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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #50 on: March 26, 2024, 04:55:37 am »


Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance-abuse counselor with a bad attitude. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a mess, getting clean is the easy part.

Loudermilk on NetFlix is an extremely zany/satirical anti-woke show about the struggle of alcohol/drug addiction and the insanity of a 'woke-world'.

I liked it but not everyone will. It is niche.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #51 on: March 27, 2024, 10:19:41 pm »
HOLY CRAP!!  HOLY CRAP!!!   HOLY CRAP!!!!!

Realize it's been around for awhile and that they're planning on making a sequel this year, but

THE ACCOUNTANT (Netflix) with Ben Affleck (stupendous performance) is probably the best movie I've seen in years!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQX2sIhQJY
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« Reply #52 on: March 28, 2024, 12:29:23 am »
For the past year (maybe closer to two), I've made a "project" for myself to collect and watch nearly the entire genre of disaster/apocalypse films, as many as I could find (most "zombie" films not included).

Here's the list of those I collected so far.
An * indicates that it was "better".
An - indicates... not so much.

The Road
Threads
No Blade of Grass
Deluge (1933)
I am Legend (2007 version with alternate ending)
World Without End (1956)
The Stand (1994)
Miracle Mile (1988)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
A Boy And His Dog (1974)
The Omega Man (1971)
Doomsday (2008)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Children of Men (2006)*
Equilibrium (2002)
The Postman (1997)
Reign of Fire (2002)*
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Carriers (2009)
City of Ember (2008)*
Knowing (2009)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Diverge (2016)
Mad Max (1979)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Last Survivors (2014)
Goodbye, World (2013)
Into the Forest (2015)
Songbird (2020)
Testament (1983)
Oblivion (2013)
The Maze Runner (2014)
Maze Runner II & III
Greenland (2020)*
Perfect Sense (2011)*
The Rover (2014)
Z for Zacharia (2015)
The Survivalist (2015)
Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Bokeh (2017)
Logan's Run (1976)
Blindness (2008)*
Silent Running (1972)
Snowpiercer (2013)
What Still Remains (2018)
Right At Your Door (2006)
It Comes At Night (2017)
12 Monkeys
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Five (1951)
This Is Not A Test (1962)
Terminator: Salvation (2009)*
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Take Shelter (2011)
These Final Hours (Australian, 2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
The Last Boy (2019)***
Legion (2010)
Seeking a Friend For The End of The World (2012)
Parts Per Billion (2014) -
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)*
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Finch (2021)
Colossus The Forbin Project (1970)
Deep Impact (1998)
Damnation Alley (1977) --
Def-Con 4 (1985)
Gravity (2013)
Phase IV (1974)
Elysium (2013) *
The Rapture (1991)
2012 (2009)
Armageddon (1998)
The Impossible (2012)***
Glen and Randa (1971)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

One that I would HIGHLY recommend is "The Last Boy".
VERY interesting film.

Thank you for the list...  I will give "The Last Boy" an viewing later on.

Any others grab ya by the short hairs? @Fishrrman

EDIT: I need to read better... you did mark the better movies with an *.... so sorry for missing that... wasted ping but my pride prevents me from unpinging ya... giving ya the oppertunity to say, "It is right there dummy".

EDIT 2: I have seen The Last Child, it is pretty good. I will give "Children of Men" a try. Thanks again.

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The family and me watched a Christian lite movie tonight that was a tear jerker (I just had something in my eye time and time again)...

Sweet movie about how a family went through some tough times... Lost of wife, child with failing liver. Movie called "Ordinary Angels"

It starred one of my favorite new actors, this time playing a real person... Alan Ritchson who also starred in the series "Reacher" that most of us loved. He still plays a tough guy, but one facing a world where he can't fight a winning fight by himself without help.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNv-HpcGe0I


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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #53 on: March 29, 2024, 09:03:46 pm »
Watched "Poor Things", even though I had to trudge through it. You need to know THIS IS A PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIE. I'm not talking about brief shots of tits and ass. I talking about full blown pornography with full frontal nudity and sex with full penetration. And the theme of the pornography is basically 'child porn'. I could only watch 20 minutes at a time over the course of a week. It made me gag.

