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Films - It's 'Gone with the wind' meets 'Scooby Doo'

 
  

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This Sunday
21:06 / 29.05.07
The Masked & Anonymous: Jim Carrey is released from prison to front a benefit concert, thereby witnessing many highly metaphoric things including the death of God and the ditching of Blind Lemon's guitar off a pier.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
21:40 / 29.05.07
Fantastic Threesome: One of the lesser-light Baldwins stars in this oddball sex farce about three adventurers whose love triangle unwittingly ignites into deeper after a late-night tryst aboard a space station during a cosmic storm imbues them with implausible super-powers. After that, the sex gets kinkier. Wooden acting undercuts a potentially intriguing premise, with Chris Evans standing out amid what is otherwise a Nineties retropic disaster. Uncomfortable cameo appearance by Stan Lee during a torrid love scene has been credited as a particularly bad move.
 
 
COG
21:44 / 29.05.07
Clash of the Titanics - if there's anything more spectacular than The Titanic hitting aniceberg, it's The Titanic hitting an exact replica Titanic, in this stop motion sequel.
Brief Encounters of the 3rd Kind - The story of an impossible love between a married English housewife and a spindly armed alien. They meet in cafe every Thursday at the station until he wigs out and makes a train out of mashed potato.
 
 
COG
21:50 / 29.05.07
Singing in the Reign of Fire - Tapdancing dragons terrorise the planet until an American dragon slayer arrives with a plan to end their dominance - The Talkies!
 
 
This Sunday
22:08 / 29.05.07
Purple Reign: the Conqueror: Prince does heroic stuff with big phallic symbol in a world where nobody wears pants. Character designs by Peter Cheung.

Tipping the Blue Velvet: Curious youth frustrated with smalltown life enters world of older perverts and discovers self, drugs, and weird mommy fetishes.

Grindhouse Party on Haunted Hill: Vincent Price in astonishing dual roles as two young hiphop hopefuls throwing a houseparty to end all houseparties, by loading it up with grainy footage, excessive T&A, gore galore, all in a complicated sequence of devious murder and betrayal.

Beauty and the Beast of Yucca Flats: Handsome Russian scientist is cursed to become a beast until he is loved by a woman who can see the lovely inner Tor, to which ends he watches women get out of showers in strange opening sequences, then kidnaps unsuspecting unconscious gals from cars and drags them out to the desert. Some kids get lost, and Angela Lansbury makes a small appearance as a rabbit who maybe gets sexed up and definitely sings throughout the dance sequence on a mesa. Critics agree it's brilliantly nonsensical, but pan it anyway.
 
 
COG
22:13 / 29.05.07
The Lake House of Flying Daggers - A lonely ninja (Sandra Bullock) lives in a house where she leaves love messages via the post box which get delivered through time to a blind architect (keanu Reeves) who used to live there. Spectacular fight scenes.
 
 
Dutch
22:14 / 29.05.07
Mystery weird science theatre 300:

A man and a few robot friends are to dine in hell while a female genie created from a computer tries to answer their many questions on life, love and the pursuit of women. There would be very muscular men dressed in speedos, stylized and choreographed bloodshed, cynical commentary and a scantily clad djinnie.

The eXistenZ Files:

Two F.B.I. agents are on the hunt for aliens, ufo's and mutated serial killers who may or may not have special shapeshifting powers. While on the hunt for the truth as they see it, the two agents find out that they may or may not be part of a computer game. The computer game they may or may not have been playing takes over their lives as the male F.B.I. mumbles incoherently about being abducted and the female agent is skeptical about the whole thing until she herself meets grays and has to dissect a blubbering creature in search for hardware.


Bruce Almighty Aphrodite:

A comical tale about a man named Brenny, (played by both Woody Allen and Jim Carrey in a phenomenal double-role), in search for the real parents of his adopted son Max. Max is a brilliant young boy who has gained insight into the nature of God, and orders Him to aid his father in his search unwittingly. God, played by Morgan Freeman, then gifts Brenny with God-like powers. All of the movie's conflicts are resolved within the space of ten minutes and the last two hours are filled with discussion on the Oedipus Complex. With a special cameo by Freud.


