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ccs wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
And I send this message: We watched... so others wouldn’t have to. We have watched all the Michael Bay Transformers films in order.

Till all are one.

Good God. Are you alright after that?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
See how he’s a bit of an odd’un?*

This is why. In moderation, Baysplosions and SUPERAWESOMEUPCLOSEBLUROVISION fights merely make one daft enough to enjoy that movie until it ends. Normality reasserts during the end credits.

But. To do this? It bends the mind and turns parts of it to Tod permanently. And does so through all points of time.

Rumour has it Terrance Howard is the way he is after a frankly near suicidal decision to do a 24 hour Bay Marathon.

*Not in a bad way. Indeed, Dakka could be said to be an asylum for odd’uns. We’re pretty much harmless.

Wait. I'm not normal?*

I thought it was a totally rational urge to watch the same scenes from Michael Bay films shown over and over in multiple films that are only tenousiously connected.

(The best part of the entire series is when they kill off Shia LaBouff offscreen.)


*Hmmm... I wonder if my lack of normalcy is what has lead to my undeniably wonderful (but modest) appeal to everyone on this site.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Felidae
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It’s pretty hard hitting, especially the fantastic nightmare sequences.

Aye, I saw the film first time when I was 12 or so. Those nightmare sequences stick with ye.

Apart from that I think it's pretty cool how well they took bascially a horror thriller story and put it in the world of cats without it feeling like some sort of gimmick. I haven't seen it in a while, but IIRC it never felt like there was a disconnect between plot/dialogue and the fact that it's cats.

Exorcist: The Beginning

So, the show is only so-so. But the cast!

Stellar Skarsgard! Alan Ford! David Bradley! Genuinely three of my favourite actors of maturity.

 Sigur wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
Fun Fact: Where I grew up was where MST3K was founded. I use to watch it on UHF Channel 23. They use to do a MST3K marathon on New Year's Eve that culminated in the annual watermelon drop off the top of the station.

That was back when glorious UHF channels still existed and the scourge of Cable TV had not destroyed everything, only to be itself decimated by the streaming; which has become worse than the horror days of Cable TV.
...

Damn straight. So you grew up in Minnesota(?)? That's where MST3k used to be from, right?

Sorry to go back a few pages, but yes it was Channel 23 KTMA (?) not to be confused with channel 29 KITN "The Kitten that Roared". In Channel 29 you got to see the Action Pack, Highlander the TV show, and the TV-cut version of David Lynch's [b]Dune{/b] twice to three times a year! Pretty sure this is also the channel where my dad and I used to watch Robotech in the morning after he got home from working nights, and before I went to school.

However, my favorite local UHF channel was "TV Heaven 41" KXLI which showed old TV shows and had themed nights, Monday was War shows, like Combat!, Twelve O'Clock High, and Black Sheep Squadron. Tuesday was Sitcoms with My Three Sons being the only one I recall. Wednesday was Westerns like Have Gun Will Travel, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and the Cisco Kid. Thursday was SCi-FI night with The Invaders, The Prisoner, The Outer Limits, etc. I do not recall what was on Friday night, and all weekend long was old movies of different stripes and styles. Man, I loved Channel 41!

KITN became a FOX channel when FOX was just starting in local TV. KTMA became the CW network when that became a thing. Pretty sure 41 is just gone now.

Man, I should start a UHF thread.....

Do it. It’s fun to reminisce about those old channels.

Sinners

This movie was excellent. Performances are great. Just an enjoyable movie the whole way thru.

 Sigur wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Felidae
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It’s pretty hard hitting, especially the fantastic nightmare sequences.

Aye, I saw the film first time when I was 12 or so. Those nightmare sequences stick with ye.

Apart from that I think it's pretty cool how well they took bascially a horror thriller story and put it in the world of cats without it feeling like some sort of gimmick. I haven't seen it in a while, but IIRC it never felt like there was a disconnect between plot/dialogue and the fact that it's cats.

