Burt Gummer’s Rec Room- October 2010 Archive
A gathering place for firearms enthusiasts, paranoid survivalists and those who worship at the Church of Chang.
Winter’s coming up. Look’s like it’s time to break out the emergency rations.
Disclaimer: This is the part of the Church that is the most no holds barred. None of it is intended with malice, and although it can on occasion seem a little bit fraught, it is banter rather than venom.
Werewolves On The Moon 
And back in college we used to watch MST3K during hangovers, and they were sort of hit and miss. I found them quite funny sometimes.
So I watched Highlander 5: Sperm Bank last night.
WTF. The series got more and more fucked as it went on. The Guardian…really? Sheesh….
Terribly insane and fucked up. Only way to describe it.
I grew up watching MST3K from it’s early days on Comedy Central, and honestly it was one of the defining factors that built my sense of humor. They definitely have some off episodes, but when they are on a roll, it’s fucking hilarious and smart
Holy shit.
So it turns out Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is fucking awesome.
Fucking. Awesome.
I didn’t see that coming.
Christ. Frankies so ill he’s delirious.
Seriously, man. I loved every second of it.
I’m giving serious thought to watching it again right now.
HA! Well, that’s good then. It is enjoyable, but for me “Fucking awesome” is going a bit far. It was better than I expected though, I’ll give it that.
Speaking of fucking awesome films, I seen The Social Network last night, which I liked very, very much. And it was as much an Aaron Sorkin film as a David Fincher film, which was nice to see.
In what must be some sort of minor miracle, they managed to make various business shenanigans and the creation of a website fascinating. They also did a solid job of portraying a relatively new type of person – the bitter, angry, posturing internet nerd.
If I had a top ten for the year, The Social Network would definitely be on it.
Oh, and I wholeheartedly approve of that image of Jackie Chan as Wong Fei Hung in Drunken Master 2. That’s a great choice.
Good work, Jarv.
Frank- will you check if the gong works?
https://moonwolves.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/moonwolves-presents-drunken-cinema-number-1-the-pit/?preview=true&preview_id=8037&preview_nonce=738c635da7
I get a 404 – Page Not Found message when I click that link.
The image looks great, though.
Arseholes.
What I’ll do, then, is put it live for a bit then take it down again.
https://moonwolves.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/moonwolves-presents-drunken-cinema-number-1-the-pit/
Check now.
Comments don’t work on it yet.
There’s a link that says ‘Oriental Gong’, which you can click, then it takes awhile to load, then it makes a gongy sound.
Is that what you were going for?
I think you’re better off just sticking with the image, to be honest. It looks plenty good enough without the sound effect.
Cheers
That’s not at all what I was going for. Damn it.
I’ll take it off.
Thanks.
Oh, and I caught some of the original Clash of the Titans last night. To be fair, it’s a pretty shit movie.
It’s great when, after the two-headed wolf thing kills one of the 3 guys who went with him to kill Medusa, he declares to the two remaining ‘red shirts’…”now there are 3 of us”.
No shit. Perhaps instead of going on that journey he should have stayed home and taught the kids mathematics.
I love that film. We used to get to watch it every so often in Latin class instead of studying latin.
yeah I will second Jarv on that, but it’s probably just a nostalgia thing for me, as I used to watch it all the time as a kid. I haven’t seen it in a very long time and I’m sure it might change my perspective. However, Harryhausen’s work on that film is awesome. Medusa used to scare the shit out of me as a kid
Somehow I have managed, after watching The Social Network last night and Scott Pilgrim this morning, to see two of my favourite films this year in less than 24 hours.
That’s not bad going.
It also provides a nice buffer of goodness to help soak up the inevitable shitness I believe is coming my way later tonight, like eating a Kit-Kat before you start drinking to soak up the alcohol.
Come now.
Chin up- it’s dire, but fun dire and there’s some genuine comedy in it.
