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#71
Television / Re: TV characters you hated?
Last post by Trevor - March 09, 2026, 10:10:37 AMSerena Southerlyn, LAW AND ORDER.
#72
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 09, 2026, 09:58:38 AMJOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934):
No one suffered like Ruth Chatterton, according to one Letterboxd user. I know they meant to compliment her ability to play tortured/tormented/tragically wronged women in '30s potboilers, but the statement also serves to underline a likely reality about the actress herself. Short of FEMALE (a weirdo masterpiece) and DODSWORTH (solid if unremarkable), I am beginning to suspect that every other Ruth Chatterton movie is complete tripe. Most of them have nearly identical plots, too. JOURNAL OF A CRIME is supposedly an oddball in the Chatterton oeuvre, in terms of plot - but it still suuucks.
In a lengthy opening sequence, Chatterton hides in the shadows outside a Paris theatre and discovers that her husband is having an affair. The cool shots of a semi-obscured Chatterton are nearly expressionistic, but the sequence goes on for an eternity, w/ Chatterton motionless, listening, while exposition happens around her. This really tests the colloquialism "I'd watch [INSERT ACTOR HERE] read the phonebook." I like Chatterton and all, but she literally just stands silently and listens for a loooooong time.
Her husband is Adolphe Menjou, a real unpleasant guy to watch onscreen and reputedly just as nasty offscreen. His mistress is no peach herself and when ***SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE MOVIE*** Chatterton murders the mistress forty-ish minutes into the movie, Menjou is frankly relieved! Another guy is accused, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder; Chatterton is guilt-stricken; yet it turns out the innocent dude is happy to get hung, so Chatterton's still off the hook! But she still feels real guilty, and eventually seems to be literally dying slowly of guilt. (Hollywood melodrama, amiright?) Menjou urges her to confess and clear her conscience, but on the way to the police Chatterton gets run over by a truck (!) and suffers total and permanent amnesia.
When she regains consciousness, she feels no guilt and Menjou of course can once again pretend to be a loyal husband. The End! 
What a movie... a bad, bad, dumb movie. The "journal" in the title features prominently in the (slow, dull) storyline, yet in a way that makes very little sense and doesn't impact the outcome in any real way. Why do I do this to myself? 1.5/5
No one suffered like Ruth Chatterton, according to one Letterboxd user. I know they meant to compliment her ability to play tortured/tormented/tragically wronged women in '30s potboilers, but the statement also serves to underline a likely reality about the actress herself. Short of FEMALE (a weirdo masterpiece) and DODSWORTH (solid if unremarkable), I am beginning to suspect that every other Ruth Chatterton movie is complete tripe. Most of them have nearly identical plots, too. JOURNAL OF A CRIME is supposedly an oddball in the Chatterton oeuvre, in terms of plot - but it still suuucks.
In a lengthy opening sequence, Chatterton hides in the shadows outside a Paris theatre and discovers that her husband is having an affair. The cool shots of a semi-obscured Chatterton are nearly expressionistic, but the sequence goes on for an eternity, w/ Chatterton motionless, listening, while exposition happens around her. This really tests the colloquialism "I'd watch [INSERT ACTOR HERE] read the phonebook." I like Chatterton and all, but she literally just stands silently and listens for a loooooong time.
Her husband is Adolphe Menjou, a real unpleasant guy to watch onscreen and reputedly just as nasty offscreen. His mistress is no peach herself and when ***SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE MOVIE*** Chatterton murders the mistress forty-ish minutes into the movie, Menjou is frankly relieved! Another guy is accused, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder; Chatterton is guilt-stricken; yet it turns out the innocent dude is happy to get hung, so Chatterton's still off the hook! But she still feels real guilty, and eventually seems to be literally dying slowly of guilt. (Hollywood melodrama, amiright?) Menjou urges her to confess and clear her conscience, but on the way to the police Chatterton gets run over by a truck (!) and suffers total and permanent amnesia.
When she regains consciousness, she feels no guilt and Menjou of course can once again pretend to be a loyal husband. The End! What a movie... a bad, bad, dumb movie. The "journal" in the title features prominently in the (slow, dull) storyline, yet in a way that makes very little sense and doesn't impact the outcome in any real way. Why do I do this to myself? 1.5/5
#73
Television / Re: TV characters you hated?
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 09, 2026, 09:20:52 AMEveryone on "Married with Children"
Everyone on "Friends" (except Lisa Kudrow, for some reason)
Everyone on "Friends" (except Lisa Kudrow, for some reason)
#74
Television / Re: TV characters you hated?
Last post by Alex - March 09, 2026, 09:09:38 AMKristi hated Joffrey in Game of Thrones she refused to watch it until he'd been killed off.
She then didn't watch it because of the amount of plot she'd missed.
She then didn't watch it because of the amount of plot she'd missed.
#75
Bad Movies / Re: Bad movies with great scor...
Last post by zombie no.one - March 09, 2026, 08:29:07 AMDAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977)
One of my fav movies ever, but surely considered baaad... great score. the opening sequence is faburlouss, and augmented a lot by the music
One of my fav movies ever, but surely considered baaad... great score. the opening sequence is faburlouss, and augmented a lot by the music
#76
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 09, 2026, 08:05:46 AMI like singles off "Hunky Dory," but when it comes to best Bowie album I'm team Ziggy all the way.
"Of The Earth" by Shabaka
"Of The Earth" by Shabaka
#77
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 09, 2026, 07:58:29 AMThis one turned out pretty cool, I think. Lobby card instead of poster.
#78
Good Movies / Re: Movies about Jesus Christ
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 09, 2026, 07:48:55 AMQuote from: LordGraal on March 09, 2026, 02:14:20 AMJesus of Montreal (1989)
I love this film. A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives. The characters are well played and some of the imagery is strong. I find the last 10-15 minutes very tense and moving every time I watch it.
That was a good one, very affecting ending.
#80
Television / Re: TV characters you hated?
Last post by Sitting Duck - March 09, 2026, 07:03:59 AMCaptain Lochley on Babylon 5. She was an obvious eleventh-hour replacement for Ivanova who never integrated well into the series. Even her two appearances on Crusade were lackluster.