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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 03:55:30 PMRev- Children's Hospital in Boston used to have an elevator that stopped and opened the door on every floor so orthodox didn't have to touch any of the buttons on Saturday.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 03:53:48 PMNinja Hunter (1987) - This one's got everything: Wu Tang vs Shaolin, ninjas, cute kung fu girls, and even some sort of toxic magical undead boxer guy at one point. A great movie to watch when you are trying to figure out what movie you want to watch!
4.25/ 5
4.25/ 5
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Bad Movies / Re: Most obscure vampire movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 02:51:22 PMBumping this thread 'cause I was unable to think of the movie that I thought was the most obscure vampire movie I'd ever seen. I finally found the title while browsing Letterboxd but according to IMDB it isn't even close. I also thought of a couple more back in October but I thought someone else had mentioned them but I just reviewed the whole thread and I don't think they had. So:
I would've put money on DEMON UNDER GLASS (mentioned in the first few posts) being the most obscure, but it has 300 ratings on IMDB.
The title I'd forgotten was THE GIRL WITH THE HUNGRY EYES from the mid-90s. The fact I remembered DEMON UNDER GLASS but forgot TGWTHE would seem to indicate its obscurity, but... it's at 600 on IMDB. That's staggering and incomprehensible. It's a very boring movie w/ no recognizable stars or action or sex (though it has a couple nice shots). It is based on a famous short story though so maybe that explains the eyeballs its racked up.
Another one I thought of but didn't mention in October is JUGULAR WINE: A VAMPIRE ODYSSEY (1995). It has 103 on IMDB! That's pretty obscure. I only discovered it 'cause somehow my local Blockbuster had carried it (and I watched everything back in those days). It's almost total garbage, btw, and any attention it's attracted is only due to it (somehow) having small supporting roles played by Henry Rollins, Stan Lee, and Frank Miller... writer/artist of all the greatest "Daredevil" comics, screenwriter of ROBOCOPs 2 & 3, co-director/creator of SIN CITY, and director of THE SPIRIT, one of the worst big budget studio films I've ever seen. Still only 103, though.
But then at last I nominate John & Mark Polonia's HOW TO SLAY A VAMPIRE, which is on the same cheapo DVD boxed set at DEMON UNDER GLASS. Ding ding ding! IMDB says 83! Rev, is that a "winner" so far?
I don't quite get that either. People know the Polonia Brothers but no one knows anyone responsible for DEMON UNDER GLASS or THE GIRL WITH THE HUGNRY EYES. And actually HOW TO SLAY A VAMPIRE is probably the most charming/least irritating Polonia flick I've seen. O the injustice.
I would've put money on DEMON UNDER GLASS (mentioned in the first few posts) being the most obscure, but it has 300 ratings on IMDB.
The title I'd forgotten was THE GIRL WITH THE HUNGRY EYES from the mid-90s. The fact I remembered DEMON UNDER GLASS but forgot TGWTHE would seem to indicate its obscurity, but... it's at 600 on IMDB. That's staggering and incomprehensible. It's a very boring movie w/ no recognizable stars or action or sex (though it has a couple nice shots). It is based on a famous short story though so maybe that explains the eyeballs its racked up.
Another one I thought of but didn't mention in October is JUGULAR WINE: A VAMPIRE ODYSSEY (1995). It has 103 on IMDB! That's pretty obscure. I only discovered it 'cause somehow my local Blockbuster had carried it (and I watched everything back in those days). It's almost total garbage, btw, and any attention it's attracted is only due to it (somehow) having small supporting roles played by Henry Rollins, Stan Lee, and Frank Miller... writer/artist of all the greatest "Daredevil" comics, screenwriter of ROBOCOPs 2 & 3, co-director/creator of SIN CITY, and director of THE SPIRIT, one of the worst big budget studio films I've ever seen. Still only 103, though.
But then at last I nominate John & Mark Polonia's HOW TO SLAY A VAMPIRE, which is on the same cheapo DVD boxed set at DEMON UNDER GLASS. Ding ding ding! IMDB says 83! Rev, is that a "winner" so far?
