PhillipMedoc

Jerry, a Dickies fan? I like the cut of your jib. The neat story behind this movie is how it was (primarily) funded. The two brothers who made it were sfx guys back in the day. Remember the Large Marge scene from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, where she makes the crazy face? They're the two who did that bit. They took that paycheck and used it to make the movie they wanted to make -- Killer Klowns. It's not great, but I with a title and premise like that, it's fairly obvious they were aiming for a B-movie/Troma kinda thing. Fairly amusing as a ten year old; seeing that in a video store was like "welp, I guess I HAVE to rent this one."

I'm pretty sure the moratorium on spoilers is maybe a good five or six years, so if you haven't seen Old Boy in the last ten years (and why haven't you?) that's your fault. By the way, Aerith dies; Snape kills Dumbledore; and Bruce Willis has actually been a ghost the entire time.

FUCK YES. Watch this movie, people. You have to really see the craziness unfold -- there's a lot of shit they're going to mention that will go unappreciated without prior viewing (not that the movie makes a lot of sense to begin with). I fully expect them to spend at least ten minutes talking about the fake country's name: "Parmistan". You can get it for $6 with fast shipping, if you have Amazon Prime. It's also available to stream on Amazon. It's a bad/good movie classic, and well worth owning. I don't think I've been more excited for an episode since I started listening to this show. This is going to be great. I wonder who the guest is going to be?

You know, say what you will about Wishmaster, but the makeup/sfx is baller.

The censoring/editing of movies on network television used to be one of the most hilarious things ever. Two instances that stick out in my mind: Young Guns, Emilio Estevez is taking a bath and says something like "I'm changing my mind, kiss my ass eye" and the difference in voice from "ass" to "eye" was insane; like Morgan Freeman or someone just dropped in for one word. The other one that I remember is Stand By Me; there's that scene with a pie eating contest and a fat kid nicknamed Lard Ass. During the competition, people start chanting "Lard Ass! Lard Ass! Lard Ass!" and that whole crazy barfing thing starts happening. But for tv, they just chopped out every instance of "ass", so there was like two or three solid minutes of a crowd shouting "LARD LARD LARD LARD LARD", in a really weird hypnotic/robotic fashion. I think someday I'll do it and put it on youtube so I can just relive the memory.

Olympia? What's up? I went to Evergreen, lived there from 1997 until 2005, and was pretty active in the music scene (played in bands, put on shows, DJ'd at KAOS for three years) and was the ticket booth guy at the Capitol Theater every Sunday for about four of those years. Do I know you? Portland, OR. Some cumulonimbus far on the horizon but it's pretty warm and fairly humid. Good BBQ/grilling weather.

Okay, now Vincent Gallo is a guy I hate almost as much as Lars Von Trier as an actual person and as an artist, but he truly makes art/Art/"ART"/@rt. I can't tell if his persona is a put-on or what, but he is very smart, very interesting, and there is stuff going on there. A lot of people only know him from Buffalo '66 onward, but he was around in the New York scene back in the late 70s and early 80s, making music and films with Basquiat and creating. His music is suprisingly fragile and artful. The man can act, for real. His performance in Claire Denis' is one of my favorite things in one of the most beautiful movies of all time. I think I despise him as a man, but he is capable of simple, pure, creative work that -- in my heart -- is the equal of E. E. Cummings. The defense rests.

It's just terrible. Boring garbage, not worth watching. The old anime is much better (the shitty English dub! memories...) I think I referenced this movie in a Tank Girl thread; Malcolm McDowell is totally phoning it in as the villain. The lead actor looks like a dirty pork chop. They try to do the awesome WATATATATATATATA punching stuff and it's such a letdown.

