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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 03:01:08 AMLa main noire/The Black Hand (1968)
Amazon is now suggesting other early Max Pécas movies to me. This one is from his sexy spy thriller period.
This is actually not too bad. The Black Hand, descendants of the guys who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand back in the day, have some nefarious plot and are infiltrated by both the Americans and the Soviets. You have crosses and double crosses, pretty girls either in glamourous sexy outfits or in their underwear, and the whole thing is filmed in rather a grand chateau.
However, and this is a problem for a spy thriller, there is a marked absence of suspense. The pacing is sedate, it seems more like a script for an episode of The Avengers (that is the British TV series, not the superheroes) that has been padded out to 90 minutes. Also, nobody seems to be in a particular hurry. Whether the villains execute their plans now or in six months doesn't seem to matter to anyone. It is never explained what these nefarious plans are exactly and what the McGuffin is supposed to do. All this makes it very hard to care about any of it.
Giuseppe Mattei (here billed as James Harris), who plays the protagonist, would go on to play Satan in Nude for Satan.
Amazon is now suggesting other early Max Pécas movies to me. This one is from his sexy spy thriller period.
This is actually not too bad. The Black Hand, descendants of the guys who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand back in the day, have some nefarious plot and are infiltrated by both the Americans and the Soviets. You have crosses and double crosses, pretty girls either in glamourous sexy outfits or in their underwear, and the whole thing is filmed in rather a grand chateau.
However, and this is a problem for a spy thriller, there is a marked absence of suspense. The pacing is sedate, it seems more like a script for an episode of The Avengers (that is the British TV series, not the superheroes) that has been padded out to 90 minutes. Also, nobody seems to be in a particular hurry. Whether the villains execute their plans now or in six months doesn't seem to matter to anyone. It is never explained what these nefarious plans are exactly and what the McGuffin is supposed to do. All this makes it very hard to care about any of it.
Giuseppe Mattei (here billed as James Harris), who plays the protagonist, would go on to play Satan in Nude for Satan.
#4
Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by drifterr - June 20, 2026, 11:31:20 PMI just started another Skyrim run myself after not playing it for years. Somehow I'm already getting sidetracked by random caves instead of doing the main quest.
Every Skyrim character starts with a plan and then ends up doing everything except that plan. At least that's how it always goes for me. BTW i also playing @tag game in this school holidays.
Every Skyrim character starts with a plan and then ends up doing everything except that plan. At least that's how it always goes for me. BTW i also playing @tag game in this school holidays.
#5
Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by Jim H - June 20, 2026, 11:23:38 PMI started watching the Mentalist. I'd seen a few episodes of this when it originally aired, and my recollection is that Simon Baker was terrific in the lead and it was pretty fun, but fairly slight. That's pretty accurate, and sometimes that's exactly what you want. It's kind of like a more dramatic Psych, incidentally.
A big thing that made me want to go back was rewatching a clip I'd seen on YouTube where the lead character talks with someone who got violent revenge, and the character is just very pleased he did, zero regrets (good performance too). The moments of the show where it handles the idea of violent revenge seriously are pretty interesting - the lead character's wife and daughter were brutally murdered by a serial killer, and his main motivation is to kill him painfully and personally. He will often talk to characters who were seeking revenge about how they feel now, and the answers vary. This is something I find personally a good topic, and is something I've tried researching before - it's surprisingly weak, with lab experiments that read like very poor experiments for real personal revenge.
A big thing that made me want to go back was rewatching a clip I'd seen on YouTube where the lead character talks with someone who got violent revenge, and the character is just very pleased he did, zero regrets (good performance too). The moments of the show where it handles the idea of violent revenge seriously are pretty interesting - the lead character's wife and daughter were brutally murdered by a serial killer, and his main motivation is to kill him painfully and personally. He will often talk to characters who were seeking revenge about how they feel now, and the answers vary. This is something I find personally a good topic, and is something I've tried researching before - it's surprisingly weak, with lab experiments that read like very poor experiments for real personal revenge.
#6
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - June 20, 2026, 09:49:27 PMTonight's Stinker
The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980)
https://youtu.be/cA9M5sjFnt4?si=ToKs5JbYchwFhcMp
In the future, an uptight group of control room operators in red pajamas are trying to contact a rescue team on a distant planet..... This is the third rescue mission to fail after contact was lost with a research station on the planet..... So anyway, the planet is a critical launching point to exploring the rest of the universe, so naturally, a fourth suicide mission is assembled.....
So, six astronauts in red pajamas are briefed, fly off & go over procedural mumbo jumbo.... They find a distress beacon with a warning not to come to the planet, but they go anyway...
Once on the planet, they find the bodies of the research crew & rescue missions in various stages of decay, with mysterious rock in them.... Then, in a pretty stupid "DON'T GO IN THERE" scene, one of the crew is killed, & well, y'know..... Alarms start to go off, the crew starts to get unconvincing cabin fever....
Looks to be a halfway decent VHS rip.... The audio is pretty bad, & it doesn't help that a couple of the actors tend to mumble.... The space suits are basically motorcycle helmets with hoses, & the ray guns look like dime store novelties, but the rest of the sets & props look passable..... Some scenes go to black like they're supposed to be going to a commercial break.....
The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980)
https://youtu.be/cA9M5sjFnt4?si=ToKs5JbYchwFhcMp
In the future, an uptight group of control room operators in red pajamas are trying to contact a rescue team on a distant planet..... This is the third rescue mission to fail after contact was lost with a research station on the planet..... So anyway, the planet is a critical launching point to exploring the rest of the universe, so naturally, a fourth suicide mission is assembled.....
So, six astronauts in red pajamas are briefed, fly off & go over procedural mumbo jumbo.... They find a distress beacon with a warning not to come to the planet, but they go anyway...
Once on the planet, they find the bodies of the research crew & rescue missions in various stages of decay, with mysterious rock in them.... Then, in a pretty stupid "DON'T GO IN THERE" scene, one of the crew is killed, & well, y'know..... Alarms start to go off, the crew starts to get unconvincing cabin fever....
Looks to be a halfway decent VHS rip.... The audio is pretty bad, & it doesn't help that a couple of the actors tend to mumble.... The space suits are basically motorcycle helmets with hoses, & the ray guns look like dime store novelties, but the rest of the sets & props look passable..... Some scenes go to black like they're supposed to be going to a commercial break.....
#7
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Celebrating 20 Years of Bl...
Last post by LilCerberus - June 20, 2026, 05:07:17 PMI only have 1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5134236/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5134236/
#8
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - June 20, 2026, 04:32:10 PM
Why are you sniffing me?
#10
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Celebrating 20 Years of Bl...
Last post by claws - June 20, 2026, 04:13:08 PMI converted to Blu-ray in 2009. The first discs I bought that day, along with a blu-ray player:
Friday the 13th (2009)
Starship Troopers 1-3 Box Set
Prom Night (2008)
Mutant Chronicles
Splinter
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Friday the 13th (2009)
Starship Troopers 1-3 Box Set
Prom Night (2008)
Mutant Chronicles
Splinter
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans