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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:10:48 AMQuote from: Trevor on June 22, 2026, 01:44:08 PMQuote from: bob on June 21, 2026, 10:11:03 AM
Banned in Louisiana 😄😅 Why there specifically?
I like how even though the poster lists The House Itself as the director your question implies you accept the house as a director as a normal thing
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - June 22, 2026, 09:27:34 PMUnfortunately Kristi's new medication regime is as rough on her as the old one was. She just got in the house after it and had to immediately run to the toilet to throw up.
Ash is engaged. One of the at least three girls who fancies him was round at our house and declared she was going to marry him. Ash's reaction to this was to shrug his shoulders and say whatever. The girls are fighting with each other over him, and there is some bullying going on.
They are only eight years old.
The one who openly declared her intentions lives on the same street as us, and every morning she walks down to our house to walk him to school. He is completely oblivious to all this attention at best. At worst he hates it and wants to be left alone. The girls are pretty relentless though.
There is a local heritage railway and at the weekend they were doing a 1940s weekend. We went along to it. For Ash the highlight was getting to drive a train himself. Going to be tough to find an experience for him that tops that.
I've been on something of a streak of finding terrible movies, and not ones that are bad enough to be enjoyable either. Hopefully I will find some unexpected treasure amongst all the dross.
Ash is engaged. One of the at least three girls who fancies him was round at our house and declared she was going to marry him. Ash's reaction to this was to shrug his shoulders and say whatever. The girls are fighting with each other over him, and there is some bullying going on.
They are only eight years old.
The one who openly declared her intentions lives on the same street as us, and every morning she walks down to our house to walk him to school. He is completely oblivious to all this attention at best. At worst he hates it and wants to be left alone. The girls are pretty relentless though.
There is a local heritage railway and at the weekend they were doing a 1940s weekend. We went along to it. For Ash the highlight was getting to drive a train himself. Going to be tough to find an experience for him that tops that.
I've been on something of a streak of finding terrible movies, and not ones that are bad enough to be enjoyable either. Hopefully I will find some unexpected treasure amongst all the dross.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - June 22, 2026, 08:21:28 PMTHE BELLS (1926):
This is a long, slow, and unexciting 68 minutes, but it is a curio of sorts - a Christmas ghost story with the same name as a Christmas ghost story written by Dickens (but otherwise there's no similarity) and a feelbad flick that predates IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE by 20 years yet stars IAWL co-star Lionel Barrymore as both Mr. Potter and George Bailey.
Barrymore plays a nice-guy innkeeper and small-town politician who runs into a little financial trouble and just, y'know, murders a traveling salesman then takes the guy's money and disposes of his body. 
As You Do, right??? 
Of course the victim's ghost hangs around to make Lionel feel guilty, and then to complicate matters a roving Mesmerist (!) shows up in town and glares forebodingly at Lionel as if he knows the truth...!
This is a weird film that doesn't work, primarily because alternating between presenting Barrymore as a sympathetic everyman and as a larcenous murderer is a huge stretch. At the end the viewer is asked to root for and feel good about Barrymore's retribution and deliverance, as if he was Ebeneezer Scrooge - except Scrooge was just a grumpy miser, not a killer. That said, I do think Barrymore gives a strong performance in a very tricky (or impossible) lead role, just as he did in THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The other highlight of THE BELLS is the Mesmerist, played by....... Boris Karloff! Honestly I didn't detect too much acting going on beneath Karloff's heavy make-up - but the make-up itself....... 
Karloff looks like Willem Dafoe playing Lou Reed disguised as Lon Chaney playing "The Man In The Beaver Hat" from LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. It's quite something. 2.5/5
This is a long, slow, and unexciting 68 minutes, but it is a curio of sorts - a Christmas ghost story with the same name as a Christmas ghost story written by Dickens (but otherwise there's no similarity) and a feelbad flick that predates IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE by 20 years yet stars IAWL co-star Lionel Barrymore as both Mr. Potter and George Bailey.
Barrymore plays a nice-guy innkeeper and small-town politician who runs into a little financial trouble and just, y'know, murders a traveling salesman then takes the guy's money and disposes of his body. As You Do, right??? Of course the victim's ghost hangs around to make Lionel feel guilty, and then to complicate matters a roving Mesmerist (!) shows up in town and glares forebodingly at Lionel as if he knows the truth...! This is a weird film that doesn't work, primarily because alternating between presenting Barrymore as a sympathetic everyman and as a larcenous murderer is a huge stretch. At the end the viewer is asked to root for and feel good about Barrymore's retribution and deliverance, as if he was Ebeneezer Scrooge - except Scrooge was just a grumpy miser, not a killer.
That said, I do think Barrymore gives a strong performance in a very tricky (or impossible) lead role, just as he did in THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The other highlight of THE BELLS is the Mesmerist, played by....... Boris Karloff! Honestly I didn't detect too much acting going on beneath Karloff's heavy make-up - but the make-up itself....... Karloff looks like Willem Dafoe playing Lou Reed disguised as Lon Chaney playing "The Man In The Beaver Hat" from LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. It's quite something. 2.5/5 #6
Movie Reviews / Re: Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Last post by Sitting Duck - June 22, 2026, 08:13:05 PMShark Week has begun at Mutant Reviewers.
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/06/22/welcome-to-mutant-shark-week/
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/06/22/welcome-to-mutant-shark-week/
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - June 22, 2026, 07:37:31 PM"Titan A.E." (2000)
Fifteen years after the destruction of Earth by an alien race, a young man embarks on a mission to find a lost mega-spaceship that could be humanity's last hope for survival.
Don "Secret of NIMH" Bluth directed this ambitious animated sci-fi/action flick which sports an impressive voice cast including Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore, and absolutely gorgeous animation that combines old school hand-drawn art with CGI. Unfortunately "Titan A.E." tanked at the box office, which is a shame because this is some quality stuff. It's worth re-discovery.
Fifteen years after the destruction of Earth by an alien race, a young man embarks on a mission to find a lost mega-spaceship that could be humanity's last hope for survival.
Don "Secret of NIMH" Bluth directed this ambitious animated sci-fi/action flick which sports an impressive voice cast including Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore, and absolutely gorgeous animation that combines old school hand-drawn art with CGI. Unfortunately "Titan A.E." tanked at the box office, which is a shame because this is some quality stuff. It's worth re-discovery.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by Alex - June 22, 2026, 03:09:48 PMHave a great day Leah. I hope everyone around you spoils you the whole time.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Trevor - June 22, 2026, 01:44:08 PMQuote from: bob on June 21, 2026, 10:11:03 AM
Banned in Louisiana 😄😅 Why there specifically?