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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 23, 2019 11:37:12 GMT -5
Unbelievable(Netflix): Watched this last week. The beginning and end are great but a lot of filler. Some spoilers: {CLICK FOR SPOILER}Honestly the foster parents actions don't surprise me at all. I used to work for CPS and some foster parents are in it just for the money, others have huge issues themselves and make the foster cases about them. Both of the foster mothers were victims of rape in their youth so somehow this makes them experts on rape or something. Its the Oprah school of psychology I guess. Your feelings make it true.
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Post by Cop on Sept 25, 2019 10:06:51 GMT -5
Industrial Accident - The Story of Wax Trax Records (Download): Title pretty much covers exactly what this was about. Interesting if you're into that kind of music, which I am. Got plenty of Wax Trax CDs: Front 242 and KMFDM mostly.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 25, 2019 11:47:54 GMT -5
Industrial Accident - The Story of Wax Trax Records (Download): Title pretty much covers exactly what this was about. Interesting if you're into that kind of music, which I am. Got plenty of Wax Trax CDs: Front 242 and KMFDM mostly. That looks cool I never even heard of this documentary. Still have a lot of industrial music and witchhouse has a similar aesthetic I listen to a lot of that. They mention a kid in a small town not feeling like being on an island. Didn't grow up in a small town but growing up in Alaska industrial music was for sure very far away. Funny to me how it sorta kinda became a mainstream trend for a year or two in 94-96 but never really caught on.
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Post by Cop on Sept 25, 2019 12:02:39 GMT -5
Can you believe something like this was played on MTV all the time back in the '90s?
It was a magical time. Front Line Assembly, Cat Rapes Dog, Senser, KMFDM... All stuff I discovered on MTV. And I'm not even talking about Party Zone, which was all house and Techno all evening long. I used to record those. When I was in college, I had a VHS tape of the coolest MTV Party Zone music videos. Stakker Humanoid and stuff like that. Real trippy.
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Post by Cop on Sept 26, 2019 9:19:29 GMT -5
Crawl (Download): Nope, wasn't good. Could have been a fun killer croc creature feature but the beginning is way too boring and once the crocs (ok, alligators) show up, it doesn't improve by much. Full of clichés too and just not a lot of fun. I was dragging myself to the end while it all became sillier and sillier. I'll stick with Rogue or Lake Placid if I want to see killer crocs.
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Post by Cop on Sept 27, 2019 10:29:23 GMT -5
Brutal (Download): Just over an hour, this Japanese tale about a male and female serial killer meeting each other, doesn't outstay its welcome. Actually, I kinda liked it. It reminded me of Grotesque, which is the better movie because this one just doesn't have all that graphic gore. It's more implied. At the end though they have a surprise in store that I wasn't expecting. You crazy Japanese, you.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 27, 2019 11:26:30 GMT -5
Can you believe something like this was played on MTV all the time back in the '90s? It was a magical time. Front Line Assembly, Cat Rapes Dog, Senser, KMFDM... All stuff I discovered on MTV. And I'm not even talking about Party Zone, which was all house and Techno all evening long. I used to record those. When I was in college, I had a VHS tape of the coolest MTV Party Zone music videos. Stakker Humanoid and stuff like that. Real trippy. It was a crazy time. I remember for a brief time MTV was promoting Atari Teenage Riot as the next big thing but they never really got huge. Soon after this MTV went straight into nu-metal and boybands. MTV also had some serious financial issues so they stopped promoting the obscure and went straight into pop then the internet killed their relevance hence how they ended up a reality TV juggernaut aimed at 10-14 year old girls we have in 2019. I'll always love industrial but that "scene" attracted some interesting people. I knew people who refused to have anything to do with music unless it was dark and heavy. One of my favorite things about industrial music was the weird noises they came up with. This made it an easy transition to get into the IDM genre but some people were like naw that shit is for pussies. That mentality always seemed silly to me. Not to mention how homophobic people like that tend to be and I had no idea at the time but a large number of LGBT people worked in those imdustrial bands. I wish I could go back in time and send some people a list of all the LGBT people involved in their favorite bands and see if they either stopped listening to that music or their head exploded lol
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Post by Cop on Sept 28, 2019 9:53:43 GMT -5
Midsommar (Download): I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to. I loved Hereditairy but having to sit though 2 hours and 24 minutes of something that I expected to be just another Wicker Man was not something I was really looking forward to. Well, I didn't notice the length at all. There always something happening, be it interesting cinematography, actual plot, tension or just plain fucked up weirdness. Yeah, it was The Wicker Man all over but I was invested enough not to care. Afterwards you can ask some questions, like: is nobody going to miss these people, lol?