It felt like a gritty 80’s/90’s crime movie in a lot of ways, including the obligatory car chase scenes and fist fights. It also had gore, a psycho-sexual style serial killer, and the reveal of the maniac’s world-changing obsession. And the femme fatale seduction scene. The artwork looking a lot like Don Bluth’s animation gave it a weird “disturbing kid’s movie” energy, which I enjoyed.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Exorcist: The Beginning

So, the show is only so-so. But the cast!

Stellar Skarsgard! Alan Ford! David Bradley! Genuinely three of my favourite actors of maturity.

Wait, what are you doing watching mediocre movies? Get back out there and enjoy your vacation!

Was early, it was on.

Still out the door by 8am.

Today though I’m taking it easier, as my feet are killing me.

You stayed in until 8 in The City That Never Sleeps?

Yup. Middle age. Also, I’d been up at 4am the previous two days.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup. Middle age. Also, I’d been up at 4am the previous two days.

So you were up at 2 am in NYC and you didn’t throw on a ridiculous outfit and then scramble from the Bronx to Coney Island as if all the hopping gangs were after you?

Middle age is a bummer.

All my clothes are ridiculous outfits. But I’m no good at running. A waddling lumber is the best I can manage.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup. Middle age. Also, I’d been up at 4am the previous two days.

So you were up at 2 am in NYC and you didn’t throw on a ridiculous outfit and then scramble from the Bronx to Coney Island as if all the hopping gangs were after you?

Middle age is a bummer.

"MDG...... Come out and plAAAyyyyy!"

I did go out to play last night! Got chatting to a pair of lovely lasses.

 Easy E wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup. Middle age. Also, I’d been up at 4am the previous two days.

So you were up at 2 am in NYC and you didn’t throw on a ridiculous outfit and then scramble from the Bronx to Coney Island as if all the hopping gangs were after you?

Middle age is a bummer.

"MDG...... Come out and plAAAyyyyy!"

Funnily enough I watched The Warriors just the other day with some friends. Sucha good movie, and a nice time capsule of that grungy New York that you also see in stuff like Taxi Driver. Back when Times Square was basically the red light district of the city, rather than the monument to corporate consumerism it is now.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Sinners

This movie was excellent. Performances are great. Just an enjoyable movie the whole way thru.

I second this. Sinners was the type of great movie I want when I lament they “don’t make movies like that anymore”.

Heads up, though—there is a mid-credits scene that wraps up the movie (and a less important post-credits scene).


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I did go out to play last night! Got chatting to a pair of lovely lasses.

Noice. Did you tell them you’re the Keymaster?

The Time Masters

The French animated movie from the mind of Moebius.

After a disastrous crash, a small boy must fend for himself on an alien planet with the aid of his friend, Mike, the space radio. On the other end of the radio, “Mike” is a daring smuggler flying an ousted prince and princess through an odyssey of even more strange worlds to safety.

Lots of beautiful artwork and animation make this mostly a joy to look at. Unfortunately the pacing really drags in certain parts, and there are a surprising number of character reaction shots where the characters visibly don’t react. It sometimes feels like someone spliced Barbarella into a Superfriends episode.

Lisa Frankenstein

Burtonesque teen romance of a sort. It’s bonkers, very slightly gory, and I really enjoyed it.

Also, ads on in-flight entertainment can get in the bin. Especially you “travel content creator” trust fund cretin. In the sea with you as well.

Three Amigos (1986)

Everyone knows it. I hadn't watched it in a looong time, somehow I did today. It's a bit messy, and bit by-the-numbers, but in between there are always juuuuuust enough bits that are juuuuuust funny enough to keep me watching. It's OK.

What was the traditional verdict phrase? Take it or Leave it?

Everything, Everywhere All At Once

I tried to see this when it came to my local cinema for all of 1-week. I blinked and it was gone. The fact that was even AT my local cinema is amazing to me. This is the place that won't let us have The Return with Ralph Fiennes but WIILL show crap like 10,000 Mules. I have never seen so many Christian Films available on the big screen before moving here.

