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Pantstrovich on 10/9/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Just keep in mind that I have Leprechaun in the Hood at number one. ;)

Pantstrovich on 10/18/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Hmm... I do genuinely love it. It's certainly not as bad as it could be. The one after it (Back 2 tha Hood) is atrocious. Hardly any effort put into it at all.
Mostly it just makes me laugh. It is more of a comedy than a horror and it's meant to be. Personally, I think it's rather balanced for such a ridiculous movie. Some parts of it are quite bad though.
I enjoyed Anthony Montgomery's role as Postmaster P, and I love Warwick Davis no matter what he does.
I'm very biased though. Leprechaun in the Hood is like a hot cup of coco to me. I'm sure it's not everybody's... cup of coco however.

Pantstrovich on 10/19/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I don't believe I have, but it looks fun! I will put it on my list of films to check out. Maybe I'll like it. Maybe I won't. It will be an adventure! :D Thanks!

Pantstrovich on 1/13/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I've seen a few episodes of it. Some of it was quite funny. Not sure about all of it though. haha I need to watch the whole thing in the right order and see how I feel about it.
I still need to see An Idiot Abroad. I have a few things he's done to catch up on still.

shane24 on 1/22/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I personally liked An Idiot Aboad season 1 and 2 better than Life's too Short.

Pantstrovich on 2/27/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Possibly. I haven't seen it, but looking it up on IMDb, I can see that it's an 80's horror, which is probably my favourite genre and era. I'll put it on my very long list of movies to watch. Thank you for mentioning it. :)

shane24 on 3/5/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

The whole movie is on YouTube if you want to see it. It's a lot of fun!

Pantstrovich on 3/11/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Pretty much. I don't even know why I sat through the whole thing. It's basically just a shock film. There's not really anything more to it, which annoyed me more than anything. It just seemed really pointless. The content is not very nice either, but I could handle that if there was some kind of point to it. Bleh.

Pantstrovich on 3/14/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I'm always really careful of spoilers. Thanks though.
I saw Sleepaway Camp last night. I'm still not sure what I think about it. I thought it was interesting. :D

Pantstrovich on 3/16/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

***SPOILERS***
(Sorry, don't want to spoil it for other people.)
It was interesting when you think about it and realise how messed up the situation actually is.
I mean, basically his whole family died and immediately after his crazy aunt makes him live as a girl. Then he almost gets raped as soon as he reaches camp. He's probably like 12 or so and just going through puberty too, struggling with his sexuality and hiding his real gender amongst all these awful kids.
It would have made a good movie if it wasn't so poorly done. So I feel kind of confused about it. On the one hand, you want to pass it off as a silly b-movie, and on the other hand, it's actually an interesting story.
***SPOILERS***

shane24 on 3/16/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

************Spoilers for Sleepaway Camp********
I'm glad you set it up so people don't accidentally read it. I knew what I was in for as soon as that girl murdered everyone. :) That was very poorly done, but it put a smile on my face. What about that weird scene where it hints at incest as the camera circles around the bed. Very weird. Oh, those bees did a lot of damage in such a short time. :)
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Pantstrovich on 3/17/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

****SPOILERS FOR SLEEPAWAY CAMP****
That scene and the one with their father and his lover were the most confusing scenes. There are some theories on IMDb if you want to try reading around the trolls and whatnot. I'm still not sure what exactly those scenes were trying to say.
That bee scene drove me crazy. He could have just crawled out from under the door! I was yelling at him through the screen. haha
Great recommendation.
****SPOILERS FOR SLEEPAWAY CAMP****

Pantstrovich on 3/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Sorry for the late reply.
Hmm, what can I say without spoiling too much... It's not quite as advertised and it made me feel a little insulted. It was interesting and the backdrop of the California desert was very nice. I'd probably give 3 out of 5. I'm not sure how much that helps. Heh.

Pantstrovich on 7/10/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I've been in love with the Alien franchise for ages, though as I've gotten older, the last two seem to have gotten worse and the first two seem even better. And wow do they look good on Blu-ray! Especially the second one. The last two aren't great though.

Yes, Warwick Davis is my favourite actor! I'm a huge fan. I have his autobiography and everything. I was so excited to get it that I read it through in almost one sitting. I've been a big fan of his for about 14 years I guess. The Leprechaun films are my favourites, even though most of them are pretty awful. They're just fun. :)

The best film he's had a major role in was probably Willow. Classic 80's fantasy adventure.

Leprechaun in the Hood is "good" if you're up for a stupid horror-comedy with a Leprechaun rap at the end of it. I think it's hilarious, but I'm ridiculous. Really, I laugh at very stupid things. I'm like a ten year-old.

You don't need to watch the Leprechaun films in any particular order because they're all supposed to be different leprechauns, except for the last two. The 6th (and last so far) is the worst if you ask me. They're doing a reboot but it's with another actor and I'm not interested. I think it will be normal bad as opposed to fun bad.

I don't think Warwick's humour comes across much in most of his films, which is what you'd be used to seeing on An Idiot Abroad and Life's Too Short. I think his humour comes across best live personally (though he makes really bad jokes, haha), but those two shows were quite fun.

