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#51
Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 06, 2025, 10:28:04 PM
Made another cake. This time the layer cakes all turned out perfect, but I didn't make quite enough frosting.
#52
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - December 06, 2025, 10:04:38 PMTonight's Stinker
Rocket Attack U.S.A.(1960)
https://youtu.be/rysX2mJmveA?si=UED4GmPkLAguw4IF
The Soviets have launched a new Sputnik, so the U.S. military sends a spy to Moscow to see what's up....
Upon arrival, he learns his contact is a woman who's started an affaire with a top ranking Soviet minister, and that they have all the research data they need to start work on an ICBM....
Meanwhile, American attempts to get a missile up fail, so the only option is for the American spy to sabotage the Russian missile....
Cold war & space race exploitation....
About an hour, with mostly a narrator talking over stock footage...
The acting is mostly stiff, with most of the scenes over dubbed, while some recite their lines as if they only just saw the script, a second ago.....
Meanders for the first half, then switches directions.....
Rocket Attack U.S.A.(1960)
https://youtu.be/rysX2mJmveA?si=UED4GmPkLAguw4IF
The Soviets have launched a new Sputnik, so the U.S. military sends a spy to Moscow to see what's up....
Upon arrival, he learns his contact is a woman who's started an affaire with a top ranking Soviet minister, and that they have all the research data they need to start work on an ICBM....
Meanwhile, American attempts to get a missile up fail, so the only option is for the American spy to sabotage the Russian missile....
Cold war & space race exploitation....
About an hour, with mostly a narrator talking over stock footage...
The acting is mostly stiff, with most of the scenes over dubbed, while some recite their lines as if they only just saw the script, a second ago.....
Meanders for the first half, then switches directions.....
#53
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - December 06, 2025, 08:27:52 PMEye Wide Wide Shut (1999) - I hadn't seen this in a very long time and am not sure I ever actually saw it because I really didn't remember anything. Very strange movie.
The first half was like a particularly pretentious skinemax offering, like the one where the lady and the Chippendale's looking vampire dude walk and talk around LA for 2 hours. The plot is begging for an Adrian Lynne/ soap opera approach, but Kubrick makes it more like an actual opera. Nicole Kidman talks in huge monologues while Cruise is reduced to hundreds of these little clipped statements.
The shift comes in the infamous weird elite orgy scene, which is really startling and well done. That said, the film is not actually very ambitious. It's mostly just trying to say that going outside of marriage for sexual gratification leads to peril. Not exactly rocket science and Kidman and Cruise actually seem like they are being portrayed as open to that kind of thing, so I didn't get that Cruise was doing anything overtly unusual until I was piecing it all together and reading about it later.
That said, I watched the full 2 plus hours in one night. Much respect to the wardrobe/ camera operating department for somehow making Tom Cruise appear to be of similar height to Nicole Kidman. Kind of random, but it reminded me of several decades ago when Dogfish brewery made a "fancy" malt liquor 40 ounce using high quality ingredients instead of extremely cheap ones just kind of as a joke.
4/5
The first half was like a particularly pretentious skinemax offering, like the one where the lady and the Chippendale's looking vampire dude walk and talk around LA for 2 hours. The plot is begging for an Adrian Lynne/ soap opera approach, but Kubrick makes it more like an actual opera. Nicole Kidman talks in huge monologues while Cruise is reduced to hundreds of these little clipped statements.
The shift comes in the infamous weird elite orgy scene, which is really startling and well done. That said, the film is not actually very ambitious. It's mostly just trying to say that going outside of marriage for sexual gratification leads to peril. Not exactly rocket science and Kidman and Cruise actually seem like they are being portrayed as open to that kind of thing, so I didn't get that Cruise was doing anything overtly unusual until I was piecing it all together and reading about it later.
That said, I watched the full 2 plus hours in one night. Much respect to the wardrobe/ camera operating department for somehow making Tom Cruise appear to be of similar height to Nicole Kidman. Kind of random, but it reminded me of several decades ago when Dogfish brewery made a "fancy" malt liquor 40 ounce using high quality ingredients instead of extremely cheap ones just kind of as a joke.
