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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:09:40 AM
#12
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:07:01 AM
(I confess, my prompt included "be sure to include an image of something on fire")
#13
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:01:33 AMLook again, I think you posted the wrong imgage, Bob.
#14
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:57:35 AMELDORADO (1921):
Here's a silent film that definitely "mixes it up" (per the conversation above). Director Marcel L'Herbier really loves an artistic composition and there are plenty of them in ELDORADO, though tbh there are also plenty of bland, boring, and conventional shots, too, which I guess emphasizes the really lovely ones but there's little enough going on in this film that I'd just as soon it was one painterly banger after another. This is a well-made and Good film but a hard one to recommend. The renowned L'Herbier's later L'ARGENT is almost 3 hours long but is so clear (in spite of being silent) and compelling that it was a joy to watch and little effort at all; ELDORADO however is about 100 minutes where very little seems to happen yet it happens very very slowly and yet is also quite confusing!
There are few intertitles, you only get some expository info-dumps in (lengthy) close-ups on letters, and much of the film is folks walking, partying, holding hands, crying near the bedside of infirm loved ones, looking out windows and appearing nonplussed, etc etc etc. The actual plot is rather straightforward and probably could have been related in 25 minutes instead of 100; it's also the same old tiresome early 20th century Nobility of Female Suffering crap. Okay, I'm making ELDORADO sound like a Bad film.
The good/cool things about ELDORADO don't really justify a viewing but are worth mentioning. For one thing, it may have been a partial inspiration for LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD. Much of the quote-unquote intrigue takes place at the Alhambra Hotel, which isn't the famous one in California but instead one in France that - might also be famous for all I know! It's definitely cool looking and I feel like I've seen it in other foreign movies (maybe Franco flicks?!) and L'Herbier obviously had a ball photographing sad/angry/lovelorn people moping around the Alhambra, being sad and in love, staring cryptically offscreen, etc. One of those characters is the protagonist, who does the most moping and wandering and staggering of all, within the Alhambra and outside of it, and as she's a pale dark-haired European woman in a black dress, as she runs in a frenzied/neurotic fashion through stark European landscapes it's hard to avoid seeing her as an early ancestor of Daliah Lavi in THE DEMON and Isabelle Adjani in POSSESSION. Finally, ELDORADO seems to me to be the earliest motion picture to do the "not revealing the title until the end of the movie", which was virtually unheard of for 100+ years notwithstanding APOCALYPSE NOW though lots of movies do it these days. When L'Herbier finally does post up the title at the end of ELDORADO, it's done in an extremely stylish/artistic way and also provides a final diegetic "moment" to the female lead's sad story. So that's real darn cool. (...Though maybe the print I watched was just missing the title in the beginning...?)
Unquestionably an early/silent Art Film. 3/5 L'Herbier definitely improved a great deal as a director during the 20s.
Here's a silent film that definitely "mixes it up" (per the conversation above). Director Marcel L'Herbier really loves an artistic composition and there are plenty of them in ELDORADO, though tbh there are also plenty of bland, boring, and conventional shots, too, which I guess emphasizes the really lovely ones but there's little enough going on in this film that I'd just as soon it was one painterly banger after another. This is a well-made and Good film but a hard one to recommend. The renowned L'Herbier's later L'ARGENT is almost 3 hours long but is so clear (in spite of being silent) and compelling that it was a joy to watch and little effort at all; ELDORADO however is about 100 minutes where very little seems to happen yet it happens very very slowly and yet is also quite confusing!
There are few intertitles, you only get some expository info-dumps in (lengthy) close-ups on letters, and much of the film is folks walking, partying, holding hands, crying near the bedside of infirm loved ones, looking out windows and appearing nonplussed, etc etc etc. The actual plot is rather straightforward and probably could have been related in 25 minutes instead of 100; it's also the same old tiresome early 20th century Nobility of Female Suffering crap. Okay, I'm making ELDORADO sound like a Bad film.The good/cool things about ELDORADO don't really justify a viewing but are worth mentioning. For one thing, it may have been a partial inspiration for LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD. Much of the quote-unquote intrigue takes place at the Alhambra Hotel, which isn't the famous one in California but instead one in France that - might also be famous for all I know! It's definitely cool looking and I feel like I've seen it in other foreign movies (maybe Franco flicks?!) and L'Herbier obviously had a ball photographing sad/angry/lovelorn people moping around the Alhambra, being sad and in love, staring cryptically offscreen, etc. One of those characters is the protagonist, who does the most moping and wandering and staggering of all, within the Alhambra and outside of it, and as she's a pale dark-haired European woman in a black dress, as she runs in a frenzied/neurotic fashion through stark European landscapes it's hard to avoid seeing her as an early ancestor of Daliah Lavi in THE DEMON and Isabelle Adjani in POSSESSION. Finally, ELDORADO seems to me to be the earliest motion picture to do the "not revealing the title until the end of the movie", which was virtually unheard of for 100+ years notwithstanding APOCALYPSE NOW though lots of movies do it these days. When L'Herbier finally does post up the title at the end of ELDORADO, it's done in an extremely stylish/artistic way and also provides a final diegetic "moment" to the female lead's sad story. So that's real darn cool. (...Though maybe the print I watched was just missing the title in the beginning...?)
