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Post by Tweek on Jul 18, 2018 19:20:15 GMT -6
At 190 proof, that stuff can kill you. Tread lightly.
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Post by Savior1981 on Jul 18, 2018 19:23:19 GMT -6
At 190 proof, that stuff can kill you. Tread lightly. Never again friend. Light beer is about it for me nowadays... I stopped the heavy drinking once I left Wisconsin. Now, it's all about light beer and the occasional "smoke."
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Post by earthboundfan1986 on Jul 18, 2018 19:47:57 GMT -6
I'll always remember going to see it in the theaters with my brothers. I hear you. We always go back to the things of our formative years. Blair Witch, Oasis, fuck even Zima takes me back to the 90's. god oasis now that's me back lol
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Post by earthboundfan1986 on Jul 18, 2018 19:48:38 GMT -6
I can't remember what Zima tasted like, it's been so long. Must not have been very good. lol zone yea rite aid brought it back and I bought some sucked ass
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Post by Savior1981 on Jul 18, 2018 20:40:31 GMT -6
I can't remember what Zima tasted like, it's been so long. Must not have been very good. lol zone yea rite aid brought it back and I bought some sucked ass I picked up a twelve pack about a year ago for nostalgias sake... got thru about 4 over the course of a month and so I decided to start handing them out at a party. Never again will I buy that swill.
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Post by Savior1981 on Jul 18, 2018 20:43:11 GMT -6
I hear you. We always go back to the things of our formative years. Blair Witch, Oasis, fuck even Zima takes me back to the 90's. god oasis now that's me back lol Still listen to my What's the Story (Morning Glory) CD from back in 1998. It's scratched like a motherfucker and skips all the time but I can't let it go. Sentimental value I suppose.
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Post by earthboundfan1986 on Jul 18, 2018 22:18:59 GMT -6
lol zone yea rite aid brought it back and I bought some sucked ass I picked up a twelve pack about a year ago for nostalgias sake... got thru about 4 over the course of a month and so I decided to start handing them out at a party. Never again will I buy that swill. Same here.
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Post by earthboundfan1986 on Jul 18, 2018 22:20:31 GMT -6
god oasis now that's me back lol Still listen to my What's the Story (Morning Glory) CD from back in 1998. It's scratched like a motherfucker and skips all the time but I can't let it go. Sentimental value I suppose. I'm the same with my Californication cd
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Post by Savior1981 on Jul 25, 2018 18:50:00 GMT -6
Just finished Rings. OMFUCKINGGOD What a piece of shit. I know, I've been warned not to watch. But I had to see what a turd pile it is. I took the dare. Now I sit here with another life choice regret
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Post by Tweek on Jul 27, 2018 10:28:12 GMT -6
Terminal (2018) An odd artsy noir revenge flick. Margot Robbie basically doing Harley Quinn with an accent. Worth a look I suppose. Everyone won't like it.
Overboard (2018)
Ugh. A remake nobody asked for. Pass. I find Anna Faris interesting, but not in this.
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Post by Tweek on Sept 22, 2018 18:28:21 GMT -6
Wind River (2017)
*snore* Don't bother.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 1, 2018 20:27:36 GMT -6
I'm starting off my October... wrong (goddammit)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich The idea of a reboot for this series intrigued me, mainly because I feel like it really started rolling downhill after part 3 and never righted itself. The reboot... didn't help matters at all. The story felt choppy in parts and very nonsensical in others. I did like the new theme song and the idea that there were multiple copies and variations of the puppets this time around (though his screen time was limited, Pinhead was pretty badass) and Markowitz ended up being a much more enjoyable character than I first gave him credit for, but there was a lot to be desired here to make this feel like a worthwhile reboot. And it kept missing the mark. Most of the gore felt like it was trying too hard for the shock value (like the scene where the pregnant lady bites the dust. it felt too comical to be taken seriously, but delivered too straightforward to stir any laughs. it was just awkward. a similar scene was done much better in Terror Firmer), and the whole Andre Toulon backstory twist felt gratuitous. (don't even get me started about the mess of an ending. ugh.)
Skeletons in the Closet (2018) I didn't realize how low-grade independent this was going to be from the trailer. It's pretty bad. I can take bits of bad writing, or bad actors hamming it up every now and then, or poor effects, or shoddy ideas... but not all of them in a single movie (the exception to this, as you may have guessed, are Troma films. they at least have an appeal to them that you can't quite define, but know that it is keeping you pulled in). Sadly, those are the kind of skeletons in this movie's closet. There are things to be admired here (the throwback to the 80s Elvira/Joe Bob shows, the wraparound story with the kid and her babysitter (not the best, but certainly better than the other wraparound... or the other segments for that matter), the amount of thought and effort put into the whole 'Channel 13' idea), but there's more going against this piece than going for it overall. Disappointing, because I love anthology horror.
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Post by Tweek on Oct 1, 2018 20:46:54 GMT -6
Tried watching Solo again. Couldn't get through it.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 2, 2018 18:38:57 GMT -6
Taking a bit of a different approach to my October viewing this year and trying to get in at least two things a day while I can, because I know when I work I won't be able to watch anything before or after my shifts. So, I decided to indulge in my long-list of missed Stephen King adaptations today.
Quicksilver Highway Quirky, bit not really as bad as I have heard others make it out to be. It was made for TV. In 1997. There isn't going to be a bucket of gore in every scene, nor fancy effects (oh man, those disembodied CGI hands aged badly), etc. The two stories covered (one by King and the other by Clive Barker) seem fairly well represented from how I remember them as a reader. While I always love 'Chattery Teeth' the on-screen version failed in comparison to King's writing. 'The Body Politic' was an interesting read, but anyone could have guessed it would not translate to the screen all that well without a much bigger budget (and perhaps waiting a decade or two for improved graphics). That being said, Politic seemed to get the bigger budget out of the two tales, sporting a slightly longer run time, better graphics (in comparison) and a few appearances by horror alumni (including Barker himself). While this was never meant to be a masterpiece, it was a fun rendition of two interesting tales, and Christopher Lloyd was delightfully camp and creepy in the wraparound.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Battleground I missed the original run of these 8 adaptations when they ran back in 2006, but the first one was pretty damn fantastic for a fan of the short story. I was fairly impressed with how the minds behind the project were able to stretch a (likely less than) 5,000 word story into an hour-long TV film... and with not a lick of dialogue at that! I liked it a lot and look forward to the other 7 later on (and I am already prepared to not like some of them. The End of the Whole Mess has me worried, because that is a story that feels like it needs more than 50-60 minutes of screen time to do it justice, but I will soon see).
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Post by mrvigilante on Oct 9, 2018 19:11:26 GMT -6
Death Kiss (2018)
Charles Bronson returns from the grave in the form of Robert Kovacs, a Hungarian Bronson impersonator. Worth a look if you're a Bronson fan or you like violent, low budget movies you can crack jokes with your friends by.
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Post by Anarchist86ed on Oct 10, 2018 12:18:04 GMT -6
The Karate Kid shot on shitteo.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 17:04:09 GMT -6
The day of slow burns... Hereditary This was... different. I liked it, I'm just not sure I fully understand it with one viewing. But, I can't force myself to watch it again yet because, while it was good, the build-up was way too long to sit through again so soon. Surprisingly a really good horror flick for the lack of gore, monsters and other such staples of the genre. Psychological horror is always fun for a spin, though. I'll tell ya what - the trailer made me think this was going to be an entirely different movie. And I totally didn't expect... ...for Charlie to die so soon in the film. As a side note, when watching the trailer, I was sure that she was a little boy. Mandy (2018) I just... what?! I have heard such high praise for this from every source and yet... what?! Perhaps arthouse horror just isn't my thing, but I found this to be utterly boring, too long and completely miscategorized as horror (perhaps action revenge, but not horror at all). The acting didn't blow me away like it did for so many others, and the hallucinogenic take on the camerawork/visuals/color palette/cinematography/whatever really stalled out for me after a while because it was used for the entire duration of the movie pretty much, so it felt normal after the first half of the film. I can at least say I watched it... I guess.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 10, 2018 17:07:27 GMT -6
I don't watch movies to say I watched them.
I make sure I'm interested enough first. But never through spoily trailers. Review scores.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 14, 2018 12:38:19 GMT -6
Orphan (2009)
Hadn't seen it in many years. Pretty good.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 20, 2018 12:50:07 GMT -6
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Post by Tweek on Oct 21, 2018 12:16:56 GMT -6
November (2018)
Too weird for me. Didn't make it to the end. Couldn't tell you what it's about. And I hate reading subtitles.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 21, 2018 13:28:55 GMT -6
Ran out of anything to watch so I watched The Crazies ahead of time.. I was going to watch it on Halloween night. Now I will just watch Apostle on Halloween night. Anyway, it turns out as soon as I started watching it I realized I'd seen it probably seven, eight years ago. And forgot. It's got a Walking Dead kind of theme. It's not bad. It's not good. It's okay. I guess.
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Post by Savior1981 on Oct 24, 2018 21:53:26 GMT -6
Saw the new Halloween. Pretty good. Not nearly as good as the original, but a good movie and definitely worth seeing this time of year. Highly recommend.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 26, 2018 12:31:02 GMT -6
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 27, 2018 23:19:08 GMT -6
The School (2018)
It takes a while for the plot to be fully revealed, but that is what you expect from a horror-mystery mix. If you really like these kinds of movies and know you should pick up on small reveals as they come to light throughout the film, you will figure out the plot fairly quickly (surprisingly, that was one of the main two things people whined about - not being able to figure it out until the movie straight up told them). The other thing that people griped about with this movie was that it wasn't really horror. I'll side with them on that. There were aspects of horror in this, but not a lot, and even when they got a little screen time, it felt like an afterthought. Regardless, I still really liked this flick. Nowhere near as good as The Orphanage (still my all-time favorite foreign horror-mystery movie), but it can definitely stand on its own if you known what the ride is going to be like before starting it (i.e. slow burn, flashbacks placed throughout, being equipped with a developed attention span would also help). The plot feels like it borrows heavily from Silent Hill (fog/mist that creatures - or Weepers for this movie - come from, a mother seeking her lost child, the backstory of the school, etc.) and Lord of the Flies (the whole child-gang thing), but it manages to twist the source material into a story of its own.
The only two things I was not very find of in this were the ending shots (not the ending itself, but the two scenes in the school before the credits began to roll. One felt like it was just starting to show a transformation and the other made no sense at all unless it was referencing a scene that was cut) and how much of a non-threat the monsters turned out to be overall (an example is that we are warned to not let the Dead touch us nor the Weepers bite us, but we may have just left those warnings out because neither even come close to happening in the movie. There are also creatures call The Hungries in the basement, but we only ever see one, and it just snarls at our protagonist and runs away).
I was pleasantly surprised overall, especially considering the flack I had read about it.
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