Last film you saw, vol. 6

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The Magnificent Seven (2016)

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Sanctum (2011)

"She's strong like bull, smart like tractor."

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Beat Street

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

"What would Vin Diesel do?"

Hitler's Children (2011)

"But not every story has a happy ending. Very often, there's no ending at all."

Beat Street

It's not my kind of music or dancing, but I need to see that some day because it definitely has a following.

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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016)

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Dreamscape (1984)

"Nice place you got here. Who's your decorator? Darth Vader?"

MST3K: Laserblast (1978/1996)

"Pepsi gave them big bucks to place Coke in this movie."

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^How good were those?



This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

"Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?"

The documentary ("rockumentary") of a heavy metal band, showcasing their vapid personalities, eccentric shows, terrible marketing, and underwhelming success, spoofing nearly every part of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.

I heard about this a long time ago, from another kid in high school (circa 2003/4), but never got around to checking it out.

Now I'm glad I did.

This thing is hilarious. It's so straight-faced in how these guys think they're great, but they mismanage themselves into the ground and somehow just keep shuffling along.

Their "pod" and "Stonehenge" set moments were goddamn hilarious, and I noticed the "18 inches" mistake right off the bat when they were planning it. Personally, I think it looked good even as a screw-up (the intro monologue was great, I thought).

Overall a damn funny flick, something any music buff should check out. Oh, and there was an article (I originally had trouble even viewing it once, because of issues with the host site), satirically claiming that the official soundtrack to this film has to date only made $98 USD. To quote a reddit user, "This is the most Spinal Tap thing ever."

Highly recommend.

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The Girl On The Train (2016)

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Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)

"Before I kill you, tell me; from what village does such reckless impetuosity originate?
-America!
Of course!"

MST3K: Revenge of the Creature (1955/1997)

"Think anybody at the Rockefeller Foundation questioned the dynamite line-item?"

^How good were those?

Oh, if you've never seen Dreamscape, you'd totally dig it. Way, way before Inception (and only a few months before Nightmare on Elm Street) this movie was about a group of psychics turning to dream manipulation and assassination (and included the "are we in a dream now?" bit). Quaid is recruited by Max Van Sydow to join his study of guys that can enter other peoples dreams and theoretically help them. But Chris Plummer (what an all-star cast, right?) has more sinister plans with a much more unbalanced test subject. The snakeman nightmare scared the crap out of me as a kid. Now, it's just a really cool effect from the practical spfx days (both suitmation and stop motion).



As to Laserblast, I'd rank it as a pretty top-tier episode (one of the Mike Nelson ones and Dr. Forrester's last appearance) of MST3K. It's one of the dozen or so available on Instant Netflix and it was a re-watch for me. Perhaps my favorite bit is when they really drag Leonard Maltin over the coals for giving the movie 2.5 stars as they go through his guide and list some classic or well-regarded movies that he ranked the same or only .5 stars more.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)...This thing is hilarious...

Everyone needs to see Spinal Tap. All mocumentaries and a lot of comedy since then owe a tip of the hat to Reiner and crew. I first saw a chunk of it on HBO or something and (like a lot of people in the 80s, apparently), thought it was a real band. The first time I saw it through, I loved it. I almost popped in my DVD the other day. Now, you're making me want to watch it again.

Their "pod" and "Stonehenge" set moments were goddamn hilarious, and I noticed the "18 inches" mistake right off the bat when they were planning it. Personally, I think it looked good even as a screw-up (the intro monologue was great, I thought)...

The Stonehenge bit is definitely my favorite (though it's all gold from the cucumber to 11 and on and on). Anytime I hear someone ask which symbol means feet and inches I can't help but smile and flashback to that scene.

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Thinking of the cucumber scene, when I was a junior in high school, this group of students had a band that was performing at a talent show. Everyone wondered why the lead singer was wearing bright yellow spandex pants...and then he spread his legs while singing, and we all saw the lengthy bulge.

Admins cut the sound and pulled him off stage pretty fast, pretty sure he was suspended for a bit for that stunt. Goddamn hysterical, though.

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Atari: Game Over (2014)

"In context, given the time and the situation that Howard had to live in to program that game, it really is an astonishing masterwork."

Tales of Masked Men (2012)

"Lucha Libre is a sport in the key of melodrama."

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Split (2017)

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Passengers (2016)

"Jim, these are not robot questions."

The Masked Saint (2016)

"Where in the Bible does it say 'thous shalt not wrestle,' huh?"

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Black Swan (2010)

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Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 (2017)

"I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!"

Home (2015)

"Humans are more complicated than it said in the pamphlet."