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#21
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - July 23, 2026, 05:37:33 PMQuote from: Allhallowsday on July 20, 2026, 04:04:40 PMhttps://youtu.be/7kmCk6qXoIk?si=GxXUev_NpJBjOwBY^ REV: If you know how to fix that or get to YouTube, you might like Os Poligonais
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#22
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - July 23, 2026, 05:17:22 PMTHE SET-UP (1949):
The weakest thing about this early Robert Wise film is that it's a 40s Boxing Noir and therefore nothing that happens will possibly surprise you unless maybe you are 3 years old and have never seen a movie before. Therefore it's slow to get started, though the first half does build up a respectable aura of foreboding and dread. Robert Ryan plays an over-the-hill (35yo!
) boxer who (of course) takes a longshot match against an up-and-coming young tyro, even though (obv) his long-suffering lady is begging him to give up the gloves permanently, and also (it goes w/o saying!) his manager has agreed that Ryan will throw the match....... though (in one small novel twist) he's so positive that Ryan will lose hopelessly to the kid that he doesn't even bother to let Ryan know that he's supposed to go down! 
Ah well, what's an angry mobster between a manager and his palooka?
Wise stages and shoots the whole thing very well, and many shots (particularly towards the end) look like gorgeous stark panels straight out of Frank Miller's "Sin City" or Jim Steranko's "Red Tide". Ryan is, of course, the ideal actor to play a depressed, doomed, yet defiant noir hero. He automatically exudes authenticity onscreen w/o doing much of anything.
But, he does do a lot - if absolutely nothing else, he commits to a grueling central boxing match that commands something like a third of the film's running time and leaves both opponents (but Ryan especially) mauled to a gooey sweaty pulp. I think boxing isn't like other choreographed onscreen violence - an actor can pull a punch but the other actor is still getting clipped or socked in the ear and face and breadbasket over and over - in this case for 25 minutes. Although I have no interest in athletics IRL, often sports look like fun onscreen - not here. Watching THE SET-UP reminds me I'd never want to go 6 rounds in an actual ring.
The supporting cast all look people you've seen in a dozen other movies, but I only recognized two names - Audrey Totten and Darryl Hickman. There are two fun cameos, though - infamous crime scene photographer "Weegee" as the timekeeper and Leo's Dad Bernard Gorcey, who played Louie the dime store clerk in scores of Bowery Boys flicks, exchanging a couple lines w/ Totten. 3.5/5 I therefore clocked THE SET-UP as far and away the best film Gorcey Sr ever appeared in - then was reminded he was also in THE GREAT DICTATOR!
The weakest thing about this early Robert Wise film is that it's a 40s Boxing Noir and therefore nothing that happens will possibly surprise you unless maybe you are 3 years old and have never seen a movie before. Therefore it's slow to get started, though the first half does build up a respectable aura of foreboding and dread. Robert Ryan plays an over-the-hill (35yo!
) boxer who (of course) takes a longshot match against an up-and-coming young tyro, even though (obv) his long-suffering lady is begging him to give up the gloves permanently, and also (it goes w/o saying!) his manager has agreed that Ryan will throw the match....... though (in one small novel twist) he's so positive that Ryan will lose hopelessly to the kid that he doesn't even bother to let Ryan know that he's supposed to go down! Ah well, what's an angry mobster between a manager and his palooka? Wise stages and shoots the whole thing very well, and many shots (particularly towards the end) look like gorgeous stark panels straight out of Frank Miller's "Sin City" or Jim Steranko's "Red Tide". Ryan is, of course, the ideal actor to play a depressed, doomed, yet defiant noir hero. He automatically exudes authenticity onscreen w/o doing much of anything.
But, he does do a lot - if absolutely nothing else, he commits to a grueling central boxing match that commands something like a third of the film's running time and leaves both opponents (but Ryan especially) mauled to a gooey sweaty pulp. I think boxing isn't like other choreographed onscreen violence - an actor can pull a punch but the other actor is still getting clipped or socked in the ear and face and breadbasket over and over - in this case for 25 minutes. Although I have no interest in athletics IRL, often sports look like fun onscreen - not here. Watching THE SET-UP reminds me I'd never want to go 6 rounds in an actual ring.
The supporting cast all look people you've seen in a dozen other movies, but I only recognized two names - Audrey Totten and Darryl Hickman. There are two fun cameos, though - infamous crime scene photographer "Weegee" as the timekeeper and Leo's Dad Bernard Gorcey, who played Louie the dime store clerk in scores of Bowery Boys flicks, exchanging a couple lines w/ Totten. 3.5/5 I therefore clocked THE SET-UP as far and away the best film Gorcey Sr ever appeared in - then was reminded he was also in THE GREAT DICTATOR!
#23
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by zombie no.one - July 23, 2026, 01:13:49 PMSILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT (2025)
Accidental purchase, thought I'd bought the original.
switched off after barely 15 minutes. I just can't deal with the way so many new horrors are made. total non-atmosphere zones that all feel identical. murky green brown orange camera filters. mumbling voices. I give up.
Accidental purchase, thought I'd bought the original.
switched off after barely 15 minutes. I just can't deal with the way so many new horrors are made. total non-atmosphere zones that all feel identical. murky green brown orange camera filters. mumbling voices. I give up.
#24
Bad Movies / Re: Twisted Childhood Universe
Last post by zombie no.one - July 23, 2026, 01:08:52 PMQuote from: HappyGilmore on July 21, 2026, 06:39:50 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on July 21, 2026, 03:12:05 AMIs it any "good"? I've seen the trailer. There's a different one based on the Grinch. But both of them are different producers.Quote from: claws on July 20, 2026, 09:45:28 PMQuoteThe Popeye film is not included.
It's the only one I'm mildly interested in watching.
this is the only one I've seen, and they really did nothing with it, other than hiring a big warehouse and making a random horror film... it feels like a rough 'demo' of a horror film.
I saw there was another one out on dvd already, POPEYE'S REVENGE... and just looking on imdb there are 2 more coming: POPEYE REQUIEM, and POPEYE: RESURRECTION.
(these guys are obviously studying my 'Words that sequels use in their titles...' thread)
it's kind of forgettable but vaguely watchable!
edit, by the way, I am talking about POPEYE THE SLAYER MAN... I think.
there seem to be multiple movies and I don't know if they're all connected or which ones are / aren't
#25
Bad Movies / Re: Twisted Childhood Universe
Last post by Alex - July 23, 2026, 12:47:16 PMI watched the first Winnie the Pooh one, found it poor enough to kill any interest in watching more in that franchise. I've seen a few of the other childhood-based ones like the Micky and Minnie Mouse horrors, the Popeye one (watching it and then the sequel after atm), as well as the Banana Splits one that came out a while back. So far, the best I've seen would rate as ok, but not memorable in any way, but doubtless one night shift I'll delve more into the shared universe movies.
#26
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - July 23, 2026, 11:03:25 AMLove and Other Drugs
#29
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 23, 2026, 09:37:44 AM
Brazilian music is always great.
#30
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 23, 2026, 09:31:03 AM
Cheesy rip-off title, but there aren't many movies with "babysitting" in the title.