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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 03:44:56 PMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 06:08:09 AMI'm always glad when I can point somebody to another movie that they enjoy.Quote from: chainsaw midget on September 30, 2025, 07:52:22 AMThe Invisible Agent
Here we once again stray from the horror and even the monster aspect. Our Invisible Man is a war hero. When Nazis and a very wonderful and sadistic Peter Lorre (who actually plays a Japanese man here, yeah, I know...) track down the grandson of the original Invisible Man and threaten his life for the formula, he instead agrees to become the Invisible Man for the US military.
THE INVISIBLE AGENT (1942):
I'd like to revisit the original someday, yet I'd never seen this one before and Chainsaw had me at "Peter Lorre". The fact that Lorre "actually plays a Japanese man" isn't made at all clear until halfway through the film. He's addressed as "Baron" until at last his Nazi counterpart (Cedric Hardwicke) calls him by his last name ("Akito") in anger. Then Lorre begins acknowledging his loyalty to his homeland of the Rising Sun....... this plot point does create some interesting conflict and provides Lorre w/ motivation beyond just being Evil. Of course the casting was objectionable, and this wasn't the only time Lorre played a Japanese character. To his credit, though, Lorre doesn't do squinty-eyes or reverse his l's and r's or anything like that. He just plays "Baron Akito" with his normal accent and mannerisms. In fact he looks, sounds, and acts so much like "Toht" from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK I started figuring Spielberg had based Toht on Lorre's character here. So,to Lorre for being as inoffensive and possible in this role. And yes, he is "very wonderful and sadistic".
This was worth watching just for Lorre, but Hardwicke is also fun. This is definitely "sci-fi/action/adventure/comedy", not a horror flick, oh well. Jon Hall plays the eponymous grandson of the original Invisible Man and is handsome (when you can see him, briefly) and has a good voice, though obv he's no Claude Rains. Letterboxd tells me that Hall returned for another sequel, though he plays a different character, which makes no sense to me but, ehh, Universal!
3/5
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:53:34 PMThe Black Godfather (1974)
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:51:42 PM
What do you need to have a good night tonight?
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:43:52 PMCopilot got confused with a previous request and decided to make this one as a grindhouse horror poster, despite being completely inappropriate for the tile and description. Or maybe it just assumes I want EVERY title to be done in a grindhouse horror style by default, I don't know.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:37:45 PMFINALLY DAWN (2023): Humble Roman girl Mimosa is miraculously chosen as a featured extra in a Cinecitta Egyptian sword and sandal epic circa 1959 or so, and then is taken for a night on the town with eccentric and arrogant star Josephine Esperanzo (Lily James). If you're in a patient and thoughtful mood, the elegant staging and accomplished acting will pay off, but it's not an immediate grabber--I can see how it might feel like a chore to watch if you're not settled in for a slow one. 3.5/5.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:22:26 PMQuote from: claws on Today at 02:46:38 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on November 27, 2025, 10:42:34 AMCopilot refused to make a poster for "Devil on a Unicycle." That's nuts.
I asked copilot what's up with that. The answer:QuoteNo hidden bias: It's not about who asked — it's about how the request was structured. Even small differences in wording can change whether the system sees it as safe or unsafe.
The thing is, I asked Copilot to come up with a text description of the poster first, then make the poster. So it came up with a poster description its own policies wouldn't allow it to create. Very strange.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - Today at 12:20:44 PM"Nobody 2" (2025)
Overworked hired assassin "Hutch" (Bob Odenkirk) needs a break from the mayhem in his life, so he takes his family on a much needed vacation to an amusement park resort he loved as a kid. However, he soon learns that the old park is now a front for a massive smuggling operation run by a ruthless crime lord (Sharon Stone!). You can probably figure out the rest. Bullets fly, bones crunch, and lots of stuff crashes and blows up. A fun, ridiculously ultra-violent action comedy.
Overworked hired assassin "Hutch" (Bob Odenkirk) needs a break from the mayhem in his life, so he takes his family on a much needed vacation to an amusement park resort he loved as a kid. However, he soon learns that the old park is now a front for a massive smuggling operation run by a ruthless crime lord (Sharon Stone!). You can probably figure out the rest. Bullets fly, bones crunch, and lots of stuff crashes and blows up. A fun, ridiculously ultra-violent action comedy.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:58:11 AMBROADMINDED (1931):
Who's the most irritating male lead in comedy history? Jerry Lewis... Pauly Shore... Rob Schneider? I submit for your disapproval: Joe E. Brown - the rubber-faced, gape-mawed, persistently blinking goon/star of BROADMINDED! Okay, it's a "broad" and competitive field indeed, and Brown is favorably remembered for his supporting role in SOME LIKE IT HOT....... but I just couldn't take this guy for 90 minutes in this flick. And yet I did!