Anyway, I digress from this remarkable movie. It was so nice to see a movie actively try to point out that Nihilism is the easy choice in this world, and that it can only be countered with interpersonal relationships and being centered on the moment. If you want to change the world, you change one person's world.

Plus, it was funny, well-acted, innovative camera work, plenty of famous faces, and just a really fun and unique experience.

Go see it! Go see it right now! Search it out and find it and watch it.

 Easy E wrote:
Everything, Everywhere All At Once

I tried to see this when it came to my local cinema for all of 1-week. I blinked and it was gone. The fact that was even AT my local cinema is amazing to me. This is the place that won't let us have The Return with Ralph Fiennes but WIILL show crap like 10,000 Mules. I have never seen so many Christian Films available on the big screen before moving here.

Anyway, I digress from this remarkable movie. It was so nice to see a movie actively try to point out that Nihilism is the easy choice in this world, and that it can only be countered with interpersonal relationships and being centered on the moment. If you want to change the world, you change one person's world.

Plus, it was funny, well-acted, innovative camera work, plenty of famous faces, and just a really fun and unique experience.

Go see it! Go see it right now! Search it out and find it and watch it.

It's on Tubi right now...

I found Everything, Everywhere All At Once to drag too much for my taste. It's not bad as such, but takes unnecessarily long to go anywhere.

 Geifer wrote:
I found Everything, Everywhere All At Once to drag too much for my taste. It's not bad as such, but takes unnecessarily long to go anywhere.

Do you mean the first 10 minutes? It felt very fast paced to me. Felt to me like there was a lot going on visually even when there was no dialogue.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
I found Everything, Everywhere All At Once to drag too much for my taste. It's not bad as such, but takes unnecessarily long to go anywhere.

Do you mean the first 10 minutes? It felt very fast paced to me. Felt to me like there was a lot going on visually even when there was no dialogue.

I can't say in detail since it's been a few months since I watched it, but as I recall it wasn't just the meandering beginning. I'm pretty sure the final half an hour also felt too long, and maybe the odd scene in between.

I believe I thought of it as the kind of movie that shows you where a scene or sequence is going and then just lingers unnecessarily before it goes there.

I'm usually game for making a movie as long as it needs to be. This one is a rare example where I wished for a bit of brevity.

Yeah, once Evelyn chooses kindness, that part does carry on a bit until the final denouement at the parking lot of the laundry.

Bagman

A horror movie, and a recent one.

It’s so desperate to be a classic, but I’m about half way through and it’s just not doing it for me.

It’s like if you took a Cabin In The Woods type movie, mashed in It and other modern tropes, strained them to produce a script, managing to leave anything interesting to the side.

It’s not badly shot, and the acting isn’t bad as such. But is just really, really boring.

As with a lot of my reviews, there is the potential here for something scary and decent. But they’ve choked, big time. All the more disappointing for that, as this could’ve been a solid bit of folk horror.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Bagman

A horror movie, and a recent one.

It’s so desperate to be a classic, but I’m about half way through and it’s just not doing it for me.

It’s like if you took a Cabin In The Woods type movie, mashed in It and other modern tropes, strained them to produce a script, managing to leave anything interesting to the side.

It’s not badly shot, and the acting isn’t bad as such. But is just really, really boring.

As with a lot of my reviews, there is the potential here for something scary and decent. But they’ve choked, big time. All the more disappointing for that, as this could’ve been a solid bit of folk horror.

Wasn't that the name of a Forum Poster from earlier this year?

Now you mention it, I think so?

Kept doing threadomancy?

After completing the Transformers Saga...

What series should I watch next?

1. The Bad Boys films

2. The Fast & the Furious saga

3. Aliens (including Prequels, Sequels, and offshoots)

4. Batman (from 1966 to Batfleck)

5. Something else?