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Weird News Stories / Re: don't mention the V-word.....
Last post by claws - Today at 03:19:08 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 03:11:41 AMI suppose a take away from this is that it's not the actual audible formation of the word itself which is offensive, because every time you say the word 'vinegar' you are literally saying that word, and yet nobody (at least nobody sane) bats an eyelid.
ditto every time you say the word 'country' you are technically turning the airwaves blue.
so ultimately all the controversy is 100% about the semantics behind words, rather than the actual words themselves.
maybe that's a very obvious and self evident point to make? feel like it often gets lost in all the surrounding commotion though....
The exhausting part is the current 'edge culture' that thrives on this exact technicality. There's a specific type of person who loves to play with phonetic proximity, using words like 'vinegar' with a metaphorical wink, just to see how close they can get to a slur without 'technically' crossing the line.
They treat language like a game of 'I'm not touching you,' pushing boundaries specifically to provoke a reaction, then retreating into 'it's just a word' when they get called out.
#2
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by claws - Today at 03:07:50 PMThis week we had three days of 10°C, followed by a couple of days below zero. My weather app is currently sending a "snow warning" message. Curious of how much snow we will get hit with.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 02:50:21 PM
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 02:06:36 PMSEND HELP (2026) - A mousy little executive from the Strategy and Planning department of a mega-corporation is stranded on a desert island with her uber-obnoxious millennial boss after their corporate jet explodes over the Pacific. Turns out she is a survival nut who had trained for years to be on SURVIVOR, and her skills keep them alive and fed - but egos clash as the boss continues to be a total jerk and her patience wears thin.
This one took some unexpected turns but was very enjoyable. 5/5
This one took some unexpected turns but was very enjoyable. 5/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - Today at 12:29:20 PMLast day at work, off to Glasgow to watch Avatar tomorrow night. I am not especially wanting to go. Although I like the group, I only bought tickets because Kristi said she liked them and I thought it would be a nice anniversary thing to do, but it turned out she'd mistaken them for Avantasia and does not like their music...
Listening to a play-through of a Call of Cthulhu campaign I've been thinking on running (Beyond the Mountains of Madness). They've gone off the rails a bit towards the end with a celestial sheep guiding the group (not something I recall from reading through the adventure). I prefer my cosmic horror without jokes myself.
Listening to a play-through of a Call of Cthulhu campaign I've been thinking on running (Beyond the Mountains of Madness). They've gone off the rails a bit towards the end with a celestial sheep guiding the group (not something I recall from reading through the adventure). I prefer my cosmic horror without jokes myself.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:06:27 PM
Rated R for "some brogue"
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:04:27 PMVery difficult to play off of, since we've already used "Mutiny" 3 times in a row, but here you go...
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 11:45:29 AM^ Hmm...
Continuing my journey through KRAZEE KIDZ VIDEO PARTY (only one film left to go after this!)
FUN IN BALLOON LAND: A boy dreams of fairy tale characters (who are mostly creepy parade balloons), then dreams he's watching a badly narrated and shot clips of a second-rate Thanksgiving parade, in this advertisement for a parade balloon company (?)/exercise in kiddie padding. The most interesting thing about FUN IN BALLOON LAND is trying to understand why it was made and how they hoped to make money off it, but it's reputation as an entertainingly bad/weird movie is---forgive me, but I have to say it---inflated. 1.5/5.
POLLY POCKETS: As woman with lots of pockets (many of which hold notices that a commercial is coming up) and her magician sidekick entertain kids with comedy sketches and serialized stories. This pilot for an unproduced kiddie show isn't badly made or exceptionally strange; its quality is above a locally-produced kids show, but it's clear that it's not a threat to replace "Bozo" or "Captain Kangaroo," much less the soon-to-come "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood." Only a little over 30 minutes. 2.5/5.
Continuing my journey through KRAZEE KIDZ VIDEO PARTY (only one film left to go after this!)
