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Saw The Accountant the other day.
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Originally Posted by TitoFan
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Good. Not a huge Ben Affleck fan, but I love violence and revenge.
The movie was good, too.
Best of the Best I and II
Best of the best is a great film, I don't care what anyone says. Virgil, Sonny, the geeky stats guy and the hot woman mind coach might as well fuck off to be fair but everyone else is awesome. Eric Roberts takes overacting to something approaching Jim Carrey levels, but his fighting stance was a thing of beauty, everyone wanted to be Tommy obviously because he's a complete bad ass mother fucker, but Alex was a very close second best. A beautifully obnoxious arrogant us versus them tale with a happy ending, perfect!
The second movie, meh not so much. Virgil and Sonny got the memo and fucked off, Alex got a fucking haircut and lost a step or two, but Tommy, Tommy went from hating fighting to having a real blood lust, full on bone crunching Steven Seagal mode, I guess he had some residual anger pent up from not spinning back kicking Dae Han into his grave. Travis was Travis and managed to talk himself into a situation from which there was no return in the shape of the real star of Best of the Best II, Brakus (Ralph Moeller). He's been in loads of films and some pretty big ones, but the taking over where Arnie left off didnt really happen for the big lump.
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Originally Posted by El KabongNight of the Comet is one I've been meaning to watch....got to pull out Monster Squad again soon, maybe some Ernest Scared Stupid or ooooh the original Fright Night!Quote:
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Hahaha....Night of the Comet. Haven't seen that cheese in awhile. Seen it listed lately, but haven't gotten around to watching it again.
Attention Kmart Shoppers
That's the only line I remember from that movie. My memory is shot. :p
I watched an 80's classic this weekend....Better Off Dead.
HAHAHA, great movie, classic
LOL love that scene. I watch that movie a few times a year. Total classic.
Gotta love that the tormentor is a newspaper kid who is extremely determined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayLBI7nsE0
And a guy who can only speak English like Howard Cosell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFZE8lxZ5g
Howard Cosell is a legend.
Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter was fun, @walrus you should watch it for the accuracy of the civil war.
Keeping Up With The Joneses
I think I have a thing for Isla Fisher.
@Master I saw that movie. Corny but had some interesting parts and yes some interesting civil war scenesQuote:
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I never thought much of Ben Affleck either, but I binge watched two movies last night and liked them both. Gone baby gone(which he directed and stars his brother) and Gone girl, which stars him. Both are fairly clever, never boring and very well acted I thought.
Yes his acting has greatly improved. Gone girl is a classic. Almost noir. He played batman as well. I know people didn't like the movie but he played it well. It used to be Matt Damon was the better of the two, probably still true but it's closer nowQuote:
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Half Baked
I know you are.Quote:
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watched Defendor starring Woody Harrelson which was funny at times but sad.
The Missus and I will be watching the original 1925 'Phantom of The Opera' soon....I'll let you know how that goes. I've watched several silent films just recently and they are interesting. 'The Man Who Laughs' was a very good movie, 'Birth of a Nation' was ridiculously long but hell what the fuck are you going to do all day in 1915? 'Intolerance' another D.W. Griffith flick was tedious at times as well, but the sets alone made it very interesting. W.C. Fields in silent films is very interesting because I know him so well by his voice, but it puts his comic acting in greater focus rather than his witticisms
Hands Of Stone - Duran
I really liked it and theres links to it in a thread i started in this "Off Topic Board
Supersonic - Oasis
Brilliant Documentary on the band :cool:
Suicide Squad!
~~~You don't own me, Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me, Don't tie me down cause I'd never stay~~~
~~~Don't tell me what to do. And don't tell me what to say
Please, when I go out with you. Don't put me on display~~~
Sincerely,
Gustavo Woltmann
Well the wifey and I have a new favorite Halloween movie.....1972's 'Blacula'....what a magnificent movie! It's dare I say epic! It's got everything 1970's fashion, dancing, a black vampire who was cursed by that evil whitey 'Dracula' who also killed his woman!
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a load of crap but one good fight scene on the mountains.
was it better than Vampire in Brooklyn? :)Quote:
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Completely different movie altogether.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masterwas it better than Vampire in Brooklyn? :)Quote:
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'Vampire in Brooklyn' is a comedy at the end of the day and it's a good one, I think Eddie Murphy was really good in that one, very funny and at a time in the movies where you were getting ready to see Tyler Perry hit it big and black people really make movies for black people featuring black people and the movies started really doing well. And of course not only black people watch those movies.
