Just reading those words makes me happy.
Sergio
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I'd be tempted to argue that it hits what it was aiming for. It's meant to be a cheap raunchy Porky's rip-off, and it succeeds. I suspect Cruise does a good job in it - the year before he did Taps, and the year after he did All the Right Moves.
Dunno, the old ones could be pretty dumb sometimes too. I like his old design a lot better tho.
Losin' It is a 1982 comedy film directed by Curtis Hanson, and starring Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley and John Stockwell. The film follows four teenagers trying to lose their virginity. It was filmed largely in Calexico, California.
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The film received negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 18% of 11 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.3/10.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the film on their TV program At the Movies. Siskel called it "dreadful" and "predictable."
Glad to hear things are getting a bit better, fam.
"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
"Since the day I was born, pal."
Well, I was saying you don't have to be a mod. If we look at examples beyond "alt" communities, [email protected] 's main poster isn't a mod. Likewise, [email protected] 's most frequent poster isn't a mod either.
It doesn't have to be hard work. Just pick a couple communities and start engaging at the level you're comfortable with.
I've noticed it goes in phases:
- dormant community. maybe occasional posts.
- one person posting regularly. maybe they're a mod, maybe not. some upvotes, occasional discussion.
- 2-3 people posting regularly. others post occasionally. some upvotes, occasional discussion.
- several regular posters, several others post occasionally. regularly upvoted posts, frequent discussions
[email protected] is currently in phase 3 but it was in phases 1 and 2 for a while. [email protected] is bouncing between phases 1 and 2. [email protected] is in phase 3. Punk is interesting bc it has both [email protected] and [email protected]. Ideally they'd join forces on [email protected] and then they'd be in phase 2 or 3. [email protected] is pretty much at phase 4, tho it's sometimes lacking in discussions.
Anyway, I recommend picking one of those communities and posting/discussing, you don't have to be a mod to help grow them.
[email protected] just relaunched recently, previously it was only music-focused but now we welcome any related discussion. though we're still mostly just posting music links, lel.
Depends how you count "largest". If you go by active users, fediverse observer says lemm.ee is second: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
- lemmy.world 19182
- lemm.ee 8037
- lemmynsfw.com 3789
- sh.itjust.works 2977
- lemmy.ml 2430
Yes, we just talked about this a couple weeks ago! And Laserblast (1978) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- Tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/469612/laserblast
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf0BCN9L5Q
- uBlock Origin adblocker should work on those tubi and youtube links, at least on firefox
- archive: https://archive.org/details/laserblast_202503
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/laserblast
Literary critic John Kenneth Muir thought that the script had many plot holes which left many unanswered questions, and that there was "little effort to forge a coherent story out of the mix".[12] New York Daily News writer David Bianculli described Laserblast as "numbingly bad".[45] In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies, Phil Hardy describes it as "a wholly unimaginative film", adding, "Even the non-stop series of exploding cars becomes monotonous in the hands of director Rae."[8] The Time Out Film Guide described Laserblast as a rip-off of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and said that Billy's reign of destruction seemed random and senseless, rather than driven by plot or characterization. The review called the film "the epitome of what Frank Zappa once hymned as 'cheapness.'"[46] The Globe and Mail writer Robert Martin called the script inept, said that Steve Neill's make-up effects were "frightful rather than frightening", and said that Cheryl Smith could "barely talk, let alone act". Martin also stated that the film was pulled from a Toronto theater after showing for one week.[11]
Not all of the reviews were negative. Blockbuster Entertainment gave the film three out of five stars, and film critic Leonard Maltin gave it two-and-a-half out of four stars.[47][48] In their book about science fiction films, writers James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts called Laserblast "an stimulating, unpretentious little film in the same vein as I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Parish and Pitts praised the stop motion animation and the performance of Cheryl Smith.[49] Laserblast was among several films universally considered terrible that film reviewer Michael Adams watched as part of a book about his quest to find the worst film of all time. However, Adams said he enjoyed watching it on a B movie level.[50] Monthly Film Bulletin said that Laserblast was "Band's first major box-office success on the exploitation circuit".[39] According to Space.com, Laserblast has achieved cult film status.[5] During a 2005 interview, Charles Band called the film "hilarious" and stated that "it had its charm" like many films from its time. He also said that the film would have been made differently and would have had less critical reactions if it had been produced with a larger budget.[6] Two reptile-like alien creatures, one blue and one orange, look in an upward direction, with machinery and computer screens in the background. The stop motion aliens, created by David W. Allen, were praised by some critics as the only positive aspect of the film.
Cat Girl (1957) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7yjiYA_HR0
- tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/496372/the-cat-girl
- uBlock Origin adblocker should work on those tubi and youtube links
- archive: https://archive.org/details/catgirl1957_201910
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/cat-girl-1957
Leonora Johnson is a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told by her uncle of her legacy – she will inherit the large ancestral home and money, but also a family curse: she will be possessed by the spirit of a leopard, as members of her family have been for centuries.
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[Director Alfred] Shaugnessy later wrote "Barbara Shelley was lovely in the film and gave a most uninhibited and dramatic performance. Indeed, she was so good in it that I believe it condemned her to a long career in horror pictures."[9]
Variety called it "weak in all departments".[10]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film inevitably invites adverse comparison with the more successful Cat People [1942]. Nevertheless it is not a negligible minor essay in the horror genre, after a poor start. Barbara Shelley is a little heavy-handed but none the less effective as Leonora."[11]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Britains scream-queen-to-be's first taste of horror: faily silly, it has some chills."
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Really interesting project. My first thought was the album cover looks like a textbook cover from some dystopian near-future -- and apparently that's what they're going for.
https://officialdatavoid.bandcamp.com/album/strategies-of-dissent