Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

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Right now they have all 5 or 6 of the Resident Evil movies on Tubi, which is a free streaming app, totally free - (insert offensive chinese accent here) you no pay no moneys, white man.

Wouldn't...uh... recommend it though. Ya see, I add shit like this to my "to watch" list on there late at night when I'm about to fall asleep and I'm not thinking too clearly about how much things like Resident Evil movies fucking SUUUUUUUUUCK. And then I start watching the first one, and maybe the second one, and then I feel somehow obligated to soldier on through the rest of the awful anthology,... much like I did with a series of shitty Don "The Dragon" Wilson movies a year or two ago (can't even remember the name of them now, American Kickboxer 1-7 or something maybe, barf, it was so bad).

I remember that I saw the first Resident Evil movie in the theater when it came out back in 2002 I guess it was. Back then, I was going to the movies probably once or twice a week with my then girlfriend. And the first one wasn't absolutely horrible. It wasn't good either. But I swear man, I don't understand how they made 6 of these fuckin' things. They're so bad, much like EVERY movie that was based on a video game. Even the Max Payne movie that had the star power of Mark Wahlberg in it... wasn't enough to make that movie worth watching more than once.

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Some quotes from various Tastyspleeners about Bill Cosby from before the fall...

From Jagermonsta:

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

From Reaper (referencing the standup comedy movie Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

bill cosby on dentists was really good.  ...

From PeeWee who I remember used to say he was a fan of Bill Cosby (also referencing Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

"I brought you into this damn world, and I can take you out." 

"...and I can make another one that looks just like you"

You're dad was Bill Cosby? 

Okay... Bill Cosby.



Obviously I don't condone the actions of a person who drugs people and then has sex with them while they are unconscious. And apparently PLENTY of women came forward to make such similar accusations against him. Did he do it? If I'm being honest, I don't really know. However, I do know that several people have been unfairly accused and unfairly treated by the "MeToo" movement. It was 60 women who said he assaulted them. Sounds bad. So on one hand... part of me wonders how in the hell such a thing could happen SIXTY TIMES and stay under the radar. But at the same time, on the other hand, there ARE 60 accusers - that seems like too many to not be true.

Wikipedia as of today says:

In 2018, he was convicted of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand. He was imprisoned until the conviction was vacated in June 2021 by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for violations of Cosby's 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process rights.

Personally, my verdict?

Eh, I dunno. The law did him kinda dirty, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court acknowledges that. Then again... there's a good possibility he's a fucking deviant rapist piece of shit.

All I DO know is that regardless of what the man did or didn't do, Bill Cosby Himself was and still is (in my opinion) one of the best standup comedy films/specials of all time. My parents taped it off of HBO back in the 80's and I used to watch that tape a lot. It was family friendly and funny, and with all the stuff about drunks and dentists and raising children, it still stands as relevant humor after 40 years.

Last time I had seen it was sometime back in the 90's. Downloaded it from youtube and watched it. Laughed my ass off!

No thanks to Youtubes blatant disregard for copyright laws and Bill Cosby's rights as a person after he becomes a prime target of the virtue signaling and MeToo movements... Bill Cosby Himself was easily available on Youtube for free.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymUYO4T_ZjQ

On one hand, it's shitty that Youtube seems to NOT GIVE A SHIT that they're complicit in the distribution (for the last 8 years according to the date of the video upload) of copyrighted material they haven't paid to license at all.

On the other hand, I'm glad this is on Youtube and Bill Cosby is not so blacklisted that they try to scrub every memory of him from history. No matter what Bill Cosby did, it doesn't negate the fact that he made one of the greatest standup specials of all time. Most comedians watched it and it greatly influenced them to want to become a comedian. But few of them are still willing to give him credit for it. Yeah well... OJ Simpson slaughtered two people. That fact doesn't delete the OTHER fact that he was one of the greatest runningbacks in NFL history.

