Hell yeah, with Uncle Charlie playing a guy called Skeeters. If you're going to call something the greatest political comedy ever, you may want to include Duck Soup. Hail Fredonia!

The greatest political comedy film ever made is 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. 'Jaws' is a close second.

Good call on Duck Soup. 'All gods chidrens love guns!'

Saw a matinee of 'The Arrival' which is getting raves in some curcles. Basically a remake of 'Contact' only slightly less cheesy, though it's apparently based on a short story by a Chinaman. Worth seeing though.
Just got done watching a dvd of a coming of age thing called 'Whip It' starring Ellen Paige and directed by Drew Barrymore of all people. Much, much better than you'd expect. Ordinarily I would say Barrymore had help with tjis but with her connections, but she jas been around so much and the movie feels so personal I don't think so. Sweet, funny, lowkey, and fine acting, particularly from Paige and Juliette Lewis who plays an over the hill (!) roller derbyer threatened by Paige's up and comer. The coming of age genre is second only to comedies and biopics for producing bad movies, so this is something of an achievement.
By the way, the best biopic Ive ever seen is Robert Altman's 'Vincent & Theo' which dodges every formula cliche in inimitable Altman style. The worst is Todd Haynes' Dylan biopic which huffs and puffs and spins its wheels so hysterically to subvert the genre that comes out the other side as a whole new kind of bad movie.

Will someone explain what they think 'Hail, Ceasar!' is about? The Coens seem to me to be pathological jokers and provocateurs leading viewers on wild goose chases. I read a few reviews from metacritic ranging from raves to pans and the main gist was always "love letter to Hollywood". One guy on Slate said it was clear evidence that the brothers were cryptoconservative due to the depiction of the communist cabal that kidnaps Grorge Clooney, but I don't think so. I think that's typical of their baiting and they insinuate in one shot that this group is a bunch of intellectually snooty Barton Fink simps. I don't know what to make of it honestly. The bits that made the biggest impression on me were the cowboy removing his dentures and Channing Tatum's unrealistically homoerotic out to sea musical.

I think 'Nocturnal Animals' is genius. Everytime I've ever seen this sort of thing attempted it gas failed. Woody Allen's novel snippets folded in his films, the corrupted movie pitch in Altman's 'The Player'... The imaginings if the novel in this movie and the way it is in a complete and completely different style than the ridiculous real life portion is really amazing. The guy who plays the dying existentially haunted cop is amazing. The kind of acting you don't see much in mpvies anymore.

Just keep talking to yourself. It confuses the others.

Want to see Arrival and Nocturnal Animals next weekend. I assume you're joking about Ted Chiang, he's American. Liked Ford's A Single Man.

In terms of fiction melded with 'reality' in a film there's Kaufman's scripts for Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Snowden on the free streamer. Much better than I expected.

Gozu, by Takashi Miike. Don't drink the milk.

Rogue One. It was good, but Arrival was better IMO.

Stone Cold Dead- Richard Crenna.

Stone Cold Dead at IMDB

We went to see 'La La Land' but it was sold out. 'Rogue One' showing 20 minutes later still had many seats available so we went to that. It was alright. The Darth Vader moneyshot near the end was a long way to go, but I liked how everybody died like in a proper hopeless mission movie. And the way the Death Star havoc was made to look like those old H Bomb tests was really well done and very scary.

Cougar Hunting....a mindless comedy...but it's funny as fuck. And I couldn't believe it but it was written by a girl. But it has all the funny guy jokes. Someone slipped her our playbook.

Nice Guys was actually funny, so few good comedies these days. Appreciated the 70s porn angle and the girl playing Gosling's daughter stole the picture.

Watched 70s classic Carney on tv. Gary Busey, Robbie Robertson, and Jodie Foster. Jodie clit-teasing the teen lesbians is such great foreshadowing of her later real life.
Also watched a shitty 70s cop movie. The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal and Bruce Dern as the crooked cop. Weak.

I watched Star Trek 5 last night for the first time in who knows how long and that's gotta be one of the weirdest movies ever made. Right after that I watched Rocky 6/Rocky Balboa (the one where he fights Antonio Tarver), which was almost as weird. I fell asleep after that, so I don't know if there was a shitty movie that came on after that was a part 7 of something.

'South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut', which I probably haven't watched in its entirety since it came out. Holds up. 'Mkay' is the best song.

Watched Creed. Not bad for what it is.

