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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - March 01, 2026, 12:48:40 PMSo an ayatollah is dead. Someone who oppressed and killed his own people. Personally, I won't shed any tears for him, but will it change things for the Iranian people? The guy was 86 years old, so I'd imagine the regime must have been prepared for the possibility of him dying at any time. Will someone more moderate be elected in his stead? Seems doubtful. History tends to suggest that when a highly oppressive regime attempts to soften its stance, people don't like the slow pace of change and will rise up with more protests, which tends to end up bringing the power structure down. The USSR and Warsaw Pact countries fell that way. Anyway, my suspicion is that we'll see another hardliner elected. Will the strikes embolden the general population to rise up and overthrow their oppressors? I remember around 20 years ago seeing several protests from Iranians asking for the West to intervene after one of their presidential elections. Yeah, we were already hip deep in Iraq and Afghanistan at that point and didn't have the capacity or political will to get involved in a third war.
Of more immediate concern is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, the US fleet has enough firepower in theory to sink the entire Iranian fleet, but insurance underwriters have made ships travelling through that region uninsurable and that means over a fifth of the worlds oil supply has just closed off. In accordance with the laws of supply and demand oil will now go up in price. The predicted price rises are at levels where airlines will be unable to make a profit while flying. All the other usual costs will increase.
On the plus side, I'd imagine this attack will indirectly help Ukraine. If Iran is preparing for war the won't be able to send as much to Russia as they have been, I doubt the US is planning a ground invasion though so it might not have as big an effect as one might hope.
If trump really wants to bring down Iran, I suggest he installs himself as the next supreme ruler. Pretty sure that'd do it.
Of more immediate concern is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, the US fleet has enough firepower in theory to sink the entire Iranian fleet, but insurance underwriters have made ships travelling through that region uninsurable and that means over a fifth of the worlds oil supply has just closed off. In accordance with the laws of supply and demand oil will now go up in price. The predicted price rises are at levels where airlines will be unable to make a profit while flying. All the other usual costs will increase.
On the plus side, I'd imagine this attack will indirectly help Ukraine. If Iran is preparing for war the won't be able to send as much to Russia as they have been, I doubt the US is planning a ground invasion though so it might not have as big an effect as one might hope.
If trump really wants to bring down Iran, I suggest he installs himself as the next supreme ruler. Pretty sure that'd do it.
#83
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - March 01, 2026, 12:39:54 PM
Where is the party?
#85
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 01, 2026, 11:41:32 AMEROTIC GHOST STORY (1990): Three sisters (animal spirits in human form, not ghosts) fall in love with the same scholar. Another lusciously shot and costumed softcore period piece from Hong Kong cinema's golden age of exploitation that lives up to its Category III designation and takes a bizarre detour into horror in the third act. 3/5.
#86
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
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#87
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 01, 2026, 10:56:17 AMThe Fate of the Furious
#88
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 01, 2026, 10:47:40 AMTHE LODGER (1944):
I found the '27 LODGER a disappointment following Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL and MURDER!, and alas find the '44 LODGER a disappointment following John Brahm's solid, compelling, and sometimes shockingly stylish low-key thriller THE LOCKET. Brahm does a good job here establishing a dank, grim atmosphere, and there's one great use of running water in a gutter in the first sequence to emphasize (in tasteful B+W) the grotesque aftermath of a throat-slashing. The problem w/ this LODGER reboot (adapted from the same play, but actually about JTR this time, ostensibly) is inverse of Hitchcock's problem. Hitchcock needed some dialogue to make sense of his scenario - Brahm's film has a big ol' screenplay and it's mostly romantic melodramatic nonsense.
Laird Cregar is the Lodger and he ain't no dashing Crispin Glover, yet he must shoulder an illogical/absurd love triangle w/ Merle Oberon as the rather long-in-the-tooth young niece and George Sanders as the kind of classic movie homicide detective who pesters material witnesses to go out on dates w/ him.
Cedric Hardwicke is good as the uncle/landlord and whoever plays his suspicious wife is good, too. Oberon was good (briefly) as Anne Boleyn in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII - 11 years earlier. An interesting looking woman (half-Indian, though she didn't publicize it), she's a rather austere presence, particularly for an ingenue - and Sanders is similarly too stiff to be a hunky leading man. And that's to say nothing of Cregar!
LODGER is sufficiently unengaging that I spent 2/3rds the movie reflecting on who Cregar looks like. A plumper Vincent Price or a much-plumper Donald Sutherland? A slightly appealing Vic Buono? Then, once Seen, I couldn't unsee it: Laird Cregar is latter day Brendan Fraser. I'm all for non-traditional leading men, but LODGER's screenplay allows for no warmth or empathy for Cregar, most fatally ***SPOILER*** changing the ending of Hitchcock's version so that the haunted, hunted Lodger is actually the serial killer.
