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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 03:12:50 AMRecently revisited two classics: Godzilla and Akira
I hadn't seen Godzilla since my student days. It didn't disappoint. It is a solid melodrama, and while the suit does look rubbery, the image of Godzilla towering over burning Tokyo remains powerful.
As for Akira, back in the day I went to considerable trouble to catch a screening. These were the pre-internet days when even finding VHS cassettes wasn't easy. At the time it was about the most impressive thing I had ever seen. Revisiting it later, I found it less impressive, but still very good. So I went to a screening of the restored version with slightly lower expectations and was again surprised by how amazing it was. Still, the restoration and modern projection technology doesn't do it any favours, because some of the shortcuts in the animation become more visible. I was also surprised by the bodycount, and that is not just unseen people being vaporised in scenes of mass destruction. The number of people being ripped to shreds on screen is enormous.
I hadn't seen Godzilla since my student days. It didn't disappoint. It is a solid melodrama, and while the suit does look rubbery, the image of Godzilla towering over burning Tokyo remains powerful.
As for Akira, back in the day I went to considerable trouble to catch a screening. These were the pre-internet days when even finding VHS cassettes wasn't easy. At the time it was about the most impressive thing I had ever seen. Revisiting it later, I found it less impressive, but still very good. So I went to a screening of the restored version with slightly lower expectations and was again surprised by how amazing it was. Still, the restoration and modern projection technology doesn't do it any favours, because some of the shortcuts in the animation become more visible. I was also surprised by the bodycount, and that is not just unseen people being vaporised in scenes of mass destruction. The number of people being ripped to shreds on screen is enormous.
#22
Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by HappyGilmore - Today at 03:01:22 AMQuote from: M.10rda on September 10, 2026, 11:01:26 AMS3 was just rocky. Color me crazy but I love Misty. Nat was my favorite but considering adult her is deceased and young her is alive it's just like, where do you go? You know how her story ends.Quote from: HappyGilmore on August 23, 2026, 06:32:59 PMYellowjackets.
Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Elijah Wood. Final season is out soon.
And...... good for them for pulling the plug. S1, very good. S2, close to brilliant. S3, increasingly shaky and then straight off the cliff by the end.One more season and there would be no one left to root for anyway.
#23
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 02:56:03 AM32 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Movie
Yes it is made for TV, but it has 'the movie' in the title, that must count for something
Yes it is made for TV, but it has 'the movie' in the title, that must count for something
#24
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - September 19, 2026, 10:49:14 PM
#25
Bad Movies / Re: UFO/unexplained/apocalypti...
Last post by Trevor - September 19, 2026, 10:19:21 PMA South African one for you: BEYOND THE LIGHT BARRIER (2023), a docco concerning the South African woman Elizabeth Klarer who claimed to have not only witnessed a UFO visiting South Africa on numerous occasions but also to have had a physical relationship with one of the people from out there.
Although I believe that there are other people in our universe, I find her claim of being made pregnant by Captain Jerk a little bit hard to swallow 😳😏😉
Although I believe that there are other people in our universe, I find her claim of being made pregnant by Captain Jerk a little bit hard to swallow 😳😏😉
#26
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - September 19, 2026, 09:51:14 PMTonight's Stinker
2019: After the Fall of New York(1983)
https://youtu.be/X4-vUA3wbow?si=SrXHfOcxF7Oo3LxM
It opens with some annoying midi/synth music that we're supposed to believe some guy on the street is playing with a trumpet..... A narrator explains how people have gone sterile following World War 3, & the predominant government experiments on the survivors....
Some soldiers dressed in black on horseback meet up with some gangsters in a New York street, & set about raiding a building to kill a bunch of people with nasty complexions...
Then we cut to a desert, where a couple of cars are in a game of trying to kill each other while punk rockers cheer them on... The winner is our protagonist, & the prize is a male transvestite.... The hero sets him/her free, then gets abducted by a pair of guys in white uniforms...
He's taken to Alaska, where a group of rebels have set up shop.... He's told there's one fertile woman left on Earth, & they want him to go get her with the help of a strongman & a guy who's mind is a map of Brooklyn (even though his name is Bronx, which is on the other side of the river).... They get into New York, but need to run through rat infested sewers to avoid gangs & soldiers, but ultimately get caught.... They escape, & end up getting help from a midget & an ape man......
The midi/synth scores in these Italian Maxploitation always gives me a headache.... Still, the the movie is pretty fast paced & enjoyable....
2019: After the Fall of New York(1983)
https://youtu.be/X4-vUA3wbow?si=SrXHfOcxF7Oo3LxM
It opens with some annoying midi/synth music that we're supposed to believe some guy on the street is playing with a trumpet..... A narrator explains how people have gone sterile following World War 3, & the predominant government experiments on the survivors....
