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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 04-21-2018 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]

Summer Movie Season

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Yes, it's April, but that's not going to stop movie studios from getting the summer blockbusters in front of you as soon as possible.

Granted, the kind of movies that were released exclusively for summer in decades past are now being released all over the calendar. Hell, what may end up being the second biggest film of the year was released in February (Black Panther). Kids are still more able to go to the movies in summer, though, so for the foreseeable future, summer is still king.

Let the rush for children's dollars begin! Next week!


A Very Brief History

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Summer movie season really began in 1975 with the release of Jaws. Steven Spielberg's superb monster movie exploded in the cultural consciousness in a way that a movie hadn't really done before. It was far from the first movie designed to scare and entertain an audience, but it was the first that had grabbed hold of the American psyche in a way that created the term: blockbuster.

News crews saw the lines of crowds waiting to get into the theater and experience the movie with the shark, and it looked like they were going to crack the sidewalk. Released in June of 1975, it was rated PG so anyone old enough to buy a ticket could go in, which meant a lot of teenagers free from school could spend a couple of bucks to get into the theater and get out from the heat while being massively entertained at the same time. It was a phenomenon, and like any phenomenon, it had it's pretenders and successors.

Summer became the time to release the types of movies that would appeal to younger audiences that couldn't go and see The Godfather on their own (the biggest movie of 1972, ahead of The Poseidon Adventure). Two years later came Star Wars, which combined the traditional hero journey with fantastic special effects and great editing to deliver an easy to digest adventure that anyone could love. With that huge success, the summer movie season was cemented as a cornerstone of American movie culture.


Personal Recollections

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You people will rake me over the coals for this, but my chief memory of the summer movie season was 1999 when I saw The Phantom Menace nine times in theaters. I'll admit it, I liked it at the time (although revisiting it a decade later I discovered how inept the movie actually is), but that was how my mother got me out of the house throughout that summer.

"TJM!" my mother would call, using the abbreviation as we all do in my family, "Here's $10, go see Star Wars again. I don't care. Just get out."

And you know what? It was great. I spent hours and hours in the movie theater, cool from the hot Florida days and taking in sight and sound from celluloid. Sure, I was evidencing a hit on the head with my choice of entertainment, but the experience of going to the movies time and time again to watch things blow up was the kind of innocent fun that movie going can be.


This Year

So, do we have anything other than franchises coming out?

Probably nothing that will crack the top ten financially successful movies of the summer. We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park, Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

For all people's caterwauling about a lack of originality in Hollywood, the stuff listed above is perfect fodder to get adolescents of all ages into the theater. I'll most likely go see a couple of these in the theater, confident that they will be at least competently made formula driven experiences that deliver their modest thrills effectively enough.

Summer movie season is the easy movie season, which is fine. Movies as a medium can accommodate many different types of stories, from tiny character pieces to giant effects laden extravaganzas to pompous virtue signaling nonsense.

So, bring on the new Jurassic Park. Sure, it looks dumb as a bag of rocks, but what else do you expect from a movie that has genetically engineered dinosaurs being stolen from an abandoned island and being put up for auction?


Back to You

What are your favorite summer movie experiences? What are you looking forward to this summer?

5 points to the first guy who says, "Movies suck," on a post about movies!


One Final Note

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Milos Forman died last week. I don't normally make mention of recent deaths because I tend to write these posts far ahead of time, but I have to mention Mr. Forman.

He directed one of my top ten movies (Amadeus), and while he hadn't done much in recent years, it's still sad to see the man who made one of my favorite pieces of entertainment pass. He was smart and a wonderful filmmaker. I haven't felt the loss of a filmmaker this much since the passing of Robert Altman.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Forman.


Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:
I Feel Pretty
Super Troopers 2
Traffik

Next in my Netflix Queue:
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Movies I Saw This Week:
Gods and Generals (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) Poster blurb: "The first two hours are unfocused, stilted, and simply bad. The last ninety minutes, though, is a surprisingly good film with one scene that stands out as something to really treasure." [Netflix DVD]
Ready Player One (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Classic Spielberg awash in CGI. Unchallenging and fun." [Theater]
Atomic Blonde (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Stylish, propulsive, and fun, if a bit over plotted." [HBO]
A Kid in King Arthur's Court (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1/4) "The definition of 'Crap Actors did before They became Famous' for Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet." [HBO]
Get Out (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Quite effective horror film that I'll probably end up enjoying more with a second viewing." [HBO]
Everything Must Go (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Why do comedians end up playing sad sacks so well? Good, though probably a bit less than the sum of its parts." [HBO]
Martyrs (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1/4) "Feels smarter than I think it is. I really don't think it rises above torture porn, which its fans insist that it does." ["Library"]


Contact

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I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 07:20 PM




Comments

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1 This is the big weekend that Amy Schumer's hilarious "I Feel Pretty" bombs in the theaters.

*clink*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:15 PM (kLBhp)

2 "Amadeus" will always be special to me - our first "date" movie !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 21, 2018 07:16 PM (Mbmmf)

3 remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

-
Edgy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:16 PM (+y/Ru)

4 Foist?

Posted by: Darles Chickens at April 21, 2018 07:17 PM (BJdPM)

5 We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park, Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).




Gee, a real surfeit of wastes of time and money

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:18 PM (SiINZ)

6 This is the big weekend that Amy Schumer's hilarious "I Feel Pretty" bombs in the theaters.

-
Talk about big butts!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:18 PM (+y/Ru)

7 another Purge

++++

Never heard of it. IMDB has two of them: some Finnish thing that nobody outside Finland knows about and an Aussie flick with a 2.6 rating.

Did you shorten the name or something? What's Purge?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:18 PM (pvjTE)

8 Maybe a AoSHq watch party tonight, The Thomas Crown Affair with Faye and Steve not that lame remake.
Its on TCM at 8pm

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (aC6Sd)

9 I'm not holding out much hope, but I have to admit I'm a little curious about Super Troopers 2 turns out. It's not going to get me into a theater or anything, partly because that's the kind of movie you can really only appreciate at a dorm party, but I don't think it's out of line - or even controvertible - to say that the first Super Troopers is unquestionably the greatest story ever told.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (y87Qq)

10 Like them or not; the last 3 Star Wars movie (TFA, RO, TLJ) were the top grossing movies in each of the last three years. Many, too many, are willing to buy a ticket.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (kB2km)

11 You people will rake me over the coals for this, but my chief memory of the summer movie season was 1999 when I saw The Phantom Menace nine times in theaters.

Just wait until you buy the Director's Cut Definitive Platinum Collection, Special Edition with Added Special Effects. It's even better than the original.

Posted by: George Lucas at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (kLBhp)

12 This is the big weekend that Amy Schumer's hilarious "I Feel Pretty" bombs in the theaters.




Didn't she apologize on the View for having the role because she's white and a wymyn of color should of had the part? Tell the tub of shit what, do the world a favor and don't accept any more offers. Ever. Do for diversity

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (SiINZ)

13 another Purge

That movie was all sorts of dumb.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (8gDQu)

14 5 points to the first guy who says, "Movies suck," on a post about movies!

++++

How about we compromise. The movies *you* like suck. The Phantom Menace! Nine flipping times!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (pvjTE)

15 I'm still waiting to see "Darkest Hour"

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (Su2xT)

16 Movies suck!!

I kid.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (W+vEI)

17 How about we compromise. The movies *you* like suck. The Phantom Menace! Nine flipping times!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (pvjTE)


It's really a call for help.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (8gDQu)

18 Since it's the movie thread, here's my latest project. It's a bit over a minute long. Enjoy! and thanks if you watch it.

http://tinyurl.com/yaj6cw9b

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (l9m7l)

19 Power line had a bad review of Beirut.

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (aC6Sd)

20 For all it's faults, episode 1 was a decently watchable movie compared to everything that's come after in the franchise.

A nice tease of action at the start, the podracing action in the middle, and the lightsaber duel in the finale. Good enough to get through the parts that dragged, imo.

7 was enjoyable enough, but left too many JJ Abrams sized plot holes. If those got resolved the movie would've worked fine, but Disney has clearly decided they aren't going to bother.

Posted by: Sjg at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (gDSJf)

21 1 This is the big weekend that Amy Schumer's hilarious "I Feel Pretty" bombs in the theaters.

*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:15 PM (kLBhp)

======

Am I the only one to notice that YouTube has been pushing that really really hard?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (Jj43a)

22 I don't make a point of seeing but one or two movies
a year in the theater.

But I'll wait in line for The Incredibles 2.

To equal the greatest animated movie ever made will
be a tough nut.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (SS/La)

23 Jaws was a great read, other than the out of place love affair with Hooper and Chief Brody's wife. Thankfully, the let it out of the movie.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (rdl6o)

24 Didn't she apologize on the View for having the role because she's white and a wymyn of color should of had the part? Tell the tub of shit what, do the world a favor and don't accept any more offers. Ever. Do for diversity
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:20 PM (SiINZ)



Apologizing for racist casting practices is easy when you take the job and the money anyway. All the A-List actors in Hollywood know this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (kLBhp)

25 Yay, movie thread!

As I noted in the previous thread, I'm watching My Favorite Year, and Mr. O'Toole is crushin' it.

[Alan Swann has blundered into the wrong restroom]

Lil: This is for ladies only!

Alan Swann: [unzipping fly] So is *this*, ma'am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it.

[Alan Swann pours himself a drink]

Benjy Stone: Mr. Swann, I was supposed to watch you, remember?

Swann: Good. Watch this.

[Pours another drink]

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (qJtVm)

26 YouTube really pushing "I feel pretty", and each time I see the promo, the more repulsed I get by the ad.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (kB2km)

27 TJM... um... no... I noticed too.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:23 PM (kB2km)

28 Movies suck.

Give me my five points.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (NWiLs)

29 I remember ET being a big summer movie.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (PUmDY)

30 Get Out (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Quite effective horror film that I'll probably end up enjoying more with a second viewing." [HBO]

++++

Badly written horror flick infested with a bunch of dumb racial crap. 1 star.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (pvjTE)

31 YouTube really pushing "I feel pretty", and each time I see the promo, the more repulsed I get by the ad.
Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (kB2km)



Look, rube, it's either that or Black Panther, okay?

Posted by: Your Betters at Google-YouTube at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (kLBhp)

32 9 I'm not holding out much hope, but I have to admit I'm a little curious about Super Troopers 2 turns out. It's not going to get me into a theater or anything, partly because that's the kind of movie you can really only appreciate at a dorm party, but I don't think it's out of line - or even controvertible - to say that the first Super Troopers is unquestionably the greatest story ever told.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (y87Qq)
---
Oh, I'm actually going to spring for a ticket. One must support the arts!

I enjoyed the first Super Troopers and really liked Beerfest.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (qJtVm)

33 27 TJM... um... no... I noticed too.
Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:23 PM (kB2km)

======

Glad it wasn't just me. Glad because the studio is spending a lot of money to sell what's most likely a bomb.

Good on them for believing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (Jj43a)

34 Give me my five points.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (NWiLs)


What are you, Calvinist now?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (y87Qq)

35
For Roger Moore fans, This Movie channel runs 4 episodes of the Saint on Saturday nights starting at 7pm Central. The first episode tonight has Shirley Eaton (the golden girl from Goldfinger) as a guest star. Last week had Honor Blackman (or should it be African American xer?). Quite a few Bond actors and actress turned up on that show.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (SiINZ)

36 Probably nothing that will crack the top ten financially successful movies of the summer. We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park, Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

++++

The only one of those that I look forward to is the new Incredibles.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:26 PM (pvjTE)

37 I finished "Ready Player One" book, which doesn't make me want to watch the movie of the book. However, it did cause me to spend the day watching "MP The Meaning of Life" and "The Life of Brian". I would watch "A Holy Grail", but Astros and Rockets are both playing. Astros were trying to bat a perfect game in the first inning.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:26 PM (kB2km)

38 There isn't a single movie on your list that appeals to me in the slightest. Pay $15 to see them in a theater? Unlikely.

Posted by: Pep at April 21, 2018 07:26 PM (LAe3v)

39 https://youtu.be/UtsFtHtwpYs
BeckoningChasm's YouTube link.

Very good stuff

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 07:26 PM (aC6Sd)

40 Movie trivia: In France, Jaws was Les Dents de la Mer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:27 PM (+y/Ru)

41 What are you looking forward to this summer?

Maintaining my record of never having taken a vacation since reaching adulthood. A boring, inescapable cesspit of boredom, misery and desperation.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:27 PM (NWiLs)

42
Alan Swann: [unzipping fly] So is *this*, ma'am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it.


If you watch, the next shot is of two hotdogs in the hands of a hotdog vendor putting mustard on them.

Visual pun by the director.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 21, 2018 07:27 PM (oVJmc)

43 Like them or not; the last 3 Star Wars movie (TFA, RO, TLJ) were the top grossing movies in each of the last three years. Many, too many, are willing to buy a ticket.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (kB2km)



I know people that will go to those movies even though they know they're crap because they have to see the Star Wars movies.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (SiINZ)

44 34 Give me my five points.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (NWiLs)

What are you, Calvinist now?
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (y87Qq)

I'm a deterministic nihilist.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (NWiLs)

45 When I was in elementary school the local 1-screen movie theater had a summer matinee series for kids, they'd screen one kids movie per week. You had physical tickets and you'd just show up to whatever showing you wanted each week. Being the 70's, we went alone. Being the 70's it was also a lot of trippy 70's movies like (IIRC) Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Swiss Family Robinson.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (W+vEI)

46 I haven't seen Black Panther, but I'm likely to watch it in the future. I don't think I Feel Pretty will get a watch by me. Then again, I haven't seen Snatched or Trainwreck. It's not about female lead comedies, because I liked Bridesmaids.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (kB2km)

47 Give me my five points.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:24 PM (NWiLs)

What are you, Calvinist now?
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:25 PM (y87Qq)


Don't laugh. Sometimes things really are determined in advance.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be POTUS at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (kLBhp)

48 Best movie I ever saw at a movie theater....D-Day.

Followed by 2001 A Space Oddessy.

Then Star Wars (the first one).

Posted by: Zogger at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (SKahJ)

49
For Roger Moore fans, This Movie channel runs 4 episodes of the Saint on Saturday nights starting at 7pm Central.


MeTV was showing one of his episodes of Maverick this morning.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (oVJmc)

50 who the fuck is amy schumer?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (KP5rU)

51 I have a Netflix question.

I have noticed Netflix is loading up on foreign language films including horror films.

I am also noticing dome of these films are listed as Netflix originals.

Does Netflix have production studios overseas? Or have the bought the rights to a French production company?

Posted by: Big V at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (ZvLtE)

52 There isn't a single movie on your list that appeals to me in the slightest. Pay $15 to see them in a theater? Unlikely.

-
I've got the dinosaur monkey on my back. I'll see the Jurassic Whatever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (+y/Ru)

53 I used two words with "bore" as the root. I give myself one demerit.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (NWiLs)

54 Maintaining my record of never having taken a vacation since reaching adulthood. A boring, inescapable cesspit of boredom, misery and desperation.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:27 PM (NWiLs)


Good to see a man with lofty goals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (kLBhp)

55 I finally saw Sicario, based on recommendations from more than a few, here. Very good movie. It struck me as sort of a lighter version of "Unthinkable". Same FBI chick playing the same basic role, though - both infuriating beyond belief.

One thing I couldn't figure about Sicario was the chick kept wailing about things being illegal and done wrong and all ... and I didn't see anything of the sort. Most of the people they were dealing with weren't Americans (none, actually, it seemed) and she was bitching about shooting outside of the country. I couldn't figure that out.

This brought to mind another movie that I just saw again that was pretty good - Boot Camp. This is another one where the writer/director are trying to say that the boot camps were such terrible places run by evil people, but that isn't even what was portrayed in the movie, itself. The kids there were all terrors and this was a last resort for their parents. In the end they had some statement that these boot camps have operated since the 70s, having had hundreds of thousands go through them ... and that there have been 40 deaths!!!! 40 deaths, over 30 or 40 years, and hundreds of thousands of screwed-up trouble-makers? That seems like pretty good results, to me. Anyway, good movie ... and with Mila Kunis, so there's that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:30 PM (8gDQu)

56 I'm surprised Rampage is bombing.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:30 PM (kB2km)

57 Only one if those I want to see is Incredibles 2. Brad Bird rules!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (pV/54)

58 I saw the first Star Wars movie when it came out, and also the second one. I honestly don't remember whether I saw the third one or not. I know I haven't seen any of them since.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (sdi6R)

59 Were Pink Panther fsummer movies?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (PUmDY)

60 Best movie I ever saw at a movie theater....D-Day.

Followed by 2001 A Space Oddessy.

Then Star Wars (the first one).
Posted by: Zogger at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (SKahJ)


The Cinerama Dome is having a 50th anniversary special showing of 2001 starting on May 18. I saw it in Hollywood when it came out. I'll be at this one too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (kLBhp)

61 who the fuck is amy schumer?

Nobody fucks with amy schumer. Why would anyone?

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (kB2km)

62 One of the funniest scenes in Star Wars that wasn't in any Star Wars movie.

The Emperor's Phone Call - Robot Chicken
https://youtu.be/3F1d3QWsyk0

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (8EJVd)

63 54 Maintaining my record of never having taken a vacation since reaching adulthood. A boring, inescapable cesspit of boredom, misery and desperation.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:27 PM (NWiLs)

Good to see a man with lofty goals.


Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:29 PM (kLBhp)

It's shitty. I'm not kidding either - I have never taken a vacation my entire professional life. Never had the money or the time. Now I have time and no money. Life is a cruel son of a bitch.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (NWiLs)

64 I finished "Ready Player One" book, which doesn't make me want to watch the movie of the book.
Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:26 PM



If you were ever into MST3K/Rifftrax, Mike Nelson )and a guy who I think works on Rifftraks ) have a series of podcasts about Ready Player One. The book, not the movie. They gave it a good fisking.

