Recent content by Hot Monkey

Yup. The only thing worse then the recent Legendary WWE style movies is the abysmal Monarch series. Both have become all but unwatchable. I will still go to the theater to see Legendary pics just for the big screen spectacle of it but content wise they are crap. And if Toho keeps making more...

Read some fan grumblings online over the fact that the opponent for Godzilla in Minus Zero will be King Ghidorah and not Hedorah as many had speculated. I feel quite the opposite. While Hedorah is probably my all time favorite Godzilla foe (and highly stylized associated film) the fact that Toho...

BUMP... that sound at the end.

I was still in middle school... but Screaming for Vengeance was one of the first vinyl records I remember buying new with my own hard earned paper route money. Admittedly at the time the album cover art was probably a factor but I was hooked after that. When I was asked to illustrate the cover...

Realized my wife had never seen one of my all time genre if not overall favorite films... the original Let The Right One In... so we watched it then followed up next viewing with Hollywood remake Let Me In just for fun to compare. There is absolutely no comparison but it's still interesting to...

Random evolving list of top/personal favorite metal (actual metal) artists in no particular ranking order for no reason other then having this conversation at work the other day. Feel free to edit/add/embellish/question/dispute. Frontmen: Ozzy Dio Halford Dickenson Jourgensen Shagrath...

Yeah it’s very missable. Not terrible just nothing new or original.

Saw End Of Oak Street last night after work. Had a nice retro ET/Welcome to Derry/Close Encounters vibe and of course a lot of Jurassic Park in there as well. Fun flick not earth shattering or ground breaking just fun. I wanted this family to die much less then previous review of Last House.

Watched this on Netflix over the weekend we thought it was laughably bad. Felt like the whole movie, plot, dialogue, etc. was a either entirely AI generated random nonsense or just to worst and silliest COVID lock down metaphor imaginable. Either way it's just awful and I have never rooted...

Watched A24's Death of Robin Hood this weekend. It was IMO a powerful little slow burn tale of regret, repent and redemption. Unapologetically violent and yet somehow also peaceful and moody with excellent cinematography. A total rework of the traditional character retaining just enough lore to...

All my home theater gear was in storage for a couple years during divorce, relocating a few times and eventually landing in our current house. I can attest to it being a joy to get it all back up and running with proper surround sound at home. I didn't realize how much I missed it. Odyssey was...

2nd viewing was better they either tuned up the sound system or our seats were just more in the sweet spot (1st viewing was front biased and painfully loud. 2nd viewing was noticeably more tolerable and more immersive). Maybe a combination of both. Picked up on a few details with 2nd viewing...

Got tickets for 2nd IMAX viewing in a couple weeks. Not missing chance while it’s still on the big screen.

My wife commented on the way out of the theater it felt like when we were kids watching the old Ray Harryhausen stuff but for real. Like actually real. Not CGI... real. This production was monumental IMO. It drew an ovation from the crowd which I have not seen in a theater since Godzilla Minus...

Probably will go back for another (IMAX) viewing of Odyssey. There were definitely some Nolan-ism's to unpack with his version of this classic tale. But there was so much visceral stuff happening on screen that it was hard to think about any of that while simply witnessing and absorbing the...