Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

Well, ready or not, we've lined up more of Bad Influence and—as an experiment just to see how well or how badly this may go over—20+ minutes of Gary Busey "weirdness" in I'm With Busey.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we revisit the coven classic Ginger Snaps.

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

~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~Lewattoo ~Tre ~Noaqiyeum ~Anime Badger ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~Space Wolf ~William Radar Storm ~Will Keaton ~Egregious One ~Sebby Moran ~Inhopelessguy ~BaconManiac5000 ~TAPETRVE ~Prowler ~Hashil ~Physical Stamina ~Tojin ~Rockonman ~Too Many Ideas ~Quag15

edited 11th Apr '15 4:17:04 PM by SeanMurrayI

i picked an awful weekend to have stuff goin on both days. make sure to do the mini review thing of ginger snaps 2, so i can decide if ill see it

also:

The sequel is... Not the kind of movie you want to be reading about in reviews. So long as the original movie is fresh in your mind, you just watch it and let it unfold in front of you.

And, yeah, after all the excitement of the original movie, Bridgette's story continues tonight in Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed as she's on the run and all the while fighting her lycanthropic disease with the monkshood solution... which gets her sent to a rehabilitation center for drug users.

All the while, Bridgette finds a new girl companion at the clinic in "Ghost" (played by Orphan Black's portrayer of a thousand characters, Tatiana Maslany, and to her acting credit, she makes "Ghost" an unforgettable character that you just love to hate).

Where is this all leading? Well... You'll just have to watch with us later and find out...

edited 12th Apr '15 8:17:11 AM by SeanMurrayI

I just watched the movie Wild. Based on a true story, the story of a woman who hikes the 1100-mile Pacific Crest Trail to try to escape her fucked up past.

As her troubles mount about midway through, even the narrative starts to pick up on her language, with the screen actually flashing "Day fucking 36" at one point.

Anyway, I found it pretty fun. It's kinda like a Road Trip Plot, without the car, and with the protagonist being alone most of the time, with the occasionally (usually male) companion showing up. Quite a few guys pitch in to do things for her, and she sometimes helps them back as well. And of course, she meets the occasional dangerous creep (which is both played straight and subverted).

As well as a guy who thinks she's a hobo and immediately wants to interview her for The Hobo Times, or so he claims, as he asks rapidfire questions, snaps her photo, gives her a care package, then drives off. That particular encounter sounds cartoonish, but the movie's based on a book which is based on a true story, so apparently it actually happened.

edited 12th Apr '15 8:27:12 AM by BonsaiForest

It's divided in several parts on YT, but guess what I found, everyone? The prequel, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, starring our two actresses. In 19th century Canada.

Yeah...

Why am I not surprised that they took a good film and eventually ruined it with crappy sequels.

I haven't seen it, but I find it amazing that the two actresses decided to stick around.

Both tonight's movie and the prequel film brought up by Quag were filmed back-to-back and released six months apart from each other.

Tonight's sequel certainly ain't "crappy" (at least, not the way we typically deem inferior sequels), and that much I can personally attest to... But I've never so much as tried to watch the prequel film, if only because it feels unnecessary, in comparison to the other two movies, and demands too much of my own suspension of disbelief as to why two antecedent characters are in the 1800's and share the exact names and likenesses of the original movie's sisters.

My guess is somebody wanted to give Katharine Isabelle something with greater visibility while her role in the sequel is significantly reduced (her character being dead and all)... Which I'm sure made her happy, especially after her involvement in higher profile Hollywood Horror releases playing flat supporting characters following the original Ginger Snaps didn't do anything to elevate her acting career and left her disgruntled.

edited 12th Apr '15 10:54:23 AM by SeanMurrayI

I just reviewed Wild.

edited 12th Apr '15 12:30:47 PM by BonsaiForest

Won't be making it tonight, unfortunately. I'm nominating Egreg to be the designated Large Ham.