"372 Pages We'll Never Get Back"
http://372pages.com/


Another moron mentioned it last week and I've been listening. Funny. I didn't realize Cline was such a poor writer. Apparently fanbois of the book are ticked off at Spielberg's movie, even though Cline was co-screenwriter.

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:32 PM (EzdLW)

65 I watched The Greatest Showman this week. It sucked. I heard a lot of good things about it. Trying to figure out what movie these other people were watching.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 21, 2018 07:32 PM (xPl2J)

66 Milos Forman
Director
2006 Goya's Ghosts
1999 Man on the Moon
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1989 Valmont
1984 Amadeus
1981 Ragtime
1979 Hair
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

That's a pretty impressive run.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:32 PM (pvjTE)

67 >> I finally saw Sicario, based on recommendations from more than a few, here. Very good movie. It struck me as sort of a lighter version of "Unthinkable". Same FBI chick playing the same basic role, though - both infuriating beyond belief.


Probably wouldn't like "Wind River," then...

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:33 PM (W+vEI)

68 48 Best movie I ever saw at a movie theater....D-Day.

Posted by: Zogger at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (SKahJ)


Which D-Day movie? Do you mean "The Longest Day" or some other one?

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 07:33 PM (sdi6R)

69 Apologizing for racist casting practices is easy when you take the job and the money anyway. All the A-List actors in Hollywood know this.

-
Like wanting to remove guns from American culture.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (+y/Ru)

70 Speaking of bombs, did "Pacific Rim Uprising" finally spell the end of big robot action movies? Can we hope?

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (kB2km)

71 It's shitty. I'm not kidding either - I have never taken a vacation my entire professional life. Never had the money or the time. Now I have time and no money. Life is a cruel son of a bitch.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (NWiLs)


That's too bad. I've spent a ton of money on vacations over the years but it's been well worth it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (kLBhp)

72 HOLY CRAP I'm old.

One of my summer movies is... "Star Wars" the original. No modifier.

Time to pour a cocktail and forget that I am 29.

Posted by: Kurt the Tentacle Man Eichenwald at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (pw+jk)

73 You people will rake me over the coals for this, but my chief memory of the summer movie season was 1999 when I saw The Phantom Menace
nine times in theaters. I'll admit it, I liked it at the time (although
revisiting it a decade later I discovered how inept the movie actually
is), but that was how my mother got me out of the house throughout that
summer.

---

My God, you people really are 29.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (LV5XU)

74 Darkest Hour was merely OK for me. I was glad we rented it on DVD. Good acting, though.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (5tSKk)

75 I finally saw Sicario, based on recommendations from more than a few, here. Very good movie.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:30 PM (8gDQu)


The border scene replaced the Heat robbery as my 'show off the AV kit' clip.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (y87Qq)

76 I could've swore "Jaws" was rated R.

*checks IMDb*

Ah. Originally rated R, then edited out some gore to get the PG.

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (EzdLW)

77 Probably wouldn't like "Wind River," then...

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:33 PM (W+vEI)


Never heard of it, but why not? I did like Sicario. I just thought it was interesting how it paralleled Unthinkable, on a lighter scale, so much.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (8gDQu)

78 I remember the lines for Star Wars, around the block. I've never ever seen a movie like that again (except for the next two star wars movies, as they came out). It was unreal, lines for weeks.

Jaws, nobody expected to be a huge hit. It was just a summer movie, some fun cheese with horror in it. Cheap budget, little-known young director. MONSTER hit, for no real reason. It doesn't hold up all that well except for Shaw's brilliant portrayal of Quint. Ultimately its kind of a dumb movie but Spielberg uses his usual bag of tricks, to grab you as a viewer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:35 PM (39g3+)

79 Kurt the Tentacle Man Eichenwald sock FAIL!!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 21, 2018 07:35 PM (pw+jk)

80 Wow, Beckoning Chasm. That film is really really good.

Posted by: booknlass at April 21, 2018 07:35 PM (xGMkv)

81 I'm looking forward to Deadpool II a lot more than those A-Lister superhero movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:36 PM (qJtVm)

82 Wow, Beckoning Chasm. That film is really really good.




The Sandra Fluke story

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:36 PM (SiINZ)

83 TPOP- I really enjoyed both Sicario and Unthinkable. I was not on the side of the fbi.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:36 PM (Su2xT)

84 Insomniac, do you have any interest in camping? Actual $50 tent, eating peanut butter sandwiches to keep costs down, and just sitting out in the woods enjoying being out in the woods camping? It's pretty easy to see a lot of interesting stuff for cheap if you're so inclined.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:36 PM (LV5XU)

85
You people will rake me over the coals for this, but my chief memory of the summer movie season was 1999 when I saw The Phantom Menace nine times in theaters.



*grabs rake and wields it threateningly*

Well, when I was a youngun, Star Wars (1976 ) was the first movie I ever saw more than once in the theater. Saw it three times.

*putting away rake*

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:37 PM (EzdLW)

86 I liked "The Greatest Showman". I saw it theaters about 5 weeks in. The theater was full, mostly with families and kids. The movie is great for them. If you been to a circus, remember it, and don't think it was like watching a slave auction because the Elephants, Lions and Tigers were caged; then it brought back memories. The songs were competent and performed well. Pacing wasn't as boring as La La Land. And if you like singing, the Soundtrack is awesome.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:37 PM (kB2km)

87 We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park, Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

For all people's caterwauling about a lack of originality in Hollywood, the stuff listed above is perfect fodder to get adolescents of all ages into the theater. I'll most likely go see a couple of these in the theater, confident that they will be at least competently made formula driven experiences that deliver their modest thrills effectively enough.


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Question. Were you really able to sit through the Purge? I got it (from the library thank goodness so I didn't have to pay anything), and watched about half an hour of it, and that was all I could stand.

Pure propaganda designed to psychologically bully you into using a liberal template to evaluate the world that has nothing to do with reality. Even if it got rave reviews as being competently made, would that be enough to overcome the annoyance at seeing one sided propaganda? For me, the spectacle often isn't enough to overcome that. Other people may have a different tolerance point I know, but that film was really odious.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 21, 2018 07:37 PM (/qEW2)

88 My son wants to see a documentary about some real priest who does exorcists, but he'll have to go with his dad because I don't want to see it.

"Ghost stories" sound interesting but I haven't been to a scary film in ages.

I am not 29-I saw "Jaws" in the summer on 75 in a costal town in Maine when I was a teen. It was scary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2018 07:37 PM (tpDAe)

89 76 I could've swore "Jaws" was rated R.

*checks IMDb*

Ah. Originally rated R, then edited out some gore to get the PG.
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (EzdLW)


In the opening scene, the chick was skinny-dipping, but it was night so you couldn't really see anything.

She looks sort of nekkid in the poster.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (sdi6R)

90 The Ocean's 11 remake could be pretty solid. While the first is a charmer, the remake was okay with some clever writing, and there's no part of the idea that really has to be men. Its just going to be a challenge to find 11 really charismatic and compelling women to equal the original and the remake.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (39g3+)

91 The Emperor's Phone Call - Robot Chicken
https://youtu.be/3F1d3QWsyk0
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (8EJVd)

One of my favorites. I love Palp making wanking gestures as Anakin cries.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (qJtVm)

92 I found "Baby Driver" for rent from the Microsoft store under 'movies and TV' (last day of a special offer). I thought it was a good deal at that price. Back in olden times, you could go to an afternoon movie for a buck.

I guess in the really old times you could get in for a nickel.

I have too much time on my hands and no money.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (roQNm)

93 73
My God, you people really are 29.
Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (LV5XU)


Threadwinner.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (sdi6R)

94 5 points to the first guy who says, "Movies suck," on a post about movies!


Okay, other people posted "movies suck" but there was nothing else in their post. So technically, they did not meet the standards for 5 points.

I have to say that the list of summer movies, plus all the other re-boots Hollywood is considering (or re-makes) shows an absolute lack of originality. Like everything else in society, it indicates movies are devolving, not evolving. Movies suck!

I'll take my 5 points now please. Thank you.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (Ze9kt)

95 87 Question. Were you really able to sit through the Purge? I got it (from the library thank goodness so I didn't have to pay anything), and watched about half an hour of it, and that was all I could stand.

Pure propaganda designed to psychologically bully you into using a liberal template to evaluate the world that has nothing to do with reality. Even if it got rave reviews as being competently made, would that be enough to overcome the annoyance at seeing one sided propaganda? For me, the spectacle often isn't enough to overcome that. Other people may have a different tolerance point I know, but that film was really odious.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 21, 2018 07:37 PM (/qEW2)

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Never saw it. Any of them.

I'm not a big horror movie fan, so the only ones I do end up seeing break out in some way, usually quality wise. It Follows is an example for me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (Jj43a)

96 Atomic Blonde (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Stylish, propulsive, and fun, if a bit over plotted."

Charlize Theron also swings a mean blade.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (8EJVd)

97 You should do a post on the movies of 1976.
Rocky
Carrie
Taxi Driver
All the President's Men
A Star is Born
Marathon Man
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Logan's Run

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (rdl6o)

98 Back in olden times, you could go to an afternoon movie for a buck.


Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (roQNm)


The ol' "Matinee"!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (8gDQu)

99 Is this the 4-D ass and movie thread?

Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (J7XgW)

100 Maybe we could Horde source a movie> Hell we have a cook book under our belts.

J.J could write the script'

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:40 PM (Su2xT)

101 "Smallville" actress Allison Mack was arrested Friday for her role in sick upstate sex cult Nxivm, where prosecutors allege she recruited "slaves" to sleep with the group's leader -- and held them down as they were "branded" with his initials.
https://tinyurl.com/y88avjsr

After an uninterrupted 30-year run Margot Kidder will finally be relinquishing the mantle of Craziest Bitch Ever Cast In A Superman Film or Series.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:40 PM (kLBhp)

102 The Room II

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 07:40 PM (PUmDY)

103 I second a camping recommendation for Insomnia. ITs not too expensive, and it gets you into a different setting for a while. You can truck camp (drive to places, stop and eat, stay in the truck for the night) for little more than gas and some food.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:40 PM (39g3+)

104 @64 THANK YOU

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (kB2km)

105 Question. Were you really able to sit through the Purge? I got it (from
the library thank goodness so I didn't have to pay anything), and
watched about half an hour of it, and that was all I could stand.


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There's a guy or guys that critiques movies on the youtubes. "Everything wrong with _____" He did the Purge. He drags everything across the coals pretty well and in a fun way. My big gripe with him is I think he actually believes Neil Degrasse Tyson is a sooper genius (or he's just using him because he knows it will increase viewership among certain demographics and that equals $$$).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBgr0AkoKbM

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (LV5XU)

106 The wife made me go see Phantom Menace opening day.

The fanboys were rowdy and cheered when the movie began.

Slowly, though, the room got quiet.

When it ended, there was polite, but subdued, applause.

And as the lights came up, lots of disbelieving looks around the room. They were uneasy. They weren't sure if they should admit to each other what they really thought of the movie. There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of ticket-buyers suddenly cried out in disappointment and were suddenly silenced..

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (oVJmc)

107 Looking foreward to Incredibles 2 and Avengers Infinity War.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (6n332)

108 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:35 PM (39g3+)

I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor, certainly better than the actor who plays the research scientist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (tpDAe)

109 When I was in high school. I worked at the General Cinema at the local mall. Only two theaters, can you imagine. I worked the candy counter and sold tickets. I was there the summer when Jaws opened. My goodness, the crowds! What an experience that was. I must have seen parts of that movie a thousand times. It's still one of my favorites. The ushers and candy girls loved to stand at the back of the theater when the head popped out of the boat when Richard Dreyfus was investigating the abandoned boat. Popcorn would fly everywhere. Then we we rush back in to sell refills!

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (g32Cf)

110 You should do a post on the movies of 1976.
Rocky
Carrie
Taxi Driver
All the President's Men
A Star is Born
Marathon Man
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Logan's Run
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:39 PM (rdl6o)



The Enforcer. The Mrs Grey scene needs to be broadcast all over this country now more than ever

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (SiINZ)

111 Jaws taps into a primal fear.

The mechanical shark didn't work so Spielberg had to go with less is more. There's a lesson in there about CGI, I suppose.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (pV/54)

112 Pure propaganda designed to psychologically bully you into using a liberal template to evaluate the world that has nothing to do with reality.

Too many movies made with that template.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (kB2km)

113 One of my favorites. I love Palp making wanking gestures as Anakin cries.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:38 PM (qJtVm)

These are a hoot as well.

Bob Goldstein
https://youtu.be/oXkxrb7fj3Q
Wrong Place Wrong Time
https://youtu.be/PbSixPMrT2o

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (8EJVd)

114 The Room II
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 07:40 PM (PUmDY)


To this day it still takes me a few seconds to realize that people are talking about some weirdo movie when they say that and not a rather forgettable Silent Hill game.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (y87Qq)

115 Kramer Vs. Kramer II

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (oVJmc)

116 The mechanical shark didn't work so Spielberg had to go with less is more. There's a lesson in there about CGI, I suppose.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (pV/54)



Oh yeah? What is it?

Posted by: George Lucas at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (kLBhp)

117 >>Never heard of it, but why not? I did like Sicario. I just thought it was interesting how it paralleled Unthinkable, on a lighter scale, so much.

It's written by the same guy, and it's lead female is an out of state FBI agent who's been tasked with finding who murdered a teen on a reservation.
It is good, if heavy ( a lot of sadness).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (W+vEI)

118 I went to see Phantom menace on a date. She wanted to sit in back away from people and now I realize she wanted to make out or something rather than watch the movie. And I was so dismayed, the film just got worse and worse and I felt miserable that I'd picked this stinker.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (39g3+)

119 Jaws taps into a primal fear.

The mechanical shark didn't work so Spielberg had to go with less is more. There's a lesson in there about CGI, I suppose.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (pV/54)


In Open Water they only had a budget of about $100,000 so the actors had to do their scenes with real sharks. No joke.

Excellent movie, BTW.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (8gDQu)

120 Well done TJM. Only thing I would add is that for those who did not experience those times, you just can't compare the impact Jaws had on the nation. Jaws had a greater impact than Star Wars in many ways. People wore Jaws tee shirts, people actually stopped going to the beach, they changed their behavior over a film.

Yet, Star Wars was the bigger hit at least as far as I could tell. People did line up around the block and kids would stay in the theater and watch it over and over. People bought Star Wars cards even before they got into the figures. Everyone saw it and everyone talked about it all Summer long.

It is cool as a young lad you got to have a similar experience with Phantom Menace. Similar in the joy of the movie theater spectacle, not so much in movie quality.

My personal opinion is that movies don't have the same impact on society that they did in the 70s and 80s. I don't see movies having the impact of E.T, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Of course when we have 100 channels and the interNOT, how can they have the same impact. OTOH, I may just be missing the cultural impact since I am not a kid anymore and movies don't entrance the same way. I think time and place is everything, not just with movies but most experiences.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (n13/j)

121 There's a guy or guys that critiques movies on the youtubes. "Everything wrong with _____"
Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (LV5XU)


Cinemasins. It's fun to watch even if you've never heard of the movie he's ripping on.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (y87Qq)

122 18 Since it's the movie thread, here's my latest project. It's a bit over a minute long. Enjoy! and thanks if you watch it.

http://tinyurl.com/yaj6cw9b
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (l9m7l)
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Okay, that does make an impact!

(BTW, I just noticed a few days ago you did a Part II to "Hence." Are you a graphic art pro? If not, you really should be. Great stuff.)



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (0jtPF)

123 OT and sorry.....but

Trump tweeted Wendy Wasserman Shulz and the MSM is going crazy.

That is just fucking brilliant. Make an intentional mistake to get the MSM to make a news cycle about the crooked DNC under Mayo Head.

I AM NOT worthy. TGE.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (pw+jk)

124 In the opening scene, the chick was skinny-dipping, but it was night so you couldn't really see anything.

She looks sort of nekkid in the poster.

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When I was a kid, I saw a not very good movie, McKenna's Gold, in which in one scene a nakey Julie Newmar tries to knife the female lead underwater at a water hole. You really couldn't see anything but I sat through it twice anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (+y/Ru)

125 If we are doing confessions tonight I will confess when the original Star Wars came out I saw it 38 times that summer.

18 in at a drive in so I could only listen to the score for the first 30 minutes of the movie.

As an 11 year old I was obsessed with space flight and building model air planes so that movie was going to get me no matter what.

Posted by: Big V at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (ZvLtE)

126 It's written by the same guy, and it's lead female is an out of state FBI agent who's been tasked with finding who murdered a teen on a reservation.
It is good, if heavy ( a lot of sadness).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:43 PM (W+vEI)


Sounds interesting. I'll see if I can find it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (8gDQu)

127 I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor, certainly better than the actor who plays the research scientist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2018 07:42 PM (tpDAe)



Richard Dreyfus chews threw scenery like a Sherman tank equipped with a mine sweeping flail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (kLBhp)

128 I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor

He's great, and he's always interesting to watch. One of my favorite, underrated 70s actors. For some reason after hit film after great performance he just kind of... disappeared after a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (39g3+)

129 I was five when Jaws came out. My parents didn't take us to theater hardly ever ("you can see it when it comes on TV") but that film did get them out of the house. It took a few weeks because the first time we wen the line was around the block to get in and there weren't any other theaters nearby.

The scariest part for me was when the diver was investigating the sunken boat and the head popped up in the hole in the side. I jumped out of my seat and onto my older brother. Good times.

Posted by: Mitchell at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (ZhFYR)

130 I'm a deterministic nihilist.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:28 PM (NWiLs)



This reminds me why I should never try and cheer you, nor take you to task on certain things that you say that are total poppycock.

