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Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by pacman000 - Today at 07:50:46 PM102) The Alamo (1960)
Tho I'm not sure the 3+ hour version still exists.
Tho I'm not sure the 3+ hour version still exists.
#2
Good Movies / Re: Films you are unable to wa...
Last post by pacman000 - Today at 07:49:24 PMConvoy. Didn't want to spend an hour with a cussing trucker.
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Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by pacman000 - Today at 07:46:02 PMThe Final Turtle
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by pacman000 - Today at 07:43:24 PMJeremiah 29:11 (American Standard Version)
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 06:42:33 PML'ENFER DANS LA PEAU aka SEXUS (1965):
It's been thirty years since I first read about Jose Benazaref's movies in Tohill & Tombs' immortal Immoral Tales and until now I didn't manage to stumble across a one of 'em. They aren't easy to come by and people don't often refer to Benazaref. Why is that? I finally came across a subtitled Jose Benazaref on a porn site (and it isn't porn!) and now I think I understand!
Imagine some teenagers in the mid-90s have a house in the woods all to themselves and they've got a camcorder. They also have a cool looking automatic rifle, a fake looking knife, two hunky popular male friends to play the lead roles, and (because of the hunky popular guys) two cute girls who are willing to take their clothes off and be occasionally menaced. They don't have a script yet fortunately they've just watched RESERVOIR DOGS again and also (because Tarantino has talked about it) they've watched parts of BAND OF OUTSIDERS (well, they fast-forwarded through most of it) so they more or less understand that the ingredients for any good movie include crime, philosophical dialogue, casual sadism, abrupt dancing, and guys in suits waiting for something and then killing each other. Also because they have the knife and they have woods, there will be a three minute knife fight and a long sequence of wide shots of people running through trees.
...SEXUS is that movie! Only perhaps lighter on the philosophical dialogue. They didn't bother writing a script, after all, so the actors are just makin' stuff up and none of them are as clever as Godard or Tarantino.
After this weekend I'm ready to either declare myself or the critical consensus of Letterboxd to be totally miscalibrated. Reviewers truly seem enamored of SEXUS. Honestly my description above oversells SEXUS. I was a teenager in the 90s and I tried to make films kind of like this, too, and in 1999 I helped screenwriter Simon Barrett (who went on to write YOU'RE NEXT and a bunch of other big-ish genre flicks) direct a short film that was also kind of like the diluted Godard/pre-Tarantino film that Benazaref has made, here. Simon's short was called THE NOTHING DEAL but it packed quite a lot of action and clever dialogue into 20 minutes. Benazaref's SEXUS is an actual "Nothing Deal".
2.5/5, generously.
I made the fake intestines for NOTHING DEAL - which btw looked great. Also BTW, no fake intestines in SEXUS.
It's been thirty years since I first read about Jose Benazaref's movies in Tohill & Tombs' immortal Immoral Tales and until now I didn't manage to stumble across a one of 'em. They aren't easy to come by and people don't often refer to Benazaref. Why is that? I finally came across a subtitled Jose Benazaref on a porn site (and it isn't porn!) and now I think I understand!
Imagine some teenagers in the mid-90s have a house in the woods all to themselves and they've got a camcorder. They also have a cool looking automatic rifle, a fake looking knife, two hunky popular male friends to play the lead roles, and (because of the hunky popular guys) two cute girls who are willing to take their clothes off and be occasionally menaced. They don't have a script yet fortunately they've just watched RESERVOIR DOGS again and also (because Tarantino has talked about it) they've watched parts of BAND OF OUTSIDERS (well, they fast-forwarded through most of it) so they more or less understand that the ingredients for any good movie include crime, philosophical dialogue, casual sadism, abrupt dancing, and guys in suits waiting for something and then killing each other. Also because they have the knife and they have woods, there will be a three minute knife fight and a long sequence of wide shots of people running through trees.
...SEXUS is that movie! Only perhaps lighter on the philosophical dialogue. They didn't bother writing a script, after all, so the actors are just makin' stuff up and none of them are as clever as Godard or Tarantino.
After this weekend I'm ready to either declare myself or the critical consensus of Letterboxd to be totally miscalibrated. Reviewers truly seem enamored of SEXUS. Honestly my description above oversells SEXUS. I was a teenager in the 90s and I tried to make films kind of like this, too, and in 1999 I helped screenwriter Simon Barrett (who went on to write YOU'RE NEXT and a bunch of other big-ish genre flicks) direct a short film that was also kind of like the diluted Godard/pre-Tarantino film that Benazaref has made, here. Simon's short was called THE NOTHING DEAL but it packed quite a lot of action and clever dialogue into 20 minutes. Benazaref's SEXUS is an actual "Nothing Deal".
2.5/5, generously.
I made the fake intestines for NOTHING DEAL - which btw looked great. Also BTW, no fake intestines in SEXUS.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 06:06:36 PMRazortooth (2007)- Ridiculous but okay animals attack movie about a huge genetically altered eel that terrorizes a Florida swamp. Actually, it more than terrorizes it, it kills like 11 people. Lots of hillbilly stereotypes and two escaped prisoners that the movie forgets about for like a day and a half.
One thing it really lacks is any sort of diversion from the swamp area. Half the fun of these things is the slice of life aspect and pointless sub plots. Animals attack movies are, after all, essentially a disaster variant. The male lead does a decent enough job as a rising to the occasion animal control guy and his female co lead/ love interest looks enough like Lynda Carter for it to be remarkable.
Before I started watching this I passed on Alligator Alley, which was the same thing but in Louisiana and I almost turned this off at one point. Am I glad I stuck with this one? I don't know. Who knows? Who cares?
3.99/5
One thing it really lacks is any sort of diversion from the swamp area. Half the fun of these things is the slice of life aspect and pointless sub plots. Animals attack movies are, after all, essentially a disaster variant. The male lead does a decent enough job as a rising to the occasion animal control guy and his female co lead/ love interest looks enough like Lynda Carter for it to be remarkable.
Before I started watching this I passed on Alligator Alley, which was the same thing but in Louisiana and I almost turned this off at one point. Am I glad I stuck with this one? I don't know. Who knows? Who cares?
3.99/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 05:46:29 PMHoly Family Catholic Church in Gaza
#9
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:44:45 PMChatGPT
copilot
found an 51 in Great Underwater Adventure franchise in my folder for AI movie poster
copilot
found an 51 in Great Underwater Adventure franchise in my folder for AI movie poster
#10
Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 03:35:07 PMWhy are my posts not posting? I responded a while back to claws' AI picture above saying that's not really an accurate depiction of how most chile rellenos dishes look. (That looks like a burrito with chiles inside). Looks more like this:
Anyway, my latest was tuna rarebit: simply milk, butter, cheese and tuna served over toasted rye bread.
Anyway, my latest was tuna rarebit: simply milk, butter, cheese and tuna served over toasted rye bread.