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#61
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - March 24, 2026, 10:37:12 AMDon't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
#62
Off Topic Discussion / Re: YouTube have messed up aga...
Last post by claws - March 24, 2026, 10:33:52 AMQuoteThere have been widespread reports in early 2026 of a "vanishing act" where users cannot see their comment history or video descriptions.
The Reality: YouTube has not officially removed the ability to view comment history. You can still technically find it under Google My Activity > Other Activity > YouTube Comments.
The Problem: A persistent bug (often linked to ad-blocker detection or server-side updates) has been causing the "Comments" and "About" sections to fail to load for many users across Chrome, Edge, and Brave. To a user, it looks like the feature is gone, but it's usually just broken.
#63
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 24, 2026, 10:17:14 AMSUDDEN FURY (1975):
A guy who looks like a budget Donald Sutherland or an even more punchable Jeffrey Jones loses all his money in a bad business deal and can't fathom having to tell his wife, so he takes her on a long drive in the provincial countryside where he plans to murder her and almost does in a drawn-out yet reasonably tense sequence. He spares her, though, and they keep driving around until he gets road-rage at another Sunday driver who looks like a mildly tough John Oates. Their brinksmanship escalates into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse up and down a country road, down a ravine, and all over the property of an unsuspecting farmer and his wife. That may sound promising - it's also deeply frustrating and ultimately hugely disappointing.
This was somehow nominated for the Canadian version of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1975. (I don't know what else was nominated but the winner was THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ.) Many reviews on Letterboxd consider it a lost gem. Often Badness is subjective and I admit I was riding the fence for much of the length of SUDDEN FURY. Some moments are nicely handled though a lot of the beats are perfunctory and could have been executed in far more thoughtful or effective ways. Its escalating action is a textbook Idiot Plot, in that every character behaves illogically and makes the worst possible choice at every turn in order for the plot to proceed. I realize this was probably very much by design of the writer/director, who seems at times to be gesturing to some larger statement about human fallibility and our worst primal instincts. It's even possible that the filmmaker intended SUDDEN FURY as a commentary on Vietnam, similar to 1973's CAGED TERROR aka GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, also Canadian and a film that functions (or fails to function) counter-intuitively in all ways.
In SUDDEN FURY's case, though, it's impossible to tell what the first-time filmmaker was intending, which isn't a boon to their craft. (They never made another film, award nominations notwithstanding.) If you really squint at the film's final five minutes, I suppose you could see an incredibly daring and quietly profound subversion of narrative expectation and auteurial morality, like something Michael Haneke would do at the end of one of his films. But I tried to squint and I still couldn't see it and instead I just wanted to put my fist through my widescreen TV. It's a lot easier to imagine the MST3K crew moaning in torment through this very slow, taxing, sometimes clumsy movie and then getting to the end and hollering bloody murder. Sometimes even in the contest of man and steer the issue is not certain, but finally in the contest of "Underappreciated Rare Indie Gem" and "Amateurish Horse$#!t", I am confident in my finding.
1.5/5 Even the film's admirers on Letterboxd admit the ending is pretty dumb.
A guy who looks like a budget Donald Sutherland or an even more punchable Jeffrey Jones loses all his money in a bad business deal and can't fathom having to tell his wife, so he takes her on a long drive in the provincial countryside where he plans to murder her and almost does in a drawn-out yet reasonably tense sequence. He spares her, though, and they keep driving around until he gets road-rage at another Sunday driver who looks like a mildly tough John Oates. Their brinksmanship escalates into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse up and down a country road, down a ravine, and all over the property of an unsuspecting farmer and his wife. That may sound promising - it's also deeply frustrating and ultimately hugely disappointing.
This was somehow nominated for the Canadian version of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1975. (I don't know what else was nominated but the winner was THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ.) Many reviews on Letterboxd consider it a lost gem. Often Badness is subjective and I admit I was riding the fence for much of the length of SUDDEN FURY. Some moments are nicely handled though a lot of the beats are perfunctory and could have been executed in far more thoughtful or effective ways. Its escalating action is a textbook Idiot Plot, in that every character behaves illogically and makes the worst possible choice at every turn in order for the plot to proceed. I realize this was probably very much by design of the writer/director, who seems at times to be gesturing to some larger statement about human fallibility and our worst primal instincts. It's even possible that the filmmaker intended SUDDEN FURY as a commentary on Vietnam, similar to 1973's CAGED TERROR aka GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, also Canadian and a film that functions (or fails to function) counter-intuitively in all ways.
In SUDDEN FURY's case, though, it's impossible to tell what the first-time filmmaker was intending, which isn't a boon to their craft. (They never made another film, award nominations notwithstanding.) If you really squint at the film's final five minutes, I suppose you could see an incredibly daring and quietly profound subversion of narrative expectation and auteurial morality, like something Michael Haneke would do at the end of one of his films. But I tried to squint and I still couldn't see it and instead I just wanted to put my fist through my widescreen TV. It's a lot easier to imagine the MST3K crew moaning in torment through this very slow, taxing, sometimes clumsy movie and then getting to the end and hollering bloody murder. Sometimes even in the contest of man and steer the issue is not certain, but finally in the contest of "Underappreciated Rare Indie Gem" and "Amateurish Horse$#!t", I am confident in my finding.
1.5/5 Even the film's admirers on Letterboxd admit the ending is pretty dumb.
#66
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 09:32:08 AM
#67
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 09:30:14 AM
Is there a way to turn back the clock?
#68
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 09:03:59 AM
"Tirakat" by Ali & Charif Megarbane. Loved Charif's album from last year; this time around he collaborates with an Indonesian band on his psychedelic library music, and it might be just as good.
#69
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 08:49:49 AMSherlock Jr. (1924): A film projectionist who wants to be a detective falls asleep and imagines himself entering the movie onscreen, where he's a famous sleuth. Classic slapstick gags, inventive illusions, trick pool shots, and unwise death-defying stunts from Buster Keaton fill this charming and innovative short feature. Finally got this silent classic under my belt. 4.5/5.
#70
Off Topic Discussion / Re: YouTube have messed up aga...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 24, 2026, 08:12:47 AMI can see my comment history. Maybe they just moved it? On my YouTube page there is a pane to the left with a heading called "Subscriptions" then below that a heading called "You." Under "You" is a subsection "History." Hit that and a pane opens to the right. Go to "Manage History" then "Comments" and there they are.