As a result of not being able to sleep, I have watched a fair amount of presumably crappy movies from 2 to 5 am. These are presumed to be crappy because if they were watched at 8 pm, I would feel cheated. But at 2 am I find that I am not as picky about what I consider entertainment.
For example, Alien VS. Predator - How did this not get an Oscar mention. Big pyramid, aliens, explosions. This had nearly everything. Through in a nude robot and you would have a perfect show. 2 am rating 8/10.
Resident Evil and the sequel - Man, these were great. Dark and scary, and I think there was a booby shot. The problem with early morning viewing is that you can't always remember it well, but while I watched them, I loved them. 2 am rating 8/10
A Man Apart - At 2 am I can smell what The Rock is cooking, and it's buttery.....KICK BUTTERY!!!! How has his movies seemed to stay at the level of Jean Claude Van Dam? Although, those movies also kick butt at 2 am. 2 am rating 9/10
Chronicles of Riddick - A little confusing at 2 am, and sometimes hard to piece together, but at 2 am I know that it is because it is 2 am and assume that those fully awake followed it perfectly. 2 am rating 7/10.
28 Days Later - WOW!!! Nearly the perfect 2 am movie. 9/10
Anchorman - Okay, you can't watch this at 2 am. I hear it was good and funny, but at 2 am it was painful. I only got through about half an hour. I need action and explosions. 2 am rating 3/10
Fincher Fan
10-18-05, 08:49 AM
Vin Diesel was in A Man Apart and Anchorman is painful at any time of the day. You're right about bad movies being better in the wee hours, though.
kvrdave
10-18-05, 11:13 AM
That's the other problem with watching late at night, you get your movies mixed up. Which one had The Rock and Stifler? That was a great show.....at 2am. A Man Apart was the drug one where he was the DEA guy and they were after the Mexican drug lord? Great show at 2 am. :up:
tanman
10-18-05, 11:35 AM
Dude where's my car, is probably the perfect 2am movie. I watched it somewhat recently and was like WTF is going on? If it wasn't late at night or if I wasn't in a group I probably would have turned it off.
Geofferson
10-18-05, 11:38 AM
That's the other problem with watching late at night, you get your movies mixed up. Which one had The Rock and Stifler? That was a great show.....at 2am. A Man Apart was the drug one where he was the DEA guy and they were after the Mexican drug lord? Great show at 2 am. :up:
That'd be The Rundown -- pretty good flick actually.
Tonight's schedule looks promising:
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood
Against the Law (starring Richard Grieco)
Cloak & Dagger :up:
The Peacemaker
Dodgeball
:)
eedoon
10-18-05, 12:20 PM
28 Days Later is a good movie any time you watch it. -screwy-
Nesbit
10-18-05, 12:53 PM
Agreed.
riley_dude
10-18-05, 12:56 PM
Dude where's my car, is probably the perfect 2am movie. I watched it somewhat recently and was like WTF is going on? If it wasn't late at night or if I wasn't in a group I probably would have turned it off.
Of course a bong hit always helps and a carton of ice cream.
PixyJunket
10-18-05, 12:59 PM
I'll remember this when Serenity comes to DVD.
Tyler_Durden
10-18-05, 01:43 PM
28 Days Later is a good movie any time you watch it. -screwy-Exactly.
Also, horror films, good or bad, always need to be viewed at night.
kvrdave
10-18-05, 02:16 PM
28 Days Later is a good movie any time you watch it. -screwy-
Oh, I agree. But it was awsome at 2 am.
Shawn of the Dead was decent at 2 am. Tonight I will watch Dawn of the Dead, though.
Cancer Man
10-18-05, 04:52 PM
I really liked the truly dire and schlocky sci-fi junk, Fortress and Fortress II, both starring Christopher Lambert, at 2am in the morning. I also feel any Van Dam movie is enhanced past 11pm as well.
kvrdave
10-18-05, 05:53 PM
Fortress was fantastic. :up:
Geofferson
10-18-05, 05:56 PM
Whatever happened to Emanuelle or Lady Chatterly movies? Those are what I always remember being on in the middle of the night.
Mondo Kane
10-18-05, 06:16 PM
Whatever happened to Emanuelle or Lady Chatterly movies? Those are what I always remember being on in the middle of the night.
Or all the other European imports from the late 70's/mid 80's! So much sexier than all the crap they got on now.
Giantrobo
10-18-05, 06:27 PM
I remember the good ole days of watchin' crap movies on late night TV. Old Japanese monster movies, low budget thrillers, some decent dramas. Then the "Infomercial" was invented and it's been raping late night TV for many years now. I mean when you look at the listings for some channels it has "Paid Programming" listed from 11p all the way til 6a the next day. :grunt:
edited: for spelling
Jackskeleton
10-18-05, 07:00 PM
I'll remember this when Serenity comes to DVD.
