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Who the hell is besmirching the Altman Popeye, the film that scared the poo poo out of me as a child? The soundtrack owns, it’s Harry fuckin Nilsson. Anyway, I love dogshit films especially horror. But I do have a soft spot for lovely Lifetime films, Cannon, overly machismo 80s action films, some Troma, Full Moon Features, bad cyberpunk, Mary Woronov appearing as anything ever, it goes on. I’m a massive snob on Letterboxd and the worst person to ask “oh whsts your favorite movie”. I hate that I can’t get Tubi or Shudder here, I need my trash, I love my trash. I guess for a film to recommend, here’s fiveish? not horror - The Hidden - Stone Cold - A Talking Cat?! - Radioactive Dreams (if you like Fallout, run do not walk) - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (I’ve met people who think it’s garbage, they exist) Horror - Blood Beat - Sleepaway Camp (a major plot point hasn’t aged well but has also been sorta reclaimed so heads up) - God Told Me To - Baby Blood - Frankenhooker - bonus: Nightbreed is criminally underrated and I drat near cried at the end of it, I genuinely think if it was released now it’d be a mainstream queer classic
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Around 2000 I bought a book I now kick myself for giving away, a history of and interviews with influential special effects artists. I can’t remember his name but the guy that worked on Nightbreed spoke of his frustration how the film was advertised like any other stalker/slasher movie instead of being open about the monsters being the heroic characters. It was supposed to be a trilogy but the studio tanked it.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Also, nobody hates Buckaroo Banzai.
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Freaked is wonderful and woefully underrated. The OG Super Mario Brothers film has a cover of Roxy Music’s Love is the Drug I think about once a month. The whole movie, much like Freaked, is primo 90s kooky. You can’t replicate it. I hope it never is replicated. I might rewatch Radioactive Dreams soon, with the new Fallout series. Here’s a trailer in German because  https://youtu.be/3pV1GcqOPfE
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There was a period in 95-96 where my Swan Princess tape was just on a nonstop loop. I haven’t seen it in at least 20-25 years?? Occasionally Thumbelina was there too, but the Beetle guy wigged me out a bit. Sometimes when I do my makeup I feel very Mrs. Toad, I have a matte pink that’s a dead on for hers.  Speaking of, finding out that John Cusack was NOT involved with the actual Romanovs was crushing. In hindsight, weird but bold that they even had a movie based on Anastasia, given the uh, actual ending. Had an obsession with her as a kid as well, there were these series of books for girls about royal women, I read the Anastasia one constantly, and the Marie Antoinette one as well. I’m noticing a pattern, ask me about Elena Ceaușescu! Please tell me there’s a bad movie about Elena Ceaușescu I will watch it, I need it. E: yes I liked The Great teen witch has a new favorite as of 14:25 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Oh! I finally saw Young Einstein and I get the jokes now! It is genuinely pretty terrible but if I was a kid I think I’d like it far more. The music was solid though?? Pham Nuwen posted:One summer when my youngest sister was 5, she insisted on watching the VHS of Where the Red Fern Grows--or "Billy", as she called it--pretty much every single day.
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Unperson_47 posted:I loved that movie as a kid! I hated the part where that guy was making pies with kittens, though. I always fast forwarded past that.  and even I got very nervous. I just don’t like kitties in peril! Ever!
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I need to get back to watching maybe bad movies, my letterboxd is sparse. I mean, I’m to perhaps watch far better ~films~ or ~cinema~ but I want my slop, I require my slop. CzarChasm posted:I read it in the 4th grade, and I think it was for class. It absolutely broke me as a kid, and even now, in my 40s I can still recall being devastated. The sequel Summer of the Monkeys was much more light hearted.
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Just finished 1990s The Rookie, which is probably someone’s favorite but absolutely not mine. First Eastwood movie and perhaps another three decades until I watch another one. Maybe I’ll watch the monkey ones, I don’t know. Are there a cornucopia of slurs in the monkey movies? Anyway I’m here to talk about Raúl Julia, who was the villain and finely dining on the scenery in parts. Christ what an actor, the versatility!  I might check out Tequila Sunrise even though Mel Gibson. I love Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, wish he did more PBS sci-fi, also wish there was more PBS sci-fi, what a weird concept.
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Apr 22, 2024 19:41
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CzarChasm posted:Slurs in a Clint Eastwood movie? Yeah, almost definitely. While the monkey movies are comedies, they are comedies from the 70s featuring Eastwood, so yeah, offensive language is almost guaranteed and also IIRC there are some rapey overtones. Maybe Cline Eastwood is not the star you want to follow. It’s not that there’s slurs in The Rookie, that I expected, it’s that there’s such an impressive variety of them, like they had a quota to make.
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I rewatched They Live on Saturday and rereading the initial reviews from its release are baffling. Like you’d be insane in 2024 to call it a bad film but 1988 seemed really hellbent on doing so? Or at least minimizing it to beefcake brawls and 50s-esque aliens? Makes me wonder what is out now that’ll be seen as so ahead of its time in 30+ years. Maybe not Morbius.
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