I'm pretty sure your memory is fucked up and this is a Saved By The Bell episode. There were sequels to that movie? TWO SEQUELS? Yeah, it had been brought up so much here that I legally purchased it a few weeks ago and attempted to watch it. It's so disgusting that it's hard to even pay attention; the makeup/fx on the Garbage Pail Kids is so crazy and distracting. I collected those cards as a kid (series two, hollah) but such a bizarre choice for a movie. Did you watch Nothing But Trouble? Remember the penis nose scene? Imagine that, but for 90 minutes. That's how much of a shower you'll need after watching Garbage Pail Kids.

Oh man, the rapey stuff is a serious turn; there's no possible light in which I can find that amusing. That would make the Missus (and many/most women/men? just a guess) uncomfortable. I feel like although great advances have been made, there's certain expectations for the box office that are way out of step with the times. He's a Coppola; it's in his blood. Respect to him for changing his name, There is legit no unwatchable movie he's been in. That guy delivers.

I have curiously never done this! (Curiously becuz I'm a manic pixie dream girl guy). What are some good suggestions? I feel like I would need more nerds in the house; in my circle, I'm probably the one who has the most interest in comedy and blah blah. Top Gun would probably be good. Or Road House.

My opinion matches yours completely. (Congratulations; here's an Olive Garden gift certificate for $11 dollars.) Apart from... ahh... Heaven's Gate, I can't think of a movie where the ambition was so off the chart and it tried, tried so hard and fell, fell so hard to Bizarro Earth. I do think that Richard Kelly is possibly a genius, although I don't believe he's a great maker of films. The first time I watched Donnie Darko, back in the bronze age of DVD, when it ended I fucking cried like a little boy. And I immediately watched it again, with the commentary on. I do think he has some interesting, creative stuff going on; I'm just not convinced that film is the best method for him. Southland Tales is so legit crazy; Richard Kelly was able to get frickin Wallace Shawn and Mandy Patinkin on board. And Justin Timberlake. And Seann William Scott got a chance to act in a real movie. Existing outside of "for real" bad/good movies (The Room, Troll 2, etc), Southland Tales is a very curious object, worthy of study.

If you weren't in LA, you could come over to my place and watch it in all its shitastic glory. I can send you a DVD-R, but I'm warning you that this is no Samurai Cop or even Maniac Cop. It's just one of those lousy early 90s Z-grade videos that are more boring than anything else. I scanned through it again when this was posted but apart from the pretty funny makeup, it's not memorable at all. ETA: I suggest you instead go rent a Jean Rollin film, preferably Night Of The Hunted. It's possibly the best movie to drink wine and fall asleep to. But my offer still stands, I'll mail you a DVD and a breakfast burrito, if that's what you hunger for.

So much respect to you for even knowing about Django. I hope some kids have been turned onto that genre because of Tarantino but I feel like it hasn't actually happened. That film is a goddamn masterpiece. THAT COFFIN. This is my favorite moment from anything, ever, and I can recite it from heart. Hi Johnny! -Can I have a dozen roses please? I didn't know it was you. -That's me! How much? Eighteen dollars. -Here you are, keep the change. -Hi, doggie. You're my favorite customer. -Thanks a lot! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH </peteholmes>

Duder, you and thestray are so in my wheelhouse. Cameron Mitchell also plays Commander Santa in Space Mutiny (via MST3K). ... A string of gory murders. A mad scientist trying to warn of a horrifying blood disease that turns men into monsters. A good cop turned into the beast itself... The nightmare world of Demon Cop.

No.

Okay, 7/10 internet commentators(?) agree, How The FUCK Did This Get Made? Seriously, what's the holdup on this one? Anyone who suggests this movie is not allowed in my bouncy castle. (I have a bouncy castle in my backyard*). 12/10 genius, as expected from Herzog and The Cage. It is exactly as crazy as it was intended to be. Which reminds me, I need to subject myself to Jack Reacher at some point, because Herzog. *Disclaimer: I may or may not have a bouncy castle in my backyard.

They're both enjoyable but Volcano is waaay more stupid, I agree with you. The worst thing is that Anne Heche is supposed to beTommy Lee Jones' love interest. They have zero chemistry, at no point is their romance believable or even plausible.