OH SNAPE!
I'll agree with this. Though whenever it's late any movie becomes and instant classic.
Joe Molotov
10-18-05, 07:19 PM
Sci-Fi Channel used to play anime movies like Vampire Hunter D and Akira at 2am on Saturday night. Then they stopped. :(
kvrdave
10-18-05, 07:25 PM
All these are dvd viewing or Tivo. I have looked at live tv, and it is bad. I watched Sports Center twice through, and finally decided it was time to watch bad movies.
Dean Kousoulas
10-19-05, 01:44 AM
I remember the good ole days of watchin' crap movies on late night TV. Old Japanes moster movies, low budget thrillers, some decent dramas. Then the "Infomrecial" was invented and it's been raping late night TV for many years now. I mean when you look at the listings for some channels it has "Paid Programming" listed from 11p all the way til 6a the next day. :grunt:
Paid programming kicks ass man! "You set it...and (crowd kicks in) FORGET it"
Fincher Fan
10-19-05, 01:51 AM
All these are dvd viewing or Tivo. I have looked at live tv, and it is bad. I watched Sports Center twice through, and finally decided it was time to watch bad movies.
You should switch to infomercials. They'll put you to sleep.
kvrdave
10-19-05, 02:01 AM
I have rock hard abs, 10 properties I bought with no money down, and a bunch of kitchen appliances that say otherwise. -wink-
Going to sleep is generally a bad thing, right now. I just woke up from sleeping a few hours, and have a headache. If I continue to sleep, it will get much worse, but if I stay awake, the headache will go away.
Fincher Fan
10-19-05, 02:26 AM
That's messed up.
mndtrp
10-19-05, 02:57 AM
Joe Bob Briggs was the best for late night viewing. He pulled in some great movies.
kvrdave
10-19-05, 06:11 AM
Dawn of the Dead was tonight's treat. Been sitting on that one a long time. I had unrealistic expectations, but it was still a very good show at 2 am. Headache is just below the surface so I couldn't fully enjoy it.
Looking at the DVD shelf, and looking for those still sealed, the first one I see is Insomnia with Robin Williams. How fitting. :lol:
Well, we'll see what comes up next.
Fincher Fan
10-19-05, 06:37 AM
You hadn't watched Dawn of the Dead before tonight? -ohbfrank-
kvrdave
10-19-05, 12:30 PM
:lol: I know, it's shameful. I can't get my wife to ever watch scary movies, so it just got put at the bottom of the list. If it were up to her, we would probably just watch Far and Away repeatedly.
But I pick up pills today, so tonight I should be able to sleep again. I will sort of miss this.
slabinskia
10-19-05, 03:30 PM
I remember one time I couldn't sleep and was going through the channels and found the big lebowski on.I hadn't seen it before then.That did not help me go to sleep.Instead I decided to rent the movie since the tv version is heavily edited.I thought the unedited version was hilarious.I then eventually bought the dvd and it remains one of my favorites,dude.
I think the best 2 am movies are the friday the 13th's and nightmare on elm street movies.
BabiG
10-19-05, 04:48 PM
Godzilla movies are the best in the middle of the night.
kvrdave
10-19-05, 11:04 PM
Well, I have medication that is suppose to help with sleep and headaches. And it only takes up to 30 days to start to work.....WTF????
Anyway, Batman Begins will be shown tonight in the Man Room.
chente
10-19-05, 11:30 PM
I saw Orson Welle's "The Stranger" one night at 3 am and was completely enthralled. It remains my personal favorite of his films even though I realize that it is flawed overall and even he didn't like it much. Something about watching it that late just got to me.
Rocketdog2000
10-20-05, 01:53 AM
Oh totally!
Back in the pre-DVD, pre-internet, pre-_____ day, when I actually had HBO and Cinemax - I must have watched every crap movie, B or otherwise, ever produced in the 80's. Some still sucked, even though I still got sucked into watching them - but a few actually became guilty pleasures.
kvrdave
10-20-05, 01:58 AM
Vincent Price was always my favorite.
Batman Begins was maybe the best Batman yet. The first was great, 2nd was good, the rest was crap. This one made me wish for more. This is how they all should have been. I was truly amazed. I give it a 2 am 10/10. Of course, I watched it early, but at 2 am it is definately perfection.
Took a pill, and now in 29 days, I'll be able to sleep well again. Unless the medication doesn't work. But until then, I have my lovely little thread to keep me amused.
Time for TV, but I smell a rotten movie coming up as well. :)
Fincher Fan
10-20-05, 05:47 AM
So what's on?
