What are you watching now?...2024

[berdie]

The last one I went to was about twenty years ago or more when I was still working. I was still unmarried at the time. A friend at work had a birthday party gathering at one of the last topless joints in town.
I remember watching these young women come out and do their thing, and what I remember most was how tedious the whole thing was. While my friends, some about my age, were eying the ladies intently, I kept looking at my watch and wondering how I got so old that I didn't care to watch attractive young ladies taking their clothes off.

My dearly departed spent a fair amount of time in strip joints in his youth. At some point he came home and said it embarrassed him because the girls were so young. He never went back.

Funny aside...We had company from west Tx. The wife was EXTREMELY naive. The guys said they were going to look at strippers. She was amazed there were farming equipment stores open that late at night in the city.

[goatprairie]

My dearly departed spent a fair amount of time in strip joints in his youth. At some point he came home and said it embarrassed him because the girls were so young. He never went back.

Funny aside...We had company from west Tx. The wife was EXTREMELY naive. The guys said they were going to look at strippers. She was amazed there were farming equipment stores open that late at night in the city.

Sorry about your husband. My older brother's wife died about seven years ago, and it took him one year to recover. He literally didn't want to talk to anybody for four or five months after her death. He's doing a lot better now and has a girlfriend.
Hope you're doing better.

[berdie]

Thanks @goatprairie . Actually he's been gone for quite sometime and I'm just too darned onery to even think about a follow-up act. But most of the funny stories I can tell come from that life.

[roamer_1]

I got into an 80's military TV show, JAG... I recall it as being a he-man action show... The retrospective was rather stunning. The blatant feminism in the first episodes (the blonde co-star) was so saccharine - an overpowering stench... I dang near turned it off... But I fell asleep through several episodes, two nights in a row, and now the costar is brunette, and the feminism is significantly toned down. So, dunno. 

[deb]

We are rewatching “Everybody Loves Raymond” for the umpteenth time. Still funny.

[berdie]

We are rewatching “Everybody Loves Raymond” for the umpteenth time. Still funny.

I love Raymond! I've seen all the episodes multiple times but they still make me laugh.

[jafo2010]

Mark Levin had an excellent expose of Kamala Harris, the staunch supporter of Marxist ideals in  everything she has done.  His whole show revealed just how bad she really is.

Show broadcast July 28,2024

[DCPatriot]

Mark Levin had an excellent expose of Kamala Harris, the staunch supporter of Marxist ideals in  everything she has done.  His whole show revealed just how bad she really is.

Show broadcast July 28,2024

Liked the closing minute where he strongly suggested that she "spend an hour with him...man to woman".

[Gefn]

New season of "Futureama" dropped on Hulu last night.

First episode was mostly about Bender. 

[jafo2010]

She will never crawl from whatever hole she is hiding in to appear with Mark Levin.  He would eat her alive.

[goatprairie]

The wife and I started watching "Condor" which is sort of an extended version of the movie, "Three Days Of The Condor" with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Max Von Sydow.
Let's just the movie was a lot more engrossing.
Naturally, the head assassin attempting to kill the male "hero" is a female. She is a lot tougher than him (as is everybody) and  beats him up.
 Did I mention that the "hero" is a big-time wimp? All the women in the series can whip him.
And for sure everybody regularly uses the f word. All the big shots in the FBI, CIA, and whatever gov agency. They even have a little kid using it.
Unfortunately, there's not much suspense in the thing, and the wife and I watched one episode of season 2 and gave up on it.
Again, like many modern series, there is nobody to root for. All the characters are irritating in different ways.

[Fishrrman]

This past weekend:
"Joseph" (1995) another film from "the Bible Collection":
https://archive.org/details/abraham.-1993.1080p.-bluray.-x-264.-aac-5.1-yts.-mx
(all are available in 1080p)

[mountaineer]

The wife and I started watching "Condor" which is sort of an extended version of the movie, "Three Days Of The Condor" with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Max Von Sydow.
Let's just the movie was a lot more engrossing.

Is this the "Condor" that came out a few years ago, where the protagonist is a reluctant CIA employee whose algorithm mistakenly gets an innocent Muslim killed at a football game, or some such thing?

Better than the Redford film, even, was the novel - but I'm not much of a Redford fan and thought he was miscast.

[deb]

Hubby and I went to see “Twisters” over the weekend. The popcorn was good, but not so much the movie.

Hollywood is under the assumption that if you have a 1-ton dually pickup, you can drive through any and everything. No road? No problem. Towing a heavy load on that nonexistent road? No problem. Driving really fast pulling a heavy load? No problem. 

[240B]

Watched a movie on Paramount called "Shutter Island" with DiCaprio and an All Star cast.
Very dark mystery movie with lots of twists. It was worth watching. Some of you my like it.
It is dark and nasty ... so be warned.

[goatprairie]

Is this the "Condor" that came out a few years ago, where the protagonist is a reluctant CIA employee whose algorithm mistakenly gets an innocent Muslim killed at a football game, or some such thing?

Better than the Redford film, even, was the novel - but I'm not much of a Redford fan and thought he was miscast.

Not a huge Redford fan, but he was alright in a number of movies. Didn't read the novel.
The new series "Condor" has to do with the...ahem....."hero" discovering a plot by, of course, the CIA to set off a plague and blame Muslims for it. It's heavily slanted towards a liberal way of looking at the world. And, of course, totally p.c. in casting women and blacks. All the white males are either evil or wimps. The hero is mostly the latter.
It just got tedious. They should have finished it after the first season.

