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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:57:01 AMCopilot created this one but strangely carried over the 2-headed figure from the last one. Then, when I tried to get it to re-do it without the 2-headed guy, it refused to make anything "Satanic." So apparently Satanic posters are fair game only as long as they include 2-headed people.
#13
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Moron destroys Pretoria's ...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 06:16:26 AMI went there this morning. Place is closed, no lights on and almost all the tenants have been kicked out.
Newspaper reports state that the premises have been put up for sale. 😔
Newspaper reports state that the premises have been put up for sale. 😔
#14
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - Today at 04:51:31 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on Today at 01:39:43 AMYeah, I know the type. The kind of chap who will pick up a stand, look at it closely, put it back and say something like 'wrong kind of mud for Italy'
I have actually once heard someone say those very words.
So Iran and the US have a ceasefire in place. I can't imagine that Iran is actually expecting the US to hold to it since they did attack during negotiations previously, an action used by a villains in Star Trek. So far it is hard to see anything else but Iran as in the lead. Yeah, they've lost some senior figures, but they replaced them quickly and had some infrastructure damaged. The attacks have solidified the government's control over the country during a time when it was looking a bit shaky due to internal protests. They've paralysed the world by seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz. If they are able to gain total control over it in a theoretical peace treaty, then it is a huge win. PR wise. they've came out on top ever since the strikes took out a school full of kids. The US has had weaknesses in its military exposed and has been made to look weak in its supply lines in a way I can guarantee China is taking a very close interest in. They really need to quit looking at these super high-tech bits of kit that have very long production times. Long-term allies are stepping away from the US, turning away from buying its weapons and considering closing down its bases on its soil while Iran has been able to attract new allies and move closer to existing ones.
I am trying quite hard, but I am struggling to find any ways in which the US has come out on top in this conflict. Body count wise I guess? There is some arguement over wither or not Iran was developing a nuclear weapon, but I am pretty sure if they hadn't decided before they will now regardless of what treaty promises they might make. If they think having those is the only way they can guarantee their own regime safety then they'll have them sooner rather than later. Then again, they may just decide based on this experience that an isolated USA isn't that much of a threat. Not counting the total cost of the war, they've lost around 3.5 billion dollars of aircraft alone, much of that on a rescue mission that the official story on has more plot holes than the wildest action movie.
Doubtless trump will be crowing about how he has solved the whole oil crisis that he started. What I am watching is to see if countries start formally moving away from the petrodollar. If that happens, then life is going to get a lot harder for the average American. Oil transactions worldwide being carried out in dollars is an underpinning strength of the currency. If it loses that, it'll lose strength against other currencies and go down in value. This will, in turn, lead to inflation increasing domestically as the US tries to service its loans. Bearing in mind that the level of national debt has reached the point where the USA is now technically insolvent, it would all result in it being much harder to get more loans and more painful to pay the debt they already have.
Pretty much the economics you'd expect from a man who went bankrupt 6 times (so far).
Maybe the war will go hot again once the ceasefire expires (or maybe it'll be broken. I'd say its an even 50/50 either way) and change the facts on the ground.
Kristi had to go up to Aberdeen yesterday for a biopsy. Got a couple of weeks to wait before we get the results from that and her chemo treatment is suspended until we have them. Since she was only due to have one more treatment in this set I am not sure that makes sense, but whatever. She'd to leave early in the morning and didn't get back home until after 22:00 last night. We'd taken Ash trainspotting in Edinburgh for the day before that. He was dancing from one side of the bridge he watches from and got super excited when he saw the Royal Scot, a train that a ticket on, costs around £9000 each. Even if I did have that money spare, I wouldn't be spending it on a train trip. Anyway, the accumulated excitement did get a bit much for him and we had the inevitable meltdown today. Dealt with it, and he is happily playing with his trains just now.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:39:43 AMYeah, I know the type. The kind of chap who will pick up a stand, look at it closely, put it back and say something like 'wrong kind of mud for Italy'
As for Napoleonics, there are those who painstakingly reconstruct the various regulations, and then you see contemporary sketches or pamphlets, and you realise that the soldier's kit depicted consists of the last three regulations jumbled together.
I tend to have both Horse and Musket and other stuff in production at the same time, so that depending on my mood I can go for uniforms or do more flamboyant things like landsknechts. Keeps me from going mad.
As for Napoleonics, there are those who painstakingly reconstruct the various regulations, and then you see contemporary sketches or pamphlets, and you realise that the soldier's kit depicted consists of the last three regulations jumbled together.
