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Finally got around to watching this but still not having seen poor things. 

It’s a vibe. Weird in a good way. Horny in a weird way.

My son has wanted to watch several times since we’ve first watched it. 

This time taking note of just how many studio headers are in the beginning. More than most. 
Here are some that I wrote down. Possibly more. I think I missed some:

Sideshow 
Janus Films
Dire
UFO
Charades
Canal +
Cine+
Arte 
Eurimages 
Rtbf 
Region sound
Sacreblu 
Take five
Dream well

At least in this movie it doesn’t list all the studios again right after in the beginning credits like in most others.

This movie is a waste of time up until like 40 minutes in when the first “real” kill happens. The practical gore effects aren’t that bad. Frankly, the quality of the gore doesn’t match the quality of the rest of the movie.

A high-society drug dealer tries to rekindle an old flame with an ex-lover but it doesn’t really turn out so well. 

Really slow and mundane with kind of an out of place soundtrack.

Travis Bickel, Martigan (R.I.P.) and… uh… Tom Sizemore commit a bold money truck heist and split before the HEAT shows up. Also, Danny Trejo (who plays the cleverly name character “Trejo”). But they hired some last minute dude who ends up being a real dick and starts blasting fools. And that just turns up the HEAT. 
Tony Montana, who embodies THE HEAT in this picture, is after this gang of scofflaw ruffians at the expense of his marriage. He’s dead-set on solving every crime in Los Angeles and giving solid “great ass” monologues. Cause if he doesn’t who will?
Martigan’s crew commit high profile crimes that attract a lot of HEAT so they all decide to lay low for a bit. But not before committing one last high profile bank heist first (because the action IS the juice) that draws the hottest HEAT that ever HEATed. HEAT!

A bunch of hillbilly truckers try to pull one over on Death Proof… Big mistake. 

⬇️spoilers⬇️

Me: (completely joking) “what if he was still alive and then the truck fell on him? Hahaha!”

And then it fucking happened. 🤌

When you gotta take a fuckin’ caboose up to your house, you know it ain’t gonna end well for you.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

A woman goes insane trying to make a Tool music video.

Ok, geez. 

Parenting is tough. 

I thought “no way this is going to as good as Flow” but it was. In different ways. 

This is why we feel empathy for those little delivery robots that roll around town.

Two youths fall in love.  One is a deplorable, uncouth, amoral, degenerate, drug addicted disgrace of a person and the other is a sex worker. 

A lot of lessons learned. 

Screened at the New Beverly Cinema on 35mm

Preshow:
Schlitz beer commercial
Pink Panther cartoon “Pink-A-Rella”
Trailers:
True Romance
Punch-Drunk Love
Tangerine

Well, that escalated quickly. 

Seriously, in the first episode soooo many things happen in rapid succession it’s a brain fuck. 

I watched some of the second and third episodes but I kept falling asleep and I lost interest. Probably not gonna finish it. I mean, I get it. It’s cool but whatever. 

I see a lot of reviews about it saying the first episode was great but then it fell off but like I said, that first episode was non stop craziness. Imagine 4 episodes of that? You would actually go insane. 
Also, the animation never dropped in quality, the pacing was just slower. 

Anyway. It’s cool. I like the black and white anime style it went with.

I loved it. And my son and wife loved it. 

A visually beautiful tale about how 
we will only survive if we band together despite our differences. And when the shit hits the fan that’s when you find out who your real friends are.

The scariest thing about this is meeting a guy like Nicky in the middle of woods and having to endure his personality for more than a minute.

This country was built on the blood and bones of beavers in this absolute live-action cartoon of a movie that is either a low budget triumph or one of the greatest student films of all time.

“Get in the closet. You too, xerox.”

A guy gets cloned but he doesn’t even know about it and he sees some guy steal his car but it was actually him stealing his own car while two dudes who are way too casual and unserious about their job that requires them to hunt down and kill people. So of course constantly lose the guy they’re trying to kill. 

Some cool shots and experiments 

Pretty cool when Master of Master Blaster from Thunderdoeme showed up.

