JJJUSTEN MAKES ONE SENTENCIRIFIC REVIEWS OF ALL THE CRAP THAT HE WATCHES LATE AT NIGHT ON NETFLIX STREAMING XBOX SOMETHING WHY BECAUSE HE BORED ALSO BECAUSE

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Feast II - Mostly funny, somewhat crap, features titties for no reason, ugh that babby scene C+.

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Snuff: a documentary about killing on camera - aaaaaaaaggghhghhhghhhhhhh maybe kind of souldestroyingly well done but like a really unpleasant punch in the face B+ but i dont recommend anyone maybe actually seek this one out

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link

do you want recommendations too?? i have seen some f'd up crap thru streaming netflix

bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link

OH YES

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link

My Little Eye - kind of effective low $$$ horror movie with no suprise mediocre acting and yawwwwnnnn plot but weirdly effective despite the fact that one of your random dudes that shows up is that guy from alias and the hangover also peeps in bad situations need to get less stupid B+

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link

i just realized that Feast II is not actually streaming, I actually made the post office drive that here but i drank some gin and tonics and forgot

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link

good late night fodder: The Signal, My Little Eye, The Experiment. All those are like bloodier versions of a rehashed twilight zone/outer limits episodes.

lol xpost

bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahaa i love both of the other movies you listed too!

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link

donkeypunch has a good soundtrack, lots of naked girls, and a guy who talks like mike skinner. lord of the flies on a yacht with zero logic.

bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Shrooms - oh you are a mean spirited but well done movie, thx britishes, yer horror movies are making me happy these days A-

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah sounds like you've exhausted what I've found! i will have to check out shrooms

bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist - you were unwatchable after/during the first 15 minutes F-

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link

btw i am not a time traveler, i am accessing my terrible late night decisions over several months

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Supidity (the documentary) - you entertained me for a while, but hey i am not actually stupid so your cheap logic tricks started to pale quickly, also noam chomsky should get a better agent D+

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Hey look, John's not dead!

Sara R-C, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Baghead - totally blindsided me, v v good, indie moviemaking comedy w/tiniest bit of horror elements, highly recommended A

please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Cocaine Cowboys - solid doc about the INSANE cocaine trade in miami in the late 70's - newsflash drug dealers can be bad bad people B

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link

no wai

a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link

aren't all drug dealers lovable scamps with hearts of gold who just took a wrong turn somewhere along the line

a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link

ill tell you what the "godmother" of the columbian medellin cartel is the scariest person i never knew existed.

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Dead and Breakfast - i appreciate the effort and moments of you were funny but you lose points for having the narrative structure be half bad comic book panels and half bad roots rock zombie band also too many of the wrong carradines C-

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

things i will not stoop to viewing no matter how many times instant watch suggests them:

1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2. Ace Ventura Pet Detective Jr.

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

wait, JUNIOR????????

Photo needs a Jamiroquai hat (HI DERE), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

oh yes.

here i one of the taglines they used for promotion:

"He's the burping, farting, snorting, spitting image of his dad."

WELL SIGN ME UP

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/11/24/ace-ventura-jr-trailer.jpg

WHY HELLO SEE YOU IN YOUR NIGHTMARES TONIGHT

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link

definitive proof the God exists and he really fucking hates us

Photo needs a Jamiroquai hat (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

hey that "Tripper" movie that David Arquette directed with the slasher killing neo-hippies while wearing a reagan mask? its a piece of shit. D

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link

just wanted to post here to let you all know about the existence of Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' with the Godmother

what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

ok this is a rule breaker again, but last night around 1 AM i found the netflix that had slipped into the back of the couch cushions and watched it without really bothering to check what it was first

13 Tzameti - pretty tight little thriller from a georgian director now living in france, slow to roll but when it gets going its pretty masterful, lots of that french film mojo where people act with their faces and stuff, but not enough to make you slip into a coma, hardcore tension with no gore, all in all a wicked but not mean little movie well worth watching (added note: for the love of god, dont watch the trailer first or linger on the dvd menu screen because it will ruin the key turning point in the movie because apparently execs at palm pictures are no talent fun hating swine) A-

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

I read "this is a rule breaker" and thought "no fucking way, he watched 'Ace Ventura Pet Detective Junior'"

sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahahaha

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link

i also watched an episode of cold case files about the "weepy-voiced" serial killer and discovered that he was active in STPL/MPLS in the early 80's including picking one of his victims out of mickeys and another from the hexagon bar o_O

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Didn't he end up getting his ass kicked by a prostitute?

