Open Thread Tuesday

USA Today (yeah I know) ripped it. I have not yet seen it.

I saw that, it must run in the family, check this one out. http://twitpic.com/8uf0v

I'm telling you, one of these days, after Cap & Tax runs us into the ground and Obama has a death grip on our country, both he and his wife are gonna pull off their Human Suits and confirm they are from another planet……

creepy…..

Mrs. Obama's suit isn't very convincing….

Yeah Micheal Myers is my all time favorite movie slasher, hands down.
I think it is the Shatner mask.
I actually watched those movies with my dad as a kid. The only evidence of child abuse I can recall, well except for early bed times and a spanking for peeing on the rug. but apparently i digress…

lol

Either that or the mothership will come pick them up….

Meh… never could get into Halloween… I am more of a psycho thriller movie fan than a slasher movie fan…. slasher movies just make me laugh… Crap, I laughed hysterically at Carrie (the orginal Sissy Specek one, in case they remade it and I didn't know)

Is that the pic of Michelle giving the evil eye to Carla Bruni? I can't look at it because I am at work and it was blocked…. now that is an evil eye if I have ever seen one…

The Obama's can give the evil eye all they want but contrary to their belief, the world does not revolve around them and their plans and I wish our Congress would have the balls to stand up to him.. but friking Peloisi and Reid are wrapped around his little finger… :/

Like in Mars Attacks… *lol* Maybe Slim Whitman will solve our problem…

why are you a hater? The poor girl with the crazy religious mom who couldn't get in to Professor X's school for gifted children, gets blood poured on her by the cool kids. I do think she took appropriate action in the end though.
good times.

lol..I break out into a cold sweat and get a flip floppy stomach if I watch any slasher films.

Was it actually Slim Whitman? It seems any type of country music works on most liberals. Maybe if we play some banjos, they will run away leave us alone. And if they don't, maybe their heads will explode.

Slasher movies are comical these days. It's the movies that show killing that could be real that make me turn my head. Example: Saving Private Ryan, the scene where the Nazi shoves a knife slowly into the chest of the GI and the dialogue between them as it was happening.

THAT makes me change the channel…..

But a big doofus with a hockey mask? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

I agree about slasher flicks. I think one of my favorites has to be Jason in Space. At least he had some more creative ways to kill teenagers having sex because it was in space. About the only thing that defines a slasher flick for me is how creative they are in the kills, and let's face it, you can only slash a person in so many ways.

As long as they are not foaming at the mouth like the unholy trinity they have in there now I'd be happy.

I'm not holding my breath though…..

Weightless sex? Bring on the Space Tourism!
Hey honey I found a vacation package. It's all inclusive…

Buckwheat – don't know what USA Today said since I never read it, but let me give you a little more of my thoughts on this show.

There have only been 2 episodes thus far so it's still way too early to tell. As much as I dislike Ted Turner individually and politically, he has shown a great commitment to historical productions such as Gettysburg and Andersonville.

More recently, he has shown a willingness to do series with over 40 female leads (initially for Georgia actresses.) The first, "The Closer" with Kyra Sedgewick, has been great. The second, with Holly Hunter, has been a little too over the top for me. It seems to shout, "hey look at me, I'm still hot cuz I can afford a personal trainer and play a female homicide detective who drives a Porsche, drinks like a fish, and kick the stuffing out of big tough looking bad guys.

Now comes Jada Pinkett Smith playing a widow with a teen daughter who is the head nurse in an E.R. Unlike, Nurse Jackie, she doesn't take pills, use blue language, or jump the bones of the doctor. Hawthorne is what it is, series television. This is something I can actually enjoy watching with my wife. Maybe I am just an old conservative fuddy duddy, but I kind of like that.

The scene is toward the end of the movie, and trust me, you'll know it when you see it….

One problem I always had with the slasher movies is that no one ever had a gun. People always grabbed a flashlight instead of dad's hunting rifle…..

I'm well on my way to fuddy duddy-dom. I appreciate being able to watch something that doesn't get me all worked up. I know my wife will. I will try to catch it.

Yeah that's pretty disturbing….

Hank Scorpio

She has a neck like E.T…………..

The original Halloween is my favorite John Carpenter movie. The Rob Zombie remake is a travesty.

