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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:44:45 PMChatGPT
copilot
found an 51 in Great Underwater Adventure franchise in my folder for AI movie poster
copilot
found an 51 in Great Underwater Adventure franchise in my folder for AI movie poster
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 03:35:07 PMWhy are my posts not posting? I responded a while back to claws' AI picture above saying that's not really an accurate depiction of how most chile rellenos dishes look. (That looks like a burrito with chiles inside). Looks more like this:
Anyway, my latest was tuna rarebit: simply milk, butter, cheese and tuna served over toasted rye bread.
Anyway, my latest was tuna rarebit: simply milk, butter, cheese and tuna served over toasted rye bread.
#4
Entertainment / Scary lines in books?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 03:03:15 PMFrom FIRST BLOOD
"Preston's alive. Don't know for how long. He's got blood coming out his eyes."
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"Preston's alive. Don't know for how long. He's got blood coming out his eyes."
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:12:10 AMHERETIC (2024):
Cheers to Madame, as this was her second pick for our Friday night double-feature, following THE BOOGEYMAN. Like that film, HERETIC co-stars Sophie Thatcher from COMPANION and "Yellowjackets", and also like BOOGEYMAN, HERETIC appears to receive mostly derision on Letterboxd. I dunno what those reviewers were expecting when they watched this, but fortunately for me I was expecting nothing specifically, as I was only vaguely aware of HERETIC's existence. Perhaps as a result, I was similarly delighted by HERETIC as I was by the completely unassuming BOOGEYMAN.
Two young female Mormon missionaries knock on the door of a remote cottage in the chilly hills of (I'm guessing) Vancouver. Cherubic sexagenarian Hugh Grant opens that door and invites the young ladies in for blueberry pie. Almost immediately the missionaries (and the viewer) would be justified in thinking that Grant is some kind of sinister sex creep. Indeed he may be - but the grand strategy dictating his designs on these girls is far more elliptical, labyrinthine, and occult in at least one connotation of the term. HERETIC is almost two hours long and could have (almost) been a play, as it is primarily dialogue-driven and rarely departs from Grant's home. It's well-written, often surprising, and (imho) quite thought-provoking. And it is a Horror movie - a very 2024/2025 horror movie, which is to say timely and timeless, as IRL we still seem to be endlessly litigating the same old boogeymen from 80 or 800 years ago.
This movie earned Grant a Best Actor nomination last year from the BAFTAs (British Oscar), the Critics Choice awards, and the Golden Globes. I don't pay any attention to the Oscars anymore either but his work seems sturdy enough to have justified an American Academy Award nom, too. Even in a film with two compelling female performances in thoughtful roles, Grant is almost a one-man show. He cleaves a fine hair here, appearing diabolically credible and persuasive on one hand but also allowing for moments of transparent doubt or infirmity. And he gets lots of opportunities to be funny - broadly, irreverently funny like 90s Christopher Walken. Actually it's easy to imagine HERETIC being written some years back with Walken in mind, and fun to speculate what other offbeat candidates read this script and passed on it (Will Ferrell? John Cena? Liam Neeson?
) before it landed in Grant's lap. I think Grant was the right guy for the role.
4/5 Possibly my favorite Grant film since LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM!
Cheers to Madame, as this was her second pick for our Friday night double-feature, following THE BOOGEYMAN. Like that film, HERETIC co-stars Sophie Thatcher from COMPANION and "Yellowjackets", and also like BOOGEYMAN, HERETIC appears to receive mostly derision on Letterboxd. I dunno what those reviewers were expecting when they watched this, but fortunately for me I was expecting nothing specifically, as I was only vaguely aware of HERETIC's existence. Perhaps as a result, I was similarly delighted by HERETIC as I was by the completely unassuming BOOGEYMAN.
Two young female Mormon missionaries knock on the door of a remote cottage in the chilly hills of (I'm guessing) Vancouver. Cherubic sexagenarian Hugh Grant opens that door and invites the young ladies in for blueberry pie. Almost immediately the missionaries (and the viewer) would be justified in thinking that Grant is some kind of sinister sex creep. Indeed he may be - but the grand strategy dictating his designs on these girls is far more elliptical, labyrinthine, and occult in at least one connotation of the term. HERETIC is almost two hours long and could have (almost) been a play, as it is primarily dialogue-driven and rarely departs from Grant's home. It's well-written, often surprising, and (imho) quite thought-provoking. And it is a Horror movie - a very 2024/2025 horror movie, which is to say timely and timeless, as IRL we still seem to be endlessly litigating the same old boogeymen from 80 or 800 years ago.
This movie earned Grant a Best Actor nomination last year from the BAFTAs (British Oscar), the Critics Choice awards, and the Golden Globes. I don't pay any attention to the Oscars anymore either but his work seems sturdy enough to have justified an American Academy Award nom, too. Even in a film with two compelling female performances in thoughtful roles, Grant is almost a one-man show. He cleaves a fine hair here, appearing diabolically credible and persuasive on one hand but also allowing for moments of transparent doubt or infirmity. And he gets lots of opportunities to be funny - broadly, irreverently funny like 90s Christopher Walken. Actually it's easy to imagine HERETIC being written some years back with Walken in mind, and fun to speculate what other offbeat candidates read this script and passed on it (Will Ferrell? John Cena? Liam Neeson?
) before it landed in Grant's lap. I think Grant was the right guy for the role.4/5 Possibly my favorite Grant film since LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM!
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Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 10:09:00 AMTo See Or Not To See
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Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 10:08:14 AMoh well... many sites are getting blocked in England thanks to the 'online safety bill', but I didn't think a simple image hosting site would fall prey.
I gather there's ways around this with something called 'VPN's? but I really don't have the internet savvy for all that stuff
I gather there's ways around this with something called 'VPN's? but I really don't have the internet savvy for all that stuff
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Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:10:57 AM"Uzumaki," anime version. It's a 4-episode series, so really more like a 2-hour movie split into four episodes. The story involves a town invaded by spirals (yes, you read that correctly). It's very irrational. Based on a famous manga by cult author Junjo Ito that was also made into a movie. My research indicated that the first episode was great, and they decline in quality with every new installment--apparently, they ran out of money as they went along due to poor planning. I watched the first two episodes yesterday night, will finish tomorrow. Honestly I didn't think episode 2 was noticeably inferior to episode 1, but I hear 4 is a disaster.
