I just watched this (again) for the sci-fi challenge. I must have had this thought before, but, whatever... I was just startled, watching it, by how influential it seems to have been. I should have written this as I was watching it, I would probably have remembered more.... I just kept constantly being reminded of more modern films, while watching it, and of course that is probably because those more modern films were partly inspired by, or at least doing homage to, Day of the Triffids.

The d... Continue »

It hates the cold, so they defeat it with fire extinguishers and dump it in the arctic. Then the last lines of the movie really sell it.

"At least we've got it stopped."
"Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold." Continue »

I still don't get this movie. It starts off strong and all the space stuff is interesting, so I sit through it all waiting for some mind-blowing Nolan ending, but that's where this movie falls apart. The ending. It's like he was working up to something big, but in his pretentiously cerebral plotlines, he couldn't figure it out, so he threw some shit together about bookcase time dimensions and hoped we'd swallow it.

Some bullshit about love being the answer, even though the wormholes are so para... Continue »

I was just thinking about this. I think they missed an opportunity for a sequel. Maybe they'll still do it someday.

I'm thinking of the scenes in the 1986 The Fly, where Seth Brundle goes out to that bar, wins that woman by almost killing that guy in an arm wrestling match, and eventually they go back to Seth's warehouse apartment place (I think that was what they used to call a "loft") for drunken meaningless sex. You see where I'm going with this. If they had sex, and it sounded like they p... Continue »

This flick's one of those indies that actually got a theatrical release, and I'm not sure how you guys feel about that.

The movie's basically The Village, post-apocalypse edition. It's unclear what kind of virus they're dealing with, but I think Mortuary (2005) began a "black vomit" trend, which is present here.
The "It" probably refers to the paranoia they have for each other, although it's happening 24/7, not just nightly.
Joel Edgerton plays a hard-nosed family man, but a fair one, wh... Continue »

I'm always on the prowl for Halloween-set horror films, and boy, are most of them rotten. Rotten like your teeth if you eat that concentrated heap of sugar known as "candy corn". Just because it's fall-colored, it's a fall thing? What if fall doesn't want it?

But this movie looks pretty dope, doesn't it? The intro credits are promising. Produced by Courtney Gains and Tony Todd. Weird combo, but I'll take it. The film begins rather compe... Continue »

It was some monkey game where you crawl around by moving your arms. I was climbing trees and gazebos and then I jumped off a tall tree and whoa. It felt pretty real. I wonder if free runners use these games as practice.

I was getting pretty fearful at times. Afraid that I would leave my boundaries and walk into a wall. I can see how that would be easy to do.

Wtf?! I saw someone posted something about a "Things 666", mentioning it was the seventh in the series (part 666 as number 7?), but they were wrong apparently, because that's number 10 on imdb's list under "connections". The numbering for those movies makes no sense.

I guess I have a new goal for turkey season!

I completely forgot about this. I filled out some form online and got ordained. Probably while I was drunk or high.

When I was a kid, I already thought of TCM as an old movie. It was about 20-25 years old then, and now it's half a century old. Sure, it's not like the series has any solid continuity, but it's not about those movies. The original is the only real nightmare, and so many of that cast and crew has been vanquished to time. Such a strange pill to swallow.

It sure did leave a mark, didn't it? Several people still think it's a real thing and claim to know the guy in a 6th degree kind of way. Several... Continue »

Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, and Jeremy Piven are headed to a boxing event night in Chicago, but escaping from a traffic jam leads them through the bad part of the city. The part where gangsters like Denis Leary are killing people. After a whole ordeal, Denis does in fact kill someone, but our four heroes happen to witness said act, which puts them on the run from the gangsters out to silence them.

It's a pretty solid movie, asking its viewers how they would react in these s... Continue »

I am a compassionate, intense lover, and can make any woman orgasm in under 15 seconds using only my fists.

Rules 1.
1. One point for each letter of the alphabet plus # or symbol (up to 27 in total).

2. Alphabetize the entry by the first significant word of the title (no "a", "an", or "the".)

3. For the # to county, it must be spelled out in the titles.
Examples:28 Days Later (2002) - Counts as #.

The 6th Day (2000) - Counts as #.
Three in the Attic (1968) - Counts as "T".