Some of the films he's been in have been just awful, in my opinion. The worst was probably Small Town Folk, with Skinned Deep in second place for being ultra bad. Snow White: The Fairest of Them All was also really bad, but it had some pretty funny moments, though nothing intentional. (Rainbow!) I really don't recommend Small Town Folk at all. That one belongs in the garbage. haha

I grew up on Warwick Davis and I have a pretty awful sense of humour myself, so I kind of like the way a lot of his output is complete rubbish. I'm sure most people probably won't like a lot of it though, so keep that in mind. It might be an acquired taste. :)

Pantstrovich on 7/10/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I think that's why Ghostbusters is so far up on the list, because so many of us grew up with it. It's was really an iconic part of my childhood. Ghostbusters stuff was everywhere in the mid-80's to early 90's. So many freakin' toys! So many everything. Ghostbusters was just plastered all over everything.

Another film that I can think of with a similar feel is Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. That is a really cool one with its giant sets and backyard adventure. It's aged well. It's still just as good every time I happen to catch it on TV.

Oh wow, I just realised you haven't seen Hook either. Of course this might be another case of nostalgia glasses for me. It's pretty cheesy, but it's sweet and whimsical. I think it captures the spirit of Peter Pan (the book) better than any other adaptation I've seen, and it doesn't even follow the story. Not exactly. Julia Roberts is really cute in it too.

What's the deal with the blowjob scene? Haha, it was the early 80's; lots of strange stuff like that was slipped into all kinds of movies. Around 1985 was when they started cracking down on things like that. It just went over most kids' heads. It was a very different time.

shane24 on 7/13/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Hey, it's been a while. :)

I just had to comment to say that I really enjoy Hook as well. I grew up watching that movie! I've probably seen it nearly fifteen times. :) I know it's considered Spielberg lite, but not for me!

Pantstrovich on 7/14/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I think it's my favourite of his. Next are probably Jurassic Park, E.T and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Pantstrovich on 7/14/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I liked it. I thought it was sweet, quirky and not a bit realistic. haha

shane24 on 7/14/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I like all this films better than Hook, but I still would give Hook a 9/10. I really love it.

Pantstrovich on 9/7/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I really liked Arrietty, but my friend didn't like it as much as I did. It was a very slow, almost languid, atmospheric film. The ending was open-ended, which is probably what he didn't like. It didn't really have typical pacing. It was very pretty and it made me want to read the book series it was based on. I found it mostly very relaxing.

I recommend Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke. Oh, and Kiki's Delivery Service. And Porco Rosso. Hehe, that must be most of them.

Nausicaa and Mononoke are similar (almost the same story really) but Mononoke is more typical I guess. I prefer Nausicaa personally. It's more alien and dreamlike.

Howl's Moving Castle is fun, sweet and very magical. It's based on my favourite book of the same name, by Dianna Wynne Jones. It starts out very similar to the book and then goes into crazy Miyazake territory, which works really well for it. They become quite different and I like them both. However I must insist on listening to the original language. Howl should never be Batman. ;)

Kiki's is cute and about becoming a teenager, well, a witch teenager. Mostly I just like Jiji, her cat. It's not a very deep film, but it's nice.

I'm not sure how to describe Porco Rosso... It kind of seems more grown up compared to the other films. I remember really liking it when I saw it, but it's been quite some time now. I think it's pretty different to most of his films.

Ponyo was quite pretty, especially on Blu-ray, but it felt like kind of a let down, I think because of the odd pacing, where it felt like maybe it was building up to something but forgot somewhere along the way and fizzled out. There really wasn't much of a plot to speak of, but it was still nice.

One Ghibli film that Miyazaki didn't direct was The Cat Returns, and I recommend it simply for how weird it is. Nothing really deep about that one either, but it was a funny little strange movie about a girl and some cats.

TheHonestFilmFan on 9/8/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Nice recommendations! I'll be sure to check some of those out! Sorry for the late reply, anything that isn't on my page I stubbornly ignore like a dog with a fear of cats who pretends to be blind while being walked into the veterinary clinic.

I'll be sure to check out some of those Ghibli flicks. By the way, Miazaki is apparently retiring now. Whaaat do you think about this?

Pantstrovich on 10/16/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Sorry for my late reply as well. I wish I could get email notifications for these.

I think he's earned it and left a lot of beautiful films in his wake. I wonder if he ever really will or if he'll just keep coming back to do this and that.

I think we're lucky he's been around so long, unlike another brilliant anime director, Satoshi Kon, who was only with us until he was 46.

I recommend his films as well, though his work is certainly darker than Miyazaki's. Paprika is my favourite of his (gorgeous on Blu-ray). Though Perfect Blue was very interesting as well, and Tokyo Godfathers was nice too.

Pantstrovich on 10/16/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Sorry my reply is so late. I really didn't like Spider at all. It was extremely slow and boring, and the "twist" was very obvious. I'm pretty shocked that Cronenberg made this, as in a lot of ways, it seemed quite amateurish.