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#21

Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by M.10rda - June 22, 2026, 08:21:28 PM

THE BELLS (1926):
This is a long, slow, and unexciting 68 minutes, but it is a curio of sorts - a Christmas ghost story with the same name as a Christmas ghost story written by Dickens (but otherwise there's no similarity) and a feelbad flick that predates IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE by 20 years yet stars IAWL co-star Lionel Barrymore as both Mr. Potter and George Bailey.

Barrymore plays a nice-guy innkeeper and small-town politician who runs into a little financial trouble and just, y'know, murders a traveling salesman then takes the guy's money and disposes of his body.

As You Do, right???

Of course the victim's ghost hangs around to make Lionel feel guilty, and then to complicate matters a roving Mesmerist (!) shows up in town and glares forebodingly at Lionel as if he knows the truth...!

This is a weird film that doesn't work, primarily because alternating between presenting Barrymore as a sympathetic everyman and as a larcenous murderer is a huge stretch. At the end the viewer is asked to root for and feel good about Barrymore's retribution and deliverance, as if he was Ebeneezer Scrooge - except Scrooge was just a grumpy miser, not a killer.

That said, I do think Barrymore gives a strong performance in a very tricky (or impossible) lead role, just as he did in THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The other highlight of THE BELLS is the Mesmerist, played by....... Boris Karloff! Honestly I didn't detect too much acting going on beneath Karloff's heavy make-up - but the make-up itself.......

Karloff looks like Willem Dafoe playing Lou Reed disguised as Lon Chaney playing "The Man In The Beaver Hat" from LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. It's quite something.

2.5/5

#22

Movie Reviews / Re: Mutant Reviewers From Hell

Last post by Sitting Duck - June 22, 2026, 08:13:05 PM

Shark Week has begun at Mutant Reviewers.

https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/06/22/welcome-to-mutant-shark-week/

#23

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by FatFreddysCat - June 22, 2026, 07:37:31 PM

"Titan A.E." (2000)
Fifteen years after the destruction of Earth by an alien race, a young man embarks on a mission to find a lost mega-spaceship that could be humanity's last hope for survival.
Don "Secret of NIMH" Bluth directed this ambitious animated sci-fi/action flick which sports an impressive voice cast including Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore, and absolutely gorgeous animation that combines old school hand-drawn art with CGI. Unfortunately "Titan A.E." tanked at the box office, which is a shame because this is some quality stuff. It's worth re-discovery.

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