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Off Topic Discussion / YouTube have messed up again
Last post by Trevor - Today at 12:52:23 AMNot satisfied with unstoppable ads, fake endorsements of shady products, AI generated narration with every single letter in every single word over enunciated (hell to listen to for people like me who have severe misophonia and auditory issues) and now they have gone one better: you cannot view your comment history 🥴☹️
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Chuck Norris.
Last post by lester1/2jr - March 23, 2026, 10:46:08 PMSilent RAGE
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - March 23, 2026, 09:13:22 PMOne Day at a Time
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21836410/
How are you going to turn the couch into a lamp?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21836410/
How are you going to turn the couch into a lamp?
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by LilCerberus - March 23, 2026, 07:35:15 PM
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - March 23, 2026, 06:03:56 PM"Clue" (1985)
In 1950s New England, six strangers are summoned to a creepy old mansion for a dinner party. When their host is mysteriously murdered, the group tries to figure out who the killer is while bodies continue to pile up.
Based on the popular murder-mystery board game, this slap-stick parody of old fashioned "whodunit" films sports an impressive cast that includes Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, and Michael McKean. It was released with a unique gimmick -- the movie had three different endings (each with a different character revealed as the murderer), depending on which theater you saw it in.
I don't believe I ever played the board game, but I decided to check this one out after reading Tim Curry's autobiography Vagabond, in which he says "Clue" was his favorite out of all his films. I can see why, because it was lots of fun.
In 1950s New England, six strangers are summoned to a creepy old mansion for a dinner party. When their host is mysteriously murdered, the group tries to figure out who the killer is while bodies continue to pile up.
Based on the popular murder-mystery board game, this slap-stick parody of old fashioned "whodunit" films sports an impressive cast that includes Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, and Michael McKean. It was released with a unique gimmick -- the movie had three different endings (each with a different character revealed as the murderer), depending on which theater you saw it in.
I don't believe I ever played the board game, but I decided to check this one out after reading Tim Curry's autobiography Vagabond, in which he says "Clue" was his favorite out of all his films. I can see why, because it was lots of fun.
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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Chuck Norris.
Last post by indianasmith - March 23, 2026, 05:32:44 PMI remember him being in a movie called SILENT SCREAM - sort of a zombie/martial arts mashup. Great film!
#7
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Dad
Last post by indianasmith - March 23, 2026, 05:31:09 PMSo sorry to hear this. It's been nearly a decade since my Dad passed, and I still miss him every day.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - March 23, 2026, 03:29:18 PMJust had all my plumbing redone....
What once was copper is now all PVC, and I just can't help but wonder; What are amateur electronics tinkerers supposed to use for a ground............
What once was copper is now all PVC, and I just can't help but wonder; What are amateur electronics tinkerers supposed to use for a ground............
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - March 23, 2026, 11:25:58 AMTHE FIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST (1958):
Another offbeat Philip Yordan screenplay, 'cause THE CHASE was decent. This one's a very noir Western, which automatically makes it more interesting to me than the standard-issue John Wayne-type stuff of the era. Officially it's a genre-switching remake of KISS OF DEATH (remade again in the 90s under the original title and urban setting, w/ Nicolas Cage as the psycho bad guy). I didn't recall that when I started watching and had to Google to confirm it, as THE FIEND takes a lot of liberties with KOD's plot, and probably for the better.
Really it's a post-heist thriller w/ the craziest member of a gang of bandits (the eponymous "Fiend") rounding up the proceeds of the last big job, with no partners or elderly ladies or unborn fetuses safe from his sadistic killing spree. One former affiliate yearns to escape his past and settle down as a rancher, but the long arm of the law presses him into service to help put an end to the Fiend's one-man crimewave. Things get slightly more complicated than that, w/ better dialogue and a bit greater psychological complexity than most westerns of the 50s. Crisp widescreen B+W photography makes TFWWTW look like a grander, more serious film than it actually is. (Some shots recall Welles or Kurosawa flicks.) The acting is mostly across the spectrum from competent to dull to bad. (The female lead kinda' sucks.)
But! If you're gonna' make a movie called THE FIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST, you gotta' have a compelling, watchable title character....... and if TFWWTW is remembered at all today, it's solely on account of that central performance. "The Fiend" is a high-pitched, whiny, unstable, neurotic, psychotic, totally loathsome piece of work... played by none other than legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans in one of his few early onscreen gigs and only lead role. His performance feels straight out of the Actors' Studio - Evans' antagonist could easily pass for the annoying younger brother of the twitchy nut played by (Evans' associate) Jack Nicholson in THE SHOOTING. Maybe Evans' wasn't ever going to be a Hollywood leading man, but he did a good job making me hate the guts of the guy he plays here.
3/5 Directed by Gordon Douglas of THEM! fame.
Another offbeat Philip Yordan screenplay, 'cause THE CHASE was decent. This one's a very noir Western, which automatically makes it more interesting to me than the standard-issue John Wayne-type stuff of the era. Officially it's a genre-switching remake of KISS OF DEATH (remade again in the 90s under the original title and urban setting, w/ Nicolas Cage as the psycho bad guy). I didn't recall that when I started watching and had to Google to confirm it, as THE FIEND takes a lot of liberties with KOD's plot, and probably for the better.
Really it's a post-heist thriller w/ the craziest member of a gang of bandits (the eponymous "Fiend") rounding up the proceeds of the last big job, with no partners or elderly ladies or unborn fetuses safe from his sadistic killing spree. One former affiliate yearns to escape his past and settle down as a rancher, but the long arm of the law presses him into service to help put an end to the Fiend's one-man crimewave. Things get slightly more complicated than that, w/ better dialogue and a bit greater psychological complexity than most westerns of the 50s. Crisp widescreen B+W photography makes TFWWTW look like a grander, more serious film than it actually is. (Some shots recall Welles or Kurosawa flicks.) The acting is mostly across the spectrum from competent to dull to bad. (The female lead kinda' sucks.)
But! If you're gonna' make a movie called THE FIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST, you gotta' have a compelling, watchable title character....... and if TFWWTW is remembered at all today, it's solely on account of that central performance. "The Fiend" is a high-pitched, whiny, unstable, neurotic, psychotic, totally loathsome piece of work... played by none other than legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans in one of his few early onscreen gigs and only lead role. His performance feels straight out of the Actors' Studio - Evans' antagonist could easily pass for the annoying younger brother of the twitchy nut played by (Evans' associate) Jack Nicholson in THE SHOOTING. Maybe Evans' wasn't ever going to be a Hollywood leading man, but he did a good job making me hate the guts of the guy he plays here.
3/5 Directed by Gordon Douglas of THEM! fame.