4. A movie that starts with hastag ("#") can count either as # or based on the first letter of the title. Example... Continue »

The 80's were quite a time for kid's movies. Quality kid's movies. Extremely marketable kid's movies. Probably the golden age if we're being honest. And I think that might have a little to do with the fact that so many of these now old school kid's movies also appealed to adults. There was no Barney. And there certainly were no retard Minions. Just PG movies. They didn't even have to be G rated. Movies like E.T. or The Goonies. And OK. Maybe the m... Continue »

In 2.5 years in office, Biden has taken 367 vacation days. What a worthless cunt.

Halloween is inspiring me to clean my house. You can't decorate a garbage dump.

I've been thinking a lot about how I can make this October/Halloween as awesome as possible. I have a few kiddie activities planned throughout the month for my nephews, and I want to get them started on horror. They're in elementary school, they're old enough.

Naturally, I love binging horror in October like anyone else, and I will do that, but I need to engage in some real world traditional Halloween shennanigans.... Continue »

Wtf does that even mean? I'm wondering about fictional characters from movies and tv shows who have infiltrated our reality and became personalities in their own right. A few examples of wtf I'm blathering about:


Garth Merenghi of Darkplace was an actor (Matthew Holness) playing a character (Garth Merenghi) playing a character (Rick Dagless, MD), so this meta approach is already inherent and part of the charm. He's broken through to our world with written works. Novels. Crap novels hopefully,... Continue »

Daniel Radcliffe plays an internet troll who gets abducted by some darkweb group that livestreams people pitted against each other in assassination plots.

This movie has many parallels to the 2016 movie Nerve, which was about extreme dares. A fun movie in itself, but not nearly as violent as Guns Akimbo. Radcliffe is a decent actor, but Samara Weaving is always a blast. Especially when she spends half the movie trying to kill our protagonist.

Sometimes, I find myself in need of a... Continue »

Didn't really know what else to call it . But anyway for the month of July, I thought why not mix up a few "popular" genres that we don't usually cover in a whole month. The idea is to watch as many movies (or TV shows if you can fit it in) of that respective genre in a week and add up the cumulative total at the end (they can also score them individually as 4 mini-challenges): 1 point per minute watched, as usual.

Here are the dates to put in your diaries:

[u]War challeng... Continue »

Elon must really hate Twitter. He bought it out, fired everybody, refused to pay rent on the headquarters, and now he's changed the name. Not like I ever use Twitter^X except to view sluts, but it is weird. I guess it's cool that he bought it out only to stomp it into the ground. Classic Elon.

I don't understand his desire to turn X into an everything app. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of an app, being a program to perform a specialized task (ie email, camera, calendar,... Continue »

Eventually. There are too many. Half that shit doesn't get talked about here anyway. I'm pretty sure most people don't even pay attention to the boards here, but I do. Sometimes.

Posts will not be deleted, but moved to a similar board.

Well, this was just announced. On July 4th, I remember telling ballz that I was surprised they haven't tried to remake/reboot RotLD yet, but they be listening!

Now, I haven't even seen part 4 & 5 since they seem to have little to do with the first 3, and they don't even have the right zombie type in there. I guess those movies killed the franchise for a while, but they're bringing it back to life. Or at least they'll try.

Is the zombie genre too lame and exhausted for this to work again? W... Continue »

FX's Justified ran for 6 seasons from 2010 to 2015. I was drunk off my ass when I watched it, so I barely remember anything about it, except that I liked it. Set in Kentucky.

We're 3 episodes into the new season and it's pretty good, and pretty standalone with Olyphant being the only returning character (thus far). Set in Detroit, and we all know scuzzy Detroit makes for a great setting.

Boyd Holbrook is an antagonist in the show. He always plays a good scumbag. Typecast as a villain mo... Continue »

As a film buff, I wanted to collect all the classics. Cinematic achievements, good performances, groundbreaking for this or that reason. It seemed a doable task because there weren't nearly as many being released as there are today. I can't keep up with all the shit that comes out now.

I still support my local movie theater because I'm a sucker. I see movies. And while I see movies I like, will I ever see a movie that moves me? Have all the stories been told? Has technology made it too easy for... Continue »

So something my dad said got me thinking about this recently. My eldest son, who will be 11 next week, stayed over at his grandparents' house recently and because his grandad had never seen the movies before, he wanted to watch The Dark Knight trilogy with him. A few days later, when I was chatting to my dad he said to me: "So you let Zack watch The Dark Knight then?!" as if it was something he should never had seen at that age (well actually he was 7 or 8 when he first watched it). Well it's a... Continue »