Is This Something? Halloween Reccomendations Edition

A commenter mentioned the Ballerina trailer. It's Ana d'Armas as an assassin from that Russian House of Assassins which, I guess, trained John Wick?

A different trailer makes it look like John Wick will be a major part of the movie, but I imagine that's Dangerous Disinformation and Trailer Fuckery. I bet he's in one six minute training montage, and then a quick "I'm still here" at the end.

I dunno. I have nothing against Ana d'Armas and I don't even care that much that they're doing a female spin-off. I don't like when they replace male characters with a female one, but we know there are literally fifty million assassins in the John Wick world -- as Pitch Meeting guy said, this conspiracy has enough members to swing an election, not by assassination but just by voting -- so sure, why not join in the new Conservative Trend of promoting hot chicks?

But it's a bad time for the girlboss hero, innit it? Dat race been run.

I don't like promoting Netflix but this could be a movie that women like that I could actually watch. Women sure do love their women-in-danger and true crime stuff.

Supposedly a true life story -- by Hollywood standards -- it's about a woman who goes on the Dating Game and winds up being stalked by a bizarro suitor who turns out to be a serial killer.

I think I've heard of this. Based on the timeframe and location, I'm going to guess it's the Night Stalker, right? Richard Ramirez? Nope: Bonhomme says it's Rodney Alcala, who has no serial killer nickname except "The Dating Game Killer." He had a nasty MO: He would repeatedly strangle women to the point of death, then let them revive a little, then strangle them again.

I'm so sick of superhero bullshit that I actually thought this "dark romance" thriller looks not entirely unwatchable. Though I find "Hollywood Sex" to be the cringeiest, silliest, most embarrassing, most preposterous kind of sex, and I'm even including my own in that.

Speaking of, enjoy this compilation of scenes of Jennifer Connelly set to "Space Age Love" song, which is the truly immortal song from the one-hit wonders Flock of Seagulls. (Who actually had a second hit in Photograph and a third in this one, but they weren't very big hits.)

The scenes are from The Hot Spot, which I only saw two minutes of, to fast forward to her nude scene. It seemed kind of boring, apart from that.

I just thought I should throw something in for the guys, to balance out the two other movies.

Kermit the Frog in The Dark Knight. And the interrogation scene.

Movieguik linked this review of four scary movies from 2022, including Smile and Barbarian.

Werewolves. It's a Die Hard type movie where the terrorists are werewolves. Meh.

I saw some trailers on the the Flick Connection YouTube channel. He said these are good.

Cuckoo looks very scary and I'll probably watch it. Watch the trailer through the bike scene.

He says this movie, Abigail, is good too. The gimmick is that six kidnappers are paid to abduct a six-year-old girl and bring her to an isolated house. The twist is the little girl is not a little girl and in fact arranged the "kidnapping" herself -- the kidnappers are the intended victims. The trailer said the people behind Ready or Not are involved in this, and that was good, funny horror.

Speak No Evil and Longlegs look good too. In the latter, a woman finds she's up against a true cosmic horror: Nicholas Cage.

Now that's scary.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 maybe first

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 18, 2024 04:20 PM (CWTWj)

2 what were we talking about?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 18, 2024 04:21 PM (CWTWj)

3 i newded
wonder what's going on.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 18, 2024 04:23 PM (CWTWj)

4 A commenter mentioned the Ballerina trailer. It's Ana d'Armas as an assassin from that Russian House of Assassins which, I guess, trained John Wick?

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Rumor is that it was HEAVILY reshot by the original John Wick director.

And...that the reshoots really helped the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

5 Had a comment but I forgot.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 04:24 PM (NKszP)

6 He says this movie, Abigail, is good too. The gimmick is that six kidnappers are paid to abduct a six-year-old girl and bring her to an isolated house. The twist is the little girl is not a little girl and in fact arranged the "kidnapping" herself -- the kidnappers are the intended victims.

soo... gender bent ransom of red chief?

Posted by: anachronda at October 18, 2024 04:24 PM (sGtp+)

7 Anora got a great review in the NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/yw8dc2jw

Posted by: beckster at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (NLtte)

8 Abigail is TERRIBLE

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (s3qiR)

9
Fuck that new shit, yo.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (Xhg9g)

10 > I think I've heard of this. Based on the timeframe and location, I'm going to guess it's the Night Stalker, right? Richard Ramirez?

Rodney Alcala

Posted by: bonhomme at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (Odg76)

11 I'm not watching any more waif girls kick butt unless they explain it real, real good.

Or...unless she looks good and naked. Not impossible with Ana...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

12 Abigail is so bad

it's painfully bad

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:26 PM (s3qiR)

13
I'ma gonna watch Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. I like that movie.

I also liked the Dark Shadows movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:27 PM (Xhg9g)

14 > I think I've heard of this. Based on the timeframe and location, I'm going to guess it's the Night Stalker, right? Richard Ramirez?

Rodney Alcala
Posted by: bonhomme at October 18, 2024 04:25 PM (Odg76)

I watched a documentary on that creepy fucker. What a sicko. he had stashes of pictures of the women he killed. They are still trying to see if there are any more victims

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 18, 2024 04:27 PM (NtVYv)

15 I think it was a different serial killer on The Dating Game" game-Rodney (something) but it's still creepy..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2024 04:27 PM (MQJVv)

16 If Ana shows skin, I'd go watch it.

Posted by: Roy at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (z+ik4)

17 I'm gonna see if I can get the wife to watch 'Shaun of the Dead' with me. Gonna be an uphill fight, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

18 the original Speak No Evil is excellent

I never watch the US remakes of great foreign films

my snob take! the originals are ALWAYS better

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (s3qiR)

19 I loved DisneyChannel's "Stuck in the Middle" which was a great family show. A latino family, Mom, Dad, and seven kids. No blacks or gays bitching about stuff.

Jenna Ortega had a very interesting video after the show ended. She talked about how in 2015 or 2016, they were casting for a white, blonde girl to play a brilliant inventor named Hillary.

Because of course. Election year with Hillary. Propaganda piece. Bastards.

Jenna went just to be seen. Group auditions. Kept getting called back multiple times. Christmas comes. They're retooling the show.

