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Topic: Movies We've Seen Recently  (Read 203328 times)

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Movies We've Seen Recently #15
My sister and I watched The ABCs of Death today.  It's a horror anthology made up of 26 segments by 26 different directors, with no stipulations on content except that each short had to be based on a letter of the alphabet and focus on death.  It was...it was...it...was.

It's on Netflix and firmly worth a watch in Atrocity Tourist mode, but be aware that it's so NWS that I think there's fine print in the credits that you have to put on your resume that you watched it for the rest of your life.

(Q is the best, incidentally.)

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Yeah, that's the one I meant. Brrr. All those wiggly lumpy things squirming around in black blood. Gross, man.

Also today I have watched:

Dead End (2003)
Do you want to see what happens if creepypasta farts on Vampire's Kiss? Then boy howdy is this the movie for you. I honestly couldn't tell if it was meant to be a comedy or not, because it kept swinging back and forth from trying very hard to be horror and just rolling along its (significantly better) track of being a black comedy about a dysfunctional family. Had the most improbable appearance of weed I've seen in a while, but then thanks to my upbringing I tend to feel like it's super rude to bring marijuana to a family function.
Cuddlesquid, June 30, 2013, 05:04:21 pm

Is that the one where Ray Wise is the dad? I liked that one, even though the ending was a foregone conclusion. And Splinter was great! Supposedly they did it all with practical effects, which is just awesome.

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Movies We've Seen Recently #17
I just watched Safety Not Guaranteed and once I got over the whole Aubrey Plaza can only play herself thing I really loved it. Romance, time travel, journalism and moss growing on things- what's not to like?

I also watched Submarine because I heard a bit about it on NPR and it was directed by Richard Ayoade, of IT Crowd fame. It was quirky and amusing but fell a little flat for me. I'd recommend it still I think.

Both are on Netflix.

I just added John Dies at the End to my queue. Anyone seen that? I read maybe a third of the book until I got weary of bizarre violence. So I don't have high expectations.

Also, my recent viewing has unlocked the Netflix category "Critically-acclaimed quirky movies" so I'm looking forward to exploring that. Summertime, July especially, is such a desert for TV that I am interested in any Netflix suggestion.
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John Dies At The End is pretty good! I haven't read the book, but I really enjoyed the movie. Plus it turned me on to Don Coscarelli, who's a great director. Bubba Ho-Tep, which he also directed, is amazing.

The other day I watched V/H/S 2 and Maniac, both of which start out promising and then kind of circle the drain. V/H/S 2 is a horror anthology (and despite being a sequel you don't really need to have seen the first one) of found-footage-type stuff. One of the shorts, about a guy who goes on a bike ride and accidentally runs into zombies, is a lot of fun; one of them, about a doomsday cult (this keeps turning up in my viewing and I don't know why) being investigated by a bunch of journalists, starts out very strong and descends into utter stupidity; one of them is about a guy with a camera eye and is just plain stupid, and the last one in the bunch is called "Slumber Party Alien Abduction", which should tell you all you need to know about how shit it is.

Maniac has Elijah Wood being a crazy person, which he does surprisingly well, but I found myself getting bored halfway through. He's great in it, but the movie itself didn't really have anything I found particularly interesting or inventive.

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Movies We've Seen Recently #19
V/H/S 2 is out already?  Ugh, the first one was so bad that I have to see the second.  Why are we wired this way?

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Why are we wired this way?
Delcat, July 02, 2013, 06:50:28 pm

Because we are fundamentally broken people.
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I am currently watching Iron Sky with my buddies. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. There is a shot-for-shot-parody of that one scene from... I think it's called "The Bunker", where Hitler freaks out at everybody. It's amazing.

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Movies We've Seen Recently #22
Is that the Moon Nazi one? I had a chance to see that in a theatre, and I didn't. :/

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It is indeed the Moon Nazi one. It has its moments, and when they're good they're a riot, but by the end of it I was just kind of done with the whole business. But then that might be because the ending struck me as particularly stupid and entirely too sincere to be stuck on a movie with motherfucking moon Nazis.

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I ran out of horror movies of Netflix so I figured I'd bite the bullet and watch Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. It was surprisingly funny. Not quite Return of the Killer Tomatoes, but still a good film.

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That moon nazi movie was... a thing, for sure. I honestly don't know what to make of it.

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They're making a sequel. It's got a flex funding indiegogo campaign.

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Movies We've Seen Recently #27
Must... resist... urge to fund...

Edit: Today's viewing will be the 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, the only man aside from Isfahan who could bump me back down the Kinsey scale towards heterosexuality. Pro tip to all the gentlemen out there: when you turn up late to a dinner party, it's totally fine as long as you carry a deer in on your shoulders, sass everyone at the table who wields more political power than you do, and maintain constant bedroom eyes.
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Must... resist... urge to fund...

Edit: Today's viewing will be the 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, the only man aside from Isfahan who could bump me back down the Kinsey scale towards heterosexuality. Pro tip to all the gentlemen out there: when you turn up late to a dinner party, it's totally fine as long as you carry a deer in on your shoulders, sass everyone at the table who wields more political power than you do, and maintain constant bedroom eyes.
Cuddlesquid, July 05, 2013, 02:29:56 pm

Are you implying that I ever don't do all of those things?

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Must... resist... urge to fund...

Edit: Today's viewing will be the 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, the only man aside from Isfahan who could bump me back down the Kinsey scale towards heterosexuality. Pro tip to all the gentlemen out there: when you turn up late to a dinner party, it's totally fine as long as you carry a deer in on your shoulders, sass everyone at the table who wields more political power than you do, and maintain constant bedroom eyes.
Cuddlesquid, July 05, 2013, 02:29:56 pm

Fear not, Olivia de Havilland is there to bump you back into place. That is, hands down, my favorite Robin Hood movie.