RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[claws]

Just like those Ghibli-style videos, a new wave of AI-generated shorts has flooded feeds with titles like "You Wake Up And It's Christmas 1988," "1985," or "1981." Most likely churned out by content farms, these clips aim straight for pure nostalgia, evoking an era explicitly branded as "a long time before Wi-Fi."

These videos follow a remarkably predictable formula. They almost always feature a grandmother at the stove stirring pots while a younger relative puts the finishing touches on the Christmas roast. You can reliably expect a POV walk through a mall, shopping carts loaded with discontinued treats, a shot from inside a car driving through snowy streets, a husband hanging lights on the roof, and a cozy POV of someone holding a warm drink while watching a Christmas movie on TV.

Technically, the quality is surprisingly high, and I've noticed many are built using picture-to-video live-action techniques. Pop-culture nods default to Back to the Future or Home Alone, while the soundtrack in nearly every single video is Whitesnake's "Is It Love."

Lately, though, the trend has taken a weird turn, shifting its focus toward attractive young women, even featuring wildly out-of-place women in skimpy outfits cooking holiday meals. At this point, it honestly feels like being trolled.

Naturally, Summer and Autumn spin-offs of these 20-to-30-second clips have started popping up, too. It was fun for the novelty at first, but it's gotten far too repetitive, and it's obvious that the creators know next to nothing about what life in the 1980s was actually like.

[M.10rda]

Good for you for reviewing these trends. I am unsurprised that the ladies in the videos have gradually started appearing w/ less clothes on. The Internet!

[claws]

The sad thing is these videos and shorts were made for mass consumption, for views, likes and clicks.
No creativity or passion in their "art." I guess that is why these videos come off as unintentional funny.

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
The Devil's Mistress(1965)
https://youtu.be/sgh_mzxpIIM?si=r90DsBFolgekM5zS

Four cowboys is riding through the desert, as a narrator delivers a modified quote from Deuteronomy 32:24.....
They stop for the night, & a pair of cowboys determined to stay perpetually drunk make jabs at a naïve young cowboy & how they'd treat an Apache woman, while the leader tries to keep a level head.... Talk turns to some ill gotten loot....
The next day, the spot a cabin.... The leader is uneasy about a lonely cabin in the middle of Apache country, but the other three expect a free meal & maybe an easy night's sleep.....
At the cabin, they find a creepy guy dressed in black with a glued on Amish beard, and his mute wife.....
They get free food, but the leader doesn't go in, as nothing seems right about the situation.... The leader & the young'un decide to ride on, but the two drunks decide to kill the creepy dude & abduct his wife....
At camp that night, one of the drunks kisses the girl & immediately get sick.... The next day, he dies along the trail, & things start going wrong for the other three....

Tries to go for atmosphere by doing a lot of panning through the scenery.... Sound track's okay....
I thought it was okay......