TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

The Odd Way Home

Durham County Season 1

Superbad

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse.

This was a rather mundane flick. It was ostensibly a comedy but was rather unfunny. Some decent computer generated gore though.

Midnight Meat Train

About the 12th time I've watched this flick. I sure wish they planned trilogy would come to fruition but given the dismal box office performance of this one that's highly doubtful.

The Trailer Park Boys - Season 1, Episodes 1-5

The X-Files. A jokey episode with a nice little homage to Carl Kolchak.

007 wrote:

The X-Files. A jokey episode with a nice little homage to Carl Kolchak.

Loved the episode! Lots of fun, I'm glad they included an episode like this in the run.

"Ice" (1994)

Typical cheap looking early '90s direct-to-video action nonsense stars Traci Lords as a cat burglar who steals a stash of diamonds from some very bad people. Naturally, the bad guys want to get them back, by any means necessary. Zach "Gremlins" Galligan picks up a quick paycheck as Traci's ne'er-do-well brother who gets caught in the middle.
Traci looks great as usual and is actually the best actor in the film - which really isn't saying a lot, because she doesn't do much besides pout and shoot at people.
Forgettable (at best).

Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon

"1990: The Bronx Warriors" (1982)


In the "near future" of 1990 (ha!), New York City's most notorious borough has become a lawless no-man's land, ruled by gangs who regularly battle it out with corporate goons and each other.

This cult classic slab of Italian post-apocalypse schlock steals liberally from "The Warriors" and "Escape From New York," but naturally isn't nearly as good as them. It's a much better looking film than the average Italian B-Movie (mainly due to being shot on location in the actual Bronx) but it's still silly, under-written, poorly acted/dubbed junk.

The X-Files - Season One (1993-94)

The series has been newly remastered in HD and I've been watching season 1 on Amazon Prime. and...season 1 really wasn't very good. There are a handful of really good episodes (mostly the mythology arc) but man, some of the monster-of-the-week stuff in this season is really lazy, hackwork. Also, Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point, she would improve quickly but some of her work in this season is pretty painful.

The Shield - Season One (2002) - Holy CRAP! This show is f*cking amazing, can't believe I never watched it. LET THE BINGE COMMENCE!!!!

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Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point

Yeah, but she was sooooooo cute. Haha

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point

Yeah, but she was sooooooo cute. Haha

Yes, she was.

Supernatural

S.D. wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point

Yeah, but she was sooooooo cute. Haha

Yes, she was.

And still rather attractive.

007 wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point

Yeah, but she was sooooooo cute. Haha

Yes, she was.

And still rather attractive.

I haven't watched any of these new X Files shows but I've seen the previews and even in those she still looks...how to say this...."MILF-y"

Life on Mars

Criminal Minds

Star Trek
X-Files

Over the past two days I've watched a couple of cheesy-but-fun 1960's Italian "Euro-Spy" movies (aka: low budget secret agent flicks made to cash in on the James Bond craze) on YouTube.

"008: Operation Exterminate" (1965)


A female American agent (the lovely Ingrid Schoeller) and her British counterpart (Alberto Lupo, trying hard to be as cool as Sean Connery but failing miserably) team up to track down a kidnapped scientist who has invented "anti-radar technology." Like most Italian B-Movies, the dialogue is awkward, the plot is needlessly complicated and the whole movie didn't really make much sense (it didn't help that the English language track on the YouTube copy of this film dropped out several times, leaving only the Italian language track for a minute or so each time! ) but there were plenty of pretty girls, fist fights, exotic foreign locations and groovy '60s fashions and decor, so I was entertained.

"Superseven: Calling Cairo" (1965)


"008" may have been a knockoff, but it looks totally original next to this flick, which shamelessly copied the 007 formula (just look at the poster!), right down to the square-jawed Connery lookalike (American actor Roger Browne) in the lead role. "Agent Stevens" travels (with a series of female companions) from Cairo to Switzerland to Rome to retrieve a stolen radioactive element that's been hidden in a camera. Once again, lots of pretty girls, chase scenes, and fist fights move the action along.

Neither flick was particularly good but as a Bond fan they were fun to watch in a weird, alternate-universe sort of way. Both films were directed by spaghetti-cinema legend Umberto Lenzi, who's better known for his horror flicks like "Make Them Die Slowly" and "Nightmare City."

007 wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Gillian Anderson was still quite green with her acting chops at this point

Yeah, but she was sooooooo cute. Haha

Yes, she was.

And still rather attractive.

Not just rather attractive, she's still hot as hell.

I'm old now, I'm finding maturity sexy.

Yep, I still haven't seen the new X-Files but I did see Gillian Anderson a few months ago in a recent Brit sci-fi movie called "Robot Overlords," and she is definitely aging gracefully...

She was smoldering in that series Hannibal (highly recommended by the way).

Since I've been watching the new X-Files series, I decided to rewatch the series from the beginning (on Netflix). I've only caught the first 2 episodes so far, both rather enjoyable.

"Black Roses" (1988)


Demons come to the tiny town of Mill Basin disguised as a hair metal band, and soon their devil music has unfortunate effects on the local teenage population. Anti-social behavior, murder and general hilarity ensues.
In the annals of Heavy Metal Horror flicks, this one makes "Trick or Treat" look like "Masterpiece Theater." The soundtrack to this cheap, poorly acted schlock is better than the movie.