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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 10:58:11 AMBROADMINDED (1931):
Who's the most irritating male lead in comedy history? Jerry Lewis... Pauly Shore... Rob Schneider? I submit for your disapproval: Joe E. Brown - the rubber-faced, gape-mawed, persistently blinking goon/star of BROADMINDED! Okay, it's a "broad" and competitive field indeed, and Brown is favorably remembered for his supporting role in SOME LIKE IT HOT....... but I just couldn't take this guy for 90 minutes in this flick. And yet I did!
A nominally "Pre-code" feature, which in this case doesn't account for much scandalous content besides the extremely bizarre opening scene, where Brown's sidekick arrives at an "adult baby party" pushing fully infantilized Brown in a pram. The co-ed attendees are all dressed as babies in diapers and bonnets, sucking on pacifiers and bottles, etc. I recognize that "Adult Baby" is an authentic fetish in the 21st century
but, weird though it is to watch, nothing sexual or suggestive really happens onscreen, thus I struggle to think this would've been a problem for the Hays Code - but who knows.
Anyway, it's strictly routine antic rom-com after that, w/ weirdo Brown and his womanizing cousin (they've got BROADS on the MIND, see) on a cross-country trip straight out of the Farley/Spade playbook. They repeatedly run into and antagonize Bela Lugosi as "Pancho", a wealthy and quick-tempered "South American" entrepreneur.
Before you shout "Baron Akito" at your screen, Bela takes the high road and just does his normal accent (as if he could really do any other). And somehow it's less offensive watching perpetually-typecast Foreign Guy Bela play a different ethnicity (as he often would) than it is watching other white guys do it.
Bela was the only reason I watched this, but the female cast - Margaret Livingston, Ona Munson, and Thelma Todd - are all attractive and entertaining. The screenplay is cold (not even hot!) garbage... ex. Bela spends most of the film hollering about how Brown once ruined his strawberry shortcake. Todd (who would die under mysterious circumstances four years later) plays Bela's mistress, and it's nice to see him being romantic w/ a woman who isn't under his hypnotic spell and who he isn't bound to murder at some point. Bela also gets to chase Brown at full speed (instead of stalking his victim in a cape); Brown is scared of Bela's size (he calls him a "gorilla") and indeed, one gets to appreciate that the healthy, middle-aged, 6-foot-ish Bela is a threatening guy! In the few moments where Bela isn't in a blind rage (mostly opposite Todd), it's fund to watch him play comedy, which he rarely got to do. (Even in later horror/comedies, Bela always had to be the scary straightman.) So this was worth a watch for a different side of Lugosi.
2.5/5 But man a little Joe Brown goes a mile!
Who's the most irritating male lead in comedy history? Jerry Lewis... Pauly Shore... Rob Schneider? I submit for your disapproval: Joe E. Brown - the rubber-faced, gape-mawed, persistently blinking goon/star of BROADMINDED! Okay, it's a "broad" and competitive field indeed, and Brown is favorably remembered for his supporting role in SOME LIKE IT HOT....... but I just couldn't take this guy for 90 minutes in this flick. And yet I did!
A nominally "Pre-code" feature, which in this case doesn't account for much scandalous content besides the extremely bizarre opening scene, where Brown's sidekick arrives at an "adult baby party" pushing fully infantilized Brown in a pram. The co-ed attendees are all dressed as babies in diapers and bonnets, sucking on pacifiers and bottles, etc. I recognize that "Adult Baby" is an authentic fetish in the 21st century
but, weird though it is to watch, nothing sexual or suggestive really happens onscreen, thus I struggle to think this would've been a problem for the Hays Code - but who knows. Anyway, it's strictly routine antic rom-com after that, w/ weirdo Brown and his womanizing cousin (they've got BROADS on the MIND, see) on a cross-country trip straight out of the Farley/Spade playbook. They repeatedly run into and antagonize Bela Lugosi as "Pancho", a wealthy and quick-tempered "South American" entrepreneur.
Before you shout "Baron Akito" at your screen, Bela takes the high road and just does his normal accent (as if he could really do any other). And somehow it's less offensive watching perpetually-typecast Foreign Guy Bela play a different ethnicity (as he often would) than it is watching other white guys do it.Bela was the only reason I watched this, but the female cast - Margaret Livingston, Ona Munson, and Thelma Todd - are all attractive and entertaining. The screenplay is cold (not even hot!) garbage... ex. Bela spends most of the film hollering about how Brown once ruined his strawberry shortcake. Todd (who would die under mysterious circumstances four years later) plays Bela's mistress, and it's nice to see him being romantic w/ a woman who isn't under his hypnotic spell and who he isn't bound to murder at some point. Bela also gets to chase Brown at full speed (instead of stalking his victim in a cape); Brown is scared of Bela's size (he calls him a "gorilla") and indeed, one gets to appreciate that the healthy, middle-aged, 6-foot-ish Bela is a threatening guy! In the few moments where Bela isn't in a blind rage (mostly opposite Todd), it's fund to watch him play comedy, which he rarely got to do. (Even in later horror/comedies, Bela always had to be the scary straightman.) So this was worth a watch for a different side of Lugosi.
2.5/5 But man a little Joe Brown goes a mile!
