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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - Today at 09:53:57 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on August 28, 2026, 04:07:43 PMZodiac (2007) - I somehow didn't know about this or that David Fincher directed it. The first thing you notice is the real lack of Hollywood glamour. It's like he was making it for A and E or even PBS. There's even Wikipedia ish scenes where they make sure the audience gets certain facts "Here it is Christmas 1970 and we just got the second Zodiac letter. It sure is a crazy world." etc.
The Zodiac killer is loose in early 70's California and cops are having a hard time figuring out who he is. He does the thing where he writes taunting letters to the newspaper and sends them weird codes to decipher, but always stays a step ahead, somehow. Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chloe Sevigny are among the cops/ newspaper people whose lives would come to be defined by the whole thing.
Again, it's basically a 2 (and a half) parter A and E season opener, but where it's all re enactment and no talking heads or voiceover.
5/5 I'll be watching something a little more lively next, but I can't deny the formal integrity on display.
Tauntuan Heteroptera agitate and Madam Curie or Eocene bug Morphology looks like the Star Spangled banner on the cover of Smithsonian 2014. Does it matter if we can make Bugs glow in the dark now with stem cells. And I don't mean fireflies. Call Jake Gyllenhall..I think these people have wish they were Luke Skywalker and could have had a chance to sleep in a Taun Taun Syndrome.
That is an almost epic Ax grinding takedown of the movie. Call Jeff Meldrum and have him make a cast of your foot stomping it.
It seems like in a way too. Zodiac was a bit callous and disrespectful to the events that actually happened. Not very prudential. I mean if it is based on something true. If you want to learn how to make a movie based on something true (or somewhat fictionalized true) and that happened fairly recently, I believe The Right Stuff did it right.
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Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies you have a pers...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 09:52:17 PMMy aunt was a theatre director and professor who took acting classes in the late 70s with Tracy Pollan (aka Mrs. Michael J. Fox), who at that time was dating Kevin Bacon, thus my aunt knew him, too. He was really excited about making his big break in this movie FRIDAY THE 13TH. According to my aunt, all his friends were embarrassed for him when it came out.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 08:50:03 PMTonight's Stinker
I Love Maria(1988)
https://youtu.be/y9-sjq4H0jw?si=TK1UelwMhbeaw2Wd
A klutzy reporter show up to an active crime scene, where police fail to stop a giant robot from robbing a bank.... The next day, the reporter loses his camera at a press gaggle at the police station, but is helped out by a klutzy scientist.... The scientist later proves his bosses new machine gun won't work, & tries to talk the leader of the science team into his design for a ray gun.... His boss brushes him off, more concerned about his job than stopping the robot.... Later, the scientist helps out a drunk at a bar, who's a former member of the robot gang....
Meanwhile, the leader of the gang has built a robot in the likeness of his girlfriend, Maria, who's not too happy about her doppelganger....
They send the robot to kill the drunk, who's rescued by the scientist, and the robot malfunctions after getting wet.... The drunk & the scientist find themselves on the run from bot the police and the mob....
The English dubbing cuts out & goes to Chinese many times throughout this print, so It's kinda hard to know what they're talking about.....
Other than that, there's plenty of decent slapstick, and the robots, the stuff they smash & the practical effects are fairly impressive....
I Love Maria(1988)
https://youtu.be/y9-sjq4H0jw?si=TK1UelwMhbeaw2Wd
A klutzy reporter show up to an active crime scene, where police fail to stop a giant robot from robbing a bank.... The next day, the reporter loses his camera at a press gaggle at the police station, but is helped out by a klutzy scientist.... The scientist later proves his bosses new machine gun won't work, & tries to talk the leader of the science team into his design for a ray gun.... His boss brushes him off, more concerned about his job than stopping the robot.... Later, the scientist helps out a drunk at a bar, who's a former member of the robot gang....
Meanwhile, the leader of the gang has built a robot in the likeness of his girlfriend, Maria, who's not too happy about her doppelganger....
They send the robot to kill the drunk, who's rescued by the scientist, and the robot malfunctions after getting wet.... The drunk & the scientist find themselves on the run from bot the police and the mob....
The English dubbing cuts out & goes to Chinese many times throughout this print, so It's kinda hard to know what they're talking about.....
Other than that, there's plenty of decent slapstick, and the robots, the stuff they smash & the practical effects are fairly impressive....
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by HappyGilmore - Today at 05:27:29 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 02:48:34 PMAh, bummer. I missed that one.Quote from: HappyGilmore on Today at 01:28:01 PM99.) Hercules
1997? The Disney film.
we done had that there one at #82
as usual I will exclude myself from posting the heroic #100 entry...
99. MARNIE (1964)
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 04:43:03 PMQuote from: indianasmith on Today at 04:10:31 PMMy weight has dropped from 273 in June to 248 earlier this week! (249 this morning because we had ribs for supper last night, LOL!).
Still, 25 pounds is making a difference. Next stop, 30 pounds down!
This is the one case where I'll say less Indy is a good thing!
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 04:18:24 PMBECKY (2020) - This was a re-watch for me, but still one of the more enjoyable revenge flicks out there.
Becky is a 13-year-old neurodivergent girl mourning the loss of her mother to cancer a year before. Her Dad takes her to their old summer house to introduce her to his new fiancée, which does not go well - but then the party is wrecked by some Neo-Nazi escaped convicts looking for the key to a box full of treasure, which they hid in the cabin years before. When they kill Becky's Dad, they have to face the wrath of a teen hellcat who is out for revenge in the goriest manner she can achieve it! It's an ultra-violent, darkly funny film that has become a guilty pleasure of mine. 4.5/5
Becky is a 13-year-old neurodivergent girl mourning the loss of her mother to cancer a year before. Her Dad takes her to their old summer house to introduce her to his new fiancée, which does not go well - but then the party is wrecked by some Neo-Nazi escaped convicts looking for the key to a box full of treasure, which they hid in the cabin years before. When they kill Becky's Dad, they have to face the wrath of a teen hellcat who is out for revenge in the goriest manner she can achieve it! It's an ultra-violent, darkly funny film that has become a guilty pleasure of mine. 4.5/5
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Games / Re: Make a sentence you're pre...
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 04:13:40 PMThe quick brown cat was eaten by the lazy gecko.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 04:10:31 PMMy weight has dropped from 273 in June to 248 earlier this week! (249 this morning because we had ribs for supper last night, LOL!).
Still, 25 pounds is making a difference. Next stop, 30 pounds down!
Still, 25 pounds is making a difference. Next stop, 30 pounds down!
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 03:19:44 PMI lost $1.99 in the stock market last week. Now I am going to have to forgo a pack of Trident Original Sugar‑Free Gum.
