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Post by cybergod2 on Jul 16, 2019 17:20:42 GMT -5
Lady Frankenstein Rated 8/10 (84 minutes long)
During the '60s and '70s it was common to see well-known American actors slumming in European films -- their voices often dubbed -- for extra cash. Thus you see Broderick Crawford (television's Highway Patrol) as the ruthless king in the sword-and-sandal film Goliath and the Dragon. Peter Lupus (strongman Willie in the popular TV series Mission: Impossible) was known as Rock Stevens when working across the pond in other Italian muscleman flicks.
Joseph Cotten also picked up some poker money in this atmospheric horror/sex romp from 1971 with his brief appearance (basically a cameo) as Baron Frankenstein. His equally brilliant daughter (Rosalba Neri) exudes clinical expertise with NONE of her dad's ethical principles, as she carries on his ambitions! After his initial creation kills Frankenstein, she begins lusting after Tomas, a retarded stable boy. She plans to implant the brain of Frankenstein's middle-aged physician colleague into Tomas' younger, more virile body to enjoy the "best of both men". Needless to say, she doesn't ask for Tomas' approval. (Women ALWAYS think they know what's best, don't they?)
1950s Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay (his daughter with Jane Mansfield is Mariska, longtime star of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" on TV) appears as a local lawman who is definitely NOT buying the silly explanations he's hearing about the rampaging Monster's murder spree in the immediate area.
Eventually, both of the Frankensteins' creations meet and -- wouldn't ya know it? -- fail to get along. The villagers are none too pleased either!
This ain't Shakespeare but it's a fun romp if you like Eurotrash. Supposedly there is a fully- restored version that runs 15 minutes longer....hopefully with more bedroom action. I'm gonna go look for it!
EDIT: THE GODDAMNED STUPID FUCKS AT PHOTOBUCKET CENSORED ONE OF MY IMAGES ABOVE; WHAT A BUNCH OF PRUDES! THE PICTURE SIMPLY SHOWED LADY FRANKENSTEIN'S BACKSIDE AS SHE STOOD NAKED IN FRONT OF A SHIRTLESS TOMAS, SEATED ON HER BED.
AND THESE SIMPLETONS WANT MONEY FOR THEIR SISSY SERVICE? THEY CAN FUCK THEMSELVES. I'M GOING TO IMAGESHACK!
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Post by Premier on Jul 16, 2019 23:20:20 GMT -5
How do people here feel about John Wick 3?
Talk about too much of a good thing. It was an almost 2 hour long fight scene it seems.
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Post by cybergod2 on Aug 20, 2019 17:46:48 GMT -5
John Wick and John Wick Chapter 2 Rated 8.5/10
Keanu Reeves acting his ass off, sort of.
Tough guy stereotypes all over the place.
Russian and Italian mobsters with bad accents.
Countless shootouts with automatic weapons at close range, indoors and outdoors, or on a helipad, and yet not one professional assassin can kill Wick.
The Seventies called and asked Keanu for its hair back.
Illogical, fatal decisions by heroes and villains alike (Wick spares female assassin for no reason, Russian mobster talks to a wounded-and-bound Wick instead of killing him, etc.).
Spectacular extended public gun duels on motorcycles and cars, with military grade weaponry, and not a single arrest.
An international luxury-hotel chain for killers.
Local policemen that overlook a mass slaughter at Wick's mansion in Part 1 ("noise complaint?"), and are untroubled by its fiery, total destruction in Part 2 ("You workin' again, John?").
Some cool music.
AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVED BOTH MOVIES! Seriously. Yes, logic doesn't just take time off in the JW Universe, it never even existed there, apparently. But somehow these hyperkinetic ballets of murderous mayhem work in a riotously entertaining way. I can't even explain why....just go ahead and see 'em.
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Post by slaytan on Aug 22, 2019 8:39:15 GMT -5
Watched a few episodes of Amazon’s The Boys. Not on purpose, was stuck in a hotel room with my helper as we worked out of town and I surrendered the TV.
What absolute despicable trash. Gay sex in the first 10 minutes of the first episode, very political (even the gay sex had a political purpose, which was to subvert Christianity and conservatism). Managed to be predictable in spite of itself. Acting absolutely shitty, made more annoying by the fact that all the shitty actors clearly thought they were knocking it out of the park with every contrived, stupid line. I feel intense hatred for everyone involved with this abomination, and was not surprised to see that Seth Rogen was a producer.