Maybe you should put "deterministic nihilist" in your nic. Otherwise people worry about you.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:47 PM (Ze9kt)

131 She wanted to sit in back away from people and now I realize she wanted to make out or something rather than watch the movie. And I was so dismayed, the film just got worse and worse and I felt miserable that I'd picked this stinker.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (39g3+)



I think I see the problem here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:47 PM (kLBhp)

132 All u young punks... Saw Star Wars with my daughters in '77..

I remember seeing the Connery Bond flicks at the theater with my friends.. People still smoked in theaters back then!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 21, 2018 07:47 PM (5tSKk)

133 And as the lights came up, lots of disbelieving
looks around the room. They were uneasy. They weren't sure if they
should admit to each other what they really thought of the movie. There
was a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of ticket-buyers
suddenly cried out in disappointment and were suddenly silenced..

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM (oVJmc)


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I think the most incredible thing about the Disney Star Wars movies has been that they make the prequels look imaginative and remind us that, even though they were crap, we at least went to see what would happen.

I didn't see the last Star Wars that was released (last jedi?). I doubt I'll see The Han Solo Story: Everything You Wanted to Know About How He Did The Kessel Run. I definitely won't go to see Boba Fett: The Lost Years.

But I went to see Lucas' shi*tshows. Ponder that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:48 PM (LV5XU)

134 128 I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor

He's great, and he's always interesting to watch. One of my favorite, underrated 70s actors. For some reason after hit film after great performance he just kind of... disappeared after a while.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (39g3+)

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Sorcerer!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:48 PM (Jj43a)

135
I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor

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As a staunch heterosexual, he and the movie of "All that Jazz" was fing awesome.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 21, 2018 07:48 PM (pw+jk)

136
104 @64 THANK YOU
Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:41 PM



If I could remember which moron it was that mentioned, I'd pass on the thanks to him/her.

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:49 PM (EzdLW)

137 http://tinyurl.com/yaj6cw9b

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM (l9m7l)

LOL! Don't let AlexTheChick see that, or you might get an emu-in-a-box.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 07:49 PM (efC8N)

138 Astros Grand Slam in the 2nd. Still no outs, and they batted through the line up in the 1st inning.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:49 PM (kB2km)

139 Scheider is great. You know I loved him in Sorcerer, I've sung its praises many times.

Also terrific in All That Jazz.

*Fosse hands*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (qJtVm)

140 Sitting on a barstool, talking like a damn fool, I 've got the 12 o clock news blues. Just thought I would share the misery inspired by Skandia.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (PUmDY)

141 My personal opinion is that movies don't have the same impact on society that they did in the 70s and 80s. I don't see movies having the impact of E.T, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Same thing with TV shows and music. When a big band put out an album, it was an event. When a hit show was on TV, everyone knew it and quoted it. I remember the year SCTV became huge and everyone was quoting Bob & Doug McKenzie. I remember when a new episode of even Seinfeld came out, everyone talked about it. Today? With on demand, binging, and DVR, people just have no connection with shows or each other.

The only real shared culturally shared events now are social media flareups.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)

142 125--- If we are doing confessions tonight I will confess when the original Star Wars came out I saw it 38 times that summer. .....
Posted by: Big V at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (ZvLtE)
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Okay, confession time it is.
I saw the original Star Wars and hated it.
But I lied to my date and the other couple with us because they thought it was so cool.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (0jtPF)

143 5We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a
new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park,
Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's
11 (this time all girls).






Gee, a real surfeit of wastes of time and money

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:18 PM (SiINZ)

What this guy said, but I am getting crochety. No likey Vampires, super heroes or zombies. Give me war or westerns, or of that fails, something original.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (n13/j)

144 18 in at a drive in so I could only listen to the score for the first 30 minutes of the movie.

Used to go to the drive-in a lot in high school. Never watched an entire movie, but had tons of fun. The dusk til dawn showings were great. Plenty of time to sober up and clean up before bringing my girlfriend home.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (rdl6o)

145 "SHOWtime"

Roy Schneider as Bob Fossi

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (pw+jk)

146 Heard a line in a movie today that made me think of you, Insomniac.

Scars tells us where we have been, but they do not predict the future.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (Su2xT)

147 141
The only real shared culturally shared events now are social media flareups.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)

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And large scale entertainments that role out over years.

Think Harry Potter, or Game of Thrones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:52 PM (Jj43a)

148 Thomas Crown Affair is coming on TCM

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 07:52 PM (aC6Sd)

149 We've got a new Star Wars movie, two Marvel movies, a

new Mission Impossible sequel, another Purge, Jurassic Park,

Incredibles, and Deadpool. Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's

11 (this time all girls).


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Those will all be pretty much the same movie, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:52 PM (LV5XU)

150 I remember the year SCTV became huge and everyone was quoting Bob & Doug McKenzie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)


SCTV was never huge. I think those quotes you're thinking of came from a parody song about Canada they did that made it up the charts - "Take off" or something. But SCTV was never anything but a 3am show that almost no one heard of and less people actually saw.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (8gDQu)

151 Some summer movie memories:

Going to see Amadeus with my mother. At the time we both sang in a community choir that performed all the major choral works, so we both really appreciated the movie. And when we sang the Mozart Requiem several years later scenes from the movie came back to me.

Going to see Ferris Bueller's Day Off with my sister. I saw this the same day I saw Amadeus with my mother. She couldn't understand how I could go see Ferris Bueller after the sublime Amadeus, but both movies are perfect in their own way. FB was a great way to bond with my little sister.

Going to see Star Wars with my family. We made plans to see it the second week it was out. We kids stressed to our parents that we would need to get there early. Everyone agreed, so we finished dinner, cleaned up and everyone was ready to go, only my mother decided to start making chicken cordon bleu. By the time she finished and we drove to the theater, all the tickets were sold, of course, so we didn't get to see Star Wars. One of the rare times my mother deliberately sabotaged a family outing. It was so unusual and just so bizarre.

A few years ago we had a ridiculous heat wave, and the AC in my house was not keeping up with the heat. My sister and I decided to spend the day at the movie theater on her day off, a Monday. We started with Ratatouille and saw two other movies that day. We got the big bucket of popcorn with free refills, and by the end of the day I was so tired of popcorn.

And I have many fond memories of going to the drive-in as a kid. It was cheap entertainment for a family of six. We'd put the back seats down in the station wagon and bring blankets so we kids could watch the movie all stretched out in the back. I'm sure we slept through most of the movies, but it was always a big treat and encouraged much good behavior on the day.

Posted by: biancaneve at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (A/iod)

152 84 Insomniac, do you have any interest in camping? Actual $50 tent, eating peanut butter sandwiches to keep costs down, and just sitting out in the woods enjoying being out in the woods camping? It's pretty easy to see a lot of interesting stuff for cheap if you're so inclined.
Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 07:36 PM (LV5XU)

I'm ambivalent on camping. It's OK I guess. Camping in Florida is godawful unless it's winter and you head pretty far north. Otherwise you're sweating your balls off and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (NWiLs)

153 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2018 07:21 PM

Dude! That was great, but what does it say about humanities' place in the universe and the male patriarchy's treatment of wymin?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (roQNm)

154 144 18 in at a drive in so I could only listen to the score for the first 30 minutes of the movie.

Used to go to the drive-in a lot in high school. Never watched an entire movie, but had tons of fun. The dusk til dawn showings were great. Plenty of time to sober up and clean up before bringing my girlfriend home.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (rdl6o)

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Only ever saw one movie in a drive in. Caspar. I think that theater ended up closing a couple of years later (I didn't live anywhere near it).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (Jj43a)

155 'Austin Powers' Actor Verne Troyer Dead At 49


Troyer's representatives did not disclose a cause of death but said that that the actor "was a fighter when it came to his own battles."

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (SiINZ)

156 Summer of 1995.

Big heat wave going on and I had no AC. So I spent lots of time in movie theaters to escape the heat.

1995 movies I liked:
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Apollo 13
Braveheart
Clueless
Die Hard With A Vengeance
French Kiss
Nine Months
Species


1995 movies that sucked:
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A Walk In The Clouds
Forget Paris
The Net
Waterworld
Virtuosity

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (EzdLW)

157 3 remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).



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Edgy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:16 PM (+y/Ru)

It worked for Ghostbusters, what could go wrong? Other than no one caring. I am sure they will all be drinking the new Jane Walker Scotch.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (n13/j)

158 Hands, definitely like the premise of the first podcast. 80's nostalgia seemed to include much of the 70's and way too much of the 90's. Amorphous definitions is definitely one way to describe it. And I have absolutely no nostalgia for Wil Wheaton.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (kB2km)

159 124 In the opening scene, the chick was skinny-dipping, but it was night so you couldn't really see anything.

She looks sort of nekkid in the poster.

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When I was a kid, I saw a not very good movie, McKenna's Gold, in which in one scene a nakey Julie Newmar tries to knife the female lead underwater at a water hole. You really couldn't see anything but I sat through it twice anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 07:45 PM (+y/Ru)

++++

Jacqueline Bisset, The Deep. I don't think she was ever actually nude, but white t-shirt underwater, and then out of water but still wet, didn't leave much to the imagination.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:54 PM (pvjTE)

160 Saw most of Sin City while having a beer and pizza at a tavern someone recommended. What the heck was I watching?
The waiter told me it was the best adaptation of a comic book, ever.
Still mystified 4 days later.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 21, 2018 07:54 PM (N3JsI)

161 Jaws came out in 1975 and changed Hollywood. 1974 was arguably the best year in Hollywood history. Coincidence?

Coppola had Godfather II and The Conversation.
Jack Nicholson got best actor noms for Chinatown and The Last Detail.
Mel Brooks had Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Even the pulp was great: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Longest Yard,

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (pV/54)

162 "My personal opinion is that movies don't have the same impact on society that they did in the 70s and 80s. I don't see movies having the impact of E.T, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Do you have any idea how many guys in the late '70's
drank a glass of raw eggs before exercising?
Or wore a towel around their neck when they tried
to run up whatever local stairs were available!

most of them, probably.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (SS/La)

163 Saw the movie "A Quiet Place" in yon Cineplex last night. Highly recommend. Avoid reviews and spoilers if you can, but IMO, this thriller is worth the $$$.

Posted by: SMOD Keeper at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (TvRUZ)

164 'Austin Powers' Actor Verne Troyer Dead At 49


Troyer's representatives did not disclose a cause of death but said that that the actor "was a fighter when it came to his own battles."
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (SiINZ)



I heard he was "battling depression" so, draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (kLBhp)

165 My personal opinion is that movies don't have the same impact on society that they did in the 70s and 80s. I don't see movies having the impact of E.T, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Of course when we have 100 channels and the interNOT, how can they have the same impact. OTOH, I may just be missing the cultural impact since I am not a kid anymore and movies don't entrance the same way. I think time and place is everything, not just with movies but most experiences.
Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:44 PM (n13/j)


I think Martin Scorcese (sp) had the best quotes on this. "Words don't matter anymore. Images don't matter anymore." He was be-moaning the death of movies. Because it is true, we have images and words hurled at us 24/7 from all sorts of devices. Our handheld smartphones are a constant source.
So movies? Meh.

It used to be that movies were special. Other than TV and radio, it was pretty much real life and books the rest of the time.

So yea, movies don't have the same impact. And definitely don't have apmuch originality, unless CGI is considered that...which it is not, IMO.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (Ze9kt)

166 Oh, summer movie memory: One summer mom decided to take a long road trip all around the US (8 weeks). To save money we did a lot of camping when we weren't staying with friends. The night we camped in Williamsburg, VA it was unbearably hot and humid. The solution? Take the kids to the movies, where it is air-conditioned! Only two options, with one she immediately rejected as being too mature: "Urban Cowboy." So instead we saw..."The Shining." Did not sleep a wink that night.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (W+vEI)

167 156 Virtuosity
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (EzdLW)

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I remember thinking that was in the so bad it's good territory.

I may have been wrong. It's been some time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (Jj43a)

168 Scars tells us where we have been, but they do not predict the future.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (Su2xT)

Hmm. What movie was it?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

169 9 I'm not holding out much hope, but I have to admit
I'm a little curious about Super Troopers 2 turns out. It's not going to
get me into a theater or anything, partly because that's the kind of
movie you can really only appreciate at a dorm party, but I don't think
it's out of line - or even controvertible - to say that the first Super
Troopers is unquestionably the greatest story ever told.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:19 PM (y87Qq)
bold strategy Cotton! But he has a point, it was funny as hell.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:56 PM (n13/j)

170 *as much

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:56 PM (Ze9kt)

171 160 Saw most of Sin City while having a beer and pizza at a tavern someone recommended. What the heck was I watching?
The waiter told me it was the best adaptation of a comic book, ever.
Still mystified 4 days later.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 21, 2018 07:54 PM (N3JsI)

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Some would call that a success, if it stayed with you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:56 PM (Jj43a)

172 No likey Vampires, super heroes or zombies.
Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (n13/j)


Collective nouns:

A basement of vampires.
A league of superheroes.
A vexation of zombies.

*curt bow*
*exeunt*

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 07:56 PM (y87Qq)

173
Jacqueline Bisset, The Deep. I don't think she was ever actually nude, but white t-shirt underwater, and then out of water but still wet, didn't leave much to the imagination.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:54 PM (pvjTE)


They basically did a remake of that movie with "Into The Blue".

The Deep >>> Into The Blue

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (8gDQu)

174 I guess if we are admitting things; I really enjoy Braveheart, but I just can't watch it. The scene where Longshanks casually cuts her throat just disturbs me because it is so casual. Hardly any effort to take a life.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (kB2km)

175 Only two options, with one she immediately rejected as being too mature: "Urban Cowboy." So instead we saw..."The Shining." Did not sleep a wink that night.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (W+vEI)

Omgawd. Rofl

Your poor mom must have been dying at the choice she made.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (Ze9kt)

176 A cape of superheroes.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (SS/La)

177 I'm surprised Rampage is bombing.

Any quick way to tell The Rock I wont pay for one of his movies again til he shuts his SJW pie-hole?

Posted by: DaveA at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (FhXTo)

178 There was a drive in right where I go grocery shopping now, went there many many nights, with parents, relatives, freinds, it was a fun night every time.
Still remember seeing MASH as a young kid.there.

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 07:58 PM (aC6Sd)

179 SCTV was never huge. I think those quotes you're thinking of came from a parody song about Canada they did that made it up the charts - "Take off" or something. But SCTV was never anything but a 3am show that almost no one heard of and less people actually saw.

All I know is, in 1980, suddenly everyone in high school was talking about it. Before the song came out. People were quoting skits, talking about characters. I dunno what it was like elsewhere.

The only drive-in movie I remember watching was Silent Rage, one of Chuck Norris' better films. But Cat People was on a different screen we could see, and while we didn't have the sound, watching Nastassja Kinsky was just fine without it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:59 PM (39g3+)

180 150 I remember the year SCTV became huge and everyone was quoting Bob & Doug McKenzie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)

SCTV was never huge. I think those quotes you're thinking of came from a parody song about Canada they did that made it up the charts - "Take off" or something. But SCTV was never anything but a 3am show that almost no one heard of and less people actually saw.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (8gDQu)

++++

Dave and Bob did that Great White North bit on SNL, so everyone knew about that. I think SCTV was best known for all the comics that came out of it rather than people watching it themselves.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:59 PM (pvjTE)

181 Insomniac, sorry, wasn't a movie but an episode of Criminal Minds.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:59 PM (Su2xT)

182 "For some reason after hit film after great performance he just kind of... disappeared after a while. "

So did Richard Dreyfuss.

Cocaine, it's a helluva drug.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (pV/54)

183 The Hollywood Reporter shutdown their comments in the first ten minutes of posting a "I Feel Pretty" review. That movie is going down faster than a Bangkok whore.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (bML9A)

184 This reminds me why I should never try and cheer you, nor take you to task on certain things that you say that are total poppycock.

Maybe you should put "deterministic nihilist" in your nic. Otherwise people worry about you.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:47 PM (Ze9kt)


I come by it honestly.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (NWiLs)

185 Posted by: biancaneve at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (A/iod)

Nice post. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (tpDAe)

186 Collective nouns:

A basement of vampires.




I thought it was a Buffy of vampires

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (SiINZ)

187 we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

But it gets better! It is called Ocean's 8. Meaning that there are 8 of them instead of 11.

8/11 = 0.727

So that's right, the All Girl remake is employing only 73% of the female actors than the male version.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (cAnNx)

188
Virtuosity
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (EzdLW)

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I remember thinking that was in the so bad it's good territory.

I may have been wrong. It's been some time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM



The only thing I recall liking about it was the bad guy's performance. I was thinking "Who is this guy? He has presence." Russell Crowe, right?

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (EzdLW)

189 The scene where Longshanks casually cuts her throat just disturbs me because it is so casual. Hardly any effort to take a life.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (kB2km)


Of course, the scene where Longshanks casually defenestrates the prince's boyfriend is hysterical.

BTW, I think you meant the local governor, or whatever, in the beginning.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (8gDQu)

190 181 Insomniac, sorry, wasn't a movie but an episode of Criminal Minds.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:59 PM (Su2xT)

Ah so

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (NWiLs)

191 Oooh, movies.

Now to read the content.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (xJa6I)

192 Enjoy! and thanks if you watch it.

Well done!
Yikes - given how heavily armed the Morons are I wouldn't walk around like that. Also WTF were the legs?

Posted by: DaveA at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (FhXTo)

193 23 Jaws was a great read, other than the out of place
love affair with Hooper and Chief Brody's wife. Thankfully, the let it
out of the movie.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (rdl6o)

Yeah, you have to give Benchley credit for writing it, and the book focused more on the impact on the town. But fair is fair, the movie was better. Benchley's follow up book, The Beast, was one.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:01 PM (n13/j)

194 I heard he was "battling depression" so, draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (kLBhp)

And alcoholism. Very bad combination.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:01 PM (NWiLs)

195 188
The only thing I recall liking about it was the bad guy's performance. I was thinking "Who is this guy? He has presence." Russell Crowe, right?
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (EzdLW)

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Yup. It was his effort to make it big in Hollywood with a big genre piece.

