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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 17, 2026, 09:43:14 PMTonight's Stinker
Doctor Syn(1937)
https://youtu.be/KVekeUEbrzc?si=GpdHKM5bmGDiabca
The film opens with a group of pirates marooning a guy in blackface for his betrayal of Captain Clegg....
Twenty years later, there's a grave with his name on it outside a church run by Dr. Syn.... During a Sunday service, one of the parishioners gets a signal that revenuers are coming, & the service closes....
The revenuer is Capt. Collyer, who's been ordered to find smugglers.... He gets to chatting with the town's drunken doctor, who claims to have seen evil spirits around the marsh... Locals dismiss this as just the doctor being drunk, but the Captain believes these are the smugglers....
Dr. Syn & his gang must hastily change road signs to fool the soldiers..,.. But that's only the first problem.... The guy in blackface returns... The town's schoolteacher is the accountant for the gang, and starts getting nervous, while his least favorite student starts getting nosey....
This film is not very well lit in places, & the rapid fire English vernacular is kinda hard to keep up with... Still, it's an interesting take compared to the Disney version...
Doctor Syn(1937)
https://youtu.be/KVekeUEbrzc?si=GpdHKM5bmGDiabca
The film opens with a group of pirates marooning a guy in blackface for his betrayal of Captain Clegg....
Twenty years later, there's a grave with his name on it outside a church run by Dr. Syn.... During a Sunday service, one of the parishioners gets a signal that revenuers are coming, & the service closes....
The revenuer is Capt. Collyer, who's been ordered to find smugglers.... He gets to chatting with the town's drunken doctor, who claims to have seen evil spirits around the marsh... Locals dismiss this as just the doctor being drunk, but the Captain believes these are the smugglers....
Dr. Syn & his gang must hastily change road signs to fool the soldiers..,.. But that's only the first problem.... The guy in blackface returns... The town's schoolteacher is the accountant for the gang, and starts getting nervous, while his least favorite student starts getting nosey....
This film is not very well lit in places, & the rapid fire English vernacular is kinda hard to keep up with... Still, it's an interesting take compared to the Disney version...
#12
Entertainment / Re: What Video Game are You Pl...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 17, 2026, 08:09:34 PMJust finished Half Life: Blue Shift (cut me some slack, I'm lucky to find 2 hours a month to play video games). Interesting ending, a refreshing change from the "you have to kill the alien that has one weak spot you'd have no way of knowing about" finales these usually have. I'll start Half Life 2 soon.
#13
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - October 17, 2026, 07:53:27 PMROUGH NIGHT (2017):
Took a break from horror to watch this w/ my wife. It's essentially the same film as THE HANGOVER, VERY BAD THINGS, or this summer's 72 HOURS, except w/ female protagonists - and I enjoyed it more than those three films.
Scarlett Johansson is the bachelorette and Jillian Bill, Ilana Glazer, Zoe Kravitz, and Kate McKinnon are her bridesmaids. I find all four of those women more attractive and entertaining than Scarlett, and fortunately ROUGH NIGHT provides all of them equal opportunity to carry the film, though Scarlett does (perhaps per contractual obligation) bust out some martial arts moves at the end. As in 72 HOURS, they go to Miami and do cocaine
and everything gets very complicated from there. Demi Moore and Ty Burrell pop in as a couple of swingers (Demi looks 35, wow) and the great Dean Winters appears at the end as either a Florida cop or a homicidal criminal. (I say - what's the difference? Haw!)
ROUGH NIGHT was written and directed by Lucia Aniello and co-written by her husband, Paul Downs, both of whom made the HBO hit series "Hacks". Downs also plays Johansson's fiancee, who everyone (including his groomsmen, among them Eric Andre and Bo Burnham) insinuates is gay, has a small penis, is a beta, etc. I too thought Downs was gay based on his performance on "Hacks", but he is married to and has a child w/ Aniello, who is herself quite attractive....... so maybe the happy couple has written from personal experience.
Anyway, we laughed a lot. In the grand tradition of the Coen Bros, the biggest laugh in the movie comes from a bit player w/ one line, an elderly black woman working the register at a convenience store. I hope she got more jobs after her performance here! 3.5/5 Bob The Drag Queen from "The Traitors" also has a Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It cameo, which I apparently blinked and missed.
Took a break from horror to watch this w/ my wife. It's essentially the same film as THE HANGOVER, VERY BAD THINGS, or this summer's 72 HOURS, except w/ female protagonists - and I enjoyed it more than those three films.
