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Last post by Rev. Powell - April 29, 2026, 08:04:24 AM32. Monster Seafood Wars (2020)
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Last post by Rev. Powell - April 29, 2026, 08:01:18 AMHappy birthday Chainsaw Little Person! 
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Last post by LilCerberus - April 29, 2026, 07:10:06 AM31) Space Milkshake(2012)
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Last post by M.10rda - April 29, 2026, 07:03:11 AMWill we accept 30.) CANDY (1968) ? 
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Last post by M.10rda - April 29, 2026, 06:59:46 AMDESIREE (1954):
This 20th Century Fox production realistically might've cost 100 times as much as UNTAMED MISTRESS and it stars Marlon Brando, but it's honestly little or no better than Ron Ormond's jungle garbage - and frankly much less amusing! (There are no giant amorous gorillas, anyway.) Hey, Brando is Napoleon??? That must be exciting and dramatic, right? Alas, besides a brief montage of horns and flags, DESIREE gives us zero/nada/no/zilch battlefield fun and precious little drawing room intrigue. Instead it focuses on Jean Simmons as the eponymous young thang Napoleon loved before (and after) he married Josephine. If that sounds less engrossing....... one must presume director Henry Koster felt the same way, as his utterly inert film can only be explained by him falling asleep in the director's chair early in production and then waking up during the closing credits at the premiere screening.
I usually like Simmons, and she and Brando had chemistry in GUYS & DOLLS, but she makes very little impression in spite of being onscreen for most of the film's two hours. Merle Oberon similarly makes no impact as Josephine and Cameron Mitchell chalks up another in a bizarre array of 50s roles where he's in the credits but seems practically invisible in the movie. Michael Rennie from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and ASSIGNMENT: TERROR plays Simmons' husband, presumably in order to make Brando (5'10") look Napoleon-sized. (Rennie is 6'4".) Unfortunately Rennie, though okay at playing aliens, is rubbish at playing human beings - totally flat and artificial. Everyone in the cast but Brando does the stagey declarative acting of the early 20th century, which makes Brando's whispery naturalism seem really out of place. Likely sensing that he's the wrong actor for this ensemble, Brando hugs his cards sheepishly for most of the film, only finally doing some impressive method acting for which he's known in the final 10 or 15 minutes, when Napoleon gets permanently exiled. Even then, though, the screenplay gives him almost nothing to work with, besides feeble proclamations like "I didn't love you just for your dowery, Desiree" et cetera.
Really terrible, pointless film... maybe as pointless as any I've seen from the '50s. If not for Brando's presence, Fox might just as well have walked the negative over to the 60s MGM warehouse fire and tossed it in there. 1/5 However it makes sense that Brando rival Rod Steiger would've seen this and chomped at the bit to play a better Napoleon.
This 20th Century Fox production realistically might've cost 100 times as much as UNTAMED MISTRESS and it stars Marlon Brando, but it's honestly little or no better than Ron Ormond's jungle garbage - and frankly much less amusing! (There are no giant amorous gorillas, anyway.) Hey, Brando is Napoleon??? That must be exciting and dramatic, right? Alas, besides a brief montage of horns and flags, DESIREE gives us zero/nada/no/zilch battlefield fun and precious little drawing room intrigue. Instead it focuses on Jean Simmons as the eponymous young thang Napoleon loved before (and after) he married Josephine. If that sounds less engrossing....... one must presume director Henry Koster felt the same way, as his utterly inert film can only be explained by him falling asleep in the director's chair early in production and then waking up during the closing credits at the premiere screening.
I usually like Simmons, and she and Brando had chemistry in GUYS & DOLLS, but she makes very little impression in spite of being onscreen for most of the film's two hours. Merle Oberon similarly makes no impact as Josephine and Cameron Mitchell chalks up another in a bizarre array of 50s roles where he's in the credits but seems practically invisible in the movie. Michael Rennie from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and ASSIGNMENT: TERROR plays Simmons' husband, presumably in order to make Brando (5'10") look Napoleon-sized. (Rennie is 6'4".) Unfortunately Rennie, though okay at playing aliens, is rubbish at playing human beings - totally flat and artificial. Everyone in the cast but Brando does the stagey declarative acting of the early 20th century, which makes Brando's whispery naturalism seem really out of place. Likely sensing that he's the wrong actor for this ensemble, Brando hugs his cards sheepishly for most of the film, only finally doing some impressive method acting for which he's known in the final 10 or 15 minutes, when Napoleon gets permanently exiled. Even then, though, the screenplay gives him almost nothing to work with, besides feeble proclamations like "I didn't love you just for your dowery, Desiree" et cetera.
Really terrible, pointless film... maybe as pointless as any I've seen from the '50s. If not for Brando's presence, Fox might just as well have walked the negative over to the 60s MGM warehouse fire and tossed it in there. 1/5 However it makes sense that Brando rival Rod Steiger would've seen this and chomped at the bit to play a better Napoleon.
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Last post by claws - April 29, 2026, 06:37:12 AM29. The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
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Last post by zombie no.one - April 29, 2026, 03:41:25 AM28. THE APPLE (1980)
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Bad Movies / Re: The Mandela Effect in movi...
Last post by zombie no.one - April 29, 2026, 03:38:40 AMQuote from: indianasmith on April 28, 2026, 09:59:17 PMI've never watched any of the ROCKY films and have zero interest in doing so.
only saw the original for the first time last year... can't say I liked it much, however it was way more downbeat and introspective than I expected. a character study with surprisingly little boxing.
also watched ROCKY 5 purely based on its awful 'bad movie' reputation. and yeah it's pretty bad lol... not amazingly 'so-bad-it's-good' bad though
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Last post by Dr. Whom - April 29, 2026, 12:47:51 AM27/ Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)