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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 5, 2022 11:43:40 GMT -5
"Come and See" (1985) last night. One of the best antiwar war movies I've ever seen. It depicts German Nazi atrocities in the Belarus region during WWII as seen through the eyes of a boy barely into manhood. Near the end, they state that over 600 Belarusian villages were annihilated by the Germans during the war. Seems especially strange watching with the exact same sorts of horrors perpetrated by the Russians in Ukraine right now.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 9, 2022 20:49:38 GMT -5
Watched "The Bed Sitting Room" (1969). Despite the rather humdrum title, it's a quirky sci-fi/fantasy/comedy about a sampling of Britishers fumbling along in the ruins several years post-atomic war. Did I mention it's a comedy? Seriously weird nonsense at times. I suspect they filmed most of it in some vast public dumping grounds. I have a hunch this thing would be right up Mr. Grouch's alley for the odd dialogue alone.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 10, 2022 4:50:02 GMT -5
Watched "The Bed Sitting Room" (1969). Despite the rather humdrum title, it's a quirky sci-fi/fantasy/comedy about a sampling of Britishers fumbling along in the ruins several years post-atomic war. Did I mention it's a comedy? Seriously weird nonsense at times. I suspect they filmed most of it in some vast public dumping grounds. I have a hunch this thing would be right up Mr. Grouch's alley for the odd dialogue alone. Oh, I own it. Funny, if your sense of humor swings that way, but definitely unsettling too. Also represents one of the precious few film appearances of Cook and Moore as a team, and they don't get to do all that much in it. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 10, 2022 12:02:05 GMT -5
Watched "The Bed Sitting Room" (1969). Despite the rather humdrum title, it's a quirky sci-fi/fantasy/comedy about a sampling of Britishers fumbling along in the ruins several years post-atomic war. Did I mention it's a comedy? Seriously weird nonsense at times. I suspect they filmed most of it in some vast public dumping grounds. I have a hunch this thing would be right up Mr. Grouch's alley for the odd dialogue alone. Oh, I own it. Funny, if your sense of humor swings that way, but definitely unsettling too. Also represents one of the precious few film appearances of Cook and Moore as a team, and they don't get to do all that much in it. That's interesting about Cook and Moore. I don't catch a lot of British cinema from the time, but I thought they were in several movies together(?).
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 10, 2022 12:25:40 GMT -5
"The Conspiracy" (2012) is about a couple of documentary researchers who delve too deeply into the conspirasphere.
A couple of episodes of Nat Geo's Nazi World War Weird. One was about an alleged event in Burma where 1000 Japanese were devoured by crocodiles, and the other was about half of Nazi Germany being hopped up on meth.
“Resurrection” (1999) has Christopher Lambert as a Chicago cop trying to stop a nutjob from completing the "body of Christ" in time for Easter.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 10, 2022 22:08:19 GMT -5
The Fast and the Furious 9 That's not how magnets work.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 11, 2022 5:03:27 GMT -5
Oh, I own it. Funny, if your sense of humor swings that way, but definitely unsettling too. Also represents one of the precious few film appearances of Cook and Moore as a team, and they don't get to do all that much in it. That's interesting about Cook and Moore. I don't catch a lot of British cinema from the time, but I thought they were in several movies together(?).
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To my knowledge, they made two films as supporting players, The Bed Sitting Room and The Wrong Box, and two films as leads, Bedazzled and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Box is absolutely hilarious, with a script by Larry Gelbart and an amazing British cast, including Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers, and Cook and Moore are featured far more prominently in that one. Bedazzled is a bonafide classic. Baskervilles is harder for me to comment on. I actually saw it a number of times on cable...when I was an adolescent. I know it's not well thought of critically, but I thought it was very funny. Again, when I was an adolescent, so who the hell knows? I should seek that out and take a look to see if I still like it. What you really need to do is seek out clips from their sketch show, precious little of which currently survives, sadly. It was called Not Only... But Also..., and I have a DVD that purportedly has all the extant material. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 11, 2022 5:08:20 GMT -5
I am 100% certain that I've posted this before, but it's one of my favorite bits from that DVD.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 11, 2022 10:44:31 GMT -5
That's interesting about Cook and Moore. I don't catch a lot of British cinema from the time, but I thought they were in several movies together(?).
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To my knowledge, they made two films as supporting players, The Bed Sitting Room and The Wrong Box, and two films as leads, Bedazzled and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Box is absolutely hilarious, with a script by Larry Gelbart and an amazing British cast, including Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers, and Cook and Moore are featured far more prominently in that one. Bedazzled is a bonafide classic. Baskervilles is harder for me to comment on. I actually saw it a number of times on cable...when I was an adolescent. I know it's not well thought of critically, but I thought it was very funny. Again, when I was an adolescent, so who the hell knows? I should seek that out and take a look to see if I still like it. What you really need to do is seek out clips from their sketch show, precious little of which currently survives, sadly. It was called Not Only... But Also..., and I have a DVD that purportedly has all the extant material.