'Blacula' was done in 1972, that was an era where Hollywood was kind of hamstrung. You didn't have the big budget epics like Cleopatra and Ben Hur, you didn't have the rating system as we know it just yet. Nudity and graphic violence were still taboo. You had non-Hollywood motion picture studios start producing edgier material. Hammer famous for their 'Dracula' movies starring Christopher Lee and then you had Grindhouse films....of those was born the Blaxploitation genre which 'Blacula' is. 'Shaft' and 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' released in 1971 set the stage for 'Blacula'. There are themes in 'Blacula' that were themes of the era for black people....finding your roots, understanding where you come from, understanding what your ancestors believed, struggling against "the man" (often symbolized in 'Blacula' by nameless faceless white cops wearing helmets despite just riding in cars...all of them had helmets), and there's a real sense of choosing your own path and running it yourself even if the end result would be the same. You really do get a glimpse of the culture in 'Blacula' and it's fun it's intriguing....there's an honesty to it and dare I say a wholesomeness to it.
Obsession starring Beyonce and Idris. Good film.
The 1925 'Phantom of The Opera' is of course a silent film, but I will say visually stunning....great sets and costumes.
So I finished up 'Phantom of The Opera' 1925 ....it was very different than when I've seen more recent versions. The Phantom was a bit darker, a bit more insane, and a bit more rapey...Lon Cheney Sr. did quite well though. The ending was very anti-climatic and since the film was done in 1925 SPOILER ALERT I'll tell you what happens. The Phantom gets his ass beat to death and then Christine and Raol get married and go on honeymoon.
up next is 'Black Dynamite' an homage to Blaxploitation classics like Shaft and Blacula
Also DID YOU KNOW: The NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and National Urban League joined to form the Coalition Against Blaxploitation. Their influence in the late 1970s contributed to the genre's demise. Literary critic Addison Gayle wrote in 1974, “The best example of this kind of nihilism / irresponsibility are the Black films; here is freedom pushed to its most ridiculous limits; here are writers and actors who claim that freedom for the artist entails exploitation of the very people to whom they owe their artistic existence.”
Addison Gayle
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Pompeii which was very poor.
Black Dynamite is perhaps one of the greatest movies I have ever seen! Everyone go watch it right now!
Damn, you guys watch some strange movies.
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Got big into the Christmas spirit recently watched Krampus, great flick very funny but also heart warming. I have 'A Christmas Horror Story' at home and will watch that soon.
YouTube'd the classics (for me) 'A Mouse A Mystery And Me' starring Dick Van Patten, 'A Garfield Christmas', 'G.I. Joe Cobra CLAWS are coming to town', MST3K Santa Claus (Santa vs The Devil), and so on....really can't get enough of the season.
Also....are we not sticky-ing this thread for some reason??? I mean you can replace the President one with this now right?
Jurassic World :vd: Sorry man but I was rooting against the humans only 1 minute in.
Double, which was rubbish.
Watching Captain America 1 but it is a long movie.
'A Christmas Horror Story' great little flick, lots of very good twists and turns in it William Shattner stars as a radio host (channeling his best Rush Limbaugh impression) and he leads you through the movie which are three semi-intertwining vignettes The Krampus, Zombie Elves, Christmas Trolls/Changelings, and some kind of Antichrist story....the directors did a fantastic job of blending all those vignettes together, you never lose your place in the movie.
Up next: The Family Man, It's A Wonderful Life, A Bing Crosby Christmas, and perhaps some Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and Jack Benny Christmas Specials ;)
And of course as we get closer to Christmas: Scrooged, all the Rankin & Bass Christmas movies, Mr. Magoo's Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, etc.
Just watched there will be blood again. Danielle day Lewis at his best. If you haven't seen it you should do so
Quality! You better stack you some Emmet Otter Jug band Christmas on that plate ;D. Walked into Trading Places for the 101 time the other night. Great flick and fits the season.Quote:
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Hell yeah man! Also Die Hard is a great Christmas flick! Christmas Evil, Silent Night Bloody Night will also be in the queueQuote:
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Last night I watched a documentary from the folks that do America's Test Kitchen and it was called 'Fannie's Last Supper' (yes Brits, we get it Fannie, hahaha). Fannie Farmer was a pioneer in cooking was the principal of the Boston Cooking School, she had a best selling cookbook, and so on. Well the folks from America's Test Kitchen went through that cookbook and did a 12 course meal cooked on a wood burning stove as was used in the Victorian Era and not only did they do the meals as they were done in the era, they worked on making them the best by today's standards as well. Really enjoyable to watch for me seeing how I like cooking and all.
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Originally Posted by SpicoliQuality! You better stack you some Emmet Otter Jug band Christmas on that plate ;D. Walked into Trading Places for the 101 time the other night. Great flick and fits the season.Quote:
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Trading Places is an ALL-TIME CLASSIC.
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Originally Posted by SpicoliQuality! You better stack you some Emmet Otter Jug band Christmas on that plate ;D. Walked into Trading Places for the 101 time the other night. Great flick and fits the season.Quote:
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Trading Places is an ALL-TIME CLASSIC.
Yall want me to break anything else?
NOOOO!
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Originally Posted by SpicoliQuality! You better stack you some Emmet Otter Jug band Christmas on that plate ;D. Walked into Trading Places for the 101 time the other night. Great flick and fits the season.Quote:
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Trading Places is an ALL-TIME CLASSIC.