Henry & June.

And Rob summed it up perfectly!

Henry & June

I was so in love with Uma Thurman. still am infatuated I guess. she is my age and watching her from Munchausen to Henry & June to KIll Bill was great, until I had to see her gross as feet in Kill Bill. that tamped down the lustmeter......

oh i got a little of the soap opera stuff, and the korean supremacist speech too and it was all chuckleworthy, but at the same time this was completely erased by the fact that this chiun was a white man in yellowface. were were like--wtf! and laughing too, because what fucking gumption, as if nobody could notice the atrocious prosthetic job.

the movie we watched the day before (o lucky man, posted above) also featured a white man in blackface as an african tyrant--but we though it was done only for satirical purposes and not pig ignorance. wishful thinking maybe?

anyway, two ethnic caricatures in a row was too much to tolerate, and with remo it didn't make sense at all, except that the master of ceremonies from cabaret (who plays chiun) actually had some good dancer moves and could do some of the physical stuff, unlike, say, mr. miyagi.

so-- what was this comic called again? the destroyer men?

not a comic. a pulp men's adventure series called The Destroyer. According to IMDB copyright screwed the film because Marvel owns a character called The MIghty Destroyer, so they could not name the movie after the book series.

I liked this one a lot because it involves a battle between all the mystical assassin martial artists from the world competing to see who is the master assassin of all.

The stuff they got right in the movie was all the wilford brimley stuff, about the organization C.U.R.E., and the way they run in secret.

it is pure salami but what salami! I am not sure that they still publish many of these men's adventure books anymore. Like the male equivalent of romance novels, but instead of love, lust, intrigue, and missed opportunities for love, there is violence, action, martial arts, clinical sex (because Chiun taught Remo exactly how to drive a woman insane with pleasure, it takes 32 steps but most women can only get to step 4-5 before they explode in orgasms. hahahahahahahahh . no lie. Therefore Remo no longer enjoys sex.)

ha ha ha ha ha ha

yeah they threw in a bit of the 32 steps there

BTW-- janeway was hot! oh yeah. damn.

the computer scenes were fucking terrible. but it was funny to see beetus running it

there's a terrible tropic of cancer movie from the 70s with rip torn fucking a bunch of women that it's actually entertaining

not a masterpiece or anything but i enjoyed it. it was actually funny.

Bully

I'm never sure what I think about Larry Clarke. I generally like his movies but I do think his reasons for making them are pretty dubious.

He's probably a perv.

But I actually own this movie. I think I got it so I could shock people with it, but it is a well-made, emotionally moving film. (With naked teens.)

rewatched again CLERKS



it's still funny, and probably still his best

also been trying to finish SLIVER



which is billed as some sexy fucky thriller, which i never saw. major disappoint in several fronts:

#1, sharon stone is a great looking woman, sure, but she doesn't act sexy, like-- when she screen-fucks she looks and sounds like she's holding back her diarrhea or something instead of enjoying herself. no bueno.

#2, my wife sez alec baldwin's little brother is ugly as fuck and can't stand the look of him. i haven't yet told her that he's now a trump supporter. apparently sharon stone couldn't stand him either? which probably why the diarrhea look.

#3, terrible soundtrack that never stops

#4, the plot sucks

#5 sharon stone's prince valiant haircuts look stupid



definitely needs the mst3k treatment

fingers crossed for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

about to watch it in the next minute and hoping it will make up from that sliver of turd

Oh my god. Sometimes I just love the fuck out of you. This made me LOL (which will always bring to mind images of people nodding out and staring vacantly at screens, because it makes me think of, you know, lolling) ... But seriously, this made me laugh. Cheers for that.



Uhhhhh....

It will. Trust me.

This was the last movie I watched.



I, ahhh, hmm. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but I certainly wasn't expecting greatness, so... expectations met!

This was not great.

I have come to appreciate the kind of streamlined blockbusters Marvel puts out after years of resenting their success because I'm a DC motherfucker for life. But with Chris Nolan out of that scene, and the Dark Knight stuff very much over (got out just in time, that lot), there's simply no denying that Marvel has definitively won the comic book movie battle for this decade.

That said, however, this movie felt like it existed simply to move the MCU along. To usher in some mystical shit and open up the doors for Thor: Ragnarok, and more mining of the depths of B-list, lame ass superheroes that have never been any kind of cool or iconic. Doctor Strange is neither cool nor iconic. He is lame and relevant to nothing, and I have never once found myself wondering what a movie version of his dumb ass might look like.
The Captain America movies work, and have a unique feel to them, and so does Thor to a lesser extend, and I hear some people even like the Iron Man films. But this one felt like a re-hash of some of the most basic elements of the most basic movies.
NR told me it was pretty much like Iron Man with magic, and ... yup! Also Tilda Swinton playing the character of a Chinese dude. So. Yah.

Special effects were cool, but they were cooler and used to better effect in Inception.

None of it was terrible. Most of it was entertaining. I wasn't bored. But it was just decidedly not great. And again, I wasn't expecting greatness, so I guess that means it isn't a disappointment.

Blah. Superhero movies. Ugh. Never thought I'd be the one to say enough already, but... fucking enough already. Let's take a goddamn breather. Or investigate some less "superhero-y" material.

I like what's happening on TV with superhero shit more than I like what's in the movies these days. Agents of SHIELD has been very touch and go, but lately it's been pretty consistently ... uh.. touch. This season has been the absolute best, and the most recent episode (S04:E15, titled "Self Control") is — no fucking shit — one of the best hours of TV I've seen in fucking AGES. Oh my god. Moody Blues music sets the tone for an EXCELLENT bottle neck episode that borrows equally from John Carpenter's The Thing, the Manchurian Candidate, The Matrix and fucking Blade Runner, and is genuinely goddamn thrilling and glorious.

Also, Gotham, despite its many, many pimples and blemishes, is consistently fun to watch. And obviously Daredevil and Jessica Jones are both the fucking shit. So I would like to see more of this TV, long-form stuff and less of the constant build-up-movie-build-up-sequel-build-up-spinoff shit that has dominated the theater for the last 12 years. FUCK!

Anyway Doctor Strange was like a 5-6/10 (if Winter Soldier was an 8/10, and The Dark Knight was a 10/10, which it was).

YES.

YES IT DID.

great salty bacon cheeseburger of a movie

very well shot too on an evidently low budget. best of both worlds.

a fucking masterpiece of mass entertainment.

FUCK

YES



and a great cast too








i ran out of room for ROMERO who was such a weird creature and deserves a thread of his own

also i think i'm gonna free-associate via donald pleasence and order FANTASTIC VOYAGE for next weekend

Logan was great.

Now see Escape From L.A. and be prepared to feel the complete opposite of how you feel now.

So I Married an Axe Murderer. I find it an underrated Mike Myers flick.

Marguerite. Dada vs Opera. pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnr78V0se3s

watched thios over the weekend with wife, as it was directed by the late Bill Paxton.

creepy film. gives insight into what it is like to grow up as the child of a psychopath/mentally ill schizophrenic. Paxton is great as the self-deluded father who is tasked by god to kill demons only he can see.

I give it 7/10

La La Land.

7.5/10

A bit uneven and awkward at times.

Emma Stone too often looks like she's making (not on purpose of course) funny faces, she's a decent dancer and is a very good singer though.

ha ha ha no way!

but thanks for the warning

I saw this way back when... many years ago... when my girlfriend and I were looking for disturbing horror movies for some reason. Not really a proper horror film, but it was at the top of some list so we watched.

To be honest I remember thinking it was almost laughably shit. But I'm not sure how much of it I remember. Mcconaughey pre-rebrand, right?

anyone seen Trainspotting 2 yet? any good?

young-ish mcconoughey

so, fantastic fucking voyage is not available on netflix dvd. can you believe that? can anyone believe that? such a classic, quoted in so many places (i think futurama did a version? or was it dr. venture? or both? i forget) and yet it's not on netflix dvd. wtf netflix? wtf dvd? and no blu-ray?

is it streamable somehwere ? does anyone know? raquel welch are you there?

Check my duck is dead, he's probably got it

oh yeah i had forgotten all about that

movie piracy is not easy on a satellite internet connection ha ha ha

hm i think they don't have it-- just a poster

looked to buy the blu-ray on amazon (to resell after watching) and it's a bunch of PAL formats. wtf. lol world.

wait. not.... let's see...

see, bad transfers. wtf criterion-- pick up this immortal classic lololol. ok i need breakfast.

Hey there.

I'm not sure what kind of gear you have, but it's totally available for rent on iTunes ($3.99 for standard, $4.99 for HD, or you can buy). Actually gear isn't much of an issue because iTunes is free software — can't install it in a non Apple phone or tablet, but it certainly works on PCs.

Also I just did a quick search and it appears to be available to stream or rent on Amazon. Amazon pisses me off because some shit only works if you have prime, and the benefits of having prime are slim, but it does give you access to movies on-demand... and this is exactly the kind of movie they'd offer up as part of their "unlimited" library (nothing new, nothing people are clamoring to see, but stuff like this, sure.)

Anyway. Not sure if this helps, or if you have a good enough connection to take advantages of it, but it's certainly out there.

Fucking classic movie too.

stream or download

http://fmovies.to/film/fantastic-voyage.m2vqv/jjqmoy

oh yeah it's streamable on amazon ah ha ha ha. not free on prime though.

and thanks for that link ilducio

i should go download to "the good internet" to replay @ home w/ hi def.

yes, i use a donkey cart to bring the internet home

ah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha

You're welcome?

I barely know what's going on at this point.

same here

i'm so fucking addled, but in a good way. office work! oodles of it! swamped!

i kinda liked it.

oh yes-- the thing-- i found it independently/simultaneously. we must have been looking at the same time.

the issue of internet on a donkey cart is separate. sounds like comedy, but no-- i have to go elsewhere to offline the files

i might get an apple tv so i can pump shit from the thing to the it

can you do that w/ netflix?

see, i'm rambling now.

I don't know much about Apple TV. I should, because I'm, like, kind of an Apple dude, just because it's so goddamn easy. But it's just a box that allows you to sync up your iCloud and iTunes shit trough your tv. It's not an actual tv. But still... I'm sure Netflix is compatible with it. There's an iOS / OS X Netflix app, so... makes sense.

But if connectivity is your issue, I'm not sure Apple TV will help. It doesn't transmit wifi or anything. It's basically a Bluetooth device. If you already have an iPhone or iPad with with 4G, or if you already have a wifi network, the Apple TV received can act as a hotstpot, but again, it doesn't send the signals.

Apple is very weird about that. Like, if they offered actual internet service in addition to devices, they'd have a lock on the market of pretty much everything. But I'm sure they have contracts with Verizon and Sprint that they don't want to fuck up. Lotsa $$$ in iProducts live at the Verizon store.

no the apple tv is just so i can beam my ipad to the big screen + speakers

see:

prime lets you offline files for later viewing

so i go to town with the ipad, load up all the mozarts in the jungle or whatever (monica bellucci!!), come home...

...and because this shit doesn't have an hdmi out (i know, rob, i know) i have to use an apple tv to pump it into the bigly (lol)\\\\** actually, scratch that. there's an hdmi out adapter. but looks like a pain. anyway, resuming older post now \\\

not gonna be streaming from itunes any time soon ha ha. no thanks. prime is included with all my free shippings anyway.

Everyone laughs when I suggest iTunes, but it works for me. I wish they had a rent feature for TV shows. I just hate Amazon man. Hate that prime shit. I don't order enough stuff to make it worthwhile, and the other benefits seem vaguely defined and stupid. Plus I've been charged twice several times for rentals and I've had to contact the derps at customer service and ask for my $2.99 back and that's a huge pain in the ass.

Meh.

I like that you can rent movies on iTunes. If you do the whole Apple thing it's way more convenient than Redbox or whatever.

redbox starts at a buck for dvd an buck fitty for bluray. itunes starts at 4 bucks i think? i generally use neither, but if i need a superhero movie in a hurry i'll go redbox if the library doesn't have it. who wants to pay 4 times more? lol.

living in rural 'merica without an abundance of shopping options amazon is a huge lifeline for me. from specialty foods to car parts at 1/2 price than o'reillys to art supplies to electronics, oh, and i'm reminded of my wife's hippy nail polish, amazon is my walmart of the sky. i order from them at least twice a month. makes living in the boonies very convenient.

so, for $100 year i get free 2-day shipping. and the side benefits i really don't mind. they're a bit trashy but it's just like free merch and i'd be a fool to say no to it. i still have to explore all the "benefits". and actually a couple of times i actually rented hard-to-find movies from them (yes, i do on occasion) they refunded me cuz of my bad connection a ha ha ha.

oh yea, a 6 month initial free subscription to the washington post and $4/month thereafter is one perk you might like, you internet pirate.

there are others but it's up to the customer