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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007) in Movies

Jun 25, 2019  
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
2007 | Action, Comedy, Horror
7
7.2 (5 Ratings)
Movie Rating
I used to be a plumber
Jack brooks: monster slayer pays homage to movies like Evil dead, from dusk till dawn & gremlins.

After witnessing his family's brutal murder as a child, he grows up with an unquenching fury he is constantly fighting.
After accidentally unleashing an ancient evil during a plumbing job, his client/professor (Robert Englund) becomes possessed and mutates into a gruesome monster with an undying hunger.
This results in Jack facing his fears he can no longer run from and discover the purpose of his inner rage.

This is a great movie that honestly pays off, a low budget project that deserves a franchise.

Starring Trevor Mathews & Robert Englund

Story by: John Ainslie; Jon Knautz; Trevor Matthews; Patrick White
Directed by: Jon Knautz
Release date: October 9, 2007 (Sitges Film Festival); July 25, 2008 (Canada); August
  
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Juliette Jackson recommended track Jimmy the Exploder by The White Stripes in White Stripes by The White Stripes in Music (curated)

 
White Stripes by The White Stripes
White Stripes by The White Stripes
1999 | Alternative
7.3 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite
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Jimmy the Exploder by The White Stripes

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"I've got no idea what it's about but from what I can tell it's about a monkey that explodes things, a monkey that likes the colour red but doesn't like green apples, so he explodes the apples. I just think it's really cool. I love The White Stripes. I love Jack White. I love Meg White. I love how simple their songs are, and instinctive. It feels like they've just started playing at that moment and they're making it up as they go along, just seeing how and where it goes. Even the lyrics - the ""exploding monkey"" - it feels so random. They let the music go where it wants to go naturally, they don't get bogged down trying to glue together complicated bits of melody. Quite a lot of the process of songwriting is trying to find ways to stick bits together and it becomes mathematical in that way. Sometimes you get swamped and weighed down with two bits of music that you can't find a way of joining. And then I listen to The White Stripes and think ""Ahh! You just play them next to each other, you don't have to join them."" It's like what I said about Pixies, they make me feel like music can be anything and can be as simple and as messy as you want. And as loud as you want! I find it really freeing. A lot of songwriting is getting in the right frame of mind, so it's good to have this music that doesn't make you feel worried about what you're doing and not be overly precious about it. If one bit of music isn't working with another bit you've got, you can just throw it away and write another bit, it actually doesn't take very long and maybe it will be better. Or maybe it will be worse, but whatever! There's something magical about it. I loved the three-colour thing the White Stripes did, the little codes in the lyrics about the number three and the symbolism in the album covers. And the way they pretended to be brother and sister! Or were they? Or weren't they?! They're just so fucking cool. Out of all the bands to come out of the last twenty years I think they're one of the best. I'm also so glad they broke up. I'm so glad they stopped and that Jack White does his other stuff now. They left the things that they did and they didn't change. It was just perfect."

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Ross (3284 KP) rated White Blood Cells by The White Stripes in Music

Apr 30, 2020  
White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
2001 | Alternative
8
8.0 (10 Ratings)
Album Rating Watch
Rolling Stone's 497th greatest album of all time
The White Stripes' second album was huge when it was released. A stunning breathe of … not fresh air, but musty smoky garage air. Hotel Yorba and Fell in Love with a Girl were massive refreshing anthems. Jack White's powerful grungy over-distorted guitar and perfect shrill voice made each and every song soar, despite the basic drumming underneath it (which really does stand out as being the bare minimum). There are some mediocre songs or just pointless noodling and jamming that could have been left off, but as an album this is a total wallop in the face.