Topic: MYSTERY FUNHOUSE THEATER!!! *31 Days* Halloween Movie Marathon! *31 Movies*

[BlackNMild2k1]

It may seem a little confusing, but I did it that way so that we aren't voting up to the last second for a movie and we all know way ahead of time what we are watching.

I could change it if everyone wants. It might make the vote more exciting.

p.s. I dropped Captain America & Troll 2 since no one voted for them.

[broodwars]

5:36

Ugh, the incredibly bad David Bowie song that kicks this movie off makes me think I'm in for a particularly painful movie experience.  Then Jennifer Connely walks on-screen and pretty much confirms it with a performance about the equivalent of an occasionally emoting/whining cardboard box.  I guess she hails from the Keanu Reeves school of acting.  And seriously, what's with the constant refrain "because it hurts like hell" in a Jim Henson movie?  You know, for kids!

EDIT:

13:25

Wow, Connely's character is awfully...accepting...of the David Bowie character and everywhere this plot is leading.  But I suppose as we've seen so far, she's a pretty disturbed girl.  I mean, is she in drama or something, or does she just get off on dressing up in Renaissance Fair outfits and pretending she's in fantasy worlds?  And that's a bizarrely specific wish that she has to make to trigger the Goblin King to make his move, right down to having to say "right now" at the end.  It really isn't enough just to wish the baby was taken away, so she has to add "right now"?

I do appreciate the foreshadowing of characters and settings in the movie with all the figures and toys in her room, though.

[broodwars]

16:52

Connely: "Where's the door to the Labyrinth?"

Poggle: "About a foot right behind you, you stupid *****."

(Well, that's how I would have paraphrased it, considering she was harassing him about where the door was when she was standing right in front of it.  -_-' )

[BlackNMild2k1]

16:52

Connely: "Where's the door to the Labyrinth?"

Poggle: "About a foot right behind you, you stupid *****."

(Well, that's how I would have paraphrased it, considering she was harassing him about where the door was when she was standing right in front of it.  -_-' )

LOL I thought the exact same thing..... almost word for word.

[broodwars]

32:58

Wow, they really aren't even trying with these David Bowie songs.  A pity, too, because Jim Henson movies usually have pretty decent music.  I'd be amused at how consistently the Muppets are out-acting Connely so far, but honestly that happens in most Muppet movies (though usually it's because the humans are over-acting, rather than Connely's "not acting at all and just sleepwalking through the role").  I'm really confused so far as to how we're supposed to react to Bowie's "Goblin King" character.  He's not scary, he's not funny, and he's not mysterious.  He's just...weird.

The scene just now with Poggle (or is it "Hoggle"?) and Connely reminded me of this one for some strange reason.   

[ThePerm]

lol troll 2 is totally going to go back up!

it is as bad as ghoullies, i just prefered raptor island

the more it can be ripped apart the better!

[King of Twitch]

I would also like for you to rip it apart, not just post dumb storyboards.

[broodwars]

51:36

 

Ok, Big Lipped Alligator Moment (it's ok, the moment I'm referring to is in the link).

57:04

Oh joy, we're in a land of farting Bogs.  Ladies and Gentlemen, we've hit absolute bottom now.  We can only go up from here.

[broodwars]

1:09:47

Ugh, another trippy and boring David Bowie musical number (seriously, this is from the 80s, not the 70s.  Who enjoyed this music back then?).  Looks like Connely's been taking a little too much LDS. 

The terrier Muppet's pretty cool, though I keep getting this feeling that I've seen this Muppet before.  I just can't put my finger on where...

[BlackNMild2k1]

I agree. I was watching part of the movie with a 4 year old and she got up and said "The music is terrible" and then left.

That's why when I posted it i put terrible in quotes.

I had to pause the movie and LMAO for a few seconds, mostly because she said terrible like Charles Barkley "terrbull".

[broodwars]

*One fight scene and one more boring David Bowie song later....*

And...done!  So how was the movie?  To sum it up in one word: "boring", a word I usually don't ascribe to a Jim Henson production.  Granted, the Muppets do everything in their power to try and save this movie with the energy of movement and voice that I've come to expect from Jim Henson Productions, but they're just suffocated by 2 human actors just sleep-walking through the movie in Connely and Bowie and a script that doesn't even make sense in the nonsensical style of Alice in Wonderland.  There seems to be kind of a theme in the movie of setting aside petty childhood fantasies and attachments, but it's pretty half-assed and at the end of the movie Connely wishes for all her Labyrinth friends back so it's all undone anyway.  So in other words, everything in this movie has been entirely pointless.  Throw in painfully bad David Bowie music, and you have a movie I struggled to remain awake watching.