She goes back in the New Year. Hillary can now be any ethnicity.

Jenna eventually gets the part and what was going to be a Hillary propaganda piece turned into a very sweet, funny show. One of my favorites including adult comedies.

I thought that was an interesting story.

Posted by: Stateless at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (jvJvP)

20 Longlegs was good.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (s3qiR)

21 17 I'm gonna see if I can get the wife to watch 'Shaun of the Dead' with me. Gonna be an uphill fight, sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

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The Cornetto Trilogy is a regular in our house.

Dolley loves British comedy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

22 I'd of been first but i saw Jennifer Connelly and nude scene and that slowed me down.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 18, 2024 04:29 PM (W/lyH)

23 18 the original Speak No Evil is excellent

I never watch the US remakes of great foreign films

my snob take! the originals are ALWAYS better
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:28 PM (s3qiR)

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The American remake of Let the Right One In was pretty much as good as the Swedish original.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

24 As a general proposition, I dislike horror movies. I don't get the attraction. Anna Kendrick, OTOH, I can watch at all times.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

25 I thought "Abigail" was fine.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

26 Anyone watch the Anna Joy Taylor chess movie ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (NtVYv)

27 Well read through the content

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (fwDg9)

28 Honestly, I'm watching more Korean movies and mini-series. The acting and music is better. It's like watching stuff that would have come out in the 80's, only with better quality cameras....and subtitles.

Currently watching a period piece, '100 Days My Prince' which has death, romance, politics, drama and some slapstick comedy mixed in. Beats anything the US is putting out since Better Call Saul ended.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (xcxpd)

29 The scenes are from The Hot Spot, which I only saw two minutes of, to fast forward to her nude scene. It seemed kind of boring, apart from that.

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I really like The Hot Spot.

Hopper may have made the worst movie ever (The Last Movie), but he wasn't all bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

30 Is This Something?

Nice job with the trailer on the second one. Could be interesting.

Posted by: t-bird at October 18, 2024 04:30 PM (KBQMF)

31 Tim Burton can swill goat piss.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (NKszP)

32
I truly don't know malaka harris' real personality. I'm not sure she has one.

She "acts" every time she's on camera. She "plays" lawyer, she "plays" statesman, some times she "plays" vice president, I've seen her "play" fake motherly, she "plays" angry woman, she "plays" cool and hip.

You'd think with all her practice, her acting chops would be good by now. But she stinks in all her roles she plays.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (Xhg9g)

33 it's about a woman who goes on the Dating Game and winds up being stalked by a bizarro suitor who turns out to be a serial killer.
.......

White Guy for Kamala?

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

34 Sorry, Anya

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (NtVYv)

35 The Cornetto Trilogy is a regular in our house.

Dolley loves British comedy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

I don't much like the 3rd one but Hot Fuzz and Shaun are Quality.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

36 thanks bonhomme!

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (KRtlO)

37 Cuckoo looks good! will look for

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (s3qiR)

38 It's Ana d'Armas as an assassin from that Russian House of Assassins which, I guess, trained John Wick?

Is she hot and does she specialize in using her thighs to snap bad guys necks while wearing a mini-skirt?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (/lPRQ)

39 35 I don't much like the 3rd one but Hot Fuzz and Shaun are Quality.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

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The structure of The World's End appeals to me so much. It's such a well built and written movie. I'd argue it's the best written of the three.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

40 Kermit the Frog in The Dark Knight. And the interrogation scene.

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I think we are about only 3 or 4 years from going to some AI and telling it to replace Bale with Kermit in The Dark Knight and it will pop out a video of the whole movie with Kermit instead of Bale as Batman.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (Vh9CX)

41 I'm so sick of superhero bullshit that I actually thought this "dark romance" thriller looks not entirely unwatchable.

Okay, but what if we told you the superheroes would now all be super woke, and would center on intensely annoying girl bosses who spend the entire movie showing why white men are pathetic a***oles? I mean, how can you turn that down, amirite?

Posted by: Bob Iger at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (xCA6C)

42 IIRC, Alcala "won" the date, but the woman didn't end up going because she though he was creepy.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (Odg76)

43 Also, the Rifftrax live show of "Point Break" is on VOD, for those interested.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

44 The structure of The World's End appeals to me so much. It's such a well built and written movie. I'd argue it's the best written of the three.

fantastic and underrated! agree

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (s3qiR)

45 I hope Ms. Connelly ages gracefully and avoids the knife.

So pretty it hurts.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (Z8Yh2)

46 Ballerina sounds a lot like Red Sparrow, which was a decent movie, but a great book.

Posted by: Caradoc at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (4DQkl)

47 just watching Babygirl with Nicole Kidman's over surgified face is scary

I can't watch two hours of that face

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (s3qiR)

48 They killed Ana d'Armas's pet penguin gifted to her by her now-deceased assassin mentor.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (hovnC)

49 Anyone watch the Anna Joy Taylor chess movie ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
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The Queens Gambit. I loved it.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (v0R5T)

50 45 I hope Ms. Connelly ages gracefully and avoids the knife.

So pretty it hurts.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (Z8Yh2)
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She's not aged all that well.

Still got the pretty face (probably plastic to a good degree, to be honest), but her body...there's a reason you only see her in pants in Top Gun Maverick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

51 i hated The World's End. I tried to rewatch it but turned it off.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

52 I watched the first Terrifier movie this week. Fine family entertainment.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (NZnln)

53 The structure of The World's End appeals to me so much. It's such a well built and written movie. I'd argue it's the best written of the three.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

The ending didn't land for me. And frankly I can only put up with the protagonists being dumbasses for so long. It is quotable, though.

Edgar Wright is a good filmmaker, even if he doesn't always work for me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

54 I haven't watched superhero movies since endgame, so I'm not superhero-ed out right now.

But nothing out right now looks interesting except the Reagan biopic. (I probably missed it in theatres, though.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (JMAcK)

55 Keanu just turned 60. Pretty crazy

Posted by: brak at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (NGHTx)

56 53 The ending didn't land for me. And frankly I can only put up with the protagonists being dumbasses for so long. It is quotable, though.