Frank, is Scott Pilgram good? I’ve been up and down about wanting to see it
He thinks it’s awesome. But he is ill.
yeah Jarv, it’s one of those movies that looks like it’s tailor-made to annoy the shit out of me. I honestly am sick of the whole ‘nerd/geek’ film. It is like they are like, ‘Hey lets just throw some stupid 80’s shit around and the geeks will go crazy over it’ which is sadly true sometimes
But on the other hand, I’ve really enjoyed Wright’s films so far
I can’t offer any guarantees, Kloipy. It seems to be a film that’s divided people into love it/hate it camps, and all I can say is I’m definitely in the love it camp.
It’s a huge dollop of colourful, goofy fun; somewhat similar in tone to Shaolin Soccer, which was another film I liked a lot.
My biggest worry about the film was it was going to pander to the hipster douchebag element, but it’s a much a gentle of satire of glib young people as anything else.
Give it a try, let me know what you think.
Christ, I fucked that sentence up. What I meant to say was:
It’s as much a gentle satire of glib young people as anything else.
Apologies. Like everything else this week, I blame my illness.
thanks Frankie, I’ll give it a go and let you know~
Frank just curious did you like Speed Racer?
I’ve seen both those films as well. I enjoyed them but I wasn’t in love with them.
Also if you REALLY liked Scott Pilgrim I suggest you hunt down the cartoon Code Monkeys, its the exact same thing just a cartoon.
Social Network was good but it could’ve been great. As it stands now its just like a really good episode of TV. Too much focus was put on the twins story and crouch shots of them to save money on a sure ‘Forrest Gump’ style visual effects nom with a possible win at the oscars for their face replacement.
Speed Racer: Like being bumraped by a neon psychadelic clown.
Speed Racer: Like a night on the town with Droid.
Christ. Coming from you, who wants Speed Racers babies, that’s a 10 out of 10 on the creepiness quota. Sorry mate, but I’ll never let you experience “a night on the town with Droid”.
Its ok Droid. I’ve already seen the film adaptation. (Serbian Film)
hehe It has begun!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/oct/29/england-australia-ashes-big-ben
Stuffy, humourless fucking Brits. You cunts projected alky Flintoff onto the Sydney Harbour bridge for fucks sake. We took it as banter.
Actually, I agree.
Pathetic to complain about it, considering Gail Porter’s arse has been on it.
Caught Tron night last night.
And in the freebie shit they handed out I notcied something:
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SOOO YEAH I’m thinking if you didn’t like that then your probably not going to dig Tron 2: Die Harder.
To Koutch
I’ve actually got Speed Racer right here and am considering giving it a second chance this afternoon. I might as well since I’m still in bed and there’s no fucking way I’m watching daytime telly.
My feeling at the moment is that Speed Racer and Scott Pilgrim are both trying to do similar things, but that Scott Pilgrim does it much, much, much more successfully.
We’ll see, though. I’ll get back to you after I’ve seen Speed Racer again.
Speed Racer: Like being clubbed to death with a sack of skittles.
Speed Racer: Like London in the Spring Time.
London in the spring is lovely, ignoramus.
May is probably the nicest month of the year.
Is it perhaps a gay old time?
No, because it’s London, not fucking Bedrock.
Really??
One gay pride march does not a pink fiesta make.
Anyway, just because you lot are so backward you still burn homos at the stake, doesn’t mean that the rest of the world isn’t more enlightened.
Whats that got to do with anything?
I’m just saying London seems like its Speed Racer style fun:
NOPE that picture is too big to post:
Are these your holiday snaps?
Ohh now you are just being a dick. You know I’m too fat to travel.
Hehehe-
Kevin Smith Airways:
“Why squeeze into one normal sized seat and risk Deep Vein Thrombosis? Here at KSA we understand that the average American is seriously rotund and so for a small extra price you can have one of our “lardass” seats. Yes, these really are Jumbo Jets”
I’ve only had to sit next to one giant fat man on a flight once, when I was a teenager and it was on Gulf Air. And you could still smoke on that airline. The dude slept and woke up like every hour to have a fag, and it was like a 6 hour flight.
My problem on flights is the fucking leg room that and I’ve got a fucking demon that follows me around on flights and ensures that the person in front of me reclines their seat the SECOND they are in the air.