FUN IN BALLOON LAND: A boy dreams of fairy tale characters (who are mostly creepy parade balloons), then dreams he's watching a badly narrated and shot clips of a second-rate Thanksgiving parade, in this advertisement for a parade balloon company (?)/exercise in kiddie padding. The most interesting thing about FUN IN BALLOON LAND is trying to understand why it was made and how they hoped to make money off it, but it's reputation as an entertainingly bad/weird movie is---forgive me, but I have to say it---inflated. 1.5/5.
POLLY POCKETS: As woman with lots of pockets (many of which hold notices that a commercial is coming up) and her magician sidekick entertain kids with comedy sketches and serialized stories. This pilot for an unproduced kiddie show isn't badly made or exceptionally strange; its quality is above a locally-produced kids show, but it's clear that it's not a threat to replace "Bozo" or "Captain Kangaroo," much less the soon-to-come "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood." Only a little over 30 minutes. 2.5/5.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:03:37 AMI seem to think I've seen that BIG BAD WOLF ending... though maybe only in my nightmares! I thought my next review would be ghoulish and grotesque though it can't compare to your BBW review. But nevertheless:
EL HOMBRE BESTIA: LOS AVENTURAS DEL CAPITAN RICHARD (1934):
I'm-a' gonna' go ahead and spoil most of the onscreen action of this partially lost, only semi-coherent Argentinian adventure/thriller, as it's pretty obscure and also my attempts at a cogent synopsis may still misinterpret or misrepresent some plot points. The early exposition seems particularly fractured - there is some sync dialogue and also some intertitles, both in Spanish, and the auto-translate on Youtube helps w/ the former though not the latter. I know enough Spanish or Latin to get the basic gist of those intertitles, except that gist inherently makes no sense to me. And also the auto-subbed dialogue will sometimes last for 1.5 sentences and then cut off in the middle of a character's line as the assemblage lurches to a different scene.
So here goes:
Lindbergh/Earhardt-type celebrity pilot "Capitan Richard" defies sound advice and flies... somewhere remote. He crashes and can't fix his plane, so goes native and starts looking like Tarzan after a months-long Florida meth-bender. Yes, Capitan Richard has become "the Beast Man"! Another pilot takes off from civilization to search for him (?), lands in Beast-Man's general neighborhood, and instead of thanking him for a ride back to civilization, CR/Beast-Man beats up the second pilot and hijacks his plane (!), leaving the pilot behind and flying to Buenos Aires or wherever most of this movie is set. So, okay, Beast-Man retains enough intelligence and sanity to fly and land a plane (covertly)....... but once back in high society, he decides to shack up in a cave and make occasional trips into town, where he creeps up on unsuspecting women, scares them so much they pass out, and carries them back to his cave, where the Letterboxd synopsis claims
"he subjects them to atrocities". That may well be but alas the Youtube print includes no onscreen cavebound atrocities.
EL HOMBRE BESTIA's YT patch-job runs 35 minutes while Letterboxd cites the running time as 50m. Whether the YT copy is missing 15 minutes or more than that, it's unclear whether any amount of additional plot and dialogue would make the movie more sensible or more interesting/entertaining! After BM begins lady-snatching, the flick is just 20 minutes of dude creepin' on fainting ladies then punching and strangling a (long!) procession of men who chase and attack the BM, one at a time for his convenience. Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat! Although reviewers seem to classify EL HOMBRE BESTIA as an early "horror" film and its plot is inherently horrific, there are also elements that seem inescapably like intentional comedy, like a weird sequence where a guy pulls a handgun on his friend as a gag 
and while they're engaged in this ludicrous drama the Beast-Man is abducting one guy's girl, literally five feet away from them. I also haven't mentioned the mad scientist who likes giving Beast-Man injections (why?) and is sorely, rather improportionately non-plussed when his own wife finds out about it; or the abrupt hypnotist who finally helps in the scheme to rescue the kidnapped ladies. Or the nice doggo!
So yeah there are things clearly happening in this movie and if it was totally intact it might just play like a Bad Movie. However in its current discombobulated condition (amplified by surviving establishing shots and cutaways that appear to serve no purpose whatsoever, badly decomposed print quality, and erratic audio cut-ins and -outs), EL HOMBRE BESTIA takes on something of the appearance of ancient mystery and hermetic surrealism. The film is actually more fun and freakier if you lay back in bed and kind of half-dose through it and pretend you can comprehend none of its plot mechanics.
2.5/5
Actually you could probably announce to an auditorium full of 18 year old film school freshmen that you were going to show them UN CHIEN ANDALOU or L'AGE D'OR and then play this movie for them instead and they'd probably accept your deception passively. Actually they might enjoy EL HOMBRE BESTIA more than those Bunuel/Dali classics!
EL HOMBRE BESTIA: LOS AVENTURAS DEL CAPITAN RICHARD (1934):
I'm-a' gonna' go ahead and spoil most of the onscreen action of this partially lost, only semi-coherent Argentinian adventure/thriller, as it's pretty obscure and also my attempts at a cogent synopsis may still misinterpret or misrepresent some plot points. The early exposition seems particularly fractured - there is some sync dialogue and also some intertitles, both in Spanish, and the auto-translate on Youtube helps w/ the former though not the latter. I know enough Spanish or Latin to get the basic gist of those intertitles, except that gist inherently makes no sense to me. And also the auto-subbed dialogue will sometimes last for 1.5 sentences and then cut off in the middle of a character's line as the assemblage lurches to a different scene.
So here goes:Lindbergh/Earhardt-type celebrity pilot "Capitan Richard" defies sound advice and flies... somewhere remote. He crashes and can't fix his plane, so goes native and starts looking like Tarzan after a months-long Florida meth-bender. Yes, Capitan Richard has become "the Beast Man"! Another pilot takes off from civilization to search for him (?), lands in Beast-Man's general neighborhood, and instead of thanking him for a ride back to civilization, CR/Beast-Man beats up the second pilot and hijacks his plane (!), leaving the pilot behind and flying to Buenos Aires or wherever most of this movie is set. So, okay, Beast-Man retains enough intelligence and sanity to fly and land a plane (covertly)....... but once back in high society, he decides to shack up in a cave and make occasional trips into town, where he creeps up on unsuspecting women, scares them so much they pass out, and carries them back to his cave, where the Letterboxd synopsis claims
"he subjects them to atrocities". That may well be but alas the Youtube print includes no onscreen cavebound atrocities.
EL HOMBRE BESTIA's YT patch-job runs 35 minutes while Letterboxd cites the running time as 50m. Whether the YT copy is missing 15 minutes or more than that, it's unclear whether any amount of additional plot and dialogue would make the movie more sensible or more interesting/entertaining! After BM begins lady-snatching, the flick is just 20 minutes of dude creepin' on fainting ladies then punching and strangling a (long!) procession of men who chase and attack the BM, one at a time for his convenience.
Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat! Although reviewers seem to classify EL HOMBRE BESTIA as an early "horror" film and its plot is inherently horrific, there are also elements that seem inescapably like intentional comedy, like a weird sequence where a guy pulls a handgun on his friend as a gag and while they're engaged in this ludicrous drama the Beast-Man is abducting one guy's girl, literally five feet away from them. I also haven't mentioned the mad scientist who likes giving Beast-Man injections (why?) and is sorely, rather improportionately non-plussed when his own wife finds out about it; or the abrupt hypnotist who finally helps in the scheme to rescue the kidnapped ladies. Or the nice doggo!So yeah there are things clearly happening in this movie and if it was totally intact it might just play like a Bad Movie. However in its current discombobulated condition (amplified by surviving establishing shots and cutaways that appear to serve no purpose whatsoever, badly decomposed print quality, and erratic audio cut-ins and -outs), EL HOMBRE BESTIA takes on something of the appearance of ancient mystery and hermetic surrealism. The film is actually more fun and freakier if you lay back in bed and kind of half-dose through it and pretend you can comprehend none of its plot mechanics.
2.5/5
Actually you could probably announce to an auditorium full of 18 year old film school freshmen that you were going to show them UN CHIEN ANDALOU or L'AGE D'OR and then play this movie for them instead and they'd probably accept your deception passively. Actually they might enjoy EL HOMBRE BESTIA more than those Bunuel/Dali classics!