Negative 5 stars: I hate everyone involved with this stinker
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Post by MMAJim on Aug 26, 2019 15:43:18 GMT -5
Alita - Battle Angel
2 stars for delivering exactly what was advertised. Somewhat interesting aesthetics, some fighting, just enough to watch. Huge plot holes, lame teenage love angles. Let's be honest, I was on an airplane, saw everything else and needed a break from watching golf. In those conditions in held me captive while I was strapped to a seat with nowhere else to go.
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Post by vegeta420z on Oct 5, 2019 2:37:34 GMT -5
Where the fuck is patsox when ya need him.
Any one seen this movie?
Listening to the radio today they were going over some web sites list of top horror movies of the last 20 years, and this was #1.
I've never even heard of it, wondering if it's worth tracking down.
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Post by vegeta420z on Oct 5, 2019 2:43:33 GMT -5
Wow found this after watching the trailer for kill list. Wonder how true to the real events this is?
Where's baph when you need him?
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Post by cybergod2 on Oct 21, 2019 9:02:32 GMT -5
How do people here feel about John Wick 3? Talk about too much of a good thing. It was an almost 2 hour long fight scene it seems. John Wick 3 - Parabellum Rated 4/10
Finally got around to watching it; and it's a HUGE disappointment for the exact reason you mention. Wick gets sent on one fool's errand after another, it seems, in a tiresome quest to save his own life and shake his "incommunicado" status. An inconceivably unlikely and illogical double-cross ending sets up a forthcoming JW4 film....which needs to be a LOT better than this one.
Halle Berry's character is another ball-smashing badass? So what, every other female in this series is too. The mysterious "Arab" guy out in some desert who looks like some acting apprentice from Brooklyn? Wick has to cut off his own finger to talk to THIS asshole?
Sheesh. Somebody killed the creators of this series and replaced 'em with clones. It's the ONLY possible explanation.
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Post by cybergod on Dec 25, 2019 19:08:26 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Rated 9/10
This Quentin Tarantino film is very entertaining homage to mid-20th century Hollywood and the colorful characters & lifestyles of its inhabitants. Leonardo DiCaprio & Brad Pitt are great in their roles as a TV star and his stunt double. The vibe of that period is perfectly portrayed as the events leading up to the infamous Helter Skelter murders slowly play out....but this is no documentary, and QT presents a very different and satisfying climax, rather than the real-life horror-story/slaughter that actually happened.
This is only my second QT film, but I was very entertained. Go ahead and see it!
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Post by slaytan on Dec 26, 2019 9:36:44 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Rated 9/10 This Quentin Tarantino film is very entertaining homage to mid-20th century Hollywood and the colorful characters & lifestyles of its inhabitants. Leonardo DiCaprio & Brad Pitt are great in their roles as a TV star and his stunt double. The vibe of that period is perfectly portrayed as the events leading up to the infamous Helter Skelter murders slowly play out....but this is no documentary, and QT presents a very different and satisfying climax, rather than the real-life horror-story/slaughter that actually happened. This is only my second QT film, but I was very entertained. Go ahead and see it! Meh, it was an easy movie to make. Most impressive was how much the actor play8ng Steve McQueen resembled McQueen himself. Mostly it was formulaic: campy nostalgia, neat old cars, opulence, cameos, charismatic, good looking actors, neat music, and then graphic violence. fuck Tarantino. I’m convinced he is purely psycho and a child molester. Remember that last part
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Post by andrewk1988 on Dec 26, 2019 14:04:32 GMT -5
Saw 'Richard Jewell' for our Christmas Eve movie this year. I thought it was great. 4/5
It was incredibly well acted, especially by Sam Rockwell. The guy who played Jewell did a great job as well. It was a great critique about how easy it is for, and what happens when, the forces of the media and authoritarian government turn on you.
The theme of the movie though, as is said by Rockwell's character in the penultimate scene, is that 'the government' or 'the media' aren't monolithic institutions that work as one. They are merely people making decisions, and that they should be treated as such and not glorified or crucified as a whole, but by their individual merit.
