What was the last movie you've seen?

[stickem]

Truck nuts. Lovingly modeled from TSTR. Only nuts worth hanging from your truck.

i hate truck nuts guy. thanks for having me to explain that to my 9yr old daughter going down the road asshat.

[marurun]

Well, you have to admit, truck nuts pretty well represent the individuals who buy them.

[Hobie-wan]

Yeah, Truck nuts and a lift make me wonder if someone lost theirs. Also for a group of people that are stereotypically branded as homophobic, they sure must like looking at them online and in catalogs, ordering them, manipulating them out of the package, mounting them on their vehicle, and seeing them when they walk up from their vehicle from behind in random parking lots.

If people started hanging vaginas (or boobs) off the back of cars, I think more people would be upset and maybe they'd knock that crap off. Not that there's any reason to be ashamed of body parts, but driving down the road is not the time and display and I'd rather make my own decision what I'm looking as well as when, thanks. *sigh*

/rant

[Luke]

Truck nuts

Just reading those two words I imagine Bevis and Butthead seeing truck nuts for the first time and laughing for days.

Ways to display your "awesomeness" exist, but they don't include truck nuts, nor barbed wire tattoos. Since this is the movie thread I'll tie this post together. The "Bad Mother Fucker" wallet from Pulp Fiction is still awesome in my eyes. Plenty of people own not, but not too many if you get my drift. It's loud, but subtle.

Cool stuff immediately loses it's cool factor when people show it off. And it is difficult for me to think that there are people, lots of them at that, woke up one morning, looked at their truck parked outside their trailer and thought..."Man something is missing, but what?". Then went to Advance Auto, saw truck nuts and thought "There's the missing piece of the puzzle. I need to spend my money so I can hang plastic nuts on my car. 'Cause every hot piece of ass in the You Ess Ay loves a dude with a truck with plastic nut accessories. Take that, guys with Back Off! mud flaps".

[Ack]

G Men

Have ya'll figured out how much I enjoy a good gangster film yet? Pre-1960s film noir/gangster movies/westerns/scifi/horror, all meld together to later bring us the exploitative films that so many of us love to watch, and I get a kick out of going through the old stuff too, hence part of the reason I've been doing it lately. Whether it's the likes of Freaks, Bad Day at Black Rock, Pickup on South Street, Bride of Frankenstein, or even High Noon, I love seeing how all of this stuff blended together to eventually become the movies I grew up watching.

And G Men is a great addition. James Cagney is hilarious and tough as a lawyer who had his education paid by the mob but who decides to join up with the Department of Justice to fight organized crime. Cagney could do action, but he could also pull off drama and comedy with ease, and here he does all in fine detail as he helps hunt out former kids he knew growing up for the murder of a friend.

Funny enough, this film was made at least in part to appease critics of gangster films who disliked how the gangster life was often glorified during the Depression while police were portrayed as inept or antagonistic(including The Public Enemy, which brought Cagney to stardom). To counter this, Warner Brothers made a movie where the police are brave heroes, fighting against a group of murderers and thieves who spend their nights often hiding in fear. The cops are fearless, willing to put their lives on the line, and the gangsters are dirty tricksters who threaten and kill women or pull sneak attacks on defenseless government agents.

So is it worth watching? Hell yes, Cagney's great in it. There's plenty of gun battles and carnage, and though the film is only 85 minutes long, it feels jampacked with action. Also, there was a film rerelease in 1949 for the FBI's 25th anniversary that added a new scene at the start where federal agents are screening the film to talk about their history. If you watch this film, this is the only change, but pay attention to find out which version you're viewing.

[Hobie-wan]

If people started hanging vaginas (or boobs) off the back of cars, I think more people would be upset and maybe they'd knock that crap off.

Oh look.
*beware, miniscule unrealistic cartoon breasts in a shadow*

*yes I know BB is being silly with their post headline*

[Ack]

I'm seeing a lot of ads on YouTube for It Follows. Has anybody seen this or plan to see it? Critics seemed to like it a lot.

[Michi]

I'm seeing a lot of ads on YouTube for It Follows. Has anybody seen this or plan to see it? Critics seemed to like it a lot.

I've been seeing quite a bit of good buzz on the web, but it's not playing anywhere near here With any luck, it'll show up eventually.

[marurun]

Finished watching the new Robocop release on Netflix the other day. Something about watching action movies while working out makes me more forgiving. Definitely not the original Robocop, but it has enough redeeming moments to make me OK with it.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I'm seeing a lot of ads on YouTube for It Follows. Has anybody seen this or plan to see it? Critics seemed to like it a lot.

I am excited to see it. The trailer is great, and AVClub gave it a glowing review. (AVClub recommended both Honeymoon and Resolution, however, and I found the former distinctly mediocre and the latter dreadfully dull.) If nothing else, it inspired this great article on how to make a great horror film.