[Polly Ticks]

Not a huge Redford fan, but he was alright in a number of movies. Didn't read the novel.

I had a gargantuan crush on Robert Redford when I was about 16 years old, even though he was well into his middle-ages by then.  In retrospect, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone when I married a significantly older blonde-haired man of less-than-average height.     Anyway, the shine wore off (of Redford, not my hubby) when I found out what a crazy lefty loony he was.  Ugh.

We went with a couple of our sons to see the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie at their request.  It was  ... well, let's just say one of them Googled 'how many f-bombs in Deadpool & Wolverine' on the way out to the car.  In case you are interested, the answer is 116.  It could have been just as funny without all the cursing and the sexualized humor, but whatever.  I guess I'm just an old prude.   

[goatprairie]

I had a gargantuan crush on Robert Redford when I was about 16 years old, even though he was well into his middle-ages by then.  In retrospect, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone when I married a significantly older blonde-haired man of less-than-average height.     Anyway, the shine wore off (of Redford, not my hubby) when I found out what a crazy lefty loony he was.  Ugh.

We went with a couple of our sons to see the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie at their request.  It was  ... well, let's just say one of them Googled 'how many f-bombs in Deadpool & Wolverine' on the way out to the car.  In case you are interested, the answer is 116.  It could have been just as funny without all the cursing and the sexualized humor, but whatever.  I guess I'm just an old prude.   

Apparently, it is the belief of Hollyweird scriptwriters that all Americans use the f word profusely. The wife and I watched one series "Condor" that even had a little kid using it.
Another trope of these s...writers (rhymes with spit) is that everybody smokes dope.
Actually, not everybody uses the f word or smokes weed. In fact, I'd say only a minority of Americans do either.

[DCPatriot]

I had a gargantuan crush on Robert Redford when I was about 16 years old, even though he was well into his middle-ages by then.  In retrospect, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone when I married a significantly older blonde-haired man of less-than-average height.     Anyway, the shine wore off (of Redford, not my hubby) when I found out what a crazy lefty loony he was.  Ugh.

We went with a couple of our sons to see the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie at their request.  It was  ... well, let's just say one of them Googled 'how many f-bombs in Deadpool & Wolverine' on the way out to the car.  In case you are interested, the answer is 116.  It could have been just as funny without all the cursing and the sexualized humor, but whatever.  I guess I'm just an old prude.   

@Polly Ticks

My son, 54, called and said after watching it, there should be another movie rating between "X" and "R".  

[Timber Rattler]

It was  ... well, let's just say one of them Googled 'how many f-bombs in Deadpool & Wolverine' on the way out to the car.  In case you are interested, the answer is 116.  It could have been just as funny without all the cursing and the sexualized humor, but whatever.  I guess I'm just an old prude.   

Well, crude language, over-the-top violence, and locker room humor have always been Deadpool's schtick going back to his first appearance in the comics in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool

[Smokin Joe]

Re-watched BattleStar Galactica 04. Just finished. I did not notice before how much of the show is focused on politics and soap opera type 'relationship issues'. Tons of marriage issues and girlfriend/boyfriend stuff.

Also, I did not notice how much these guy drink. They are not drinking beer. The Galactica crew from the Commander down is swilling hard liquor from the time they wake up until bedtime everyday and they are not drinking shots. Not a good example for children.

As an alcoholic I can verify that a level of alcoholism that severe is not sustainable. Nobody, do not care how much of a badass you are, can drink (tumblers of whiskey) that much everyday and still function competently on a command level. Not to mention the inevitable health issues.

They are drinking in almost every scene (tumblers full). Where were they getting all that liquor in space? Anyone can build a still (clear ethanol), but these guys are drinking brown aged whiskey while short on supplies and while stranded in the middle of nowhere. Nevermind. Just a personal issue with me.

Overall I enjoyed it. Plot twists and turns. It was worth watching.

Instead of "Earl Gray, hot", more like 'Macallan '26, neat'.

When the synthesizer can make most anything, why not go top shelf?

[Smokin Joe]

I had a gargantuan crush on Robert Redford when I was about 16 years old, even though he was well into his middle-ages by then.  In retrospect, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone when I married a significantly older blonde-haired man of less-than-average height.     Anyway, the shine wore off (of Redford, not my hubby) when I found out what a crazy lefty loony he was.  Ugh.

We went with a couple of our sons to see the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie at their request.  It was  ... well, let's just say one of them Googled 'how many f-bombs in Deadpool & Wolverine' on the way out to the car.  In case you are interested, the answer is 116.  It could have been just as funny without all the cursing and the sexualized humor, but whatever.  I guess I'm just an old prude.   

Stick to your guns, lady.
All that crap does get old, and what it 'normalizes' in society is less than what we had.

[Gefn]

I binge watched  the entire season of The Umbrella Academy again, and finally after two years saw season 4.

Not the best season, but every event, every timeline has been ended and all wrapped up in a bow.


Dunno if it's going to be the right show for most people here ,but I honestly can say it's one of the best SF series I have seen in a long time.

[Polly Ticks]

Stick to your guns, lady.
All that crap does get old, and what it 'normalizes' in society is less than what we had.

That's a fact.
I think I'm going to just stick to baseball and The Great British Bake Off and call it good!

[Polly Ticks]

Well, crude language, over-the-top violence, and locker room humor have always been Deadpool's schtick going back to his first appearance in the comics in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool

I hadn't read the comics nor seen the previous movies, so I was going into it blind.  Ugh.