TV’s Frink said:

7/10 for This Island Earth, non-MST3K style? That’s about 5 too high.

I’m a sucker for good matte paintings.

just imagine I quoted the relevant sections of Duracell’s post; I’m on a phone and can’t be bothered.

I did not care for Oculus. I’m very curious about Pod, however, as it’s by the same director who did Darling, which I watched the other night and liked a whole lot.

SilverWook said:

Balto (1995)

I have only two things in particular to say in regards to this movie:

1. Any movie which features talking animals shouldn’t claim to be based on a true story (inspired, sure, but not based).
2. “No animals were injured or harmed in the making of this motion picture.” Well, seeing as this is an ANIMATED film, that’s bloody obvious!

8/10

It’s called a joke?

I wasn’t quite serious myself. =P

The Killing Joke (2016).
How can something so cinematic be translated into a film which actually feels less animated than still images? The added material detracts from the story as well. Even Mark Hamill isn’t that good in this. Looks cheaper than it probably was.
3 Balls

Bingowings said:

Looks cheaper than it probably was.

I don’t know. Most of those animated DC movies are pretty cheap.

The Conjuring (2013)

I’m generally not into ghost/demon stories but this was well done. However, it was a bit distracting that the two main male characters were Peter from Office Space and someone I’d never heard of who looked like a younger Bob Odenkirk.

Also I thought the youngest daughter was a boy for the first half of the movie.

Also is Lili Taylor in every one of these kinds of movies? I’m probably just thinking of The Haunting, but still.

8/10

Speaking of people getting fake bitten in half…

The Shallows
There aren’t many good shark movies. I enjoy Jaws, Jaws 2, Open Water, The Reef, and even find Deep Blue Sea entertaining though ridiculous. (I did get a bit of a laugh out of Sharknado 2: The Second One, but wouldn’t watch it again). Added The Shallows to my list.  6/10

I was gonna watch Young Frankenstein not too long ago, only to discover that Netflix Canada had taken it down.

Needless to say, I was not amused.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Netflix Canada

That’s a thing? I mean I guess I’m pretty ignorant on such things but I always thought all Netflix was the same except possibly different audio tracks.

I don’t want to live in this world anymore. Farnsworth style.

Odd, I don’t like children but I wuved it.

I dared to watch the first 30 minutes of the Nicolas Cage remake of The Wicker Man…not to bad thus far but excited to see how bad it gets.

I saw Q2’s extended cut of Fire Walk With Me it’s a wonderfull thing. It’s very long.
It might have worked better if broken up into episodes as a mini-series.
The only bag I had was the burned in subtitles.
When I saw it in the cinema there were no subs at all and I have to switch them on on my official release so the scene in the Pink Room is kind of spoiled for me.
I thought the whole point of the scene is to try and figure out what people are saying over the load music (just like being in a real nightclub).
I’d have preferred the subs to be optional.
It’s still an amazing experience to have all this long lost footage finally slotted into the right position. It also makes me wish all the people we have lost could come back for the new season of the show. I love Jack Nance. I just can’t believe he is dead, well I know he is but it doesn’t feel real.

Bingowings said:

It’s still an amazing experience to have all this long lost footage finally slotted into the right position. It also makes me wish all the people we have lost could come back for the new season of the show. I love Jack Nance. I just can’t believe he is dead, well I know he is but it doesn’t feel real.

I feel the same way about Don S. Davis.

The Bodyguard (1992)

The first time I watched this film, I found myself somewhat engaged by the performances and the story. I don’t know what the hell I was seeing at the time. The story barely exists and only to support the romance – a romance couldn’t be any less captivating if a lump of gray clay and a brown paper bag had been cast instead of Costner and Houston. I only wish the film had been truly bad; perhaps then it would have been somewhat entertaining. Instead it’s just 129 minutes of tedious boredom which drags on and on and on.

5/10

Evil Dead (2013)

I just had to let my curiosity get the better of me …

Long story short: I hate this movie. Short story long: I hate the pedestrian direction; I hate the banal, interchangable characters; I hate the lame, Exorcist-ripoff “deadites”; I hate that there isn’t any humour whatsoever (even the original movie had some jokes and black humour); and I hate that any real fear factor – truly scary imagery, creepy atmosphere, etc. – has been substituted with cheap torture porn.

1/10

Upside Down (2012)

While I found the story pretty mundane, I absolutely loved the visuals of the “double world”; they were so flawless – so captivatingly beautiful – that they kept me entranced even if the characters ultimately didn’t.

9/10

Demon Wind (1990)

I love this movie. The extremely stilted acting; the demons who look like vampires with third-degree sunburns; the scene where these two magicians shoot up and karate-kick down a bunch of attacking demons; the scene where this guy dies with disinterest after his girlfriend transforms into a demon and stabs him in the face with her demon nails; the scene where Baphomet’s skeleton bites a girl to death; the ludicrous showdown with the uber-demon and the lousy fight choreography that goes with it – it’s all transcendental in how poor it all is.

2/10

Ender’s Game (2013)

I haven’t read the novel, but I presume the story works better as prose than as a film. As it is, it felt like I only watched the first third of a much longer movie. It just wasn’t a very satisfying experience.

7/10

The Lost Boys (1987)

I absolutely love this movie. This is one of the few films from my childhood that I enjoy as much now as I did then. I may grow more miserable as I grow older, but every time I watch this, I feel like the same cautiously optimistic teenager I used to be.

9/10

OXV: The Manual AKA Frequencies (2013)

When a movie throws a bunch of rhymeless, reasonless jargon about frequencies and physics and manuals and books and lost technology and music and fate and free will and irony and souls and machines in the viewer’s face, but can’t bother to keep the camera from shaking every time someone’s in-frame, then you know the movie’s just pretentious codswallop.

On the plus side, I did like the two leads.

5/10

Underdog (2007)

Between Jason Lee’s annoying voice, Peter Dinklage’s lack of dignity, that kid’s stupid haircut, the generally lousy supporting cast, and the DOA writing, the only thing I found endearing about this piece of crap was the cute beagle (when Lee’s aggravating noise wasn’t coming out of his CGI-ed mouth, that is).

4/10

Porky in Wackyland (1938)

See my thoughts on the next film below.

10/10

Dough for the Do-Do (1949)

Porky in Wackyland & Dough for the Do-Do may be essentially the same film, but they both work equally well in my book; the subtle differences which offset the obvious similarities aside, the B&W in the former adds to the strange atmosphere while the bold colour in the latter really allows the surreal imagery to pop.

10/10

Ender’s Game is indeed better as a novel, but I thought the movie was decent. I did wish for more time spent in the Battle Room.

Your 7/10 seems pretty generous for your review.