Edgar Wright is a good filmmaker, even if he doesn't always work for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

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He starts filming The Running Man next month! Or this month...soon. It's happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

57 i just can't take the main character in The World's End. I know he's supposed to be an asshole, but I don't feel like watching an asshole for two hours. I also don't find him funny, just sad.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (KRtlO)

58 Insurance fraudster caught on dash cam.

http://tiny.cc/gz0rzz

Posted by: bonhomme at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (Odg76)

59 Edgar Wright is a good filmmaker, even if he doesn't always work for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)

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He starts filming The Running Man next month! Or this month...soon. It's happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

Oh. A remake. I'm so excited.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

60 57 i just can't take the main character in The World's End. I know he's supposed to be an asshole, but I don't feel like watching an asshole for two hours. I also don't find him funny, just sad.
Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (KRtlO)

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Well, it is a redemption story.

He gets better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

61 I enjoyed seeing Flock of Seagulls video

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (fwDg9)

62 57 i just can't take the main character in The World's End. I know he's supposed to be an asshole, but I don't feel like watching an asshole for two hours. I also don't find him funny, just sad.
Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (KRtlO)

See?! It's not just me!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

63
Speaking of acting,

who wants to see something fucked up?

"You could stop at five or six stores."

https://is.gd/16vgsX

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (Xhg9g)

64 Ana d'Armas is a smoke show. She got nude in that knock knock movie with John Wick.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (RUMEY)

65 I watched Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson, last night. It was okay, but the most interesting part was seeing Jessica Lange on screen again. She hasn't aged especially well, but she's still got appeal.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

66 I recommend "Nefarious".

Good movie.

The premise sounds stupid as hell...secualar psyciatrist (sic) tries to figure out motives of guy on death row with science!!!

Good times do not ensue.

Real good acting and directing/writing.

Highly recommend.

Posted by: EFG at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (kIrFD)

67 59 Oh. A remake. I'm so excited.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

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Apparently more of a readaptation of the original King/Bachman book.

Hell, he could be remaking A Star is Born and I'd still be there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

68 I hope Ms. Connelly ages gracefully and avoids the knife.

So pretty it hurts.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen

She was in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and looked quite pretty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (lTGtQ)

69 NetFlux has a new zombie type flic. I think its Filipino but dubbed in English. Z's can speak some and do decay, and end up being secondary to the story.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (/lPRQ)

70 Will Ballerina be a Black Swan event??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (hovnC)

71 >>>Ana d'Armas is a smoke show. She got nude in that knock knock movie with John Wick.

really? I didn't know she was in that.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (KRtlO)

72 49 Anyone watch the Anna Joy Taylor chess movie ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
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The Queens Gambit. I loved it.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (v0R5T)

Seconded. It's really good.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (RUMEY)

73 Ana d'Armas is a smoke show.

She's pretty to be sure, but she's one of those women that you figure doesn't look all that great sans makeup. She just doesn't do it for me.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (xCA6C)

74 All you Ana de Armas fans need to check out Blonde.

Feel good movie of the decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

75 > i hated The World's End. I tried to rewatch it but turned it off.

Same. I wanted to like it because I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead so much. I thought Hot Fuzz was OK. World's End was not for me.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (Odg76)

76 As discussed earlier, being a 20 something hottie still doesn't automatically make the women age extremely well

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (fwDg9)

77 60 57 i just can't take the main character in The World's End. I know he's supposed to be an asshole, but I don't feel like watching an asshole for two hours. I also don't find him funny, just sad.
Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (KRtlO)

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Well, it is a redemption story.

He gets better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

He ends the fucking world as we know it. The ending made me cringe. Never put the fate of the world in the hands of modern Brits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

78 Ballerina Assassin must have been made by a bunch of faggots. A woman can't physically beat a man but she can beat a man other ways but a faggot doesn't know how to portray that. Either that or they have some other agenda.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 04:38 PM (wD8nw)

79 50 45 I hope Ms. Connelly ages gracefully and avoids the knife.

So pretty it hurts.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 18, 2024 04:32 PM (Z8Yh2)
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She's not aged all that well.

Still got the pretty face (probably plastic to a good degree, to be honest), but her body...there's a reason you only see her in pants in Top Gun Maverick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)
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She was like Elizabeth Taylor in having a ridiculously mature face at an absurdly young age. It was kind of creepy. When she grew into it, then she was hot. (Both were, actually.)

Posted by: Eeyore at October 18, 2024 04:38 PM (1bNHn)

80 71 >>>Ana d'Armas is a smoke show. She got nude in that knock knock movie with John Wick.

really? I didn't know she was in that.
Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:37 PM (KRtlO)

Oh yeah. Her and Lorenza Izzo?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:39 PM (RUMEY)

81 Anyone watch the Anna Joy Taylor chess movie ?

Someone made a comment about her being the poster child for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, in view of her widely set eyes. I dunno. She's pretty fine looking to me. Smokin'!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

82 77 He ends the fucking world as we know it. The ending made me cringe. Never put the fate of the world in the hands of modern Brits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

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I...disagree with the film's ending on an intellectual level. I don't think it makes sense.

A worldwide EMP wouldn't make steam engines incapable of working, for instance.

But, I see it more as a conflict against corporatization ruining small town appeal. It's anti-globalist with a drunk schmuck at its center for comedic effect. I can dig it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

83 Now getting Jennifer Connally suggestions on YouTube.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

84 I know he's supposed to be an asshole, but I don't feel like watching an asshole for two hours.
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Posted by: joey biden at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (hovnC)

85 83 Now getting Jennifer Connally suggestions on YouTube.
Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

There are worse fates.

Next, Search for Miss BumBum 2013.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

86 I like Anya

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

87 Now getting Jennifer Connally suggestions on YouTube.

Online is a closed universe. Everything you do is monitored and recorded.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (xCA6C)

88 Has Anna Kendrick announced herself as a liberal loon yet?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 18, 2024 04:42 PM (KbCG3)

89
Yeah, google sees what we type here in the comments and it immediately reflects on your Youtube.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:42 PM (Xhg9g)

90 Cuckoo looks very scary and I'll probably watch it. Watch the trailer through the bike scene.

Cuckoo is on my boycott list because they cast a tranny as a woman. That's a hard no for me.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 04:42 PM (4/BuS)

91 If FaceBark starts showing me shorts of Jennifer Connolly riding a dime store mechanical horse, I'll know Zuckerberg is reading my phone.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:43 PM (RUMEY)

92
btw, I hope you all turn off you PC's mic and put tape over your cameras.

