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I watched 40 minutes and stopped. It's just not good as everyone is saying.I saw that and assumed someone uploaded it and the study knew it was such dog shit they didn’t care to issue a DMCA.
I watched 40 minutes and stopped. It's just not good as everyone is saying.I saw that and assumed someone uploaded it and the study knew it was such dog shit they didn’t care to issue a DMCA.
I watched 40 minutes and stopped. It's just not good as everyone is saying.
Yeah it's weird, it's been up for a couple days and there are multiple videos. It's not even a shady link in the description or even someone who filmed it on their phone or something. It's literally just the entire movie in HD and no one seems to give a fuck.I saw that and assumed someone uploaded it and the studio knew it was such dog shit they didn’t care to issue a DMCA.
Watched it yesterday.Borderlands is on YouTube if someone's interested for free atm
Bram Stoker's Dracula - I seem to recall a bunch of people talking about it here recently and I happened to catch a showing to begin spooky season. A technical masterwork (every practical fx movie trick in the book, amazing wardrobe and costumes, a wild variety of monster effects that are sometimes only seen in 3-second blips) saddled with a cornball script that's too theatrical and melodramatic for the often sleazy and exploitative tone of the rest of the movie. Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins clearly realized this early on and just put their nuts on the table and tried to out ham each other in every scene. It might be the broadest performance of Gary Oldman's career and that's saying something for a man that has an entire section of the meme encyclopedia dedicated to him overacting. Keanu Reeves' accent is famously terrible and fleeting but Winona Ryder honestly isn't much better. It drags on and on for large portions of the movie and then hurriedly wraps everything up in the last 30 minutes so the pace is kind of off and seems like it was failed by the edit.
It has some of the best individual moments of any Dracula movie ever made and it's a gorgeous looking movie but it's such a weird, muddled mess. It's 100% entertaining... it's got blood and boobs and big stars yelling their lines. It's just sometimes silly in its earnestness and there's some sore thumb performances.
They're number one and number two for sure. The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly being a pretty close third, and Once Upon a Time In America not too far behind that. Once Upon a Time In the West is maybe my #1 film in general. For me, I think the character introductions are probably the most unforgettable parts. But the composition within the frame in each second of the movie is so masterful that I really think it's a fucking tragedy Leone wasn't a painter.I’m a Duck, You Sucker man.
They’re all great though. The end of Once Upon a Time in the West is unforgettable.
I can't remember the source, but I heard/read somewhere once about the amount of coke Hooper was doing during the filming of Lifeforce was of truly epic proportions.I think this is worth it's own post and didn't want to lump it in with Tetris.
Lifeforce- Naked space vampires found in an ancient spaceship hidden inside of Haley's Comet wreak havoc in London. Tobe Hooper's bizarre sci-fi/horror gem is not a great movie but it is a great bad movie and is definitely a lot of fun. It's absolutely ludicrous plot wise but it doesn't really matter, I mean the centerpiece of the entire movie is a fully naked woman walking around and literally sucking the life out of people. You just kind of have to go with it. There's a strange atmosphere to the movie that's made even weirder by being essentially a British Cannon production, which actually fits the movie quite well. There's a ton of impressive practical and optical effects, they really went all out with this one. Aside from the silly plot it's also a clunky feeling movie with and oddly paced. But it's all so strange and entertaining that it's easy to overlook a lot of the issues with the movie.
All the stuff Hooper made with Cannon is interesting. He did this, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Invaders From Mars. All of which I think are kind of under rated.
Dennis Hopper said he was so coked up and drinking so heavily he didn't even remember making TCM2. Supposedly they didn't even pay him they just gave him a daily allotment of coke and booze.I can't remember the source, but I heard/read somewhere once about the amount of coke Hooper was doing during the filming of Lifeforce was of truly epic proportions.
Also: TCM2 rules.
I hated that movie for a while until I looked at it differently and appreciated it for its pure insanity--some truly excellent and crazed performances in that movie.
Side tangent: I got a free trial of Apple TV+ and man does it suck. I've heard Severance is very good and a couple of the documentaries look interesting but man for the most part it's a bunch calculatedly bland middle of the road content. Everything is just so Apple I can smell the beige smugness through the screen.
Deathstalker 2 is the only one worth watching.I really want to watch the Deathstalker films again because of his vid.
Want to borrow my VHS copies?I really want to watch the Deathstalker films again because of his vid.
The recent comic book largely follows the comedic tone of the second film and it's a lot of fun to read, as well.Deathstalker 2 is the only one worth watching.