It was so bad on my flight to Hawaii last year the asshole put his seat down right as the plane started rolling for take off. I just fucking shuck the shit out of his seat to get him to put it up. But seriously, I know whenever I step foot on a plane the douche in front of me will always put their seat back.
I’m 6 foot plus and really suffer on flights because of that- it’s got even worse for me since the rise of the No Frills airlines. I also always get a child behind me kicking the fucking seat for the entire time.
Yeah me too man. I don’t mind the kids so much as the 5 foot nothing ass hole in front of me that reclines his seat. I remember once I was on a Air Italia flight that had that TVs on the seat in front of you. This douche fucking leaned back like five minutes into a 6+ hour flight and these tvs didn’t pivit enough so you could fucking see them with the seat reclined all the way back. So I just jamed his seat up (he all of the sudden spoke no English and only Italian and I tried to tell him in my basic italian to not be a fucking dick). The stewardness came and told me not to do that, and I showed her that I had no choice not to jam my knees into the back of his seat for they had no where else to go.
So pretty much I tried to sleep. Anyways getting off the plane I’m walking next to this fuck and he was easily 2 foot shorter then me I just fucking laughed at him as he tried to walk fast away from me.
I just try to get hammered and pass out now. The whole experience of flying is just awful nowadays- from the endless queues to ridiculous overcompensating security measures, overpriced pubs, overcrowded flights and fucking Ryanair trying to flog me a sodding scratchcard every 7 second.
Pah!
Then you get there, and it’s all ace again.
Yeah back when I was living in Italy I always made sure to chug 3 beers right before I got on board so I’d be asleep before take off.
Thinking about it. I may have just woken up and that ass hole had reclined all the way back.
Cool. I was just wondering.
I don’t think that Speed and Scott are really THAT similar beyond the hyper color. I think Speed does it better because it doesn’t have the same little twist at the end of each fight/race. I think Scott though is a lot easier to enjoy than Speed for most people. My ADDness makes Speed very enjoyable to me.
But I’m serious about Code Monkeys, its pretty much Scott Pilgrim the TV show. No one believes me about this since its a cartoon show. But its a cartoon show that looks like a NES game. I’m telling you give it a shot.
Holy Shit. North Korea Fires on South Korea-no casualties.
We’ll see.
Franklin, I hope you feel better quickly.
As to like/disliking Scott Pilgrim: I’d probably like the hell out of it. I thought KickAss was great!
Speed Racer was fucking terrible, though, I tried to watch it. I lasted for 20 minutes and said it’s fucking obnoxious.
O.o-funny link for Halloween:
http://cineboobs.com/post/1431666413/the-shining-jack-nicholson
And The Pit-what time is it for The United States?
Erm- what time is it there now?
Thanks, Bronco.
See, someone around this place can be nice when a person is ill!
I liked Kick-Ass, too. You should give Scott Pilgrim a go, you’ll probably have a lot of fun with it.
Bronco- it goes live in T-minus 5 Hours 6 minutes.
You will require booze, else you won’t make it through. Last time we had some of my mates, erm, homegrown and were frankly caned by the end of it.
Thank you sir for the update-*sheesh* That’s like 11:00 in the morning.
Right.
I think I can handle it-though I’m still woozy from The World Series…
And I quote: from twitter.
The Texas Rangers should take time off and eat some Texas Chili-they could use the runs.
I couldn’t believe what happened when I read it in the Guardian earlier
Also it sucked last night because after the Tron thing they gave us a coupon for a cheap movie ticket good for only THAT NIGHT. And I really wanted to see ‘Take You To the Noodle Shop’, but I had a fucking headache and didn’t want to sit through a subtitled film.
Awww damint I thought this was about Jacques Audiard. Fucking French names. Either way sounds interesting.
Annaud did Enemy at the Gates, Seven Years in Tibet, Quest For Fire and The Bear.
But the movie is starring the A Profit guy, Tahar Rahim. Hrmmm looking at his IMDB I see that he was also in Inside, need to watch that sick shit again.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/is-jean-jacques-annauds-black-gold-biggest-ever-arab-backed-pic/
That was one shitty list of films.
