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#11
Off Topic Discussion / Re: The Random Crap From Aroun...
Last post by lester1/2jr - April 14, 2026, 11:42:31 PMI really liked the original Electra woman and Dyna Girl TV show.
#12
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by indianasmith - April 14, 2026, 07:36:46 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on April 13, 2026, 10:04:21 AMQuote from: indianasmith on April 12, 2026, 06:38:42 PMI don't know how to do any of this AI stuff, but could one of you please do a poster for
EXPLODING COWS FROM MARS?
If you have a windows 11 computer, you have CoPilot (it's also available for Windows 10). I just asked it "make me a poster for the fake movie 'Exploding Cows from Mars'" You can customize your request with specific styles or items you want included on the poster.
Thank you so much!!!
#15
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by lester1/2jr - April 14, 2026, 03:41:53 PMI remember that movie as being particularly over the top. Tierney was infamously cast in a lot of stinkers. Certainly "The Shanghai Gesture" comes to mind.
#16
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - April 14, 2026, 03:26:35 PMDark Eyes of London (1939) aka Human Monster - This has elements of Dracula and Bowery at Midnight and I would definitely see both of those first, but it was not boring and I enjoyed watching it.
Bela Lugosi is, as in Bowery at Midnight, a fake philanthropist, who uses a home for the blind as a base for his nefarious nefariousness. He has the brutal cult leader persona from Dracula and his secretary's blank countenance reminded me immediately of one of Dracula's wives.
1939 is early enough for it to have some of that awesome early horror energy, though. Some of the scenes toward the end are definitely "shocking for it's time" . Norwegian blonde Greta Gynt was an excellent choice as the main protagonist, besides of the police.
Lugosi was evil, Gynt was pretty, and I liked all the blind people being part of the story.
4.5 /5
It's not quite a classic and some of the plot stuff was a little silly, but lots of memorable imagery and dark (real life dark, not guys in cloaks) vibes.
Bela Lugosi is, as in Bowery at Midnight, a fake philanthropist, who uses a home for the blind as a base for his nefarious nefariousness. He has the brutal cult leader persona from Dracula and his secretary's blank countenance reminded me immediately of one of Dracula's wives.
1939 is early enough for it to have some of that awesome early horror energy, though. Some of the scenes toward the end are definitely "shocking for it's time" . Norwegian blonde Greta Gynt was an excellent choice as the main protagonist, besides of the police.
Lugosi was evil, Gynt was pretty, and I liked all the blind people being part of the story.
4.5 /5
It's not quite a classic and some of the plot stuff was a little silly, but lots of memorable imagery and dark (real life dark, not guys in cloaks) vibes.
#17
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - April 14, 2026, 01:03:33 PMLEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945):
Produced by Daryl Zanuck, this is a good example of the problem I have to one degree or another with many movies from the 1940s. It looks great in all regards, is performed competently, and feels like a compelling, significant film - but at some point I realized I had simply no idea what was happening or why.
A portentous prologue segues us into a feature-length flashback where the implausibly lovely and glamorous Gene Tierney meets (and negs) kinda' goofy novelist Cornel Wilde but then apparently falls in love with him anyway after she discovers he's famous, marries him and agrees to care for his invalid brother, and lets him knock her up. All of this takes an hour or more of screen time and (in spite of Tierney's allure) eventually grows stultifying. Zanuck and company must've recognized this, because midway through Tierney is abruptly revealed to be a secret sociopath and characters begin having unexpected accidents.
Okay, now we have a plot, at least - except, again, each new development feels like the screenwriters were making them up spontaneously over cocktails. The film culminates in a long courtroom trial which feels very much besides the point because Tierney isn't the one on trial and isn't even in this climactic sequence. 
Then we're back in "the present" and the whole framing sequence serves to just tack on a seemingly perfunctory romantic happy ending.
Tierney is admittedly pretty good as a cold-blooded reptilian (a role she essayed in the similarly long and pointless RAZOR'S EDGE around the same time) and her LAURA co-star Vincent Price (amusingly sans moustache) shows up as the prosecutor. In the 50s and 60s Wilde would recreate himself as a proto-action hero in a handful of wild (heh) self-directed vanity projects, but he's kind of wimpy in this. The sets, locations, hair and wardrobe, et all do look lovely (the print I watched was in sometimes appealing, sometimes fugly color, but maybe it was colorized after the fact in the 80s or something). But the whole undertaking is neither fish nor fowl - not a thriller, not actually romantic, not compelling beyond one's passing curiosity about where the plot may be headed (nowhere, as it turns out).
