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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 04:44:32 AMTHE RED MILL (1927):
For some reason I imagined this was about a spooky old haunted mill but then no, it's a light and frothy romantic farce, but then yes, at the end the spooky haunted old red mill appears!
THE RED MILL is the first feature-length film I've seen directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, working under the name "William Goodrich" during his official/nominal exile from the Hollywood spotlight. There's probably a good reason he stuck to making shorts for so long - maintaining hilarity for 75 minutes is tough. THE RED MILL is really more a romance w/ sporadic goofy comedy.
Marion Davies plays "Tina", a little Dutch girl
slaving away in rural Holland under the thumb of a sadistic master. There's a whole elaborate plot involving the arranged (by mail) engagement of Tina's wealthy Irish ex-boyfriend to her master's comically fugly daughter, who (sight unseen) the ex-boyfriend thinks is Tina 'cause she lied to him and told him she was rich and blah blah blah, hijinks ensue. All of it is just an excuse for Davies to look and act cute, which she does quite well. In THE PATSY Davies reminded me of Kirsten Dunst; here she's a redhead and looks more like Gillian Anderson or Tea Leoni. 
The screenplay (credited to a female author) is far more pedestrian than the usual Arbuckle mayhem, but it does seem like he had some influence on the intertitles, and he creates one opportunity early on for Davies to perform some solo physical comedy in the kitchen that is really impressive and reminds one of the kind of stuff Lucille Ball would get up to on her show in the 50s. Davies was a far more capable actress than her legacy (painted alas by Orson Welles in CITIZEN KANE) would suggest.
Then, in the last 15-20 minutes, Davies gets chased into the titular location, which is abandoned and reputedly haunted, though in fact it's just an OSHA nightmare. This sequence runs as long as many of Roscoe's shorts and was probably the reason he wanted to make THE RED MILL. It isn't peak Roscoe either but at least there's one climactic stunt that (in classic silent film tradition) looks appallingly unsafe. 3/5 Roscoe also has a brief and uncredited cameo as a bellhop. His head is shaved, kind of pointlessly as he's impossible to mistake onscreen, w/ or w/o hair.
For some reason I imagined this was about a spooky old haunted mill but then no, it's a light and frothy romantic farce, but then yes, at the end the spooky haunted old red mill appears!
THE RED MILL is the first feature-length film I've seen directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, working under the name "William Goodrich" during his official/nominal exile from the Hollywood spotlight. There's probably a good reason he stuck to making shorts for so long - maintaining hilarity for 75 minutes is tough. THE RED MILL is really more a romance w/ sporadic goofy comedy. Marion Davies plays "Tina", a little Dutch girl
slaving away in rural Holland under the thumb of a sadistic master. There's a whole elaborate plot involving the arranged (by mail) engagement of Tina's wealthy Irish ex-boyfriend to her master's comically fugly daughter, who (sight unseen) the ex-boyfriend thinks is Tina 'cause she lied to him and told him she was rich and blah blah blah, hijinks ensue. All of it is just an excuse for Davies to look and act cute, which she does quite well. In THE PATSY Davies reminded me of Kirsten Dunst; here she's a redhead and looks more like Gillian Anderson or Tea Leoni. The screenplay (credited to a female author) is far more pedestrian than the usual Arbuckle mayhem, but it does seem like he had some influence on the intertitles, and he creates one opportunity early on for Davies to perform some solo physical comedy in the kitchen that is really impressive and reminds one of the kind of stuff Lucille Ball would get up to on her show in the 50s. Davies was a far more capable actress than her legacy (painted alas by Orson Welles in CITIZEN KANE) would suggest.Then, in the last 15-20 minutes, Davies gets chased into the titular location, which is abandoned and reputedly haunted, though in fact it's just an OSHA nightmare. This sequence runs as long as many of Roscoe's shorts and was probably the reason he wanted to make THE RED MILL. It isn't peak Roscoe either but at least there's one climactic stunt that (in classic silent film tradition) looks appallingly unsafe. 3/5 Roscoe also has a brief and uncredited cameo as a bellhop. His head is shaved, kind of pointlessly as he's impossible to mistake onscreen, w/ or w/o hair.
