TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

"The Fuller Report" (1968)

More enjoyably silly Eurospy nonsense starring American beefcake Ken Clark (aka the Budget Price Bond), as a race car driver who gets mixed up with spies, a defecting Russian ballerina, and the hunt for a top secret file during a visit to Stockholm. As usual, the story quickly turns into a hopeless muddle, but the swingin' 60s European scenery and lotsa female eye candy (especially the leading lady, Serbian/Italian hottie Beba Loncar - meee-yow!) held my interest. I've watched a lot of these cheap spy flicks over the past year and this one was a little bit better than average.

Stranger Things - Episodes 1-4

"All Things Must Pass" (2015)


This engrossing and bittersweet documentary about the rise and fall of the iconic Tower Records chain isn't just the story of a record store - it's a history lesson on 40 years of change in the music biz. The vintage clips of the first Tower store in NYC (4th and Broadway) brought back lotsa warm n fuzzy memories of the time I spent there during my collegiate music-scrounging days.
(sigh) Damn, I miss Tower Records.

Witchfinder wrote:

Stranger Things - Episodes 1-4

me too. same episodes and everything, haha. it's such a good show, it's got a great atmosphere and the cinematography is excellent too.

Wurthless wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

Stranger Things - Episodes 1-4

me too. same episodes and everything, haha. it's such a good show, it's got a great atmosphere and the cinematography is excellent too.  

I am loving it. I am halfway through episode 7 now. I don't want the series to end!

Witchfinder wrote:

Wurthless wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

Stranger Things - Episodes 1-4

me too. same episodes and everything, haha. it's such a good show, it's got a great atmosphere and the cinematography is excellent too.  

I am loving it.  I am halfway through episode 7 now.  I don't want the series to end!

dude i feel your pain, i watched two more episodes today and only stopped because i didn't wanna finish it just yet.

"Android Cop" (2014)


The Asylum's attempt to bite off of the "RoboCop" remake looks cheaper than usual, even for them.
Set in post-apocalypse L.A., a tough police officer (Michael Jai "Spawn" White) is assigned a new robotic partner and then sent off to find the mayor's missing daughter, who's somewhere in the radioactive "outer zones" that surround the city. The pair soon figure out that this assignment was supposed to be a one-way mission as they come under fire from mutant gangs and corrupt cops alike. Barely watchable shoot'em up nonsense.

Whisky Tango Foxtrot.


Watched this with the wife Saturday night. I like Tina Fey and this was entertaining enough. I downed 2 tall Ecto-Cooler and vodkas and still managed to stay awake till the end, for what it's worth.

Stranger Things - Episodes 7 and 8

The first two episodes of Stranger Things.

i finished stranger things tonight too.

ROH

Episodes 3-7 of Stranger Things. I would have finished it off but it got too late.

"Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016)


Angered by the destruction and human casualties caused by Superman's battle with Zod (in "Man of Steel"), Batman decides that the Kryptonian is Public Enemy #1. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor is working on a plan to get rid of them both. Oh, and Wonder Woman and Doomsday are also shoehorned in for no apparent reason.
Zack Snyder's wanna-be epic is WAY too overstuffed with subplots but the big splashy CGI action sequences are impressive. I'm still not sold on Henry Cavill as Superman (dude is a stiff) but I thought Ben Affleck was a great Batman. In fact, I would've rather seen Affleck in a solo Batman flick.
In the end this hero mashup is entertaining enough, as long as you keep your expectations low. It's no masterpiece, but it wasn't the train wreck I'd been expecting after reading so much fanboy hate either.

Finished up Stranger Things. Here's to a second season.

"Stone Cold" (1991)


Former NFL footballer Brian Bosworth took a legit stab at becoming an action hero in this entertaining, ultra-violent shoot-em-up. Bos is a tough Alabama cop who goes undercover inside "The Brotherhood," a murderous biker gang who make the Sons of Anarchy look like the Care Bears. Lots of bullets fly, stuff blows up, shirtless guys with bad mullets beat the crap out of each other and the always dependable Lance Henriksen (as the gang's crazed leader) chews the scenery for all he's worth. Tons of fun!

