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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - Today at 01:03:44 PMTHE DOORS Waiting For The Sun
#12
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:39:43 PMWe used to have a Golden Corral in these here parts. I only went once or twice but I miss it now. I'm a big man and I love a good buffet. Still got plenty of Indian and Chinese buffets and all-you-can-eat sushi around 
but pretty much no American buffets anymore. Sigh. Anyway,
WAXWORKS (1924):
...Another day, another silent "horror" w/ very little horror content. A young poet wanders into a carnival wax museum and its elderly owner offers him a job writing prosaic signs for each historic figure. The poet takes the job, probably because the owner's daughter is cute. The poet, the daughter, and the owner then reappear as different characters in three installments featuring a special guest star.
Part 1 is the longest (35 minutes!) and is both reeeal dull at first and also inherently unpleasant, as it features Emil Jannings from EYES OF THE MUMMY back in brownface as a Middle Eastern king. He's obese and lazy and lecherous, and between those traits and the weird-colored pancake-makeup face, he doesn't remind me of any current notorious world figure whatsoever.
The king wants to seduce a poor baker's wife, and the wife appears entirely willing to be seduced. Meanwhile the baker tries to infiltrate the king's castle. It's basically a lame comedy 
though in one intertitle the king asks the wife "My pond lily, have you a hiding place for a fat man?" and I chuckled at that. At long last there is about a minute-long chase scene through a pretty cool-looking (small) set, and then at the end of this one there's a satisfying twist.
Part 2 (about 30 minutes) is also... not horror... but it does star Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible in what is not (it seems) an accurate historical representation of his reign but is instead a pretty suspenseful episode of GAME OF THRONES where everyone around Ivan is trying to knock him off and he's trying to triangulate and get them before they can get him. It would appear the ending is completely fabricated (yet highly satisfying). I really enjoyed this one and would argue that it makes WAXWORKS worth watching. Veidt (who was inhibited from doing much acting at all in FEAR) acts his butt off in this one.
Part 3 is Werner (Doctor Caligari) Krauss as Jack The Ripper. It's 5 minutes long and barely an event - not even scary. Quite disappointing.
William Dieterle plays the poet and would go on to direct some good big-budget Hollywood flicks. On the basis of Parts 1 and 3 alone this would be a 2-2.5 but factoring in the nifty IVT sequence I'll go 3.5/5. However for a real good time I'd recommend 1988's WAXWORK, which has aged extremely well.
but pretty much no American buffets anymore. Sigh. Anyway, WAXWORKS (1924):
...Another day, another silent "horror" w/ very little horror content. A young poet wanders into a carnival wax museum and its elderly owner offers him a job writing prosaic signs for each historic figure. The poet takes the job, probably because the owner's daughter is cute. The poet, the daughter, and the owner then reappear as different characters in three installments featuring a special guest star.
Part 1 is the longest (35 minutes!) and is both reeeal dull at first and also inherently unpleasant, as it features Emil Jannings from EYES OF THE MUMMY back in brownface as a Middle Eastern king. He's obese and lazy and lecherous, and between those traits and the weird-colored pancake-makeup face, he doesn't remind me of any current notorious world figure whatsoever.
The king wants to seduce a poor baker's wife, and the wife appears entirely willing to be seduced. Meanwhile the baker tries to infiltrate the king's castle. It's basically a lame comedy though in one intertitle the king asks the wife "My pond lily, have you a hiding place for a fat man?" and I chuckled at that. At long last there is about a minute-long chase scene through a pretty cool-looking (small) set, and then at the end of this one there's a satisfying twist. Part 2 (about 30 minutes) is also... not horror... but it does star Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible in what is not (it seems) an accurate historical representation of his reign but is instead a pretty suspenseful episode of GAME OF THRONES where everyone around Ivan is trying to knock him off and he's trying to triangulate and get them before they can get him. It would appear the ending is completely fabricated (yet highly satisfying). I really enjoyed this one and would argue that it makes WAXWORKS worth watching. Veidt (who was inhibited from doing much acting at all in FEAR) acts his butt off in this one.
Part 3 is Werner (Doctor Caligari) Krauss as Jack The Ripper. It's 5 minutes long and barely an event - not even scary. Quite disappointing.
William Dieterle plays the poet and would go on to direct some good big-budget Hollywood flicks. On the basis of Parts 1 and 3 alone this would be a 2-2.5 but factoring in the nifty IVT sequence I'll go 3.5/5. However for a real good time I'd recommend 1988's WAXWORK, which has aged extremely well.
#13
Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:16:42 PMSome locations have added another week of screening THE DEVILS, since it made a lot more money than anticipated.
#14
Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:14:01 PMI missed it (and have never seen it 'cause I was waiting for this very opportunity to see it completely uncut) but I did get to see Warren Zevon live back in '99. He was a cool guy.
#15
Television / Re: Britain’s Worst Teeth
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:11:07 PMMy longest absence from the dentist's office was 23 or 24 years. I didn't have a single cavity when I finally went back. Of course my mouth looks like the worst motorway in Afghanistan, but somehow it's cavity-free.......
#16
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 11:57:35 AM62. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
#18
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:52:54 AMRIFFTRAX: PARADISE MOTEL: A woman with a chronic case of Mar-a-Lago face flees her abusive husband and ends up at the Psycho-esque small-town Paradise Motel, where there are murders, for some reason. Wow, this is an awful amateur effort, but I confess the riffing made me laugh out loud quite a bit---though making jokes at this movie's expense was like shooting fish in a barrel. Only 70 minutes, so I also watched RIFFTRAX GOES TO GOLDEN CORRAL, which, unexpectedly, made fun of the food at Golden Corral (honestly, a lot of it didn't look that bad, although there might have been a couple of health code violations). 3/5.
#19
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:34:46 AM
A folk-blues suite about the residents of a Minnesota boarding house. Good but only 35 minutes long, would have been nice if he'd written another song or 2 to flesh it out.