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Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 11:20:23 AMMy Stepfather Saved Dracula's Brain!
Ant, Roach, and Spider Eater
Cellphone of Satan!
Cellphone of the Son of Satan!
Bride of the Cellphone of Satan's Daughter!
He Killed with a Toothbrush
Chainsaw Cowboys
Ant, Roach, and Spider Eater
Cellphone of Satan!
Cellphone of the Son of Satan!
Bride of the Cellphone of Satan's Daughter!
He Killed with a Toothbrush
Chainsaw Cowboys
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: James Wan attempting to ma...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 11:17:45 AMMore power to the guy!
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Bad Movies / Re: The Mandela Effect in movi...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 11:11:05 AMGhostbusters II.
Me and a TON of other people SWEAR that at the very end of the movie, it shows Slimer flying out of the Statue of Liberty and right at the screen.
Nobody is able to find the footage of this anywhere.
HOWEVER.... the scene is show ... in a coloring book adaption. So it had to have existed in some format. Right?
Me and a TON of other people SWEAR that at the very end of the movie, it shows Slimer flying out of the Statue of Liberty and right at the screen.
Nobody is able to find the footage of this anywhere.
HOWEVER.... the scene is show ... in a coloring book adaption. So it had to have existed in some format. Right?
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Rise of Leslie Vernon 2 du...
Last post by Alex - Today at 11:10:47 AMLooking forward to this long overdue follow up.
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Press Releases and Film News / Rise of Leslie Vernon 2 due ou...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 11:08:31 AMI absolutely loved the first one and they have just announced the second one is finally actually in development, for real this time.
They even had a kcikstarter to help make the movie even bigger and better, and it reached it's goal in 24 hours.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3947688/behind-the-mask-ii-the-return-of-leslie-vernon-immediately-smashed-through-its-fundraising-goal/
They even had a kcikstarter to help make the movie even bigger and better, and it reached it's goal in 24 hours.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3947688/behind-the-mask-ii-the-return-of-leslie-vernon-immediately-smashed-through-its-fundraising-goal/
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - Today at 11:01:33 AMEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 11:00:43 AMRebecca
Where did Dracula's coffin get made?
Where did Dracula's coffin get made?
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Bad Movies / Re: The Mandela Effect in movi...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:53:52 AMJohn Carpenter's THE THING played on syndicated TV in the late 80s - I probably saw it on either WOR or WPIX out of NYC, or a similar Eastern NY station, and I saw it several times. It wasn't until the mid-90s or later that I watched it on VHS and then DVD, and (as is well-documented) those versions are significantly different. TV naturally cut out some of the gore (though, honestly, not much iirc) and also added additional shots and additional or alternative dialogue to pad out the running time/add more commercials. SOME of the additional footage is included as deleted scenes on the special edition DVD - but only in cases where no similar scene already exists in Carpenter's cut.
So, the first several times I saw the film (on syndicated), I saw Wilford Brimley as Blair tell Kurt Russell as MacReady:
"Watch Clark. Watch him good... he's been around 'nem dogs."
And... epic as Brimley's delivery is... I obsessed over and internalized this line. In fact I would quote this line during college in the 90s... probably confusing friends who'd only ever seen the film on video.
Because - of course, sadly - this isn't how Blair says it in the regular (available) cut. He says "Watch Clark" twice and he doesn't say Clark's been around the dogs - which is subtext, anyway, obviously Clark has been around 'nem dogs 'cause his job is Dog Guy. Blair says something else about a dog....... but dammit, I prefer the extra/alternate take that they used in the syndicated cut! And after three decades, I cannot find that take anywhere on the internet.
I insist that cases like this are responsible for a lot of movie Mandela Effects. I haven't watched EMPIRE since I was a kid in the early 80s but I watched it a bunch back then, and Darth Vader for sure used to say "Luke, I am your father." But George Lucas has performed his own Mandela Effect on those movies so many times nobody knows what is real and what is remembered anymore.
So, the first several times I saw the film (on syndicated), I saw Wilford Brimley as Blair tell Kurt Russell as MacReady:
"Watch Clark. Watch him good... he's been around 'nem dogs."
And... epic as Brimley's delivery is... I obsessed over and internalized this line. In fact I would quote this line during college in the 90s... probably confusing friends who'd only ever seen the film on video.
Because - of course, sadly - this isn't how Blair says it in the regular (available) cut. He says "Watch Clark" twice and he doesn't say Clark's been around the dogs - which is subtext, anyway, obviously Clark has been around 'nem dogs 'cause his job is Dog Guy. Blair says something else about a dog....... but dammit, I prefer the extra/alternate take that they used in the syndicated cut! And after three decades, I cannot find that take anywhere on the internet.
I insist that cases like this are responsible for a lot of movie Mandela Effects. I haven't watched EMPIRE since I was a kid in the early 80s but I watched it a bunch back then, and Darth Vader for sure used to say "Luke, I am your father." But George Lucas has performed his own Mandela Effect on those movies so many times nobody knows what is real and what is remembered anymore.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:09:01 AMDOUBLE DYNAMITE (1951):
Bank employee Frank Sinatra is too poor to marry Jane Russell until he accidentally befriends a bizarrely generous bookie and comes into a small fortune in cash. Unfortunately Jane thinks he's embezzled the money (and can't be disabused of this notion) and Frank doesn't want the IRS to find out about the cash, so enter Groucho Marx as wacky waiter "Emil J. Keck" to ostensibly sort it all out or really to compound an already idiotic Idiot Plot into something that increasingly defies any reasonable logic. It's automatically weird btw to see Frank third-billed after Jane and Groucho and then much weirder still to witness a long 20-minute expository sequence where Frank (famously the inspiration for "Johnny Fontane" in THE GODFATHER) is the unwitting beneficiary of a bunch of mobsters. But everything about DOUBLE DYNAMITE is unintentionally weird.
