CS Film Club II

Man, I haven't watched Fido in years.

But still have the dvd!

PhantomKnight is feeling my love for The Birdcage and I'm digging it.

I didn't pick it because I've seen it already.

I'm gonna rewatch it real soon though.

I'll be curious to read that review. This Island Earth has some neat stiff in it, and a lot of colorful effects. I think the third act renders the first two completely redundant, but it's worth watching.

That was a title I picked mostly because I was blankly staring at my Blu-ray shelf, but it was a movie featured on Mystery Science Theater. It's one of the best movies featured on the show though. In fact it was used on MST The Movie and was selected for it because it was cheesy but watchable on its own, but the studio had them keep whittling it down until like a half hour was cut out of it and the MST guys kept fighting to keep more of it intact. It's worth watching uncut.

I feel cheated because Kirk Cameron isn't in it.

Oxygen

A woman awakens in a medical cryogenic pod with no recollection of how she got there or even who she really is. As she becomes adjusted to her surroundings and begins to interact with the pod’s technology, she not only realizes that she’s nearly out of oxygen, but that all the clues that are beginning to reveal who she thinks she is are also revealing something greater than she could’ve imagined.

Melanie Laurant does a great solo performance (outside of some off camera dialogue and a few brief flashbacks of other characters) as the protagonist of this claustrophobic sci-fi thriller, which relies heavily on her reactions to each new revelation that’s uncovered, which seems to happen every five minutes. as she tried to figure out why she's in her predicament and how to get out of it. The film uses the revelations to confidently lead expectations to an unexpected, but satisfying, conclusion.

Alexandre Aja also does a surprisingly good job in making the most out, visually, of the one setting the film takes place in, the cryogenic pod, who’s AI also makes it the films one supporting character. I knew this director from The Hills Have Eyes remake and for High Tension, both of which were extremely gory, but interesting, horror films from last decade. Pretty impressed with this flick, he should do more sci-fi.

8/10

Sorry! Been a busy few weeks! Meant to have this done last week at the hotel but whiskey and sitcoms got the best of me after the kids went to bed every night.

I'll have the next round done on time. 31 Days of Halloween is just around the corner!

I've seen all of those except Seoul Station, which doesn't look like it's going to be terribly easy to obtain.  I think I am going ask for a new list.

I can do The Outsider

Just wait for people watching 1980-1999.