Dr. Calamari
10-20-05, 06:43 AM
I remember the good ole days of watchin' crap movies on late night TV. Old Japanese monster movies, low budget thrillers, some decent dramas. Then the "Infomercial" was invented and it's been raping late night TV for many years now. I mean when you look at the listings for some channels it has "Paid Programming" listed from 11p all the way til 6a the next day. :grunt:
Me too! My formative years were spent watching some really entertaining movies between the hours of 11 PM - 3 AM, until the goddamn infomercials took over. If not for late night movie viewing, I probably wouldn't have the interest I have now in old movies, especially Film Noir and classic monster movies. I guess this is another example of the destructive power of money.
kvrdave
10-20-05, 11:46 AM
So what's on?
I ended up just catching up on Tivo material.
DRG
10-20-05, 01:52 PM
Also, any horror movie is great in a theater after midnight. I went to a midnight showing of a pretty bad slasher movie called The Pool a few years back and it was great. Saw the same movie on DVD later on and it lost all its charm. Also, saw the 2005 House of Wax at a midnight show (actually 12:30) last May. There were only two other people in the theater, so there was a weird creepy 'isolated but still out in public' feeling. Best theater experience I'd had in years.
Fincher Fan
10-21-05, 07:30 AM
There were only two other people in the theater, so there was a weird creepy 'isolated but still out in public' feeling. Best theater experience I'd had in years.
Sounds like the midnight screening of Hulk I went to.
kvrdave
10-23-05, 05:42 AM
Just got done with Land of the Dead. Great middle of the night flick. I was disappointed with the ending in two ways. First they wuss out and let the dead go because they are "just looking for a place to belong" or whatever crap they spewed from their mouths. Yeah, their looking for a place to belong with live humans so they can eat them. DUH. Also, the other shows ended with a little snippet that always let you know "while you may think it ends nicely....it really super sucks to still be around, and they probably all died." That was always cool. So I watched all the credits to see if Romero would do this again, and instead I read a bunch of names that mean nothing.
Next up, I watched a show about the life of an old gospel singer. I enjoy gospel music, and so naturally I enjoyed it, but beyond that it was really nice to watch the life of an old guy and simply learn more about him. But to be honest, it would have been better during the non-cryptic hours.
Well, 2:45 am, and I can't sleep. Time to look for something else.
kvrdave
10-24-05, 12:05 PM
Last night (actually this morning) I watched Friday Night Lights. Probably one of the best High School football films I have seen. Varsity Blues was good for someone looking for the antagonist coach, wild group, and cliche' players. Remember the Titans was pretty weak as far as a football movie goes. Radio was more aobut the coach and the mentally retarded boy. The System was more about corrupt coaches.
This was a good show. And one note about Billy Bob Thorton. In his "real" life, I just can't stand the guy. Don't really like anything about him, but he is one of the few actors that can make me forget everything about "him" and just enjoy a movie. He really is a great actor.
Ayre
10-24-05, 12:15 PM
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
RichC2
10-24-05, 12:23 PM
The Wicker Man is phenomenal at 3 AM. (And earlier, it still owns.)
HBO showed Robot Jox at 5:30 am the other day, I caught the beginning and was properly entertained into slumber. Man how I love that movie.
Johnny Boy
10-24-05, 01:45 PM
Schindler's List is great at any time. But at 2am, fantastic entertainment!
This was a good show. And one note about Billy Bob Thorton. In his "real" life, I just can't stand the guy. Don't really like anything about him, but he is one of the few actors that can make me forget everything about "him" and just enjoy a movie. He really is a great actor.
I feel the same way about Robin Williams. I really love him in movies (particularly his serious roles), but when he's being interviewed I just want to smack the hell out of him.
BigDaddy
10-24-05, 03:31 PM
I have rock hard abs, 10 properties I bought with no money down, and a bunch of kitchen appliances that say otherwise. -wink-
Going to sleep is generally a bad thing, right now. I just woke up from sleeping a few hours, and have a headache. If I continue to sleep, it will get much worse, but if I stay awake, the headache will go away.
Yea but you could have done all that and more out of your ONE BEDROOM APT. :lol:
kvrdave
10-24-05, 07:57 PM
:lol:
Seriously, I am so thankful for TIVO. If I didn't have it recording crap all day long, I would be watching infomercials every night, and knowing me, I would buy a fair amount of it.
naitram
10-24-05, 10:15 PM
I have to break ranks here and say that bad movies are the best on Saturday mornings/afternoons.
mndtrp
10-25-05, 02:31 AM
HBO showed Robot Jox at 5:30 am the other day, I caught the beginning and was properly entertained into slumber. Man how I love that movie.
There should be more movies like this, except done really well. Robot Jox was pretty good, but I imagine things could be sweet these days.
I stopped by Hollywood Video tonight on a quest to find some B-looking horror movies, just for this reason. The girlfriends out of town, so I'll be hitting up hooters and watching:
Monkey Shines
The Black Gate
Bloody Mary
Hopefully the late night, wings, beer, and halloween boobies make this a quality night.
Fincher Fan
10-25-05, 09:00 AM
And one note about Billy Bob Thorton. In his "real" life, I just can't stand the guy.
