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#21
Bad Movies / Re: have I bought a bad movie ...
Last post by pacman000 - March 13, 2026, 03:17:17 PMThat sounds like the beginning of a creepypasta.
Good on claws, chainsaw for finding the info!
Good on claws, chainsaw for finding the info!
#22
Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...
Last post by pacman000 - March 13, 2026, 03:10:54 PMMessage from Space
Battle Beyond the Stars
Krull
Battle Beyond the Stars
Krull
#23
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by LilCerberus - March 13, 2026, 02:11:11 PM
#24
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - March 13, 2026, 02:05:38 PMDAVID BOWIE Hunky Dory
#25
Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 13, 2026, 01:57:09 PMQuote from: Trevor on March 13, 2026, 01:33:12 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on March 07, 2026, 11:47:00 AM"The Ends of Power" by H.R. Haldeman. I didn't really get it at the time.
Is that the Watergate H R Haldeman, Rev? 🤔
Yes. Don't know why I picked it out at the library. I was probably about 10.
#26
Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...
Last post by Trevor - March 13, 2026, 01:33:12 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on March 07, 2026, 11:47:00 AM"The Ends of Power" by H.R. Haldeman. I didn't really get it at the time.
Is that the Watergate H R Haldeman, Rev? 🤔
#27
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 13, 2026, 01:01:26 PMTHE 27TH DAY (1957):
This B+W sci-fi/cold war flick establishes a compelling conflict in the opening 10 minutes: A representative of an extraterrestrial civilization abducts five humans from the U.S., U.K., China, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The E.T. gives each of them a "capsule" which can only be activated by each human's thoughts, which can detonate said capsule and instantly kill every human being in a three thousand mile diameter. The capsules will be "live" for twenty-seven days and Jor-El is basically like Yo, it's on each a' y'all, you do you! Then he zaps 'em all home... but then the aliens broadcast a message all over Earth, identifying the five super-weapon wielding Earthlings by name........!!! And it's open season on these five poor f****rs.
WHAT A CONCEPT, amiright? And following the exposition, THE 27TH DAY does........ absolutely nothing with it!
The dumpy middle-aged American guy and bland British lady go hide in a shack in the desert together and very gradually and illogically fall in love (because of course, #1950smovie) while intelligence agencies and governments all over the planet rapidly but uncompellingly freak out. In the final scenes, the German (who's a scientist) uncovers the most preposterous and disappointing deus ex cop-out possible: that the activated capsules will actually only kill those within their range that are "enemies of freedom". OH RIGHT - well that makes perfect extraterrestrial scientific sense. 
The alien (who instructs the Earthlings to address him only as "The Alien") is briefly amusing and would probably fit in well with Eros and Tanna from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE....... which is actually a more well thought-out and much more entertaining E.T. conspiracy horror/thriller than this sad flick, which could have benefitted from a good dose of Ed Wood's camp aplomb. 27TH DAY was directed by William Asher, who directed a handful of (also more entertaining) 60s beach party movies. Actually most of 27TH DAY's issues could have been ameliorated if only Don Rickles had played the German scientist and Harvey Lembeck played the Alien as "Erich Von Zipper".
2.5/5 One for the "Bad Movies that could be remade as Good Movies" file.
This B+W sci-fi/cold war flick establishes a compelling conflict in the opening 10 minutes: A representative of an extraterrestrial civilization abducts five humans from the U.S., U.K., China, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The E.T. gives each of them a "capsule" which can only be activated by each human's thoughts, which can detonate said capsule and instantly kill every human being in a three thousand mile diameter. The capsules will be "live" for twenty-seven days and Jor-El is basically like Yo, it's on each a' y'all, you do you! Then he zaps 'em all home... but then the aliens broadcast a message all over Earth, identifying the five super-weapon wielding Earthlings by name........!!! And it's open season on these five poor f****rs.
WHAT A CONCEPT, amiright? And following the exposition, THE 27TH DAY does........ absolutely nothing with it!
The dumpy middle-aged American guy and bland British lady go hide in a shack in the desert together and very gradually and illogically fall in love (because of course, #1950smovie) while intelligence agencies and governments all over the planet rapidly but uncompellingly freak out. In the final scenes, the German (who's a scientist) uncovers the most preposterous and disappointing deus ex cop-out possible: that the activated capsules will actually only kill those within their range that are "enemies of freedom". OH RIGHT - well that makes perfect extraterrestrial scientific sense. The alien (who instructs the Earthlings to address him only as "The Alien") is briefly amusing and would probably fit in well with Eros and Tanna from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE....... which is actually a more well thought-out and much more entertaining E.T. conspiracy horror/thriller than this sad flick, which could have benefitted from a good dose of Ed Wood's camp aplomb. 27TH DAY was directed by William Asher, who directed a handful of (also more entertaining) 60s beach party movies. Actually most of 27TH DAY's issues could have been ameliorated if only Don Rickles had played the German scientist and Harvey Lembeck played the Alien as "Erich Von Zipper".
2.5/5 One for the "Bad Movies that could be remade as Good Movies" file.
#28
Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...
Last post by zombie no.one - March 13, 2026, 12:04:55 PMQuote from: M.10rda on March 13, 2026, 09:26:59 AMThe teacher confiscated it, ripped it up, and then called in the school custodian to ritually burn it (yes) in front of the class.
drastic
Not a book but I used to buy a rather not-for-kids comic called BRAIN DAMAGE, and made the mistake of taking it into school once to show some mates... got confiscated by my English teacher and never returned to me!