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October is horror movie marathon month for me. I've downloaded probably 60 or more movies to watch. I won't list them all but here's some of them:

• Blood Diner (1987) a cheesy 80's horror/comedy, somewhat of a cult classic now
• Brides of Dracula (1960) starring Peter Cushing
• The Changeling (1980)  starring George C Scott
• Curse of Frankenstein (1957) starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) a George Romero zombie classic, they did a great remake in 2004 with Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames
• The Dead Zone (1983) starring Christopher Walken, based on a Stephen King book
• Dracula AD 1972 (1972) starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
• Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) starring Christopher Lee (dude was in a lotta Dracula movies, lol)
• Dracula's Daughter (1936) starring... no one noteworthy really. Supposed to be the sequel to Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi.
• The Dunwich Horror (1970) starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell, based on the HP Lovecraft short story
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) starring Vincent Price
• Girls School Screamers (1986) a cheesy 80's Troma slasher/horror film
• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) cheesy slasher/comedy with B-movie scream queens Linnea Quigley and Michelle Bauer
• House of Dracula (1945) starring Lon Cheney Jr as Wolfman and John Carradine as Dracula
• House on Haunted Hill (1959) starring Vincent Price
• The House That Screamed (1969) some old Spanish-made English dialogue slasher film, 60's drive-in horror movie
• Housebound (2014) some kinda horror/comedy movie, I saw that Quadz recommended it once, figured I'd give it a whirl.
• Motel Hell (1980) another cheesy 80's horror/comedy
• Night of the Comet (1984) cult classic 80's sci-fi/horror/zombie apocalypse flick that takes place mostly in a mall
• Phantom of the Opera (1925) famous silent film starring Lon Cheney Sr.
• The Plague of the Zombies (1966) Brit-made 60's Hammer film. Around '66 was shown at theaters as a double-feature along with Dracula: Prince of Darkness (mentioned earlier).
• Psycho (1960) classic thriller/horror about a weird guy who runs an out of the way motel, one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest movies.
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) yet another Dracula movie with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
• The Shining (1980) psychological thriller/horror starring Jack Nicholson, based on a Stephen King book, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
• Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) yes, another Dracula movie with Christopher Lee.
• The Thing (1982) sci-fi/horror about a strange extra-terrestrial life form that kills them one by one at an Antarctica science lab. Starring Kurt Russell and Keith David, directed by John Carpenter.
• The Undertaker (1988) obscure slasher film, was unreleased until 2010, starring Joe Spinell (best known for playing Corleone hitman Willi Cicci in the Godfather and Godfather II)
• Vampyr (1932) old black & white 1930's German-made vampire movie... if you couldn't tell from the title. No idea what it's about, will be the first time I've ever seen it. Watch it here.
• Waxwork (1988) Never seen it before, something about a wax museum, starring Zach Galligan (best known for playing Billy in Gremlins), directed by Anthony Hickox (also directed Hellraiser III and Warlock 2: Armageddon)

Currently re-watching the "new" Halloween trilogy:
Halloween (2018),
Halloween Kills (2021),
Halloween Ends (2022).

I've seen the first 2 before. This will be the first time watching Halloween Ends - didn't get a chance to see it last year. I'm not too crazy about the first two new Halloween movies. They're brutal enough, they have plenty of blood and stuff. They just feel kinda weird. I don't think Blumhouse was the right company to do it. All their previous stuff has been a bunch of hokey friday-night teenage date movie bullshit.

Halloween Kills - And spoiler alert here maybe but (not that it's hard to guess what happens in this movie)... I'd give it an 8 out of 10 just because Michael kills the fuck out of EVERYBODY by the end of it, and it's nice to see the bad guy win in glorious gory fashion when the other characters are stupid hokey Blumhouse style characters. But to seriously rate it as a slasher film on the basis of it's individual merits? Eh, maybe more like a 5 - nothing special about it at all.

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Curse of Frankenstein (1957) starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Was watching this earlier tonight. I'm perplexed as to how in the hell they managed to shoot this particular scene where Baron Frankenstein murders his houseguest by pushing him through a broken rail. I can't tell if it's a stand-in stuntman who lands on the floor below, but it shows most of his face. Regardless, the guy falls in a dive pretty much directly onto the TOP OF HIS HEAD, which would've turned his head sideways very sharply risking breaking his neck. This was 1957, there was no CGI or wires, some guy actually took the fall. Dunno how they did it, but damn, it's pretty brutal. Certainly makes the scene more shocking.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz95zAuY5OU

found this:

https://www.spookyisles.com/curse-of-frankenstein-facts/

7.) No pain, no brain…

The stunt double for Professor Bernstein was mildly injured during the scene in which Frankenstein pushes him over the balcony so that he can kill him and steal his brain. The stunt was rigged so that the stunt double would land on a padded area, which he did… except for his head, which hit the floor.

Now that I watch it again, I notice the floor warping from the padding underneath the covering when he hits.

