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

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Silent Hill" (2006)



Bizarre horror/thriller (based on a series of video games) about a little girl who sleepwalks and has recurring nightmares about a town called "Silent Hill." Her adoptive mother decides to take her to the now-abandoned ghost town for a bit of "shock therapy" but soon gets more than she bargained for when her car crashes and her daughter disappears into the fog. While searching for her, Mama runs into zombies, monsters, demons and a crazed religious cult ... and yeah, believe it or not, it just gets weirder from there.

This flick piles on the spooky atmosphere in spades but the story got more and more confused the longer the movie went on. Fortunately the occasionally-disturbing visuals and cool FX (plus an awesomely cool ultra violent gory finale straight outa "Hellraiser") keep it from turning into a slog.

Your mileage may vary depending on your familiarity with the video game source material.

Personally, I love this movie. And I've never seen the video game upon which it's based. I still thought it was really creepy (that air raid siren!) and creeped me out a lot more than most movies out of Hollywood do.

Batman: Beyond

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Personally, I love this movie. And I've never seen the video game upon which it's based. I still thought it was really creepy (that air raid siren!) and creeped me out a lot more than most movies out of Hollywood do.

I dug it for the most part but I did feel it ran a little longer than it needed to. As I understand it, the film took inspiration from the first four (!) games in the video game series so they may have been trying to cram too much into one film.

My wife seemed more impressed with it than I was.

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Personally, I love this movie. And I've never seen the video game upon which it's based. I still thought it was really creepy (that air raid siren!) and creeped me out a lot more than most movies out of Hollywood do.

I dug it for the most part but I did feel it ran a little longer than it needed to. As I understand it, the film took inspiration from the first four (!) games in the video game series so they may have been trying to cram too much into one film.

My wife seemed more impressed with it than I was.

Best video game adaptation we have so far, but far from great.

Last night, got caught up on Sleepy Hollow , a show that is starting out rather well and has me hooked. I will continue to watch.

I then watched the Pirates beat the Cubs to clinch a playoff berth for the first time in 21 (!) years. Amazing !

corplhicks wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Personally, I love this movie. And I've never seen the video game upon which it's based. I still thought it was really creepy (that air raid siren!) and creeped me out a lot more than most movies out of Hollywood do.

I dug it for the most part but I did feel it ran a little longer than it needed to. As I understand it, the film took inspiration from the first four (!) games in the video game series so they may have been trying to cram too much into one film.

My wife seemed more impressed with it than I was.

Best video game adaptation we have so far, but far from great.

I love Sean Bean but what it needed is more Silent Hill and less Sean Bean side-story because they did not accomplish it well and it ended up dead weight on the film.

007 wrote:

I then watched the Pirates beat the Cubs to clinch a playoff berth for the first time in 21 (!) years. Amazing !

Saw the highlights of the Bucs locker room celebration.  The ironic part is that they were watching the Cards/Nats game and started celebrating when STL won, clinching a post-season berth for the Pirates AND the Reds.  So for one night both of the Cards' main NL Central rivals were actually pulling for them to win.  

I think it's pretty impressive that the NL Central is sending 3 teams to post-season because we knock the crap out of each other all year and still all three teams get in. That tells me all 3 teams play each other pretty evenly and basically dominate almost everybody else.

Sleep Hollow is campy fun. Imagine Buffy with 10x the production budget.

I was wondering how Sleepy Hollow was. I watch virtually no network TV other than news and sports so obviously I haven't seen it but it sounds about like I expected.

Hellraiser

"Moontrap" (1989)



Obscure, low-budget sci-fi cheez with Walter "Star Trek" Koenig and Bruce "Evil Dead" Campbell as a pair of lunar astronauts who discover an ancient race of killer robot something-or-others hiding on the dark side of the moon. Obviously this isn't Shakespeare by any means, but it's a fun "B" movie with some charmingly cheesy old-school special FX.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , pretty cool start to the show


Pirates vs Cubs , now if the Pirates could just catch the Cards.

'bout to sit down and watch Taken 2 and the latest episode of Sons of Anarchy.

007 wrote:

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , pretty cool start to the show


Pirates vs Cubs , now if the Pirates could just catch the Cards.

It ain't gonna be easy. Cards won today and the Pirates lost so the magic number is down to 1.

Doctor Who - The Keys of Marinus

Tried to make it through 'The Campaign' last night on cable. Had a few ok moments, but mostly too over-the-top with a ham-fisted attempt at taking jabs at the political system. I left the room in the last 15 minutes to go make my lunch for today. I'll just assume everything wrapped up nicely and there was a happy ending.

tohostudios wrote:

007 wrote:

now if the Pirates could just catch the Cards.

It ain't gonna be easy.  Cards won today and the Pirates lost so the magic number is down to 1.  

No they pretty much blew it yesterday. Too many things need to go just right for them to catch the Cards and the odd are against them. We'll just have to resign ourselves to play the damned Reds for the play in game...and hopefully at home.

Robotech - New Generation

The Michael J Fox Show, very funny IMO

TNA Impact

"Santa's Slay" (2005)



In this campy-on-purpose holiday horror comedy, we learn that Santa Claus (Bill Goldberg) is actually the son of Satan, and the only reason he's been "nice" for the past thousand years was because he lost a bet with an archangel. Well, the millennium is now up and he's free to go back to his old murderous ways unless a couple of teenagers (one of whom is played by a young Emilie De Raven of "Lost") can figure out how to stop him. Cheap, tasteless, black humored fun.

I know this one isn't exactly "in season" yet but I unexpectedly stumbled across it on YouTube tonight and figured I'd better watch it now before it gets taken down...

Big Bang Theory
The Crazy Ones
Elementary

Big Bang Theory
Michael J Fox Show

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Santa's Slay" (2005)



In this campy-on-purpose holiday horror comedy, we learn that Santa Claus (Bill Goldberg) is actually the son of Satan, and the only reason he's been "nice" for the past thousand years was because he lost a bet with an archangel. Well, the millennium is now up and he's free to go back to his old murderous ways unless a couple of teenagers (one of whom is played by a young Emilie De Raven of "Lost") can figure out how to stop him. Cheap, tasteless, black humored fun.

I know this one isn't exactly "in season" yet but I unexpectedly stumbled across it on YouTube tonight and figured I'd better watch it now before it gets taken down...

My favorite movie for the Holidays.  It's a Toho tradition to watch it every year.  So many quotable lines. Thie one, Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night, Rare Exports, Saint Nick and the Jeff Dunham Christmas special.

tohostudios wrote:

My favorite movie for the Holidays.  It's a Toho tradition to watch it every year.  So many quotable lines. Thie one, Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night, Rare Exports, Saint Nick and the Jeff Dunham Christmas special.

The opening scene (Christmas Dinner with Fran Drescher, James Caan, Chris Kattan and Rebecca Gayheart) was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.