Bliss (Download): The newest by Joe Begos (Almost Human, The Mind's Eye). I loved Almost Human despite its low-budgetness and bad acting, and enjoyed Mind's Eye but because that was just Scanners and I'm not big into Scanners, I didn't care as much. This, however, was more up my alley again. Bloody craziness that comes with an epilepsy warning beforehand so you know there's going to be all kinds of crazy visuals and that's exactly what happened. Won't spoil what it's all about, just know it's going to be bloody and crazy.
Death Machine (Bluray): I still can't get over how well this movie looks on bluray, especially taking into account it never got a decent DVD in all those years. But at least someone cared enough to make a proper HD transfer so after all those years I can finally enjoy one of my favorite movies of all time the way it was intended.
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Post by Babel-17 on Sept 29, 2019 5:44:51 GMT -5
...................Death Machine (Bluray): I still can't get over how well this movie looks on bluray, especially taking into account it never got a decent DVD in all those years. But at least someone cared enough to make a proper HD transfer so after all those years I can finally enjoy one of my favorite movies of all time the way it was intended.
Sounds like fun!
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Post by Cop on Sept 29, 2019 9:43:57 GMT -5
That's the exact release I have. I pre-ordered it the second I discovered it for whatever price they wanted because I knew it would be sold out instantly after which 3rd party sellers would try and hike up the price. I was right too. I pre-ordered it for €30, which I felt was a fair price all in all for one of my favorite movies. The same week it was sold out and 3rd party sellers tried getting €85 and more for it. Now it's back down to €38, but a steelbook version is going for €70. Good luck with that.
Preacher - Season 4 (Download): This is probably the craziest show out there. If you know of something crazier, let me know, I'd want to watch it, lol. Looks like this is going to be the end too, which I appreciate. Better end in style with a closed off plot arc than to try and stretch it out until there's nothing left (Lost/Walking Dead). So yeah, more of the same, but unlike previous seasons, it doesn't stick to a few single locations for the entire season. It goes all over the place, which was nice. Out of all the craziness that happens to all of the characters, Herr Starr probably suffers the most, lol... ...although Cassidy getting circumcised over and over is probably up there as well.
Headshot (Download): Indonesian action romp that I passed by when it first came out, much later I decided I'd finally check it out, but then it still sat on my computer for almost 5 months, until last night. It was OK, some good action scenes, as expected, but sadly I just didn't care. Couldn't wait for it to be over. Can't even tell you what was so bad about it, I just did not care in the slightest about anyone or anything that happened. Mediocre.
Sturgill Simpson Presents: Sound and Fury (Download): No idea who Sturgill Simpson is, but this looked like crazy anime to me and I wasn't wrong about that. I guess it's a 40 minute concept music video to a record? I'm not a huge fan of the music but it wasn't too bad for the most part, and yes, the anime parts were crazy. I knew as much when I saw the director's name and remembered him from the Batman Ninja movie. In the second half there's more traditional music videos (though still all kinds of crazy visuals) and the anime goes away for a bit but at 40 minutes it never became uninteresting.
Megazone 23 (Download): '80s anime that's not unlike the Matrix. Dude comes into possession a funky motorcycle (that can turn into a robot) and goes on to discover the world he's living in is run by a computer and he's actually floating through space on a huge spaceship, which is about to start a war with another huge spaceship. While all this is going on though, he's trying to fuck this girl and make a movie with her friends and there's a pop singer called Eve who's actually a construct of the computer. Yeah, it's a mess. A glorious '80s animation-mess, but still a mess. I've got more 'episodes' but I can't remember if they actually are sequels or just stand on their own. The one I had in the '90s on VHS is part 3 (in 2 parts) but that seems like a retelling of this story though. I'll find out later this week, I guess because I can't remember shit about it.
