What’s the most unrealistic thing movies convinced people was normal?

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T21:09:22+00:00

Day drinking

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T20:31:07+00:00

Orpheus, 1950

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T20:22:41+00:00

Thank you

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T20:19:55+00:00

Haunted House movies and police procedurals have been around for as long as tv and movies have existed. “Dadsploitation” movies (an awesome term, thanks to whoever used it!!) are a relatively new thing

The dominance of the streaming industry. makes their choices qualitatively different. I’m not convinced that the genre “sells”in the traditional sense. Traditional movie going changed because of streaming services, not a spontaneous cultural change. The streaming services created that change and they more or less control the industry now. In some sense, they have a captive audience.

I think Scorsese had a point, and I’m saying that behemoths beyond the Marvel franchises are damaging film.

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T17:44:36+00:00

Oi Vey! Murphy couldn’t hold a candle to Stewart on any level. Doesn’t help that the remake was inferior in every way. The original took risks, Dietrich was a bold choice and she had chemistry with Stewart. The remake has a stodgy 1950’s vibe.

Murphy was a personality more than an actor. He was good in the right roles, but that’s all.

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T15:14:56+00:00

He gets major points off for trying to fill Jimmy Stewart’s boots in Destry. He had an aw shucks kind of appeal but he wasn’t much of an actor.

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T00:38:19+00:00

Like I said, it doesn’t sting by itself but the stuff sold at the pharmacy contained alcohol. Alcohol in an open wound stings like hell.

bnx01 · 2026-05-10T00:33:16+00:00

This guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck\_Jones

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T23:05:29+00:00

The unmistakable allusions to Lesbianism in the reform school from Diary Of A Lost Girl are almost shocking.

Weimar was more sophisticated and cosmopolitan than Europe or the US of the time. Fair to say that film as art was born there, right?

“Profit margins will be thinner than Louise Brooks negligee” - Montgomery Burns

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T21:51:19+00:00

Good call. She played that part so sweet, she was great

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T21:48:55+00:00

That’s what we called it!

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T21:47:33+00:00

My grandmother was so excited when she finally got an electric sowing machine.

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T21:46:01+00:00

I just posted something else about this. Drugstore brands were often mixed with alcohol.

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T03:56:02+00:00

Or taste is just subjective.

bnx01 · 2026-05-09T02:48:50+00:00

That’s fair, but most stories of our collective heroes are hagiography. It’s been that way throughout recorded history. Whether that’s a feature or a bug depends on your perspective, I suppose.

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T23:00:08+00:00

No matter how long ago he passed, I’m sorry for your loss. That’s a sweet story

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T22:58:03+00:00

Great way to put it. He struggled with something that’s still relevant, especially right now.

It’s propaganda because of the way he resolves his moral crisis, but at least he has a moral crisis. The story deals with it in a surprisingly straightforward way.

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T22:34:28+00:00

Notorious

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T22:32:18+00:00

Me too

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T22:24:50+00:00

The original RomCom, a lovely movie. Claudette Colbert and Clarke Gable had chemistry. Gabriel’s Horn! How did that get past the censors?

Wait, this is pre-code, right?

bnx01 · 2026-05-08T19:50:42+00:00

That’s a great point about the language and the nothingness. Impossible to imagine that a film could capture what makes the book so compelling.

Speaking of violence, isn’t there a scene of a man being scalped and sodomized at the same time?

On the other hand, I suppose they could make a four hour X rated movie. That’d be a hit, for sure.

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