Happy Halloween

Today's one of my favorite holidays of the year, bar none. Plenty of horror movies on TV, and free candy from strangers. How can anyone not like that?

Anyway, my plans for today are to hand out plenty of candy with my uncle (as I do every year), then come home and watch horror movies all night. Too bad nobody around here throws Halloween parties, because I'd be there. But the bad thing is I don't have any friends, so I probably wouldn't be invited. And if I threw one, nobody'd come. Oh well, I'm not going to be down today. I've got my horror movies and the chance for free candy.

Anyway, I'm out. Gotta get ready for tonight. I've got Halloween III on TV, and I'm set for the evening. :)

One More Review

One more update at "Sutton At The Movies." It's the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm also thinking of doing a review of Roddy Piper's epic They Live, which I taped last night during AMC's "Monsterfest" movie marathon. Read and enjoy. :)

Return of the Reviewed Dead

New review up at "Sutton At The Movies," this time it's Return of the Living Dead 3. I caught it on the Sci-Fi Channel on Sunday night and thought I'd review it.

I Love The Blog

The "I Love The [insert decade here]" shows on VH1 are the most addictive things ever. The only downside is they've been airing I Love The 80s Strikes Back over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over until I just get sick of it. Being a child of both the 80s and the 90s, I didn't have that much of a connection to I Love The 70s, even though I thought it was plenty cool. But with the two I Love The 80s shows, I get to relive all kinds of stuff that I loved, stuff I forgot about, stuff I was too middle-class to have, and stuff that I thought was crap 20 years ago (and are still crap now).

I just downloaded the title track to Randy Savage's rap album "Be A Man." I really don't know to say other than this is very, very funny. Who told him doing a rap song about Hulk Hogan was a good idea? I need to buy this album, just to prove that it actually existed. I don't even really like rap music, and I want it. It's too bad for words.

Watch Family Guy on Cartoon Network. It owns you.

So I'm watching the remake of The Fly on the Sci-Fi Channel right now, and it's the bee's knees. A million times better than the original one, even though it had Vincent Price and the legendary "help me! help me!" scene. I'll take the remake over the original any day. Why? The original has a dude in a fly mask, and the remake has the infinately cooler Brundlefly. Too bad the remake had the less-than-stellar sequel, even if Princess Vespa from Spaceballs was in it.

I still want to see Kill Bill, but just can't ever find the five bucks to get a movie ticket. I just want to see it so Kill Bill 2 will make sense if I decide to see that. I'll still end up buying the DVDs even if I don't see them. Quentin Tarantino rules.

The DirecTV fan letter commercials are awesome. JUMPING GEHOSEPHAT YEEHAW!! Laurence Fishburne should say that in his next movie.

I don't have much else to say for now, so I'll be saying goodbye. Goodbye.

Viva La Blog

My little bro Gary is back again, this time until Tuesday. I don't mind, but he seems more energetic than he's been in the past. I don't mind, but I'm not as energetic as a three-year-old.

I'm also watching MTV right now. The new Viva La Bam show (starring Jackass star Bam Margera, his family, and his various cohorts) looks really good, and Wildboyz (also starring two Jackasses, Steve-O and Chris Pontius) hasn't been that bad so far. I know for sure I'm going to enjoy Viva La Bam, since I'm a big fan of Bam's crew. Any show featuring Tony Hawk and various pro skateboarders installing a giant skate park into someone's house is good enough for me. I'm not even a skating fan, but I'm digging the vibe.

I'm out for the night.

Any Publicity Is Good Publicity

Rob T, you are my hero. Have I mentioned that lately? He is, dear readers. For he gives me reasons to have all the useless trivia stuck in my brain. Thanks for making the useless trivia not quite so useless. Though mocking my geekness will get you nowhere. But thanks for the mention anyway. :)

There's more to this update than sucking up. Honest! There's another review up at Sutton At The Movies, this time it's 28 Days Later. Read it and enjoy. And just to note, I rated it four and a half stars, though Tripod for some reason is saying three and a half. Stupid Tripod.

:(

Well, just a half hour ago I got some news that I'd been expecting to hear for some time. My dad found our dog dead on our carport. I'm sad, but not surprised. She'd been sick for quite some time, and just looked like bones with fur.

I worry about my dad right now. He was very partial to our departed canine, and before I came in here and started typing this up, he started choking up. And my dad almost never cries. I've only seen him cry once in 20 years. I just don't know what else to say right now. I... I'm out for right now.