The guy had Jolie on tap - you have to respect that.
kvrdave
10-25-05, 07:35 PM
:lol: Last night.... I SLEPT!!!!
I would like to tell you it was wonderful, but I had a headache by 2 am and decided to just keep trying. I continued to sleep, but it was not restful, and I had a nasty headache today. Back to the old schedule. :(
Fincher Fan
10-26-05, 04:19 AM
You're being shelfish taking those pills, kvrdave. Let the thread live!
neocheddar02
10-26-05, 05:17 AM
Great Thread!
Mortal Kombat is a great 2am flick. It seems to make 'sense' at 2 for some reason. Maybe because after midnight or so I try to be at least 5 times deeper than I normally am.
kvrdave
10-27-05, 11:22 AM
Good call on MK.
Last night I watched Blade Trinity, which got terrible reviews. I really enjoyed it around 2 am. It was nice to see Two Guys and a Girl on there. He was pretty ripped, which suprised me. Seems like they probably let him make most of his own lines. That started to push the envelope, but I still got a kick out of it.
Fincher Fan
10-27-05, 11:26 AM
I think you need to cut back on your meds, man.
Fincher Fan
10-27-05, 11:27 AM
We need a real test. Something definitively shitty for kvrdave to watch at 2am. I nominate Street Fighter (the Van Damme one).
Dashed
10-27-05, 01:57 PM
Steet Fighter was good, I dont know what you are talking about. I nominate The Rambo trilogy. That should be a fun night.
The Bus
10-27-05, 02:10 PM
I saw about half of Triplets of Belleville the other day at 2am. Magnificent!
I nominate Fantastic Planet.
kvrdave
10-27-05, 02:19 PM
We need a real test. Something definitively shitty for kvrdave to watch at 2am. I nominate Street Fighter (the Van Damme one).
Any movie that ends with everyone jumping in the air or striking a pose to a still shot is pure money at 2 am :lol:
And it still has one of the greatest lines ever by Raul Julia...."To you it was the worst day of your life, a day that everything changed, a day scarred on your memory as I killed your family. To me....it was Tuesday." or something like that. Amazing!!!
chente
10-27-05, 02:56 PM
If you want really crappy Van Damme, watch Cyborg. I got it as part of LD lot I bought and ugh...
kvrdave
10-27-05, 07:20 PM
:lol I liked Cyborg.
kvrdave
12-16-05, 04:03 AM
For reasons too lengthy to discuss, I am awake again in the wee hours, and have been for awhile.
But all is not lost, I watched The Punisher tonight. The newer one that got terrible reviews, had John Travolta and no Dolf Lungren (I know, WTF?).
Anyway, this movie was pretty darn good. Though any movie that tortures John Travolta is pretty good. Didn't follow the comics very well, but I could see that without the licensing, it would have just been another movie that should have starred The Rock. That ain't all bad either.
Certainly felt like it could spin into a decent tv show for some channel. I'd watch. :)
Jake77444
12-16-05, 05:26 AM
Im pretty much an insomniac, got to love the 2am movies, watched die hard which is always good no matter what time it is and road trip tonight.
Schwenkstar
12-16-05, 04:20 PM
I was sick one time and watched a couple of crappy movies I own in my collection that I was hesitant to watch...
Highlights:
Battle Beyond the Stars - Roger Corman's Star Wars Ripoff is a masterpiece of schlock when you have a fever of 102 and your head is pounding! Actually, the special effects were half way decent (Corman claimed this was his most expensive project).
Critters - Cheesy 80's sci-fi comedy... Good for when you're sick but never watch it any other time... That is, of course, you have a sense of nostalgia about this film...
Wing Commander - Good gosh, this movie was still not that good when I was sick - despite the fact it had bullet time sequences and Matthew Lilliard, who is always fun to watch. Nowhere near as good as the video games starring Mark Hammill...
Wow, I just realized I had a sci-fi theme going on there...
Doctor Gonzo
12-17-05, 01:09 AM
I miss watching 'Night Flight' on friday and saturday nights on USA Network. They always had cool stuff :(
Midnite Movies DVDs are always good to pop in late at night.
kvrdave
12-17-05, 01:59 AM
Well, I finally got around to watching The Forgotten with Julianna Moore. WOW. This started a little slow, but it was a fantastic show. This was a better X-Files movie than the X-Files movie. I had no idea that at the heart of it, it was a sci-fi show. Hopefully that isn't much of a spoiler, as I highly suggest you watch it.
Time to dive in for more crap.
kvrdave
12-17-05, 03:36 AM
Well, House of 1000 Corpses is now over. Written and directed by Rob Zombie. And with this, I have to believe he is not quite the writer nor director that Dee Snyder is. I am betting Noel Gross has a review of this, so I won't bother. But even the wee hours of the morning could not make this worth watching.