The story is about a Frankenstein style mad scientist who finds a pregnant 20 something woman who has committed suicide. He takes the brain of the unborn child and transplants it into the mother. Although the mother is conscious, she is essentially retarded. She has to grow-up with a second childhood in the body of a full grown woman. Eventually she gets to the mental age of a teenager, and everybody wants to have sex with this mentally disabled childlike woman. This is the core nugget of the entire movie.

Other than sex with the retarded woman, the rest of the movie is filler. The movie does not tell a story and has no point. Just like most porno movies.

I know it got tons of press and several awards (which is the only reason I watched it), but it is a totally worthless waste of time. Unless you like watching a mentally disabled woman have sex with every guy she meets (because she doesn't know any better).
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #54 on: March 30, 2024, 08:43:08 am »
@Fishrrman

The TV series based on "Snow Piercer" was very good as well.

Right now it's not streaming anywhere I can find it but either Netflix or Hulu just bought it and will be making a new series after it was cancelled.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #55 on: March 30, 2024, 08:43:43 am »
Top Chef just started a new season.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #56 on: April 01, 2024, 11:24:11 am »
Top Chef just started a new season.

Alas, no Padma.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #57 on: April 09, 2024, 01:25:28 pm »
Watching COLD CASES (27 episodes) on NETFLIX.

Fascinating...the advances in DNA forensics since the early 90's.

They're catching killers 25 to 40 years after murders, using DNA profiling and phenotyping, etc..
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #58 on: April 13, 2024, 01:19:17 am »
Sad movie, well made, great watch. Reality and toil of Swedish immigrants to Norway.... Father son relationship and farm life.

Pelle The Conqueror 1987



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIoZ5OYc9RE
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #59 on: April 13, 2024, 02:48:09 am »
We watched it this past weekend.  I thought it was good, and my spouse & kids liked it better than the first one.

Side note - I tried out the in-theater closed captioning device for the first time ever, and was VERY impressed with it.

I have enjoyed the new Dune too... this last one moved fast in that I think it sorta makes me wonder how they will have enough material for the next one, or that the old version left a lot out. Don't know, didn't read the book.

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Tell me how these new "closed caption" things work... glasses, a screen display, a mirror. (and pretty please ping me if you have time to answer)....
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #60 on: April 13, 2024, 06:24:30 pm »
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #61 on: April 13, 2024, 10:04:36 pm »
Anybody here seen '3 Body Problem'?  I watched the first two episodes, but now I can't get access.  It reminded me of Ender's Game.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #62 on: April 15, 2024, 02:45:17 am »
Manon of the Spring (1986)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xtrr9Nt8Fg

Rating 9/10

I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.

Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTqgd5GQoQ

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #63 on: April 15, 2024, 06:07:23 pm »
I am usually not a fan of remakes. And I am a John Wayne fan and True Grit purist. But since I really like Jeff Bridges, I made an exception and watched the True Grit remake. I must admit I was pleased and impressed. It actually superseded the original. I hope I don't lose my We John Wayne credentials over this transgression. happy77

And for an encore, I started watching Lonesome Dove. Haven't seen it in years . So very well done! Episodes 3 and 4 tonight. I'm looking forward to it. Although I've read the book and seen the series before, I remember the premise but have forgotten so many details. I may have to reread the book as well.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #64 on: April 15, 2024, 08:12:39 pm »
I am usually not a fan of remakes. And I am a John Wayne fan and True Grit purist. But since I really like Jeff Bridges, I made an exception and watched the True Grit remake. I must admit I was pleased and impressed. It actually superseded the original. I hope I don't lose my We John Wayne credentials over this transgression. happy77


I will agree. At least a well done remake, honoring the original...

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And for an encore, I started watching Lonesome Dove. Haven't seen it in years . So very well done! Episodes 3 and 4 tonight. I'm looking forward to it. Although I've read the book and seen the series before, I remember the premise but have forgotten so many details. I may have to reread the book as well.

