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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Jim H - Today at 12:05:17 AMStarted watching a new horror series for my usual 31+ Halloween season horror movie watches.
Leprechaun 1 - Hadn't seen this since the 90s. Wow what a stinker. Just, so bad. Many scenes feel like a rough cut they're so badly put together, especially early on when often there is no music in a "temp track" kind of way. Never scary, almost never funny, and often kind of annoying. Not clever at all with any ideas really. Jennifer Aniston is there, that's about all you can say. I like how her father gets injured halfway through the film and is then never seen again.
Leprechaun 2 - Not great, but a SIGNIFICANT step up. Much better direction, visually stronger. Occasionally funny and a bit more clever with Leprechaun things. It's still not very good. Just not a lot to say.
Leprechaun 3 - A large step up from the first two, and genuinely pretty funny and consistently entertaining. Brian Trenchard-Smith taking over as director is probably almost all of it really, but at a basic level the writing is better too. To give an idea of what I mean about Trenchard-Smith, there's a bit where the Leprechaun gets picked up and thrown out a window. There's stuff like that in the first two often done by just showing the Leprechaun fall back out of frame - but in this one it cuts to a wide shot of an obvious dummy in a Leprechaun costume falling like four stories onto concrete. If you know B-movies, you know this is almost always an entertaining gag. Trenchard-Smith gets it. For something similar, there are like three separate times a character just grabs an object and throws it at the Leprechaun and hits him in the head in a wideshot. It's dumb, but entertaining.
There's other small bits, like just setting it in Vegas was smart, and there's a couple of side characters that get amusing moments just to have them, like the two goons talking about underwear. Oh, and the two leads are actually relatively likable, something the first two films fail at.
Lastly, I did not previously realize that almost all of these movies apparently do not share continuity with each other. They don't even try to link up the ending of each film to the next one. And really, that's fine for these, it lets them do whatever the hell they feel like each time.
Leprechaun 1 - Hadn't seen this since the 90s. Wow what a stinker. Just, so bad. Many scenes feel like a rough cut they're so badly put together, especially early on when often there is no music in a "temp track" kind of way. Never scary, almost never funny, and often kind of annoying. Not clever at all with any ideas really. Jennifer Aniston is there, that's about all you can say. I like how her father gets injured halfway through the film and is then never seen again.
Leprechaun 2 - Not great, but a SIGNIFICANT step up. Much better direction, visually stronger. Occasionally funny and a bit more clever with Leprechaun things. It's still not very good. Just not a lot to say.
Leprechaun 3 - A large step up from the first two, and genuinely pretty funny and consistently entertaining. Brian Trenchard-Smith taking over as director is probably almost all of it really, but at a basic level the writing is better too. To give an idea of what I mean about Trenchard-Smith, there's a bit where the Leprechaun gets picked up and thrown out a window. There's stuff like that in the first two often done by just showing the Leprechaun fall back out of frame - but in this one it cuts to a wide shot of an obvious dummy in a Leprechaun costume falling like four stories onto concrete. If you know B-movies, you know this is almost always an entertaining gag. Trenchard-Smith gets it. For something similar, there are like three separate times a character just grabs an object and throws it at the Leprechaun and hits him in the head in a wideshot. It's dumb, but entertaining.
There's other small bits, like just setting it in Vegas was smart, and there's a couple of side characters that get amusing moments just to have them, like the two goons talking about underwear. Oh, and the two leads are actually relatively likable, something the first two films fail at.
Lastly, I did not previously realize that almost all of these movies apparently do not share continuity with each other. They don't even try to link up the ending of each film to the next one. And really, that's fine for these, it lets them do whatever the hell they feel like each time.
#12
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 10, 2026, 09:06:28 PMTonight's Stinker
Princess of the Nile(1954)
https://youtu.be/xO_m-FNfe9o?si=pyuGRgcisnflHYiE
In the year 1249, the city of Hanwan, Egypt is overrun with Bedouins as a Persian prince stops for a visit... Debra Paget is leading a double life as an Egyptian princess & a dancer at a bar, while a shaman keeps her father doped just enough to cooperate with the Bedouin chief....
While escorting the prince through the streets, a riot breaks out, the Bedouin chief takes the opportunity to kill the prince's friend in hopes of getting permission to kill more Egyptians, but the princess sees him....
The prince finds out, but is alone against the Bedouins, so he gains the help of all the town's thieves....
Just over an hour long, fairly amusing.... Confusing at first, as you have modern American actors trying to speak in medieval vernacular.... Lots of goofy sword fights, & a few good excuses to show Debra Paget dancing in skimpy outfits....
Princess of the Nile(1954)
https://youtu.be/xO_m-FNfe9o?si=pyuGRgcisnflHYiE
In the year 1249, the city of Hanwan, Egypt is overrun with Bedouins as a Persian prince stops for a visit... Debra Paget is leading a double life as an Egyptian princess & a dancer at a bar, while a shaman keeps her father doped just enough to cooperate with the Bedouin chief....
While escorting the prince through the streets, a riot breaks out, the Bedouin chief takes the opportunity to kill the prince's friend in hopes of getting permission to kill more Egyptians, but the princess sees him....