Cobb, as in corn-on-the, is some sort of dream schemer that extracts or INCEPTS things in people’s minds. With the help of the kid from third rock from the sun and the kid from witness. 

He’s “hired” to do an INCEPTION but Third Rock says it can’t be done but Cobb is like “yuh huh. I killed my wife doing it.” So they have to assemble a new dream team (pun intended) to trick a rich kid into thinking his daddy loved him. 

So he goes to see Alfred who works at a map college to find the smartest kid in class that can draw the best maps cause they gotta go into a dream within a dream but then another dream inside that one. 

Actually, Dream Team would have been an awesome title for this movie. 

Also, Dream Schemers.

A rich kid poser punk asshole meets the punkest riot girl ever and she knocks him down a notch.

Fuck yeah! Take that, Hollywood!

A hit man who keeps repeating rules that he does not follow. 

“I serve no god, no country. I fly no flags.”

Too much Paris, not enough cat.

My kid is obsessed with this movie right now. 

I just like that there’s a character named Dangerous Beans. 

“People are so keen on tricking each other they elect governments to do it for them.”

“Cowboys were proper cunts.“

The goriest part was when Ed Begley Jr. was making that breakfast. 

It’s kinda hard not to walk away from this without realizing that they took the “believe women victims” and challenged it, purposefully. Especially the part with the two cops. It was very contrived.

Wait. Ryan Gosling doesn’t do his own stunts?

Wayne and Garth have their own public access show in Aurora Illinois where they hang out and party with their buds and go to sick “heavy metal” clubs.

“You don’t say two or one… You just don’t.”

If you’re suffering from nightmares, bouts of psychosis and general malaise, have you ever considered that you may have too much blood?

Training Day comes home to one of those places from Morrowind Elder Scrolls and his queen wants to smash but he’s like “nah. I’d rather go die by that sword, boo.” But first he gets high as fuck with his 12 year old son. 

Then the movie is Conan for a couple of minutes and then a bunch of grown men cosplay as wolves. 

Vengeance can be complicated sometimes.

No matter how hard you try I’m not gonna sympathize with the TSA.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Is this movie sexist? Yes. Is this movie homophobic? Yes. Is this movie misogynistic, fat-phobic, full of bad acting and obviously spent most of the budget on the soundtrack? Yes. But do I love this movie? Yes. 
I apologize. 
This is the kind of movie that your stoner friend in high school who has an older brother tells you about this movie in first period by explaining every scene shot by shot wile cracking the fuck up until your shop teacher breaks it up and starts telling a random story with some sort of lesson about paying attention in class. And then you watch it and realize he actually told you every scene shot by shot, joke by joke and that made it even funnier for some reason.

This was a good movie but it would have been the best movie in the world if the first time the Lorax got into Once-Ler’s office, instead of asking him to think about it, he shot him in the face with a sawed-off double barrel shotgun and blew up his factory. 🧨 🧨🧨

👇
  Assault a black man by police and try to
  Cover it up
  And steal his money 
  Because they are bastards.
 👆

Review here. 

I’ve never seen people dance so ionately to one of the worst songs Ive ever heard.

“What’s this?! What’s it used for?! It’s for jackin’ off, isn’t it?!” 
He seemed genuinely curious.

“Long Tall Sally, she got eeeeeverything, that uncle John need. I’m gonna have me some fun. I’m gonna have me some fun. I’m gonna have me some fun.”

Check out original review here. 

Midnight screening at the new Beverly. 

Preceding trailers:
Raw deal
Red heat
T2
Commando
Running man

I find it hard to believe. 

His planet had everything earth had from playboys to boomboxes to the same duck versions of movies like raiders of the lost ark. But the one thing they didn’t have was a circular Italian food object?

This is why women have to walk on eggshells around men. Cause any one of them could be a serial killer. 

Or a Pete Holmes.

Watched on Thursday October 31, 2024.

“Look. This is not a democracy. You have no choice.”

A shopping mall gets some state of the art robot security guards and of course they go haywire and start killing people. Cause of lightning and stuff. 

“Let’s send those fuckers a Rambogram.”

31 nights of horror 2024

I need a shelf to myself in the fridge that says “old fart”. 