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Post by Cop on Oct 1, 2019 10:48:51 GMT -5
Megazone 23 - Part 2 (Download): Straight up sequel to part 1, except the visual style is completely different. The designs of the characters couldn't be more different and the animation ranges from superb to pretty crappy. It's a weird mix. The movie follows where the first left off and it's all kinds of anime-confusion right up to the end. I can't say I don't like it but it certainly is an uneven movie.
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Post by Cop on Oct 1, 2019 23:42:31 GMT -5
Megazone 23 III - part 1-2 (Download): The one I had on VHS, and the one I thought was just Megazone 23. It never occured to me the 3 thick lines underneath the title meant it was part 3. Just looked like a stylistic choice, lol. Anyway, a few hundred years after the last movie, the exact same thing happens again, except instead of getting from space to Earth, now the central intelligence wants to go back to space and the 'one' with the transforming bike had to 'interface' with Eve, who's also still around to try and prevent this. Perfectly watchable without any knowledge of the previous movies. Found out for the first time today it's directed by Shinji Aramaki, one of his first movies, he went on the do a bunch of Appleseed CG movies in the 2000s and Vexille and Captain Harlock and stuff. Never realised he also did this back in the '80s...
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 2, 2019 9:39:13 GMT -5
Midsommar (Download): I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to. I loved Hereditairy but having to sit though 2 hours and 24 minutes of something that I expected to be just another Wicker Man was not something I was really looking forward to. Well, I didn't notice the length at all. There always something happening, be it interesting cinematography, actual plot, tension or just plain fucked up weirdness. Yeah, it was The Wicker Man all over but I was invested enough not to care. Afterwards you can ask some questions, like: is nobody going to miss these people, lol? They released a super extended cut here that was in the local theaters. Just saw it in July so wasn't really feeling doing it again. Seems like it would have been fun to do on mushrooms lol. Death Machine (Bluray): I still can't get over how well this movie looks on bluray, especially taking into account it never got a decent DVD in all those years. But at least someone cared enough to make a proper HD transfer so after all those years I can finally enjoy one of my favorite movies of all time the way it was intended. I'm pretty sure I posted about this on SCMB 5 years ago, I am pretty well versed in weird little cult flicks from the 90s so I was really shocked I had never heard of that movie, wish I knew about it as a teen I would have really liked it.
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Post by Cop on Oct 3, 2019 9:36:34 GMT -5
Thor Ragnarok 3D (3D Bluray): Doing an Avengers marathon. I already saw Captain Marvel a few weeks ago so my jump off point is Ragnarok because that leads right into Infinity. This movie is so much fun, that's the best compliment I can give it.
Bounty Dog (Download): Mid '90s 2-part anime I used to have on VHS and it looks like that was the basis for this rip as well. Megazone was also only 480p, but that look supersharp compared to this. Watched part 1 on the LCD and moved to my bedroom for part 2, where there's a 4:3 CRT still. It looked pretty much perfect on that TV, but kinda soft on the LCD. It's a funky little tale set on the moon. Good (mecha) designs and pretty good animation overall though very, very brown colour palette. No idea what it's about though. Something about an alien girl called the sleeper on the moon that's trying to evolve by sending clones to Earth. Yeah, it's manga, boys and girls.
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Post by Cop on Oct 4, 2019 14:09:26 GMT -5
Avengers: Infinity War 3D (3D Bluray): Damn near perfect movie.
Avengers: Endgame 3D (3D Bluray): Well, this took a while. Pre-ordered this bluray, which then got sent out but never arrived in the alotted timeframe, which is 3 weeks. Complained and had another sent, which finally arrived earlier this week, so a good 5 weeks later than planned I can finally rewatch it. Last time was when it first came out in the theatre. I didn't download it because I figured I'd watch it soon enough, having pre-ordered it and all. Yeah, that was a mistake, I would've wanted to rewatch it by now, had I seen it when it first got released online, lol. Anyway, great movie, just not as great as Infinity War.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 4, 2019 21:04:08 GMT -5
Joker(Theater): Dark & nihilistic tone. Very much like Taxi driver, also has a couple scenes reminiscent of Network but doesn't have great dialog like Network. Good but not great.