Thanks! I've had "The Wrong Box" and "Bedazzled" sitting around here forever. Might take a shot at one or the other tonight after work! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 12, 2022 10:57:48 GMT -5
To my knowledge, they made two films as supporting players, The Bed Sitting Room and The Wrong Box, and two films as leads, Bedazzled and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Box is absolutely hilarious, with a script by Larry Gelbart and an amazing British cast, including Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers, and Cook and Moore are featured far more prominently in that one. Bedazzled is a bonafide classic. Baskervilles is harder for me to comment on. I actually saw it a number of times on cable...when I was an adolescent. I know it's not well thought of critically, but I thought it was very funny. Again, when I was an adolescent, so who the hell knows? I should seek that out and take a look to see if I still like it. What you really need to do is seek out clips from their sketch show, precious little of which currently survives, sadly. It was called Not Only... But Also..., and I have a DVD that purportedly has all the extant material.
Thanks! I've had "The Wrong Box" and "Bedazzled" sitting around here forever. Might take a shot at one or the other tonight after work! I am such a stony-bird. I had actually seen "The Wrong Box" before (and loved it). So last night when I started it, I realized I'd seen it prior, but went ahead and watched it again. Love Ralph Richardson and Peter Sellers small part was hilarious, but for some reason, every scene with Peacock the Butler (Wilfrid Lawson) left me in stitches. Not meant to slight everyone else (and what a cast!). |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 12, 2022 23:38:34 GMT -5
Got through all of Alex Jones's nonsensical Inside Bohemian Grove. His believers must be far stupider than I dared imagine. And that's really saying something.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 12, 2022 23:43:47 GMT -5
Got through all of Alex Jones's nonsensical Inside Bohemian Grove. His believers must be far stupider than I dared imagine. And that's really saying something.
They are. But I gotta say, that whole ritual under the giant owl is pretty weird stuff.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 12, 2022 23:45:42 GMT -5
I read somewhere he used to get 4 whole sacks of mail a day, more than the Beatles. It was May Day over the weekend, so...  They did a terrific piece in a semi-recent Fortean Times on what the Brits term "Folk Horror". Sort of a sub-genre of the occult films and music of that late-60's-through-70's era with a maybe a touch more pagan/pastoral feel. Naturally, they led with the classic "The Wicker Man" for the article.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 13, 2022 7:08:43 GMT -5
Got through all of Alex Jones's nonsensical Inside Bohemian Grove. His believers must be far stupider than I dared imagine. And that's really saying something.
They are. But I gotta say, that whole ritual under the giant owl is pretty weird stuff.
And it's just an eyeblink of video that he could have found anywhere. Looks like a scene from a really shitty movie with a remarkably large budget. I also feel it's significant that you can't make out a single face of a single high-ranking govt official in any of the footage taken. He sure makes hay out of it, though... |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 14, 2022 4:57:47 GMT -5
every scene with Peacock the Butler (Wilfrid Lawson) left me in stitches. One of my mother's favorite sayings is, "What to do, Peacock? What to do?" |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 14, 2022 10:20:56 GMT -5
every scene with Peacock the Butler (Wilfrid Lawson) left me in stitches. One of my mother's favorite sayings is, "What to do, Peacock? What to do?" Young Michael Caine and Nanette Newman were so great in it. 
Loved how over-the-top Cook played the conniving cousin, also.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 15, 2022 23:23:36 GMT -5
One was "Dirty Pictures" (2010) about a chemist considered the father of MDMA (the drug widely known as 'Ecstasy' or simply 'X'). The other is called "Call Me Lucky" (2015) and is about a firebrand comedian who later appeared before Congress to force AOL to police it's chat-rooms.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 16, 2022 11:48:27 GMT -5
Watched "Siege" (1983) last night. For a Canadian film, they did a decent job of conveying that mean streets vibe of directors like William Lustig. I swear this had to be an influence on those guilty pleasure "Purge" movies I so enjoy. Basic plot is, the police have been on strike for weeks, making the nights rather dangerous downtown. Some hooligans plan to force their way into a gay bar and rough up the clientele. Turns into a massacre, but one of the gay guys gets away. They chase him for several blocks until he winds up taking refuge in an apartment house. The thugs surround the place, and the tenants defend themselves. Was way better than it had any right to be.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 16, 2022 12:24:27 GMT -5
Fire Island Pride and prejudice and anal sex.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jun 16, 2022 14:06:22 GMT -5
One was "Dirty Pictures" (2010) about a chemist considered the father of MDMA (the drug widely known as 'Ecstasy' or simply 'X'). The other is called "Call Me Lucky" (2015) and is about a firebrand comedian who later appeared before Congress to force AOL to police it's chat-rooms.
My first wife used to hang out with Sasha, and also used to distribute MDMA at parties back before it was made illegal. |
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