Dan I., Thursday, 24 September 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, she beat the hell out of him with an abandoned tab bottle on the floor of his car (although he did stab her a bunch of times with a screwdriver during the process).

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link

sick puppy nursemaid duty has led to me having a whole bunch more of these i should get around to

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Man On Wire - ok i think i get the hype, pretty artful, fascinating story, a little odd that the whole thing sort of peters out and halfasses the most dramatic and compelling turn in the story but what do i know i watched saw iv three days ago by choice so who am i to judge B+

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link

1st episode of Tripping the Rift season one - ahahahahahahaaaa NO. F

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

deadgirl - this is going to be another one of those recommendations that isnt really one, i thought it was great, some weird rivers edge/brick/donnie darko/grossout horror flick blender action going on, really really mean spirited, another wonderful film designed to make you feel like people are just basically horrible and evil, dont know if anyone else should really watch it if they dont want to feel dirty and simultaneously violated and entertained, oddly wacky and slapstick in all the wrong parts, at least one (maybe both) of the leads is shockingly brilliant and will probably never get cast again. A-

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link

note: there are a bunch of unrelated movies called dead girl or deadgirl or the deadgirl, this is the most recent one AFAIK

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link

btw how is it possible that there are 3 fucking seasons of tripping the rift that show is completely shit-shoes

A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link

fall from grace - a documentary on the westboro baptist church god hates fags crew that is chilling and fucked up and terrifying, not exactly balanced, but uh these people are constitutionally protected evil so what are you going to do, however they did prompt a new username so praise jesus. A

fred phelps loves it in the poopchute googlerank outreach project (jjjusten), Monday, 5 October 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link

oh btw for those keeping score (and these numbers will get updated as time goes on):

Results 1 - 10 of about 501 for "fred phelps" poopchute

WE CAN DO BETTER

fred phelps loves it in the poopchute googlerank outreach project (jjjusten), Monday, 5 October 2009 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' with the Godmother - not nearly as interesting as the first one, maybe because i had much more information about crack in LA thx to the UNBIASED MEDIA and all, still pretty insane at points, sullied by the decision to make this more "street", pointless poorly done interstitial animation including a hilariously unwarranted PORNO CARTOON. B-

FCK R VWLS (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link

did you watch primer yet? its pretty good

bnw, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link

i saw that a few years ago and really liked it. getting pretty frustrated that there isnt a ramp up in good horror on teh streaming netflix for this whole its october deal.

FCK R VWLS (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link

speaking of which:

P2 - stalkery slasher film (the good old man chases lady trope) with some weird pacing, extreeeeeeme violence in tiny snippets, and some of the worst overacting by a villan in recent memory, oh and hey its all set in a locked parking lot so it has sort of that locked room feel except they just keep conveniently adding stuff they forgot to mention (oh did we not mention the rental car office inexplicably located within this underground garage for an office building until it helped us find something else to do with the plot oh hey whoops our bad) all of which adds up to a sort of empty meh with a few jumps and a bunch of ewwwwwwww GAAAAAHHHHH gore moments. C+

Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link

haha i just reread that abomination of run-on sentence but i am committed to the thread concept so pbbbt

Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link

That Mitchell and Webb Look Season One - totally fucking brilliant, how have i never seen this before, stupid american televisioneers. A

Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

ace ventura jr. is getting a sequel.

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 5 December 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

DUDE I LOVE EEGAH!

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't think I've laughed that hard at MST3K since... well... I don't know. Maybe "The Wild World of Batwoman" or "Manos: The Hands of Fate"

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link

im kinda obsessed with getting a high quality audio rip of the song "Vicki" from Eegah! actually.