If you haven't done so, do it now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:43 PM (Xhg9g)

93 Longlegs wasn't good but Oddity was so much better. The story was better and the it was genuinely scary. And the ending was *chefs kiss!

Posted by: Megthered at October 18, 2024 04:43 PM (3mKRG)

94 For this October spook season we are watching the 1972 TV show anthology Ghost Story/Circle of Fear.

I seem to recall the episode House of Evil because when the doll house came out I was like "oh shit the doll house".

Concrete Captain and Bad Connection area also pretty good episodes.

Available on YouTube

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2024 04:43 PM (Vh9CX)

95 Next, Search for Miss BumBum 2013.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM

This is NOT the kind of suggestion that enhances the reputation for gravitas that HordeSource(tm) has worked so diligently to cultivate.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2024 04:44 PM (a3Q+t)

96 I watched the trailer for Hugh Grant in Heretic.

Actually looks pretty good. An original story at least.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:44 PM (RUMEY)

97 Osgood Perkins already had a new movie coming, by the way:

The Monkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfTApWPX7I

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

98 there's a reason you only see her in pants in Top Gun Maverick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 18, 2024 04:33 PM

She's a Book Thread lurker?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

99 Longlegs is, in two words, not good. Saw it in theater, and even the beer did not help.

Speak No Evil. I recommend catching the original Dutch version (available on Shudder), which I think may be a disguised political commentary on European lassitude in the face of hostile colonization. The trailer for the American version doesn't seem great despite having a good cast.

Abigail is okay.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 04:46 PM (4/BuS)

100
In case you missed it, The Hot Babes from the Get Smart tv show:

https://is.gd/jQfEYh

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:46 PM (Xhg9g)

101 Jennifer Connelly is the baseline of 1.000 in female vertibrate pulchritude.

1.000 being perfection.

For comparison, Gal Gadot is the closest approach, at 0.9673.

All of you guys' wives, and mine, are 0.850.

Flicka, from the first Flicka movie, is 0.467, the highest nonhuman score.

Joy Behar is 0.037.

A female blobfish is 0.001.

I hope this is instructive. Because it's science.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 18, 2024 04:46 PM (/nctV)

102 Anna Kendrick is teh hawt.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 18, 2024 04:46 PM (8xEbs)

103 Oddity is great. Irish ghost story.

Longlegs requires a big buy-in and that you don't think too much about anything.

The Vordulak is good, if you can handle the puppet.

Strange Darling is excellent. Slasher/thriller in the QT style but I liked it anyway.

The Substance is terrific. Stylishily directed, a mash-up of Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson. SEVERE body horror.

Speak No Evil: Tense domestic horror. Also...Irish, too? Somewhere in the islands, anyway.

Red Rooms: Not great, but with some outstanding moments. Tense, great acting, interesting story, doesn't quite stick the landing.

Just horror movies in the theater in the last month.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (asXVI)

104 A female blobfish is 0.001.

Trigglypuff aspires to female blobfish, but knows she'll never get there.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (xCA6C)

105 100 In case you missed it, The Hot Babes from the Get Smart tv show:

can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume charlie watkins features prominently.

Posted by: anachronda at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (sGtp+)

106 New York Post @nypost 4h
Al Pacino will forever be ‘haunted’ by injury to his penis: ‘Such pain that I could hardly walk home’ trib.al/hmYWzwF

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (hovnC)

107 I hear Anya Taylor-Joy eats crackers in bed. But I really must find out the truth for myself.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (v0R5T)

108 Joy Behar is 0.037.

—

If so? Then Whoopi is in negative number territory.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 18, 2024 04:47 PM (8xEbs)

109 51 i hated The World's End. I tried to rewatch it but turned it off.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

I think that was the last movie I went to see in a theater...I loved it, as I do the other two "Cornetto" flicks.

Posted by: goozer at October 18, 2024 04:48 PM (aWAkn)

110 Pretty sure Ana d'Armas is a liberal twat. Not that the movie reflects the actor/actress, but saw Knives Out in the theater with wifey who after a coupla margaritas was audibly groaning "propaganda!", "are you kidding me", etc. etc. Knives Out was boring and unfunny trying to disguise itself as Sherlock Holmes-ey with suspense and humor but missing on both while all white people were villainous buffoons but Ana d'Armas's immigrant character was the against-all-odds heroine... She was also a leftist character in War Dogs. But I think she's just leftist herself...

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 04:48 PM (Bhsk7)

111 Though I find "Hollywood Sex" to be the cringeiest, silliest, most embarrassing, most preposterous kind of sex, and I'm even including my own in that.

Heh, it's Ace Dangerfield.

Posted by: mikeski at October 18, 2024 04:49 PM (DgGvY)

112 There's a Korean movie from the last few years called Ballerina (wonder if the current one borrows from it?). The Korean one is very good. Recommended.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 04:49 PM (4/BuS)

113 OT, but it's freaking windy in the SFV.
The Santa Ana winds, also sometimes called the devil winds

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 04:49 PM (NKszP)

114 Joy Behar is 0.037.
—

If so? Then Whoopi is in negative number territory.
Posted by: Settled Science
......

I'm not a biologist, but Whoopi doesn't even appear to be of the same species.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

115 Don't want to see any horror films, and an assassin ballerina doesn't interest me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2024 04:50 PM (MQJVv)

116
can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume charlie watkins features prominently.
Posted by: anachronda

She didn't make the cut.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 04:50 PM (2nVDk)

117 75 > i hated The World's End. I tried to rewatch it but turned it off.

Same. I wanted to like it because I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead so much. I thought Hot Fuzz was OK. World's End was not for me.
Posted by: bonhomme

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Yep. Shaun was lightning in a bottle. Hot Fuzz was fun but not as good. World's End was painful. Saw it in the theater and was looking at my watch half the time...

