Bumblefeet

I own it on blu-ray and yes, the animal cruelty is off putting, but this was part of a time in (italian) cinema where you had these exploitation movies and I enjoy it more as a novelty from that era. Also it is one of the very first found footage movies and has a decent soundtrack by Ortolani.

I liked Eli Roth's Green Inferno better, a recent incarnation of the genre that is perhaps more accessible (though still gory).

8 hours ago, Len B'stard said:

I quite like it.  I've always thought there was a movie of it's own in the whole bit with the old guy Brooks, being released from prison and being of another time, there's a good 90 mins in that little montage alone.  A sort of a character study if you like.  Dunno about all this best movie of all time bollocks, i don't think you can boil a 120 years or so of cinema down to one film but it's good, i like it.  

Yeah the Brooks storyline is very tragic, gets me every time. It's poignant in how it not only showcases the "institutionalised" theme of the movie but foreshadows as well. Amazing performance by the late James Whitmore.

Why does this divorce make front page news every week? It baffles me.

The man is a total bore in interviews and can't even string a sentence together without mumbling or stumbling to find words. I can't remember the last time I saw a good film he was in.

I know he was a sex icon during the 80s/90s but is he still today? He looks like a fat Tony Stark who's going the Jack Nicholson route.

Biggest non-story of the year so far.

2 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

you mean besides the absolute all time best ever ones done by Bon Scott??

Actually Brian did a mean version during the 90/91 Razor's Edge tour. Chris Slade upping the ante. 

5 hours ago, Randy Jesus said:

Her backing vocals on most of the songs fit in better ...  There is a lot of synth that you don't know about.

On most, but I caught myself being distracted by her falsetto singing during Chinese Democracy's chorus, where she tend to overdo it. I actually like Duff's backing vocals most of the 'new' additions.

4 hours ago, PappyTron said:

I must confess that I have never seen it. Is it a bit like OZ?

I've never seen OZ but Shawshank Redemption is a prison movie though set in the 50s/60s, and I suspect like that series it does give a great impression of what daily life was like in a prison. Though it has no action, it can be violent at times but foremost it's a movie about hope and friendship. There are other prison movies with some harsh reality to them like Midnight Express or a great story like King/Darabont's fantastical follow up "The Green Mile" but where Shawshank differs is in the payoff. Definitely check it out!

53 minutes ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

Predator

My favorite Arnie movie. Kick ass trailer as well:

Still listed as the number one best movie of all time on IMDB.com, which is up for debate, but I had that opinion well before imdb even took off.

Being a Stephen King fan and liking the movies based on his works, you come across a lot of great movies but to be honest also a lot of bad ones. But even the great ones from directors like Kubrick, Cronenberg, DePalma, ... pale to the brilliance of "The Shawshank Redemption".

I originally got it on VHS cassette and played it a dozen of times. Then DVD and now blu-ray. Truly a spectacular movie that contains such a great story, beautiful characters, great life wisdoms and leaves me in awe every time I watch it.

I even got to see it in the theatre years after it came out, when I was in my middle teens, thanks to my school. We'd go and see a movie every years with school and usually it would be these crappy local productions but when they told me we were going to see Shawshank Redemption I was overjoyed; I'd only got to watch the movie on VHS and where all my classmates couldn't care less, I got to see the freaking Shawshank Redemption projected large!

Like all great movies, It's become one I savour for just the right times, I need to be in the mood for it. But it's such a 'heavy' movie, making the journey worthwhile every time I watch it.

Any other fans?

2 hours ago, rock4eva said:

 

Well thanks for clearing up I'm a she, not a he. 

Now he wears bright coloured shorts & tops which look like a school uniform but it's definitely not the" official" school uniform as in the photos above.

Go soft on me here, I'm trying to remember 40yrs ago and so pissed I didn't go to see them when they played at my school hall in 1975.

My bad, I corrected my post .

During the 80s the uniform morphed to a velvet-like suit jacket with shorts. Up untill the last decade, he would strip down to underpants with the flag of your country on them, not sure when he started doing that but I'm glad he stopped doing it for the last tours. 

12 hours ago, James Bond said:

What do you mean? Angus most certainly still wears the school uniform.

I think she's talking about the backpack Angus wore in the early days with Bon Scott, but Angus stopped wearing it very early on. I can't recall him ever wearing it live with Brian Johnson.

7 hours ago, Iron MikeyJ said:

I liked the show as well, but I missed it when it was new. I remember catching a couple of minutes of it before school one day, but I was in High school at that point, and cartoons were not something I paid much attention to. 

Years later I decided to download the entire real Ghostbusters series, and decided to give this one a chance too while I was at it. I liked it, but I didn't love it. The best episodes were the ones where the real Ghostbusters return. But I would take a film based off of this show in a heartbeat over what we are getting. 

Yeah, it is still a cartoon show at the end of the day. But I will say that it honoured the original Ghostbusters (by keeping Egon, Janine and Slimer on board) as well as updated the ghostbusters much better; including a disabled person, a goth girl, a latino slacker and an African-American wizz kid making it a very off beat gang but fun to watch. Seeing this new movie, an all-female version with male secretary is in itself an insult to the original Ghostbusters movie IMO by turning the gender roles completely around for the sake of political correctness? Hollywood's quest to feature women more prominently because they can be funny as well? Please, I don't need that point to be made, especially in movies such as this where the prime focus should be the comedy & story, not the gender roles. Yet you can bet that the majority of the jokes will be addressing that plenty.