Sutton At The Movies

I'd like to direct you to a new link, which reads "Sutton At The Movies." That's where I'm housing my movie reviews. I've got some up right now, and if you want to read them, be my guest. I'll try and add some more in the future, and if you'd like to request that I review something out of my DVD collection, you know how to contact me. Feedback is good, so if you want to tell me what to think, tell me. Constructive criticism is helpful.

Now go to sleep.

Ed Gein Is Still A Total Weirdo

Saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake last night. Having never seen the original in its entirity prior to seeing the remake, I can officially say that the movie isn't bad. It's not exactly scary, but spooky. The movie is good, but it just feels... hollow, I guess. I really don't know what it is about it. Maybe it's because the movie's a remake, I guess. It gets two stars on my scale.

Fun story: I happened to be watching the credits after the movie, and at one point it says something about actual events inspiring parts of the movie. I absent-mindedly said out loud that it was fake, and two girls, who couldn't be any older than 14 or 15, that happened to be in the theater said, "It's fake?! The TV ads said it's real!" So I told them the story of Ed Gein, and they were actually relieved to discover that Leatherface and the crazy family isn't real. I also happened to notice that somebody had their two young kids and a baby with them. Who brings two little kids and a baby to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Do they see the ads and figure, "Hey, the title alone suggests it's rip-roaring fun for children of all ages!" Sigh. People are stupid.

Coincidentally, I happened to be in Wal-Mart after the movie and found the original movie on DVD for 15 bucks. I didn't even think Wal-Mart would have it, so I was a happy fat man. I've watched part of it and I like what I've seen.

You might also notice the new additions to the Blatant Movie Shilling, thanks to trailers I've seen recently: The Butterfly Effect and a remake of Dawn of the Dead. Universal Pictures doesn't have the Dawn of the Dead site up yet, but you can find the trailer by clicking here. Watch it in slow motion, and you'll see Tom Savini in a cameo as a Los Angeles cop. I thought that was pretty neat, considering he did the effects for the original Dawn of the Dead (including having a cameo), and he directed the remake of Night of the Living Dead back in 1990. Only geeks would know or care about that, and I can proudly say that I'm a geek. As for The Butterfly Effect, I saw the trailer before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it doesn't look too bad. It definately shows potental. You may have also noticed I added The Matrix: Revolutions to the list as well. Yeah, I figure I needed more non-horror movies on the list, and why not the third Matrix movie? I just hope they don't show Keanu Reeves's naked butt in this one. Keanu's own private Idaho isn't something I want to see in a movie.

Wow, this update ended up being longer than I expected. I'm out for now, and I might be back in the future. See ya.

Ed Gein Is A Total Weirdo

Yo to the usual suspects, and a big hello to those of you poor souls that have stumbled across the place via Google.

With the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake coming out on Friday, it's been hard to miss the tagline: "Inspired By A True Story." How many of you out there think it's really real? C'mon, you can be honest with me. Well, I hate burst your bubbles, but it's not true. Leatherface never existed, and there never was a family of cannibals in deepest darkest Texas in the 70s. Turns out some of the little quirks in the original movie were inspired by a Wisconsin serial killer named Ed Gein. To sum it all up, he went crazy after his mother died, and killed some people. He sometimes wore their skin, and used body parts to make various household items (such as the top of a skull used as a cereal bowl, and bones used as legs for tables and chairs). The sicko went on to inspire the killers in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and The Silence of the Lambs.

I just wanted to clear that little detail up. It doesn't bother me, but it does. Know what I mean? Oh well. Anyway, I'm out of here. The rerun of Boy Meets World on The Disney Channel is calling me. Peace.

Crispin Glover Is A Total Weirdo

Remember how I say I buy too many DVDs? I bought Willard tonight. A remake of a 1971 movie, this one stars Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, and Laura Elena Harring, and it's not a bad little movie at all. I unfortunately missed it when it came out back in March, but now that I've seen it, I can say that I wish it would have been a bigger hit. It's a really good, strange movie. Given the right roles, I think Crispin Glover could become the next cult movie star. I know he's gained some fans through his rather eccentric books and CDs, as well as his roles in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter and the first Back To The Future movie. But back to the movie. I liked it. Thumbs up. If you like rats or weird movies, go rent it. If you don't like rats or weird movies, then perhaps this isn't the movie for you. That's sad, because it's a darn good movie.

I'm going to bed, see y'all later.