Oh.. it's hulu.com… a website where you can watch TV shows and movies… it's a great place to catch up some past episodes… it's a free website where you have to suffer through 3-6 (depending on length of show) commercials that are about 30 seconds each. They are still growing their collection so some shows aren't posted on there and some are..

Most slasher movies have a tendency to be rather insipid, but the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a terrrific movie. Surprisingly enough, it didn't have a lot of gore. Friday the 13th, on the other hand, was a very stupid movie.

Unless travesties are your thing.

I love Hulu. They've had some stuff on there that I haven't seen in years — like the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tv series.

That is pretty good for a remake. I always love Kurt Russell as the anti-hero.

Carpenter did 3 "End of the World" type movies. The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and a really weird one The Mouth of Madness with Sam Neil.

All 3 are really good, but The Thing still keeps me up at night.

The best 5/4 time movie theme music ever.

You make a valid point, and thanks for that visual….

You're going to have a long wait. I don't know which is worse, his music or his movies. At least, his songs are shorter.

Zombie relies on white-trash vulgarity way too much. Devil's Rejects was a shallow, lame-ass attempt at being shocking. You can tell when he's run out of story to tell because he substitutes story with torture and violence so over the top that it makes you either turn away or leave.

How he was allowed to trash an iconic movie with his vulgarity is beyond me…

Did anyone see the HBO documentary, "Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech". It was interesting and extremely disappointing at the same time. Interesting in hearing some of the key elements of free speech articulated quite well and the quality of interviewees was solid, including David Horowitz and Judge Posner. It was disappointing in that it was another wasted opportunity to explore free speech from all sides. It was a 90 min doc and I would estimate 75-80 min were devoted to issues related to the Iraq War (all liberal) and 5-10 combined on two other subjects, the Skokie, Ill Nazi march case from the 70's and the Poway, CA student who tried to wear bible verses on a tee-shirt. while they provided contrasting viewpoints on the Poway case, there were no such contrasts when discussing the Pentagon Papers or the protesters rounded up during the 2004 GOP convention in NYC. These were taken in whole; the only interviews of those who supported the left or those providing facts. Another case where a great opportunity to open a dialogue on important issues was wasted in order to cement the liberal viewpoint.

Carpenter always manages to tell a great story. I always want to know more. Where did the alien come from? Why was satan a liquid in a jug in the basement of a church?

I agree completely. I love horror movies, but I am so sick of horror movies that rely on shock and ignore story. You have to be entertained between the shocks and the only way to get true horror is to tell a story that gets under people's skins. Carpenter is good at that.

We don't need the deluxe version though … This one looks the same except it's half as expensive. I wonder why that is … Oh I see, it's a one way trip.

Love that movie. Siguorney Weaver was a great reluctant action hero in that movie……..

I don't know though. I think both examples might be wrong. Both of those creatures appeared to have intelligence. Not so much for Mrs. Obambi….

I Am Legend is a movie of missed opportunities. They hinted at the creatures becoming more human and did nothing with it. They ignored the entire undercurrent from the originals (like the Vincent Price version) that the sole human left was seen as the monster by creatures. AND, they added an unbelievable happy ending. Don't waste your time.

What kills me is the impulse to always run up the stairs. Why would you run up the stairs?

Or then there's that preoccupation with needing to go back and look to see if whatever it was is really gone … Hello?! Keep going …

They always look back and then trip on something don't they? Just run! Don't look back you idiot! Run………..I guess if they did that though no one would die and it would become a Disney movie……………

cause that's where all jugs of liquid evil are kept; in the basement.

maybe the Blob then….

it's even funnier when it's a children's doll running around with a kitchen knife.

Well my dad used keep his in the liquor cabinet….but that's another thread…..

And it goes beyond shock, movies like Devil's Rejects and Hostel and Touristas don't just shock. They are so devoid of any real substance, in order to justify their very existence they vomit forth visuals that are so disturbing you start to wonder why you even bought the movie ticket.

Gore and violence just for the sake of being gory and violent do not a movie make.

The CGI in I Am Legend absolutely ruined it for me. Practical effects still out-class CGI. You hit the nail on the head regarding the missed opportunities. The whole point was that the Neville character was the stuff of vampire nightmares.

That movie just felt like an excuse to put Will Smith in another gigantic scale movie.

Yeah, what was that about????

Don't you just punt it out the window??

We have a winner!

That would be great, but he still makes bad movies…..

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