What the fuck was this shit? I'm a sucker for anything Halloween-related, and the movie is very polished and professional looking, but story-wise? It's a rip-off of Pumpkinhead, only more bizarre and less charming.

So as the beginning of the movie will show you, teenagers form a mob every Halloween night in this rural Gatlin-esque Children of the Corn type game they're supernaturally forced to play (is one way of putting it). The mob of jocks hunts the dangerous monster Sawtooth Jack, an... Continue »

Even as a tech guy, I think it inspires laziness. I love the idea in theory, but in practice, it's always going to fall into the hands of trolls or generally stupid people.

I joined some Halloween movie group on Facebook and half the shit on there is Michael/Jason AI images. Usually demeaning these iconic slashers by making them beefcakes or celebrating something they should have no emotion for.

Also, when I look for pictures of big-tittied women, a lot of that shit is AI, too. If it ain't... Continue »

Another women in prison movie. It intends to be a throwback, but it's far too amateur for that. In fact, this movie isn't ambitious at all. If you're going to make an exploitation throwback, why the hell would you make it so tame and boring? What's the fucking point?

I hate it when some chump with no good ideas and a lot of money is able to sway quality trash talent into very subpar projects. Talent like Jack Hill, Kitten Natividad, and Tura Santana. Then again, this movie seemed to have a sh... Continue »

This one has been on my watchlist for about 10 years, so I figured I'd finally give in. Women in prison films are great because they feature a lot of women and a lot of exploitation. The plots are basically the same each time, with female inmates unable to expose corrupt prison antics, and this movie is no different. In fact, I can't even remember why the girl gets sent to this place to begin with, but that's not important. What's important are the many tropes of prison flicks, and we get plenty... Continue »

As requested by Mincy Vincy

Anyone in the mood for a spot of learning (or otherwise) for the month of February, can make your spot below.

1 point for every minute watched of any documentary (minimum duration of 30 minutes).

Add 10 points for a documentary about a dark subject matter (serial killers, war, etc.).

Add 20 points for a documentary about the horror genre or a specific horror movie.

Get an extra 25 bonus points for a FTV.

All of the above includes per episode of a series.

DVD and Blu-ray commentaries and m... Continue »

There are pics of Skarsgard as the main hero, and his haircut looks stupid, and so do his tattoos. Someone said they're modeling him on Jared Leto's Joker, and that seems possible. Why would anyone want to do that, though?

The original film's director Alex Proyas doesn't seem impressed either. I think Bill could be a good fit if only they went with the more traditional look. He is bug-eyed yet weirdly handsome enough that he could play the part adequately, but they really should have ripped o... Continue »

As far as DTV action/crime thrillers go, this one is pretty good. Anything with Frank Grillo gets the benefit of the doubt, and they threw in Bruce Willis too, because they all go DTV eventually.

Jacob (Frank Grillo) is a family-man banker who gets traumatized after a heist. Should he have tried harder to stop the robber? What could his sorry ass do anyway? Enter James (Bruce Willis), ex-cop neighbor with the resources to help Jacob's unofficial investigation into the whereabouts of this dick... Continue »

It's been about 15 years since I watched it, and since my stupid obsessive brain never stops thinking about these movies AND it is a documentary challenge, I revisited this. What's so interesting is to see how different the franchise was at that point. The series is now about twice as old as it was when that "comprehensive" retrospective was at the time. You had interviews with Rob Zombie about his thoughts on the franchise, and this was before he made his two movies.

One part I find p... Continue »

A biopic of the guys who created the first smartphone. Jay Baruchel is the nerd who comes up with the idea, and Glenn Howerton is the bald businessman who makes it happen. There's still a lot of Dennis in his character, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

The era is late 90s to late 2000s, which is when I was completely in the dark about cell phones. I didn't get my first phone till around 2014, so this movie was informative on how p... Continue »

First of all, this is a book, not a movie. It's by the late great Philip K. Dick. Of course, sooner or later it could BECOME a movie, as so many of his stories have. We shall see.

I am reading it right now. I'm about two thirds of the way through it. I just wanted to check in here and mention that I am wondering if it could have been, in some demented way, the inspiration for Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne character...?

I probably had that idea partly because the main character's name is Ja... Continue »

Michael (Kurt Russell) and Karen (Madeleine Stowe) live in a nice suburban home in LA, until an encounter with an intruder gets them all hot and bothered about home security. Enter Pete (Ray Liotta), the helpful police officer answering the call. He's so helpful, he gets a team to install security on the whole house. Yeah, there's not much he wouldn't do for Karen. Now, if only that asshole Michael wasn't in the picture...

A pretty good 90s thriller. You can't hate this movie because of the cas... Continue »

Hayley (Ellen Page) lures suspected pedo Jeff (Patrick Wilson) into a trap. She wants to make him confess, but she also wants to fuck with him emotionally and ruin his life.

Sounds like a cool movie, right? However, I still ended up hating Hayley more than Jeff. I wish the bad guy got away in this one. Well, I guess he did.

I'm watching The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and seeing this guy there who looks like the main guy, So I go hmmm are they related in real life so look on IMDB oh yes they are brothers.
The thing is in the film they are not related, I suspect IRL the guy is like brother can you get me a job to help pay the bills.
FFS yes sure help your brother out and get him a role, but make it a film where he plays a relation of some sort, not some stranger, otherwise you have idiots like me going, hmm... Continue »

As theres a lot of debate all around the world, Which band is bigger

This is part of the recent wave of assassin-sploitation movies where everyone is an expert hitman. Based on a UK comic. Accident Man is one who makes his kills look like accidents. You can't blame someone if a tub falls on the guy, right?

Scott Adkins is a name I've been hearing more of lately. He's one of those physical actors notable for fight choreography, and as one might have guessed... these are some pretty good fight scenes. I mean, that's what we're watching these movies for, right? And is that movies, plural? Continue »

This thread is dedicated to my delusional, far left Facebook friend, Kevin Vanhentenryck, and his intense hatred towards our President, as well as his constant hypocrisy and spreading of obvious lies in an attempt to convince anyone who will listen that right ALWAYS = wrong. The amount of memes this guy posts, and his apparent quest to change the world through Facebook, makes me laugh. So, I'm going to share just a small fraction... Continue »

OK, first of all, there will be some spoilers here, but maybe I should just assume that many of us have already seen this? It came out in 2018. I don't know.

Anyway, yah. This movie is... interesting, but not even CLOSE to what you might expect, from the title. It is mostly very slow-paced, and thoughtful, and sort of haunting. The great Sam Elliott plays Calvin Barr, an aging former WWII soldier (the film is set in 1987) who spends a lot of time alone with his memories of his life. Some... Continue »

Social media originated from message boards, but it's changed a lot over time. That includes markup and the way people format stuff. I'm considering ways to catch up to modern expectations, particularly regarding links, urls, images, and videos.

What I'm hoping to do is make it so when you type a link, it auto-converts to a link. If you post an image (file that ends with .gif, .jpg, .png, .webp), it auto-converts to an image. If you post a youtube link, it auto-converts to a youtube embed. No... Continue »

A week ago, I got a free trial of AppleTV+ because my mom really wanted to watch Killers of the Flower Moon because she loved the book. The movie was okay, but she liked it enough. Purpose fulfilled.

A couple of days later, I figured I'd catch up on Mythic Quest seasons 2 onward. You must sign in to watch this.

I couldn't sign in all week on any device, then I spent an hour with customer service chats and phone calls trying to cancel an account that no longer exists, but the... Continue »

It's a lazy Sunday morn and I'm bored AF. Figured I'd throw this up.

Hot Fuzz 2007
Tropic Thunder 2008
Goon 2011

HMs
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil 2010
Step Brothers 2007

Sound off or fnck off!

Apparently, The Shining is a holocaust metaphor about how the moon landing was fake. It sure sounds like these people are overanalyzing the movie, picking apart every scene as if every atom in the frame is a deliberate work of art. Maybe this movie really is chock full of symbolism. Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.

I saw this recently. I basically can't say anything about it. I am glad I saw it though! It stars Vincent Cassel and Kristen Stewart (who really does a perfectly solid job here, so cut her some slack). I would say don't google it, or try to learn anything about it beforehand, and just watch it. I think you'll be glad you did.

You guys, this is really interesting. I think I must have missed it when it was in the news, this feels like NEW news to me. Like, I don't think I knew about it until today.

I'm not saying Thor Heyerdahl was right about everything. In fact, I AM saying that he was definitely wrong about shitloads of things. But, it looks like he was right about this.

Here is the article. I hope it's clickable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2.epdf?sharing_token=YbYh7h-oFTVqiaIHO404B9RgN0j... Continue »

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