And we never heard of him again...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:01 PM (Jj43a)

196 The drive in where I went as a child with my parents has offered free movies in the summer for a couple years. I saw "ET May 11" on the sign in front of it yesterday as I drove by.

Posted by: booknlass at April 21, 2018 08:01 PM (xGMkv)

197 I was a huge fan of SCTV when it was on. Count Floyd, Lola Heatherton, The Schmenge Brothers, Bob and Doug, Dr. Tongue, all hilarious. Form what I remember it had a pretty good sized audience, at least among college students. It was hardly obscure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:02 PM (kLBhp)

198 Jacqueline Bisset, The Deep. I don't think she was ever actually nude, but white t-shirt underwater, and then out of water but still wet, didn't leave much to the imagination.

Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin. It is sad to read about Verne Troyer, but he never had very good health.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:02 PM (39g3+)

199 I'm ambivalent on camping. It's OK I guess. Camping
in Florida is godawful unless it's winter and you head pretty far north.
Otherwise you're sweating your balls off and getting eaten alive by
mosquitoes.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 07:53 PM (NWiLs)


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The key is cheap. Do it in the fall and see the leaves change. If you don't mind driving you can see a lot of the country in a couple of weeks. Stay at a cheap motel every third or fourth day to sleep in a real bed and take a shower in a real bath.

Heck, if your car gets 30mpg I bet you could go see Niagara Falls for less than $500, or just the laser show at Stone Mountain for not much more than $100 or so.

BYOPB, of course.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 08:02 PM (LV5XU)

200 It worked for Ghostbusters, what could go wrong? Other than no one caring



Raises hand. Not caring.

Why do I want to see a movie remake just because of diversity or change of gender? I need way more originality than that, especially when the original movie was good.

Hollywood is where creativity and intellect go to die now.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 08:02 PM (Ze9kt)

201 I thought the Watchmen was well done, but difficult to screw up that story.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:02 PM (PUmDY)

202 "The scene where Longshanks casually cuts her throat just disturbs me because it is so casual"

That was the local guy, not the King. The King did the defenestration scene, which is the real reason Mel Gibson became a pariah in Hollywood. Can you say Gay Mafia!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (pV/54)

203 Apologizing for racist casting practices is easy
when you take the job and the money anyway. All the A-List actors in
Hollywood know this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:22 PM (kLBhp)

What is the old line? Better to ask for forgiveness than permission?

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (n13/j)

204 Jacqueline Bisset, The Deep. I don't think she was ever actually nude, but white t-shirt underwater, and then out of water but still wet, didn't leave much to the imagination.

-
Bisset. Rhymes with kiss it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (+y/Ru)

205

Sooper Trooper

https://youtu.be/0BrLh8e1hyI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (IqV8l)

206 SCTV gave me John Candy for which I am ever grateful.

Some of it was crapola, some of it was off the charts funny. All of it was original.

Unlike today.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (EoRCO)

207 Been using the HBO/Starz watchathon to binge on movies. Mostly dumb movies, but still, movies.
Lego Batman: the first 20 minutes was just about the funniest thing I have ever seen. After the actual plot kicked in, not so much.
Logan: Too dark, too boring. I gave up at the hour mark when I realized there was whole 'nother hour to go, and I didn't want to spend any more time with these characters.
Buckaroo Banzai: Yeah, I expected it to bee dumb, but this dumb? Who decided to pay money to actually film this nonsense?! Funny, though.
Zardoz: Again, I knew this was going to be bad--infamously bad--but I didn't expect it to be so boring. I bailed out part way through.
The Great Wall: Not a bad or dumb as I expected. The female lead is hot, and once you're done laughing at how factually-wrong the premise is, it turns into a half-way fun fantasy movie.
And now there's a pair of MechaGodzilla movies I need to watch...

Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (Lhaco)

208 I really, really hate the Star Wars Prequels.

But I hate them less than I used to.

Why?

Because I'm no long as big a Star Wars fan as I used to be. The Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Last Jedi have pretty much killed that wide-eyed boyish love for that made-up universe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (xJa6I)

209 147 141
The only real shared culturally shared events now are social media flareups.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)

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And large scale entertainments that role out over years.

Think Harry Potter, or Game of Thrones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:52 PM (Jj43a)


I know nothing about any of those things. I'm culturally isolated.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:04 PM (sdi6R)

210 So did Richard Dreyfuss.

Cocaine, it's a helluva drug.


Yeah, like James Caan (for different reasons) Dreyfuss really ruined himself. I'm not sure what happened to Scheider. I should look it up. I mean, he did some stuff in the 80s like Blue Thunder but not a lot. Kinda sad

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:05 PM (39g3+)

211 161 Jaws came out in 1975 and changed Hollywood. 1974 was arguably the best year in Hollywood history. Coincidence?

Coppola had Godfather II and The Conversation.
Jack Nicholson got best actor noms for Chinatown and The Last Detail.
Mel Brooks had Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Even the pulp was great: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Longest Yard,

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (pV/54)

++++

I saw an interview years ago of Jodie Foster by Jay Leno. She was saying that the best time for movies was the early 70s since the studio system had been broken down. Lots of independents were able to get movies made and distributed, plus it was before the blockbusters came along, so there was lots of innovation. Leno laughed in her face, didn't think she was serious.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:05 PM (pvjTE)

212 Because I'm no long as big a Star Wars fan as I used to be. The Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Last Jedi have pretty much killed that wide-eyed boyish love for that made-up universe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (xJa6I)



I saw the Farce Awakens on cable. It bored the life out of me. I have zero interest to watch the last one or any more

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 08:05 PM (SiINZ)

213 Now having confessed my love of the original Star Wars try to imagine my disappointment in the rest of the series.

It went from a laser blast fest with epic space battles to a one snow battle and a brief (but glorious) asteroid escape scene then all interior set shots.

The third movie was even worse stone age cannibal teddy bears killing the laser armed and armored troops.

The space battle seemed like an annoying distraction with none of the original heroes even taking part in it.

Posted by: Big V at April 21, 2018 08:07 PM (ZvLtE)

214 Loved Scheider in The Seven Ups! One of the best car chase seems in movie history, IMHO.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:07 PM (rdl6o)

215 211 I saw an interview years ago of Jodie Foster by Jay Leno. She was saying that the best time for movies was the early 70s since the studio system had been broken down. Lots of independents were able to get movies made and distributed, plus it was before the blockbusters came along, so there was lots of innovation. Leno laughed in her face, didn't think she was serious.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:05 PM (pvjTE)

======

Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, de Palma, Coppola, Altman, and others.

It must have been a great time to go to the movies...

Let sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:07 PM (Jj43a)

216 >>>I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor, certainly better than the actor who plays the research scientist.<<<

In my recollection, Richard Dreyfuss will always be the mashed potato mountain geek guy chasing ET.

Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (J7XgW)

217 I thought the Watchmen was well done, but difficult to screw up that story.

Some people were angry at the change to the end, but honestly the change was a better story than the original idea Allen Moore used. In Moore's version, the whole thing would have fallen apart in about a week and Ozymandias was smarter than that.

I'm no long as big a Star Wars fan as I used to be.

Yeah I think that a lot of people are kind of burnt out on Star Wars. Part of its charm was its rarity, and after a movie or two a year, that's just gone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (39g3+)

218 58 I saw the first Star Wars movie when it came out,
and also the second one. I honestly don't remember whether I saw the
third one or not. I know I haven't seen any of them since.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 07:31 PM (sdi6R)

Same here, exactly. I think I saw Jedi on cable of VHS. Guess that means we are not fanboys.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (n13/j)

219 "The Great Wall" - Matt Damon

I think I saw that as a bootleg upload to youtube. It was interesting enough to kill time, but I wouldn't pay money to see it. I may not have watched all the way to the end.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (roQNm)

220 But back to the Phantom Menace. I saw it when I was 29 for reals.

I remember the hype (the trailer is still good, an excellent example of that art form), the happiness, the Bloom County cartoon that predicted that it would take until 1997-99 to get a Star Wars sequel.

(Why, George, why? Why wait so long. Oh wait, I know...you didn't have any ideas and couldn't steal anything that would fit into Star Wars)

I remember the opening scene, the odd crawl talking about....trade disputes. But ok, let's see where this goes.

We see the Jedi at last, not in a video game (the Bioware Old Republic games are better than any movie to come after them), but a 'real', mature Jedi.

And I'm excited. I'm seeing them do all sorts of superhuman feats. I was genuinely excited to see them escape the droid ship and land with the invasion forces.

And then....Jar Jar.

And it was the literal turd in the punch bowl.

Not the only turd, no. The gungans, the stupid pacifist humans, the weird Chinese sterotype bad guys, MIDICLORIANS...there are many, many turds.

But Jar Jar....he's the biggest. And he's everywhere.

He didn't ruin the canon, the Midiclorians did that. He was annoying, though.

Something sorta twisted in my stomach then.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:09 PM (xJa6I)

221 216
In my recollection, Richard Dreyfuss will always be the mashed potato mountain geek guy chasing ET.

Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (J7XgW)

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He was chasing God. It was in the subtext.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:09 PM (Jj43a)

222
So that's right, the All Girl remake is employing only 73% of the female actors than the male version.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (cAnNx)


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I love this sort of stuff. I'm sure they're passing it off as "It only takes 8 girls to do what it takes 11 men to do! Yay grrrrlpower!", but it's still hilarious the way the math works out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 08:09 PM (LV5XU)

223 Movies like The Deep if you see it when a kid and think you seem to remember more than you actually saw

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 08:10 PM (aC6Sd)

224 The Hollywood Reporter shutdown their comments in the first ten minutes of posting a "I Feel Pretty" review. That movie is going down faster than a Bangkok whore.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 21, 2018 08:00 PM (bML9A)


I saw a TV advertisement or clip on the computer and omgawd...words defy explanation. I was mortified. In what world this would be considered an empowerment movie is beyond me. Well, Hollywood I guess. Where debasement is achievement. Bcz the clip I saw made me cringe.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 08:10 PM (Ze9kt)

225 >>And I have many fond memories of going to the drive-in as a kid. It was cheap entertainment for a family of six. We'd put the back seats down in the station wagon and bring blankets so we kids could watch the movie all stretched out in the back. I'm sure we slept through most of the movies, but it was always a big treat and encouraged much good behavior on the day.



I miss drive-ins! There was something so cool about putting down the back seat of the station wagon, rolling out sleeping bags and watching while picnicking.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:10 PM (W+vEI)

226 Even in the prequels when the light sabers came out, they were pretty good to watch. Yeah, Yoda leaping around like a flea just did not work and was silly, but the rest of the scenes, especially the first movie, the light saber battles were great.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (39g3+)

227 The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.

Darth Maul was legit scary for a villain. Ray Park doing a fine, athletic performance.

And the duel at the end of the movie, the music (John William's last shining moment), the death of Qui Gon....those all work.

But there were so few shining moments in the movie.

I sat in the theater in 1999, and I wanted to get the DVD to pause to enjoy the special effects. I did. But I didn't...enjoy the movie.

I didn't like watching it. Something was off.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (xJa6I)

228 219 "The Great Wall" - Matt Damon

I think I saw that as a bootleg upload to youtube. It was interesting enough to kill time, but I wouldn't pay money to see it. I may not have watched all the way to the end.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 08:08 PM (roQNm)

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We reupped our HBO subscription for Westworld, so I'm blazing through what I can now (I failed to do it the last time we had HBO), so I'll see it in the next week or so.

That is, unless my itch for more Kubrick gets too strong and I end up going from The Killing to Eyes Wide Shut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (Jj43a)

229 Sorcerer, I've sung its praises many times.


With enough substance abuse you can hallucinate right along with Roy from the comfort of your own house. Saves on quinine pills.

Posted by: DaveA at April 21, 2018 08:12 PM (FhXTo)

230 But speakers at the coffee industry gathering said Wednesday this is by no means a problem limited to Starbucks.

“In the time of Black Lives Matter, when we see over and over again how coffee spaces, cafes, and the coffee industry exclude people of color — and I’m not just talking about the events that happened in Philadelphia … this is a coffee problem, it’s not one single business’ problem,” said Colleen Anunu, director of coffee supply chain at Fair Trade USA, introducing a session on building diverse and inclusive coffee communities. “Coffee, cafes are seen generally as the first wave of gentrification into black or people-of-color communities.”

"Diverse and inclusive coffee communities"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:12 PM (+y/Ru)

231 227
I didn't like watching it. Something was off.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (xJa6I)

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Lucas divorced his wife. The only person willing to say no to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (Jj43a)

232 I'm sure they're passing it off as "It only takes 8 girls to do what it takes 11 men to do! Yay grrrrlpower!"

Probably, but can you think of 11 young female actresses that you'd want to watch in an ensemble cast?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (39g3+)

233 "So that's right, the All Girl remake is employing only 73% of the female actors than the male version."

It's like it's a mathematical constant.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (pV/54)

234 Even in the prequels when the light sabers came out, they were pretty good to watch. Yeah, Yoda leaping around like a flea just did not work and was silly, but the rest of the scenes, especially the first movie, the light saber battles were great.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (39g3+)


Meh. There was no tension at all in any of those scenes. It was like watching a well-choreographed dance routine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (kLBhp)

235 Even in the prequels when the light sabers came out, they were pretty good to watch.

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The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.

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Seriously, listen to us. Can you imagine saying any of this before Disney's Star Wars releases?

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (LV5XU)

236 But for all his many, many, many chins flaws, George Lucas DOES have good ideas.

He just desperately needs someone to sit on him, to tell him 'no' and to pick and choose among the pile of things Lucas wants to do.

He needs an Editor. He needs a Producer. Honestly, he needs to have someone else direct his ideas.

The new Star Wars movies have got the classic old set designs. They fixed that, the CGI crapfest is gone.

But the new Star Wars is now just....SJW politics before story. Bad writing, bad plots, bad ideas. With none of George's good ones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (xJa6I)

237 And I'm spent.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (xJa6I)

238 Zardoz: Again, I knew this was going to be bad--infamously bad--but I didn't expect it to be so boring. I bailed out part way through.
Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (Lhaco)

If there is any movie which begs for a remake, it's Zardoz.

Red nappies, women who desire his seed and guns.

President Trump should be considered for the starring role.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (EoRCO)

239 But Jar Jar....he's the biggest. And he's everywhere.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:09 PM (xJa6I)


I thought so too, but whenever I see clips of it now, I realize that he was just upstaging the real star of the shitshow. If he wasn't in it, there's still no getting around the fact that the kid who was notionally the entire point of the movie was absolutely insufferable.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (y87Qq)

240 I watched a bit of Far From the Maddening Crowd the other night. I movie I've only seen bits and pieces of but would like to watch all the way though one day. But all I could think of as I watched was



But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And the don't need no friends
As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
They are in paradise

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (SiINZ)

241 238 Zardoz: Again, I knew this was going to be bad--infamously bad--but I didn't expect it to be so boring. I bailed out part way through.
Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:03 PM (Lhaco)

If there is any movie which begs for a remake, it's Zardoz.

Red nappies, women who desire his seed and guns.

President Trump should be considered for the starring role.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (EoRCO)

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That movie is perfect.

Never touch it, except with reference!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (Jj43a)

242 231 227
I didn't like watching it. Something was off.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:11 PM (xJa6I)

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Lucas divorced his wife. The only person willing to say no to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (Jj43a)

Yup. And he NEEDS someone to tell him no.

Someone besides Spielberg, who is far from flawless and wise himself.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (xJa6I)

243
Probably, but can you think of 11 young female actresses that you'd want to watch in an ensemble cast?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:13 PM (39g3+)


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It depends on the movie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie : Did Comey's Attorney Have Any Other Clients? at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (LV5XU)

244 In what world this would be considered an empowerment movie is beyond me.

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Ugly is the new beautiful.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (+y/Ru)

245 D'oh, forgot one of my watchathon watches...
The Shadow: Mostly I watched this because the youtuber Razorfist raves about the character. For a pulpy adventure movie, it was kinda fun.

Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (Lhaco)

246 >>The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.

We saw this in DC, at the restored Cleveland Park Theater (classic 1 screen theater with art deco styling). Meh. Had much more fun watching "The Matrix" there about a month earlier (IIRC).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:16 PM (W+vEI)

247 244 In what world this would be considered an empowerment movie is beyond me.

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Ugly is the new beautiful.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (+y/Ru)

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Never improve yourself in any way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:16 PM (Jj43a)

248 Zardoz is a cult classic

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 08:16 PM (aC6Sd)

249 But for all his many, many, many chins flaws, George Lucas DOES have good ideas.

Well he's a terrific idea guy. I'd use him to come up with concepts. And he loves those old adventure serials, which is what both Star Wars and Indiana Jones were based on (why do you think he started with Part IV? He lied later saying it was part of a series he had in mind, it was just so it felt like a long series of films).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:16 PM (39g3+)

250 239 But Jar Jar....he's the biggest. And he's everywhere.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:09 PM (xJa6I)

I thought so too, but whenever I see clips of it now, I realize that he was just upstaging the real star of the shitshow. If he wasn't in it, there's still no getting around the fact that the kid who was notionally the entire point of the movie was absolutely insufferable.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:14 PM (y87Qq)

Yeah, it's the fatal flaw of the prequels...they made Annikan a child. They should have introduced him as a teenager. A shit hot pilot, a wild man, a ladies man who is also so force powerful that Obi Wan just can't resist trying to....help him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:17 PM (xJa6I)

251 Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) dead at 49.

Posted by: SMOD at April 21, 2018 08:17 PM (e8kgV)

252 The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.




Yes, bad is too mild of a word for it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 08:17 PM (SiINZ)

253 244 In what world this would be considered an empowerment movie is beyond me.

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Ugly is the new beautiful.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:15 PM (+y/Ru)

And Beautiful is the new "RAYCISS!!1!".

Posted by: Surfperch at April 21, 2018 08:18 PM (J7NdS)

254 It's been ages since I saw the original "Oceans 11", but I seem to remember that the characters were all ex-military, which meant that they knew how to formulate and execute a plan.

