Thing is Zanzibar and Rio may be real, tge the Hollywood image of them was anything but. It was pure fantasy as sure as Baldur's Gate and Rivendell. Audiences bought into the fantasy of far off places but just because the place names are on a real globe doesn't make them anymore real than Tolkien's maps in the end papers of hus books.
This is the thesis of any number of works on traveller's tales and how far off places were perceived before travel became commonplace. Even in the 1930-40 Hollywood could still get away with foreign fantastical places that only shared a name with some remote real places. The Morocco in Road to Morocco doesn't much resemble the real place as the soldiers who arrived there in November 1942 in Operation Torch soon discovered.

Sorry Bravo, I don't think I explained bmyself well 😅😅

The fact is because those places are real you don't need to do any work at all to make them appear that way, it's enough to reference any place in our real world. You can even just show them using nothing but an abstract painting of a landmark, like the Eiffel Tower showing it's Paris in Pepe La Pew cartoon, or the leaning tower of Pizza in another Warner Brothers cartoon or the backdrop image in a play.

You don't need anything more than that because the audience know it's set in this real world so it's naturally assumed that all the rest of this world's stuff applies.

But when you set things in a fictional magical place that isn't anywhere on earth or even in reality then the burden is on you the author to do the work unfortunately.😓

Started watching Winder Woman for the first time.
I loved the old TV series Soni wasn't interested in a new movie version…

Anyway, I've just started it and so far is soooo so stupid.

I know it's a fantasy but sooooome connection vto logic might be a good idea? 😅

So why was zues their god instead of Athena?
Why are the Germans automatically “the bad guys” in WW1?
In WW1 alllll sides are bad guys if they're fighting compared to a non-alligned peaceful country.

Why did the Germans start firing their guns at random women standing on a cliff? Why did they all come into the beach to start fighting hand to hand with women who only had primitive weapons while they had rifles with a range of over a KM?

This film was written by an idiot.

I hope it gets better.

Ozoneocean wrote:
This film was written by an idiot.

All good questions, and you've arrived at the right answer!

We watched the first 2 episodes of The Jackal with Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, pretty good, thrills and spills, although it feels there's something wrong with the idea of peeking into the secret family life of a cold-blooded killer who doesn't deserve sh!t.

Sinners is exactly what you want from a movie. It's not simply a reimagined version of From Dusk Till Dawn, it has style, the music makes you wanna sing and dance, all the drama and action and horror isn't over-the-top, nor anything special really, but it creates a nice blend of entertainment, the quality you usually get from Tarantino movies. And you know there's a lot of depth to it, unspoken, somehow in the songs and what they mean to living and dead. The lighting was too dark at times, but it didn't take much from it. Recommended.

Also it's recommended for those The Lost Boys fans I frequently see here. This one has one of the best depiction of vampires, who are more like antagonists than villains here. They sure do have their villainous qualities, but somehow you're completely under their spell because they look like they genuinely believe everything they say, even when they're full of shit. It's more like a sports film in that regard, where two teams are playing for the win, but who wins or loses starts to matter less and less, since the game is fantastic. :)

Turning Point: The Vietnam War A documentary on the Vietnam war, and how it affected many generations of Vietnamese and Americans. I am old enough to remember watching the anti-war protests happening in the streets of San Francisco when I was a kid. It's both enlightening and haunting to see all the far-reaching consequences of that war being brought into focus.

Started watching The Umbrella Academy (with dub, to possibly learn some language). Everyone says the 4th season is terrible, so I'm already afraid, but so far it's a nice watch. With these numbers as names it's like an adult version of Codename: Kids Next Door. And that was a really fun watch, definitely in my top 10 cartoon series.

The Rake. The monster that features in many CreepyPastas. This is the director's second movie, and there is a lot of pacing and poor choices made.
Namely, the cast has 3 dark-haired white girls and 3 dark-haired white guys, and the only reason that I know one of them is Shanea Grimes-Beech is that she has a nose ring. Throw in a blonde, give one of the guys a beard, c'mon man!

However, two choices make this movie stand out. First is that it is not about “a group os college friends spending a weekend in the woods”. Instead, after two young kids witness their parents' very strange murder, we meet them 20 years later as they reunite with their adopted siblings. They are family, but they are not sure how strong this connection is as adults.

The second choice is that the existence of the monster itself is in question. Grimes's character has some serious mental issues, and only we see what she sees. The characters and the audience have good reason not to believe her.

Finally, when we do see the monster (or do we?), it is an AWESOME practical effect that looks exactly like the Creepypasta art.

Ack! Looks horrific. I really don't like horror XP


So I started Caligula
The uncensored version featuring Malcolm McDowell and many prominent actors like Helen Mirren, Sir John Geilgud and Peter O'Toole and others.

It's said that Bob Guccione, Penthouse magazine owner, had hardcore sex scenes inserted after the film was done unknown to the main cast, that might be true but there were also CERTAINLY actual sexual stuff going on WHEN the principal cast was there as well.

The dubbing is really bad, even by the English speaking cast doing their own lines.
The acing is very well done because these people were al renowned professionals.
The cinematography and photography and sets were top notch, expertly done technical work, even the effects were all A+.

There's LOTS of full nudity, there's masturbation (male and female), ejaculation, actual sex etc.

I only made it halfway through before I had to quit though.
The film is vile.
The story is horrible, the writing is shi*t and the sex, violence, sexual violence, and death are all awful while the film itself is incredibly boring and tedious. I started to fall asleep many times.

How can a movie be both disturbing AND boring? Quite and achievement.

That said, I love that Malcom McDowell has always continued to be a horrible, evil bastard in screen for almost his entire career. He's very good at it.

Ozoneocean wrote:
So I started Caligula
…
I only made it halfway through before I had to quit though.
The film is vile.

Another spot-on assessment, I remember watching this in a movie theater with my missus and she nudged me and got up and headed for the exit, I followed her out. Other couples had already exited before us.

I watched it for Malcolm McDowell. I also fell asleep several times. I Claudius is just so much better. John Hurt played “little boots” in a wonderful performance as a slimy but clearly insane person. The hypothesis is that an illness had left Caligula completely insane. It's also possible some things related by chroniclers were exaggerated and based only on rumor.

Sir John Gielgood appeared in a few movies in the 1970s that had lots of nudity. He was a known prude but he reported in his memoirs he knew but just paid attention to his acting and not pay attention to the antics. The Wicked Lady was one but that one is so delicously fun whereas Caligula is just awful.

I think the biggest star of the movie Caligula was the sets. They built some pretty outrageous sets that must have cost a fortune.

Other couples had already exited before us.

Hah! It's a horrible film LOL!

bravo1102 wrote:
I Claudius is just so much better.

I Claudius is very good. With the amazing Derek Jacobi!

fallopiancrusader wrote:
I think the biggest star of the movie Caligula was the sets. They built some pretty outrageous sets that must have cost a fortune.

They're awesome. I was shocked at how expensive the sets were and the cast VS the cheapness of the script and the tackiness of the rest LOL!

The costumes were not great either. The normal Roman stuff was ok but a bit skimpy, obviously, but the Roman armour stuff was really dumb.

fallopiancrusader wrote:
I think the biggest star of the movie Caligula was the sets. They built some pretty outrageous sets that must have cost a fortune.

There's a documentary about the production that PBS had. It was crazy. Guccione had no idea what he was doing or what he wanted and the BBC doing I, Claudius stepped on what they wanted to do.
There's also a documentary about the Charles Laughton I,Claudius that was never finished.

Roman epics can be pretty wild because even some of the pre Hayes code ones got racy. Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra and Sign of the Cross for example.