Phenomephrene

Mostly what I see with any level of frequency is troll posters spamming intentionally inflammatory memes in apparently random communities. I’ve reported and blocked every post like this that I’ve come across.

Didn’t even need to slap the collar on you to get you to speak some truths.

Yep, Verhoven is brilliant. He can be no less viscerally discomforting than Cronenberg or Solondz, but most of the time he’s much more subtle about how he injects that vibe. I enjoy it immensely.

I enjoy Masters of the Universe more than is reasonable. That movie will never get old to me.

Yeah, there’s a lot of good stuff here. Definitely some so bad it’s good material, some stuff that is just good, and some stuff that is just bad (Wicker Man (2006) has a couple moments to laugh at, but it’s not worth the time investment to even get to those). And more than a couple that I’ve never seen that I’m going to have to queue up at some point.

I’d completely forgotten about the movie Fear. I hadn’t realized it had reached any kind of cult status. Looking back at it though I do remember that movie being kind of strangely captivating, but more so just very strange, in a disconcerting sort of way.

Showgirls is actually excellent, though an understandably contentious movie. It’s intentionally uncomfortable, and doesn’t do much to spoon feed you the point it’s trying to make. Not to say that if you don’t like it that you just don’t get it; it may very well just not be to your taste, and that’s completely understandable. It’s far from a straight up bad movie though imo.