If you check out the (salacious) poster for the film, you'd think it was a ribald buddycom about Jane and Groucho, but there's nothing ribald about the (flat and old-fashioned) hijinks, and Groucho and Frank are the Buddies, not Groucho and Jane. (Also Jane - who is famously not flat - never wears the OUTLAW-style low-plunging top that she's wearing on the poster and in fact plays a buttoned-up neurotic spinster.) The credits announce the film as featuring songs written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (unsurprisingly, given Sinatra's presence) but there are only two such songs so the film isn't really a musical. The mob bookies disappear from the movie entirely after the first third, thus never resurfacing to take Frank's money back. There's a loathsome sex pest character at the bank who constantly harasses Jane and seems like he'll logically be the guy responsible for different money that actually is missing/has apparently been embezzled from the bank, but that subplot is explained in the most tangential way possible and the jerk never gets any comeuppance. Also if this is a comedy instead of a romance or musical or crime drama, well, there aren't many laughs. Frank is affable but doesn't get any great gags and Jane is mostly just pleasant (though briefly shines in a scene where she drinks herself into a self-pitying stupor).
DOUBLE DYNAMITE is generally regarded as Not A Good Movie, and that's fair. But, let's not forget - there's always Groucho. There aren't a lot of Groucho movies where he's alone/without the other Bros, and after a couple more soggy solos like this one, he'd mostly retire from films altogether to focus on TV. He didn't write the screenplay and even most of his dialogue isn't that funny, but if you're a Groucho fan it's always a pleasure just to see him rolling his eyes and wiggling his eyebrows and leaning into doorways and such. Also there are supporting characters called "Pulsifer", "Mackissack", and "Bagganucci", which are funny names that Groucho can pronounce over and over again to provide some smiles. Also Groucho gets to sing a duet with Frank where they frolic down the street with their fat stacks of cash, so that's something you won't see anywhere else.
3/5 Also at some point Groucho does mention "Keckistan" but if he talked about the "Keckistocracy" I must've dosed off and missed it.
Bank employee Frank Sinatra is too poor to marry Jane Russell until he accidentally befriends a bizarrely generous bookie and comes into a small fortune in cash. Unfortunately Jane thinks he's embezzled the money (and can't be disabused of this notion) and Frank doesn't want the IRS to find out about the cash, so enter Groucho Marx as wacky waiter "Emil J. Keck" to ostensibly sort it all out or really to compound an already idiotic Idiot Plot into something that increasingly defies any reasonable logic. It's automatically weird btw to see Frank third-billed after Jane and Groucho and then much weirder still to witness a long 20-minute expository sequence where Frank (famously the inspiration for "Johnny Fontane" in THE GODFATHER) is the unwitting beneficiary of a bunch of mobsters. But everything about DOUBLE DYNAMITE is unintentionally weird.
If you check out the (salacious) poster for the film, you'd think it was a ribald buddycom about Jane and Groucho, but there's nothing ribald about the (flat and old-fashioned) hijinks, and Groucho and Frank are the Buddies, not Groucho and Jane. (Also Jane - who is famously not flat - never wears the OUTLAW-style low-plunging top that she's wearing on the poster and in fact plays a buttoned-up neurotic spinster.) The credits announce the film as featuring songs written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (unsurprisingly, given Sinatra's presence) but there are only two such songs so the film isn't really a musical. The mob bookies disappear from the movie entirely after the first third, thus never resurfacing to take Frank's money back. There's a loathsome sex pest character at the bank who constantly harasses Jane and seems like he'll logically be the guy responsible for different money that actually is missing/has apparently been embezzled from the bank, but that subplot is explained in the most tangential way possible and the jerk never gets any comeuppance. Also if this is a comedy instead of a romance or musical or crime drama, well, there aren't many laughs. Frank is affable but doesn't get any great gags and Jane is mostly just pleasant (though briefly shines in a scene where she drinks herself into a self-pitying stupor).
DOUBLE DYNAMITE is generally regarded as Not A Good Movie, and that's fair. But, let's not forget - there's always Groucho. There aren't a lot of Groucho movies where he's alone/without the other Bros, and after a couple more soggy solos like this one, he'd mostly retire from films altogether to focus on TV. He didn't write the screenplay and even most of his dialogue isn't that funny, but if you're a Groucho fan it's always a pleasure just to see him rolling his eyes and wiggling his eyebrows and leaning into doorways and such. Also there are supporting characters called "Pulsifer", "Mackissack", and "Bagganucci", which are funny names that Groucho can pronounce over and over again to provide some smiles. Also Groucho gets to sing a duet with Frank where they frolic down the street with their fat stacks of cash, so that's something you won't see anywhere else.
3/5 Also at some point Groucho does mention "Keckistan" but if he talked about the "Keckistocracy" I must've dosed off and missed it.
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Bad Movies / The Mandela Effect in movies
Last post by Trevor - Today at 09:15:38 AMIn other words, scenes in movies, which you either don't remember right or which weren't there to begin with.
My ME moment is from SOLDIER BLUE.
I haven't seen it since 1983 but I seem to remember a scene with Candice Bergen sitting holding a child and, when she lets the child go, the child's guts spill out.😳
I hope that was me misremembering a scene 😳😳😳
My ME moment is from SOLDIER BLUE.
I haven't seen it since 1983 but I seem to remember a scene with Candice Bergen sitting holding a child and, when she lets the child go, the child's guts spill out.😳
I hope that was me misremembering a scene 😳😳😳