TODAY I WATCHED... (Movies, TV) 2019

Lost

Mercifully I finished Rebirth Of Mothra III today

Good grief these three latter day Mothra movies are awful.  Geared for kids and full of logic holes (that is when the plot even makes sense) these are boring Kaiju flicks even though 2 of the 3 (I and III) feature Ghidorah as Mothra's foe.  The worst part is that unlike the Godzilla and Gamera flicks that came out around the same time, these flicks pretty much feature the same crappy FX as the 60s movies.  Worse in some cases because of the obviously super-imposed monster action on a different background.

As FF likes to say in some of his reviews of really lousy movies, "AVOID!"

Ring of Honor

tohostudios wrote:

Mercifully I finished Rebirth Of Mothra III today

Good grief these three latter day Mothra movies are awful.  Geared for kids and full of logic holes (that is when the plot even makes sense) these are boring Kaiju flicks even though 2 of the 3 (I and III) feature Ghidorah as Mothra's foe.  The worst part is that unlike the Godzilla and Gamera flicks that came out around the same time, these flicks pretty much feature the same crappy FX as the 60s movies.  Worse in some cases because of the obviously super-imposed monster action on a different background.

As FF likes to say in some of his reviews of really lousy movies, "AVOID!"

You know, I've heard that about those movies from other reviews also, and yet I'd still watch them out of morbid curiosity.

The Goldbergs
Schooled
Modern Family

Started Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War" today on the elliptical.  Very informative and creative so far (as expected).

Supernatural

Watched the documentary Mr. Kundrat produced on the History of Thrash Metal. Pretty good vid (IMHDO)

Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows: The Voices of Women in Metal

"The Last Sharknado: It's About Time!" (2018)

SyFy/Asylum's signature schlock franchise comes to its way-overdue close as Fin, April, and the gang travel through time from the Jurassic era to the present day (hitting all points in between) in an effort to stop the first-ever Sharknado from occurring, which will somehow save the universe. Or something like that.
This series ran out of gas at least three movies ago, therefore this sixth (!) installment is just another shovelful of the usual silly visual gags, D-list celebrity cameos, and crappy FX. The frequent shots of Cassie "Nova" Scerbo's glorious cleavage are a nice bonus though (seriously fellas, she is so hot it's st00pid).
Not a must watch unless you're a masochist like me who's seen the other five, then you may as well sit thru this one too and finish 'em off.

"Jane and the Lost City" (1987)

A cheap action comedy set in the '40s, based on a WWII era British comic strip, with which I am unfamiliar. A bumbling British colonel, his ditzy-but-stacked blonde secretary (the "Jane" of the title) and a square jawed Indiana Jones adventurer type (Sam "Flash Gordon" Jones) brave the perils of the African jungle to find a mythical city of diamonds before the Nazis (led by Maud "Octopussy" Adams) can get to it. Cue the angry tribesmen, snakes, alligators, spears, and lots of atrocious, mugging overacting.
The running gag about "Jane's" clothes falling off (which happens every ten or fifteen minutes) was pretty much the only thing keeping me awake by the halfway point of this campy "Raiders" parody. AVOID.

Finished disc 1 of Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War" today on the elliptical.

Basically what I learned from this disc is that the start of the war was France's fault; if they'd have given up trying to hang on to Viet Nam as a colony long before they finally withdrew, history would be a lot different.

The 4D Man (1959)



Robert Lansing as a scientist who steals and improves his brother's work, enabling him to phase through solid matter but discovers one drawback, each use drains his life force which he must absorb from others to survive. A love triangle between the brothers and Lee Merriweather also complicates matters. Not a bad flick and some decent special effects, at least for the era of the film.

"Queen Crab" (2015)

A young girl starts feeding her scientist father's experimental growth hormone to a crab that lives in the pond behind her house. Twenty years later, the crab has grown to ridiculous proportions and begins snacking on the local yokels. Hilarity ensues.
A campy-on-purpose nod to the "giant creature" films of yore, "Queen Crab" uses some pretty cool old-school stop motion effects for the title critter but aside from that the flick is dumb as a box of rocks. Just watch the trailer above, all the good bits are in it.

Documentaries on The Mentors, CCR, and Peter Green.

The Walking Dead

Family Guy

The gag about the heiress with the impossibly long name was hilarious especially since part of her name was "stolen Monty Python" which is precisely where that gag came from.

The Leprechaun Returns (2018)



Ugh. An awful reboot/remake/sequel about a group of sorority sisters who awaken the evil leprechaun and learn the folly of doing so. I was never a big fan of the series but there was nothing else on so I checked it out. If you've seen one of these, you've seen them all. Stupid one liners, stupid characters etc. You're better off watching Lucky Charms commercials.

I am on the last episode of Season 4 of Breaking Bad. About 15 min in and had to stop it, this show keeps getting better and more suspenseful with each episode!

Finished Disc 2 of "The Vietnam War" and learned the story behind the photograph on the cover of Rage Against the Machine's S/T.  Sadly, it's a real photograph from 1963 of a South Vietnamese Buddhist monk immolating himself in protest of the regime's repression of Buddhists.  And this is the side the US supported in the war simply because of their anti-Communist stance.  Good grief what a CF that war was.

Die Hard with a Vengeance
Angel ( season 1, began disc 3)

Card Sharks
Match Game PM

Very Scary People, a real crime series dealing with the lives of various notorious people. The first episode deals with John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer charged with the deaths of 33 teens and young men.

"Until The Light Takes Us" (2009)

An examination of the infamous Norwegian Black Metal crime wave of the early 90s, as seen through the eyes of some of the scene's major players like Fenriz (Darkthrone), Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes (Burzum) and members of Mayhem, Emperor, and Satyricon. Even if you're not into black metal, the tales of murder, arson and the media fueled "Satanic Panic" that followed make for a bizarre but engrossing true-crime doc.

A Nightmare on Elm Street(2010)-remake of Wes Craven's 1980's slasher classic about the iconic killer Freddy Kruger. This one keeps pretty much with the original NOES with several moments lifted straight from the first film. I was never the biggest NOES fan to begin with, so maybe that explains why I didn't loath this remake as so many others have over the years. Not a great film, but I thought it was at least watchable. I give it 2 out of 5.