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Flex wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 12:10am
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Am I the only one who suspects that the class Hooks teaches is 4 missing teenagers chained in his basement?
It's a theory that fits the facts.
Big flaw in the theory: Prove to me that anyone actually misses those teenagers … that is, alleged teenagers.
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I'd never heard of the Kiss or Kill scene and only a couple bands mentioned in this documentary were kinda sorta familiar. A pretty familiar story of any music scene, especially punk. Kids are frustrated with the current venues and music and start their own; it develops organically, a mutually nurturing relationship between diverse fans and bands; a few bands start to stand out and the scene grabs the attention of record companies; some bands get signed, others don't; resentment and ego clashes grow; the culture of the scene changes as originals drift away, saying it's no longer the good old days. In essence, the spirit that creates a scene necessarily dooms it.
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Spiff wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 8:36am
Cripes ... I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
Heh heh. I had a student last year who was a musician (well, okay, a drummer) and loved the same kind of music conversation we do here. He told me that in his circle of friends, during the course he became “that guy”—the one who introduced some larger category of criticism to the discussion and made everyone groan. I told him that that's the fate of anyone who does popular culture seriously. When common perception is that popular culture is thin and disposable, people who treat it intellectually are seen as buzzkills.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 8:50am
Spiff wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 8:36am
Cripes ... I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
Heh heh. I had a student last year who was a musician (well, okay, a drummer) and loved the same kind of music conversation we do here. He told me that in his circle of friends, during the course he became “that guy”—the one who introduced some larger category of criticism to the discussion and made everyone groan. I told him that that's the fate of anyone who does popular culture seriously. When common perception is that popular culture is thin and disposable, people who treat it intellectually are seen as buzzkills.
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Kory wrote:
20 Jun 2018, 5:30pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 8:50am
Spiff wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 8:36am
Cripes ... I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
Heh heh. I had a student last year who was a musician (well, okay, a drummer) and loved the same kind of music conversation we do here. He told me that in his circle of friends, during the course he became “that guy”—the one who introduced some larger category of criticism to the discussion and made everyone groan. I told him that that's the fate of anyone who does popular culture seriously. When common perception is that popular culture is thin and disposable, people who treat it intellectually are seen as buzzkills.
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Right, that's the sound people make!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 6:20am
Flex wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 12:10am
tepista wrote:
18 Jun 2018, 10:40pm
Am I the only one who suspects that the class Hooks teaches is 4 missing teenagers chained in his basement?
It's a theory that fits the facts.
Big flaw in the theory: Prove to me that anyone actually misses those teenagers … that is, alleged teenagers.
well, they used to be teenagers.
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tepista wrote:
20 Jun 2018, 11:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 6:20am
Flex wrote:
19 Jun 2018, 12:10am
tepista wrote:
18 Jun 2018, 10:40pm
Am I the only one who suspects that the class Hooks teaches is 4 missing teenagers chained in his basement?
It's a theory that fits the facts.
Big flaw in the theory: Prove to me that anyone actually misses those teenagers … that is, alleged teenagers.
well, they used to be teenagers.
They were dead inside long before that. Allegedly and all that.
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
Neat. I've been thinking about this subject lately. For no apparent reason.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
A very intersting subject. I think Hitler at one point won over the German people by making good on his claims to better the lives of the common man with improvements on social housing/jobs etc. But I still have a hard job in believing that the masses were completely behind his dictatorship just on a human level there must have been so many that remained tight lipped in fear of reprisals.
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I'm always reminded of Primo Levi's words "to understand is to justify" in relation to Nazi atrocities, but I agree it is a fascinating subject and that looks a very interesting movie. I recently read Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin and watched the movie last week. It is a work of fiction but based on a true event Fallada was aware of. Also remember reading Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner many years ago and must get around to rereading it soon. Both give a very good indication of just how difficult it was for ordinary citizens to offer active resistance to the Nazis, I think.