Oh, and watch Inside again? Yikes.
Really? The Bear fucking rocks. I liked Seven Years and have been meaning to see Quest for Fire. Enemy at the Gates was pretty good.
I wouldn’t call it SHITTY. Maybe a little boring and slow. I think he’s an interesting director. He’s like a French Alan Parker.
Enemy of the Gates is dreadful toss with Jude Law in it. 7 Years was dreadful boring toss. Haven’t seen the Bear.
Eh I like boring toss. You can stick with you love for the hyper active nonsense you enjoy like Speed Racer.
Okay, so I made it fifteen minutes into Speed Racer and I had to turn it off. Man, that is one ugly film.
Speed Racer is like getting raped in the eye sockets by two of the Disney corporation’s twelve monstrous penises.
Penis in eye socket!
Hahahahahaha.
SERIOUSLY CODE MONKEYS!!! FUCK YOU ARE A MONKEY!!!
Holy Shit-I got a reply from the world’s greatest living Director: Viv Thomas.
Hint: He’s a pornographer.
Life is good.
Hehe.
Funny.
T-Minus 5 Hours till the post goes Live Bronco- just in case you didn’t see my answer to the other one.
Hey, that guy makes awesome fake lesbian porn.
I mean… um… what I mean to say is… ah, I heard – you know, from someone else, someone who is totally not me – that he makes awesome fake lesbian porn.
Droid’s the resident smut expert round these parts.
You gotta be an expert on something.
Did you see Malcolm Conn in The Australian.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/englands-team-of-old-empire-flies-in-to-defend-the-urn/story-e6frg7mf-1225945353297
What a dick.
The article is accurate, if a little smarmy and bitter, but this last bit is a load of shit. It destroys whatever he was aiming at and just makes him out to be, as you said, a dick.
If you’re going to do it, get it right. Strauss went to fucking Radley, for the love of God. He’s as English as Symonds is Aussie. Prior has lived practically bloody everywhere in the world.
Aside from those two- Trott, KP, Morgan are patently not English, KP less so than the other two, but England has always effectively been the Lions so Morgan gets through on that. Trott though, is pretty indefensible.
And he doesn’t mention the bowlers at all. Wonder why?
That paragraph was what got my attention, actually. It just comes across as being a really bad loser.
Point being, that this is a pretty pathetic thing to hang an article on. It’s bitter, petty and sad- I personally think Australia will win this, but shit like that really does the game no favours. That isn’t banter- it’s just dickishness
I am the first to confess that I use the joke “Man, South Africa played well in the cricket” whenever England win, but that’s just banter and pisstaking. We do roll our eyes when yet another Saffa gets a call up, and also shake our heads in disgust at when a Pom tries to use Symonds as a comeback. But really, we don’t care that much. We care more about how our lads are playing than who they’re playing, I think. The last time England won in Australia is the last time they legitimately won. To try to say otherwise is stupid, petty and sounds like a man already making excuses.
The other thing, is that the last time England won in Australia was over 20 fucking years ago. You don’t need to try to make out it’s nearer 50. It sounds like petty, stupid and a dumbass attempt to extend bragging rights for perpetuity.
Mrs. Jarv tells me that the internets are fucked at home. This may be difficult tonight.
So Invictus should’ve been about Cricket with a K?
No, because the Saffa cricket team always chokes and never wins anything.
But very clever though.
We know it’s a joke- and believe me, it is embarrasing when we pull an “Ireland 1990” and find any bastard with the slightest trace of English blood to stuff in the team. It’s nice to be able to retaliate to Saffas with “I feel sorry for any of you bastards to shit to make it into the England side”. Winds them up a treat.
However, in a few years time, it’s conceivable that there won’t be one Saffa in the side:
Ha! Fake, Real-Life is just an illusion.
His illusions are pretty dang convincing!
Hoo-Rah!
1:00 in the afternoon for the Pit.
That’s much better than 11:00 in morning.
See, that’s when I usually get up…
I liked Scott Pilgrim too, and I think Droid liked it too. I gave it a high rating, and did think it ‘awesome’ but Im not sure Id watch it over and over again. I liked Social Network too but would stop short of ‘best movie of the year’ I rthought it was a well made movie about a douchebag.
