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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:43:29 AM

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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:38:44 AM

Obscure piano works by female composers.

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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:29:09 AM

BUDDY: Big orange unicorn Buddy turns homicidal whenever the children don't play along with his lessons. Told almost entirely from within the reality of a kid's TV show, it's like if a demon-possessed Barney became dictator at Pee-Wee's Playhouse. There are hints, if not a complete explanation, of what Buddy really is and how his world works. It's also at times very cruel, and probably metaphorically represents what it's like to have an abusive father. Despite all this, it's not as unhinged as what I would have expected from Caspar "Too Many Cooks"/"Adult Swim Yule Log" Kelly; it's coherent enough that it's almost aimed at a commercial audience. I 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.

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:11:54 AM

"Good art inspires us. Bad art shows us the path to make our own art."--Joel Hodgson

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:04:17 AM

^^^ No idea about the movie, but I love the title!

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: fine example of IMDb revie...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:03:10 AM

AI isn't exactly under control of its 'owners'. It's entirely possible this is a rogue thing, or that if not directed at a specific target they just randomly review movies? Anyway, I am just guessing here.

how long till we have a movie that's entirely generated by AI with no human prompting, is then uploaded to streaming services by AI, and is then listed on IMDb by AI, and gets a bunch of AI reviews submitted for it? 

I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. The tech is there for it.

Maybe it has.

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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:02:10 AM

What do you say to someone you've just met?

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:58:18 AM

Rev, for future reference, were nicknames allowed or not? I've got one that's technically a nickname, not the character's actual name.

Tough for me to decide without seeing it. I would think if people always/usually address the character that way, then maybe? I did add "Bronson" even though that was not his real legal name, because he called himself that and in fact made a big deal out of it. Post it and we'll talk it through.

well it's HUDSON HAWK. real name 'Eddie Hawk' apparently

That sounds good to me. People call him Hudson, right?

66. Hudson Hawk

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:55:28 AM

MERCY, THE MUMMY MUMBLED (1918):
This is another silent short that almost defies rating. It seems really quite good for about seven of its eleven minutes, but most of the ending is all but unwatchable due to extreme decomposition. You see parts of the characters' bodies around the perimeter of the frame but everything in the middle is water-damaged, discolored, melted, etc.  I suppose that would add to the nightmarecore nature of a Mummy movie if this Mummy movie were actually a Horror film, but it's a wacky comedy.

Another all-African-American cast does very lively, highly specific work, as similar casts have done in other films from the roaring teens. A mad scientist wants to revive an Egyptian mummy with a hypodermic full of special potion, and a local con man thinks he can help the scientist out by wrapping himself up in bandages and leaping to life et cetera. (Or something, it is a short silent film.) The real antics probably begin in the moment right after the mad sticks the faux mummy w/ the syringe and he reacts in Warner Bros fashion....... which also happens to be the moment when the film spontaneously deteriorates. 

Ah well. 3/5?    Surprised this was never remade as a Kevin Hart or Wayans Bros project.

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 08:30:19 AM

Rev, for future reference, were nicknames allowed or not? I've got one that's technically a nickname, not the character's actual name.

Tough for me to decide without seeing it. I would think if people always/usually address the character that way, then maybe? I did add "Bronson" even though that was not his real legal name, because he called himself that and in fact made a big deal out of it. Post it and we'll talk it through.

well it's HUDSON HAWK. real name 'Eddie Hawk' apparently