Danny Stetson (Michael O'Keefe) is a clean-cut, all-American college student and gymnast with dreams of Olympic gold when he's lured into "Homeland," a youth-oriented religious commune, by a compellingly beautiful girl, Rebecca (Karen Allen). Here he is programmed by the charismatic leader, Neil Kirklander (Peter Fonda), to believe that his new life now has the true meaning that it previously lacked.Anguished by their son's disappearance, Danny's parents (Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Dennehy), hire a modern-day bounty hunter, Charles Pratt (James Woods), to abduct Danny and exorcise his brainwashed mind, but the psychological change could be traumatizing.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Chips Rafferty was something like the John Wayne of Australian movies, I think that was his last one.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
a weird doc about Nicolae Ceaușescu that's just strung together archival footage with no narration
was awesome imho. gave my copy to ghost rider
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
north dallas forty is my favorite sports movie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
i hung out with ted kotcheff earlier this year and i can confirm he is a #1 hilarious dude
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
(on the occasion of the duddy kravitz restoration. morbs did you ever end up seeing that)
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
yep
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
i love duddy.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
i eat at the deli his dad hangs out at once a week
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 October 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
In Bruges!
― ACA: not bad, needs more death panels (jjjusten), Friday, 18 October 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I've never seen any of these and don't know anything about this stuff, just thought it was interesting.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/todays-best-action-directors-arent-working-in-holl%2C104394/
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Hyams’ Universal Soldier films are death-haunted meditations on identity and memory. Though both are canonical sequels to Roland Emmerich’s original Universal Soldier (1992), there’s no trace of Emmerich’s influence in either; Regeneration takes its visual cues from Andrei Tarkovsky and David Fincher, while Day Of Reckoning’s David Lynch vibe (think Lost Highway or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me) is mixed with over-tonal references to Videodrome, Enter The Void, Funny Games, and The Shining. Both films feature Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren reprising their roles from the original film, though they function as thematic poles rather than leads; this is especially true in the case of Day Of Reckoning, where—yet again—Scott Adkins serves as the protagonist.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
i'll vouch for the sheer weirdness of some of those later Universal Soldier movies. not that they're good necessarily, but...
― Nhex, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
i wanna watch those. but only the second one is on netflix right?
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 18 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Day of Reckoning
― Nhex, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
i actually watched DVDs last night. i had to return a faulty Wii game at the dumb cd store and i swapped it with a used copy and ended up with credit so i bought some DVDs. watched Taken and Battle: Los Angeles. i basically came to the conclusion that i will watch liam neeson and aaron eckhart in any movie they are in. Battle: Los Angeles featured quite possibly the dumbest cinematic Marines I have ever seen in my life. even i know that if you are trying to avoid being killed by an army of aliens being AS LOUD AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE isn't the best way to go about it. plus, they were just dumb. and so slow. and they stop to pet dogs when an alien army is trying to kill them. plus, when they need to get on a helicopter because an alien army is trying to kill them they take their time and look around wistfully before getting on the helicopter. plus, they were so fucking stupid and loud. but i do love watching aaron eckhart.
sorry, off-topic. gonna watch Taken 2 tonight. got that 2.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
i did really like that Punisher sequel that i never would have known to watch if people hadn't been like hey that Punisher sequel is really good. so, i would watch universal soldier sequel.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, Punisher: War Zone is crazy and fun
― mh, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Thick as Thieves is decent -- entertaining enough.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Saturday, 19 October 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
watching the wallander series of bbc dramas. i thought i watched them all, but i guess i only watched the first four.
― ian, Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
okay i know this doesn't belong here but after watching Taken and Taken 2 i can't BELIEVE that they didn't get liam neeson to play jack reacher in the Reacher movie! he would have been PERFECT. sheesh.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
liam neeson is gonna play matt scudder in the upcoming movie version of "A Walk Among The Tombstones" so at least you have that to look forward to.
― ian, Saturday, 19 October 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Scudder
i mean he basically plays Reacher in the Taken movies except for the having a family part.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bit long in the tooth for reacher, who i always imagined as being pretty youthful (so is cruise i guess but he has a younger aura than neeson)
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
still, he was very capable as badass in the Taken movies. you don't need to know his chronology from the books. he could be an older guy. if he could be four feet tall in the movie he could be older too.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
liam has ten years on cruise.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
i dont doubt he's a #1 badass but i think he's got too much sadness in his eyes to be reacher
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
the new girl is abysmal
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
incorrect, interestingly!
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
it's shocking to me that that style of sitcom is even produced any more tbh
i attempted to watch s03e01 & my wife said "so it's like friends?" and i was like, i guess so
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
what style? one camera, no laugh track? that's like... the most common comedy format of this era
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
whatever boss, i'm just saying the style feels dated as hell to me
and it's always a bad sign in my book when "friends" feels like some kind of classic masterwork in comparison
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
yes it's a sign you're getting old
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.babywit.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/r/arf688_1_1.png
(replace "loud" with "whimsical and frothy")
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
the actors seem like they're probably nice people, i feel bad for them that they're stuck inside such a deeply shitty television show that is apparently just successful enough to keep cranking out episodes
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
M. Night Shyamalan's The Devil is on Netflix now. I'm trying and failing to come up with a reason not to watch it.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
New Girl is the best show on television. If you don't agree you are dumb.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/4/1/7/1/2/3/hes-right-you-know-93164244350.jpeg
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
haha i knew selzer couldn't let that pass
― balls, Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
Xpost I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc
― Admin is dead, e/t is permitted (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Anyone seen Popatopolis?
Popatopolis follows veteran B-movie auteur Jim Wynorski as he attempts to produce the soft-core film The Witches of Breastwick on a three-day shoot.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 20 October 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc
if m night didn't write the scene where a panicky catholic dude tries to prove the devil is near by dropping a piece of butter toast (which lands butter down because of the devil) then it was written by someone on m night's wavelength
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
not say i don't highly recommend watching devil, tho. just watch it knowing that m nightness abounds.
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:03 (ten years ago) link
tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes
― da croupier, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
The Marc Maron standup is sort of entertaining.
I couldn't make it through New Girl either. Seems like Happy Endings minus the likable characters and laughs.
― Darin, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ibtauris.com/~/media/Images/Book%20Covers/Television/9781845115111.ashx
― buzza, Sunday, 20 October 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link
tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes― da croupier, Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― da croupier, Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i too hated arrested development but i certainly didn't stick around for an entire episode and a half to make sure
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 October 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
this is useful.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 October 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
i started rewatching new girl, aside from a bit of singing it's on its strengths basically from episode 2, much earlier than i had remembered. they set up the relationships very fast, too, from the pilot/second episode.
they get a lot out of their reaction shots.
― j., Sunday, 20 October 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link