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Episode 12: Monster

Steve Harmon a regular degular film student turned felony murderer? This movie is fairly well described by Brian Lowry from CNN “The film arrives with a timely theme and a cast whose stock has soared in the intervening time, making this one for the time capsule if nothing else... It's just that the movie adds up to less than the sum of its parts.” As you’ll hear there was potential but it misses in crucial areas that could have made it a hit and while it doesn’t take away from the movement it doesn’t further the conversation much by using a well off protagonist from an excellent family.

Episode 11: Things Heard and Seen

After a brief hiatus we’re back with Thing’s Heard and Seen staring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton. Jesus this movie was a train wreck, truly where is the justice for the women of that house. Everything is fucked and the evil that resides seems to prevail at the end. No with no happy ending and a strange pseudo spiritual plot this movie doesn’t really make the cut.

Episode 9: Bad Trip

Well, this is Bad Trip. An episode that I don't even really wanna post but Nik is making me =D. Movie was bad and I think the episode is bad, not necessarily because of the fact that we're under the influence but because the movie really isn't that great and it wouldn't have made for a good talking piece even sober. Courtesy of Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post "Funny in spots, but it flatlines early and gets way too gross." Next up Friday, Things heard and Seen!

Episode 8: Thunder Force

Netflix is back at it again with a bad movie that doesn't fit anyones demographic. Is it a kid's movie? Is it a young adult superhero parody? Is it an 80's throwback? It's none of those, it's Thunder Force and it's a flop. With weird out of date references, cursing and censorship, and questionably savage violence it'll be sure to either make you feel old, make you feel confused, or scar your poor young mind. As Rotten Tomatoes says "It's got a few chuckles, but Thunder Force is largely a superhero comedy that's neither exciting nor funny -- and an egregious waste of its co-stars' talents." That's all folks, Bad Trip up next!

Episode 7: Night in Paradise

Welcome back to our foreign language deviation with another Korean film! Mob violence and emotional drama make for quite the duo when done right. This film happens to excel in the former with a fascinating insight into Korean gang life based mostly in Seoul. It then completely fails to evoke the emotional response we think they were trying for with the latter. It was very interesting to hear the ranking structure and see a culture basically of gentleman criminals, countered with two dysfunctional terminally ill women who either die to soon for us to care or fall flat in their ability to endear us into caring about their deaths. Acting was fairly decent throughout though with shoutouts to Mun-shik Lee as Captain Park and Seung-Won Cha as Director Ma. Catch ya next time with our first (and maybe last cause it was disastrous, maybe because of the movie it covers) Under the Influence episode for Bad Trip!