Edward – Kill, Baby… Kill!is fantastic, highly recommended, as I mentioned a couple posts up. Also highly recommend Lisa and the Devil – a really kind of surreal, slow burning, unsettling story, kind of like if Last Year at Marienbad was an actual horror movie (and more Italian and less artsy, obviously, but it has a similar vibe). Bay of Blood is next up for me. Apparently Baron Blood is one of his lesser works, though. Avoid House of Exorcism – apparently that's just an inferior recut of Lisa And the Devil with some crappy new footage to make it an exorcism movie in order to cash in on the success of The Exorcist.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
thx!
― space dokken (Edward III), Monday, 22 October 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Also, according to some of the websites I've looked at, Friday the 13th part 2 ripped off a bunch of stuff from Bay of Blood, so there's that.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 22 October 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
Checking out Beyond the Black Rainbow right now
― Moodles, Monday, 22 October 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
Just randomly collated by "cult film," and all sorts of random stuff I remember from the video shelves as a kid showed up. "TerrorVision," "Crawl Space," "Class of Nuke 'Em High..."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 October 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh, nice. Adding that to my queue now.
I was delighted last night to find that Demolition Man is available to stream.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 October 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's my dude who directed Black Rainbow. It rules
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 22 October 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
Demo Man is pan and scan, I believe.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 October 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
They finally have The Toxic Avenger in glorious (?) Widescreen. Also includes the Lloyd Kaufman introduction from the laserdisc edition!
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 22 October 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
I was wondering about that. It's clearly been cropped (Wikipedia says the original film is in 2.35:1) but it doesn't look like it was all the way down to 4:3.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 October 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
No, it's down to 1.85, I believe. But still wrong enough to be noticeable.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
i was really psyched about beyond the black rainbow but ended up turning it off
lol dug WOODSHOP tho
― fauxmarc, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
shoulda stuck around
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
its a slow burn
Would watch a Frederick Weisman doc called Woodshop.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
i'd watch one called poophouse about an outhouse
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Beyond the Black Rainbow was fairly dull despite a cool soundtrack and lots of nice visuals. There just wasn't much happening beyond that.
― Moodles, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Bay of Blood was AWESOME. Proto-slasher flick that both invented and elevated the genre, since the victims were mostly adults with agendas instead of stupid teenagers just trying to do drugs and get laid (admittedly, there were a few of those, but they get dispatched rather quickly). It was about the evil that greed drives men to do instead of a morality story with a boring unstoppable killer.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
For some reason this thread has been making my grammar stupid
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Baron Blood is indeed a minor work, but it's still super awesome and totally worth watching. There's one particularly great fog shrouded chase sequence in the middle of the film.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Watched Kevin Smith's "Red State." Don't know what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. It's like he made a Tarantino movie 15 years too late. There was very little that was arch or jokey about it, with one or two exceptions. Michael Parks's performance as the minister was pretty remarkable, I'll say that. It's asking a lot of an actor to carry a movie that stops dead in its tracks to have someone perform a sermon for 10 minutes, but he does a hell of a job.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
i watched that eames documentary. it was good but i couldnt believe how bad the narration was - i looked and realized it was james franco??! who gets him to narrate something, the guy has like 50 different lisps
― (♥___♥) (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 October 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
"50 different lisps" lol, so otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
Feel-good Talking-Animal Kids' TV
Your taste preferences created this row.
:(
― Sug ban (Nicole), Friday, 2 November 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 2 November 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
ciao! manhattan - expires soon iirc, couldnt take my eyes off it, not merely cuz of edie being topless throughout; should be remade f/ lohan
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 November 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Noticed that Soderbergh's underrated "King of the Hill" is up, as is the (also underrated?) "Out of Sight."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 November 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
that would be sweet if he did an episode of king of the hill
― j., Friday, 2 November 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
i think out of sight is not only my fave soderbergh but one of the best movies of the 90s. i have seen it so many times. anyone who hasnt and likes good times should see it now.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 2 November 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
strongly seconded. first great clooney flick, last great j. lo.
― balls, Friday, 2 November 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
<3 j-lo
― j., Friday, 2 November 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
I think out of sight is perfect.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 November 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
out of sight -- more like soderbergh hit it out of the park with that one
― max, Saturday, 3 November 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
"Throw Mama from the Train!" "Grapes of Wrath!"
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 November 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
j lo in out of sight is one of my top ten movie performances
― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
of all time
i was trying to be hyperbolic, but i think that's literally true
you wanted to tussle
we tussled
all of her lipsticks are perfect in that movie
anyway i mostly credit soderbergh for her performance, because i don't think i've ever seen her be good/natural in any other movie?
― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Supporting cast in Out Of Sight one of the best too. Albert Brooks as villain = gold!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
don cheadle, luis guzman
― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
catherine keener
michael keaton!
― balls, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
out of sight is a good lil movie, but c'mon now it's just a minor thing idk
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
how can i find out the brands and colors of all the lipsticks jennifer lopez wore in out of sight?
― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
you're just a minor thing idk
the movie is like a mint or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone here watch that karen sisco tv series? i didn't but i seem to recall hearing it was good (i think even elmore leonard approved of it) and carla gugino seems a pretty good trade-in for j. lo. i did like when she popped up on justified as karen sisco.
― balls, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link