What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

My favorite creature feature should also be ok. Though there are a few f bombs.

Tremors

I just watched the Honest Trailers version of Jurassic World, it touched on many of the issues Michael brings up. The one that sticks in my mind: Bryce outrunning big dino in HIGH HEELS! My gf always laughs when we see Kate Beckett do that in Castle.

I watched Critters with my son for the first time in years a few months ago and I was disappointed in how underwhelming it was. It wasn't scary nor funny enough, though the shotgun on the porch bit ("They have weapons." "So what?") is still a classic.

Mr. White wrote: My favorite creature feature should also be ok. Though there are a few f bombs.

Tremors

I've watched that one with the oldest - and it's one of my favorites - but after Silver Bullet and Abominable I'm sure his brother can handle it. We might watch it tonight.

I've been trying to make it through John Carpenter's Vampires the last couple of nights and it's been rough sledding. I keep falling asleep which is probably my brain's defense mechanism against how terrible this movie is. I've read the book it's based on, John Steakley's Vampire$, which is amazing, but this is garbage with poorly-written profanity shoehorned into the script at every turn. Neither James Woods nor Daniel Baldwin are any good and I still have an hour(!) left. Ugh...

Speaking of dropped threads in Jurassic World, I was disappointed that the idea of I-Rex being socially stunted was immediately dropped as soon as it broke out of its pen. There was an opportunity to make the I-Rex into a semi-tragic character that has gone crazy and is emotionally damaged from being raised in solitude since birth, but after it's out it was just another monster rampage.

Tremors is an okay movie. A pleasant way to pass time. I like that there is an internal logic to the situation that the heroes can figure out. I also liked the speculation about the origin of the monsters without coming to any particular conclusion. The characters were all borderline annoying but seemed like real people.

John Carpenter's Vampire$ was disappointing. I even paid to see it in the theater, a few years after I read the book. The book was okay, but had some interesting ideas. The movie retained a couple of those ideas but mostly followed typical vampire hunter cliches. Mainly I remember the movie for the hard-partying motel scene early on.

That scene in Tremors where Michael Gross and his wife and panicking in their basement and then they move off camera, the camera pans with them, and there's this insane wall full of weapons. That was great.

I also like the guy that climbed the power tower and died there, not wanting to touch the ground.

Cool movie.

I can't believe how many of them they've made. I channel flipped past one the other day and one of the creatures looked like it had wings or something. Looked like a big chicken thing, not scary

Took the kids to see Goosebumps last night. All I can say is it's a kid's movie, but by far not the worst I've seen. I was never saying "man I wish this would end". If it didn't have Jack Black in it, it would have been unwatchable. But as a rule, I hate kids' movies. At least it had a werewolf in it.

Just saw Jurrasic World. I rate it a solid mehven.

It's basically the same premise as the original film, but less interesting, with worse special effects.

Umm.... Jurassic World didn't have worse special effects. The dinosaurs look as good or better than they ever did. They would have to TRY to have worse effects. It's not possible.

The CG was less believable than the puppets or whatever they used for Jurassic Park.

I finally got to watching Jodorowsky's Dune. Fascinating story for sure, and I feel the movie does its best to give you an idea as to what thing thing would been like. Jodorowsky's passion is still evident today, 40 years after the fact, and even though it certainly wouldn't have been Dune, it's easy to be swept up in his vision. There's a bit with him where he really expresses his frustration over the movie not being made and it is absolutely powerful. But then the film goes on to explain what the pop culture landscape might have looked like if it had been made. A world without Star Wars, Alien or Blade Runner? That's practically the holy trinity to me, I'm not sure that's a world I'd want to live in.

Josh Look wrote: I finally got to watching Jodorowsky's Dune. Fascinating story for sure, and I feel the movie does its best to give you an idea as to what thing thing would been like. Jodorowsky's passion is still evident today, 40 years after the fact, and even though it certainly wouldn't have been Dune, it's easy to be swept up in his vision. There's a bit with him where he really expresses his frustration over the movie not being made and it is absolutely powerful. But then the film goes on to explain what the pop culture landscape might have looked like if it had been made. A world without Star Wars, Alien or Blade Runner? That's practically the holy trinity to me, I'm not sure that's a world I'd want to live in.

The documentary certainly made a good argument about Jodorowsky's Dune storyboard influencing the scenes of many scifi movies that followed with those side-by-side comparisons.

Jodorowsky's Dune is the genesis of modern science fiction filmmaking. Whether it was made or not. He was channeling something in the aether.

Watched Bone Tomahawk...it was really quite good, I think most folks here that can stomach some grisly violence will enjoy it. It's very much a character-driven Western in no small part influenced by The Searchers with Kurt Russell in the lead role as sheriff of a small frontier town. Matthew Fox in an unexpectedly good role as a dandy with a shady past. Patrick Wilson as an actual cowboy. It has a stately, measured pace that is no hurry to get where it's going and it spends plenty of time on scenes with stylized dialogue to develop the characters.

However, it is totally a horror movie. Won't go into spoilers, but I think Tom Chick said it best that these four characters "descend" from a Western film into a horror film. There's not a whole lot of gruesome stuff, but when it hits, it hits HARD because it's reserved. It goes a little over the top, I think, but the impact is quite harsh. Some really well done terror sequences.

It's definitely indebted to some of the weirder, more fringe Eurowesterns (like Massacre Time or Four of the Apocalypse), but it's far better written and produced.

Also, the director somehow managed to wrangle Sid Haig and Sean Young into the same picture.

A little while ago, I watched The Deadlands on Netflix. It's pretty cool. It's kind of a revenge story set with Maori tribes. Definitely a bit different than your typical action movie.

Last week I saw Dear Zachary. Don't watch it.

Terminator Genisys was so awful they should have just called it Not Another Terminator Movie. Franchise is officially dead to me now.

it was playing for free on the airplane the other day and I chose to watch a House of Cards episode instead, along with the first 10 minutes of American Sniper.

And I crush on Emily Clarke as much as the next guy and everything, but I still can't bring myself to sit through that.