The Mule.. pfft.. dud.What about an actual CRITIQUE? When you start a thread like this you might consider kicking it off with some content. Good thread idea, but.. I have not yet watched The Mule but I'd like you to tell me why I may or may not be wasting my time. C'mon.. ;)
Watched "Demon Seed" [1977] last night. In seeing that it stars Fritz Weaver and Julie Christie I thought it would be worth a watch. It was pretty wild. Starts out as a typical AI is bad computer film, with Weaver designing the Proteus IV computer. It rapidly devolves into microchips go wild when the computer locks Julie Christie in a house and begins to perform a bunch of experiments on her. At one point it shoves a needle into her temple to muck around with her brain. Some nerd shows up to check on Julie but the computer has built a sort of paper fortune teller thingy out of bronze [a truly impressive, pre-CGI effect] and chews the dudes head off with it.
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With the nerd out of the way, the computer then rapes Julie with its metallic whammer and impregnates her.
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She gives birth to this thing that sort of looks like a demonic Twiki from Buck Rogers but its metal casing sloughs off and it is a normal kid with a weird computer voice that says "I'm alive". Presumably not for long as I am sure someone will bash it in the head once it starts babbling about the computers plan which was to make it into some sort of F'd up Emperor of the Earth.
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Watched The Giant Claw [1957] recently. Standard 50's monster gone bad film of that time period. An engineer was up in northern Canada booming and zooming around in a jet fighter doing some experiments when he tangles with a giant thunderbird the size of a battleship. Things get unhinged from there and lots of guys that encounter the t-bird in aircraft are not so lucky and are killed by it. The engineer and his main squeeze attempt to fly south but are knocked down by creature. They survive and are helped by an apple jack swilling Quebecois whom is Mr. stereotype. Our heroes make it back to D.C. eventually and hook up with some air force brass and a nerd. The brass are frustrated that nothing they through at the creature works. After some study, the nerd [called Von Neumann - of course] discovers that the bird is sporting an anti-matter shield and is invincible. The bird then starts kicking some world wide ass and things are looking really glum. The engineer gets to work and after being pestered to eat and rest by the main squeeze, he invents a contraption to lower the birds shields on the sly. They dig out an old B-25 from mothballs for "maneuverability" with the brass flying it. The engineer, von Neumann and the squeeze climb aboard to and work the invention out of the tail guns of the old bomber. The shields are lowered and then the brass whip the Mitchell around and hammer the bird. It dies and the world is saved.
Guess that is more a summary then a critique. Not and Oscar winner but I'm glad I watched it. The biggest disappointment was the bird itself - it looked a little strange (https://webelongdead.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/giant_claw_1.jpg).
One goofy looking bird isn't it? As a 1950's sci-fi-flic, I've seen it several times. Interestingly, the principle stars, Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday and possibly Morris Ankrum and Robert (Inspector Henderson from The Adventures of Superman) Shayne, appeared at a premiere of the movie and none of them had seen the 'bird' up until then. When it made it's appearance the audience went crazy with laughter and gave it the raspberry, causing the actors to sink low into their seats and try to hatch a plan to get out of the theatre unnoticed.
I actually paid money to watch Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the other night. What an absolute bucket of bollocks that was! An hour and forty minutes of my life I won't get back. Barely a laugh in it. I ended up daydreaming about locking damon in a cupboard and inflicting all sorts of humiliations on him just to pass the time. I'm thinking of turning it into a movie, if you tight bastards would only stump up the ready. It's both moving and absolute filth at the same time.
Thanks for the heads up. Honestly appreciated. I suspected as much and was going to avoid it but nice to have confirmation.
Been trying to power my way through the Rings of Power which hasn't been a walk in the park but I'm in too deep now.
I actually paid money to watch Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the other night. What an absolute bucket of bollocks that was! An hour and forty minutes of my life I won't get back. Barely a laugh in it. I ended up daydreaming about locking damon in a cupboard and inflicting all sorts of humiliations on him just to pass the time. I'm thinking of turning it into a movie, if you tight bastards would only stump up the ready. It's both moving and absolute filth at the same time.Fortunately I had zero plans to see it and now you've solidified said non-existent plans.