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Bad Movies / Re: movies that namecheck anot...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 03:16:00 AMQuote from: claws on August 18, 2026, 08:18:37 AM5. Splatter University (1984)
Cheap, uneven, and stitched together with abrupt pacing, this one struggles to find a consistent tone. The twist lands, but the journey is rough and often incoherent.
yeah this one suuucked... contender for bottom 3 80s slasher imo. (not sure what the other 2 would be)
Quote from: Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan on August 19, 2026, 07:35:47 PMShaun of the Dead I remember some scene where they were throwing dinner plates like weapons at the zombies and sort of like chinese stars to actually kill the zombies. I thought it was kind of a homage to Oddjob from James Bond. I can't think of any name checking off hand with the zombie movies. Shaun of the Dead might be one of the better ones. I hope one day people can ween me back into liking zombie movies again.
that's one of my favourite scenes in any film of this millennium I think. genius!
I'm also not really enthused with newer zombie flicks... can't think of a single one since SOTD that I've enjoyed (not that I've seen many). the late 70s wave really nailed how to do that genre.
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Press Releases and Film News / RIP John Irvin
Last post by Trevor - Today at 02:14:31 AMThe British filmmaker and director of films such as THE DOGS OF WAR, RAW DEAL, GHOST STORY and the very troubled and as yet unreleased film MANDELA'S GUN has passed away at the age of 86.
RIP sir ♥️🌹
RIP sir ♥️🌹
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Netflix sued for losing un...
Last post by Trevor - August 19, 2026, 10:46:03 PMQuote from: chainsaw midget on August 19, 2026, 07:04:57 PMQuote from: Trevor on August 04, 2026, 05:37:40 AMNever found out what happened to that tape after I delivered it 😳Don't rule out the idea that Nic Cage might have it.
😄😂😅😃
I really needed that LOL thanks
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - August 19, 2026, 09:49:12 PMTHE DRAMA (2026):
The web ads kind of made this look like a lite rom-com cash-in for Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, and indeed it made a lot of money against its low budget. But it's produced by Ari Aster for A24, so it's anything but romantic - at best a daaark satire, more like a psychological drama, or frankly even a horror film. There's no supernatural element or onscreen violence, but anyone who's planned and then survived a wedding will likely experience SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN-level PTSD while watching THE DRAMA. Also, it turns out this might be the best project either of its stars has participated in.
Imminently betrothed Charlie (Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) get suckered into playing a game with nominal best friends Mike (affably passive Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim, giving a highly convincing performance which is unlikely to win her any friends or job offers). Each ends up volunteering a story about the "worst thing" they've "ever done", and Emma's revelation sends Charlie into a weeklong spiral into deep neurosis.
The rest of the film is a series of arguments and compounding microaggressions, prompted by the inciting incident. Unlike Ruben Ostland's FORCE MAJEURE, however - in which the inciting incident is inescapably emblematic (and condemnatory) of the main character - the thing that Emma confesses to ends up saying a little bit about her but a lot more about all of the characters surrounding her. For example, we only get a little exposition about Charlie's assistant Misha (Hayley Benton Gates, a brunette Emma Stone) yet the small ways in which she reacts to Charlie and Emma's actions speak volumes about her own unseen personal Drama. THE DRAMA is often unpleasant and nerve-wracking, but the longer I stuck with it, the more I appreciated its careful construction. There's also a denouement that is either imaginary/sub-conscious (as are other small moments previously), or real and life-affirming and kinda' happy, or real and deeply cynical, depending on one's interpretation and individual frames of reference.
Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli has created a heck of a foundation for audience debate - throughout the film, not just at the end - and also something of a Rorschach test. The conversations that Madame 10rda and I were having during the film evolved over 105 minutes and we were having entirely different conversations at the end, and for a few days after. Inevitably those conversations were pretty deep and compelled us to talk about some things we don't often talk about. I also think, in the spirit of the impetus for THE DRAMA's Drama, that discussing this film and its themes might potentially jeopardize or even end some less stable relationships, or at least illuminate fractures therein. I suspected that one of my colleagues (who is also one of the most ideologically compromised people I know) might not enjoy THE DRAMA, and upon bringing it up she confirmed that she "hated it" because "Zendaya ends up being the good guy at the end". I take some issue w/ that reading of the text - I don't think the film renders Emma as an uncomplicated and wholly sympathetic figure at all - but moreover, hating THE DRAMA for that reason says a lot about my colleague.
Excellent film. 4.5/5 #dontbearachel
The web ads kind of made this look like a lite rom-com cash-in for Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, and indeed it made a lot of money against its low budget. But it's produced by Ari Aster for A24, so it's anything but romantic - at best a daaark satire, more like a psychological drama, or frankly even a horror film. There's no supernatural element or onscreen violence, but anyone who's planned and then survived a wedding will likely experience SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN-level PTSD while watching THE DRAMA. Also, it turns out this might be the best project either of its stars has participated in.
Imminently betrothed Charlie (Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) get suckered into playing a game with nominal best friends Mike (affably passive Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim, giving a highly convincing performance which is unlikely to win her any friends or job offers). Each ends up volunteering a story about the "worst thing" they've "ever done", and Emma's revelation sends Charlie into a weeklong spiral into deep neurosis.
