What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

April 9th, 2018 at 2:59:20 PM permalink
ams288
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I totally forgot The Tourist exists.

I think part of the reason it got a bad rap was because it got nominated for Golden Globes, and it was definitely NOT an awards-worthy movie. The HFPA basically nominated Depp and Jolie to get them to come to the show... The Globes are a joke. Picked by a group of weird foreign starf***ers.
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April 9th, 2018 at 4:01:40 PM permalink
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I think the credit for creating the genre and setting bar really low goes to "Samuel L. Bronkowitz" (aka, John Landis of "Animal House" fame) for his "Kentucky Fried Movie".


The only thing I remember about that movie was the shower scene. I think they were trying to outdo the one in Porky's.
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April 9th, 2018 at 8:45:25 PM permalink
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Quote: Wizard
The only thing I remember about that movie was the shower scene. I think they were trying to outdo the one in Porky's.


Porky's was four years after KFM.

Wikipedia lists KFM as a "parody" film.

Blazing Saddles (1974)
Flesh Gordon (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Groove Tube (1974)
Dark Star (1974)
Vampira (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Love and Death (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Silent Movie (1976)
Murder By Death (1976)
Queen Kong (1976)
The Big Bus (1976)
High Anxiety (1977)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
The Cheap Detective (1978)
Piranha (1978)
Life of Brian (1979)
Wholly Moses! (1980)
Airplane! (1980)

A genre that is alive today.

The Hungover Games (2014)
They Came Together (2014)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Superfast! (2015)
The Walking Deceased (2015)
Tooken (2015)
Ridiculous 6 (2015)
Imaginary Movie (2015)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
Meet the Blacks (2016)
A Counted Room (2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Sausage Party (2016)
Best Party Ever! (2016)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Who the F#@K Took My Daughter? (2017)
Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue (2018)
April 9th, 2018 at 9:28:06 PM permalink
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Porky's was four years after KFM.


I stand corrected. The only thing I remember was about three seconds of a shower scene, so I'm not a good one to give an in-depth review of the movie.
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April 10th, 2018 at 8:18:57 AM permalink
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Finally saw the first episode of Westworld and thought it was outstanding. I can see myself following this show to the end.
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April 10th, 2018 at 11:28:34 AM permalink
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I really enjoyed it. Second season is starting on HBO in a few weeks. Unfortunately I don't get HBO and am unwilling to pay $15/month for it, so that means I might not see season 2 until 2019.
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April 10th, 2018 at 12:18:18 PM permalink
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Finally saw the first episode of Westworld and thought it was outstanding. I can see myself following this show to the end.


It was a very good episode
I enjoyed it and watched season 1

Watching This is Us but losing interest about 9 episodes in
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April 11th, 2018 at 10:07:47 AM permalink
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Finally saw the first episode of Westworld and thought it was outstanding. I can see myself following this show to the end.


Thandie Newton (who's mother is a Zimbabwean princess) is the mother of three children, and has been a lifelong advocate against violence and exploitation of women.

In 2016, Newton (age 45) stated she had been the victim of a director who repeatedly showed his friends a video of her in a sexually-graphic audition which she made as a teenager. Newton cited this experience as being a part of why she had taken the Westworld role, which involved substantial nudity, as it mirrored the experiences of survivors of sexual abuse while also asking moral questions about the meaning of humanity and what it means to be humane.

The best, sci-fi, IMO, takes a creative look at where society is headed. While there is plenty of sci-fi about a dystopian future, Westworld seems to portray a world which is probably highly functioning, but allows people on vaction to indulges these illicit fantasies that are way beyond simple sex dreams.
April 11th, 2018 at 1:04:50 PM permalink
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Some of those Hays Code requirements were really stupid.

Crime had to be punished was bad enough but all those restrictions on length of a kiss and how a woman had to step back demurely after a kiss were utterly hilarious. Any private detective had to have a link to an official police force even if it was only a social one.

Alfred Hitchcock had a woman get away with killing her husband via a frozen leg of lamb by commenting at the end that when she tried the crime later she was caught because her absent minded husband had forgotten to plug the freezer in to the outlet. That took care of the Broadcast Standards and Practices stuff.

Donald Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, had over a dozen novels that featured professional criminals. Movie deals often altered the story line.
April 11th, 2018 at 2:13:04 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Pacomartin
The best, sci-fi, IMO, takes a creative look at where society is headed. .


Right now I'm reading a bunch of Phillip
K Dick short stories from the 50's. You
can get anthologies of Sc/Fi on Amazon
Kindle insanely cheap, like 55 cents.

Sc/Fi has always been about predicting
the future, they're right sometimes, but
mostly not. It's always far less drastic
than they think it will be.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.