Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread (Page 8 of 39)

Ya, I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago on Netflix Instant. Very crazy/awesome schlock movie with an outstanding cast. See, this is the kind of movie that just can't get made in today's studio system anymore, the mid-budget crazy/weird/experimental genre movie.

It's a shame the original cinematographer got fired on that movie after the first few days. He shot the night-club sequence, which is by far the most atmospheric and cool looking section of the movie, whereas the rest has a really flat look to it. And ya, Ellen Barkin is operating at 80s Lea Thompson levels of hotness in that movie.

So you didn't get your happy ending?

Dante's Peak is better........

What?

mission to mars = red planet

both were both the same pile of meh.

You're forgetting Abyss came out that same year (talk about a leap in quality across the 3):

Abyss > Leviathan > Deep Star Six

I prefer Mission to Mars for the EVA scene, which is still really awesome.

2010 is underrated

If Kubrik was known for anything, it was for taking liberties with adaptations

Well, that and tripping balls.

Last edited by Squiggly_P (2012-06-12 00:41:42)

Saw two more movies tonight:

1) They Saved Hitler's Brain: The cinema snob made me do it. The movie looked pretty funny, and it is. He spoiled most of the funny parts, but the scene where the dude slaps the girl is so god damn funny. That chick literally does nothing but scream and make hilarious surprised / horrified facial expressions throughout the entire film, save for the beginning where she acts like a prostitute. There's a lot of funny in there.

2) The Werewolf Of Washington - Starring Dean Stockwell circa 1974. Starts out really slow and boring for the first 15 or 20 minutes. I was about to turn it off, but some old lady with a shopping cart found the first victim behind a car and did this amazing, ten second "I'm about to scream!" face, and then screamed three times. Then it got a little boring for a couple more minutes until a guy picked up a phone, said "uh-huh?" hung up and told the guy he was with that the first victim - who was the wife of the secretary of state or something - was dead...  and "had her guts ripped out". And then the movie basically became a comedy. Literally. And it's really not half bad, aside from the fact that half the jokes are Nixon references and the other half are slapstick that goes on for WAY too long, then keep going in a very un-funny way, and then KEEP GOING until they manage to become funny purely because they've gone on for so long.

I mean...  I got this thing in one of those collections of crap horror movies of 50 movies for ten bucks, but this isn't a horror film. It's completely comedy by the end... not very good comedy, but comedy. There are four or five bits, tho, that are fucking hysterical, and I would actually recommend watching it. It's on Youtube all over the place, given that it's probably public domain.

Both are definitely good movies to get some buddies, get some alcohol and laugh you ass off.

That does make it perfectly clear. What an honest poster.

+1 on Haywire "meh", but I do want to see Gina Carano kicking all the ass in more movies. Preferably ones that make sense.