Ah yes, Troll 2 the original Harry Potter! If you're into high caliber acting and incredible special effects it doesn't get much better then Birdemic: Shock and Terror. It's like Avatar, only good! OH HELL YES! The Room is amazing! AMAZING! The other day I was discussing with a friend of mine what the ultimate movie would be and we decided it would be an Arnold Schwarzenegger / Tommy Wiseu buddy cop flick.
In all seriousness I recommend the following for anyone that loves B movies. Death Race 2000 - David Carradine in a leather gimp outfit beating the crap out of Sylvester Stallone! People getting run down to wacky music! Seriously one of my favorites. Here's the entire movie!
I'll probably check all of these out, except Dollman, which sounds just plain bad (and not in the good way). Also, these are my fave b-movies, new and old. YouTube: video YouTube: video YouTube: video YouTube: video YouTube: video
Tokyo Gore Police and Hobo with a Shotgun are already on my Netflix queue and I'm going to hunt down a copy of Street Trash tonight. Suprised I've never heard of that one because it looks amazing! I was torn between posting Dollman or Trancers, both star Tim Thomerson and while Trancers 1 - 3 are all better movies Dollman ties into Bad Channels so I went with that instead.
You've never heard of Street Trash before? It's absolutely hilarious! I think more Grindhouse movies should be comedies, because the amount I've seen that take themselves seriously...it's just sh*t. But Street Trash has its problems, it has no real direction and some of the fight choreography is awful. But it's so crazy, so funny and has some great deaths that it's easily one of my favourites. Tokyo Gore Police blew me away, not just for all the gore or the effects but because it was probably the closest thing I've seen to an anime live action. I mean many anime have had live action adaptations...but they all sucked. And Hobo is a genuinely good film, not just a good Grindhouse movie. Although I found the last act just got a little bit TOO silly. And Trancers actually looks really good.
I've had TGP in my queue since watching The Machine Girl a few years ago. The Japanese take on grindhouse movies is one of the best recent trends in film. The trailer for Street Trash reminds me of The Stuff, another movie about killer goo. The first Trancers is amazing, 2&3 are great and then somehow they turned it into a fantasy movie in 4&5. Trancers 6 is totally unwatchable, Tim Thomerson isn't even in it. Somehow I managed to miss They Live. How could I forget to include that movie? It's iconic!
I've never actually watched Machine Girl, but I've had the DVD lying around for years. Although I enjoyed Tokyo Gore Police, most original Japanese horror movies I found really boring, like Pulse and the Audition. About the only Japanese horror movie I've seen better than original is 'The Eye' and obviously the obvious ones like the Ring or the Grudge etc Also be warned, Street Trash has awful acting, even for a Grindhouse movie, for a while I honestly thought it was dubbed. Street Trash isn't about Killer Goo as such, but it is a 'melt 'movie' which I had no idea was a prominent Grindhouse movement until after I saw that movie and did a little research (cause I'm sad like that). Wow Trancers has five movies? Holy sh*t. They Live looks pretty awesome.
Hobo with a Shotgun is beyond terrible, even for a Grindhouse movie. I liked Death Proof, Planet Terror and Machete, and was expecting Hobo to be "awesomely bad", but it's not even a fun bad movie. There's barely a single redeeming feature to the whole thing, and if there is it's probably just the title. A few props aside, this is literally a movie anyone could make in a few days with a camera and a homeless man. Anyone who thought Machete was beginning to cross the line on how much they can enjoy this type of movie will find Hobo is about a hundred miles on the other side of it.
Death Race 2000 is probably the best B movie ever. I concur with the recommendation. Who doesn't like "Euthanasia day in the geriatrics ward"?
Really?! All I've seen is praise for Hobo. And it had great effects and action and great performances. I just think the third act let it down. I don't understand how you could dislike it so much? It was so true to its roots and everything. I hated Death Proof, it was directionless nonsense. But Planet Terror was pretty good. I never bothered with Machete after the mixed reviews.
Trancers has six movies actually but only three are good. You've never seen They Live? It's the movie the line "I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass and I'm all out of gum" comes from. It's got Rutger Hauer as a hobo with a shotgun, how bad could it possibly be? "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Also I'm a hobo... with a shotgun." I'd also like to add that I don't consider grindhouse and it's spinoffs to be real grindhouse flicks. They ape the style but it's big name directors and actors producing faux-exploitation films in a way that's palatable to a mainstream audience. I still enjoy them but not as much as the older material they're based on. The one exception to that was Black Dynomite.
Yeah I didn't like it. I thought it started off well until the antagonists showed up, then the whole film spiralled into something dreadful. It was like some bizarre take on the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. I think I've started to block it from my mind... it was only about 2 months ago I saw the movie and I've forgotten most of it already. I still love the idea of a hobo going on a righteous killing spree with a shotgun, I just wish it'd been done without the crappy 80s villians and crazy torture contraptions. I feel like a bit more realism in the storyline and the gore would have made a bigger impact.
Yeah The Plague or whatever they were called had no place here, they just didn't fit and were so silly they just killed it.
They Live is a great movie, saw it on Netflix IW a few months ago. I've been getting into Cronenberg and Carpenter films lately. I've always liked those directors, but I've really been wanting to watch a whole bunch of their stuff lately: Halloween, Escape from LA/NY, The Thing, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, Scanners, etc. Check all of those movies out if you like horror/thriller movies with some intelligence and a little mindf*cking. For fans of They Live, check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/They-Live-Focus-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/159376278X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312332786&sr=1-1 I picked one up on Amazon the other day, its supposed to be a good funny read.
Have you gotten around to Naked Lunch yet? It's a 10 out of 5 on the Cronenberg weirdness scale. Last time I watched it was at the Sci-Fi Spectacular in May, the print was beat to hell but I've seen it so many times it actually made the film more enjoyable. There was a woman in the row right in front of my friend and I who had clearly never seen it before and she kept squirming and gagging all the way through it, we couldn't stop laughing.
Have not seen it. Thanks for the recommendation though, I wiki'd it (avoiding plot info of course) and this quote caught my eye: "Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie" Sounds like my kind of movie. Oh and also this: Richard Corliss of Time gave a lukewarm review, calling the film "tame compared with its source" Well, if this is true I might just even have to get the book as well. Thanks again for the suggestion.
Well we all have different tastes I guess, I think cowboys vs aliens was better than most of the junk at the cinema lately it was pretty much exactly as I expected going in. Just for fun heres my top five best and worst films I don't think to many will agree with me judging from the conversations. Crank (I actually haven't seen a Jason Statham film I haven't liked) Requiem for a Dream Matrix (first one only) Avatar Hackers (yeah it's cheesy but I still like it) The worst film is very easy Starship Troopers 2 without a shadow of a doubt. I've also seen rubber which was mentioned a few pages back it was terrible as well.
Starship Troopers 2 is bad enough for 5 but just put in 3 random chick flicks and you will probably be close.