A nominally "Pre-code" feature, which in this case doesn't account for much scandalous content besides the extremely bizarre opening scene, where Brown's sidekick arrives at an "adult baby party" pushing fully infantilized Brown in a pram. The co-ed attendees are all dressed as babies in diapers and bonnets, sucking on pacifiers and bottles, etc. I recognize that "Adult Baby" is an authentic fetish in the 21st century
but, weird though it is to watch, nothing sexual or suggestive really happens onscreen, thus I struggle to think this would've been a problem for the Hays Code - but who knows.
Anyway, it's strictly routine antic rom-com after that, w/ weirdo Brown and his womanizing cousin (they've got BROADS on the MIND, see) on a cross-country trip straight out of the Farley/Spade playbook. They repeatedly run into and antagonize Bela Lugosi as "Pancho", a wealthy and quick-tempered "South American" entrepreneur.
Before you shout "Baron Akito" at your screen, Bela takes the high road and just does his normal accent (as if he could really do any other). And somehow it's less offensive watching perpetually-typecast Foreign Guy Bela play a different ethnicity (as he often would) than it is watching other white guys do it.
Bela was the only reason I watched this, but the female cast - Margaret Livingston, Ona Munson, and Thelma Todd - are all attractive and entertaining. The screenplay is cold (not even hot!) garbage... ex. Bela spends most of the film hollering about how Brown once ruined his strawberry shortcake. Todd (who would die under mysterious circumstances four years later) plays Bela's mistress, and it's nice to see him being romantic w/ a woman who isn't under his hypnotic spell and who he isn't bound to murder at some point. Bela also gets to chase Brown at full speed (instead of stalking his victim in a cape); Brown is scared of Bela's size (he calls him a "gorilla") and indeed, one gets to appreciate that the healthy, middle-aged, 6-foot-ish Bela is a threatening guy! In the few moments where Bela isn't in a blind rage (mostly opposite Todd), it's fund to watch him play comedy, which he rarely got to do. (Even in later horror/comedies, Bela always had to be the scary straightman.) So this was worth a watch for a different side of Lugosi.
2.5/5 But man a little Joe Brown goes a mile!
Who's the most irritating male lead in comedy history? Jerry Lewis... Pauly Shore... Rob Schneider? I submit for your disapproval: Joe E. Brown - the rubber-faced, gape-mawed, persistently blinking goon/star of BROADMINDED! Okay, it's a "broad" and competitive field indeed, and Brown is favorably remembered for his supporting role in SOME LIKE IT HOT....... but I just couldn't take this guy for 90 minutes in this flick. And yet I did!
A nominally "Pre-code" feature, which in this case doesn't account for much scandalous content besides the extremely bizarre opening scene, where Brown's sidekick arrives at an "adult baby party" pushing fully infantilized Brown in a pram. The co-ed attendees are all dressed as babies in diapers and bonnets, sucking on pacifiers and bottles, etc. I recognize that "Adult Baby" is an authentic fetish in the 21st century
but, weird though it is to watch, nothing sexual or suggestive really happens onscreen, thus I struggle to think this would've been a problem for the Hays Code - but who knows. Anyway, it's strictly routine antic rom-com after that, w/ weirdo Brown and his womanizing cousin (they've got BROADS on the MIND, see) on a cross-country trip straight out of the Farley/Spade playbook. They repeatedly run into and antagonize Bela Lugosi as "Pancho", a wealthy and quick-tempered "South American" entrepreneur.
Before you shout "Baron Akito" at your screen, Bela takes the high road and just does his normal accent (as if he could really do any other). And somehow it's less offensive watching perpetually-typecast Foreign Guy Bela play a different ethnicity (as he often would) than it is watching other white guys do it.Bela was the only reason I watched this, but the female cast - Margaret Livingston, Ona Munson, and Thelma Todd - are all attractive and entertaining. The screenplay is cold (not even hot!) garbage... ex. Bela spends most of the film hollering about how Brown once ruined his strawberry shortcake. Todd (who would die under mysterious circumstances four years later) plays Bela's mistress, and it's nice to see him being romantic w/ a woman who isn't under his hypnotic spell and who he isn't bound to murder at some point. Bela also gets to chase Brown at full speed (instead of stalking his victim in a cape); Brown is scared of Bela's size (he calls him a "gorilla") and indeed, one gets to appreciate that the healthy, middle-aged, 6-foot-ish Bela is a threatening guy! In the few moments where Bela isn't in a blind rage (mostly opposite Todd), it's fund to watch him play comedy, which he rarely got to do. (Even in later horror/comedies, Bela always had to be the scary straightman.) So this was worth a watch for a different side of Lugosi.
2.5/5 But man a little Joe Brown goes a mile!
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 10:47:16 AMcopilot
no idea why copilot came up with this one, but I like the title
no idea why copilot came up with this one, but I like the title