Dude. Boppers? Of course you don’t. You’re not an old fart like me. 

“Death by stereo.”

“If my brother hadn’t repeatedly hit him in the head with a blender, he would’ve killed me.”

One is on a murderous killing spree. The other is trying to stop him. 

They both love to steal cars and drive fast though. 

I love when he hears country music he destroys the stereo.

An ADHD fever dream of insanity. 

I wish I had a cat named Blanche and a friend named Kung Fu. 

New Beverly Midnight. Oct 2024

Pretty cool but I don’t like the fast shutter action technique. This is my first time seeing this. I always kinda wanted to. I expected something way different with the 30 days of night title. They seem to kill almost everyone the first night. I guess I thought they drag out the kills a bit more while being a bit more discreet about it. 

That kid vampire basically stole that line from the kid in Pet Cemetery. 

Shout out to those vampires for destroying a pipeline.

“I don’t get off on funerals.”

A kid goes to an old fortune teller and tells them that he saw a one-man pallbearer chuck a casket into a hearse and feels the need to tell them that he fell while riding away on his motorcycle. 

“Uuuum. Oh shit.”

And Reggie, the neighborhood ice cream man that has no qualms about jumping in on your porch jam session is your ride-or-die to defeat a Tall Man that turns people into jawas for slave labor 

I just noticed for the first time that the first guy that gets his brain drilled out by the flying sphere pisses himself. 

“Warning shots are bullshit.”

And the soundtrack fucks.

I know this isn’t a horror movie but I was invited to the Los Angeles premiere of this. I’m not a huge Springsteen fan but between Blinded By The Light and this movie I’m content with liking him vicariously through his fans. 

And wow. This being a Los Angeles premiere the audience was star studded. I was just seats away from Alex Winter, Danny DeVito, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Morello, Colleen Camp, Kyle MacLachlan and of course the lovely Virginia Madsen. Plus many others that I recognized but don’t know their names. So that was fun. 
And the Boss and Steven Van Zandt did a little Q and A after.

• The Conversation
• Superman II
• The Poseidon Adventure
• The French Connection
• The Royal Tenenbaums

Favorite Val Kilmer flicks.

• Top Secret!
• Willow
• MacGruber
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Heat

Favorite films with animals as main or predominant characters.

• White God
• Project X
• The Bear
• Space Dogs
• The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• The Incredible Journey
• Orca
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Isle of Dogs
• The Pack

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Twelve Monkeys
• Inglourious Basterds
• Fight Club
• True Romance
• Killing Them Softly

Favorite Nic Cage flicks

• Raising Arizona
• Mandy
• Vampire's Kiss
• Face/Off
• Valley Girl

Favorite Robin Williams movies

• Death to Smoochy
• The Fisher King
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Dead Poets Society
• Good Will Hunting

Favorite movies screened at the new Beverly cinema. (View in list mode to see comments)

• Point Blank

  I saw this for the first time at the new Beverly. It’s abstract and dripping with style.

• The Yakuza

  Another one first screened at New Beverly. This one is so well done and leads to a satisfying climax. 
  I’m talking about the movie.

• Thief

  This is the last movie in the world you wanna fuck with.

• Trouble Every Day
• Vigilante
• Sorcerer
• The Driver
• Okja
• Black Christmas
• The Silent Partner

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Horror every day: October 2024

• The Entity
• The Fantasist
• The Sentinel
• Pin
• The Evil Dead
• Demons
• The Stepfather
• Nomads
• Lisa
• Madhouse

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some of my favorite horror movies. In no particular order.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• An American Werewolf in London
• Night of the Comet
• Trick or Treat
• Visiting Hours
• Tourist Trap
• Alice, Sweet Alice
• Bloody Birthday
• Demons
• The Thing

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite films by my favorite directors.
     (View in list mode for comments)
Do you agree? What are your favorites?

• Brazil

  Gilliam’s masterpiece of masterpieces.

• They Live

  It’s always tough picking my favorite Carpenter film. I wanna pick Escape from New York but then I’m like wait. Big Trouble in Little China. But then wait. The Thing. Wait! They Live!

• Blood Simple

  Out of all the amazing films in their catalogue, this remains my favorite by the Coen bros. It’s so perfect. How is this their first fucking movie!?!

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  It’s so hard to pick just one but of course it’s Space Odyssey.

• Taxi Driver

  Taxi Driver is his greatest achievement, in my opinion. It runs on tone, mood and feeling.

• THX 1138

  I grew up a huge Star Wars fan but now as an adult THX has become my favorite work by Lucas.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

  A masterclass in terror in its relentlessness and simplicity.

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  I was gonna pick Shaun of the Dead here but this one is just so tight and precise and hilarious.

• Mad Max 2

  There’s not much more a filmmaker could do to top this one.

• Boogie Nights

  I want so bad to pick There Will Be Blood but Boogie Nights just holds a special place in my heart. He just knocked it out of the park with this one.

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Influences for a script I’ve been writing on and off again for the last couple of years.

• Brazil
• Sorry to Bother You
• Twelve Monkeys
• Akira
• The Zero Theorem
• Blade Runner
• V for Vendetta
• Children of Men
• Soylent Green
• Videodrome

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Guns, slashers, explosions; unconventional Christmas flicks to enhance your holiday cheer.

• Black Christmas
• Brazil
• Night of the Comet
• The Thing
• Child's Play
• The Silent Partner
• Twelve Monkeys
• Gremlins
• Jackie Brown
• Boogie Nights

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Horror October 2023

• Night School
• They Live
• Critters
• Tremors
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• The New Kids
• The Return of the Vampire
• Komodo
• The Severed Arm
• Scarecrows

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Night of the Comet
• Brazil
• An American Werewolf in London
• Trick or Treat
• Enemy Mine
• Brain Dead
• Gotcha!
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Parents
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that I would let my toddler watch that would be good for Halloween.

• Spaced Invaders
• Trick or Treat
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Little Monsters
• The Peanut Butter Solution
• The Addams Family
• Spirited Away
• Ghostbusters
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Frankenweenie

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of some of my favorite movies by black directors.

• Sorry to Bother You

  One of my favorite movies of 2018 hands down.

• Get Out

  Amazing directorial debut by Jordan Peele.

• Do the Right Thing
• Creed
• Harlem Nights

  One of the funniest comedies written and directed by Eddie Murphy.

• 12 Years a Slave
• New Jack City
• Boyz n the Hood
• Juice
• Strapped

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Faves from 92

• Bad Lieutenant
• Reservoir Dogs
• Unlawful Entry
• The Vagrant
• Wayne's World
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Raising Cain
• Candyman
• In the Soup
• Alien³

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I’m writing a new script currently and here are some movies that are influencing it in theme, tone or imagery.

• Green Room
• Trick or Treat
• Detroit Rock City
• An American Werewolf in London
• Mandy
• Lords of Chaos
• Airheads
• Until the Light Takes Us
• The Day of the Beast
• Blinded by the Light

My favorite films off 1988.

• Die Hard
• Akira
• They Live
• Child's Play
• Beetlejuice
• Heathers
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Big
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• Coming to America

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite movies from the year 1999.

• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• eXistenZ
• The Matrix
• Fight Club
• Being John Malkovich
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Buddy Boy
• Office Space
• Ratcatcher
• Eyes Wide Shut

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Just wrote a new script. Here are some movies that inspired it thematically, in tone, visually or in reference.

• Intruder
• The Stepfather
• American Psycho
• Carrie
• Mandy
• The Neon Demon
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• The Love Witch
• An American Werewolf in London

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that inspired my second screenplay in theme, imagery or reference.

• Proof
• The Matrix
• Dreamscape
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Paprika
• Inception
• Mad Max 2
• Night of the Comet
• An American Werewolf in London
• Reservoir Dogs

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that I’ve seen over the last couple of years that have had a lasting impression on me since I’ve seen them.
Highly recommend.

• Point Blank
• Thief
• The Yakuza
• The Driver
• Drive
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
• You Were Never Really Here
• Trouble Every Day
• White God
• Sorcerer

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite movies about aliens visiting earth.

