What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Psy-Fi]

Gun Girls (1957)

Low-budget crime flick about girls gone bad. Bad directing, bad acting, ridiculous script, unintentionally campy. This is the type of movie that probably inspired John Waters to become a film maker (which is a good thing.) 

[Psy-Fi]

Highway Hell (1941)

Low-budget exploitation flick about prostitution. A young pimp puts his girls to work by dropping them off on the side of roads and having them hitch rides with passing men to seduce them. He befriends the impressionable teenage son of a motel owner, to try to convince him to take over the motel so that he can use it as a base to operate his prostitution business out of. Awful script, awful acting, awful directing, and awful editing, makes for an awful movie. In the right hands, this story could've been wildly entertaining, but alas, it was not to be. 

[Guybrush]

Sounds very much like an exploitation movie considering the theme.. so bad acting and screenplay etc. is a given, but then they also make it boring? Sheesh.

Did you ever watch It Conquered the World?



Frank Zappa talks about it at the start of this song:

[Psy-Fi]

Not only have I watched 'It Conquered the World' but I also have a framed B&W photo featuring Beverly Garland & the monster from the movie, autographed by Beverly. 

[Guybrush]

Not only have I watched 'It Conquered the World' but I also have a framed B&W photo featuring Beverly Garland & the monster from the movie, autographed by Beverly. 

Oh wow 😄 that is awesome!

How did you get your hands on that?

[Psy-Fi]

Oh wow 😄 that is awesome!

How did you get your hands on that?

I got it around 25 years ago when she was still alive and signing autographs. I was collecting movie posters and autographed photos and attending pop-culture/TV/film collectibles shows and she was at one of them. I also have others of actors and actresses from various TV shows and movies that I got in-person at those shows.

[FETCHER.]

28 Days Later

I watched this on Saturday night for the first time and I really enjoyed it. The beginning of it hasn't really aged well but the film itself once it got in to it was really good and it had an extremely young Cillian Murphy in it so I was happy 😊.

[grindy]

Watched The Lion In Winter (1968). Despite starring Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins, it doesn't seem to be particularly well known. Very cool historical drama with tons of devious plotting. The acting can get a bit hammy and some scenes are somewhat awkward but overall very well done and super entertaining due to all the constant intrigue.

[Guybrush]

We saw The Lobster from 2016, or.. I did while she slept on the couch.



It's been on my to-do-list for years and since I want to watch Lanthimos' latest movie Poor Things, I thought we could warm up by getting this one done.

In an alternative future or perhaps present, being single is not allowed. Single peeps are given a chance to find a partner during a forced stay at a resort. If they can't do it, they get turned I to an animal, possibly of their choice. That's the backdrop.. The Movie itself feels like a surreal, light comedy about severely autistic people living non-sensical lives filled with pointless misery. Sometimes they seem like victims of this weird society. Other times, they seem to do it to themselves.

I couldn't quite make sense of it, but also didn't try too hard and rather just enjoyed the dark comedy. Maybe it was all some clever allegory? For once I didn't hate Colin Farrell. Come to think of it, he was okay in Banshees as well.

I rate it:

[Lexi Darling]

We saw The Lobster from 2016, or.. I did while she slept on the couch.



It's been on my to-do-list for years and since I want to watch Lanthimos' latest movie Poor Things, I thought we could warm up by getting this one done.

In an alternative future or perhaps present, being single is not allowed. Single peeps are given a chance to find a partner during a forced stay at a resort. If they can't do it, they get turned I to an animal, possibly of their choice. That's the backdrop.. The Movie itself feels like a surreal, light comedy about severely autistic people living non-sensical lives filled with pointless misery. Sometimes they seem like victims of this weird society. Other times, they seem to do it to themselves.

I couldn't quite make sense of it, but also didn't try too hard and rather just enjoyed the dark comedy. Maybe it was all some clever allegory? For once I didn't hate Colin Farrell. Come to think of it, he was okay in Banshees as well.

I rate it:

That sounds like an interesting premise! Sounds like something for us to watch as a couple, I'll have to add it to the "good movies to watch" list (which, as you might guess, is indeed much shorter than the "bad movies to watch" list, haha).

[Guybrush]

That sounds like an interesting premise! Sounds like something for us to watch as a couple, I'll have to add it to the "good movies to watch" list (which, as you might guess, is indeed much shorter than the "bad movies to watch" list, haha).

It's an interesting and absurd premise, but there's a deeper level of weird in how all these characters seem to have personalities that are paper thin.. and kinda autistic? That's what it reminded me of.

It's definitely not a movie for everyone, but if you're a little more patient type, like weird movies and enjoy dark comedy that is more aimed at extracting a rare chuckle rather than big laughs, then this could be for you 🙂

[Lexi Darling]

It's an interesting and absurd premise, but there's a deeper level of weird in how all these characters seem to have personalities that are paper thin.. and kinda autistic? That's what it reminded me of.

It's definitely not a movie for everyone, but if you're a little more patient type, like weird movies and enjoy dark comedy that is more aimed at extracting a rare chuckle rather than big laughs, then this could be for you 🙂

I do really like fiction that portrays a version of our society that is familiar but also kind of off to the audience. Or has some big difference from real life that is very obviously weird or fucked up yet the characters treat it as just business as usual. I'm feeling a bit queasy in bed and I can't think of any examples right now though.

[Psy-Fi]

The Vampire's Ghost (1945)

A B&W Horror flick about a vampire living as a nightclub owner in a jungle setting. Rather mediocre movie overall. The most interesting part of the story was that the vampire was a nightclub owner and the nightclub was located in a jungle. No ghosts of any type made any appearances at any time during the story.

[Guybrush]

I do really like fiction that portrays a version of our society that is familiar but also kind of off to the audience. Or has some big difference from real life that is very obviously weird or fucked up yet the characters treat it as just business as usual. I'm feeling a bit queasy in bed and I can't think of any examples right now though.

I know what you mean and I agree.. and I also have a hard time thinking of examples 😄 Brazil, maybe? But that's a very bizarre society and not really like our own. A dark reflection, maybe.

[grindy]

We saw The Lobster from 2016, or.. I did while she slept on the couch.



It's been on my to-do-list for years and since I want to watch Lanthimos' latest movie Poor Things, I thought we could warm up by getting this one done.

In an alternative future or perhaps present, being single is not allowed. Single peeps are given a chance to find a partner during a forced stay at a resort. If they can't do it, they get turned I to an animal, possibly of their choice. That's the backdrop.. The Movie itself feels like a surreal, light comedy about severely autistic people living non-sensical lives filled with pointless misery. Sometimes they seem like victims of this weird society. Other times, they seem to do it to themselves.

I couldn't quite make sense of it, but also didn't try too hard and rather just enjoyed the dark comedy. Maybe it was all some clever allegory? For once I didn't hate Colin Farrell. Come to think of it, he was okay in Banshees as well.

I rate it:

The Lobster is great. I'd also recommend watching Dogtooth.