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Posted by crumbsroom
11/08/2024 12:18 am
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I'm pretty sure I watched The Evil within the last year, and loved it, but don't remember anything about it, to the point that maybe I actually didn't watch it after all.

 
Posted by Jinnistan
11/08/2024 12:23 am
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Posted by Jinnistan
12/22/2024 7:23 pm
#223

Some seasonal favorites





















 


 
Posted by Jinnistan
12/22/2024 7:28 pm
#224

Oh.....alright.



 


 
Posted by Jinnistan
1/06/2025 10:47 pm
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Posted by crumbsroom
1/21/2025 9:20 pm
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Posted by Jinnistan
1/26/2025 8:44 pm
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Posted by Jinnistan
2/02/2025 12:36 am
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Posted by Rock
2/02/2025 8:57 pm
#229

Warner Brothers has been posting some of their movies to watch for free on YouTube. Finally got to this one. Not good, but there’s enough of De Palma’s visual style to keep it watchable, and I thought Hanks pulled out some genuine laughs.



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Posted by Jinnistan
2/06/2025 12:04 am
#230

Going a little deeper with Marianne Faithfull, here's a 1974 film I'm unfamiliar with.  But there's a couple of itching hooks: "The film features a rare performance from actor Vivian MacKerrell, who was later the inspiration for Withnail in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I"; "a sort of poor man's Celine and Julie Go Boating".



 


 
Posted by Jinnistan
2/08/2025 11:28 pm
#231

Rock wrote:

Warner Brothers has been posting some of their movies to watch for free on YouTube.

Weird grab bag so far.  I'm tempted to rewatch Deal of the Century.  But this is a film that I'm surprised completely escaped my notice at the time.



 


 
Posted by Rampop II
2/09/2025 1:56 am
#232

I remember Deal of the Century being very disappointing. It might serve as a glimpse of a simpler time, I suppose, when attack drones were more easily laughed off as "state of the art, my ass." Recent evidence of top fighter pilots admitting total defeat by modern drone fighters paint a terrifyingly different picture, partially because drones aren't afraid to die, and can therefore employ tactics that would be considered suicide for human pilots. Maybe the movie contained humor I was too young and/or naïve to appreciate, but I kinda doubt it. I do remember "Just under sixty billion" being an intentional jab at massive defense spending, a figure that would only have sounded absurd at the time, of course.

I wasn't sure whether to post the following video here or on "America's walk of shame," and this thread won the mental coin–toss since the conversation over there is currently on Heir Musk and is less a spot for comedy:



The full concert from which the above excerpt comes is great and definitely worth the time:

 
Posted by Jinnistan
2/10/2025 5:21 pm
#233

Rampop II wrote:

I remember Deal of the Century being very disappointing. It might serve as a glimpse of a simpler time, I suppose, when attack drones were more easily laughed off as "state of the art, my ass." 

Maybe the movie contained humor I was too young and/or naïve to appreciate, but I kinda doubt it. I do remember "Just under sixty billion" being an intentional jab at massive defense spending, a figure that would only have sounded absurd at the time, of course.

I don't know when you saw the film.  I saw it at the time when it came out on video, and nine-year-old Jinn was definitely not up to snuff on issues like military contracting to dictatorships in Latin America yet.  I did not know names like "Pinochet" or "Peron", was not aware of the "dirty wars", was only passingly familiar that things were not so hot in El Salvador and Nicaragua because of general osmosis.  In fact, nine-year-old Jinn was quite happy playing with his newly acquired Storm Shadow action figure, so my critique of military matters was quite undeveloped yet.  I do also remember the film lacking any laughs, at least in the slapstick way I was expecting.  I remember Chevy shooting himself in the foot at one point.  So I definitely think there's potential for putting some older eyes on the film now.

Rampop II wrote:

Recent evidence of top fighter pilots admitting total defeat by modern drone fighters paint a terrifyingly different picture, partially because drones aren't afraid to die, and can therefore employ tactics that would be considered suicide for human pilots.

Right, like kamikazis.  Drones are frequently doubling as missiles these days.


 
Posted by Rock
2/10/2025 9:48 pm
#234

Deal of the Century is bad but watchable. I'm in the minority in finding Chevy's used car salesman style arms dealer funny though.


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Posted by Jinnistan
2/12/2025 7:11 pm
#235

Another one I could stand to rewatch.  Initially, I considered this as a bit of a refried French Connection.  Bill Burr recently gave this a shout out as the best film for "cars you forgot you remember".  And one of my favorite part of watching those '70s P.I. shows is the cars.



 


 
Posted by Rock
2/12/2025 8:04 pm
#236

The movie is so so but the car chase is great.


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Posted by crumbsroom
2/13/2025 12:14 am
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Posted by Rampop II
2/16/2025 9:29 pm
#238

crumbsroom wrote:

The Kindred (1987)
 

 Yeahhh that definitely takes me back. I spent a good deal of the mid–late 80s hunting for grotesque horror on VHS shelves and late–night cable. I don't remember much about The Kindred aside from the familiar thumbs–down feeling when the credits rolled. One of those monster movies of the time where you don't get any monster until the final sequence, and it's usually disappointing compared to the cover art. I think I have a vague memory of the movie having something to do with festering slime in a basement that eventually becomes the monster, if my memory does in fact serve. I'm consistently on–board with the basement–beast origin themes. Any trip down to an old basement easily lends the unsettling feeling that anything could be lurking down there. I don't need the scientific explanation. If it came from the basement, that's really 'nuff said. 

Jinnistan wrote:

I don't know when you saw the film.  I saw it at the time when it came out on video, and nine-year-old Jinn was definitely not up to snuff on issues like military contracting to dictatorships in Latin America yet.

Yeah that was my experience as well, saw it when it came out on cable. 

Rock wrote:

Deal of the Century is bad but watchable. I'm in the minority in finding Chevy's used car salesman style arms dealer funny though.

That's also my recollection. 

 
Posted by Jinnistan
3/03/2025 11:32 pm
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Posted by Rock
3/19/2025 9:53 pm
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