The rest of the film is a series of arguments and compounding microaggressions, prompted by the inciting incident. Unlike Ruben Ostland's FORCE MAJEURE, however - in which the inciting incident is inescapably emblematic (and condemnatory) of the main character - the thing that Emma confesses to ends up saying a little bit about her but a lot more about all of the characters surrounding her. For example, we only get a little exposition about Charlie's assistant Misha (Hayley Benton Gates, a brunette Emma Stone) yet the small ways in which she reacts to Charlie and Emma's actions speak volumes about her own unseen personal Drama. THE DRAMA is often unpleasant and nerve-wracking, but the longer I stuck with it, the more I appreciated its careful construction. There's also a denouement that is either imaginary/sub-conscious (as are other small moments previously), or real and life-affirming and kinda' happy, or real and deeply cynical, depending on one's interpretation and individual frames of reference.
Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli has created a heck of a foundation for audience debate - throughout the film, not just at the end - and also something of a Rorschach test. The conversations that Madame 10rda and I were having during the film evolved over 105 minutes and we were having entirely different conversations at the end, and for a few days after. Inevitably those conversations were pretty deep and compelled us to talk about some things we don't often talk about. I also think, in the spirit of the impetus for THE DRAMA's Drama, that discussing this film and its themes might potentially jeopardize or even end some less stable relationships, or at least illuminate fractures therein. I suspected that one of my colleagues (who is also one of the most ideologically compromised people I know) might not enjoy THE DRAMA, and upon bringing it up she confirmed that she "hated it" because "Zendaya ends up being the good guy at the end". I take some issue w/ that reading of the text - I don't think the film renders Emma as an uncomplicated and wholly sympathetic figure at all - but moreover, hating THE DRAMA for that reason says a lot about my colleague.
Excellent film. 4.5/5 #dontbearachel
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Gloomy Question For Vetera...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - August 19, 2026, 07:44:23 PMQuote from: ER on November 11, 2008, 01:12:24 PMLately I've found that my mind has been very focused on the future and those who will live in it.
We dwell in an unstable world. I know most times in history can have that said of them but it seems things are more terrifyingly tense than they've been in a very long time, with international alliances and outlooks shifting, nuclear proliferation, true hatred rising across the globe, the rattling of sabers and the rhetoric of coming conflict... For anyone who feels like making a reply to so bleak a question, how likely do you think it is that in about the next ten years our nation will face the equivalent of another world war? If war arises, where will it begin, or be fought, who will be involved, and what will the outcome be?
If no one here feels like going after this topic, which I know is out of place, believe me, I don't blame you. But as I said, the future and the likelihood of catastrophic war has lately been in my thoughts.
Really what this is is basically a silent movie and we are segwaying to a new Teddy. Taking a crap. I am one of those weirdos who believe that morality is still something. Not memorizing how many baseball players are able to speak perfect english, which is a "miracle" based on where they are from — this is the Hawaiian islands in the pliocene and we are waiting for Pat Robertson to get his love Dove head on and get us ready for the new armageddon.
Where I am from. Elongated Skull land apparently. A-Louie, Louie, no, no, no, no. That is a good song by the way, the conclusion is the Queen of the Gorgons is making a comeback. Sergeant Richard Swain fight me! And prove to me that virtual urban warfare is some sort of hasbendish deal, like listening to Jessie Jane Duff talk about brain tumors in veterans. Because you know this Derek dude would be all over it. He can tell you how elongated skulls solved the problem of brain tumors and
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Bad Movies / Re: movies that namecheck anot...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - August 19, 2026, 07:35:47 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on August 18, 2026, 02:47:45 AMsome of these seem to be crossovers between a character being namechecked, and that character's had a movie named after them therefore it's a 'movie' namecheck... not sure how to deal with that aspect tbh.
Can't think off the top of my head but I'd be surprised if neither SHAUN OF THE DEAD nor HOT FUZZ mentioned a movie (or two)
Shaun of the Dead I remember some scene where they were throwing dinner plates like weapons at the zombies and sort of like chinese stars to actually kill the zombies. I thought it was kind of a homage to Oddjob from James Bond. I can't think of any name checking off hand with the zombie movies. Shaun of the Dead might be one of the better ones. I hope one day people can ween me back into liking zombie movies again.
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Good Movies / Re: Childhood nightmare fuel p...
Last post by chainsaw midget - August 19, 2026, 07:08:55 PMQuote from: M.10rda on August 07, 2026, 12:41:36 AMI know lots of people bag on BOGGY but it seems like quintessential nightmare fuel for children of the 70s and 80s. Incomprehensibly rated "G" (thus the scariest G-rated movie of all time), it played on TV for years during daylight hours, exposing countless kids to the "arm through the window" scene.If anything what we need MORE of these days is movies that traumatize kids at young ages!
I am sure we are not alone in feeling traumatized at tender ages.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by chainsaw midget - August 19, 2026, 07:06:11 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on August 05, 2026, 08:28:08 AMSPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY: Spider-Man fights a bad guy while dealing with unruly arachnid DNA, mooning over his amnesiac girlfriend, hosting cameos from other IPs, and gliding over plot holes. Entertaining enough exploitation of the usual Marvel formula, although adults might feel guilty about not spending time on something more substantial.I feel no guilt.
I enjoyed it.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Netflix sued for losing un...
Last post by chainsaw midget - August 19, 2026, 07:04:57 PMQuote from: Trevor on August 04, 2026, 05:37:40 AMNever found out what happened to that tape after I delivered it 😳Don't rule out the idea that Nic Cage might have it.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Remembering Reggie Bannist...
Last post by chainsaw midget - August 19, 2026, 07:03:57 PMApparently he'd been in bad shape for a while now, and just kept getting worse so it's no huge surprise.
Still, I loved him in the Phantasm series.
Still, I loved him in the Phantasm series.