#2
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 10:47:16 AMcopilot
no idea why copilot came up with this one, but I like the title
no idea why copilot came up with this one, but I like the title
#3
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 06:08:09 AMQuote from: chainsaw midget on September 30, 2025, 07:52:22 AMThe Invisible Agent
Here we once again stray from the horror and even the monster aspect. Our Invisible Man is a war hero. When Nazis and a very wonderful and sadistic Peter Lorre (who actually plays a Japanese man here, yeah, I know...) track down the grandson of the original Invisible Man and threaten his life for the formula, he instead agrees to become the Invisible Man for the US military.
THE INVISIBLE AGENT (1942):
I'd like to revisit the original someday, yet I'd never seen this one before and Chainsaw had me at "Peter Lorre". The fact that Lorre "actually plays a Japanese man" isn't made at all clear until halfway through the film. He's addressed as "Baron" until at last his Nazi counterpart (Cedric Hardwicke) calls him by his last name ("Akito") in anger. Then Lorre begins acknowledging his loyalty to his homeland of the Rising Sun....... this plot point does create some interesting conflict and provides Lorre w/ motivation beyond just being Evil. Of course the casting was objectionable, and this wasn't the only time Lorre played a Japanese character. To his credit, though, Lorre doesn't do squinty-eyes or reverse his l's and r's or anything like that. He just plays "Baron Akito" with his normal accent and mannerisms. In fact he looks, sounds, and acts so much like "Toht" from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK I started figuring Spielberg had based Toht on Lorre's character here. So,
to Lorre for being as inoffensive and possible in this role. And yes, he is "very wonderful and sadistic".This was worth watching just for Lorre, but Hardwicke is also fun. This is definitely "sci-fi/action/adventure/comedy", not a horror flick, oh well. Jon Hall plays the eponymous grandson of the original Invisible Man and is handsome (when you can see him, briefly) and has a good voice, though obv he's no Claude Rains. Letterboxd tells me that Hall returned for another sequel, though he plays a different character, which makes no sense to me but, ehh, Universal!
3/5
#4
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 03:14:03 AM
me in 1994-ish (on the far right)
below is skater Mike bell who Christine (on the left) dated
#5
Bad Movies / Re: focus on the familys revie...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 02:49:33 AMSearched my own screen name on google and this review came up. I still haven't seen this but have been meaning too.
#6
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - Today at 02:46:38 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on November 27, 2025, 10:42:34 AMCopilot refused to make a poster for "Devil on a Unicycle." That's nuts.
I asked copilot what's up with that. The answer:
QuoteNo hidden bias: It's not about who asked — it's about how the request was structured. Even small differences in wording can change whether the system sees it as safe or unsafe.
#7
Off Topic Discussion / Top Ten Things You can say on ...
Last post by indianasmith - November 27, 2025, 11:31:27 PMBut NOT in bed:
"You know it was good when grandma takes her dentures out!"
"I thought your cousin would never stop talking!"
"I love your Dad's stuffing!"
"I hope Uncle Ralph doesn't make it weird again!"
"I just dread the cleanup afterward."
"Remember when both your grandparents could still come?"
"Too many rolls!"
"How are we going to fit all these people in?"
"That is one big fat bird!"
And the number one thing you can say at Thanksgiving but should never say in bed:
"I'm just glad the whole family could come!"
(Shamelessly stolen from Instagram)
"You know it was good when grandma takes her dentures out!"
"I thought your cousin would never stop talking!"
"I love your Dad's stuffing!"
"I hope Uncle Ralph doesn't make it weird again!"
"I just dread the cleanup afterward."
"Remember when both your grandparents could still come?"
"Too many rolls!"
"How are we going to fit all these people in?"
"That is one big fat bird!"
And the number one thing you can say at Thanksgiving but should never say in bed:
"I'm just glad the whole family could come!"
(Shamelessly stolen from Instagram)
#8
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by Rev. Powell - November 27, 2025, 11:05:25 PM
#9
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by HappyGilmore - November 27, 2025, 08:35:36 PMA Very Brady Christmas - 1988.
Caught this on tv recently. The Brady Bunch kids and families come home for the holidays. I liked it for what it was.
Caught this on tv recently. The Brady Bunch kids and families come home for the holidays. I liked it for what it was.
#10
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by lester1/2jr - November 27, 2025, 07:02:03 PMZombie Pirates (2014) - Somewhere between Adult Ed Film class project and tax shelter is this bland but quickly moving...thing. I don't want to call it a movie. The blonde lead actress would be super hot if she worked in your office, but in a movie she's just okay. She sleep walks through this underwhelming scenario of trying to get some zombie pirate... silver? Meanwhile, silver was about 20 dollars an ounce in 2014. A small bag of coins even with historical value factored in would hardly be worth getting a skinned knee over, much less killing/dying for.
The only scene I liked was one when the smart alec cop realizes that the woman is in a rush, so he asks for a cup of coffee and drinks it super slowly and talks about random stuff knowing that she's quietly infuriated with him. I don't think they are allowed to really do that, though. I also liked how he was willing to risk his life to get to his police radio even though we know he has a cell phone.
2.5/5 extremely low budget and mostly useless but I watched it in one sitting and was able to move on to something else quickly. Spirit Halloween zombie costumes
The only scene I liked was one when the smart alec cop realizes that the woman is in a rush, so he asks for a cup of coffee and drinks it super slowly and talks about random stuff knowing that she's quietly infuriated with him. I don't think they are allowed to really do that, though. I also liked how he was willing to risk his life to get to his police radio even though we know he has a cell phone.
2.5/5 extremely low budget and mostly useless but I watched it in one sitting and was able to move on to something else quickly. Spirit Halloween zombie costumes