- Welcome to Badmovies.org Forum.
Recent posts
#21
Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by LilCerberus - March 06, 2026, 11:59:19 AMRep. Nancy Mace @RepNancy Mace
X.com
The loudest voices screaming "Release the Epstein Files" just voted to BURY the sexual harassment files of Members of Congress.
Get it now?
X.com
The loudest voices screaming "Release the Epstein Files" just voted to BURY the sexual harassment files of Members of Congress.
Get it now?
#22
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 06, 2026, 11:31:25 AMOnce Upon a Time in America (1984)
#23
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 06, 2026, 10:53:16 AMEROTIC GHOST STORY 2 (1991): The demon from the first movie is now lovesturck and terrorizes a village that offers him a virgin every month for protection. Reasonable male fantasy material with a script that sometimes seems made up as it goes along and some wild elements: eyeball licking, a fireball monk, and (I never thought I'd say this) maybe too many sex scenes (although the women are uniformly exquisite). 3.5/5.
All of the Hong Kong movies I've been reviewing lately are from the box set "Supernatural Shockers" and straddle the line between good and bad movies: they're exploitation films with high production values.
All of the Hong Kong movies I've been reviewing lately are from the box set "Supernatural Shockers" and straddle the line between good and bad movies: they're exploitation films with high production values.
#24
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 06, 2026, 10:11:56 AM
New Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny in the same week!
#25
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 06, 2026, 10:10:25 AM
#26
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 06, 2026, 10:08:17 AM
What part of town do you live in?
#27
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 10:04:20 AMANYBODY'S WOMAN aka THE BETTER WIFE? (1930):
This was part one of a recent Ruth Chatterton double feature. It's so early in the Sound era that it often looks and sounds like an ancient transmission from another dimension or something. Some of the dialogue is a little hard to decipher at times but most is coherent and dated and sometimes clever and mostly ideologically outre.
A millionaire who is also a profound alcoholic sits around a hotel room bemoaning that his wife just left him for a much wealthier man. He and his buddy grow aware of two cute dames in the hotel room directly across from theirs and invite them over to party with them. One of them is depressed, demoralized-by-men Chatterton, and even though the millionaire is an even more depressed (and depressing) sloppy drunk, this is a pre-code "comedy", so in no time he and Chatterton are hitched. (He actually wakes up from the bender and doesn't even realize he's said 'I Do'...)
Hungarian Paul Lukas plays the millionaire's attorney (or something) who falls in love w/ Chatterton and is really nice to her. Lukas' performance is pretty decent/charming but his accent just makes me wish his character was played by Bela Lugosi, who was probably more dashing circa '30 than Lukas. Clive Brook plays the millionaire in the most broad way imaginable and in spite of his serious dependency on liquor I couldn't feel much sympathy or warmth for him. This makes the sincere yet rather counterintuitive denouement come off as entirely tone deaf... like PRETTY IN PINK/SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL ending tone deaf, but probably worse.
A'S W/TBW? was written by two women (though adapted from a novel by a man) and directed by a woman, but it still stinks a bit of early 30s misogyny and unenlightened attitudes about women. (Maybe the distaff authors just couldn't overcome the source material or the era they lived within.) Chatterton is sharp at comedy and formidable at drama, but the material is mostly too glib to be earnest and too bleak to be funny. (I did laugh once at an early Chatterton line.)
2.5/5 Other reviewers have acknowledged director Dorothy Arzner's uncertain tone here. Arzner was likely the primary inspiration for "Ruth Adler", the character played (very well) by Olivia Hamilton in her husband Damien Chazelle's 2022 film BABYLON. I wish I could find a better Dorothy Arzner movie than this one to watch.
This was part one of a recent Ruth Chatterton double feature. It's so early in the Sound era that it often looks and sounds like an ancient transmission from another dimension or something. Some of the dialogue is a little hard to decipher at times but most is coherent and dated and sometimes clever and mostly ideologically outre.
A millionaire who is also a profound alcoholic sits around a hotel room bemoaning that his wife just left him for a much wealthier man. He and his buddy grow aware of two cute dames in the hotel room directly across from theirs and invite them over to party with them. One of them is depressed, demoralized-by-men Chatterton, and even though the millionaire is an even more depressed (and depressing) sloppy drunk, this is a pre-code "comedy", so in no time he and Chatterton are hitched. (He actually wakes up from the bender and doesn't even realize he's said 'I Do'...)
Hungarian Paul Lukas plays the millionaire's attorney (or something) who falls in love w/ Chatterton and is really nice to her. Lukas' performance is pretty decent/charming but his accent just makes me wish his character was played by Bela Lugosi, who was probably more dashing circa '30 than Lukas. Clive Brook plays the millionaire in the most broad way imaginable and in spite of his serious dependency on liquor I couldn't feel much sympathy or warmth for him. This makes the sincere yet rather counterintuitive denouement come off as entirely tone deaf... like PRETTY IN PINK/SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL ending tone deaf, but probably worse.
A'S W/TBW? was written by two women (though adapted from a novel by a man) and directed by a woman, but it still stinks a bit of early 30s misogyny and unenlightened attitudes about women. (Maybe the distaff authors just couldn't overcome the source material or the era they lived within.) Chatterton is sharp at comedy and formidable at drama, but the material is mostly too glib to be earnest and too bleak to be funny. (I did laugh once at an early Chatterton line.)
2.5/5 Other reviewers have acknowledged director Dorothy Arzner's uncertain tone here. Arzner was likely the primary inspiration for "Ruth Adler", the character played (very well) by Olivia Hamilton in her husband Damien Chazelle's 2022 film BABYLON. I wish I could find a better Dorothy Arzner movie than this one to watch.
#28
Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 09:15:19 AMWell, THE PHANTOM MENACE is pretty good. 
Of course the best bits are borrowed 
from Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score to AKIRA........
Of course the best bits are borrowed from Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score to AKIRA........ #29
Bad Movies / Bad movies with great scores?
Last post by Trevor - March 06, 2026, 08:40:34 AMI nominate SUNDOWN THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT with its' wonderful score.
#30
Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 08:31:58 AMSounds like a video game to me! I am insufficiently smart for real strategy games... I loved JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 back in the 90s for its combat, but as soon as mutant bugs began infesting my mines if I left them unattended for long, I was cooked!