Recently watched movies!

[lhb412]

[Reaper G]

Face of Evil

Tracy Gold is a psycho chick who kills other girls and assumes their identities. She becomes college roomies with Shawnee Smith and starts flirting with her rich dad from "Riptide".

Lifetime movies -- just as bad as SyFy movies, but for chicks.

[DannyBeane]

[Destroysall]

The Interpreter

Great movie! Nicole Kidman is an amazing actor. Loved this movie!

[MekaGojira3k]

[Green Dragon]

[Arrow]

After getting a chance to see Gamera 2 again, I now have a new rank for Kaneko's monster films:

- Gamera 2
- Gamera 3
- Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

I forgot just how fun G2 was. It's an updated alien invasion film with possibly the best monster to ever appear in a Gamera film - Legion. The effects aren't as spectacular as G3, but they're good regardless. The cast is strong and the music is excellent. It's gotten above G3 for me, even though I still enjoy that one as well. Good movie.

[lhb412]

Room Service

The Marx Brothers in an adaptation of a comedic stage play - thing is, it wasn't a play starring the brothers, so they end up playing characters not originating with them. Since Marx Brothers humor tends to stem from their comic personas the whole movie feels a bit off, like a movie starring the Marx Brothers but not a "Marx Brothers Movie." It's not a bad film, in fact it's rather good on it's own, but it ends up feeling like a weird little one-off.

A Day at the Races

I'm watching these Marx films (kind of) in reverse chronological order, and from this point on (the first seven films) it's all classics. This was the second of their two big budget MGM pictures and was the biggest box office smash of their careers - of which the brothers got a cut, as stipulated in their contracts (one of the reasons some at the studio resented them and put them in lower budget fare after this).

It all centers on horse racing and Groucho as a vet passing himself off as a doctor for people at a sanitarium, which in this film is a bit like a spa for sick people.

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

Watched Tangled. Damn. Disney really hit the mark with this one.

[king_ghidorah]

The Fighter- Awesome movie. Well made and also a crowd pleaser. I can't recall the last time I enjoyed a movie so much in the theater. Bale deserves an Oscar and Amy Adams and Mark Walberg each should at least get noms...easily in my top 3 films of the year..

[canofhumdingers]

Voyage of the Dawn Treader - I've liked all the Narnia movies so far, but I think this one might be my favorite. It's a high seas adventure in the vein of the old Sinbad movies & I just loved the heck out of it. Like the previous two entries, the CGI is hit or miss (of course, I find most CGI to be a huge miss, but that's another topic...) but the story is just really fun.

[heroforhirerob]

[Reaper G]

Maniac, 1934

A vaudeville impersonator kills his mad scientist boss and pretends to be him, goes crazy in the process, and turns everyone and everything around him into a violent lunatic. The most normal person is the neighbor who breeds cats for their fur. Deserves to be ranked alongside Reefer Madness and Plan 9 as a cult classic.

[lhb412]

A Night at the Opera

The most famous Marx Brothers movie ever; with a big budget, fancy musical and dance numbers, and a tight script. I love it, but I think it's companion picture, the slightly looser Day at the Races, is funnier.

[MekaGojira3k]

Had a mini Christmas marathon yesterday, watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), It's a Wonderful Life, and The Santa Clause. Love all of these. Good fun and decent flicks to boot.

[jellydonut25]

It's a Trap!

[Dagarah72]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[jellydonut25]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

[lhb412]

I don't usually list Mystery Science Theater 3000 stuff on this thread, but...

Rifftrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza

Awesome show consisting primarily of live riffs of bizzare Christmas shorts. This was amazing to see when streamed live to theaters across the country and still pretty awesome at home. Several of these shorts were childhood favorites of mine from public domain Christmas videos purchased at the dollar store.

Cinematic Titanic: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Joel and the gang's second riffing of this UHF seasonal classic. One of my fav CT episodes so far.

Myster Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus

I doesn't get any better than this insane Mexican kids movie. With the mechanical reindeer, Santa's creepy child monitoring systems, and, oh yeah, the Devil - the MST commentary is just gravy.


Merry Christmas everybody!

[lhb412]

Cronos

After years of fandom I finally see Guillermo del Toro's first feature film: it's a very low budget affair (every film afterwards either had a lot of money or looked like it did due to del Toro's inginuity), and it's nowhere near the quality of Pan or The Devil's Backbone or the two Hellboy movies - but that's being a bit harsh. This is after all a first film and his trademark strengths are all there: the humor of his Hellboy movies is in the running joke about Ron Perlman wanting a nose job or the fussy mortician, the otherworldly pathos of The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth in the relationship between the little girl and her vampiric grandfather.

And, surely this is the only fiction which conflates vampirism not with bats or wolves or demons or magic or a biological freak of nature... but insects.