Funny you should say that... I dang near clicked on it the other night... Guess I will next time I'm looking. It's been a long time, but it is one of my favorites.  :beer:

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #65 on: April 15, 2024, 10:42:03 pm »
Manon of the Spring (1986)

Rating 9/10

I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.

Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....

I watched Jean de Flourette at the theater when it first came out.  Didn't know there was a sequel.  Thanks for posting, @Sighlass
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #66 on: April 15, 2024, 10:48:19 pm »
   Watched this Quirky little Film with @Texas Robin this weekend, we enjoyed it.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #67 on: April 16, 2024, 09:11:53 am »
Manon of the Spring (1986)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xtrr9Nt8Fg

Rating 9/10

I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.

Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTqgd5GQoQ


Both are incredibly good.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #68 on: April 16, 2024, 09:13:46 am »
@Polly Ticks

Two new shows on the Food Network you might like=

Wildcard Kitchen

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« Reply #69 on: April 17, 2024, 10:09:03 pm »
Watching "The Confession Killer" on Netflix...a 5 episode series on the supposed serial killer Henry Lucas.

Amazing how the Texas Rangers played loose and lazy in getting Lucas' admission to committing murders that were physically impossible without a Star-Trek "Beam Me Up Scotty" machine of sorts.

And lo and behold, the FBI's Deputy Chief was behind a lawfare effort against a DA, ultimately successful in winning a $58M award against Channel 8 who was a co-conspirator in claiming the DA took bribes from county lawyers for reduced charges.

Definitely worth a watch considering what's happening in the country 50 years' henceforth.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #70 on: April 20, 2024, 06:01:32 pm »
Freud's Last Session...Netflix.  Starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode  2023

Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter Anna, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20420628/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJM9lEMyV4
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

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« Reply #71 on: April 20, 2024, 10:02:25 pm »
Binge watching "Goliath" with Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays an attorney who is fond of the bottle and seems headed for an eventual lung cancer diagnosis given the amount of cigarettes he chain smokes. Of course, everybody uses the f word.
But the plots are sort of intriguing.

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« Reply #72 on: April 20, 2024, 10:24:25 pm »
   Just love me some Billy Bob Thorton......Just ordered Season 2 on ebay.
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« Reply #73 on: April 21, 2024, 12:06:42 am »
Just started watching Fallout.  @Fishrrman may want to add it to his post-apocalyptic list.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #74 on: April 28, 2024, 12:21:36 pm »
Just completed 6 episode Netflix documentary on WWII- From The Front Lines.

Excellent...gripping.  Hope civilization learns from it.


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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #75 on: April 28, 2024, 06:49:13 pm »
This weekend:
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« Reply #76 on: May 01, 2024, 10:24:18 pm »
In order to escape the Obama scheme of injecting homosexuality into every Netflix movie script, have become somewhat addicted to their DOCUMENTARY category.

Watched a six episode yesterday...the title is unimportant here...where the police knew in the first 20 minutes who the murderer/rapist/drug dealer was, yet continued to build evidence to have in a courtroom trial.

It could have ended in sixty minutes if a detective simply took the son-of-a-bitch to "The Train Station", aka a hole in the desert.

Some people just need killing.
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« Reply #77 on: May 02, 2024, 01:19:47 pm »
Unfrosted - Netflix

Written, directed and produced by Jerry Seinfeld. Drops Friday May 3


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« Reply #78 on: May 08, 2024, 07:30:28 am »
I have been watching old episodes of Night Gallery on You Tube. They're really good albeit a little scary. I think I like the Twilight Zone better

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #79 on: May 08, 2024, 06:19:28 pm »
Tonight...

Maybe another episode of The Gabby Hayes Show from around 1953.
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« Reply #80 on: May 08, 2024, 10:20:17 pm »
Tonight...

Maybe another episode of The Gabby Hayes Show from around 1953.
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I read a bio of Hayes and unbelievably he declared that he hated westerns. He was quoted as saying that they were all the same with limited plots.

