What was the last movie you've seen?

[MrPopo]

Life of Poo? Wait that's the porno version.

Christ BonerMeat, that would be "LIFE OF POON".

Button your jacket and straighten your jokes.

Clearly he's into a different sort of porn from most.

[Gamerforlife]

Life of Pi in 3D

... CGI lion

Do you mean tiger? Or perhaps you saw a knock off?

Life of Poo? Wait that's the porno version.

Well, there are a lot of pee jokes in the movie I saw, but no golden showers so probably not the porno version

But yeah, I meant to say Tiger. Boggles my mind that we went from that to porn LOL

[Fragems]

Immortal Instruments City of Bones

Not a horrible movie, but you could easily tell it was based on a book for teens(wirting was so so) and it has the twilight vibe going on. The action and special effects werepretty decent though and while there was a lot of romance mixed in it luckily wasn't the central focus of the movie.

Wasn't a big fan of the twist at the end though.

Big Spoiler

Kind of reminds me of Star Wars except Luke didn't go as far as making out with Leia and trying to have sex with her. Seriously I kind of threw up in my mouth when they pulled the he's your long lost brother who has had his memories blocked BS. To make matters worse they still have really strong romantic feelings for each other at the end of the film which is just creepy.

[Luke]

Since both my wife and I have the day off due to frozen roads:

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

She made Chicago mix popcorn from scratch, and was the best I've ever had. And due to the lack of Old Style, we had some PBR's.

Fun!

[Ack]

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues

This is actually the third film in the five Boggy Creek films, though it is the only other film done by the original's director, Charles B. Pierce, which is why it is Boggy Creek II. It's bad enough to have been successfully turned into an MST3K episode during the Mike run, and while the film is awful, it's considerably more watchable with Nielsen and the bots ripping into it on the Satellite of Love.

So what is Boggy Creek II about? A professor at the University of Arkansas who specializes in cryptozoology takes two of his students and their friend along on a trip to find and capture the strange creature around Boggy Creek after a local sheriff sees the critter and its child. Along the way, the professor regales the students with tales of other people who have seen the creature, including one guy who slipped into a coma and was never able to tell his story(don't ask how the doc knew about that one, it was never explained). When they're not lost in the flashback of a camera covered in Vaseline, the group sets up radar around their campsite and get really freaked out by the critter, despite it never really doing anything to them. Eventually they discover a hillbilly out in the woods has captured the creature's wounded child, so the professor returns the cub during a storm and admonishes the hillbilly.

That's pretty much it. It's an hour and a half of people telling stories which sound like bullshit and wigging out whenever a stunt man in a monkey suit trips the radar around the campsite. Oh, and the one friend complains a lot, while the male student refuses to ever wear a shirt, and the professor dresses like a South American dictator. Viva Sasquatch! And then there's Old Man Crenshaw, who is almost as hairy as the Boggy Creek critter and wears a torn up pair of overalls. You can practically smell him on the video.

Charles B. Pierce considered this his worst film, and it is pretty bad. I enjoyed his work in The Town That Dreaded Sundown and have been meaning to seek out the first Boggy Creek movie for some time, along with his other horror film, The Evictors. But this film is dull, with annoying, useless characters who come across as just plain gross at times. And with the narration, it's like Pierce wanted to go for some level of action while keeping the docu-drama style that he used for the first Boggy Creek movie, only he doesn't keep with it consistently. And there is no tension whatsoever. I don't recommend it.

[Pulsar_t]

Frontera

A captivating modern western that tries to show some honourable people still exist in today's world (and they do).

[dsheinem]

so Birdman's pretty fantastic

[REPO Man]

Just. Plain. AWESOME!

[Ack]

Track of the Moon Beast

A man gets a tiny piece of a meteor lodged in his brain during a meteor shower and then under the light of the moon turns into a giant lizard creature with the desire to kill! So it's up to his new girlfriend, a blond photographer with a love of short shorts, and his best friend, a Native American professor who is an expert of Southwestern US anthropology and culture of indigenous tribes as well as a crack shot with a bow and arrow, to take him down. Now if only this movie was interesting.

Well, it does give me Dr. Johnny Longbow, who is fairly ridiculous, and it does give me a lizardman who looks like Gorn, and in the end, Dr. Longbow shoots Gorn with an arrow made from a meteor which causes him to explode...so it's not a total loss! But beyond that, this is another inept piece of filmmaking with terrible actors and special effects, good enough to end up ripped apart on an episode of MST3K.

It's bad, really bad. So bad, Mill Creek Entertainment released it as part of their 50 movie DVD box sets. 50 Chilling Classics, to be specific. Public domain is the way to go, baby!

Beyond that...not much to say. There's a great moment where Longbow explains what's in his soup, but that's about it. If you really want to watch this, I suggest tracking down the MST3K version, because otherwise...well, it's certainly no Space Mutiny.

[Ack]

The Thomas Crown Affair

If the 1960s had a heist film love child, this is it. It's a gorgeous picture, but it is very, very 1960s in its approach. That said, I still found myself rooting for the anti-hero/villain and enjoyed myself.

Thomas Crown is a rich thrill seeker who pulls off a perfect bank heist. But a beautiful and dirty insurance investigator named Vicki Anderson arrives to figure out who did it in tandem with the police, and her methods are not always legal. Eventually the two meet and fall in love. Vicki knows Thomas pulled the heist. Thomas knows Vicky knows. They form a relationship while also playing a game of seduction, romance, and cat and mouse.

What I enjoy about this movie is Steve McQueen, who does a wonderful job as the talented, capable, and rich Thomas Crown, a man who is now pulling heists not because he needs the money but because he finds it fun. A man who is so bored with life that intentionally undershooting landing strips in his glider, sexing up the person investigating him, and driving a dune buggy at high speeds on the beach do nothing for him. He reminds me a lot of Edward Pierce in Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery, or as a much richer(and on the wrong side of the law) version of William Petersen's character in To Live and Die in LA(which is awesome and I highly recommend). Unfortunately the investigation stalls...and so does the film as a result, until the final moments when we discover who really won the game.

Is it great? No, it suffers from pacing issues, is heavily dated, and at times the main characters frustrated me. But Steve McQueen did a wonderful job, even if I prefer him in Bullitt.