Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

It's a pity that I missed most of the movie already, but there was a big family dinner here, and when everyone who's not from this house left, it was already 1:something AM. Hope it's being great fun.

In regards to the current discussion, there's not much I can add, other than to more or less conclude:

• that newcomers may not be aware of all the internal dynamics and references at play. Reading and navigating the chat atmosphere may be difficult at first, but, with time, most will adapt either partially or entirely;
• Ice-T's intro video starts to make a lot more sense now, and should continue to be the informal, funny and efficient warning that it is;
• that newcomers should also be aware of some of the movies we here will watch. Checking up the trailer or the IM Db page would be one advice, if one is not sure they want to see a particular movie. Alternatively, they could choose and participate in regards to movies that may be easier to enter into (as an example, I'll point out the time we watched the more light-hearted Godfrey Ho movies, or some [insert PG-less-than-15 animation flick that doesn't deal with sex and gore].

On another note, I'd like to suggest a movie that is definitely not PG-rated stuff^note I assume it was rated R due to language, but which seems to be an amusing caper comedy. The first full-length work of director Alan Taylor (nowadays known as the director of a Thor movie and Terminator: Genisys), starring William Forsythe and a pre-Buffalo '66 Vincent Gallo, called Palookaville. The storyline goes like this:

Full movie here. Trailer:

edited 22nd Jul '17 6:14:02 PM by Quag15

I was pretty sure I'd heard years ago that Sean and Prom met when Prom was 17, or something. I guess the movie group hadn't started then.

Anyway, as for the people I'd invited here who stopped by the Coven, they were basically:

• Random people from the more random threads in Yack Fest (didn't realize the randomness threads skew towards teens, but in hindsight, of course it makes sense - there's one lady there who's 40, but yeah). Whichever random ones decided to join, ended up joining. A few stayed for quite a while.
• People I know online. That includes Bluerock (who brought his girlfriend). And those two are adults, btw. Most of the people I know online are adults.
• People from the autism/Aspergers thread.

The vast majority of the movies we watch are more just violent cheese, not sexual in any way.

Anyway, my concern was really more about scaring people away with jokes that appeared to be misogynistic, more than anything else.

Could we all move on from this?

No one here is a misogynist, a sexist, or a bigot, and no one ever shows sincere intolerance towards anyone else or any other group of people. And if someone here ever did sincerely voice views that would be considered so, no one else here would stand for that. You've been involved here long enough, Bonsai, that if someone honestly came to you and said they thought something was offensive, you should already be able to realize that it's never meant to be taken literally or seriously, and you're in the perfect place in this group to explain that to anyone else.

Oftentimes, talk like that comes up to mockingly promote the dubious morals and values in the media we're watching at the time, and not a personal view of the person goofing off in a chatroom. Everybody else who discovers our group and actively tries to be a part of what we do picks up on that much and adapts pretty well. If some people can't or don't like it, that's not our problem to worry about; we are who we are, and we know we're good people.

edited 22nd Jul '17 7:43:23 PM by SeanMurrayI

I finished Blue Velvet on my own time, and I thought that it was brilliant. It's oddly not on Netflix, which only has Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. Thankfully, it's also the only Lynch work that I can get for free on Amazon Prime. I no longer have Hulu, either.

For future reference, only a few Lynch works are easily obtainable (in a legal fashion) on the internet.

edited 23rd Jul '17 8:13:47 AM by SpaceWolf

It'll definitely be while before we check out anything by David Lynch at length again.

Anyway, tonight's film is coming from an odd place. Writer/Director Jeff Lieberman began making horror movies (on a very infrequent basis) in the mid-70's, starting with MST3K's quintessential man-eating worm flick Squirm. Over a decade after that, he got around to making that movie Remote Control (), which we watched the other week. Sometime in the mid-90's, he was tasked for some reason with screenwriting The NeverEnding Story III ()... and a full decade after that came what is presently his very last feature film and tonight's main attraction—Satan's Little Helper.

It's the story of "a naive boy who unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer." If Blockbuster were still in business, this cover art would certainly draw some mad crazy attention.

And here we are now with the (I'm told) "infamous" Gamesmaster Gore Special and 42 minutes of a look back at mid-90's pixelated video game violence.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, from the screenwriter of The NeverEnding Story III, here comes Satan's Little Helper.

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Gonna be away tonight to catch a private screening of a movie I was helping get filmed over a year ago that is now essentially completed.

...And that's too bad for me because anything bringing together Ally Sheedy and Lance Henriksen (of all potential pairings of any two people in the world) in a horror/sci-fi/thriller about a genetically mutated/enhanced dog just has to be loads of fun.

Here's Man's Best Friend.

...dammit, Sean! Now I don't know which one I want to watch more!

I missed Dogs twice due to babysitting.

Maybe this will make up for it!

