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Weird News Stories / Re: Arachnid Cave Megacity

Last post by Trevor - Today at 11:06:32 AM

That is over 100,000 spiders in cave, feeding on locally growing insects, all cut off from the outside world. If that is not an idea for a movie, I don't know what is.

https://www.sciencealert.com/arachnid-megacity-discovered-in-cave-may-be-worlds-largest-spider-web

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#2

Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?

Last post by Trevor - Today at 11:05:35 AM

I made more chiles rellenos, but this time I stuffed them with crab, onion, corn, and Cajun spices. Really good. The crab stuffing on its own makes a great dip and it will be my contribution to Thanksgiving dinner.

Also made a coconut cake that didn't quite turn out as planned (it was supposed to be a layer cake but the otehr 2 layers didn't come out right.) Still perfectly tasty as a 1-layer cake:

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:48:18 AM

I made more chiles rellenos, but this time I stuffed them with crab, onion, corn, and Cajun spices. Really good. The crab stuffing on its own makes a great dip and it will be my contribution to Thanksgiving dinner.

Also made a coconut cake that didn't quite turn out as planned (it was supposed to be a layer cake but the otehr 2 layers didn't come out right.) Still perfectly tasty as a 1-layer cake:

#4

Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:58:55 AM

Where's a nice place to take a walk?

#5

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:56:10 AM

I seem to remember Co-pilot wouldn't create anything for me with "Pimp" in the title.

#6

Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:52:40 AM

Return to Yucca Flats: Desert Man-Beast (2010)

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

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:49:07 AM

It's got a Nick Drake quality to it.

#8

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:43:33 AM

Tonight's Stinker
The American Astronaut (2001)
https://youtu.be/aWY3NGCnZao?si=GUeAcbRAc7FIwdNT
Or at https://youtu.be/COxhvqWWxSU?si=n-PbI494lqm96rue


Artsy black & white, with lots of insider jokes and impromptu musical numbers from indy artists one might expect from a Penelope Spheeris film....
Pretty weird, but watchable.........

That's no stinker! Belongs in the good movies section. I've got an interview with the director if you're interested: https://youtu.be/fa0Ss48p2f0?si=J8JekDuyyVeTxk-3

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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by bob - Today at 08:23:17 AM

copilot





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#10

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Trevor - Today at 06:11:21 AM

Contrarian that I am, I like SHOCK TREATMENT just as much as ROCKY HORROR (a lot). Granted it is another hermetically sealed cinematic universe full of its own signs and signifiers that Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman understood and were indifferent about viewers understanding. My autistic teenage brain was fascinated, deeply engrossed, even though I was surrounded with peers who insisted ROCKY HORROR was terrible (if entertaining). I remain fascinated and engrossed. These are entire features set in the Red Room of the Black Lodge, where standard logic and linguistics fail to suffice and one just has to make correlative connections to keep grooving.

About 5-ish years ago I watched THE NIGHT, THE PROWLER - another Sharman feature not in the ROCKY-verse. It is an arthouse drama, not a camp musical, but narratively it plays by the same rules as RHPS and ST. So Sharman didn't make these films accidentally - this is how he wanted to make 'em.

Also, about two years ago, Richard O'Brien finally disclosed in an interview something I'd always suspected yet couldn't convince anyone else of - that Frank N. Furter was in fact the antagonist, based on his conservative, repressive, hypocritical, control-freak mother. That  tiny key alone helps unlock some of the mysteries of these films... certainly it puts Riff Raff's nervous breakdown ("They didn't like me - they never liked me!") in a new light.

ROCKY HORROR was banned here after one person complained to the apartheid censor board 😔