tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60937516965669341512024-03-13T16:49:04.061-07:00Big Monster CinemaBig Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-14526555966274057732009-05-04T02:05:00.000-07:002009-05-04T04:41:36.387-07:00"Read If You Dare!": Weirdest Movie TaglinesThe Tagline. Every movie has one. <div><br /><div> </div><div>It's a big part of advertising a film and a good tagline can make you interested in seeing a film. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>There have been great taglines in film. Such as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>"For Three Men the Civil War Wasn't Hell. It was Practice"</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Or Alien...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>"In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream"</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Here I've gathered up some odd movie taglines. Some are funny and some just flat out don't make sense. A lot of these seem unintentionally funny. Maybe the advertisers and film makers were going for that with some of these or maybe they just stopped caring. Who knows?</div><div><br /></div><div>But either way, here they are...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> THE UNASHAMED (1938)</div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1C8_fwYq3wzpHETrX06A7XxvebCG8qgYYU30f_8yHBY_sKU86h4SnC4aIVOza6LQZttxc4b7LrWLCI0Lwu_Hedkt7k29ypYV5NwhcNDF_zeERBAIsPJNPXFRD_mlxyhwOLiQIwIBLDONi/s1600-h/2722228363_990f1f1149.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1C8_fwYq3wzpHETrX06A7XxvebCG8qgYYU30f_8yHBY_sKU86h4SnC4aIVOza6LQZttxc4b7LrWLCI0Lwu_Hedkt7k29ypYV5NwhcNDF_zeERBAIsPJNPXFRD_mlxyhwOLiQIwIBLDONi/s320/2722228363_990f1f1149.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331900366356118034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> "Actually Filmed in a Nudist Camp"<br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> ...................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SUSPIRIA (1977) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEfuPVf4mmmentBP3FKCk8mvnWzCeIFMl7b-nb9MZZqn81qhK23Afge8BaB8TNtZ1bBDmxGp3Vdm-BRfuFz87hegd8Z6stW1jUdMjAXtC6IG2SIF5fLsBUtWmqIKvuuCl4kB_Qvw5jPvB/s1600-h/suspiria1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEfuPVf4mmmentBP3FKCk8mvnWzCeIFMl7b-nb9MZZqn81qhK23Afge8BaB8TNtZ1bBDmxGp3Vdm-BRfuFz87hegd8Z6stW1jUdMjAXtC6IG2SIF5fLsBUtWmqIKvuuCl4kB_Qvw5jPvB/s320/suspiria1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331902552223171298" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> "The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92"<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> ........................................................................................................<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> SHATTER DEAD (1994)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGmUWP-_PECGDxqrn80OrimQiWd32kiL1TVuFNJ-4ce2OeaE-RBCEiOctqM6qlExU6QSFZAoCnD2zotAcRnkYtJ0Ld9ivrSj0h3fdH757nHFXZ7IEpxhyP88QXUt3wVXPbNnmndB1xjEEd/s1600-h/shatterdead.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGmUWP-_PECGDxqrn80OrimQiWd32kiL1TVuFNJ-4ce2OeaE-RBCEiOctqM6qlExU6QSFZAoCnD2zotAcRnkYtJ0Ld9ivrSj0h3fdH757nHFXZ7IEpxhyP88QXUt3wVXPbNnmndB1xjEEd/s320/shatterdead.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331904039645933522" /></a><a><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div></a><div style="text-align: center;"> "GOD HATES YOU"</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ........................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> MASSACRE AT CENTAL HIGH (1976) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnNqTg8U5VbZqYAj3MeuW3Ql09oveptpJmX-yjQR9cgSlIBf3PqHl2JPsMW7ey9hcGOKmpW1SH3zFGhxhzSiVs0zen21kyjsJN5JonMkNLNV_7qwfrcRWFrnBFmOKSH2wWxNd78st_jCR/s1600-h/massacre-at-central-high1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnNqTg8U5VbZqYAj3MeuW3Ql09oveptpJmX-yjQR9cgSlIBf3PqHl2JPsMW7ey9hcGOKmpW1SH3zFGhxhzSiVs0zen21kyjsJN5JonMkNLNV_7qwfrcRWFrnBFmOKSH2wWxNd78st_jCR/s320/massacre-at-central-high1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331906235617843010" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">"You Better Get Those Kids The Hell Out Of There!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"> .......................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> A*P*E (1976) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6eI6ICY_O-QGyg5s_oFuNyITsgietlKBswqr5_Xn_Fdok-IrbnDFBj5XQR7OyIKOWwVgZZm8wMtTpsYPZ-W28WeW5gio_1D2i7ue6uTUASPRcrvn3GEQTM6VHEHVD6sNp0x-dDRirVp9/s1600-h/Ape_1_1976.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6eI6ICY_O-QGyg5s_oFuNyITsgietlKBswqr5_Xn_Fdok-IrbnDFBj5XQR7OyIKOWwVgZZm8wMtTpsYPZ-W28WeW5gio_1D2i7ue6uTUASPRcrvn3GEQTM6VHEHVD6sNp0x-dDRirVp9/s320/Ape_1_1976.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331907396672904018" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> "Not To Be Confused With KING KONG" </div><div style="text-align: center;"> .....................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>HOUSE OF WAX (2005) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmGYA112BTamjhcdwMYwMRf4lo9v0uGBw7IyE7dpHzmQ_uLiLDATPjEtV4AkDUDXXp4PFNZ9KivMqcoMctnnWSewCf872yXKxBkNbnVcF-NEnyYiURqZAFiGhOZvaHmVVkoTLOhMbQ9UZ/s1600-h/000019957kx.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmGYA112BTamjhcdwMYwMRf4lo9v0uGBw7IyE7dpHzmQ_uLiLDATPjEtV4AkDUDXXp4PFNZ9KivMqcoMctnnWSewCf872yXKxBkNbnVcF-NEnyYiURqZAFiGhOZvaHmVVkoTLOhMbQ9UZ/s320/000019957kx.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331908986340834402" /></a><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> "See Paris (Hilton) Die"</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ....................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>THE BLACK SCORPION (1957) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5taMPh2QKIF5fFvGG9QIO4pgxUfwtFUbHUoZPnkrjpUPM03nRmBLVhnrawZb7gqG3adS3GgTHjOlz8fT9rDr0aV-r90Zn3npgmZLm6jtgnViEa4Uy3aRsnDtKXZbEgYwWrMEMg8Zy9Yrf/s1600-h/theblackscorpion.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5taMPh2QKIF5fFvGG9QIO4pgxUfwtFUbHUoZPnkrjpUPM03nRmBLVhnrawZb7gqG3adS3GgTHjOlz8fT9rDr0aV-r90Zn3npgmZLm6jtgnViEa4Uy3aRsnDtKXZbEgYwWrMEMg8Zy9Yrf/s320/theblackscorpion.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331910755833838082" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> "Don't Be Ashamed to Scream...It Helps To Relieve The Tension" </div><div style="text-align: center;"> ...................................................................................................................................<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> OUANGA a.k.a THE LOVE WANGA (1936) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL-SBOKa06McUZW-hDo5R_58kE22-u2HX_hQhemouFXGQOQn9qaagPUTEX0V83LL-KKJaOdm6AR0d0cJAXJLaB5gObgxE8-bDVfeTJ8mBRSIPIg2-nVTrc-Vv1q3GN4rDnDKxmKra_-68/s1600-h/ouanga.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL-SBOKa06McUZW-hDo5R_58kE22-u2HX_hQhemouFXGQOQn9qaagPUTEX0V83LL-KKJaOdm6AR0d0cJAXJLaB5gObgxE8-bDVfeTJ8mBRSIPIg2-nVTrc-Vv1q3GN4rDnDKxmKra_-68/s320/ouanga.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331914410356944914" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> "Strange Loves Of Queer People"</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ...............................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>THE FLESH EATERS (1964) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljQmABixufXw5C_5lfhiIESjfj5aIo2aNGMPk_QHr2bzmGLb4ctIA7jxFYWDVHJjkCFA1UrK5nbyt-JwlWMxFsndiZd11VMprEGiIbYdPtqMlOvMn9CuO-axQVladLJp6WtDRfCrwI42w/s1600-h/flesh.1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljQmABixufXw5C_5lfhiIESjfj5aIo2aNGMPk_QHr2bzmGLb4ctIA7jxFYWDVHJjkCFA1UrK5nbyt-JwlWMxFsndiZd11VMprEGiIbYdPtqMlOvMn9CuO-axQVladLJp6WtDRfCrwI42w/s320/flesh.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331915537702554706" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The Only People Who Will Not Be STERILIZED With FEAR Are Those Amongst You Who Are Already DEAD!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> .............................................................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzg8wVVd8kl5Hw6m78N-S4ZoXeGK78mqxO8gITYDh2TT3UaUvYkGJ9TZpQqA0-FKysN_M_yew_2BxmAl6C1nMTyk5j9nLwmNg3Yd5RxhxJCSEjAdc_yKfOb78fWV_L9H5rNbxWWgIASsp/s1600-h/teen-ww.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 199px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzg8wVVd8kl5Hw6m78N-S4ZoXeGK78mqxO8gITYDh2TT3UaUvYkGJ9TZpQqA0-FKysN_M_yew_2BxmAl6C1nMTyk5j9nLwmNg3Yd5RxhxJCSEjAdc_yKfOb78fWV_L9H5rNbxWWgIASsp/s320/teen-ww.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331919038406664402" /></a><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> "The Most Amazing Motion Picture Of Our Time" .................................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN (1965)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsgtOVjbNkaVU1XWnn9oe_IL_oMhhxcb0GnzjlaVUhYiYYi86Z_X6vjCMtZY4nxJui-yNjmVkrUVMTvg2RBGtXIWcwq8wOdr5el8JGgkmYKnCTp9cexB2FvDFt_2G1_OWWJ0H81CUPd5u/s1600-h/51WzVb6uC9L._SL500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsgtOVjbNkaVU1XWnn9oe_IL_oMhhxcb0GnzjlaVUhYiYYi86Z_X6vjCMtZY4nxJui-yNjmVkrUVMTvg2RBGtXIWcwq8wOdr5el8JGgkmYKnCTp9cexB2FvDFt_2G1_OWWJ0H81CUPd5u/s320/51WzVb6uC9L._SL500.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331920812436196738" /></a><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> "Terror Stalks The Nudists!"<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>......................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>BLOOD FREAK (1972) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMh-3xXsDMELUI1NcvAPRSR_Peg0SHx0sWtxePA_46u0Gf9g1E-Pbsrg3D07IvybsD7qucqY62YevQHjyuvqphcmFFMqeNboZrChw7ErLso_qMYOK7byWD3ARcu8zWcES0dfBBHpsg6Pe/s1600-h/poster-blood-freak-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMh-3xXsDMELUI1NcvAPRSR_Peg0SHx0sWtxePA_46u0Gf9g1E-Pbsrg3D07IvybsD7qucqY62YevQHjyuvqphcmFFMqeNboZrChw7ErLso_qMYOK7byWD3ARcu8zWcES0dfBBHpsg6Pe/s320/poster-blood-freak-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331921862221914002" /></a><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> "A Dracula On Drugs" </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>........................................................................... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> CORRUPTION (1968) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKX4re6M-lN_BxvWRWuM6qlhzkMSKa2lc-ybCE1UODH6nVq9JCHcUgI8AMJ9B9iYUi9h1QDbscuPq-SJaHUp8r7_DDftZQPTeiYvNekTdDEInXMXwoETH1V3xkYzns3PKvAd05KFXexmK/s1600-h/CORRUPTION.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKX4re6M-lN_BxvWRWuM6qlhzkMSKa2lc-ybCE1UODH6nVq9JCHcUgI8AMJ9B9iYUi9h1QDbscuPq-SJaHUp8r7_DDftZQPTeiYvNekTdDEInXMXwoETH1V3xkYzns3PKvAd05KFXexmK/s320/CORRUPTION.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331923783994572306" /></a><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"CORRUPTION Is Not A Woman's Picture! Therefor: No Woman Will Be Admitted Alone To See This Super-Shock Film!!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> .......................................................................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtp1bxQr5o3kmwe8cBZtSSSz5S9iWeGS_TAye-flrr8sDTFQySStYGpGk7w_PtrX-UN6EJ_iUO0iYxwj5Fvs-qLQJkzU5_N9LyPUlcQa2QSVtnwINPtHnvXH497zCexwtQVOMkVvRLLWa/s1600-h/dracdaughter02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtp1bxQr5o3kmwe8cBZtSSSz5S9iWeGS_TAye-flrr8sDTFQySStYGpGk7w_PtrX-UN6EJ_iUO0iYxwj5Fvs-qLQJkzU5_N9LyPUlcQa2QSVtnwINPtHnvXH497zCexwtQVOMkVvRLLWa/s320/dracdaughter02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331925145485209810" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> "She Gives You That Weird Feeling"<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ..............................................................................................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These are just a few of many. If you feel I missed any really good goofy taglines, let me know. I get a kick out of these and would love to see more!</div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-47022217787739542292009-05-03T19:44:00.000-07:002009-05-03T20:43:38.164-07:00Review: The WIld Angels<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCIjkfnze1LEurqnfXRnfvZVC-RA5WT221r12uJpzrlYDLS7tNWoR4_zp8DLl54sfsa-VGbhDdKDXLdKqddRjoZsKZWIicczJ6_7g7BN53M7WBZnT4i9r7s9wptW5wc_D3NB-gOh_pdT1/s1600-h/144127~The-Wild-Angels-Posters.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 204px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCIjkfnze1LEurqnfXRnfvZVC-RA5WT221r12uJpzrlYDLS7tNWoR4_zp8DLl54sfsa-VGbhDdKDXLdKqddRjoZsKZWIicczJ6_7g7BN53M7WBZnT4i9r7s9wptW5wc_D3NB-gOh_pdT1/s320/144127~The-Wild-Angels-Posters.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331808973575300258" /></a>"Their Credo is Violence! Their God is Hate!"<div><br /><div><br /><div> </div><div>With all due respect, this movie sounds a lot tougher than it really is. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The Wild Angels is a 1966 biker film produced and directed by the notorious Roger Corman. Starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra, this film is about a motorcycle riding killer named Heavenly Blue (Fonda) who gathers up a crew of rough Nazi bikers (Some of which were real members of the Hell's Angels) to help him get a stolen chopper. After a conflict with the police, one of their crew is shot and killed. Then at his funeral, the motley gang gets wasted and turns the place into an all out biker party. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I am a huge fan of and have nothing but respect or Roger Corman. He is the king of low budget cinema. He once said he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sage bush. He has done great things for and inspired many film makers for decades now.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I did however, find The Wild Angels to be very slow and somewhat anti-climactic. It has great style and feel. And the cinematography on some parts is actually brilliant. It's very entertaining on a cinematic level. Roger Corman knows how to make a movie with almost no budget and still pull it off. On the other hand, the overall story lacks kick and plot. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This film presents itself as an action packed violent ride. For it's time in 1966 it may have been, but all the action is at the end and even that is not the kind of action you may expect from the films tag line and mystique. Although it was banned in Denmark when it was first released. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>But that's what these films did back then. They would sometimes exaggerate through advertising to get you to see their movie. I don't blame them, sometimes they had to, and it worked!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I also am a fan of and have nothing but respect for Peter Fonda, but you don't really buy his character in this film. In The Wild Angels, he is suppose to be the hardest guy around, he is the biker that none of the other bikers want to mess with. I just don't buy it with him. It's not a case of bad acting, Fonda is awesome in Easy Rider. In Easy Rider, Peter Fonda plays an easy going, cool guy that rides a motorcycle. You could say he is like a hippie biker or something along those lines. I get him in that. It's a good fit and is totally plausible. He is the opposite in The Wild Angels and it just doesn't fit as well for him. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Now don't get me wrong. I didn't hate this movie. I just didn't love it either. It's a stylish Nazi- Biker movie with some really cool scenes. I thought the soundtrack was great as well. It just presents itself as an action film when it is really more of a hang out film. And I love films that are plotless and we are just hanging out with characters, but only when I expect it. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you like 60's and 70's biker films then this is worth checking out for the sake of seeing it. I don't think it's the best biker film ever made and I don't think it is Roger Corman's best by far. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Though I can tell you, this has one of the most interesting funerals you may see in film. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>And Nazi Bikers.....</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>As I said.....Interesting.</div></div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-53829470752549565062009-05-03T01:55:00.000-07:002009-05-03T02:59:23.970-07:00Review: Sleepaway Camp<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWk3GxGpTT_Dj9PCdxUsHgxPvx8CNo1KZd9e4kx8zQO20RckqFG5vwukK51-l8b-R55fmcDN6zO0Ch_qKHldbu4itN561xsDs7J2vQSq-D8LyCWxgh8CU88k40lBSHqrX7FIf6M8s9vtSp/s1600-h/83Sleepaway-Camp-Posters.