The prince finds out, but is alone against the Bedouins, so he gains the help of all the town's thieves....
Just over an hour long, fairly amusing.... Confusing at first, as you have modern American actors trying to speak in medieval vernacular.... Lots of goofy sword fights, & a few good excuses to show Debra Paget dancing in skimpy outfits....
#13
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 10, 2026, 09:04:21 PMMIDNIGHT FACES (1926):
Oh boy, another silent horror movie that's barely a horror movie. This is the "Old Dark House" subgenre of people hanging around an old spooky mansion counter-intuitively. (As usual, there's an inheritance at stake.) A damsel in distress is pursued into the mansion (not out of it) by a Fu Manchu-alike with a large knife, but inside the mansion there's a guy dressed like the Shadow menacing folks, and also there's a supposedly paralyzed invalid in a wheelchair who I instantly knew would be up to no good.
Also, surprisingly, the bland white guy lead has a wisecracking yet danger-averse black sidekick/chauffeur of the Mantan Moreland variety. I didn't think that was a trope until the mid-30s but here he is. That stock character is usually my favorite character in any old movie in which he appears, because he's the only character who's reacting to the scenario in a semi-plausible and sane way. But the character loses something when his wisecracks are delivered via intertitle instead of aloud on the soundtrack.
I might've been paying less than totally close attention to MIDNIGHT FACES but I am relatively sure the twist at the end makes little or no sense. However, I didn't hate this movie. The male lead does get in an enthusiastic fistfight w/ the Shadow at the end, which carries on for something like ten minutes
and travels from the basement up two floors and then out a window on to the roof...!
2.5/5 The Mantan Moreland character is played by a real African American, fortunately. However, Fu Manchu is played by a white guy.
Oh boy, another silent horror movie that's barely a horror movie. This is the "Old Dark House" subgenre of people hanging around an old spooky mansion counter-intuitively. (As usual, there's an inheritance at stake.) A damsel in distress is pursued into the mansion (not out of it) by a Fu Manchu-alike with a large knife, but inside the mansion there's a guy dressed like the Shadow menacing folks, and also there's a supposedly paralyzed invalid in a wheelchair who I instantly knew would be up to no good.
Also, surprisingly, the bland white guy lead has a wisecracking yet danger-averse black sidekick/chauffeur of the Mantan Moreland variety. I didn't think that was a trope until the mid-30s but here he is. That stock character is usually my favorite character in any old movie in which he appears, because he's the only character who's reacting to the scenario in a semi-plausible and sane way. But the character loses something when his wisecracks are delivered via intertitle instead of aloud on the soundtrack.
I might've been paying less than totally close attention to MIDNIGHT FACES but I am relatively sure the twist at the end makes little or no sense. However, I didn't hate this movie. The male lead does get in an enthusiastic fistfight w/ the Shadow at the end, which carries on for something like ten minutes
and travels from the basement up two floors and then out a window on to the roof...! 2.5/5 The Mantan Moreland character is played by a real African American, fortunately. However, Fu Manchu is played by a white guy.
#14
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - October 10, 2026, 08:42:22 PM"Demons 2" (1986)
Those pesky Demons are back and this time they're escaping out of TV screens to invade a luxury high rise apartment building. Once again, gory action packed mayhem ensues.
Lanberto Bava's sequel to his 1985 surprise hit has even less plot than the first film, but the effects are suitably gross and it moves so fast that you don't have time to think about how silly it is till it's over.
Those pesky Demons are back and this time they're escaping out of TV screens to invade a luxury high rise apartment building. Once again, gory action packed mayhem ensues.
Lanberto Bava's sequel to his 1985 surprise hit has even less plot than the first film, but the effects are suitably gross and it moves so fast that you don't have time to think about how silly it is till it's over.
#15
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by indianasmith - October 10, 2026, 07:18:01 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on October 10, 2026, 03:36:05 PMIt might be easier if you didn't drink a gallon of Dr. Pepper every day.
I only drink Diet Dr. Pepper now.
#16
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by lester1/2jr - October 10, 2026, 03:36:05 PMIt might be easier if you didn't drink a gallon of Dr. Pepper every day.
#17
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - October 10, 2026, 03:33:16 PM
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
What's for sale?
#18
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - October 10, 2026, 03:31:55 PMHuman Centipede (2009) - Well, I girded my loins or whatever and proceeded on with this thingy. In the end, it was kind of a modern version of "I Spit On Your Grave": you could view it as just overtly shocking or as a kind of metaphor of modern life. ISOYG was life chews you up and spits you out, so you have to come back and kick it's ass. Human Centipede is like the government makes us work a billion hours a week and live in tiny living spaces and takes all our money or something.
The Japanese guy was a decently interesting character, the two influencer/ sex worker types less so.
I'm not going to watch the sequel where they make a 50 person human centipede or something.
4.5/ 5
The Japanese guy was a decently interesting character, the two influencer/ sex worker types less so.
I'm not going to watch the sequel where they make a 50 person human centipede or something.
4.5/ 5
#20
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Alex - October 10, 2026, 12:58:34 PM51. JFK: What the Doctors Saw.