#29
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - March 13, 2026, 11:20:08 AMTEA AND SYMPATHY (1956):
Committing myself (somewhat masochistically) to only watching movies from before 1960 this year has really developed my perspective for What I'm inclined to consider a "Good" or "Bad" Movie as well as about Why. This one is technically competent, formally pleasant (if rather austere and listless), and professionally acted and directed (the latter by a giant of mid-20th century Hollywood, Vincente Minelli). It's screenplay is essentially literate and thoughtful (based on a formerly popular chestnut of community theaters). It's by all measures a Good Movie... but as w/ a bunch of other things I've watched lately, it's such a product of its time that it kinda' doesn't function anymore, or at least not as was intended.
Deborah Kerr plays the wife of a "housemaster" at an American boys prep school. She takes a shine to and begins to mentor one quiet, intelligent, athletically disinclined senior played by John Kerr - who bizarrely is no relation to Deborah, though in light of their characters' relationship, it would've been more bizarre if the actors were related.
Anyway, the kid likes poetry and flowers, which earns him the ire of his father, the sportscoach housemaster, and all the other jocks at school. However, he also likes Deborah....... and eventually it's clear that Deborah likes him!
TEA AND SYMPATHY is ultimately chaste, but its subtext remains clear. A smart Letterboxd user just leaves their review at this: "Masculinity is a prison, and all men are cops." I got that resonant moral from this movie, but the Letterboxd user says it in one sentence whereas the movie takes 2+ hours. Also, the rough, insensitive way John K. is treated at his 1950s private boys school remains plausible in some part, though from a contemporary perspective, he'd be tolerated or embraced by a large percentage of the school population even if he was openly homosexual today... but also also, realistically he'd get it a lot worse from the school's most reactionary bigots in 1956 or in 2026. (Speaking from experience here as a former "John K".) Of course, all of the gay hysteria seems ultimately besides the point in TEA AND SYMPATHY, as the kid isn't gay... he's in love with the nice-looking Coach's wife... who's inclined to reciprocate. And in no world I know would a 17-year old boy bagging a 40ish MILF be targeted for ritualistic community abuse....... guy'd be lionized!
Thus TEA AND SYMPATHY doesn't track strongly on any of its designed levels. Minelli and the screenplay don't help by ultimately focusing more on the May/September romance than on the prejudice angle. The ending falls flat for me.
3/5? The famous line "Years from now, when you speak of this - and you will - be kind" originate from this text. Ironically it's also kind of the text's own epitaph.
Committing myself (somewhat masochistically) to only watching movies from before 1960 this year has really developed my perspective for What I'm inclined to consider a "Good" or "Bad" Movie as well as about Why. This one is technically competent, formally pleasant (if rather austere and listless), and professionally acted and directed (the latter by a giant of mid-20th century Hollywood, Vincente Minelli). It's screenplay is essentially literate and thoughtful (based on a formerly popular chestnut of community theaters). It's by all measures a Good Movie... but as w/ a bunch of other things I've watched lately, it's such a product of its time that it kinda' doesn't function anymore, or at least not as was intended.
Deborah Kerr plays the wife of a "housemaster" at an American boys prep school. She takes a shine to and begins to mentor one quiet, intelligent, athletically disinclined senior played by John Kerr - who bizarrely is no relation to Deborah, though in light of their characters' relationship, it would've been more bizarre if the actors were related.
Anyway, the kid likes poetry and flowers, which earns him the ire of his father, the sportscoach housemaster, and all the other jocks at school. However, he also likes Deborah....... and eventually it's clear that Deborah likes him! TEA AND SYMPATHY is ultimately chaste, but its subtext remains clear. A smart Letterboxd user just leaves their review at this: "Masculinity is a prison, and all men are cops." I got that resonant moral from this movie, but the Letterboxd user says it in one sentence whereas the movie takes 2+ hours. Also, the rough, insensitive way John K. is treated at his 1950s private boys school remains plausible in some part, though from a contemporary perspective, he'd be tolerated or embraced by a large percentage of the school population even if he was openly homosexual today... but also also, realistically he'd get it a lot worse from the school's most reactionary bigots in 1956 or in 2026. (Speaking from experience here as a former "John K".) Of course, all of the gay hysteria seems ultimately besides the point in TEA AND SYMPATHY, as the kid isn't gay... he's in love with the nice-looking Coach's wife... who's inclined to reciprocate. And in no world I know would a 17-year old boy bagging a 40ish MILF be targeted for ritualistic community abuse....... guy'd be lionized!
Thus TEA AND SYMPATHY doesn't track strongly on any of its designed levels. Minelli and the screenplay don't help by ultimately focusing more on the May/September romance than on the prejudice angle. The ending falls flat for me.
3/5? The famous line "Years from now, when you speak of this - and you will - be kind" originate from this text. Ironically it's also kind of the text's own epitaph.
#30
Entertainment / Re: Books you shouldn't have r...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 13, 2026, 09:45:01 AM
Rape scene. I was about 12?
Also one of the Gor novels, don't remember which one but probably the first one, at about the same age. If you don't know, it was a fantasy series with heavy S&M/B&D themes.