Pitch Black Books:

An escaped convict lands on a planet that is filled with bookstores. Will he make it off the planet before everything turns dark and there is no more wine for the cynical overlord? Will he succeed in out-smarting the long-haired alien who will try and confuse him? Vin Diesel stars as the literary giant, convicted for a plagiarism he didn't commit, in this epic tale of darkness, despair and bad hair days.
 
 
COG
19:22 / 31.05.07
In the name of the father of the bride - While in London planning the wedding of his daughter, Steve Martin is wrongly imprisoned for 15 years for the bombing of two pubs. A camp, foreign wedding planner never stops believing in his innocence and fights for his freedom. Based on a true story.
 
 
COG
21:48 / 03.06.07
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Jedi - a trilogy and a sextology combine into a nonology, with too many characters to even list. Small hairy footed, characters battle on the side of other small hairy characters and one big hairy character against robots, a man in a black hat and hordes of evil soldiers. Two dead mentors reappear. Two hidden royals make their presences known. Two round things of awesome power must be destroyed. Bring your spectacles to this spectacle because you're gonna need four eyes to take it all in!
 
 
totep
07:09 / 04.06.07
The Slaughterhouse-V

In a vibrant adaption of the acclaimed novella by Kilgore Trout. This made for TV (NBC) mini-series follows around one Billy Pilgrim as he watches - from his hidden space fortress - as aliens from the fourth dimension move people through time as a means of feeding themselves in the past, present, and future. He sets in motion a plan to stop the aliens from destroying the planet the only way he knows how...by fire-bombing Dresden.
 
 
totep
07:33 / 04.06.07
I just had two other ideas.
12 Monkey Shines
In this little known Terry Gilliam masterpiece, inhabitants of an underground, post-apocalyptic future find all hope lost. Then one day they find a helper monkey, played by Brad Pitt, who shows them how to travel in time. Bruce Willis stars as Alan Cole, a quadriplegic and the only one able to withstand the time travel. But once in the past, unresolved frustration on the part of Alan bring forth terrible consequences as the monkey starts a group bent on total animal liberation.
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Walker, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A group of unknowing college students stumble upon a seemingly abandoned house while on a vacation. Unfortunately for them, Walker, played by Chuck Norris, and his grizzly family of Texas Rangers have something far more brutal in mind...Texas Justice.
Umm, I may have fucked the synopsis of Walker up...to much being said, maybe? I think just saying that chuck norris is in it might be enough. Thoughts? Also, my favorites so far are Se7en Brides... and American History X-Men. Pure genius.
 
 
Dark side of the Moonfrog1
09:56 / 04.06.07
The Lost Boys From The Black Stuff

A seminal horror series... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way vampirism and unemployment affect ordinary people... TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class blood-drinking culture. Kiefer Sutherland’s depiction of recently deposed undead count Yosser is one of his greatest screen roles to date.

The Battle Royale Family

A cheeky, northern working class family, are trapped on an island and forced to mercilessly hunt each other down. What will their weapon of choice be? Chip pan? Liverpool scarf? Cup of Bovril? Whippet?

Only one can survive (and let’s be honest, it’s probably not going to be Nanna…)

24 Angry Men

It’s the show that features more twists than a Hungarian contortionist!

Terrorist threaten to blow up [random place in LA] unless CTU agent Jack Bauer can convince a jury that suspected jelly-bean thief Ahmed Al-muhamod is an innocent man. Also, some sub-plot about one of the juror’s wives that seems to have no bearing on the plot, but then somehow inexplicably links into the main narrative.

Oh, and one of them’s a traitor

And the President dies. Probably.

And Jack shouts ‘WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR!!!’ a lot.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:47 / 04.06.07
COG, you are my wine-drinking overlord.
 
 
Triplets
12:41 / 04.06.07
Police! Stop! Academy
Five cops go through training. With funny accents and hilarious results.

Rubber Johnny Mnemonic
When Chris Cunningham should've been working on Neuromancer. Suffering from the Black Shakes and a coke addiction, deformed idiot-boy Johnny sees something he shouldn't. Starring Ice T.

