TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

Feast

My second time seeing this.  I have 3 Feast movies and I've always felt this one was the weakest (oddly enough since it's usually the sequels that suck) and that opinion hasn't changed.  It's probably because of the lack of clear shots of the creatures due to the dreaded "shaky cam" syndrome (aka, how to cover up a lack of budget). 

I plan to watch the other two sequels I have on upcoming nights when the Cardinals aren't playing or play day games but I think my original impressions will hold.

Watched 'The Jungle Book' over the weekend with the kids. We were all thoroughly entertained. It's well done and the CGI didn't distract me into thinking I was watching a video game instead of a movie. It's been 30 years or so since I've seen the Disney cartoon, so I don't recall how the story lines play out when compared. But there was one thing that stuck out to me. I'll do my best to avoid spoilers.

The "bad guy" of the movie is the tiger, Shere Khan. He wants Mowgli (the kid) dead because he doesn't trust humans (for good reason) and doesn't think they belong in the jungle. He explains this in great detail why humans can't be trusted. Everyone's response is "Eh, he's just a kid. He's fine."

As the story goes on, Mowgli ends up doing the exact thing that Shere Khan warned them about. And yet, he's the bad guy here? If there was any justice, the movie would've ended with Shere Khan saying "See!! I told you so!! A**holes." And walking off into the sunset with Mowgli's limp carcass hanging from his mouth.

hahahaha!   That sounds like the Toho "alternate ending".

"Curse II: The Bite" (1989)



In this in-name-only sequel to the 1987 film, a young couple is traveling thru the American desert when Boyfriend gets bitten by a snake. Unfortunately for him (and everyone else in the movie,) the snake was radioactive due to its living near a leaky nuclear power plant. Soon the bite begins to have "transformative" properties on the poor young fella's body. Yikes!

This movie starts out like a plain ol' nothin' special creature feature (snakes everywhere!) but does a 180 degree turn into straight up Cronenberg style body horror (on a six pack budget) in the second half, when the snake bite begins to transform Boyfriend into a homicidal reptilian something-or-other.  

This one wasn't great - it's pretty typical late '80s direct-to-the-video-store schlock - but it was way better than the first "Curse" thanks to the slightly higher production values, some decent gore scenes, and especially due to the presence of cutie-pie late '80s scream queen Jill Schoelen in the female lead/damsel in distress role (whatever happened to her, anyway?). Snake-o-phobics need not apply.

Fat Freddy wrote:

a young couple is traveling thru the American desert when Boyfriend gets bitten by a snake. Unfortunately for him (and everyone else in the movie,) the snake was radioactive due to its living near a leaky nuclear power plant. Soon the bite begins to have "transformative" properties on the young fella's body.

Shades of Spider-Man !

007 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

a young couple is traveling thru the American desert when Boyfriend gets bitten by a snake. Unfortunately for him (and everyone else in the movie,) the snake was radioactive due to its living near a leaky nuclear power plant. Soon the bite begins to have "transformative" properties on the young fella's body.

Shades of Spider-Man !

Haha! True, except Spider-Man never ate anybody!

Fat Freddy wrote:

007 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

a young couple is traveling thru the American desert when Boyfriend gets bitten by a snake. Unfortunately for him (and everyone else in the movie,) the snake was radioactive due to its living near a leaky nuclear power plant. Soon the bite begins to have "transformative" properties on the young fella's body.

Shades of Spider-Man !

Haha! True, except Spider-Man never ate anybody!

All I remember of that movie is the poor yet nasty ass transfiguration effects near the end. Kind of upset my stomach as a kid.

EDIT: just watched the final 10m on YouTube. Huh. Looks awful but the fx are better than i remember. Plus, i never knew Screamin' Mad George was behind all that grue.

ROH

Night Court
All In The Family

The Horror At 37,000 Feet (1973)

TV Movie with Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, and William Shatner about an international flight from London to New York that is haunted by druidic ghosts, upset about being uprooted from their ancestral home. Not too bad I suppose.

007 wrote:

The Horror At 37,000 Feet (1973)

TV Movie with Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, and William Shatner about an international flight from London to New York that is haunted by druidic ghosts, upset about being uprooted from their ancestral home. Not too bad I suppose.

