New Movie Night Thread - Every Friday Starting at 6ish

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this is a pretty great acid trip if it hasn't been suggested before


includes a candy version of the great mighty poo and literally hitler
 
Splendid Meat Sticks said:
Mind telling us why?
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I'm moving and can't take my internet with me. Worse yet the only provider is my new area is...Comcast.

Also there is one movie that traumatized me for a long ass time as a little kid and it was only recently when I saw the trailer for it again that I realized the movie responsible for years of nightmares was in fact this;
See when I was a little MD I used to sneak out of bed and out towards the living room. My dad loves horror movies but my mom refused to let me watch them when I was little. I even had to go to bed early sometimes just so my dad could watch them because he had work in the morning, blah blah, not important. But I would still sneak out and hide just out of sight but normally got caught. That is until my Dad watched From Beyond. I must have blocked out some shit with this movie, cause I was two-three years old but I had fucked up nightmares for a long ass time until I grew out of it. But then I'm watching some classic monster movie trailers and this comes out of the blue and hits me like a Mack truck...repressed memories come flooding back and this movie is the sole fucking culprit. I doubt it'd have the same impact nowadays, given I'm a huge horror fan, but this one movie provided me with my strong love of the horror genre...and probably lasting mental scars.
 
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For Childhood Trauma, here's one of my first forays into anime:
Back in kindergarten I had a friend who had some VHS tapes from Japan (her family lived there for a few years). Even though I didn't speak a word of Japanese I enjoyed watching those tapes whenever I visited her. One day I found this movie on the shelf:
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It looked like some cute Disney-esque movie about the adventures of an adorable little lamb. I asked my friend if we could watch it but she said it was too scary. Scary? How could something with a cover that cute be scary? She was just being a big baby. Bet she thought Bambi was scary, too. So I watched it in the TV room, alone.

Fifteen minutes later I walked out, crying and begging her mom to shut off the TV. I had nightmares about big black dicks dogs and wolves and crying toddlers for weeks afterwards, and for the longest time I was scared to be around black dogs. After that fateful afternoon I didn't hear about this movie again until 2014, when a post about it was making the rounds on Tumblr. I've since developed a morbid fascination with it.

I was really surprised to discover how faithful the American version was to the original. There's no cuts and the script is basically the same. Chirin's voice isn't quite as affecting since he sounds like an adult trying to be a kid (whereas in the original he sounds like a 2-3 year old) and the singing is a little off at times, but otherwise it's surprisingly good for an 80's dub.
 
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As long as we're showing off strange cartoons, here's the USSR's version of Winnie the Pooh. It's a lot less cheery than the American version and features wonderful sights like Piglet shooting Pooh from the sky with a hunting rifle.
 
Oh god I forgot about the world of Winnie the Pooh adaptions. I'm pretty sure there's a couple more fucked up versions, in fact I think only the Disney version we all know and love is the only sane adaption out there.
 
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If I'm able to show up this Friday, it's probably gonna be the last time I can swing on by this month - next week going on vacay and I have no idea how decent the wifi is gonna be while I'm on an island in the Pacific, throwing rocks at the Norks.

Handsome Pete said:
Screw it; it's been a while since our pretend internet party had any advertising. Use it as you wish.

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That first part was timed impeccably well. Good stuff, Pete.
 
Pardon the double post, but since no one else has added any ideas to Movie Night... here's some 'Murica goodness for ya...

Golan-Globus interpretation of Captain America, in which Cap fights an Italian Red Skull, then wakes up decades later and acts like a hobo for a long stretch of the film. I think we watched about 2/3rds of it before, but never actually completed it.

Think Big - from its IMDB page (I shit you not) - "Two somewhat r.etarded truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck."
And just in case you're not convinced yet this is quality viewing...

Ghetto Blaster - Mr. Blue Collar working man returns home to visit the fam, finds out the neighborhood has been taken over by street gangs! Thankfully he apparently also has enough military training to clean up all of LA single-handedly.

The Tower - A E S T H E T I C as fuck, fam. Paul Reiser versus what the early 90s thought was gonna be the future in AI technology, but now is pretty much Vaporware: The Movie.
 
We should watch Tron to get our big dose of the 80's and trip out.
I have this on my google drive(1.6GB) and I'll pm the link to the captain if he wants it
 
I'd love to do 80's night, but we've done one semi-recently. Computers sounds good to me though.
 
I got it. Street Racing night. Show as many of the Fast and Furious movies we can get, maybe throw in The Road Warrior and Fury Road if we can get a copy.
 
I've never done a Kiwi Farms movie night before. I might join in this Friday or the next, depending on how my schedule is.

I'm not sure if anyone has a copy of it or how we would be able to watch it, but I have a suggestion: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet from 1996, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, and Paul Sorvino. A perfect example of late 1990's ham and cheese, a rather campy film aimed at the "MTV Generation" that I still love regardless.

Barring that, we could do a zombie-themed night and watch the original versions of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its awesome sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978). I know you can watch both films in their entirety on YouTube for free in most countries.
 
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