Random Movie Thoughts Thread

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I think Tombstone is an example of an average movie elevated by a pretty solid cast. The subject matter and story are nothing spectacular but with such a film, good actors and performances can make all the difference.

I guess nobody found my joke about it originally being a Huckleberry Hound/ QuickDraw McGraw vehicle in the other thread funny.

Well it amused me damnit.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I guess nobody found my joke about it originally being a Huckleberry Hound/ QuickDraw McGraw vehicle in the other thread funny.

Well it amused me damnit.

Sorry, I didn’t see it. It is funny

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

On the topic of westerns, I still have to count Dances With Wolves as a favorite.

It was probably one of the first to attempt a human portrayal of Native Americans, doing away with both the mindless savage and noble savage portrayals that tended to dehumanize. Although the main character is a white guy, it’s never about him playing a white savior role (if anything, it’s his new native friends who save him), but rather opening his mind and accepting a new culture. I’m not sure I can think of any prior movie that really succeeded at this

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I love anthology style horror movies. If a segment is good, great, but if you get a shitty one, at least you’re not stuck watching at least ninety minutes of a boring story, and there’s usually at least one or two strong stories featured. Even the V/H/S sequels had some cool segments.

 

[Totenkindly]

I love anthology style horror movies. If a segment is good, great, but if you get a shitty one, at least you’re not stuck watching at least ninety minutes of a boring story, and there’s usually at least one or two strong stories featured. Even the V/H/S sequels had some cool segments.

Yeah, there was some junk in the V/H/S films but some really good stuff at times. Same thing with the ABCs of Death, and those were really short.

"Love Death + Robots" on Netflix isn't quite horror, although occasionally some of the stories are eerie or shocking. Probably 5-6 of them were really good. There's a second Season rolling out in May I think.

 

[fatgurl]

Open House is one of those movies where you're mad after it ends. You realize you wasted all your time watching it, everybody dies and you didn't even get to find out who the killer was.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

That new Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged did the most entertaining, riffable movie I’ve seen in a while

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I’m binge watching episodes of Best of the Worst. I wish I had friends to watch shitty movies with It looks like so much fun. I used to rent b movies on vhs and watch with a friend back in high school

Wife only wants to watch decent movies with high production value. That’s so booooring

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I’m watching Killing American Style. This was the film Amir Shervan wrote and directed just before he made Samurai Cop. Although earlier, it’s of slightly better quality. Emphasis on “slightly”, as it’s still a pretty terrible movie. Robert Z’dar and his chin are in it, as well as a few actors I recognize from Samurai Cop. Plenty of staples of a typical Amir Shervan film are there, from the awkward dialogue to gratuitous soft core porn level T and A to the ridiculously poor fight choreography. Solid gold.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Z’dar is not a bad actor, he just had the unfortunate fate of being typecast as a b movie villain in most of his roles. I suppose with a face like that, he was never going to land the next Oscar winning role, but he does have a certain charisma and presence and tends to steal any scene he’s in, unless he’s in a movie with Tim Thomerson or Brion James, who both matched his awesomeness.

On that note, Thomerson was easily the best thing about Cherry 2000.

I’ve seen some clips of Thomerson’s old stand up and he isn’t bad. Kind of plays like a more blue collar version of Steve Martin

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Who knew James Remar speaks Japanese?

 

[Totenkindly]

I wonder what the transcript said: "Of course I can speak Japanese, you silly cow. Just because you think I am a dumb American doesn't mean I cannot be bilingual or know multiple languages, do you think every American you meet is a moron just because our leaders tend to be ignorant pigs? HAR HAR HAR"

Weird, I have gone eons without seeing this guy's name, and just an hour ago I happened to see a passing comment about how he was kicked off the Aliens set for having drugs so that Michael Biehn had to come in and replace him. (It wasn't even an Aliens article, it was about Little Shop of Horrors and how Remar accidentally once fired blanks through the set wall at Pinewood into the other set.)

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Z’dar is not a bad actor, he just had the unfortunate fate of being typecast as a b movie villain in most of his roles. I suppose with a face like that, he was never going to land the next Oscar winning role, but he does have a certain charisma and presence and tends to steal any scene he’s in, unless he’s in a movie with Tim Thomerson or Brion James, who both matched his awesomeness.

On that note, Thomerson was easily the best thing about Cherry 2000.

I’ve seen some clips of Thomerson’s old stand up and he isn’t bad. Kind of plays like a more blue collar version of Steve Martin

Tim Thomerson? The guy who played Dollman?

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Tim Thomerson? The guy who played Dollman?

Yup, plus he was Jack Deth in the Trancers movies

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Yup, plus he was Jack Deth in the Trancers movies

Trancers was also a Charles Band/ Full Moon joint, right?

I thought the lady in Dollman was really cute.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Trancers was also a Charles Band/ Full Moon joint, right?

I thought the lady in Dollman was really cute.

Oh I wasn’t even aware that was a Band movie. Band really did have a hand in a lot of b movies

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Oh I wasn’t even aware that was a Band movie. Band really did have a hand in a lot of b movies

Have you ever seen Ghoulies? I friggin *love* that movie.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Have you ever seen Ghoulies? I friggin *love* that movie.

Oh yes

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Oh yes

They got me in the end.

Robot Jox is fun in a similar sort of way.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

They got me in the end.

Robot Jox is fun in a similar sort of way.

Robot Jox was a thoroughly entertaining film. I would classify it as a very good b-movie (I don’t think all b-movies are bad movies). I think the effects are also pretty solid considering it’s not the most high budget film of that period