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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Alex - February 21, 2026, 01:39:25 PMSometimes I am tempted to write a story about the people I deal with on a nightly basis.
Last night we had a report of a guy charging his car battery in his room. It'd set off the fire alarms, and the fire brigade told us that if he kept doing that, he'd be dead by dawn. Anyway, I directed them towards the police and hopefully they did something. Even if we wanted to, and had the authority to do something we simply don't have the manpower to deal with any but the most serious of emergencies and even then its only until someone else more appropriate for dealing with it can be summoned.
Come talk to us when its a problem like an intruder.
Anyway, the working title is Night of the Living f**ktards. I mean its not quite up to Florida man standards, but it is one of the steady stream of problems that come in through the door that have absolutely nothing to do with our job description but somehow come our way regardless.
Last night we had a report of a guy charging his car battery in his room. It'd set off the fire alarms, and the fire brigade told us that if he kept doing that, he'd be dead by dawn. Anyway, I directed them towards the police and hopefully they did something. Even if we wanted to, and had the authority to do something we simply don't have the manpower to deal with any but the most serious of emergencies and even then its only until someone else more appropriate for dealing with it can be summoned.
Come talk to us when its a problem like an intruder.
Anyway, the working title is Night of the Living f**ktards. I mean its not quite up to Florida man standards, but it is one of the steady stream of problems that come in through the door that have absolutely nothing to do with our job description but somehow come our way regardless.
#12
Bad Movies / Re: THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM B...
Last post by Dr. Whom - February 21, 2026, 12:36:42 PMFrom Total Recall
In the future, all glass will be extremely fragile
In the future, all glass will be extremely fragile
#14
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by claws - February 21, 2026, 06:40:22 AMI always thought the song '48 Crash' by Suzi Quatro was some twisted love song that ends tragically in a car crash, or something.
Today I asked AI what the song is about: Quatro sings and screams about male menopause
What a subject for a hard rock song.
Today I asked AI what the song is about: Quatro sings and screams about male menopause
What a subject for a hard rock song.
#15
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - February 21, 2026, 04:15:50 AM
#16
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - February 21, 2026, 01:29:46 AM
Another remake
#17
Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by lester1/2jr - February 20, 2026, 03:53:36 PMGet a Life and Thundarr the Barbarian on tubi
#18
Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by M.10rda - February 20, 2026, 02:21:36 PMI thought THE 90s STAND was exceptional.
#19
Television / Re: Stranger Things. Season 5.
Last post by M.10rda - February 20, 2026, 02:20:44 PMSo what'd you think of the "back half", so to speak?
#20
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - February 20, 2026, 02:07:56 PMEL NINO Y LA NIEBLA aka THE BOY AND THE FOG (1953):
A Mexican housewife has an unhealthy preoccupation w/ her adolescent son... not really sexual, just borderline obsessive about monitoring and managing his every movement. Her hard-working husband is kind and patient but he just can't seem to get an ounce of warmth or affection outta' the broad. She also can't seem to get over the studly dude that wanted to marry her many years earlier (who, of course, is now involved w/ the husband's business). Apparently the wife has some kind of family predisposition to mental illness (...shocker!
) and part of her obsession w/ the son arises from her fear that he too will inherit her issues. Frankly the son seems just fine for the most part, besides having bad dreams and talking in his sleep... and, of course, dealing w/ his nutso mother.
THE BOY AND THE FOG has almost unanimously glowing reviews on Letterboxd and writer/director Roberto Galvaldon is sometimes called Mexico's greatest director, but I've seen much better Mexican films than this and even if you've only seen an El Santo flick... so have you!
I don't mind action/horror flicks being dumb or cheap, but making a Serious Drama requires you to actually handle your material w/ a steady, thoughtful, persuasive hand - and if you don't, you've totally blown it. (See my distasteful thoughts on Daldry's THE HOURS.) On a Spinal Tap amp scale of 0 to 11, the routine domestic scenes in BOY AND THE FOG (not even the melodramatic bits) are turned to about a 7 or 8. In scenes where she must respond to her son wanting to take a walk on the beach, the lead actress responds like her kitchen is on fire. I assume that this is what all Telemundo soaps are like?
