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Your Starter for 10 said:
It goes:

M3gan

M3again

MIIIgan (in III-D)

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M3gan: A N3w M3ginning

M3gan 6

M37en (with cameos by Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and a CGI R. Lee Ermey gets one of the kills)
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It's a PG-13 horror flick, guys. It knows what audience it's reaching for.
 
@Pop-Tart and I were watching Razorback, the killer boar movie from the 80s.
It's a lot better than you'd think it would be. Shit looks beyond pretty (turns out the guy who shot it did Mad Max 2)
 
The Cunting Death said:
@Pop-Tart and I were watching Razorback, the killer boar movie from the 80s.
It's a lot better than you'd think it would be. Shit looks beyond pretty (turns out the guy who shot it did Mad Max 2)
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I always like how Tarantino described it in his usual coked out stupor "This guy.... He shot a killer boar movie like Blade Runner!"

He's not wrong.
 
finally caught Evilspeak
1980 Clint Howard looks almost human while being bullied at military school. Then he finds an evil demon summoning occult lair in the basement and breaks out the school's Apple II for assistance.
sorta plods along with extended Clint Howard bullying in-between cool weird gore bits, but makes up for it totally by the way things escalate at the end to the point we get
Clint Howard flying around with a devil sword killing people while a swarm of pigs from hell eat people.
 
The Cunting Death said:
@Pop-Tart and I were watching Razorback, the killer boar movie from the 80s.
It's a lot better than you'd think it would be. Shit looks beyond pretty (turns out the guy who shot it did Mad Max 2)
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I knew when I watched Razorback I was shocked because I wasn't expecting these sort of visuals in a monster attack film.

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XYZpdq Jr. said:
there was some Aussie post-apocalyptic thing I saw, "Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds" that wasn't so hot as an Australian post-apocalyptic thing but it had a lot of pretty shots
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My favorite thing like that is the Wynona Rider movie Lost Souls. It was directed by Janusz Kamiński, who won academy awards as the cinematographer of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Lost Souls bombed and is universally considered to be garbage and will probably never even be vindicated as a "cult classic", but I'm fond of it. 4K remaster never :(
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Anyone watch the new Puppet Master movie that came out? Last one was maybe my favorite or second favorite of the whole series, I'm worried it's gonna just be shit/gonna be disappointed its not a sequel to the last one.
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Oh dear god no. Current year Full Moon has bottom of the barrel quality control. It's stunning just how bad the movies have gotten compared to Charles Band's indie years with Laserblast to the Empire era with Reanimator and From Beyond to the early Paramount years of Full Moon to the last hurrah from the late 90's to maybe mid 00's when Paramount pulled out of their deal.

Their current movies I would argue aren't really movies. They're the illusion of movies. It's just the bare minimum of what qualifies as a movie, no production value, there's nothing. I watched the last Evil Bong movie because it was on Tubi and it had Diana Prince AKA Darcy the Mail Girl in it and it offered nothing: it used two sets, one of which was a half-assed restaurant, it had no tits, no gore, no good makeup, no good jokes, just nothing. It consisted of an old dude and Diana with a bunch of hot chicks just standing around for 60 minutes (yes, the movie is 60 minutes long) and make unfunny banter until it just ends. Even some of the worst Full Moon movies like Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, Ragdoll, Totem, Subspecies 4, all of the later Puppet Master flicks aside from Littlest Reich (which was NOT made by Full Moon), Dead & Rotting, etc. Those movies at least had something passable.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Oh dear god no. Current year Full Moon has bottom of the barrel quality control. It's stunning just how bad the movies have gotten compared to Charles Band's indie years with Laserblast to the Empire era with Reanimator and From Beyond to the early Paramount years of Full Moon to the last hurrah from the late 90's to maybe mid 00's when Paramount pulled out of their deal.

Their current movies I would argue aren't really movies. They're the illusion of movies. It's just the bare minimum of what qualifies as a movie, no production value, there's nothing. I watched the last Evil Bong movie because it was on Tubi and it had Diana Prince AKA Darcy the Mail Girl in it and it offered nothing: it used two sets, one of which was a half-assed restaurant, it had no tits, no gore, no good makeup, no good jokes, just nothing. It consisted of an old dude and Diana with a bunch of hot chicks just standing around for 60 minutes (yes, the movie is 60 minutes long) and make unfunny banter until it just ends. Even some of the worst Full Moon movies like Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, Ragdoll, Totem, Subspecies 4, all of the later Puppet Master flicks aside from Littlest Reich (which was NOT made by Full Moon), Dead & Rotting, etc. Those movies at least had something passable.
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From my mercifully limited experience FM's current quality wavers up and down at least a little. It would be hard to make a worse movie than Puppet Master Legacy (way back in 2003), and the axis trilogy sort of got a little better as it went. "Better" as in 3+ sets and boobs, but still way the hell worse than the first five PMs let alone the remake. That Demonic Toys spinoff from a couple years ago is at least "almost sort of like a real movie" tier if nowhere near the good ol days. iirc even the first Evil Bong movie was just guys talking in a living room for 20+ minute stretches, can't expect much there.

