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#21

Good Movies / Re: favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by zombie no.one - November 22, 2025, 02:15:54 PM

I must also give props to the work of unintentional genius that is THE HOWLING PART 7: NEW MOON RISING 

#22

Good Movies / favourite mid 90s movies?

Last post by zombie no.one - November 22, 2025, 02:13:45 PM

what are some of your favourite movies from the years 1994 - 1996 era of releases?


USUAL SUSPECTS, FARGO, and CASINO would all be in my top 10 of all time... 3 masterpieces

SE7EN is also excellent, imo

PULP FICTION is easily one of my top 10 first time watches (pretty much when it came out iirc), blown away... but I can barely re-watch it, despite a few goes... not exactly sure why?

#23

Humorous Captions / Re: Wake up

Last post by LilCerberus - November 22, 2025, 01:36:50 PM

"Great.  I went out and got drunk last night and woke up in bed with a masked killer AGAIN!  Why does this keep happening to me?"

Aw, Honey! Did the Space Goobies visit you again?

#24

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

Last post by Rev. Powell - November 22, 2025, 11:20:54 AM

I like the general design but I hate it when copilot credits every cast member "as" their character. So I asked it to remake the same poster. Despite giving it explicit instructions on what text to use, it got confused and screwed it up...

#25

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Rev. Powell - November 22, 2025, 10:51:35 AM

yah there is nothing in the song's lyrics to indicate he knew of the case.

Lester, now you should review Lon Chaney Sr.'s 1926 silent gothic classis WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE?

  I always thought that an anthology film of short stories based on TW songs might make a good project. Let Jim Jarmusch direct.

#26

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

Last post by claws - November 22, 2025, 10:47:24 AM

#27

Bad Movies / Re: Boop (Public domain Betty ...

Last post by Alex - November 22, 2025, 10:37:02 AM

Until you mentioned it, I wasn't aware that he was playing Micky. Most of the time, you'll see him in costume, sneering at whoever is about to be his victim. They've dealt with the limited SFX budget by not having him share the screen very much with full-size people, from what I remember (although I would have to say I watched this during a 12-hour night shift where my other option for entertainment would have been to chat with a right-wing racist guy, I chose this as the more interesting option.

#28

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - November 22, 2025, 08:12:35 AM

EDDINGTON: Just ten years ago, this movie set just five years ago would have played like an outlandish satire on the level of SOUTHLAND TALES; now, it seems like something that almost might have really happened. 3.5/5.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

EDDINGTON (2025):
How long will HEREDITARY's (unreasonable, unjustified) line of credit allow Ari Aster to keep making "outlandish", divisive two-and-a-half-hour films that gross only a third-to-half of their budget? I am pessimistic about it but personally I hope the answer is "forever". Madame and I greatly enjoyed the well-acted, beautifully directed (and funny) first 90-to-120 minutes of EDDINGTON, then towards the end increasingly sat silently flummoxed. Honestly it's some credit that Madame (who also hated HEREDITARY and was disgusted and outraged by MIDSOMMAR in spite of then watching it a second time on her own, but loves Pedro Pascal) even made it through EDDINGTON's closing credits. I myself am always embarrassed when I cannot offer a thesis statement about the film I just watched by the time the credits end, and that was the case here!

After having laid awake in bed thinking about it last night, however, I admit I quite admire Aster's chutzpah. EDDINGTON asks a lot of its (regrettably tiny) audience. For one thing, it begins as realism (which, as Rev. Powell indicated above, ain't what it use to be) and very slowly shifts into satire, then in its last twenty-five minutes transforms into allegory or perhaps nightmare/fantasy. EDDINGTON invites sympathy for characters who are horrible people and invites criticism of those who are seemingly decent, raises many questions that it never answers, and introduces an abrupt element of the supernatural (or, perhaps, a character who has become purely symbolic) in its final 5 minutes. Also - perhaps most impressively - Aster provides several of the film's most important pieces of information to the audience precisely once - and if you missed it or you forgot that information two hours later, oh well.

...The guy's got big huevos! I feel bad for EDDINGTON's dreadful performance in theaters, but on the other hand EDDINGTON is in many ways similar yet inferior to the breakout smash hit of the summer, WEAPONS - a film that at least makes some minor narrative concessions to its viewers, still allowing them to chew and process a whole lot of roughage on their own and presumably feel good about it but at least making their digestion manageable and even pleasant.

4/5
...But EDDINGTON is still a much better film and endlessly more worthy of box office success than HEREDITARY!

#29

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - November 22, 2025, 07:36:17 AM

yah there is nothing in the song's lyrics to indicate he knew of the case.

Lester, now you should review Lon Chaney Sr.'s 1926 silent gothic classis WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE?

#30

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Who do you want to win the...

Last post by lester1/2jr - November 22, 2025, 02:38:59 AM

Well, that was some press conference today for sure. I haven't even watched most of it, just the reactions.

Seemed like it went rather well!