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWk3GxGpTT_Dj9PCdxUsHgxPvx8CNo1KZd9e4kx8zQO20RckqFG5vwukK51-l8b-R55fmcDN6zO0Ch_qKHldbu4itN561xsDs7J2vQSq-D8LyCWxgh8CU88k40lBSHqrX7FIf6M8s9vtSp/s320/83Sleepaway-Camp-Posters.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331534369842199154" /></a><div>"You Won't Be Coming Home"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's movies like these that remind me why I love low-budget horror films. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>They have the balls to do whatever they want and they are just plain fun. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Sleepaway Camp is campy, funny, and very perverted. It's not the goriest movie you will ever see, but it does have it's moments and makes up for the lack of bloodshed with weirdness and suspense. </div><div><br /></div><div>Even though it is as low budget as they come, it still kept me interested and wondering what was going to happen next. Because in these kind of films, you never know. There is no safe zone like there is in so many big Hollywood movies. All the rules go right out the window, and thats why we love them.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The story is about this girl who witnesses her family get killed in a boating accident when she was a child. We jump ahead to eight years later and she and her cousin are living with their aunt. But this year their aunt is sending them away to camp for the summer. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>They arrive at the camp, but the girl is anti-social and refuses to speak. She is still not over the trauma of losing her family. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer is knocking off campers one by one. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This film has one of the weirdest endings I have ever seen. I wont say anything because I don"t want to spoil it. It's one of those things that's half funny and half disturbing. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you can get past the low budget, some bad acting, cheesy humor, 80's iconology and guys wearing really short shorts.... then you should enjoy Sleepaway Camp. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If not, I understand...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>More than just a slasher movie, Sleepaway Camp is more involved in character structure and humor. Sometimes intentional, sometimes not. I found this movie very funny!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>As I said, this is a sleazy film. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>It's as if you took American Pie:Band Camp and threw it in the gutter. Then shoveled it back up and spliced it with Friday the 13th and then let John Waters direct it.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Then you might have something like Sleepaway Camp. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you enjoy sleazy campy fun, then I recommend this cult classic. </div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-2789707206149417372009-04-27T22:35:00.000-07:002009-04-27T23:42:59.864-07:00Rarities: My Best Friend's Birthday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8c4E5VzTbmKnTYxoyN6kYT0_YHapCe6uu1fkBzWd3kMpFss9jctK0cdpLn6w4luVyATzpM6IORizqrC4ACqRQj51b8sFedsLBrH5upIen38v0wHC9Qn22zGZh61OpLdWtolI-LHn76ac/s1600-h/Clarenceandmisty.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8c4E5VzTbmKnTYxoyN6kYT0_YHapCe6uu1fkBzWd3kMpFss9jctK0cdpLn6w4luVyATzpM6IORizqrC4ACqRQj51b8sFedsLBrH5upIen38v0wHC9Qn22zGZh61OpLdWtolI-LHn76ac/s320/Clarenceandmisty.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329628276951183074" /></a>There's something you should know about me... <div><br /><div> </div><div>I am a HUGE Quentin Tarantino fan!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>He is my favorite director of all time and I think he is one of the best writers to ever breath air.</div><div><br /></div><div> I plan to fully review all of his movies on here and review one movie everyday of the week that Inglorious Basterds comes out. And then review that after I see it. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I know, I'm a geek...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>But anyway, My Best Friends Birthday is basically Quentin Tarantino's unofficial first film. It's a black and white and ultra low budget movie written by Craig Hamann and Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tarantino. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>They began shooting in 1984 with a budget of $5,000 and used friends from their acting classes and co-workers at a video store to star in the film, along with Hamann and Tarantino. After a four year period, they finally completed My Best Friend's Birthday. Unfortunetly, the film was in a house fire and now only 36 minutes of the movie remain. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>It's about a guy who is down about his ex-girlfriend on his birthday. So his friend tries to do things for him to cheer him up, but everything he tries goes wrong and makes him feel worse. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This is Tarantino at his most comical. This movie is very funny and of course filled with long scenes of plot irrelevant dialogue that is always entertaining and one of the reasons we love him. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>While this film is very low budget and amatuer, Tarantino's writing and style are clear as day. You can tell he wrote it. Some lines are the exact same dialoge used some years later in True Romance, an early Tarantino script that was sold to Tony Scott. You can also catch references that would belong to many of his later films if you listen carefully. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This movie could easily remind you of clerks in style and writing alone. The writing and story are very good, However the directing and the acting could be better, but I don't think it ruins the fun of it. besides, we can't be too harsh, it was their first film and was shot for only $5,000 in a time before computers and digital cameras. Back then you only had a film camera, and shooting in film is not cheap.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you are interested in seeing My Best friend's Birthday, you can watch the 36 minutes that remain of the film on Youtube at... </div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCGSWJDfLM&feature=PlayList&p=70F1BC68471FB078&index=0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCGSWJDfLM&feature=PlayList&p=70F1BC68471FB078&index=0</a></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>And I believe it is on DVD as well. Amazon.com would probably be your best bet there. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you are a fan of Quentin Tarantino then you should really check this out. I really enjoyed this movie and wish the rest of it remained. It's an interesting look at the early work of a man who would go on to make some of the best films of our generation. Tarantino admits that this film is poorly directed but he says that this was his film school. He says the experience he had with My Best Friends Birthday taught him a lot and made his future films possible. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>For a movie made by two film fanatics who funded the entire project with their jobs at a video store... </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Not bad. Not bad at all! </div><div> </div><div> </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-3725975064114730152009-04-26T19:13:00.000-07:002009-04-26T20:24:52.606-07:00Under the Radar: WestWorld<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiniCQvYUQfdhdKa1d-lxQ8k9dmFHWrFMRmLEtcYq-1q3v_05BpeT9H0txFdOHTL83w52TyrygZoj9aZBmC7cJ3nwU2WP6DYIpUA8mDtC9gjdx6iWa25MgsT6etHt-p0topJmHh1cmPsswR/s1600-h/westworld.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiniCQvYUQfdhdKa1d-lxQ8k9dmFHWrFMRmLEtcYq-1q3v_05BpeT9H0txFdOHTL83w52TyrygZoj9aZBmC7cJ3nwU2WP6DYIpUA8mDtC9gjdx6iWa25MgsT6etHt-p0topJmHh1cmPsswR/s320/westworld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329206443203267378" /></a><div>"Boy, have we got s vacation for you..."</div><div><br /></div><div> </div>With the way technology is growing and flourishing more and more these days, a real life WestWorld could possibly be in our future. Science fiction has always shown us the possibilities of a future world. It shows us what we as humans someday could be capable of. But it also shows us what can go wrong if our mechanical creations turn against us. <div><br /><div> </div><div>Welcome to WestWorld, a theme park where you can live in the days of the wild west. For $1,000 a day you can get in a wild bar fight, visit a brothel, bust out of jail, or have a gunfight with an unwelcomed stranger. At WestWorld you can step inside the world of a real cowboy.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>And best of all, it's 100% safe. The parks lifelike androids are programmed never to harm customers and the guns will only fire at the androids. So you can experience the wild west and leave without a scratch. Perfect Huh? </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Well almost... </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The androids are created by some of the best and brightest scientist and engineers. They are extremely lifelike and programmed to always let you come out the victor. Except lately, the androids are starting to fight back!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>In Michael Crichton's story and directorial debut, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin play two friends who decide to visit the new theme park. They have a good ol' time until they mess with the wrong android cowboy. Yul Brynner is a spur jangling and gun slinging android that keeps coming back for more until the friends are no longer fighting for fun, but are fighting for their lives. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This theme park is not big enough for the both of them</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Like so many Sci-Fi films, this is the classic story of man vs. machine. Michael Crichton's style and touch is all over this movie, which is a very good thing. Crichton is one of the masters of showing us a great and genius idea like WestWorld or Jurassic Park, and then showing us why it might not be such a good idea after all. Crichton does a great job of directing this cult classic sci-fi thriller. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Yul Brynner is everything he is suppose to be in this movie and more. First off, he plays a very convincing robot. He plays his character to the bone as a cold and mechanical android. He is so good at it you would think that it is just an android made to look like Yul Brynner, instead of the actual actor. At the same time he is intimidating and scary. Yul Brynner is the shining star of this film. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Also, a fun fact, this movie made history in 1973 for being the first to use digitized imaging.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I really enjoyed WestWorld. It's just an overall good and fun movie. I think it stands the test of time and it was groundbreaking in it's time. Sadly Michael Crichton is no longer with us, but he has left behind some of the greatest science fiction stories ever told and WestWorld is no exception. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I was saying about sci-fi earlier. It has always shown us the future. Many of the scientist and developers who have created many of the technological advancements that we enjoy today (I'm writing on one right now) were influenced as children by science fiction and pulled their ideas from shows like Star Trek and films like Star Wars. While I wouldn't call him a pessimist, Michael Crichton wrote tales about the damage that can be done if we are not careful in our endeavours and the problems that can arise from creating something bigger and stronger than ourselves. Maybe he wrote keeping in mind that someday this could all be possible and he was trying to tell us something. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Because someday, it could be science non-fiction. </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-28798853745054624922009-04-25T00:43:00.000-07:002009-04-25T02:27:47.427-07:00Must See Movie: Tokyo Gore Police<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXnD63MWqqNSoas-qDJs8SoRF8sYA6LN6NO_OK_IQUz3OikAQ_T-Cy7ieMU26UV624nXTAHVIKfnQLtgXWrS-NvM0_KiQtATBmA1217Mmq2rvqUnZnxhaIsmickJ39yO11q2QPLDHlgQ7/s1600-h/tgp.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXnD63MWqqNSoas-qDJs8SoRF8sYA6LN6NO_OK_IQUz3OikAQ_T-Cy7ieMU26UV624nXTAHVIKfnQLtgXWrS-NvM0_KiQtATBmA1217Mmq2rvqUnZnxhaIsmickJ39yO11q2QPLDHlgQ7/s320/tgp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328556561006809778" /></a>I think this is the most insane and F$#ked up movie I have ever seen! <div><br /><div> </div><div>And I loved every minute of it! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Tokyo Gore Police has no boundaries and no shame. This movie is not for the weak stomached or the faint hearted. I know you've heard this said about many movies, but trust me on this one! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>For many years now I've considered Peter Jackson's Dead Alive the goriest movie ever. Not the scariest or the most brutally violent, but the goriest movie I have ever seen. I think Tokyo Gore Police just one upped it, and that is no easy task. This movie is farther than over the top and it is damn proud of it.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>With that said, the violence and gore in Tokyo Gore Police is not entirely mean spirited compared to such horror films like The Devil's Rejects and Cannibal Holocaust. Those two films are more of a brutal and abrasive violence because it is so realistic. Tokyo Gore Police is more of a gorefest than both those films put together, but it has more fun. The deaths and dismemberments are very exploitative and extremely operatic. Kind of like Ichi the Killer, except this movie makes Ichi the Killer look like Juno. This has to be one of the biggest blood baths in film history. What makes this movie so good though, is not just blood and guts for blood and gut's sake. It does it so creatively that it makes for many disturbingly beautiful shots. This film is so bloody that it will use blood as cinematic art. This movie is visually stunning because of it's gore and violence. </div><div><br /></div><div>Another thing is that this film is extremely perverted. Like, beyond BDSM perverted. Some images in this movie will stay with you for life. I promise. Some things you just can't unsee. Part of me appreciates the creativity of coming up with some of this stuff, and part of me thinks some therapy sessions may have been in order. But either way it makes for great interesting cinema. When it comes to this genre, some say the crazier the better. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Think Pan's Labyrinth meets Dead Alive meets Ichi the Killer and they all go to a fetish club in Hell!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>While it's gore-factor competes if not surpasses any horror movie, this is actually a science fiction movie with a pretty decent plot. It takes place in the future (as most sci-fi films do) and the Tokyo police are at war with these genetically modified super human criminals called "engineers". These engineers can turn their wounds into weapons. So if you cut off their arm, they can bio-fuse it into a much deadlier weapon. Ruka is the top engineer hunter and it's her job to wipe out these pests completely. Even though she struggles with her fathers death and is still vengeful towards her father's killer, she lets nothing stand in the way of her doing her job of slicing and dicing her way to the cause of the engineers.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Ruka is played by a young actress named Eihi Shina, whom you may remember from another great movie called Audition. Shina is absolutely amazing in this film. She's not the superstar here in the states that she is in Asia, but it's only a matter of time before we come around to her great talent as an actress. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>While being a gorehounds paradise, this film is also very well directed with style and visual substance, and the cinematography is horrifyingly beautiful. I'm starting to notice that Asian film makers seem to have more of a freedom and ballsy attitude towards cinema than we let ourselves have over here sometimes. They seem to be having fun with their work, while we are just working. Along with all the carnage and bloodshed, this film even finds time to be very funny and satirical. It's not just one thing or the other, it's many things at once.