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Good Movies / Re: What was the first movie y...
Last post by Trevor - October 17, 2025, 01:33:32 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on August 28, 2024, 05:16:48 AM101 DALMATIONS, for my 6th birthday... must've been some kind of random showing / re-release thing?
I vividly remember having a packet of cola flavour sweets I was eating during the film, and thinking how weird they tasted. When I got out I realised each one had been individually wrapped, and I'd been eating them with the paper wrappers on! It was too dark to see that in the cinema
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Good Movies / Re: What was the first movie y...
Last post by LilCerberus - October 17, 2025, 12:30:41 PMThere used to be a Jerry Lewis Theater in my neighborhood (now a Firestone Tires), where you'd sit on the floor & watch some low budget rerun....
My sister would take me....
We saw Pippi Longstocking, The little prince, and Journey Back To Oz, and I can't recall a thing about 'em...
My sister would take me....
We saw Pippi Longstocking, The little prince, and Journey Back To Oz, and I can't recall a thing about 'em...
#16
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - October 17, 2025, 12:22:00 PMIF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE (1952):
This was produced at the same time as (and was supposed to be part of an anthology with) NEVER OPEN THE DOOR, the very nicely shot and directed yet unbearably bleak mother-neglecting and cat-harming flick I mostly FF'd through a couple weeks back. As I recognize that everyone possesses their own set of potential triggers, I'll provide a content warning here for IF I SHOULD DIE...: it's entirely focused on a pederast abducting, "abusing", and murdering or attempting to murder pubescent girls (and one boy)... pretty rough for 1952. Somehow that won't make me take a pass on a movie (while hurting a cat probably will) and I have no rationale to offer for that perspective, but if that's your trigger, be forewarned.
Lucio is in the Argentinian equivalent of 6th or 7th grade and behaves quite credibly like many young boys around that age. Sometimes he's a complete idiot and a jerk, other times he behaves with surprising self-awareness and wisdom. He teases the young girls in his class in ways that aren't cool but he also shows sincere curiosity in what they're up to and listens to them when they tell him about it. (He also defends them from potentially more toxic tween bullies.) Unfortunately, paying such close attention to a couple of these girls means he becomes acutely aware of a likely explanation for their abrupt disappearances, and that jeopardizes his safety as well.
IISDBIW has one shortcoming in common with NOTW, and that's an overreliance on lengthy hyperbolic dialogue when images and just a few lines might well suffice. (I have been accused of the same fault!
) Director Carlos Hugo Christensen creates the same rigorous choreography and stylistic shots as seen in the partner film, but he also stages two fantasy sequences that are every bit as surreal as the ones in EL HOMBRE SIN NOSTRO (1950) yet even wilder and freakier - those alone are worth the price of admission (free on YT, I think)! Generally this flick made me think of Stephen King's canon of stories where children and adolescents encounter Evil. It's got a similar tone and similar veracity to its youthful protagonist. The climax is pretty intense and the whole film is a modest investment of only 67 minutes I think it pays off.
3.5/5
This was produced at the same time as (and was supposed to be part of an anthology with) NEVER OPEN THE DOOR, the very nicely shot and directed yet unbearably bleak mother-neglecting and cat-harming flick I mostly FF'd through a couple weeks back. As I recognize that everyone possesses their own set of potential triggers, I'll provide a content warning here for IF I SHOULD DIE...: it's entirely focused on a pederast abducting, "abusing", and murdering or attempting to murder pubescent girls (and one boy)... pretty rough for 1952. Somehow that won't make me take a pass on a movie (while hurting a cat probably will) and I have no rationale to offer for that perspective, but if that's your trigger, be forewarned.
Lucio is in the Argentinian equivalent of 6th or 7th grade and behaves quite credibly like many young boys around that age. Sometimes he's a complete idiot and a jerk, other times he behaves with surprising self-awareness and wisdom. He teases the young girls in his class in ways that aren't cool but he also shows sincere curiosity in what they're up to and listens to them when they tell him about it. (He also defends them from potentially more toxic tween bullies.) Unfortunately, paying such close attention to a couple of these girls means he becomes acutely aware of a likely explanation for their abrupt disappearances, and that jeopardizes his safety as well.
IISDBIW has one shortcoming in common with NOTW, and that's an overreliance on lengthy hyperbolic dialogue when images and just a few lines might well suffice. (I have been accused of the same fault!
) Director Carlos Hugo Christensen creates the same rigorous choreography and stylistic shots as seen in the partner film, but he also stages two fantasy sequences that are every bit as surreal as the ones in EL HOMBRE SIN NOSTRO (1950) yet even wilder and freakier - those alone are worth the price of admission (free on YT, I think)! Generally this flick made me think of Stephen King's canon of stories where children and adolescents encounter Evil. It's got a similar tone and similar veracity to its youthful protagonist. The climax is pretty intense and the whole film is a modest investment of only 67 minutes I think it pays off.3.5/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Things you just can't reme...
Last post by ER - October 17, 2025, 11:52:29 AMThis is dark but over the summer we lost two members of our extended family in a terrible domestic accident and I have blacked out all memory of being told that news. I know what the circumstances of my being informed of this horrific incident were and I certainly remember only too well afterwards, but I've come to realize that at some point and for however long it will last, I can't remember the actual moment of finding out about it.
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Entertainment / Re: Scary lines in books?
Last post by Trevor - October 17, 2025, 11:45:23 AMQuote from: ER on October 17, 2025, 11:44:20 AM"I am you."
Ghost Story
---Peter Straub
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That was a truly frightening book indeed.
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Entertainment / Re: Scary lines in books?
Last post by ER - October 17, 2025, 11:44:20 AM"I am you."
Ghost Story
---Peter Straub
Ghost Story
---Peter Straub
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Entertainment / Re: Scary lines in books?
Last post by Trevor - October 17, 2025, 11:21:56 AMQuote from: The Burgomaster on October 17, 2025, 09:22:49 AMFrom The Sentinel by Jeffrey Konvitz: "I'm dead. I was killed a short while ago by Monsignor Franchino for trying to strangle Father Halliran. I'm damned to enternal Hell for my sins." This is much scarier in the book then when it was spoken in the movie.
