What movies have you seen recently?

Post Reply New Topic

Home Fries

Pulp Fiction, I've seen it before, but god damn is it good. My roommates are obsessed with Tarantino so I get my weekly dose of his movies.

I guess I'm biased; I absolutely adore 'Night of the Creeps'. It's not for everyone, but I love it as a campy send-up of 1950s B-movies, and Tom Atkins is hysterical as Detective Cameron, one of my favorite movie characters of the '80s. Fred Dekker, the writer-director of 'NotC', later went on to do 'The Monster Squad', which I'd suggest checking out since it's bit more fast-paced.

I started out as an intern doing everything from filling mail-orders and menial office work before eventually graduating into a vague, untitled desk job where I was primarily booking theaters to play our films (this was in 2008, when 'Poultrygeist' came out), screening submitted films for distribution, occasionally designing a DVD menu and various odds and ends, plus I was a one-time volunteer coordinator for the TromaDance film festival in Utah before they sadly moved it to New Jersey. Unfortunately, I didn't work on any movies; it was an office job. Sort of. They actually never hired me from my internship, and working for free eventually meant I couldn't afford to live in New York for much longer, so back I went to California.

In all honesty, if I had the opportunity, I'd give thought to moving back out and working there again (if they pay me). I would absolutely fly out to NY to work on one of their movies; I almost did for 'Return to the Class of Nuke 'em High', even made flight arrangements, but I had to back out at the last minute due to health concerns and it was easily the most devastating moment of my life.



I consider Troma the punk rock of cinema: they're loud, fast and in-your-face, they play by their own set of rules and they don't care who they offend. However, they're also admirable champions of independent film and go out of their way to support young filmmakers in getting their first break and getting their movies distribution (of note, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' writer/director James Gunn and the 'South Park' guys both made their first movies with Troma), so it's not all just goofiness. I think they're kind of underrated in that aspect.

Most everybody is going to point to the first 'Toxic Avenger' as the starting point since that's the company's most popular film and I'd agree with them, but I'd also suggest 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead' simply because I think it's a legitimately good and intentionally funny film. It all depends on how well you can stomach low production quality, questionable acting and graphic gore and violence. They're very much movies just for weirdo cult aficionados like myself...it's definitely not for everyone.

I watched it with someone who was familiar with the book and they made it known how it deviated from the book. Maybe I'll start reading it in a while, got to get through what I'm reading right now. I also did read the Hitchhikers series a lot so this kind of stuff is right up my alley.

Sounds like a cool experience. It's a shame you didn't get hired, or get to work on Nuke 'em 2. I'd love to help with their movies, but then I'd be happy to scrub their toilets (if they paid me).

I saw Monster Squad as a kid (in the theatre) and loved it. A friend gave me a used VHS of it a few years ago, but I don't have a working VCR, so I haven't been able to watch it.

I rented Luther the Geek on Amazon several months ago and had fun watching it (again). I actually saw it for the first time back in '98.

Love my TOX BOX, too.

Fresh Horses

Selma, from the other day. Fantastic biopic, recommended it to my family and they loved it. They've learned to trust my recommendations now.

'Nuke 'em Four', actually. People like to forget the two sequels, but I'm in the minority who absolutely loved them.

Outside of the obvious Lloyd Kaufman-directed films like 'Toxie' or 'Nuke 'em High', I've seen a good 90% of the Troma library from the earliest pick-ups to 2008, and it really is a mixed bag of quality. You take a gamble on practically every film: sometimes you wind up with legitimately good films like 'Combat Shock', or really fun camp fests like 'Frostbiter' and 'Teenage Catgirls in Heat', or laughably bad fare like 'Outlaw Prophet', or horrendously bad movies like 'Actium Maximus: War of the Alien Dinosaurs', but a good bulk of it is pretty boring and unremarkable. As an aspiring filmmaker myself, I still have a lot of respect for what Troma does: 99.9% of video companies aren't going to touch movies with titles like 'A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell', so I'm glad there's at least someone who will.

Macbeth

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth taking place in the ganglands of Melbourne.

Saw American Sniper last weekend.

I just saw American Sniper too it was really good.
Directed by Clint Eastwood who calls Obama an empty chair.

I thought he believed the empty chair was Obama.

Anastasia

Yul Brynner seeks to pass off a young woman as Anastasia, the daughter of slain Czar Nicholas II.

Annabelle

In connection to The Conjuring, a couple begins to experience supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll.