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Oct 25, 2011 23:19:49 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Oct 25, 2011 23:19:49 GMT -5
...who the hell keeps paying for this material? Maybe we are better not knowing. *raises hand* *hangs head in shame* *goes to room w/o dinner* *hangs self*
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Oct 25, 2011 23:24:45 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Oct 25, 2011 23:24:45 GMT -5
It is, but wasn't KoG the one who said he doesn't have the attention span to watch a movie? Or was that someone else?
I'm going for an intense horror marathons these last days of the month, and dia de muertos. More Vincent Price, giallos (italian erotic thrillers) among other stuff.
edit: That's what the internets is for mah boi! Oh yeah, you have more strict anti-piracy vigilantes over there right? Finally something good of living in this hellhole of a country.
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Oct 25, 2011 23:26:31 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Oct 25, 2011 23:26:31 GMT -5
Yeah, he did but, somehow, though he can't watch a full movie, he can write a doctoral thesis-length post on the movies he isn't watching--the whole thing has something to do w/ quantum mechanics, I think.
Also, re: Hellraiser, you get to hear two gringos say "TIJUANA!" about 77 times w/ very exaggerated Mexican accents! The fun never stops!
Oh, and, horror boy: Lake Mungo?!
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Oct 25, 2011 23:29:42 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Oct 25, 2011 23:29:42 GMT -5
Ah yes yes, i'll watch that one too, i have it on my schedule already.
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Oct 26, 2011 2:55:18 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Oct 26, 2011 2:55:18 GMT -5
It's only been, what, a year since I suggested it? Take any more time and you'll be dead and a fit resident for Lake Mungo...
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Oct 30, 2011 14:45:54 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Oct 30, 2011 14:45:54 GMT -5
Never...seen...Predator.
Never...seen...A Fistful of Dollars. (Nor the others before weeks ago)
Never...played...Super Mario Bros. 3.
Were you grown in a vat and unleashed on the world in 2006?? Really, it's the only explanation, in light of these facts, that makes any damn sense.
(And if you think my reaction is bad, wait until Capitano Mexicano gets wind that you've never seen these films--you may want to move north of the border to escape his unbridled wrath.)
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Oct 30, 2011 19:40:50 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Oct 30, 2011 19:40:50 GMT -5
Dude, my all-time favorite Arnold-ism is from that movie:
"I let him go."
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Oct 30, 2011 23:37:53 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Oct 30, 2011 23:37:53 GMT -5
I've never seen the original Predator ZIGFRIED! You son of a b.......... Worry not, there's always time. Just don't tell me you haven't seen Robocop cuz....well....just don't say it if that's the case. As for westerns *cracks knucles* that's my area, the italian western that is. Before i recommend anything else first finish watching all the Leone westerns. Once Upon a Time in the West, and you can leave Duck you Sucker for later, i liked them both, but "Once" is just, well, is one of my all time favorite movies. Can't say much aside from telling you that it is a must see. Just don't expect something similar to the dollars trilogy, "Once" is just....exists in another area, in a different level.
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Nov 3, 2011 9:12:45 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Nov 3, 2011 9:12:45 GMT -5
The Mill and the Cross: I don't even know how to explain this, but it's an art film--literally--inspired by Pieter Bruegel 1564 painting, The Way to Calvary, and based on the book The Mill and the Cross.
It was at times engaging and utterly relaxing (it felt more like a Mind's Eye VHS tape, in spots, than a proper film) and, at times (more than a few), completely baffling (probably because I have no experience at all w/ the subject matter).
(Even with "Bruegel" narrating at points, I was terribly lost for parts of it, which is probably to be at least partially expected since it's an art film and an art film.)
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Nov 3, 2011 16:19:36 GMT -5
Post by elchevalier on Nov 3, 2011 16:19:36 GMT -5
House of the Devil
inb4 ECM telling me "i told you it wasn't that good". It's a bit of a mixed bag, the direction, atmosphere and performances are all good. The problem is that the movie doesn't have enough ideas to fill the lenght. So it gets to the point where you are checking the clock, waiting for the satanic ritual to happen already. Not a bad effort, Ti West might do something better in the future, he needs a better script for sure.
Lake Mungo is next.
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Nov 3, 2011 16:26:43 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Nov 3, 2011 16:26:43 GMT -5
Lake Mungo? What's that?
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Nov 7, 2011 12:51:26 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Nov 7, 2011 12:51:26 GMT -5
Apollo 18: this is another shaky cam special BUT, as I have a soft spot for 60s/70s, manned, space flight[footnote:1]Born, if you can believe, from the classic LEGO space series when I was a very wee lad, culminating in a deisre to, one day, be an astronaut. Then I discovered videogames, and all ambition was pulverized into so much space dust.[/footnote], it wore better than it might have otherwise. At heart, it's a zombie movie (yeah, yeah, I know) set on the Moon, but the trappings (and, of course, the sheer isolation--much like in the little-known Moon) of it make it pretty tense going, even if it's got a lot of 'been there, done that, brought back the moon rock, got charged w/ grand theft because of it' about it.
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Nov 8, 2011 18:57:06 GMT -5
Post by Justin on Nov 8, 2011 18:57:06 GMT -5
Dude, my all-time favorite Arnold-ism is from that movie: "I let him go."He lets him go, but he never lands! I love that part when he pops out of the shed and chops that dudes arm off and then slices another guy's head in half with a circular saw blade.
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Nov 10, 2011 12:16:22 GMT -5
Post by CHI on Nov 10, 2011 12:16:22 GMT -5
I saw the Harold and Kumar Christmas movie on Saturday. If you enjoy that kinda thing, you'll like it. It you don't, you won't. Pretty straightforward. I'll be seeing it again soon at my wife's request.
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Nov 13, 2011 17:26:47 GMT -5
Post by ECM on Nov 13, 2011 17:26:47 GMT -5
Blitz: I mostly like Jason Statham (Snatch is, of course, a modern classic and the first and third Transporter films are brainlessly entertaining), but he tends to pick roles based on whomever is willing to pay him 5 mil a film, so ends up in a lot of bad/mediocre movies, Blitz being one of the latter.
It's a pretty basic buddy cop movie (edgy: one of them is gay, but it has absolutely no bearing on the plot at all), w/ a psychopath running around rubbing out cops because he wasn't loved enough as a child or the police brutality he suffered pushed him into a life of mass murder--I'm a little hazy as to which it was because they movie doesn't make this very clear.
There's also a subplot that appears to be entirely tacked on because every movie needs a female of some sort or nobody will see it (or so they tell me).
All in all, a pretty generic film that you'd probably watch if you stumbled across it on TNT on some rainy Saturday afternoon when you're all out of interesting things to do, like, say, going on Netflix and finding a movie actually worth watching.
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