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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
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#32
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Rev. Powell - June 24, 2026, 08:08:48 AMI did that once with a scammer just out of curiosity to see how long they would go. They never gave up, and I just had to block them eventually. They were trying to use romance to get me to invest in some kind of forex scam. There was a cult-like element, as "she" kept referring to her financial "mentor" by name.
#33
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - June 24, 2026, 08:01:27 AMTHE WEDDING DATE (2005):
Another romcom I agreed to watch w/ my wife - okay, mostly watch, I dipped out for a while in the middle to do chores. I've endured worse. There are several cute lines/moments that were obviously calculated in a lab and tested on human captives to elicit sappy reactions. The direction is generally glib but it does move along fairly briskly. There is some nice UK location work. Amy Adams is third-billed, either right before or right after her breakout Oscar nomination for JUNEBUG (in other words before she didn't have to accept roles in disposable romcoms). She's a blonde here though, meh.
Star Debra Messing is a redhead
and gives a performance that helps one understand how she could have a hit TV show though also how she never had much of a career in movies. The hunky gigolo she hires to be her wedding date 
is played by Dermot Mulroney, who gives a performance that reminds me how he could keep getting work in movies but also reminds me of why (after 30-35 years) I still can't distinguish him from Dylan McDermott. Of course the major flaw in this movie is the premise: Why does a successful career woman who is also a beautiful fun redhead need to pay Dermot Mulroney thousands of dollars to go to a wedding with her? He's a very generic hunky guy, of which there are plenty in both the US and UK. To her credit, 
Madame 10rda says Mulroney is unattractive because he has a hairlip. She has better eyesight than I do but I see no hairlip - I mean, young Joaquin Phoenix, now he had a hairlip (which I guess he's had fixed). But then again, if you were a wealthy hot woman who felt like she needed to throw her money away on a gigiolo, Joaquin Phoenix would probably be more fun to take to a wedding... 2.5/5
Another romcom I agreed to watch w/ my wife - okay, mostly watch, I dipped out for a while in the middle to do chores. I've endured worse. There are several cute lines/moments that were obviously calculated in a lab and tested on human captives to elicit sappy reactions. The direction is generally glib but it does move along fairly briskly. There is some nice UK location work. Amy Adams is third-billed, either right before or right after her breakout Oscar nomination for JUNEBUG (in other words before she didn't have to accept roles in disposable romcoms). She's a blonde here though, meh.
Star Debra Messing is a redhead
and gives a performance that helps one understand how she could have a hit TV show though also how she never had much of a career in movies. The hunky gigolo she hires to be her wedding date is played by Dermot Mulroney, who gives a performance that reminds me how he could keep getting work in movies but also reminds me of why (after 30-35 years) I still can't distinguish him from Dylan McDermott. Of course the major flaw in this movie is the premise: Why does a successful career woman who is also a beautiful fun redhead need to pay Dermot Mulroney thousands of dollars to go to a wedding with her? He's a very generic hunky guy, of which there are plenty in both the US and UK. To her credit, Madame 10rda says Mulroney is unattractive because he has a hairlip. She has better eyesight than I do but I see no hairlip - I mean, young Joaquin Phoenix, now he had a hairlip (which I guess he's had fixed). But then again, if you were a wealthy hot woman who felt like she needed to throw her money away on a gigiolo, Joaquin Phoenix would probably be more fun to take to a wedding... 2.5/5 #34
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Last post by Dr. Whom - June 24, 2026, 01:14:08 AM #36
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - June 23, 2026, 11:58:52 PMI didn't realize Francis Ford Coppola directed it. Enemy of the State the Will Smith movie?
#37
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - June 23, 2026, 10:26:32 PM^^^ Hear hear to the above and Lester's original review. THE CONVERSATION is my favorite FFC movie - I like it better than GODFATHER 1, even. (I haven't seen MEGALOPOLIS though.)
