Mondo Mania!

Well I have decided that I will do away with a movie of the day post and decide to produce a little humble brag article for today.  As some of you have read before, back in January I and another guest blogger both picked out our favorite top ten Mondo posters of 2012.  You can see the articles here and here.  Now if you aren’t familiar with Mondo, let’s just say that it is some of the most impressive, artistic and collectible movies posters out there.  Anything that has to do with Mondo is highly collected and coveted.  I have been trying to collect Mondo’s since 2011, a little late to the game but still I think I have amassed a sizable possession of posters that have come to be some of the best art a person like me can own.  They are absolutely striking and captivating, often giving a movie a new life with some of the best artists out there giving it a new twist.

So today I wanted to showcase what I currently have in my collection.  I pulled images from the internet as I don’t have a high grade camera to get the details of the poster to shine.  Believe me though, the pictures don’t do them justice and must be seen to believe.  Enjoy!

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March Update! Alamo Style!

I thought that this would be a fun post to promote my part-time place of employment and show you all who don’t have a Drafthouse in your neck of the woods, a little of what I do there in terms of hosting and promoting.  Enjoy the montage folks!

Update Time!

I feel like I have to do one of these every so often to explain my lack of response back to comments and interaction.  In all honesty, I have just been swamped.  Between my 8-5 job and then working out at the Alamo Drafthouse for hours on end, I find myself getting thin on personal time and that sucks.  Comments pile up, traffic is dropping off, my general attitude as of late has been autopilot with posts while trying to find some semblance of sanity.  All that with the medical bills sucks, but not much can be done about that.  I feel like this is more of a chore sometimes and that sucks cause I don’t want this to be a chore.  I want this to be fun.

I am taking some steps to rectify that.  Trying to get back to old comments while retooling the blog and getting more involved.  I used to escape to this blog to calm myself after a busy night of hosting movie events and working my SEM job for the 8-5 gig.  It’s more of an empty promise currently, but I will get there.  I have a list of movies to review, a daily post to keep up and interactivity to build up.  I do have some things planned for the end of the month as I will be heading back to Columbia, MO for their annual documentary film festival.  I will be writing, blogging, tweeting and generally enjoying movies.  I think this will reinvigorate me with why I like to do this all.

So apologies to all, I know I neglect the interaction part of the blogging aspect, so I will do better.

Thanks and take care.

Also I am writing this before I head off to another wonderful event entitled Horror Remix at the Drafthouse.  Truly my home away from home.

Top 10 Mondo Posters of 2012: Guest Blogger Picks

Alright alright alright, time for a guest blogger to wow you poster fanatics with his personal picks for top Mondo posters of 2012.  This time my good friend and Mondo enthusiast, Luke Physioc, is stepping to wow you with his favorite posters and give you way better reasons about why he picked what he picked.  He is also an artist, so his word carries more weight.

If you want to submit your picks, drop me a message on twitter or leave a comment on the article.  I welcome everyone’s selections.

Now, on to the list.

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Top 10 Mondo Posters of 2012

Hello everyone!  Well, it is time for a new article and one that I am really excited about because it involves my favorite company out there for movie related posters and Mondo is their name.  If you aren’t familiar with their work or what they even do, good cause that means I have less competition to acquire their monthly poster releases for a serious buyer like myself.  So what better way to appreciate this fine company and the artists that tirelessly work to create some of the most amazing poster art for movies than to highlight my favorite ten posters that came out in 2012.  I also managed to get additional bloggers to add their list of picks and they will get their own post.  For now, here is my top ten list of Mondo posters.  Some I own, some I want, but all are amazing.

If you are interested in submitting your favorite Mondo poster of 2012, please message me and send your picks in.  I am excited to see what people pick as their favorite posters.  Now in no particular order:

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End of the Year List

Well, it’s that time for a list a of the things that I enjoyed this year and that happens to be movies.  I would have put this out earlier, I wanted to get in a few more movies before I make a definitive pick on the best of the year.  So in no particular order, here we go.  Feel free to discuss, some more analysis and reasons why will be updated as this was a quick article to put together.

Top Ten Movies of the Year

1.  The Master

2.  Argo

3.  Silver Linings Playbook

4.  Looper

5.  Django Unchained

6.  Moonrise Kingdom

7.  Cabin In The Woods

8.  Chronicle

9.  Skyfall

10.  Safety Not Guaranteed

 

Top Ten Documentaries of the Year

1.  The Imposter

2.  The Queen of Versailles

3.  Shut Up and Play the Hits

4.  The Waiting Room

5.  How to Survive a Plague

6.  Searching for Sugar Man

7.  Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

8.  The Island President

9.  Detropia

10.  Bully

Top Ten Apocalyptic Movies

Yeah that’s right, I am going to forgo the usual movie of the day and give you ten movies of the day.  Mainly this is in honor of the supposed world ending event tomorrow predicted by the Mayans and their calendar.  Personally, I think they just ran out of room on that giant stone slab to put more dates on, but whatever.  So in honor of the end of the world tomorrow or not, whatever, I decided to pick some of my favorite end of the world, apocalyptic movies.

I will admit, apocalyptic movies are my jam, even those shitty ones like Knowing or 2012, I will watch them all.  I don’t know why, but something about the break down of society and humanity on the throes of having to survive in a completely changed landscape of civilization just hits the right spot for my movie loving ass.  So I got us a mix of end of world movies and movies where life goes on I guess.

Here’s to the Mayans and their calendar scare!  Cheers!

Also these movies are in no particular order.

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November to Remember – The Final Frontier

Well folks, it is one day away from the point of no return.  I have compiled a list of roughly 100 bad movie recommendations and whittled it down to the 30 I will watch and write about it.  Mainly I know I will have nothing good to say about these movies since I have taken the time and care to avoid even bothering to watching these movies.  So now the criteria.

I realize that there are a ton of just god awful movies out there from the B to Z cinema range, so I had to take the time in reviewing and watching only those that others can find easily.  So I had to be able to watch the movies either through Netflix, Youtube, or other available video mediums.  I had to tarnish my Netflix queue to get some of these movies, so you are all welcome.  I picked relatively well known movies, so sorry to those that submitted Z grade movies that are only found on VHS or movies that are obscure only to you.  Specifically sorry Misty since I can’t review Ant Farm Dickhole or that bikini car wash thing, although it totally sounds like my sort of movie.

Next I eliminated movies that are a part of franchise.  I realize that it would be too easy to just have all the shitty “Blank” Movies that Seltzer and Frieberg put out like Saw movies or even every one of the Twilight movies.  Besides, why waste the time reviewing those 5 movies or whatever when I will say the same thing.  I chose to go with a few of them and be done with it.

I will try my best to watch them all the way through, but god forbid that I shut it off and walk away from the screen.  I will give an honest review and not be harsh and snarky just because I can, although I probably will.  I will live tweet about 5 of them, pending I have the time to do so.  So if there is one that people want to live tweet with me, please let me know in the comments.

So enough with the teasing, time for the list.  Thanks to everyone who submitted a movie and following me on this terrible, Hindenburg like journey.  These will be in no particular order and the ones I will live tweet will be said the day before on Twitter.

  1. The Last Airbender
  2. Battlefield Earth
  3. The Love Guru
  4. Skyline
  5. Gigli
  6. Catwoman
  7. Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star
  8. The Happening
  9. Batman and Robin
  10. The Spirit
  11. Tiptoes
  12. Speed 2: Cruise Control
  13. White Chicks
  14. Sex and the City 2
  15. Swept Away
  16. Jack & Jill
  17. Barb Wire
  18. The Hottie and the Nottie
  19. Norbit
  20. Showgirls
  21. House of the Dead
  22. Disaster Movie
  23. Little Nicky
  24. Kangaroo Jack
  25. Twilight
  26. Twilight  Breaking Dawn
  27. Glitter
  28. Epic Movie
  29. Big Mommas Like Father Like Son
  30. From Justin to Kelly

So Say We All.

November to Remember Update

Alright, I have been compiling suggestions and starting to schedule (I have to at this point) what I will potentially be watching come November 1st and all the way through the end of November.  Below is a list of the potential movies I will shrink to the 30 I will sit through and write about.  If there are still some suggestions that you want to throw out there, by all means message me on Twitter @PlotDevices or comment on the post.  God Help Us All.

  1. Burlesque
  2. Old Dogs
  3. The Last Airbender
  4. Battlefield Earth
  5. Sucker Punch
  6. Mac & Me
  7. The Love Guru
  8. Green Lantern
  9. Skyline
  10. Gigli
  11. I Know Who Killed Me
  12. Pure Country
  13. Catwoman
  14. Twilight
  15. Twilight: New Moon
  16. Twilight: Eclipse
  17. Twilight: Breaking Dawn
  18. Cool As Ice
  19. Abduction
  20. The Adventure of Pluto Nash
  21. Tiptoes
  22. Speed 2: Cruise Control
  23. Godzilla
  24. Judge Dredd
  25. Spider-Man 3
  26. Batman & Robin
  27. Wild Wild West
  28. Barb Wire
  29. Showgirls
  30. The Reven
  31. Failure to Launch
  32. Crossroads
  33. Steel
  34. Kazam
  35. Juno
  36. Glitter
  37. The Spirit
  38. Kangaroo Jack
  39. Troll 2
  40. Alone In The Dark
  41. Jack & Jill
  42. Carmen: A Hip Hopera
  43. Soul Plane
  44. Son of the Mask
  45. Fantastic Four
  46. Meet Dave
  47. Knowing
  48. Howard The Duck
  49. From Justin To Kelly
  50. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
  51. Year One
  52. Van Helsing
  53. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
  54. Max Payne
  55. House Of The Dead
  56. The Pink Panther 2
  57. Street Fighter
  58. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
  59. Swept Away
  60. White Chicks
  61. Disaster Movie
  62. The Avengers (not the marvel movie)
  63. Norbit
  64. Meet The Spartans
  65. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  66. The Happening
  67. Epic Movie

Top Ten Movie Presidents

So the debates happened the other night and I immediately tuned out to the platitude debate that would ensue.  So I turned on Independence Day so I can revel and yearn for the day when President Bill Pullman takes that stand and inspires us to beat those aliens and their fancy shields.  This led me to make up a list of my top ten favorite movie presidents because I feel they are way better candidates at this point.  So here you go folks, the most kick ass Presidents from movies.

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