Tron footage review up at the site. Wasnt impressed at all. It’s gonna bomb, I think. No Avatar style success for this.
Also saw Saw 3D. review up there for it too. Now I just need to get the finger out and do reviews for Monsters, Girl kicked hornets nest and Aftershock..and Walking Dead ep 1.
I don’t think Tron will Speed Racer bomb. But I can’t imagine after the Speed Racer bomb and the lack luster GI Joe number how they got the film fucking produced. Also its coming out during Christmas, Christmas event films tend to do better box office.
Also was your Tron theater full? My Liemax was a little less then half full. HAhahahahah.
yea, mine too Koutch…and they were all dreadfully rude bout it. And the onyl scene that got people pumped was when Journey started playing,. and that was it. Ther Tron world footage was ‘meh’. Jeff Bridges looked asleep. No it wont SR bomb, but I dont think its going to be huge I’ve seen Narnia footage and right now, that one is looking better than this.
Really? Narnia director bores me. Almost worse than Prince of Persia director.
Yeah Jeff was fine, the kid was fine Christina Ri…I mean Oliva Wilde fucking blew.
The thing about the Tron Legacy world is that the geogrphy of it made no sense. Makes it feel like video game cut scenes. Movies like Speed Racer/Tron 1/Gi Joe at leas their georography made sense. Tron Legacy world just sort seems made up for what they needed to do.
But yeah Journey was the only pump up moment.
Echo did you ever hunt down Code Monkeys?
Thank fuck.
Off for preparatory public house session.
I’m in the most inconvenient fucking place in Belsize Park to get to. It’s practically Finchley road and I can either walk for 20 minutes to get a bus. Get a bus to get a tube which I’ll have to change three times, or walk for 15 minutes get a bus then walk again.
I may just walk home. It’ll take me about the same fucking time.
I would walk it.
Fucking tube.
HUZZAH!
Drunken Cinema night. Goes live at 8.30pm- film starts for 9
See you there.
Right. Time to shut down this fucking computer and get the fuck away from work.
Tube. Train. Supermarket. Walk. Home. Eat. Drink. Drunk.
DRUNKEN CINEMA!!! (bitches!)
Holy Shit! I got a Twitter reply from Steve Martin. The *Real* Steve Martin. The Jerk! Unbelievable…gah *head explodes*
Is it a go picture?
A go picture? What do you mean?
Bobby Bowfingers dream is to get a “go picture”.
Confession-I’ve never even seen Bowfinger. Or the New Pink panthers, either. Now, i’m feeling all guilty because of that…
See Bowfinger. Its awesome. Don’t see Panthers.They suck.
Fuck Nightmare on Elm St 2. What a piece of shit. I’d Orang of Doom that fucker. Dream Warriors better be an improvement or I may give this up.
Yup. Utter crap.
Dream Warriors is much better.
Got Book of Eli to watch from Lovefilm, and something called Samurai Zombie, which had better be ace.
Did not like that. Bored me shitless.
And I guessed the twist about two seconds in.
Why wasn’t Malcolm McDowell listed in the cast?
Book of Eli or Samurai Zombies?
Book of Eli.
Samurai Zombie is actually quite good.
I thought Eli started out good and kind of diminished as each act went by.
And I’m still ashamed that I didn’t see the twist (regarding the book and Eli). I don’t know how I missed that.
I liked the opening and was bored rigid by the end.
Are you going to mini-review them?
A Droidian Nightmare Update
3. Dream Warriors was good. Thank fucking christ for that. I was ready to pack the whole thing in if it was as shit as 2.
4. Dream Master was okay. But I was kind of losing interest in it about 2/3rds the way through.
I’ve seen 5 at the cinema and even when I was 10 I knew it was shit, so I’m not looking forward to the next one.
Fuck me.
Children of the Corn stupidity starting tomorrow.
1, 2 & 3 procured. I am going to regret this one.
Halloween Moviethon update.
