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#41
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 10:04:20 AMANYBODY'S WOMAN aka THE BETTER WIFE? (1930):
This was part one of a recent Ruth Chatterton double feature. It's so early in the Sound era that it often looks and sounds like an ancient transmission from another dimension or something. Some of the dialogue is a little hard to decipher at times but most is coherent and dated and sometimes clever and mostly ideologically outre.
A millionaire who is also a profound alcoholic sits around a hotel room bemoaning that his wife just left him for a much wealthier man. He and his buddy grow aware of two cute dames in the hotel room directly across from theirs and invite them over to party with them. One of them is depressed, demoralized-by-men Chatterton, and even though the millionaire is an even more depressed (and depressing) sloppy drunk, this is a pre-code "comedy", so in no time he and Chatterton are hitched. (He actually wakes up from the bender and doesn't even realize he's said 'I Do'...)
Hungarian Paul Lukas plays the millionaire's attorney (or something) who falls in love w/ Chatterton and is really nice to her. Lukas' performance is pretty decent/charming but his accent just makes me wish his character was played by Bela Lugosi, who was probably more dashing circa '30 than Lukas. Clive Brook plays the millionaire in the most broad way imaginable and in spite of his serious dependency on liquor I couldn't feel much sympathy or warmth for him. This makes the sincere yet rather counterintuitive denouement come off as entirely tone deaf... like PRETTY IN PINK/SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL ending tone deaf, but probably worse.
A'S W/TBW? was written by two women (though adapted from a novel by a man) and directed by a woman, but it still stinks a bit of early 30s misogyny and unenlightened attitudes about women. (Maybe the distaff authors just couldn't overcome the source material or the era they lived within.) Chatterton is sharp at comedy and formidable at drama, but the material is mostly too glib to be earnest and too bleak to be funny. (I did laugh once at an early Chatterton line.)
2.5/5 Other reviewers have acknowledged director Dorothy Arzner's uncertain tone here. Arzner was likely the primary inspiration for "Ruth Adler", the character played (very well) by Olivia Hamilton in her husband Damien Chazelle's 2022 film BABYLON. I wish I could find a better Dorothy Arzner movie than this one to watch.
This was part one of a recent Ruth Chatterton double feature. It's so early in the Sound era that it often looks and sounds like an ancient transmission from another dimension or something. Some of the dialogue is a little hard to decipher at times but most is coherent and dated and sometimes clever and mostly ideologically outre.
A millionaire who is also a profound alcoholic sits around a hotel room bemoaning that his wife just left him for a much wealthier man. He and his buddy grow aware of two cute dames in the hotel room directly across from theirs and invite them over to party with them. One of them is depressed, demoralized-by-men Chatterton, and even though the millionaire is an even more depressed (and depressing) sloppy drunk, this is a pre-code "comedy", so in no time he and Chatterton are hitched. (He actually wakes up from the bender and doesn't even realize he's said 'I Do'...)
Hungarian Paul Lukas plays the millionaire's attorney (or something) who falls in love w/ Chatterton and is really nice to her. Lukas' performance is pretty decent/charming but his accent just makes me wish his character was played by Bela Lugosi, who was probably more dashing circa '30 than Lukas. Clive Brook plays the millionaire in the most broad way imaginable and in spite of his serious dependency on liquor I couldn't feel much sympathy or warmth for him. This makes the sincere yet rather counterintuitive denouement come off as entirely tone deaf... like PRETTY IN PINK/SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL ending tone deaf, but probably worse.
A'S W/TBW? was written by two women (though adapted from a novel by a man) and directed by a woman, but it still stinks a bit of early 30s misogyny and unenlightened attitudes about women. (Maybe the distaff authors just couldn't overcome the source material or the era they lived within.) Chatterton is sharp at comedy and formidable at drama, but the material is mostly too glib to be earnest and too bleak to be funny. (I did laugh once at an early Chatterton line.)
2.5/5 Other reviewers have acknowledged director Dorothy Arzner's uncertain tone here. Arzner was likely the primary inspiration for "Ruth Adler", the character played (very well) by Olivia Hamilton in her husband Damien Chazelle's 2022 film BABYLON. I wish I could find a better Dorothy Arzner movie than this one to watch.
#42
Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 09:15:19 AMWell, THE PHANTOM MENACE is pretty good. 
Of course the best bits are borrowed 
from Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score to AKIRA........
Of course the best bits are borrowed from Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score to AKIRA........ #43
Bad Movies / Bad movies with great scores?
Last post by Trevor - March 06, 2026, 08:40:34 AMI nominate SUNDOWN THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT with its' wonderful score.
#44
Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by M.10rda - March 06, 2026, 08:31:58 AMSounds like a video game to me! I am insufficiently smart for real strategy games... I loved JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 back in the 90s for its combat, but as soon as mutant bugs began infesting my mines if I left them unattended for long, I was cooked!
#45
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Alex - March 06, 2026, 07:39:02 AMBased on his actions, I have to say I think there has been a slight mispelling. When trump created his Board of Peace, what he meant to have was a Bored of Peace group.
#46
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by indianasmith - March 06, 2026, 06:57:30 AMKristi Noem is Kristi Noemore.
#47
Off Topic Discussion / Re: I spoke with my archivist ...
Last post by Trevor - March 06, 2026, 05:03:18 AMQuote from: Zapranoth on March 05, 2026, 11:43:50 PMY'all could watch Space Mutiny in her honor.
(I am sorry for your loss, bad movies friend of many years.)
Maybe Operation Delta Force would be better.
Brother Zap, welcome back 🙏🤗🤗
Brenda would be the first person to laugh at what you wrote there 😆
She was my friend, mentor, advisor, encourager and occasional butt kicker as she was also my boss at work.
The last time we spoke was fittingly in a cinema when I was about to watch Jaws for the first time in a cinema.
I genuinely miss her. ❤️🌹❤️
Thank you for your nice words 🙏🤗❤️🐢
#48
Off Topic Discussion / Re: I spoke with my archivist ...
Last post by Zapranoth - March 05, 2026, 11:43:50 PMY'all could watch Space Mutiny in her honor.
(I am sorry for your loss, bad movies friend of many years.)
Maybe Operation Delta Force would be better.
(I am sorry for your loss, bad movies friend of many years.)
Maybe Operation Delta Force would be better.
#49
Bad Movies / Re: How many of these Dracula'...
Last post by chainsaw midget - March 05, 2026, 11:11:22 PM
A1 is the Dracula who fought the Superfriends
A10 is the Dracula that fought Superman once
A1 Superfriends Dracula
A2
A3
A4
A5 Count Duckula
A6 Republican Dracula from "The Simpsons"
A7 John Carradine
A8
A9 Count Chockula
A10 Dracula who fought Superman once
B1
B2
B3 Nicolas Cage
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9
B10
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D8
D9
D10
E1
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8 "Batman vs Dracula"
E9
E10
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5 Zhang Wei-Qiang from "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" (OK, not an easy one)
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10 "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night"
G1 Leslie Nielsen
G2
G3
G4
G5 Gary Oldman
G6
G7
G8 "The Count" from Captain N: the Game Master
G9
G10
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7 George Hamilton
H8 Klaus Kisnki
H9 Louis Jourdan
H10
I1
I2 David Niven
I3
I4 Udo Kier
I5 Jack Palance
I6
I7
I8 Zandor Vorkov
I9
I10
J1
J2
J3 Christopher Lee
J4
J5
J6
J7
J8 Jim Ward
J9 Bela Lugosi
J10 Max Schreck
#50
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - March 05, 2026, 10:37:51 PM