Fincher Fan
12-17-05, 03:37 AM
I suggest XXX2. I'll be amazed if you're still awake at the end of it.
kvrdave
12-17-05, 01:06 PM
:lol: It will probably end up in queue.
Squirrel God
12-17-05, 09:27 PM
I think a bad movie is a bad movie is a bad movie. A Man Apart is a terrible movie however.
I do love watching movies in the small hours of the morning though. Some movies are just made to be watched at that time and really work best then, particularly the surreal, e.g. watching "Mulholland Drive" at 2am is so much more rewarding than watching it at 9pm.
I don't know what the deal is, maybe because it's quiet, you know for sure that no-one will disturb you, and maybe you're more open to suggestion.
Quite a few movies that are a bit removed from reality seem to focus on those hours between midnight and dawn as well. "After Hours" would be a good example of that.
adamblast
12-17-05, 10:49 PM
Space Truckers - A truly mediocre low budget scifi-action-comedy that can seem like genius with the right amount of sleep deprivation. Watch Dennis Hopper and Stephen Dorf battle skinny death robots! Watch George Wendt get sucked through a pinhole into space!
bballing
12-18-05, 12:53 AM
What is the Van Damme movie where he says something like "no you've lost your balls"
Was that streetfigher?
Kudama
12-19-05, 02:13 AM
I haven't seen it recently, but I would like to (late at night and drunk), but I thought Mario Brothers kicked ass.
King Koopa rocks!
Jake77444
12-19-05, 04:39 AM
I haven't seen it recently, but I would like to (late at night and drunk), but I thought Mario Brothers kicked ass.
King Koopa rocks!
I must admit mario brothers is an amazing movie. :)
Fincher Fan
12-19-05, 07:19 AM
I just watched Mortal Kombat 2. I wish I had I gone with my gut instinct to switch it off after the first 5 minutes. Even Uwe Boll couldn't make a movie this bad. That said, I think kvrdave should watch it. ;)
Mondo Kane
12-30-05, 04:47 PM
My pick goes to Island of Dr. Moreau--Turned out to be a lot of fun around 1am this morning!
Lord Rick
01-03-06, 07:38 PM
I don't usually stay up late but the other night I watched Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, and let me tell you - it was riveting at 1:30am.
Pressplay
01-04-06, 01:55 PM
Great thread Kvrdave! Looks like the pills are now working? Well on my side, I couldn't sleep a few days ago so I got up a little passed midnight and watched Excalibur and Clash of the Titans back to back. It was perfect.
kvrdave
01-12-06, 02:00 AM
Actually, I just forgot to update this for awhile. :lol: The pills warn of drowsiness, but I have yet to get the desired side effect.
But here we go....
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Wow. This was almost pure crap. Started out as pure crap and I almost turned it off. Keep in mind I love the old Buck Rogers radio programs, etc. so I thought this would be up my alley. Then the robots came on screen, and I thought, "Hey, robots, now I just need explosions and nudity and I have a winner." Sadly, there was no nudity, and the rest of the show still managed to suck. I actually turned this off with 10 minutes left. Saw the climax and thought, "If that was the climax, the last 10 minutes are sure to suck." Not safe at any hour, you have been warned.
Santa Clause 2: Had low hopes since it was a sequal. Those low hopes were met, and so I actually tended to enjoy it. No nudity, or explosions, but a decent robot.
Garfield: What the hell was I thinking? A movie that no one was asking to be made, and it was made 10 years late, and Bill Murray was the voice? Actually, from a family move perspective, it wasn't nearly as bad as I figured it would be. Later the kids watched it and they really liked it. Not a typical insomniac movie, but it wasn't bad....but I won't be watching it again, either.
The Girl Next Door: Kind of a weird mix between Risky Business and most of the 80s teeny bopper movies. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Could have had a bit more nudity, and I didn't count a single robot or explosion. But there was some nudity, and I'm a sucker for teen movies.
Tonight it looks like I catch up on TV. Sadly, I saw MK2 years ago. Kept waiting for it to get good, and I am still waiting. No telling what is next, but it will undoubtedly be slightly better at 2am than any other time.
kvrdave
01-13-06, 07:00 AM
Just couldn't decide what to watch so I went with some random MST3K. Some times it is amazing, some times it puts you to sleep. I may start over and go with Dark City or Gattaca. I would like to see them again.
Fincher Fan
01-13-06, 07:12 AM
Since watching crappy movies at 2am makes them better, does watching great movies at 2am make them worse?
Nick Danger
01-13-06, 09:12 AM
How did I miss this thread? This is great stuff!
I like to watch bad action movies dubbed into Spanish at 2 AM. I don't need to worry about keeping up with the plot because I don't speak Spanish. I can just wait for the next explosion.
Dave, you're missing a bet by not watching westerns. John Wayne is awesome at 2 AM.
