My boss recommended it. I never saw the Tom Cruise movies, because why would I? My knowledge was pretty slim, so it was an interesting ride. The character is portrayed by Alan Ritchson, a burly 6'3" actor, which is quite far from Tom Cruise's 5'7" height. Tom is known for playing tall characters, because an actor can act as any character of any height, and damn you if you think otherwise.

He is a pretty cool character, in this rendition of the source material, which is a book or series of books... Continue »

Inspired by my misunderstood Kevin VanHentenryck thread, I thought I'd come up with something similar but not similar enough to butthurt the easily-offended, or give ammo to someone like Gymnopedie, who already has a bug up his cunt about me. I don't know about any of you other Facebook people on here, but I find myself, more often than not, asking myself the same questions when scrolling down my newsfeed: "Wow! This person really thinks that's funny?" Wow! That's supposed to be clever?" Wow! Wh... Continue »

1) Use IMDb ratings.
1.0 = 6 points.
1.1-1.9 = 5 points.
2.0-2.9 = 4 points.
3.0-3.9 = 3 points.
4.0-4.4 = 2 points.
4.5-4.9 = 1 point.

2) First time view = 1 point.

3) The director appears in the movie = 1 bonus point. You can only score 1 point per movie here even if it is co-directed.

4) Can be any genre.

5) Trifectas. Director actors, and series. For director and actors you can bunch siblings and parent / children or grandparent / grandchildren.

6) A movie can only count... Continue »

Behold! A mythical four-leaf cheese cracker!

Do I eat it? Or do I preserve it for the rest of my life?

This is a short animated segment from American Gods, from a few years ago on Starz. Check it out, it's amazing.

I saw this on Tubi (I think), the other day.

I am pretty sure, although not certain, that it was one of the inspirations for Lifeforce (1985). It's about people in the future (which was still 1990, in 1966), finding signals from an alien civilization that was trying to reach us. The aliens seemed to be having some kind of technological problems, but they managed to get a spaceship to Mars. It crashed there...

Probably half or two thirds of the movie is full of logistical stuff about getti... Continue »

I'm talking live action. I remember going to a double feature on a nursery/pre school trip to see Bambi/101 Dalmatians. I'm not counting that...I hated Disney back then as much as I do now. Fuck that rat, that duck...Goofy was alright I guess. I always preferred Looney Toons or Woody Woodpecker as a child. So here are my 1st 5...

Star Wars (1977)
Superman (1978)
Jaws 2 (1978)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Superman II (1980)

...so do you remember yours? If so list them...no judgments cause you... Continue »

Because it's a good movie. I think people are stupid when it comes to the "Snyder-verse". They want and petition for his canon to continue, but they scoff at the thought of watching the final films in that series and let them become box office bombs. Had the returns been greater, the likelihood of continuing the Synderverse would have been far greater. Money talks. Fans can't be that stupid though. Something strange is going on here. I don't know who to blame.

I've mostly seen the mainstream stuff, so I'm no connoisseur.

Faves: The Flash (shut up, Vince!), and perhaps a flick I saw a few days ago, Charlie Day's Fool's Paradise, a satire on Hollywood. Plenty of okay movies this year, but nothing really great. Amityville Death Toilet was a good piece of garbage, though.

Worst: Evil Dead Rise, Blue Beetle, The Boogeyman, Knock at the Cabin.


...and for TV...


Poker Face w... Continue »

In this period-piece psychodrama, Mia Goth plays Pearl, an overworked farmgirl who dreams of being famous. Her mom is a strict bitch and her dad is a vegetable, so she's desperate to get away from the lifestyle. Who wouldn't be? Set in the backdrop of WW1, everyone is worried about the pandemic and catching the sickness, so there's a bit of social commentary on masks. Being related to the movie 'X', the plot also includes some film/porn stuff to tie that whole theme together. Plus an alligator.... Continue »

I was just thinking recently, I feel like we should hear this guy's name more often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Anderson Maybe you already do, if you follow the View Askew universe stuff closely.

All I mean is, I'm not sure that Kevin Smith would have been a success, if not for this guy. He (Jeff A) was the funniest part of Clerks, IMHO. He had great comic timing, and just a really good presence that defined his character.

Looking at his wikipedia page, I see that he has stay... Continue »

That was hard to state clearly in the title field... I was just thinking about the collages and montages of horror icons, and how almost all of the icons are the villains. Some of the only exceptions that occur to me are Ash (from Evil Dead (obv)), and arguably Herbert West from Re-Animator. If you can think of any other horror franchises in which the person who fights againts the main villain becomes the most iconic figure in the franchise, please share.

