- Welcome to Badmovies.org Forum.
Recent posts
#11
Good Movies / Re: 98th Academy Awards
Last post by M.10rda - January 23, 2026, 06:33:19 PMI'm happy for some SINNERS noms - wouldn't mind seeing Coogler or Jordan or even Lindo win. I did think WEAPONS was better and (given how much money it made) am a little disappointed to see it only get one nomination - but actually one Oscar nomination for WEAPONS in reality/on planet Earth is kind of fabulous. 
#12
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - January 23, 2026, 06:25:49 PMJIM RIPPLE'S ROBOTS aka LOSS OF SENSATION (1935):
Letterboxd has this listed as "Loss of Feeling" but my print's subtitles translate it as I've titled it from the native Russian. I often expect 20th century Russian movies to be pure Communist propaganda, but sometimes they aren't and sometimes they're propaganda but in a really smart way, as is the case with this extremely prescient sci-fi film.
"Jim" (played by an actor with a strong Conrad Veidt quality) is a young engineering student in a country that looks like Soviet Russia and is socially structured like Soviet Russia but where everyone has a western/Anglo name like "Jim" and where corporate oligarchs still run the show, so I guess it's supposed to represent "the West". Jim is really concerned about all the labor strikes and decides that he's got the solution to all labor/management disputes - he'll just invent worker robots that will do all the hard work for the laborers, so they can relax all day. Surely that'll make the workers happy and the owners happy and everyone will live in peace... right?
Yes, "Jim" is an idealist version of the utopian-minded AI promoters who keep pushing AI on consumers, while his industrial and military benefactors of course realize (as big-tech execs do today) that the inevitable supremacy of AI - err, robot workers means the complete obsolescence of human labor. 
Nevertheless LOSS OF SENSATION proceeds for most of its running time as if the filmmakers are on the side of poor Pollyanna-brained Jim and want the viewers to be on his side, too. This is confusing and frustrating to watch... but it sets up an incredibly satisfying third act and finale, which is basically a dramatization of SkyNet's takeover of Earth, followed by a bunch of John Connors and flipped T-800s risin' up and fightin' back. Yes, in 1935!
Several reviewers on Letterboxd recommend just watching the last half hour. I say the whole movie works - and the ending works better following the first hour. The robots would look pretty good in a movie made in the 1950s and the themes resonate uhhh right now.
4/5 Those Communists knew what was up.
Letterboxd has this listed as "Loss of Feeling" but my print's subtitles translate it as I've titled it from the native Russian. I often expect 20th century Russian movies to be pure Communist propaganda, but sometimes they aren't and sometimes they're propaganda but in a really smart way, as is the case with this extremely prescient sci-fi film.
"Jim" (played by an actor with a strong Conrad Veidt quality) is a young engineering student in a country that looks like Soviet Russia and is socially structured like Soviet Russia but where everyone has a western/Anglo name like "Jim" and where corporate oligarchs still run the show, so I guess it's supposed to represent "the West". Jim is really concerned about all the labor strikes and decides that he's got the solution to all labor/management disputes - he'll just invent worker robots that will do all the hard work for the laborers, so they can relax all day. Surely that'll make the workers happy and the owners happy and everyone will live in peace... right?
Yes, "Jim" is an idealist version of the utopian-minded AI promoters who keep pushing AI on consumers, while his industrial and military benefactors of course realize (as big-tech execs do today) that the inevitable supremacy of AI - err, robot workers means the complete obsolescence of human labor.
Nevertheless LOSS OF SENSATION proceeds for most of its running time as if the filmmakers are on the side of poor Pollyanna-brained Jim and want the viewers to be on his side, too. This is confusing and frustrating to watch... but it sets up an incredibly satisfying third act and finale, which is basically a dramatization of SkyNet's takeover of Earth, followed by a bunch of John Connors and flipped T-800s risin' up and fightin' back. Yes, in 1935!Several reviewers on Letterboxd recommend just watching the last half hour. I say the whole movie works - and the ending works better following the first hour. The robots would look pretty good in a movie made in the 1950s and the themes resonate uhhh right now.
4/5 Those Communists knew what was up.
#13
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - January 23, 2026, 05:59:26 PMcopilot
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
#14
Bad Movies / Re: The Ultimate So Bad It's G...
