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Reminds me of a line in the trailer, a quote blurb from a critic: "It feels like you're watching something you should not be seeing."
I always thought it was the real Jackie Mason playing Aardvark. I never even thought about who Ant was supposed to sound like. Just found out a minute ago it was John Byner doing both roles and for Ant he did his best Dean Martin. In my defense, I was probably less than 10 the last time I saw them. Somehow I'd seen a lot of Jackie Mason as a kid. Dean Martin, not so much.
Garbage thread from a garbage poster.
Disappointed that Biden apologized for speaking the truth, but he's an irrelevant lame duck at the moment anyway, so don't really care much.
So much sympathy for the poor hurt feelings of MAGAts, a group that has always been so nice and kind when speaking about their political opponents. =(
There's definitely some easter candy on screen for like 3 seconds, don't recall ever noticing anything beyond that.
It doesn't surprise me that it's a favorite darling of pretentious hipster twats who love the smell of their own farts so much that their heads are permanently lodged up their butts.
I snagged it on a lark for my own personal shocktoberfest, watching nothing but horror movies all month, looking for new stuff I've never seen before. A serial killer using a power tool in late 70s NYC with punk rock in the background sounded fucking cool as hell.
Turned out to be an annoying greasy POS of a movie. The nicest thing I can say about the cast of characters is that sometimes they're only mildly irritating. It makes Last House On the Left look like Jacob's Ladder/Se7en.
I did like the few scenes that were obviously surreptitiously taken shots of actual real life Bowery bums. Hope they got paid.
EDIT a month later: So, the star of this movie is also its director, Abel Ferrara. I've heard that name over the years, but never really picked up on who he was. Stupid me, King of NY and Bad Lieutenant are among my favorites but I never bothered to take note of who made them. Now that I know the same guy made this, I need to give it another chance.
Just to minimize the information the police can get from them regardless of what happens. If they don't know anything about each other, they can't even accidentally give the cops useful info. It's called compartmentalization.
Important reminder:
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
Keep reading that over and over until it eventually sinks in.
The point of the scene where Vic Vega comes to visit Joe in his office is to illustrate that Joe knows how to hire guys he can trust; if they get caught, they will keep their mouth shut and do their time. And Joe will reward their loyalty.
But for those who have been told the answer and then go back and re-watch but still don't get it, that's some grade-A prime cut shame.
Bottom line:
In the script, Mr. White is is supposed to shoot Joe and then Eddie. In the execution when filming the scene, things didn't work out to make that obvious. (Though IMO it's pretty clear Keitel at least started to aim at Eddie after shooting Joe. In fact, it was actually only after looking extra close that I realized he didn't move his aim far enough to actually have his pistol properly pointed at Eddie.) Tarantino claims he liked the idea of it being difficult if not impossible for the audience to know exactly what happened and that would drive people to talk about it and debate, which is generally always good for a movie, so he left the fucked up first take in the film. Most likely he didn't have a choice because his shoestring budget didn't allow him to reshoot a fancy squib special fx set-up more than once.
It a great movie and an amazing debut and I've loved it since I first saw it on VHS in 1993. But saying it's his best smells like extra stinky hipster bullshit to me.
I remember it being a big deal when it was new, but I would have been only 9 and not able to see it. I was more sheltered than a lot of my friends, PG movies were no-go until I was a couple years older. I remember everyone talking about it, I remember reviews saying "better than the original in every way," (I'd never even heard of the original,) I remember my sister's Fotonovel, I remember the Mad magazine spoof. But I didn't get to actually see it myself until after we got our first VCR in 1982. I probably saw it that year, could have been the following year.
I've probably seen it at least four more times since then. At least once on DVD, at least once on blu-ray and this is my second time watching it on the 4K UHD I bought two years ago. I've always loved it.
Back in 2001, the video game Silent Hill 2 released and I was obsessed with it. It's a horror game, very influenced by the Japanese horror boom in the late 1990s. Cure, Ringu, etc. It's a very creepy and scary game. Right after it came out there was an interview with the creators, and they asked the director what the scariest movie he ever saw was. He said Suspiria. So I ran out and bought it on DVD. I knew absolutely nothing about it, went in completely cold and blind.
I thought it was a joke. Silly, wacky, absurd, and not scary in the slightest. Honestly assumed the SH2 director had to have been trolling.
In years since, I've checked out more Dario Argento movies... Inferno, Phenomenon, Crystal Plumage, maybe a couple of others. He's not my favorite, but I can see how his stuff is an acquired taste. A Silent Hill 2 remake just released and it's great, so I felt like giving Suspiria another go, I'd long forgotten 90% of it. (I remembered someone turning a blue flower to open a secret door, that's so straight out of the Resident Evil/Silent Hill play book.) I was able to appreciate it more, knowing what I was going into this time. Maybe the 4K helps, I don't recall it being so dazzling to look at. Jessica Harper bugs, she's such a boring, icy little robot. Overall I have no clue how anybody could possibly take Suspiria seriously. I had no idea it was considered "highly rated," I've never heard anyone mention it outside of that old interview.
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Hard to avoid civilian deaths when your opponent literally puts their own civilians in harm's way because they WANT maximum civilian deaths, because it helps them politically, getting more and more sympathy from idiotic uninformed westerners who have no clue what's been going on in the middle east for the last, oh I dunno, 15 centuries.
I saw the box on the shelf a billion times over the years when I'd rent movies on VHS, but was the never the slightest bit interested in it. Never heard anyone comment on it at all, good or bad. Just one of a countless number of little movies I didn't have time to even consider.
Somehow it ended up on my Oct horror movie watchlist this year for the first time. It's a ripe piece of cheese, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. Probably helps that I was a dedicated mall rat for most of the 80s.
I knew it. I'd never heard of this movie before a few minutes ago, a scene showed up in my youtube feed, "Demon Has Conversation With Atheist Doctor" or something like that. After watching that 5-min scene, I knew it had to be written by someone who was into the Left Behind movies etc. lol
If it was 1976, I would have been 7 and my older sister would have been 12. That lines up with my memory. It was a big deal to my sister, I remember she talked about it for like the whole week before it was on. My family was at my grandma's out in the desert that weekend. The only thing I specifically remember is the dead body with the face ripped off inside the house. Likely I don't remember anything else because someone decided I was way too young to be watching it.