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It looks like he under-rotated. The stuntman was probably supposed to land on his back but didn't dive with enough momentum to rotate him through the the 270 degrees needed. Gives taking a header a whole new meaning. Lots of stunt people were injured doing these kinds of things. It was probably the one and only take.

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Watched Poltergeist 1 and 2 earlier this week. Didn't watch the 3rd one. I don't really like the 3rd one - the plot and premise doesn't fit as well with the other 2.

Poltergeist 2 is one of my favorite horror movies. It was rated PG-13, so I got to watch it on HBO a lot during the day in the late 80's and early 90's (HBO kept their family appeal because they wouldn't start playing any rated R movies until after 8pm or 9pm). It used to scare the crap out of me when I was 7 or 8 though. The scene where the sons braces start growing out of his face and suspends him from the ceiling. The part where the dad swallows the agave worm in the tequila bottle, then throws it up as a giant pulsating boogary looking demon worm with Reverend Kane's face.



And then there's Reverend Kane himself, played by the late Julian Beck. Dude was creepy as hell looking. Turns out part of what made him look so creepy and skeleton like was the fact that he was literally sickly when they were filming. He was suffering from late stage stomach cancer as they were filming in May of 1985. He ended up dying of cancer 4 months later in September 1985, before the movie was even released in May of 1986.

My favorite scene from the movie, Reverend Kane appears at the front door of grandma Freeling's house.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EhwcUzVH4U

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Anybody seen the 2022 Rob Zombie Munsters movie yet?

I downloaded it several weeks ago thinking I'd watch it. I've heard nothing but bad reviews about it. The longer I sat there looking at the file in the folder, the more skeptical of it I became. I did a brief skim through of a few scenes and from what I saw... it looked to be just like everyone's been saying: a pile of pointlessness. Think I'll probably skip this one and just delete it... which is sad, because I've seen some truly awful garbage this year that I didn't skip/delete and should've!

Just wondering if anyone's seen it all the way through. Opinions and critiques? Recommend, yea or nay?

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I sometimes browse through stuff on youtube through the tv app at bedtime. Here lately, I've been turning on these ambient rain sound videos to help me sleep. Came across something similar - a Bladerunner themed video with various pictures of the city from Bladerunner while it's raining, with rain sounds mixed with what I suppose is the music score from the film. And that one led me to this one: Floyd Runner Radio - a bunch of ambient type music similar to Bladerunner, with similar synth sounds to Pink Floyd during the Wish You Were Here period. Not sure if this is AI generated music or what, but it's nice and droney and good for mellowing down.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVh3OzdZ9SE&ab_channel=%28LUX%29-AmbientMusic

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Quirky but great old spaghetti western.


https://youtu.be/w9Vfoa6rDkM

Was surprised to find it on Youtoob. There are probably better quality copies there too.

Was roaming around on YouTurd tonight and was browsing through western movies. Watched the first 5 or 6 minutes of one called The Last Wagon (1956) starring Richard Widmark. It looked interesting, so I bookmarked it for later.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSuEXXfHtO4&ab_channel=%F0%9D%95%8Atars%E2%84%82lassicsOriginals

Youtube had an "official" copy (1080p I think, with ads) of My Name is Nobody available, so I started watching that. I didn't realize it was a Sergio Leone movie. YES, pretty quirky. The beginning of the movie starts like a Sergio Leone western always does - The bad guys come rambling into to town in an long tense scene with no dialogue, they set up and confront the good guy... and then the furious lightning-fast shootout. Henry Fonda is as you'd expect - he was a decent actor, but tended to play everything pretty much the same way. Terrence Hill as "Nobody"... fuckin' goofy at times. Kinda strange for a Sergio Leone western. I know he's been in several westerns, but I've never seen them. I've mainly stuck to the more classic westerns from the 50's and early 60's, John Wayne stuff, etc. I realize I've never made much of an effort to watch more of the late 60's and early 70's spaghetti westerns.

So I went on a downloading spree tonight. Collecting up all kindsa weird shit. Already watched some of one Klaus Kinski western called "Coffin Full of Dollars". I fell asleep in the middle of it.  No loss though, it was pretty damn bad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V3VgHBGeK0&ab_channel=Grjngo-WesternMovies

I got some other movies with Terrence Hill (like the Trinity movies, Django, others) a bunch with Lee Van Cleef (like the Sabata movies), some with Klaus Kinski, a few of the "Sartana" movies (I forget who plays in them). I knew there were a lot of italian westerns, but hopefully the majority of them aren't as bad as the Klaus Kinski Coffin Full of Dollars one. My god, the theme song for it they play in the opening and closing credits is sooooo bad.

