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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 10:32:03 PMI will likely do so.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - Today at 10:06:26 PMCopilot is giving me flawed stuff again, chatGPT saves the day. I wonder why copilot is so glitchy at times.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - Today at 09:57:05 PM"Skinner" (1993)
A lonely housewife (90s talk show host Ricki Lake) rents out her spare room to a drifter (Ted Raimi) who's also a serial killer who likes to skin his victims and make suits out of their flesh. As if that weren't enough, a disfigured survivor (former XXX video queen Traci Lords) from one of his previous rampages comes to town looking for revenge. Hilarity ensues.
This stylish early 90s horror sickie isn't perfect by any means, but it's definitely worth a look due to the bizarro-world casting, the squirm-inducing, gory effects work, and the over the top performance by Raimi, who's an absolute hoot as the skin-wearung nut job. Check this obscure oddity out!
A lonely housewife (90s talk show host Ricki Lake) rents out her spare room to a drifter (Ted Raimi) who's also a serial killer who likes to skin his victims and make suits out of their flesh. As if that weren't enough, a disfigured survivor (former XXX video queen Traci Lords) from one of his previous rampages comes to town looking for revenge. Hilarity ensues.
This stylish early 90s horror sickie isn't perfect by any means, but it's definitely worth a look due to the bizarro-world casting, the squirm-inducing, gory effects work, and the over the top performance by Raimi, who's an absolute hoot as the skin-wearung nut job. Check this obscure oddity out!
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 09:37:01 PM
How did you buy in the castle?
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 06:38:39 PM"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between parent and child." - Vice President Dan Quayle.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by claws - Today at 06:33:20 PMQuote from: indianasmith on Today at 06:57:30 AMKristi Noem is Kristi Noemore.
Awful, utterly disgusting person. Her replacement isn't better
The idiot has speech and memory issues 
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 01:50:16 PMDR. SOCRATES (1935):
This is another silly mid-30s film elevated by two fine actors slumming. In spite of the title it isn't some gothic sci-fi/horror thing.
Lee Cardwell (Paul Muni) is a former surgeon with Doctor Strange's exact origin story minus the sorcery - a bad accident has rendered Cardwell's hands too shaky to perform surgery, so he's semi-retired to a big house in a podunk town, where he sees patients mostly free of charge even though most of the local yokels mock him openly and think he's up to some nefarious shenanigans just because he's a nerd. (One adult bully names Cardwell "Doctor Socrates" when they see him reading - wait for it - Plato....... yeah, I dunno either.) It's perplexing that these idiots spend so much time perseverating over Cardwell when there's an actual crime spree running openly amok in their region, headed by a big dumb gangster named Red Bastian. One day Cardwell goes to the bank just as Bastian is about to rob it, and simultaneously a hard-working itinerant laborer played by Ann Dvorak wanders through town looking cute and gets mixed up in the whole silly imbroglio.....
For much of the previous century, Paul Muni was remembered as the finest actor of the 1930s. Charles Laughton was probably his closest competition, but Muni was better-looking and so got to play more leading man roles. A real Daniel Day-Lewis of his era, Muni loved makeup and accents, tended towards portrayals of famous guys, and played characters of many nationalities/ethnicities - including, unfortunately, a Mexican and a Chinese dude. Muni was still a big enough deal historically in the early 80s that Pacino would've certainly thought of Muni's performance as SCARFACE in 1932 when considering the remake. DR. SOCRATES would definitely have been seen as "minor Muni". Lee Cardwell isn't a historical or literary figure and the screenplay is subpar, to be generous. Muni wears glasses and a weird little moustache (maybe his own, maybe fake) but that's it for transformation. (He kind of looks like Josh Hartnett's geeky little brother.)
But Muni's still a solid actor even with little to work with, and it's possible he took this job just to do another picture opposite Dvorak, who spectacularly played his sister in SCARFACE. Dvorak wasn't a glamor girl, just [sic] a smart, foxy Nice Girl/Girl Next Door....... like SECRETARY-era Maggie Gyllenhaal but maybe tarter. If I was Muni I wouldn't have signed on to this one unless they wrote in an actual make-out scene w/ Dvorak... well, as long as she was willing, of course.
Typhoid saves the town from the crimewave.
It's a silly film. 3/5
This is another silly mid-30s film elevated by two fine actors slumming. In spite of the title it isn't some gothic sci-fi/horror thing.
Lee Cardwell (Paul Muni) is a former surgeon with Doctor Strange's exact origin story minus the sorcery - a bad accident has rendered Cardwell's hands too shaky to perform surgery, so he's semi-retired to a big house in a podunk town, where he sees patients mostly free of charge even though most of the local yokels mock him openly and think he's up to some nefarious shenanigans just because he's a nerd. (One adult bully names Cardwell "Doctor Socrates" when they see him reading - wait for it - Plato....... yeah, I dunno either.) It's perplexing that these idiots spend so much time perseverating over Cardwell when there's an actual crime spree running openly amok in their region, headed by a big dumb gangster named Red Bastian. One day Cardwell goes to the bank just as Bastian is about to rob it, and simultaneously a hard-working itinerant laborer played by Ann Dvorak wanders through town looking cute and gets mixed up in the whole silly imbroglio.....For much of the previous century, Paul Muni was remembered as the finest actor of the 1930s. Charles Laughton was probably his closest competition, but Muni was better-looking and so got to play more leading man roles. A real Daniel Day-Lewis of his era, Muni loved makeup and accents, tended towards portrayals of famous guys, and played characters of many nationalities/ethnicities - including, unfortunately, a Mexican and a Chinese dude. Muni was still a big enough deal historically in the early 80s that Pacino would've certainly thought of Muni's performance as SCARFACE in 1932 when considering the remake. DR. SOCRATES would definitely have been seen as "minor Muni". Lee Cardwell isn't a historical or literary figure and the screenplay is subpar, to be generous. Muni wears glasses and a weird little moustache (maybe his own, maybe fake) but that's it for transformation. (He kind of looks like Josh Hartnett's geeky little brother.)
But Muni's still a solid actor even with little to work with, and it's possible he took this job just to do another picture opposite Dvorak, who spectacularly played his sister in SCARFACE. Dvorak wasn't a glamor girl, just [sic] a smart, foxy Nice Girl/Girl Next Door....... like SECRETARY-era Maggie Gyllenhaal but maybe tarter. If I was Muni I wouldn't have signed on to this one unless they wrote in an actual make-out scene w/ Dvorak... well, as long as she was willing, of course.
Typhoid saves the town from the crimewave.
It's a silly film. 3/5 #10
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 01:31:15 PMSoo, Nathan Fillion is hinting at a Firefly reunion, while some suspect it's just a gimmick for an upcoming AwesomeCon.....