I thought ME AND PROM WERE THE HAMS HERE!

Greg is the Loveable Sex Maniac.

Just got back from babysitting the kids again. Started dinner. Will be late for the pre-show, but I may be here on time for the main feature.

I'm really glad I decided to dedicate the morning to watching Wild. I was curious about it for a while, and I thought it was pretty good.

edited 12th Apr '15 4:09:29 PM by BonsaiForest

Alright, we'll be getting things started now with the first episode of the fourth and final season of Lexx.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we finish what we started yesterday with Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed.

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

~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~Lewattoo ~Tre ~Noaqiyeum ~Anime Badger ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~Space Wolf ~William Radar Storm ~Will Keaton ~Egregious One ~Sebby Moran ~Inhopelessguy ~BaconManiac5000 ~TAPETRVE ~Prowler ~Hashil ~Physical Stamina ~Tojin ~Too Many Ideas ~Quag15 ~Tuefel Hunden IV

Sorry to miss it, but I'm going to have to skip tonight. I need to be up early to get some stuff done before work.

It was close, but the vote swung to ★★.

I personally found it vastly inferior to the original. The original did a lot more, I think, with its themes and setting. This felt, to me, like just standard horror.

Tomorrow, we're gonna be watching Eyes Do Not Belong There: The Movie!

edited 12th Apr '15 6:34:17 PM by BonsaiForest

What annoyed me was that Ghost was supposed to have delusions, but the film gave her a scene which showed her observing the Greek death custom, which was passed off as just another aspect of her problems. So, this movie treats contemporary pagan faiths as delusions, while it treats beast folklore as valid. Kudos to you, Canadian film industry. You keep your priorities in order.

edited 12th Apr '15 7:52:18 PM by SpaceWolf

I think you may be missing an all the more interesting point here. It's not as if Ghost was suggested as being a practitioner or strict believer of a pagan faith; the intention was to show her reaction to the sight of human death and horrific mutilation as something which doesn't wholly disturb her in the slightest. It's a character detail that's complimentary to the Fitzgerald sisters' unordinary fascination with death and dying that was explored in the original movie. Curiously, Ghost was more distraught after discovering the remains of a dog (while still having no issue with handling its severed head to show Bridgette), but her reaction to the sight of human death is much more detached and in line with her other sociopathic behaviors, including the revelation that she deliberately set her grandmother on fire and her manipulation of Bridgette as a means of trapping a monster to keep as a "pet" in order to realize her delusional comic book fantasies.

It would be difficult NOT to have a reaction to the ending after following Bridgette's story arc across the two movies. It isn't a bad ending... but you sure as hell feel fucking bad. Ultimately, I'd deem the movie a success on the sole merit that we fucking hate Ghost; we are supposed to hate her, and the entire movie deliberately winds us up to do so.

In other news, tonight we'll be having some truly brainless 1960's B-movie sci-fi monster fare in the MST3K classic, (Attack of the)◊ The Eye Creatures.

edited 13th Apr '15 7:39:52 AM by SeanMurrayI

You mean reacting casually and gleefully to death is

dare I say

MAL-adaptive? Holy shit. I wonder if that's a basic aspect when diagnosing mental disorders...

Nah. I'm probably just full of shit.

edited 13th Apr '15 9:35:16 AM by Prometheus136

Incidentally, this just reminded me of Bridgette's revulsion at the sight of a dead dog just before the werewolf attack on Ginger in the original movie, which highlights Ghost's gall to carry a dead dog's head and show it to somebody else even more so.

Has anybody else got to thinking of Ghost being the real monster?

Yeah. The creature that was going after them was basically a decoy monster.

As I've said yesterday, I'll only be here on Friday. Have fun, everyone!

If I do not make it, Bisected8 must be the bearer of delicious smoked meat in my memory.

I do puns and woobs, not ham, though...

Might be able to make it tonight.

But how else are we to appease our Lord of Ham, Brian Blessed when I'm not there?