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link

omg

if ever you find such a thing you had better let me know

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk41zSoFlDc

(skip ahead to 1:20)

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

oh no there is an entire arch hall jr album available for me to buy

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link

have you seen MST3k do "Mitchell"? because uh you should really see "Mitchell"

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link

I saw it yeeears ago, it's on my list to rescreen

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Pretty sure I need to screen or re-screen every MST3K ever, just to be sure they are all still okay. ;)

Sara R-C, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link

My kids are really excited to have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year, btw.

Sara R-C, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I just watched EEGAH yesterday

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Cropsey: one part documentary, one part creepy urban legend, 3 parts meandering amateur filmmaker wasting my goddamn time. D

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link

as a quick aside i have been netflix streaming three different episodic tv things and all of them are awesome.

Archer
Parks and Recreation
Dog Bites Man - this one in particular kinda went under the radar but oh man its pretty great

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

okay gonna check out this Dog Bites Man shenanigans because the other two are AWESOME-O

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue: ok in stark contrast to the grindhouse thing up there, this treads the same stylistic ground (to the point where i am kinda assuming they got rolled out of the same production house) but hits the mark incredibly well, if people ever wanted a totally effective primer to the evolution of american horror filmmaking this is the doc to watch, predominately safe for between the finger peeking level horror peeps (not to name any names) viewing pleasure w/o the onset of nightmares. A

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

this would be a good time to admit that I had nightmares about the soup-feeding scene in Planet Terror the night after watching it and kept looking at my wife's sleeping back and imagining all of my potential exit routes should she roll over and try to eat my face

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Cropsey was disappointing. I thought there was a germ of an interesting movie there but:
a) documentarians sticking themselves in front of the camera for no good reason = ugh
b) blair witch cheap-scare scene with no point = ugh
c) was hoping there would be more about the actual Cropsey urban legend, instead of just using it to class up what is essentially an episode of Dateline Mystery

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah dog bites man got kinda shafted by comedy central i think - it was before the rise of galifanakis so he didnt really have any star power to drive it, also the caveat 5 episodes in where they add the "only the 4 principle members of the series are aware that this is fake" just shows that audiences where too dense to realize that most of the people in the show have no idea that they are being fucked with (which leads to some totally o_O moments later on btw).

xxpost eeeek

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, that wasn't a pleasant evening

Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link

yep 2 days of being sick = lots of these on the way.

Hank and Mike: indie comedy about the easter bunny industry that follows 2 easter bunnies that fall on the wrong side of corporate downsizing and are forced to make their way in the real world and honest to god its one of the funniest and best executed comedies ive seen in a long time, nearly every line hits the mark and despite a little bit of heavy handed SOCIAL COMMENTARY that didnt really need to be there the movie as a whole is a total treat and well worth watching. A!

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link

S&Man - documentary about the super gonzo wing of the indie exploito hyper-gore horror business, toetag pictures and their ilk that is actually fairly depressing and sad, i little meandering and unfocused with a weird disconnected subplot about voyerism that makes attempts to hitch up with the matters at hand but never really does, and one particular thread (staying spoilerfree here dudes) that completely and absolutely squanders whatever good will i had for the film. C

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Dogs Decoded: Nova - hey yeah guess what i like dogs this is about dogs fairly informative dogs dogs dogs B+

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link

The Human Centipede: First Sequence - well you knew i was going to get to it eventually, the first 1/3 of this is just kinda awful because the 2 women cast should not be allowed to act or attempt to deliver lines (which lol the director does find a solution for i guess but i digress) but the bad guy doctor is fucking amazing, and once we get past the troubled girls lost in teh woods crap the movie pulls no punches, and although i get the feeling that tom six (the director) is a grade a self-promoting dick, you cant fault the way the dude works a camera, and some of the later scenes have a starkness and coldness to them that is really kind of in its own world to the point where w/o the kitsch factor part of me is pretty blown away by how good this movie almost is, but grading deflated because seriously the part where the women have speaking roles made me want to beat my head in with a wrench. B+

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link

wait, so women acting poorly is beyond the pale but removing jaws and sewing them together ass-to-face is A+ excellent movie?

you are the weirdest guy

ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link

heh it is almost enough to make me revive that "why do peeps enjoy horror" thread. lots of horror fails thx to shit acting imo, general horror stans tend to turn a blind eye because lol gore, but idk, have some standards.

