Movies We've Seen Recently

[Frank West]

Anybody who liked the Nice Guys should also go see Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. It's by the same writer/director, and they're kind of companion pieces to each other. They're both also very good.

[STOG]

I finally sat down and watched Jacob's Ladder last night. If you want to see it, it's currently on the Paramount Vault Youtube channel.

While I was watching this, I realized I had already seen this movie. The thing, I saw it when I was three years old, when my family was using the TV as a babysitter. I started realizing that I had seen this scene before, and I was trying to figure out where. And then I realized that maybe the television isn't a very good babysitter after all.

[A Meat]

I watched 'The man who knew infinity' and generally liked it. Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons were really good, but some scenes and some directing decisions were real corny and really took away from it. Its a good story though and I'd probably recommend it.

edit: thinking about it a bit more, I really disliked how much the director pushed religion and god down my throat more than anything.

[EYE OF ZA]

Extraordinary Tales came up on my Netflix; it's a collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, each animated in a different style with different narrators.  The segments are all fairly visually interesting, except for one, and they've all at least got something to recommend them--two of them have really good narrators (Christopher Lee does The Fall of the House of Usher, they use a Bela Lugosi recording of The Telltale Heart).

Mostly, I recommend it for the Masque of the Red Death segment, which is the last of the bunch and is absolutely the best.  It's done in a hybrid CGI-oil paint style that looks great when it works and still looks pretty all right when it doesn't.  All the other shorts went for a voiceover reading from the story, but this one is almost entirely dialogueless.  (The one line that it has is kind of lamely delivered, honestly.)  But I think it's worth it at least to watch that segment, even if you don't watch the whole thing.

[Frank West]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

[cyclopeantrash]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

Wait. Is this the same tickle dude from that Dollop episode?

[lazzer grardaion?]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

Wait. Is this the same tickle dude from that Dollop episode?

IS IT FOR FUN?!!!

[Frank West]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

Wait. Is this the same tickle dude from that Dollop episode?

Yes! The original article written by the documentary director is what the dollop read off of. There's even some exerpts from The Dollop in the movie. The journalist just kept going deeper, even if you read the original articles and the dollop podcast, there's tons of stuff in the movie you won't have heard of.

[Schumin Capote]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

Wait. Is this the same tickle dude from that Dollop episode?

Yes! The original article written by the documentary director is what the dollop read off of. There's even some exerpts from The Dollop in the movie. The journalist just kept going deeper, even if you read the original articles and the dollop podcast, there's tons of stuff in the movie you won't have heard of.

I saw it tonight and that documentary is engineered for me. A great mix of dark and weird, and there are a lot of new wrinkles to the story.

I still can't get over that there are at least 6 tickle cells operating in the US.

[Vorko]

Just saw a movie on Netflix called Deathgasm.  New Zealand horror comedy about a couple of metalheads who summon demons through something called the Black Hymn.  It's very silly and a little bit awesome. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3705412/

[adrenochrome dome]

EVERYONE HERE GO SEE TICKLED RIGHT NOW. I honestly can't imagine someone who likes the F Plus who wouldn't fucking love Tickled.

It's a documentary about a journalist who randomly stumbles across "competitive endurance tickling", a thing that is DEFINITELY NOT A FETISH. His job is to look into weird things and write about them, so he sends out a request for an interview, but in response he gets pages of vitriolic and homophobic emails declining. Obviously, this piques his interest, but when he starts looking further, he finds out this group making tickling videos goes deep. Like, really, really insanely deep. Go see it.

Wait. Is this the same tickle dude from that Dollop episode?

Yes! The original article written by the documentary director is what the dollop read off of. There's even some exerpts from The Dollop in the movie. The journalist just kept going deeper, even if you read the original articles and the dollop podcast, there's tons of stuff in the movie you won't have heard of.

I saw it tonight and that documentary is engineered for me. A great mix of dark and weird, and there are a lot of new wrinkles to the story.

I still can't get over that there are at least 6 tickle cells operating in the US.

Just saw it a couple of hours ago. I went in expecting F-Plus level fetish ridiculousness, with a bit of Lou Reads creepiness. I was not prepared. I've read people complaining that the twists/reveals are predictable--if you follow weird internet shit, they definitely are expected--but it's the depths of depravity that caught me off guard.

Oh, this internet lady is really an old guy? Duh.

Wait, he systematically destroys people's lives using a glut of money and computer skills? Oh...

[CormansInferno]

I have now seen Tickled twice (I missed the screening where D'Amato and his cronies showed up in the theater by a night.) But last night's screening did have Gary Gareth Reynolds in the audience.

[adrenochrome dome]

Cormans, did you see Farrier and/or Reeves there, or was that only on the night you missed?

[Nifty Nif]

I finally saw Hail, Caesar! and it's a weirdly-paced Coen bros write-off that could have been great, maybe, but was just okay. Burn After Reading was better. I wish the female cast had had a stronger role, particularly ScarJo. The whole thing felt both rushed and boring at the same time. A flop. As a CoBro devotee I was disappointed.

[chai tea latte]

I finally saw Hail, Caesar! and it's a weirdly-paced Coen bros write-off that could have been great, maybe, but was just okay. Burn After Reading was better. I wish the female cast had had a stronger role, particularly ScarJo. The whole thing felt both rushed and boring at the same time. A flop. As a CoBro devotee I was disappointed.

speaking of finally-saws, The Lobster. Oh man, please watch The Lobster, ideally knowing literally nothing about the movie. Top five 2016 films for sure.

e: The Witch, The Neon Demon, The Lobster, i'd have to think more about #s 4 and 5 but probably, uh, Green Room and either Anomalisa or 10 Cloverfield Lane