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Stone Cold" (1991)


Former NFL footballer Brian Bosworth took a legit stab at becoming an action hero in this entertaining, ultra-violent shoot-em-up. Bos is a tough Alabama cop who goes undercover inside "The Brotherhood," a murderous biker gang who make the Sons of Anarchy look like the Care Bears. Lots of bullets fly, stuff blows up, shirtless guys with bad mullets beat the crap out of each other and the always dependable Lance Henriksen (as the gang's crazed leader) chews the scenery for all he's worth. Tons of fun!

A modern classic!

Witchfinder wrote:

A modern classic!  

Pair it with Patrick Swayze's "Road House" for the ultimate Redneck Action Double Feature!

"The Curse" (1987)


A meteorite crashes on a Tennessee farm. Gooey alien stuff leaks out of it and seeps into the well water, and soon the crops are full of maggots, the animals are becoming unusually aggressive, and the family's youngest son (a teenage Wil Wheaton, later of "Star Trek: TNG") watches helplessly as everyone starts turning into murderous, green-goo-drooling zombies. Fortunately John Schneider of "Dukes of Hazzard" is there to come to the rescue!
Typically cheesy '80s horror nonsense, supposedly inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft story. I used to see this one in video stores all the time back in the day, but never pulled the trigger on it till now. I wasn't missing much...

Fat Freddy wrote:

"The Curse" (1987)


A meteorite crashes on a Tennessee farm. Gooey alien stuff leaks out of it and seeps into the well water, and soon the crops are full of maggots, the animals are becoming unusually aggressive, and the family's youngest son (a teenage Wil Wheaton, later of "Star Trek: TNG") watches helplessly as everyone starts turning into murderous, green-goo-drooling zombies. Fortunately John Schneider of "Dukes of Hazzard" is there to come to the rescue!
Typically cheesy '80s horror nonsense, supposedly inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft story. I used to see this one in video stores all the time back in the day, but never pulled the trigger on it till now. I wasn't missing much...

From that synopsis, this sounded watchable until your last sentence.

The Curse is awful IMO. I don't know if you've seen The Curse "sequels", but they don't have anything to do with the first film or each other for that matter.

007 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

"The Curse" (1987)


A meteorite crashes on a Tennessee farm. Gooey alien stuff leaks out of it and seeps into the well water, and soon the crops are full of maggots, the animals are becoming unusually aggressive, and the family's youngest son (a teenage Wil Wheaton, later of "Star Trek: TNG") watches helplessly as everyone starts turning into murderous, green-goo-drooling zombies. Fortunately John Schneider of "Dukes of Hazzard" is there to come to the rescue!
Typically cheesy '80s horror nonsense, supposedly inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft story. I used to see this one in video stores all the time back in the day, but never pulled the trigger on it till now. I wasn't missing much...

From that synopsis, this sounded watchable until your last sentence.

   I was thinking the exact same thing!

Leatherface wrote:

The Curse is awful IMO.  I don't know if you've seen The Curse "sequels", but they don't have anything to do with the first film or each other for that matter.

Haha, I haven't seen any of them but "Curse II: The Bite" came up in the "Recommended Videos" while I was watching the first one on YouTube, so I added it to my watch list, because I'm a masochist, I guess.

Seriously tho fellas, I've seen wayyyyyy worse than "The Curse" but it certainly isn't a long lost gem by any means.

The Norliss Tapes (1973)

Another Dan Curtis supernatural tv movie starring Roy Thinnes as an investigative reporter (sound familiar?) working on a book debunking the burgeoning occult scene in California. However, he stumbles upon something more than he had bargained for. He ends up disappearing, leaving behind everything he had discovered on numbered cassette tapes. His publisher finds the tapes, listening to the first one (and telling the story in the movie). This was an attempt by NBC to copy the success of the Kolchak movies but for whatever reason, the pilot was not picked up and we never do get to discover to David Norliss. All in all, it wasn't that bad with very good makeup on the zombie/monster.