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I could go on and on about how much I love this movie, but I'll just say this...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you are a fan of horror and/or sci-fi, you MUST see this movie! As I said it is not for the faint hearted, but if you are like me and your philosophy on violence in movies is "The gorier the better", then boy do I have a movie for you! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I enjoyed every aspect of this movie. Something like this doesn't come along everyday. This is an instant cult-classic. It is over the top in the best of ways. Check this one out and tell me what you think! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I'll say it one last time. This movie is extreme, bloody, ruthless, over the top, perverted, freaky, and completely insane.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Just don't say I didn't warn you!</div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-83871000565903587162009-04-23T21:53:00.001-07:002009-04-24T00:11:05.597-07:00Great Movie: Sling Blade<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYfr2qJgJijacDxbEwNkpzVk247PPwwXT6wQzC5-8tJtJOo6KlZkYIZZJ_w2EHE3GaRXQlqTmoHk02xwJ_6lBejJ9v8lcGJZ3jntAftaRVcu9DcNDQ3vl9zLstsY8keYKIWJvyLSm_J4S/s1600-h/slingblade_.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYfr2qJgJijacDxbEwNkpzVk247PPwwXT6wQzC5-8tJtJOo6KlZkYIZZJ_w2EHE3GaRXQlqTmoHk02xwJ_6lBejJ9v8lcGJZ3jntAftaRVcu9DcNDQ3vl9zLstsY8keYKIWJvyLSm_J4S/s320/slingblade_.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328146840406118450" /></a>I remember where I was when I first realized that Billy Bob Thornton is a genius. <div><br /><div> </div><div>I was at a friends house when he suggested that we watch a movie called Sling Blade. For one reason or another I really didn't feel like watching it. All I knew about Sling Blade was that voice that everybody would impersonate and that Billy Bob Thornton was in it. I also knew that it was about a mentally challenged fellow and thought it would be something along the lines of Rain Man or God forbid, I am Sam. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This was only a few years ago so all I knew from Thornton was the mediocre comedies he has done (Bad News Bears, Mr. Woodcock) and Bad Santa, which I though he was very good in. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>But as a film fanatic, I'll watch anything at least once. I'll give anything a chance.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>So I started watching this story about a man named Karl (Thornton) who is returning home after spending 25 years in a mental hospital after killing his mother and her lover when he was a kid. When he returns to his home town, he finds himself with nowhere to go and is not sure what he is suppose to do. He eventually befriends a boy named Frank and his mother and is invited to stay with them. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Karl starts to get into the swing of things. He gets a job and his relationship with Frank and his mother continue to grow. Along with forming somewhat of a friendship with the mother's boss/friend (John Ritter). He even meets a woman. For the first time in his life, Karl may be finding some sense of peace.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>But there is one problem.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This situation does not settle well with Frank's mother's mean and hard drinking live-in boyfriend, Doyle (Dwight Yoakem). </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Doyle is a loud and proud redneck. He seems to have it out for Frank because he is not his child. He verbally abuses Frank every chance he gets and is no nicer to Karl. The mother seems to be more scared to leave Doyle than she does in love with him. She knows that unfortunately, Doyle runs the show.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>After witnessing Doyle's unstable anger and abusive behavior. Karl sees the stress and sadness this is putting on young Frank. As their friendship grows, Frank and Karl's conversations grows deeper. Frank tells Karl about how his father took his own life because he could not provide for him and his mother, and about how he has been miserable since living with the monster that is Doyle. Karl tells Frank about what he has done in the past and about his childhood. It seems they both have their demons, and they confide in each other. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>But they both know that as long as Doyle is around, things will only get worse.</div><div><br /></div><div>Karl is, for lack of a better term, slow. But he is in no way stupid. He is a good man who did something very wrong once. He is simple and quiet, but seems to always be thinking. Though his past is dark and people are curious and scared as to why he was in the mental hospital, Karl is not mean spirited. It's quite the opposite. He is just misunderstood and underestimated. He carries the weight of his trials and tribulations and is just trying to make sense of an outside world that has never been easy on him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Karl like every character in this movie is very well written and crafted. It's hard to believe sometimes that they are fictional characters, they could live right next door. Every character in this movie shines. Billy Bob Thornton should have won an Oscar for best actor and John Ritter is absolutely phenomenal. Dwight Yoakem is brilliant as well. If you're playing the bad guy and you make people hate your character, that means you did it well. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I watched Sling Blade until the end and then I saw the credits role. After being blown away, I noticed that this film was written and directed by it's star, Billy Bob Thornton.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>That's when it hit me...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Billy Bob Thornton is a genius!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Sling Blade is such a realistic and honest movie. This film is conflicted and contradictory only in the way it is in real life. Life is not like the movies. In the movies things are clear most of the time. Plot and narrative is mostly black and white. The moral compass is easy to follow. Where in life, things are often a shade of grey. Things are more complicated here. Not that I judge a movies greatness by it's level if realism, sometimes it's good to escape. Though when done right, realism can make you do something you normally don't with fictional characters. It makes you really care for them. Then you don't just have the audience's attention, you also have their heart. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Then I started thinking more about Billy Bob Thornton. He wrote this beautiful yet tragic movie from his heart. You don't write a story like this by accident, it takes love and passion. So the question I have to ask is, what happened? </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Billy Bob Thornton is a great actor. He has a style and deliverance that is his own. He can be hilariously funny and painfully serious. I think he deserves more credit. What I don't understand is why he hasn't done anything as great, intelligent, moving, extraordinary as Sling Blade since Sling Blade? It seems in recent years that he's lowered himself by just doing the safe comedy or the commercially safe picture. I understand we all need to work and make money, but what about the artist inside? What about the heart and love that draws us all to cinema in the first place. Where are your balls? </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If I seem harsh on Billy Bob Thornton, it's not out of disrespect or dislike. It's because I know for a fact that he has it in him! Sling Blade is living proof that he is far more capable of greater things than he has been doing. I know he is a brilliant writer. I know he is a great director. I know he is an amazing actor. I know that he knows it too. I know he has it in him make some of the best pictures of our time. He already did it once. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>And I still think he's a genius.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Sling Blade is one of my favorite films of all time and I recommend it to anyone. This film tugged on my heartstrings when I first seen it and after several years and many viewings later, it hasn't let go. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-4012947734698832212009-04-22T20:33:00.000-07:002009-04-22T22:15:06.209-07:00Midnight Movie: Torso<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMnM72TX6RCUC5iIQQLzXYV8mT6M_Ct_Uo_T-_mhFAZLHqbY9teC5PupuxT42gPKQ2w2xcxlNXvAeNDZKNtyt7SMDqDijfvuQx5T-ZxkumzWgp6jRDT14fN857MKbT9PxmcfZ0i7qG7Nye/s1600-h/torso.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMnM72TX6RCUC5iIQQLzXYV8mT6M_Ct_Uo_T-_mhFAZLHqbY9teC5PupuxT42gPKQ2w2xcxlNXvAeNDZKNtyt7SMDqDijfvuQx5T-ZxkumzWgp6jRDT14fN857MKbT9PxmcfZ0i7qG7Nye/s320/torso.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327750670398833426" /></a>"It Saturates the Scream with Terror"<div><br /><div><br /><div> </div><div>Sergio Martinos' grindhouse masterpiece "Torso" is packed full of everything you could want from a 70's Italian Giallo film. Bloody deaths, sex, drugs, psycho sexual killers, nudity, lesbian love scenes, and more nudity. Yes, there will be Boobs! I think this is one of the great films of the genre and is highly underrated. But aren't they all...</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>What I also found in Torso, was a really good "who done it?" mystery. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Torso takes place at a college campus where a recent series of sex murders has the campus community shook up. A mysterious masked killer is murdering women and the only clue they have is a red scarf left behind at one of the murder scenes. So four young girlfriends leave to go stay in an isolated country villa for the weekend. It starts out to be a nice weekend of partying and sex, but soon turns sour when the girls and guys they've met start to drop like flies. Just when we think we know who the killer is, they get killed. Forcing us to start over again. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>For what it is, Torso is a very good suspense mystery. This movie in comparison is no Psycho or Rope, but imagine if Alfred Hitchcock was a gorehound and a pervert. Torso would probably be the end result.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I read that Martino took the ending out of the scripts and wanted the actors and actresses to guess which character was the killer. Not one person in the cast guessed right. Rumor has it that he didn't tell them until after the film was finished.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I think Sergio Martino did a fine job of directing this film. There's a scene where a girl running though the mud in the woods trying to escape from two guys that are chasing after her. She was at a party and the guys tried to get her high and grope all over her. She puts the joint out on one of the guys chest and runs out. They were chasing her. But anyway... She is walking through the muddy woods and the killer is lurking close by. After a well filmed chase, he catches up with her. This scene is my favorite in the movie. The cinematography is very good at times. Martino seems to have a knack for capturing suspense in plot and in action. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Torso is the epitome of a 70's grindhouse slasher, and i mean that in a good way. Though I think it is an overall good horror film. You can kill people all day long in a movie but that doesn't always make it a good horror. Of course that is what we go to see, but that thing that keeps you on the edge or your seat or that thing makes you or your date jump at a climactic scenes. That's called suspense and without it the death scenes just aren't as scary. Then it's just violence. Even though Torso is a low budget movie, it remembered that suspense costs nothing. And if done right, it's effective. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If your a fan of 70's Italian Giallo films from Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, then Torso is definitely worth watching!</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-29850154474251552362009-04-22T01:49:00.000-07:002009-04-22T02:48:29.428-07:00Review: The Wrestler<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4RKXpvMlipXxJwm__0TUGWYRBBNrEhLhYWYfTkFmNynhtIQRvm0HGUNfcLNzv6unyhjnN2tmwuPEa8dKbIMa7t_y87lQVE6WxtrEvtoUDPgtoG6oHpYH_Um8M5cQV4DDtfFBaR-jq2Hl/s1600-h/the-wrestler-poster-1.0.0.0x0.400x593.jpeg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4RKXpvMlipXxJwm__0TUGWYRBBNrEhLhYWYfTkFmNynhtIQRvm0HGUNfcLNzv6unyhjnN2tmwuPEa8dKbIMa7t_y87lQVE6WxtrEvtoUDPgtoG6oHpYH_Um8M5cQV4DDtfFBaR-jq2Hl/s320/the-wrestler-poster-1.0.0.0x0.400x593.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327449429113844450" /></a><br /><div>I thought I had this movie figured out before I even watched it. I expected the classic tale of the rise and fall of an athlete. Kind of like Raging Bull, just take out boxing and insert wrestling. Because I'm not really a fan of wrestling, I also expected to be somewhat bored since the film revolves around a wrestler. My expectations were poor and I was wrong on both accounts.<div><br /><div> </div><div>Everything you've heard about The Wrestler is true. It is one of the best movies of the year and Mickey Rourke is brilliant in it. </div><div> </div><div>This movie is not about the rise and fall of a wrestler. The film takes place long after the fall. We meet Randy "The Ram" Robinson many years after his better days. Once a superstar, he now gets locked out of his trailer home because he is late on rent and has to work odd jobs to survive. Despite the hardships, Randy will not give up his dream and still wrestles on the amateur circuit. But after twenty years in the business, the sport is taking it's toll on him.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>One night after a match, Randy has a heart attack in the locker room. He survives but the doctors say he cannot wrestle again or he faces a big chance of having another heart attack that he might not survive. After the heartbreaking news, Randy tries to put his life in perspective without wrestling being a part of it.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>He starts by trying to turn a friendship with a stripper (Marisa Tomei) into something more. Then he picks up a job at a deli in grocery store, which he seems to like at first. Most challenging of all, he attempts to mend the broken relationship between him and his daughter. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>!!!!!!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you haven't seen this movie then you might not want to read on.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you have... then go right ahead....</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>After everything falls apart, he decides that life outside the ring hurts him more than life inside the ring. Even though it could kill him, he decides to wrestle again.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Director Darren Aronofsky tells this story with a down to earth style and a voyeuristic attitude. Mickey Rourke shines throughout the whole movie. He shows us what he's made of and why he made one of the greatest comebacks as an actor. It's good to finally see him get the credit and respect he's deserved for a long time now.Marisa Tomei is very good as well. I'd say it's her best role since My Cousin Vinnie. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Earlier I said that I thought I knew what to expect from The Wrestler, that it would be something like Raging Bull just replacing boxing with wrestling. I was very wrong of that note. But this movie is like Raging Bull in the fact that The Wrestler is also a great movie! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>You don't have to like wrestling to like this movie, you just have to like good movies!</div></div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-27462717909001940782009-04-21T20:37:00.000-07:002009-04-21T21:43:58.474-07:00Review: Friday the 13Th (2009)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oOliwpjhcq2BWkDifecRyfKx4b4OO9aAm382dclz1Zr162c5qpKiUPk-U4IJikkfPZmxUNHYAly-WbQVRe1AK7xtbTiTcUNe6kvNQ3nitHKLUC2szQi2SgobuAxsWd44lSOzmAjVYLnh/s1600-h/69554277997b17e158eopa4.