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#11
Bad Movies / Re: Invasion of the Bee Girls ...
Last post by AlbertMond - February 23, 2026, 05:00:09 PMStoked to listen to this - unless it's HORRIBLE in which case I'll blame you! But for now stoked!
#12
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by lester1/2jr - February 23, 2026, 04:56:11 PMNightlight (2015) - It's always fun to write a splashy bad movie review, but this mostly just sucked and p**sed me off. It also isn't about a child's night light in their room, which would have been a better idea. ( A kid learning to not be afraid of the dark is tormented by an evil Spongebob nightlight!)
First, who is holding the camera? Cam bot from MST3K? I never figured that out. No one ever says anything about filming from behind the camera and there's no indication that they are filming it for some purpose. Okay though, we can try and overlook that. A bunch of likeable/ realistic enough teenagers are playing a hide and seek variation called Nightlight in a "haunted forest". A massively muddled and confusing debacle soon ensues. Wouldn't their parents get worried about them after a while? Are they Amish kids on Rumspringa?
This is a case where using AI would have been an improvement. At one point, the main girl was in a room and I saw an open door and said "I know that door is going to slam shut" and it did. I give them credit for using what appear to be actual teenagers in the roles. The mean girl stereotype girl was relatively attractive (don't have time to make saying this non creepy).
2/5
f**k this movie though
First, who is holding the camera? Cam bot from MST3K? I never figured that out. No one ever says anything about filming from behind the camera and there's no indication that they are filming it for some purpose. Okay though, we can try and overlook that. A bunch of likeable/ realistic enough teenagers are playing a hide and seek variation called Nightlight in a "haunted forest". A massively muddled and confusing debacle soon ensues. Wouldn't their parents get worried about them after a while? Are they Amish kids on Rumspringa?
This is a case where using AI would have been an improvement. At one point, the main girl was in a room and I saw an open door and said "I know that door is going to slam shut" and it did. I give them credit for using what appear to be actual teenagers in the roles. The mean girl stereotype girl was relatively attractive (don't have time to make saying this non creepy).
2/5
f**k this movie though
#13
Television / Breaking Bad vs. Game of Thron...
Last post by Rev. Powell - February 23, 2026, 04:38:21 PMCopy pasted from "TV Guide" email newsletter:
Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones fans, get a hold of yourselves! There's a fandom war breaking out between the two factions over on IMDb, and it's both one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard of and a reminder that the internet is exactly the right place for this kind of stupid stuff to happen so that we bystanders can enjoy it from a distance. It all started when the fifth episode of the Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, "In the Name of the Mother," earned a rare 10/10 user rating on IMDb. (It's a good episode, but not 10/10 good.) Apparently, Breaking Bad's legendary episode "Ozymandias" held a perfect 10/10 rating for over a decade, and fans of that show could not stand that an episode from another show dare invade that sacred territory, so they started dropping 1-star reviews on "In the Name of the Mother." With the opening salvo fired, Seven Kingdoms fans countered with their own 1-star reviews of "Ozymandias," which was obliterated all the way down to a 9.6 rating as of this writing. ("In the Name of the Mother" is now a 9.5 pile of rubble.) Rather than share the spotlight, these fandoms chose violence. Ken Burns needs to make a docuseries about this.
I hate "fandoms."
Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones fans, get a hold of yourselves! There's a fandom war breaking out between the two factions over on IMDb, and it's both one of the most embarrassing things I've ever heard of and a reminder that the internet is exactly the right place for this kind of stupid stuff to happen so that we bystanders can enjoy it from a distance. It all started when the fifth episode of the Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, "In the Name of the Mother," earned a rare 10/10 user rating on IMDb. (It's a good episode, but not 10/10 good.) Apparently, Breaking Bad's legendary episode "Ozymandias" held a perfect 10/10 rating for over a decade, and fans of that show could not stand that an episode from another show dare invade that sacred territory, so they started dropping 1-star reviews on "In the Name of the Mother." With the opening salvo fired, Seven Kingdoms fans countered with their own 1-star reviews of "Ozymandias," which was obliterated all the way down to a 9.6 rating as of this writing. ("In the Name of the Mother" is now a 9.5 pile of rubble.) Rather than share the spotlight, these fandoms chose violence. Ken Burns needs to make a docuseries about this.