Scarlett Johansson is the bachelorette and Jillian Bill, Ilana Glazer, Zoe Kravitz, and Kate McKinnon are her bridesmaids. I find all four of those women more attractive and entertaining than Scarlett, and fortunately ROUGH NIGHT provides all of them equal opportunity to carry the film, though Scarlett does (perhaps per contractual obligation) bust out some martial arts moves at the end. As in 72 HOURS, they go to Miami and do cocaine
and everything gets very complicated from there. Demi Moore and Ty Burrell pop in as a couple of swingers (Demi looks 35, wow) and the great Dean Winters appears at the end as either a Florida cop or a homicidal criminal. (I say - what's the difference? Haw!)ROUGH NIGHT was written and directed by Lucia Aniello and co-written by her husband, Paul Downs, both of whom made the HBO hit series "Hacks". Downs also plays Johansson's fiancee, who everyone (including his groomsmen, among them Eric Andre and Bo Burnham) insinuates is gay, has a small penis, is a beta, etc. I too thought Downs was gay based on his performance on "Hacks", but he is married to and has a child w/ Aniello, who is herself quite attractive....... so maybe the happy couple has written from personal experience.
Anyway, we laughed a lot. In the grand tradition of the Coen Bros, the biggest laugh in the movie comes from a bit player w/ one line, an elderly black woman working the register at a convenience store. I hope she got more jobs after her performance here! 3.5/5 Bob The Drag Queen from "The Traitors" also has a Blink-And-You'll-Miss-It cameo, which I apparently blinked and missed.
#14
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by indianasmith - October 17, 2026, 05:36:01 PMQuote from: Alex on October 17, 2026, 04:07:10 PMKristi has been rushed into hospital. Her hermoglobin has plunged to less than half what it should be and her infection markers which should be at 5, were reading 245.Man, that is a lot. My best wishes to you, my friend. And prayers for Kristi.
Ash has not been handling things well. I am also helping our friends with s**t they are going through, and equally they are returning help, cooking us meals, providing transport to and from the hospital and so forth.
I took Ash up to Culoden today, took him around the battlefield. He complained constantly, then we went home. When we were outside he wanted to be inside. When we were inside he wanted to have alone time outside. When we were alone outside he wanted to be with his mummy.
It isnt made easier by us also trying to help someone who is in the process of leaving an abusive partner, and my attention is being dragged in three directions at once. I can't let any one of them to suffer in their own mess regardless of if they dug their own hole.
#15
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 17, 2026, 04:51:50 PMDo your best, but know that things will be hard and you can't control the ultimate outcomes, nor are you responsible for them. I admire your being strong for others, but please be sure take care of yourself as well.
#16
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - October 17, 2026, 04:07:10 PMKristi has been rushed into hospital. Her hermoglobin has plunged to less than half what it should be and her infection markers which should be at 5, were reading 245.
Ash has not been handling things well. I am also helping our friends with s**t they are going through, and equally they are returning help, cooking us meals, providing transport to and from the hospital and so forth.
I took Ash up to Culoden today, took him around the battlefield. He complained constantly, then we went home. When we were outside he wanted to be inside. When we were inside he wanted to have alone time outside. When we were alone outside he wanted to be with his mummy.
It isnt made easier by us also trying to help someone who is in the process of leaving an abusive partner, and my attention is being dragged in three directions at once. I can't let any one of them to suffer in their own mess regardless of if they dug their own hole.
Ash has not been handling things well. I am also helping our friends with s**t they are going through, and equally they are returning help, cooking us meals, providing transport to and from the hospital and so forth.
I took Ash up to Culoden today, took him around the battlefield. He complained constantly, then we went home. When we were outside he wanted to be inside. When we were inside he wanted to have alone time outside. When we were alone outside he wanted to be with his mummy.
It isnt made easier by us also trying to help someone who is in the process of leaving an abusive partner, and my attention is being dragged in three directions at once. I can't let any one of them to suffer in their own mess regardless of if they dug their own hole.
#17
Television / Re: Britain’s Worst Teeth
Last post by Alex - October 17, 2026, 02:38:43 PMOddly enough, tooth decay rates are much higher in the USA than in the UK.
#18
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - October 17, 2026, 02:31:21 PM
Is blood coming out of the laundry?
#19
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - October 17, 2026, 02:27:23 PM #20
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Leah - October 17, 2026, 02:12:20 PMQuote from: Alex on October 17, 2026, 02:06:22 PMIf Darth Vadar has said "No, Luke, I am your daddy", everything about Star Wars would have changed right there and then.I'm thinking what you're thinking about that lol.
