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Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:53:47 AMSimmons was the highlight! 
Yeah, Dalmatian's reply didn't quite reassure me.
I like Ken Burns! His son-in-law/prodigy/collaborator Dave McMahon went to my elementary and high school. We played together in 3rd grade a couple times. Not like that's in service of anything. Come to think of it, maybe I am AI...
Yeah, Dalmatian's reply didn't quite reassure me.
I like Ken Burns! His son-in-law/prodigy/collaborator Dave McMahon went to my elementary and high school. We played together in 3rd grade a couple times. Not like that's in service of anything. Come to think of it, maybe I am AI... #22
Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 02:30:49 AMQuote from: bob on July 19, 2026, 11:09:20 PMQuote from: M.10rda on July 17, 2026, 01:59:51 PMQuote from: Alex on July 16, 2026, 11:25:58 PMQuote from: bob on July 16, 2026, 04:34:56 PMLOTR, Magnolia, Burn After Reading
If you want to upset LOTR fans, ask what the problem with Sauron getting the ring back is. It isn't like he could have put it on.
Almost every comment I've ever made about the LOTR films has upset LOTR fans - even the positive ones! (I think TWO TOWERS is head-and-shoulders the best film of the three, even notwithstanding the prolonged final scene... whoops, there he goes again!)
Do people get upset about BURN AFTER READING hot takes? It's pretty Mid for the Coens, no...?
Did not laugh once during that
Only thing of value in it was JK Simmons
WHY, YOU....
...oh no hang on... that's perfectly fine!
#23
Good Movies / Re: The Odyessy (2026)
Last post by Alex - Today at 02:30:44 AMThey were filming that around where I live and Chris Nolan went to our local cinema to catch a film. No idea what he watched though.
#24
Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...
Last post by bob - July 19, 2026, 11:09:20 PMQuote from: M.10rda on July 17, 2026, 01:59:51 PMQuote from: Alex on July 16, 2026, 11:25:58 PMQuote from: bob on July 16, 2026, 04:34:56 PMLOTR, Magnolia, Burn After Reading
If you want to upset LOTR fans, ask what the problem with Sauron getting the ring back is. It isn't like he could have put it on.
Almost every comment I've ever made about the LOTR films has upset LOTR fans - even the positive ones! (I think TWO TOWERS is head-and-shoulders the best film of the three, even notwithstanding the prolonged final scene... whoops, there he goes again!)
Do people get upset about BURN AFTER READING hot takes? It's pretty Mid for the Coens, no...?
Did not laugh once during that
Only thing of value in it was JK Simmons
#25
Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...
Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - July 19, 2026, 10:54:30 PMI think but maybe it is Rines apparatus to detect an image of a flipper for Loch Ness monster. Wouldn't be surprised if these game systems are sending out beta information for people who think that loch ness monster is real.)
Look at that lovable banana tarsier in the Congo look on his face — at 5:29. Ok what the Ted Cruz (behind the scenes is going on.) Has anyone seen the Outer Limits, the episode called Unnatural selection. This Jannick whatever dude is totally that doctor. Who is selling the genetically modified kids, that turn into monsters. Like that crazy guy (but looks intelligent and suave and well groomed and dressed) with the syringe and the devil's potion, that makes the kids become horrible.
I have no idea what this guy or the moderator or host is talking about. Maybe this is all legit though
, I am getting my Nick Nolte on. In as much as I am Bruce Davison playing with little clay dolls as a kid. So I can prepare myself for a future role as a priest exorcist (weird how he admits that by the way, Sniffy, kind of like he is letting out what we knew all along. About religion. And then there is that Elephant idol effigy tool thing that you have.) Trevor and M.10. I guess you probably wouldn't care about Ken Bowersox or even Ken Burns. But I can get into them.
Look at that lovable banana tarsier in the Congo look on his face — at 5:29. Ok what the Ted Cruz (behind the scenes is going on.) Has anyone seen the Outer Limits, the episode called Unnatural selection. This Jannick whatever dude is totally that doctor. Who is selling the genetically modified kids, that turn into monsters. Like that crazy guy (but looks intelligent and suave and well groomed and dressed) with the syringe and the devil's potion, that makes the kids become horrible.
I have no idea what this guy or the moderator or host is talking about. Maybe this is all legit though
, I am getting my Nick Nolte on. In as much as I am Bruce Davison playing with little clay dolls as a kid. So I can prepare myself for a future role as a priest exorcist (weird how he admits that by the way, Sniffy, kind of like he is letting out what we knew all along. About religion. And then there is that Elephant idol effigy tool thing that you have.) Trevor and M.10. I guess you probably wouldn't care about Ken Bowersox or even Ken Burns. But I can get into them. #26
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - July 19, 2026, 09:32:10 PMTonight's Stinker
Robotrix (1991)
https://youtu.be/5ScNL0rondU?si=2_GmYL-Mx1MqTVQs
A middle eastern prince goes frolicking in the pool with a group of nude women while a team of Asian policemen assigned to guard him watch..... The one policewoman on the team is put off & decides to step out.... A kidnapper gasses everyone in the pool, then shoots the policewoman on the way out......
