TODAY I WATCHED... (Movies, TV) 2018

New year, new thread. Tell us what movies/TV shows you've recently enjoyed.

Coach

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988)


In a 1940s Hollywood where humans and cartoon characters exist side by side, a down on his luck private detective helps a rabbit avoid a murder rap and uncovers a huge conspiracy. Featuring cameos by just about every famous cartoon character from the Disney and Warner Brothers stables and many more.
Robert "Back To The Future" Zemeckis' landmark fantasy flick still manages to amaze after all these years. I've lost count of how many times I've seen this one but I never get tired of it.

Last night before I went to bed I flipped over to the SyFy Channel's Twilight Zone Marathon and watched a few episodes.  In the past when I've watched it they showed a bunch of crappy episodes before getting to the good ones but last night they were showing "the greatest hits". 

I saw "The Invaders" (the one with tiny astronauts terrorizing a mute Agnes Moorhead), "The Monsters on Maple Street" and "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet".

I have the entire series on DVD so I can watch whatever episodes I want any time but I always find it interesting to see what episodes SyFy chooses for their marathons.

tohostudios wrote:

Last night before I went to bed I flipped over to the SyFy Channel's Twilight Zone Marathon and watched a few episodes.  In the past when I've watched it they showed a bunch of crappy episodes before getting to the good ones but last night they were showing "the greatest hits". 

I saw "The Invaders" (the one with tiny astronauts terrorizing a mute Agnes Moorhead), "The Monsters on Maple Street" and "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet".

We actually caught all 3 of those episodes too. Good stuff. My family was not familiar with "Monsters" and was trying to guess the identity of the alien. I just smiled and told them to keep watching,

That's what makes TZ so great, there are a lot of "twist" endings.

I always wonder what other stuff Rod Serling could have done had he lived longer.  "Night Gallery" was like a slower paced Twilight Zone but it had it's moments too.  Rod wrote a lot of the episodes of both series but he died at age 50.  Imagine the other wonderfully weird stuff he could have come up with had he lived a "normal" lifespan.

"The Brain" (1988)

A mad scientist and his alien brain-creature pal have taken over the minds of everyone in a small town through specially doctored TV signals, and they're about to take it nationwide unless the local juvenile delinquent and his girlfriend can stop 'em.
This awesomely cheesy '80s video-store fave steals a little bit of "The Blob," a little from "Videodrome," and a lot from "They Live." The title creature is one of the most ridiculous rubber monsters I've seen in ages - it looks like a giant piece of poop covered in K-Y Jelly. Hilariously bad, highly recommended!

That's one of the "so bad it's good" flicks from the 80s that I don't think I've seen.

Chappelle's Show

Game Of Games

X Files season 7, episodes 1 & 2

The new Jumanji movie

Black Christmas remake

Leatherface wrote:

Black Christmas remake

That flick is so over the top.

Looks like I'm in that "dead zone" where I'm between sports and everything else on TV sucks so I think I'll watch some Stargate SG-1 episodes tonight when I'm actually NOT on the elliptical. After all, I'm only up to Season 3 so I have a ton more episodes to watch while I work out.

Soap

XFiles Season 11 Premiere

Benson
Coach
Mork & Mindy

"Sharknado 5: Global Swarming" (2017)

Fin, April, Nova and the gang are back (again) to save the world from a series of catastrophic Sharknado outbreaks that threatens the entire planet.
SyFy/Asylum's signature franchise keeps getting bigger, louder, and dumber with each new installment. Forget about a coherent story, forget about decent performances, just turn your brain off and chuckle at the cheap CGI mayhem, the nods to other/better movies, and the endless cameos by D-list celebrities lining up to get munched (including Fabio, Samantha Fox, Clay Aiken, Gilbert Gottfried, Kathie Lee Gifford, and many more).

^^^ I can't believe there have been 5 of those.

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007 wrote:

^^^ I can't believe there have been 5 of those.

I can't believe I keep watching'em!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

007 wrote:

^^^ I can't believe there have been 5 of those.

I can't believe I keep watching'em!!

I caught the first 3 but haven't had the urge to catch the remainder.

"Our Man in Casablanca" (aka "The Killer Lacks a Name," 1966)


Italian/Spanish “Eurospy” fun, starring American bit player Lang Jeffries as a secret agent who tangles with several femme fatales and a bad guy with an electrified metal hand (!) while trying to recover some stolen documents.

As usual with these cheap 007 knockoffs, the story eventually devolves into a confused muddle, but the exotic Moroccan scenery is lovely and so is the female eye candy.

It was my 10 year old son's turn to pick a movie, so this is what we got...

"Expelled" (2014)


After breaking the rules one too many times, a teenage prankster finally gets himself kicked out of school. If his parents find out, he'll be packed off to a military academy...so he embarks on a series of crazy schemes to weasel his way back in before Mom and Dad discover what's happened. Wacky hi-jinks that owe much to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ensue.

If your kids have never seen "Ferris," they might get a kick out of this preteen-friendly comedy...but I felt like I was watching a cheap remake. Also, the kid in the lead role (who is apparently a YouTube star of some kind) was such a smug prick that I found myself wishing someone would just punch him in the throat after about ten minutes. Does that make me a bad person?

In other words... if you don't have kids, there's no need to bother with this one.