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Off Topic Discussion / Re: The truly terrible joke th...
Last post by Alex - Today at 04:07:27 PMThe greatest invention in history has to be the Universal Remote Control.
After all, it changed everything.
After all, it changed everything.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 03:31:03 PM75) Annie Hall
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Weird News Stories / Re: Pabst Blue Ribbon Wants it...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 02:55:14 PMNote to self: if stealing beer, move overseas first.
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Weird News Stories / And now on to Guinness
Last post by sprite75 - Today at 02:37:02 PMI guess the beer thieves decided an upgrade from Pabst to Guinness was in order...
QuoteThieves have stolen more than 800 barrels of Guinness by driving off from a depot with two HGV trailers.
About 70,000 pints worth of the stout, estimated to be worth £115,000, were taken from Whitehouse Industrial Estate on Aston Lane in Runcorn on Monday, Cheshire Police said.
One wagon-load was taken at about 19:45 BST and a second one was stolen at about 21:30.
The stolen barrels - which each would hold about 88 pints - had been destined for pubs, the force added.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by HappyGilmore - Today at 01:52:54 PM74.) Donnie Brasco (1997)
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 01:35:02 PM73. VERA DRAKE (2004)
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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!