#38
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Jim H - June 23, 2026, 10:05:27 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on June 23, 2026, 04:43:02 PMThe Conversation (1974) - I saw this 30 years ago in a pretty nondescript film class I took in college. I kind of wish I hadn't because the movie I remembered wasn't exactly what it actually was, if that makes any sense. Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, and Shirley from Laverne and Shirley of all people are the stars in what is sort of a very late film noir meets an early conspiracy movie.
Hackman is an expert phone tapper/ eavesdropper who struggles with the good vs evil aspect of his work. He's proud of his technical abilities, but unscrupulous people can hire him to achieve nefarious ends. The other spy type people he associates with are sleazy and have no integrity, which clearly makes him uncomfortable. He's also paranoid, to ridiculous extent, about his own privacy.
Of course, that obsessive paranoia is part of what makes him so great at what he does. It all gets put to the test when he's tasked with recording the titular conversation, the opaqueness of which bugs him (no pun intended) to no end.
5/5
I'd like to see it again sometime, just to clarify some things. it looks and feels a bit like "Coma" ( ie depressing 70's hues) but is a little more cerebral.
(edit: You could see it as an indictment of capitalism...until you consider that socialist countries spied like crazy on their populations for nefarious ends, too. )
Fantastic movie. Says something that it was released inbetween the Godfathers and holds up in that position.
Worth watching Enemy of the State if you haven't now. It really does seem like a very strange, belated sequel, with Gene Hackman's character just dropped in to a Tony Scott film.
#39
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - June 23, 2026, 09:35:51 PM
#40
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - June 23, 2026, 09:18:41 PMDespite deleting my fake profile on X several times, I keep reactivating it and messing with scammers. Currently the main one I am messing with is kind of impressing me in some ways. He or she is playing a much longer game than usual. We've been talking for over a week now and today is the first hint of the type of scam coming out. The biggest mistake they've done is using the name of somebody famous (well, within certain circles I guess). When I googled the name, it turned out to be a porn actress who is married with a child rather than the single and childless woman she claims to be. They've also went with someone older rather than the early 20s that most of the scammers tend to use.
Anyway, tonight she claimed to be in an accident. Her car is wrecked, she'll need a few weeks in the hospital, her insurance has expired, and she can't access the funds she has invested. As part of my equally fake background, I had already established that I am paying a huge medical bill myself, so I've been able to easily claim I can't help out or take on any more debt.
Anyway, they were doing the usual thing of trying to get me into an online relationship. I went along with it for a couple of days, but got bored and dumped her saying that we were just looking for different things, it wouldn't work out etc but I was happy to remain friends. There was a surprising level of argument put up there to try and get me to reconsider and I still get told she is in love with me and refers to me as darling all the time. She hasn't directly asked me for money, although there has been some dancing around the edges of it designed to get me to make an offer in that direction. They are also using a US phone number, although tracking things takes me to Nigeria. Not exactly hard to get a US number. I mean, my phone takes 2 sim cards and I have a stateside one for when I'm over there as well as my normal UK one.
Oh this one also has much better language skills than most of the type. Not perfect by any means, but an improvement on most.
Anyway, tonight she claimed to be in an accident. Her car is wrecked, she'll need a few weeks in the hospital, her insurance has expired, and she can't access the funds she has invested. As part of my equally fake background, I had already established that I am paying a huge medical bill myself, so I've been able to easily claim I can't help out or take on any more debt.
Anyway, they were doing the usual thing of trying to get me into an online relationship. I went along with it for a couple of days, but got bored and dumped her saying that we were just looking for different things, it wouldn't work out etc but I was happy to remain friends. There was a surprising level of argument put up there to try and get me to reconsider and I still get told she is in love with me and refers to me as darling all the time. She hasn't directly asked me for money, although there has been some dancing around the edges of it designed to get me to make an offer in that direction. They are also using a US phone number, although tracking things takes me to Nigeria. Not exactly hard to get a US number. I mean, my phone takes 2 sim cards and I have a stateside one for when I'm over there as well as my normal UK one.
Oh this one also has much better language skills than most of the type. Not perfect by any means, but an improvement on most.