Last post by bob - January 23, 2026, 05:20:41 PM- House of the Dead
+ Ben and Arthur
+ Babe Ruth Story, The
10 Apple, The (1980)
11 Atomic Submarine, The (1959)
11 Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
11 Babe Ruth Story, The (1948)
10 Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
12 Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955)
11 Ben and Arthur (2002)
13 Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)
10 Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)
15 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
10 Blood Diner (1987)
11 Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
13 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
10 Codename: Wildgeese (1984)
13 Conqueror, The (1956)
14 Dragon Lives Again, The (1977)
15 Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves the World) aka Turkish Star Wars (1982)
15 Fatal Deviation (1998)
17 Glen or Glenda? (1953)
13 Gymkata (1985)
13 Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
16 Hobgoblins (1988)
5 House of the Dead (2003)
11 Howling Part 7: New Moon Rising, The (1995)
2 Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954)
9 Maniac (1934)
13 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
14 Message from Space (1978)
10 Miami Connection (1987)
13 Mommie Dearest (1981)
9 New Year's Evil (1980)
15 No Holds Barred (1989)
23 Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
6 Protector, The (1985)
10 Reefer Madness (1936)
10 Return of the Family Man (1990)
14 Robo Vampire (1988)
21 Robot Monster (1953)
22 Room, The (2003)
10 S.I.C.K. (Serial Insane Clown Killer) (2003)
14 Samurai Cop (1991)
11 Santa Claus (1959)
12 Sharknado (2013)
10 Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
21 Showgirls (1995)
14 Space Mutiny (1988)
12 Starcrash (1978)
20 Troll 2 (1990)
10 Wicker Man, The (2006)
18 Zardoz (1974)
+ Ben and Arthur
+ Babe Ruth Story, The
10 Apple, The (1980)
11 Atomic Submarine, The (1959)
11 Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
11 Babe Ruth Story, The (1948)
10 Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
12 Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955)
11 Ben and Arthur (2002)
13 Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966)
10 Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)
15 Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
10 Blood Diner (1987)
11 Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
13 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
10 Codename: Wildgeese (1984)
13 Conqueror, The (1956)
14 Dragon Lives Again, The (1977)
15 Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves the World) aka Turkish Star Wars (1982)
15 Fatal Deviation (1998)
17 Glen or Glenda? (1953)
13 Gymkata (1985)
13 Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
16 Hobgoblins (1988)
5 House of the Dead (2003)
11 Howling Part 7: New Moon Rising, The (1995)
2 Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954)
9 Maniac (1934)
13 Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
14 Message from Space (1978)
10 Miami Connection (1987)
13 Mommie Dearest (1981)
9 New Year's Evil (1980)
15 No Holds Barred (1989)
23 Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
6 Protector, The (1985)
10 Reefer Madness (1936)
10 Return of the Family Man (1990)
14 Robo Vampire (1988)
21 Robot Monster (1953)
22 Room, The (2003)
10 S.I.C.K. (Serial Insane Clown Killer) (2003)
14 Samurai Cop (1991)
11 Santa Claus (1959)
12 Sharknado (2013)
10 Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
21 Showgirls (1995)
14 Space Mutiny (1988)
12 Starcrash (1978)
20 Troll 2 (1990)
10 Wicker Man, The (2006)
18 Zardoz (1974)
#16
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Good luck with the snowpoc...
Last post by bob - January 23, 2026, 05:16:32 PMno snow by me....
but it's really f**king cold
stay safe everyone
but it's really f**king cold
stay safe everyone
#17
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Good luck with the snowpoc...
Last post by Trevor - January 23, 2026, 05:14:17 PMQuote from: HappyGilmore on January 23, 2026, 02:39:53 PMWe're expecting, last I heard, 8" -13" , and a bunch of ice.
😳🥶🥶🥶
#18
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Senor Citizen - January 23, 2026, 03:12:35 PMSea of love
Disgusting movie where Al Pacino kisses Ellen Barkin in a very long scene. It must have been Al`s idea. And it has Al`s ass on white undies.
Soundtrack has saxophone so 1 point for that.
Beethoven's 2nd
Is it okay to say that movie is stupid, bad and entertaining because it was family comedy made for kids?
Grumpier Old Men
Couple of funny jokes but because I`m not Mike Stoklasa, I don`t find old people funny.
Disgusting movie where Al Pacino kisses Ellen Barkin in a very long scene. It must have been Al`s idea. And it has Al`s ass on white undies.
Soundtrack has saxophone so 1 point for that.
Beethoven's 2nd
Is it okay to say that movie is stupid, bad and entertaining because it was family comedy made for kids?
Grumpier Old Men
Couple of funny jokes but because I`m not Mike Stoklasa, I don`t find old people funny.
#19
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Good luck with the snowpoc...
Last post by HappyGilmore - January 23, 2026, 02:39:53 PMWe're expecting, last I heard, 8" -13" , and a bunch of ice.
#20
Bad Movies / Re: So-Bad-It’s-Good Movie Ind...
Last post by claws - January 23, 2026, 02:39:42 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on January 23, 2026, 02:07:31 PMHow do you pick a random number? Am I supposed to use a random number generator on my own? Are you the host and does that mean you can't participate? (And, not a rules question directly, but how are we going to get 5 people to participate?)
Not sure how AI meant with picking a random number. I think picking a number (movie) of your choice would be better. I guess I would be the host and I would participate. And yeah, I doubt we even get one more person to play along.