New Puppet Master is on Tubi too: https://tubitv.com/movies/701998

Just under an hour running time. I'm trying to cut back on drinking so yeah I'll wait for one our esteemed colleagues to report back on it.
 
Calandrino said:
From my mercifully limited experience FM's current quality wavers up and down at least a little. It would be hard to make a worse movie than Puppet Master Legacy (way back in 2003), and the axis trilogy sort of got a little better as it went. "Better" as in 3+ sets and boobs, but still way the hell worse than the first five PMs let alone the remake. That Demonic Toys spinoff from a couple years ago is at least "almost sort of like a real movie" tier if nowhere near the good ol days. iirc even the first Evil Bong movie was just guys talking in a living room for 20+ minute stretches, can't expect much there.

New Puppet Master is on Tubi too: https://tubitv.com/movies/701998

Just under an hour running time. I'm trying to cut back on drinking so yeah I'll wait for one our esteemed colleagues to report back on it.
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It sounds like you're daring me to watch this POS.

As an aside: I kind of like the design of Doctor Death. He was probably the last "cool" looking puppet introduced in the series and they only used him once in Retro Puppet Master. I remember as a kid I emailed Full Moon support over my idea of a Doctor Death movie where he spends 20 minutes mutilating a guy's mouth and making him swallow his own severed tongue. Needless to say, they never got back to me.
 
Watched Skinamarink tonight. This movie pissed me off because I wasn't sure what it was going for. Was it going for David Lynch, Analog Horror or Paranormal Activity? All three? I don't think the movie knew what it was going for either. Here's a short summery from what I got from the story so you don't have to watch it:
It's about some kids or possibly kid. A lot of nothing happens. It other kid could have been a poltergeist/thing they didn't make it clear. They stay up late at night playing Legos watching public domain cartoons like an autistic. A lot of nothing happens. Some poltergeist/thing screws with them all night. A lot of nothing happens. The poltergeist/thing tells the kid to cut his eye in closed caption. The kid cuts off his head with a knife off camera of course. A lot of nothing happens. Eraserhead shit happens. At end the poltergeist/thing is on camera and ask what your name is. Boo!
 
BrunoMattei said:
Oh dear god no. Current year Full Moon has bottom of the barrel quality control. It's stunning just how bad the movies have gotten compared to Charles Band's indie years with Laserblast to the Empire era with Reanimator and From Beyond to the early Paramount years of Full Moon to the last hurrah from the late 90's to maybe mid 00's when Paramount pulled out of their deal.

Their current movies I would argue aren't really movies. They're the illusion of movies. It's just the bare minimum of what qualifies as a movie, no production value, there's nothing. I watched the last Evil Bong movie because it was on Tubi and it had Diana Prince AKA Darcy the Mail Girl in it and it offered nothing: it used two sets, one of which was a half-assed restaurant, it had no tits, no gore, no good makeup, no good jokes, just nothing. It consisted of an old dude and Diana with a bunch of hot chicks just standing around for 60 minutes (yes, the movie is 60 minutes long) and make unfunny banter until it just ends. Even some of the worst Full Moon movies like Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, Ragdoll, Totem, Subspecies 4, all of the later Puppet Master flicks aside from Littlest Reich (which was NOT made by Full Moon), Dead & Rotting, etc. Those movies at least had something passable.
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Full Moon recently did a Tombs of the Blind Dead movie with only one zombie and it wss filmed entirely in the daytime. Just awful and lazy.
 
Quijibo69 said:
Watched Skinamarink tonight. This movie pissed me off because I wasn't sure what it was going for. Was it going for David Lynch, Analog Horror or Paranormal Activity? All three? I don't think the movie knew what it was going for either. Here's a short summery from what I got from the story so you don't have to watch it:
It's about some kids or possibly kid. A lot of nothing happens. It other kid could have been a poltergeist/thing they didn't make it clear. They stay up late at night playing Legos watching public domain cartoons like an autistic. A lot of nothing happens. Some poltergeist/thing screws with them all night. A lot of nothing happens. The poltergeist/thing tells the kid to cut his eye in closed caption. The kid cuts off his head with a knife off camera of course. A lot of nothing happens. Eraserhead shit happens. At end the poltergeist/thing is on camera and ask what your name is. Boo!
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if you've never seen a short film padded inexpertly to feature length and always wanted to, see Skinamarink.

Also, the discourse on Reddit:

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Full Moon is in charge? Lmao fuck that shit that's why I didn't hear about it before, and imma forget it exists also.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Full Moon is in charge? Lmao fuck that shit that's why I didn't hear about it before, and imma forget it exists also.
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You didn't know the Puppet Master movies are made by Full Moon?

There were only two exceptions: Littlest Reich and the TV movie on the Sci Fi channel Puppet Master VS Demonic Toys.
 
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