I'm a huge fan of the B-grade cheese-fest horror flicks,

I especially love the old black and white ones. There was this one that had a clay humanoid as this 'faceless horror'/golem, and when a woman saw it she freaked out at how horrible it was, despite the thing being a humanoid made of clay that hadn't done anything up to that point. It was like seeing the David and going "Aaaaaa!"
The 60's and 70's horror flicks were great too.
Let's not forget the horrible Godzilla movies! Though they did become just campy monster brawls. :3
I still get chills from that robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

BTW: About to watch Monty Python's The Life of Brian.

Small Soldiers
Entertaining for what it is, I guess...

And before that...

The Sky over Berlin
Also known as wings of desire (dumb Americans!!!), this is a beautiful movie that everyone should see. What you shouldn't see is the Hollywood 'remake' City of Angels (dumb Americans!!!), because I can't see how you'd remake this movie because you simply liked the premise and not the masterful reflection on the world (Berlin in particular) and humanity.

Also before that..

Indiana Jones 4
Ugh.... Lucas does it again. At least I got a new movie example to use (other than Spiderman) when I complain about tasteless overuse of unrealistic CGI in movies.

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump.  Hahaha!  Man I am so fucking clever.

in all seriousness though it wasn't terrible buuuuuuuut it wasn't that good either.

I downloaded HBO Miniseries Angels in America.

Six hours long but really really damn good. Epic even. One of the best casts I've ever seen. Certainly going in my top 10 from now on.

I especially love the old black and white ones. There was this one that had a clay humanoid as this 'faceless horror'/golem, and when a woman saw it she freaked out at how horrible it was, despite the thing being a humanoid made of clay that hadn't done anything up to that point. It was like seeing the David and going "Aaaaaa!"
The 60's and 70's horror flicks were great too.
Let's not forget the horrible Godzilla movies! Though they did become just campy monster brawls. :3
I still get chills from that robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

BTW: About to watch Monty Python's The Life of Brian.

yeah, old horror flicks are great. if you like those and or old scifi, you should both watch "the lost skeleton of cadavra" that's gotta be my all time favourite movie!! hard to find though!

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump.  Hahaha!  Man I am so fucking clever.

in all seriousness though it wasn't terrible buuuuuuuut it wasn't that good either.

this. i like how they opened with the old woman talking to the younger one so i knew it was going to be like titanic: long and pointless.
his life story was really uninteresting! nothing happened to him except people thought he was way older than he was, whoa. and how did he deal with that? he didn't have to.

Zombies: The Beginning (courtesy of Cinemageddon).

A shameless Aliens ripoff. With zombies. Instead of aliens.

Bruno Mattei (RIP) at his best.

this. i like how they opened with the old woman talking to the younger one so i knew it was going to be like titanic: long and pointless.
his life story was really uninteresting! nothing happened to him except people thought he was way older than he was, whoa. and how did he deal with that? he didn't have to.

Is the twist ending that later in the movie people think he's YOUNGER than people thought??? Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone.

Is the twist ending that later in the movie people think he's YOUNGER than people thought??? Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone.

what no???

the twist is that the girl reading the diary is his daughter.  it's a pretty lousy twist because for the entire movie the daughter is more of a device than an actual character then all of a sudden they try to add some emotional weight to her or something and it doesn't work at all because we never have any reason to give a shit about her

also he has a sister who appears in one scene but then disappears for the rest of movie.  like, she's not even at the mom's funeral I don't think.  what is that shit about.

her daughter didn't know her mother was a dancer despite the dance studio

it really wasn't a good movie and i was ticked off that a 70 year old man working on a tugboat never seemed to get ill or injured

Man this sounds even worse than I was picturing (haven't seen it if it wasn't obvious).

this past week I watched:
Borat - already seen but funny still

Ring Around the Rosie - Ok...kinda predictable

The Amytiville Horror - Fucked up idk

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - I really liked it

Pretty Woman - Everyone says it's an awesome movie I finally saw it and I like it

read the story its not very good either but at least its kind of funny because hes born a full bodied 80 or whatever and is like I DONT WANT TO HAVE A LOLLY I WANT TO SMOKE...

So, I got an entire evening to myself, so I sat down and re-watched one movie and then I took myself to see a movie in the theatre.

Righteous Kill casts Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino as NYC detectives in a rather disjointed but decently well-written drama involving a cop who decides to kill all the criminals that the 'system' and its various elements kick loose. A skateboarding pimp, a rapist and 50 Cent all get whacked by the vigilante cop, and it takes a super-hot detective chick (who is, for some unknown reason, boning DeNiro) and a shot-up Russian dude to put the pieces together. I say it's disjointed because the story skips about a timeline rather frantically, and the first time I watched it I had trouble keeping up. The second time around it made more sense, but it also dawned on me, after watching it twice in a row, that the title of the movie gives away the killer within ten minutes of the start of the movie. Unfortunately, if it wasn't for DeNiro and Pacino, I don't think this movie would have held up well. The support cast was well-rounded (thankfully, John Leguizamo stayed fully clothed) and did their part in propping DeNiro and Pacino up. My main problem was the fact that I missed out on the whole thriller aspect of the movie because it was predictable. Half way through the movie I knew who the killing cop was. Oh yeah, and the end was really cheesy. Not the epic cop thriller I was hoping for, but still a decent movie. Worth a rent, definitely.

Gran Torino casts a kick-ass Clint Eastwood as a crotchedy old fart living in Highland Park, Michigan, in a Hmong filled neighborhood. The movie opens at his wife's funeral and continues down a rather touching path where we see Eastwood's character soften up towards his next door neighbors, one of which tried to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino. Gangs get involved and Eastwood becomes Dirty Harry with feelings and it fucking works. Eastwood's character is unabashadly racist with his words but the movie is presented in such a way that I found myself laughing at most of the mean stuff he said. Even at 154 years old, Eastwood's still got it; he is legitimately intimidating when he has to be and I have to say that I would run away screaming like a schoolgirl if he ever told me to get off his lawn. The ending was presented beautifully and comically. Also, SERIOUS kudos to director Eastwood who actually filmed the movie in and around Detroit, and we aren't talking about the nice neighborhoods, either. A very good movie that I definitely recommend.

his sister was running the orphanage when he came back, and when he started losing his mind shes the one that said he could stay there. It wasn't very clear though, that's for sure.

you know when I made that post I considered that that may have been the case, but I remember the woman looking too young to be her.  either way they kind of hinted at the idea that queenie wouldn't love him as much now that she had a child of her own but they didn't really follow through on that, unless that was the reason why he ended up leaving in the first place.  I don't know, that movie was a lot longer than it should have been!  I'm going to write a review for the mainsite later because I haven't written anything in a while.

anyway I just finished watching Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf and it was sufficiently bizarre.  really really good will watch again

dear massy:

start watching non shit movies instead of august rush and end of days because you're convincing yourself they're any good.

sincerely

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