What bugs me the most about TBATF, though, is how it compounds the female character's toxic stigma about mental illness. This is different than what we see in IL DEMONIO (which is a critical portrayal of how a narrowminded community perceives chemical imbalance or emotional stability) or Zulawski's POSSESSION, which employs the imagery of demonic possession as a metaphor for erratic/inexplicable female behavior (among other things). The closing scenes of TBATF allow a couple of the male characters to engage in solemn soliloquizing about how there was nothing they could've done, both the mother and son were hopelessly tarnished by madness, et cetera... basically ratifying all of the (deeply disturbed, untreated) mother's worst fears about mental illness being some kind of fatal and unavoidable curse... rather than allowing for the possibility that clearer minds could've stepped in and done somethin'! Great message, a-holes!
1.5/5 There is ONE (1) really fabulous intense distorted close-up of the mother that looks like something out of POSSESSION or a Lynch movie. I will probably never grow tired of distorted ECUs of maniacal characters glaring manically into the camera, filtered through some gauze or some kind of filter or something. However, such close-ups alone do not make for a nation's Greatest Director.
A Mexican housewife has an unhealthy preoccupation w/ her adolescent son... not really sexual, just borderline obsessive about monitoring and managing his every movement. Her hard-working husband is kind and patient but he just can't seem to get an ounce of warmth or affection outta' the broad. She also can't seem to get over the studly dude that wanted to marry her many years earlier (who, of course, is now involved w/ the husband's business). Apparently the wife has some kind of family predisposition to mental illness (...shocker!
) and part of her obsession w/ the son arises from her fear that he too will inherit her issues. Frankly the son seems just fine for the most part, besides having bad dreams and talking in his sleep... and, of course, dealing w/ his nutso mother. THE BOY AND THE FOG has almost unanimously glowing reviews on Letterboxd and writer/director Roberto Galvaldon is sometimes called Mexico's greatest director, but I've seen much better Mexican films than this and even if you've only seen an El Santo flick... so have you!
I don't mind action/horror flicks being dumb or cheap, but making a Serious Drama requires you to actually handle your material w/ a steady, thoughtful, persuasive hand - and if you don't, you've totally blown it. (See my distasteful thoughts on Daldry's THE HOURS.) On a Spinal Tap amp scale of 0 to 11, the routine domestic scenes in BOY AND THE FOG (not even the melodramatic bits) are turned to about a 7 or 8. In scenes where she must respond to her son wanting to take a walk on the beach, the lead actress responds like her kitchen is on fire. I assume that this is what all Telemundo soaps are like? What bugs me the most about TBATF, though, is how it compounds the female character's toxic stigma about mental illness. This is different than what we see in IL DEMONIO (which is a critical portrayal of how a narrowminded community perceives chemical imbalance or emotional stability) or Zulawski's POSSESSION, which employs the imagery of demonic possession as a metaphor for erratic/inexplicable female behavior (among other things). The closing scenes of TBATF allow a couple of the male characters to engage in solemn soliloquizing about how there was nothing they could've done, both the mother and son were hopelessly tarnished by madness, et cetera... basically ratifying all of the (deeply disturbed, untreated) mother's worst fears about mental illness being some kind of fatal and unavoidable curse... rather than allowing for the possibility that clearer minds could've stepped in and done somethin'! Great message, a-holes!
1.5/5 There is ONE (1) really fabulous intense distorted close-up of the mother that looks like something out of POSSESSION or a Lynch movie. I will probably never grow tired of distorted ECUs of maniacal characters glaring manically into the camera, filtered through some gauze or some kind of filter or something. However, such close-ups alone do not make for a nation's Greatest Director.