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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:39:43 AMMATADOR BOLERO (2026): An actress' murder may be linked to a super-intelligent quantum AI computer. The plot here isn't rigorous (to say the least) in this experimental film that recreates the look and feel of a late 1960s LSD-inspired Super-8 avant-garde film (a la Andy Warhol) with lots of pretentious voiceovers, superimposed images, kaleidoscopic abstractions, altered voices singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and other successful and semi-successful experiments heaped together without structure. 1.5/5.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 08:25:25 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on June 03, 2026, 09:56:54 AM
Quote from: bob on June 04, 2026, 07:30:47 AM
That's just blatantly trying to get my attention and praise.
I mean, I apprve and all, but I did want you to know I realized what you were doing.
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Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:05:42 AMFinished up Half-Life: Opposing Force. I do not really like endgame bosses who are impossible to defeat without looking up a walkthrough. I never would have figured out the procedure to beat him on my own. Next up: Half Life: Blue Shift, then Half-Life 2.
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Good Movies / Re: 100 THREE-WORD movie title...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 07:53:12 AM79. Is God Is
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Television / Re: THE BOYS has finished its ...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 06:59:48 AMI think your take on Alan Moore is quite fair. 
His run on "Swamp Thing" through issue 50 is one of the greatest runs in comic history. That and V FOR VENDETTA rank up there w/ my favorite comics or prose. I don't think any of his other work comes close, which isn't to say it's bad. WATCHMEN is extraordinarily cynical and the ending infuriated me as a 9-10 year old, too, and for many years after. At this point however I've come to accept that Moore's ending pretty accurately reflects our bleak reality. The guys in charge are amoral lunatics or smugly derelict in their duties, and the only character with any moral clarity is a wingnut who no one takes seriously and who is easily erased from existence.
Yeah, Moore was bitter, and is bitter, and as an old man I have grown every bit as bitter as he is! (At least the HBO sequel ends on a note of hope.)
As per V, I acknowledge a great deal of ambiguity in the text and sense that this was one of your criticisms. For me, the ambiguity is a commendable feature, not a bug. The book is 300+ dense pages w/ dozens of nuanced characters and subplots - it could easily have been an 8-part miniseries or even multiple seasons. The movie is two hours - if it "made more sense" of the narrative, it's because it massively simplified and excised content. I'll stick w/ the book...
But we were talking about THE BOYS, right? That's a whole 'nother lecture, probably... there are plot points from towards the end of the comic that happen at the end of Season 1 of the show. 
It's all mixed up.
PS If you saved those old Warriors, they are worth a farthing or two!
His run on "Swamp Thing" through issue 50 is one of the greatest runs in comic history. That and V FOR VENDETTA rank up there w/ my favorite comics or prose. I don't think any of his other work comes close, which isn't to say it's bad. WATCHMEN is extraordinarily cynical and the ending infuriated me as a 9-10 year old, too, and for many years after. At this point however I've come to accept that Moore's ending pretty accurately reflects our bleak reality. The guys in charge are amoral lunatics or smugly derelict in their duties, and the only character with any moral clarity is a wingnut who no one takes seriously and who is easily erased from existence.
Yeah, Moore was bitter, and is bitter, and as an old man I have grown every bit as bitter as he is! (At least the HBO sequel ends on a note of hope.)As per V, I acknowledge a great deal of ambiguity in the text and sense that this was one of your criticisms. For me, the ambiguity is a commendable feature, not a bug. The book is 300+ dense pages w/ dozens of nuanced characters and subplots - it could easily have been an 8-part miniseries or even multiple seasons. The movie is two hours - if it "made more sense" of the narrative, it's because it massively simplified and excised content. I'll stick w/ the book...
But we were talking about THE BOYS, right?
That's a whole 'nother lecture, probably... there are plot points from towards the end of the comic that happen at the end of Season 1 of the show. It's all mixed up. PS If you saved those old Warriors, they are worth a farthing or two!