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Last post by Alex - Today at 03:13:18 PMWell, about this time last year, immigration to the UK from the US hit its highest level since records began. I know Canada is also seeing record numbers (apparently, especially nurses) and overall achieving a negative net migration (the last time this happened in the US was during the Great Depression, when around 100,000 people moved from the US to the USSR in search of jobs). I'd imagine that must be opening up a fair few job openings.
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Last post by Senor Citizen - Today at 02:05:10 PMAirport 1975
This was so much better than first. Much more action and more bigger. Just love it!
It was of course bad but entertainigly bad
On the next one
This was so much better than first. Much more action and more bigger. Just love it!
It was of course bad but entertainigly bad
On the next one
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Last post by Leah - Today at 02:02:36 PMQuote from: Alex on March 04, 2026, 05:50:22 AMHeard an interview with trump saying he wanted to deport the jobless. I guess that is where ICE will be turning its attention to next.Seeing the news....maybe not (I hope)
From looking at the stats, it seems an odd choice as that is also a good chunk of his voter base.
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Last post by M.10rda - Today at 01:07:09 PMI was just conscious enough in 1980 or thereabouts to see the prime-time network premiere of CONCORDE: AIRPORT '79... it was three full hours w/ commercials (or maybe even 3.5) and although I was very excited to see it based on the promos... man, it was way past my bedtime when the action finally started. I remember 8-10 PM was all exposition and character development, and then I just blacked out. 
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Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 12:42:57 PMQuote from: Senor Citizen on Today at 11:50:02 AMAirport (1970)
On technical side, 4k-picture and 5.1-sound is just incredible.
Movie itself is slow and boring where people talk about airport-stuff. It takes almost two hours to get to the action.
Positive side, you get the urge to watch Die Hard 2.
yeah it's a slog, that first one... I have a box set with all 4 of those AIRPORT movies for my sins and they do get steadily more entertaining (vaguely) through the sequels
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Last post by Senor Citizen - Today at 11:50:02 AMAirport (1970)
On technical side, 4k-picture and 5.1-sound is just incredible.
Movie itself is slow and boring where people talk about airport-stuff. It takes almost two hours to get to the action.
Positive side, you get the urge to watch Die Hard 2.
On technical side, 4k-picture and 5.1-sound is just incredible.
Movie itself is slow and boring where people talk about airport-stuff. It takes almost two hours to get to the action.
Positive side, you get the urge to watch Die Hard 2.
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Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:59:32 AMQuote from: retrorussell on February 18, 2024, 04:16:28 AMOASIS OF THE ZOMBIES (1982)
Really dumb zombie flick from sleazemeister Jesus/Jess Franco. Zombified Nazi soldiers from WWII protect a cache of gold they buried in the African desert, munching on trespassers. The blurb NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED is applied to the US poster.
If I don't feel your entry meets the criteria, don't be bummed! Try, try again!
I guess OASIS meets the criteria of the title (per the blurb on the poster) - but most of these other films contain some questionable or objectionable content. I don't think OASIS contains graphic violence or nudity/sex in any version. It's among Franco's tamest....... either due to that or coincidentally, it's also the only Franco film (to my knowledge) that Franco tried to deny ownership of!
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Last post by Trevor - Today at 10:08:49 AMQuote from: indianasmith on Today at 07:01:01 AMReminds me of something an 8th grade student of mine said long ago:
"We should eliminate the poor to stimulate the economy!"
Oy 😳😆😃😀😂
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 09:56:12 AMTHE RAZOR'S EDGE (1946):
I will endure a lot of crap (cinematically speaking) to enjoy an Elsa Lanchester performance. How much of an Elsa Lanchester performance? In the case of '46's RAZOR'S EDGE, a little under two minutes' worth. Exactly how much crap? In the case of RAZOR'S EDGE, more than plenty.
W. Somerset Maugham was a big enough deal in the early 20th century that ABBA gave him a shout-out in "One Night In Bangkok", their hit single from the musical CHESS. Bill Murray must've liked Maugham's novel enough to want to remake THE RAZOR'S EDGE in the 80s. But I've spent a lot of time in 7-12 and college-level English classrooms and nobody, nobody, reads Maugham anymore....... and this movie would seem to demonstrate why. THE RAZOR'S EDGE is some real white-person $#!t about white people standing around mansions and penthouse apartments debating the meaning of life as a white person.
The central white person is a guy named Larry Darryl, which sounds like a joke on an 80s sitcom (and it was). Larry has enough autonomy and latitude as a privileged white person to spend his entire adult life traveling the world and studying how non-white people live, then returning to high society and telling other white people about it. They don't appreciate it at all and really think Larry should just settle down into a nice white-person job like sitting in an office accruing interest on his capital or attending cocktail parties! But Larry knows he is Good and Enlightened and just wishes all his other white friends would also acknowledge how Good and Enlightened he is!
