Recently watched Vertigo with friends. It was my first Alfred Hitchcock film and it really took me sometime to really get into the acting. It was well made I guess I'm still not used to watching films from decades ago I do hope to watch more films by Alfred Hitchcock as to just not know the " rosebud " thing that keeps popping out everywhere.
There's a film called The Boys in Company C about a group of young men going to the Vietnam war, and this film is interesting in that it shares some aspects with the much better known movie Full Metal Jacket, like the drill instructors using the word ¨maggot¨ and saying that the recruits aren't even human beings. It also stars R. Lee Ermey, who would again fullfill his role as a drill sergeant in said film almost ten years after he played one in this movie
I particulary like this scene, which is pretty funny for an otherwise rather grim movie.
Been binging a ton of anthology horror movies lately, v/h/s, all hallow' eve, terrifiyer and classic Wes Craven films.
It's nice to have small short horror films in one setting which gives off that goosebumps feeling.
Most of the best bits were with Art the Clown, the actor himself is a pretty rad dude by the looks of how he posts pics of him as Art.
(Now, many of you probably saw this one coming, but) The Black Hole certainly qualifies, I think. It didn't do well in the box office, critics were very "eh" about it, it's really shit science fiction-- besides the idea that if humans think they're going to get away with mass-producing AI robots then they're going to have to bypass the FUCK out of the uncanny valley, like we see here with the LF series, the sheer number of scientific inaccuracies to be found here are just embarrassingly prevalent, it doesn't know what it wants to be, there are some screens where the green-screening is fucking awful, and yeah I love it also? Oh, and everybody who likes it looks like just as much of an obnoxious idiot as any other cult movie's fanbase when they talk about it.
If I look at it from an unbiased perspective it's really not that great, around a 6.5/7 (which isn't bad, mind you), but goddamn if I don't love the production on this. As far as that's concerned, this movie's fab.
The special effects suck ass (excepting the hand-drawn electrical short-circuiting, lasers, etc., of course), but the PRACTICAL effects, oh my fuckin' god homie.
The movie only starts being mediocre if you start thinking about it the way movie critics do, like really be looking for things to complain about, such as the terrible acting jobs done by Anthony Perkins and uhhhhh whoever played Dan Holland-- Robert something. I'd argue that the first half of the movie is better than the second, story-wise, but there is a novelization that in effect was like a game patch-- essentially, it's the same story but more competent, so I've been told.
Oh yeah;
I forgot to add ^^^that guy to that "childhood heroes" thread. Like, I want humanity to hurry up and finish working on this whole "A.I." business so I can have the privilege of being there for when the Labor Force series starts production. Realistically speaking, we'll probably be there by the time this movie celebrates its 100th anniversary. I'll be fucking decrepit but at least I'll have this guy. And the answer as to whether each series gives unique names to each of the robots produced. Like, in the twenty or so years between BOB and VINCENT's assembly, there were 368 more waves of these fellas, and though the idea that VINCENT will beep before speaking yet BOB does not makes me question if robots' rights suffered a blow or something, you gotta admit that's a hell of a lot of refinement. "They still haven't improved on our model, but you can't beat perfection, we're the best." ...As the quote implies, though, there actually aren't that many differences between BOB and VINCENT that aren't mostly or entirely cosmetic. Square eyes means improved field of vision, though, so V's got that on BOB.
Even though it easily lives up to its hate in terms of how badly executed and generally stupid of a film it is, Freddy Got Fingered:
If you view it the way that it was meant to be viewed (in other words, as a deliberate parody of all of the stupid gross-out bullshit that plagued American comedy films back in the early 2000s, most notably in that one particularly infamous scene from American Pie where one of the film's main characters had sex with the film's titular pie), this film becomes absolutely freaking hilarious almost beyond belief, albeit largely for all of the wrong reasons