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"College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin."

Don't you just hate when a weekend of sex AND debauchery is ruined by zombie beavers?

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I loved Shin Godzilla -- it may be my favorite of the bunch. I was hoping for a sequel. I got the idea at the end that the Japanese girl who was the daughter of the U.S. President was destined to become President herself one day. I didn't realize that it was satire, but a lot of stuff goes over my head.

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Yeah, but if there is a sing-along at the end, I guess I gotta live with it.

I mean, it was no Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, but it was still entertaining.

Her's the trailer for Zombeavers:

Hey, nothing beats Zombie Ass.

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They should prolly do a feature length version of this.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2088988/

OK, I always assumed that I was the Official Forum Aficionado of weird movies, but I wake up this morning to learn that, in fact, I am nothing.

In the seventies there was a John Holmes Vampire XXX movie.

Came across a pleasant surprise last night while looking for a movie to watch. TCM is currently streaming the original 1954 Gojira in Japanese with English subtitles. I had only seen this once, in 2004,when an art theater in D.C. showed it on the 50th anniversary of its original release. (IIRC, it was the first time the original had been shown in the U.S., rather than the Americanized version with which we all grew up with the Raymond Burr scenes added.)

In addition to enjoying the movie, I also learned some interesting history from the TCM website. On March 1, 1954--eight months to the day before Gojira was released in Japan--the United States set off the world's first Hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands. Although the Japanese were warned to stay away, a fishing boat went into the forbidden area. From the TCM article:

The crew of the Daigo Fukuryo Maru (that's "The Lucky Dragon #5" to you) figured they were being extra-clever by heading out to trawl for tuna in the forbidden zone. There's no competition, they congratulated each other. Then, there was a flash in the sky, like a second sun. The light was so bright, it could be seen as far away as Okinawa. The Lucky Dragon was so far from the blast, they didn't hear its accompanying thunder for another 8 minutes. It was clear to them they'd made a mistake, but the consequences were now impossible to outrun. They pulled in their nets, stowed their catch, and returned to the mainland as quickly as possible.

They were sick. Horribly irradiated by the fallout, the radio operator would be the first to die from radiation sickness. The Japanese press noted that as the first human being killed by the H-bomb, he was Japanese, just like the only humans killed by A-bombs. It had been a period of contentious relations between the Japanese and their American conquerors--the prolonged and agonizing death of the Lucky Dragon #5's radioman became a rallying point for anti-American protests. As horrific as that death was, it was merely a convenient symbol for a larger problem: the Lucky Dragon had sold their tuna before anyone knew what had happened. The irradiated fish was now circulating through the marketplace, delivering second-hand radiation poisoning to anyone who ate it. Health officials took to the markets with their Geiger counters to try and find the contaminated tuna, only to discover to their mounting horror that the entire country was already bathed in radioactive fallout from Russian nuclear tests!

Put bluntly: the Japanese had been minding their own business and suddenly something monstrous was stalking them, systematically attacking them in their homes.

Slightly over a month after the radio operator finally died, a movie opened in Japanese theaters that begins like this: a fishing boat at sea, identified as "#5," afflicted by a mysterious and unexpected flash of light. The ship goes down--its radio operator is the first to die.

For Japanese audiences sitting in the dark that November 1, watching Ishiro Honda's Gojira unfold on the screen, the message was clear: this isn't science fiction, it isn't even fiction. These are recent events, recapitulated as a modern fairy tale, a contemporary folk myth for the nuclear age.


http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles/556721

For those of you who have access to TCM, you should not pass on the chance to watch this original masterpiece. It will be available until July 30th. Oh, and for comparison purposes I suppose, TCM is also showing the 1956 Americanized release with Raymond Burr as well.

Wow that is a great excerpt, thanks for posting it. i will be reading that article.

Very nice, DC2LV. Science fiction and Westerns have always enabled writers and directors to analyze the present while setting stories in the future and the past. I'll be watching this.

