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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - February 03, 2026, 11:01:58 PMCopilot has been 'buggy' for me lately. Increase of spelling errors (as usual), bland to borderline bad poster designs.
ChatGPT, same prompt.
ChatGPT, same prompt.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you doing right n...
Last post by bob - February 03, 2026, 10:41:07 PMdebating if I want to shave before going to bed
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Rank the seasons
Last post by bob - February 03, 2026, 10:39:19 PMAutumn, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - February 03, 2026, 09:27:49 PM
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Bad Movies / Re: Some sort of noteworthy Ev...
Last post by M.10rda - February 03, 2026, 07:44:06 PMEh!
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - February 03, 2026, 07:34:06 PMSHIP OF MONSTERS (1960):
Mars may need women but Venus needs men in this wacky Mexican sci-fi/horror! And instead of just arranging a diplomatic trade, Venus sends two distaff astronauts in a rocket ship around the solar system, where they abduct a big-headed/bug-eyed Martian, a giant cyclops, a mangy spider thing, a talking skeleton, and (naturally) a helpful robot, none of whom are happy to learn that they will return to Venus for a forced insemination program of its many surviving inhabitants! (...Except the robot, who can't help w/ procreation but seems fine helping them navigate the galaxy.) So at least this 65-year old film is self-aware of its problematic relationship to consent!
The plot picks up when the Venusian vessel lands on Earth and immediately hones in on a ne'er-do-well singing cowboy, who is perfectly willing to to fly away w/ the two space-ladies. One of the ladies is a bland, well-behaved 50s housewife type and the other looks and acts like an eeeeeeeevil Scarlet Johansson (which I guess says something about Mexican men's mid-20th century mother/whore complex). Evil ScarJo checks out Earth and decides it would be a good place to conquer! And even though the Ship of Monsters (tm) find her physically repulsive
she's simply so eeeeeeeevil that they all fall in love w/ her and decide to abet her plans. 
SHIP OF MONSTERS is quite a good time and is another old-timey low-budget flick that seems like it would be ripe for riffing, yet I don't think any of the MSR3K acts ever did it. One reason might be that (to my knowledge) it was never dubbed (I watched it w/ subs). The other reason, though, is that it might be too good for the Riff-folks. It often looks cheap like lots of 50s/60s American genre flicks, and it's full of Bad Movie tropes - an obnoxious hero, pointless musical numbers, a cute child sidekick, and ludicrous SFX. However SHIP OF MONSTERS somehow turns all of those vices into virtues: the hero is quite self-consciously obnoxious (ala a Bruce Campbell type), the kid sidekick can barely stomach the hero's antics, the songs comment on the hero's ridiculous attitudes, etc.
And the monsters!!! They're clearly handmade from used junk laying around the Mexican movie studio... yet they're handmade from used junk with love. They look hilarious and yet a little scary and gross too and I never got sick of looking at them or hearing their over-the-top voices. I couldn't make better (funny, absurd) space monsters from random junk and I bet most of you couldn't either. And if you're gonna' make a movie titled SHIP OF MONSTERS....... well, mission accomplished, Mexico!
3.5/5
Mars may need women but Venus needs men in this wacky Mexican sci-fi/horror! And instead of just arranging a diplomatic trade, Venus sends two distaff astronauts in a rocket ship around the solar system, where they abduct a big-headed/bug-eyed Martian, a giant cyclops, a mangy spider thing, a talking skeleton, and (naturally) a helpful robot, none of whom are happy to learn that they will return to Venus for a forced insemination program of its many surviving inhabitants! (...Except the robot, who can't help w/ procreation but seems fine helping them navigate the galaxy.) So at least this 65-year old film is self-aware of its problematic relationship to consent!
The plot picks up when the Venusian vessel lands on Earth and immediately hones in on a ne'er-do-well singing cowboy, who is perfectly willing to to fly away w/ the two space-ladies. One of the ladies is a bland, well-behaved 50s housewife type and the other looks and acts like an eeeeeeeevil Scarlet Johansson (which I guess says something about Mexican men's mid-20th century mother/whore complex). Evil ScarJo checks out Earth and decides it would be a good place to conquer! And even though the Ship of Monsters (tm) find her physically repulsive
she's simply so eeeeeeeevil that they all fall in love w/ her and decide to abet her plans. SHIP OF MONSTERS is quite a good time and is another old-timey low-budget flick that seems like it would be ripe for riffing, yet I don't think any of the MSR3K acts ever did it. One reason might be that (to my knowledge) it was never dubbed (I watched it w/ subs). The other reason, though, is that it might be too good for the Riff-folks. It often looks cheap like lots of 50s/60s American genre flicks, and it's full of Bad Movie tropes - an obnoxious hero, pointless musical numbers, a cute child sidekick, and ludicrous SFX. However SHIP OF MONSTERS somehow turns all of those vices into virtues: the hero is quite self-consciously obnoxious (ala a Bruce Campbell type), the kid sidekick can barely stomach the hero's antics, the songs comment on the hero's ridiculous attitudes, etc.
And the monsters!!! They're clearly handmade from used junk laying around the Mexican movie studio... yet they're handmade from used junk with love. They look hilarious and yet a little scary and gross too and I never got sick of looking at them or hearing their over-the-top voices. I couldn't make better (funny, absurd) space monsters from random junk and I bet most of you couldn't either. And if you're gonna' make a movie titled SHIP OF MONSTERS....... well, mission accomplished, Mexico!
3.5/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you doing right n...
Last post by LilCerberus - February 03, 2026, 06:18:54 PMsipping orange juice, waiting for a plumber.....
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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by FatFreddysCat - February 03, 2026, 05:10:44 PMI had the day off from work today and was suffering from major winter-induced cabin fever, so I took a much needed trip to the second hand shop...walked out with this stack for a hair over $20 so I'll be spinning these for the next few days:
Henry Rollins - The Boxed Life 2CD (spoken word)
Cheap Trick - All Shook Up
Queensryche - Hear in the Now Frontier and Frequency Unknown
Whitesnake - Slide It In
Henry Rollins - The Boxed Life 2CD (spoken word)
Cheap Trick - All Shook Up
Queensryche - Hear in the Now Frontier and Frequency Unknown
Whitesnake - Slide It In
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