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

^^ Manny, if you're a JFK buff, have you by any chance read Stephen King's "11/22/63?" It's a sci-fi story about a time traveler who goes back to try and prevent JFK's assassination? If not, I think you'd dig it. King obviously put an INSANE amount of research into the events surrounding the JFK shooting, so when the main character returns to '63 and begins interacting with the details and people leading up to that day in Dallas, you feel like you are right there with him. It is King's best work in many years IMO.

OK, sorry for the hijack... back to movie discussion now.

Fat Freddy wrote:

^^ Manny, if you're a JFK buff, have you by any chance read Stephen King's "11/22/63?" It's a sci-fi story about a time traveler who goes back to try and prevent JFK's assassination? If not, I think you'd dig it. King obviously put an INSANE amount of research into the events surrounding the JFK shooting, so when the main character returns to '63 and begins interacting with the details and people leading up to that day in Dallas, you feel like you are right there with him. It is King's best work in many years IMO.

OK, sorry for the hijack... back to movie discussion now.

Funny you mention that book, a friend of mine who knows I am a history buff, gave me that book, so its on my pile of books to read, I trust your recommendations so I am going to check it out

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

^^ Manny, if you're a JFK buff, have you by any chance read Stephen King's "11/22/63?" It's a sci-fi story about a time traveler who goes back to try and prevent JFK's assassination? If not, I think you'd dig it. King obviously put an INSANE amount of research into the events surrounding the JFK shooting, so when the main character returns to '63 and begins interacting with the details and people leading up to that day in Dallas, you feel like you are right there with him. It is King's best work in many years IMO.

OK, sorry for the hijack... back to movie discussion now.

Funny you mention that book, a friend of mine who knows I am a history buff, gave me that book, so its on my pile of books to read, I trust your recommendations so I am going to check it out

Heard that was a good read....and that a movie is forthcoming...

On a side note, when I was in Dallas last year, I stopped by the spot... The grassy knoll is a hell of a lot smaller than it looks on TV... the is no way that someone could have shot from the knoll and been able to get away with out being chased down by the secret service and caught. The view from the book depository is a straight shot to where Kennedy was hit.

corplhicks wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I've been slackin' on the movie watching front.... gotta get back on track. Ain't seen a darn thing in over a week.

We were wondering. Been awfully quite lately, not a B-movie in sight! 

Hey!  I posted The Slime People a few posts back; it doesn't get any more B-movie than that!  

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I've been slackin' on the movie watching front.... gotta get back on track. Ain't seen a darn thing in over a week.

We were wondering. Been awfully quite lately, not a B-movie in sight! 

Hey!  I posted The Slime People a few posts back; it doesn't get any more B-movie than that!  

Sorry Toho; I forgot you were FF's partner-in-crime. 

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I've been slackin' on the movie watching front.... gotta get back on track. Ain't seen a darn thing in over a week.

We were wondering. Been awfully quite lately, not a B-movie in sight! 

Hey!  I posted The Slime People a few posts back; it doesn't get any more B-movie than that!  

Sorry Toho; I forgot you were FF's partner-in-crime. 

...AND I own both Evil Bong 1 & 2 and Gingerdead Man 1 and 2; even FF can't say that (or at least won't admit to it).

FF, competition's pretty fierce these days. What do you say to this?

I think FF has probably SEEN more B-grade and lower movies than I have but I bet I OWN more so who's sicker?

tohostudios wrote:

I think FF has probably SEEN more B-grade and lower movies than I have but I bet I OWN more so who's sicker?

Oosh...this is a tough call...experience vs. availability...no BBB accreditation...may need some references.

Toho's older so he's got a few more years of viewing under his belt. Age before beauty. :-)

Yeah but I don't have a HubPage that causes people to send me free stuff so I have to EARN my Z-movie cred!

tohostudios wrote:

Yeah but I don't have a HubPage that causes people to send me free stuff so I have to EARN my Z-movie cred!

Nobody's ever sent me a movie!! I wish I had that kind of influence!!

Lost and Delirious (2001)

Then Parks and Recreation season 5 (my third watch through of it).

Fat Freddy wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Yeah but I don't have a HubPage that causes people to send me free stuff so I have to EARN my Z-movie cred!

:lmao:Nobody's ever sent me a movie!! I wish I had that kind of influence!!

Reaily? I thought you posted reviews of movies that people sent you.

If not, I still maintain that OWNING Z-movies is sicker than just VIEWING them because I can rewatch them whenever the demented impulse hits me.