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What Was That Film? / Re: Cartoon about a villain in...
Last post by wositelec - Today at 04:20:23 AMHidden Treasure of Wompkee Wood (2009) - somebody found.
#3
Good Movies / The Big Eep (1978)
Last post by Trevor - September 07, 2026, 11:50:26 PMI saw this in 1978.
I was eleven and the only reason I got in to see it was because my folks knew the cinema manager in my home town.
It was one of those movies I saw as a kid where I thought "I'm a little bit too young to see this" 😳😀
It was banned by the apartheid censor board and the release in Rhodesia was delayed due to the banning, as Rhodesia received its cinema releases from South Africa.
It was the first movie I saw someone bare assed nekkid in.
Thank you, Candy Clark 😍🥰
It still holds up.
I was eleven and the only reason I got in to see it was because my folks knew the cinema manager in my home town.
It was one of those movies I saw as a kid where I thought "I'm a little bit too young to see this" 😳😀
It was banned by the apartheid censor board and the release in Rhodesia was delayed due to the banning, as Rhodesia received its cinema releases from South Africa.
It was the first movie I saw someone bare assed nekkid in.
Thank you, Candy Clark 😍🥰
It still holds up.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by chainsaw midget - September 07, 2026, 10:34:17 PMThe song Feed My Frankenstein contains the lyrics...
You don't want to talk so, baby, shut up
And let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup
Velcro candy, sticky sweet
Make my tattoos melt in the heat
Well, I ain't no veggie
Like my flesh on the bone
Alive and lickin' on your ice cream cone
Up until...very recently, I thought the song went ...
You don't want to talk so, baby, shut up
And let me drink the wine from your dirty cup
Velcro candy, sticky sweet
Make my tattoos melt in the heat
Well, I ain't no legend
I'm just flesh on the bone
Alive and naked on your ice cream cone
You don't want to talk so, baby, shut up
And let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup
Velcro candy, sticky sweet
Make my tattoos melt in the heat
Well, I ain't no veggie
Like my flesh on the bone
Alive and lickin' on your ice cream cone
Up until...very recently, I thought the song went ...
You don't want to talk so, baby, shut up
And let me drink the wine from your dirty cup
Velcro candy, sticky sweet
Make my tattoos melt in the heat
Well, I ain't no legend
I'm just flesh on the bone
Alive and naked on your ice cream cone
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - September 07, 2026, 07:23:58 PM"National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" (1993)
Two mismatched cops - a cautious veteran (Samuel L. Jackson) and a loose cannon (Emilio Estevez) try to solve a murder and stop a huge drug deal from going down.
A slapstick, gag-a-minute parody of "Lethal Weapon" style buddy cop action flicks. There are a few decent laughs and the two leads try their best, but the flick doesn't quite reach the intended "Airplane" level of silliness. The stacked cast also includes the late Tim Curry, William Shatner, and Kathy Ireland. Not a must see but amusing enough for one viewing.
Two mismatched cops - a cautious veteran (Samuel L. Jackson) and a loose cannon (Emilio Estevez) try to solve a murder and stop a huge drug deal from going down.
A slapstick, gag-a-minute parody of "Lethal Weapon" style buddy cop action flicks. There are a few decent laughs and the two leads try their best, but the flick doesn't quite reach the intended "Airplane" level of silliness. The stacked cast also includes the late Tim Curry, William Shatner, and Kathy Ireland. Not a must see but amusing enough for one viewing.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by sprite75 - September 07, 2026, 04:57:12 PMI have a guy on another board that has gotten to be such an a***ole I figure I'm done with him. He got all nasty yesterday towards me even though I had been quite ill at the time. I blocked that f**ker and plan to keep blocking that low life four flushing sack of s**t. If he doesn't like it too bad. I'm done with being treated like s**t by four flushers like this f**king loser.
#8
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by zombie no.one - September 07, 2026, 04:54:09 PMit's a runaway train!
#9
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by HappyGilmore - September 07, 2026, 04:17:33 PMSo, are we doing another hundred?
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by Rev. Powell - September 07, 2026, 02:55:17 PMMy intent: sentient beings = yes. Items = no.