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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - March 24, 2026, 04:58:29 PM
How did you complete the banana autopsy?
#12
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - March 24, 2026, 04:55:21 PMreally happy with how these came out
#13
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - March 24, 2026, 03:48:29 PMDark Angel AKA I Come in Peace (1990) - When I finished this, the next movie feature suggested Highlander, The Wraith, and like 6 Chuck Norris movies. That kind of gives you an idea of what this one was like. I had for some reason thought it was from 2000, but it's a bit more impressive for 1990 and easier to forgive some of the problems.
Those problems being most obviously the star Dolph Lundgren, who is charming enough and obviously up to the task in terms of physical conditioning, but often delivers his lines awkwardly and with little thought. Having him just say "I must break you." in Rocky 4 was probably a good idea. Comedian Brian Benben as the sidekick actually works pretty well. He mostly plays it straight, which was very refreshing. There was one good joke though, when they are car chased on to the sidewalk and he's like "Get back on the street!" then looks over and sees the villain on the street "Stay on the sidewalk, stay on the sidewalk" I mean it's not Seinfeld level, but I chuckled.
The pace is little slow and if it had just been a cop movie I'd probably give it a thumbs down, but there's a whole sci fi element with an alien who's sucking endorphins out of human beings and has these insane disks that are like martian throwing stars. I watched it in one night. It was a long night, but I did do it.
Dolphin Lundgren haha
4.35 /5
It could have used more hot girls, but I can't lie it was pretty entertaining. It had some fairly massive explosions, for example.
Those problems being most obviously the star Dolph Lundgren, who is charming enough and obviously up to the task in terms of physical conditioning, but often delivers his lines awkwardly and with little thought. Having him just say "I must break you." in Rocky 4 was probably a good idea. Comedian Brian Benben as the sidekick actually works pretty well. He mostly plays it straight, which was very refreshing. There was one good joke though, when they are car chased on to the sidewalk and he's like "Get back on the street!" then looks over and sees the villain on the street "Stay on the sidewalk, stay on the sidewalk" I mean it's not Seinfeld level, but I chuckled.
The pace is little slow and if it had just been a cop movie I'd probably give it a thumbs down, but there's a whole sci fi element with an alien who's sucking endorphins out of human beings and has these insane disks that are like martian throwing stars. I watched it in one night. It was a long night, but I did do it.
Dolphin Lundgren haha
4.35 /5
It could have used more hot girls, but I can't lie it was pretty entertaining. It had some fairly massive explosions, for example.
#14
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - March 24, 2026, 10:37:12 AMDon't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
#15
Off Topic Discussion / Re: YouTube have messed up aga...
Last post by claws - March 24, 2026, 10:33:52 AMQuoteThere have been widespread reports in early 2026 of a "vanishing act" where users cannot see their comment history or video descriptions.
The Reality: YouTube has not officially removed the ability to view comment history. You can still technically find it under Google My Activity > Other Activity > YouTube Comments.
The Problem: A persistent bug (often linked to ad-blocker detection or server-side updates) has been causing the "Comments" and "About" sections to fail to load for many users across Chrome, Edge, and Brave. To a user, it looks like the feature is gone, but it's usually just broken.
#16
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 24, 2026, 10:17:14 AMSUDDEN FURY (1975):
A guy who looks like a budget Donald Sutherland or an even more punchable Jeffrey Jones loses all his money in a bad business deal and can't fathom having to tell his wife, so he takes her on a long drive in the provincial countryside where he plans to murder her and almost does in a drawn-out yet reasonably tense sequence. He spares her, though, and they keep driving around until he gets road-rage at another Sunday driver who looks like a mildly tough John Oates. Their brinksmanship escalates into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse up and down a country road, down a ravine, and all over the property of an unsuspecting farmer and his wife. That may sound promising - it's also deeply frustrating and ultimately hugely disappointing.
