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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by bob - Today at 05:07:30 AM37 Barbie
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Bad Movies / Re: 'Best Picture' Oscar... go...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 04:24:15 AMoops, shoulda posted this in 'good movies'... (debatable I know)
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Bad Movies / 'Best Picture' Oscar... go lon...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 04:21:27 AMJust for the heck of it, I thought I'd research running times of all movies that have won the Oscar for 'Best Picture'.
As I kind of suspected, longer running time = better... apparently.
In fact since its inception in the 1920s, there has never been a sub 90-minute Best Picture winner
Only two 'Best Picture' winners have a running time in the 90 minute bracket: ANNIE HALL (93 mins) and DRIVING MISS DAISY (99 mins)
over 2 hours seems the norm.
What is it about longer films, because I don't think anyone associated with the Oscars would ever try and argue that quantity = quality?
As I kind of suspected, longer running time = better... apparently.
In fact since its inception in the 1920s, there has never been a sub 90-minute Best Picture winner
Only two 'Best Picture' winners have a running time in the 90 minute bracket: ANNIE HALL (93 mins) and DRIVING MISS DAISY (99 mins)
over 2 hours seems the norm.
What is it about longer films, because I don't think anyone associated with the Oscars would ever try and argue that quantity = quality?
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 03:51:34 AM36. ZOOLANDER (2001)
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:06:07 AMQuote from: M.10rda on August 30, 2026, 06:47:47 PMI know lots of people who would furiously contest that Pollock's painting is Art. What is Art???
one answer would be 'art is what somebody who is agreed to be an artist calls art'. That is what Marcel Duchamp was trying to lampoon with his urinal. 'society reveres me as an artist, therefore if I put my name on an urinal and put it in gallery, it becomes art eo ipso'
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - August 30, 2026, 10:31:01 PMJOSHUA RIFKIN Piano Rags By SCOTT JOPLIN
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - August 30, 2026, 08:49:08 PMIt's not to say that Pollock is good or bad, but it's PAINTING.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - August 30, 2026, 08:10:50 PMISLAND OF LOST WOMEN is a title and synopsis that sounds like it could be at home in the "Is It Porn?" thread. Given the often banal premises of so many adult films from the late 60s through today, I can't imagine why no one would remake this IP! 
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - August 30, 2026, 07:58:23 PMTonight's Stinker
Island of Lost Women(1959)
https://youtu.be/3Co0FNXARLU?si=wYhoPPWzOiT7sGqB
A reporter & his pilot realize their lost, one of the engines on their plane konks out, & the radio dies, when they see a small island in the middle of the ocean..,.. A loud voice tells them not to land, but they have no other options...
As soon as they land, a scientist comes out to greet them & asks them to leave, but his three teenage daughters come out of the jungle, having never seen a man before....
It turns out, the scientist helped build the atomic bomb, and is convinced the world is on a path to self destruction.... But the reporter has the story of a lifetime, which presents a dangerous problem....
Meanwhile, three smitten teenage girls presents it's own problem....
Short, not too much wasted time, & the scientist has an answer for pretty much every question the viewer may have, with plenty of fluffy drama between the women & the men....
Island of Lost Women(1959)
https://youtu.be/3Co0FNXARLU?si=wYhoPPWzOiT7sGqB
A reporter & his pilot realize their lost, one of the engines on their plane konks out, & the radio dies, when they see a small island in the middle of the ocean..,.. A loud voice tells them not to land, but they have no other options...
As soon as they land, a scientist comes out to greet them & asks them to leave, but his three teenage daughters come out of the jungle, having never seen a man before....
It turns out, the scientist helped build the atomic bomb, and is convinced the world is on a path to self destruction.... But the reporter has the story of a lifetime, which presents a dangerous problem....
Meanwhile, three smitten teenage girls presents it's own problem....
Short, not too much wasted time, & the scientist has an answer for pretty much every question the viewer may have, with plenty of fluffy drama between the women & the men....
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Good Movies / Re: Creepy houses in movies?
Last post by M.10rda - August 30, 2026, 07:12:52 PMQuote from: Trevor on August 30, 2026, 10:59:08 AMQuote from: M.10rda on August 30, 2026, 10:32:41 AMThe creepy (and oddly designed) house from LOST HIGHWAY that Bill Pullman lives in was apparently David Lynch's real home. If I was Mrs. Lynch (maybe Mary Sweeney at the time?) I'd be nervous about going to bed at night. Lynch also shot scenes for INLAND EMPIRE in his backyard. A real DIY kinda' guy.
You just made me go 😳 with that info. I didn't know that.
For the second time today, I misspoke somewhat. It was definitely Lynch's "house" - though apparently one of a couple buildings on the property, so it's unconfirmed whether he and Mary Sweeney slept there or somewhere else in his "compound". For her sake, I hope it was elsewhere!