Unquestionably an early/silent Art Film. 3/5 L'Herbier definitely improved a great deal as a director during the 20s.
#15
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:14:56 AMI would say you are largely correct. Cameras were unwieldy and tough to move around, for one thing. It was definitely quicker and easier to just leave the darn thing in one place and stage everything on a 180-line in front of it. Melies did mix it up a bit in some of his other films.
#16
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:23:20 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on June 28, 2026, 01:02:07 PMQuote from: Dr. Whom on June 28, 2026, 02:53:17 AMBloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
I didn't expect much of this and got even less. It is a slapstick parody of Hammer horror type movies, but it is painfully unfunny and unoriginal. I may have chuckled two or three times in the whole movie. Main character is Kenny Everett, who I never really liked, seconded by Pamela Stephenson of Not The Nine O'Clock News fame and Vincent Price. Both of these are completely let down by the lame script and predictable jokes. Pamela Stephenson does briefly get her clothes ripped off by a poltergeist
According to IMBD, this actually got an award at our very own BIFFF in 1984, tied with Videodrome. I can only imagine how drunk the jury must have been.
even being a major 80s slasher / horror nerd I have never had any desire to see this one... also never found K.E. funny but he is slightly before my time
Only watch this if seeing KE on screen sparks joy. Turns out that 1984 was only the second edition of the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF), which may explain why the movie got an award.
#17
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:17:07 AMQuote from: M.10rda on June 28, 2026, 11:07:41 AMJEANNE D'ARC [JOAN OF ARC] (1900):
We see major tableau from the life of Joan in wide-shot for about 45 seconds each on average. If you know the Joan mythos then you know what's goin' on but sans dialogue or close-ups you lose a lot of the drama of later renditions. Also there's one scene (the Siege of Orleans, I think) that commits one of my pet-peeve film-crimes - staging an epic battle w/ about 10 dudes, including a few who have to be recycled on the opposing side. However, the homemade quality of the sets is oddly charming (instead of off-putting) and the static staging of each tableau likewise predicts the self-conscious pageantry of Peter Greenaway or Roy Andersson (or Wes Anderson for that matter). That's kinda' cool.
It is my firm conviction that early movies drew heavily on the existing tableau vivant tradition. Mind you, I haven't actually tried to find out if this is really the case
#18
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - June 28, 2026, 10:16:36 PMI had this issue once
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Copilot also advised me to always start a new chat with "Generate Image of Theatrical Poster," and it worked.
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Copilot also advised me to always start a new chat with "Generate Image of Theatrical Poster," and it worked.
#19
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - June 28, 2026, 09:52:32 PMI asked Copilot:
1. They're stuck in a "contaminated chat"
This is by far the #1 cause.
Once a chat has:
generated a poster with certain visual elements
repeated a layout
hit a safety block
or produced a malformed image
...the model tends to reuse the same internal visual state, even if the user changes the prompt.
That results in:
no new posters
repeated compositions
or the model refusing to generate anything at all
People think Copilot is "down," but really the chat thread is corrupted.
The fix is simply to start a brand‑new chat, not reuse the old one.
2. They're hitting a silent safety block
Copilot sometimes:
refuses the request
but doesn't say why
and instead outputs nothing or a generic "unable to generate" message
This happens with:
religious horror
sexualized violence
real actors
real brands
political imagery
anything that looks like a real movie poster
Users often don't realize their prompt tripped a filter.
3. They're using a prompt that used to work but now triggers new rules
You've seen this yourself — prompts that worked in April suddenly behave differently in June.
Copilot's image model has been tightening:
text hallucination
real‑person likeness
gore
satanic symbolism
"prestige poster" formatting
If their prompt relied on older behavior, it may now fail silently.
4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"
Some forum users don't realize:
the chat model can generate images
the image creator is a separate interface
and one can be updated while the other is not
If they're using the wrong entry point, it will look "down."
5. They're on a browser/device that cached a broken state
This is surprisingly common.
A bad cached script can cause:
the image button to disappear
the generation to hang
the output to fail
Refreshing or switching browsers fixes it instantly.
The phrasing — "down for me for about a week" — almost always means their chat thread is stuck in a bad generation loop, not that Copilot is globally broken.
If Copilot were actually down:
the forum would be flooded
multiple users would report it
other features would fail too
But only their posters are failing, which points to:
a corrupted chat + a prompt that now triggers safety.
If you want, I can help craft a clean, "reset‑safe" poster prompt that avoids the new filters
#20
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - June 28, 2026, 08:15:29 PM
Why do people recycle?