Last Movie You Watched

[Florestan]

Ceretainly they aren't the depraved whipping-boys that a crusading prude would wish to tar them.

And there's more to the matter: the essence and origin of Toulouse-Lautrec's art is not to be found in his charged heredity, alcoholism and sexual promiscuity, but in his passionate, even fanatical quest for beauty and humanity, in his capacity to see them even in prostitutes and lowlifes and his ability to express them on canvas. To see in his paintings nothing more than the product and the celebration of alcoholism and debauchery is to completely misunderstand them

[hopefullytrusting]

Another film down in my Ethan-verse watchlist: Vacancy (2007) - lucked out here big time, as this one stars my favorite character actor, Frank Whaley (my era's Gary Sinise) plus Kate Beckinsale as the female lead! It also stars Luke Wilson, who is probably the weak link, but he plays his role well, in my opinion.

I will admit; it was definitely scary (but I am also a scaredy-cat, so you might not find it spooky).

It does have some city slickers versus small town tropes. It also is basically a Psycho-variant.

Also, gives me The Strangers vibe.

[AnotherSpin]

Rambling Rose (1991)

A film about love, simple and direct. About a love that, as Osho said, cannot be perfected.

[hopefullytrusting]

Okay, I needed something lighter, so following my main man Frank to the Field of Dreams: A classic, especially if you love baseball. Unsurprisingly, Costner is the weak spot of the film, but he is surrounded by one of the greatest supporting casts of all time: Madigan is a perfect firecracker, James Earl Jones has never been funnier, Liotta is a constant scene stealer, as is Busfield - who plays the foil perfectly, Lancaster oozes charm, and Whaley is Moonlight.

[Karl Henning]

MTT, the SFSO & Pyotr Ilyich

[Florestan]

Young Andersen

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72538-unge-andersen

Excellent, recommended.

@Madiel Danish might be the impossible to learn and pronounce correctly for a non-native, but I swear I did hear clearly "Good day", "Go to bed" and "Famous". 

[Iota]

Yesterday is an endlessly lovely and funny film, and always a joy to rewatch.

[hopefullytrusting]

Well, apparently Vacancy did well enough to warrant a prequel follow-up: Vacancy 2: The First Cut



The only actor I had heard of prior to this was David Moscow, from Newsies (a musical starring Christian Bale - a must watch, especially because Bale seems to take himself too seriously, sometimes). It is, of course, direct-to-dvd - it isn't bad, for what it is, and it was nice to see Moscow (last time I saw him he was a kid, I think), and it seemed like they all had a good time on set (I hear that a lot about most horror movie sets - I watch a lot of Dead Meat). It also has Brian Klugman, who I only know because I just finished watching Bones over the summer.

It lacks the atmosphere of the first, so it isn't that scary at all (this feels more like Hostel or Saw, in horror).

[foxandpeng]

Furiosa in the Mad Max series of films. Meh. Was ok.

[Karl Henning]

Yesterday is an endlessly lovely and funny film, and always a joy to rewatch.

Love it!

[hopefullytrusting]

Love low-budget creature-features: Locusts starring Lucy Lawless



The actual star of the film is John Heard, but his name, outside of those who love character actors, won't sell a film. It does follow the common trope of the scientist who no one listens to, but they don't listen to him for a good reason, as he is a madman.

The best part, as with any film of this type, is when humans have to act as if they are getting attacked by the locusts - I could watch that all day.

Suspend your disbelief and have fun.

[hopefullytrusting]

Following up Locusts with my favorite creature feature: Mosquito! (starring Leatherface!)



Production value? Where we're going we don't need any gosh darn production value!

You know what you are getting with this film. They do not hide it. They have no secrets.

[Karl Henning]

Following up Locusts with my favorite creature feature: Mosquito! (starring Leatherface!)



Production value? Where we're going we don't need any gosh darn production value!

You know what you are getting with this film. They do not hide it. They have no secrets.

Your  critter movie binge puts me in mind of del Toro's Mimic. Do you know it?

[hopefullytrusting]

Your  critter movie binge puts me in mind of del Toro's Mimic. Do you know it?

I did not know it, but I love del Toro, so I will most definitely put that on my list to watch. I just skimmed the wiki, as I like going in as blind as I can with the things I watch, but I saw the year 1997 - that is a wheelhouse for my kind of horror.

