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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Wordl Cup?
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:54:54 AMOops, sorry, I thought this was the Wordle cup thread.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Wordl Cup?
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:49:37 AMALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022): Gallery photographer Nan Golden wages a protest campaign to get the names of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, developers of Oxycontin) removed from art galleries. There are really two documentaries here that work against each other, as flashbacks to Golden's biography (which might have made an interesting enough doc on its own) impede the development of the more dramatic story of the Sackler's culpability in the opioid crisis. 2.5/5.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:28:47 AMTHE FEATHERED SERPENT (1948):
There is no feathered serpent in this movie.
But I digress. This is the only Charlie Chan movie I can remember actually watching - I figured I owed it to my man Mantan Moreland to see one of his storied performances as "Birmingham", the long-suffering valet and sidekick to the legendary sleuth, who is played of course by a white man in yellowface. 
Chan is Roland Winters this time - the O.G. (I think) Chan was Warner Oland, a British-German guy who died midway through the franchise. Oland was a decent actor (in other, ethnically appropriate roles) - Winters is pretty lame. On the upside, Chan's Number One and Number Two Sons are played by actual Asians Keye Luke (from GREMLINS!) and Victor Sen Yung, who do a good job - and speak perfect English w/o an accent - but really must've felt amply compensated to put up w/ Winters' yellowface and ridiculous pigeon "Ingrish"... 
Anyway, the four detectives are literally driving through Mexico randomly, Jessica Fletcher-style, when they get sucked into a (large) murderous conspiracy involving Aztec treasure or - something. Mantan is likeable and amusing as always, though Birmingham's dialogue is less funny than "Jeff's" in the ...ZOMBIES duology. Actually Birmingham is essentially a sober voice of reason, generally merely pointing out that Chan's actions are extremely unsafe and unwise, though not actually acting "cowardly" or anything and even behaving w/ valor once or twice. Nevertheless nearly 100% of Chan's interactions with Birmingham are to tell him he's a useless fool. The same is true for much of his dialogue w/ his sons - they make reasonable observations or suggestions and he grins at them and tells them they're idiots. On the other hand, Chan is always deferential to the (many) white characters, even the inevitable villains.
From a historical/critical/sociological perspective, the entire movie comes off as hyper-racist (fake minority putting real minorities in their place in the service of the majority) but even in 1948 it's hard to see how anyone could watch this movie and not walk away thinking Charlie Chan was an enormous insufferable @$$#0l3.
Directed by William Beaudine, who made many infamously cheap and subpar movies. 2/5 An appearance by the Quetzlcoatl from Larry Cohen's 1984 flick would've livened things up significantly!
There is no feathered serpent in this movie.
But I digress. This is the only Charlie Chan movie I can remember actually watching - I figured I owed it to my man Mantan Moreland to see one of his storied performances as "Birmingham", the long-suffering valet and sidekick to the legendary sleuth, who is played of course by a white man in yellowface. Chan is Roland Winters this time - the O.G. (I think) Chan was Warner Oland, a British-German guy who died midway through the franchise. Oland was a decent actor (in other, ethnically appropriate roles) - Winters is pretty lame. On the upside, Chan's Number One and Number Two Sons are played by actual Asians Keye Luke (from GREMLINS!) and Victor Sen Yung, who do a good job - and speak perfect English w/o an accent - but really must've felt amply compensated to put up w/ Winters' yellowface and ridiculous pigeon "Ingrish"... Anyway, the four detectives are literally driving through Mexico randomly, Jessica Fletcher-style, when they get sucked into a (large) murderous conspiracy involving Aztec treasure or - something. Mantan is likeable and amusing as always, though Birmingham's dialogue is less funny than "Jeff's" in the ...ZOMBIES duology. Actually Birmingham is essentially a sober voice of reason, generally merely pointing out that Chan's actions are extremely unsafe and unwise, though not actually acting "cowardly" or anything and even behaving w/ valor once or twice. Nevertheless nearly 100% of Chan's interactions with Birmingham are to tell him he's a useless fool. The same is true for much of his dialogue w/ his sons - they make reasonable observations or suggestions and he grins at them and tells them they're idiots. On the other hand, Chan is always deferential to the (many) white characters, even the inevitable villains.
From a historical/critical/sociological perspective, the entire movie comes off as hyper-racist (fake minority putting real minorities in their place in the service of the majority) but even in 1948 it's hard to see how anyone could watch this movie and not walk away thinking Charlie Chan was an enormous insufferable @$$#0l3.Directed by William Beaudine, who made many infamously cheap and subpar movies. 2/5 An appearance by the Quetzlcoatl from Larry Cohen's 1984 flick would've livened things up significantly!
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:17:08 AM
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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:04:30 AMThey are noting that young people will come out to see horror movies especially. Horror (along with kids' movies) is dominating cinemas at the moment. Sucks for dramas and comedies.