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Post by cybergod on Dec 28, 2019 14:49:55 GMT -5
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Rated 9/10 This Quentin Tarantino film is very entertaining homage to mid-20th century Hollywood and the colorful characters & lifestyles of its inhabitants. Leonardo DiCaprio & Brad Pitt are great in their roles as a TV star and his stunt double. The vibe of that period is perfectly portrayed as the events leading up to the infamous Helter Skelter murders slowly play out....but this is no documentary, and QT presents a very different and satisfying climax, rather than the real-life horror-story/slaughter that actually happened. This is only my second QT film, but I was very entertained. Go ahead and see it! Meh, it was an easy movie to make. Most impressive was how much the actor play8ng Steve McQueen resembled McQueen himself. Mostly it was formulaic: campy nostalgia, neat old cars, opulence, cameos, charismatic, good looking actors, neat music, and then graphic violence. fuck Tarantino. I’m convinced he is purely psycho and a child molester. Remember that last part You're confusing Tarantino with Roman Polanski. Pretty hard to forget that last part. Polanski f#cked that 13 year old at some wild party back in the 1970s. He's had to be REAL careful what airports he flies into ever since.... Let's just say he's wary of those week-long airport layovers in countries that have extradition treaties with the USA....he doesn't want them to last for many years, like the cops do.
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Post by slaytan on Feb 17, 2020 12:10:40 GMT -5
Midway
Battle scenes: awful
Acting/ dialogue: somewhere between a soap opera and a hastily filmed crime reenactment on America’s Most Wanted. I mean, nobody did a good job, save perhaps the intel officer guy.
Pearl Harbor was 10x as good
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Post by andrewk1988 on Feb 18, 2020 13:47:06 GMT -5
1917
It was good, and surprisingly I didn't find it too long or boring. I went in expecting to be a bit bored with what I'd heard about it and my usual lack of "getting" super critically acclaimed movies.
The suspense is enough to keep you engaged. The one shot filming strategy really works. It helps that they did a great job of recreating the beauty of the landscapes to counter the pure devastation.
Don't go into it expecting long drawn out bloody battle scenes. There was enough action and it was realistic enough, but it wasn't gratuitous. You'd think a movie about WWI would be the movie for gratuitous violence, but they kept it palatable.
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Post by Comrade Question on Feb 27, 2020 17:33:04 GMT -5
Anyone watch Parasite?
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Post by cybergod on Feb 27, 2020 18:16:12 GMT -5
Ever create a post that doesn't feature some annoying question, that's actually a setup for whatever "point" you're trying to make? But to answer your question: No. But I have seen three outstanding films by another Korean: Park chan-Wook. The films are Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
Each is a study of the nature of revenge and its consequences.
See 'em. Each is better than that overrated, by-the-numbers class warfare shit that won the Oscar.
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Post by Comrade Question on Feb 27, 2020 18:55:49 GMT -5
No.But I have seen three outstanding films by another Korean: Park chan-Wook. The films are Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
Each is a study of the nature of revenge and its consequences.
See 'em. Each is better than that overrated, by-the-numbers class warfare shit that won the Oscar. How the fuck would you know?
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Post by cybergod on Feb 27, 2020 20:54:20 GMT -5
Because I've talked to people who have seen the film. Another sermon about the evils of wealthy people vs. the "nobility" of those who aren't.
Just more Hollywood nonsense; a waste of time.
Sort of like you, except that NO ONE would pay money to put up with your pointless attempts at discussion.
By the way, since you apparently didn't notice: this thread's purpose is to describe (review) a movie you have seen, hopefully without any spoilers, and assign it a rating (usually on a 1-10 scale).
But I understand how difficult it must be to depart from your usual schtick. Maybe you need to see a shrink.
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Post by slaytan on Mar 13, 2020 8:58:36 GMT -5
Richard Jewell
9.99/ 10
Easily the best thing Eastwood has ever touched. Should have been a shoe in for best picture, but political concerns sank it both for the awards and box office. The lardass who played Jewell should have been best actor, and Madmen dude, Sam Rockwell, or Kathy Bates could each have gone up for supporting actor. Towards the end of the movie I was feeling like Madmen dude started overacting as a deep state punk, asshole, corrupt tyrannical official, but the dialogue reminded me that his character genuinely believed Richard Jewell was guilty.
***Edit
This movie was compelling on every level, and just perfect. The dialogue, casting, and execution was perfect. I revise my review to a 10/10. I’m sure to watch it again, and perhaps I’ll find flaws that I missed the first time, but I can’t think of any now
Not my favorite movie, but easily tied for “best I’ve ever seen.” Not a sweeping adventure I can watch 20 times in 5 years like Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)or The Way Back, but easily as good or better than them all
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