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  • klu9@piefed.socialOPtoB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•B Movie Bonanza free streaming review - Movies 1-10English
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    23 hours ago

    Just watched Hard Ticket to Hawaii. That. was. AWESOME.

    Gotta see more of these Triple B movies.

    Spoilers / riffing

    • Jeez, the guy is even prettier than the girl. Like, way prettier! Like US soap star pretty.

    • 10 seconds have passed, time to show some boobs. Not gratuitous at all!

    • Surprisingly inventive opening titles, given how cheesy it’s been so far.

    • “Cameo appearances by”… people I’ve never heard of. Awesome!

    • Huge psycho snake! I thought this was going to be an action movie, not a monster movie! (I like going into films without a lot of expectation, so I didn’t read the description first.)

    • More completely ungratuitous boobage.

    • Apparently there are women who aren’t blonde… and don’t show their boobs within 10 seconds of first appearing on camera.

    • The theme song! Among the worst the 80s had to offer.

    • “But of course I pilot the plane in hot pants and braless. Double Ds weigh less at 5,000 feet.”

    • Noel Coward’s a drug smuggler now?

    • Drones in the 80s were so…

    • She keeps a ninja star in her piloting go-go boots!

    • Nothing says ‘dedicated captain of the aircraft’ and ‘conscientious DEA agent’ like flying off and leaving your passengers behind at the mercy of armed killers.

    • Can anyone in this movie act? Anyone?

    • “We need to figure out what just happened. Let’s unload and hit the jacuzzi.” WTF?!?!?! I’ll tell you what just happened: you just left two civilians to be killed by armed criminals who just shot at you! And your action plan is to hit the fucking jacuzzi?! (Disbelief assuaged by the knowledge that of course the jacuzzi’s going to be an excuse for more boobage.)

    • Restaurant scene, finally some people who can act. Badly, but at least they’re in the ballpark.

    • Pretty Boy’s kung fu training is getting very bromoerotic. And a touch racist.

    • This message will self-destruct in five seconds! (If by “self-destruct”, you mean trying to set a sandwich on fire with a cigarette lighter.)

    • Even the fights are an excuse for more boobage. [Crop tops riding up.]

    • “Now, that snake has been infected by deadly toxins from cancer-infested rats.” ROFL ROFL ROFL.

    • Evening at the restaurant: I thought the danger was going to be the big snake, but now I think it’s going to be the big hair. The big, big, BIG 80s hair.

    • Still no action to rescue the passengers they left at the mercy of the killers.

    • Relax, Moms for Liberty! That barmaid only looks like a drag queen.

    • Of course, undercover DEA operations are discussed on speakerphone in unsecured locations… with lots of flirting and innuendo.

    • SURPRISE ROMANTIC INTERLUDE! The boobage, however, is not a surprise.

    • Wait… it was night when we cut to the surprise romantic interlude, morning at the start of the interlude and then sunset at the end of the interlude. An entire day just passed? Still no word on the fate of the abandoned passengers.

    • Wait… Pretty Boy isn’t just “soap star pretty”. I think he really was a soap star, in one of the shows my grandmother used to watch. The Bold and the Beautiful?

    • Handstand skating, just because…

    • Attempted driveby shooting where the assassin hides a shotgun behind an inflatable sex doll while rolling downhill on a skateboard. ROFLROFLROFLROFL.

    • “Let’s get that turkey.” Hit the assassin with their jeep and before he even hits the ground, blow him up with a rocket launcher!!! And the sex doll, too!

    • The abandoned passengers are finally seen again. Alive and well and making dirty Polaroids.

    • Barmaid speaks. Actually, I think it is a drag queen, not just 80s hair and makeup dialled to 11.

    • Was that funny moment… intentionally funny?

    • Honeymooners dead, surprise, surprise.

    • “Dallas Steers” There’s only two things from Texas…

    • It’s starting to look more and more like it’s meant to be funny.