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 04:51 PM (Bhsk7)

118 hope you all turn off you PC's mic and put tape over your cameras.

Naw, just black tape over my eyes like old dirty movies.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 04:51 PM (NKszP)

119 OT, but it's freaking windy in the SFV.
The Santa Ana winds, also sometimes called the devil winds

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle
......

Uh-oh. Fire danger.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:51 PM (v0R5T)

120 Actually, Bladerunner 2049 was the last flick I decided I had to see on the big screen. Also featuring Ms. de Armas...

(I'm loving my hash at the moment...)

Posted by: goozer at October 18, 2024 04:51 PM (aWAkn)

121 54 I haven't watched superhero movies since endgame, so I'm not superhero-ed out right now.

But nothing out right now looks interesting except the Reagan biopic. (I probably missed it in theatres, though.)

saw nosferatu with radiohead last week. it was really good.

Posted by: anachronda at October 18, 2024 04:52 PM (sGtp+)

122 I don't much like the 3rd one but Hot Fuzz and Shaun are Quality.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (xcxpd)
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I love the third one!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 18, 2024 04:52 PM (7fElN)

123 122 I don't much like the 3rd one but Hot Fuzz and Shaun are Quality.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 18, 2024 04:31 PM (xcxpd)
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I love the third one!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 18, 2024 04:52 PM (7fElN)

Me too. I think Hot Fuzz is the stinker of the three.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 04:53 PM (4/BuS)

124 82 A worldwide EMP wouldn't make steam engines incapable of working, for instance.

so union pacific, home of 4014 bigboy, will still be able to move the freight?

Posted by: anachronda at October 18, 2024 04:54 PM (sGtp+)

125 Train to Busan is an excellent Korean film, that i could actually watch all the way through. I love horror movies but I'm such a chicken. My daughter trued to show me Terrifer. I think I made it 30 minutes.

Posted by: Megthered at October 18, 2024 04:54 PM (3mKRG)

126 I think Cuckoo has the tranny in it. I don't like spending most of a movie in the Uncanny Valley trying to figure out whether a character is a man or woman. I think this is the guy from the last Hunger Games movie who played the female cousin and all I could think during the entire movie is why would a society that is on the brink of collapse to the point it can't afford fabric for new garments still be funding sex change operations?

I didn't enjoy Longlegs. I hate Nicholas Cage but he was the only good part in it. Oddity and Trap were better and they weren't great.

The movie which surprised me this year was Knox Goes Away. It is about a contract killer who has a form of fast advancing dementia and is surprisingly good with a twist at the end which actually explains things that don't make sense throughout the course of the movie.

Posted by: Thatch at October 18, 2024 04:54 PM (qVsb2)

127 538 poll flips to Trump 52-48

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2024 04:54 PM (RUMEY)

128 125 Train to Busan is an excellent Korean film, that i could actually watch all the way through. I love horror movies but I'm such a chicken. My daughter trued to show me Terrifer. I think I made it 30 minutes.
Posted by: Megthered at October 18, 2024 04:54 PM (3mKRG)

If you liked Train to Busan, another Korean one you might like is Exhuma.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 04:55 PM (4/BuS)

129 We've got an offshore flow going up here in Santa Cruz county too.
RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT SATURDAY FOR STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS AND CRITICALLY DRY CONDITIONS

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 04:55 PM (v0R5T)

130 Older, skinny Jennifer Connally, from DDG images appears strikingly unfeminine.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 04:55 PM (wD8nw)

131 55 Keanu just turned 60. Pretty crazy

so there's still time for them to get around to finally making a sequel to the matrix?

Posted by: anachronda at October 18, 2024 04:57 PM (sGtp+)

132 65 I watched Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson, last night. It was okay, but the most interesting part was seeing Jessica Lange on screen again. She hasn't aged especially well, but she's still got appeal.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2024 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

Try "Duel" about the making of "Baby Jane". She is fantastic as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon kills it as Bette Davis.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 18, 2024 04:57 PM (f+FmA)

133 120 Actually, Bladerunner 2049 was the last flick I decided I had to see on the big screen. Also featuring Ms. de Armas...

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I kept falling asleep during that. I was pumped for it and love Blade Runner, Denis Villenueve, Ryan Gosling... Just thought it was lame. Pretty much how I felt with Spectre. Feels like it was around that time (late 20-teens) when 'big' movies started to majority disappoint before they became just full-on woke...

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 04:57 PM (Bhsk7)

134 Ballerina Assassin must have been made by a bunch of faggots. A woman can't physically beat a man

Of all the women more likely to be able to beat a man, a ballerina would be right up there - as long as she's kicking.

Ballerinas kick like mules, and have similarly hard feet.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 18, 2024 04:57 PM (hB7mE)

135 Did I say Connelly was the baseline? I meant acme. Female blobfish is the baseline. Apologies.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 18, 2024 04:58 PM (/nctV)

136 Add me to the list of peop,e watching a lot of Korean, Japanese, and other foreign movies.

All horror. Not as brutally graphic as Terrifier and other things I've been watching, but great.

Oh and subtitles rule. My hearing is excellent. But in horror movies with whispering.....love subtitles.

Posted by: Stateless at October 18, 2024 04:58 PM (jvJvP)

137 Ballerina is about Vengeance? I'm in.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - . at October 18, 2024 04:59 PM (D7PBT)

138 Yeah. 120-pound chicks always beat the shit out of 210-pound guys in real life.

Right. This stuff is really getting old.

Posted by: Ralph at October 18, 2024 04:59 PM (TysyT)

139 Uh-oh. Fire danger.

Yah, think I'll skip the charcoal grill, plus it's burnt out, even melted.
If it worked I might but would have to find my Goodyear hose somebody "borrowed". Great old hose. Some jerk used it and just shut the nozzle not the faucet. Glad it didn't burst

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 04:59 PM (NKszP)

140 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) alleges in its lawsuit that Republican joint fundraising committees are exploiting a campaign finance loophole by running attack ads, which they are prohibited from doing, and simply categorizing them as fundraising ads, which are allowed, Axios reported. A joint fundraising committee formed by the DCCC and Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Elisa Slotkin, however, is running an attack ad against Republican Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers that seemingly uses the same loophole.

