The Movie Thread Reloaded

[semi-urge]

Saw Interstellar at the movie theater yesterday as part of the 10 year anniversary. Still an absolute beauty to watch.

[Omega]

Watched Ken Russel's "Lair of the white worm", and had a blast. It could make a good adventure for some Cthulhu-esque RPG.

Yes. Very CoC sort of adventure really building up to the end.

[Riquez]

Watched Alien: Romulus.

They did some weird shit I'm not quite 100% on board with, but in the grand scheme of things I was damned pleased with the movie.

The first ~30 minutes of that movie was fantastic. The dystopian corporate mining colony, the plucky crew, the abandoned station.

Once the aliens popped out it was ...fine, I enjoyed it. But until it had to put aliens in the alien movie I thought it was brilliant. Maybe there's room for a no-alien story in that universe? With the penguin show being so well received I think there might.

I'm a big fan of Alien, Romulus was my least favourite of the 7 movies.
I was afraid it was going to be kids-in-space ...& it was.
I found all the characters annoying & I was hoping they would die soon so i didnt have to listen to them much longer.

I realise im in a minority as most people seem to think it was OK. & most people dislike Prometheus & Covenant: I like those a lot.

Now Disney has it, "game over man, game over!"

[ForgottenF]

Watched Ken Russel's "Lair of the white worm", and had a blast. It could make a good adventure for some Cthulhu-esque RPG.

Awesome. That's my favorite movie to have someone watch without warning them what they're getting into. I've used some ideas from it when I ran a Lampton/Dhampton Worm adventure in my Dragon Warriors campaign, but not a direct adaptation.

EDIT: It's very loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel of the same name. I tried the book once, but it's kinda boring. 

[colombus1592]

Watched Ken Russel's "Lair of the white worm", and had a blast. It could make a good adventure for some Cthulhu-esque RPG.

EDIT: It's very loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel of the same name. I tried the book once, but it's kinda boring.

Thank you for the reference. The title rang a bell but I could not remember from where.

[Omega]

I have been revisiting some of the old Corman era Edgar Allen Poe themed movies.

First time seeing House of Usher with Vincent price. Bit plodding and borderline disjointed...but it is well done and very atmospheric.

Pit and the Pendulum had not seen since the mid 70s. That final scene always creeped me out as a kid. I feel like this one is better paced, but somehow less atmospheric. Yet still has some gems of atmosphere in it.

The Premature Burial with Ray Milland is another hadn't seen in a long long time. This one is a little slow, but otherwise pretty good really.

Tales of Terror is a anthology movie and pretty good too. Price is back and Peter Lorre gets in on the fun. Theres something about the third piece that always got to me. Pretty sure it was remade as a Night Gallery episode.

The Raven! This one is a blast with Price, Lorre and Karloff all goofing off here. One of my favorite wizard battles!

The Haunted Palace. This is actually The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Lovecraft with the title changed. Slow paced, but fits the theme oddly and has some good atmospheric moments. Lon Chaney Jr pops up in this one.

The Masque of the Red Death is probably my favorite of the whole set. Price being as wicket as ever and some great set pieces and atmosphere. Fairly good pacing too and the final confrontation is so well played.

That leaves 3 I have not seen.

The Oblong Box. This one just kept missing way back for some reason.

The Terror with a young Jack Nickolson in it. I have seen the start a few times but am unsure if ever finished it.

And lastly Tomb of Ligeia which I -think- I have seen parts of, but never all of. Its been 50 odd years!

I think Corman really hit his stride with the Poe series and there some great moments in about every single one where he totally nails the eerie or macabre feel of the settings.

[Stephen Tannhauser]

For those who are fans of Peter Dinklage, Joe R. Lansdale, or Westerns in general, The Thicket (streaming on Tubi) is well worth the watch. Juliette Lewis does a fantastic turn as one of the scariest killers since McCarthy's Judge.

[Omega]

Not a movie. But I was cleaning out some old boxes and came across the copy of Turin's Passage that came with my first PC back in the mid 90s.

It was a rather ambitious Sierra game that combines their Kings Quest style of play with animation. Which a few publishers were trying at the time. Dont think I ever finished it. But it was my first exposure to one of these neo-FMV type games.

[Banjo Destructo]

I watched "Noah" for the first time, with russle crowe.  That movie is a trip, went darker than I thought it would. I can understand why changes from the real story were made, but wonder if fewer changes could have been made.  Some good questions are posed, like... if all other humans were so wicked, how did Noah find good wives for his three sons? This movie waves that away. It also raised a few questions I'll be looking into hmm.

[Lurkndog]

Season 2 of The Night Agent has dropped on Netflix.

It doesn't get off to quite as good a start as Season 1, but still a great cast.

[Thornhammer]

Section 31 was pretty bad.

And I say that as someone who didn't hate the entirety of NuTrek.

If you feel the overwhelming need to watch it, watch it while drinking and preferably already tipsy when the flashback sequence ends. For your own sake.

[HappyDaze]

Section 31 was pretty bad.

And I say that as someone who didn't hate the entirety of NuTrek.

If you feel the overwhelming need to watch it, watch it while drinking and preferably already tipsy when the flashback sequence ends. For your own sake.

I stopped watching after 35 minutes, and I have always been a big fan of Trek (enough that I even gave Discovery two seasons of watching before I dropped it). I'll agree: Section 31 is BAD.

[yosemitemike]

Section 31 has achieved the rare feat of uniting both professional reviewers and the general audience in hating it.  Even reviewers who like Kurtzman Trek don't like it.  I'm certainly not renewing my Paramount+ subscription just to see how bad it is. 

I watched the new Creature Commandos animated series.  It's not terrible but it's not a Creature Commandos show.  It's Suicide Squad with some Creature Commandos characters thrown in.  The Creature Commandos are treated like just more Suicide Squad members complete with Amanda Waller giving them orders and Rick Flag leading them in the field.  Even that  goofy weasel thing shows up for some reason. 

[Omega]

I watched the new Creature Commandos animated series.  It's not terrible but it's not a Creature Commandos show.  It's Suicide Squad with some Creature Commandos characters thrown in.  The Creature Commandos are treated like just more Suicide Squad members complete with Amanda Waller giving them orders and Rick Flag leading them in the field.  Even that  goofy weasel thing shows up for some reason. 

I watched the first episode and fuck it tries so hard to be Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy at the same time while also REALLY ramping up the violence. Also nearly all the monster characters, and Waller, are psychotic and why would anyone root for most of them?

I used to collect the comics back when they were a recurring story in Weird War. Mostly soldiers experimented on or just really unlucky. One normal leader, a werewolf, a vampire, a Frankenstein (a soldier saved with body parts from other soldiers), and later a medusa. All were created with science if recall right. Not positive on the medusa. Eventually they picked up, and lost, the G.I.Robot. Last I saw of them they have been shot into space on a missile.

[Thornhammer]

Section 31 has achieved the rare feat of uniting both professional reviewers and the general audience in hating it.  Even reviewers who like Kurtzman Trek don't like it.  I'm certainly not renewing my Paramount+ subscription just to see how bad it is. 

It was like watching someone's Star Trek Adventures campaign where neither the players nor the GM was actually familiar with Star Trek. A bunch of little kids, in fact - something where you're impressed with their imagination and glad they had a good time doing it, but know they need some guidance.

"My guy is a Vulcan, but he's actually a robot being controlled by a super tiny being in a little spaceship! And he laughs a lot and is great at being an undetectable super-spy."

A spy is subtle. A laughing Vulcan is not subtle. A laughing Vulcan with THE most Irish O'Accent you can possibly imagine even less so.