Well, Samurai Zombie was surprisingly acceptable. Now starting that idiotic Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet drivel.
I blame Droid entirely for this one.
You’re welcome.
Thoroughly meh.
Slasher/ Evil ghost hybrid.
A quite staggering amount of dodgy nudity in it, the classic 30 year old actors playing teenagers. Eliza Dushku’s brother plays the lead. One poor woman has to spend the entire film wondering around in the buff.
On the plus side- good practical effects, and more gore than a butchers floor. Huge amount of boob, some quite funny moments.
On the minus side- every single cliché Scream ripped on is present and correct, the killer is fucking obvious, there’s a staggeringly tasteless rape scene, and the supernatural elements of the film don’t particularly make sense.
2 Changs. Not a complete bucket of shit, but pretty derivative, predictable and uninspiring.
Mrs. Jarv liked it more than me.
Next up: Witchfinder General. I’ve been meaning to watch this all week and not got around to it yet.
Fucking great film this one. Reviewing it tomorrow.
Just finished watching Daywalkers…
Hmmm.
Started okay. Then it went nowhere. Then it didn’t make any sense at the end.
Didn’t like the end of that, at all.
HAving trouble obtaining Lifeforce so been forced to buy it.
I think The extended version of Lifeforce is on Region 1 DVD only. Could be mistaken though…
Possibly. I’ve just bought whichever one.
It was £3 and it’ll get here this week.
Tragic irony of last night…
Having downloaded The Pit only for my PC to zap it into oblivion overnight, I was forced to stream the movie yesterday which luckily went okay.
Today, I discovered that my Media Player, in its infinite wisdom, had procured itself a copy completely unannounced! Since when did ‘streaming’ mean ‘secretly downloading without telling you’?
Twat. And promptly deleted.
The UK version of Lifeforce I first saw was 100 minutes. The R1 I got was 116 mins.
Now, the R2 version appears to have reached 110 minutes.
Apparently there’s a new rare shorter US print which I’m guessing is our original 100 min one.
Alright.
Children of the Corn. Here we go…
Opening quite good, actually.
I didn’t get into Children Of The Corn – it’s a long time ago since I saw it.
Never bothered with the sequels.
Unfortunate. Still, lifeforce is next for drunken cinema and that is fucking incredible.
I don’t know if you noticed over at the Pit TB but suggested this for a possible Drunken Cinema:
http://tinyurl.com/lvw9g7
I did notice. And it sounds perfect for a piss-up.
There has got to be some torrent for it. It’s got tits; someone must have pirated that and made it downloadable.
I saw it- porn!
Am fucking astounded by CotC at the moment. It’s really quite fucked up.
First, it is soft porn, not porn. Secondly, it is soft porn I wrote. And finally, I was drunk when I wrote it. I think that makes it an interesting Drunk Cinema suggestion for you guys.
That seals the deal.
Jarv, we’re watching it.
Is it downloadable?
Let me reply to the right post:
I would imagine there is a torrent for it.
Uh-huh. There are one or two.
No point attempting that now – my PC connection is rather slow at the moment. Laughably described as ‘Fair’. Yeh, fairly shite…
BT throttling your download speed? Yup, they do that to me too occasionally.
It’s a fucking scam, basically, torrenting eats up your allowed bandwidth per month and they come down on you like a ton of bricks for it.
Holy Shit!
Yup. Lifeforce next and then that’s up afterwards.
There’s bound to be a copy out there on the internets that works.
That kid wants a kicking.
Bring him the blood of the OUTLANDER!
Actually, that’s not a bad idea for Drunken Cinema either
It is kind of a cheat, though. These are clearly teenagers of the corn
I cannot believe they squeezed 9 films out of this.
NINE!
Thought there was only about 3!
Yup.
One due out this year as well.
That was honestly, surprisingly not shit at all. Some genuine comedy in it, the kids were creepy as all hell.
Very, very surprised.
No doubt the sequels suck balls.
Sorry- wasn’t clear: there are 7 to date+ 1 remake (why?) and one due out called “The Dwelling”.
I recall Isaac being a creepy, nasty character. And Linda Hamilton singing. That’s all.
