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Post by DSR on Oct 13, 2013 22:12:47 GMT -5
get THIS much better than that bloody one with the tornado in it Is that a video game for the PS1?
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 14, 2013 0:50:19 GMT -5
How many times have you pooped your pants so far? Once, but that had nothing to do with this thread.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 16, 2013 1:03:06 GMT -5
Yay, I'm back...*crickets* Uh, anyway here is my latest film that I'm going to mini-review... Mary Reilly1996Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Glenn Close, and a bunch of British people Alright, so this was an interesting movie. Some might not even call it a horror movie. It does tend to play out more like a drama, but it also tells a classic horror tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So despite it's tendency to lean more towards drama, I'm gonna go ahead and review it anyway. So, like I said, the story tells the tale of Jekyll and Hyde but it does so from the point of view of one of his maid servants, Julia Roberts, who also starts to become his love interest. Hence the title of the movie (based on a book) which is the name of the maid herself. Our young maid lady Mary Reilly starts working for Dr. Jekyll doing her maidy things, like bringing him breakfast and such. Most of the staff isn't quite sure what it is that the good Doctor is really doing. Those of us familiar with the tale can probably figure it out. While bringing the Doctor breakfast one morning, Mary gets into a slight conversation with him. She is reluctant at first, but the Doc prods to know more about her. Specifically, the scars on her arms. After a while, she does open up to the Doc, as he finds something rather intriguing about Mary. The Doc informs his staff about a fellow who will be staying with him for a while. That is where the classic Jekyll and Hyde tale starts to familiarize itself with us as we eventually meet this fellow named Mr. Hyde. Who also shows interest in Mary. So, during the film, we learn more about Mary herself, as she becomes more trusting to the Doc, as he himself informs Mary of his project and after so long, Mary finds out the truth about Hyde's identity. And also the fact that he's pretty much no good and does some fairly dastardly things. But she can't decide whether or not she wants to tell the police of Hyde's doings. You know, do to that whole falling in love thing. So, in the end, Mary has to confront the doctor and his "buddy" Hyde about their situation and things do resolve themselves in a rather interesting way. But you know, no spoilers and such. So, how do I feel. Like the last two movies I reviewed, I have to say I had mixed feelings. I hate being so indecisive. But as I stated before, the movie is very much a drama and treated rather unlike a horror movie. Those of us who know the classic tale, might be more familiar with Hyde being treated as a pretty twisted looking, ravenous sort of evil doer. Hyde in "Mary Reilly" is certainly evil, he does some horrible things, but he's treated more as a suave, gentlemanly like evil person. Not a hideous freak or anything like that. I suppose they were going for more realistic approach but in the end he just reminded me of Mr. Belding's brother Rod. If instead of blowing off a classroom full of kids, he was murdering people. Maybe I just disliked the way they handled him. In the end we do see something fairly horror-related, a neat looking transformation scene. It's rather grotesque, so it sort of throws the viewer off a bit from the norm of the movie that we see for so long. But that's about as far as the movie goes with the "out there" moments one would associate with a horror tale. The acting is quite good, all the performances seem genuinely old-timey, the atmosphere is definitely acceptable. Malkovich does ham it up slightly, but that's really the type of evil villain performance that you might expect from this story. So, with some interesting scenes towards the end, but a movie that mostly plays like a love story.(One's that kind of boring, to be honest) I would say my feelings are that the film is just okay. I know a lot of people will like the more realistic way the story is handled, but for me I just wanted more weirdness I guess. And as always, with my scale from crap to gold, "Mary Reilly" receives a Some of you may like the more realistic, dramatic approach. some of you might want more horrorness.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 20, 2013 3:10:54 GMT -5
Hey, everyone Banjo is back! Yaaaayyyy...Oh. Okay, so for tonight my movie mini-review is... House1986Starring: William Katt, Norm form "Cheers," Bull from "Night Court," and some chick named Kay Lenz Ah, so tonight I've got a fun little flick from the eighties tonight called "House." I much prefer it to the series with the same name about that douchebag doctor. But what is it all about? Well, it takes the old haunted house cliche and has some fun with it. To start, our main character is a writer/Vietnam veteran who is divorced from a famous actress and who also just had his young son disappear. On top of that, his elderly aunt just hung herself. So, as you can see, this dude has some baggage. Which is maybe why he is a writer in the first place. And his next book is meant to be about his experiences in Vietnam. In between trying to write and inquiring about the disappearance of his son to the police, he also has bad dreams and flashbacks. So, after he hears about his aunts unfortunate demise, he decides to move into her house for a while as a way to get away and hopefully get some good writing done. Now, this house is the same house he and his wife were when their son vanished. This occurrence and I assume several others lead his poor old aunt to believe that the house is haunted. Which at first, he dismisses. Of course, as you would guess, after a while, he begins to experience creepy and flat-out weird things that make him a believer and in the end, help him to figure out the truth behind his sons