Some soldiers dressed in black on horseback meet up with some gangsters in a New York street, & set about raiding a building to kill a bunch of people with nasty complexions...
Then we cut to a desert, where a couple of cars are in a game of trying to kill each other while punk rockers cheer them on... The winner is our protagonist, & the prize is a male transvestite.... The hero sets him/her free, then gets abducted by a pair of guys in white uniforms...
He's taken to Alaska, where a group of rebels have set up shop.... He's told there's one fertile woman left on Earth, & they want him to go get her with the help of a strongman & a guy who's mind is a map of Brooklyn (even though his name is Bronx, which is on the other side of the river).... They get into New York, but need to run through rat infested sewers to avoid gangs & soldiers, but ultimately get caught.... They escape, & end up getting help from a midget & an ape man......
The midi/synth scores in these Italian Maxploitation always gives me a headache.... Still, the the movie is pretty fast paced & enjoyable....
#27
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - September 19, 2026, 09:03:13 PMTUBEWAY ARMY Replicas
#28
Entertainment / Re: ?sdrawkcab gninnur murof e...
Last post by indianasmith - September 19, 2026, 07:56:16 PM.tniop dilav a si tahT.
#29
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - September 19, 2026, 07:28:44 PMFOOL'S LUCK (1926):
Roscoe Arbuckle wrote and directed this short and brings a good dose of his maniacal sensibility to it, but he's a bit restricted by his underwhelming/milquetoast lead actor, the bizarrely named "Lupino Lane". Lane plays an indolent rich guy - a popular character type in early 20th century films and also one of my least favorite kinds of characters. He's oh so charming to his pretty girlfriend, but then right before he's supposed to meet her even-wealthier father for the first time, Lane learns that he's cut off from the family fortune. Somehow he ends up riding his grand piano out a high-rise city window (Harold Lloyd-style) and then moments later his car gets hit (destroyed!) by a train and then in the final moments he cleverly strikes gold again. FOOL'S LUCK is only 15 minutes - it feels longer, but Roscoe keeps things moving along at as painless a clip as possible. The stunts are typically insane - I'm pretty sure Lane is really several stories up above a city street in a few shots. Perhaps if he's perished we'd remember him better! 3/5
Roscoe Arbuckle wrote and directed this short and brings a good dose of his maniacal sensibility to it, but he's a bit restricted by his underwhelming/milquetoast lead actor, the bizarrely named "Lupino Lane". Lane plays an indolent rich guy - a popular character type in early 20th century films and also one of my least favorite kinds of characters.
He's oh so charming to his pretty girlfriend, but then right before he's supposed to meet her even-wealthier father for the first time, Lane learns that he's cut off from the family fortune. Somehow he ends up riding his grand piano out a high-rise city window (Harold Lloyd-style) and then moments later his car gets hit (destroyed!) by a train and then in the final moments he cleverly strikes gold again. FOOL'S LUCK is only 15 minutes - it feels longer, but Roscoe keeps things moving along at as painless a clip as possible. The stunts are typically insane - I'm pretty sure Lane is really several stories up above a city street in a few shots. Perhaps if he's perished we'd remember him better! 3/5 #30
Bad Movies / Re: Movies with wayyy too many...
Last post by M.10rda - September 19, 2026, 06:10:31 PMI didn't even realize there were more than 6 HOWLINGS!
Perhaps AMITYVILLE is the winner. Most of those 25 AMITYVILLEs came out just in the past decade, I think!
In service of nothing, SAW! THE MUSICAL just played for five weeks in Buffalo. It's been touring around the country, apparently. It did great business. They rented one of the theaters I work with and the admin (in spite of making money) found it all rather distasteful. There were walk-outs, and there were lots of patrons who don't appear to be the usual theatergoers and mightn't return in the future. Handfuls of that latter lot were drunk before and or during the show and at least one had to be removed by the Production Manager. Madame wanted to go see it and somehow we never made time. The informed word of mouth was just... discouraging, I guess. Maybe a live musical version spells doom for the franchise?
Perhaps AMITYVILLE is the winner. Most of those 25 AMITYVILLEs came out just in the past decade, I think!
In service of nothing, SAW! THE MUSICAL just played for five weeks in Buffalo. It's been touring around the country, apparently. It did great business. They rented one of the theaters I work with and the admin (in spite of making money) found it all rather distasteful. There were walk-outs, and there were lots of patrons who don't appear to be the usual theatergoers and mightn't return in the future. Handfuls of that latter lot were drunk before and or during the show and at least one had to be removed by the Production Manager. Madame wanted to go see it and somehow we never made time. The informed word of mouth was just... discouraging, I guess. Maybe a live musical version spells doom for the franchise?