27 minutes ago, Slash787 said:

So is it worth the watch? Yeah people were complaining about the white cast, but thats not an issue for me, the trailer sucked balls and the VFX was just meh, so is the story any good? 

The movies' saving grace is the dynamic between the mortals and the gods which has some funny and cool moments. Definitely worth the watch.

1 hour ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

Maybe they will make a movie about Trump one day too. lol

I can't wait for Bill O'Reilly's book "Killing Trump".

On 5/24/2016 at 3:16 PM, rocknroll41 said:

So moral of the story: Bill Murray is an asshole.

Moral of the story is that Ghostbusters the Game = Ghostbusters 3. It had all the key actors from the movies reprise their characters including Murray and the backstory to the Gozer events from the first one was cool. I really enjoyed the game.

Does anyone remember "Extreme Ghostbusters" by the way? That cartoon featured Egon (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) and a new generation of Ghostbusters and it was a decent series with some cool monsters and writing. Wish it had spawned more seasons:

They even had a Real Ghostbusters (voice actors) reunion on the "Extreme Ghostbusters" show.

If you listen to the Young brothers discussing their albums on the live at donington blu-ray extra feature, they discuss how Stephen King hated the title song "Who Made Who". He was clearly more of a fan of the Bon Scott material, quoting the lyrics of obscure Bon Scott songs to Angus & co. King later visited them on tour and said he had grown to like the song. 

By the way, fans of Stephen King might know that the author had a serious drinking period in the 80s, he doesn't remember writing Tommyknockers and that was published a year after Maximum Overdrive. It would kinda explain the odd movie it became lol.

I love Stephen King movies and while Maximum Overdrive is a stinker, it's sort of entertaining for an 80s Dino De Laurentiis flick. The instrumental bits by AC/DC range from cool to corny but I do like horror movies in the 80s getting scored with a rock/metal sound. 

Have to agree on the Marseille version. He also got the "you've been" part right which in the first gigs felt kinda off.

Seems like Axl sounded great at the start of the show but couldn't keep it up till the end due to a cold or whatever. At least they got "Touch too much" out of it!

50 minutes ago, RONIN said:

The band lost all credibility and marketability after Buckethead left. When they did the House of Blues shows in Vegas in 2000, there was some real buzz -- if Axl had just built on the momentum and kept Bucket in the band, they would have had a chance. By 2006, the replacements were replaced by inferior session musicians and the last shred of interest in the band evaporated. 

I would argue otherwise. The 2000 buckethead/Finck lineup was disappointing live. It wasn't until 2006 that Axl's voice got a lot better and Bumblefoot/Finck were the lead guitarists. It got even better when Finck left IMO. After CD was released, NuGuns had a lot of great years live especially in the 2010-2013 period even with DJ Ashba who love-but-mostly-hate-him did work for the fans. After 2013 Axl's voice dragged. Not even the Duff gigs did much to improve that. Which is why it is amazing how great Axl sounds this year.

And yeah, NuGuns deserved a CD followup given the strong tours that followed it, but it never came.

6 hours ago, Graeme said:

What, you mean he's gonnae come back?

Come back from what? Bulimia? 

2 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

You would have to say losing Malcolm was the biggest kick in the bollocks seeing as he is their primary songwriter.

They're just about clinging in there for me. Just! Cliff Williams, who is often forgotten, gives it a bit added legitimacy, being a member during 'DC's greatest run of albums (Powerage to Back In Black), and Slade is sort of their 'second designated drummer', their Sorum I suppose, being that he was around during the great Razor's Edge era. Also, it was Young for Young, and Stevie had played in 1988.

I think if Angus had replaced Rudd and Malcolm with two randoms, two guys who had never been in DC before, it would resemble an Axl situation and would be imperiled in regards to legitimacy, much like Nugnr, however Angus likes to keep things 'in the family'. So I repeat, it is just about clinging on for me.

But shouldn't you regard AC/DC as a different animal from the band they were in the 70s/80s/90s? I think we are lucky they still want to get out there and do it considering their age and they certainly don't need to do it for the money. Everyone that is out of AC/DC is either due to health problems or problems with the law. Yes, Rudd was stupid enough to bring that on himself, he'd be touring the new album if it wasn't for his flat out stupidity. Same for Malcolm who couldn't get his act together in 88' leading to Stevie playing on that tour.

I see AC/DC right now pure as a nostalgia act. It's not like the new material has been that groundbreaking. I'm personally not waiting on the next AC/DC album. If it comes, ok, I'll check it out, but they've already proven themselves time and time again. I think they can still pull off two tours tops with this lineup. There will come a time when Angus will have to hang up the guitar as well.

P.S. @Lumikki very cool you got to meet Angus & Axl!

7 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

The only Bond actor who I feel did not get pissed off with being Bond was Moore.

Moore is my favorite out of the bunch, mostly because of his suave manners and I like the humorous and cartoonish (Moonraker) aspects. I'm not the biggest fan of Craig but I enjoyed Spectre a lot, mainly because it felt like a throwback to the Moore era.

Gods of Egypt

I've always liked Egyptian mythology and this movie is basically one big real life cartoon version of it, but somehow it works! I remember the PC police raving on the predominantly "white" casting but everyone does a great job so who cares. If it'll look this great, I say bring on the white Cleopatra movie.

Meanwhile at Axl's house:

I don't speak Spanish, so I can't tell if she knows Axl is on tour in Europe 

These facebook streams seem to work very sporadic. I guess we'll have to wait for youtube videos afterwards.