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Silent Majority wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 1:54am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
Neat. I've been thinking about this subject lately. For no apparent reason.
Yeah. I just cannot imagine why you would be thinking about this subject at all.

Doc - did it cover the White Rose movement and Sophie Scholl?
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JennyB wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 9:55am
Silent Majority wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 1:54am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
Neat. I've been thinking about this subject lately. For no apparent reason.
Yeah. I just cannot imagine why you would be thinking about this subject at all.

Doc - did it cover the White Rose movement and Sophie Scholl?
Not in great detail. If I have a criticism of it, most of the focus was on military figures and elites and various assassination attempts, including, of course, Valkyrie. I was hoping for more on civilians, but perhaps it's just a matter of using the best material for a documentary.

If you want to watch it, it streams here: https://tubitv.com/movies/312581/restless_conscience
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 10:05am
JennyB wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 9:55am
Silent Majority wrote:
22 Jun 2018, 1:54am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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The more common question is to ask how so many Germans went along with or stood idly by (Good Germans) while Nazis committed atrocities. This documentary focuses on figures who opposed the Nazis—socialists, conservatives, military figures. The recurring phrase is that these were people motivated by conscience. They believed they would go down in German history as traitors, but their moral centre could not co-exist with sitting idly by. By implication, it exposes as hollow the liberal "resistance" that amounts to hashtags and finger wagging on CNN.
Neat. I've been thinking about this subject lately. For no apparent reason.
Yeah. I just cannot imagine why you would be thinking about this subject at all.

Doc - did it cover the White Rose movement and Sophie Scholl?
Not in great detail. If I have a criticism of it, most of the focus was on military figures and elites and various assassination attempts, including, of course, Valkyrie. I was hoping for more on civilians, but perhaps it's just a matter of using the best material for a documentary.

If you want to watch it, it streams here: https://tubitv.com/movies/312581/restless_conscience
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[REC]4: Apocalypse (2014) Angela was rescued at the end of the first film, but now finds herself imprisoned on an ocean liner that is conducting experiments on the virus. The test subject escapes and all hell breaks loose. Lots of fun visuals highlighted by an outboard motor. I personally think the [REC] franchise is one of the best in horror history, and though the second two entries rate a tad lower than the first two, they are still pretty damn enjoyable. I wouldn’t mind if they kept them coming. Spanish with subtitles.

Cherry 2000 (1987) Post-Apocalypse America isn’t bothering Sam Treadwell, he has a nice job and apartment in Anaheim, California that he shares with his beautiful robot wife (Pamela Gidley), a Cherry 2000 model. But when she blows a gasket he must venture into Zone 7 to find a replacement chassis, he finds that it’s the wild fucking west out there. He hires an experienced tracker (Melanie Griffith) to guide him through where they come across lots of gunfire, car chases and colorful characters in this fun romp from the director of another post-ap fave, Miracle Mile. Brion James, Robert “Maniac Cop” D’Zar, and Larry Fishburne for like 10 seconds headline a barrage of familiar genre faces.

Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973) A broken carriage forces four beautiful women and one male companion to stay at a nearby castle. They were quite welcome as their host, Count Dracula (Paul Naschy), bit and turned nearly every damn one of them. Don’t let the PG rating fool you, this one overflowed with blood and boobs from start to finish. The girls even skinny-dipped in a pool, did Romanian castles have modern looking swimming pools at the turn of the century? Maybe. This will not disappoint fans of eurosleaze. The version I saw was dubbed in English from Spanish.

The Dracula Saga (1973) Leon Klomovsky, who directed a ton of Paul Naschy films, makes a Dracula movie without Paul Naschy! The Count was a bit of an older gentleman in this one. His pregnant granddaughter comes to stay and Count wants her unborn child to be his heir, as his current heir is a deformed, inbred Cyclops whose giant head resembles a red-haired testicle. Her husband doesn’t take long to be seduced and turned by a house full of she-vamps and our poor heroine is left to fend for herself. The story is a bit uneven, but it’s loaded with blood and tits, and gets increasingly interesting as it progresses. English dub, from Spanish.

