TODAY I WATCHED... (Movies, TV) 2017

Finally watched Daredevil or at least most of season 1

"Three O'Clock High" (1987)

Quirky teen comedy about a dorky high schooler who accidentally picks a fight with the hulking new bully, then spends the rest of his day trying to figure out how to weasel out of it. A dryly funny cult item that still holds up pretty well today (my kids loved it!)

Hired Gun

The Defenders episodes 1-4

Ring Of Honor

The Defenders episode 5 & 6

Finished watching the Defenders

"Scream" (1996)


A suburban high school full of hip, wise cracking, self aware teens is plagued by a series of horror-movie-inspired murders in the hit that re-vitalized Wes Craven's career and kick-started a new slasher-film craze. For a while it was trendy for "real" horror fans to hate on "Scream" because of all the late '90s teen-horror badness it inspired, but I had to admit that it's actually aged pretty well.

"XX" (2017)


Disappointing horror anthology film consisting of four short stories, all written and directed by women (the title refers to females having two "X" chromosomes). All four are well acted and nice looking, but only one out of the four really goes anywhere and even that one falls apart well before it ends. Truthfully the best parts of this flick are the quick, creepy little stop motion animations that separate each segment - they have a cool, scuzzy look (lots of old doll parts and things scuttling around in the dark) like those early Tool music videos. Otherwise, this flick is poop. Avoid!

"Leprechaun in the Hood" (2000)


Three doofus rappers hope to finance their demo tape by ripping off a local hip-hop mogul (Ice-T). What they don't know is that the secret to the music exec's hip hop success is a golden flute stolen from the dreaded Leprechaun. When these wanna-be's accidentally unleash "the Lep" (yes, that's what he calls himself) during their failed heist, it gets REAL, knum' sayin'?

(even I can't believe I just typed that...)

...so yeah, this fifth "Leprechaun" installment was awful, of course, but in a totally awesome, hilarious kind of way. I have to give Ice-T particular credit, 'cuz even though the movie is totally ridiculous, he still manages to come off like a bad-ass. Respect!

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Leprechaun in the Hood" (2000)


Three doofus rappers hope to finance their demo tape by ripping off a local hip-hop mogul (Ice-T). What they don't know is that the secret to the music exec's hip hop success is a golden flute stolen from the dreaded Leprechaun. When these wanna-be's accidentally unleash "the Lep" (yes, that's what he calls himself) during their failed heist, it gets REAL, knum' sayin'?

(even I can't believe I just typed that...)

...so yeah, this fifth "Leprechaun" installment was awful, of course, but in a totally awesome, hilarious kind of way. I have to give Ice-T particular credit, 'cuz even though the movie is totally ridiculous, he still manages to come off like a bad-ass. Respect!

I've still never seen a single entry from the Leprechaun franchise which is kind of strange for a horror buff. Somehow they just never appealed to me. I assume if I want to correct that I should start with the first one?

toho wrote:

I've still never seen a single entry from the Leprechaun franchise which is kind of strange for a horror buff. Somehow they just never appealed to me. I assume if I want to correct that I should start with the first one?

Aside from "Hood," I've only ever seen the first "Leprechaun" film, and that was ages ago. I don't remember much about it except that it was awful, even tho it starred a pre-"Friends" Jennifer Aniston, in a pair of short-shorts.

I happened upon this one while looking thru the free movie offerings on my Roku and since I just finished reading Ice-T's autobiography, I couldn't resist. Ice didn't even mention this film in his book but if he had, I'm pretty sure he would've described it as "wack." Haha

^^^^^ Agreed.Those Leprechaun movies are shit except for the first one, and that's mainly because of a young hot Jennifer Aniston.

Criminal Minds

Max Headroom - The TV Series

For the uninitiated, this 80s show takes place in a dystopian near-future where giant TV networks and corporations run everything. Max Headroom is an artificial intelligence constructed from the memories of an investigative TV reporter named Edison Carter. The name refers to the last thing Carter saw before a traumatic head injury which nearly killed him; it was a warning sign on a parking lot gate.

"Dragnet" (1987)


Dan Aykroyd plays the straight-laced nephew of the original Joe Friday and Tom Hanks is his cocky, freewheeling new partner in an affectionate action/comedy riff on the classic '50s and '60s cop show. Funny stuff with lots of quotable bits, also notable as one of Hanks' final second-banana roles before becoming a leading man in his own right.
Fun fact: the closing credit tune "City of Crime" is performed by Aykroyd, Hanks and Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple/Black Sabbath)!

That 70's Show

"His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th" (2009)


Special FX wizard Tom Savini hosts this entertaining documentary that explores the long history and fanatical following of the "Friday the 13th" film series, featuring interviews and commentary from cast members, directors, producers, and pretty much everybody that's ever had anything to do with an "F13" movie. Cool stuff loaded with trivia for horror nerds.

More Max Headroom

Scrubs
That 70's Show

Monster On The Campus (1958)

A university professor purchases a gamma ray preserved coelacanth and,once accidentally getting injected by the blood of it, devolves into a primitive savage. Standard 50s movie with sketchy science and minimal scares.

007 wrote:

Monster On The Campus (1958)

A university professor purchases a gamma ray preserved coelacanth and,once accidentally getting injected by the blood of it, devolves into a primitive savage. Standard 50s movie with sketchy science and minimal scares.

I think I've seen that.

The whole coelacanth thing has always fascinated me, even when I was a kid. A sentence like this from the Wikipedia description of "coelacanth" gives me hope that somewhere, probably in the depths of the ocean, is a "dinosaur".

Quote :

Its discovery 66 million years after it was believed to have gone extinct makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon, an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later.

Gotham - Season 3

"Halloween: The Inside Story" (2010)

Cool made-for-TV documentary about the making of John Carpenter's classic slasher film, featuring lots of behind-the-scenes photos, film clips and interviews with the cast and crew that made it happen. Surprisingly in-depth and thorough considering its basic-cable origins.

"Puppet Master" (1989)

A group of psychics meet at an old hotel to mark the passing of one of their colleagues, where they learn that their deceased friend had been messing with the forces of life and death -- by studying the notes of an old French alchemist who once commanded an army of living puppets.
Aside from the charming and cool stop-motion FX, this cult classic from Charles Band's infamous Full Moon Pictures is cheap looking and suffers from a seriously weak script...but enough people rented this one to warrant nearly a dozen sequels over the next 20+ years, so most of'em must have liked it a lot more than I did.