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#31

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...

Last post by LilCerberus - March 13, 2026, 04:14:35 PM

If I hear the words Straits of Hormuz one more time, I'm gonna scream. and I'm gonna hear it a lot more times

I keep thinking the talking heads are calling The Strait Of Vermouth.....

#32

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...

Last post by lester1/2jr - March 13, 2026, 04:07:19 PM

If I hear the words Straits of Hormuz one more time, I'm gonna scream. and I'm gonna hear it a lot more times

#33

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by lester1/2jr - March 13, 2026, 04:01:38 PM

Coma (1978) - I saw this around 30 years and I think it was actually on the PBS station in Boston. The idea that it was sort of intellectual because of that colored my view of it as being really awesome, but it's actually just a really pretty good conspiracy movie, not something on the level of, say, The BBC's "The Lathe of Heaven". I also remembered it well enough that it kind of made the viewing superfluous, but I enjoyed it anyway. It takes place in Boston so that's probably why they ran it. If you like Michael Douglas movies, this is certainly an excellent example of one.

A headstrong female doctor loses her best friend to an anesthesia error. She discovers there have recently been what she thinks is an abnormal number of these incidents. Is something dastardly, possibly even perpetuated by Dick Dastardly, afoot? Or is she just a nutty lady who should be at home baking instead of spazzing out around the busy hospital and melting down in the cafeteria?

Michael Crichton did the screenplay and directs. Some of the overhearing things and amazing luck are kind of dated, but it works very well, end to end. The fugly ass medical building they occasionally visit evokes our North Korea esque City Hall and similar "urban renewal" aesthetic disasters, though I've never actually seen that particular one. Watched on Plex, which seemed like it had more ads than Tubi, but I could be wrong. I'd buy the Hell out ad free tubi, but it doesn't exist.

4.75/ 5

#34

Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...

Last post by Rev. Powell - March 13, 2026, 03:59:57 PM

There were so many great Italian composers wandering around in the late 60s and 70s you almost couldn't help but get a great soundtrack for your bad movie.

https://youtu.be/sHMhwBK1YYI?si=rFboKCg1IU_jxc3E

Nico Fidenco, Black Emanuelle

https://youtu.be/GCYndZn6wuk?si=zw1WhQvANq7fnFKA

Riz Ortoliani, Cannibal Holocaust

#35

Bad Movies / Re: have I bought a bad movie ...

Last post by pacman000 - March 13, 2026, 03:17:17 PM

That sounds like the beginning of a creepypasta.

Good on claws, chainsaw for finding the info!

#36

Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...

Last post by pacman000 - March 13, 2026, 03:10:54 PM

Message from Space
Battle Beyond the Stars
Krull

#37

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...

Last post by LilCerberus - March 13, 2026, 02:11:11 PM

[DAVID BOWIE Hunky Dory]

#38

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Allhallowsday - March 13, 2026, 02:05:38 PM

DAVID BOWIE Hunky Dory

#39

Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...

Last post by Rev. Powell - March 13, 2026, 01:57:09 PM

"The Ends of Power" by H.R. Haldeman. I didn't really get it at the time.

Is that the Watergate H R Haldeman, Rev? 🤔

Yes. Don't know why I picked it out at the library. I was probably about 10.

#40

Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...

Last post by Trevor - March 13, 2026, 01:33:12 PM

"The Ends of Power" by H.R. Haldeman. I didn't really get it at the time.

Is that the Watergate H R Haldeman, Rev? 🤔