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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 09:22:00 PMLED ZEPPELIN III
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 04:23:09 PMHALLOWEEN AT AUNT ETHEL'S (2020) I had actually seen this one before, but it's a classic, cheesy, suspend-all-disbelief-and-roll-with-it bad movie.
Aunt Ethel is a nasty old lady who kills kids on Halloween and bakes them into Halloween candy (apparently her "pickled chocolates" are loved by all). Why the police have never come after her is explained by "well, she burns the bones and eats the flesh so no body, no evidence." So three brave teens decide to take Aunt Ethel down once and for all, all while making out and getting nekkid periodically. The finale is . . . well, probably the only original thing in the movie. In the words of Instagram: "I didn't say this movie was good, I said I liked it!"
Aunt Ethel is a nasty old lady who kills kids on Halloween and bakes them into Halloween candy (apparently her "pickled chocolates" are loved by all). Why the police have never come after her is explained by "well, she burns the bones and eats the flesh so no body, no evidence." So three brave teens decide to take Aunt Ethel down once and for all, all while making out and getting nekkid periodically. The finale is . . . well, probably the only original thing in the movie. In the words of Instagram: "I didn't say this movie was good, I said I liked it!"
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 03:51:05 PMUp The Creek (1984) - This was terrible and rightfully belongs in the Bad Movie section, but I actually enjoyed it a little bit, so I'll just put it in Good Movies and give it a bad review. The comedy is so cheap and bad that it reminded me of Italian movie slapstick type humor, which is about the lowest criticism I can give. The lead actor is like a demented hybrid of Chevy Chase and Tucker Carlson imitating Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk. I thought I had remembered seeing it and liking it, but I was actually thinking of the Charlie Brown raft race one.
4 Animal House style college losers, one of whom was actually in animal House, are tasked by the British guy from Magnum PI with winning a big river raft race. Their big rivals are evil 80's preppy jocks. There's a billion jokes and maybe one out of 20, being generous, actually connects in some way. The girls, including some girl from Charles in Charge, are very cute and it's got that escapist summer movie feel, though.
The biggest obstacle for me ultimately was the lead guy. I didn't understand why he was so weird or what he was supposed to be or represent. As Fat Freddy's Cat would say, turn off your brain and enjoy the ride. Definitely make sure you turn it all the way off, though.
2.99/ 5
4 Animal House style college losers, one of whom was actually in animal House, are tasked by the British guy from Magnum PI with winning a big river raft race. Their big rivals are evil 80's preppy jocks. There's a billion jokes and maybe one out of 20, being generous, actually connects in some way. The girls, including some girl from Charles in Charge, are very cute and it's got that escapist summer movie feel, though.
The biggest obstacle for me ultimately was the lead guy. I didn't understand why he was so weird or what he was supposed to be or represent. As Fat Freddy's Cat would say, turn off your brain and enjoy the ride. Definitely make sure you turn it all the way off, though.
2.99/ 5
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 02:38:50 PMMARTY ROBBINS Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 12:58:55 PMVLADO PERLEMUTER Plays RAVEL (1961 aka Piano Music, actually not complete).
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Is anyone else finding tha...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:26:56 AMI'm not sure if this is AI or a real person, but no spam links in posts, even if they're on topic. Next time is a ban.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 10:21:16 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 09:38:01 AMHappy birthday Lil' Cerb!
Quote from: Trevor on Today at 02:07:57 AMHappy birthday Lil Cerb 🎉 🎁 🎈 🎂 🎁 🎂🐢
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:14:34 AMUnder the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
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Off Topic Discussion / Is anyone else finding that mo...
Last post by xahefig900 - Today at 10:10:17 AMI've been spending a lot of time lately diving back into the archives of 80s and 90s B-movies, and it's led me down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding how the "so bad it's good" genre has changed. I grew up on a steady diet of local video store rentals—the kind where the cover art was almost always a lie, and you knew within five minutes if you were looking at a masterpiece of incompetence or just a boring slog.
Lately, I've been trying to digitize and upscale some of my old VHS collection. I recently put together a bit of a "Frankenstein" home server to handle the heavy lifting of video encoding and AI upscaling. I managed to get my hands on an [spam link removed]EPYC 32-core processor/s[pam] running at 2.6GHz, which is honestly complete overkill for my needs, but it makes the rendering process fly by. It's funny, though—there's a massive irony in using a 32-core server-grade beast to process a movie that was clearly shot on a shoestring budget with a handheld camcorder and zero lighting equipment. You see every grain of film and every smudge on the lens in horrifyingly high definition.
One specific point I've been thinking about is the "soul" of the failure. In the older stuff, you can feel the earnestness. Someone really tried to make a great sci-fi epic, but they only had $50 and a bag of flour for "snow." Today, it feels like a lot of "bad" movies are being made that way on purpose, leaning into the meme culture. They use cheap digital assets and stock CGI that look intentionally terrible.
To me, a 3D monster rendered in five minutes doesn't have the same charm as a guy in a clearly visible rubber suit, no matter how much processing power you throw at it. Digital laziness just doesn't hit the same way as creative desperation does.
I'm curious to know where everyone else stands on this. Do you think the shift to digital effects has killed the "lovable" bad movie, or am I just being a bit too nostalgic for the days of physical squibs and cardboard sets? Does anyone actually prefer the modern, self-aware "Sharknado" style of bad filmmaking?
Lately, I've been trying to digitize and upscale some of my old VHS collection. I recently put together a bit of a "Frankenstein" home server to handle the heavy lifting of video encoding and AI upscaling. I managed to get my hands on an [spam link removed]EPYC 32-core processor/s[pam] running at 2.6GHz, which is honestly complete overkill for my needs, but it makes the rendering process fly by. It's funny, though—there's a massive irony in using a 32-core server-grade beast to process a movie that was clearly shot on a shoestring budget with a handheld camcorder and zero lighting equipment. You see every grain of film and every smudge on the lens in horrifyingly high definition.
One specific point I've been thinking about is the "soul" of the failure. In the older stuff, you can feel the earnestness. Someone really tried to make a great sci-fi epic, but they only had $50 and a bag of flour for "snow." Today, it feels like a lot of "bad" movies are being made that way on purpose, leaning into the meme culture. They use cheap digital assets and stock CGI that look intentionally terrible.
To me, a 3D monster rendered in five minutes doesn't have the same charm as a guy in a clearly visible rubber suit, no matter how much processing power you throw at it. Digital laziness just doesn't hit the same way as creative desperation does.
I'm curious to know where everyone else stands on this. Do you think the shift to digital effects has killed the "lovable" bad movie, or am I just being a bit too nostalgic for the days of physical squibs and cardboard sets? Does anyone actually prefer the modern, self-aware "Sharknado" style of bad filmmaking?