The Stepfather (1987) Terry O’Quinn plays the title character, a serial killer with a suitcase full of disguises and identities, who preys on widows and their children. His current situation finds him married to former Charlie’s Angel replacement Shelly Hack, but the always-in-trouble-at-school teenage daughter (Jill Schoelen) knows from the get go that there’s something not right with this guy. Psychological serial killer thrillers dominated the late 80s and 90s, this is as good as any of them. Some surprise nudity in the last 10 minutes or so.

Spookies (1986) Two carloads of New York knuckleheads and their girlfriends drive two hours to find an abandoned house in a cemetery to drink there. These are adults, now, not teenagers. Anyway, some sort of sprit/sorcerer who inhabits the house has been waiting for this opportunity to sacrifice some innocents to resurrect his corpse bride. She doesn’t want to be resurrected though! Anyway, lots of creatures, some practical, some animatronic, a were-cat, a spider lady, a mini-creature from the black lagoon, mud-monsters, etc. No nudity, some gore, silly fun in this New York indie.

Night of the Werewolf (1981) Paul Naschy returns as El Hombre Lobo for what, lets say the 10th time? Three beautiful anthropologists find the grave of Countess Bathory and resurrect her. They stay over at the nearby castle where Polish Nobleman/Werewolf Waldemar Daninski lives, having recently been resurrected himself. The villagers withstand a barrage of werewolf and vampire attacks, not before every girl takes their top off, and eventualy the Countess decides she wants a werewolf as a pet, leading to a climactic fight reminiscent of Universal’s Frankenstein vs the Wolfman. Pretty similar to Naschy’s own Werewolf Shadow from 10 years earlier, this was a lot of fun. English dub from Spanish.

Invaders From Mars (1953) A kid with a telescope sees a flying saucer land in a desert patch near his house. His dad goes to investigate and returns obviously possessed by a malevolent force. Pretty soon both parents and a bunch of cops fall under the influence, with intent to destroy the nearby space station and its potential rockets and satellites. Fortunately, the kid gets some grown-ups to believe him, and the army drops a bunch of bombs in the underground tunnels dug by the Martians. When we do get to see them, they kinda look like mole-mummies, and they’re controlled by a big golden head with tentacles in a fish bowl. Tobe Hooper liked this enough to remake it in 1986.

The Blob (1988) In this remake of the 1958 classic, a small piece of goo falls from the sky and grows go humongous proportions and turns blood-red after consuming every living thing it touches. Kevin Dillon plays the teenage anti-hero and Shawnee Smith is the cheerleader who make a mismatched pair who try to convince others of what they’ve seen. The remake adds a military presence that the first didn’t need. Chuck Russell (NOES3: Dream Warriors) directs. Donovan’s kid plays a football star, Candy Clark is a waitress. A teenage girl lifts a manhole cover by herself. I’ve seen both versions many times over, I used to choose the original as my preference despite the great FX in the remake, but I might be changing my tune, the 88 version has a lot to offer. Well, it’s been 30 years, time for another remake.

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism aka Blood Demon aka Blood of the Virgins aka Castle of the Walking Dead (1967) Those are all some pretty good titles, but Dr. Sadism takes the cake! Christopher Lee is Count Regula, who is brutally quartered in the opening scenes for the murder and torture of 12 young women. 35 years later, a man gets an invitation from the Count to meet him at his castle, and he goes despite warnings from the locals. He picks up a few passengers on the way, including a pretty young lady. Everything you would want from a haunted castle is waiting for them when they get there, dead bodies, skeletons, spiders, snakes, rats, suits of armor that move, bubbling cauldrons, trap doors and an arsenal of torture devices. Fun and creepy gothic thriller, it was like a cross between Pit and the Pendulum and Black Sunday. In fact it has a "based on" credit for Poe's P&P. Lex Barker was the lead, he played Tarzan 5 times in the 40s and 50s, gorgeous German actress Karin Dor had just come off her role as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice. Too bad they wasted four great titles on one movie, but it was a heck of a movie!