1. I messaged you about it, but I'm going; tickets have been purchased. Pre-show meet up, everyone? There's a great German restaurant within walking distance of the theater that has a bunch of vegetarian and gluten free options. 3. It's an nice theater from the 1920s that's been kept in pretty good shape. Seats about 400-ish, there's a balcony for maybe another 100. Mostly good sight lines, unless you're sitting behind tall people. There's a full bar connected to the theater through a door, I'm pretty sure you can take drinks from there into the main room. Outside the theater is a concession stand that has pizza, your usual assortment of micros (Deschutes, Widmer, Sierra Nevada, etc) and a few rotating locals on draft. They're kinda pricey (to me, anyways, $5 is too much when I'm going to have a few) so I recommend some pre-game. Do you need a place to stay?

I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't think Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz were God's gift to cinema. I think Shaun is a funny movie and hit early before the zombie craze really set in; I thought Hot Fuzz had some good bits but kinda forgettable. I guess the marketing for World's End is really good because the entire internet seems to have like six boners for that movie right now.

Okay, that was it; my memory's terrible. (Don't do drugs, kids.) I gotta say, I don't know how much Xanax Leonard Maltin takes when he writes these reviews because he's almost always totally wrong.

Dante's Peak is good, especially the part where the Grandma is carrying her son through a river of lava (or was it boiling water? I can't remember), screaming in agony, and then dies. Thanks Grams! This movie is a good entry in the genre of impending environmental disaster movies in which nobody believes the scientist because the town needs to have a summah. HOWEVER Mrs C&B is a geologist, and so I have watched every goddamned movie in which a volcano, earthquake, or some seismic/tectonic event appears. I've seen them all. So I'd have to say the better choice for HDTGM is Volcano. First of all, was that the working title? You couldn't come up with anything better than that? But the real thing is, while Dante's Peak is pretty nuts, the acting is pretty solid and the actual science is usually better than most environmental disaster flicks (except that bit at the end where Pierce Brosnon skis down a lahar, what the shit) the science and explanations used in Volcano are all completely false, stupid, and obvious even to a guy like me with a liberal arts degree. Volcano has it all: a terrible script, Anne Heche "acting", people doing CSI-style computer shit where they sit around smacking a keyboard while random charts and numbers scroll across the monitor, a racist LA cop who realizes racism is bad because volcano, a guy who slowly melts in lava like the Wicked Witch, a cheesy "we gotta go back and rescue the dog" scene (hey, thanks for using that one again, Man Of Steel), a go-nowhere subplot with the distant teenage daughter, obviously "evil" politicians, things exploding/catching fire inexplicably, terrible effects (rear projection in 1997?, etc etc. It's by far the most bonkers and well-known of any volcano-related film. Plus, it's called Volcano. (As an aside, the solution in many of these movies (lots of dumb movies, actually) is to shoot missiles or bombs at them. You can't stop an earthquake with a nuclear bomb. You can't stop a sharknado with a bomb. You can't restart the sun by shooting shit at it.)

Yeah, jesus, we don't need to waste our time on all the mediocre boring ass garbage that fills up the theaters from around now until Oscar-bait season. I'm waiting for Pacific Rim to hit the second runs but after that I think I'm done for the year; doesn't really look like there's anything exciting on the radar. Time to burn through the Netflix queue. I literally fell asleep reading that cast list.

Sweet. And he delivers in the Portland area. BOOM ordered, proceeds to Earwolf. That story about getting SCAMMED. BY. HIPPIES. is not surprising if they were taking part of their drive on the 101, which it sounds like they were. Oregon and northern California have a ton of super sketch hippies and crust kids on that highway during the summer, trying to hitchhike or trade you their shoes for a sandwich or whatever. And they always have some poor dog that needs flea medication and some food. Avoid those fuckers at all costs. Sorry Wie.