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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:54:03 PMI really like the original CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH 
though I agree that SPLATTER UNIVERSITY is quite bad. (CON'EH is co-directed by Lloyd Kaufman, and SU isn't.) I'm sorry - I even like CON'EH more than I liked
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955):
...Directed by Sam Fuller, who I know I should admire and revere more than I admire and revere Kaufman,
and I keep trying w/ his films. A mortally wounded ex-GI in post-war Japan is implicated in a violent train heist, and on his deathbed he confesses that *CHOKE* he was secretly married to an Asian broad! 
So undercover dick Robert Stack insinuates himself into the life of the guy's missus, ostensibly to investigate the white gang that's pulling crimes in Japan. Of course Stack gets romantically involved w/ the widow, and of course that plot takes up about twice as much screen time as the crime plot.
I acknowledge that this was progressive - possibly even shocking - for 1955, but (as I often seem to write lately) From A 2026 Perspective........ yeah, meh.
Watching a young Stack doing that Robert Stack thing is rather illuminating: he's almost absurdly chiseled and lantern-jawed and hard boiled, but that's what fifties noirs required and that's what got him his "Unsolved Mysteries" retirement gig, I guess. Robert Ryan, a great actor, has next to nothing to work with as the bad guy - several reviews I've read make great hay of Ryan saving Stack's life at one point, then rhetorically asking Stack and the rest of the gang why he saved Stack's life, and no one including Ryan seems to have much of an idea... which kind of says it all about the screenplay. Cameron Mitchell is fourth-billed as another gang member but you can barely tell as he's only ever shot in wide shots w/ other similar-looking actors playing identical bad guys. Come to think of it, Ryan himself never gets a close-up, only some medium wides and two-shots, and I don't even recall if Stack ever gets a legit close-up. It's that kinda' chilly, impersonal affair.
There is a cool running-from-a-heist scene that might've influenced RESERVOIR DOGS (besides a dozen other films) and the very peculiar finale is a gunfight staged on a diagonal rooftop ferris wheel, where dozens of characters fire countless rounds at each other for several minutes and barely anyone gets hit.
3/5 A curiosity. DeForest Kelley is uncredited yet has a speaking role but I couldn't spot him, but then I could barely spot fourth-billed Mitchell who is onscreen frequently. Fuller himself also supposedly appears as a Japanese patrolman so just as well he's unspottable...
though I agree that SPLATTER UNIVERSITY is quite bad. (CON'EH is co-directed by Lloyd Kaufman, and SU isn't.) I'm sorry - I even like CON'EH more than I liked HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955):
...Directed by Sam Fuller, who I know I should admire and revere more than I admire and revere Kaufman,
and I keep trying w/ his films. A mortally wounded ex-GI in post-war Japan is implicated in a violent train heist, and on his deathbed he confesses that *CHOKE* he was secretly married to an Asian broad! So undercover dick Robert Stack insinuates himself into the life of the guy's missus, ostensibly to investigate the white gang that's pulling crimes in Japan. Of course Stack gets romantically involved w/ the widow, and of course that plot takes up about twice as much screen time as the crime plot.
I acknowledge that this was progressive - possibly even shocking - for 1955, but (as I often seem to write lately) From A 2026 Perspective........ yeah, meh.Watching a young Stack doing that Robert Stack thing is rather illuminating: he's almost absurdly chiseled and lantern-jawed and hard boiled, but that's what fifties noirs required and that's what got him his "Unsolved Mysteries" retirement gig, I guess. Robert Ryan, a great actor, has next to nothing to work with as the bad guy - several reviews I've read make great hay of Ryan saving Stack's life at one point, then rhetorically asking Stack and the rest of the gang why he saved Stack's life, and no one including Ryan seems to have much of an idea... which kind of says it all about the screenplay. Cameron Mitchell is fourth-billed as another gang member but you can barely tell as he's only ever shot in wide shots w/ other similar-looking actors playing identical bad guys. Come to think of it, Ryan himself never gets a close-up, only some medium wides and two-shots, and I don't even recall if Stack ever gets a legit close-up. It's that kinda' chilly, impersonal affair.
There is a cool running-from-a-heist scene that might've influenced RESERVOIR DOGS (besides a dozen other films) and the very peculiar finale is a gunfight staged on a diagonal rooftop ferris wheel, where dozens of characters fire countless rounds at each other for several minutes and barely anyone gets hit.
3/5 A curiosity. DeForest Kelley is uncredited yet has a speaking role but I couldn't spot him, but then I could barely spot fourth-billed Mitchell who is onscreen frequently. Fuller himself also supposedly appears as a Japanese patrolman
so just as well he's unspottable... #3
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - Today at 04:50:31 PM"Splatter University" (1984)
A new instructor at a small private college is targeted by the same psycho killer who murdered her predecessor. Yes, that's the whole plot.
Extremely cheap slasher junk with a couple of decently gory kills but not much else. Distributed by Troma and directed by the guy who would go on to do "Class of Nuke'Em High," to give you an idea of the level of filmmaking we're dealing with.
In other words ... AVOID.
A new instructor at a small private college is targeted by the same psycho killer who murdered her predecessor. Yes, that's the whole plot.
Extremely cheap slasher junk with a couple of decently gory kills but not much else. Distributed by Troma and directed by the guy who would go on to do "Class of Nuke'Em High," to give you an idea of the level of filmmaking we're dealing with.
In other words ... AVOID.
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Bad Movies / Re: How many of these Dracula'...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 01:07:13 PMJust a couple of the easiest ones to get you started. You can copy/paste this grid with your own additions.
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5 Count Duckula
A6
A7
A8
A9 Count Chockula
A10
B1
B2
B3 Nicolas Cage
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9
B10
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
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D10
E1
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
E10
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5 Zhang Wei-Qiang from "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" (OK, not an easy one)
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10
G1 Leslie Nielsen
G2
G3
G4
G5 Gary Oldman
G6
G7
G8
G9
G10
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7 George Hamilton
H8 Klaus Kisnki
H9
H10
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
I6
I7
I8 Zandor Vorkov
I9
I10
J1
J2
J3 Christopher Lee
J4
J5
J6
J7
J8
J9 Bela Lugosi
J10 Max Schreck
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5 Count Duckula
A6
A7
A8
A9 Count Chockula
A10
B1
B2
B3 Nicolas Cage
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9
B10
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D8
D9
D10
E1
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
E10
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5 Zhang Wei-Qiang from "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" (OK, not an easy one)
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10
G1 Leslie Nielsen
G2
G3
G4
G5 Gary Oldman
G6
G7
G8
G9
G10
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7 George Hamilton
H8 Klaus Kisnki
H9
H10
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
I6
I7
I8 Zandor Vorkov
I9
I10
J1
J2
J3 Christopher Lee
J4
J5
J6
J7
J8
J9 Bela Lugosi
J10 Max Schreck
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:42:21 PM