I hate "fandoms."
#14
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Rev. Powell - February 23, 2026, 04:36:31 PMQuote from: Leah on February 23, 2026, 01:16:10 PMCan it be June yet? I'm flying to Iceland in June, as my last real vacation for a while, and as a birthday gift for myself.
Have fun. I'm reading "Njal's Saga" right now, and apparently they're all killers over there (except for Bjork, of course).
#15
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - February 23, 2026, 02:09:33 PMFRISCO JENNY (1932):
This is an interesting case of a pre-code talkie w/ some serious problems that nevertheless ends up overcoming its shortcomings and working. It opens with what seems like the beginning of what might be a very impressive tracking shot - a Keystone Cop pauses outside the swinging doors of a San Francisco saloon, then enters and walks to the bar for a stiff drink while the (enormous) camera rig follows. Are we in for a very early version of the kind of complex dolly shot that Welles could choreograph and get in the can in four hours and Noah Baumbach is able to choreograph and get in the can in five or six weeks? Nope - instead we cut to two short pieces of what looks like a longer opening tracking shot, showing us unrelated action of different minor patrons! Ah well - at least director William A. Wellman, uh - tried before giving up?
I can't pound on Wellman too much, though - because following about fifteen minutes of exposition about the romantic intrigue of the titular character (Ruth Chatterton), Wellman shakes up the plot literally by staging a truly impressive sequence of a 1906 earthquake destroying the bar and everything around it. Yeah, it's only a couple of minutes of practical FX, but by 1932 standards it's pretty darn cool! How can Wellman follow that up? I guess with... absolutely no more SFX whatsoever, one brief shooting, and mostly a lot of utterly contrived melodrama.
FRISCO JENNY isn't exactly an Idiot Plot, but it does assume some very, shall we say, primitive assumptions about 20th century morality, such as the perverse old chestnut about women with shady pasts being willing to suffer no end of indignity and even march to their deaths before admitting the kind of thing that absolutely no one would ever think twice about concealing today. FRISCO JENNY's plot simply makes no sense in 2026, yet it works, mostly because its title martyr is played by the incredible Ruth Chatterton, star of the following year's corker satire FEMALE. Chatterton is a tart wit in the early stretch and then segues effortlessly into earnest tragedy in the second half. I have to give Wellman some credit, too, for marshalling a supporting cast of people who (Louis Calhern notwithstanding) I have no recollection of seeing previously, yet they mostly come off as credible. In the case of the two most important supplemental characters - Chatterton's estranged adult son and her lifelong aide-de-camp - the acting almost approaches Chatterton's admirable understatement and verity. This is a movie that should just be laughable, but by the end it almost goes over.
3/5 I guess they were still trying to figure out what kinds of plots would fly with sound/dialogue in '32. (Then again the particular outre conceit here persisted into the era of Douglas Sirk 25+ years later and then fortunately drifted into obscurity.)
This is an interesting case of a pre-code talkie w/ some serious problems that nevertheless ends up overcoming its shortcomings and working. It opens with what seems like the beginning of what might be a very impressive tracking shot - a Keystone Cop pauses outside the swinging doors of a San Francisco saloon, then enters and walks to the bar for a stiff drink while the (enormous) camera rig follows. Are we in for a very early version of the kind of complex dolly shot that Welles could choreograph and get in the can in four hours and Noah Baumbach is able to choreograph and get in the can in five or six weeks? Nope - instead we cut to two short pieces of what looks like a longer opening tracking shot, showing us unrelated action of different minor patrons! Ah well - at least director William A. Wellman, uh - tried before giving up?
I can't pound on Wellman too much, though - because following about fifteen minutes of exposition about the romantic intrigue of the titular character (Ruth Chatterton), Wellman shakes up the plot literally by staging a truly impressive sequence of a 1906 earthquake destroying the bar and everything around it. Yeah, it's only a couple of minutes of practical FX, but by 1932 standards it's pretty darn cool! How can Wellman follow that up? I guess with... absolutely no more SFX whatsoever, one brief shooting, and mostly a lot of utterly contrived melodrama.
FRISCO JENNY isn't exactly an Idiot Plot, but it does assume some very, shall we say, primitive assumptions about 20th century morality, such as the perverse old chestnut about women with shady pasts being willing to suffer no end of indignity and even march to their deaths before admitting the kind of thing that absolutely no one would ever think twice about concealing today. FRISCO JENNY's plot simply makes no sense in 2026, yet it works, mostly because its title martyr is played by the incredible Ruth Chatterton, star of the following year's corker satire FEMALE. Chatterton is a tart wit in the early stretch and then segues effortlessly into earnest tragedy in the second half. I have to give Wellman some credit, too, for marshalling a supporting cast of people who (Louis Calhern notwithstanding) I have no recollection of seeing previously, yet they mostly come off as credible. In the case of the two most important supplemental characters - Chatterton's estranged adult son and her lifelong aide-de-camp - the acting almost approaches Chatterton's admirable understatement and verity. This is a movie that should just be laughable, but by the end it almost goes over.
3/5 I guess they were still trying to figure out what kinds of plots would fly with sound/dialogue in '32. (Then again the particular outre conceit here persisted into the era of Douglas Sirk 25+ years later and then fortunately drifted into obscurity.)
#16
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - February 23, 2026, 01:51:46 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on February 23, 2026, 05:16:58 AMICE SOLDIERS (2013)
In the freezing wastelands of Northern Ice World, all the female scientists wear low cut tops, while frozen immobile android supersoldiers check them out.
the line "everyone's worried about atomic bombs going off, but no one cares about these weird guys I've found" is said in earnest.
that's all you need to know. devolves quickly into generic walky-talky shooty action mush. 3/10
TC Cardinal: Your killers came through here... and they move fast!
Malraux: How do you know?
TC Cardinal: 'cuz I'm an indian! I've always wanted to say that.
#17
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Trevor - February 23, 2026, 01:28:36 PMQuote from: Leah on February 23, 2026, 01:16:10 PMCan it be June yet? I'm flying to Iceland in June, as my last real vacation for a while, and as a birthday gift for myself.
One of my all-time favorite books - Desmond Bagley's RUNNING BLIND - is set there. 😊😊🐢
#18
Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Rob Reiner
Last post by Trevor - February 23, 2026, 01:20:40 PMAnd now Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty 😳😡😡
#19
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Leah - February 23, 2026, 01:16:10 PMCan it be June yet? I'm flying to Iceland in June, as my last real vacation for a while, and as a birthday gift for myself.
#20
Bad Movies / Re: Some sort of noteworthy Ev...
Last post by M.10rda - February 23, 2026, 01:10:05 PMThis is old news but I thought it was funny. I couldn't find ANY info about how much MELANIA made this past weekend - apparently it wasn't ranked among the top 30 grossing films in the US, in spite of POTUS still gloating about it being #1 within the last week. 
Nevertheless it appears to have grossed about $15.9 million dollars total, domestically, thus far. Heck, it could've cracked $16m - if Amazon didn't pull it prematurely from a new booking in an Oregon arthouse:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/11/2368326/-Amazon-pulls-Melania-the-movie-from-Oregon-theater
...I guess the White House or Trump-friendly forces at Amazon determined that the theater's interest in the film wasn't, uhhh, sufficiently sincere?
Nevertheless it appears to have grossed about $15.9 million dollars total, domestically, thus far. Heck, it could've cracked $16m - if Amazon didn't pull it prematurely from a new booking in an Oregon arthouse:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/11/2368326/-Amazon-pulls-Melania-the-movie-from-Oregon-theater
...I guess the White House or Trump-friendly forces at Amazon determined that the theater's interest in the film wasn't, uhhh, sufficiently sincere?