite itself. A great cast (including Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Egarton, Russell Brand) helps keep this one moving along briskly. One of those films I found myself smiling throughout but felt guilty about it at the same time.

Fans of 1980s style comedies like Meatballs and Animal House should enjoy it.

Started Mutant Girls Squad and it was immediately obvious that this is by the same folks who brought us Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police.  Lots of body morphing, decapitations and head splittings plus slow motion blood showers. It's like a gory version of The Three Stooges.

Ghost Rider

Getting ready to watch the Red Sox vs Dodgers game.

Superman: The Movie. Yup. Still the best comic book adaptation ever made.

National Treasure 2

"Phantasm" (1979)



In Don "Beastmaster" Coscorelli's cult low budget horror classic, a pair of brothers investigate sinister goings-on at the local mortuary run by the mysterious "Tall Man" (Angus Scrimm).

This flick gets a lot of love from horror geeks for its "surreal" or "dreamlike" quality (i.e. the movie makes almost no damn sense!), though I'd guess that those qualities were due more to budget restraints and the filmmakers' lack of experience, than to any artistic sensibilities.

"Phantasm" has got some cool set pieces and the soundtrack is creepy. Otherwise, I've honestly never understood what all the whoop-de-doo is about this flick. It's average at best.

I have "Phantasm II" next in the DVD pile and if things don't get any better in that one, then I'm certainly not going to bother with any more of this series.

'Casblanca"

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Phantasm" (1979)



In Don "Beastmaster" Coscorelli's cult low budget horror classic, a pair of brothers investigate sinister goings-on at the local mortuary run by the mysterious "Tall Man" (Angus Scrimm).

This flick gets a lot of love from horror geeks for its "surreal" or "dreamlike" quality (i.e. the movie makes almost no damn sense!), though I'd guess that those qualities were due more to budget restraints and the filmmakers' lack of experience, than to any artistic sensibilities.

"Phantasm" has got some cool set pieces and the soundtrack is creepy. Otherwise, I've honestly never understood what all the whoop-de-doo is about this flick. It's average at best.

I have "Phantasm II" next in the DVD pile and if things don't get any better in that one, then I'm certainly not going to bother with any more of this series.

I think Phantasm makes more sense after repeated viewings.  I think it's an ingenious combination of science fiction and horror.  I like Phantasm II and III as well (better FX) but after that they start to suck badly.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I think some of the stuff in Phantasm II helps explain some of Phantasm I too.

Stargate SG-! - Thor's Chariot

Where we're finally introduced to "the grays" or Asgaard.

toho wrote:

I think Phantasm makes more sense after repeated viewings.  I think it's an ingenious combination of science fiction and horror.  I like Phantasm II and III as well (better FX) but after that they start to suck badly.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I think some of the stuff in Phantasm II helps explain some of Phantasm I too.

Till last night, I hadn't seen Phantasm in about 25 years. I was inspired to re-visit it by a discussion at a movie forum I frequent... somebody started a thread there called "PHANTASM SUCKS!" which of course didn't go over too well with many of the people there (haha).

...I guess I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. Which if memory serves, was the same reaction I had to it when I first saw it back in the '80s.

Discovery Channel - The Man With The 132 LB. Scrotum

'nuff said.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Discovery Channel - The Man With The 132 LB. Scrotum

'nuff said.

I saw a photo of the guy from this show on Yahoo News a couple of days ago. It hurt just to look at. I couldn't bear to actually watch the show.  

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Discovery Channel - The Man With The 132 LB. Scrotum

'nuff said.

I saw a photo of the guy from this show on Yahoo News a couple of days ago. It hurt just to look at. I couldn't bear to actually watch the show.  

I did miss the first 15-20 minutes, so I'm not sure how the whole thing came to be, but apparently it was a condition that developed over a course of 5 years. Call me crazy, but after my scrotum reached a max weight of say, 3 or 4 pounds, I'd be seeking medical advice.

I won't ruin the ending for anyone that hasn't seen it yet, but suffice to say that the title of the show delivers exactly what it promises.

More of Mutant Girls Squad.

Trailer below (SOOOOO NSFW!!!):



Oh those wacky Japanese...

Doctor Who - The Visitation

Cardinals vs Reds

Yet another rookie starting pitcher for St. Louis due to all the injuries. He gave up 4 runs in the 2nd but only 1 one was earned and Holiday hit a three run shot in the 3rd so it's 4-3 Reds after 4.

Unlike the other division rival the Pirates, I HATE the Reds so losses to them hurt a lot more.