I tend to have both Horse and Musket and other stuff in production at the same time, so that depending on my mood I can go for uniforms or do more flamboyant things like landsknechts. Keeps me from going mad.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - April 07, 2026, 09:26:16 PM
#19
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - April 07, 2026, 06:19:01 PM^^^Thanks, Doc.
AGE OF ILLUSIONS (1965):
This was an odd way to begin the month. Possibly
the first feature by Eastern European director Istvan Szabo (who later directed better known Western and English-language flicks), this very much feels like a product of the mid-60s and the work of a young/first-time 60s director. Four swingin' young "engineers"/bachelors run amok in urban Czechoslovakia, as if being an "engineer" was the next coolest thing to being the Beatles. 
Indeed sometimes AGE OF ILLUSIONS feels very explicitly influenced by A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, at least when it isn't feeling explicitly influenced by JULES ET JIM or by Godard's early rom-coms. 
The four dark-haired dudes occasionally even frolic wackily in slightly sped-up motion. They all dress and basically look the same in wide shots, and it took me about fifteen minutes to begin distinguishing one from the other. Finally the film settles in to focus on just one "engineer" and the other three fade into the background. (Phew! 
)
At that point, the main engineer starts dating one young professional girl after another, comparing each of them to a smart lawyer lass he once saw on the news. (Of course none of them match up to his fantasy lady.) At last he runs into the lawyer in person and they start dating. You can imagine how that goes. Okay - the lawyer is played by a compelling actress (who I've never heard of) and for that matter the other girls are well-written and portrayed, too - but another small issue is, the female characters also are all dark(ish)-haired women of identical builds w/ practically identical hairstyles who all talk and behave in very similar ways. I actually thought they maybe all were played by the same actress - until two of the girls appeared in the same shot together, which startled me! So the, uhh, extreme similarity may be an error, or intentional on Szabo's part, or reflective of his... prejudiced perspective on ladies?
I'm doing a poor job selling AGE OF ILLUSION as a good film, but actually I enjoyed it. It isn't as funny as the early, funny [sic] Godards but it's less irritating than those films and much much less grating than JULES ET JIM, which I never got on with at all. The main engineer (who looks a bit like Stuart Murdoch or a pre-afro Art Garfunkel) is a rather shiftless nebbish, but he isn't a bad guy and you can sort of relate to him and his foibles. The end of AGE OF ILLUSIONS actually delivers a moral that feels authentic and wise for twentysomethings, or even older folks.
3/5
AGE OF ILLUSIONS (1965):
This was an odd way to begin the month. Possibly
the first feature by Eastern European director Istvan Szabo (who later directed better known Western and English-language flicks), this very much feels like a product of the mid-60s and the work of a young/first-time 60s director. Four swingin' young "engineers"/bachelors run amok in urban Czechoslovakia, as if being an "engineer" was the next coolest thing to being the Beatles. Indeed sometimes AGE OF ILLUSIONS feels very explicitly influenced by A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, at least when it isn't feeling explicitly influenced by JULES ET JIM or by Godard's early rom-coms. The four dark-haired dudes occasionally even frolic wackily in slightly sped-up motion. They all dress and basically look the same in wide shots, and it took me about fifteen minutes to begin distinguishing one from the other. Finally the film settles in to focus on just one "engineer" and the other three fade into the background. (Phew! )At that point, the main engineer starts dating one young professional girl after another, comparing each of them to a smart lawyer lass he once saw on the news. (Of course none of them match up to his fantasy lady.) At last he runs into the lawyer in person and they start dating. You can imagine how that goes. Okay - the lawyer is played by a compelling actress (who I've never heard of) and for that matter the other girls are well-written and portrayed, too - but another small issue is, the female characters also are all dark(ish)-haired women of identical builds w/ practically identical hairstyles who all talk and behave in very similar ways. I actually thought they maybe all were played by the same actress - until two of the girls appeared in the same shot together, which startled me! So the, uhh, extreme similarity may be an error, or intentional on Szabo's part, or reflective of his... prejudiced perspective on ladies?
I'm doing a poor job selling AGE OF ILLUSION as a good film, but actually I enjoyed it. It isn't as funny as the early, funny [sic] Godards but it's less irritating than those films and much much less grating than JULES ET JIM, which I never got on with at all. The main engineer (who looks a bit like Stuart Murdoch or a pre-afro Art Garfunkel) is a rather shiftless nebbish, but he isn't a bad guy and you can sort of relate to him and his foibles. The end of AGE OF ILLUSIONS actually delivers a moral that feels authentic and wise for twentysomethings, or even older folks.
3/5
#20
Humorous Captions / Re: JC Yul
Last post by Rev. Powell - April 07, 2026, 04:57:50 PMQuote from: sprite75 on April 07, 2026, 04:39:26 PM
It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A!