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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by zombie no.one - April 19, 2026, 02:42:21 PMHEART EYES (2025)
dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear. a slasher that looks and feels like it was made by a bunch of people whose only frame of reference is AI generated Youtube shorts about makeup, SEX & THE CITY, and pop rap videos of the 2020s. not 'badly made', but tonally just abysmal from every angle. left a bad taste in my brain. that's the real horror. they got my money. they win. they win.
dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear. a slasher that looks and feels like it was made by a bunch of people whose only frame of reference is AI generated Youtube shorts about makeup, SEX & THE CITY, and pop rap videos of the 2020s. not 'badly made', but tonally just abysmal from every angle. left a bad taste in my brain. that's the real horror. they got my money. they win. they win.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - April 19, 2026, 02:41:35 PMHaving now seen a handfiul of Pasolinis, I must lean uncomfortably towards the position that SALO is the best of those. It was the first Pasolini I saw and @ the time I thought it was the most horrible thing ever. Honestly it's pretty well-written, acted, and directed, and it makes a cogent statement, even if I need never watch the torture scenes again. The second was PORCILE, which is interesting though it doesn't add up to much. TEOREMA is like PORCILE but worse, I think - interesting ideas that are waaay underbaked. Then I've seen a couple that are as bad as DECAMERON. I will probably keep trying now and then to find one I can admire more than SALO....... which, you know, is a film to be justly rejected and abhorred, not admired!
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - April 19, 2026, 01:42:36 PM"Ava" (2020)
A female black-ops assassin (Jessica Chastain) is targeted for elimination by her employers after an assignment goes wrong. Lots of ultra violence ensues.
This action/drama has its fair share of butt kicking and an impressive supporting cast that includes Colin Farrell, Geena Davis, and John Malkovich, but the flick is saddled with an overly familiar plot and a lead character who's not very likable, so it's hard to root for her. If you're in the mood for a girl-powered action flick, skip this and re-watch "Atomic Blonde" instead.
A female black-ops assassin (Jessica Chastain) is targeted for elimination by her employers after an assignment goes wrong. Lots of ultra violence ensues.
This action/drama has its fair share of butt kicking and an impressive supporting cast that includes Colin Farrell, Geena Davis, and John Malkovich, but the flick is saddled with an overly familiar plot and a lead character who's not very likable, so it's hard to root for her. If you're in the mood for a girl-powered action flick, skip this and re-watch "Atomic Blonde" instead.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by sprite75 - April 19, 2026, 01:01:52 PMOne of these days I'm going to make Tzatziki either for church coffee hour or a family party. I had some while I was in Greece and it was really good. I <3 Greek food.
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Rev. Powell - April 19, 2026, 10:49:50 AMDECAMERON is the weakest of that Pasolini trilogy. CANTERBURY TALES has one cool scene. ARABIAN NIGHTS is the best but none of them are great. I find Pasolini pretty overrated; TEOREMA is pretty good, and the basic plot has been imitated many times, but outside of that... eh.
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Movie Reviews / Re: Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Last post by Sitting Duck - April 19, 2026, 08:02:43 AMRoundtable on favorite movie songs.
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/04/18/mutant-roundtable-what-are-some-of-our-favorite-movie-songs/
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/04/18/mutant-roundtable-what-are-some-of-our-favorite-movie-songs/
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - April 19, 2026, 01:51:31 AMQuote from: M.10rda on April 18, 2026, 03:07:22 PMI watched DECAMERON last year or the year prior and I hated it, too. I think I rated it 1/5 or 0.5/5. My review was much more cruel than yours! However -Quote from: Dr. Whom on April 18, 2026, 03:09:01 AMIl Decameron (1971)
These stories could be very funny, if done with a slapstick Benny Hill/Carry On approach.
I didn't intend to be mean. I was just talking about the source material. Way back, when I was taking my degree in Medieval History I did a course on Chaucer's fabliaux, so I read a number of them. These are rowdy knockabout farces very much in the spirit of Benny Hill or 70s sex comedies. So if you adapt them, it should be in this spirit, and not try to make Serious Art.
It is what I like to call the Carl Orff effect. If you read the Carmina Burana, you find that they are very frivolous: about students partying, and chasing girls, or spending all their money on drink and pleading with their patron not to cut them off. Yet if you hear the orchestration of Orff, you might be forgiven for thinking that the end of the world had arrived.
.......That line is a masterpiece of meanness - I salute you!It's funny 'cause it's true, too. Watching BH or CO would be more "fun" than this Pasolini arthouse movie!