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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 11:20:54 AM

I like the general design but I hate it when copilot credits every cast member "as" their character. So I asked it to remake the same poster. Despite giving it explicit instructions on what text to use, it got confused and screwed it up...

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:51:35 AM

yah there is nothing in the song's lyrics to indicate he knew of the case.

Lester, now you should review Lon Chaney Sr.'s 1926 silent gothic classis WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE?

  I always thought that an anthology film of short stories based on TW songs might make a good project. Let Jim Jarmusch direct.

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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by claws - Today at 10:47:24 AM

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Bad Movies / Re: Boop (Public domain Betty ...

Last post by Alex - Today at 10:37:02 AM

Until you mentioned it, I wasn't aware that he was playing Micky. Most of the time, you'll see him in costume, sneering at whoever is about to be his victim. They've dealt with the limited SFX budget by not having him share the screen very much with full-size people, from what I remember (although I would have to say I watched this during a 12-hour night shift where my other option for entertainment would have been to chat with a right-wing racist guy, I chose this as the more interesting option.

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:12:35 AM

EDDINGTON: Just ten years ago, this movie set just five years ago would have played like an outlandish satire on the level of SOUTHLAND TALES; now, it seems like something that almost might have really happened. 3.5/5.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

EDDINGTON (2025):
How long will HEREDITARY's (unreasonable, unjustified) line of credit allow Ari Aster to keep making "outlandish", divisive two-and-a-half-hour films that gross only a third-to-half of their budget? I am pessimistic about it but personally I hope the answer is "forever". Madame and I greatly enjoyed the well-acted, beautifully directed (and funny) first 90-to-120 minutes of EDDINGTON, then towards the end increasingly sat silently flummoxed. Honestly it's some credit that Madame (who also hated HEREDITARY and was disgusted and outraged by MIDSOMMAR in spite of then watching it a second time on her own, but loves Pedro Pascal) even made it through EDDINGTON's closing credits. I myself am always embarrassed when I cannot offer a thesis statement about the film I just watched by the time the credits end, and that was the case here!

After having laid awake in bed thinking about it last night, however, I admit I quite admire Aster's chutzpah. EDDINGTON asks a lot of its (regrettably tiny) audience. For one thing, it begins as realism (which, as Rev. Powell indicated above, ain't what it use to be) and very slowly shifts into satire, then in its last twenty-five minutes transforms into allegory or perhaps nightmare/fantasy. EDDINGTON invites sympathy for characters who are horrible people and invites criticism of those who are seemingly decent, raises many questions that it never answers, and introduces an abrupt element of the supernatural (or, perhaps, a character who has become purely symbolic) in its final 5 minutes. Also - perhaps most impressively - Aster provides several of the film's most important pieces of information to the audience precisely once - and if you missed it or you forgot that information two hours later, oh well.

...The guy's got big huevos! I feel bad for EDDINGTON's dreadful performance in theaters, but on the other hand EDDINGTON is in many ways similar yet inferior to the breakout smash hit of the summer, WEAPONS - a film that at least makes some minor narrative concessions to its viewers, still allowing them to chew and process a whole lot of roughage on their own and presumably feel good about it but at least making their digestion manageable and even pleasant.

4/5
...But EDDINGTON is still a much better film and endlessly more worthy of box office success than HEREDITARY!

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:36:17 AM

yah there is nothing in the song's lyrics to indicate he knew of the case.

Lester, now you should review Lon Chaney Sr.'s 1926 silent gothic classis WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE?

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Who do you want to win the...

Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 02:38:59 AM

Well, that was some press conference today for sure. I haven't even watched most of it, just the reactions.

Seemed like it went rather well!

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Humorous Captions / Re: Wake up

Last post by Trevor - Today at 01:52:03 AM

"Great.  I went out and got drunk last night and woke up in bed with a masked killer AGAIN!  Why does this keep happening to me?"

"Is that a weapon in your hands or are you just pleased to see me?" 😉

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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by bob - November 21, 2025, 10:25:28 PM

copilot




ChatGPT

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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by M.10rda - November 21, 2025, 08:23:29 PM

STARK FEAR (1962):
Spending precious time on this misleadingly titled potboiler - which could've been more accurately called SLOW FEAR or MILD DOMESTIC ANXIETY - drove home to me that maybe it was time to end my 11-week long "Halloween" marathon of nominal "horror" movies. In short, this ain't one - at best it's a psychological thriller, but honestly you'll find more thrills in a soap opera. (Okay, maybe not a Korean soap opera.) One reason I bothered w/ this one is because it is one of the only films where 50s/60s drive-in stalwart actress Beverly Garland got to play a serious/dramatic lead role. Garland, always dependable and convincing in supporting roles or thankless damsel-in-distress parts, definitely deserved a chance to shine. Oh brother, STARK FEAR was what she got...!

In a screenplay too muddled and laborious to bother unpacking in detail, Garland's life is sent into a tailspin when her paranoid, Oedipally fixated, BPD-suffering narcissist husband throws a fit, dumps her, and disappears from their Texas oil town... leaving Beverly holding the bag for his debts and all their bills. Psycho hubby just doesn't want to be found, but poor Bev is so codependent she can't cut her losses... and  her attempts to track him down get her harassed, beat up, and (offscreen, implicitly) worse.

STARK FEAR is a dark, weird movie for its vintage, set in a landscape that's less like "Peyton Place" or "Dallas" and a lot more like a Coen Bros noir like NO COUNTRY FOM or FARGO or RAISING ARIZONA... heck, Garland even gets pawed by a Jon Polito lookalike! It is a "serious" film, sort of, but it never gets quite bizarre or juicy enough to be, well, interesting. The biggest problem is that Garland is perpetually followed around by this yattering yenta who lectures her about how she needs to get her head out of her butt and empower herself... which does give voice to the viewer's own internal monologue, but in a strident and ceaseless way that just made me want to stop watching. Maybe the yenta is supposed to be Garland's enlightened conscience/alter ego?

Alas, Garland never really pulls her act together, finally just running off into the arms of another man, because it's the early 60s and that's how women solved their problems in movies back then.

2.5/5

Y'know what, I need Garland's relentlessly off-putting voice-of-reason to hector me... into picking better movies to watch!