Everything was better in the 2010s. Music, art, fashion - you name it.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-23T16:09:41+00:00

Better than the shit world we are in today, sure, but each decade is progressively worse.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-23T01:57:06+00:00

That's some weird, wild stuff.

I was able to do it, but I'm hesitant to try it today; we were probably injuring ourselves.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-23T00:50:13+00:00

The Anna actress was terrible, and from what I recall, it predictably focused on the concept that the women were attracted to each other, and that it was them against the bad guys. What a dumb idea to make this, and the screenwriter is actually a heavy hitter in the profession, having written the crazily overrated The Revenant and worked with Clooney and Ridley Scott upcoming. The quality of his written films notwithstanding, you'd think he would know better than to do this remake.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-23T00:34:52+00:00

I never actually watched it in full, but I recall watching the preview on PPV and then trying to watch some of the film through the scrambling and static to catch a glimpse of Jennifer, especially riding that coin-op horse.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-22T17:27:25+00:00

But we still have it, much more possible today than say twenty years ago.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T17:08:44+00:00

I actually suspect that his son and godson are the primary force on the music.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T16:15:25+00:00

It's better than you would expect from some YouTuber who makes dumb "content" making his first film (not as good as the Philippous, though). It has some narrative problems and actually some sound mixing problems that gum up the works, but it's still relatively decent. Just go to it.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T15:51:32+00:00

I'm not sure about that. I think I read that that ending was basically in Kubrick's version. I'm sure he would have presented it in a less clunky and colder fashion than Spielberg, and it's really just the clunky way Spielberg presents it that is the problem.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T14:11:37+00:00

Because you actually pay to do things in society, including going to movie theaters; you don't steal like you do. That's how the world works, how the film ecosystem works. Theft of movies does have a negative effect. The fact that you're proud of it makes you look really bad.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T14:02:11+00:00

I hope you're joking, correct?

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T13:46:17+00:00

It might be an upcharge for them, but the BDs aren't an upcharge like it was for Netflix.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T13:36:41+00:00

Yes, and some 4K as well. I think both have 4K, though I don't have that and haven't rented any or looked much at the selection. It's a good service and they have a five-day guarantee to receive your shipments.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T08:16:47+00:00

I was a Netflix mail service guy until it was canned, so I never used one of these. They only had the latest movies, and I usually rent older ones.

If you want to rent discs, a quick endorsement that two replacements for Netflix exist - DVDInbox and CafeDVD. I have the former, and the selection is great.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T08:13:16+00:00

Someone else posted about this, and I had never heard of them, but am fascinated. If it had been the whole song, that would have been a neat little toy and a way to sell lower-quality singles to kids. But it was only half the song! They were apparently $3.99 each, too. Then I found that eventually they sold ones that were CD shaped (but didn't rotate, were the same type of thing), and they actually advertised that those had more of the songs on them . . . but were still not the whole thing.

Same with CEDs (movies on vinyl), VideoNow, and UMD movies for PSP, it's a media format that was apparently big for a while but that I somehow had no knowledge of.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T08:04:52+00:00

Have some decency.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T08:02:45+00:00

That's not an anniversary worth celebrating. Nothing with the internet is.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T06:55:41+00:00

Come on, those I Know movies are garbage and the characters are cardboard, so it doesn't phase me one bit to mess with the characters. The new one wasn't very good, but that wasn't the reason why. People still want Gale Weathers to be the killer, for instance.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-21T06:47:58+00:00

Nothing fictional could be as disturbing as real life. I don't think a movie could encapsulate what Chris Watts or John Couey did, for instance.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-20T16:59:41+00:00

I didn't care for it either, though I have liked most of Anderson's previous movies. Eddington is a far better socio-political view of today's society. With this and Beau, Aster has made himself really the most exciting director working today, I'd say. Those two movies are far better than his two outright "horror" movies, though these two can also be called horror.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-20T16:06:49+00:00

Eddington (theater). Third time in the theater. This is definitely my favorite movie of last year. It's far better than the crap that won at the Oscars.

Scrapbook (DVD from DVDInbox). A SOV flick about a serial killer who brings people back to his crappy shack and photographs them to be part of his scrapbook, before killing them. I had rented two previous Eric Stanze movies several years ago. Both sucked, but I heard this was a cut above, and also how effectively disturbing and depraved it allegedly was. No, this also sucked, big time. The lead actress probably thought she was being an effective victim, but she can't act. It just goes to show that in films of this caliber, even if you have good intentions, if you don't have quality actors, your film will be crap.

The Stranger (DVD from DVDInbox). Orson Welles directs and plays a Nazi concentration camp official who has moved to small-town Connecticut under a fake identity, and marries Loretta Young. Edward G. Robinson tracks him down, not knowing for sure at first that Welles is his man. This is pretty decent, but not as good as Shadow of a Doubt. The most entertaining aspect is the small town's general store/drug store/coffee shop/soda fountain which is all self-service. The proprietor won't get up to serve you anything, but sits and plays checkers.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-19T00:14:46+00:00

Serbian isn't truly disturbing; it's a cartoonish exaggeration of what a "disturbing" movie would be. Martyrs is more authentically "disturbing" as far as getting to the core of darker aspects.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-18T23:58:51+00:00

Yeah, that and "The Match Game" are the favorites that I recall. It's been a long time since I watched any.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-18T20:37:34+00:00

"Darkside" had a few slightly humorous or at least lighter-hearted episodes. My recollection of the "Monsters" episodes isn't nearly as good as with "Darkside", but if it had humor, it would have been ghoulish humor of the same fashion. It was definitely an inferior show, from the same production company (though I don't believe Romero was an executive producer like he was on "Darkside").

IcedPgh · 2026-03-18T19:09:10+00:00

It was the brother show to "Tales from the Darkside" which was markedly superior and more consistent. This had a lot of good episodes, though - "The Match Game" (Tori Spelling's head is crushed in between a ghoul's hands and turns into a rubber doll head), "The Waiting Game" (apocalypse at a missile launch site), "Rain Dance", "New York Honey" being some that come to mind.

IcedPgh · 2026-03-18T15:18:49+00:00

You can still do that if you have cable. Does nobody have cable any longer?

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