I'm gonna re-watch Office Space friends.

Bat: Imagine yourself, peaking on bath salts, having just ****ed your most lusted after co-worker - who then decides to team up with you, let loose in Burger King corporate headquarters, going after the white shirt big bosses with nothing but hammers, nail guns, and small rotary saws.

This movie is all that and more.

I saw this on Saturday and it's still settling in.

Hello everybody :)

I last saw SPEED (1994) on VHS :)

Dallas Buyers Club

There's acting, and then there's ACTING. Not only a really great and well made movie, but both McConaughey and Leto give performances that are beyond incredible.

Winner for both best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress in the same movie. Only the fifth time in the 88 year history of the Academy Awards.

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^Watch Gerald's Game, dude. It's a wild ride.

Will do. Thanks for the rep.

Good. I need more people to harass Batlord about watching it.

Loved that movie. I haven't seen Leto be that good in anything else, but McConaughey is almost great more often than not. Killer Joe is another must-see movie with him.

Loved that flick.

I've really been lacking in the movie watching department lately but this is something I'll make time for.

Our city's MST3K group hosted a screening of MST3K The Movie last night at a local indie theater and cafe.

Good food, good people, and lots of fun prizes.

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i feel like he really defines himself as a great director in this one

and the acting is really good for what it is

Wow, thats a big statement since I think that was well established. I was planning on watching it but I think I'll take the time to see it in theatres now.

I was trying to save all the MST episodes off Comet TV on my DVR, but they show the same @#$%^ fifteen episodes and only two of them with Joel Hodgson. What a rip!

ALIEN

Almost 40 years old and still hasn't aged a bit.

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Did ya know that in this scene (which was a single take), Scott purposely didn't tell the actors about the massive explosion of blood from Kane's chest? He wanted the actors' reactions to be genuine. Veronica Cartwright was so freaked out (she got really splashed in the face) that she stumbled back and fell.

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I watched that again for the first time in years last weekend. It is indeed timeless as ****.

It just looks so lifelike. Stunning effects and not least the sets and lighting. There are high-budget movies from just 10 years ago that haven't aged a 100th as well. A lot of not-quite-there-yet CGI especially.

That stinks. I had a similar problem, (in that I don't own a TV) Thankfully the complete series including the KTMA eps is out there free to download if you look around.

Honestly, though I love Alien the **** to death, I think the rubber suit can be a bit not-so-great at times whenever you see more than just the head (the head is quite possibly the high watermark of all horror though). That jumpscare in the vents honestly looks kinda goofy even if the entire rest of the scene was ace. A CGI alien would have been far worse, but the rubber suit still wasn't perfect.

And while the second half is slasher movie nirvana most of the time, it's still a bit more generic than the first half of the movie up till the chestburster scene. From second one till after that thing runs off screen is like the best sci-fi movie ever though, with the ultimate, can never be topped expression of what can happen when unsuspecting explorers encounter secretly hostile alien life on an uncharted planet. But if I didn't have the first half to compare the second half to I probably wouldn't have the slightest problem with it beyond that suit kinda sorta.

I guess I agree, but at least they had the good judgment of limiting what you see of the alien most of the time. Think of that scene where Dallas is crawling around inside the ventilation system. You see it for like 1½ seconds. Probably way less.

What really makes me love the first half is the atmosphere and believeability of it all. I'm not joking when I'm saying that my favorite part of the movie is at the very beginning before anyone has woken up. That whole stretch from when the credits begin, to the first person wakes up from cryo. Audiovisual porn.

I'm not sure if that's my fav, but as an intro it's brilliant. I love just how you can always hear a low hum throughout the movie when on the ship, and you obviously notice it the most at the beginning, and it makes just about every second of the movie tense in a way that seeps into your subconscious. But srsly it's hard to beat the chestburster scene. Plenty of horror movies and sci-fi horror movies have gore, but how many of them feel that ****ing real? That looked halfway between a horror movie kill and a future National Geographic special and I can't think of anything that's ever felt the same. When I pick Alien over The Thing it's **** like that that looks so realistic and immersive that helps put it over the edge.

I completely admit that I still involuntarily clutch my chest when I watch that scene :laughing:
The movie just has this groundedness to it that no other movie in the same genre has had for me. I've mentioned before how I don't even like horror movies. Alien just has this incredible sort of flair to it that makes it something very special. Even as a Ridley Scott fanboy, I'll admit he hasn't come close to replicating that in any other movie. Like it's halfway some happy accident.

Might actually be both my fav horror and sci-fi movie. And Jesus Christ everyone talks about the Xenomorph, but how ****ing cool, nightmarish, and ****ing real does the facehugger look? Doesn't even look like a horror movie monster, and it isn't even something that goes RARGH DIE!!! The scene in the medbay when this hate**** lifeform is just lying on the peacefully unconscious dude's face without moving is like a dark mirror version of Star Trek and it's amazing. I'm glad HR Giger never did any more horror movie designs (that I know of) or else it might have become old hat rather than being the greatest anomaly in horror monster design.

