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Dope hardboiled cop/yakuza movie. There is a scene some guys might wince at, some unlucky guy had pearls in his shaft "surgically removed".

Just watched "Dune" and it was a visual masterpiece. By the way, who else here has Firestick? I stumbled upon this fantastic website https://www.firestickhow.com/bestbuy-iptv-review.html which offers plenty of great tips and guides. It's a great resource for expanding your entertainment options.

Well the LATEST movie I have seen is VHS II (2013 I think) and I think it was crap,too violent for me....... Its a shame the trash people think is good now......

The LAST moviie I saw was Wargames - 1983

I just watched Apocalypse Now The Directors Cut.
It was an epic movie. With some violence and offensive language. It was an epic movie on war.
Great acting.

Wonka. It was so good; go see it if you can.

The only 2023 movie I saw last year BUT it was surprisingly so well done. Well, not that surprising considering I had just seen Paddington 2 in preparation. That director really knows how to pull some heartstrings!

You're not wrong there. I can't wait for it to come to streaming.

Lilo and Stitch. Every bit as good as I remember it.

Last movie I saw in theaters was Across the Spiderverse, Last movie I watched in general was Weird Science, I think.

"Remake" of Road House. Meh.

Detective Knight: Independence

went to see Deadpool and Wolverine, end of last month.

such a good movie!

Thor The romance, as per usual, was not needed, but I guess they had to set it up.

From the creators of the classic *This Is Spinal Tap* (what do you mean you haven't seen it?), comes another mockumentary, this time focused on '60s folk music and a sort of reunion gig. While it may not have you laughing out loud at every moment, it features some fantastic lines. The acting is top-notch, and the music is both performed and written by the cast. Although it gently pokes fun at the folk scene, there’s also a sense of mutual respect throughout.

Thank You.

We had a bit of a Rosh Hashana movie marathon yesterday.

Dark City (1998): Enjoyable but I thought it was too cute and stylized, in the vein of the City of Lost Children and Delicatessen.

High-Rise (2015): Awful. Gets the tone all wrong. Painful to watch. Managed the feat of making me cringe at brilliant lines from the book expertly enunciated by fine actors because everything about it was inept and tryhard. I hate Ben Wheatley and feel stupid at trying to like A Field in England.

Existenz (1999): Rules. A Cronenberg classic. A tried and true palate-cleanser.

Saw Sam & Kate on hulu last night with Mrs. Drjohnrock. Dustin Hoffman, his son Sam, and Sissy Spacek are all fine actors but the movie was a somewhat predictable piece of fluff. Oh well, I've seen worse, and the location settings were nice.

went to see Sonic 3 on the 27th. damn, that was really good!

Keanu Reeves was really good as Shadow.



also, Shadow looks super fluffy!

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I last saw ROMEO MUST DIE (2000) on VHS :)

That reminds me, I've got to see if a combo DVD/VHS player I have still works.

Anyway, about a week ago, Mrs, Drjohnrock and I saw That Hagen Girl
from 1947 on DVD. It was a Christmas gift from me to her. It stars Shirley Temple (as a teenager, no singing or dancing) and Ronald Reagan (!) in the lead roles. I got it because (1) the Mrs. used to like Shirley Temple's early films, and (2) I thought it might be good for a few laughs, since it was included in Michael and Harry Medved's book The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time. It isn't a great flick by any means but I wouldn't put it on a 50 worst list. Politics aside, I never thought much of Reagan's acting, but he does OK in this movie, even if he looks at times like he'd rather be facing a firing squad (he reportedly didn't like the film). Shirley does a good job in a mostly thankless role. There is a good performance by Lois Maxwell (later Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films) in one of her first movie roles.

I have several that I've watched over the past 3 or 4 weeks, that I can list in this thread, so I'll start with this one...




B-movie action/adventure flick about a maniacal crime boss who smuggles guns and marijuana from a small Caribbean island and rules over his underlings and the locals with a sadistic iron fist. A few entertaining moments here and there but rather disappointing overall. A title like 'Fiend of Dope Island' could've been wildly entertaining in the right hands but, unfortunately, it was not to be.

B&W action flick about a group of inmates serving time in prison for various offenses. The prison is a powder keg of pent-up frustration and anger which is only exacerbated by the actions of the manipulative and sadistic head of the prison guards. Much of the action seems like it came from a pulp fiction novel or a crime comic but even though it's a bit unbelievable, it's still an entertaining movie.

