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The X-Men series has always been hit or miss. The first two films were pre-MCU hits that launched a few careers. Even if some of these movies suck... and they do it hard... Hugh Jackman was always bad-ass as Wolverine. The series finally started getting its shit together around 2014 with the epic "Days of Future Past", a mix between the old and failed X-verse with the new and popular First-Class-verse, and it worked. Exceedingly well.

Fox was finally learning from their mistakes, espec... Continue »

No this isn't a rant about Blue Velvet, although I do love the film. This is a rant about me finally feeling cohesion with the titular quote. Never in my life have I hated a beer; I've disliked the taste, cut myself on the can, thrown up because I drank too much too fast, throw up because I choked on it and thrown up because I just simply drank too much. Yet never and I mean literally never have I ever hated a beer... Until tonight.

It all started pretty normally. I had had a long day, fight... Continue »

Like many Italian films of the time, this one begins in New York with some grizzly imagery of a mental patient's recurring nightmares about dismemberment and past trauma. However, George is making progress in his treatments at the institution, so he's given some leeway.

Of course, on his first night out, he prowls the streets of NY, and that can only lead him to one place: a sex shop/strip joint. Naturally, his issues are sexual in nature, and this can never end well to a man of this type.... Continue »

I've been meaning to see more Larry Clark movies for a while, so I finally knocked this one off the list. In this one, James Woods takes a delinquent junkie under his wing, teaching him how to rob places and be a better bad guy.

It starts off in the urban city muck with petty crimes, like stealing change from the vending machines. Very quickly, this movie shows you it isn't fucking around when our scrawny protagonist gets the shit beat out of him by a disgruntled security guard. Shit got fuck... Continue »

In 1977, a group of dumb, horny teens get murdered at a bible camp. In 1984, another group of dumb, horny teens arrive at the same camp for some more murder. The second group's led by Reggie Bannister though, so at least they have that going for them.

For some reason, Father Cummings (Reggie) thinks it would be a good idea for his church to buy the camp. He's warned about th... Continue »

This is a bit of an unexpected venture from Jonah, but he did a really good job with it. I was a 90s kid and I used to skate, so I see a lot of truth to this movie. Our protagonist is Stevie, a 13-year-old in Los Angeles who lives with his mom and his older, volatile brother Ian. And when I say volatile, I mean it. The movie begins with him beating the hell out of Stevie for going into his room, pinning him down and punching him in the face. This dude is a dick, but Stevie still aspires to get i... Continue »

So I'm not feeling super creative lately, but I recently developed a nice frame work for a Command and Conquer like RTS system. My struggle has been thinking of good factions and good unique units for those factions. So I figured why not ask the community!

My basic idea is Trash People vs Stellas. Essentially Stellas (Hollywood Disco types) have taken over the world and a collection group of Trash People are waging a war to fight and take back the world in the name of Trash. The two sides wi... Continue »

1981 was a damn fine year for slasher movies. Everyone was trying to rip-off Friday the 13th, which was ripping off Halloween, and we ended up getting dozens of rip-offs of rip-offs until the genre died for a few years. It was slasher overkill, and that all piqued in 1981.

Our killer is as generic as it gets. He dresses like Jason from F13-3, but he doesn't wear a mask. He looks like some Sonny Landham type, only he sticks to the shadows, because his character is as generic as it gets. He's a... Continue »

Well, it ain't the first time, but it might be for real. The character of John Connor is said to only have a minimal appearance in the new film, and I think it's safe to assume that it's his "Dark Fate" that he doesn't make it too far after T2.

Basically, we only have Sarah in this movie, trying to protect John's successor. I read somewhere that another attempt was made shortly after T2, where some article said a machine was sent back to kill in him 1998. That might explain Arnold's involveme... Continue »

Ma (2019) is a new horror movie by Blumhouse, because if a movie comes out theatrically, there's a good chance it's made by Blumhouse. They've become a rather solid company these days, and they yield generally positive results, IMO.

Teens need to party, and a woman lends them her basement. However, this woman is mentally unbalanced for generic reasons you've all seen before, and voila! There's a premise to abide by.

Again, it's nothing you guys haven't seen before. Bullies made her psycho... Continue »

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May 1st- May 31st

Hey guys, this month the challenge will be a literary challenge. This means that any movie based on a novel, novella, poems and short story will count. Graphic Novels, and Comic Books will not count, but they will be covered in a different month.