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oOliwpjhcq2BWkDifecRyfKx4b4OO9aAm382dclz1Zr162c5qpKiUPk-U4IJikkfPZmxUNHYAly-WbQVRe1AK7xtbTiTcUNe6kvNQ3nitHKLUC2szQi2SgobuAxsWd44lSOzmAjVYLnh/s320/69554277997b17e158eopa4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327371479867753954" /></a><br />If you've read some of my previous blogs, then you know that I am not a big fan of the remake machine that Hollywood has turned into lately. I think it shows a lack of fresh new ideas and has gotten completely out of control, especially in the horror genre. I'm not trying to get on a soapbox or take some big stand against it, there are many horror remakes that I like. Such as Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, and now Friday the 13Th. <div><br /><div> </div><div>I liked Friday the 13Th because it feels more like a update or a continuation than it does a blatant remake. It stays true to the previous series but does it's own thing also. Jason runs now, and he's quick, but that makes him more intimidating to me. Not that I dislike the former Jason now, but he moved at the rate of a slug. But I guess if I died over ten times, I'd move a slower too. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I was very skeptical about this though. I think most of us were. Especially after the debacle that is Freddy vs. Jason. Come on, you know it was silly! It seemed like a good idea at first glance but was ruined by bad writing and bad characters. You wanted the teens to get killed in this one. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Friday the 13Th is a step in a better direction. The characters are a little more likable and it is written with much better thought into realism meanwhile staying true to the tradition of the Friday the 13Th legacy. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I loved the opening to the movie. For me, the longer the scene before the credits, the better. I don't know why, I just like it. I don't want to spoil it if you haven't seen it, but I think the opening scene is very well done. Of course, the death scenes are cool too. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I'm still not a big fan of the remake machine that Hollywood has turned into. I think they need fresh new idea via fresh new writers. However, some are good. Some pay tribute and bring a modern realism and integrity to a story with the love they had for it as a fan. I get that. But some are bad. Some just copy the formula that made money the first time and commercialize out any organic integrity the film ever had.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Friday the 13Th is one of the good ones. </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-11064690162912266522009-04-20T04:16:00.000-07:002009-04-20T04:33:59.263-07:00News: Eli Roth to make "Thanksgiving" a full feature film<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_nJm1_ztw1Hw16eQq38sQxNAAKCPwBr9ZDUWHRM8hQudEFzXakbXeFM2wbEpaFKXKVcx0VguK83WLW4hoOVaoogZZ3lGrXjDxxJJLNEIGsPK-xaKOeyQxYDXfDPQKMLAFvaFBm-WdsnDC/s1600-h/thanksgiving.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_nJm1_ztw1Hw16eQq38sQxNAAKCPwBr9ZDUWHRM8hQudEFzXakbXeFM2wbEpaFKXKVcx0VguK83WLW4hoOVaoogZZ3lGrXjDxxJJLNEIGsPK-xaKOeyQxYDXfDPQKMLAFvaFBm-WdsnDC/s320/thanksgiving.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326734658580830066" /></a><br />In 2007, Eli Roth made a "fake" trailer for Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double feature called "Thanksgiving", a horror movie about a Thanksgiving day killer. Roth said he got the idea because Thanksgiving was the only holiday he could think of that hasn't been used for a horror movie theme. <div><br /><div> </div><div>After audience response and demand, Roth has decided that he will turn the trailer into a full length movie. It is rumored that Robert Rodriguez will do the same for his trailer from the same project called "Machete".</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Roth is now shooting for his next film. His current project is a big secret but some say that he is adapting Stephen King's novel "The Cell". Roth said he wants to shoot this project and then extend the shooting for three weeks to film Thanksgiving and knock it out in those three weeks alone. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I think this would be a good move. He can completely get away with shooting this cheaply and quickly because that will only ad to the authenticity of what he is going for anyway. With the buzz this has gotten since the few minute trailer, I can only imagine that they will make double if not triple back of what it will cost to make this. Better yet, they could put Thanksgiving and Machete on the same bill like they did the first time with Planet Terror and Death Proof. </div><div><br /></div><div>Together or not, I am looking forward to both of these. I was very glad to hear the Roth was going to be making Thanksgiving!</div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-16314542958334249672009-04-19T21:15:00.001-07:002009-04-20T20:49:05.136-07:00Flashback: Flight of the Navigator<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1_AyOfek4QgiRTigt-HmvodC93PXjayyEWGY_WRs8SZJOnzjRkj4egc8gqOn7m1jXilS4rMOxgh-SmXnymOghrhQjVOUDxnY8Mc_TBs_jKLcWLwc-xM6K3YTu9DqsHOlnhXYhreNEf6_/s1600-h/Flightofnavigatorpost.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1_AyOfek4QgiRTigt-HmvodC93PXjayyEWGY_WRs8SZJOnzjRkj4egc8gqOn7m1jXilS4rMOxgh-SmXnymOghrhQjVOUDxnY8Mc_TBs_jKLcWLwc-xM6K3YTu9DqsHOlnhXYhreNEf6_/s320/Flightofnavigatorpost.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326986498886292674" /></a>Everyone has that one movie from their childhood. The one that you use to watch over and over again. Then as you grow up, your taste changes and you forget about it. Until one day when your going through your old things or stumble across it in a video store. Then for fun's sake you watch it again years later, to see what all the fuss what about. You watch it and even after all this time, you still enjoy it. The you realize that the child in you is very much still alive. Everyone has that one movie. For me, that movie is Flight of the Navigator. <div><br /><div> </div><div>Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 Disney movie starring Joey Cramer, Paul Rubens(Voice of the UFO) and a young Sarah Jessica Parker. The story takes place in 1978. A boy is walking through the woods to go to a friends house to get his brother when he falls and hits his head, which knocks him unconscious. He wakes up after what seems like only a few minutes and heads back home. He returns home to realize that his parents no longer live there and he has been missing for eight years, it is now 1986. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The couple who now lives in his home report him to the local police. They are puzzled because the boy has not aged and looks exactly like he did in 1978. He also thinks Jimmy Carter is the president. The police reunite him with his family, who have all aged. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, NASA discovers a UFO that has crashed into power lines. After arguing with the police, NASA convinces them that the spacecraft is theirs and they take it to study it. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The boy is taken to a hospital to help determine what happened to him. They run tests on his brain and find that he contains information about the spacecraft at the NASA base. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>After events, the ship telepathically calls for the boy to come to it. The boy eventually sneaks out of the nearby hospital and goes to the ship and they both escape. The ship has a personality and makes the boy it's navigator. They travel around and befriend each other as they are being chased by NASA.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Compared to most of the kids movies I know of today, Flight of the Navigator is very well written and a movie that I'm not ashamed to say that I still very much like. The special effects for the time are phenomenal. The spacecraft is very cool and the creature inside the ship are very well done as well. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This is a good movie. The film has mostly been forgotten over time but is considered a cult or retro classic by film fans. It seemed like the makers of Flight of the Navigator tried to make a very good, well written, and visually pleasing kids movie. And they did just that. </div><div> </div><div>Whenever I feel the stresses of the adult world weighing down on me and I want to reminisce about the carefree days of being a kid, I watch Flight of the Navigator and it all comes rushing back. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you have children, spare them the crap that is made for kids now, and show them Flight of the Navigator!</div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-85939830005578149132009-04-19T19:42:00.000-07:002009-04-20T19:42:53.347-07:00DVD Review: Grindhouse Experience-20 Film Feature Collection<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLkOQuIdV4WLkXBRtXWTsx1T2USY2YtyVWZZuy-feqWQK6X0Py4TmQpx459TJl9lp_cu_JR3_RdNkv5gxBfoUeTMLY66FrgMPj7yGrJVfEjRlIy__3OqvdoiI2aljI74JZFxZgEop_G4W/s1600-h/DVNcsPPORF1DRU_l.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLkOQuIdV4WLkXBRtXWTsx1T2USY2YtyVWZZuy-feqWQK6X0Py4TmQpx459TJl9lp_cu_JR3_RdNkv5gxBfoUeTMLY66FrgMPj7yGrJVfEjRlIy__3OqvdoiI2aljI74JZFxZgEop_G4W/s320/DVNcsPPORF1DRU_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326603797928074146" /></a><br />A few years ago they released this set of 70's and 80's grindhouse movies. I bought it back then and just thought about it for the first time in a while. If your a fan of the genre, some of these films were very entertaining. Some were not. <div><br /><div> </div><div>On a business aspect, the idea is pure genius. This company called Fortune Five found all these old and somewhat rare movies from when the grindhouse genre actually existed. Since most if not all of these movies are available in the public domain, they are completely free and legal to distribute by anyone. So they gathered up 20 movies and put them in a set and sold the set for $20 a pop. Other than the cost of the box, disc, and cases, they are almost making 100% profit. Then they released it right after "Grindhouse (Planet Terror and Death Proof) hit the theaters. They obviously did something right because they released "Grindhouse Experience 2" shortly after.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>So now I'm going to go through and talk about each of these films. Some of these movies have more than one name (Back then the theaters use to show the same movies under different names in order to get you to buy another ticket thinking it was a different movie. Pretty sneaky, huh?) So I'm just going to use the titles as stated in this set. Let's get started!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Women's Camp 119</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ufbIf7r1XHp5YJ5zuK0ftNtmA0g3K4lFa4y1viNz3-uk2IDhTJN-i2O15QFnQk-XpQ98kdsLMib2Nj9Tbh1zNlyNaVhUOn64salTs8zvQxiNUkwLBpO_0_l4-fhUlf6wYxTMCJhoIV95/s1600-h/10860340_det.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ufbIf7r1XHp5YJ5zuK0ftNtmA0g3K4lFa4y1viNz3-uk2IDhTJN-i2O15QFnQk-XpQ98kdsLMib2Nj9Tbh1zNlyNaVhUOn64salTs8zvQxiNUkwLBpO_0_l4-fhUlf6wYxTMCJhoIV95/s200/10860340_det.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326607678569119650" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>I enjoyed this one! It's a good old fashion Nazisploitation and has a decent plot. It's almost a women in cages movie but with a nazi twist. These doctors do weird and horrible experiments on female prisoners but there are two doctors who are trying to shut the whole operation down. What I remember the most is this odd perverted guy named Kurt running around trying to rape and molest women the whole entire time. I'm not sure if he is suppose to be retarded or a experiment himself, but he is funny and the comic relief of the film. I'm not sure if the film makers intended on him being funny, but it's too late. He's hilarious! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Strike of the Tortured Angels</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_1RnUHUDpwqtZ-Z0LvhE1ENTJAq24vwO37JWdYq2g5jJvecs9gToZ2tShWFE1yqHuiCC3nbVovjtHnNjR6C32yyhpWutRYCZtq8uhUccv0wZzHo_5DhS7Sr_VYpjPfAwcaYMoQJT6kmJ/s1600-h/thumb_IC_strike_of_the_tortured_angels.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 91px; height: 129px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_1RnUHUDpwqtZ-Z0LvhE1ENTJAq24vwO37JWdYq2g5jJvecs9gToZ2tShWFE1yqHuiCC3nbVovjtHnNjR6C32yyhpWutRYCZtq8uhUccv0wZzHo_5DhS7Sr_VYpjPfAwcaYMoQJT6kmJ/s320/thumb_IC_strike_of_the_tortured_angels.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326610732650774690" /></a> </div><div>This one was not bad either. As I recall, it's about these girls in a jail or boarding school. They are supposed to be "Tortured Angels" but don't have it nearly as bad as the girls in the first movie above. You have trouble feeling sorry for them if you watch the first movie first. Some of the girls escape and the main character finds out that her boyfriend has double crossed her. So she seeks revenge. As I said, this one is not bad...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Savage Man/Savage Beast</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1RqULgRXhr2vDiD1uZohJN3Gon2zHVNwIZFHwlNvpEQ6nvjXHMUP-it5VRia0La5SwfvegcVE3NDkn0PDqZ5Nv-gUTiEoQTiXwbKUYOAdoWeoVH7-2n_8s3ENYJSuTOvIoFnAvDgmTER/s1600-h/savage_man_savage_beast_poster_01.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1RqULgRXhr2vDiD1uZohJN3Gon2zHVNwIZFHwlNvpEQ6nvjXHMUP-it5VRia0La5SwfvegcVE3NDkn0PDqZ5Nv-gUTiEoQTiXwbKUYOAdoWeoVH7-2n_8s3ENYJSuTOvIoFnAvDgmTER/s200/savage_man_savage_beast_poster_01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326612877503294050" /></a><div><br /></div><div>This one is interesting. It's a documentary that focuses on animal and human nature. It deals with violence, sex, rituals, and nature. I guess they use to show this in the grindhouses back in the day. While it is very graphic and in your face, it is also very entertaining and educational. There are some very weird, cool, shocking, and interesting images throughout Savage Man/Savage Beast. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Raw Force</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7RIHyr10cpga81E5cFQ8Eu5IBjlX_qrnXpD8jrxLHOiyjuy1V4WVrsAbNYkeJ93fqHxaGSwr_NRrKHN7fiv2c5issXVG37X_Jlk37euq_oncEEGTEjSDTCtUWYzgQ0JgpbZMz6x1EMW2/s1600-h/RawForce.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7RIHyr10cpga81E5cFQ8Eu5IBjlX_qrnXpD8jrxLHOiyjuy1V4WVrsAbNYkeJ93fqHxaGSwr_NRrKHN7fiv2c5issXVG37X_Jlk37euq_oncEEGTEjSDTCtUWYzgQ0JgpbZMz6x1EMW2/s200/RawForce.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326615390323140610" /></a><br /></div><div>I wasn't very impressed with Raw Force. It's suppose to be a Kung-Fu cannibal movie. It does have a lot of poorly executed Kung -Fu, but not a lot of cannibals. I don't have a huge gripe against this one, it just didn't do anything for me. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Confessions of a Police Captain</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This one was just alright. It was somewhat boring and seemed to drag on. It does have it's cool scenes but that involves sitting through the very slow parts. I don't hate this movie, it's just not my favorite. I just don't have much to say about it.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Executioner 2</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>I liked this one a lot. Of course it's cheaply made and poorly acted like most movies of the genre, but this one is bad in that good kind of way. It's about a Vietnam Vet that becomes a crime fighting vigilante. I thought it was fun and had it's moments. It kind of makes me want to see the first one!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Poseidon Explosion</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This is one of two of the disaster movies in the set. I thought this one was just ok as well. It has all the effects and elements but it lacks cinematic suspense and action. I know that these are low budget movies, and I'm fine with that. But it doesn't cost anything to create suspense. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Earthquake 7.5</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>I could almost say the same this for this one as I did for the one above. I did like this one a little more though. it seemed to have better characters and piled on the suspense a little better. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Violent Professionals</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G27XYTfJ4WyBzXGDXHTCrC2RH95m4OegUTytjNBqQUYVBdb5wuL3QH-nQrrujKGrgJq3rLuhx8L287kX4o1ca_FxM_KYgl8L5RaqPn4C1AtcyfTZz5MY0BhcijpLsiQbhkcHQ4KFh3q5/s200/4969718_det.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326714741100036578" /> </div><div> </div><div>This was a decent action movie. Some parts a little cheesy but that's to be expected. It's just you're good old fashioned run of the mill crime movie. I think they may have remade this one. I know there are a few movies with this same name, but maybe I'm wrong.