Later, at a convention organized by the father of the prince, American & German android developers vie for a contract for a middle eastern android army.... Two androids get to fighting, things get out of hand, & a Japanese android comes in to save the day..... Then an evil mad scientist sends a video tape saying he's kidnapped the sheik's son, then transfers his mind into an android.....
This plot point is quickly forgotten until about an hour later.....
The dead policewoman's mind is put into an android..... Meanwhile, the police start looking for a man killing hookers.....
This one kept turning up in b-movie recommendations, had me thinking it was just going to be silly martial arts, but for the most part, was porn with jokes about misogyny & voyeurism set to a grating synth score, with no real plot....
Robotrix (1991)
https://youtu.be/5ScNL0rondU?si=2_GmYL-Mx1MqTVQs
A middle eastern prince goes frolicking in the pool with a group of nude women while a team of Asian policemen assigned to guard him watch..... The one policewoman on the team is put off & decides to step out.... A kidnapper gasses everyone in the pool, then shoots the policewoman on the way out......
Later, at a convention organized by the father of the prince, American & German android developers vie for a contract for a middle eastern android army.... Two androids get to fighting, things get out of hand, & a Japanese android comes in to save the day..... Then an evil mad scientist sends a video tape saying he's kidnapped the sheik's son, then transfers his mind into an android.....
This plot point is quickly forgotten until about an hour later.....
The dead policewoman's mind is put into an android..... Meanwhile, the police start looking for a man killing hookers.....
This one kept turning up in b-movie recommendations, had me thinking it was just going to be silly martial arts, but for the most part, was porn with jokes about misogyny & voyeurism set to a grating synth score, with no real plot....
#27
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - July 19, 2026, 08:33:23 PMGORILLA AT LARGE (1954):
It's hard for me to think of a more stacked cast in the mid-50s slumming in a greater mediocrity (though I am open to suggestions). Thus I submit to you Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Marvin, Raymond Burr, and Cameron Mitchell... in a Man-In-Suit potboiler where characters are menaced (very very slowly) at an urban circus by either a killer in a gorilla suit or a real errant gorilla or possibly both. If GORILLA AT LARGE was produced by Fox or Paramount or MGM you'd think this was a one-fell-swoop revenge strategy against a bunch of contracted actors who'd p**sed off the studio chief - but no, it was made by "Panoramic Pictures"
so presumably that fly-by-night studio just threw buckets of money into the Sunset Strip and then brought out the nets to capture anybody who ran into the street to nab a few bucks.
Bancroft was a working ingenue on the verge of playing wives and fallen ladies, still years off from THE MIRACLE WORKER; she plays the star trapeze artist and looks good enough that she might still have been a stretch for short comedy writer Mel Brooks. (I dunno when they met but they married a decade later.) Burr, a few months before REAR WINDOW and a year and change before GODZILLA, is Bancroft's hubby and the owner of the circus. In his big scene, he (falsely) confesses to being the gorilla-suited maniac and then punches a plate of glass. Cobb (within months of ON THE WATERFRONT) brings a lot of gravitas to his investigating cop role, but he's clearly bored by the project. (At one point he reclines sleepily at his desk and orders an underling to brief him on the case because he's "too busy".) Marvin had already played the heavy in THE BIG HEAT but has the smallest (and silliest) role of the bunch, as an absentminded patrolman who gets knocked out and locked in the gorilla's cage. That leaves Mitchell, historically the weakest actor of the toney bunch, to enjoy the most screen time, including tons of dialogue, some light action, and even a love triangle w/ Bancroft and another dame. I primarily know Mitchell from his (even much worse) flicks from the 70s and 80s, when he was a wizened silver fox - plus lots of his early 50's credits are nearly invisible ensemble bits - so the full-color GORILLA AT LARGE is something of a revelation as it shows that young Mitchell (besides being only a serviceable actor) was also a weird-looking ginger....... 
.......Yes, double-standard time: Redheaded women, hottest entities in all God's Creation, but as for Mitchell and many redheaded men....... 
...Makes sense now that Mitch worked a lot more when he turned gray.
