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Bad Movies / Re: The Killer Tomato movies
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Đặc Trị Chuyên Sâu DCPD
Last post by Trevor - Today at 01:12:23 AMQuote from: bob on October 27, 2026, 09:04:45 PM.....wut?
I believe this is one of my family members off their meds 😏😉🐢
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Bad Movies / Re: best 'interquels' (?)
Last post by HappyGilmore - October 27, 2026, 11:10:05 PMBlack Widow
I guess this is partially a interquel? It's part of a franchise, sure...was released in like 2021.
But kind of takes place in 2016 or so, during the events of Captain America: Civil War and very much prior to the events of Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame considering the fates of some of the characters in both films.
I guess this is partially a interquel? It's part of a franchise, sure...was released in like 2021.
But kind of takes place in 2016 or so, during the events of Captain America: Civil War and very much prior to the events of Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame considering the fates of some of the characters in both films.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - October 27, 2026, 09:25:43 PMTHE RED SPECTRE [LE SPECTRE ROUGE] (1907):
My fourth (?) Segundo de Chomon flick. Like his other ones, it's "real" horror, at least by the standards of the silent era. Letterboxd has a brief description of the plot which would have one believe that this 8-minute short has... a plot. I dunno about all that - what I saw was a guy in a skeleton costume and devil horns performing a magic act w/ three female assistants. But - even if that's all THE RED SPECTRE is - it's very impressive.
De Chomon's special effects are quite cool in LE MAISON ENSORCELEE and to a lesser extent in some of his other shorts. However THE RED SPECTRE is all FX. It's as if de Chomon watched some Melies and promptly called for a beer-holder.
At first all of the "magic" in RED SPECTRE is the standard jump cuts and dissolves and even good ol' Ed Wood wires lifting stuff in the air. Then de Chomon starts running film backwards, which is still a good trick in the era of David Lynch. But then at last, the final couple of "tricks" performed by the Spectre involve either on-camera projection and/or reflective surfaces (almost early green screen) and/or double- and triple-exposures, and........ by the end, I was ensorcelled indeed by "tricks" I couldn't quite explain in a nearly 120-year old film.
If you like movie SFX, this is one you ought to check out. 4/5
My fourth (?) Segundo de Chomon flick. Like his other ones, it's "real" horror, at least by the standards of the silent era. Letterboxd has a brief description of the plot which would have one believe that this 8-minute short has... a plot. I dunno about all that - what I saw was a guy in a skeleton costume and devil horns performing a magic act w/ three female assistants. But - even if that's all THE RED SPECTRE is - it's very impressive.
De Chomon's special effects are quite cool in LE MAISON ENSORCELEE and to a lesser extent in some of his other shorts. However THE RED SPECTRE is all FX. It's as if de Chomon watched some Melies and promptly called for a beer-holder.
At first all of the "magic" in RED SPECTRE is the standard jump cuts and dissolves and even good ol' Ed Wood wires lifting stuff in the air. Then de Chomon starts running film backwards, which is still a good trick in the era of David Lynch. But then at last, the final couple of "tricks" performed by the Spectre involve either on-camera projection and/or reflective surfaces (almost early green screen) and/or double- and triple-exposures, and........ by the end, I was ensorcelled indeed by "tricks" I couldn't quite explain in a nearly 120-year old film. If you like movie SFX, this is one you ought to check out. 4/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Đặc Trị Chuyên Sâu DCPD
Last post by bob - October 27, 2026, 09:04:45 PM.....wut?
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Off Topic Discussion / Đặc Trị Chuyên Sâu DCPD
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Dr. Whom - October 27, 2026, 03:18:22 PMQuote from: Alex on October 27, 2026, 08:50:16 AMKristi finally got out the hospital last night, late enough that we'd given up hope of it happening yesterday.
It was good to get to sleep beside her again last night.
Good news indeed!
I'll probably head over to Bastogne next december. They've moved the Belgian Tank Museum over there, and with the commemoration of the Battle of the Bulge, there are some demonstrations. We have been promised the Tiger I from Saumur.