I don't quite get that either. People know the Polonia Brothers but no one knows anyone responsible for DEMON UNDER GLASS or THE GIRL WITH THE HUGNRY EYES. And actually HOW TO SLAY A VAMPIRE is probably the most charming/least irritating Polonia flick I've seen. O the injustice.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:32:26 PMSay, do you ever want to watch a movie from 1942 where Humphrey Bogart plays a fast-talking tough guy standing up against the Nazis, and it co-stars Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt, and also Bogie has actual chemistry w/ his chilly European leading lady? Me too! Fortunately for you and me there's
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942):
...Which I presume only exists as a speedy thrown-together cash-in on CASABLANCA's success, though maybe it was made first, who knows/has time to Google it? I won't pretend that it's actually a better movie than CASABLANCA, but indeed Bogie looks like he's genuinely enjoying being onscreen w/ leading lady Kaaren Verne (?who?), unlike that cold fish they stuck him with in that other flick from '42.
Bogie plays a "Broadway producer" in NYC, which might be one of the screenplay's ideas of a joke, as he looks like an independently wealthy community benefactor (ahem) who surrounds himself w/ other shady tough guys. He's roused to action when fifth-column creep Lorre bumps off Bogie's preferred baker, leaving Bogie bereft of his favorite cheesecake.
Lorre works for Big Bad Veidt, who orchestrates an underground network of Nazi terrorists set to wreak havoc on the Big Apple, with the help of no-affect high society ice princess (Dame) Judith Anderson (kind of a classier Kristi Noem 
). Verne is a German dame haplessly caught up in the intrigue, who sings a Johnny Mercer tune that lends the films its title.
True to that title, the movie's action mostly (and somewhat improbably) covers one long night of adventure. There is a lot more action than in CASABLANCA or many other crime films of the period, including a pretty good brawl on a warehouse lift and even a big explosion at the end. Somewhat less favorably, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is often classified as a comedy. There's a ton of snappy repartee, some of it legitimately very funny and a lot of it unnecessary and sometimes tiresome. It spreads way too thin in the final act, where Bogie and his sidekick have to pretend to be German agents presenting their report to a big basement full of other Nazis, which goes on forever and is neither plausible nor amusing. (Insert gif here of Brad Pitt as Aldo Rain repeatedly slurring "Enzo Gorlami" for Christoph Waltz' amusement.)
But! It's cool seeing Veidt in a much beefier English-language/talkie role than Strasser from CASABLANCA - he's less showy (natch) than in his youthful silent days but he still commands the screen. And of course there is Lorre, one of film's Best Actors with one of film history's Worst Agents. As in many other movies of the era, he explodes into the film and instantly threatens to take it over, then gets sidelined w/ trivial marginalia for most of the rest of the running time. Nevertheless ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is as good as an example as any for film students to study Lorre's clockwork precise control of his facial features, docile and dead-eyed one millisecond then seething with menace the next and back again.
Bogart also does very well with a much more fun role than (frankly, with apologies) Rick. Kaaren Verne is cute and plucky at times, bland at others, but seems to be a serious actress remaining committed to her character's circumstances... and at the end, I definitely believed she was hot for Bogie. Now Bogie, a cool cucumber who rarely appeared "hot" for anyone onscreen besides Bacall, doesn't exactly give passionate love affair vibes for Verne, but he also doesn't seem like he's eager to be whisked away from her by a diminutive moustachioed Frenchman.
A young Jackie Gleason and a quote-unquote "young" Phil Silvers (who basically looks the same as he did as Bilko) show up in a few scenes as Bogie accomplices. There's also a small supporting role played by a guy named Edward Brophy, who looks pretty much exactly like Colin Ferrell as the Penguin.
3/5
Besides the acting, ATTN is of historic interest for its relationship to CASABLANCA but also its snapshot of WW2-era Stateside political realness. At a key moment Veidt tries to convince Bogart that he is essentially ethically and ideologically equivalent to the Nazis. Bogie replies "Don't kid yourself - I've been a registered Democrat since I was old enough to vote." Ahem.
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942):
...Which I presume only exists as a speedy thrown-together cash-in on CASABLANCA's success, though maybe it was made first, who knows/has time to Google it? I won't pretend that it's actually a better movie than CASABLANCA, but indeed Bogie looks like he's genuinely enjoying being onscreen w/ leading lady Kaaren Verne (?who?), unlike that cold fish they stuck him with in that other flick from '42.
