Last film you saw, vol. 6

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His pants were SO TIGHT AND REVEALING.

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His pants were SO TIGHT AND REVEALING.

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Anyone who loves Finding Nemo needs to go see Finding Dory ASAP

And stay for the credits

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I remember seeing Dark Crystal too (probably on video since I would have been only 3 when it came out) and the witch scared the crap out of me.

Was that the horrible looking thing that took out its eyeball? That seriously freaked me out when I saw it. I think we had to leave the theater. In hindsight, it reminds me of Edison's Frankenstein.

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)





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Jupiter Ascending (2015)

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Fright Night (2011)

"That is a terrible vampire name. Jerry?"

R.I.P., Mr. Yelchin.

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Tomorrowland (2015)





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The Boy (2016)

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Odd Thomas (2013)

"Where you live I flourish."

I wasn't planning to watch another of Anton Yelchin's movies, but I saw this in my queue. It was good. Based on a Koontz novel, it follows a short-order cook named Odd who helps solve crimes as a secret medium/clairvoyant when signs start pointing to a large-scale disaster in his hometown. Stephen Sommers goes against his usual megabudget here to deliver a smallish, but worth-while paranormal mystery. It's akin to The Frighteners if the main character was much more likable.

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Watched Zootopia at the cheap theater for Father's Day.



Pretty good, though the racism metaphor was rather weakened by the fact that, unlike racism in the real world, there are actually pretty sound reasons to expect all these wildly different animal species to act differently, and have different abilities and aptitudes, and built-in limitations due to their species. (And in fact, many of the film's funniest bits have to do with playing to species specific stereotypes, which makes it a bit jarring when the viewers are, indirectly, taken to task for buying into some of them.)

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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)



"How about givin daddy a little kiss."

For dad's day, I was in the mood for some wholesale slaughter, and nothin says luvvin like Jason going through a bunch of teens at a cornfield party. I also needed to work out some dad rage, so this fit the bill perfectly. Easily in my top ten films of all time, although (as I've said many times before), Hodder was missed. When you are angry and pissed at the world, this serves as a good release.

That instant when Freddy is dragged into the real world and Jason is standing there waiting is solid gold. Worth the price of admission alone. And I actually dig the teens in this flick because they are relatively strong characters for a horror flick, and the prominent female heroine (whom is always present in both franchises) stakes her claim to throne like nobody's business.

Right on.

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My full moon movie tonight . . .


The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)

"It was probably a coyote. Maybe he's in heat."

That is not a typo. It's the genius of the leading man. Actually, I think this entry in the series is better than it gets credit for though by no means good. The acting is all over the place (not helped by the dubbing to cover the South-African for South Californian). The effects are alright at times (the big transformation is weird), though certainly not the best of the genre. I like the story--possibly because it's another (and supposedly closer) adaptation of the novels.

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Isn't that the one about the female author who moves with her husband to a small town? Scene with a werewolf head on fire in a barbecue grill?

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Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah (2001)

"Monsters resembling Godzilla have been seen in the United States...
-Wasn't that Godzilla?
The Americans said it was Godzilla, but all the Japanese scientists denied it."


The Room (2003)

"What client?
-I cannot tell you; it's confidential.
Aw, come on. Why not?
-No, I can't. Anyway, how is your sex life?"

This is one of those contenders for best-worst movie. At first, I was thinking "this only qualifies as bad and boring," but when the barely-speaks-English main character (who wrote, directed, and produced this gem) starts in with his dialogue, it earns the entertaining rep.

Isn't that the one about the female author who moves with her husband to a small town? Scene with a werewolf head on fire in a barbecue grill?

Yes to the former. By the latter I assume you mean a scene where said character is at an outdoor diner, looks at the grill, and has a brief vision of what is probably supposed to be a (were)wolf head. [The next closest thing is a bunch of werewolves dying in a burning building.]

So, both #1 and #4 have the same theme of a troubled celebrity woman going to the woods where her boyfriend has an affair with a werewolf in a town full of them. Supposedly that's all in the first three novels and this one is a bit closer to them. I'd love to read them, but they're out of print and I've never found them for a good price.

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