That sounds like my kinda cheese....aaaaaannd yay, it's on YouTube! (adds to playlist)

Fat Freddy wrote:

007 wrote:

The Horror At 37,000 Feet (1973)

TV Movie with Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, and William Shatner about an international flight from London to New York that is haunted by druidic ghosts, upset about being uprooted from their ancestral home. Not too bad I suppose.

That sounds like my kinda cheese....aaaaaannd yay, it's on YouTube! (adds to playlist)

That's where I had watched it. YouTube has a lot of excellent obscure films on there (as I know you're well aware).

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That's where I had watched it. YouTube has a lot of excellent obscure films on there (as I know you're well aware).

Haha, yep. I keep a "playlist" on YouTube which has over 100 movies on it at the moment, almost all 60s/70s/80s "B" movies - Eurospy, lotsa grindhouse horror, cheap-o action movies, blaxploitation flicks, and other weird stuff. I'm constantly adding to it. I'll probably never find the time to watch everything but I've been using that playlist more than either Netflix or Amazon streaming lately!

Parole Violators  (1994)...


This little known 1994 action film is about a former cop turned vigilante who tapes criminals and takes them down, filming it for a TV show. A criminal he put behind bars years earlier when he was a cop has been freed and kidnaps his daughter for revenge.

The lead character is named Miles, and a thug with a bit part is named Knuckles. No character named Sonic, though.

Fat Freddy, this one is on YouTube as well.

Wishmaster

Buckaroo Banzai

Zone Troopers

I love Wishmaster.  The second one is OK but I really dig the first one. 

I find it especially creepy because I think the guy who plays the Wishmaster looks a lot like Fox anchor Shepherd Smith.

I also like the cameo appearance by Reggie "Phantasm" Bannister.

tohostudios wrote:

I love Wishmaster.  The second one is OK but I really dig the first one. 

I find it especially creepy because I think the guy who plays the Wishmaster looks a lot like Fox anchor Shepherd Smith.

I also like the cameo appearance by Reggie "Phantasm" Bannister.

My first time seeing it, fun as hell! I felt the lead actress was pretty phenom, kind of quirky and underplayed, a rather subtle approach to a heroin.

The 900 or so cameos in Wishmaster had me busting up.

Criminal Minds

"Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming" (1990)


The (highly fictionalized) biography of the 007 author details the events that led to the creation of James Bond - from Fleming's upbringing in a privileged British family, to his first "real" job as a crusading news reporter and finally as an agent for the British Naval Intelligence Service during World War II. Just like his literary counterpart, Ian romances several hot babes and gets into scrapes with Russians and Nazis along the way. In a nice touch of stunt casting, young Fleming is played by Jason Connery, son of original 007 Sean Connery. "Spymaker" was made for TV so it suffers slightly from its obvious budget limitations, but otherwise this was an enjoyable espionage/adventure flick with quite a few clever nods to the "real" Bond movies.

"The Horror at 37,000 Feet" (1973)

"Airport" meets "The Exorcist" in this fun slab of early 70s made-for-TV terror. Angry Druid spirits trapped in the cargo hold of a red-eye traveling from London to New York make it a flight from hell for a cast of familiar faces, including William Shatner, Buddy "Barnaby Jones" Ebsen, Chuck "Rifleman" Connors and Russell "The Professor" Johnson, plus a couple of hot stewardesses in thigh high miniskirts and go-go boots. Quality cheez!

Thanx to 007 for the tip on this flick, it was good fun!

The Naked Gun and 2 2/1 - IFC was showing a Naked Gun marathon, still LMAO at both flicks..... I started watched 33 1/3 and quickly remembered how terrible it was and turned it off.

Kung Fury (2015)...



A Miami cop gets a mission in which he is sent back in time to kill Adolf Hitler.

Fear The Walking Dead

With my 9 year old this afternoon...

"See Spot Run" (2001)


Cartoonish kid stuff about a dorky mail carrier (David Arquette) who is "adopted" by a large dog. Eventually he learns that the Pooch is actually a canine FBI agent, escaped from H.Q. and being pursued by a bunch of inept mobsters. Lots of slapsticky mayhem (think "Home Alone") and jokes about dog poop, dog farts, and dog bites in tender areas follow. Dumb as a box of rocks but harmless.

Required Fields wrote:

Kung Fury  (2015)...



A Miami cop gets a mission in which he is sent back in time to kill Adolf Hitler.

That's the one with David Hasselhoff isn't it?

That looks hilarious.