    • Hiding a gunshot wound is not a good enough reason for Kung Fu Bro to put a shirt on. Who cares if he’s trying to be undercover!

    • “One man’s dream is another man’s lunch.”

    • Uh oh, I know bad things are gonna happen with that frisbee…

    • Never question if a man can throw!

    • “Hey Co-leen… You’ve got a great ass.”“So do you, pilgrim.”

    • Flying guillotine!

    • {battle} “Who got Seth?” Doh!

    • TOILET SNAKE! “Just when you thought it was safe to take a pee.”

    • Who doesn’t bring dates to an arrest? In a prom limo?

    • Pretty Boy has barrel envy!

    • Closing titles. A Jackie Chan movie will reshow every stunt. This movie reshows every boob.

  • klu9@piefed.socialtoB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive (1999)English
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, it gets complicated and I am not a lawyer.

    But if the material is under copyright, and the uploader is just some random person, not the copyright holder or a distributor licensed by the copyright holder, then I won’t post it here, due to community rule #3.

    What I personally will link here, according to my interpretation of rule #3: free-gratis content from the following kinds of source:

    1. Licensed streaming VOD services, that only offer movies for which they have signed deals with copyright holders. That includes Tubi and Fawesome; even though they are free and have silly names, they are not pirate services. (IIRC both owned by Fox/Disney.) I consider 100% of content on those sites legit to link here. There are other such free services, like Free Movies+ (like my Fear City post), Flixhouse, The Archive (different from the Internet Archive) etc.

    2. YouTube links from channels that appear to be licensed distributors of that content. I go to the channel’s homepage or “About” page and see if they say they are licensed to distribute that content. (Admittedly, I am mostly just taking their word for it.) Example: Filmix, whose About page says " Please note that all movies have been licensed for publication on YouTube and are geo-restricted to the corresponding territories of the rights holder. " E.g. I originally watched Skyscraper and Maniac Cop on licence-claiming YouTube channels (although I later found out there were better versions on Tubi or Fawesome).

    3. Public domain content, from any source (the Internet Archive, PeerTube, YouTube, etc.) E.g. I posted The Yesterday Machine from a YouTube source, found via Cinetimes.

    4. Cinetimes is a “metasite” that collates movies from source types 2 & 3. Basically, they claim to have already done the filtering out of unlicensed content for you. Again a matter of trust, but here is their page on copyright. A test search for “dead or alive” did not return those results from the Internet Archive that I feel are not licensed, so they do filter out at least some unlicensed uploads.

    What I won’t post here (re rule #3):

    1. Obvious copyright-infringement links like P2P, cyberlockers, pirate streaming, Popcorn Time-type stuff etc.

    2. YouTube / PeerTube / Internet Archive links that do not convince me they are from licensed uploaders. Obviously, this requires some effort on my part beyond just deciding if it’s on YouTube etc. Occasionally, I’ll find a movie on YouTube, check the uploader’s channel and see that it claims it’s licensed but something convinces me otherwise. E.g. one didn’t actually give the titles of the movies, just descriptions. Dodgy! Another had big studio flicks that no way were going to be licensed to some pissant little YouTube channel, let alone for free viewing.

    If the uploader’s offerings are too good to be true for free, I won’t link here. Just because YouTube/Internet Archive hasn’t taken it down yet doesn’t mean it’s actually legit.

  • klu9@piefed.socialtoB Movie Bonanza@lemmy.world•Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive (1999)English
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    8 days ago

    I used to assume if it was on the Internet Archive, it was legit, but over time I realized basically anyone can upload anything they want there.

    And, given how notoriously fiendish rights issues can be, the fact that the uploader has uploaded a range of films from completely different production companies and distributors would suggest to me it’s a fan uploading things they are not licensed to.

    (Checking out the files of another person who also uploaded Dead or Alive there, they seem even less likely to be a licensed source.)