The book must be the basis of the movie, and not the other way around. Books spawning from movies, like Star Wars, will not count.

There will be several ways you can earn points
1 point if the movie is based on a book
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Loosely based on a true story set in 1993, the book was written in 1998, and the movie came out in 2001. As most of you know, Larry Clark movies often feature delinquent youths as the main characters, and these ones are the worst, and I mean that in a narratively sound manner. The acting in this movie is wonderful, and so is the cast. There are a lot of recognizable names, and it's all about the performances.


Brad Renfro is Marty, the surfer stoner who is often abused by his "best friend" B... Continue »

Ok, so I came into the money this week, and I decided to blow the lot on blind buys..

How did I do?..

The Voices 2014
The Plumber 1979
Mr. Jones 2013
Wendigo 2001
The House at the End of Time 2013
Vinyan 2008
The People Under the Stairs 1991
The Uninvited 2009
Two Evil Eyes 1990
The Last Winter 2006
Juan of the Dead 2011
Heartless 2009
Excision 2012
The Signal 2007
Livid 2011
Heart of Midnight 1988
Equals 2015
Dressed to Kill 1980
Willard 2003
A Good Marriage 2014
Yello... Continue »

I would guess that the majority of people here are fans of the Troma movies... And I would like to think that I am open-minded when it comes to horror..

I have seen around six of these movies to date recently - having not seen a single one in my life.. and I have to admit, and I don't want to offend anyone here - but they really are not very good, in my opinion.. they can be childishly silly and immature..

I know they completely conflict with my tastes, but is there anyone here who is not... Continue »

Off the top of my head Martin 1978 would be. I can't think of any more, surely there must me some more. What other horror movie loners are there?

41 years after the original "I Spit on Your Grave", Camille Keaton returns as Jennifer Hills to pass the torch over to her character's daughter Christy, so she too can be raped and get revenge, by the descendants of the original film's antagonists.

In 2010, we were given a brutal, gritty remake of the original that featured some of the gnarliest kills I've seen in any movie. It was a fucking great remake. One of the best. It went on to spawn two decent sequels, and then it was announced that... Continue »

John Wick Chapter 3 was cool as hell. It picks up right after the second film's daunting ending, where it's also revealed that Part 2 takes place within a week of part 1. So in that week, John Wick has killed sooooo many people, and he barely has any time to catch a breath because everyone is still out to get him.

Don't these fuckers ever learn? You can't kill the bogeyman!

This movie had the best fight scenes in the entire series. The violence is cranked up even higher, and my God,... Continue »

I know a lot of y'all aren't too crazy about disney, but personally, I think they did an amazing job with the live action Aladdin. I know it isn't the same without Robin Williams as the iconic genie, but Will Smith did an incredible job. He didn't try to be Robin Williams. He embodied the genie in a way that made the movie an incredible experience, while still paying respect to the original.

I watched Aladdin so much as a kid, but it has been years since I have seen it, but the minute the mu... Continue »

For the next two weeks of this literary challenge spin-off, it's a Stephen King ordeal, since that dude has infinite material.

From Sunday, May 12th to Saturday, May 25th:

+1 point per Stephen King movie OR tv show episode/mini-series episode, including sequels/episodes to his movies that he didn't necessarily have anything to do with. "It" (1990) is a mini-series, but it's basically 2 movies/episodes, and that would count as 2 points.

+1 if he directed it (Maximum Overdrive only)
+1 i... Continue »

As much as I want to hate on modern cinematic drivel, I still make an exception for Marvel movies. Marvel was part of my youth, so I feel obligated to my younger self to stick with it, and sometimes... it stinks. Sometimes... it's incredible.

I wont ramble on that movie though... It was a crazy good satisfying conclusion to their 11 year effort, and I have no idea where they'll go from here. They probably don't even know. If Dark Phoenix is the conclusion to the X-Men verse, then Disney can m... Continue »

I saw this, for the seventeen bajillionth time, last night at a midnight showing. I guess there really is something special about seeing it on a big screen, because I had an idea that I don't know if I've ever had before, despite having seen the movie, as I said, seventeen bajillion times already.

There are several ideas in the movie that Carpenter probably borrowed from The Quatermass Experiment. There must be a lot of websites, Youtube videos, etc where people talk about this connection.... Continue »

What do you think of this? I'd been waiting my whole life for the real Terminator 3, and it's finally coming. The trailer is a big tease though, and it doesn't show enough of what I'm looking for.

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