We've been having quite the mixture of low scoring and high scoring movies over the past week. Will the trend continue?

Tonight, it's Dogs, I mean, Man's Best Friend. Man's best friend is not very friendly. Man's best friend can turn invisible. Man's best friend kills people. Man needs to choose better friends.

Before that, we got Bob Ross's happy little trees, and some more Action Man.

You know where we are! https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

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edited 24th Jul '17 4:10:28 PM by BonsaiForest

Holy shit. Apparently a storm knocked out my internet. I'm typing this on my phone and using phone data to send this.

I missed Dogs twice. Will I miss this too?

Hey look, it's the reverse of Uninvited!◊

Clean up after your mess! Good dog.◊

Opinions ranged from "Amazing" (the 4-star voter I bet) to "Okay" (a 2-star voter I assume). It got ★★★. It definitely had a lot of fun moments, but I think it could have used a little more.

I'll have to own up to a slight act of deception on my part.

Tonight, we will be watching a film tonight called The Last Man on Planet Earth, but the trailer that ran on the playlist is NOT the same story that will be unfolding before our very eyes.

This evening's particular "Last Man on Planet Earth" is not the single last surviving person (or last surviving two persons of opposite genders). This is a story about the last surviving MEN living in a world ruled by an exceptionally large female majority, after a plague (bio-weapon) happened to kill off virtually everybody with a Y-chromosome. So, essentially, we're gonna wind up confronting the more sexist and outlandishly hostile implications of equating "sci-fi future dystopia" with "women ruling the planet."

I think this was originally made for the SyFy Channel.

And not to be confused with the Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth (), adapted from I Am Legend.

edited 25th Jul '17 9:24:44 AM by SeanMurrayI

We finish up Retsupurae's playthrough footage of Mystery of the Druids.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... This sci-fi dystopia is all about "lesbian conspiracy" (really) in The Last Man on Planet Earth.

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So... which side is good, which side is bad, again? Who the hell made this movie?

It made me laugh a lot, so that is a real accomplishment.

edited 25th Jul '17 6:29:00 PM by BonsaiForest

Tonight's a rewatch: Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror, starring Edward Albert... Erin Moran... Robert Englund... Sid Haig... and Grace Zabriskie (Huh, totally forgot she was in this).

pant5, I see, added something to the playlist called GI Joe Extreme, which I've never heard of before, and yeah, we got time to fill so we'll run that in pre-show along with Action Man.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... we got a whole bunch of vaguely recognizable faces from film and television together in outer space in Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror.

Join us! https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

I babysit this weekend, as my older brother is out of state for something.

Sean won't be in, and I can't guarantee that I will be able to be. Anyone here ready to take over?

I'm not sure why, but I'm surprised by the sheer volume of Corey Haim movies on YouTube.

This one here probably isn't as good as Fast Getaway or Prayer of the Rollerboys, but its premise is apparently inspired by an urban legend (one which I've never even heard before I stumbled upon this movie), and that should sound interesting enough.

It's the story of a wife selling a Porsche at a incredibly low price to a college fraternity pledge in order to get revenge on her cheating husband... only, unknowingly to the car buyer, the husband's dead body is stashed in the trunk of the car.

Here is Dream Machine.

We'll be getting into the swing of things with another episode of... GI Joe Extreme, as well as start another series of Gamesmaster which leaves the odd "dungeon" feel behind for an even more odd "heavenly" theme.

Then, at the top of the coming hour... Corey Haim rides his Dream Machine (that sure would make a hell of a name for a symphonic death metal band).

Join us! https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOOoooooooooooo...

Tonight, the one and only Sho Kosugi is back front and center in our Kung Fu Friday's Feature Presentation.

Here, he plays the role of "DEA agent Shiro Tanaka" (not quite the same ring as "Spike Shinobi" from Cannon Group's 9 Deaths of the Ninja, ) who, more or less, fights Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs single-handedly while going toe-to-toe with a drug cartel deep in Argentina in something called Rage of Honor.

Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo...

Kung Fu Friday kicks off with more Japanese gameshow insanity on mXc and Godfrey Ho ninja highlights.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, Sho Kosugi kicks butt and says no to drugs in Rage of Honor.

Join us! https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

Sadly, I'm about to leave for Jersey now. That's my entire Saturday right there.

Won't be around for a movie tonight, but pant5 (iflewaway) will be all set to treat everybody else to something very special. Here is what Wikipedia describes as "a 1994 German-Danish adult animated neo-noir crime film"... about cats. Truly novel stuff.

Submitted for your approval: Felidae.

(Trailer is in its native German; the evening's presentation will be dubbed in English)

edited 29th Jul '17 8:45:20 AM by SeanMurrayI

I was busy last night, and I'm babysitting today (the kids are saying for dinner, even), but damn, if I can get a chance to join this, I'd certainly love to. I saw Felidae on my own, and it's some bonkers shit.