disappearance. Now despite the cliched story of the standard haunted house, this film does interesting things with the premise. Instead of just normal silly ghost tomfoolery, we get some different things. There are moments of flying objects, but there are moments mainly with various bizarre and creepy monsters. Not just willowy ghosts and such, but some really intense and freaky looking creatures. And at first the movie sort of plays like your standard haunted house flick, but towards the middle, it starts to get weird and more humorous. I feel like this works for the movie. There are also different aspects to the house. Like various spots that serve as portals to creepy other worlds. Also, George Wendt, or Norm form "Cheers" plays out as the neighbor and partly comic relief who thinks our main character is going insane. The movie isn't laugh your ass off sort of comedy, but more of a light-hearted poke at the classic haunted house genre. I mean that's sort of how I took it. There are moments where the main character is trying to interact with other people, all while trying to hide different things about the creepy house. And different moments he's not sure are real or just his mind p[laying tricks on him. In the end, he has to confront his fears and figure out the force behind the house and what it wants from him. So in the end, this I can say is the first movie I've reviewed that I can say I enjoyed. It's not a favorite or anything, but I had fun with it. Bit of a different take on the standard haunted house film. So, just like my scale from poopy to hibbity dibbity, "House" the 1986 horredy gets a Not a classic but enjoyable
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 21, 2013 19:00:00 GMT -5
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 21, 2013 23:26:45 GMT -5
House is such an underrated movie.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 24, 2013 1:02:07 GMT -5
I'm only going to do one or two more of these because by the end of the week, I'll be at my parents place and I don't think they have net access. It's probably better that way anyway. You're all tired of seeing this thread keep popping up on the main page I'm sure. So for tonight... Silver Bullet1985Starring: Corey Haim, Gary Busey(that automatically makes this movie awesome ) and Megan Follows Here is another fun eighties movie this one based on a Stephen King story. It's a flick about werewolves, unless you've already figured that out. But it takes place in a sleepy little town when one night, a random citizen is murdered. At first, the police are saying that it was just an accident and our victim just fell onto the railroad tracks and got flattened by the train. Seems reasonable. The story is really about a young fella named Marty played by quintessential eighties teen star Corey Haim, who happens to be a paraplegic in a wheelchair. He comes off as a bit of a burden to his older sister, who often feels like her brother tends to get too much positive attention due to his handicap. There is also his crazy, drunk uncle played by none other than Gary Busey. Well, if they needed someone to play a psychologically unbalanced and emotionally unstable person, they got the casting down pretty good I'd say. But Busey does a great job as an uncle who is a bit of a mess, but ultimately very caring and protective of his nephew. He just has a different way of showing it. Where most parents of a boy in a wheelchair might be sort of over protective, Busey decides to liven things up for our young hero, by building him a motorized wheel chair that can race up to speeds close to that of an automobile. Yeah why not, kid's gotta live a little. So it happens that amongst the family dynamic of the movie, more people in the town end up getting killed off, and after a bit, people understand that it is a serious problem. They think a maniac is out killing random people. Well, they are right about that I guess. So people are cautious at first, but after one of the victims ends up being a young boy about the same age as Marty, the townsfolk get all vigilante on the situation. This, does not help things. And Marty begins to suspect that our killer isn't just a man, but a werewolf. First he just tells his uncle who just dismisses it, but after Marty encounters the creature late one night in the park, he has tell his sister the truth. Who, believe it or not accepts his statement. Who would just make that shit up? In the end, we are all wondering which towns person is actually the beast in human form. And what can our hero and his sister do to stop the beast person? Well, it all comes together in the end and the result is a darn good little werewolf movie. Good story, and good werewolf action in between the story. Everybody did a fine job in their roles, even the extra cast who played townspeople and various residents played their parts fairly well. I like the idea that the main character is a young kid in a wheel chair. I'm not sure why, I just sort of think it's maybe a "Rear Window" kind of thing, where the handicap adds to the main character's vulnerability. Or something. What do I know? Then Gary Busey as crazy Uncle Red did his job great. It's just a good story, with a good cast that plays out in the end rather satisfactory to me. And from my standard scale, In the end, "Silver Bullet" gets a Good movie, but classic might be overstating things.
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Post by DSR on Oct 24, 2013 1:19:05 GMT -5
You should check out A CRACK IN THE FLOOR. It's an early 2000s straight-to-video slasher. Busey has one scene in the movie, and I pretty much couldn't tell if the part was written, or if Busey just showed up on set one day, talked to the castmembers, and the editor just decided to leave it in. It's just a bonkers scene.
The movie also has Mario Lopez (AC SLATER!) and David Naughton of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON fame in basically a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. The movie is so dumb, but it's kind of enjoyable.
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