Mr. Sardonicus (1961) A turn-of-the-century doctor is called to a mansion to rescue his former fiance from her brutal husband, whose face is frozen in a ghastly grimace ever since he robbed his own father's grave in search of the lottery ticket that gave him his fortune. The lady will be murdered unless the doctor agrees to restore the man's face. This was one of William Castle's gimmick movies, the gimmick here is that the audience would vote for the fate of the villain by holding up thumbs up/down cards they were given when they entered the theater. Only one ending to the film was ever shot. Guy Rolfe who played Sardonicus would be Toulon in Puppet Master 2, 3 and 4 a few decades later. This one was great fun.

Frightmare aka Cover Up (1974) 15-year-old Debbie gets kicked out a convent and is giving her sister/legal guardian, Jackie, a hell of a time, especially when cops knock at the door inquiring about a missing bartender that was last seen on the wrong end of an ass-kicking by Debbie’s boyfriend. She thinks her parents are dead, but they have actually just been released from a fifteen year stint in an asylum for murder and cannibalism! Jackie visits them at odd hours of the night with mysterious dripping packages, but dad is showing some concern that mom might be up to her old tricks. This gory and sleazy delight from British indie filmaker Pete Walker delivers the goods, it’s his best. RECOMMENDED

Home Before Midnight (1979) Mike writes hit songs for a crappy British pop band. He picks up a pretty hitchhiker, they have sex, see each other a few more times, and fall in love. When Mike finds out Ginny is only fourteen years old, he does what any normal 28-year-old man would do…HE KEEPS FUCKING HER! When her parents find out they call the cops and his world falls apart. Rightly so! Brit indie director Pete Walker is mostly known for gory horror flicks, so I spent the entire film expecting someone to get stabbed in the eye socket with a dinner knife, but that never happened. What did happen was a ton of nudity and a half-ton of bad decisions. Chris Jagger plays one of the band members. He has a famous brother, I'll let you guess.

The House that Screamed aka La Residencia (1969) Spanish thriller and semi-giallo about an early 20th century boarding school for girls that has a high rate of runaways. We soon learn that the missing girls have not escaped, but are being murdered in the house. Lilli Palmer plays the headmistress who rules with an iron fist. Her creepy teenage son peeks at the showering students through the vents. Christina Galbo (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, What Have You Done to Solange?) and Maribel Martin (The Blood-Splattered Bride) are among the students. Slow paced but enough eye candy and suspense to get you to the dynamite ending. From the director of Who Can Kill a Child. RECOMMENDED
Added note on La Residencia, this was the 3rd time I’d seen it, but the first time with an extra 8 or 9 minutes on it. I don’t have a side by side comparison, but I’ll say there was a flogging scene that lasted a bit longer, and a shower scene (though the girls were wearing white dressing gowns) that went quite a bit longer too.

The Black Room (2017) A husband and wife (Natasha Henstrige) move into a new house, where an Incubus has been living in the basement for decades. It possesses the husband and he turns into a creep, raping sisters-in-laws and waitresses. It was supposed to be a comedy, not many laughs though. Some nudity, pretty light for a movie with so much rape, if that makes any sense. Lin Shay was in it for a bit, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry had a cameo as devil worshipper. The director has a resume filled with mostly soft porn.

Creatures the World Forgot (1971) A fair-haired and a dark-haired pair of cavemen rivals battle for tribe leadership since birth in this dull Hammer films effort. Julie Ege is pretty, and there were a lot of cave-titties (cave-bras had not been invented yet), but cavemen wrestling wart hogs and saber-toothed bears (man in bear suit) couldn’t capture the magic that director Don Chaffey did with One Million Years B.C. a few years earlier.
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