• They Live
• Starman
• Predator
• The Thing
• The Hidden
• Alien Nation
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Arrival
• Under the Skin
• Attack the Block

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite movies from 1984. This was a good year for movies. What are some of your favorites?

• Night of the Comet
• The Terminator
• Blood Simple
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Paris, Texas
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Runaway
• Top Secret!
• Gremlins
• Repo Man

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here’s some of the films that inspired the first feature length script I ever wrote. (Mostly Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Midnight
• Stoker
• The Beyond
• Children of the Corn
• Hack-O-Lantern
• Beyond the Darkness
• Friday the 13th Part III
• Suspiria
• The People Under the Stairs

My Christmas playlist this year.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• Die Hard
• The Silent Partner
• Black Christmas
• Gremlins
• Bad Santa
• Night of the Comet
• Lethal Weapon
• Cobra
• The Nice Guys

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Horror movie watched through the month of October.

• Disconnected
• Too Scared to Scream
• Out of Control
• Retribution
• Scanners II: The New Order
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Streets of Fire
• Extra Ordinary
• Candyman
• Fright Night

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some movies I’ve seen (some good, some really bad) that I’ve never heard anyone else talk about.

• Buddy Boy

  Saw this movie when a friend of mine (in the industry) brought home a screener. I really liked it and watched it several times before the screener disappeared, never to be seen again. I often ask people if they’ve seen it and no one has yet said yes. I still can’t believe this is the only movie this director made.

• Bullethead

  Had this VSH and wore it out. I would quote this movie and no one knew what I was talking about. 
  The director isn’t even listed here on Letterboxd.

• Lost River

  A movie written and directed by Ryan Gosling. And it’s pretty good. How is nobody talking about this?

• Exterminator City

  If you haven’t seen this one, consider yourself lucky. I hold this movie in my worst movie I’ve ever seen category. 

  But I guess that’s the risk you run when you get a movie from the bargain bin at the supermarket.

My favorite movies about making movies.

• Living in Oblivion
• Boogie Nights
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Blow Out
• Ed Wood
• Dolemite Is My Name
• Brigsby Bear
• Cecil B. Demented
• Effects
• Special Effects

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some of my favorite movies from women directors.

• Strange Days
• You Were Never Really Here
• Little Joe
• American Psycho
• Blood Diner
• Wayne's World
• Trouble Every Day
• Near Dark
• Prevenge
• Lady Bird

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite flicks from the last decade. There are probably a lot more great films but these are the ones that I’ve seen. What were your favorites?

• Inception
• The Social Network
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Submarine
• Beyond the Black Rainbow
• Super
• Rubber
• Hesher
• Drive
• The Cabin in the Woods

...plus 172 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Get the point?

• Point Break
• Point Blank
• Match Point
• Point Blank
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Vantage Point
• The Point
• Point Break
• Vanishing Point
• Point of No Return

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It’s my birthday. So here are some of my favorite movies from the year of my birth.

• Dawn of the Dead
• The Silent Partner
• The Driver
• Someone's Watching Me!
• Halloween
• The Deer Hunter
• Superman
• Magic
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Fingers

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies where Michael Ironside loses a limb (mostly an arm or two).

• Total Recall

  He loses both arms in this one.

• The Machinist

  Left arm.

• Starship Troopers

  Arm and both legs.

• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

  Both hands.

• Guy X

  Arm and a leg.

• Visiting Hours

  This one doesn’t really count but I wanted to include it anyway because I love this movie. And there is a moment where he slices up his own arm and you think in might be going in an amputated direction but it doesn’t.

List of movies written and directed by actors.

• Harlem Nights
• Trees Lounge
• Get Out
• Lost River
• Submarine
• That Thing You Do!
• Lady Bird
• Citizen Kane
• A Quiet Place
• The Gift

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Favorite sci-fi films.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Enemy Mine
• Night of the Comet
• They Live
• THX 1138
• Blade Runner
• Alien
• Total Recall
• Brain Dead
• The Terminator

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Classics that will never die. Maximum rewatchability.

• Die Hard
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Night of the Comet
• Gotcha!
• They Live
• The Thing
• THX 1138
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Mad Max 2

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.