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 CRUD CLUB: SEXTIC SIXTH REWATCH - 19.45, Weds 11th June in the year 2025
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 22-05-2025 09:05
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Well, watching this stuff is like giving yourself the third degree, times two. (Hence the 'sextic' bit, not that I really understand the term.) Anyway, as a good long-lapsed Catholic, I appear to have mislaid my cilice and thus am in the market for another form of self-flagellation. So... LET’S DO THIS! (if we can remember how to) Time/date: 7.45pm (BST), Wednesday 11th June Event: What some people are calling The Big One. But those would be the people who've never actually seen a big one. (Film, that is.) So what are we watching/rewatching this time? The Wasp Woman (1959, 1 hour 13 minutes). To be precise, it's three seconds shorter than that. And, believe me, you'll be thankful for every one of those three seconds when you've sat through the other four thousand three hundred and seventy seven. Let's just get it out the way and stop it lingering like a late Victorian London fog. A million views on YouTube, which tells you everything you need to know about our species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPAN...mp;t=301s Synopsis: It's all reassuringly predictable stuff and unfolds in a way that makes glaciation look rapid, and does exactly what it says on the jam jar with a hole punched into the lid and stuck out in the garden by your granny, back in less enlightened times. M1 keeps it quiet, but this film actually rides surprisingly high in her all-time list, nestling between Max Nosseck's early classic Einmal Möcht' Ich Keine Sorgen Haben (1932), a musical comedy set in the Depression (oh yes), and Man About Das Haus: Der Movie. There's literally no accounting for bad taste, is there? |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 22-05-2025 09:26
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Really? We're actually going to watch it, after all this time? Can hardly wait. PS. I HATE wasps. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 22-05-2025 09:33
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Really? We're actually going to watch it, after all this time? Can hardly wait. PS. I HATE wasps. That's okay, the "wasps" in it are bees 
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| Paula |
Posted on 22-05-2025 20:44
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I've seen this horrible bit of cinematography a few times and I'm very glad it's only a little over an hour long! Of course, I doubt it will hold up to the brilliant Invasion of the Hell Creatures we last watched....
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 23-05-2025 08:58
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I've seen this horrible bit of cinematography a few times and I'm very glad it's only a little over an hour long! Of course, I doubt it will hold up to the brilliant Invasion of the Hell Creatures we last watched.... Wasps ARE hell creatures! "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 23-05-2025 11:36
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Wasps ARE hell creatures! Not compared with Asian hornets. I saw one at Sutton Hoo a fortnight ago and it was the size of a small hang glider. Must have been a queen, I suppose, which was appropriate as it was quite close to Mound 14. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 23-05-2025 12:43
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Wasps ARE hell creatures! Not compared with Asian hornets. I saw one at Sutton Hoo a fortnight ago and it was the size of a small hang glider. Must have been a queen, I suppose, which was appropriate as it was quite close to Mound 14. I hope you reported it!! Those things are BAD NEWS for bees! "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 25-05-2025 08:58
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I hope you reported it!! There's an app. But, as you discovered at Seek-Locate-Celebrate, I don't really 'do' smartphone culture. Had a semi-comical word with an English Heritage rep. "What makes you think it was an Asian hornet?" "It looked like one." "Are you sure it was an Asian hornet?" "No. But it looked like one." "Did you take a photo?" "No, I was dodging out of the way of the Asian hornet." Time Team are down there at the mo so let's hope they don't disturb the nest when they're digging. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 30-05-2025 10:49
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Well, given the less-than-ringing endorsement by the faithless Crud Club faithful, I'll deselect this selection (again) and suggest you lot pick something from 'your' list rather than 'my' list for the next rewatch. There. And breathe... |
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| Paula |
Posted on 30-05-2025 19:41
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Or we could just sit and watch The Wasp Woman and then get it over and done with, and pick yet another sterling choice of crud films to watch next. I'll watch anything!
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 31-05-2025 13:58
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I'd get M1 to set something up that the rest of the Crud Crew can get behind. Happy to bale out. Not a biggie. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 31-05-2025 18:51
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Is the unmentionable WW any worse than the crud we've already watched? I mean, really?
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Paula |
Posted on 31-05-2025 19:21
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Is the unmentionable WW any worse than the crud we've already watched? I mean, really? Truer words have never been spoken. LOL Resist the Host
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 04-06-2025 08:50
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Is the unmentionable WW any worse than the crud we've already watched? I mean, really? Have decided to give this a miss as I've something even better to do next Wednesday. Plenty of time for you to pull wOSP Woman off the park and throw on a substitute. Entirely up to you, of course. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 08-06-2025 08:04
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Due to popular demand - and cocking a snook at the critics - 'The Wasp Woman' is now cleared for take-off this Wednesday. Snook-cocking will be mandatory. I suggest alternating Crud Club and WET GECKO rewatches, so each would be an every-other-month event. But it'd be good to launch WET GECKO this month, hence my suggestion of a June date for the inaugural viewing. Very much open to all your input, though. Well, some of it. Possibly. In fact, almost certainly not all of it. Not by a long shot. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 10-06-2025 09:03
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One day to go, Crud Crew... EpiPens on standby! Astounding. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 10:17
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Well, I'm confidently expecting a small but select audience to rock up for this landmark rewatch tonight. Crud-crazy connoisseurs only, please. No riff-raff. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:34
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Only minutes away now. Getting Wasp Woman up and ready.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:37
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I'm on my own with dad tonight and he's being a bit...difficult. can't join you except to leave this message. Have a good evening.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:38
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Just in the foyer, heading into the cinema. Nearly forgot! Pick 'n' Mix! Cola cubes and flying saucers. Will they attract wasps? And you just can't have a crud '50s film without a few flying saucers, of course. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:38
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I'm on my own with dad tonight and he's being a bit...difficult. can't join you except to leave this message. Have a good evening. That's a shame! Hope you cope. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:42
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Who's in da house, then? |
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:42
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I'm here! <girds my loins>
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:43
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I'm here! <girds my loins> Loin-girding's mandatory for 'art' such as this. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:43
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I'm here. Thought about bringing a smoker, in case the wasps get out, but decided against it.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:44
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I'm on my own with dad tonight and he's being a bit...difficult. can't join you except to leave this message. Have a good evening. That's a shame! Hope you cope. We'll all miss you! Resist the Host
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:44
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I'm here. Thought about bringing a smoker, in case the wasps get out, but decided against it. I don't think Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins is available. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:45
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All set for our sting operation? |
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:45
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Should we all be wearing bee-keepers outfits?
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:45
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Should we all be wearing bee-keepers outfits? I can lend you one... "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:45
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Should we all be wearing bee-keepers outfits? Box ticked. And here we go! |
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:45
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Of course, I should have realized, it's a Roger Corman film.
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:46
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Intro begs the question: had anyone involved in the making of The Wasp Woman ever actually met a wasp? Or indeed a woman? |
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:46
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Forgive me but isn't the intro to the film honey bees?
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:46
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Started. You're right. Those are bees. If they'd get the writing out of the way we might be able to spot the queen.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:47
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Roger Corman made some great films. He also made The Wasp Woman. ‘From a story by Kinta Zertuche’. Don’t think I know any other stories by Kinta Zertuche. I wonder why. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:47
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The film starts a bit slowly so you might like to find something else to do while it gets going. Like painting a mural. |
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:47
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Is he looking for the xylophone? |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:48
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That smoker hasn't been used much. It's still shiny.
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Paula |
Posted on 11-06-2025 18:48
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The composer didn't waste any crud writing this soundtrack!
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