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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - April 03, 2026, 10:50:05 AMTHE HOUSEMAID (2025):
Madame had read the book (or book series) and was looking forward to this, so we watched it on the plane to Florida. It's similarly themed and similarly surprisingly grisly to Zoe Kravitz' BLINK TWICE... actually a lot less grisly than that unexpected gruefest though still more bloody than I'd expect from what looked like a Lifetime original movie released in theaters. What I'll say for HOUSEMAID is that it's definitely a glossy, high-budget production that is shot and edited and directed and performed like a real movie, which makes one briefly overlook the fact that the plot (which I will generally spoil here) makes no sense whatsoever.
So, an apparently desperate young woman is hired as the housekeeper and nanny for a wealthy couple and their 7-year old daughter. The wife almost immediately begins behaving like a psychotic maniac, so the housemaid has an affair w/ the hunky husband, but then he turns out to be a sadistic psychopath as well, and it turns out that the wife hired the housemaid (who is a former murderer!) in the hopes that the couple's combined psychotic behavior would inevitably drive the housemaid to murder the sadistic husband. Obviously that plan inherently seems like flying all the way to India just to get a cup of Darjeeling tea, but besides its counter-intuitive inconvenience, how could the wife know that the housemaid wouldn't murder her, instead? I certainly wanted to murder the wife after only about 20 minutes of her histrionics! Plus I haven't yet mentioned a final twist by which the eventual murderer/s narrowly and unwittingly escape detection of their sloppy crime because the most convenient investigating police officer possible happens to coincidentally arrive at the crime scene, totally beyond the guilty party's expectations.
Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy a completely insane plot as long as I am somehow invested in or entertained by the character(s). But there's HOUSEMAID's biggest problem: the wife is completely unlikable (in spite of an honestly pretty good performance from Amanda Seyfried), the husband is completely loathsome, the husband's hilariously petty mother (Elizabeth McGovern, fully transformed into Stockard Channing) is similarly unsympathetic, the 7-year old daughter (who looks more like 10-11) is the least sympathetic/most unlikable member of the family, and the housemaid is played by eugenics enthusiast Sydney Sweeney.
In other words, it was a tough two-hour flight. 1.5/5
Madame had read the book (or book series) and was looking forward to this, so we watched it on the plane to Florida. It's similarly themed and similarly surprisingly grisly to Zoe Kravitz' BLINK TWICE... actually a lot less grisly than that unexpected gruefest though still more bloody than I'd expect from what looked like a Lifetime original movie released in theaters. What I'll say for HOUSEMAID is that it's definitely a glossy, high-budget production that is shot and edited and directed and performed like a real movie, which makes one briefly overlook the fact that the plot (which I will generally spoil here) makes no sense whatsoever.
So, an apparently desperate young woman is hired as the housekeeper and nanny for a wealthy couple and their 7-year old daughter. The wife almost immediately begins behaving like a psychotic maniac, so the housemaid has an affair w/ the hunky husband, but then he turns out to be a sadistic psychopath as well, and it turns out that the wife hired the housemaid (who is a former murderer!) in the hopes that the couple's combined psychotic behavior would inevitably drive the housemaid to murder the sadistic husband. Obviously that plan inherently seems like flying all the way to India just to get a cup of Darjeeling tea, but besides its counter-intuitive inconvenience, how could the wife know that the housemaid wouldn't murder her, instead? I certainly wanted to murder the wife after only about 20 minutes of her histrionics! Plus I haven't yet mentioned a final twist by which the eventual murderer/s narrowly and unwittingly escape detection of their sloppy crime because the most convenient investigating police officer possible happens to coincidentally arrive at the crime scene, totally beyond the guilty party's expectations.
Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy a completely insane plot as long as I am somehow invested in or entertained by the character(s). But there's HOUSEMAID's biggest problem: the wife is completely unlikable (in spite of an honestly pretty good performance from Amanda Seyfried), the husband is completely loathsome, the husband's hilariously petty mother (Elizabeth McGovern, fully transformed into Stockard Channing) is similarly unsympathetic, the 7-year old daughter (who looks more like 10-11) is the least sympathetic/most unlikable member of the family, and the housemaid is played by eugenics enthusiast Sydney Sweeney.
In other words, it was a tough two-hour flight. 1.5/5
#24
Good Movies / Re: New James Bond?
Last post by LilCerberus - April 03, 2026, 09:47:44 AMI heard a rumor a few years ago, that they were considering Aaron Pierre for the role......
#25
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - April 03, 2026, 09:10:26 AM
#27
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - April 03, 2026, 09:07:05 AMAssuming you meant to type "poisoned"...
What kind of demon did you encounter?
What kind of demon did you encounter?
#28
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - April 03, 2026, 08:57:44 AM
#29
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - April 03, 2026, 08:51:57 AMThis may or may not interest you, or you might even already know, but someone managed to get permission to rerelease all the old Ral Partha figures. If you are interested they are at https://ralparthalegacy.com/ I've not bought anything from they yet, but I do plan on at some point.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Dr. Whom - April 03, 2026, 08:24:02 AMI quite agree. This is what I meant with my 'playing with toy soldiers' remark, which may sound more condescending than I intenden. I've got nothing against playing with toy soldiers.
I started out in the 80s as well, when 15mm were the next big thing. These were initially about serried ranks: you were supposed to put two 15mm models on the frontage of one 25 mm, so the visual effect was of oodles of small figures against just dozens of larger ones. And if you wanted really mass effect, you could go to 1/300. This trend has completely reversed with an emphasis on fewer but larger figures, which are more carefully sculpted and can be painted in great detail. Mind you 15mm have grown as well and now approach 20mm.
I started out in the 80s as well, when 15mm were the next big thing. These were initially about serried ranks: you were supposed to put two 15mm models on the frontage of one 25 mm, so the visual effect was of oodles of small figures against just dozens of larger ones. And if you wanted really mass effect, you could go to 1/300. This trend has completely reversed with an emphasis on fewer but larger figures, which are more carefully sculpted and can be painted in great detail. Mind you 15mm have grown as well and now approach 20mm.