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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
I don't care that much for Dolllman, but I had to give it to Thomerson for his performance. My favored fllms as a gentleman of discernment and taste featuring Tim Thomerson would includ Pyun's Nemesis, Trancers and Zone Troopers (a movie I would be curious to see the guys cover).


Thomerson really lands his performance, managing to portray essentially the distilled essence of every hard-nosed, cigar-chomping "Sarge" character from the pulpiest WW2 media.
 
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I don't care that much for Dolllman, but I had to give it to Thomerson for his performance. My favored fllms as a gentleman of discernment and taste featuring Tim Thomerson would includ Pyun's Nemesis, Trancers and Zone Troopers (a movie I would be curious to see the guys cover).

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Thomerson really lands his performance, managing to portray essentially the distilled essence of every hard-nosed, cigar-chomping "Sarge" character from the pulpiest WW2 media.
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Zone Troopers is almost too good to be a Charles Band movie, they'd have a fun time with it.
 
I noticed that they didn't mention that the killer's wife in Trap was in Star Trek: Picard, but I think they hated it so much that they don't even want to acknowledge the presence of an actor from that show.
 
A couple of years ago, I watched the previous film of the "I Saw the TV Glow" director. I'll repost the review here:
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I just watched Let's All Go to the World's Fair (2021), solely because Michael J. Rogers is in it and I really liked his performance in Beyond the Black Rainbow. I knew zero about it otherwise.

Early on it was clear I was watching a micro-budget, "nothing is actually going to happen" indie film, but I couldn't have been prepared for how little happened. The movie is, to it's credit, very effective at illustrating the dysfunction of lonely and isolated people who live too much of their lives online in hyper-niche communities, and there are stretches of the film that are totally watchable due to solid direction and pacing. But around halfway through I lost interest (despite a an engaging debut performance by the main actress), and by the end I actually kind of hated the movie (and myself) for wasting my time.

Then I found out the director is a tranny/genderspecial, and I realized I really shouldn't have bothered. Not recommended. It's not even really a horror film.
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After hearing Jay say this movie is about "the trans experience," I want to see it even less. The director seems like a typical troon: too self-obsessed and navel-gazing to focus on anything but troonery.

It's disappointing, because the director isn't without talent. His first film, a much as I disliked it, had memorable scenes and imagery, and the tone he achieved was often effective. But, alas, he can't help but troon it all up. They are always their own worst enemies.

Similarly, hearing The Substance associated with the nauseating phrase "the male gaze" makes me not want to bother with that, either.
 
frozen_runner said:
A couple of years ago, I watched the previous film of the "I Saw the TV Glow" director. I'll repost the review here:

After hearing Jay say this movie is about "the trans experience," I want to see it even less. The director seems like a typical troon: too self-obsessed and navel-gazing to focus on anything but troonery.

It's disappointing, because the director isn't without talent. His first film, a much as I disliked it, had memorable scenes and imagery, and the tone he achieved was often effective. But, alas, he can't help but troon it all up. They are always their own worst enemies.

Similarly, hearing The Substance associated with the nauseating phrase "the male gaze" makes me not want to bother with that, either.
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I thought it was so-so and that if you're a fan of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, BtVS, and King Missile's Detachable Penis, you might also like it. Funnily enough, when I originally wrote that, I had no idea it was a troon-flick.
 
I saw a trailer for I Saw the TV Glow and it looked like every tumblr/pinterest gif compliation ever. I can understand older people thinking it's pretty, but it's more obnoxious if you're used to seeing pretentious artsy gifs of rain with neon signs in the background.
 
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Similarly, hearing The Substance associated with the nauseating phrase "the male gaze" makes me not want to bother with that, either.
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If Substance had balls, they would not have hired Demi Moore and instead hired a real life body horror show like Cher, a woman whose vanity let her completely destroy what looks she had (and she was great in Altman's Jimmy Dean and Jewison's Moonstruck).

I liked it, it's worth a watch, but its message is something a teenager could come up with. Cronenberg did it better with Julianne Moore's character in Maps to the Stars, mainly because in that Hollywood was an effect of people's arrogance rather than the cause.
 
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The Substance shows that crazy feminists can make good movies but this woman came from France, not Hollywood.
They really need to choose their ideologues better over there in LA.
 
I only watch them to be entertained, really, so I might have been retarded in thinking that they would not give such shit takes on all of the movies in their horror roundup. Gay rant incoming.

I watched A Quiet Place: Day One. It is tear-bait, nothing else. A niggress has cancer and a poor kitty cat to take care of in the apocalypse? A poor little baby child stalker man who is just too good for this world decides to get stuck to her like a lost puppy? ALL THEY WANT IS SOME PIZZA? I wanted to walk out so bad that I genuinely would have if I were not there with other people.

I will never watch I Saw the TV Glow. I just noticed that it made all of the worst and gayest homosex-havers come out of the woodwork and start jacking each other off in the comments.

I saw the The Substance. I can appreciate that it tried something. The cinematography was nice (when they were not forcing you to stare at an ass for 5 minutes straight), and I appreciated the special effects. However, it had the depth of a puddle of spit. It had so little that it was frankly offensive. Vain wemon is vain and that is not good? FOR ALMOST TWO AND A HALF HOURS? Thanks, give me a refund. Also, the entire time you are treated like a complete idiot - you have pieces of information beaten into your head over and over again. Character says x, two minutes later someone repeats that character said x, five minutes later - here is that character saying x in real-time! It leaves the same sort of taste in your mouth as the hypersexuality of it all - one of being treated like a slobbering retard. Subtlety makes for good cinema because it leaves it up to the viewer to spot and infer things; having it beaten into you makes for boring schlock. How Jay managed to find it funny legit hurts my head. Also Qualley is ugly and completely unconvincing in her role; typical nepo baby shit.

They should have just said that Strange Darling is the only horror movie that has come out in years and kept it at that.
 
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