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Post by Cop on Oct 5, 2019 9:47:04 GMT -5
In the Tall Grass (Download): Had Vincenzo Natali's name on it so that's why I decided to check it but sadly it turned out not to be very good at all. First half hour was pretty decent and if they'd made that into a 40-minute episode of an anthology TV-series it might've turned out well but sadly there was another hour to fill and that's where it went downhill fast. People walking through tall grass can only remain interesting for so long and I didn't like the explanations one bit either.
Spider-Man: Far from Home 3D (Download): Last in the Avengers-marathon. Wasn't going to make the Endgame mistake anymore.
Insidious (Bluray): I finally ended up buying this, and its sequels, as a boxset. I've downloaded the first a few times now. It's not the best but it's certainly OK. I think I've seen at least some of the sequels before but if I did, I certainly can't remember much about them.
Cutie Honey (DVD/Download): Crazy live action version of a classic anime character. It's been a while since I last saw this, but the DVD cover is constantly in my field of vision, being part of my ceiling-rack. The early 2000's FX doesn't hold up very well but then they weren't very good when it came out either. It's all part of the charm really.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 6, 2019 9:28:14 GMT -5
Three From Hell(Stream): We waited 15 years for this? Take Devil's Rejects and make it a lot lower budget with almost no style and make the actors phone it in. Even the actor who played Otis looked bored and he was great in Devil's Rejects. Just go watch Devil's Rejects again.
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Post by Cop on Oct 6, 2019 9:47:48 GMT -5
Summer Time Machine Blues (Download): Cute Japanese time travel comedy in which a group of friends that hang out at their school's scifi-club during summer vacation accidentally stumble upon a time machine which then then use to try and fix the remote of the AC unit they broke a day before. If you like time travel movies, like I do, you'll get a kick out of this. It's all so cute, with the guys trying to not create a paradox but always getting in more and more situations. I waited far too long to watch this, having no confidence in the movie, but the Japanese did it again...
Insidious: Chapter 2 (Bluray): I like sequels in which they revisit the first or other movies in the series. This does just that. It picks up right where the last movie left off and then doesn't treat it like something that also happened, but actively revisits it, explaining some of the previously unexplained situations in it. Not to say this is an amazing movie, it isn't, but it certainly does its job of being entertaining while not being scary in the least, lol.
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Post by Cop on Oct 7, 2019 10:53:07 GMT -5
Sherlock - Series 1 (Bluray): Bought a 3-season boxset of this not too long after having seen downloads of all of these. It then sat on my shelf for over 2.5 years till all of a sudden I felt like revisiting it last weekend. I'll make my way through the rest of them in short order now that I've started although so far I have to admit I thought it was better than it turned out to be. Maybe it picks up after this first series...
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Post by Cop on Oct 9, 2019 14:05:00 GMT -5
That Guy Dick Miller (Download): Documentary about the life and work of Dick Miller, who passed away earlier this year.
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Post by Cop on Oct 10, 2019 12:06:04 GMT -5
Sherlock - Series 2 (Bluray): Ok, so it did pick up in season 2. This is the Sherlock I remember and it's all just a bit better than it was in the first season. The chemisty between Holmes and Watson is what sells it even when the stories are sometimes a bit out there. On to season 3... ...next week.
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Post by Cop on Oct 11, 2019 10:36:03 GMT -5
Planzet (Download): Somewhat cheapo 3D CGI anime movie that even though is about an invasion of earth, it manages to show only 6 characters during the entire movie. Anyway, some mecha robots appear, which is a pretty decent action scene and then in the end there's a gigantic spaceship that was built in secret that appears from a volcano, as in literally the size of the entire mountain. How was this built in secret? Yeah, it wasn't great. I guess they can't all be winners...
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 11, 2019 12:52:26 GMT -5
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - If you saw Breaking Bad, go watch this movie now. Excellent just like I was expecting it to be.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 11, 2019 16:04:34 GMT -5
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - If you saw Breaking Bad, go watch this movie now. Excellent just like I was expecting it to be. Damn I didn't even realize it was out. Breaking Bad is still my favorite show of all time.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 11, 2019 23:38:35 GMT -5
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - If you saw Breaking Bad, go watch this movie now. Excellent just like I was expecting it to be. Was pretty good. {CLICK FOR SPOILER}Walter's appearance was blatant fan service and didn't add a lot. I liked Jesse going to Alaska lol. Thing is Alaska has huge problems with substance abuse so I doubt he will manage to hide from anything there.