Got Direct TV because of the unlimited dat offer from at&t. Have went back and watched a few movies. Two that stick out are "Blast From the Past" and "A History of Violence".

Finally saw 'Lala Land'. It proved to me that you can love a film and hate the leads at the same time. Gosling is mongoloid and Stone's eyes are annoyingly large and inexpressive, like 'E.T.' on heroin. But this movie was marvelous and I went full queer watching it.

50 shades darker, because the girlfriend wanted to see it. Skinamax with a big budget.

I remember watching '9 1/2 Weeks' on Showtime in my parents' bedroom and jerking off. It was always the same part too, the scene where Rourke comes home to find Basinger going through his stuff and he smacks her around and pushes her down on a table and kinda sorta rapes her. Hot. I spilled uncountable loads of clear 12 year old nut gravy over that.

Oh and I forgot to ask, did '50 Shades' have any gagging in it?

Yeah in the theater seats.

Empire of Dust.

'Star Wars'

Neighbors 2.....fucking hilarious.

Dusting off this old thread. I just watched THE PRESTIGE and it was pretty good. I want to avoid spoilers, so, I'll just say the ending was unrealistic to me.

If Tesla built THAT machine for me, I'd spend my time putting money into it, forget the grudge all together and retire as the richest man in the history of the world.

Probably not a great ending, though.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12104436/?ref_=tt_mv_close

The Grey Man

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2773246/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

The true story of Scotty Bowers, who became the hooker wrangler to the stars of the 40s-80s.
Pretty easy to find free online. Hulu, Pluto, etc

Excellent doc. I think Scotty died last year.

Best line in it was when he talked about being a young boy, shaking down priests in exchange for sexual favors, "nobody's life was ever ruined from a blowjob."

I saw it and enjoyed it and I also read the book it was based on.

There was a guy trying to debunk the book ( Clicky ). The guy's argument was that since all the celebrities were long dead, nobody could sue him for defamation, so he could spin any tale he wanted.

I have been watching lots of 70s sexploitation flicks on Prime, Tubi, FreeVee and PlutoTV

About a year ago, Prime stopped carrying a bunch, so i bought the DVD of Nashville Girl, the tale of a 16y/o runaway who heads to Nashville to become a big country music star. Along the way our tender young lovely, played by Monica Gayle, gets raped in a field, groped in a massage parlor, accosted by a female guard in a womens prison shower, fucks half of Nashville, and gets raped by her country music legend mentor.

It is a cautionary & boner inducing tale, on par with the recent film Girl Lost. Huge bonus that Monica Gayle was a softcore whore, so a quick googling produced her late 60s/early 70s hairy bunghole.










Now my holy grail is The Hookers, a black and white film from 68 or 69 about how 3 different women wound up being whores. After seeing it a couple years ago on Prime, now i can only find it on a shady streaming service and from some broads website where she sells bootleg dvds.

I try to get out and they pull me back in

Class Action Park on HBO/Max

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park

This is an amazing documentary made by some of the guys from The Daily Show about a real water park/race park in New Jersey in the 80s.

So, I went into this one with skepticism, thinking "ok, there's going to be one or two dangerous rides or stories". Nope....it's unbelievable that this place existed. There were so many injuries and deaths at this water park that the town it's in eventually refused to send any more ambulances. They forced the water park to provide their own ambulances because they were out there every fucking day. Electrocutions, decapitations, broken bones, drownings, you name it.

It's a hoot. I actually watched it twice in the same weekend because after the first viewing I started telling people about it and thought maybe I had exaggerated some details. Nope.

Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqg48h_uKYM


Trailer 2 with Jimmy Kimmel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9TACAdTiCc

Chinatown Punk Wars | Artbound | Season 14, Episode 1 | KCET

In the late 1970s, two Chinese restaurants became the unlikely epicenter of L.A.'s burgeoning punk scene. The emerging music form featured fast-paced songs and hard-edged melodies with anti-capitalist messaging. As told through interviews with John Doe (X), Alice Bag (The Bags), Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag, OFF!), and Martin Wong (Save Music in Chinatown), and featuring music from current performers such as The Linda Lindas and more.

Saw commercials for that joint, Mt Airy Lodge and haunted house in Brigantine during day time TV all through my youth, but there was a better chance of my pop taking me to Mars than a theme park full of people.

Live 5min from Great Adventure and the only time my parents took me there was with free tickets from my sister who worked there in the summers.