Now I know what a certain band named one of their works after...

I'm familiar with The Cramps but for some reason I'd forgotten about that album. It was several days after watching that movie, that it dawned on me that they had an album by that same title.

Here's another one I've watched recently, while I'm here...




B&W crime drama about a life insurance fraud scheme between a married couple (an older man and a much younger woman), which goes awry under a cloud of suspicion over the widow while she's planning on taking all of the insurance money and running away with her young lover.

B&W film-noir flick, about a narcotics detective going undercover to infiltrate a heroin smuggling operation. He convinces a prison inmate, who he helped convict, to join him to help him get inside the gang. Along the way, a woman joins them at the insistence of the convict, and various complications arise.

B&W crime film about the hunt for a cop killer which leads to information about an upcoming bank heist and the gang behind it. Various moments of comic relief are sprinkled throughout the film despite the underlying theme of violence.

I like films those kinds of films from the era you're reviewing, Psi-Fi. I look forward to watching some of them. Keep the reviews coming!

Moving up a couple of decades from the last one...




Crime flick about a detective agency comprised of 3 women, hired by the head of a criminal gang to find out who's behind a series of attacks and robberies targeting his organization. Sort of a ripoff of a Pam Grier flick combined with 'Charlies Angels.' Lousy script, lousy acting, mediocre (at best) directing, and ridiculously cartoonish fight scenes comprised of the type of kung fu fighting which was popular in a lot of action movies at that time. Disappointing to say the least. The poster is by far the best thing about this movie.

Action/war film about a commanding officer assigned to replace the well-liked commanding officer of a Navy underwater demolition team, who died in combat. The new commander starts out with a strict no-nonsense approach which the men under his command see as being too rigid and impersonal. He eventually relaxes his demeanor and proves himself to be a selfless leader, earning the respect of the rest of his men and the crew aboard the ship they are assigned to.

B&W British sci-fi flick from the 50's. A spaceship crash-lands in Scotland after colliding with a plane. The sole inhabitant of the spaceship emerges soon afterwards, looking like a cross between a vampire and a dominatrix. The martian visits the inhabitants of a nearby inn and announces that Mars is running out of men capable of procreation, and, as a female Martian, she has come from the planet Mars to look for suitable males to bring back to Mars for breeding.

Ridiculous but entertaining enough to watch to the end. The poster shows 3 spaceships but there's only 1 in the movie, and the robot-creature shown in the poster looks far more menacing and interesting than the one that actually appears in the film. A 3 star movie with a 5 star poster.

B&W mystery-thriller about a wealthy ex-con living in a mansion with his daughter on a secluded island. While there, he plots revenge on his associates responsible for his imprisonment and the murder of his wife. He sends out invitations to his intended victims, asking them to visit him on his island and enticing them with the prospect of finding a hidden fortune located there.

As a fan of movies so good they're bad, this sounds every bit as enjoyable as Mars Needs Women. I'll have to check it out.

One of my favorites, it never gets old.

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^ Any movie I've ever seen, that Ray Harryhausen was involved in, has been worth watching.


And as long as I'm here...




B&W sci-fi thriller about an unusual object which appears on the viewer of a scientist's telescope, enters the Earth's atmosphere, and crashes into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. A large robotic machine eventually emerges from the ocean and runs amok, sucking up electrical energy from power plants, while on its way to a stockpile of nuclear weapons in America.

War-action flick told in flashback style. The Commander of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier in the Korean war, reminisces about his time serving as Fighter Squadron Commander on the same carrier during WWII, while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. A good bit of actual combat footage from WWII is added to the movie, but it's blended into the action quite well and doesn't interfere with the story or vibe like it sometimes does in other war films which use that same technique.

I'm shooting blanks!

B&W sci-fi/monster flick about a rocket carrying a payload of wasps into space for an experiment, which malfunctions and veers off course and crashes in a remote area of Africa. Several of the wasps survive the crash and mutate due to being overexposed to cosmic radiation during the flight. They grow to an enormous size and begin to terrorize the wildlife and the local natives. The two scientists in charge of the space experiment, find out about reports of giant monsters wreaking havoc in central Africa, and decide to travel there to investigate.

This was one of those films that seems to drag on longer than the running time. It clocks in at 71 minutes, but it seemed to be twice as long as it actually was. Much of the film is spent showing the scientists and their entourage, trekking through the African bush, plains, and jungle, which just made the movie drag on.