To paraphrase some recent news, the Disney CEO believes the movie failed because there was...

...Not enough studio and executive interference.



That is all.

There's a new Mad Max spin-off coming out. A prequel to Fury Road about Furiosa when she was younger, but here's what I don't get...

The trailer has the text, "45 YEARS AFTER THE COLLAPSE". What exactly are they talking about? Society was still around in the first movie when Max was a cop. I guess he'd be about 23 in the first movie, so if society collapses shortly after that, say at age 25... 45 years after that places him at age 70 at the time of this movie? So if Fury Roa... Continue »

I like what M. Night did there, with those titles. This is a pretty interesting trilogy in a weird sequel/spin-off/tie-in kind of way.

Unbreakable came out in 2000. Apparently, nobody knows about this movie. I've come across a lot of movie-goers who expressed interest in seeing 'Glass', and upon my questioning them, "Have you seen 'Unbreakable'?", they often say no. I feel that we have too many people going into this without knowing the original film in the trilogy, and that bothers me... Continue »

We all know the story. It was a Grindhouse trailer that's been in limbo for about 15 years, and just when we had lost all hope... this movie suddenly and actually exists. Thanksgiving has been pretty scarce on horror, so Eli Roth decided to step up and finally give the holiday a worthwhile slasher flick, and he's still got it.

A year after a Black Friday mishap, a target group of the teen variety get picked off in thanksgiving-esque ways. Meanwhile, the police investigate the whodunnit w... Continue »

Hey guys I last watched the remake of Suspiria.

I don't know what the general consensus is but I actually thought this was quite good.

They made a pretty interesting decision here since the original Suspiria is pretty well known for Dario Argento's color palette and with this movie they decided to go with a stripped down color style. Probably a good decision in hindsight since any attempt to imitate the original cinematography might have come off as a second best imitation.

Anyway they... Continue »

Who's the actor you've seen the most films of? (i.e. not counting TV episode stuff)

I guess mine is Jackie Chan (though according to IMDB I've only rated 55 films of his, though I do remember at one stage having seen over 100 of his films, though this was in the days before I rated things on IMDB)

Christopher Lee 81 films
John Carradine 71 films
Peter Cushing 57 films

Everyone who comes to this board would LOVE this movie. I don't know how to talk about it, exactly. It's sort of like if the characters from Killer Joe, or from Flesh and Bone, were brought into a sci-fi comedy, but it is set in Florida instead of Texas. It might have also borrowed some ideas from Baby Is Three, AKA More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon. Also also, it has quite a bit of prolonged, completely gratuitous nudity by Jacqueline Lovell, God bless her.

The dialog is really pretty... Continue »

When you think of weasels and flesh tearing do you think of the film or the album?

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I've been thinking a lot about Vince's comments and decided to buy a few eggplants. The only way I know how to eat them is cooked & cheesed over pasta, but that's good enough. Does it make me racist to only eat them in Italian foods?


Users may now report other users over stupid little things. There is a button available on a user's info page labeled "⚠️ Report User", working similar to how IMDb's system works:

1.) You select a reason, 2.) You submit the report, and 3.) Moderators ign... Continue »

I was just thinking, I bet these aren't too far off in the future, technologically. Like, a t-shirt that has a moving gif on front, in some way, so it appears to be woven into the fabric of the shirt. They already have flexible phone screens, obviously.

I was thinking that I would totally wear a t-shirt that a gif on the front of Kenny from South Park, in the Major Boobage episode. They had several scenes showing him having a psychedelic experience, floating away to Heavy Metal Land. I wo... Continue »

Blumhouse likes to shit out these meta high school horror movies, and this one is a doozy. A group of high schoolers get on the bus for a field trip and find themselves fighting off zombies.

Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it isn't. It's a pretty generic experience with some pretty lame high school drama interwoven into the plot. We have some BFF girls, some misfits, some jock douchebags, the basic high school starter pack. Maybe it would be better if it was a straight-up zombie flick (likely... Continue »

That's another October Challenge done and dusted, so let's see who managed to cross the finish line and then some...



Went the extra mile!

Soph - 66 (58)
Ballz - 63 (38)
Box - 62 (47)
ebossert - 60 (17)
jimb - 57 (49)
Trigger - 55 (49)
Troma - 53 (34)
Conditioned - 48 (19)
defer... Continue »