4/5
#54
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - December 06, 2025, 05:36:29 PMcopilot
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#55
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 06, 2025, 12:52:39 PM
#56
Bad Movies / Re: The Ultimate So Bad It's G...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 06, 2025, 12:05:50 PMAdd Glen or Glenda (1953)
^Gymkata
^Reefer Madness
10 Atomic Submarine, The (1959)
10 Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
10 Batman & Robin (1997)
10 Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955)
10 Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)
10 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
10 Dragon Lives Again, The (1977)
11 Fatal Deviation (1998)
10 Glen or Glenda? (1953)
11 Gymkata (1985)
11 Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
10 Hobgoblins (1988)
11 Howling Part 7: New Moon Rising, The (1995)
10 Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)
10 Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954)
10 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
10 Message from Space (1978)
10 Miami Connection (1987)
10 Mitchell (1975)
11 No Holds Barred (1989)
12 Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
10 Protector, The (1985)
11 Reefer Madness (1936)
10 Return of the Family Man (1990)
10 Robo Vampire (1988)
10 Robot Monster (1953)
11 Room, The (2003)
10 Samurai Cop (1991)
10 Santa Claus (1959)
10 Scanners 3: The Takeover (1992)
10 Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
11 Showgirls (1995)
11 Space Mutiny (1988)
10 Starcrash (1978)
11 Troll 2 (1990)
10 Wicker Man, The (2006)
10 Zardoz (1974)
Plan 9 leads the pack with 12 and there are ten movies tied at 11.
^Gymkata
^Reefer Madness
10 Atomic Submarine, The (1959)
10 Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
10 Batman & Robin (1997)
10 Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955)
10 Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)
10 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
10 Dragon Lives Again, The (1977)
11 Fatal Deviation (1998)
10 Glen or Glenda? (1953)
11 Gymkata (1985)
11 Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
10 Hobgoblins (1988)
11 Howling Part 7: New Moon Rising, The (1995)
10 Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)
10 Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954)
10 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
10 Message from Space (1978)
10 Miami Connection (1987)
10 Mitchell (1975)
11 No Holds Barred (1989)
12 Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
10 Protector, The (1985)
11 Reefer Madness (1936)
10 Return of the Family Man (1990)
10 Robo Vampire (1988)
10 Robot Monster (1953)
11 Room, The (2003)
10 Samurai Cop (1991)
10 Santa Claus (1959)
10 Scanners 3: The Takeover (1992)
10 Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
11 Showgirls (1995)
11 Space Mutiny (1988)
10 Starcrash (1978)
11 Troll 2 (1990)
10 Wicker Man, The (2006)
10 Zardoz (1974)
Plan 9 leads the pack with 12 and there are ten movies tied at 11.
#57
Bad Movies / Re: The Ultimate So Bad It's G...
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 06, 2025, 11:57:38 AMQuote from: chainsaw midget on December 06, 2025, 04:52:35 AMBefore I contribute, just one quick question?
Should we keep the list in alphabetical order or list the movies by ranking?
I was keeping them in alphabetical order to make it easier to find a movie you're looking for. I'll also highlight the top ones. Then if this goes long enough to get separation between the titles, we can have a top 25 list. See next post.
#58
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - December 06, 2025, 11:46:33 AMcopilot
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#59
Bad Movies / Re: Movies you would love to s...
Last post by bob - December 06, 2025, 11:42:59 AMBirdemic: Shock and Terror
#60
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - December 06, 2025, 07:56:42 AMDOS MONJES aka TWO MONKS (1934):
Here's a film that has developed a little cult following in recent times and exemplifies much of what I find alluring about early talkies and a ton of what I despise about many films of the era. It could have been a masterpiece, but manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Early on, two young-ish monks have a face-to-face reunion after a long parting. Almost nothing is said - instead they enter a fraught embrace that initially looks like they might make out, violently! But quickly real violence occurs, and it's legitimately shocking for a 1934 film.