The face hugger is a great design. I watched Alien at way too young an age (8-9 years. Very permissive parents.), and that creepy little bastard had quite an effect on my young mind. It seemed so otherworldly, so fascinating, scary and lifelike. I think the way it doesn't just lob your head off, but insead sends you into a peaceful coma while pretty much impregnating you... it's all very Freudian and ****ed up. The grown aliens are more like aggressive tigers or something. Scary - but the facehugger has more dimensions to it.

And yeah, I agree that it's probably for the best that it didn't become all trendy to have H.R. Giger monster designs - even though one has to imagine he must have turned down a request or two.

Yeah, but that scene when *spoiler* the black guy whose name I can't remember dies and then the alien kills the woman with its tail by presumably going up through her torso was so much a rape scene. Even that part where Ripley is going down the corridor with the woman screaming over the intercom for way too ****ing long to not make you feel uncomfortable was def supposed to feel like a rape scene. So physical violation was very much a theme of that movie even beyond just the facehugger.

That's a good observation. I agree that the movie points in a certain direction in more than one way. It's very sexual, in a way. Just like most of H.R. Giger's artwork is. And who hasn't realized what the under side of the face hugger looks like at this point?

Lulz yeah. The xenomorph was far too sadistic in a way that isn't just mindlessly murderous for it to not be seen as a sexual sadist. The best ways to encourage a lifeform to do something from an evolutionary standpoint, whether it be eating, mating, or killing is to make it pleasurable, and that alien clearly derived pleasure from killing. Totally a sexual sadist.

Yaphet Kotto. Check out the 1978 flick 'Blue Collar' with him, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor. A little bit dated but ****ing intense ****. And all too real even today.



Re: Alien, vaginas, and sex innuendo

This says it all. Ridley was 100% going "there".

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TFW you're reminded of that movie The Ghost and the Darkness and want to watch a horror movie about actual wild animals (lions in the case of that movie) that is legit and not stupid but that movie wasn't that good from what you remember anyway but it was at least based on real events and had Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer and wasn't a CGI ****fest so good enough I guess?

Also tfw you see the tagline for the movie, "Prey for the hunters". God damn it. It can't be THAT bad, right?

can't say i've ever had those very particular feelings

TFW you want to play Fire Emblem while taking a ****.

After the long wait, finally seen the Miike adaptation of the BoTI manga, met every expectation I had and then some

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I watched The Green Mile.

Probably in my top ten films. Really enjoyed it.

Re: Alien

I hadn't actually SEEN it until last year, and going into it on the airplane, I figured pop culture had spoiled most of it for me. I knew about the chestburster, I knew about the xenomorph.

I was not prepared for the face-hugger. Easily the worst / greatest creation in the entire film. So glad that it doesn't get talked about enough or it would've been ruined for me too. That thing is absolute nightmare fuel.

EDIT: I also want to add that Alien touched on something REALLY important in horror movies, which is to NEVER show too much of the monster. The instant you can see the thing well-lit, you can see the charade. Alien tried to only show you flashes of the Xenomorph and was better for it, because your imagination did the rest of the work. James Cameron's (spits) Aliens shows you far too much of the creatures and offers you no new horrors. You get sensitized to them. Speaking of "you should never show us too much of the monster or things enter Hokeytown":

And the last thing I watched was It. $2 well spent, but I don't think I need to see it twice. Superb child acting, though.

Amen. Couldn't agree more.

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Beyond the Black Rainbow

Well this was crazy as ****. This borrows a lot of the more bizarre elements from directors like Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky, and E. Elias Merhige (as in: Begotten) and filters it through an LSD and memory soaked filter. Very feverish while maintaining a bizarro ambience. It doesn't always work, but the scenes where it does succeed are some of the most intense and viscerally psychedelic ones I've ever seen. It's a pretty crazy trip, I don't think I could handle it if I was on hallucinogens tbh. 8/10

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^That driving screen was put on the screen right before Shabazz Palaces came on.

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^^^

I don't know what the **** that is but it sounds awesome.

I'm not the biggest fan of the alien design compared to the first movie tbh. It's basically the same thing except they added a bunch of ridges to their heads that made the design look a tad too busy. That sleek, shiny, penis head from Alien did not need to be tampered with.

So are you pro or con circumcision? :confused:

I've been on a Guillermo Del Toro kick lately. Last night I watched Pan's Labyrinth for the 9th time, and I plan on watching Crimson Peak later tonight, never seen that one. & his latest film about the chick that falls in love with the creature from the black lagoon looks seriously brilliant. Have yet to see Cronos as well.

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