@RAvery - The ketchup runs deep.
@IronEdithKidd - Two wonderful suggestions. I’m favorable over all to TA, but KKfOS only has a few bright spots with too much between them. (IMHO)
Mulling over the topic of bad movies on the way in to work, I realized, I probably need to rewatch any before recommending them anymore. 30 years of fond memories has probably swept some pretty egregious behavior under the carpet.
Huh.
Based on the title alone, I was 95% sure that would be based on a Robert Ludlum novel.
Toxic Avenger has a movie version? Squee!
Those are recent enough in my memory there’s no need. /s
I can’t really be objective about Killer Tomatoes. It’s in a nostalgic sweet spot for me… but I did watch it a year or two back, and I still enjoyed it, bad jokes and all.
I haven’t seen Killer Klowns in ages. Sure, it’s horrible… but some of the sequences are pretty creative, especially considering the low budget. I tend to like movies that are ambitious, that commit to something different, even if the result is flawed. (I also put Repo! The Genetic Opera in that category. The plotline doesn’t flow smoothly…but I can’t not like a horror/rock opera with Sarah Brightman and Anthony Stewart Head singing.)
I’ve never seen Toxic Avenger. Maybe I’ll catch it someday, but the couple of Troma-style movies I’ve seen didn’t impress me much, so I’m not in any hurry.
I liked the early (1980) Troma production Mother’s Day quite a bit. On the other hand, I was only able to watch roughly 30 minutes of Surf Nazis Must Die before I gave up.
This is absolutely fascinating.
Spend 2.5 hours with the formative years of Pee-Wee Herman. Indeed, in the first appearance from early 1982, both he and Letterman seem unsure of what they’re doing.
Astute viewers will note the first appearances of various Pee-Wee schtick that would go on to be immortalized in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.
In his first appearance he mentions that he and his friends were writing a script for a movie, but the studios weren’t interested because no one knew who he was. The last appearance is from mid 1985, right before his movie went into general release. Why that was the last appearance? I! DON’T! KNOW!
Letterman seems amused, fascinated and a bit disturbed during their interactions. And that seems to be the reaction Paul Reubens was going for.
I want to point out a historic note.
In his first appearance he mentions how the script for his up-coming movie is being written by “me and the guy who designed the set” of his current stage show. This must be a reference to graphic artist Phil Hartman.
it might be a reference to Wayne White, too – he helped design all the sets for the Playhouse.
I watched Knock Down rhe House last night…the documentary following female representative bids for House seats. Bring tissues.
I can’t decide between my favorite moments being Ocasio-Cortez shredding Joe Crowley or his lackeys in debate, or the purest moment when she delivers her signatures to the clerk’s office.
That would have been later.
I just got back from watching They Shall Not Grow Old in my local cinema – which was opened in 1914.
My screening was in 3D, which I want sure about at first, but Peter Jackson & co. have applied a sort of stereoscope effect, rather than really pushing the depth of field. Since I’ve seen a lot of stereoscopic still photos from around that era, it worked for me. As with all the other effects, they seemed to have known when to stop.
It was amazing, but also intense. I’m grateful there’s no non-kitschy technology for adding smell to films, because it was very immediate as it was.
This screening included an introduction from Jackson, and 30 minute making-of afterwards. Favorite factoid: the men singing the naughty soldier’s sing at the end are all British diplomats posted to New Zealand. Apparently the production was running out of time, realised they needed men with British accents to sing the song, and called up the embassy in desperation.
I loved this movie and had a very similar reaction to it. I totally geeked out on the production part afterward.
Apparently no-one told Peter Jackson.
It is rather cool seeing films in modern 3D in a cinema that’s over 100 years old.
It had slipped my mind for a bit, but Cloak and Dagger the series is actually pretty well done for an MCU ‘teen drama’ tv series; the characters inhabit a reality that has real life problems in it, like racism, classicism and sexism, and it actually tries to address them in a meaningful way.
Just finished watching Star Trek TOS Patterns of Force (the alien Nazi planet one).
I wish I could take over Fox and broadcast it nonstop for about 3 months.
We’re watching The IT Crowd. What a hoot! It’s a bit uneven, but some bits leaving me laughing hysterically. I think it’s the all bizarre characters, and completely unexpected situations.
That show, Black Books, and Father Ted are three of my favourite comedies.
I just try to forget that the creator of all three is a raving transphobe.
There are some episodes that don’t quite land, but, as a whole, it’s hilarious (the whole shoes/lie-detector/fire/01189998819991197253 episode has got to be my favourite).