12thmonkey
01-13-06, 09:49 AM
I have to break ranks here and say that bad movies are the best on Saturday mornings/afternoons.
:thumbsup:
I am in complete agreement.
kvrdave
01-14-06, 04:38 AM
MST3K was always best on Saturday mornings.
Well, tonight I enjoyed James Caan in The Program. About 30 minutes into it I realized I had seen it before, but I wanted some football. Love the ending that shows that no matter what crap they had to go through, the coaches start just as they did before, getting ready to recruit.
I also remember thinking that this was about a coach who would do anything to win....because that is what the description said, but Caan was a good human being. So now I need to find me a movie with a bad human being for a coach. :)
kvrdave
02-20-06, 02:49 AM
Well, I took a break from bad movies and watched the Firefly series. I add it here because I just watched the movie as well. I don't think I would have thought much of the move if I didn't have the series to bring me up to date, but it was a great ride.
Finally saw the remake of The Longest Yard. Heard it wasn't very good, but I definately enjoyed it. Not a typical AM movie, so I will have to find some crappier stuff in the near future.
Sleep when you're dead. In the meantime, there's a crappy movie to be watched. :)
brizz
02-20-06, 03:58 AM
:lol:
I suffered a herniated disc a few weeks ago and have been sleeping on a hide-a-bed in the living room for 3 weeks - sleep was fitful for the first couple of weeks because of the pain and i've watched 25 movies at least....i'm watching Constantine right now :lol:
some of the others:
High Tension - total crap
House of Wax
Ocean's 12
Eurotrip
Devil's Rejects - liked this one a lot
Dark Water - meh
i've also watched some surprisingly good ones....Every night is movie night!
ShallowHal
02-20-06, 07:09 PM
I've seen one of the best late night movies twice, thanks to random showings on HBO HD (or Cinemax?). My Little Eye, with Jennifer Sky from Cleopatra 2525, which you'll know know about if you're up at 2am. :lol: There's also a quick ten minutes with the nameless blonde guy from Alias and Kitchen Confidential.
She even shows some boobies, and the soundtrack is perfect (Peaches' "Fuck the Pain Away"). rotfl
kvrdave
02-27-06, 05:49 AM
Okay, knocked out a few more mainstream movies this am. First up was Wedding Crashers. This movie sits in a category that must fill 3 requirements to be considered great. We must have nudity, explosions, and robots. I give it half credit for the explosions since we had a guy catch 28 guage birdshot in the ass. We had the nudity, but not a single robot. Not awful, and Will Farrell was cool, but otherwise, I would have rather watch Road Trip, or something again.
Next, it was a night of movies for the kiddies. Corpse Bride. I enjoyed much of this, but after watching the extras, I hated it. Decent group of people who made this sound too much like art. It was a fun little show. Not something for an early morning though.
Last was Leminy Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I had very low expectations of this, but was pleasantly surprised. It was fun. Jim Kerry did a good job and managed not to make it too over the top. Good story, and that is always important, plus the little baby that had the gift of biting made me laugh.
Okay, also bin working on Season 2 of The Wire. You know, these types of shows on HBO, which would also include The Sopranos and Deadwood are really odd. Any given episode is just average....yet I can't stop watching them. I can watch (and feel compelled to watch) 5 episodes in a row, even though I know it will take me to 3am.
Speaking of which, it is 3am. I need to at least try to sleep. :lol:
ShallowHal
02-28-06, 07:00 AM
I just watched Boiler Room, I always forget how much I like this movie. It's definitely one of the best "budget" titles out.
A few nights ago was Fallen with Denzel, one of my favorite movies (with minor roles for Anthony and Janice Soprano). This is a great late night movie because there aren't any volume scares.
chanster
03-01-06, 11:40 AM
Man I wish they brought back Monstervision and Billy
kvrdave
03-03-06, 02:19 AM
Man I wish they brought back Monstervision and Billy
:lol: Isn't that the truth. You can make your own, but listening to Billy's intos and remarks makes it gold.
Well, there will be no crappy movie for me tonight, but I have some beauties ready to go for the next time I can't sleep. I anticipate that will only be 4 nights this next week. :banana:
kvrdave
03-06-06, 12:44 AM
I have done the dirty work, so you don't have to. I forgot to tell you about watching Envy with Ben Stiller and Jack Black. Not since Eddie Murphy was paired up with Dudley Moore in Best Defense have two people with so much talent done so little.
I remeber seeing the previews and thought I would like it. Then it came out, went to DVD, and showed up on HBO and I never even knew it. That should have told me it was a stinker. 2 am will not help you with this one.
Christopher Walken was great as usual.
Go to bed.
ShallowHal
03-06-06, 12:50 AM
Hey, that movie had Amy Poehler and Rachel Weisz as hubby loving wives. Weisz on a washing machine and Walken spouting homeless gems in the same movie? The only thing it needed... was more cowbell. :lol:
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6678/envy0ph.jpg
Brooklyn
03-06-06, 04:17 AM
You want AM cinematic gold? Try anything starring Santo.