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We Are Still Here 6/10

I know it's a popular horror thing recently, with stuff like House of the Devil & It Follows, to give off a timeless feel, as though the movie could be set in the golden age 70s/80s. But man this one took it to another level. Feels like it time traveled from 1988, like something I would have rented on vhs as a kid. First half had a fresh take on the new england haunted house genre, creepy vibe, nicely shot, bad acting but that kind of added to the appeal. Then it goes gonzo with splatter deaths, terrible effects, bad ghostmonster costumes, the works.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

7/10

A father son coroner team do an autopsy of a young woman who died a mysterious death

For the 45 minutes it's an amazing horror movie. A lot of use of dread and subtle small things to mess with your perception so that even though by the end of the first half not a lot of obvious or in your face horror has happened you're still pretty freaked out.

The last 1/2 or so kind of fizzles out and the reveal doesn't quite match the intensity of beginning though which stops it from being an A+ horror movie.

Watched these on a plane.

I Tonya Loved it. The story was sad, but I laughed the whole time. Great lines. Everyone in it was good, especially the mother.

The Last Jedi It sure seemed like I've seen this story somewhere. Young rebel who has an undeveloped power gets guidance from an aging Jedi. Must have a light saber battle with another blood relative with similar powers who has gone to the dark side courtesy of an old bald ugly powerful dude. Mix in a brash young pilot that takes chances and doesn't follow the rules. Add a dash of robots and other sidekicks. Having to take on a much larger and more organized evil force, the ragtag bunch of rebels are almost crushed, only to emerge victorious. Now, where have I seen this?

MI6

Skydive scene: check.

Obligatory men's room fight: check.

Disco fight: check.

Motorcycle chase through Paris: basically, the whole movie is a chase scene.

In other words: C'était un rendez-vous.
(And I mean that in a good way.)

Then some mushy stuff: check.

Then some plot devices: check.

Then some more Alec Baldwin: check.

Then some parkour around London: check.

Then a helicopter chase: check.

Ending: literally a cliffhanger.

Some more mushy stuff: check.

Some dreadful acting from Angela Basset and Henry Cavill, but who cares? Maybe the best MI since 2. Maybe the best ever. Check it out.

"The world needs IMF!"
-Angela Basset

Yeah, I thought this was meh for act 1 and 2, then when act 3 started.... ohhh baby I was in.

And dat song!

Mission impossible has 98% on rotten tomatoes!

I guess I have to go.

I know I'm not the demographic, but can someone please explain to me why Girls Trip got such great reviews? Holy crap, that was amateurish, awful, and unfunny. I mean, I usually like Regina King and Jada Pinkett, but holy cow.

This was as bad as a Tyler Perry drama.

Rewatched Rogue Nation yesterday. They are so much fun! Plot is meh, but who cares. The movies are based around the big action scenes and they deliver. Really looking forward to nr 6.

https://youtu.be/2BnOebsDtAQ

Tom Cruise is awesome.

I ****ing loved MI6. It felt like an entire trilogy of movies packed into one. And it has an awesome resolution to the arc setup in MI4 (but really setup in MI3).

Objectively, it might be the best MI yet. But I think MI4 might still be my favorite, just because it was the one that made me think holy ****, I didn't know an MI film could do that.

Moviepass dead. RIP

Wait. What? I just got my MoviePass in the mail yesterday.

They're not processing card payments apparently, likely due to finally exhausting all their money. Have you been following the news on them lately? They've been due to die for a little while now, especially within the last week.

If you paid for an annual subscription I'd consider going for a refund immediately.

Couple other options available, most notably Sinemia and AMC A-List. Can see more movies with A-List, but you're limited to only AMC theaters. Sinemia is $7/month annual billing, 2 movies per month, no restrictions, no card. That's what I'm leaning towards right now. Even seeing > 2 movies / month would recoup the value quite easily.

https://www.businessinsider.com/movi...rce=reddit.com

Slim chance they recover, so I guess YMMV, but it's looking like donezo for real this time.

Here's the Sinemia deal - https://www.sinemia.com/new-plans/us/chicago

Update - https://twitter.com/MoviePass/status...37610271055873

I haven’t been following and the last two posts don’t really clear things up. I did the $10/month. Not too concerned about the finances but it seemed like a no brainer sign up for me.