movies

[go birds]

cocaine bear is the best movie ive ever seen

[JoeMcKim]

I went to see Air and thought the movie was great. Probably my favorite movie of the year other than John Wick 4.

[CardsofSTL]

Dungeons & Dragons was better than I thought it would be...I went in with very low expectations but it was kind of fun.

[IMADreamer]

We saw DnD last weekend and watched Air tonight. Enjoyed them both. I thought Air was really well done.

[CardsofSTL]

Shazam 2.

Eh.

Kind of fun though; good for a family outing.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Mario blows. Hearkens back to a day when so many kids movies sucked. Though kind of fun to spot and hear the Easter eggs for those of us who grew up hooked on the brothers.

[Fat_Bulldog]

I thought Mario was great.

[mikechamp]

If you want to see a comically horrendous '80s movie, then I've got just the title: "New York Ninja"

It is akin to a high school freshman art project, from production to writing to editing to... everything. Check out the dialogue from this scene:

Detective (to himself): "It could be anyone..."

3 seconds later...

"I've got it! It's got to be... the New York Ninja."

(lady walks up, wearing an overcoat in broad daylight in a busy park): "Janet, what are you doing here?"

Janet: "I'm undercover."

Detective: "I've never seen you like this before."

Later, she's "captured" by some cheesy thugs, and she's wearing her badge on the inside lapel of her coat. Yeah, you are very undercover, Janet.

This movie has all the hallmarks of wretched cinema: attempted rapes; women getting punched and kicked; cheesy closeups; cheesy villain laughs; a kid getting beaten and shot in the chest (yet he's just fine); the hero getting shot in the chest, but later extracting the bullet with a ninja star; the hero jumping up 20 feet in the air to escape while entangled in a net... and that's in the span of 45 minutes. This movie is so cheesy I now have 8 kinds of cheese dripping down my TV screen.

I wanted to turn it off, but couldn't bring myself to do it because I wanted to see how cheesy the ending would be. I won't spoil it, but let's just say it involved lassoing a moving car, then the hero doing a backflip into the trunk of said moving car while getting pulled along by said moving car. Oh, and a helicopter can't move because "the gas tanks aren't full."

Yes. It is as outrageous as it sounds. How this movie ever got made is beyond me.

P.S. Don't turn it off when it says "The End". You'll miss the wacky credits montage.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

If you want to see a comically horrendous '80s movie, then I've got just the title: "New York Ninja"

It is akin to a high school freshman art project, from production to writing to editing to... everything. Check out the dialogue from this scene:

Detective (to himself): "It could be anyone..."

3 seconds later...

"I've got it! It's got to be... the New York Ninja."

(lady walks up, wearing an overcoat in broad daylight in a busy park): "Janet, what are you doing here?"

Janet: "I'm undercover."

Detective: "I've never seen you like this before."

Later, she's "captured" by some cheesy thugs, and she's wearing her badge on the inside lapel of her coat. Yeah, you are very undercover, Janet.

This movie has all the hallmarks of wretched cinema: attempted rapes; women getting punched and kicked; cheesy closeups; cheesy villain laughs; a kid getting beaten and shot in the chest (yet he's just fine); the hero getting shot in the chest, but later extracting the bullet with a ninja star; the hero jumping up 20 feet in the air to escape while entangled in a net... and that's in the span of 45 minutes. This movie is so cheesy I now have 8 kinds of cheese dripping down my TV screen.

I wanted to turn it off, but couldn't bring myself to do it because I wanted to see how cheesy the ending would be. I won't spoil it, but let's just say it involved lassoing a moving car, then the hero doing a backflip into the trunk of said moving car while getting pulled along by said moving car. Oh, and a helicopter can't move because "the gas tanks aren't full."

Yes. It is as outrageous as it sounds. How this movie ever got made is beyond me.

P.S. Don't turn it off when it says "The End". You'll miss the wacky credits montage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Ninja

New York Ninja is a 2021 American action film written, directed by and starring John Liu. It was shot in 1984, but was not edited or released until 2021, when its footage was discovered and restored by the film preservation and home video distributor Vinegar Syndrome.

New York Ninja was filmed in New York City, and was shelved after its original distribution company went bankrupt. The abandoned footage was eventually acquired by Vinegar Syndrome; without audio, storyboards, or scripts for the film, it was reconstructed by a new director, Kurtis M. Spieler

Filming for New York Ninja began in late 1984 in New York City. According to the film's special effects artist, Carl Morano, "They had zero resources. Different people showed up on different days. We'd meet every morning at the Howard Johnson's where John [Liu] was staying and then take a van to the location."The film had an estimated special effects budget of $100, most of which Morano reportedly spent on creating the Plutonium Killer's melting face.

The footage shot for New York Ninja was stored in film reels, ran about six to eight hours in length and included no actor credits. It was eventually acquired by Vinegar Syndrome, a film preservation and home video distribution company. Without audio, storyboards, or scripts, Kurtis M. Spieler (credited as the film's "re-director" and editor) was tasked with reconstructing the film from the footage alone. The only known surviving script is Morano's shooting script, which alluded to a character named "Detective Dolemite"; the original filmmakers may have intended the character to have been played by Rudy Ray Moore, who appeared in the 1975 film Dolemite.

Spieler suspects that Liu may have been unable to complete filming before the production shut down, saying that "the ending doesn't feel like it was ever finished". Vinegar Syndrome considered filming new scenes, but Spieler decided to work only with the original footage. In an interview with The New York Times, he said: "I asked myself, 'If my job was to have been an editor in the 1980s, what would I have done?'" Speaking to Paste, he said:

I was very aware of trying to maintain what I thought was the intended spirit or tone of the original production. I knew there was a fair amount of both intentional and unintentional humor to the movie, but I tried to take the project seriously and be respectful to the original source material as well as other movies from the same time period.

[mikechamp]

Yep. It looks like it had a budget of $100. Although I would argue it wasn't all spent on the melting face. There was one explosion that was clearly not real. I won't go as far as calling it CGI, but it definitely wasn't real.

For those who care, it was running on one of the Showtime channels.