What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I watched Deadpool 2 on Wednesday and loved it.

For those who have seen it, did you notice the cameo by Stan Lee? I didn't

Apparently it's a real 'blink-and-you-miss-it' thing

Unlike the other Marvel films, where Stan has a moving and speaking role, 'Deadpool 2' features him

SPOILER:

when Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and the rest of his X-Force buds jump out of a helicopter to parachute down onto a prison convey transporting Russell (Julian Dennison)

As Domino descends, she passes a building with a wall-sized mural of Lee’s face, painted in psychedelic colors. It whips by very quickly on the right side of the frame

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

...and was wondering if this was the first Marvel film in which he hasn't appeared, though he did have a role in one of the teaser trailers

I might be wrong, but I don't think he appears in:

• "Howard The Duck"
• "The Punisher" (1989)
• "Captain America" (1990)
• "Blade"
• "Blade II"
• "X2"
• "The Punisher" (2004)
• "Blade: Trinity"
• "Elektra"
• "Man-Thing"
• "Ghost Rider"
• "Punisher: War Zone"
• "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
• "X-Men: First Class"
• "X-Men: Days Of Future Past"
• "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance"
• "The Wolverine"

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

KILLER NERD – A Troma film / pick-up starring “genuine nerd” Toby Radloff, who some may know as Harvey Pekar’s buddy from various ‘comix’ back in the day. Radloff plays, well, pretty much himself going by his overall ‘media aesthetic’, although I imagine he stops short of murder IRL. Yes, Toby is a downtrodden nerd who gets angry, then gets even in this early nineties probably-shot-on-video exercise in deliberate bad taste. It’s no John Waters flick, but it may win some over with its smart-dumb overstylised woodenness, which has all the blank allure of a badly made industrial training video. There’s a good bit where Toby dresses as a baby, then ties up and tortures his mother! I liked it, even though I think ninety percent of comedy horror sucks.

TERROR – NJ Warren doing a Suspiria rip and coming up a bit short, maybe. It’s still pretty good. I’ve seen it two or three times in the past, and liked it better on previous viewings. Dunno what to say about the ‘plot’ – there’s a house with a curse involving a 17th cent witch, a latter day film director and a bunch of stuff happening that doesn’t really join up. A challenging stripper does her act in a bar that looks like the kind of place where people just sit around eating fish and chips until they go home (i.e it's not particularly edgy or sleazy), things go a bit ‘horror’ when a window semi-decapitates someone whilst things move around in the background, and over in the studio some softcore porn people introduce a vibe of ‘Confessions Of…’ era Britain. In fact, ‘Terror’ probably works best now as exactly that kind of nostalgia piece, as its tawdry seventies Englishness is unforced, true and drably loveable, whereas the tendency towards coloured lighting doesn’t really elevate it to the heights of Euro-goth.

BRAIN DAMAGE – BD grows on me every time I see it. It’s always been a fave, but I see it now as a mini-masterpiece that splices together so many of the things that fascinate and captivate me – stylised depictions of NYC shittiness 70s / 80s, movie psychedelia, that whole carny / exploitation vibe of flicks twenty or thirty years older than it, Zarcherle, brain eating parasites, threesomes with suckers… so many great scenes, I mean how inspired do you have to be to conceive of a blow-job lobotomy at a Swimming Pool Q’s gig? And Elmer / Aylmar totally makes it. Just great, really - nothing more to add beyond “come back, Frank!"

As always ....

BD & Terror are firm favourites here

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

That was something I obviously missed and will probably see when I watch the second time. I guess I didn't notice because I was expecting a speaking part similar to the first and other recent MCU movies and was surprised when there wasn't one.

As for the other films, I was more referring to the recent MCU ones (Iron Man onwards) rather than films from several decades ago (I know he's appeared in animated films during the 1990s), but thanks for the info anyway. I did read he had been unwell with pneumonia, so perhaps wasn't well enough to do a full day's shooting after the teaser trailer had been completed; he's well enough to do short videos to fans on Twitter at the moment, so it seems he's nearly back to full health.

[Dave Boy]

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The live feed from the Royal Albert Hall featured music from the Glen Miller Band, various family members of Barnes Wallis and Director Michael Anderson and archive footage.
The BBFC have decided to raise the cert to PG from U cert due to the racist language.
Film looked great and looked like the 1.71:1 ratio.
Nice to see the film on the big screen. You have to savour these big screen one night only showings of these classics because chances are they will never come around again.
Cinema was sold out. What was good was that there were some young kids and teenagers in there with the parents. One girl had a flying jacket on.
There ARE kids out there that remember and like to see these films.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dude, Where's My Car? (2001)

Noticing Nosferatu had bought this yesterday i decided to dig my copy out again for what was i think a fourth watch.

The film stars Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott two pretty hopeless fellas, and their efforts to piece together the night before in order to find Kutcher's car.

The plot, such as it is, takes in many a ridiculous turn with the introduction of a transsexual stripper and pvc clad aliens (Both male and female) but still finds itself stretched thin even with it's slight 80 min run time.

To be honest you'll know within the first five minutes if this film is for you. It's certainly silly, but not over crude like some films of this ilk are and both Kutcher and Scott remain likable throughout. Hell, there are even one or two laugh out loud jokes, in particular when the guys discover they both have tattoos adorning their backs.

All in all i think Dude, Where's My Car? is a fun but dumb movie with the odd moment of genius.

I bet Nosferatu hates it with a vengeance.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Shit!

From The Dam Busters to Dude, Where's My Car?

Talk about lowering the tone of the forum.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Dude, Where's My Car? (2001)

Noticing Nosferatu had bought this yesterday i decided to dig my copy out again for what was i think a fourth watch.

All in all i think Dude, Where's My Car? is a fun but dumb movie with the odd moment of genius.

I bet Nosferatu hates it with a vengeance.

To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen it, but I don't know why because I remember finding the trailer quite funny. It's a film I've just found on Sky, Netflix, Prime Video or cheap when browsing until now, so I'll let you know what I think when I get around to watching it.

How much I laugh and whether I love all of the characters will probably depend on my mood at the time!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Shit!

From The Dam Busters to Dude, Where's My Car?

Talk about lowering the tone of the forum.

It's one of the few US comedies from the seemingly endless slew of that particular period that I actually quite like.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

It's one of the few US comedies from the seemingly endless slew of that particular period that I actually quite like.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Dude, Where's My Car? is in a set with Airheads and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, two films I remember liking but haven't seen in years, so that might have a bearing on how I feel. Certainly, thinking back to the brief discussion about Punch-Drunk Love, I would tentatively add Airheads to the (very short) list of films starring Adam Sandler that I've watched and enjoyed!