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Beer Wars - fairly eye-opening doc about the beer industry, w/lots of statistical o_O moments regarding the hammerlock the big three (well now 2 i guess) have on the industry, esp the ancient and stone stupid three tier system, unfortunately the information was better than the over cutesy presentation by the film maker so its a bit of a slog at times. B-

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

The Chair - better than the box art would have you imagine, but unfortunately that doesnt mean that its really any good, low budget detached not all that scary snoozefest, i think maybe ive just seen all the possessed by murderer films i need for this lifetime. D+

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Stuck - ok now were talking, despite going into this with low expectations thx to the starring role of forehead lady from american beauty, this is a hell of a film, not horror per se, although yknow its about a dude being stuck in the windshield of a lady who hits him so theres blood and unpleasantness for sure, acting is great throughout, esp steven rea who is just great in everything hes in, dark exploration of the morals of self-preservation and the way we redefine the world to fit our place in it, some clever inversions of stereotypes and only a couple of groany social comments, weirdly funny but in such a black manner that the laughs show up well after the delivery of the lines. A

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

I Think We're Alone Now - a doc about 2 Tiffany superfans, one of whom is intersex and the other is autistic, but unfortunately it is a great cautionary tale about the fact that just finding interesting people and filming them doesnt make a good documentary, it just makes a phtojournalism project on people who have sad empty lives and their pain, and this movie in particular has no heart whatsoever, you can almost hear the tittering behind the hand while the camera rolls at times which given the suffering of the subjects is close to intolerable, also daer filmmaker you can take yer slacker oh lol lets hold up pieces of paper in front of the shot to make title cards treatment of this whole thing and shove it up your ass, along with your hateful little movie. D-

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

finally I no longer have to hold onto the dark, dark secret of jjjusten's Tiffany obsession

ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Well, I knew about that in 1990. Where were you, anyway?

Sara R-C, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link

I think he was alone then

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link

He has no one but himself to blame.

Sara R-C, Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2bBfuepKk

you should watch this

ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Friday, 19 November 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I will watch that. Not on netflix streaming yet tho.

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 19 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh, NOW you have standards.

Sara R-C, Saturday, 20 November 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link

attn SR-C

check out LA music artist GLASSER

you will totally luv her

Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link

okay, I promise to try to do this later today... I'm PROMISED Alex I'd watch a "Buffy" with him, and I'm knee deep in laundry for some reason. Also I know I have to make Special K bars, scalloped corn, and a chocolate chip cookie pie and let Austin into the kitchen to make sweet potatoes. So yeah, while I destroy my kitchen later, GLASSER it is.

Sara R-C, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I have totally failed to do this today, which is somehow not the least bit surprising.

Sara R-C, Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Wild and Wonderful Whites: A remarkably sympathetic doc about a full on hillbilly outlaw family still rolling along in West Virginia getting in fights, shooting each other, and having other sordid psycho "fun" but lest this sounds like a rootin tootin fun ride through bucktoothed backwoods git-r-doners theres some teeth in here and the film maker stays out of the picture for the most part, letting 4 generations of whites lay out their insane worldview for all to see, so for example when moms buddy starts crushing up pills on the maternity room side table for her it hits in all the right emotional spots. A-

watched this tonight on yr rec and it really was amazing - i really got a soft spot for kirk, but really the whole family was so charismatic... i mean, they lead some fucked up lives and do some v v fucked up shit, but i couldn't help but really feel for them.

just1n3, Sunday, 12 December 2010 07:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - man went into this doc super stoked because the makers were the ones that did that devil came on horseback doc about the massacre in dafur and joan rivers is kinda awesome and old and mean and batshit plus theres been kinda an infinite stream of rewards from aging post celebrity stuff imo (eyes of tammy faye, that rickles doc, etc) but mainly my impression here is that joan rivers is fucking fascinating but the dudes who did this doc have dull brains and lead eyes, because not once did they work to capitalize on what they had in front of them, so the whole thing sorta degenerates into a year in the life of joan rivers exercise without following down any of the paths of interest or cracks in the seams so although i gave it 4 stars on netflix basically in the hopes that joan gets some $$$ out of more people watching it (and seriously, she could have made a better and more honest movie just running around with her own camera crew) this piece of empty fluff gets a C-

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link

My wife got me watching Fashion Police on E! pretty much solely to see which celebrity Joan Rivers is going to call a tacky whore.