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Frank and Tony</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This is the only one in the set that I don't remember watching, but I know i did. Sorry. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Kung Fu Punch of Death</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC47lh19OTwzh8WeLSJK3dwe9QbhmUNI4_g81pXLI4NoWAT089uAlfQhmgchbsjfMG8ene1luUaketkKtaOpLdHZDK4VJPYWJ5Jt6-3WDs04uQy36j3OGtkYv-H2J8dKfevt21vDGCKOF1/s1600-h/Kung+Fu+Punch.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC47lh19OTwzh8WeLSJK3dwe9QbhmUNI4_g81pXLI4NoWAT089uAlfQhmgchbsjfMG8ene1luUaketkKtaOpLdHZDK4VJPYWJ5Jt6-3WDs04uQy36j3OGtkYv-H2J8dKfevt21vDGCKOF1/s200/Kung+Fu+Punch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326715734036406418" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>This one is my favorite of the set. It's the most entertaining and just as good as many other famous kung fu movies. The story is simple. A young man learns how to fight to stop a kung fu gang that terrorizes his town. That's what I love about Hong Kong cinema of the 60's and 70's, they're straight to the point and arise our most basic emotions through the characters and story. These are tales of revenge, betrayal, and strength of will. This and many movies of the genre aren't about over complicating things or trying to make you think with some bold and larger than life story. They know that they are here to entertain and amuse. So many movies forget that.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Return of the Tiger</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This one was pretty good too. It stars and martial arts actor named Bruce Li, obviously trying to capitalize of the success of another greatly know martial artist. That is what these grindhouse movies did though, they attempted to capitalize on the success of famous movies of the time. For every hit Hollywood had in the late 60's and 70's, there was a low budget version shortly after. Bruce Li is however, a fun and charismatic character and this movie is worth watching. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Go Kill and Come Back</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCiIHzuXe-3zL_9KsxljBH9HMdq6Jzdfp9WquOhB4N9kmJ7oHsbH_18hXsOQoiaQ-6brz8stDB0qrIzGqe_3HyEM07j4piVwQnxWBErAlfgkHzIz7Kk0tPlzJrcIGqNrC99lPsziJk8Eb/s1600-h/850-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCiIHzuXe-3zL_9KsxljBH9HMdq6Jzdfp9WquOhB4N9kmJ7oHsbH_18hXsOQoiaQ-6brz8stDB0qrIzGqe_3HyEM07j4piVwQnxWBErAlfgkHzIz7Kk0tPlzJrcIGqNrC99lPsziJk8Eb/s200/850-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326720268106399794" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you love spaghetti westerns as much as I do, than you'll enjoy this movie. This Italian western seems to be heavily inspired by Sergio Leone. Like it could be one of his early films before "The Stranger" Trilogy. This had a decent plot and is good gritty fun. And tell me that's not a great name for a movie, "Go Kill and Come Back". I love it!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Bounty Man</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This one was alright. I didn't enjoy it as much as Go Kill and Come Back, but it was good. If you are a fan of spaghetti westerns then this one is worth a watch. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Three Tough Guys</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>This is a blaxsploitation crime movie starring Isaac Hayes. Hayes makes this movie being the best actor in it. This one is very very slow starting out but picks up about halfway through. It is a blaxsploitation but is a little lighter about it compared to most of the genre. Not a bad crime movie overall.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Mandinga</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeo07XZ0bWucWfaiHwS7FmfTF2hTZyLwJemr6vzNXwUBgj9JcmZbe8hQy3ra6WBILW6PJTb4dpPhvumw_IEgU66dOQQEV4Nu9jiMw6IxAjLJlRRv0n3YysJrTk4shadG2WdCFgfGfR8HK/s1600-h/mandingasp.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeo07XZ0bWucWfaiHwS7FmfTF2hTZyLwJemr6vzNXwUBgj9JcmZbe8hQy3ra6WBILW6PJTb4dpPhvumw_IEgU66dOQQEV4Nu9jiMw6IxAjLJlRRv0n3YysJrTk4shadG2WdCFgfGfR8HK/s200/mandingasp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326720807709669458" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>This movie took blaxsploitation and tapped into a sub genre of it we could call slavesploitation. It proves that there is no limit to where these film makers would go. Nothing was too taboo. Mandinga is about a woman who is married to a slave owner. She sneaks off at night and has sex with her husband's slaves. Just about all of them I think. The story takes it's course when she ends up getting pregnant. Uh oh! Is it her husbands or one of the countless slaves she got it on with? You could also file this under a sexploitation as well. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The Children</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmxLRew2fDa_mXAHpdYGP8GItVFQN51kPFNuyiRJdXjSa-1P9dPZf5n-9nGC-b74CMw55MXjb1dftUAoeVtqw_yMYPbuMGXpx_ddELQVnhJ1K7aGT8XtYRmop5yWVdiLlVycEx0TNYvN6/s1600-h/childrenc4jn.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmxLRew2fDa_mXAHpdYGP8GItVFQN51kPFNuyiRJdXjSa-1P9dPZf5n-9nGC-b74CMw55MXjb1dftUAoeVtqw_yMYPbuMGXpx_ddELQVnhJ1K7aGT8XtYRmop5yWVdiLlVycEx0TNYvN6/s200/childrenc4jn.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326721462504231730" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>I really liked this one. One of my favorites of the set. It's about a school bus filled with kids that passes a cemetery where some kind of poisonous gas is spreading out. The bus drives through the gas and the children disappear. They are later found in the cemetery but now they are blood thirsty little killers. This movie asks the question that only these movies had the balls to. Would you kill a child? This is a good horror movie! Not bad all the way around.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Demon Witch Child</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PZGaIDG5CUjnnAodPavOfqszm-qfqhBVJRorXmFNxj3TEINrRx3wBUeGxbg4jN0J59u6ey8JixgkZGFGQB5vj-dLE1ZvtQKDsJBpWfVSYYf1iZFRXpk57ou9d0GPFm_PK0Qc3iBToxxF/s1600-h/DemonWitchChild.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 129px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PZGaIDG5CUjnnAodPavOfqszm-qfqhBVJRorXmFNxj3TEINrRx3wBUeGxbg4jN0J59u6ey8JixgkZGFGQB5vj-dLE1ZvtQKDsJBpWfVSYYf1iZFRXpk57ou9d0GPFm_PK0Qc3iBToxxF/s200/DemonWitchChild.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326722019350585314" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>This movie is a blunt and shameless rip off of "The Exorcist". It's almost the same exact movie only with about one fourth of the budget. It doesn't really offer any other take or outlook on the Exorcist. Like they just wanted to remake it the best they could and change as little as they could without getting sued. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>High School Hitchhikers</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMRlIdCQ23eeb8VWJz-_IERyENxkYg1AYlh7KJJXyyRK_c5ahNLWdJEPmjeFkCBDRNlaY9FLBF1YcV_ZROK1-TcJD5SAiqggajVNmVvZH7g1p-ENcyh-WtUieUVlpftnTE14Lt6Hq-Lh9/s1600-h/247516.1010.A.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 137px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMRlIdCQ23eeb8VWJz-_IERyENxkYg1AYlh7KJJXyyRK_c5ahNLWdJEPmjeFkCBDRNlaY9FLBF1YcV_ZROK1-TcJD5SAiqggajVNmVvZH7g1p-ENcyh-WtUieUVlpftnTE14Lt6Hq-Lh9/s200/247516.1010.A.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326722576096968274" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>I liked this one. It's a entertaining Sexploitation crime movie. Oh, and yes, there are lesbians and boobs. These two hot girls sneak into a random home where they get it on in a strangers bed. After being caught by the guy who lives there, a mobster, they have sex with him. Later on that day after the girls have left, the mobsters get together at the lucky guys house for business. They discover that a large amount of money is missing and he immediately assumes the girls stole it when they were there. So now he has to hunt them down. This is a fun movie and worth watching.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Carry on Emannuelle</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHaMnUmUlSlxmEwGhX8Ig84Hw2tvYcGWZPO6fvbrN0jmE-PmWg8LD6mHGYne3zp6jWy0jvau8qfeLsM1dWNNnOT5rAAwo_rAgthIeXsHK8zhim2m2xMF99CnY_W7acm4zmrkaJoZ6P31b/s1600-h/carryonemannuelle2fs.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHaMnUmUlSlxmEwGhX8Ig84Hw2tvYcGWZPO6fvbrN0jmE-PmWg8LD6mHGYne3zp6jWy0jvau8qfeLsM1dWNNnOT5rAAwo_rAgthIeXsHK8zhim2m2xMF99CnY_W7acm4zmrkaJoZ6P31b/s200/carryonemannuelle2fs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326723079564683170" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>Lastly, this is a sexploitation comedy. Emannuelle is this extremely sexual and horny girl who tries to get it on with this older rich man. She throws herself at him but he is scared and awkward. It is funny, some ways intentional and in some ways not. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If you are a fan of this genre and know what to expect from it, this is a pretty good collection of otherwise hard to find movies. True to their roots, these films are grainy and rough. Some are straight film transfers and some are VHS transfers. My only argument or suggestion is that they should have put old vintage previews between the movies. I like the set up. How they have two movies from each sub-genre. That's how it was in the theaters then. A lot of the time they would show double features with movies that were similar. If it had previews it would be even closer to the true experience. So if you are like me and are a fan of exploitation or are interested but need a good place to start, then I highly recommend "Grindhouse Experience - 20 Film Feature Collection".</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-38653440525469846832009-04-18T01:48:00.000-07:002009-04-19T02:41:00.925-07:00Must See Movie: The Deer Hunter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9196dQQgpq8rL1lF-AyVtLUu3SSChjnQigFSU5hNTT8FyXsyhP-2-jOM3u9ymjdUM52EQmSGZCcdK35Potff6kmw9kaIgSA2QjdfFmuAs483ECcTYi1K3tFQNT5oEzPvsw_zX5b5Zvq9s/s1600-h/18430141.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9196dQQgpq8rL1lF-AyVtLUu3SSChjnQigFSU5hNTT8FyXsyhP-2-jOM3u9ymjdUM52EQmSGZCcdK35Potff6kmw9kaIgSA2QjdfFmuAs483ECcTYi1K3tFQNT5oEzPvsw_zX5b5Zvq9s/s320/18430141.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326329983356961170" /></a><br />The Deer Hunter is such a great movie that I'm not sure where to begin talking about it. This is one of those times in film where all the stars align and every element is perfectly in place. Winning 5 academy awards including best picture, The Deer Hunter is one of the great films of the 70's. It's very appealing to all tastes and seems to have something for everyone. It has enough action to keep the guys happy and enough romance to keep the girls happy. Besides, we all love a good drama every now and then.<br /><br />The over all appeal and broadness of the film is not forced though. It just kind of happens, like it wasn't written but has just always been there. Like we are dropping in on the lives of these people. To me, The Deer Hunter isn't just about steelworkers, love, friendship, war, Vietnam, insanity, loss, guilt, or deer hunting. It's about life.<br /><br />Director Michael Cimino's masterpiece not only owes it's success to it's beautifully written story, but also to it's greatly talented cast.<br /><br />Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken are steelworkers from Pennsylvania. When they're not working or at the bar with the guys drinking, they go deer hunting. The group spend one last drunken wild weekend together before De Niro and Walken's characters are sent to Vietnam. While there, they get captured by the Vietnamese, where they are forced to play Russian roulette.<br /><br />Some argue that this movie is slow moving, and it is, but when it gets to the Russian Roulette scene, everyone shuts the hell up! You're so glued to the screen and engrossed in the movie that you realize that sitting through the slow parts and waiting this one out may be the best decision you've ever made in your life! This sequence is one of the best moments in film history!<div><br /></div><div>After their tour in Vietnam, De Niro's character returns home. Walken's character is M.I.A. Walken leaves behind a young Meryl Streep, whom he proposed to right before he left. We get a strong sense that the two (De Niro and Streep) are very attracted to each other, but their conscience doesn't want to let them cross that line. </div><div><br /></div><div>I won't tell you anymore because I don't want to ruin anything for you if you haven't seen it.</div><div><br /></div><div>This movie has balls. I compare The Deer Hunter to "No Country for Old Men" or "The Unforgiven" in the fact that it was a movie that had guts and grit but was so good that the mainstream recognized it's greatness as well. Films like these seem to come along once every decade or so. I think it needs to happen more often. </div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-32108229586040236502009-04-14T20:16:00.000-07:002009-04-18T01:30:39.912-07:00Legends: Stanley Kubrick<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KWPyUKvkqNXpJiMnoNJHwvOJjyy95qS6z3keP4ec4oE-zqcbDvzF_crROzjE_ODtBFjb_0mRZSNxOaqTt-QlD4-ZTknbsh2UpxEScWkLLYjJT_8acvk9uEa7sxosPuQUb7t_SUzezWnw/s1600-h/kubrick_1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KWPyUKvkqNXpJiMnoNJHwvOJjyy95qS6z3keP4ec4oE-zqcbDvzF_crROzjE_ODtBFjb_0mRZSNxOaqTt-QlD4-ZTknbsh2UpxEScWkLLYjJT_8acvk9uEa7sxosPuQUb7t_SUzezWnw/s320/kubrick_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325194747793457810" /></a><br />I'm sure at one point in your life you have seen a Stanley Kubrick film. If not, please stop reading this and go do it! You are missing out on a lot and you need to catch up. Stanley Kubrick changed film forever. He was films abstract artist but at the same time his work made perfect sense. He thought outside the box but struck a cord inside a generation. <div><br /><div> </div><div>It's written that some successful and well known painters gave up painting for good after they seen works from a young Leonardo Da Vinci. Claiming they lost their creativity because they would never be able to do what Da Vinci did. When Jimi Hendrix started gaining fame, many famous guitarist including Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend said that Hendrix was so good that they considered giving up playing guitar altogether. Stanley Kubrick has done the same thing in film. Like Da Vinci and Hendrix, he took his art to another level. Raised the bar as far as what we can do in cinema. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Stanley Kubrick was one of the most professional and well prepared directors to ever breath, but he also ignored the rules of conventional cinema and did it with such grace and beauty, that it became the new standard that directors then and now are to live up to.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>I though I would go over some of the films of Stanley Kubrick. Unfortunately, I haven't seen all his films but I have seen most of them. (Only missing a few) We'll start from earliest on....</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The Killing (1956)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4oBDhg03mRqHtoZ-KjwgFI_Cy2-FPobapnhGPOdCbtrecLjjVLwMCGOVhjYfvUT-A9irbkeVyzqh9iaByCEKfj6KkDLbS8wheS8nBJWmc-sr7yo0GeISTrhPPXEQDIev-kT5m-aM5PYk/s1600-h/500TheKilling.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4oBDhg03mRqHtoZ-KjwgFI_Cy2-FPobapnhGPOdCbtrecLjjVLwMCGOVhjYfvUT-A9irbkeVyzqh9iaByCEKfj6KkDLbS8wheS8nBJWmc-sr7yo0GeISTrhPPXEQDIev-kT5m-aM5PYk/s200/500TheKilling.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325940977858432418" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The Killing is a crime classic about a race track robbery gone wrong. Groundbreaking in it's time for having a nonlinear storyline and a unhappy ending. It's very much a film noir. It was Kubrick's first full length feature. it didn't gain much commercial success but it did get good reviews from critics. The masks are very cool! They were used again in "A Clockwork Orange"</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Spartacus (1960)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiW4Ea69fWD-g3ase7xFt8WcgsWFPn8pXcTBpU3bTCLYa_E8gJQ_fogBXVZ6DIOV3YPfAVr-KtkLbz6wRpi02rMEOzSMmBBUUs8q3mbIV8k1XuunqLioEdeOhsC8KNcKN_XZ-7Kin5fbb/s1600-h/spartacus.