He'll fight anything... Werewolves, Dracula, witches, martians, mummies,
cowboys... And mystery solvin'? Yup, he'll do that too. Why, take any old
Scooby Doo episode, replace Scooby with a masked Mexican wrestler and
there you go!
cfloyd3
03-06-06, 05:54 AM
Me and my roommate search the channels at 5 am, we call this looking for 'Gold'. Some examples of what we have found is Summer School, Career Opportunities (#1 all time Gold because of Connelly), and Silver Bullet. Best times completely. I recommend Vincent Price in The Tingler for any late night viewing. It is a favorite as far as a DVD I actually own. Seeing Vincent Price pretend he is on an LSD trip is maybe the greatest experience ever.
kvrdave
03-09-06, 05:47 AM
Ahhhh, back to my sad routine. Tonight's feature was Collateral with Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Jaime Foxx. Good show. Like the weirdo philosopher type that Cruise played. He looked a lot like Richard Gere. Nice to say I saw it, but it wasn't one you'd want to watch during primetime unless you were just a fan.
FRwL
03-14-06, 05:11 PM
I second Monstervision, i loved that program.
I must be the only one here that the opposite works for me, i can watch films at 2 am but the dreary b&w ones work best for me. I can watch all the films said in this thread and it would certainly be more enjoyable but since my brain is processing less that late it just becomes overload, b&w films like film noir or some talky films would surely be tougher to keep your attention on during the day while at night i'm out of it and really immersed into all the gray men standing and talking flatly all the time.
dhmac
03-14-06, 10:26 PM
MST3K was always best on Saturday mornings.
Although Sat. morning was good, late at night has always been best for me when watching MST3K.
(And, kvrdave, when you do watch MST3K as an option, let us know which movie was featured on the episode.)
mikewendt
03-15-06, 11:11 AM
Best movie to watch late at night is, anything that I don't have to give a shit about if I fall asleep during it.
kvrdave
04-04-06, 02:12 PM
Okay, watched a few and thought I would update.
DOOM - This was an interesting movie. The Rock is gold at 2 am. But I could help but think that this movie would have seemed much better if it was in no way connected to the video game. With that connection, I had decent hopes, and it failed to deliver. Without that connection, we had nudity, explosions, and robots (half a robot, anyway) and that makes for a great show.
Sky High - This could have been a good show, but it was really made for the kids. Some decent stuff, and I enjoyed the sidekicks who didn't have much in the way of super powers. But this could put you to sleep at 2 am so be warned.
kvrdave
04-08-06, 12:49 AM
Last night I watched "March of the Penguins" and was reminded of it today when I got the movie ready to return to Netflix.
I simply don't believe it. It had to be scripted or something. Actually, as I'm watching it I am simply blown away as to how the Emporer Penguin has ever survived. I mean, in order for the species to survive, the penguins march 70 miles, mate, wait, and it produces one single egg. Now they have waited a long time and the mom is spent, so they have to pass the egg to the father who has to hold the thing on top of its feet and keep it warm while the moms head back 70 miles to get some food. How the heck do the dads know to keep them on their feet? How the heck does any of this happen? But the dads stick it out and the babies are born. By this time the dads haven't eaten in 120 days and they babies have to be born within a few days of the moms coming back another 70 miles to relieve the dads. They DO!!!! And then the dads later come back to relieve the moms again. It just absolutely makes no sense to me.
Penguins should be extinct. Plain and simple.
Terrell
04-08-06, 06:28 AM
I even paid to see Stealth on PPV at 2:30AM on Saturday, and actually enjoyed it. So you may be right. Bad movies are best enjoyed at very late hours.
Fincher Fan
04-08-06, 06:32 AM
Penguins should be extinct. Plain and simple.
I'd like to see that on the DVD cover!
kvrdave
04-09-06, 12:26 AM
Wow, watched The Legend of Zorro last night. I was really surprised that with the original cast (minus those that died) that I didn't really know this was even made. It made no splash on the box office that I know of.
Anyway, not a terrible movie, but neither was it inspiring....or even very good. It seemed much darker than the original, and that may have more to do with the marital relationship than anything else. Got into a little more conspiracy crap that I generally enjoy as well.
But I believe I was entertained. I certainly didn't fall asleep, though I could have quit watching at nearly any point and been fine.
kvrdave
04-27-06, 01:44 AM
Finally got to watch Walk The Line. Love Johnny Cash, and the whole story was very moving, but I couldn't seem to get past the scar on the actor's lip. Did it ruin the movie for me? Sort of.
Chronicles of Narnia. I had decently high hopes, and that always kills a movie. It reminded me of a pretty well done made for TV movie. But that sucks. Compare it to Lord of the Rings, and that movie just built and built and constantly amazed me, and blew me away. But Narnia???? Well, it was probably just below an average job of making a movie from a book.