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« Reply #81 on: May 08, 2024, 10:23:24 pm »
I read a bio of Hayes and unbelievably he declared that he hated westerns. He was quoted as saying that they were all the same with limited plots.

My problem with the Westerns...every movie since the 50's...nobody ever shoots the horses, the easiest way to put the attacker on the defense.    happy77
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #82 on: May 09, 2024, 09:29:02 am »
We've recently started watching reruns of "Frasier" at night on COZI TV (we get it via dish). Some of those episodes are hilarious and very clever.
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #83 on: May 09, 2024, 11:19:15 am »
My problem with the Westerns...every movie since the 50's...nobody ever shoots the horses, the easiest way to put the attacker on the defense.    happy77
Well, obviously there are numerous holes with many Westerns. I used to yell at the tv or movie screen when during a gun battle, the good guys would leave the bad guy's, who'd just been shot, guns around instead of picking them up and having extra firearms/ammo to fight the rest of the bad guys.
Virtually the end of every Lone Ranger episode had the Lone Ranger punching out the bad guy while many times he had both of his six guns in their holsters.
Of course, the Lone Ranger never shot and killed anybody in any of the hundreds of Lone Ranger episodes. He just shot the guns out of their hands. Which was, of course, a ridiculous common plot element of thousands of westerns.
 As was the quick draw, fast gun, shoot from the hip character. The stereotype fast gun duel of countless westerns was mostly of figment of western screenwriters imaginations. One of the few instances where it might have been true was the Wild Bill Hickok-Dave Tutt gun battle in 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.
 I've read several accounts of that shootout one which claimed it was a real fast draw duel and a different one where they both had their guns out looking for the other guy. At any rate, the fast draw duel was a staple of innumerable tv and movie westerns.
Nevertheless, I still love the old tv and movie westerns. Just watched "Winchester 73" with Jimmy Stewart and Steven McNally for the umpteenth time yesterday.
BTW, "Winchester 73" had a scene where after an Indian battle, Jimmy Stewart told cavalry captain J.C. Flippen to collect the repeating rifles of the attacking Indians who had been shot and killed and lying on the battlefield. That's the only time I've ever seen that happen in any Western I've ever watched.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #84 on: May 09, 2024, 01:47:58 pm »
Battlestar Galactica 04 is on Prime.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #85 on: May 09, 2024, 04:24:42 pm »
   I've decided I'm gonna watch a Trump Cult Movie (TCM) for the umpteenth time this afternoon:

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #86 on: May 09, 2024, 05:10:48 pm »
My problem with the Westerns...every movie since the 50's...nobody ever shoots the horses, the easiest way to put the attacker on the defense.    happy77



I dunno...I see lots of the more modern westerns where the horses are fake shot. True Grit.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #87 on: May 09, 2024, 05:13:44 pm »
   I've decided I'm gonna watch a Trump Cult Movie (TCM) for the umpteenth time this afternoon:



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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #88 on: May 09, 2024, 05:17:09 pm »
We've recently started watching reruns of "Frasier" at night on COZI TV (we get it via dish). Some of those episodes are hilarious and very clever.



I have really enjoyed the "Frasier" reruns. What surprised me was that Grammar was almost the straight man in those episodes setting up the Dad and brother for the funny lines. I haven't seen the new Frazier since it's a streaming event.

In fact, as of last week, my Dish remote is dead (new one on the way) so all I can watch is channel 4 (local Fox). It reminds me of how useless today's programming is.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #89 on: May 19, 2024, 08:49:12 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PDeN9NRZ0

Now on Netflix....kind of cool...sort of "Matrix-esque"
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #90 on: May 20, 2024, 07:47:37 pm »
Thought this might be of interest......

Bill Maher is going be on Gutfeld tonight.  That ought to be interesting. .... 
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #91 on: May 20, 2024, 08:11:03 pm »
Thought this might be of interest......

Bill Maher is going be on Gutfeld tonight.  That ought to be interesting. ....