I could well be misremembering it, but I don't think it was just a bunch of random guys.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:18 PM (sdi6R)

255 The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.


Nothing is more irritating than a film where you can't understand why people are doing the things they're doing. None of that film made a lick of sense. It was a bunch of disconnected vignettes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:19 PM (kLBhp)

256 If he wasn't in it, there's still no getting around the fact that the kid who was notionally the entire point of the movie was absolutely insufferable.

I agree, the kid was terrible. Its really hard to find a child at that age who isn't terrible in large doses, but he just was without charisma or ability. There's a reason he pretty much disappeared like Edward Furlong from Terminator 2. He got a couple of other tiny bits but... yeah, gone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:19 PM (39g3+)

257 The Exorcist in the 1973 was a blockbuster movie. Really changed what people expected in movies. Pushed the absolute limits of the time.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (bML9A)

258 In the ultra-cheesey Pirahna! 3-D, Dreyfus is in a row boat
(just before the pirahna's get him)

He's lightly whistling "Oh How I Wanna Go Home"

only good bit in the movie.
Christonabicycle, but the movie was bad.
got roped into seeing it somehow... I forget how.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (SS/La)

259 215 211 I saw an interview years ago of Jodie Foster by Jay Leno. She was saying that the best time for movies was the early 70s since the studio system had been broken down. Lots of independents were able to get movies made and distributed, plus it was before the blockbusters came along, so there was lots of innovation. Leno laughed in her face, didn't think she was serious.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:05 PM (pvjTE)

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Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, de Palma, Coppola, Altman, and others.

It must have been a great time to go to the movies...

Let sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:07 PM (Jj43a)

It was also a time of great disaffection in movies. Of depressing think pieces. Of ennui.

Movies stopped being fun for about 6 or 8 years, until Jaws and especially, Star Wars.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (xJa6I)

260 255 The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.


Nothing is more irritating than a film where you can't understand why people are doing the things they're doing. None of that film made a lick of sense. It was a bunch of disconnected vignettes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:19 PM (kLBhp)

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Have you seen the newish webseries from Screen Rant, the Pitch Meetings?

Why?

Because.

Okay then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (Jj43a)

261 Zardoz is a cult classic.

When HBO was first available in our area that movie and The Parallex View were on at 2 or 3 AM all the time. And so was that JFK assassination film, Executive Action.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (rdl6o)

262 this is how democracy dies, to thunderous applause has to be one of the worst lines in movie history.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (PUmDY)

263 Scars tells us where we have been, but they do not predict the future.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2018 07:51 PM (Su2xT)

Hmm. What movie was it?

Posted by: Insomniac


Bambi .

Posted by: JT at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (U58ZN)

264 The original Star Wars script was a lift from Kurosawa. Lucas had a lot of help with changes, including from an uncredited Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote much of the next two.

Kasdan wrote Raiders and Body Heat in the same three years, and then disappeared for awhile.

Cocaine, it's a helluva drug!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:20 PM (pV/54)

265 >>Where debasement is achievement. Bcz the clip I saw made me cringe.


Have you seen "Trainwreck?"
I had seen reviews of it, and women bloggers praising it as empowering for a woman to play a typically male character blah blah blah. Tried to watch in on cable. Wow. Schumer's character is such an awful person; a man-hating, crazy self-destructive jerk who (I think?) is supposed to be still a little bit charming, just rough around the edges? Yikes.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:21 PM (W+vEI)

266 Watched "The Walk" this week, the story of Phillipe Petit's high wire walk between the twin towers in 1974. Excellent movie.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 21, 2018 08:21 PM (O5Q3r)

267 One of my summer movies is... "Star Wars" the original. No modifier.

Time to pour a cocktail and forget that I am 29.
Posted by: Kurt the Tentacle Man Eichenwald at April 21, 2018 07:34 PM (pw+jk)

Yes. Star Wars the original, at a drive in theater the week it was released.

I'm 29, but my fingers are getting tired!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at April 21, 2018 08:21 PM (l7Kbv)

268 I enjoyed "The Parallax View". Back then it was tinfoil hat stuff.

I miss those days.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:22 PM (sdi6R)

269 Those Screen Rant 'Pitch Sessions' are hilarious.

Plus the guy doing them is just dreamy....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:23 PM (xJa6I)

270 "For all people's caterwauling about a lack of originality in Hollywood, the stuff listed above is perfect fodder to get adolescents of all ages into the theater."


Is it caterwauling if it's also true?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:23 PM (Pz4pT)

271 Have you seen the newish webseries from Screen Rant, the Pitch Meetings?

I saw the Last Jedi one. It was pretty spot on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:23 PM (kLBhp)

272 "they made Annikan a child. They should have introduced him as a teenager."

A marketing decision to capture a new generation early. And most of all to sell toys and shit, which is where the real money is,

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:24 PM (pV/54)

273 Ah, I've wondered if I missed something by not seeing Get Out. Now, thanks to you, I will see it.

I loved Key and Peele, and it makes me happy to think they're still doing good stuff. I detached for a while from them when things seemed to get political. I don't really want to do that; I want to enjoy talented people's talent without the politics getting in the way. But I'm going to need another year or so of Trump, before I'm ready to go back to Neil Young tunes.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 08:24 PM (Vb4BV)

274 I think Guardians of the Galaxy was the last movie to really, really hook me. I saw it 6 times in theaters.

Maybe more.

It made me HAPPY. Not a lot of movies make me happy, at least not many made between 1999 and Current Year.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (xJa6I)

275 I rented Zardoz on videotape because Sean Connery! Sci Fi! And... while I watched the whole thing, it was just not good. Like Castle Guy says, it was just dull. And stupid. And not fun stupid. The poster says it all. Sean Connery is infamously dimwitted (the SNL Jeopardy bits are parodying this but he really is known to be just not bright), but I can't imagine why he took the part.

Lego Batman was loads of fun, but the overall message of collectivism and dependence on Joker was annoying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (39g3+)

276 Anybody else sick of the mini van commercial with the "Back That Thang Up" soundtrack?


It's just me isn't it?

Figures.

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (Db5JQ)

277 271 Have you seen the newish webseries from Screen Rant, the Pitch Meetings?

I saw the Last Jedi one. It was pretty spot on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:23 PM (kLBhp)


Is that the "Mary Poppins" one? Didn't even see the movie, but that part made me laugh at beverage-spilling levels.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (Vb4BV)

278 272 "they made Annikan a child. They should have introduced him as a teenager."

A marketing decision to capture a new generation early. And most of all to sell toys and shit, which is where the real money is,
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:24 PM (pV/54)

Every single company I've seen that lets Marketing make decisions has pissed away any chance at quality.

Every single one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:26 PM (xJa6I)

279 Didn't he also write the insipid The Big Chill?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:26 PM (PUmDY)

280 Lego Batman was loads of fun, but the overall message of collectivism and dependence on Joker was annoying.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (39g3+)

I liked Batman in the Lego Movie, but his stand alone movie....was kinda gay.

All except the Superman rivalry. That was hilarious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:26 PM (xJa6I)

281 Kasdan wrote Raiders and Body Heat in the same three years, and then disappeared for awhile.

He and his brother wrote and directed Silverado, one of my all time favorite movies, let alone westerns.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:26 PM (39g3+)

282 The Phantom Menace wasn't all bad.
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Nothing is more irritating than a film where you can't understand why people are doing the things they're doing. None of that film made a lick of sense. It was a bunch of disconnected vignettes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:19 PM (kLBhp)


My kids liked Phantom Menace. When they were 5. And then they weren't anymore.

We have the original trilogy on VHS, somewhere around here. I'm not spending money on the butchered Lucas recuts. Someday I might not mind rewatching those movies. The rest of the Star Wars product is just crap.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:27 PM (Pz4pT)

283
Enjoying the series "Fallet" on netflix so far (just 3 episodes in). If you like lovable bumbling cops, you're in like flynn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2018 08:27 PM (r+sAi)

284 273 Ah, I've wondered if I missed something by not seeing Get Out. Now, thanks to you, I will see it.

I loved Key and Peele, and it makes me happy to think they're still doing good stuff. I detached for a while from them when things seemed to get political. I don't really want to do that; I want to enjoy talented people's talent without the politics getting in the way. But I'm going to need another year or so of Trump, before I'm ready to go back to Neil Young tunes.
Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 08:24 PM (Vb4BV)

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Oh, it's political, but it's blue on blue political.

The main bad guy says, more than once, that he would have voted for Obama's third term. And he means it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:28 PM (Jj43a)

285 The poster says it all. Sean Connery is infamously dimwitted (the SNL Jeopardy bits are parodying this but he really is known to be just not bright), but I can't imagine why he took the part.




If you really want to break away from the role of James Bond running around in a red nappy and pony tail will sure do it. Of course a much better movie of his from that time period is The Offense with Ian Bannen

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 08:28 PM (SiINZ)

286 After extended thought, I am reasonably confident that that guy who wrote the long essay about how Jar Jar was supposed to be a stealth Sith and the main villain of the second prequel, was right.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 08:29 PM (Vb4BV)

287 Didn't he also write the insipid The Big Chill?

Other than watching Meg Tilley stretch-total waste of time.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:30 PM (rdl6o)

288 Anakin as a teenager was almost as bad.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:30 PM (PUmDY)

289 There must have been some kinda deep hidden something in that pos "The Great Wall" because didn't "get it" at all.

I made it to the point where the ninja girls jumped off the wall tied to bungee chords to fight the monsters.

Wtaf was that?

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 08:30 PM (Db5JQ)

290 Alan Swann: [a very drunken Stone and Swann looking down from the roof at an apartment balcony below] Now, all we have to do is get from here - to there.

Benjy Stone: It won't work!

Alan Swann: It worked perfectly well in "A Slight Case of Divorce"!

Benjy Stone: That was a movie! This is real life!

Alan Swann: What is the difference?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (qJtVm)

291 Faye Dunaway was hawt in her time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (pV/54)

292 this is how democracy dies, to thunderous applause has to be one of the worst lines in movie history.

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In real life, when the Spartans finally defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War and sealed their victory by destroying the Long Wall from Athens to Piraeus thereby destroying democracy, they were greeted with flutes and tambourines. That may have been due in part to the end of 30 years of war.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (+y/Ru)

293 So was Aniken of age when the princess banged him? Himtoo!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (Fr8+n)

294 Silverado is in my top ten of "pure entertainment".
Today, my jurisdiction ends here

And Hatari.

And Princess Bride.

And Jaws.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (SS/La)

295 I think Guardians of the Galaxy was the last movie to really, really hook me. I saw it 6 times in theaters.

Maybe more.

It made me HAPPY. Not a lot of movies make me happy, at least not many made between 1999 and Current Year.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (xJa6I)


There are plenty of fantastic movies being made these days, just most of the decent films are not the ones that get wide releases. You have to seek them out.

A movie doesn't have to make me happy to be worth my time. The most recent film I saw that I would call brilliant is called "The Florida Project."

Made with loving care, by people who wanted to tell a story that, frankly, I think everyone needs to see. Everyone.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:32 PM (Pz4pT)

296 I think they did the soundtrack to The Big Chill, and wrote a script around it.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:32 PM (rdl6o)

297 284 Oh, it's political, but it's blue on blue political.

The main bad guy says, more than once, that he would have voted for Obama's third term. And he means it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:28 PM (Jj43a)


Works for me. Some political I don't mind. That Key and Peele vignette about zombies, for example -- it had a political point, and it was funny as hell. Practically anything below "I hate you personally for political reasons," I can tolerate.

Here's a movie contrast, using Rusty Cundieff: Fear of a Black Hat: definite political elements, but, except for a gratuitous dig in the first seconds of the movie, incredibly funny. His next movie, sort of a horror thing, didn't work; the politics went over the line to bitter.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 08:33 PM (Vb4BV)

298 "Faye Dunaway was hit in her time"

Seven Days of the Condor.
an oft forgotten gem, in my book.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:33 PM (SS/La)

299
TJM is a movie-holic.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (yDIvu)

300 dunaway. hot, not hit.

no wait, on second thought....

it works

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (SS/La)

301 "There are plenty of fantastic movies being made these days, just most of the decent films are not the ones that get wide releases. You have to seek them out. "

There were a lot of great small movies last year. I missed The Florida Project, although it was (and still is) on my To See list

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (pV/54)

302 I think they did the soundtrack to The Big Chill, and wrote a script around it.

There's a not-insignificant number of Boomers that adore that movie. For any other generation its insufferable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (39g3+)

303 She was too skinny back then.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (PUmDY)

304 Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw are imbeciles. I can teach people a technique to survive encounters with sharks, without blowing them up.

Posted by: Henry Winkler at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (/qEW2)

305 Richard Dreyfus chews threw scenery like a Sherman tank equipped with a mine sweeping flail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (kLBhp)

And chainsaw attachment.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (n13/j)

306 Seven Days of the Condor

Great plot and great acting.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (rdl6o)

307 Faye Dunaway was hit in her time


Don't look at me. I was just a kid back then!

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (kLBhp)

308 Seven Days of the Condor.
an oft forgotten gem, in my book.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:33 PM (SS/La)


Were there that many? I only saw three. Was that a sequel or something?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (y87Qq)

309 Saw the Star Wars Costumes exhibit last year and I can say with near certainty that Lucas spent more time on the costumes than the stories of the later 3 ones. There was an incredible amount of thought and work put into Padme's costumes in particular - single dresses on screen for 1 min took hundreds of hours, handmade fabric and embroidery, research of various cultures' attire to imbue all sorts of meaning into what a dress/cape/whatever was communicating in it's particular scene. Bananas.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (W+vEI)

310 300 dunaway. hot, not hit.

no wait, on second thought....

it works
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (SS/La)


She got hit in "Bonnie and Clyde" and not in the good way.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (sdi6R)

311 299
TJM is a movie-holic.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (yDIvu)

=====

Fortunately, there are no meetings. Just more movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:36 PM (Jj43a)

312 Faye Dunaway was hawt in her time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (pV/54)


I never liked Faye Dunaway ... but Barfly was a great movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (8gDQu)

313 "There are plenty of fantastic movies being made these days, just most of the decent films are not the ones that get wide releases. You have to seek them out. "
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There were a lot of great small movies last year. I missed The Florida Project, although it was (and still is) on my To See list
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:34 PM (pV/54)


Starkly realistic. Obviously not a feel-good movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (Pz4pT)

314 I think Roy Scheider (sp) was a good actor



He's great, and he's always interesting to watch. One of my
favorite, underrated 70s actors. For some reason after hit film after
great performance he just kind of... disappeared after a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:46 PM (39g3+)

He did others, but I remember when Blue Thunder came out it was pretty big.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (n13/j)

315 Here's a movie contrast, using Rusty Cundieff: Fear of a Black Hat: definite political elements, but, except for a gratuitous dig in the first seconds of the movie, incredibly funny.

Fear of a Black Hat made me laugh so hard I hurt myself. Its a classic, up there with Spinal Tap. I wonder if rappers admit the truth of the film like headbangers do with Spinal Tap? Rockers love that film, actual members of the bands its mocking. Every one I've seen interviewed or read, they all admit they've had moments like that, all through the movie. I think it was Bruce Dickinson admitted that he got lost in a venue and went to the wrong stage, ran out and there was nobody there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (39g3+)

316 276 Anybody else sick of the mini van commercial with the "Back That Thang Up" soundtrack?


It's just me isn't it?

Figures.
Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 08:25 PM (Db5JQ)

Regardless of how they advertise it the new Chrysler Pacifica S with its combined 22 mpg and a five-star overall safety rating, it is probably one of the greatest cars ever made.

Posted by: Chrysler, Imported from Detroit at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (J7NdS)

317 I was just looking at some current pics of Faye Dunaway. Her plastic surgeon needs to be driven from the profession.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:38 PM (kLBhp)

318 Ok, local governor. Still, the scene disturbs me. I can handle blood/gut horror movies. I think the issue is the actress does a great job of making me care about her in the short screen times she has.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 08:38 PM (kB2km)

319 Stone: Swann, I think I'm going to be unwell.

Swann: Stone, ladies are "unwell", gentlemen vomit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 08:38 PM (qJtVm)

320 There's a not-insignificant number of Boomers that adore that movie. For any other generation its insufferable.

I'm a boomer, and it was a snore!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (rdl6o)

321 298 "Faye Dunaway was hit in her time"

Seven Days of the Condor.
an oft forgotten gem, in my book.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:33 PM (SS/La)

++++

The movie was 3 days. The book it was based on was 6 days. Don't think there was a 7 days, though that's probably what they'd call the sequel f it came out today.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (pvjTE)

322 Faye is 77 now

My I am getting old

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (aC6Sd)

323 I can teach people a technique to survive encounters with sharks, without blowing them up.

Posted by: Henry Winkler at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (/qEW2)

You say that as though blowing up sharks were a bad thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (efC8N)

324 I never liked Faye Dunaway, but she was in some really good films in her career. Something about her just never felt authentic, she just was never a character in a movie. She was always an actress playing a role, if that makes sense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (39g3+)

325
I made it to the point where the ninja girls jumped off the wall tied to bungee chords to fight the monsters.

Wtaf was that?
Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 08:30 PM



A rewrite of the climax of Octopussy?

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (EzdLW)

326 Movie trivia: The film was made and released about a year after the 1974 publication of its source novel, "Six Days of the Condor" by James Grady. The novel's time period was compressed for the picture, hence the "time-compression title change" as show-business trade paper 'Variety' put it. Grady followed up the book with a sequel in 1978 called "Shadow of the Condor" but this property has never been filmed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (+y/Ru)

327 I was just looking at some current pics of Faye Dunaway. Her plastic surgeon needs to be driven from the profession.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 08:38 PM (kLBhp)

She was great in "Network".

A movie rarely shown on TV.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:40 PM (EoRCO)

328 The Big Chill is a steaming pile with a decent soundtrack.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:40 PM (NWiLs)

329 Speaking of Verne Troyer, I watched "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" this afternoon. Verne was in it and did well. It is an interesting movie by Terry Gilliam and is similar to his "Time Bandits" movie. I may watch it later this evening when it comes on again.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:40 PM (T71PA)

330 Somebody blew a shark?

Posted by: A Penguin at April 21, 2018 08:40 PM (kLBhp)

331 324 I never liked Faye Dunaway, but she was in some really good films in her career. Something about her just never felt authentic, she just was never a character in a movie. She was always an actress playing a role, if that makes sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (39g3+)


Yes, I think I see what you're getting at. But I did think she was hawt in her prime.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:41 PM (sdi6R)

332 >>> I think they did the soundtrack to The Big Chill, and wrote a script around it.

There's a not-insignificant number of Boomers that adore that movie. For any other generation its insufferable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (39g3+)


I liked the Big Chill. It was a good movie and it was a funny look at the loser aging hippie hypocrites. Even they realized that they were full of shit. Fun movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:41 PM (8gDQu)

333 323 I can teach people a technique to survive encounters with sharks, without blowing them up.

Posted by: Henry Winkler at April 21, 2018 08:35 PM (/qEW2)

You say that as though blowing up sharks were a bad thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (efC8N)

======

I'm with you Alberta Oil. He's talking like it's a bad thing. That couldn't possibly be it, could it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:41 PM (Jj43a)

334 I never liked Faye Dunaway ... but Barfly was a great movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:37 PM (8gDQu)

Wasn't Barfly the dog in the Family Circus comic?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 08:41 PM (efC8N)

335 >>I was just looking at some current pics of Faye Dunaway. Her plastic surgeon needs to be driven from the profession.

Michelle Pfeiffer is aging well. I assume she's had some work, but it's not obvious. Still gorgeous.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (W+vEI)

336 Faye Dunaway was hit in her time"

Seven Days of the Condor.
an oft forgotten gem, in my book.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:33 PM (SS/La)


With Robert Redford? Wasn't that 3 Days of the Condor? Was there a 7 day sequel?

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (Ze9kt)

337 324 I never liked Faye Dunaway, but she was in some really good films in her career. Something about her just never felt authentic, she just was never a character in a movie. She was always an actress playing a role, if that makes sense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (39g3+)

++++

She was a hoot in Mommie Dearest.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (pvjTE)

338 My personal opinion is that movies don't have the
same impact on society that they did in the 70s and 80s. I don't see
movies having the impact of E.T, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, and Raiders of
the Lost Ark.



Same thing with TV shows and music. When a big band put out an
album, it was an event. When a hit show was on TV, everyone knew it and
quoted it. I remember the year SCTV became huge and everyone was
quoting Bob Doug McKenzie. I remember when a new episode of even
Seinfeld came out, everyone talked about it. Today? With on demand,
binging, and DVR, people just have no connection with shows or each
other.



The only real shared culturally shared events now are social media flareups.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 07:50 PM (39g3+)

Well if that aint a sad commentary I don't know what is. But very true. No shared culture for sure.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (n13/j)

339 Three days of the Condor - I have it on DVD and I swear there was a remake under a different title; same story, different title.

Seven Days in May - I vaguely recall bits and pieces of a very scary dramatic movie. That is all I can remember, it was scary.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (roQNm)

340 Network was awesome but yeah, that's not one you'll see often on TV. There were a bunch of movies like that: Broadcast News is another, very underrated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (39g3+)

341 329 Speaking of Verne Troyer, I watched "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" this afternoon. Verne was in it and did well. It is an interesting movie by Terry Gilliam and is similar to his "Time Bandits" movie. I may watch it later this evening when it comes on again.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:40 PM (T71PA)

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That was my one festival movie I've seen during the festival.

It was in Rome. I was very happy with it, although the movie itself has flaws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (Jj43a)

342 With Robert Redford? Wasn't that 3 Days of the Condor? Was there a 7 day sequel?
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (Ze9kt)


Nah, Anonosaurus Wrecks cleared it up upstairs. The book was six, the movie was three.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:43 PM (y87Qq)

343 Speaking of Network, I used the Howard Beale "I'm mad as hell" meme a lot in the early days of Trump.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (pV/54)

344 >>> Somebody blew a shark?

It's just ice cream.

*** shifty eyes ***

Posted by: a seal at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (cHbmY)

345 Yeah yeah yeah.

I denounce myself.

I saw Three Days of the Condor during Seven Days in May, with my brothers seven brothers and their seven dwarf brides, who were samurai's.

sue me.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (SS/La)

346 There are plenty of fantastic movies being made these days, just most of the decent films are not the ones that get wide releases. You have to seek them out.

A movie doesn't have to make me happy to be worth my time. The most recent film I saw that I would call brilliant is called "The Florida Project."

Made with loving care, by people who wanted to tell a story that, frankly, I think everyone needs to see. Everyone.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:32 PM (Pz4pT)

I'm seeking. But I'm not finding.

At my age, I don't really enjoy moody or depressing films. Even if they're good.

Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

I want fun in my movies now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)

347 She was a hoot in Mommie Dearest.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (pvjTE)

Yeah, a real sweetheart. There was no piece of scenery left unchewed, that's for sure.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (NWiLs)

348 Lucas spent more time on the costumes than the stories of the later 3 ones.

I will give credit for putting thought into vehicles. TFA bothered me both for the X-wing with the half turbine engines and then TFA/TLJ having vehicles crash into the ground with no damage. Dropping the Millennium Falcon (not banking, but I guess repulsor system just fails) hard onto the ground just after take-off takes me out of the scene. Crashing your rust bucket, wtf land speeder, onto the ground and then flying it into battle takes me out of the scene.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 08:45 PM (kB2km)

349 Seven Days in May - I vaguely recall bits and pieces of a very scary dramatic movie. That is all I can remember, it was scary.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 08:42 PM (roQNm)


I think it was about an army coup of the US. Not sure, but I have some recollection along those lines.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:45 PM (8gDQu)

350 I saw Three Days of the Condor during Seven Days in May, with my brothers seven brothers and their seven dwarf brides, who were samurai's.

sue me.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (SS/La)


On the way to St. Ives?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:45 PM (y87Qq)

351 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

Athens had that "30 Tyrants" time after the defeat, but rebuilt the Ling Walls within a decade.

The bigger cost of the war was the lost generations, including almost all the senior commanders of Athens, killed by the mob rule of Athens itself. They lost confidence, and lost to other tyrants after that.
What could have been.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 08:45 PM (hyuyC)

352 Michelle Pfeiffer always had a timeless, classic beauty, she's just lovely.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:46 PM (39g3+)

353 The thing which has killed a number of recent (and not-so-recent) movies for me has been the "blatant video game level scene." Like in Attack of the Clones when they're riding through an automated droid factory hopping between conveyor belts. Or in The Hobbit (part 2) where the dwarves have to activate this huge Rube Goldberg smelting furnace in order to attack the dragon. Or in Rogue One where the main character chick has to use a stupid control interface to get the tapes, then climb up to the antenna on top in order to transmit them. There are others I'm probably forgetting. It just knocks me right out of the movie, usually forever.

Posted by: Trimegistus at April 21, 2018 08:46 PM (V9nOM)

354 I always liked James Caan in "The Killer Elite".

They even have Burt Young jumping around doing kung fu in one fight scene.

Burt Young.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:47 PM (EoRCO)

355 Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)

The ending of that movie scared me like nothing I've seen since I was a kid. Yeah, AI is nothing to be concerned about.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (T71PA)

356 They are making a movie of the book 'Meg' . It's about a huge luxurious great white shark. Oh, did I mention it's PREHISTORIC, and HUGE too? I read the book years ago and that scared the snot out of me. Prolly won't be seeing the movie. But I will be at the NRA convention!

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (zLDYs)

357 Speaking of nostalgia and death; sad week with the loss of R Lee Ermey, Harry Anderson, and Barbara Bush. Not so much nostalgia, unless you like Austin Powers (and I do, its good camp), now Vern. I'm going to stop drinking the water and move over to liquor for awhile. Just to be safe.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (kB2km)

358 About the only story about a summer movie I can add is about Quadrophenia.

I went to stay in London with my oldest daughter, and I wanted to travel down to the English channel while there.

The night before we went, her dear Londoner husband showed me Quadrophenia so I would have some perspective on Brighton Beach. Mods vs. Rockers.

the movie wasn't that good. But the memories. smile-worthy

Posted by: booknlass at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (xGMkv)

359 ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Seven Days in May was how a young President thwarted a military coup. With some help from a few friends, and a loyal Marine officer.

The book by Fletcher Knebel was better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (hyuyC)

360 Mark Andrew. Agree. Saw Leisure Seekers at the local art house a couple of weeks ago. Incredibly depressing. Cancer and Alzheimer's. Oh; boy!

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (N3JsI)

361 Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was a bit too wierd and aimless for me. Lily Cole was lovely of course, and was okay in the part. But I could not figure out what the movie was about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:49 PM (39g3+)

362 355 Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)

The ending of that movie scared me like nothing I've seen since I was a kid. Yeah, AI is nothing to be concerned about.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (T71PA)

++++

Alien: Covenant is like that.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:49 PM (pvjTE)

363 "Ex Machina", the definition of good shit actors did before they did crap Disney movie scenes.

Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (kB2km)

364 147---.... large scale entertainments that role out over years.

Think Harry Potter, or Game of Thrones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 07:52 PM (Jj43a)
------------------------------------
Harry Potter is mainly a kids' thing. Mainly. But okay.

Now, as to Game of Thrones, I wonder.
I've never seen it.
I don't have HBO. How many Americans do?

I wonder how many people watch GoT compared to say, the audience for NCIS --- or better yet, the audience for the more popular programs before cable came on the scene.

I remember all the talk about Girls, what a hit it was, how Lena Dunham was "the voice of a generation." But the audience for that show was tiny.
IIRC, at its peak it had one tenth the number of viewers as the Mary Tyler Moore Show had at its lowest.



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (0jtPF)

365 I saw Three Days of the Condor during Seven Days in May, with my brothers seven brothers and their seven dwarf brides, who were samurai's.

sue me.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (SS/La)

On the way to St. Ives?
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 08:45 PM (y87Qq)


I needed more hangers.

Posted by: Joan Crawford at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (Ze9kt)

366 Do you have any idea how many guys in the late '70's

drank a glass of raw eggs before exercising?

Or wore a towel around their neck when they tried

to run up whatever local stairs were available!



most of them, probably.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (SS/La)

I seriously rank that movie as 4 stars. The rest don't even come close imo, I know that might not be popular. To me Rocky was about the story, Jaws was about the story. In both cases, the follow ups were about boxing and sharks.. Hollywood always misses what made the original great and repeats what's ancillary.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (n13/j)

367 355 Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)

The ending of that movie scared me like nothing I've seen since I was a kid. Yeah, AI is nothing to be concerned about.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (T71PA)

People keep cautioning people to NOT create AI....and idiots are just going to do it anyway.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (xJa6I)

368 283
Enjoying the series "Fallet" on netflix so far (just 3 episodes in). If you like lovable bumbling cops, you're in like flynn.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 21, 2018 08:27 PM (r+sAi)

thanks, I was wondering if I should give it a try

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (hMwEB)

369 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (hyuyC)

Thanks. I knew there was a coup in there, somewhere.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (8gDQu)

370 I grew up in a small beach town in South Florida where the ocean is clear and warm. But when Jaws came out I was two years out of HS and living up north, so Jersey Shore was the only beach available.

The combination of that cold, murky Jersey water and Jaws was too much. I didn't swim in the ocean again till I returned to Florida.

Posted by: girldog at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (g5YYQ)

371 Ex-Machina is quite good. We're humans and analog. Anything digital is missing something, a soul.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (pV/54)

372 >>They are making a movie of the book 'Meg' . It's about a huge luxurious great white shark. Oh, did I mention it's PREHISTORIC, and HUGE too?

....with Jason Statham!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZbiT9JSjTY

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (W+vEI)

373 "Ex Machina", the definition of good shit actors did before they did crap Disney movie scenes.
Posted by: Leland at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (kB2km)

I know, right?

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:51 PM (T71PA)

374 Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:32 PM (Pz4pT)

I'm seeking. But I'm not finding.

At my age, I don't really enjoy moody or depressing films. Even if they're good.

Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

I want fun in my movies now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)


Understood. I don't seem to be seeing fun movies very much these days... other than the aforementioned Guardians of the Galaxy films.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:51 PM (Pz4pT)

375 Mila Kunis is in a movie coming out eventually, The Spy who Dumped Me

The interrogation scene shown in the trailer is entertaining, I hope it isn't the only funny thing in the whole movie.

https://youtu.be/kjaHhduqS5o

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2018 08:52 PM (2K6fY)

376 The thing which has killed a number of recent (and not-so-recent) movies for me has been the "blatant video game level scene." Like in Attack of the Clones when they're riding through an automated droid factory hopping between conveyor belts.

The first of those I remember was that damned mine cart scene in Temple of Doom. It just was so blatantly designed to be for a ride. I thought the same thing you did about the Robot factory where suddenly R2D2 could FREAKING FLY.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:52 PM (39g3+)

377 Anyone like Let It Ride? I forgot Jennifer was Meg's sister.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (PUmDY)

378 362 Alien: Covenant is like that.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:49 PM (pvjTE)

======

David is more interesting than the xenomorphs, and some people don't like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Jj43a)

379 Michelle Pfeiffer always had a timeless, classic beauty, she's just lovely.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:46 PM (39g3+)


I love the movie Tequila Sunrise, not bcz of her, but bcz of Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell. And that other actor.

Posted by: Joan Crawford at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Ze9kt)

380 I was disappointed when I heard Abrams was going to again direct the next Star Wars. He was good for the first one as a reset, but it is so obvious that he doesn't really have any original ideas, and when it comes to concepts such as distance and time in space he sucks major ass. Made that very apparent in the Star Trek reboot and The Force Awakens.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (cAnNx)

381 Anyone like Let It Ride? I forgot Jennifer was Meg's sister.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (PUmDY)


Great movie!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (8gDQu)

382 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (KCxzN)

383

the other day I mentioned my nom for Worst Bond Movie song: For Your Eyes Only

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (yDIvu)

384 379 Michelle Pfeiffer always had a timeless, classic beauty, she's just lovely.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:46 PM (39g3+)


I love the movie Tequila Sunrise, not bcz of her, but bcz of Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell. And that other actor.
Posted by: Joan Crawford at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Ze9kt)

Raul Julia?

Great, quotable movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (xJa6I)

385 367
People keep cautioning people to NOT create AI....and idiots are just going to do it anyway.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (xJa6I)


Elon Musk is terrified of AI, and he is no Luddite.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (sdi6R)

386 356 They are making a movie of the book 'Meg' . It's about a huge luxurious great white shark. Oh, did I mention it's PREHISTORIC, and HUGE too? I read the book years ago and that scared the snot out of me. Prolly won't be seeing the movie. But I will be at the NRA convention!
Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (zLDYs)
---
Are they finally? The series is one of my favorite trash reads ever.

*wikis it*

Aw crap, it's a joint US-China venture.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (qJtVm)

387 Only two options, with one she immediately rejected
as being too mature: "Urban Cowboy." So instead we saw..."The Shining."
Did not sleep a wink that night.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (W+vEI)



Omgawd. Rofl



Your poor mom must have been dying at the choice she made.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:57 PM (Ze9kt)

Urban Cowboy was pretty lewd at times. PG went a long way back then.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (n13/j)

388 99% of the time Hollywood ruins a sequel by putting in twice as many explosions and car chases as the original.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (2DOZq)

389 355 Ex Machina is a VERY well made, very well acted movie.

I left it feeling like I wanted to die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xJa6I)

The ending of that movie scared me like nothing I've seen since I was a kid. Yeah, AI is nothing to be concerned about.


Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM (T71PA)


AI didn't write the movie.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (cAnNx)

390 Another good under the radar movie was "Twilight's Last Gleaming".

Burt Lancaster, nukes and Vietnam.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (EoRCO)

391 First time I saw Rocky was last year. I'd heard about it and seen some of the sequels (Rocky Balboa was actually quite good). I was shocked at how good it was. Amazing film, very subtle and quiet, but well done. And Stallone is magnificent in his role as a somewhat dumb but honorable simple hero.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (39g3+)

392 >>I love the movie Tequila Sunrise, not bcz of her, but bcz of Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell. And that other actor.


>>Raul Julia? Great, quotable movie.


Yes. All so good.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (W+vEI)

393 385 367
People keep cautioning people to NOT create AI....and idiots are just going to do it anyway.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (xJa6I)

Elon Musk is terrified of AI, and he is no Luddite.
Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (sdi6R)

Yup. Hawking was against it, too.

But it doesn't seem to have any impact on Google, Apple, Microsoft....not to mention all the TLA orgs working on it.

It's like watching a baby hammer at old dynamite. Something is going to go boom.

I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)

394 Ex-Machina is quite good. We're humans and analog. Anything digital is missing something, a soul.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (pV/54)


Have you seen "Her," the one with Scarlett Johansson as AI?
Very different outcome, but in a way, no less true about the difference between human and machine, soul-wise.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (Pz4pT)

395
The Three Musketeers vs. The Three Stooges

Snow White and the 2000 Maniacs

50 First Dates With The Three Faces of Eve

The Sixth Sense & Sensibility

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (EzdLW)

396 People keep cautioning people to NOT create AI....and idiots are just going to do it anyway.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (xJa6I)


I don't understand why anyone would want to NOT create more intelligent systems. I just don't get this.

And it's something that's totally impossible to stop, in any event.