This was somehow nominated for the Canadian version of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1975. (I don't know what else was nominated but the winner was THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ.) Many reviews on Letterboxd consider it a lost gem. Often Badness is subjective and I admit I was riding the fence for much of the length of SUDDEN FURY. Some moments are nicely handled though a lot of the beats are perfunctory and could have been executed in far more thoughtful or effective ways. Its escalating action is a textbook Idiot Plot, in that every character behaves illogically and makes the worst possible choice at every turn in order for the plot to proceed. I realize this was probably very much by design of the writer/director, who seems at times to be gesturing to some larger statement about human fallibility and our worst primal instincts. It's even possible that the filmmaker intended SUDDEN FURY as a commentary on Vietnam, similar to 1973's CAGED TERROR aka GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, also Canadian and a film that functions (or fails to function) counter-intuitively in all ways.
In SUDDEN FURY's case, though, it's impossible to tell what the first-time filmmaker was intending, which isn't a boon to their craft. (They never made another film, award nominations notwithstanding.) If you really squint at the film's final five minutes, I suppose you could see an incredibly daring and quietly profound subversion of narrative expectation and auteurial morality, like something Michael Haneke would do at the end of one of his films. But I tried to squint and I still couldn't see it and instead I just wanted to put my fist through my widescreen TV. It's a lot easier to imagine the MST3K crew moaning in torment through this very slow, taxing, sometimes clumsy movie and then getting to the end and hollering bloody murder. Sometimes even in the contest of man and steer the issue is not certain, but finally in the contest of "Underappreciated Rare Indie Gem" and "Amateurish Horse$#!t", I am confident in my finding.
1.5/5 Even the film's admirers on Letterboxd admit the ending is pretty dumb.
A guy who looks like a budget Donald Sutherland or an even more punchable Jeffrey Jones loses all his money in a bad business deal and can't fathom having to tell his wife, so he takes her on a long drive in the provincial countryside where he plans to murder her and almost does in a drawn-out yet reasonably tense sequence. He spares her, though, and they keep driving around until he gets road-rage at another Sunday driver who looks like a mildly tough John Oates. Their brinksmanship escalates into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse up and down a country road, down a ravine, and all over the property of an unsuspecting farmer and his wife. That may sound promising - it's also deeply frustrating and ultimately hugely disappointing.
This was somehow nominated for the Canadian version of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1975. (I don't know what else was nominated but the winner was THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ.) Many reviews on Letterboxd consider it a lost gem. Often Badness is subjective and I admit I was riding the fence for much of the length of SUDDEN FURY. Some moments are nicely handled though a lot of the beats are perfunctory and could have been executed in far more thoughtful or effective ways. Its escalating action is a textbook Idiot Plot, in that every character behaves illogically and makes the worst possible choice at every turn in order for the plot to proceed. I realize this was probably very much by design of the writer/director, who seems at times to be gesturing to some larger statement about human fallibility and our worst primal instincts. It's even possible that the filmmaker intended SUDDEN FURY as a commentary on Vietnam, similar to 1973's CAGED TERROR aka GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, also Canadian and a film that functions (or fails to function) counter-intuitively in all ways.
In SUDDEN FURY's case, though, it's impossible to tell what the first-time filmmaker was intending, which isn't a boon to their craft. (They never made another film, award nominations notwithstanding.) If you really squint at the film's final five minutes, I suppose you could see an incredibly daring and quietly profound subversion of narrative expectation and auteurial morality, like something Michael Haneke would do at the end of one of his films. But I tried to squint and I still couldn't see it and instead I just wanted to put my fist through my widescreen TV. It's a lot easier to imagine the MST3K crew moaning in torment through this very slow, taxing, sometimes clumsy movie and then getting to the end and hollering bloody murder. Sometimes even in the contest of man and steer the issue is not certain, but finally in the contest of "Underappreciated Rare Indie Gem" and "Amateurish Horse$#!t", I am confident in my finding.
1.5/5 Even the film's admirers on Letterboxd admit the ending is pretty dumb.
#19
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 09:32:08 AM
#20
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 09:30:14 AM
Is there a way to turn back the clock?