Was it all bad?  No, as I said before this movie had some pretty cool Muppets, a couple cool sets (like the room of Infinite Stairs), and (on occasion) some neat British humor and wordplay that served to remind me of much-better stories (including the Phantom Tollbooth, oddly enough).  With this movie over, I can only hope we don't have to sit through The Dark Crystal as well, another movie from the same period that I fear is probably just as bad.

[BlackNMild2k1]

The Dark Crystal is soooooooooooooo boring, but I liked it when I was a kid. Just like Thunder Cats, they both aged really really bad.

I will do my best to make sure The Dark Crystal never makes it way onto the list.

[ThePerm]

hahah, i seriously do not get dark crystal at all.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I'm really hoping to get that new computer up and running not only before I start the next movie, but before E3. You probably noticed the image quality drop in the pics I posted for Labyrinth, but that was because the 1st half of the movie was watched in HQ with DivX and the second one was adjusted for computer retardation by Netflix.

I couldn't finish with DivX due to computer issues and Netflix automatically adjust picture quality to match bandwidth and CPU speed so that the movie will play smoothly. This lap top is on life support right now and just struggling to keep up with casual usage (internet and streaming video). It hasn't been able to play a DVD without chopping the sound for quite a long time, so it's time to retire this thing.

[Halbred]

FUN FACT! According to Wikipedia (which is always right), a sequel to The Dark Crystal is being made. With CG instead of muppets, which I'm perfectly happy with.

[broodwars]

FUN FACT! According to Wikipedia (which is always right), a sequel to The Dark Crystal is being made. With CG instead of muppets, which I'm perfectly happy with.

Damn CG is taking our Muppets' jobs!      I blame Yoda for this, as he was the first to sell out.

[ThePerm]

thats not the real Yoda

[BlackNMild2k1]

Ghoulies II

Streaming: Ghoulies II or Google search: Ghoulies II DVDRip[Eng]1987 vu

Rated: R
Length: 90 minutes
Released: 1987

The Ghoulies are back in this sequel in which they take over a traveling carnival -- giving a park full of teenagers a night they'll never forget.
~or~
Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!

I hope everyone brought their own pair of Red & blue glasses....

Huh, oh this isn't in 3D, but you can always pretend it was to add some extra excitement.

with so much E3 anticipation I almost forgot about this weeks movie, but since it's so hot and I can't sleep, I might as well be the first one to start on it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

4:37
Oh Gawd..... This is not nearly as sexy as the 3rd breast in Total Recall


Nope....not sexy. Not sexy at all :/


Yeah, I don't know if I can watch that either


damn, I realize it must be late since this is Ghoulies I and not Ghoulies II. I wonder how I didn't notice earlier.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Now that I got the right movie and know that I'm headed straight for Satan's Den, I can say that this movie atleast accepts itself for what it is and get right into the cheezy dialog in the first 5 seconds of the movie.

But how often do you find "Extremely Toxic & Solvent" chemicals just laying around wide open in a garage?

Especially a car shop garage? What would you possibly be using that for?

Oh great! now these can fly? Duh Nuh Duh Nuh Duh Nuh Duh Nuh
Duh Nuh Duh Nuh Duh Nuh Duh Nuh Batman!!!


NO FATHER!!!!

you're supposed to be absolvent, not be in the solvent. You're doing it all wrong!

7:43
Oh No! Pleae tell me someone didn't feed the Ghoulie after midnight!! Looks like it's multiplying like Gemlins.


I gotta pause it there.... just realized it's after 3am. need sleep.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Oh no there 4 of them now and they're doing pyramid stance..... I think I know where this movie is headed.

Intentionally bad comedic horror incoming.

Uh, Oh. Carnival is SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!!

[BlackNMild2k1]

Who you calling a FREAK!!!!


Here pussy pussy


MEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!


No. Hereeeee poooosy poooosy

[BlackNMild2k1]

Now things are starting to heat up!!


Uhhhh.... Whooops!!

[BlackNMild2k1]

We've already tried to abort this movie twice!!!!!


But as you can see it has failed...... again.


OMG this movie is sooooo bad.

Did you know there is a Ghoulies III & IV?

#3 is Ghoulies Go To College.
That's got to be infinitely worse than this movie.

"What did you say MUTHAFUKKAAAA!?"

[BlackNMild2k1]

WTF is this.... High School Prom?

If you're gonna try to flush your still born failed aborted fetus, at least make sure it went down.... and stayed there.


But I'd hate to see the hole that thing originally crawled out of....
I'd especially hate to see the one it tried to crawl back in.


^I don't think he would be of use to even the gayest man in the Castro District of San Francisco anymore after that.

Or him either...


and that is the face that onlynot even a mother could love.