Best I can tell, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN was an expensive excuse to nominally make something called a Hollywood Studio Picture so that audiences could pay to sit in front of it for two hours and then leave and claim to have seen it. 2.5/5 I felt empty at the end.
Produced by Daryl Zanuck, this is a good example of the problem I have to one degree or another with many movies from the 1940s. It looks great in all regards, is performed competently, and feels like a compelling, significant film - but at some point I realized I had simply no idea what was happening or why.
A portentous prologue segues us into a feature-length flashback where the implausibly lovely and glamorous Gene Tierney meets (and negs) kinda' goofy novelist Cornel Wilde but then apparently falls in love with him anyway after she discovers he's famous, marries him and agrees to care for his invalid brother, and lets him knock her up. All of this takes an hour or more of screen time and (in spite of Tierney's allure) eventually grows stultifying. Zanuck and company must've recognized this, because midway through Tierney is abruptly revealed to be a secret sociopath and characters begin having unexpected accidents.
Okay, now we have a plot, at least - except, again, each new development feels like the screenwriters were making them up spontaneously over cocktails. The film culminates in a long courtroom trial which feels very much besides the point because Tierney isn't the one on trial and isn't even in this climactic sequence. Then we're back in "the present" and the whole framing sequence serves to just tack on a seemingly perfunctory romantic happy ending. Tierney is admittedly pretty good as a cold-blooded reptilian (a role she essayed in the similarly long and pointless RAZOR'S EDGE around the same time) and her LAURA co-star Vincent Price (amusingly sans moustache) shows up as the prosecutor. In the 50s and 60s Wilde would recreate himself as a proto-action hero in a handful of wild (heh) self-directed vanity projects, but he's kind of wimpy in this. The sets, locations, hair and wardrobe, et all do look lovely (the print I watched was in sometimes appealing, sometimes fugly color, but maybe it was colorized after the fact in the 80s or something). But the whole undertaking is neither fish nor fowl - not a thriller, not actually romantic, not compelling beyond one's passing curiosity about where the plot may be headed (nowhere, as it turns out).
Best I can tell, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN was an expensive excuse to nominally make something called a Hollywood Studio Picture so that audiences could pay to sit in front of it for two hours and then leave and claim to have seen it. 2.5/5 I felt empty at the end.
#18
Off Topic Discussion / Re: The Random Crap From Aroun...
Last post by LilCerberus - April 14, 2026, 11:10:06 AMWATCH: Interviewers have creative new way to filter out North Korean spies applying for tech jobs
https://notthebee.com/article/job-interviewers-come-up-with-the-absolute-best-way-to-filter-out-north-koreans-spies-applying-to-tech-positions
https://notthebee.com/article/job-interviewers-come-up-with-the-absolute-best-way-to-filter-out-north-koreans-spies-applying-to-tech-positions
#19
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Trevor - April 14, 2026, 11:02:05 AMTHE WOMAN IN BLACK (1989)
F*****g hell 😳😳😳😳😳😳
F*****g hell 😳😳😳😳😳😳
#20
Good Movies / Re: London After Midnight
Last post by M.10rda - April 14, 2026, 09:41:31 AMThe ratio of preserved silents to lost silents generally is staggering. I realize filmmaking was only 2-3 decades old but producers and distributors were crazy careless with that stuff. I mean, same w/ archival video through the 60s and 70s (lost DOCTOR WHOs et al). Totally wild that people figured no one would ever care to watch those things ever again.
While looking for LAM info I also learned that PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC was "lost" until 1981. (I was 4yo, so for my purposes it had never been lost, obv.) That's crazy - POJOA is almost certainly the greatest film of the silent era - or at least the greatest one we can watch today. Who knows if there's one that's just as good or better but is locked in a custodial closet in another Norwegian mental hospital?
old but producers and distributors were crazy careless with that stuff. I mean, same w/ archival video through the 60s and 70s (lost DOCTOR WHOs et al). Totally wild that people figured no one would ever care to watch those things ever again. While looking for LAM info I also learned that PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC was "lost" until 1981. (I was 4yo, so for my purposes it had never been lost, obv.) That's crazy - POJOA is almost certainly the greatest film of the silent era - or at least the greatest one we can watch today. Who knows if there's one that's just as good or better but is locked in a custodial closet in another Norwegian mental hospital?