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2024 05:01 PM (AypJH)

141 Speaking of Acme, the cartoon for the Fred Ward Tribute Night (Remo Williams) was an early Road Runner.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 18, 2024 05:01 PM (f+FmA)

142 It's Ana d'Armas as an assassin from that Russian House of Assassins

==

She is no Xenia Onatopp.

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2024 05:01 PM (V13WU)

143 I get the complaint about chicks in action flicks.

But (you knew one was coming), it's not like the action genre has ever been all that realistic. Men in action films shrug off beatings that would kill a man. Repeatedly. And then just move to the next scene.

Posted by: gotta draw a line somewhere at October 18, 2024 05:02 PM (4/BuS)

144 Anybody seen The Penguin? Was thinking it was just more superhero movie-spun-to-tv bilge but Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker both said it was surprisingly good. I wasn't big on The (emo)Batman but Collin Farrell was good as the Penguin...

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 05:02 PM (Bhsk7)

145
I just looked at my MA absentee ballot.

Besides the president and the whore, there's an "independent" candidate, fake "libertarian" candidate, Jill Stein and her "Green-Rainbow" pedo groomer commie party, and a "Socialism & Liberation" candidate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 05:02 PM (2nVDk)

146 Your advice was stupid! You don't know what you're doing! Why the f*** did you tell me not to go that dinner last night?! I'm looking like a bigger fool today than Al f***ing Pacino! You screwed me! And you STILL haven't got in touch with Doug! Where the f*** is he, I f***ing need him!!!!

Posted by: FSB Transcript, Hideout Penthouse, Shinola Hotel, Detroit, MI 10/18/24 10:43 a.m. at October 18, 2024 05:02 PM (qUkBO)

147 I didn't know there were other SFV morons!

Hello, neighbors! Stay frosty. Or at least unignited.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:03 PM (asXVI)

148 Ace,

Photograph was a huge hit by Def Leppard. Flock of Seagulls other big hit was a song called 'I ran' . Shouldn't be posting this at work but these songs are some of my favorites since i was a kid.

Posted by: Nelly at October 18, 2024 05:04 PM (bcr4y)

149 Ana d'Armas seemed to be one of the few (if not the only) bright spots in the last Bond movie, but I'm not sure if this John Wick spinoff will be like her scenes in that or if it'll end up being like that Netflix movie "Ghosted" where she plays the superspy flirting with Chris Evans' weeb character.

Posted by: Octochicken at October 18, 2024 05:05 PM (oCS0o)

150 Baby Jane".

Was that the one where Crawford secretly wore diver weight belts to make it hard for Davis to lift her out of the wheelchair at the end?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:05 PM (NKszP)

151 LMAO Jennifer Connelly too skinny!?!

The horde likes the big guns'.

If she ain't 180, she ain't a lady!

Posted by: JROD at October 18, 2024 05:06 PM (IlL6s)

152 guns? f'ing spell check. I said big uns and it changed it at the last second.

Posted by: JROD at October 18, 2024 05:07 PM (IlL6s)

153 47 I didn't know there were other SFV morons!

On a good day I can smell the Budweiser brewery.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:07 PM (NKszP)

154 and a "Socialism & Liberation" candidate.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Socialism and freedom?

"Must be bipolar to apply."

At minimum. Crazier people are also allowed.

* searches *

Oh, they're splitters from the Worker's World Party. So they're literal commies. I guess the crazy is implied.

Posted by: mikeski at October 18, 2024 05:08 PM (DgGvY)

155 >>>Ballerinas kick like mules, and have similarly hard feet.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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That sounds like a personal experiance.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:08 PM (wD8nw)

156 || On a good day I can smell the Budweiser brewery.

I used to go to the Busch Gardens park before they shut it down.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:08 PM (asXVI)

157 Ah, Jennifer is still very attractive… pretty lady.

Posted by: tubal at October 18, 2024 05:09 PM (PCK5/)

158
Yeah, jut like how they "liberated" Cuba. Right?

Cuba Libre!

And they ended up with Castro...for life.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 05:09 PM (2nVDk)

159 Some of the dudes here at AoS would have been perfect wingmen for the hot chicks that had cock blocking fat friends. You take fatty, I'll take skinny.

Posted by: JROD at October 18, 2024 05:09 PM (IlL6s)

160 133 120 Actually, Bladerunner 2049 was the last flick I decided I had to see on the big screen. Also featuring Ms. de Armas...
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I kept falling asleep during that. I was pumped for it and love Blade Runner, Denis Villenueve, Ryan Gosling... Just thought it was lame. Pretty much how I felt with Spectre. Feels like it was around that time (late 20-teens) when 'big' movies started to majority disappoint before they became just full-on woke...

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 04:57 PM (Bhsk7)

I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the original. It did seem to drag in spots, but Ms. De Armas brought me back to attention, as it were....

At least Mr. Scott didn't go for the retcon that some feared he would and kept Deckard a replicant. Too bad he decided to do the opposite when he rebooted the Alien franchise.

(Mentions Prometheus....)

Posted by: goozer at October 18, 2024 05:10 PM (aWAkn)

161 The only movie that scares the pants off me is The Killer Shrews (1959).

Posted by: Pantsless in NC at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (nS6qG)

162 >>>146 Your advice was stupid! You don't know what you're doing! Why the f*** did you tell me not to go that dinner last night?! I'm looking like a bigger fool today than Al f***ing Pacino! You screwed me! And you STILL haven't got in touch with Doug! Where the f*** is he, I f***ing need him!!!!
Posted by: FSB Transcript,
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A nine year old brat, a Greta Thumbug; Wait until she's president, she'll show you.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (wD8nw)

163

Posted by: goozer at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (aWAkn)

164 I have a confession to make:

Periodically I'll tune into one of those YouTube's where a woman is competing against a male in sports like Judo or Wrestling. They're hilarious...especially the Marine hand to hand combat one. They just get flattened in a realistic type of way. In the Marine one, the woman starts to get back up (which I admired), but the more intelligent Marines immediately grab the guy and keep her planted so it doesn't get out of hand.

