The film that introduced the world to both J.C. and Dan O'Bannon (creator of Alien)! Haven't seen it since late night TV in the 90s, but I remember it being a great laugh.
(I see it's also available on for free on Plex, but the Daily Motion one is much higher quality.)
I bought a second-hand Phillips CD-i around '97 (once the format flopped, they were pretty cheap) with FMV (Full Motion Video) chip, and bought a few VCDs in Chinatown.
Can't remember all of them (some HK action flicks) but I definitely had The Replacement Killers, one of the few Western films they sold, because it starred Chow Yun-Fat.
(Also had the Demolition Man game for the CD-i. And got a bunch of other obsolete/flopped consoles: Panasonic 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Sega Game Gear etc.)
But I don't have any of that any more, all gone in various moves over the years.
I do still have a few films in .rmvb, the "VCD of filesharing formats" ;) as it was very popular for sharing East Asian films.
Anyways, I don't think you're unwell but then who am I to talk? :D
Pity, it was fun. And the... 'toot flow'(?) was much more manageable than #Monsterdon.
Great overview!
One typo?
For example, any and many were spelled based on one dialect, but spelled based on another dialect instead of the also current spellings eny, meny.
I think one of those "spelled" should be "pronounced".
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said:
our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused
Guy in article broke the law. But you're the ones abusing the law, CBP.
And the great thing about the CCP's dirigisme is that it never results in massive overproduction, a glut and an eventual collapse in the market, right?
Right???
Phew!
The perfect Mother's Day gift!
Well, that was a fun ride!
Donnie Yen doing some amazing and just plain bonkers stuff, thanks to Yuen Woo-ping and choreography by "Yuen's Clan" (that is literally the credit in the opening titles).
Highlights include:
Donnie's breaking, popping, locking and moonwalking
The Tequila riff begins at 1'58".
Try asking in [email protected] , [email protected] or https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues
I've only been on PieFed a month or so and they've already dealt with half a dozen things I've mentioned, from bugs to feature requests.
I've been watching a lot of free streaming lately, to explore what's out there and to post something that hopefully everyone can see without having to pull out a credit card, but the other night I revisited the dark side and browsed Amazon Prime for some action, and went big budget Hollywood with The Accountant 2.
He sees what others can't. He does what others won't.
Affleck reprises the role that obeys Lazarus' Law ("Never go full {Rain Man}") and that shows that, like his best bro Matt Damon, he's not a total Streisand.
Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus
Oscar-winner Matt Damon
Good performances, high stakes, serious action (both hand-to-hand and pew pew), with some more touching moments and a little comic relief. Hall of Fame? No. But an enjoyable watch.
Can a mod add tags to someone else's post?
How many tags are possible and will be shown?
I just started a movie community, with tags for actors etc already at ~30. Potentially that could increase to... hundreds? More?
How many will display? Will it always display all of them or can it be hidden /drop down, like spoiler text? Perhaps partially, e.g. the top tags are shown by default but you have to click "Expand" to see the rest.
What about tags in places other than the Piefed tags entry field? E.g. in post body, comments etc. Are they... "recognized" / "effective"?
Dammit, I had one more, can't remember it now.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Murder
The Incident meets Reservoir Dogs
A few people late at night in a remote diner are taken hostage... and it only gets worse from there.
With Madsen's recent passing, I decided to find a few of his films I hadn't seen yet. Turns out with him doing 8 to 15(!) flicks a year, it wasn't that hard.
This is a low budget thriller where Madsen probably comes closest to literally reprising his Mr Blonde character from Reservoir Dogs.
Like The Incident, we see that while the bad guy is bad, no doubt about it, the good people were not as good as they first seemed. The Killing Jar doesn't pull it off as well as The Incident (and adds a lot more violence) but it does give a chance for the actors to shine, Harold Perrineau impresses in particular.
Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.
https://piefed.social/post/1004382
Same post viewed in Lemmy, it's all squashed into the same space as horizontal text.
I've been noticing a few broken links like this on PieFed lately. I don't know if it's something new, or just me noticing it now.
The link breaks part way through. Checking the same post on a Lemmy instance, the link is intact.
Maybe to do with Piefed confusing underscores for formatting with underscores in multiword Wikipedia URLs?
Now arriving internationally from Japan.
Trailer:
Via Metafilter:
Hot Spring Shark Attack had its world premiere last year at the Tokyo International Shark Film Festival and its US premiere recently at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Early reviews from Letterboxd, Bloody Disgusting, and Spooky Sarah Says. Evidently, it's back for this year's Tokyo festival too, {...}, plus Game of Shark, the third installment of the Ouija Shark franchise...
Which raises the question... are we going to do anything for Shark Week (July 20-28 IIRC)?
They sure do!