There's lot of relationship drama and very little monkey-action. (The climax is just KING KONG on a tiny fraction of the scale.) Although shot and released in 3D, there's almost no attempt to exploit the format for funsies. All that said, I did enjoy the gorilla suit! It's one of the sumo-wrestler-sized ones, like in Ron Ormond's UNTAMED MISTRESS, but of a higher quality, and w/ pretty slick facial feature-articulation. In the movie's best/funniest moment, the escaped gorilla wanders the midway and gazes upon first some cheezy animatronic chimp robots, and then on some wholly uncool sambo-like dancing puppets. The racist iconography is a bummer, but the disapproving look on the gorilla's face is priceless. 2.5/5
It's hard for me to think of a more stacked cast in the mid-50s slumming in a greater mediocrity (though I am open to suggestions). Thus I submit to you Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Marvin, Raymond Burr, and Cameron Mitchell... in a Man-In-Suit potboiler where characters are menaced (very very slowly) at an urban circus by either a killer in a gorilla suit or a real errant gorilla or possibly both. If GORILLA AT LARGE was produced by Fox or Paramount or MGM you'd think this was a one-fell-swoop revenge strategy against a bunch of contracted actors who'd p**sed off the studio chief - but no, it was made by "Panoramic Pictures"
so presumably that fly-by-night studio just threw buckets of money into the Sunset Strip and then brought out the nets to capture anybody who ran into the street to nab a few bucks.Bancroft was a working ingenue on the verge of playing wives and fallen ladies, still years off from THE MIRACLE WORKER; she plays the star trapeze artist and looks good enough that she might still have been a stretch for short comedy writer Mel Brooks. (I dunno when they met but they married a decade later.) Burr, a few months before REAR WINDOW and a year and change before GODZILLA, is Bancroft's hubby and the owner of the circus. In his big scene, he (falsely) confesses to being the gorilla-suited maniac and then punches a plate of glass.
Cobb (within months of ON THE WATERFRONT) brings a lot of gravitas to his investigating cop role, but he's clearly bored by the project. (At one point he reclines sleepily at his desk and orders an underling to brief him on the case because he's "too busy".) Marvin had already played the heavy in THE BIG HEAT but has the smallest (and silliest) role of the bunch, as an absentminded patrolman who gets knocked out and locked in the gorilla's cage. That leaves Mitchell, historically the weakest actor of the toney bunch, to enjoy the most screen time, including tons of dialogue, some light action, and even a love triangle w/ Bancroft and another dame. I primarily know Mitchell from his (even much worse) flicks from the 70s and 80s, when he was a wizened silver fox - plus lots of his early 50's credits are nearly invisible ensemble bits - so the full-color GORILLA AT LARGE is something of a revelation as it shows that young Mitchell (besides being only a serviceable actor) was also a weird-looking ginger....... .......Yes, double-standard time: Redheaded women, hottest entities in all God's Creation, but as for Mitchell and many redheaded men....... ...Makes sense now that Mitch worked a lot more when he turned gray. There's lot of relationship drama and very little monkey-action. (The climax is just KING KONG on a tiny fraction of the scale.) Although shot and released in 3D, there's almost no attempt to exploit the format for funsies. All that said, I did enjoy the gorilla suit! It's one of the sumo-wrestler-sized ones, like in Ron Ormond's UNTAMED MISTRESS, but of a higher quality, and w/ pretty slick facial feature-articulation. In the movie's best/funniest moment, the escaped gorilla wanders the midway and gazes upon first some cheezy animatronic chimp robots, and then on some wholly uncool sambo-like dancing puppets.
The racist iconography is a bummer, but the disapproving look on the gorilla's face is priceless. 2.5/5 #28
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - July 19, 2026, 08:23:20 PM"Welcome To Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort" (2015)
A nostalgic look back at Kutsher's, an upstate New York hotel resort in the heart of the so called "Borscht Belt" in the Catskill Mountains. During the area's heyday in the 1950s and 60s, the Catskills were dotted with hundreds of similar destinations for vacationing Jewish New Yorkers, but at the dawn of the 21st century, Kutsher's was the last one still in business, though it was facing an uncertain future. (The film reveals that the resort finally closed in 2013).
I never visited Kutsher's, but my grandparents lived in upstate NY when I was a kid, and I remember seeing roadside billboards and advertisements for it (and its many competitors) all along our way to visit them. Even then, such resorts were relics from a bygone age, so I was surprised to learn that Kutsher's hung in as long as they did. An interesting, affectionate history lesson.
A nostalgic look back at Kutsher's, an upstate New York hotel resort in the heart of the so called "Borscht Belt" in the Catskill Mountains. During the area's heyday in the 1950s and 60s, the Catskills were dotted with hundreds of similar destinations for vacationing Jewish New Yorkers, but at the dawn of the 21st century, Kutsher's was the last one still in business, though it was facing an uncertain future. (The film reveals that the resort finally closed in 2013).
I never visited Kutsher's, but my grandparents lived in upstate NY when I was a kid, and I remember seeing roadside billboards and advertisements for it (and its many competitors) all along our way to visit them. Even then, such resorts were relics from a bygone age, so I was surprised to learn that Kutsher's hung in as long as they did. An interesting, affectionate history lesson.
#29
Good Movies / Re: The Odyessy (2026)
Last post by WingedSerpent - July 19, 2026, 08:20:40 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2026, 08:07:16 PMI'm seeing it in IMAX a week from today. Did you see it that way or just in the regular theater?
Regular Theater
#30
Good Movies / Re: The Odyessy (2026)
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 19, 2026, 08:07:16 PMI'm seeing it in IMAX a week from today. Did you see it that way or just in the regular theater?