"Kiss Players♄" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Big Nothing: david schwimmer simon pegg jon polito what could go wrong oh yeah everything, as long as you were hoping for a movie that is discernably a comedy instead of a pile up of ooh im so dark moments with minimal laughs, people need to be reminded that making a good dark comedy is actually really fucking hard to do so we dont all have to get buried under endless spew of this sort of mushbrained dreck, deeply reminiscent of that ice harvest movie that cusack/thornton were in except actually somehow even worse and more wrongheaded and shitty, also diabetes doesnt even work like that you dummies. F

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Blood Into Wine: a nice little slice of life documentary about a regular joe giving up his day job to make a run at starting up a winery, but the trick is that the guy is Maynard James Keenan and his day job is being in tool and a perfect circle and his winery is in the desert in Arizona, so there is an angle to be had, weird tone, very funny (featuring a notable once in a lifetime segment where Tim and Eric from that awesome show great job thing are actually funny no i know that is impossible but srsly, i dont understand how it was done either) and pretty capably filmed and structured, with some cool insight into the weirdness of the outsider wine industry and a decent attempt to dispell the OMG MAYNARD IS THE CRAZIEST OF THE CRAZY CRAZYPANTS I HEAR HE DRINKS HIS OWN PEE stuff that seems to circle around him in the public fanboy eye. B+

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - yes, Jeremy Piven is in it and yes as we all know he is a terrible terrible man but nonetheless this is dumbheaded sub-anchorman comedy done right, although none of that comes from piven who mostly walks around stinking up the place but the supporting cast is magical and completely rolls out a no embarrassment allowed throw it at the wall and see if it sticks and most of the time it does, tbh the movie had me at the line "Nobody tells DJ Request what to do!" and held from there, i mean good lord its dumb as hell but it cuddles up to its lowbrow and makes it work. B (loses one letter grade for pivenness)

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

not even going to try and catch up here

broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Mystery Team - ok so i guess that in the tradition of those broken lizard mopes who hit it big with super troopers and then shovelled shitpile after shitpile onto humanity, the thing to do these days if yer a comedy troupe with ties to the UCB is to put out a movie and see what happens, which in this case is not all bad, these dudes are apparently called Derrick comedy and despite an urge to try anything funny or not in sort of a grab bag fashion and a very boring standard "every 15 minutes do something disgusting" mantra theres some fairly funny stuff here, lead dude ended up getting his role on community thanks to this movie, or so says imdb/wikipedia and the rest of them all seem to be busy writing, also insane amount of cameos here so i kinda doubt the veracity of that, charming yet dumb but what the hell. B-

broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

High Lane - so the french, who are otherwise obv not the most trustworthy types in the world have been banging out some pretty solid gutpunching horror for the last several years, so when i saw a summary of this and realized that it was kinda a reimagining of the descent, but replace caving claustrophobia with terrifying dizzing mountainclimbing suspension bridge gonna kill you agoraphobia i knew it would be worth a shot and of course i was 1000% completely fucking dead wrong, without even getting into the horrible dub job which is hard to skip because FUCK YOU but i digress, once you get past that you get 20 minutes of promising stomach dropping cant breathe terrifying mountain climbing nightmare vista near accidents, which are beautiful and stunning, then the crazy maniac shows up and its like some dude just walked into the movie swinging a leaking pail of shit and no one escapes without getting coated in stupid, godawful, redeemed only by the fact that you kinda want everyone in the movie to die and YAY most of them do. D

broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Shadow - ok lets get the bad stuff out of the way here first the ending to this is pretty ??? and there are framing aspects that are reeeal questionable as well, gratuitous excess of mountain biking and so on, also director is in some italian pop band so well, who knows what to think, but once you get past that theres something interesting going on here, not the least of which is that the dude they cast as the baddie is ultra menacing and unpleasant, and there are some turns that really work, and although the motivations at hand are a little surface level there really isnt the usual unbelieveable mess of reasoning you might suspect, and at the end even if you shrug at the directors message it isnt enough to ruin the film, just maybe tarnish it a little. B

broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

did you ever see CHUD 2?

sarahell, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link


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