John Carpenter's There's Some Thing About Mary
After 119 minutes of deception, Cameron Diaz eats Kurt Russell's face.

Mad Max: Beyond Videodrome
James Woods in his grittiest role yet as Max! Watch as corrupt cop Max is sucked into the world of Videodrome, an ultra-violent fighting tournament beamed live into your mind's eye! Manipulated by the shadow Aunty O'Entity, he fights giants. And tiny men. But is it all in his mind? Hey, what's wrong with his stomach?
 
 
Triplets
12:56 / 04.06.07
The Hunt For Red Dragon
The world's only Russian sub commander with a Scottish accent tries to find a serial killer on his vessel. Is it the six foot tall albino with a cleft lip?

Giant Robocop
Stars a 100ft cyborg Peter Weller in pharoah drag.

Band of Blues Brothers
A blues band find God, join the army and fight Nazis.

Leon Dynamite
Spazzy high school student finds he has a knack for killing and starts a relationship with an underage girl. Murders an entire auditorium in the last 3 minutes. Everyone! Gosh!

Ghost Dogs of Mars
Martian colonists unleash a thousand, spectral Forrest Whittakers.
 
 
Tsuga
13:15 / 04.06.07
Remember the Clash of the Titans
Denzel Washington plays the new human coach of a mixed team of human/stop-motion animated beings. After a contentious desegregation of the Lyceum in which animated characters are allowed into the human educational system, Coach Boone bonds his disparate team in a training camp. In the big game at the end, Coach Boone releases the Kraken, who takes the ball from Harry Hamlin (in a classic "Statue of Perseus" play)downfield for the winning touchdown, incidentally killing the opposing team during the play. Bombastic victory music ensues.
 
 
CameronStewart
13:52 / 04.06.07
The Inland Empire Strikes Back - David Lynch's harrowing, experimental science fiction epic. Laura Dern plays an actress about to star in a remake of George Lucas' space opera, when she hears a troubling rumour that the production is cursed. Is she only an actor in a Hollywood film, or is she really a princess taking part in a rebellion against a terrifying galactic dictator? Or both? Industrial Light and Magic bring Lynch's unsettling, disorienting improvisational screenplay to vivid life with state-of-the-art CGI. Also starring Kenny Baker.
 
 
Triplets
14:02 / 04.06.07
Schindler's Fist of the North Star
Oscar must use his terrifyingly brutal kung-fu to lead Jewish prisoners to safety.
 
 
Triplets
14:04 / 04.06.07
"Gesicht, das Faust bricht!"
 
 
Chiropteran
17:19 / 04.06.07
Big Trouble in Little Man Tate

All-American trucker Jodi Foster struggles to give her son, a green-eyed boy genius, a "normal childhood" in the midst of a street war between ancient Chinese tongs.

Mulan Rouge

A Chinese maiden disguises herself as a man and runs away from home to become a Bohemian. John Leguizamo co-stars as a miniature talking dragon.

Kiss THEM! For Me

Three giant radioactive ants take a four-day shore leave in San Francisco...

The Howling's Moving Castle

A young girl, turned into an old woman by a witch's curse, volunteers as housekeeper in a giant walking castle, only to discover that it houses a colony of werewolves.

City of Lost Children of Men

Simpleminded circus strongman Clive Owens figures out where all the kids have gone.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Jackie Brown

Samuel L. Jackson stays up all night in the pumpkin patch.

March of the Wooden Penguins

Funnymen Laurel and Hardy must make a grueling trek across Antarctica to help Widow Peep pay the mortgage on her giant shoe-house.

Silent Running of the Lambs

The FBI turns to a brilliant convicted serial killer to help them discover who is killing the crew of a deep-space freighter carrying the last of the Earth's plant-life.
 
 
Chiropteran
18:10 / 04.06.07
A trilogy of Orson Welles films:

Third Man Walking

A nun empathizes with a charming black marketeer in post-War Vienna.

Touch of Evil Dead

A corrupt sheriff accidentally recites from the Necronomicon in a dusty border town.