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My Name is Nobody - Great movie. I saw it in '73 when I was 18 years old. Took the GF who just didn't get Westerns. I think this movie was one where they all got together and said "Let's have fun with it.", because it sure was a fun one and now that I am older and ready to retire I understand Beauregard much better. I really liked Morricone's score, especially the Ride of the Valkyrie segment in the desert. I wonder if this was the original telling of the little bird in the cow pie fable or whether Sergio Leone merely wrote it into the script from somewhere else. So much different a story than Once Upon a Time in the West that preceded it. I think spaghetti westerns had run their course by the time this movie was made.

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Like I said in that last post, I downloaded a whole slew of westerns - Been doing a western marathon lately.

My Name is Nobody - Great movie.

I watched both of the Trinity movies with Terrence Hill, "They Call Me Trinity" and "Trinity is Still My Name". I actually liked both of those better than My Name is Nobody. Nobody was just kinda odd with Henry Fonda in it. The Trinity movies had a lot more of a comedy feel to them. The big brawl with the mormons at the end kinda felt like they didn't know how to end the movie... which is kinda the same situation Mel Brooks was in at the end of Blazing Saddles too. Similar endings.

Watched all 5 of the Sartana movies. They weren't very good.

Watched all 3 of the Sabata movies. Lee Van Cleef is always good in a western, but the stories were a little thin in parts. Sabata was styled as more of a rambling card shark and so he used a little pocket pistol... but so did Sartana... and so did several other characters from other spaghetti westerns. Yes, "It's just a movie", but it's still weird that they are "gunfighter" movies and they always use tiny little 22 caliber pocket pistols to shoot everyone from farther away with pinpoint accuracy.

One I hadn't seen before:
Duck, You Sucker (1971) with Rod Steiger and James Coburn. Rod Steiger plays a mexican bandit (Rod Steiger as a mexican, lol - he talks like Tony Montana), and James Coburn plays an Irish IRA dynamite-freak (also with an awkward Irish accent). Despite that... it was actually a pretty good movie. Would recommend.

True Grit (1969) with John Wayne and Glen Campbell. Really good classic western, one of my favorites, seen it many times. But...

Rooster Cogburn (1972) with John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn. Sort of a sequel to True Grit. Was the first time I've seen it. I like the Rooster Cogburn character and how Wayne played it, but the story was way too similar to True Grit. And I DON'T LIKE KATHERINE HEPBURN. I don't know if she was ever good in anything from back in the 40's when she was at her peak of fame, but she was a terrible choice for this movie. I get that they wanted some cantankerous older woman to mirror Cogburn, but I think they could've found someone much better.

When I searched "spaghetti westerns", Google seemed to highly recommend a Klaus Kinski one called "The Great Silence" (1968). A very "interesting" one, but I'm still not sure if I'd call it "good". The good guy, a mute (thus the title) played by Jean Louis Trintignant - some french guy I think, not familiar with him. Kinski plays the bad guy, a bounty killer. Spoiler alert but... the bad guy lures the good guy into a showdown by holding about 30 people hostage in a bar. The good guy shows up, the bad guy kills him deader than hell, then the bad guy and his gang murder everyone in the bar. And then the movie ends. And you're like, "....what the hell did I just watch?" Because in every other western, the mysterious hero wins the day... but in this one, the bad guy wins. Sometimes these Italian movies are pretty bad, but I'd put this one on par with Sergio Leone. It's well done, it's just that the story ends the wrong way. Some people might find that refreshing and unique.

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I love cartoons. Mostly the old stuff. It would be cool if there were one streaming service that had ALL of the old stuff. There's a bunch of stuff on youtube but it tends to be less than excellent quality - some of it looks to be copied to digital from a worn out VHS source... or copied to digital many years ago when visual quality wasn't as important.

Found a channel on youtube called Old Classic Cartoons with a bunch of old Disney character and Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoons, and a bunch of ComiColor ones as well.

https://www.youtube.com/OldClassicCartoons

2 from there...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M21UsdJnkBY&ab_channel=OldClassicCartoons


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmiTdM6yzs&ab_channel=OldClassicCartoons

And 1 more that I found somewhere else...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYEmL0d0lZE&ab_channel=fireurgunz

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I love cartoons.

But I don't love this one. Pretty fuckin' creepy, honestly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWi2WTqD59A&ab_channel=vson8