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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 09:57:41 AMI liked TRAP though I agree that it feels very much like an excuse for MNS to promote the musical career of his (otherwise unknown) daughter. 
MOONSHINE (1918):
Another example from what seems to be the peak period of Roscoe Arbuckle films. Like OUT WEST, this has distinct characters and a reasonably complicated plot (especially for a 20-minute short), as well as a plethora of gags that I feel like I saw countless times as a child in cartoons and sitcoms of the 30s-60s. Given the vintage of writer/director Arbuckle's films, I'm increasingly inclined to credit him with laying the foundation for a lot of 20th century comedy.
Roscoe is a gun-toting IRS agent (like in THE UNTOUCHABLES!) and Buster Keaton is his earnest partner; they travel to mountain-country to bust up a hillbilly moonshine operation. Al St. John - perennially the Yuen Biao to Roscoe's Sammo and Buster's Jackie - plays the main hillbilly henchman. He and Buster get up to some really impressive physical business, including an eye-popping chase around, up, and through a tree. Roscoe also falls off a cliff and down a steep hill, gets thrown into and floats down a large creek, and at one point picks up Buster and hangs him upside down from a tree limb. Like their later Chinese Opera counterparts, these guys were actual athletes.
There's also a classic "clown car" gag that is executed seemingly w/o stopping the camera thus must've involved a tunnel underground in a large field.
There's also also another large secret hideout entrance automatic door opening in the side of a hill, a tiny impoverished moonshiner shack with a secret dungeon decked out like a parlor in a mansion, an exploding (and reverse assembling) house, a fake suicide gag, a gunfight where Roscoe gets shot in his @$$, and a ton of meta-comedy where characters and even the narrative intertitles acknowledge that this is a movie. There is even a self-consciously gratuitous and underdeveloped romance subplot, involving Alice Lake being objectified and physically abused, which is of course totally problematic, but the intertitles even acknowledge the gratuity and objectionable nature of the scenario.
4/5 Roscoe was honestly some kind of savant.
MOONSHINE (1918):
Another example from what seems to be the peak period of Roscoe Arbuckle films. Like OUT WEST, this has distinct characters and a reasonably complicated plot (especially for a 20-minute short), as well as a plethora of gags that I feel like I saw countless times as a child in cartoons and sitcoms of the 30s-60s. Given the vintage of writer/director Arbuckle's films, I'm increasingly inclined to credit him with laying the foundation for a lot of 20th century comedy.
Roscoe is a gun-toting IRS agent (like in THE UNTOUCHABLES!) and Buster Keaton is his earnest partner; they travel to mountain-country to bust up a hillbilly moonshine operation. Al St. John - perennially the Yuen Biao to Roscoe's Sammo and Buster's Jackie - plays the main hillbilly henchman. He and Buster get up to some really impressive physical business, including an eye-popping chase around, up, and through a tree. Roscoe also falls off a cliff and down a steep hill, gets thrown into and floats down a large creek, and at one point picks up Buster and hangs him upside down from a tree limb. Like their later Chinese Opera counterparts, these guys were actual athletes.
There's also a classic "clown car" gag that is executed seemingly w/o stopping the camera thus must've involved a tunnel underground in a large field.
There's also also another large secret hideout entrance automatic door opening in the side of a hill, a tiny impoverished moonshiner shack with a secret dungeon decked out like a parlor in a mansion, an exploding (and reverse assembling) house, a fake suicide gag, a gunfight where Roscoe gets shot in his @$$, and a ton of meta-comedy where characters and even the narrative intertitles acknowledge that this is a movie. There is even a self-consciously gratuitous and underdeveloped romance subplot, involving Alice Lake being objectified and physically abused, which is of course totally problematic, but the intertitles even acknowledge the gratuity and objectionable nature of the scenario.4/5 Roscoe was honestly some kind of savant.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:21:25 AMQuote from: HappyGilmore on Today at 09:15:12 AMNot sure if this will count, but it is the guy's name. If it doesn't, disregard:
72.) Thor
Thor is his real name, not an alias like Batman or Superman, so I have no problem with it.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by HappyGilmore - Today at 09:15:12 AMNot sure if this will count, but it is the guy's name. If it doesn't, disregard:
72.) Thor
72.) Thor
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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:38:28 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on September 02, 2026, 09:29:09 AMI remember standing at the urinal afterwards thinking to myself, "he really toned down the weirdness for mainstream audiences" when a perturbed patron walked in muttering to himself, "what a weird movie." 3.5/5.
^^^My entire filmgoing existence!
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:01:46 AM
"So Much For Goodbyes" by Billy Strings
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 07:59:59 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 07:16:29 AM"Although my physical form will return to dust, my one and only solace comes from the fact that my wisdom will live on through my words, and that all future generations will be guaranteed to know my name."
(Anon)
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 07:57:19 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 04:29:33 AM(I take it punctuation is allowed, if OLIVER! counts)
Yeah, punctuation is fine. (You may be taking this too seriously, lol!)
1. Barbarella (1968)
2. PATRICK (1978)
3. Akira
4. Erin Brockovich
5. Harvey
6. Ted
7. Shane
8. PAUL (2011)
9. Barb Wire
10. KATRINA (1969)
11. Carrie
12. Patton (1970)
13. Shaft
14. SHIRLEY VALENTINE (1989)
15. Hamlet
16. Dracula
17. Barton Fink (1991)
18. HARRY BROWN (2009)
19. Willard
20. Dr. No
21. Frankenstein
22. Donnie Darko
23. EMANUELLE (1974)
24. Goldfinger
25. Bronson (2008)
26. Van Helsing
27. Mitchell (1975)
28. ARTHUR (1981)
29. Annie (1982)
30. MARTIN (1977)
31. Django (1966)
32) Zelig
33. JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
34) Willow
35. Oppenheimer
36. ZOOLANDER (2001)
37 Barbie
38. JACKIE BROWN (1997)
39. Léolo (1992)
40. Angélique (2013)
41. Amelie
42. Gia(1998)
43. FOXY BROWN (1974)
44. Billy Madison
45. Happy Gilmore
46. Ed Wood
47. Joan of Arc (1948)
48. ABBY (1974)
49. Rocky Balboa (2006)
50. LUCY (2014)
51. Forrest Gump
52. Mandy (2018)
53. ALFIE (1966)
54. John Wick
55. Stuart Little
56. MARY POPPINS (1964)
57. Dick Tracy
58. Joe Kidd
59. BRÜNO (2009)
60. Joe Dirt
61. Napoleon Dynamite
62. FRIDAY FOSTER (1975)
63. Oliver!
64. Jackie
65. Candy (1968)
66. Hudson Hawk
67. Lenny (1974)
68. JUNO
69. Billy Jack (1971)
70. FROST/NIXON (2008)
and
71. Orpheus (1950)
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 07:16:29 AM"Although my physical form will return to dust, my one and only solace comes from the fact that my wisdom will live on through my words, and that all future generations will be guaranteed to know my name."
(Anon)
(Anon)
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