Wow!  Not gonna miss that one!   :beer:
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #92 on: May 22, 2024, 09:37:43 pm »
Watching a short, 40 minute documentary "FIRE IN PARADISE"...about a California wild fire.

77 fatalities, and 2000 'missing'.

Most of the survivors in the piece talk about the authorities commanding people to abandon their vehicles and run to a large concrete pad with a brick building.  Didn't say how large the concrete pad was, but ultimately they had to lay flat on the ground and cover themselves with blankets, etc..

In the rear acreage of the structure were propane tanks which exploded every 20 seconds...they first responders described it as being in a war zone.

Homes were reduced to free-standing brick chimney fireplaces in less than half hour!
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So I'm thinking...why don't they build such locations there as a preventive measure, where trapped people cannot escape in their vehicles?  Seems like a plausible strategy, doesn't it?   :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #93 on: May 22, 2024, 09:45:56 pm »
Pepsi, where's my jet!? NETFLIX
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #94 on: May 22, 2024, 09:55:28 pm »
Found Cold Case (all seasons) on the Roku channel.... And Crossing Jordan....

I know, I know... But I am happy to find this old stuff... And Roku channel on Roku is free.

I had SUCH a thing for that platinum blonde on Cold Case.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #95 on: May 23, 2024, 03:50:53 pm »
Star Trek Discovery on Paramount
It is a good compelling story line
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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #96 on: May 23, 2024, 06:19:04 pm »
Last weekend, watched "Esther" (1999), about the Biblical story.

That one was (I think) a made-for-tv movie and was ok, but nothing great.

A week earlier I watched "Paul, Apostle of Christ" the 2018 film, compelling, very well done.

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #97 on: May 23, 2024, 06:21:53 pm »
Well, obviously there are numerous holes with many Westerns. I used to yell at the tv or movie screen when during a gun battle, the good guys would leave the bad guy's, who'd just been shot, guns around instead of picking them up and having extra firearms/ammo to fight the rest of the bad guys.
Virtually the end of every Lone Ranger episode had the Lone Ranger punching out the bad guy while many times he had both of his six guns in their holsters.
Of course, the Lone Ranger never shot and killed anybody in any of the hundreds of Lone Ranger episodes. He just shot the guns out of their hands. Which was, of course, a ridiculous common plot element of thousands of westerns.
 As was the quick draw, fast gun, shoot from the hip character. The stereotype fast gun duel of countless westerns was mostly of figment of western screenwriters imaginations. One of the few instances where it might have been true was the Wild Bill Hickok-Dave Tutt gun battle in 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.
 I've read several accounts of that shootout one which claimed it was a real fast draw duel and a different one where they both had their guns out looking for the other guy. At any rate, the fast draw duel was a staple of innumerable tv and movie westerns.
Nevertheless, I still love the old tv and movie westerns. Just watched "Winchester 73" with Jimmy Stewart and Steven McNally for the umpteenth time yesterday.
BTW, "Winchester 73" had a scene where after an Indian battle, Jimmy Stewart told cavalry captain J.C. Flippen to collect the repeating rifles of the attacking Indians who had been shot and killed and lying on the battlefield. That's the only time I've ever seen that happen in any Western I've ever watched.

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???  Should have pinged me.  Don't know how I missed this.  Good stuff!!   :beer:

Came here to comment about EQUALIZER 3...Robert McCall (Denzel) in Altamonte, Sicily.

Have seen it twice and am watching it for the 3rd time right now.

By 30 minutes in...you cancel all your immediate plans.
By 56 minutes in...you are getting pissed off that the movie will end in less than an hour from now.   
By 66 minutes in...you get upset that somebody is calling you on your cellphone.

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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #98 on: May 23, 2024, 07:07:18 pm »
   Great Series, Worth a rewatch, on HBO.



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Re: What are you watching now?...2024
« Reply #99 on: May 25, 2024, 08:50:07 pm »
Just watched THE JUDGE, with Robert Downey, Jr., and Robert Duvall

Amazingly stunning performances...both of them! 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvK6ni97W8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TA5Y86yAo4
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald