Joker

I wanted to see this in theaters, but I had no window for it. I was never too keen on the casting of Joaquin Phoenix from the start, but I found it promising when they announced that Robert De Niro would be in it and that Scorsese would be producing. Apparently, Scorsese was more of a consultant as he isn't listed in the credits, but damn if he isn't an inspiration. This film was heavily inspired by Taxi Driver, so it makes sense.

This movie will make you wonder about its continuity a lot, but that's part of the game. Here, we watch a man with a bad string of luck and he is definitely unraveling. It's a very well thought out effort and it provides a few ideas that I surprisingly never thought about before. Weird shit that plays with your mind about the entire mythology of Joker and why he does what he does, and why he likes to toy with Batman so much.

As it's own stand alone movie, it's an experience. I feel it would be a disservice to talk more in depth about the plot, but Joaquin really pulled it off. His life is hilarious.

Animation Draft. 

Hey guys! I thought maybe an animation draft would be fun. We would be doing animation characters. I thought it would just be fun this month. The horror draft was fun, and I thought maybe we could have a couple fun ones throughout the year. Comment if you want to sign up and we can go from there.

All forms of animated characters would count.

Animation: Pixar vs. Disney Final Round!! 

Somehow, it's actually managed to be a Pixar vs. Disney Final! But it was close that last round! Without further ado, here is the last round!

Monsters Inc vs. Aladdin(1992)

Next Month's Challenge 

Hey Trash Epians. Just wanted to update you all on the challenge for next month. We are going to be doing something a bit different next month. Instead of a movie challenge, we will be having a TV challenge. Basically, watch as much tv as you want. Watch a full series or two. There will be a different point system as we want to test something out. Rules to follow later this month, but it will be fun. And who doesn't love a chance to just binge some shows lol!

Animation: Pixar vs. Disney round three 

Toy Story vs. Aladdin(1992)
Monsters inc vs. Ratatouille

David Bowie

Died 4 years ago today. It's still hard to believe it, but his bizarre entity transcends life and death. In a way, I refuse to accept that he's "dead" because he'll never be dead as long as I keep hearing his music.

I think his last single "Lazarus" is pretty great, and the context of it makes it haunting. Bowie knew he was done for when he made that song and it's sad as fuck. I feel like a lot of that album was like that.



Don't know where I'm going with this, but I go through my musical moods. Lately, it's Bowie. He's just one of those guys that you thought would be around forever. It's still weird to me.

Animation: Pixar vs. Disney Round 2

Alright guys. Here is the next round! Some Pixar movies are going against Pixar, because most Disney movies were eliminated.

1.) Toy Story vs. The Lion King(1994)

2.) Monsters Inc vs. Finding Nemo.

3.) Ratatouille vs. Up

4.) The Incredibles vs. Aladdin(1992)

HG Lewis vs Lloyd Kaufman

Well no I'm not asking whose movies you prefer but I just thought it was cool as title. As a big HG Lewis fanboy I can understand that people see Kaufman and the Troma movies as a follow-up. HGL created the gore and splatter movie while others such as Kaufman continued when HGL left the movie business for a period of about 30 years.
There is indeed a lot of similarities between HGL and Troma flicks:

• low budget
• independent cinema
• no top cast, mostly amateurs
• acting is average at best
• no complex storylines
• not to be taken very seriously

Now one would expect I ought to love Troma movies but I'm yet to find one I actually like. I have heard there was a lot of mutual respect between the 2 directors so I almost feel obliged to find that Troma gem. However if the more popular Troma stuff like Toxic Avenger, Terror Firmer and Poultrygeist were quite a burden to sit through I'm afraid me and the Troma movies don't make a good match. Frustrating as I really want to appreciate all kinds of trash.
It's not that I have many points of critique on the few Troma flicks I have seen. The main thing that puts me of is definitely the humor. I find it infantile, the shit and sex jokes they grow stale on me quickly.

Maybe I understand fans of Halloween (1978) now. Love or hate it, it did indeed set a new standard in the slasher genre and every other movie in this genre afterwards will be compared to it. I understand when people say it has not been matched or bettered.

HG Lewis set a standard in gore and splatter (well it hardly existed before BLood Feast) and I'm yet to find someone who presented it in the enjoyable way the godfather of gore did.

Animation: Disney vs Pixar! 

Hey y'all! So for this month, I thought we could do something probably silly, but could be fun.

So, I put together another voting game. All the movies are animation to coincide with this months challenge, and for this one we are doing Disney vs. Pixar. I know it's Disney's Pixar now, but still they were two different companies, and their movies are vastly different.

So the premise of this voting game is to bring out your inner child. You are still going to vote for the movie you like the best, but instead of you now, let's vote in what we would have voted for as a child! These are considered children's movies, so why not let our thinking become that as a kid again! So without further ado, here is our matchups for this round! I'm going to put them all on one, so we don't have so many posts clogging up the Board!


Round 1: Winner Bolded

1.) Toy story vs. Peter Pan

2.) A Bug's life vs. The Lion King(1994)

3.) Monsters inc vs. Alice in Wonderland(1951)

4.) Finding Nemo vs. The Little Mermaid(1989)

5.) Ratatouille vs. Lilo and Stitch

6.) Up vs. Dumbo

7.) The Incredibles vs. Big Hero Six

8.) Inside out vs. Aladdin(1992)

Go ahead and vote in the comments! And have fun.
I know animation movies, or kids movies aren't a lot of people's things, but if you have seen them, or loved them once vote! We're here to have fun!

Picture Post! 

Okay guys, I figure we could have an updated post where we show what we look like! So if you want post a picture.


I really want to post the picture of Box, Bambi, Pick, and I, but for some reason I can't get it uploaded. I will keep trying though. For now here is a picture of box and I taken on New Year's Eve. Now y'all should post of a picture of you. Let us all see what a lovely group of trash people are on this site!



Okay here is the image I really wanted to post:
Left to right: Box, Me, Box's Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pickofdestiny, and Bambi! This was taken around my birthday last year!