Another night of movie selections provided by the wonder YIFY service (combined with Pirate Bay’s amazing service. If you do still buy DVDs, please use our links and help keep us online. If you can’t afford to buy DVDs, torrent on!
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DVD not yet available at writing, here’s the book so you can read about even more misery than the movie could cover.
Mudbound (2017) The lighthearted story of post-WWII brothers working a played out farm, barely keeping the family fed and about to go bust at any time and lose the mudbog fields and ramshackle house where they live with their bitterly racist old father, one with a miserable, loveless marriage with a wife who just lost their only potential son to a miscarriage and is now barren, the other a drunken, loutish shell-shocked veteran and their impoverished black sharecropper tenant farmers, who, unlikely as it may be, are even poorer and nearer destitute than their white landlords, with the father breaking his leg and unable to work and their own son back from the war, embittered and at odds with the racist white townspeople. We start with that idyllic scenario, but things go bad.
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Long time Monty Python fan, loved Matching Tie and Hankerchief since the ’80s (when I became aware of it) then recently I was watching a British movie about WWI called Overlord (1975) and it contained a scene where 2 soldiers were sitting in a field between battles talking about home and the conversation steered toward a confusion between girlfriends, wives and dogs.
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More famous for being a drugged out slut than a movie star (seeing as she was only known for one role in 3 different movies).
Her other best known role was a cameo in Blues Bros. How sad is that?
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Mostly newish movies, some good, some duds. You can’t win them all. I’m surprised that most new movies seem to be low budget horror, although it’s been that way since what, the ’30s, ’40s? The ’50s were famous for them, Hammer cornered the market in the ’60s, then the ’70s were the start of the zombie and slasher flicks, the ’80s brought on the shlock and sex indies like Troma Entertainment’s Toxic Avenger (1984) and continued into the ’90s with stuff like Brian Yuzna’s Bride of Reanimator.
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Quantum of Solace (2008) Never watched the Daniel Craig Bond movies, although I like Craig. Mostly because I have a reflexive negative response towards hype and these movies were hyped to hell, and in fact I probably wouldn’t have liked them at the time, rife as they are with the starlets and “hot” actors of the period, where it seems like you see this face in every other movie made in these years. That bugs the shit out of me, actors who are hot with casting agents all the sudden so they are ubiquitous. Anyway, this caught my interest and actually kept my eyes on the screen, unable to work while it was going on.
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I take my valuable time to fix the fucked up plot Wikipedia had for Predators and some fucking powerprick editor deletes it with a smarmy note telling me to read the rules or something. Eventually, Wales will have to sell WIki because no way contributions will be able to pay for bandwidth. In the meantime, here’s the plot to Predators the pricks wouldn’t post:
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Delivery Man (2013) Meh. Vince Vaughan in a dramedy. Didn’t buy the whole premise of his parenting 600 kids through sperm donation (I don’t think they’ll even take that many, for one thing) but how could you care about them individually? It’s just too big a bite to chew, like when 1 million people die in India, you can’t care because it’s too many people. If he fathered 12, ok. Above 100 no. Anyway, fair movie, not really funny but Vince is fun to watch so I give it a Score:2.
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Ah, the ’90s, when I spent literally thousands of dollars on DVDS. I love movies, I enjoyed the extras like commentary (one of the main things I miss about DVDs vs. digital files. I liked the packaging on some of them, the artwork was interesting (sometimes). I had 2 300 DVD carousels slaved together and I could watch movie after movie and probably watched all of them at least 3-4 times and some dozens of times. I bought a lot of movies I saw on cable in the early ’90s and ’80s classics as well. The only bitch was you could watch very few in a row because they would default to the menu and stop. But I learned a lot from the commentaries, about films and acting and directing and cinematography.
Then some DVDs started skipping. Some stopped working altogether, stuck on the menu. Soon many of them were unwatchable. By the early ’00s my players had both quit working and a lot of the DVDs, usually my fav ones, were useless. This was after I’d spent hundreds (not thousands, at least) on VHS. This was also after I’d spent thousands on vinyl over the years and probably as much on CDs, all of which became obsolete. So the upshot is I don’t feel like I owe the giant companies shit. They killed the goose that laid the golden egg time after time, the artists and actors and directors are insufferable smug leftists who insult the audience, the bosses are worse.
So from the time it became feasible to actuall download movies I did so and burnt them onto discs. However, discs sometimes (often) didn’t work the first pass, or deteriorated by the time I got around to watching them. THen disk space got really cheap so I started keeping movies I thought worth watching more than once.
So I watch a lot of movies, all eras, all genres. I save the ones I like enough to save. My take on these movies is here for you, all over this site. You’re welcome. It’s all free.
Employee of the Month (2006) Not a ’90s but one I watched this week, Dax Sheppard (who seems to be in every movie I see lately, that ever happen to you? You completely don’t know an actor, then you see him everywhere?) is a criminal gone good to get the girl… no wait he’s a ne’er do well employee who gives fuck all about his job until it’s time to get the girl. That was the other movie. Formulaic as hell but not totally annoying, you always wish they’d take one of these movies over the top and give it some twists but it’s like 10000 other ‘work’ movies where everyone fucks around all the time and never actually works. Score:3
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This week it’s OLDIES! Older movies that aren’t quite hip or cool. I’ve always liked movies and tv shows a few years after they were au courant because they don’t suffer from the lastest trends and catchphrases, they seem anachronistic. 80’s movies are hilarious, but at the time they were insufferable and smug. Now I like ’em. Anyway, here’s some old shit I was digging through, all 7 of them worth watching.
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