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#21

Good Movies / Re: What is your first Horror ...

Last post by HappyGilmore - November 23, 2025, 04:23:35 PM

saw this on tv as a kid, though it was so bad that it turned me off horror films for a long time

Makes me sad. Love it. I get it though.

#22

Good Movies / Re: favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by HappyGilmore - November 23, 2025, 04:21:03 PM

Because the Rev very correctly contributed ED WOOD to the conversation, here's another I think has been overlooked - not because it's a personal favorite but because of its historical significance:

QUIZ SHOW (1994)
Directed by the late Robert Redford; starring Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, and John Turturro.

This was an awards-season darling in late '94/early '95, and for many it was their underdog contender against FORREST GUMP and PULP FICTION - a serious, intellectual period drama about Real Issues - yawn! - instead of, uh, whatever those other two movies are about. I saw it in the theater when it was released and liked it - my Dad, an English and sometimes History teacher - loved it and insisted it was the best of those three films. It was nominated for Best Picture (and many other Oscars). I've only seen it once subsequently, maybe in the mid-00s - but I would now agree with my late father that it is (if not better than FG and PF at least) more timely (or timeless) today than those films. As QUIZ SHOW is about media representation, journalistic ethics, propaganda, corporatism, truth, honor, charlatanry, et al........ actually it's extremely relevant today!

I saw it once, but was a kid. I should watch it again as an adult. I didn't dislike it, but it's been like thirty years. I'll appreciate it more now.

#23

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...

Last post by Alex - November 23, 2025, 03:56:29 PM

She has good days and bad days. Bad days, especially after she's had a chemo treatment and then has to carry a small pump hooked up to her canula on her arm for a few days afterwards. If it works and helps her get healthy again, then it is worth it. On her good days she can get up and go out for a normal day, but it leaves her exhausted for the next day or two. It worries me that she doesn't get any great days.

Nigerian scammers have gotten so used to my picture that the instant they see it I get blocked immediately. I guess 1) They don't like getting scammed by me and 2) I am going to have to use AI to generate a new set of pictures. I hate using it but alas I lack the skill set to fake my own photos.

Oh well, it isn't my water table it is using anyway, so I'll leave that up to the people from whichever country it is in to worry about that until they start building data centres over here...

Got Kristi's and Ash's presents all wrapped. Ash's pile is pathetically small (although not cheap. He's getting his first laptop and I've installed all manner of train games onto it for him. Wonder what he'll make of Choo Choo Charlie? I am fighting the urge not to just buy him stacks of stuff so he has loads of presents to open on the basis that he will have no interest in them. Hell, half the stuff he got last year is being donated to charities this year because he hasn't touched them.

#24

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by bob - November 23, 2025, 03:39:51 PM

ChatGPT



copilot

#25

Good Movies / Re: favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by zombie no.one - November 23, 2025, 03:38:52 PM

QUIZ SHOW (1994)
Directed by the late Robert Redford; starring Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, and John Turturro.

has been on my radar for a long time...

LEON THE PROFESSIONAL.

one of my old work colleagues changed his first name to Leon, after this film. true story

#26

Good Movies / Re: favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by bob - November 23, 2025, 03:37:17 PM

Because the Rev very correctly contributed ED WOOD to the conversation, here's another I think has been overlooked - not because it's a personal favorite but because of its historical significance:

QUIZ SHOW (1994)
Directed by the late Robert Redford; starring Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, and John Turturro.

This was an awards-season darling in late '94/early '95, and for many it was their underdog contender against FORREST GUMP and PULP FICTION - a serious, intellectual period drama about Real Issues - yawn! - instead of, uh, whatever those other two movies are about. I saw it in the theater when it was released and liked it - my Dad, an English and sometimes History teacher - loved it and insisted it was the best of those three films. It was nominated for Best Picture (and many other Oscars). I've only seen it once subsequently, maybe in the mid-00s - but I would now agree with my late father that it is (if not better than FG and PF at least) more timely (or timeless) today than those films. As QUIZ SHOW is about media representation, journalistic ethics, propaganda, corporatism, truth, honor, charlatanry, et al........ actually it's extremely relevant today!

I haven't seen that since I was a kid

I remember really liking it

#27

Good Movies / Re: favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by Trevor - November 23, 2025, 03:10:53 PM

RESERVOIR DOGS and LEON THE PROFESSIONAL. 😊🐢.

South African made ones

THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS
OPERATION DELTA FORCE
WHO AM I
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY

#28

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by LilCerberus - November 23, 2025, 02:20:59 PM

^Agreed^
There were several goofies I was tempted to point out, but it was just so boring & meandering.....

#29

Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by bob - November 23, 2025, 01:33:33 PM

#30

Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by bob - November 23, 2025, 01:30:48 PM

Who split the coffee?