As a guy who's struggled his whole life w/ weight loss, I don't mean to make light (ahem) of 6'3" 300+ pound Cregar, who destroyed his heart w/ amphetamines a year after LODGER and died in a desperate attempt to slim down and play Jean Valjean in an unproduced LES MIS.
But LODGER ain't much of an epitaph. Did you know that the London police chased Jack T.R. down and watched him drown in the Thames? Apparently! 2.5/5
I found the '27 LODGER a disappointment following Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL and MURDER!, and alas find the '44 LODGER a disappointment following John Brahm's solid, compelling, and sometimes shockingly stylish low-key thriller THE LOCKET. Brahm does a good job here establishing a dank, grim atmosphere, and there's one great use of running water in a gutter in the first sequence to emphasize (in tasteful B+W) the grotesque aftermath of a throat-slashing. The problem w/ this LODGER reboot (adapted from the same play, but actually about JTR this time, ostensibly) is inverse of Hitchcock's problem. Hitchcock needed some dialogue to make sense of his scenario - Brahm's film has a big ol' screenplay and it's mostly romantic melodramatic nonsense.
Laird Cregar is the Lodger and he ain't no dashing Crispin Glover, yet he must shoulder an illogical/absurd love triangle w/ Merle Oberon as the rather long-in-the-tooth young niece and George Sanders as the kind of classic movie homicide detective who pesters material witnesses to go out on dates w/ him.
Cedric Hardwicke is good as the uncle/landlord and whoever plays his suspicious wife is good, too. Oberon was good (briefly) as Anne Boleyn in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII - 11 years earlier. An interesting looking woman (half-Indian, though she didn't publicize it), she's a rather austere presence, particularly for an ingenue - and Sanders is similarly too stiff to be a hunky leading man. And that's to say nothing of Cregar!LODGER is sufficiently unengaging that I spent 2/3rds the movie reflecting on who Cregar looks like. A plumper Vincent Price or a much-plumper Donald Sutherland? A slightly appealing Vic Buono? Then, once Seen, I couldn't unsee it: Laird Cregar is latter day Brendan Fraser. I'm all for non-traditional leading men, but LODGER's screenplay allows for no warmth or empathy for Cregar, most fatally ***SPOILER*** changing the ending of Hitchcock's version so that the haunted, hunted Lodger is actually the serial killer.
As a guy who's struggled his whole life w/ weight loss, I don't mean to make light (ahem) of 6'3" 300+ pound Cregar, who destroyed his heart w/ amphetamines a year after LODGER and died in a desperate attempt to slim down and play Jean Valjean in an unproduced LES MIS. But LODGER ain't much of an epitaph. Did you know that the London police chased Jack T.R. down and watched him drown in the Thames? Apparently!
2.5/5 #89
Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by bob - February 28, 2026, 11:06:55 PMHappy birthday Happy Gilmore 
#90
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - February 28, 2026, 10:42:43 PMTonight's Stinker
Che botte ragazzi!(1975) (The Return Of Shanghai Joe)
https://youtu.be/ccmRU9XBT7I?si=CoOxjxzIW3SWu-xL
Bill, a dowser & snake oil salesman finds oil in a Mexican village.... The impatient Mexicans are less than grateful, as they can't drink oil... Meanwhile, word gets back to Barnes (Klaus Kinski), a land baron who buys the land dirt cheap...
He sends his men to run the people out of the village, when Shanghai Joe, an Asian martial artist, shows up & kicks their butts...
At the same time, some more of Barnes' men try to kill a Mexican bandit.... Bill get cause in the crossfire, & ends up finding the mortally wounded bandit hiding in his wagon... Bill cares for the bandit, who reveals what he's wanted for & how much he's worth in exchange for a proper burial...
Both men end up in up in a town Barnes owns, who sets out to kill them both...
Supposed to be a comedy.... Cheen Lie's Kung Fu is passable... The corny theme music is played everytime he gets in a brawl....
VHS rip off television, with the advertisements still in it....
Che botte ragazzi!(1975) (The Return Of Shanghai Joe)
https://youtu.be/ccmRU9XBT7I?si=CoOxjxzIW3SWu-xL
Bill, a dowser & snake oil salesman finds oil in a Mexican village.... The impatient Mexicans are less than grateful, as they can't drink oil... Meanwhile, word gets back to Barnes (Klaus Kinski), a land baron who buys the land dirt cheap...
He sends his men to run the people out of the village, when Shanghai Joe, an Asian martial artist, shows up & kicks their butts...
At the same time, some more of Barnes' men try to kill a Mexican bandit.... Bill get cause in the crossfire, & ends up finding the mortally wounded bandit hiding in his wagon... Bill cares for the bandit, who reveals what he's wanted for & how much he's worth in exchange for a proper burial...
Both men end up in up in a town Barnes owns, who sets out to kill them both...
Supposed to be a comedy.... Cheen Lie's Kung Fu is passable... The corny theme music is played everytime he gets in a brawl....
VHS rip off television, with the advertisements still in it....