Posted by: Orson at October 18, 2024 05:13 PM (dIske)

165 Busch Gardens park

We can't have nice things. Boat rides? Trained exotic parrots? Beer garden?

Fuggetaboutit.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:14 PM (NKszP)

166 161 The only movie that scares the pants off me is The Killer Shrews (1959).
Posted by: Pantsless in NC at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (nS6qG)
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You've been Pantsless since 1959?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:14 PM (asXVI)

167 We should make Cuba an offer it can't refuse and also buy Greenland.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:14 PM (wD8nw)

168 The only movie that scares the pants off me is The Killer Shrews (1959).
Posted by: Pantsless in NC at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (nS6qG)

Yes, but do you like Dixieland jazz?

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 18, 2024 05:15 PM (k9OZB)

169 And I want to strange the "activists" who killed Griffith park pony rides.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:15 PM (NKszP)

170 Also lay Mexico under siege.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:15 PM (wD8nw)

171 Meh.... all on the Wait until free online list.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 18, 2024 05:16 PM (QAkQ3)

172 Cuba.

There it is for the taking Elon.

Posted by: pawn at October 18, 2024 05:16 PM (QB+5g)

173 161 The only movie that scares the pants off me is The Killer Shrews (1959).
Posted by: Pantsless in NC at October 18, 2024 05:12 PM (nS6qG)
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You've been Pantsless since 1959?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:14 PM (asXVI)
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That explains why he never shows up on the Sunday Morning Book Threads...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 18, 2024 05:17 PM (7fElN)

174 According to the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and its Instagram, Facebook, and Threads platforms are suppressing content related to the 2024 election, making it harder for users to discuss politics and voting. One influencer suffered from an astonishing 63 percent drop in audience just by mentioning the word “vote” on a post.

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2024 05:17 PM (AypJH)

175 Signs with Mel Gibson is pretty scary.. At least to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 18, 2024 05:17 PM (IyPmt)

176 And I want to strange the "activists" who killed Griffith park pony rides.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:15 PM (NKszP)

I don't know if strange was a typo, but we could replace their genitalia with iron outdoor faucets. Just think - no leaks as long as the seals hold!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 18, 2024 05:17 PM (VNX3d)

177 165 Busch Gardens park

We can't have nice things. Boat rides? Trained exotic parrots? Beer garden?

Fuggetaboutit.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity
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But they'll give you blue boy any time you want him.
Take him, please.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:17 PM (wD8nw)

178 I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the original. It did seem to drag in spots, but Ms. De Armas brought me back to attention, as it were....

At least Mr. Scott didn't go for the retcon that some feared he would and kept Deckard a replicant. Too bad he decided to do the opposite when he rebooted the Alien franchise.

(Mentions Prometheus....)
Posted by: goozer

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I think I'm annoyed by anything she's in after watching Knives Out. Guess that's just me... 2049 wasn't trash, just disappointing. Maybe my bar was too high for it... I actually liked Prometheus. Was annoyed he didn't do a proper sequel. Had the premise for 'why we are here', started in a bit, left with a cliffhanger, and then just abandoned it all... Lame

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)

179 AI robots have more lifelike faces than Nicole Kidman, unfortunately.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2024 05:18 PM (fs1hN)

180 The "shrews" were just dogs covered in carpet. The close ups were hand puppets. MST3K does a great show about the Killer Shrews.

Posted by: Megthered at October 18, 2024 05:18 PM (3mKRG)

181 169 And I want to strange the "activists" who killed Griffith park pony rides.
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Activists! *spit*

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:18 PM (asXVI)

182 I had so looked forward to Bladerunner 2049 - and then they forgot everything that made the original work. Beautiful visuals , boring flat characters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2024 05:19 PM (cV2we)

183 IRL creepy, the toy box killer

This is the recording he played for his victims. I'm not sure if it is the real one or someone reading the transcript but... its scary.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf8yv2j

Posted by: wodun at October 18, 2024 05:19 PM (kmNtT)

184 Wait, the Blade Runner sequels had even MORE BORING and FLATTER characters than the original?!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:20 PM (asXVI)

185 Killer shrews
Killer shrews
Don't look now
'cause they're after you

Posted by: fd at October 18, 2024 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

186 182 I had so looked forward to Bladerunner 2049 - and then they forgot everything that made the original work. Beautiful visuals , boring flat characters.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2024 05:19 PM (cV2we)
________________________________

I've always been a big Rutger Hauer fan. Under-rated actor who did crap movies. But, always entertaining IMO

Posted by: Orson at October 18, 2024 05:20 PM (dIske)

187 That sounds like a personal experiance.
Posted by: Braenyard

I admit, it would be funnier if it were.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 18, 2024 05:20 PM (hB7mE)

188
Girlboss badass assassin/spy films have the potential to be good popcorn flicks, as long as you don't try to do the Whedon thing of 90lb waifs pulverizing 350lb gorilla minions.

Stealth kills, sniper shots, evasion, reconnaissance treachery and seduction can be woven together in a compelling, exciting and believable film. Women have had centuries of such exploits going back as far as Delilah betraying Samson.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 18, 2024 05:21 PM (y9nCu)

189 A nine year old brat, a Greta Thumbug; Wait until she's president, she'll show you.
____

Ironic that she picked the side of the murderous muzzies in the middle east. Notorious also for their fanatical devotion to transitioning from fossil fuels.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2024 05:21 PM (fs1hN)

190 I've started watching giallo films this month for Halloween. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is my favorite so far.

Posted by: Rodimus at October 18, 2024 05:21 PM (hc+TU)

191 150 Baby Jane".

Was that the one where Crawford secretly wore diver weight belts to make it hard for Davis to lift her out of the wheelchair at the end?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 18, 2024 05:05 PM (NKszP)

Yes, and they have that in it. The scene where Davis first appears in the "Jane" make-up that she created and did herself is hilarious.

Posted by: sal, who watches way too much TCM at October 18, 2024 05:22 PM (f+FmA)

192 We watched and enjoyed Abigail

A movie from a year ago that is still in my top horror movies is Insidious

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 18, 2024 05:22 PM (gDlxJ)

193 Here in Santa Cruz the closest Morons to me are in SF. I think.
Here we don't have Morons, only idiots.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

194 || The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is my favorite so far.

That's one of the best.

|| A movie from a year ago that is still in my top horror movies is Insidious

I like it but it doesn't get a lot of people's buy-in.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:23 PM (asXVI)

195 83 Now getting Jennifer Connally suggestions on YouTube.
Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

Was finally able to shut down Copilot on Windows... now we'll see if that type of crap continues.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 18, 2024 05:23 PM (QAkQ3)

196 You've been Pantsless since 1959?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at October 18, 2024 05:14
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I was pant-less in 1959.

*not really 29*

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 18, 2024 05:24 PM (hoCmQ)

197 193 Here in Santa Cruz the closest Morons to me are in SF. I think.
Here we don't have Morons, only idiots.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

120 miles away...

/Waves from the Central Valley

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 18, 2024 05:25 PM (QAkQ3)

198 >>>Stealth kills, sniper shots, evasion, reconnaissance treachery and seduction can be woven together in a compelling, exciting and believable film. Women have had centuries of such exploits going back as far as Delilah betraying Samson.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Hairpins between the ribs, 19th century stiletto redux in the boudoir.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 18, 2024 05:25 PM (wD8nw)

199 Well that was something.

Thanks Pete.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2024 05:25 PM (LkLld)

200 Blade Runner sequels

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How many sequels are there ?

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2024 05:25 PM (V13WU)

201 184 Wait, the Blade Runner sequels had even MORE BORING and FLATTER characters than the original?!

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Can see the point but not really agreeing. That said, at a minimum, Rutger Hauer's Roy wasn't flat, right?

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 05:26 PM (Bhsk7)

202

noodiekins

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2024 05:26 PM (2nVDk)

203 120 miles away...

/Waves from the Central Valley
Posted by: Romeo13
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Fresno? My daughter moved to Fresno and is raising her family there.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 05:28 PM (v0R5T)

204 Saying 80 degrees and sunny in Austin at F-1 sprint race

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2024 05:29 PM (fwDg9)

205 Can see the point but not really agreeing. That said, at a minimum, Rutger Hauer's Roy wasn't flat, right?
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Rutger Hauer was a tremendous performance who brought depth to the character THAT WASN'T REALLY THERE.

I mean, yeah, he was great, but he's the only character with any depth and it's literally because Hauer insisted.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 18, 2024 05:30 PM (asXVI)

206
Here in Santa Cruz the closest Morons to me are in SF. I think.
Here we don't have Morons, only idiots.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2024 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

120 miles away...

/Waves from the Central Valley
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 18, 2024 05:25 PM (QAkQ3)

150 miles away in Fresno

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 18, 2024 05:32 PM (y9nCu)

207 'Women sure do love their women-in-danger and true crime stuff.' Ace

A lot of us do. My daughter and I watch all of the true crime stuff and I've become addicted to Court TV which airs weekdays but I watch the recaps at night of the current court trials. Often gruesome but fascinating.

Currently:

The Suitcase Murder Trial
The Delphi Murder Trial
Toddler in Landfill Murder Trial
Burnpit Murder Trial

And they also discuss what is happening with the Menendez Brothers, P.Diddy, etc.

Posted by: Cheri at October 18, 2024 05:33 PM (oiNtH)

208 I think I'm annoyed by anything she's in after watching Knives Out. Guess that's just me... 2049 wasn't trash, just disappointing. Maybe my bar was too high for it... I actually liked Prometheus. Was annoyed he didn't do a proper sequel. Had the premise for 'why we are here', started in a bit, left with a cliffhanger, and then just abandoned it all... Lame

Posted by: bearski at October 18, 2024 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)

No, the bar for 2049 was indeed set high, given it was a sequel to one of the greatest genre films ever made. I totally get why some viewers were disappointed.

As for Prometheus...I was not only disappointed, I actually didn't even consider bothering to watch the first sequel until this year, when it was on free-V and I literally wanted to waste some time. It absolutely succeed in doing just that.

Prometheus was just so poorly written. The characters were just as one-dimensional as any you would find in a slasher flick — I was literally waiting to see how they would each die...and Ms. Rapace's Shaw is a very, very poor patch on Ms. Weaver's Ripley. I was as hyped for this one as I was for BR2049...but was left angry at having wasted my time and money on it.

Posted by: goozer at October 18, 2024 05:33 PM (aWAkn)

209 Roy Batty was the true hero of Bladerunner, not Deckard.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2024 05:35 PM (cV2we)

210 Batty was trained as a warrior a mercenary without conscience who had fought on many wolds was he evil or trained to be ruthless

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 18, 2024 05:43 PM (pGTZo)

211 Ana de armas is a terrible lefty for unclear reasons but some of her work is passable there was another film with keanu reeves that employed her other skills hint hint it was called knock knock

She should have hard a larger role in time to die but waller brifge wasnt going to allow her

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 18, 2024 05:47 PM (pGTZo)

212 Haven't read all the comments, and I hate to be that guy, but the girl in "Abigail" is 12 years old, not 6. Most six year old's are still saying "Milk, Milk, Lemonade, Turn the corner and fudge is made".....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at October 18, 2024 05:48 PM (5AVMW)

213 Prometheus was all mixed up, in part because it chose the wrong origin story for the facehuggers they wasted the mystery of the engineers,,taunting the ring ship

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 18, 2024 05:49 PM (pGTZo)

214 Ana De Armas was already in a movie with Keanu. It was called 'Knock, Knock' and was about these 2 attractive women tricking their way into a rich guys house for some nefarious purpose I wasn't really paying attention to.

Anyway, she gets her knock, knock knockers out which is why I remember the film at all.
Nice.... if you like that kind of thing. And I do.

Posted by: stv at October 18, 2024 05:53 PM (R9gNI)

215 As i say other skills some prople thought knives out was a little too cute the way they handled the mateeial

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 18, 2024 06:00 PM (pGTZo)

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