As soon as I have 3 hours to spare, King Kong will get to impress me or just be hype.
eedoon
04-27-06, 03:11 AM
Ah. Another person who doesn't like Narnia that much because they are comparing it to LOTR. :p
I think it's the marketer who are to blame for this, they make the trailer so much like it's another LOTR while it's an entirely different story. I think the whole Narnia thing is much more like the earlier Harry Potter than any of LOTR. I say give Narnia a second chance.
kvrdave
05-11-06, 02:34 AM
I will do that. I am sure I will watch it again with the kids, anyway.
Okay, the wife decided she had seen enough movies, so I took over the netflix account.
Hostel....wow. That was one dark, screwed up movie. Loved it. Nedity, explosions, but no robots. Nearly perfect.
Fun with Dick and Jane. Pretty lame, imo. A tad endearing, but it still seemed like I wasted part of my life watching it. I'd hoped for better from Carey.
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Man this sucked. I saw the first one in the theater and didn't find it that awful. This had much better reviews so I figured it was better, but I couldn't sit through it. I loved every FF game up until VII. I found this movie to be a lot like the game....a lot of cinematic crap thrown around very little action. I remember playing the game and thinking, "Holy crap, do I actually get to play now? Are you sure there isn't more movie I should be forced to watch???" And watching the movie I thought, "Holy crap, does anything actually happen?"
It makes me lose faith in the Japanese culture, and I don't wanna' do that. :(
So despite a number of late nights with movies, there was not much that 2 am could save. On to the next movie.
Cheers.
Blitz6Speed
05-11-06, 08:05 AM
My insomnia has been around since i was 8 years old, and im 27 now. I cant even remember how many movies ive watched while i was growing up, and its 5am now LOL. I actually just got done watching king kong again. I have a bad habit of being scared of seeing movies im not familiar with. I have a great dvd collection, but id rather watch Spongebob Squarepants the Movie then watch Blade Runner which i own but STILL havent seen yet. Which reminds me, why do i own movies i still havent watched LOL.
GeorgeP
05-11-06, 06:20 PM
Movies that kick serious ass at 2 a.m.:
1.L.A. Confidential: a great movie anyway, but color noir at 2 a.m. with Crowe, Basinger, Spacey, DeVito, Cromwell and Guy Pearce is just scintillating. It oozes such cool that at that late hour, I swear you FEEL cooler the next day just for having watched it.
2. British suspense/horror films--especially the anthology Asylum and Dominique is Dead, with Cliff Robertson and Jean Simmons trying to scare each other to death in order to inherit all the estate. You see all these great Brit character actors hamming it up to perfection in quirky little supporting roles which get in your head and don't get out.
3. Deliverance: holy crap, will this keep you up all night. Mostly due to those final shots of the lake, but they just cap the steadily building, riveting suspense of the previous events which arrest you late at night and just FILL your pores.
4. Dawn of the Dead: see comments on this movie and 28 Days Later above.
5. The Cassandra Crossing: perhaps the least-celebrated of the all-star disaster flicks from the 1970s, and with good reason...in the light of day. After midnight, though--like it did when I wore out the tape of it as a highly impressionable youth--it becomes thoroughly enjoyable trash.
Jerry Goldsmith, in fact, captures the essence of Jacqueline Susann novel-meets-Eurotrash in his wonderful score to this film about a plague carrier...loose in Switzerland...then on a train...which is rerouted to an old concentration camp site in Poland by a heartless general played by Burt Lancaster connected only by a bridge close to collapse! *gasp* *gasp* (Believe me, at 2 a.m. this ALL makes sense.)
Ava Gardner is so drunk the whole film, she's half-understandable--the closest analogy to her character I can describe is Max Renn's Balkan assistant in Videodrome. Even better, she brings along Martin Sheen for the ride as her stud (and drug connection). And who's the righteous detective pursuing him, who we're all supposed to feel the saddest for at the end of the film? That's right, O.J. :D
With Richard Harris as the loud drunk Irishman who's supposed to be a "brilliant neurosurgeon," Sophia Loren as his twice-married, twice-divorced wife (ala Liz and Dick--only Sophia is in a class by herself), John Philip Law, Ingrid Thulin, slummin' Lionel Stander, that chick from The Third Man in a blonde helmet, and Hyman Roth--er, Lee Strasberg as the only likable character in the entire film--who actually gets machine-gunned, killed, then comes back to life later in the film with barely a throwaway, B.S. explanation--this film is pure 2 a.m. platinum.
ShallowHal
07-02-06, 11:04 PM
The Chase
Too many -ohbfrank- moments for an evening viewing, this movie is a perfect late night treat. Grab a Butterfinger and enjoy the ride. :D
Buy: