Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,
Yes, America celebrates its 247th birthday (doesn't look a day over 218) in the traditional manner... but thankfully we've had a few new things come into fashion like using drone displays instead of fireworks so people can still get their oohs & aahs and not have to watch a quarter of the country burn every year... but I'm sure there were plenty of drone incidents that also took hands... but that's not why we're here! We're here... to find out what movies I've seen this week... June 29 – Battle Royale (2000) We talked about the Rollerball movies last week… so now I was recommended to watch the original Japanese movies about kids killing each other in sports-like combat because… Japan has 15% unemployment? Yeah, again they don’t go a whole lot into WHY they’re “randomly” killing kids (and I don’t believe they’re even being exploited on cable or the dark web) but whatever… kids with weapons killing each other in gruesome ways. #ChildMurder the movie!!! I really enjoyed it!!! Yes, it’s a violent movie… but it’s also pretty hilarious at parts. May have to show this one to Izzy since she’s such a huge Hunger Games fan but… this is done better than those movies maybe… but there’s definitely more world building in the FOUR HG movies… Rating – 10/10 – My kind of crazy fun movie!!! June 30 – Village of the Damned (1995) I’ve always confused this movie with “Children of the Corn” & I didn’t even know that it was a John Carpenter movie?!? Basically an entire small town just kind of passes out for a few hours… and when they come to, all the women are pregnant… and give birth to alien children posing as human hybrids or something. The two main doctors are Kirstie Alley & Christopher Reeve… Mark Hamill shows up as a priest… hijinx ensue. Oh & the chick from Crocodile Dundee is in it too. This movie was… I don’t know… it just felt a little lazy. I’m not sure Carpenter gave it a damn at all. Yes, I get that I may not give a f**k about the kids (especially evil ones) but at the same time… not really threatening. Rating – 7/10 – May come up on the podcast though… kinda fun at spots July 1 – Giant From The Unknown (1958) This was a Rifftrax viewing about scientists freeing a giant conquistador out of suspended animation in a rock (don’t worry about it) and then it runs around killing people in the forest. It’s your typical 50’s sci-fi horror flick… but it’s a fun episode of Rifftrax… and I’m glad they ended it with the same question that I had… Rating – 6/10 – So who DID kill those people at the beginning of the movie since the giant wasn’t released until the 2nd Act?!? July 2 – QT8: The First Eight (2019) This documentary is about Quentin Tarantino and his first eight movies (Reservoir Dogs to Hateful Eight) as told by the actors, producers, etc. that he worked with rather than QT himself. Even as a QT fan, I found out a few things about him & the movies that I didn’t know… and I love the movies so, fun watch. There were only two things that were odd. First was they kept brining up Harvey Weinstein… and you kind of have to since his first six movies were done with Miramax & accusations involved several actresses that worked on the movies… but then they kind of just let it be as opposed to going more into it (I’m sure for legal reasons). Secondly… if there was one actor missing that I was most looking forward to hearing from… it’s Uma Thurman, and she was not part of the documentary. Her perspective on Pulp Fiction & collaborating with Quentin on Kill Bill and their relationship in general would have been intriguing to know more about but… the documentary also mentioned something that I didn’t know about her doing her own driving stunt during Kill Bill & giving her permanent head & back pain… so I can see why maybe she passed. Still though… intriguing… Rating – 9/10 – Just a few things left out but overall a very interesting watch for a film nerd July 3 – Inconceivable (2017) Nic Cage & Gina Gershon back together again twenty years after being weirdly close brother & sister in “Face/Off” and now… they’re a married couple trying to have a baby. Well, they stumble upon to the perfect nanny… and decide they’d like her to be a surrogate… but then they find out that she’s not who she claims to be… and hijinx ensue. We picked this movie for our 400th Episode of the podcast (Everything I Learned From Movies, in case you didn’t know) so please check it out there… but yeah, this movie is nuts… Rating - ???/10 – History of Bad Ideas joins us to talk about it!!! July 4 – John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Dog widower John Wick (Keanu) is back and on a killing spree as ALL THE ASSASSINS are after him now… and he has to do the thing to get the guy who does the things… look, I enjoy the John Wick movies… but they’re not great. Starting with the end of the 2nd one I realized it was a bunch of “honor among assassins” BS but there’s really no honor involved so it’s just JW vs. the World… and maybe he has friends that join him for a few minutes then try to kill him the next… but great action. This installment in damn near three full hours… and that’s not necessary… but thankfully a large portion of it is CRAZY F&F level action mixed with R-rated head blasting. Rating – 9/10 – The Arc d’Triomphe action scene was nuts… but they all are… the story just lacks a bit See y'all next week! Steve
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Steve and Izzy are the hosts behind the EILFM podcast, are BJCP beer judges and have terrible to questionable taste in movies. Along with the PodCats Pickles, Cameron and Poe they will justify why these movies are amazing Archives
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