Bogie plays a "Broadway producer" in NYC, which might be one of the screenplay's ideas of a joke, as he looks like an independently wealthy community benefactor (ahem) who surrounds himself w/ other shady tough guys. He's roused to action when fifth-column creep Lorre bumps off Bogie's preferred baker, leaving Bogie bereft of his favorite cheesecake.
Lorre works for Big Bad Veidt, who orchestrates an underground network of Nazi terrorists set to wreak havoc on the Big Apple, with the help of no-affect high society ice princess (Dame) Judith Anderson (kind of a classier Kristi Noem ). Verne is a German dame haplessly caught up in the intrigue, who sings a Johnny Mercer tune that lends the films its title. True to that title, the movie's action mostly (and somewhat improbably) covers one long night of adventure. There is a lot more action than in CASABLANCA or many other crime films of the period, including a pretty good brawl on a warehouse lift and even a big explosion at the end. Somewhat less favorably, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is often classified as a comedy. There's a ton of snappy repartee, some of it legitimately very funny and a lot of it unnecessary and sometimes tiresome. It spreads way too thin in the final act, where Bogie and his sidekick have to pretend to be German agents presenting their report to a big basement full of other Nazis, which goes on forever and is neither plausible nor amusing. (Insert gif here of Brad Pitt as Aldo Rain repeatedly slurring "Enzo Gorlami" for Christoph Waltz' amusement.)
But! It's cool seeing Veidt in a much beefier English-language/talkie role than Strasser from CASABLANCA - he's less showy (natch) than in his youthful silent days but he still commands the screen. And of course there is Lorre, one of film's Best Actors with one of film history's Worst Agents. As in many other movies of the era, he explodes into the film and instantly threatens to take it over, then gets sidelined w/ trivial marginalia for most of the rest of the running time. Nevertheless ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is as good as an example as any for film students to study Lorre's clockwork precise control of his facial features, docile and dead-eyed one millisecond then seething with menace the next and back again.
Bogart also does very well with a much more fun role than (frankly, with apologies) Rick. Kaaren Verne is cute and plucky at times, bland at others, but seems to be a serious actress remaining committed to her character's circumstances... and at the end, I definitely believed she was hot for Bogie. Now Bogie, a cool cucumber who rarely appeared "hot" for anyone onscreen besides Bacall, doesn't exactly give passionate love affair vibes for Verne, but he also doesn't seem like he's eager to be whisked away from her by a diminutive moustachioed Frenchman.
A young Jackie Gleason and a quote-unquote "young" Phil Silvers (who basically looks the same as he did as Bilko) show up in a few scenes as Bogie accomplices. There's also a small supporting role played by a guy named Edward Brophy, who looks pretty much exactly like Colin Ferrell as the Penguin.
3/5
Besides the acting, ATTN is of historic interest for its relationship to CASABLANCA but also its snapshot of WW2-era Stateside political realness. At a key moment Veidt tries to convince Bogart that he is essentially ethically and ideologically equivalent to the Nazis. Bogie replies "Don't kid yourself - I've been a registered Democrat since I was old enough to vote." Ahem.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - Today at 11:16:12 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 08:58:19 AMSkip Paul Lynde?! You've made it very difficult for me now!
Paul doesn't have a very big part, so I wouldn't recommend sitting thru this just for his few minutes of screen time.
...but it's free on Tubi if you just can't resist. :D
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Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:42:38 AMNIRVANA: THE BAND, THE SHOW, THE MOVIE (2025): Two delusional losers, who for years on end think their band will hit it big (by playing the Rivoli in Toronto), accidentally invent a time machine that sends them back to 2008. Begins as a low-rent "Spinal Tap," turns into a "Back to the Future" parody, but at heart it always remains a funny and sweet buddy comedy. From a web series that was adapted into a Canadian cable TV show, but the premise and characters are so simple you won't need any background to enjoy this comedy (maybe you'll even end up joining its weird cult). Includes a few improvised "Candid Camera"-style scenes with unsuspecting passersby. 3.5/5.
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:07:24 AM
How do you wake up in the morning?
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:05:02 AMMemories of Murder
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:00:51 AM