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#12
Good Movies / Re: 9 films that made me
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:34:33 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 08:47:38 AMGood idea! Not the 9 best or favorite, right - just the most influential?
That's how I interpret "films that made me." The movies I chose were all ones I saw as a teenager, early 20s for "La Dolce Vita." Looking back I should have swapped "Young Frankenstein" for "Bride of Frankenstein," but I didn't feel like redoing it.
#13
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 08:58:55 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 08:46:26 AMI don't know if I have the constitution to ever watch a LEPRECHAUN film...
Leprechaun in Space is hilarious. Perhaps the silliest movie I have ever seen.
#14
Good Movies / Re: 9 films that made me
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:47:38 AMGood idea! Not the 9 best or favorite, right - just the most influential?
#15
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:46:26 AMI don't know if I have the constitution to ever watch a LEPRECHAUN film...
#16
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 07:05:44 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on October 06, 2026, 08:36:23 PMSorry, but I'm not a fan of the phrase "spooky season." No bad feelings towards those who use it, I just find it grating for some reason.
there's something horribly insincere and over-enthusiastic about it... one of those phrases that surely no one actually says out loud except for newsreaders, and the voiceover guys in commercials and movie trailers.
#17
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 02:23:59 AMQuote from: M.10rda on October 10, 2026, 08:11:45 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on October 09, 2026, 12:52:10 PMCHRONOVISOR (2026): a priest's suppressed invention allowing a viewer to watch any event from the past as if it were a video recording
I've been meaning to write a play about this very subject/concept for 20 years.This has happened a few times. Ah well, fame eludes me yet again!
The Historical Blindness podcast did an episode on the Chronovisor recently. It is a Patreon exclusive, however.
#18
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Jim H - Today at 12:05:17 AMStarted watching a new horror series for my usual 31+ Halloween season horror movie watches.
Leprechaun 1 - Hadn't seen this since the 90s. Wow what a stinker. Just, so bad. Many scenes feel like a rough cut they're so badly put together, especially early on when often there is no music in a "temp track" kind of way. Never scary, almost never funny, and often kind of annoying. Not clever at all with any ideas really. Jennifer Aniston is there, that's about all you can say. I like how her father gets injured halfway through the film and is then never seen again.
Leprechaun 2 - Not great, but a SIGNIFICANT step up. Much better direction, visually stronger. Occasionally funny and a bit more clever with Leprechaun things. It's still not very good. Just not a lot to say.
Leprechaun 3 - A large step up from the first two, and genuinely pretty funny and consistently entertaining. Brian Trenchard-Smith taking over as director is probably almost all of it really, but at a basic level the writing is better too. To give an idea of what I mean about Trenchard-Smith, there's a bit where the Leprechaun gets picked up and thrown out a window. There's stuff like that in the first two often done by just showing the Leprechaun fall back out of frame - but in this one it cuts to a wide shot of an obvious dummy in a Leprechaun costume falling like four stories onto concrete. If you know B-movies, you know this is almost always an entertaining gag. Trenchard-Smith gets it. For something similar, there are like three separate times a character just grabs an object and throws it at the Leprechaun and hits him in the head in a wideshot. It's dumb, but entertaining.
There's other small bits, like just setting it in Vegas was smart, and there's a couple of side characters that get amusing moments just to have them, like the two goons talking about underwear. Oh, and the two leads are actually relatively likable, something the first two films fail at.
Lastly, I did not previously realize that almost all of these movies apparently do not share continuity with each other. They don't even try to link up the ending of each film to the next one. And really, that's fine for these, it lets them do whatever the hell they feel like each time.
Leprechaun 1 - Hadn't seen this since the 90s. Wow what a stinker. Just, so bad. Many scenes feel like a rough cut they're so badly put together, especially early on when often there is no music in a "temp track" kind of way. Never scary, almost never funny, and often kind of annoying. Not clever at all with any ideas really. Jennifer Aniston is there, that's about all you can say. I like how her father gets injured halfway through the film and is then never seen again.
Leprechaun 2 - Not great, but a SIGNIFICANT step up. Much better direction, visually stronger. Occasionally funny and a bit more clever with Leprechaun things. It's still not very good. Just not a lot to say.
Leprechaun 3 - A large step up from the first two, and genuinely pretty funny and consistently entertaining. Brian Trenchard-Smith taking over as director is probably almost all of it really, but at a basic level the writing is better too. To give an idea of what I mean about Trenchard-Smith, there's a bit where the Leprechaun gets picked up and thrown out a window. There's stuff like that in the first two often done by just showing the Leprechaun fall back out of frame - but in this one it cuts to a wide shot of an obvious dummy in a Leprechaun costume falling like four stories onto concrete. If you know B-movies, you know this is almost always an entertaining gag. Trenchard-Smith gets it. For something similar, there are like three separate times a character just grabs an object and throws it at the Leprechaun and hits him in the head in a wideshot. It's dumb, but entertaining.
