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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 07, 2026, 08:58:35 AM

#32

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...

Last post by Rev. Powell - September 07, 2026, 08:47:01 AM

My weight has dropped from 273 in June to 248 earlier this week!  (249 this morning because we had ribs for supper last night, LOL!).

Still, 25 pounds is making a difference.  Next stop, 30 pounds down!

This is the one case where I'll say less Indy is a good thing!

Thank you, Rev!
Back down to 248 this morning.  Hoping to hold it in the 240's all week and celebrate with a cheeseburger on Friday!

I lost about 40 pounds almost a decade ago and have kept it off. But I have to keep tracking my calories and exercising daily to do it.

#33

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...

Last post by indianasmith - September 07, 2026, 07:53:08 AM

My weight has dropped from 273 in June to 248 earlier this week!  (249 this morning because we had ribs for supper last night, LOL!).

Still, 25 pounds is making a difference.  Next stop, 30 pounds down!

This is the one case where I'll say less Indy is a good thing!

Thank you, Rev!
Back down to 248 this morning.  Hoping to hold it in the 240's all week and celebrate with a cheeseburger on Friday!

#34

Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...

Last post by indianasmith - September 07, 2026, 07:50:49 AM

From my time in the US Navy (1982-86), the Sailor's Prayer:

"Now I lay me out to sea,
to teach the Russians democracy.
If I should die before with berth,
Nuke them suckers off the earth!"

#35

Television / Re: She-Wolf of London aka Lov...

Last post by Sitting Duck - September 07, 2026, 06:38:11 AM

I could have sworn this series was recently covered on Good Bad Flicks. But I'm having surprising difficulty finding the episode in question.

#36

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by Dr. Whom - September 07, 2026, 05:43:26 AM

Then I'd like to propose an honorable mention to

102 Godzilla

#37

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by zombie no.one - September 07, 2026, 01:26:45 AM

Zombie, you can do #101 to make up for DR. NO...

oh goody.. how about

101. CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986)

(from Doc to Croc?)

#38

Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...

Last post by lester1/2jr - September 07, 2026, 12:43:41 AM

#39

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

Last post by M.10rda - September 06, 2026, 10:29:22 PM

A FOOL AND HIS MONEY (1912):
This 15-minute silent is often called history's first film w/ an all black (in this case, specifically African-American) cast and was directed by Alice Guy-Blanche, who is often cited as history's first female filmmaker.
Guy-Blanche wasn't black but rather a white (French) woman who'd been making films for 15 years by the time she made this one. She has a huge resume yet most of her catalog is (of course) apparently lost. That's an almost criminal shame - she really knew how to direct actors!    4/5

Oh man, now I'm regretting my sincere yet perhaps overly exuberant praise of Alice Guy-Blanche! 

THE EMPRESS (1917):
...'Cause this, my second AG-B flick, has none of the pure cinema magic of A FOOL AND HIS MONEY! Put simply, I couldn't make heads or tails of the plot of THE EMPRESS from its visual storytelling and performances....... and alas, it survives without any of its intertitles!  I can tell you that the feature-length EMPRESS has about 35 minutes of inert romantic melodrama followed by a some pearl-clutching and fainting, a handgun, a speeding car, a s*i*i*e attempt, and then apparently a happy ending. Beyond that, I can only defer to the Letterboxd synopsis and concede that there's probably some mistaken identity and blackmail happening, I guess.

EMPRESS star Doris Kenyon looks exactly like Elizabeth Moss in the first shot of the film, then not really thereafter. She also looks breathtakingly gorgeous in the still at the top of THE EMPRESS' Letterboxd page - but I don't recall that shot (or that amount of gorgeousness) from the actual film. Kenyon and everything else about THE EMPRESS is very underwhelming. The surviving print comes to us from Guy-Blanche's homeland of France, but it was produced in English, and I guess the French exhibitor had no interest in the English intertitles so just cut 'em out altogether.  It's possible that extraordinarily well-written intertitles might make THE EMPRESS a much better film, but... I'm dubious. It's also possible that neither FOOL AND HIS MONEY nor THE EMPRESS are good median representations of Guy-Blanche as a craftsperson. She made over a hundred films, I think, and only a handful survive. Maybe we have one of the best and one of the worst, and most of her output was somewhere in the middle. But as for this one - 1.5/5.    It's also possible that all of the credit for FOOL AND HIS MONEY belongs to that film's cast and Guy-Blanche was lost w/o good actors!

#40

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan - September 06, 2026, 09:53:57 PM

Zodiac (2007) - I somehow didn't know about this or that David Fincher directed it. The first thing you notice is the real lack of Hollywood glamour. It's like he was making it for A and E or even PBS. There's even Wikipedia ish scenes where they make sure the audience gets certain facts "Here it is Christmas 1970 and we just got the second Zodiac letter. It sure is a crazy world." etc.

The Zodiac killer is loose in early 70's California and cops are having a hard time figuring out who he is. He does the thing where he writes taunting letters to the newspaper and sends them weird codes to decipher, but always stays a step ahead, somehow. Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chloe Sevigny are among the cops/ newspaper people whose lives would come to be defined by the whole thing.

Again, it's basically a 2 (and a half) parter A and E season opener, but where it's all re enactment and no talking heads or voiceover. 

5/5 I'll be watching something a little more lively next, but I can't deny the formal integrity on display.

Tauntuan Heteroptera agitate and Madam Curie or Eocene bug Morphology looks like the Star Spangled banner on the cover of Smithsonian 2014. Does it matter if we can make Bugs glow in the dark now with stem cells. And I don't mean fireflies. Call Jake Gyllenhall..I think these people have wish they were Luke Skywalker and could have had a chance to sleep in a Taun Taun Syndrome.
That is an almost epic Ax grinding takedown of the movie. Call Jeff Meldrum and have him make a cast of your foot stomping it.

It seems like in a way too. Zodiac was a bit callous and disrespectful to the events that actually happened. Not very prudential. I mean if it is based on something true. If you want to learn how to make a movie based on something true (or somewhat fictionalized true) and that happened fairly recently, I believe The Right Stuff did it right.