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Gorgeous Knight (2011)
So easy to find on YouTube, thanks to SaberSpark!
From Origin Nile Films and one of the animators of "Joshua and the Promise Land" comes this very visually appalling Z-movie "Gorgeous Knight", created with different frames and stock footage that would make a PowerPoint presentation look completely incoherent and to craft one simplistic crime action drama tale about a guy who's too desperate to get her kidnapped daughter back from the malevolent clutches of some big megacorperation of some kind which he works, apparently. Soon thereafter, this "Gorgeous Knight" comes to the rescue and ends up running into a lot of CGI misadventures to rescue the man's daughter and bring her home safely.
A Christmas Carol (2019)
Worth watching during the holidays, if you're a little into the holiday spirit
Just saw this on FX at my grandma's during Christmas Eve with my mom. She seemed to have liked it. Never expected this would an even darker and more grim adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost story that forever remains to be a beloved holiday icon. Guy Pearce did a pretty well done job as the selfish, cold-hearted miser Scrooge. The guy who played Bob Crachit looked younger than he looked, unlike in the other movie adaptations (especially Gary Oldman in Robert Zemeckis' 2009 animated Disney movie). During the middle of the miniseries, we introduced to some new plot detail we never expected from the original source material. It had a bigger storyline than the other movie adaptations, especially the 1984 classic starring the late George C. Scott. I suppose fans of the novel will want to see this before the holidays are over.
Rubber (2010)
Why, Yes, I am "tired of the unexpected!"
To this day, after seeing this cult classic on Netflix 4 years ago, while I listen to the classic electro-punk song "Dance Yrself Clean" by non other than LCD Soundsystem, All I could think about is Robert rolling through the desert, blowing up anyone and anything in sight for "no reason". That would make one helluva of a music video or AMV! Quentin Dupieux's vision is probably unlike any other arthouse director (like Yorgos Lanthimos, Gaspar Noé, Lars von Trier, Wes Anderson or even Masaaki Yuasa, for example) who dared to make something strange and messed up, yet delightful for non-mainstream audiences. The movie has a rather absurd storyline to be mainstream (on the level of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive). It starts with a cop talking directly to the audience about everything with no reason behind them whatsoever, then a large group of people with binoculars watch the movie and enter our main character Robert, an abandoned car tire who comes alive to begins to use its psionic powers to cause inanimate objects and living things to explode without any reasonable measure. Therefore, sometime before the end, while drifting through the desert, the tire then sees a large pile of his kind being torched, he finally finds a reason of his own, wiping out half of humanity for their mistreatment of other discarded objects that can barely survive in such a harsh and desolate wasteland. If there is the 2nd volume of the "1001 Movies You Must to See Before you Die", let's hope we'll be able to see this gem in any page... If you liked this movie, I recommend you to see probably the rest of Mr. Dupieux's filmography, such as Wrong (2012), Wrong Cops (2013) and Reality (2014) and as well as other titles from Magnet Releasing.
Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
The most underrated indie horror film ever to come to existence (and probably the first full-length feature movie shot in both Disney World and Disneyland.)
When I first saw the trailer back in 2013, during sometime during its initial VOD release, I thought it would be the most terrifying and disturbing horror movie (on a level of Kubrick's cinematic adaptation of The Shining) that's worth sending chills down your spine. And yes. Of course the poster tried to make this movie look scary with Mickey's hand dripping with blood. I also saw a YouTube idol of mine doing a review for this movie as well. He seemed to enjoy it himself. I never knew it would like a documentary because of the cinematography and the way it was shot "guerrilla style" without either of both the Disney parks' permission. It seemed the director didn't give a flip about what he was gonna do to make this movie. Don't get me wrong. He does seem to care about his artistry by the way. The story follows a middle-aged family man who loses his job via phone call from his boss on the last day of his vacation with his family. While managing to keep the news to himself, he decides enjoy one last magical day at the Magic Kingdom. Meanwhile, on the rides, he begins suffer strange and creepy hallucinations. Soon after during the day, he begins to follow around a pair of pretty teenage Parisian girls around the park and then his sanity becomes threatened by an obese visitor bound in a scooter, a mysterious woman with a hypnotizing amulet and a secret quasi-futuristic facility consisting of rogue scientists and engineers who have performed uncanny experiments on the man when he was a kid. One year later, I first saw the movie for the first time and I thought "Wow... There was something." Now I actually own the movie on DVD which I bought from Vintage Stock, the following afternoon I watched Quentin Tarantino's latest feature film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" with my parents and bes friend. If you are looking for a modern cult classic to see, this is the movie recommend watching.
Resolution (2012)
What an odd little horror gem I've watch on Netflix 4 years ago....
