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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - June 29, 2026, 01:17:07 AMQuote from: M.10rda on June 28, 2026, 11:07:41 AMJEANNE D'ARC [JOAN OF ARC] (1900):
We see major tableau from the life of Joan in wide-shot for about 45 seconds each on average. If you know the Joan mythos then you know what's goin' on but sans dialogue or close-ups you lose a lot of the drama of later renditions. Also there's one scene (the Siege of Orleans, I think) that commits one of my pet-peeve film-crimes - staging an epic battle w/ about 10 dudes, including a few who have to be recycled on the opposing side. However, the homemade quality of the sets is oddly charming (instead of off-putting) and the static staging of each tableau likewise predicts the self-conscious pageantry of Peter Greenaway or Roy Andersson (or Wes Anderson for that matter). That's kinda' cool.
It is my firm conviction that early movies drew heavily on the existing tableau vivant tradition. Mind you, I haven't actually tried to find out if this is really the case
#32
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - June 28, 2026, 10:16:36 PMI had this issue once
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Copilot also advised me to always start a new chat with "Generate Image of Theatrical Poster," and it worked.
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Copilot also advised me to always start a new chat with "Generate Image of Theatrical Poster," and it worked.
#33
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - June 28, 2026, 09:52:32 PMI asked Copilot:
1. They're stuck in a "contaminated chat"
This is by far the #1 cause.
Once a chat has:
generated a poster with certain visual elements
repeated a layout
hit a safety block
or produced a malformed image
...the model tends to reuse the same internal visual state, even if the user changes the prompt.
That results in:
no new posters
repeated compositions
or the model refusing to generate anything at all
People think Copilot is "down," but really the chat thread is corrupted.
The fix is simply to start a brand‑new chat, not reuse the old one.
2. They're hitting a silent safety block
Copilot sometimes:
refuses the request
but doesn't say why
and instead outputs nothing or a generic "unable to generate" message
This happens with:
religious horror
sexualized violence
real actors
real brands
political imagery
anything that looks like a real movie poster
Users often don't realize their prompt tripped a filter.
3. They're using a prompt that used to work but now triggers new rules
You've seen this yourself — prompts that worked in April suddenly behave differently in June.
Copilot's image model has been tightening:
text hallucination
real‑person likeness
gore
satanic symbolism
"prestige poster" formatting
If their prompt relied on older behavior, it may now fail silently.
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Some forum users don't realize:
the chat model can generate images
the image creator is a separate interface
and one can be updated while the other is not
If they're using the wrong entry point, it will look "down."
5. They're on a browser/device that cached a broken state
This is surprisingly common.
A bad cached script can cause:
the image button to disappear
the generation to hang
the output to fail
Refreshing or switching browsers fixes it instantly.
The phrasing — "down for me for about a week" — almost always means their chat thread is stuck in a bad generation loop, not that Copilot is globally broken.
If Copilot were actually down:
the forum would be flooded
multiple users would report it
other features would fail too
But only their posters are failing, which points to:
a corrupted chat + a prompt that now triggers safety.
If you want, I can help craft a clean, "reset‑safe" poster prompt that avoids the new filters
#34
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - June 28, 2026, 08:15:29 PM
Why do people recycle?
#36
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - June 28, 2026, 07:42:32 PMFRANKENSTEIN (1914):
You've almost certainly seen a still from this one - most likely the one famous still I and tons of other people saw and knew this film for, through the 20th century. IIRC that still was all that was known to survive for many years, and then at some point some amount of this film was recovered. Maybe what I watched (14 minutes) was all of it, but it's hard to tell as the story feels pretty truncated (more or less "complete", but highly simplified) and the famous, haunting, indelible aforementioned still doesn't actually appear in the movie.
That famous still is fuh-ire
and the Monster never looks as cool or scary in the extant 14 minutes - actually it looks kinda' lame much of the time........ but there are a couple cool things about this FRANKENSTEIN. One is the creation scene, which is unlike any I've seen in another Frank movie. It's clearly reversed footage of the upper-half of a puppet of the Monster burning up - and it looks quite "metal" (to quote a Letterboxd user). The other cool thing is how the director (J. Searle Dowley) uses a mirror in the film's final sequence. It's highly effective and it's not immediately clear how it was pulled off - which I appreciate in a primitive genre film! 3.5/5 Thomas Edison produced it.
You've almost certainly seen a still from this one - most likely the one famous still I and tons of other people saw and knew this film for, through the 20th century. IIRC that still was all that was known to survive for many years, and then at some point some amount of this film was recovered. Maybe what I watched (14 minutes) was all of it, but it's hard to tell as the story feels pretty truncated (more or less "complete", but highly simplified) and the famous, haunting, indelible aforementioned still doesn't actually appear in the movie.
That famous still is fuh-ire
and the Monster never looks as cool or scary in the extant 14 minutes - actually it looks kinda' lame much of the time........ but there are a couple cool things about this FRANKENSTEIN. One is the creation scene, which is unlike any I've seen in another Frank movie. It's clearly reversed footage of the upper-half of a puppet of the Monster burning up - and it looks quite "metal" (to quote a Letterboxd user). The other cool thing is how the director (J. Searle Dowley) uses a mirror in the film's final sequence. It's highly effective and it's not immediately clear how it was pulled off - which I appreciate in a primitive genre film! 3.5/5 Thomas Edison produced it. #37
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - June 28, 2026, 07:14:22 PMSUPERGIRL (2026) Caught this one in the theaters this afternoon with my wife. While it's not as positive and grin-inducing as James Gunn's SUPERMAN, it's a fun story that starts with Kara, Superman's Kryptonian cousin, out celebrating her 23rd birthday with a drinking binge on a red-star planet (alcohol on earth doesn't affect her). Suddenly she gets dragged into the revenge quest of 13-year-old Ruthye, whose parents and brother were murdered by a ruthless marauder named Krem. Kara doesn't really want to help out, but when Krem poisons Krypto, her mischievous Kryptonian dog, Supergirl is all in! Lots of great fight scenes, and Millie Alcock is both powerful and poignant as a girl who watched her planet die around her, only to find herself without a real home. Definitely worth the ticket price! 4.5/5
#38
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - June 28, 2026, 04:27:56 PMQuote from: claws on June 28, 2026, 11:54:58 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on June 28, 2026, 11:17:36 AMThat's a really nice looking one.
That's from ChatGPT, and they have been killing it the last few weeks. I usually give Copilot and ChatGPT the same prompt, and 4 out of 5 times ChatGPT just does a better job. They add little things that makes a huge difference. Copilot seems lazy and less creative most of the time. Also, Copilot still has a habit of writing gibberish text, something that annoys me to no end.
I'd say ChatGPT is a bit more edgy than Copilot.
copilot has been down for me for about a week now and is unable to generate new posters
anyone else having this issue
#39
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Jim H - June 28, 2026, 04:26:37 PMShadow's Edge - Jackie Chan's sort of return to form is what I'd heard about this. It's a remake of Eye in the Sky I gather, the 2007 Hong Kong film I'd heard of but never seen. Tony Leung Ka-Fai (for those not in know, there are two Tony Leungs in Hong Kong - the other one is in Shang Chi, Wong Kar Wai films, and Hard-Boiled) is in both, seemingly playing the same role. But this one is much more of an action vehicle.
It is... Reasonably entertaining, at times. Pretty good action scenes. Chan fights A LOT more in this than you might expect and is really putting in work, it's pretty impressive for a guy who is 70. It's not as impressive of moves as his older films, but hey.
The plot is basically about a gang of super robbers eluding the police via AI super hacking to cover up the footage in surveillance cameras, so Chan as an old school police expert is pulled out of retirement to formulate a new surveillance team to watch Macau. Oh, despite being set in Macau and all the characters being born there from what we know, the film is shot almost entirely in Mandarin and a bit of English, with just a few throwaway lines in Cantonese. This is basically like setting a film in Quebec and every Quebecois character spoke at their workplace and in private in English. I know why they do it (there are 15x as many Mandarin speakers as Cantonese), just a pet peeve of mine.
Tony Leung is also getting on at 68, and also fights a lot as the villain. Does a good job too, both in the fights and his performance. I do want to complain about the editing, the opening sequence is one of the most poorly edited action sequences I've ever seen in my life. It's just exhausting and awful, with cuts extremely frequent (I would guess many shots are literally in the 8-12 frame length) poorly chosen. Like so obnoxious I almost turned the film off. But it gets better as the film goes. Characterization is a bit thin, the film is kind of long too. But, was cool seeing Jackie in a role like this again, he's pretty good.... It's alright. Probably a 6/10.
It is... Reasonably entertaining, at times. Pretty good action scenes. Chan fights A LOT more in this than you might expect and is really putting in work, it's pretty impressive for a guy who is 70. It's not as impressive of moves as his older films, but hey.
The plot is basically about a gang of super robbers eluding the police via AI super hacking to cover up the footage in surveillance cameras, so Chan as an old school police expert is pulled out of retirement to formulate a new surveillance team to watch Macau. Oh, despite being set in Macau and all the characters being born there from what we know, the film is shot almost entirely in Mandarin and a bit of English, with just a few throwaway lines in Cantonese. This is basically like setting a film in Quebec and every Quebecois character spoke at their workplace and in private in English. I know why they do it (there are 15x as many Mandarin speakers as Cantonese), just a pet peeve of mine.
Tony Leung is also getting on at 68, and also fights a lot as the villain. Does a good job too, both in the fights and his performance. I do want to complain about the editing, the opening sequence is one of the most poorly edited action sequences I've ever seen in my life. It's just exhausting and awful, with cuts extremely frequent (I would guess many shots are literally in the 8-12 frame length) poorly chosen. Like so obnoxious I almost turned the film off. But it gets better as the film goes. Characterization is a bit thin, the film is kind of long too. But, was cool seeing Jackie in a role like this again, he's pretty good.... It's alright. Probably a 6/10.
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