TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Grant Williams as man exposed to a radioactive cloud while on a boating trip. This causes him to slowly shrink away to nothingness while along the way having to deal with a household cat and a spider (both now gigantic to him). Effective thriller with some nice special effects, for the time.

A couple of episodes of Green Acres

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"Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015)

30 years (!) after "Thunderdome," Tom Hardy takes over the role of post-apocalyptic ex-cop and all around badass Mad Max, who joins forces with a warrior woman (Charlize Theron) in her escape from the leader of a murderous cult. As you might expect, lots of car crashing, shooting, and stuff blowin' up ensues.
The flick is visually impressive, with amazing stunt work but the story is strangely un-involving. It's a decent one-time watch but not something I'll ever revisit.

That's a disappointing review.  I've read a lot of positive things about this movie but for some reason I just haven't gotten around to viewing it yet.  Now I'll probably procrastinate on it even longer.

These types of movies are usually outside of my wheelhouse, but for what it's worth, I enjoyed it very much.

Fear The Walking Dead

Deadpool

thejokeriv wrote:

Deadpool

I didn't think I'd enjoy that movie at all since I'm not a "comic book guy" but the more I hear and the more snippets I see of it the more I think I might like it after all.

tohostudios wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Deadpool

I didn't think I'd enjoy that movie at all since I'm not a "comic book guy" but the more I hear and the more snippets I see of it the more I think I might like it after all.

Great flick, funny and worth a watch

Gotham

I'm starting to get tired of the "re-animated villains" gimmick.  At least until Huge Strange revives The Joker.

"Deathgasm" (2015)



"Black Roses" meets "Evil Dead 2" in this entertainingly sick 'n' silly heavy metal horror/splatter comedy from New Zealand (of all places). When a couple of suburban metal dorks form a garage band, they attempt to play an ancient piece of "evil" music ...which (naturally) re-awakens a demonic force that turns everyone in town into bloodthirsty monsters and threatens the entire world. Yep, I hate when that happens.
Don't get me wrong, this flick is dumb as a box of rocks but it's a fun watch, riddled with in jokes for the headbanger crowd and featuring a thrashin' soundtrack featuring Elm Street, Skull Fist, BulletBelt and many more.

Added bonus: my wife HATED it, haha. I sez "Great, now we're even for those f**king Twilight movies!!!"

Criminal Minds

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Deathgasm" (2015)



"Black Roses" meets "Evil Dead 2" in this entertainingly sick 'n' silly heavy metal horror/splatter comedy from New Zealand (of all places). When a couple of suburban metal dorks form a garage band, they attempt to play an ancient piece of "evil" music ...which (naturally) re-awakens a demonic force that turns everyone in town into bloodthirsty monsters and threatens the entire world. Yep, I hate when that happens.
Don't get me wrong, this flick is dumb as a box of rocks but it's a fun watch, riddled with in jokes for the headbanger crowd and featuring a thrashin' soundtrack featuring Elm Street, Skull Fist, BulletBelt and many more.

Added bonus: my wife HATED it, haha. I sez "Great, now we're even for those f**king Twilight movies!!!"

That one sounds like a hoot.  And I love the Twilight comment; "You expect me to watch movies you like that I think suck?  Well turnabout is fair play.  We're watching Deathgasm." 

I'm surprised your wife actually sat there and watched it.  I think most wives would have either gone to another TV or found something else to do.  The title sort of gives away that this ain't gonna be a chick flick.

tohostudios wrote:

I'm surprised your wife actually sat there and watched it.  I think most wives would have either gone to another TV or found something else to do.  The title sort of gives away that this ain't gonna be a chick flick.

Yea, I don't think my wife made it to the opening credits on that one. "Deathgasm? You enjoy, I'm going up to bed".

As for the movie, it was entertaining enough. I don't usually go for the horror/gore stuff, but there was enough metal and humor (and boobs) to warrant a viewing. I may have fast-forwarded towards the end though.

Season 5 of The X Files

Last night I watched:
Night Court
Carol Burnett & Friends
Barney Miller

Supernatural

Yesterday, I watched an episode of South Park after the hockey game was over.

Got caught up on a few more episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. That show is hilarious.

Sssssss (1973)

Strother Martin as a mad scientist experimenting on his assistant tobturn him into a snake, believing that humanity will die out and reptiles will inherit the earth. Decent but a little slow moving.

tohostudios wrote:

I'm surprised your wife actually sat there and watched it.  I think most wives would have either gone to another TV or found something else to do.  The title sort of gives away that this ain't gonna be a chick flick.

I guess my wife wasn't technically "watching" it per se - but she was in the same room, doing Sudoku puzzles on her tablet. Every so often, she'd look up at the gloriously splattery chaos and mayhem unfolding on the TV, roll her eyes and say something like "Oh, good Lord..." or "Seriously?" under her breath while I was laughin' my ass off...

She usually digs horror movies but I think this one was a little too over-the-top silly for her. As far as she's concerned, horror movies should be scary, comedies should be funny, but the two should never meet. I say "Ash and the Evil Dead and Tucker and Dale  disagree with you."

So does Shaun Of The Dead

007 wrote:

Sssssss (1973)

Strother Martin as a mad scientist experimenting on his assistant tobturn him into a snake, believing that humanity will die out and reptiles will inherit the earth. Decent but a little slow moving.

Caught some Svengoolie?

The Price Is Right

I've been trying to get caught up with Game of Thrones (I'm on season 3, episode 3 now), started rewatching Firefly, and just started watching Vikings.

"Fantastic Four" (2015)


This expensive turkey attempts to reboot the Marvel Comics heroes as a quartet of teenage geniuses, hired to work on a government-sanctioned experiment with inter-dimensional travel. Naturally things go wrong, endowing each of them with cool super-powers - and giving birth to a super-villain who wants to destroy our world.
I was honestly expecting much worse from this flick after all the bad word-of-mouth it got, but in the end I can understand why this movie received so much fanboy hatred. This is a "Fantastic Four" movie in name only, as it bears almost no resemblance to the comics aside from the characters'  names and their powers. Skip it unless you absolutely have to see every Marvel movie in existence.

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