There's other small bits, like just setting it in Vegas was smart, and there's a couple of side characters that get amusing moments just to have them, like the two goons talking about underwear. Oh, and the two leads are actually relatively likable, something the first two films fail at.
Lastly, I did not previously realize that almost all of these movies apparently do not share continuity with each other. They don't even try to link up the ending of each film to the next one. And really, that's fine for these, it lets them do whatever the hell they feel like each time.
#19
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 10, 2026, 09:06:28 PMTonight's Stinker
Princess of the Nile(1954)
https://youtu.be/xO_m-FNfe9o?si=pyuGRgcisnflHYiE
In the year 1249, the city of Hanwan, Egypt is overrun with Bedouins as a Persian prince stops for a visit... Debra Paget is leading a double life as an Egyptian princess & a dancer at a bar, while a shaman keeps her father doped just enough to cooperate with the Bedouin chief....
While escorting the prince through the streets, a riot breaks out, the Bedouin chief takes the opportunity to kill the prince's friend in hopes of getting permission to kill more Egyptians, but the princess sees him....
The prince finds out, but is alone against the Bedouins, so he gains the help of all the town's thieves....
Just over an hour long, fairly amusing.... Confusing at first, as you have modern American actors trying to speak in medieval vernacular.... Lots of goofy sword fights, & a few good excuses to show Debra Paget dancing in skimpy outfits....
Princess of the Nile(1954)
https://youtu.be/xO_m-FNfe9o?si=pyuGRgcisnflHYiE
In the year 1249, the city of Hanwan, Egypt is overrun with Bedouins as a Persian prince stops for a visit... Debra Paget is leading a double life as an Egyptian princess & a dancer at a bar, while a shaman keeps her father doped just enough to cooperate with the Bedouin chief....
While escorting the prince through the streets, a riot breaks out, the Bedouin chief takes the opportunity to kill the prince's friend in hopes of getting permission to kill more Egyptians, but the princess sees him....
The prince finds out, but is alone against the Bedouins, so he gains the help of all the town's thieves....
Just over an hour long, fairly amusing.... Confusing at first, as you have modern American actors trying to speak in medieval vernacular.... Lots of goofy sword fights, & a few good excuses to show Debra Paget dancing in skimpy outfits....
#20
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 10, 2026, 09:04:21 PMMIDNIGHT FACES (1926):
Oh boy, another silent horror movie that's barely a horror movie. This is the "Old Dark House" subgenre of people hanging around an old spooky mansion counter-intuitively. (As usual, there's an inheritance at stake.) A damsel in distress is pursued into the mansion (not out of it) by a Fu Manchu-alike with a large knife, but inside the mansion there's a guy dressed like the Shadow menacing folks, and also there's a supposedly paralyzed invalid in a wheelchair who I instantly knew would be up to no good.
Also, surprisingly, the bland white guy lead has a wisecracking yet danger-averse black sidekick/chauffeur of the Mantan Moreland variety. I didn't think that was a trope until the mid-30s but here he is. That stock character is usually my favorite character in any old movie in which he appears, because he's the only character who's reacting to the scenario in a semi-plausible and sane way. But the character loses something when his wisecracks are delivered via intertitle instead of aloud on the soundtrack.
I might've been paying less than totally close attention to MIDNIGHT FACES but I am relatively sure the twist at the end makes little or no sense. However, I didn't hate this movie. The male lead does get in an enthusiastic fistfight w/ the Shadow at the end, which carries on for something like ten minutes and travels from the basement up two floors and then out a window on to the roof...!
2.5/5 The Mantan Moreland character is played by a real African American, fortunately. However, Fu Manchu is played by a white guy.
Oh boy, another silent horror movie that's barely a horror movie. This is the "Old Dark House" subgenre of people hanging around an old spooky mansion counter-intuitively. (As usual, there's an inheritance at stake.) A damsel in distress is pursued into the mansion (not out of it) by a Fu Manchu-alike with a large knife, but inside the mansion there's a guy dressed like the Shadow menacing folks, and also there's a supposedly paralyzed invalid in a wheelchair who I instantly knew would be up to no good.
Also, surprisingly, the bland white guy lead has a wisecracking yet danger-averse black sidekick/chauffeur of the Mantan Moreland variety. I didn't think that was a trope until the mid-30s but here he is. That stock character is usually my favorite character in any old movie in which he appears, because he's the only character who's reacting to the scenario in a semi-plausible and sane way. But the character loses something when his wisecracks are delivered via intertitle instead of aloud on the soundtrack.
I might've been paying less than totally close attention to MIDNIGHT FACES but I am relatively sure the twist at the end makes little or no sense. However, I didn't hate this movie. The male lead does get in an enthusiastic fistfight w/ the Shadow at the end, which carries on for something like ten minutes
and travels from the basement up two floors and then out a window on to the roof...! 2.5/5 The Mantan Moreland character is played by a real African American, fortunately. However, Fu Manchu is played by a white guy.