2018 Movies & Tv Shows

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Friday night I saw "Murder Party", the first feature from the guy who wrote and directed "Blue Ruin" and "Green Room", Jeremy Saulnier. When I first saw it on the calendar I thought for a moment that Graveyard Shift was having a murder party, and was a little disappointed that it was just a movie, but it was a very good movie. Very funny.

Last night I saw "Overlord". It's about Nazi mutants and clichés. The head Nazi mutant was satisfyingly evil and mutated, but it felt like something had been cut out of the film. There were no swastikas, for instance, and the US paratroopers were integrated. Early on it seemed like there had been some effort to evoke images of lynchings and slave hunting, but that went nowhere. Instead, it seemed like a whitewashed past where we pretend our army wasn't segregated. Some fun mutant Nazi killing, but not as much as there could have been.

After that I saw "Prospect", a low budget science fiction story about a father and daughter mining jewels on another planet. First, it was beautiful. Amazing props. The story was good and the acting was excellent. I had to stay up late to see it, but I'm glad I did.

 

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We watched a variety of HGTV international house-hunting shows. No Nazis or mutants.

 

[Wolf]

Once Upon A Deadpool comes out Dec 12th and FU Fred Savage for insulting Nickelback.

 

[HecticArt]

Fred's awesome.

 

[Wolf]

The final trailer for Aquaman which comes out Dec 21st.

 

[HecticArt]

 

[Madison]

Who going to win Creed vs Viktor Drago?

This time Rocky will throw in the towel

 

[Evil_Ernie]

Once Upon A Deadpool comes out Dec 12th and FU Fred Savage for insulting Nickelback.

Fred knows what's up!

 

[Wolf]

National Board of Review Names ‘Green Book’ Best Film of 2018

 

[Wolf]

Vox Lux comes out Dec 7th.

 

[JHDK]

I've got a thing for Natalie. Super hot and super talented...anything she's in is worth a look.

 

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On 11/23 I saw "Blood Rage", a horror film set at Thanksgiving. Louise Lasser is in it, and it's like she's not in the same movie everyone else is in. Apparently she was difficult to work with. I suspect she was very high and method-y. A lot of her scenes are just her yelling at a phone in a confused manner.

Last Wednesday I saw the new Lars von Trier film, "The House that Jack Built". This was a special, one night only screening of the unrated director's cut. The R-rated version will come out in a few weeks. I've never seen a Lars von Trier film before, but he's infamous. Apparently praised Hitler and got kicked out of Cannes for 7 years. He has a long history of treating women horribly in his films. So this film is about a serial killer who praises Hitler. It's supposed to be deep, like some its multi-faceted indictment/celebration of Lars von Trier, but it wasn't deep. It was amusing sometimes, but ultimately dumb.

Friday I skipped Graveyard Shift for the first time in a long time so I could celebrate Mrs. Bag's birthday. That's OK because they were showing two films I dislike, "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Dracula - Dead and Loving It". Ugh.

Last night I saw "Satan Claus Comes to Town", a collection of clips from Christmas horror VHS tapes. They were all pretty good, but the last one was amazing. It's from "Tales of the Third Dimension". Bad parents drop sweet kids off at Grandma's while the parents go to Hawaii to drink the week before Christmas. Grandma runs out of her meds and goes apeshit. She terrorizes the kids and tries to kill them until a certain jolly old elf saves the day and ejects granny from the house.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Louise Lasser is in it, and it's like she's not in the same movie everyone else is in. Apparently she was difficult to work with. I suspect she was very high and method-y. A lot of her scenes are just her yelling at a phone in a confused manner.

That sounds like everything I've ever seen her in.

 

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That sounds like everything I've ever seen her in.

I was the only person in the packed house who knew who Louise Lasser was.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I was the only person in the packed house who knew who Louise Lasser was.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

I've got a thing for Natalie. Super hot and super talented...anything she's in is worth a look.

And a super-hot Jew to boot. Along with Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Gal Gadot. Maybe we should start a thread.

 

[memebag]

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

I bet I'm the only person here who remembers "All That Glitters".

 

[scotchandcigar]

I bet I'm the only person here who remembers "All That Glitters".

Yes you are.

 

[HecticArt]

I remember Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.
Mom watched it when I was a kid. No clue what it was about though.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I remember Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.
Mom watched it when I was a kid. No clue what it was about though.

I assumed it was about Mary Hartman.

 

[memebag]

I remember Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.
Mom watched it when I was a kid. No clue what it was about though.

It was a parody of soap operas, but it was too subtle for most. It tried to take all of the soap opera tropes and amplify the absurdity, but they were so absurd to begin with it was difficult to notice the parody.