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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

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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.

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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!

#75

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!"

#76

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.

#77

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

#78

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?)

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

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

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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!