The story goes quite normal as it follows a graphic designer who visits his best friend who is a a drug addict living in a small cabin in the woods somewhere around California, only to save him by holding captive to order for the friend to go cold turkey. Meanwhile, the story goes off the track of normalcy while strange things begin to happen around the two pals. Books, reel of film, weird photos start to pop out of nowhere, only to realize they are being followed by an unseen entity which turns out to which its POV belongs to without the audience noticing themselves. And of course, there's this spiritual sequel taking place 7 years after. This time, the directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead play two brothers who have narrowly escaped some crapped up UFO death cult and manage to return to their desolate campout. "Resolution" is really something worth viewing if you're an avid cinephile like me. I might as well just see Benson and Moorhead's "whole" filmography, including 2014's romantic body horror feature "Spring", which is also worth watching as well.
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
A unlikely modern cult classic that deserves a lot more attention from all movie critics and audiences alike!
Based on the fake Grindhouse trailer for a Grindhouse contest held by Robert Rodriguez and the famous Quentin Tarantino, "Hobo" follows our titular hero vagrant (played by the late Rutger Hauer) who hops off the train onto his next stop to a dystopian urban hellscape, ran by its ruthless mayor, a crime boss known as the Drake, along with 2 sadistic sons Slick and Ivan. Disgusted by the city's brutal nature, he decides to raise some money for a lawnmower with a dream of cleaning up the scum of the crime-ridden metropolis. Meanwhile, he befriends a pretty young prostitute named Abby soon after he is initally attacked by the Drake's two thug sons and finds a place to rest. The next day, at a local pawn shop, a trio of masked bank robbers manage to rob the shop at gunpoint. Instead of buying his dream lawnmower for $50, the Hobo then buys a pump-action shotgun and blows away the robbers and then going around the city cleaning the scum off. Soon thereafter, the Drake sends out every lowlife to kill off every last homeless person left in the city upon learning of the Hobo's selfless act of heroism. Then along come the Plague, a malevolent duo of iron-clad demon bikers who were summoned to find the Hobo and bring him to the Drake alive. If you liked the 2018 action-packed horror gem Mandy and the army of Cenobite-esque bikers from hell, I guarantee you'll enjoy this little Grindhouse 80s-style gem! I believe Jason Eisener's vision in movie making is truly innovative yet comprehensible! I can't wait to see Mandy as well!!
Steven Universe (2013)
One of the best shows Cartoon Network's gotta offer
I remember finally getting into this "tour de force" about 2 summers ago sometime during my 17th birthday. At first, it seems like an impressive show to feature a diverse cast of "non-binary" female extraterrestrial warriors known as the Crystal Gems. They are Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Lapis Lazuli (my sadly "non-existent" love interest), Peridot, Bismuth and last but least, Steven Quartz Universe, our main hero who is probably the only male Crystal Gem since he inherits a pink quartz gemstone in his naval along with magical abilities from his mother Rose Quartz. Now that the 6th and final season is scheduled to be aired on December 7th on Cartoon Network, I guess it's the end of the road for him and the Gems, especially Lapis... Though I've never seen the movie where Steven and the Gems had to face a new villain Spinel, but I've seen some clips of it. If the show is good that the movie is. I've never seen "Regular Show: the Movie" neither 6 years ago! Now for me, one of the characters to have seemed to become nothing but an obsession. When my mom saw this show for the first time and told her the Gem characters were sexless, leading her to believe that my favorite character of all time could be a boy! Just because you have no gender, it doesn't mean you could exactly be both! I can't believe I've been in love with Lapis, my own Ramona Flowers for about 426 days of my life! Of course, like any geek or loner, Lapis is most likely to be my waifu <3
Anyway, I hope she'll have even have her own happy ending.
Stranger Things (2016)
This is definitely something we all deserve!
I'm so glad I've got to see 3 seasons of this groundbreaking Netflix gem, except the last season I've watched with my best friend over at his house. I've waited so long to see this beloved hit since I became enthusiastic some time before season 2 premiered in the fall of 2017 after watching the promo for it during the Super Bowl. It was also the time I was quite fascinated with the filmography of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Boy! This show is really something! In the first season, we see Will Byers getting kidnapped by the Demogorgon and taken into the Upside Down before we are introduced to one of everyone's favorite character, Eleven who possesses awesome psychic abilities. Taking place one year of Will's abduction and Eleven's disappearance, Will begins to experience terrifying visions of the Upside Down, only to discover there's even a more dangerous threat, the Mind Flayer who then possesses Will, only for him to feel the same pain as the bleak remains of the Upside Down being burnt by fire. One peculiar summer, Will's best friends Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Eleven are now teenagers dealing with growing pains as the new Starcourt Mall becomes the small town of Hawkins, Indiana as a familiar threat begins to dwell from underneath. As a fan of this series as well as the ever beloved cult classic comic book series "Scott Pilgrim", I am trying to start on my indie graphic novel series called "Motor Rock Romance" which also takes place in the 1980s and revolves around a teenage outcast, his best friend as well as his new girlfriend who begin to face deadly, otherworldy threats that want to consume our whole galaxy!
Well, can't wait for the 4th season to come!