High point of the film is easily when he clocks the kid in the head with a car door. Hilarious.
Isaac was creepy as fuck- it opens with a really well staged massacre, and yes, Linda Hamilton does indeed sing.
Other notable people to appear in Children of the Corn films include Naomi Watts, Charlize Theron and a few more. The one I’m really dreading is 666: Isaac’s return. Nothing good can come from that.
Charlize in a Corn film…
That’s mind boggling. Before she was famous? Or when she ought to know better…
Ummm there is a premiere movie on SyFy right now called Red: Werewolf Hunter. Its about a descendent of little red riding hood who hunts were wolves. Sounds like a good nom for drunken cinema. Plus it stars the Joss Wheadon slag Felicia Day.
That sounds awesome as well.
Update on the life and times of one Frederick Bartholomew Krueger…
5. Pretty crap. By this point the films are just comedies, and Krueger is just an annoying mischief maker. This one does have some good production values, but it’s all noise and fury. Not scary at all.
6. A direct ripoff of Dream Warriors (it even goes so far as to open the film with a quote from that film), and again, some nice production values, but this one is particularly shitty.
I’ve got the excellent New Nightmare next and then it’s back to shitsville for FvJ and the remake.
Happy Halloween!!!
Awesome. Happy Halloween to you, too, Blitz.
Here’s one in return:
And a happy Halloween to all at Moonwolves.
Alright, off out now. Cheers!
So weekend watching in Maine this time out:
*Eragon: AKA Star Wars w/ a Big Bloo Rachel Weisz Dragon. Egads. This had some funnish parts-Jeremy Irons was in it for the money, Malkovich did a 10 minute cash grab-but seriously, folks—why bother here?! Every Single character and Plot ‘twist’ was right outta Star Wars! Fuck that shit. Josh Stone Cameo. Ooooh. Anyways.
*Flushed Away: Now that was fun. I liked the whole ‘Wolverine suit/Elvis Suit/Wolverine/Elvis etc at the start. Funny. Good voicing, action, humour. Def. an Aardman production.
*Simon and Simon ‘Simon w/out Simon’ episodes. Pretty good stuff from the middle of the run. MacReney and Stevenson were funny together, esp. playing drunk at one point, someone tries to machine gun them down at their place near the canal. Enjoyable.
*Sherlock Holmes/Hound of the Baskervilles–you know, Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine? Good stuff. The dog wags it’s tail the whole way thru the ‘ferocious attack’, but it’s still pretty good. Gotta like the moor sets etc.
The Nightmare continues!
Update…
Due to a collosal fuck up by the bloke that posted the Elm St series (he mislabeled the second part of New Nightmare as Freddie vs Jason) I’ve had to reshuffle the order.
7. New Nightmare. This is a genuinely excellent fucking film. Almost, if not AS good as the original. It’s a terrific idea as a way to refresh a very tired series. And the scene on the highway is unbelievably good. Great film.
9. The remake. Utterly pointless, but not as cretinously horrible as I feared. It’s strongest asset is that it’s mimicking an excellent film. It’s just, as I said, pointless. And if there’s any debate about practical vs cgi effects, then I would point to the scene in both films where Freddy appears in the wall over Nancy’s bed. In the first film it’s a chilling, menacingly creepy moment, in the remake it’s not any of those things and just looks like crap cgi.
If I finish acquiring FvJ in the next 15 minutes or so, I will watch that too. Not looking forward to it at all.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Alright:
Children of the corn 2- amazingly good. Mystic indian sucks balls, but it’s creepy and effective.
Children of the corn – Urban Harverst: Shite.
yeah, I like the second one probably more than 1. The scene where the kid is whittling the corn figure and that guy’s nose pretty much explodes is great
After a very lengthy session on the couch, I have worked through my issues and can happily say I am no longer plagued by my droidian nightmare.
8. Freddy vs Jason. As dumb as a sack of rocks, but I have to say, this was enjoyable. Plenty of boob, and the fight scenes between Freddy and Jason were stupidly OTT. I was very surprised to find this one fun.
And now I’m off to bed. Sweet dreams!