Larry is played by blandly handsome Tyrone Power, whose entirely too-stoic performance fails to convince me of his sincere enlightenment. One of his love interests is played by Anne Baxter, who won an Oscar for her onscreen tragic alcoholism. Her performance shows a lot of effort, much of which is admirable and some of which veers into silliness. Larry's other love interest is played by the very beautiful Gene Tierney from LAURA, playing an utterly despicable b!tch (I was insufficiently convinced that Maugham or the screenwriter recognize that Tierney's character deserves no sympathy whatsoever, as she still gets some). Tierney's LAURA co-star Clifton Webb plays another wholly un-self-aware tragic white person, because THE RAZOR'S EDGE was evidently incomplete w/ only Baxter's un-self-aware tragic white person. Webb, who stole the show from Tierney and everyone else in LAURA, has long melodramatic deathbed scenes (plural!) but, you know, WGAF. Maugham himself is a character (played by Herbert Marshall) who stands around reminding all the other white people that they might do well to be more like Larry!
Director Edmund Goulding spends most of this two and a half hour movie stuck on one side of the fourth wall, shooting everything like a stiffly choreographed play in long, looooooong unbroken takes. This naturally does little to emotionally connect one to the shallow characters. Goulding begins shooting in rather thoughtful, carefully framed closer shots near the end of the film, but by that point, who cares?
Elsa plays an executive assistant in a mildly pivotal scene near the end and she projects more integrity in her small character's very small scene than all the wise enlightened good whiteness in the whole rest of the film. F**k this stupid movie.
1.5/5 Weren't there world wars and global depressions happening in the teens and 20s and 30s and 40s? Sheesh.
I will endure a lot of crap (cinematically speaking) to enjoy an Elsa Lanchester performance. How much of an Elsa Lanchester performance? In the case of '46's RAZOR'S EDGE, a little under two minutes' worth. Exactly how much crap? In the case of RAZOR'S EDGE, more than plenty.
W. Somerset Maugham was a big enough deal in the early 20th century that ABBA gave him a shout-out in "One Night In Bangkok", their hit single from the musical CHESS. Bill Murray must've liked Maugham's novel enough to want to remake THE RAZOR'S EDGE in the 80s. But I've spent a lot of time in 7-12 and college-level English classrooms and nobody, nobody, reads Maugham anymore....... and this movie would seem to demonstrate why. THE RAZOR'S EDGE is some real white-person $#!t about white people standing around mansions and penthouse apartments debating the meaning of life as a white person.
The central white person is a guy named Larry Darryl, which sounds like a joke on an 80s sitcom (and it was). Larry has enough autonomy and latitude as a privileged white person to spend his entire adult life traveling the world and studying how non-white people live, then returning to high society and telling other white people about it. They don't appreciate it at all and really think Larry should just settle down into a nice white-person job like sitting in an office accruing interest on his capital or attending cocktail parties! But Larry knows he is Good and Enlightened and just wishes all his other white friends would also acknowledge how Good and Enlightened he is!
Larry is played by blandly handsome Tyrone Power, whose entirely too-stoic performance fails to convince me of his sincere enlightenment. One of his love interests is played by Anne Baxter, who won an Oscar for her onscreen tragic alcoholism. Her performance shows a lot of effort, much of which is admirable and some of which veers into silliness. Larry's other love interest is played by the very beautiful Gene Tierney from LAURA, playing an utterly despicable b!tch (I was insufficiently convinced that Maugham or the screenwriter recognize that Tierney's character deserves no sympathy whatsoever, as she still gets some). Tierney's LAURA co-star Clifton Webb plays another wholly un-self-aware tragic white person, because THE RAZOR'S EDGE was evidently incomplete w/ only Baxter's un-self-aware tragic white person. Webb, who stole the show from Tierney and everyone else in LAURA, has long melodramatic deathbed scenes (plural!) but, you know, WGAF. Maugham himself is a character (played by Herbert Marshall) who stands around reminding all the other white people that they might do well to be more like Larry!
Director Edmund Goulding spends most of this
two and a half hour movie stuck on one side of the fourth wall, shooting everything like a stiffly choreographed play in long, looooooong unbroken takes. This naturally does little to emotionally connect one to the shallow characters. Goulding begins shooting in rather thoughtful, carefully framed closer shots near the end of the film, but by that point, who cares?Elsa plays an executive assistant in a mildly pivotal scene near the end and she projects more integrity in her small character's very small scene than all the wise enlightened good whiteness in the whole rest of the film. F**k this stupid movie.
1.5/5 Weren't there world wars and global depressions happening in the teens and 20s and 30s and 40s? Sheesh.