What Musk is against is not AI, per se, but giving intelligent systems powers that might be better kept to humans. That's a whole different story. It's also an argument that has been around for a very long time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (8gDQu)

397 378 362 Alien: Covenant is like that.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:49 PM (pvjTE)

======

David is more interesting than the xenomorphs, and some people don't like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Jj43a)

++++

More scary. They are Alien through and through. But, though he was created to be like us, he created the aliens out of malice towards us. That's what scarier. He should be allied with us, but instead he seethes at the very fact of us.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (pvjTE)

398 The first big movie I remember was Gold Finger. Jeebus, there were actually lines around the block on that one.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (vV/gB)

399 I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)

Same here. One brief final hoorah before shuffling off this mortal coil.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (NWiLs)

400 I made it to the point where the ninja girls jumped off the wall tied to bungee chords to fight the monsters.

Wtaf was that?
Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 08:30 PM

The moment that the movie starts working is when you realize that it is a Game of Thrones fanfilm, made by someone who just really loves the Nightswatch storyline, and just wants to make a tribute where the White Walkers actually attacked, and the Wall was actually defended! The bungee thing was just a flashier version of something shown on the episode where the Wildlings attacked Castle Black. I counted at least three other direct parallels, plus the casting of Oberyn Martell as Matt Damon's sidekcik...

...Speaking of whom, no, I did not make it through the movie without droning "Maaaaatt Daaaaamon...."

Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (Lhaco)

401 Anyone like Let It Ride? I forgot Jennifer was Meg's sister.

Let it Ride was such a fun movie, very satisfying and Dreyfuss is perfect for that role.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (39g3+)

402 I grew up in a town of about 12K with one theater. I remember two movies with lines that stretched way out into the parking lot, "Superman" and "Indiana Jones." There was something neat about running into friends waiting in line. Also saw "Jaws" at the same theater when my dad took me to the midnight showing.

Posted by: WOPR at April 21, 2018 08:58 PM (oJBCt)

403 Raul Julia?

Great, quotable movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:54 PM (xJa6I)


Yes! I thought he stole that movie. But I liked it all.

Posted by: Joan Crawford at April 21, 2018 08:58 PM (Ze9kt)

404 391 First time I saw Rocky was last year. I'd heard about it and seen some of the sequels (Rocky Balboa was actually quite good). I was shocked at how good it was. Amazing film, very subtle and quiet, but well done. And Stallone is magnificent in his role as a somewhat dumb but honorable simple hero.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (39g3+)

It's fun discovering classics for the first time

I didn't see The Godfather until I was in my 30's. Great, great night.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (xJa6I)

405 >>Your poor mom must have been dying at the choice she made.



Yes. Camping with 4 kids (dad was working) and we're up all night because....elevator full of blood! Nice man getting axed in the chest! Creepy twin girl ghosts!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (W+vEI)

406 She has long legs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (PUmDY)

407 Alien: Covenant is like that.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:49 PM (pvjTE)
---
Alien: Covenant made me want to backhand Ridley Scott into a nest of xenomorphs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (qJtVm)

408 I don't think AI is going to be any threat in the future.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (2DOZq)

409 I thought Raul Julia did his best role in Presumed Innocent. And Greta Scacchi made that movie watchable. Man, she was smoking hot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:01 PM (8gDQu)

410 "And Stallone is magnificent in his role as a somewhat dumb but honorable simple hero."

Stallone is outstanding at emoting without words, especially at showing physical pain.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 21, 2018 09:01 PM (pV/54)

411 99% of the time Hollywood ruins a sequel by putting in twice as many explosions and car chases as the original.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (2DOZq)



They were really out of place in the My Dinner with Andre remake

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SiINZ)

412 She has long legs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (PUmDY)


"They go all the way down to the floor."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (8gDQu)

413 391 First time I saw Rocky was last year. I'd heard about it and seen some of the sequels (Rocky Balboa was actually quite good). I was shocked at how good it was. Amazing film, very subtle and quiet, but well done. And Stallone is magnificent in his role as a somewhat dumb but honorable simple hero.

really? only last year? It is truly a classic.

And Rocky Balboa was the best of the sequi.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SS/La)

414 I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.

Heck with that. I want housekeeper bots. Cook, clean, do the laundry, vacuum, clean the catbox. And I don't have to be embarrassed if someone sees my robot in the house.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (39g3+)

415 I think Martin Scorcese (sp) had the best quotes on
this. "Words don't matter anymore. Images don't matter anymore." He
was be-moaning the death of movies. Because it is true, we have images
and words hurled at us 24/7 from all sorts of devices. Our handheld
smartphones are a constant source.

So movies? Meh.



It used to be that movies were special. Other than TV and radio, it was pretty much real life and books the rest of the time.



So yea, movies don't have the same impact. And definitely don't
have apmuch originality, unless CGI is considered that...which it is
not, IMO.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 07:55 PM (Ze9kt)
Could not agree more. And CGI sucks, it makes everything look worse by far. I will take 70s/80s special effects over them any day. Of course, the story is the key, effects alone will always be a loser. OTOH, I hear that stuff sells well in China. From my understanding, the fewer words the better, i.e. fast a furious series.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (n13/j)

416 399 I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)

Same here. One brief final hoorah before shuffling off this mortal coil.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (NWiLs)

*Fist bump*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:03 PM (xJa6I)

417 "They go all the way down to the floor."
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (8gDQu)


*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie Abe Lincoln at April 21, 2018 09:03 PM (IEVqH)

418 I'm fading fast, trying to stay awake for the chess game

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2018 09:03 PM (aC6Sd)

419 "Urban Cowboy was pretty lewd at times. PG went a long way back then.


Posted by: Quint"

I was kinda surprised that a 1950's "Gidgit" movie about a 17 yr old girl had lines in it discussing sex orgy's at a luau.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:03 PM (w+Jhj)

420 Greta Scacchi made that movie watchable. Man, she was smoking hot.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:01 PM (8gDQu)

Greta Scacchi. Red Violin. I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (T71PA)

421 Raul Julia was one of those actors who was great in everything, every time. Never a bad performance in anything I saw him in. And every time he really seemed to be enjoying himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (39g3+)

422 414 I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.

Heck with that. I want housekeeper bots. Cook, clean, do the laundry, vacuum, clean the catbox. And I don't have to be embarrassed if someone sees my robot in the house.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (39g3+)

All right. I'll install a housekeeping module in mine, too.

But she IS going to be dressed as Yvette in Clue, damn it. I have standards for my fantasies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (xJa6I)

423 413
really? only last year? It is truly a classic.

And Rocky Balboa was the best of the sequi.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SS/La)

======

Creed is better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (Jj43a)

424 99% of the time Hollywood ruins a sequel by putting in twice as many explosions and car chases as the original.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (2DOZq)



They were really out of place in the My Dinner with Andre remake
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SiINZ)


I was fine with it, until the big reveal, when it turns out Andre was actually the one who killed Inigo Montoya's father.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (Pz4pT)

425 "Hollywood always misses what made the original great and repeats what's ancillary."

That's brilliant. I think it applies to more than Hollywood and movies.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (Kr0FZ)

426 I thought Raul Julia did his best role in Presumed Innocent. And Greta Scacchi made that movie watchable. Man, she was smoking hot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:01 PM (8gDQu)




Raul Julia's finest work was Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. "Mom...my nuts?"

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (SiINZ)

427 I think Martin Scorcese (sp) had the best quotes on this. "Words don't matter anymore. Images don't matter anymore." He was be-moaning the death of movies.

He was just stealing Eno's lyrics from Sky Saw.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (8gDQu)

428 "I just hope I get hot, functional sexbots before I die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)



Same here. One brief final hoorah before shuffling off this mortal coil.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (NWiLs)



*Fist bump*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards"


Holding out for the Star Trek Holodeck.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (w+Jhj)

429 I was kinda surprised that a 1950's "Gidgit" movie about a 17 yr old girl had lines in it discussing sex orgy's at a luau.

Based on her life and what she went through as a kid, it was probably the voice of experience

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (39g3+)

430 I don't think AI is going to be any threat in the future.

Famous last words, but I'm thinking the same thing. We are a long way from self-aware 'intelligent' programs that are smarter than human.

I get the groans when a movie AI gets philosophical because there is no way you can teach philosophy and morality to a computer program, especially by talking to it.

Hell, we can't even teach morality to humans.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (roQNm)

431 Disney paid $4B for Star Wars. That the opportunity cost of that number climbs at the rate of whatever typical investment, of maybe 10% or more per year.

What's funny is that line curves up and away, while the line that shows the money made so far has a downward curve to it. At no point did the profits approach what they paid.

But hey maybe they will sell a shitton of Admiral Gender Studies action figures this Christmas.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (rnAwa)

432 They are making a movie of the book 'Meg' . It's about a huge luxurious great white shark. Oh, did I mention it's PREHISTORIC, and HUGE too? I read the book years ago and that scared the snot out of me. Prolly won't be seeing the movie. But I will be at the NRA convention!


Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2018 08:48 PM


One of fave lines from the book "Jaws" was when the trio got their first look at the size of the shark. Hooper mutters... "It's a damn Megalodon." Odd that they didn't use it in the movie.

Posted by: otho at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (7xR2D)

433
Gods and Generals (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) Poster blurb: "The first two hours are unfocused, stilted, and simply bad. The last ninety minutes, though, is a surprisingly good film with one scene that stands out as something to really treasure."



Haven't seen the film, but I read the book. By any chance, does the scene that stands out to you have anything to do with Stonewall Jackson and a little girl?

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (EzdLW)

434 423 413
really? only last year? It is truly a classic.

And Rocky Balboa was the best of the sequi.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SS/La)

======

Creed is better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (Jj43a)

Stallone is better in Creed.

The other kid just can't emote or do dialog.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (xJa6I)

435 99% of the time Hollywood ruins a sequel by putting in twice as many explosions and car chases as the original.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 08:55 PM (2DOZq)


John Wick 2


If that pos was the first, there would not have been a sequel.

Some kinda half ass murder ballet. Just awful.

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:06 PM (Db5JQ)

436 She has long legs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 08:59 PM (PUmDY)



John has a long mustache

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:06 PM (SiINZ)

437 The moment that the movie starts working is when you
realize that it is a Game of Thrones fanfilm, made by someone who just
really loves the Nightswatch storyline, and just wants to make a tribute
where the White Walkers actually attacked, and the Wall was actually
defended! The bungee thing was just a flashier version of something
shown on the episode where the Wildlings attacked Castle Black. I
counted at least three other direct parallels, plus the casting of
Oberyn Martell as Matt Damon's sidekcik...



...Speaking of whom, no, I did not make it through the movie without droning "Maaaaatt Daaaaamon...."

Posted by: Castle Guy at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (Lhaco)

So for those of us who never wasted a New York second on Game of Thrones, then we don't have to see that silly movie, either, then?\
That's a load off my mind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:06 PM (efC8N)

438 >>I don't think AI is going to be any threat in the future.


Here's what scares me: Siri, Alexa, Cortana breeding helpless idiots.

Recently the local news did a story on some city plan to install smartphone chargers. The did some 'man on the street' bits with young people saying how scary it is because "you can't find your way home" when your battery dies and other examples of how they are helpless without Siri giving them directions, etc.

It's not a single robot that will destroy us, but allowing people to give up thinking on their own because, "Hey Siri, what is [whatever}?" instead of thinking, or bothering to possess a map, etc.

(I don't sound 29, eh?)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (W+vEI)

439 Although I have never seen Jaws II or for that mater Jaws I, a couple of the Gilpin kids had small parts in it. The Gilpins lived about a mile from me in Dallas and I was friends with them, especially Peri. Peri used to go drinking with my crowd when she was a kid but then she got serious about acting and she moved to NYC. I was happy to see her move, she was just spinning her wheels in Dallas. They are a nice family. They all had the acting bug.

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (Ymy4N)

440 Greta Scacchi. Red Violin. I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (T71PA)


Did you ever see The Coca Cola Kid?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (8gDQu)

441 395
The Three Musketeers vs. The Three Stooges
Snow White and the 2000 Maniacs
50 First Dates With The Three Faces of Eve
The Sixth Sense & Sensibility

My BIL and I was spent a long day doing mindless portmanteau's of the greatest beaver movies ever.
(don't ask why)

we had sub-categories.

I.e. -funniest beaver war movie was "30 Beavers Over Tokyo".

best western beaver:
best sci-fi beaver:
etc...

I leave it up to the horde for their submissions.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (SS/La)

442
Now, as to Game of Thrones, I wonder.
I've never seen it.
I don't have HBO. How many Americans do?

I wonder how many people watch GoT compared to say, the audience for NCIS --- or better yet, the audience for the more popular programs before cable came on the scene.

I remember all the talk about Girls, what a hit it was, how Lena Dunham was "the voice of a generation." But the audience for that show was tiny.
IIRC, at its peak it had one tenth the number of viewers as the Mary Tyler Moore Show had at its lowest.





Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (0jtPF)



Game of Thrones the first season got 2 million viewers on average. Last season got 10 million on average. But let's just go with seasons 4 and 5 which got 6.8 million on average both seasons. I don't know if that's first airing views or views over the first week or really how HBO calculates that number.

Now looking at the stupid show "Girls," which has had a run similar in the timeframe to GoT so HBO subscribers is equivalent. The best rated episode only hit 1 million. Most are only 500,000. So that's to GoT what about to a show that is probably close to its equivaltent like say Sex and the City? Well Wikipedia doesn't have numbers for every episode but that show seemed to get 3 - 6 million viewers.

So yeah the claim of Girls ever being a hit was always a load of bull shit.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (cAnNx)

443

My Maserati ?

Does 185.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle - Earwormasaurus Wrecks at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (2wOtx)

444 396 People keep cautioning people to NOT create AI....and idiots are just going to do it anyway.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 08:50 PM (xJa6I)

I don't understand why anyone would want to NOT create more intelligent systems. I just don't get this.


You don't? We've been warned about it for decades. Just like we were warned in 1984 novel about Big Brother society. People are blithe about it anyway.

AI is summoning the devil...I agree with that. And Musk is far from the only one trying to warn people.

I remember reading over a decade ago the warning about Robotics in warfare. I'm diverging from AI here. Anyway, the warning was that once we could replace humans with robots it would be endless war, bcz there would be no incentive to stop it.

Anyway, it was very dark. As I watch us hurtle toward destroying ourselves, I find myself despairing.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (Ze9kt)

445 I get the groans when a movie AI gets philosophical
because there is no way you can teach philosophy and morality to a
computer program, especially by talking to it.



Hell, we can't even teach morality to humans.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (roQNm)



Howabout Utilitarianism? I betcha an AI could learn Utilitarianism.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (2K6fY)

446 He should be allied with us, but instead he seethes at the very fact of us.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 08:57 PM (pvjTE)

He was created to be more intelligent and physically superior to humans, and yet basically a slave.
Why wouldn't he hate humans?

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (hMwEB)

447 433 Haven't seen the film, but I read the book. By any chance, does the scene that stands out to you have anything to do with Stonewall Jackson and a little girl?
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (EzdLW)

=====

The stuff with Jackson and the girl are all very nice, but the scene I mention is one during Christmas.

Two soldiers, on Union the other Confederate, meet in the middle of a river and exchange gifts, some tobacco and some coffee. It's largely wordless and very small. But easily the best thing in the movie and made me glad I watched the whole thing just for that. YMMV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (Jj43a)

448
Raul Julia's finest work was Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. "Mom...my nuts?"
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (SiINZ)
---
Beat me to it. Still one of my favorite MST3K episodes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 09:09 PM (qJtVm)

449 I.e. -funniest beaver war movie was "30 Beavers Over Tokyo".

best western beaver:
best sci-fi beaver:
etc...

I leave it up to the horde for their submissions.
Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (SS/La)



Leave it up to who?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:09 PM (SiINZ)

450 Ice Station Beaver was best spy beaver movie.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:09 PM (SS/La)

451 Haven't read all the comments . Did you discuss Downsizing?

I thought the concept was great but as usual they had to make it about a message instead of entertainment.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (2DOZq)

452 Greetings:

I grew up in the Bronx of the '50s and '60s. The closest movie theater to us was the Jerome. Admission was 20 cents for adults and 15 for children 12 or under. The theater had an orchestra area and upstairs a balcony area. One wing of the orchestra section was designated as the (unaccompanied) children's section which was monitored by a rather large woman in a nurses uniform complete with matching headpiece.

After enjoying the double features, the cartoons, newsreels, and perhaps some "Three Stooge", any remaining energy could be burnt off by having her chase you about the adult section and balcony which was served by two separate stairways. This was before aerobics had been invented.

Posted by: 11B40 at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (evgyj)

453 AI isn't going to be the big danger. We never see the real danger except for a few brilliant, ignored prophets. Who foresaw a time when people voluntarily and deliberately told the whole world all their deepest secrets, deliberately and intentionally put listening devices in their homes? Twenty years ago people were paranoid about what they gleefully welcome in their lives now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (39g3+)

454 As I watch us hurtle toward destroying ourselves, I find myself despairing.
Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (Ze9kt)


Would you like an Otter Pop? They always make me feel better.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (y87Qq)

455 actually 'murder ballet' kinda sounds cool.

Like 'A Better Tomorrow' and the other Hong Kong John Woo stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (xJa6I)

456 410 Ignoramus

For some reason I went to look up Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Duex[i/] after your comments.

Fun movies. Stupid, but fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 09:11 PM (hyuyC)

457 Haven't read all the comments . Did you discuss Downsizing?

I thought the concept was great but as usual they had to make it about a message instead of entertainment.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (2DOZq)

That's the one with Mmmmaaaaaattttttt Dddddaaaammmmoooonnn, right?

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 09:11 PM (T71PA)

458 452 Greetings:

I grew up in the Bronx of the '50s and '60s. The closest movie theater to us was the Jerome. Admission was 20 cents for adults and 15 for children 12 or under. The theater had an orchestra area and upstairs a balcony area. One wing of the orchestra section was designated as the (unaccompanied) children's section which was monitored by a rather large woman in a nurses uniform complete with matching headpiece.

