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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 26, 2025, 12:55:50 PM
Who do you remember fondly?
#23
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 26, 2025, 12:24:43 PMSOULEYMANE'S STORY (2025): A desperate Guinean refugee in Paris tries to raise money for fake documents and memorize an elaborate cover story he thinks will get him asylum status. Ultra-realistic look at a shady underworld of refugee exploitation; it's a good trick to make you sympathize with Souleymane even though he's planning to commit fraud. 3.5/5.
#24
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 26, 2025, 12:09:21 PM
#25
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 26, 2025, 11:56:15 AM
Excellent 1971 fusion album from a guitarist I hadn't heard of before.
"Femme Fatale" by Mon Laferte
#26
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Happy Christmas everyone
Last post by Leah - December 26, 2025, 10:43:10 AMMerry Christmas and happy holidays.
#27
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
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#28
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - December 26, 2025, 09:47:38 AMBETTER WATCH OUT (2016):
This was a lousy way to spend Christmas Eve. What Madame thought would be a supernatural horror or home-invasion thriller quickly reveals itself to be a very mean-spirited (if light-R rated) torture porn, complete with fully-clothed yet still unsavory sexual assault. Worse, though, is that it's laborious, highly implausible and sometimes impossible to the point of negligence (who threw the brick through the window?!), and essentially a celebration of its irritating(-to-loathesome), wildly privileged, toxic white boy antagonist. The problem with many r@p3/revenge films is they go way too easy on the revenge. Infuriatingly, there's no revenge in this one. There is a tiny climactic twist that is satisfying though in insufficient proportion to the endurance test that had preceded it... but then, bizarrely, the male filmmakers see fit to reassure their audience that the bad guy might still get away with it! (Of course he might still get away with it... this is Trump's America we're living in, after all.)
I disliked this more than IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE (a similarly themed yuletide thriller) though probably less than the dire KRAMPUS... yet at least both those Christmas horrors are actually about Christmas. BETTER WATCH OUT is perhaps only useful to cite the next time you want to argue in favor of DIE HARD being a Christmas movie. John McClane is only in the Nakatomi Plaza 'cause he's attending his ex-wife's Christmas party. Conversely, BETTER WATCH OUT could have taken place on any of the other many nights of the year when we're told the female lead is babysitting for the exact same evil brat - the set decorators just throw up some neon lawn ornaments and otherwise fuggedaboudit. In fact BETTER WATCH OUT makes less sense at Christmastime than it would've in the summer, as we're told the babysitter is graduating high school and going to college soon. This crap has a hasty Christmas-coat of paint on at best, and that's another reason to resent it. Who wants to get tricked into watching r@p3y torture porn on Christmas Eve?!
1/5 It does have Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen for about 5 minutes and I like them.
This was a lousy way to spend Christmas Eve. What Madame thought would be a supernatural horror or home-invasion thriller quickly reveals itself to be a very mean-spirited (if light-R rated) torture porn, complete with fully-clothed yet still unsavory sexual assault. Worse, though, is that it's laborious, highly implausible and sometimes impossible to the point of negligence (who threw the brick through the window?!), and essentially a celebration of its irritating(-to-loathesome), wildly privileged, toxic white boy antagonist. The problem with many r@p3/revenge films is they go way too easy on the revenge. Infuriatingly, there's no revenge in this one. There is a tiny climactic twist that is satisfying though in insufficient proportion to the endurance test that had preceded it... but then, bizarrely, the male filmmakers see fit to reassure their audience that the bad guy might still get away with it! (Of course he might still get away with it... this is Trump's America we're living in, after all.)
I disliked this more than IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE (a similarly themed yuletide thriller) though probably less than the dire KRAMPUS... yet at least both those Christmas horrors are actually about Christmas. BETTER WATCH OUT is perhaps only useful to cite the next time you want to argue in favor of DIE HARD being a Christmas movie. John McClane is only in the Nakatomi Plaza 'cause he's attending his ex-wife's Christmas party. Conversely, BETTER WATCH OUT could have taken place on any of the other many nights of the year when we're told the female lead is babysitting for the exact same evil brat - the set decorators just throw up some neon lawn ornaments and otherwise fuggedaboudit. In fact BETTER WATCH OUT makes less sense at Christmastime than it would've in the summer, as we're told the babysitter is graduating high school and going to college soon. This crap has a hasty Christmas-coat of paint on at best, and that's another reason to resent it. Who wants to get tricked into watching r@p3y torture porn on Christmas Eve?!
1/5 It does have Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen for about 5 minutes and I like them.
#29
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by Alex - December 26, 2025, 09:23:53 AMTwo days of heavy fog (about 200 ft visibility).
#30
What Was That Film? / Re: Film Noir Set in Los Angel...
Last post by M.10rda - December 26, 2025, 09:21:05 AMThanks, Pennywise! I intended that question for Dr. Parker but I should've said that!