Why the heck did this happen?! The film then enters a lengthy flashback to their younger adulthood. The murderous monk was a sensitive musician, his would-be victim was his globe-trotting playboy best friend. There are women involved in their relationship. Very little is ever said (or at least very little of concrete substance) while we watch this very off-kilter dynamic develop and eventually devolve. All of this action and post facto exposition happens against gloriously expressionist backgrounds, with deep contrast lighting, like from CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI or Ulmer's BLACK CAT. Because the screenplay provides so little clear evidence for interpretation, the viewer's mind fills in the blanks: it's confusing to be a sensitive young musician in Mexico in the early 1900s and to unravel your ambivalent feelings about girls and your powerful attachment to your very handsome and charismatic buddy. It makes perfect sense that the lead would compress all those unprocessed emotions into a highly pressurized explosive package somewhere deep in his gut and then go join a monastery. Heck, you could turn the volume down altogether on this one and still Get The Picture perfectly from the visual compositions and performances. For a long while, the film appears brilliant.
Unfortunately, the director of DOS MONJES is Juan Bustillo Oro, who also made the early 50s THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE. That later visually evocative thriller helplessly blows its "twist" ending by allowing a psychoanalyst to spend two-thirds of the film setting it up for the presumably moronic viewer. DOS MONJES fatally suffers the same affliction, though (for better or maybe worse) in its final act. Oro doubles back and assures us (for a good twenty minutes of dense dialogue scenes) that the schism was entirely about a girl!
So #nohomo, everybody! 
Maybe the producers or Mexico's own Hayes Code or something forced Oro's hand? Obviously I don't buy the denouement's heteronormative protestations. In fact the (mostly wordless) final scene is a full-scale symbolic freak-out that entirely reinforces the prominent themes of repression and gay panic. But the damage has been done - by insisting on talking too much, Oro ruins what could have been one of the greatest films of the 30s.
It's still worth watching with the sound off, I guess!
3.5/5
Like R.S. Fred said: Don't Talk, Just Kiss.
Here's a film that has developed a little cult following in recent times and exemplifies much of what I find alluring about early talkies and a ton of what I despise about many films of the era. It could have been a masterpiece, but manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Early on, two young-ish monks have a face-to-face reunion after a long parting. Almost nothing is said - instead they enter a fraught embrace that initially looks like they might make out, violently! But quickly real violence occurs, and it's legitimately shocking for a 1934 film.
Why the heck did this happen?! The film then enters a lengthy flashback to their younger adulthood. The murderous monk was a sensitive musician, his would-be victim was his globe-trotting playboy best friend. There are women involved in their relationship. Very little is ever said (or at least very little of concrete substance) while we watch this very off-kilter dynamic develop and eventually devolve. All of this action and post facto exposition happens against gloriously expressionist backgrounds, with deep contrast lighting, like from CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI or Ulmer's BLACK CAT. Because the screenplay provides so little clear evidence for interpretation, the viewer's mind fills in the blanks: it's confusing to be a sensitive young musician in Mexico in the early 1900s and to unravel your ambivalent feelings about girls and your powerful attachment to your very handsome and charismatic buddy. It makes perfect sense that the lead would compress all those unprocessed emotions into a highly pressurized explosive package somewhere deep in his gut and then go join a monastery. Heck, you could turn the volume down altogether on this one and still Get The Picture perfectly from the visual compositions and performances. For a long while, the film appears brilliant.
Unfortunately, the director of DOS MONJES is Juan Bustillo Oro, who also made the early 50s THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE. That later visually evocative thriller helplessly blows its "twist" ending by allowing a psychoanalyst to spend two-thirds of the film setting it up for the presumably moronic viewer. DOS MONJES fatally suffers the same affliction, though (for better or maybe worse) in its final act. Oro doubles back and assures us (for a good twenty minutes of dense dialogue scenes) that the schism was entirely about a girl!
So #nohomo, everybody! Maybe the producers or Mexico's own Hayes Code or something forced Oro's hand? Obviously I don't buy the denouement's heteronormative protestations. In fact the (mostly wordless) final scene is a full-scale symbolic freak-out that entirely reinforces the prominent themes of repression and gay panic. But the damage has been done - by insisting on talking too much, Oro ruins what could have been one of the greatest films of the 30s.
It's still worth watching with the sound off, I guess!
3.5/5
Like R.S. Fred said: Don't Talk, Just Kiss.