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Reaily? I thought you posted reviews of movies that people sent you.

If not, I still maintain that OWNING Z-movies is sicker than just VIEWING them because I can rewatch them whenever the demented impulse hits me.

The e-zine I used to write for got a totally random cheap shit Z-movie sent to them years ago that they passed on to me, but that was years ago.

...but yeah, you paid good money for "A Serbian Film" and I don't even think I want to be in the same room as a copy of that DVD, so you got the crown as far as I'm concerned.  

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

But "A Serbian Film" is the one I call up when I want to prove I'm "extreme"; this is a different argument. This is who's more into B-grade and below movies....

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse. It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't. It's very well made.

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse.   It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't.  It's very well made.

That's what I've heard, and to be honest I even had a chance to witness the newborn sequence. My God. As a father, my f*cking God. Even though it was off screen and implied, my f*cking ghoulish God.

Props to the creator for making a proper allegory, however. From what I've read he really hit the nail on the head in regards to Serbia's sociopolitical repression.

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse.   It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't.  It's very well made.

That's what I've heard, and to be honest I even had a chance to witness the newborn sequence. My God. As a father, my f*cking God. Even though it was off screen and implied, my f*cking ghoulish God.

Props to the creator for making a proper allegory, however. From what I've read he really hit the nail on the head in regards to Serbia's sociopolitical repression.

Personally, I think all the director's comments about political allegory are BS. I think he really just set out to create the most shocking movie he could think of and if that was his intent he succeeded.

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse.   It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't.  It's very well made.

That's what I've heard, and to be honest I even had a chance to witness the newborn sequence. My God. As a father, my f*cking God. Even though it was off screen and implied, my f*cking ghoulish God.

Props to the creator for making a proper allegory, however. From what I've read he really hit the nail on the head in regards to Serbia's sociopolitical repression.

Personally, I think all the director's comments about political allegory are BS.  I think he really just set out to create the most shocking movie he could think of and if that was his intent he succeeded.  

I need to courage up and watch this sometime to judge for myself. I thought I could handle anything extreme cinema throws my way--until this came along.

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse.   It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't.  It's very well made.

That's what I've heard, and to be honest I even had a chance to witness the newborn sequence. My God. As a father, my f*cking God. Even though it was off screen and implied, my f*cking ghoulish God.

Props to the creator for making a proper allegory, however. From what I've read he really hit the nail on the head in regards to Serbia's sociopolitical repression.

Personally, I think all the director's comments about political allegory are BS.  I think he really just set out to create the most shocking movie he could think of and if that was his intent he succeeded.  

I need to courage up and watch this sometime to judge for myself. I thought I could handle anything extreme cinema throws my way--until this came along.

That's exactly what made me get it. "Faces Of Death", "Saw", "Hostel". the Guinea Pig series...they're nothing compared to "A Serbian Film" as far as extreme cinema goes. And I discount crap like the "August Underground" series because there isn't really any talent involved in those. "A Serbian Film" is really disturbing because it's very well made.

I watched Superbad tonight.

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Toho has Serbian Film??

[slowly backs out of room]

Yep.  Like I said, that's the one I go to when someone wants to debate "extreme movie" cred.

And I must add that I only ever watched it once; I don't know if I could take it again. THE most disturbing film I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot).

I think the fact that the film is shot and acted really well just makes the impact worse.   It could be more easily dismissed if it looked like a bunch of kids filming in a basement somewhere but it doesn't.  It's very well made.

That's what I've heard, and to be honest I even had a chance to witness the newborn sequence. My God. As a father, my f*cking God. Even though it was off screen and implied, my f*cking ghoulish God.

Props to the creator for making a proper allegory, however. From what I've read he really hit the nail on the head in regards to Serbia's sociopolitical repression.

Personally, I think all the director's comments about political allegory are BS.  I think he really just set out to create the most shocking movie he could think of and if that was his intent he succeeded.  

I need to courage up and watch this sometime to judge for myself. I thought I could handle anything extreme cinema throws my way--until this came along.

That's exactly what made me get it.  "Faces Of Death", "Saw", "Hostel". the Guinea Pig series...they're nothing compared to "A Serbian Film" as far as extreme cinema goes.  And I discount crap like the "August Underground" series because there isn't really any talent involved in those.  "A Serbian Film" is really disturbing because it's very well made.

August Underground could have been the most f*cked up series on the planet, but it was so laughably rotten and, like you said, talentless that all the putrid subject matter seemed innocent and comic.