Last film you saw, vol. 6

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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

"Who put the sticks up their butts?"

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

"I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders."

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)

"I hate to advocate drugs or liquor, violence, insanity to anyone. But in my case it's worked."

Way before Johnny Depp's two movies in the part, Bill Murray portrayed Thompson in this equally crazy flick, which has one or two familiar bits from F&L.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

"I choose war."

Off the top of my head at the moment, barring further thinking, here are my impressions:

Just saw this with my dad, and in spite of the ludicrous extras they stuffed in, I was entertained and fairly satisfied, same as with the first two.

I think Stephen Fry's Alfred performed exactly as expected, if not too well. The same could be said of the Master of Laketown. Though that greedy bastard met a far briefer end than in the book, I can't say there was a person unhappy with his finish.

Smaug's attack was great, though I kept expecting him to try a large bridge and it's withdrawn, as in the novel. Still, seeing him crawl over the burning buildings and taunt Bard was chilling and very much worth it.

I am still fairly peeved at the lessening of Bard's character via the Black Arrow's redesign. They really doubled up on Bard's lessening, though, because now there's Alfred kissing his ass left and right and it actually makes Bard look second-fiddle to a dipshit like that.

I'm glad to see Thorin's redemption. His psychosis, as explained by Balin to Bilbo, was fairly well done, becoming more obsessed with material wealth and forgetting that his quest was to get his home back, not anything else. The "gold illusions" he suffered, especially Shadow Smaug, were very fitting.

Dain was great. Had a fucking sweet hammer and his skull was hard as rock. I even loved his hog.

I still think the love-triangle was ham-fisted like all fucking get-out, and that it really could have been done better.

Legolas was...something else. I think Batman and Jesus would be very jealous of him.

The fight at Dol-Goldur was entertaining, though I really don't see why Galadriel shouldn't have footwear, or why it simply had to be her who did the heavy lifting; Sauron feared Sarumon, for fuck's sake, and that's a fact.

As for the Battle itself, I liked it. It was a little over-the-top, but it certainly helped things go out with a bang and show you what a five-way tussle looks like in a high-fantasy setting.

Overall, in spite of the many flaws it has, it is worth seeing. I actually think it's shorter than the other films, probably by a wide margin.

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Dain was great. Had a fucking sweet hammer and his skull was hard as rock. I even loved his hog.

Billy Connolly's war pig was excellent, as were his beard tusks.

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Shivers [aka It Came from Within] (1975)

"I hunger ... for love."

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

"This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life. This thing's nicer than my apartment."

This is one of those weird exceptions of a popular movie (franchise) from my time that I somehow didn't get around to seeing until three decades later. I don't think it's quite as good as say Lethal Weapon, but it was decent. Murphy's laugh (which the leading lady mocks here) cracks me up.

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Yo.



an interesting piece about the nature of life and mankind *maybe* facing his planetary successor which pretty enjoyable overall, not the least of which was due to seeing both Banderas AND Melanie Griffith being in the same film (plus, having a scene together......)




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Heaven is for real - This is true tale about a boy that lost consciousness on the operating table during surgery, and had visions of Heaven, Jesus Christ and several angels. When he came to, he told his father, a Pastor, of his accountings, who told the town folk, who flipped out. This was okay, but very slow-paced. I kept waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but that never occured, so I ended up bored for most of the flick.

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American Me (1992)

"You know, a long time ago, two best homeboys, two kids, were thrown into juvie. They were scared, and they thought they had to do something to prove themselves. And they did what they had to do. They thought they were doing it to gain respect for their people, to show the world that no one could take their class from them. No one had to take it from us, ese. Whatever we had... we gave it away."

Edward James Olmos not only played the lead, but helmed this movie about an East-LA Mexican-American who survives in Folsom State Prison by forming a gang that then becomes so big even he can't control it. Not necessarily adding anything new to the genre, it still was pretty decent.

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Heaven is for real - This is true tale about a boy that lost consciousness on the operating table during surgery, and had visions of Heaven, Jesus Christ and several angels. When he came to, he told his father, a Pastor, of his accountings, who told the town folk, who flipped out. This was okay, but very slow-paced. I kept waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but that never occured, so I ended up bored for most of the flick.

When I was working at Barnes & Noble, this was a big seller. What was the upshot of the story? He says he had a vision and that's it? Or is he proclaimed the second coming of Christ? Always curious about that.

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In real life, he claims he met Jesus and was told that he and his family and similar believers were doing a good job and to keep it up.

In the adaptation, God/Jesus is a motherfucking nightmare-demon while the kid is comatose and his idiot-dad is having this inexplicable crisis of faith that he maliciously heaps on a female aid-worker and then...everything pretty much just resolves itself in a great-big non-ending.

Yeah, they fucked the handling of the adaptation. Badly.

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In real life, he claims he met Jesus and was told that he and his family and similar believers were doing a good job and to keep it up.

In the adaptation, God/Jesus is a motherfucking nightmare-demon while the kid is comatose and his idiot-dad is having this inexplicable crisis of faith that he maliciously heaps on a female aid-worker and then...everything pretty much just resolves itself in a great-big non-ending.

Yeah, they fucked the handling of the adaptation. Badly.

Glad I never read the book then. And chances are good I won't bother with the movie, either. Thanks for the heads up.

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Did a double feature of exploitation flicks (both from Roger Corman's New World Puictures) expiring on Instant Netflix:

The Student Nurses (1970)

"I didn't know gynecologists made house calls."

[This one was interesting because it is written and directed by a woman and clearly was trying to advocate several left-leaning and feminist causes, but still devolved into sexploitation, though not as explicit as later entries.]

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

"Alright ladies, hurry up, hurry up. Never mind the crotch cooties; they have to eat too."

This was better than some other women prison or Filipino-ploitation flicks probably because it was penned and directed by Jack Hill.

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Yo.

Heaven is for real - This is true tale about a boy that lost consciousness on the operating table during surgery, and had visions of Heaven, Jesus Christ and several angels. When he came to, he told his father, a Pastor, of his accountings, who told the town folk, who flipped out. This was okay, but very slow-paced. I kept waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but that never occured, so I ended up bored for most of the flick.

In real life, he claims he met Jesus and was told that he and his family and similar believers were doing a good job and to keep it up.

In the adaptation, God/Jesus is a motherfucking nightmare-demon while the kid is comatose and his idiot-dad is having this inexplicable crisis of faith that he maliciously heaps on a female aid-worker and then...everything pretty much just resolves itself in a great-big non-ending.

Yeah, they fucked the handling of the adaptation. Badly.

why does it sound like Sy saw a completely diff movie?!?? his description carries none of the horror I would expect from somebody who saw the movie as AP lays it out for us......




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