The Movie Of My Nightmares, #5

Word around the campfire is that Freddy vs. Jason is going to be released in January as a video and two-disc Platinum Edition DVD. As far as extras go, I've heard that it'll be a two-disc set, featuring two commentaries (one from director Ronny Yu, the other from stars Robert "Freddy" Englund and Ken "Jason" Kirzinger), music videos, deleted/alternate scenes (including the original ending and various CGI things that didn't quite look right), the standard trailers, and various featurettes on things like the effects and stunts/fights. According to Yu, it'll also include documentaries on the evolution of both Freddy and Jason, and how their fight came to be. It sounds like it's gonna be one awesome DVD. If it were up to me, I'd make sure to include all of the TV commercials, and I'd do a commentary involving the main cast. Maybe that's just me. But you can guarantee that I'll gladly plunk down my 20 bones for this sucker come January. But you knew that, right? Considering I saw it five times, that should be a given. Right? Right.

I tried to pick up the DVD for the Willard remake yesterday, but the Wal-Mart I went to didn't have it, and the Blockbuster and Video Gallery I went to only had it available for rental. I haven't even seen it, but I want it. Crispin Glover is one of those guys that no matter what kind of character he plays, whatever movie he's in, it'll be memorable. If you've seen the first Back To The Future, the fourth Friday The 13th, or the two Charlie's Angels movies, he'll probably be stuck in your mind, at least for a little while. Given the right roles, he could be the next cult movie star. And it's a plus that he's proud of his ties to Jason.

I'm out for now. Later.

"Evil will win because Good is dumb."

Today's both Hump Day and Rabbit Rabbit Day. What's Rabbit Rabbit Day? Superstition goes that if you say "rabbit rabbit" as soon as you get out of bed on the first day of the month, you'll have good luck all month. It's also the first day of October, which makes me happy. I love October. Maybe it's because I'm a big Halloween junkie, I don't know.

There's not a lot to talk about right now. Just watching Aliens on TV. Did you know they're making an Alien vs. Predator movie? Yeah, it's supposed to come out next year. According to IMDb.com, here's the plot: "Hoping to lure a Predator clan to Antarctica using Alien eggs, a rogue team of scientists are caught in an intergalactic war between the two extremely violent species." Fox has just recently cast Lance Henriksen to play a role in it. You might remember him as Bishop, the android in Aliens and Alien 3. He'll be playing a millionaire sponsoring the research team. Oddly enough, the working title for the first Predator movie was "Alien Hunter." Strange but apparently true.

Remember a few months ago when the American Film Institute did their list of the Top 100 Movie Heroes and Villians? They did the top 50 heroes and top 50 villains and aired it on ABC, hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was actually on both lists for The Terminator and Terminator 2). Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs and Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird topped the list. Well, around that same time, I did my own list of my twenty-five favorite movie villians. I like villians more than I do heroes, maybe because there wouldn't be heroes if it weren't for villians. So I've decided to now post that list here, with some minor alterations due to my own personal preference. Read and enjoy.

1. Agent Smith; The Matrix (1999)
2. The Joker; Batman (1989)
3. Freddy Krueger; A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
4. Hannibal Lector; The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
5. Clarence Boddicker; RoboCop (1987)
6. The T-1000; Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
7. Jason Voorhees; Friday The 13th, Part 2 (1981)
8. Judge Doom; Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
9. General Zod; Superman II (1980)
10. Pamela Voorhees; Friday The 13th (1980)
11. The Terminator; The Terminator (1984)
12. Khan Noonien Singh; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
13. Norman Bates; Psycho (1968)
14. Biff Tannen; Back To The Future (1985)
15. Patrick Bateman; American Psycho (2000)
16. Evil Ash; Army of Darkness (1993)
17. The Predator; Predator (1987)
18. Tarman; The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
19. The Penguin and Catwoman; Batman Returns (1992)
20. Marcellus Wallace; Pulp Fiction (1994)
21. Hans Gruber; Die Hard (1988)
22. Ivan Drago; Rocky IV (1985)
23. Leatherface; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
24. Dick Jones; RoboCop (1987)
25. John Doe; Seven (1994)

I also have to make some notes about things: I know that Brian Cox played Hannibal Lector before Anthony Hopkins ever did, but Sir Hopkins played almost a different Hannibal. Brian Cox didn't get a Hannibal trilogy, did he?

Well, that's all for now. I don't have much to say. Gee, I started writing this thing two hours ago. Aliens is almost over now. That's all for this one, and I'm gone. See ya.