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiW4Ea69fWD-g3ase7xFt8WcgsWFPn8pXcTBpU3bTCLYa_E8gJQ_fogBXVZ6DIOV3YPfAVr-KtkLbz6wRpi02rMEOzSMmBBUUs8q3mbIV8k1XuunqLioEdeOhsC8KNcKN_XZ-7Kin5fbb/s200/spartacus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325941622633341314" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This was Stanley Kubrick's big epic. Spartacus was a huge commercial success and put Kubrick's name on the map. Though the film was a hit, the production was very difficult. Kubrick and the films star, Kirk Douglas, had constant creative differences and led to a rocky relationship between the two. After production, Kubrick largely disowned the film because of a lack of creative control. Years later, Douglas called Kubrick "a talented shit" in interviews.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Lolita (1962)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNzM8DkbiCmxAPJXFBRTdmVDJwk8MHXizsTrCI224XFscxBvUrfA4C2FPv_PIzAkzZ22nSo0w0XmvMIUYf-83hpILmXTzanfBh4YhY-Dh6rYWMfpK9R3o4YLzo2WoOfzFmJjapvHjcbt9S/s1600-h/Lolita1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNzM8DkbiCmxAPJXFBRTdmVDJwk8MHXizsTrCI224XFscxBvUrfA4C2FPv_PIzAkzZ22nSo0w0XmvMIUYf-83hpILmXTzanfBh4YhY-Dh6rYWMfpK9R3o4YLzo2WoOfzFmJjapvHjcbt9S/s200/Lolita1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325942022743345298" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This is one of my favorite movies from Kubrick. A very controversial film in it's time, about a relationship between a middle aged man and his twelve year old stepdaughter. After many problems with the censors, the film was released to mixed reviews from critics but was nominated for many awards. Kubrick takes this taboo and uncomfortable story and delivers it brilliantly! </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Dr. Strangelove (1964)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO4NPlYs9Z3GWVg5AKmf3FmEfat0bxA4MdCefi_dflfO99XTtxd2ZdqinXKO1RrvCDoJGzMMpYZoDWZP2l1aBz96bTVJO-58kUVb6OEGos4D_9iyjHQmK0Z-ms8gqwBHWmxeXz2btfZPM/s1600-h/normal_dr_strangelove01.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO4NPlYs9Z3GWVg5AKmf3FmEfat0bxA4MdCefi_dflfO99XTtxd2ZdqinXKO1RrvCDoJGzMMpYZoDWZP2l1aBz96bTVJO-58kUVb6OEGos4D_9iyjHQmK0Z-ms8gqwBHWmxeXz2btfZPM/s200/normal_dr_strangelove01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325942521282131154" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Once a cult classic, this film is now a CLASSIC. Peter Sellers plays four roles in this nuclear war macabre comedy. Based on the novel "Red Alert" by Peter Bryant, Kubrick puts a comical spin on Bryant's serious novel. Kubrick said he found the conditions leading to nuclear war absurd and decided to change the format. All throughout Kubrick's career, many novelist whom he has adapted works from, have been angry about Kubrick's version of their work. Who's right or wrong? I don't know. That's to be debated. I just know a good movie when I see one.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDLtqJ52m0MA1AY-PJ31k5mdmnTiA0AxHGLruW6aoKDeBxa-NRXccjzgkjwxcUbAZ3FfDET0wls8LQNvZXk27XWZ3IvfokSm9Qjl5lJCigl5ekwFA1bs2AjOD8JC_lTacQYBV_y_3ZUHY/s1600-h/2001+SPACE+ODYSSEY.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDLtqJ52m0MA1AY-PJ31k5mdmnTiA0AxHGLruW6aoKDeBxa-NRXccjzgkjwxcUbAZ3FfDET0wls8LQNvZXk27XWZ3IvfokSm9Qjl5lJCigl5ekwFA1bs2AjOD8JC_lTacQYBV_y_3ZUHY/s200/2001+SPACE+ODYSSEY.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325943076017276738" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>To me, this is the greatest science fiction movie ever made! Period! Made one year before the U.S. moon landing, 2001 took us cinematicaly to a place we've never been before. Space! This film took science fiction to a new serious and evolved level! In the 50's and 60's, the science fiction genre was considered by some to be campy, cheaply made, and lightly written. 2001: A Space Odyssey raised the bar by being cleverly written, beautifully stunning visually, and by groundbreaking special effects for the time. Without 2001, would there have ever been Star Wars and countless other films today?</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>A Clockwork Orange (1971)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib1VSK28SjpUmKXggC2oBKsUh4UHAZwZiiM7d4DGJTFMLHwpUgguPtoJXXZSLQhhX3HgyRhWLdv7lKxFv3HufIIOaAbFqV_73mQ3Paq7a3LgA6HHcuKqPumVOEe7ojuJQ4tyIWyM3DoI8s/s1600-h/a_clockwork_orange.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib1VSK28SjpUmKXggC2oBKsUh4UHAZwZiiM7d4DGJTFMLHwpUgguPtoJXXZSLQhhX3HgyRhWLdv7lKxFv3HufIIOaAbFqV_73mQ3Paq7a3LgA6HHcuKqPumVOEe7ojuJQ4tyIWyM3DoI8s/s200/a_clockwork_orange.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325943648562750130" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>A great film that didn't get the respect it deserved until after Kubrick's death in 1999. Rated x upon release, this film caused a lot of controversy around Stanley Kubrick. He was forced to have the film removed in Britain completely after receiving death threats to him and his family. It was completely banned in all of the UK until 2000. This movie is wonderfully stylish and brilliant. Some would say it is Kubrick's most violent film, full of fighting and rape. It's based on the Anthony Burgess novel by the same name. While this movie is very violent, it is also about violence. It's almost a science fiction film but not quite. I really love this movie!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Barry Lyndon (1975)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpSwtrEB4y2Q5m5DLgPa0Jv08HIz7ES9Q-mA6gChyF3AgL109dey6KPk4ykxLuz2j4Huvz45fxCCQKM4bGABv1FM4aSd2YvTs5Ixxw_tGcp30PG7gD2aUFaU5TAIQvWu1cUT5A8nalRUj/s1600-h/barry_lindon_11-2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpSwtrEB4y2Q5m5DLgPa0Jv08HIz7ES9Q-mA6gChyF3AgL109dey6KPk4ykxLuz2j4Huvz45fxCCQKM4bGABv1FM4aSd2YvTs5Ixxw_tGcp30PG7gD2aUFaU5TAIQvWu1cUT5A8nalRUj/s200/barry_lindon_11-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325944160746059938" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>This is probably my least favorite Kubrick movie, but it is still very good. Barry Lyndon was not a huge financial or commercial success for Kubrick. Many critics and moviegoers found the film to be lifeless and somewhat dull. With a running time of over three hours, many also found it to be too long. However, it was nominated for seven Oscars and won four. Not too shabby! Barry Lyndon is widely appreciated for it's spot on accuracy as far as sets and wardrobe. Kubrick pulled every little detail from paintings and writings of the era in which the film takes place. Every detail down to the napkins, buttons, floors, etc. Every single thing in this movie had to be accurate. I'm not a huge fan of period movies (I don't hate them, I like them, it's just not my big niche.) but i thought Barry Lyndon was very good and definitely is worth at least one viewing. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The shining (1980)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQnfbAS8CjKbSov_ywtHMZrZ571w6qqZl7yXZQJWZ9CtRi4Ah7sdp2DOf-CkJHkxl8Xr5yUSC3_0AZXj4lLyvjc_QMI4MzW46sc0FqiPMa2L7ayCDL6RnYvFJ-e2PoWloMbhmnlFAJBBc/s1600-h/theshining.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQnfbAS8CjKbSov_ywtHMZrZ571w6qqZl7yXZQJWZ9CtRi4Ah7sdp2DOf-CkJHkxl8Xr5yUSC3_0AZXj4lLyvjc_QMI4MzW46sc0FqiPMa2L7ayCDL6RnYvFJ-e2PoWloMbhmnlFAJBBc/s200/theshining.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325944847476677762" /></a><br /><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>I think this is a very underrated movie! It's beautifully directed and a great thriller. The shining gave rise to the legend of Stanley Kubrick as a megalomaniac perfectionist. He demanded hundreds of takes on certain pivotal scenes. Author of the book it was adapted from, Stephen King publicly disliked the film. He said that Stanley Kubrick was "a man who thought too much and felt too little". The film gained cult status in the eighties and nineties and is now considered a horror classic.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Full Metal Jacket (1987)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO39oNo9JH9R6kNyAChp-AITVMNUpwCIVnae6-m8sb9KGV3xRtliUajZbHrCEXjQVBQWv-outfoFiMTMPE4pQjWgJxWV0kVdJU00ZoUoKHhIskkIuqL3GLwkMFv38RELcKKjGfuwPKJCrO/s1600-h/full-metal-jacket.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO39oNo9JH9R6kNyAChp-AITVMNUpwCIVnae6-m8sb9KGV3xRtliUajZbHrCEXjQVBQWv-outfoFiMTMPE4pQjWgJxWV0kVdJU00ZoUoKHhIskkIuqL3GLwkMFv38RELcKKjGfuwPKJCrO/s200/full-metal-jacket.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325945331271387058" /></a><br /></div><div> </div><div>I've always found this film interesting because it is not anti-war and it not pro-war. Full Metal jacket shows war for what it is. The politics of it are for you the viewer to decide. I will admit, the first half of this movie is the best. Not that the second half is bad, it's just that the whole story in the marine training camp is so well done and gripping that it is what you remember from it. This is definatley in my top ten war movies list! (I may do a blog on my top ten war movies). </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Eyes Wide Shut (1999)</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwF3lSQR4VJlgzQkJ4P2Bu1lJgp5Kv2O3V1mZzi-OQbDR5WtPmVLzXQSz55Q_bborAEOXOkkDB1iTD1-tM6ukUvlZ8f8Q_FYFhUxFxpfrMe6KR9D7jMGqbYlfpZRyzJ-FhpfHegaobsAK-/s1600-h/kidman.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwF3lSQR4VJlgzQkJ4P2Bu1lJgp5Kv2O3V1mZzi-OQbDR5WtPmVLzXQSz55Q_bborAEOXOkkDB1iTD1-tM6ukUvlZ8f8Q_FYFhUxFxpfrMe6KR9D7jMGqbYlfpZRyzJ-FhpfHegaobsAK-/s200/kidman.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325945867477270546" /></a><br /></div><div>This was Stanley Kubrick's final film. This film like many of his others, had problems with censors and the ratings board. Eyes Wide Shut is a tale of love, jealousy, sex, cults, and human nature. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole kidman when they were a real life couple, they are both very good in this. There's a old legend that Kubrick use to joke about making a high budget, well written, well acted porno movie. Some argue that he did just that with Eyes Wide Shut. I don't know if I would go that far. It does have enough sex and nudity to compete with a softcore porn like you can see on Cinemax any late night. But unlike most of them, it's done very very well!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Stanley Kubrick died at 70 from a heart attack he suffered in his sleep. He passed away only 4 days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Stanley Kubrick will always be remembered as one of the greatest Directors and visionaries of the 20th century. He leaves behind a series of works that are still being discussed and still push the envelope of what film makers are capable of if they let their imagination lead the way and except no boundaries as to what is possible in cinema. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-16006557398860082352009-04-14T19:27:00.000-07:002009-04-14T20:04:27.469-07:00Under the Radar: Hell Ride<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7u2qSuv4k-zolYSb7QrlQ3khXVWYxcmLclACw46iwIZwpMA3tL8IYzMcSxq_CBSYchU5GaWS7LKMrh0JlYtMyyYI-V91yBIzYL85-IF9lsLEQduKDTCNo-x3MwR_l5WvhbunpGUhfQp7O/s1600-h/122.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7u2qSuv4k-zolYSb7QrlQ3khXVWYxcmLclACw46iwIZwpMA3tL8IYzMcSxq_CBSYchU5GaWS7LKMrh0JlYtMyyYI-V91yBIzYL85-IF9lsLEQduKDTCNo-x3MwR_l5WvhbunpGUhfQp7O/s320/122.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324747126137279554" /></a><br />If I told you nothing about this movie and played it for you without the credits, and then asked you to guess who made it, a few names would come to mind. You would probably say Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino. It seems like it could have been on the same bill as Planet Terror and Death Proof in the Grindhouse film back in 2007. <div><br /></div><div>While Robert Rodriguez had nothing to do with this project, Quentin Tarantino was the executive producer on "Hell Ride". An Action packed throwback to the rough and wild exploitation biker films of the late sixties. The film is directed by Larry Bishop. I'm not aware of any other work from Bishop that I know of, but so far so good! He brings a good style to this bloody and gunfighting revenge story. </div><div><br /></div><div>And if all that goes on deaf ears, the cast is a good enough reason to check this movie out. Starring Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol. 2), Vinnie Jones (Kill Bill Vol. 2), David Carradine (Kill Bill Vol. 1&2), Eric Balfour (Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Remake) and this movie puts Dennis Hopper back on a motorcycle for the first time since "Easy Rider. The whole cast is amazing including the many strippers and biker babes we meet along the way. I really liked Vinnie Jones throughout this film! We see him in Kill Bill Vol. 2 as Bud's (Bill's Brother) boss at the strip club. You remember... "Take off that shitkicker hat". That guy! I'd like to see him in more things in the future. </div><div><br /></div><div>I liked and recommend this movie. It's a fun, stylish, and violent revenge story that would have been shown in a drive-In forty years ago. It's full of action but also has a twisting turning story as well. I found it at the cheap bin at Wal-Mart. (Yes, i know it's Wal-Mart, but politics aside...they have the best deals on movies, sorry) </div><div><br /></div><div>In summary, if you like the films of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, then check this one out! I don't think you'll be disappointed!</div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-76086313239494108252009-03-28T02:31:00.000-07:002009-03-28T04:51:12.927-07:00Seeing Red: My Clearer, Digitally Enhanced Thoughts on Blu-Ray<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jySKDZYUfCyr_g8I6KsNL7Zx5JAeBVLo1WLH_YMZt1J8dZp651QC9SVkI79V7VU3tV1bZSQZfT7sZ6t5rXEP4gwXrJZ91fVKMCI1uuehFcpjf0-qHFzCufBGTaTMhm4kTSWMOXe-0YQk/s1600-h/5-14-08-blu-ray-shelves.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jySKDZYUfCyr_g8I6KsNL7Zx5JAeBVLo1WLH_YMZt1J8dZp651QC9SVkI79V7VU3tV1bZSQZfT7sZ6t5rXEP4gwXrJZ91fVKMCI1uuehFcpjf0-qHFzCufBGTaTMhm4kTSWMOXe-0YQk/s320/5-14-08-blu-ray-shelves.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318200755189333410" /></a><br /><div>Sometimes, when I'm sitting at home watching a movie I think about how lucky I am. There was once a time not to gratefully long ago when if you wanted to see a movie you could only see it in a theater. If you went to the theater and loved the movie you saw and wanted to see it again and again and again, you didn't wait for it to come to DVD, you didn't even wait for it to come to VHS. If you wanted to see your favorite movie again, you had to go to the theater again. There was a time when movie theaters were the only place you could see a movie. In those days movies stayed in theaters triple the time they do now. Then the film would show at cheaper "dollar" theaters for a long time. When newer films came through, the older films were pushed down a ladder so to speak, and your favorite movie could sit in a storage room for a long time before it was to be shown again. This is how it was since the birth of the motion picture.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Until the birth of VHS. We learned how to transfer film onto video tape and the rest was history. Then movies were still shown in a theater, then the dollar theater, then it would be put on a small convenient VHS that you could buy and watch in the luxury of your own home over and over again. It was truly something. </div><div>Like anything else, VHS had it's problems. You had to rewind and fast-forward to get to your favorite scene. After all the use the tape would wear and weaken the picture and quality severely. The tape would break and sometimes fall off track, ruining the whole movie. That's how it was since the birth of VHS.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Until the birth of DVD. We learned how to transfer film onto a disc that could be read by a laser and the rest was history. You could watch a movie with a clearer and better picture than ever before. Easily navigate and skip around to any scene you like. Oh yea, and you could now go beyond just the movie itself and watch bonus features, outtakes, and commentaries. Needless to say, VHS disappeared.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>VHS R.I.P 198o-2001</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>As people, we struggle with change. Good or bad change, it doesn't matter. We grow attached to things. Though eventually for the sake of progress we accept the new standard and move on with it. I understand the change from VHS to DVD. It was necessary and it was a vast improvement from the former. It was a pain in the ass to re-buy all our movies, but we did it because they we're replacing the old product with a better one.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>What I don't understand is Blu-Ray. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Do they think we're that stupid? Do they take us for fools? I get the VHS to DVD transfer because it was a switch of a complete format. Blu-Ray is a petty difference. They seriously expect us to run to a store with our hard earned money in a time of economic turmoil and crisis and buy a $400-$500 Blu-Ray player and then buy $30-$40 movies in the name of a clearer picture. That's it... It's a disc that plays in a disc player. Huge breakthrough Huh? Except this version gives you a picture so crisp and clear that you can see a bead of sweat on Harrison Ford's forehead. Or a stray hair George Clooney's cheek. Big Deal! Oh, and I hope you have an HD or Plasma screen TV. If not, you don't even get the benefits your being overcharged for. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Supporters of the latest money scheme tell me "Relax Rob, Blu-Ray will play DVD's as well". Oh well that's good. What am I worried about then? Why am I bitching? I'm worried because I might want to watch and own movies made after 2009. I'm bitching because no one else seems to be. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The movie companies are saying that after this year, they will only be releasing new movies on Blu-Ray. Even though it hasn't been out that long, less than half the public is in favor of it, and statistics show that Blu-Ray is not selling nearly as well as they thought it would. Sony decided that you'll take it anyway.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>In conclusion, I am not against the progress of technology and electronics. I support it. The key word here is "Progress". Progress is not phasing out an entire product for the sake of a sharper picture. That's just a way to make more money. Make a disc that doesn't skip. Make a disc that holds more data, increasing the possibilities of what can be put on it. Create a better format all together. I'll jump aboard that train. Just don't insult my intelligence and try to sell me the same thing twice. But what did I expect from the same people who are currently re-making any movie that ever made a dollar? There are people who love Blu-ray, and that's fine. Just don't force it on me! It's that good ol' "eat it or starve" mentality. I don't like corn. I have nothing against it being available and eaten by many people. Just don't shove it down my throat. I don't like country music. Many people do and that's great. Just don't force me to listen to it. That's all I'm saying. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>I'm hoping Blu-Ray will be the 8-Track of movies. A short lived fad. I'm hoping people aren't dumb enough to be suckered into this marketing scheme. I'm hoping I'm just being a big movie geek and overreacting. I guess we'll find out...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Worse case scenario, they'll always be bootlegs. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /><div><br /><div> </div></div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-34933783475277570192009-03-24T22:24:00.000-07:002009-03-24T23:01:21.179-07:00Under the Radar: Chungking Express<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8jOZ99lrYExuxl7bk8ajq4dHfegDUMFZBkLhGLyOe_sK9CVT86PLSR370DQeS3DUDmZue75vcfn3Y49_Obu4Kucplw4n2F4uDyFu8efBsAYlOkkv6Xifw0VzP9LcHyzAs0wc40tbjrG_/s1600-h/images509250_chungking-express.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8jOZ99lrYExuxl7bk8ajq4dHfegDUMFZBkLhGLyOe_sK9CVT86PLSR370DQeS3DUDmZue75vcfn3Y49_Obu4Kucplw4n2F4uDyFu8efBsAYlOkkv6Xifw0VzP9LcHyzAs0wc40tbjrG_/s320/images509250_chungking-express.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317000675878838146" /></a><br />This early nineties film by Wong Kar-Wai is a brilliant Movie that not alot of people have seen. The film has been in obscurity for about a decade everywhere accept Asia. Though it is now widely available after being re released by Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures. <div>The movie takes place in a Hong Kong Take out joint where we meet an assortment of interesting heartbroken and lovestruck characters. It's in the same style as Clerks, Dazed & Confused, and Grandma's Boy in the fact that there really is no plot. There is no driving story, we are just kind of hanging out with these characters. The entertainment comes from the characters and dialogue more than a plot. I believe this style is harder to write and involves much more skill in character development, style, and conversation. But when it's done well it makes for a great movie like Chungking Express. </div><div>This movie is about relationships and love but covers it in a much different non-conventional way. A heartbroken man won't eat anything that expires after the date that his girlfriend left him, in hopes that she'll return before then. A girl who works at the take-out develops a crush on a older policeman and sneaks into his house on a daily basis to clean and rummage through his belongings. This movie isn't about boy meets girl, this movie is about how you want to get to know someone, the feelings that make you like them to begin with.</div><div>The whole film feels very natural and authentic. You feel more like your dropping in on random lives than you do watching a scripted production. It IS subtitled. You tell some people a movie has subtitles and they run for the hills. For me, it didn't take anything away from it. </div><div>This movie isn't for everyone. It's not a comedy but it's not heavily dramatic. If you need fast paced excitement or constant punch-lines, then this may not be your movie. This movie is about life and plays out like life, some moments are exciting and some are slow and dull, but if you look hard enough and see between the lines. You can find beauty in all of it.</div><div>And good luck getting "California Dreaming" out of your head afterwards. </div><div><br /><div> </div></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-1055290236407958332009-03-24T20:50:00.000-07:002009-03-25T02:40:27.635-07:00See No Evil: Banned Films Throughout the World<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFeXR65Q3k6zjWjl1a577UrW3prkJ-qGunch2_Kg6aeA2HbkvGUk3thTRKd8hjOGkz1-7Vn4l81UUCBhM3XaAKN_qlEhjttwj5AlIMAQfytMHihyphenhyphenxwLWZgQwmSKc9KPyMdhOaH8o757er6/s1600-h/see-no-evil.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFeXR65Q3k6zjWjl1a577UrW3prkJ-qGunch2_Kg6aeA2HbkvGUk3thTRKd8hjOGkz1-7Vn4l81UUCBhM3XaAKN_qlEhjttwj5AlIMAQfytMHihyphenhyphenxwLWZgQwmSKc9KPyMdhOaH8o757er6/s200/see-no-evil.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316986339214041202" /></a><br /><br />After my last post about Cannibal Holocaust, I was curious as to how many movies have actually been banned. After countless hours of hard-focused research (Wikipedia.org) I have found records of movies banned from all countries. So I thought I would share some that I found interesting! <div><br /><div> </div><div>We'll start here in the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>1908: "The James Boys in Missouri" and "Night Riders" are banned in Chicago</div><div>1915: "The Birth of a Nation" banned in Chicago, Cleveland,Pittsburgh, and St. Louis</div><div>1917: "Birth Control"</div><div>1919 -1920: "Within Our Gates" banned in Chicago, New Orleans, and Omaha for depliction of interracial rape, lynching, and racial discrimination</div><div>1926: "The Red Kimono" banned in Chicago</div><div>1928: "The Racket" banned in Chicago</div><div>1931: "Frankenstein" banned in Kansas for cruelty</div><div>1932: "Scarface" a gangster movie set in Chicago, banned in Chicago</div><div>1936-1966: "The Maltese Falcon" 1931 Version</div><div>1945: "Scarlet Street" banned in New York</div><div>1949: "Pinky" banned in Marshall, Texas for portrayal of an interracial couple</div><div>1953: "The Moon is Blue" banned in Jersey City, New Jersey as indecent and obsene</div><div>1961: "Victim" banned in many cities due to language</div><div>1968-1991: "Titicut Follies" is banned for violation of privacy of prison inmates it filmed</div><div>1969: "I Am Curious(Yellow)" is banned as pornography</div><div>1984: "Silent Night, Deadly Night" banned after protest from the Parent-Teacher Association</div><div>1987: "Superstar:The Karen Carpenter Story" is banned for copyright infringement</div><div>1988:"The last Temptation of Christ" is banned in Savannah</div><div>1997: "The Tin Drum" banned in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as Child Pornography</div><div>2002: "The Profit" banned involving legal matters</div><div><br /></div><div><a></a></div><a><div> </div></a><div>IRAN</div><div><br /></div><div><a></a></div><div> </div><div>Any film depicting Homosexuality, Gay Rights, or anti-islamic attitudes is banned outright in Iran<a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><div></div><div>1956: "The king & I"</div><div>1968: "Oliver!"</div><div>1971: "A Clockwork Orange"</div><div>1973: "The Exorcist"</div><div>1977:"Saturday Night Fever" ??????</div><div>1980: "Cannibal Holocaust"</div><div>1982: "The Dark Crystal"</div><div>1983: "Scarface"</div><div>1989: "Pet Sematary", "Glory", and "Back to the Future 2"</div><div>1990: "Henry & June"</div><div>1993: "Schindler's List"</div><div>1994: "The Naked Gun"</div><div>1995: "Showgirls"</div><div>1997: "Boogie Nights" and "Liar, Liar" for portraying adultery as being legal</div><div>1999: "South Park:The Movie", "Three Kings", and "Anna and the King"</div><div>2001: "Zoolander" seen as provoking Gay Rights</div><div>2002: "Pinocchio" ??? and "Cowboy Bebop:Knocking on Heaven's Door" </div><div>2003: "Bruce Almighty" and "Matrix Revolutions"</div><div>2004: "Fahrenheit 9/11", "Catwoman", "Passion of the Christ", and "Harold & Kumar go to White Castle"</div><div>2005: "The 40 year old Virgin", "Sin City" and "Brokeback Mountain"</div><div>2006: "The Da Vinci Code", "Alexander", "Talladega Nights", "Borat", and "300"</div><div>2007: "The Kingdom"</div><div>2008: "Meet the Spartans", "You don't mess with the Zohan"</div><div><br /></div><div><a></a></div><a><div> </div></a><div>SWEDEN<a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><div> </div><div>1922-1972 : "Nosferatu" </div><div>1981: "Mad Max"</div><div>1984-1999: "Cannibal Holocaust"</div><div>1997: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Next Generation"</div><div><br /></div><div><a></a></div><a></a><div>CHINA<a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><div> </div><div>1960: "Ben-Hur"</div><div>1994: "To Live"</div><div>1997: "Kundun" regarded as Tibetan nationalism is banned outright along with director Martin Scorsese</div><div>1997: "Seven Years in Tibet" banned outright along with actors Brad Pitt and David Thewlis for life</div><div>2000: "Devils on the Doorstep"</div><div>2005: "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life"</div><div>2006: "Memoirs of a Geisha" over concerns it could rouse anti-Japanese sentiment</div><div>2006: "Brokeback Mountain" for Homosexuality</div><div>2006: "The Departed"</div><div>2006: "Over the Hedge"</div><div>2007: "Pirates of the caribbean: At World's End<a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><a><div> </div></a><div>Malaysia has banned more films than any other country. While Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, Hellas, Portugal, Romania, Samoa, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe have only banned one film each in their history. <a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><a><div> </div></a><div>Cannibal Holocaust has been banned in more countries than any other film.<a></a></div><div><br /></div><a></a><div><a></a></div><a><div> </div></a><div>Check Wikipedia.org for a full complete list of banned movies.</div><a><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></a></div><a></a>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-46272166965505564552009-03-24T15:46:00.000-07:002009-03-25T02:54:55.318-07:00Movie Archives: Cannibal Holocaust<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFaLKDY46JETjMwjnwryYoZqEbqmgrc5fqlEZTweQwQKM3_uBgAQti7RRw9v01Cu0OfkEZg2F4HspDwbygUV0UxPTObAb7NvIuYINqT9NK4O_Bi-P3rZU_rJj4bNNaTSuqf5sH3yVBSu4/s1600-h/_000-748317.BMP"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFaLKDY46JETjMwjnwryYoZqEbqmgrc5fqlEZTweQwQKM3_uBgAQti7RRw9v01Cu0OfkEZg2F4HspDwbygUV0UxPTObAb7NvIuYINqT9NK4O_Bi-P3rZU_rJj4bNNaTSuqf5sH3yVBSu4/s320/_000-748317.BMP" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316913123243831874" /></a><br /><br />No film in recent times have caused more outrage, has been more shocking, and has lived up to every bit of it's hype more so than Ruggero Deodato's 1979 film "Cannibal Holocaust". This film landed the director in court for murder and was banned in this and many countries for some time. For some, this film marks the end of an era for the grindhouse, explotation, B-movie genre of the late sixties and seventies. And if that's true, at least the genre went out with a bang, or better yet, a blood-curdling scream. <div>We have not seen a film so controversial since 1915 with the silent film "Birth of a Nation". A film that shows the rise of the klu klux klan and is very much in favor of the klan. But this article is not just a bragging post of how controversial Cannibal Holocaust is, I want to examine why this film was so shocking and why we saw it as a threat to our well being.</div><div>First off, this film was the first to use the now famous gonzo amature shaking camera. The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and Quarantine all owe it to this film for influencing a style that would be mainstream twenty years later. </div><div>As I said earlier the director was in court for murder over this film. Of course, no one was murdered but people thought they were viewing a snuff film. (Deodato brought every actor that was killed in the film into the court room and all charges were dropped) The special effects and death scenes were so well done and so authentic and seamless that it looks real. I'm sure this means nothing to some, but in the days before computer effects and CGI, you have to give hats off to the make-up and effects departments on this film. If it looks real enough for people to think that it IS real... obviously the special effects Dept. did a brilliant job! Brian De Palma once said "If people get upset or offended by the violence in a film, then that means the director did it well"</div><div>The thing that upset audiences the most, and what is probably my least favorite aspect of the film is the REAL killing of several wild animals. This was a time before PETA and the film was shot on location deep in the amazon, so animal cruelty laws meant nothing in that time or place. In it's defense, any animals that were killed were given as food to the REAL tribes People used in the film. The natives would have killed and eaten these animals anyway, movie or no movie. </div><div>With the controversies out of the way, I'll talk about the film itself. This movie is as brutal as it gets. This movie goes all the way and this one lives up to all it's hype. I'm sure you've taken someone's advise on a film saying it was the goriest, scariest, best ect. And you watched it and were disappointed. There is no BS here, everything you've heard about this movie is true. While it is very ruthless in it's depiction of violence, it has a better story and/or plot than I've seen in many mainstream and recent horror films. </div><div>This movie is about an investigator who is sent to the jungles of the Amazon with a knowledgeable guide to find a group of documentary film makers who turned up missing while shooting their film in the cannibal populated jungle. I won't tell you anymore because I don't want to spoil anything, but this film has a twist worthy of a M. Night Shyamalan movie. </div><div>I highly recommend this movie. If you are a horror fan it is worth at least one viewing just to say you saw the Godfather of them all. I am not a gorehound. I hate violence but I love film. I would rather see a million people killed in the worst possible way in a movie than see one person get punched in real life. Because the movie is fake and life is real. To me, real life is much more horrifing and scary than any horror movie. The monsters on screen are fake, the monsters in real life walk among us and look just like us. I feel the violence in Cannibal Holocaust is justified because nature is violent. Like I said, I am not excited to see animal killings on film, but in a nation where we hunt for sport.... do we really have room to get self righteous? </div><div>This was the last big film of Grindhouse cinema. After it's release, the critics revolted, people protested. A genre that has always been known for the most dirty, sleazy, violent pictures, was now seen as unholy and morally wrong. People felt it was now taken too far. The eighties brought VHS and the Reagan era of conservatism and moral outlook, which was too much for the genre to live through. The theaters eventually dried up and most of the films stored away and forgotten. It was a interesting time in cinema where low budget movie makers found an outlet in people who wanted more than what mainstream cinema was offering and teenagers who would pay money and sit through any movie just to see some boobs or some good gory deaths. The genre is now finally getting the respect and exposer it deserves, but it was a time and place and will never be the same. In my mind, these brave film makers were pioneers. They showed that you don't need a big budget or a big star to make a good movie. They showed that when you don't have millions to throw at a movie you are forced to use your head, find more creative ways to make something happen than simply throw a pile of money at a special effect company. In these days of CGI, huge budget movies, commercialism, it makes you wonder if we've learned anything from them. These movies showed that if you have heart and truly love cinema, you can't make a bad movie. And if you did make a bad movie, at least you tried. </div><div> </div><div> </div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-34986989422803996832009-03-24T00:19:00.000-07:002009-03-24T00:39:45.294-07:00The Coen Brothers to Remake True Grit!