The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I'm going to celebrate with Merchants of Death, assuming I remember this after I get off work.

I started watching Supervixens. It's my first Russ Meyer film and so far I want to say that he's a sexploitation version of Michael Bay, replacing the shaky cam with more quick cuts.

BobO'Link

If my grand son doesn't stay overnight I'm planning a 420 appropriate mini-thon starting early evening. Otherwise it'll be a film or two late night. Nice catch on "fry-day" - I missed that...

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Forgot about 4/20. It's Clint Howard and my Evil Bong 3 set in 3D and smell-o-vision. Yes, it has a scratch and sniff card

Mondo Kane

You picked the very best place to start with Russ.
As for his editing style, approach Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens with EXTREME caution. Russ couldn't hold a shot for no more than 2½ seconds in that one. As a result, I got the worst headache I've ever had from a movie.

SethDLH

If we're going to compare Russ Meyer to Michael Bay can we at least do it appropriately... Russ Meyer replaces explosions with giant tits.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I did say he was the sexploitation version of Bay.

The movie isn't half bad and it does have it's interesting parts.

SethDLH

Ah, yes you did. My mistake... I saw Russ Meyer and my mind got clouded with boobies.

gp1086

Got around to finally seeing Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981) (yes, I know that I'm a week late from the actual date).

shadokitty

NoirFan

Would the original King Kong and Forbidden Planet count?

caligulathegod

A couple of my favorite movies, but I don't think so. I'll allow the Dino DeLaurentis remake and sequel as well as Roger Corman's Forbidden World.

shadokitty

Went to Pittsburgh Comicon today, and one of the dealers was a movie dealer. Picked up among some anime tiitles, the Uncut version of Five Deadly Venoms. Looking forward to watching it before the month is out.

NoirFan

Having never seen Count Yorga: Vampire before, all I can say is... wow! Tightly edited, wonderfully atmospheric, and with surprisingly believable characters, I found it to be a minor masterpiece. I was also unfamiliar with the sequel, but have that on tap for today.

caligulathegod

Today is John Waters' birthday. Not sure how I missed that.

Mondo Kane

Got the entire week off! Now the fun can REALLY begin!

Features (Before they were stars) Craig T. Nelson

Ash Ketchum

I wasn't even thinking about this when I picked TRUE ROMANCE to watch on Friday night, but, thanks to Floyd, Brad Pitt's pot-smoking character, it turned out to be a perfect movie for the occasion.

SethDLH

Count Yorga is good stuff!

I didn't get to watch anything yesterday due to being out the whole day. It was a nice break though and hopefully helps for a strong finish.

Ash Ketchum

Today's Earth Day. Time to break out GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER!

SethDLH

Blog entry for 4/19 and 4/20 posted. Also the DVD giveaway ends around 9pm Eastern tonight. Click through to the FB page from the blog or comment on a blog entry from the challenge to be entered!

http://celluloidterror.blogspot.com/...day-20-21.html

orlmac

I have a question about how the Rotten Tomatoes rating works. I watched Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance today and then looked it up. The Tomatometer rating is only 17% but the audience rating is 33%, so does it qualify?

Chad

I know I'm in the minority for saying this, but I've really come to appreciate the soundtrack to Keoma. Yeah, on the initial impression it sounded like a cat being strangled and an old man gurgling as he's swallowing his tongue but, for whatever reason, it just started growing on me. Not that it's up there with Ennio Morricone's work, it just suited the film, IMO. And easily one of the better spaghetti westerns I've seen.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Music for $100

What is, the sound of Yoko Ono singing?

I'm sorry but when someone describes music as sounding like a cat being strangled, my first thought is of Yoko Ono.

Greg MacGuffin

I would personally go by the Tomatometer. I don't know if there's an offical rule though.

Ash Ketchum

In the past week I happened to watch three films for this challenge that all opened in New York in May 1969. One was Japanese and two were Italian and all had American stars and Italian leading ladies:

THE GREEN SLIME: Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale
A FINE PAIR: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale

The two Italian ones, in addition to sharing the same leading lady, also had the same composer, Ennio Morricone. Only one of the films used Ms. Cardinale's real voice in the English dubbing--A FINE PAIR.

I only saw one of them at the time they came out: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. It's still a great film, but I have to confess I was most impressed with GREEN SLIME this time.

P.S. I did see the trailers for GREEN SLIME and A FINE PAIR back in 1969, but had to wait till they came on TV in the '70s before I actually saw the films.

nezumi

The Green Slime is one of my childhood film favorites. I was a sci-fi / space movie nut when I was a kid. No matter how hokey the visual effects were, I would watch it. The Green Slime really did a number on me. I remember drawing the tentacled aliens for days after watching it on television, with the theme song reverberating in my head. I was stoked to find it years later on VHS and even later as a Warner Archives title. It's still lots of fun after all this time. Maybe I'll watch it again before the end of the month.