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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:16:09 AM
I did not expect CoPilot to agree to make this one.
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Weird News Stories / Re: Remote controlled cockroac...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 05:48:51 AMas long as they know the international distress signal for "I'm in trouble" then they should be fine....
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Weird News Stories / Remote controlled cockroaches ...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 05:20:44 AMAm I the only one who is worried
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531894-remote-controlled-cockroach-swarm-can-now-breathe-underwater/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531894-remote-controlled-cockroach-swarm-can-now-breathe-underwater/
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
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Entertainment / Re: Your Song of the day, Part...
Last post by LilCerberus - June 29, 2026, 10:48:52 PMNaranai Gaga LIVE by Akai Kurage
https://youtu.be/UE3Erwmdqek?si=We7FKUsa4JWuAjM-
https://youtu.be/UE3Erwmdqek?si=We7FKUsa4JWuAjM-
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: World Cup?
Last post by Rev. Powell - June 29, 2026, 09:35:33 PMGood for Paraguay. 
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - June 29, 2026, 07:52:13 PMIN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOL aka VICTIMES D'ALCHOL aka VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL (1911):
This film is a great example of a little bit of a good thing being great and a lot of a good thing being not-so-great or even borderline ludicrous....... come to think of it, not unlike the film's subject: alchohol!
As Dr. Whom and I were discussing up the page, ITGOA is another early silent film that commits to tableau vivant or static wide shots as we call 'em today to tell nearly its entire story. (There is a pan near the end of the film.) An upstanding hardworking middle-class family man likes a nip now and then or even a bit of the old down-the-pub, which eventually turns into a nip every time no one is looking and a bit of the old down-the-pub pretty much all day and night when he oughtta' be working or family-manning. As is too often the case w/ alcoholics, he has to suffer (severe, Tragic) consequences before he acknowledges he's got A Problem, and by then it's too late. Pretty standard PSA/Afterschool Special circa 1911.
Here's the good thing about ITGOA: every scene is a one-to-two minute static shot of the Alcoholic at home, at work, at the pub etc, and almost all of these are beautifully staged and directed, w/ careful consideration given to foreground/background and w/ extremely clear, vivid performances from essentially all the major players. Although there's no dialogue titles, every intention and action of every key character is always entirely transparent. Basically this whole cast is doing the crystalline screen acting that the justly-legendary Conrad Veidt would be doing at the end of the same decade. I suspect that a lot of these actors are students of (or students of students of) Stanislavski, who was still alive and popular and working all over Europe in 1911. There are a ton of big Stanislavskian gestures and poses, but also a lot of perfectly realistic facial expressions that you still see in movies (and in life) today.
Here's the excessive and ultimately tiring thing about ITGOA: One gets the point after about 10-15 minutes and is ready for the (perfectly constructed) movie to end... but no, it keeps going for 35 whole minutes, and by the end, the melodrama and the operatic Stanislavskian acting goes on so long it threatens to become self-parody. The final scene is a couple of minutes of the lead literally beating his breast, bellowing to the Heavens, and throwing himself on the ground.
This movie, like its main character, needed to Know When to Say When!
3/5 The male and female lead are clearly strong professional actors. They appeared in other silents I've never heard of. The director (who also never made anything else I've heard of) was named "Gérard Bourgeois". No, really.
This film is a great example of a little bit of a good thing being great and a lot of a good thing being not-so-great or even borderline ludicrous....... come to think of it, not unlike the film's subject: alchohol!
As Dr. Whom and I were discussing up the page, ITGOA is another early silent film that commits to tableau vivant or static wide shots as we call 'em today to tell nearly its entire story. (There is a pan near the end of the film.) An upstanding hardworking middle-class family man likes a nip now and then or even a bit of the old down-the-pub, which eventually turns into a nip every time no one is looking and a bit of the old down-the-pub pretty much all day and night when he oughtta' be working or family-manning. As is too often the case w/ alcoholics, he has to suffer (severe, Tragic) consequences before he acknowledges he's got A Problem, and by then it's too late. Pretty standard PSA/Afterschool Special circa 1911.
Here's the good thing about ITGOA: every scene is a one-to-two minute static shot of the Alcoholic at home, at work, at the pub etc, and almost all of these are beautifully staged and directed, w/ careful consideration given to foreground/background and w/ extremely clear, vivid performances from essentially all the major players. Although there's no dialogue titles, every intention and action of every key character is always entirely transparent. Basically this whole cast is doing the crystalline screen acting that the justly-legendary Conrad Veidt would be doing at the end of the same decade. I suspect that a lot of these actors are students of (or students of students of) Stanislavski, who was still alive and popular and working all over Europe in 1911. There are a ton of big Stanislavskian gestures and poses, but also a lot of perfectly realistic facial expressions that you still see in movies (and in life) today.
Here's the excessive and ultimately tiring thing about ITGOA: One gets the point after about 10-15 minutes and is ready for the (perfectly constructed) movie to end... but no, it keeps going for 35 whole minutes, and by the end, the melodrama and the operatic Stanislavskian acting goes on so long it threatens to become self-parody. The final scene is a couple of minutes of the lead literally beating his breast, bellowing to the Heavens, and throwing himself on the ground.
This movie, like its main character, needed to Know When to Say When!3/5 The male and female lead are clearly strong professional actors. They appeared in other silents I've never heard of. The director (who also never made anything else I've heard of) was named "Gérard Bourgeois". No, really.
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Good Movies / Re: Citizen Vigilante (2026)
Last post by bob - June 29, 2026, 04:41:03 PM....why is this in the good movies section 