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Dracula 2000 (2000)

This joke of a film made me want to hang myself, but the fear of becoming a Eurotrash vampire douchbag made me relent.

Waterworld (1995)

I don't know what all the fuss was about. I've seen this movie (far more) than six times. It rules!

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

This is definately the weakest of the six Trek films with the original series' cast. The premise was good, but Gene Roddenbery's antipathic attitude towards theism stifled it (no one without an axe to grind would have had a godlike entity - an entity presumably so powerful and dangerous that it had to be imprisoned on an inaccessable planet isolated within the centre of the galaxy - die from a single phaser blast from a Klingon starship). Beyond that, though, it was a decent enough film (I loved Laurence Luckinbill's performance as Sybok).

Inferno (1980)

Did this movie have a plot? Between the largely random murders and overbearing score, I just couldn't tell. Oh, well - at least it was pretty to look at (and a miserable cat-killing bastard died in a particularly satisfying way).

Shocker (1989)

This movie was just all over the place, but entertaining nevertheless (Mitch Pileggi was diabolically awesome). If only a certain actress had been given a better role than playing an already-dead murder victim in one short scene near the beginning of the film.

SilverWook said:

How much input did Gene actually have on TFF? In spite of the "executive consultant" credit he was getting at that point, it doesn't seem like he had much influence on the films post TMP. Not to mention TNG probably had more of his attention in 1989.

Everything I ever read about TFF indicated it was Paramount that was skittish about Kirk and company encountering god and Satan, and watered down the script. Never mind Kirk already met the devil on Saturday morning tv in 1973. ;)

I was under the impression <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Sean Connery </span>Sha Ka Ree was simply weakened by the Phaser barrage, losing it's cohesive form, not actually destroyed or killed.

We can continue this over in the Star Trek thread if you'd like?

I agree about Waterworld, even though the end was a tad weak.

I too thought all the Klingon blast did was sting the God-thing long enough for Kirk to beam off the planet where it's prison would render it harmless.

In that respect it did just as much damage as the nuke did to the hippy eating thing in Quatermass (1979).

Dracula 2000 is no classic but it's not that bad, in fact I'd put it on par with Waterworld which while nowhere as bad as it's often made out to be but is still bad.

I find Star Trek V to be as watchable as Star Trek IV but more easy to listen to because the music for The Voyage Homo is utter bilge.

Nope, I think he meant The Voyage Homo.

Here's a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxFjl_Y9Jb0

Maybe once I beat Bioshock Infinite, I'll finally make the time to watch Django Unchained. Been dying to watch that movie, I even have it, just haven't been able to find the time. Any movie watching these days takes place with friends, and it turns out I'm the only person I know who hasn't seen it yet.

New Tarantino and new Bioshock were two things entertainment wise I've been the most excited about over the last year, and I'm way behind on the both of them.

I object to all this Star Trek talk not on my great thread! And I'm positive Bingo did not make a typo, considering the whole humpback whale running gag in the TNG thread.

Hilarious video, C3PX!

I Am Nancy (2011)

I was amused by how nonplussed Heather Langenkamp was over how little Nancy Thompson merchandise there is compared to Freddy Krueger's, and the interviews with Wes Craven and his daughter were interesting. The rest of this documentary, though, was just ... meh. I suppose I was expecting more behind-the-scenes sort of stuff with regards to how the Nancy character was written and developed, Heather's portrayal of her, etc. instead of all the stuff with the fans and cosplayers (God, those people sure are a weird bunch).

My Name Is Bruce (2007)

Mildly amusing, but I can't help but feel this movie would have been far, far better had it revolved around the "real" Bruce Campbell instead of a heavily fictionalized version of the man.

Quicksilver Highway (1997)

The first story based on Stephen King's "Chattery Teeth" is decent, but the second story based on Clive Barker's "The Body Politic" is painfully awful. The best thing about this movie, overall, is Christoper Lloyd



in the weirdest hair, makeup, and clothes I've ever seen him in.

Mother of Tears (2007)

Definately the lamest entry in Argento's "Three Mothers" Trilogy. Sure, Inferno didn't have much of a story, but it had - along with Suspiria - rather gorgeous cinematography and atmosphere to make up for it. This, however, looks and feels like some cheap, late 90's, direct-to-video religious horror - insipid to the core.

captainsolo said:

SO LET'S REMAKE IT IN THE 00's WITH TOM HANKS, TRANSPORT THE SETTING TO MISSISSIPPI AND DUMB DOWN EVERYTHING...HMM SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Begins-Youtube-PAL-NTSC-Versions-Released/post/636362/#TopicPost636362

Also, I've recently been on a foreign language thriller kick:

Timecrimes (Spanish, 2007)
Them (French, 2006)
Hell (German/Swiss, 2011)

I liked Timecrimes the best although I'm still not sure it made sense.  Hell was enjoyable until the end where things just fell into place too easily for our protagonists.  And Them was just okay.

Beyond Evil (1980)

John Saxon and Lynda Day George were good, and the story was - overall - decent; it's the poor direction that brings this movie down.

Altered States (1980)

I wanted to like this movie - I really did. But after a promising beginning, it just devolves into a nihilistic disappointment.

Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

Having seen all four films, I can now say this about the series: the writer/director obviously doesn't have a story to tell, is making it up as he goes along, and that the only way to make the series work is if everything that happens film-to-film is all just part of a great, big, hallucinogenic delusion of the main character's.

Lisa and the Devil (1974)

Good movie, but the ending doesn't make much sense to me. Telly Savalas was awesome as Leandro/the Devil.

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994)

I had no knowledge of the whole Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan fiasco before going into this movie, so I had no interest in the plot whatsoever - I only watched it for Heather Langenkamp. She was no saving grace, however; her performance in this sucked - badly.

Iron Man 3.

4 Balls.

Don't wanna say too much yet out of fear of spoilering things. Go see it!

- there was ONE thing i kinda didn't like but it wasn't enough to upset things.

Looper (2012).

A generally above average science fiction time travel film in the PKD mode with a few really good performances let down by lapses of internal plot logic.

********Spoilers******

We are shown that events that happen to early iterations of Loopers manifest in their older counterparts so paradoxes are possible.

So why does the Bruce Willis version kill the wrong children when he knows through his younger self that they are not the rainmaker?

If the younger version kills himself to save the boy you have a classic grandfather style paradox as his older self no longer exists to be a threat to the boy and inspire his self sacrifice.

If the rainmaker learns from the younger iteration that his murder of Bruce's wife inspires his quest to kill his younger self wouldn't he just save Bruce's wife and by inference his own mother?

***************end of spoilers******************

There are lots of nice references there in the casting to similar stories (Sarah Connor Chronicles, 12 Monkeys etc).

3 ingots.

TV's Frink said:

Hell was enjoyable until the end...

I find hell tends to be like for most people.

But that's the thing about Hell, it's eternal.