[Mister Sharpe]

One of a handful of Mike Leigh films I missed, now catching-up on.  Hollywood thinks we don't want to watch films about us everyday folk.  Indeed, most of us don't, given the poor box office returns on this film.  But I do. Gangster films, superheroes, car chases, etc. say "nothing to me about my life" (as Morrissey says, er sings).

[JBS]

Love low-budget creature-features: Locusts starring Lucy Lawless



The actual star of the film is John Heard, but his name, outside of those who love character actors, won't sell a film. It does follow the common trope of the scientist who no one listens to, but they don't listen to him for a good reason, as he is a madman.

The best part, as with any film of this type, is when humans have to act as if they are getting attacked by the locusts - I could watch that all day.

Suspend your disbelief and have fun.

An obvious followup to that


Admittedly a different sort of horror.

[Madiel]

@Madiel Danish might be the impossible to learn and pronounce correctly for a non-native, but I swear I did hear clearly "Good day", "Go to bed" and "Famous". 

Even my mother picks up "good day" 

[hopefullytrusting]

Was looking at Ultra Warrior (1990 - will watch eventually, it is on YouTube currently), and I wanted to know who the lead actress was - Clare Beresford who was only in one other movie - Crime Zone, which led me to this awesome review:

Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs wrote, "Sure, we've all seen this story before, but have we seen it with 1,000 Peruvian extras in shiny silver space suits? I think not."[5]

So, I'm watching that currently.



I found Ultra Warrior because Meshach Taylor (of Designing Women fame) stars in it.

[JBS]

Was looking at Ultra Warrior (1990 - will watch eventually, it is on YouTube currently), and I wanted to know who the lead actress was - Clare Beresford who was only in one other movie - Crime Zone, which led me to this awesome review:

Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs wrote, "Sure, we've all seen this story before, but have we seen it with 1,000 Peruvian extras in shiny silver space suits? I think not."[5]

So, I'm watching that currently.



I found Ultra Warrior because Meshach Taylor (of Designing Women fame) stars in it.

The idea of Mesach Taylor as Ultra Warrior was too intriguing to ignore.
Apparently he's not Ultra Warrior but Roger Corman was involved.

An IMDB review

Cinematic Tourette's Syndrome.
An incomprehensible mess, Ultra Warrior is far and away the most relentless assault on the senses I have been subjected to in ages.

Key scenes from a barely released 1990 film called WELCOME TO OBLIVION were reedited with footage from God-knows-how-many other films, resulting in the video-exclusive backwash known as ULTRA WARRIOR. It's little more than a string of explosions with a threadbare story about Dack Rambo being sent into a radioactive wasteland to evaluate mining potential, and being drawn into a bloody war between mutants and slave-drivers. This gala of fractional endowments is so imbued with 80s barbarian post-apocalypse cliches that it almost works as a satire of the subgenre.

A painful test of endurance, but surely a badmovie monger's dream, UULTRA WARRIOR is a must-see-to-disbelieve experience. You will *never* mock another movie again.

1/10.

And another

No spoilers here, the title does a good enough job.
If ever there was a movie that needed MST3K to cover, this was it. This is not a movie to see alone, as you may suffer brain hemorrhages. If you want to practice picking out continuity errors and shouting out comments, this the movie to do it with. There is so much footage taken from other movies, I'm pretty sure that the only original shots are those with the actors in the movie-and even that is doubtful. This movie is so horrible that it makes you seriously wonder how it could have been made. On average, you'll cringe about once every three minutes. There are so many holes in the plot and script, that it's full...of...well, really big holes. If you enjoy fine cinema, you'll never even be in the same section as this video. Still, Ultra Warrior has found a place near and dear to my heart. Just about everyone I know has seen it at least once at my urging. There's just something about the way that the cast and crew knew that they were making a movie that would possibly never see the light of day. No effort is made to hide the impossible jumps in the plot, the disturbingly poor special effects, the incredibly cheesy delivery of lines, or the smashingly choppy scene cuts. In fact, they revel in it. This is a movie that the people making it had fun doing. Or they were all completely insane. Completely.

But it's fun. I recommend it. A little

Another review mentions George Peppard and David Carradine as among the actors cut and pasted from other movies.

[hopefullytrusting]

The idea of Mesach Taylor as Ultra Warrior was too intriguing to ignore.
Apparently he's not Ultra Warrior but Roger Corman was involved.

An IMDB review

And another

Another review mentions George Peppard and David Carradine as among the actors cut and pasted from other movies.

Lol, exactly - it is going to be awesome!