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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - December 20, 2025, 04:34:58 PM
THE KINGSTON TRIO The Last Month Of The Year 

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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: strange dream depository
Last post by Rev. Powell - December 20, 2025, 02:59:26 PM
I dreamt about a dog that was almost two stories tall, and had another dog strapped onto his side like a saddlebag.
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - December 20, 2025, 02:34:03 PM
THE PATSY (1928):
Not the Jerry Lewis/Peter Lorre comedy, alas, but a silly silent farce about which I have nearly nothing to say, except...

This is the first time I've seen the real Marion Davies in a film, and she's very entertaining. Blondes aren't usually my type (I wonder what Lester thinks of Marion) but I found her entirely adorable in the lead role here. Somehow I got the impression from the thinly veiled "Marion Davies" character in CITIZEN KANE that Davies was a talentless leech, which it seems is a popular miscomprehension. Apparently Orson Welles eventually felt badly enough about how he'd portrayed Davies that he started apologizing in interviews and saying he wanted to show how the symbiotic Davies/Hearst relationship ultimately damaged Davies' career instead of boosting it... rather than showing that Davies was a bad actress. Anyway, let the record show - she isn't!

But she isn't enough to elevate this silly movie above a 2.5/5.

Kirsten Dunst played "the real" (non-pseudonymous) Davies in THE CAT'S MEOW back in the 00s, and based on Davies in THE PATSY, that was good casting.
#69
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Dr. Whom - December 20, 2025, 12:01:36 PM
Companion (2025)

A couple get together with friends on a weekend retreat. The girl, however, is a robot programmed to be to perfect companion, and is unaware that she is not human. What could possibly go wrong?

This one is a hoot! It is impossible to talk much about the plot without spoiling the fun. It is one of those movies where the characters try to fix things, but then the actions have unintended consequences, which then prompt further decisions until the situation spirals completely out of control. It won't revolutionise the genre, but it moves along briskly and at 97 minutes doesn't overstay its welcome. It doesn't try to be anything else than entertainment, if you want a thoughtful discussion of AI, you should watch Ex Machina. Excellent performance of Sophie Thatcher as Iris.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - December 20, 2025, 11:31:09 AM
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