The Lady from Shanghai Knights

Welles teams up with Rita Hayworth for this action-packed martial arts comedy - includes the now-legendary fight scene in the Hall of Mirrors

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Last Unicorn on the Left

An evil king graphically drives the unicorns into the sea, then unknowingly takes refuge in the house of the sole remaining unicorn, who takes a gruesome revenge. "It's only a cartoon, it's only a cartoon, it's only a cartoon..."

Following Decadent Nightfalling's Beauty & the Beast of Yucca Flats, I offer:

The Man with One Red Zone Cuba

Tom Hanks plays a concert violinist who is chosen at random by the CIA to participate in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs Invasion. "Starring" John Carradine.

(I can't stop.)
 
 
Triplets
18:11 / 04.06.07
The Mummy Train
Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes board a guarded train to steal a mummy. Who doesn't want to co-operate.
 
 
Triplets
18:14 / 04.06.07
Them! Live!
Rowdy Roddy finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal most people have the heads of... GIANT ANTS!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:14 / 04.06.07
SNOW WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP

Cos sometimes when you win, you actually lose. And sometimes when you lose, you actually win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you- WHOAH!!! Raymond, you see those little guys???
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:34 / 04.06.07
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SOME LIKE IT HOT

Some dude starts blackmailing and killing a bunch of hardened criminals who are all really embarrassed about the fact that they all wore dresses once to escape the rozzers.
 
 
Feverfew
18:42 / 04.06.07
Harsh Times at Ridgemont High

Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez cruise around Ridgemont, looking for love, and are aided by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates. However, Christian can't let go of his issues surrounding his time in the gulf, and begins to drag Freddy down with him, resulting in an explosive climactic affirmation of what friendship really means.

Alternatively;

Training Day of the Jackal

Ethan Hawke is ecstatic to finally get what he wants; a promotion to the Narcotics division. However, things are not always as they seem; On his first day, his boss, Denzel Washington, is acting strange, and Ethan gets in much deeper than he intended; Is Denzel really plotting to kill Charles de Gaulle?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:52 / 04.06.07
Damn it, and I was just about to post about Throw Momma From the Training Day.
 
 
COG
18:54 / 04.06.07
I like the strictly film ones best. More internationally comprehensible.
 
 
Chiropteran
18:55 / 04.06.07
Road House of Sand and Fog

An Iranian immigrant, a "cooler" hired to end the violence at the Double Deuce, goes head-to-head with Jennifer Connelly, who lost the bar when she was mistakenly charged for back-taxes.

Triumph of the Quills

Geoffrey Rush turns in a stunning and grotesque performance as the Marquis De Sade in Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece of decadent propaganda.

The Seven Year Itch in Tibet

The Dalai Lama has renounced worldly desires, but he is sorely tempted when blond bombshell Monroe moves in upstairs.

Dario Argento's Deep Red Violin

A stringed instrument dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) witnesses the murder of a famous violinist, and traces the history of his instrument back through its previous owners to uncover its bloody secret.
 
 
CameronStewart
18:55 / 04.06.07
Tango and Caché - Sylvester Stallone and Daniel Auteuil star as comically mismatched LA narcotics officers who receive a disconcerting series of videotapes hinting at a dark past.
 
 
Chiropteran
19:00 / 04.06.07
Shakes on a Plane

Samuel L. Jackson is an FBI agent who must transport an alcoholic clown (Bobcat Goldthwaite) from Honolulu to Los Angeles, to testify against a mob boss.
 
 
CameronStewart
19:03 / 04.06.07
Escape From New York Stories - Three of cinema's finest directors, Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese and John Carpenter, direct a trilogy of quirky short films depicting lives of people incarcerated in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan.
 
 
Chiropteran
19:10 / 04.06.07
101 Mohicans

In the midst of the French and Indian War, Cruella De Vil finds herself hopelessly outnumbered...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:16 / 04.06.07
OK, 101 Mohicans fucking rules.
 
 
Chiropteran
19:18 / 04.06.07
Thanks! The whole thread's frikkin brilliant - I want to actually see all of these.
 
  

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