What was the last movie you've seen?

[MrPopo]

I haven't seen SpongeBob since season 3. How does the movie compare?

[Fragems]

Watched Doll Man and Sleep Walkers last night and loved them both.



Doll Man was just a fun little B-movie with a 13 inch tall man from another planet getting stranded on earth after chasing a villain through a portal in space. Eventually Doll Man ends up with a Single Mother trying to stop crime in the community while his enemy ends up helping a gang. Interestingly enough while only a action figure sized Doll Man has a weapon that can take a baseball sized chunk of matter out of a human so the movie ends up kind of being like a action figured size dirty harry running around killing baddies. Overall it was a very fun flick and it was really fun to watch.

Sleep Walkers was also really enjoyable it had a nice pacing and Stephen King just knows how to setup up a good atmosphere. Really liked the homey little town and Brian Krause played his character very well. He did an awesome job with the personality switches and made for a really great villain. The usage of cats was also awesome although it was kind of disgusting watching them literally snap fake cats in a couple scenes.

[noiseredux]

Slugs, muerte viscosa

Oh, oh, it's just...oh, that's nasty. Oh, gross. Please, movie, stop! Oh God, why? Why did those explode out of his face? Why did the slugs choose to eat her eyeball while she was still alive? Why did that dead man's intestines explode?

Slugs is another creature feature, like The Nest, only far grosser in my opinion and with even more intense gore effects but even worse acting. In this movie, local health inspector Mike Brady discovers that mutant man-eating slugs are breeding at an intense rate in the sewer system of his town, and now they're out eating people and infecting them with their parasites. It's up to Brady to fend off the mayor and the world's most hard ass sheriff while he teams up with a local chemist and the head of the sanitation department to whoop some slimy slug ass, all while the kids throw a killer Halloween party that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the rest of the film outside of get one girl killed by slugs all because she wouldn't put out.

Yes, female sexuality is on full display here. Unfortunately unlike most slasher films, where the virginal girl ends up the sole survivor as the genre tries to work out its bizarre inner feelings on the nature of women as sexual entities, it doesn't much matter in this film which way the ladies go. Had sex? Gonna die. Not had sex? Gonna die. I guess the slugs just aren't picky. Or since they're all hermaphrodites, they don't really understand what "female" sexuality is anyway.

But what you're really here for is the acting, right? I certainly hope not, as the acting will suddenly shift from normal conversation to batshit crazy at times. Brady can go from dude doing ok to dude having a mental breakdown to dude shouting at everyone around him at the drop of a hat, and he often does in the weirdest ways and occasionally at the worst times! Of course, having been bitten by a killer slug on the finger, I guess it makes sense that he'd freak out, but he just kind of does it in the middle of the film and stays that way until the end. And then he gets calm...and then another of his friends dies and instead of getting emotional, he shouts at the worlds most hard ass sheriff, who does a complete 180 on how his character behaves, and then has a brief and touching chat with the chemist, who apparently completely comforts him with two lines about how his friend knew the dangers.

Right.

Face it, you're not watching this for plot, folks. You're watching it to be disgusted, and it is quite effective at that. At least it was for me. The sheer grossness of this movie, particularly the guy's face exploding with parasitic worms, well...yeah. Well played, Juan Piquer Simón. You definitely succeeded here. And the special effects were quite good. I definitely appreciate a good toilet kill, and you handled yours off screen but still make me not want to go to the bathroom. A slow clap is in order.

A favorite of mine. Total hidden gem. Same director as Pieces, iirc.

[J T]

Dear White People,


This was a smart and fun comedy about racial dynamics in ivy league schools (ebony and ivy, as it's phrased in the film). It's also a movie with multiple protagonists, which allows it to respectfully avoid having one right answer for understanding race, and instead gives a more rounded perspective by giving multiple perspectives. It moves at a pretty quick pace and it's easy to lose track of the plot if you're not paying attention. There are also a lot of pop culture references that will lose a good portion of the audience. I caught a lot of them but some still flew over my head. All the same, the dialogue is enjoyable for being intelligent, sassy, and funny. If you rent it on DVD, make sure you watch the special features because there are a lot of funny shorts that were made to promote the film and get funding before it was complete.

[Fragems]

Rented John Wick tonight. Overall it was probably the best action flick I've seen in a few years. Keanu was just flat out bad ass and it was nice to see an action character actually using tactics, cover, and reloading for once. The fights were also very intense and had really good choreography. The story on the other hand was simple but that allowed for you to focus on the action and they didn't get bogged down to deep in anything or create any noticeable plot holes so it worked very well. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.

[J T]

^ That pretty much sums up how I felt about John Wick as well. It was good if you're looking for some badass shooting and action.

[ExedExes]

I'm adding any of these movies (especially Ack's) to my Amazon watchlist if I can get them there.

In the meantime, more stuff I saw on Amazon -


The Magnificent Seven
An Old West rendition of the Japanese film classic. Does it do its purpose? Yes, by the immense star power involved. Plus, the classic musical score.


Infernal Street

More B-grade chop socky that Amazon seems to have in spades. The protagonist has all the moves when the local Japanese gambling hall makes drug addicts out of the Chinese who go there. He is the only one who can clean up their dirty operation.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Magnificent Seven is.... magnificent.

[MrPopo]

Jupiter Ascending.

I have no idea what the hell I just watched.

[marurun]

Jupiter Ascending.

I have no idea what the hell I just watched.

Did it keep you entertained, if clueless?