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Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by bob - Today at 10:06:40 AMhappy birthday Winged Serpent 
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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 09:53:08 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on June 25, 2026, 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.
I ain't cryin'. I love a good comedy or drama - but for every OPPENHEIMER there have been legions of THE HOURS (just to cite a mainstream drama I often recall as being beyond negligible) and who needs 'em? And I struggle even to recall the last pure comedy released to theaters that I really laughed at and loved - I'd need to look at my viewing logs from the past several years. The best ones from this century I always think of remain A MIGHTY WIND and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, which are iirc 23 and 20 years old, respectively. Most comedies are kinda' - lame.
It's true also that most Horror movies are lame or flawed or bad - but personally I'm happier watching 100 bad horror movies than one THE HOURS.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 09:17:26 AMTHREE'S A CROWD (1927):
Some sources claim that effete faux-French mime Harry Langdon was as big of a star as Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd in the 1920s.That may have been true for some small amount of time (I only learned of Langdon a few months ago) but those other three guys were comedy stars for years - before, during, and after the 20s, really. As soon as Langdon decided to translate whatever marquee value he had into a a career directing his own features, his star seems to have immediately (and understandably) plummeted. THREE'S A CROWD was his first effort in the directing seat, and it bombed - he followed it with THE CHASER, which bombed even worse. Although it was weird and slow and I never actually LOL'd once, there were at least recognizable gags in THE CHASER. THREE'S A CROWD is pretty much just abject sadness.
THREE'S A CROWD is either set in Buffalo NY between January and mid-April or else Langdon shot it on Chaplin's GOLD RUSH locations. It looks like NYC at the end of Spielberg's A.I. all the time. Here Langdon plays a nigh-catatonic menial laborer living in squalor. His boss is sort of mean but then Harry is also a terrible employee. Eventually Harry finds a seemingly homeless woman freezing in the cold and takes her in. She's pregnant and soon gives birth. At last Harry has a reason to live! But then the woman's jerkface husband shows up. The ending to THREE'S A CROWD couldn't be more bleak.
Maybe Langdon was going for Chaplinesque pathos here, but the hypergesticulative/cartoonish Little Tramp was somehow still amusing even when he was suffering. There is NO humor in THREE'S A CROWD, barring a weird motif where Langdon keeps falling through a trapdoor in the middle of his apartment, which is absurdly built out of the side of the warehouse, so Langdon will dangle about 50 feet in the air above a dumpster, which actually is more bizarre and scary than funny. There are some other moments of truly nightmarish imagery, plus its unflinching depiction of dysfunction and alienation against a backdrop of urban blight made me think of ERASERHEAD more than anything else. Apparently Langdon went through a bad divorce around the time he made THREE'S A CROWD and THE CHASER, and the bitterness and depression is overpowering.
2/5 One might also say that David Lynch's Philadelphia-and-fatherhood-fueled bitterness and depression is overpowering in ERASERHEAD - but ERASERHEAD also has a handful of the funniest jokes in film history. Lynch was a funnier comedian than Langdon!
Some sources claim that effete faux-French mime Harry Langdon was as big of a star as Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd in the 1920s.That may have been true for some small amount of time (I only learned of Langdon a few months ago) but those other three guys were comedy stars for years - before, during, and after the 20s, really. As soon as Langdon decided to translate whatever marquee value he had into a a career directing his own features, his star seems to have immediately (and understandably) plummeted. THREE'S A CROWD was his first effort in the directing seat, and it bombed - he followed it with THE CHASER, which bombed even worse. Although it was weird and slow and I never actually LOL'd once, there were at least recognizable gags in THE CHASER. THREE'S A CROWD is pretty much just abject sadness.
THREE'S A CROWD is either set in Buffalo NY between January and mid-April or else Langdon shot it on Chaplin's GOLD RUSH locations. It looks like NYC at the end of Spielberg's A.I. all the time. Here Langdon plays a nigh-catatonic menial laborer living in squalor. His boss is sort of mean but then Harry is also a terrible employee. Eventually Harry finds a seemingly homeless woman freezing in the cold and takes her in. She's pregnant and soon gives birth. At last Harry has a reason to live! But then the woman's jerkface husband shows up. The ending to THREE'S A CROWD couldn't be more bleak.
Maybe Langdon was going for Chaplinesque pathos here, but the hypergesticulative/cartoonish Little Tramp was somehow still amusing even when he was suffering. There is NO humor in THREE'S A CROWD, barring a weird motif where Langdon keeps falling through a trapdoor in the middle of his apartment, which is absurdly built out of the side of the warehouse, so Langdon will dangle about 50 feet in the air above a dumpster, which actually is more bizarre and scary than funny. There are some other moments of truly nightmarish imagery, plus its unflinching depiction of dysfunction and alienation against a backdrop of urban blight made me think of ERASERHEAD more than anything else. Apparently Langdon went through a bad divorce around the time he made THREE'S A CROWD and THE CHASER, and the bitterness and depression is overpowering.
2/5 One might also say that David Lynch's Philadelphia-and-fatherhood-fueled bitterness and depression is overpowering in ERASERHEAD - but ERASERHEAD also has a handful of the funniest jokes in film history. Lynch was a funnier comedian than Langdon!
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:16:19 AM
What's that you're chanting?
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:11:05 AM
I suspect this will end up among my albums of the year.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:06:49 AMHappy birthday Winged Serpent!
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 02:51:01 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on June 25, 2026, 04:59:46 PMGood for Ecuador. I'll almost always root for the smaller country.
unbelievable result. can't remember Germany losing to a team that low down before