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 12, 2019 9:41:38 GMT -5
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - If you saw Breaking Bad, go watch this movie now. Excellent just like I was expecting it to be. Was pretty good. {CLICK FOR SPOILER}Walter's appearance was blatant fan service and didn't add a lot. I liked Jesse going to Alaska lol. Thing is Alaska has huge problems with substance abuse so I doubt he will manage to hide from anything there. I thought about those things too. {CLICK FOR SPOILER} It was a little disappointing that they didn't show closure for other things from the end of Breaking Bad, like I really wanted to know if Skyler got the GPS coordinates to the police, and if she got that money that Walt left for them with those 2 former colleagues of his. One thing that's been pointed out a lot about Walt's cameo was that his head looks big, which it does. Probably he can't cut or shave his hair due to being in other productions currently, so they had to use a bald cap. Also other actors especially Aaron Paul and Jesse Plemons look noticeably older and fatter, Jesse (Aaron Paul) not so much, but Todd (Jesse Plemons) looks noticeably fatter. As for Alaska, yeah it's possible Jesse could relapse. Not a perfect movie, but I thought it was great nonetheless. I was a bit disappointed by the ending.
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Post by Cop on Oct 12, 2019 9:47:57 GMT -5
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Download): It has been a while since I saw Breaking Bad but I remembered enough of it to fully appreciate this flick. I'll really have to fight the urge to rewatch the entire series now. I just don't have the time to do that, but I kinda want to.
Barefoot Gen (Download): Mid 80's anime about the bombing of Hiroshima. It starts off all cutesy with a kid and his younger brother getting in all kinds of antics but after about half an hour, the bomb gets dropped and that cutesy cartoon turns incredibly dark in a hurry. Never have I seen the effects of a nuclear explosion and its aftermath portrayed as gruesome as they did it here. It's quite a punch in the stomach. The kids stays ever optimistic until he too finally breaks and it's gutwrenching to see. It's been a while since I've been affected by a movie as much as this one managed to do.
The Death of Dick Long (Download): The title caught my eye, as it should, but then I also found out it was directed by the same guy that did Swiss Army Man, so that sealed that deal. The best way to describe it without giving away anything is: Fargo, Alabama. After a wild night out 2 friends drop off a 3rd at the hospital where he ends up dead. What happened gets revealed about halfway through, in the best scene I've seen all year. There's going to be reaction gifs made from that one, I guarantee it. I might even be the one to make them. Try to watch this spoiler free, it's worth it.
Toward the Terra (Download): Piracy is great if it lets me discover all these old anime movies I've never even know existed. Toward the Terra is a superb looking anime from 1980 about yet another society that has abandoned the planet because they polluted it. Even in the '80s they seemed to know already, yet 40 years later nothing seems to have changed. Anyway, like Megazone 23 (or the Matrix) there's a computer that runs everything and a group of people that rebel against it. It's all drawn in this classic high contrast anime animation style that looks amazing. Even if the story sometimes starts to wander a bit, it still is superb to look at.
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Post by Cop on Oct 13, 2019 10:51:32 GMT -5
Total Recall (Bluray): Watched this with the kids. Arnie being the most Arnie in any movie ever. Movie holds up well even without any CGI (or because of the lack of it). Miniatures and FX make-up are all superb and the one-liners are ace.
Insidious - Chapter 3 (Bluray): Thought I'd seen this before but I guess I hadn't. It's not very memorable but more memorable than that, lol. It's also very cliché, ticking all the boxes of the genre. As I was starting to lose interest, luckily that's when Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson showed up and saved the rest of the movie. Still, so far the weakest in the series.
Angel's Egg (Download): Jawdroppingly beautiful artistic anime by Mamoru Oshii that's all about the visuals and not so much about the story. It's all metaphorical really and I'm not going to claim I really understand it but that doesn't mean I wasn't in awe during the 70 minutes this movie ran for.
Tag (Bluray): Crazy movie. Sadly the best scene is right at the start but if you like you're movies crazy and Japanese, you can't go wrong with this one.
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Post by Cop on Oct 15, 2019 10:50:30 GMT -5
Sherlock - Series 3 (Bluray): More of the same, just a little better still.
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