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgByh_Ln8am_Vpuq2_1j0g-kGBHefp0ebX92ss9GdCnZJlJN_n4Ro7Oi7-sUbkRs94W0yf3XjwqxKbmVUXCJLYIjq4fhYWGKPd0TMKihwerntT4d9dPo2Ehz81GvZ0e2553iwA35Mm0TI/s1600-h/true_grit_mar06_rex_170.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgByh_Ln8am_Vpuq2_1j0g-kGBHefp0ebX92ss9GdCnZJlJN_n4Ro7Oi7-sUbkRs94W0yf3XjwqxKbmVUXCJLYIjq4fhYWGKPd0TMKihwerntT4d9dPo2Ehz81GvZ0e2553iwA35Mm0TI/s400/true_grit_mar06_rex_170.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316655296546505730" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For the new Coen Brothers movie, they are remaking the 1969 John Wayne western "True Grit". They are supposedly teaming up with Scott Rudin and others who helped them with "No Country for Old Men" to adapt this western classic that won John Wayne an Oscar. <div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Though it is a remake, the Coen Brothers say it will be more focused and inspired by the novel of the same name by Charles Portis, which inspired the 1969 film. <br /></div><div>The novel is from the point of view of a young girl and the 1969 movie is from the point of view of the lawman(John Wayne). </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I think this should be interesting. While I'm not a huge fan of the remake machine hollywood has turned into, some serve purpose and do justice. We already know that the coen's are more than capable of shooting a good western (No Country for Old Men). <br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>They just finished a script called "A Serious Man" and they are currently working on "A Yiddish Policeman's Union" which could be out later this year.<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-41390296639197360042009-03-23T19:55:00.000-07:002009-03-23T23:40:55.803-07:0010 Best Comedies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCF48ONZZOvPbn8KpkhwOGKQIWnDvHNxDJWKVIlGYpCGzWsqJCN2ChQMhe3s16LF2p00myT3IJLSYn_Iz14bTgHJS1EzzCyKV-Al7ID2TKbcLg0U8kC6ui_VS-Ic33NBEXB1Mpvjo7z_Wa/s1600-h/tropic-thunder.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCF48ONZZOvPbn8KpkhwOGKQIWnDvHNxDJWKVIlGYpCGzWsqJCN2ChQMhe3s16LF2p00myT3IJLSYn_Iz14bTgHJS1EzzCyKV-Al7ID2TKbcLg0U8kC6ui_VS-Ic33NBEXB1Mpvjo7z_Wa/s320/tropic-thunder.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316640577414289570" /></a><br />Here I've compiled a list of what I feel are the ten best comedies of the past three years or so.In these tough times we all need to laugh more and lighten up, and I've got some recommendations that will hopefully do just that. To me, comedy is the genre that is doing the best right now on many levels. It is doing good in the box office, it has spawned some great original talent such as Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Steve Carrell, Jonah Hill,among others, and it is one genre that is not re-making itself like crazy! Cough,Horror,Cough! Excuse me.<div><br /></div><div>So we'll start from 10 to 1. 1 being my favorite. </div><div><br /></div><div>10. Wedding Crashers</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This movie made #10 party because I've seen it so much. But other than that I recommend this one. Vince Vaughn And Owen Wilson are very funny and Christopher Walkin has proved time and time again that he can be dramatic but he still has a funny bone. This is a good date comedy. It's not too heavy into the sexual or perverse like so many modern comedies are, but it's not for the kids either. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>9. Knocked Up</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This was the first leading role for the now well known and prolific Seth Rogen. (The guy was involved with like 6 projects last year and even more this year) This movie is about a stoner-slacker who has a one night stand and gets the girl pregnant and is thrusted into adulthood and fatherhood pretty much overnight. While it is very funny, it also handles the situation very realistically and seriously. Like most movies that Seth Rogen has co-written, it is decorated with good dialogue and behind the pot, sex and poop jokes.... a message!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>8. Burn After Reading</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Some of you may feel this is the odd man out on my list. I very much see this movie as a comedy. I think you have too. Many people didn't like Burn After Reading and I think that's because they viewed it as a serious movie. It's not a balls out in your face slapstick comedy at all, but the characters and even the situation is comedic. I did feel that the Coen Brother's "The Big Lebowski" was a funnier movie but maybe that's because the comedy is dryer in "Burn After Reading". I guess it's one of those movie you either like or you don't. I liked this one.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>7. Pineapple Express</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't know about you but I love a good stoner comedy. Pineapple Express seems like if you took a 80's Chuck Norris or Arnold Schwarzenegger action film and Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke and made then have sex. Pineapple Express would be it's love child. Well written dialogue, stoner logic, and hilarious gangsters in this Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen Comedy. James Franco does a great job as a stoned drug dealer as Seth Rogen plays the straight man. This movie is in love with weed and being stoned but is clever enough to make it an important and integral part of the overall plot. </div><div><br /></div><div>6. Step Brothers</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I know. You either love or hate Will Ferrel. I like him. I think he is what he is and he knows what he is. If you are looking for a message or something touching or logical even... look the other way. This movie is silly and over the top at times and just like Ferrel, it's well aware of that. With that said, I think this is Will Ferrel's best! He and John C. Reilly together are comedic gold. Just put a camera on those two and I promise you'll have something. If you are willing to throw everything else aside and just be up for a good laugh, I think you'll like this one.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>5. Zack & Miri Make A Porno</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is not my favorite Kevin Smith movie, but it is one of my favorite this year. Kevin Smith has always been a brilliant writer and this movie is no exception. It is ruthlessly dirty and filthy but also tells a love story in a way no one but Smith could. There is no Jay and Silent Bob but Jason Mewes (Jay) is in this movie and he is as hilarious as ever. If you like Kevin Smith, don't miss this one!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>4. Superbad</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I LOVE this movie! This is my favorite teen, coming of age, film. The briliantlly written dialogue is filled with sex and the perverse, just like any teenager who just wants to score. Now don't lump this movie in a pile with the American Pie or John Hughes films. This movie is dirtier and more realistic than those films ever tried to be. Written by Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow based on real situations that happened to them when they were teenagers, it makes you miss the days when sex was the only concern we had and reminds us of the trouble we were willing to go through just to get a piece. I'll end this as I started it...I LOVE this Movie!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>3. Role Models</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>We haven't seen Sean William Scott in a while. But he's back in Role Models and he reminds us why we liked him in the first place. Alongside Paul Rudd, whom I've always been a fan of. No one plays a sarcastic A-hole quite as good as Paul Rudd. After they break the law, these two are forced to participate in a big brother program or they go to jail. So they become Role Models. The kids they are matched up with are great as well! The whole cast is funny and this movie is fun all the way around. I didn't expect this movie to be as good and as funny as it was!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is that classic and universal story of heartache and moving on. The title says it all! This movie was marketed and appears to be like one of those movies we've seen a million times. But when you see it you find that it is much more. Every character is great in this movie! Comedian Russel Brand shines as a arrogant rock star who just kind of lives around this whole situation that is taking place around him. This movie is simple. Girl dumps guy. Guy wants Girl back. Girl says no. Guy meets another girl. Old girl wants guy back. Girl too late and guy moves on. While the plot is simple, what's between the lines here is great. This movie is not trying to be complicated. It's meant to tell a simple story about being dumped and moving on. It makes us laugh at someone else's expense but then makes us root for that guy. Possibly because at one time or another, we have all been that guy.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>1. Tropic Thunder</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here we are at #1! Tropic Thunder is the best comedy that I have seen in the past few years! Ben Stiller is not a new face on the scene, he has been around for a while. In Tropic Thunder, he lets us know that he is not going anywhere anytime soon! Written by Stiller, tropic Thunder is about actors who are shooting a war movie but through events, are placed in real enemy territory but they still think they are just shooting a movie. The most memorable performances in this movie may belong to Robert Downey Jr., who plays a black man. And Tom Cruise who gives a terrific performance with a character far different from anything he has ever done before. This movie is extremely well written with well rounded characters. Like it was written to bring the most out of every actor who was playing the character. It seems to me like the script was written with care and detail. Then once you add the improve talent of Stiller, Downey Jr., and Jack Black ; Then you have something special. It has Ben Stiller's style all over it and I feel he is evolving as a writer. I just hope he never goes soft on us and matures! But after Tropic Thunder, I don't think I have to worry about that!<br /></div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093751696566934151.post-24991915917313774312009-03-23T16:49:00.000-07:002009-03-23T23:35:11.162-07:00Must See Movie: Gran Torino<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIFY_gpvZJMh1OfTvNa3i3ZcYvR8yXH12ie8dnxTMZ6fbSMKUJQdPQ9rF1gHm4edtx6cvtJ7huDpkcTWJ8aaXupAat-NczEDsE4Oc_17gMN-DreOd0PJlu5371mrx7ORpCEbxz_E5psOv/s1600-h/torino2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIFY_gpvZJMh1OfTvNa3i3ZcYvR8yXH12ie8dnxTMZ6fbSMKUJQdPQ9rF1gHm4edtx6cvtJ7huDpkcTWJ8aaXupAat-NczEDsE4Oc_17gMN-DreOd0PJlu5371mrx7ORpCEbxz_E5psOv/s320/torino2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316638719835174802" /></a><br />Clint Eastwood's "Gran <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Torino</span>" is by far the best movie I have seen this year. This is one of those movies you know will be good, but this film gave me goosebumps throughout and left me inspired after. Eastwood wrote, directed and stars(he is in just about every shot) in what could be his best film. We all remember Clint from the days of the tough and rugged westerns of the sixties and seventies and the "Dirty Harry" "Tightrope" hard-ass cop films of the eighties. My friends, let me be the first to tell you, this man has not lost one strand of his edge and toughness. I am in my late twenties and I believe Eastwood is in his mid-seventies, but I would put my tail between my legs before I messed with this guy. <div><br /></div><div>In "Gran <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Torino</span>" we follow a widowed Korean war vet named Walt <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kawalski</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Kawalski</span> has lived in the same neighborhood almost all his life, except these days, the town is totally populated by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Hmongs</span> and Walt is the only white man left in the neighborhood. Since his wife passed away, he spends his days caring for his house and garden, talking to his dog and keeping a watchful eye on his prize possession, a 1970 Gran <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Torino</span>. One day the young Hmong boy next door attempts to steal Walt's car but then is greeted by Walt and his rifle. The boy, being pressured by his cousin and his friend's into the gang life that seems to be taking over the town, is really a good kid who is at a fork in the road in his young life. Walt eventually sees this and is determined to steer the boy in the right direction, in his own way. With this he becomes somewhat of a protector of the boy and his sister. He becomes a man who will fight against the scum and riff-raff on the streets where he spent his life. And in the process he teaches a young boy what it takes to be a man. </div><div><br /></div><div>Walt <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kawalski</span> is a bitter, angry racist who you cant help but love and empathize with because he is not a real racist, you don't get the feeling that he hates people based on their race. He just has a habit of calling it as he sees it. And if you don't like it he would probably tell you to go %^& yourself. He is like a stern father or a drill s<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">ergent</span> in the fact that this man does not believe in handouts or that he owes you anything. If you want something from Walt, you have to earn it, including his respect. </div><div><br /></div><div>In conclusion, this movie helped calm a fear of mine. I have always had a fear of getting old, a fear most of us have. This film showed he that having a pair of nuts is ageless and that you are never too old to be a hero. And my friends, in my opinion this movie is just that, a super hero movie. Walt Kawalski was never a Marvel or DC comic, he does not wear a cape or costume, he does not have a tag line and he does not have any superhuman powers. He is just a man who will not take it anymore. A man who decided to do something. A man who saw people in a bad situation and decided to lend a hand. If thats not a hero, I don't know what is!</div><div><br /></div><div>Eastwood shines throughout this film. He is our great American tough guy and this film does not let you forget that! I feel many actors would not have the balls to play this character. Eastwood wrote him and plays him beautifully! Some rumor that this will be Eastwood's last picture. I would be deeply sad if this news was true. In an era of fluff and remakes, we need him now more than ever!</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a super hero movie! Not in the fashion that you're use to, but if a hero lived right next door here in the REAL world. This movie is a cattle call to senior citizens that they are not useless or helpless, that you are never too old to stand up to the scum in this world, even if they are one-fourth your age. This movie is real, this movie is inspiring, this movie is brutal, this movie is GREAT! </div><div><br /></div><div>If you read this review and don't agree with me that it is one of the best of the decade... Then i will give you any money back that you spent to watch it. I'm that confident on this one! But before I pay you I will have to check your pulse. To make sure you have a heart!</div>Big Monster Cinemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05116103933346810301noreply@blogger.com0