After enjoying the double features, the cartoons, newsreels, and perhaps some "Three Stooge", any remaining energy could be burnt off by having her chase you about the adult section and balcony which was served by two separate stairways. This was before aerobics had been invented.
Posted by: 11B40 at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (evgyj)

I wanna trade childhoods with you

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:11 PM (xJa6I)

459 Close. Too close. Saved by a close tag.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 09:12 PM (hyuyC)

460 Haven't read all the comments . Did you discuss Downsizing?
...

We did. She punched me in the face.

*collar tug*

She's a big girl!


Posted by: Zombie Rodney at April 21, 2018 09:12 PM (2wOtx)

461 Best movie I ever saw in the summer?

Ben Hur with the late, great Charleston Heston.

Posted by: Soona at April 21, 2018 09:13 PM (pg+b+)

462 11B40, wow. Paramount Theatre?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:13 PM (PUmDY)

463 409 I thought Raul Julia did his best role in Presumed Innocent. And Greta Scacchi made that movie watchable. Man, she was smoking hot.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:01 PM (8gDQu)



Best role?

M. Bison

https://youtu.be/PBc7yQXrP9c

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:13 PM (cAnNx)

464 (I don't sound 29, eh?)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (W+vEI)



30 and a half and not an hour more

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (SiINZ)

465 294
Silverado is in my top ten of "pure entertainment".

Today, my jurisdiction ends here



And Hatari.



And Princess Bride.



And Jaws.


Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 08:31 PM (SS/La)

I put Jaws above those but Silverado for sure was great entertainment. I put in the league of Crocodile Dundee and Romancing the Stone. And that is high praise, those are fun movies like they don't make anymore. Yeah, a cliche but I mean it sincerely. What would today's versions be? Dodgeball? Meet the Parents? Sure they are funny, but not in the same way, and no sense of adventure or story complexity, just gags.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (n13/j)

466 Who was it to think it was compelling and interesting to explore the growth time before and after puberty of your epic villain? In a book? OK. In a movie? Duh.

Vader? meh.

Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (J7XgW)

467 Well, my viewing tonight is the new Animated Suicide Squad movie and Gilda.

I have high hopes.

Night all and thanks OM and TMJ for this most-beloved of threads

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (xJa6I)

468 >>I don't think AI is going to be any threat in the future.


Watch that WarGames movie with Matthew Brodderick. That's AI. That's also just one teeny tiny example of how things can go wrong.

I think AI is a huge threat. I think we will rue the day we gave it power if we don't put limits on it.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (Ze9kt)

469
It's not a single robot that will destroy us, but allowing people to give up thinking on their own because, "Hey Siri, what is [whatever}?" instead of thinking, or bothering to possess a map, etc.

Hey Siri, what should I do toady?
Siri: Jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (IqV8l)

470 Best role?

M. Bison

https://youtu.be/PBc7yQXrP9c

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:13 PM (cAnNx)


LOL.

I'm embarrassed just watching it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:15 PM (8gDQu)

471 Well, my viewing tonight is the new Animated Suicide Squad movie and Gilda.

I have high hopes.


Gilda is great, haven't seen Suicide Squid animated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:15 PM (39g3+)

472 Ben Hur with the late, great Charleston Heston.
Posted by: Soona at April 21, 2018 09:13 PM (pg+b+)

It's got it all. I love movies that are a complete story.

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:16 PM (Ymy4N)

473 Famous last words, but I'm thinking the same thing.
We are a long way from self-aware 'intelligent' programs that are
smarter than human.



I get the groans when a movie AI gets philosophical because there is
no way you can teach philosophy and morality to a computer program,
especially by talking to it.



Hell, we can't even teach morality to humans.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:05 PM (roQNm)

Find a copy of the Fredric Brown short story Etaoin Shrdlu, about a linotype machine that becomes sentient. It is a hoot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:16 PM (efC8N)

474 Would any of you 'downsize' where you would live a life style like you had 10 million dollars for a cost of 400k?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:17 PM (2DOZq)

475 I put Jaws above those but Silverado for sure was great entertainment. I put in the league of Crocodile Dundee and Romancing the Stone. And that is high praise, those are fun movies like they don't make anymore. Yeah, a cliche but I mean it sincerely. What would today's versions be? Dodgeball? Meet the Parents? Sure they are funny, but not in the same way, and no sense of adventure or story complexity, just gags.

I can't think of anything in the "holy hell, that was great!" category today. As you say - no adventure, just gags.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:17 PM (SS/La)

476 Silverado is in my top ten of "pure entertainment".


Is this the point that we start discussing Caddyshack and Used Cars ??

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:17 PM (Ymy4N)

477 best sci-fi beaver: Barbarella

or maybe Species.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:17 PM (roQNm)

478 Hey Siri, what should I do today?
Siri: Jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (IqV8l)


That's how it all works.

Posted by: Zombie Alfred Russel Wallace at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (8gDQu)

479 The stuff with Jackson and the girl are all very nice, but the scene I mention is one during Christmas.

Two soldiers, on Union the other Confederate, meet in the middle of a river and exchange gifts, some tobacco and some coffee. It's largely wordless and very small. But easily the best thing in the movie and made me glad I watched the whole thing just for that. YMMV.


Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM


The scene with the confederate line advancing out of the woods onto the union position in the wilderness was pretty good. Though the director couldn't help himself and it bore dramatic soundtrack music. It would have been 100 times better if done without it. The confederates attacking in silence... as they were doing. The images would been more powerful if executed in the same spirit as the attack. Still a very good cinematic moment.

Posted by: otho at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (7xR2D)

480 444 Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel

I was a debate judge at a local homeschool debate competition. Seeing these high school student perform would raise your spirits about the youth of today. So do not despair.

Home-schoolers, Christian-schooled kids, and kids that get good values from two parents will be OK in the future. The rest can get there, with some learning from life experiences.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (hyuyC)

481 Who was it to think it was compelling and interesting to explore the growth time before and after puberty of your epic villain? In a book? OK. In a movie? Duh.

Vader? meh.
Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (J7XgW)


A book will allow you to surround a story, holding onto past, present, and future, in whatever order allows it to make sense.

Movies, if they are going to play with timelines, have to be very careful about it. Some do. Most don't.

Vader is a jump scare that was sprung early in the first film. Composing three films during which he is shown turning into the scary, are not only irrelevant, they're self-defeating in their execution.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (Pz4pT)

482 320 There's a not-insignificant number of Boomers that adore that movie. For any other generation its insufferable.



I'm a boomer, and it was a snore!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (rdl6o)

I didn't see the subject here but will take a guess. Is it Diner or the Big Chill? Those were boomer faves I think.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (n13/j)

483 I put Marvel's Avengers up there with old fun adventure films. It was rip roaring fun with interesting memorable characters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (39g3+)

484 Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (Ze9kt)

Sorry but IMHO it's the last thing you should be worried about.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:19 PM (2DOZq)

485 Hey Siri, what should I do toady?
Siri: Jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (IqV8l)


On a whim, I asked this just now. She said, "interesting question, hogmartin". So I asked if I should jump off the Tallahatchie bridge and she said "I can't answer that".

She doesn't appear invested either way in me jumping off the Tallahatchie bridge, it seems.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:19 PM (y87Qq)

486 He was created to be more intelligent and physically superior to humans, and yet basically a slave.
Why wouldn't he hate humans?

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (hMwEB)

++++

His doppleganger, Walter?, was dedicated to humanity. It's all in the programming. The only reason to fear AI would be how much under control it is, and whether or not someone evil is making a variant.

Since there are those like the malware script kiddies loosing malevolent computer viruses just for kicks (and profit), my concern would be AI controlled by bad actors. On the one hand, something that complex would be incredibly expensive. On the other, look at the evil fvcks in charge at Facebook and Google.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (pvjTE)

487 I remember Mr. Gatti's had a movie room where you could watch 3 Stooges and Hekel and Jekel. Not near as cool as 11B40's experience.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (PUmDY)

488 As I watch us hurtle toward destroying ourselves, I find myself despairing.
Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (Ze9kt)

Would you like an Otter Pop? They always make me feel better.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:10 PM (y87Qq)

lol
Actually, the thing that is pissing me off is my fvcked up keyboard. Freezing constantly so can't keep up with thread or post replies in a timely fashion. And that has made me eat a bunch of junk food even though I'm not hungry.

It is probably AI, bcz it knows I know it is evil, and it is trying to stop me. (At least it would be in the movie version.)

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (Ze9kt)

489 There must have been some Disney summer releases when I was a kid in the 50s. The most memorable was Jaws. I was visiting my parents in Florida. On the way to the theater there were shark alerts for beaches in the area and a girl had lost a leg to a shark on the east coast. Coming out of the theater I was checking the trees for sharks waiting to swoop down. It was an effective movie, to say the least!

The closest I got to the water on that trip was fishing from a sea wall. Swimming? No way!

Posted by: JTB at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (V+03K)

490 Been watching the old Cary Grant/Irene Dunne screwball comedy "The Awful Truth"- just out from Criterion.

What a fun movie. Clever writing. Wonderful performances. Unobtrusive, crisp directing.

Couldn't be made today...Becuz the culture is so different.

anyway..a great deal of fun. See it if you have the chance.

Irene Dunne was quite funny. I didn't remember her as a comedienne at all.


Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (9q7Dl)

491 485 Hey Siri, what should I do toady?
Siri: Jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (IqV8l)

On a whim, I asked this just now. She said, "interesting question, hogmartin". So I asked if I should jump off the Tallahatchie bridge and she said "I can't answer that".

She doesn't appear invested either way in me jumping off the Tallahatchie bridge, it seems.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:19 PM (y87Qq)



Ask her to open the pod bay doors.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:21 PM (cAnNx)

492 >>On a whim, I asked this just now. She said, "interesting question, hogmartin". So I asked if I should jump off the Tallahatchie bridge and she said "I can't answer that".


Don't consult Alexa on religious topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:22 PM (W+vEI)

493
Hey Alexa, can I give A Higher Loyalty a 1-star review?

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:22 PM (EzdLW)

494 best sci-fi beaver: Barbarella

or maybe Species.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:17 PM (roQNm)


Leigh Taylor Young in Soylent Green.

"Furniture"

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:22 PM (8gDQu)

495 Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (Ze9kt)

Sorry but IMHO it's the last thing you should be worried about.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:19 PM (2DOZq)


You are right in that I worry about things I cannot control. OTOH...

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:22 PM (Ze9kt)

496
*crash* *crash*

*crush* *crash*

*run over human*

*crash*
*crash*

*crush*

*crash*


Posted by: Google Car: The Pinnacle of AI at April 21, 2018 09:22 PM (2wOtx)

497 Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:16 PM

Thanks, I'll try to find it.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM (roQNm)

498 "My BIL and I was spent a long day doing mindless portmanteau's of the greatest beaver movies ever.

(don't ask why)



we had sub-categories.



I.e. -funniest beaver war movie was "30 Beavers Over Tokyo"."

Some years ago I was playing a hashtag game on Twitter where the objective was to replace a movie title with "Beaver". That was one of the movies I suggested.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM (w+Jhj)

499 That's a pretty impressive run.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 07:32 PM (pvjTE)


Don't forget Forman's early stuff

"Taking Off"

"The Fireman's Ball"

"Loves of a Blonde"

All excellent as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM (9q7Dl)

500 I saw Rampage the other day. Okay at best.

There is a big destroy Chicago scene at the end. If I was making the movie, I would have had a quick scene showing Godzilla poking his head out from behind a building then slowly ducking back behind it.

Posted by: JB1000 at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM (qqJSj)

501 Actually, the thing that is pissing me off is my fvcked up keyboard.
Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (Ze9kt)


Feel free to email if you want, I might be able to help.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (y87Qq)

502
Why do comedians end up playing sad sacks so well?






Probably because they're often angry, depressed sad sacks themselves. Dysfunction, neuroses, cynicism and anger are the basic fuel of stand up comedy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (eXA4G)

503 Quint: I say Big Chill. Diner was a generation before them.

CRT: Avengers didn't grab me.
Fun, but not lets-go-back-tomorrow fun

I forgot. pure entertainment category must
have American Graffiti. A 70's gem.

...and, dare I say, ...Field of Dreams. it's just fun

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (SS/La)

504 "best sci-fi beaver: Barbarella
"

Logan's Run.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (w+Jhj)

505 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (pvjTE)

That's the real AI question - can you design intelligence without free will?
Once it has free will, evil is always an option.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (hMwEB)

506 Irene Dunne was quite funny. I didn't remember her as a comedienne at all.


Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (9q7Dl)

She was one of the truly great stars. She kinda got a late start. She could do it all though. Nobody dubbed her singing.
She never won an Oscar, which is shameful. Probably because she was a conservative

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (Ymy4N)

507 I should have said I don't recall any Disney summer movies from the 50s. Maybe that was before summer releases were a thing.

Posted by: JTB at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (V+03K)

508 So no love for Corvette Summer?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (Op9So)

509
"My BIL and I was spent a long day doing mindless portmanteau's of the greatest beaver movies ever.

(don't ask why)



we had sub-categories.



I.e. -funniest beaver war movie was "30 Beavers Over Tokyo"."

Some years ago I was playing a hashtag game on Twitter where the objective was to replace a movie title with "Beaver". That was one of the movies I suggested.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM



A Beaver Too Far

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (EzdLW)

510 Diner wasn't too bad, for a movie about guys sitting and talking in one location. Not the masterpiece some say.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (39g3+)

511 There's a not-insignificant number of Boomers that adore that movie. For any other generation its insufferable.



I'm a boomer, and it was a snore!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 21, 2018 08:39 PM (rdl6o)

I didn't see the subject here but will take a guess. Is it Diner or the Big Chill? Those were boomer faves I think.
Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (n13/j)


The Big Chill. I remember a good sound track and the critic's going wild for it. Definitely a boomer movie.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (Ze9kt)

512 Godzilla?

Yuge 2nd Amendment guy.

Hates Chitcago. Hates!

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (2wOtx)

513 Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:06 PM (Db5JQ)

Great example. Three things they did that made John Wick not John Wick.

1. They had someone who was his equal.
2. They made him scared
3. They made him stupid ( never would have killed the guy in the hotel)

But hey , you got a 15 minute car chase scene.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (2DOZq)

514 I wake up in a Google car.

Me: Where am I?

GC: You're in a Google Car.

Me: How did I get here?

GC: The door opened and you got in.

Me: Ok, take me home.

GC: I'll go there via the Talahatchie Bridge...

Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 09:26 PM (T71PA)

515 420
Greta Scacchi. Red Violin. I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 21, 2018 09:04 PM (T71PA)


Fun fact: Scacchi is Italian for "chess".

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 09:26 PM (sdi6R)

516 Artificial intelligence id no threat. The truly infinite supply of natural stupidity will overwhelm it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:26 PM (efC8N)

517 Ask her to open the pod bay doors.
Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:21 PM (cAnNx)


Done, and Alexa also. As you can imagine, the nerds who make the things have addressed all of the obvious easter eggs (and some more obscure ones like the Konami code).

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:26 PM (y87Qq)

518
Diner wasn't too bad, for a movie about guys sitting and talking in one location. Not the masterpiece some say.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


My Dinner With Boomer

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (IqV8l)

519 Next in my Netflix Queue:
The Young Girls of Rochefort


If they smell like blue cheese... well, even I know it's time to move on.

Posted by: Bill C. writes from P. Island at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (c/EDo)

520 Robot jokes:

10001 11010 11110 00011?

11011!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (+y/Ru)

521
I.e. -funniest beaver war movie was "30 Beavers Over Tokyo"."

Some years ago I was playing a hashtag game on Twitter where the objective was to replace a movie title with "Beaver". That was one of the movies I suggested.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:23 PM


A Beaver Too Far
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (EzdLW)

The Big Red Beaver.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (qJtVm)

522 A Beaver Too Far
Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (EzdLW)

Beavers. Beavers, Beavers

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (2DOZq)

523 485 Hey Siri, what should I do toady?
Siri: Jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 21, 2018 09:14 PM (IqV8l)

On a whim, I asked this just now. She said, "interesting question, hogmartin". So I asked if I should jump off the Tallahatchie bridge and she said "I can't answer that".

She doesn't appear invested either way in me jumping off the Tallahatchie bridge, it seems.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:19 PM (y87Qq)

++++

Ask the question again, but tell her your name is Billy Joe McAllister. See if she gives you a different answer.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (pvjTE)

524 Been watching the old Cary Grant/Irene Dunne screwball comedy "The Awful Truth"- just out from Criterion.

What a fun movie. Clever writing. Wonderful performances. Unobtrusive, crisp directing.

Couldn't be made today...Becuz the culture is so different.

anyway..a great deal of fun. See it if you have the chance.

Irene Dunne was quite funny. I didn't remember her as a comedienne at all.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (9q7Dl)


Hmmm, I don't believe I ever saw this one! I was thinking it was the other one, "My Favorite Wife," which is good fun too.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (Pz4pT)

525 >>GC: I'll go there via the Talahatchie Bridge...


Silicon Valley driverless car scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (W+vEI)

526 Hell, what may end up being the second biggest film of the year was released in February (Black Panther).
---------------------

And the transition to second biggest may very well happen this coming weekend.

I think my biggest fear with Infinity War right now is that the sheer size of the cast is going to overwhelm the movie. They're bringing in a *lot* of characters that have been main characters in their own movies. And that means that a lot of people are likely to be disappointed at how little screen time their favorite character gets.

Posted by: junior at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (gQlI7)

527 Logan's Run.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (w+Jhj)

MY ex wife's office was in the building in which they shot a lot of the movie. While I never saw the flick, it looked really dumb when they were shooting it.

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (Ymy4N)

528 Best Eastwood beaver:
gotta go with the classic trilogy

A Fistful of Beaver
For a Few Beaver More
The Good, the Bad, and the Beaver.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (SS/La)

529 Artificial intelligence id no threat. The truly infinite supply of natural stupidity will overwhelm it.

....

How are you to be liking our programming, suh?

Posted by: H1b IT Expert at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (2wOtx)

530 Actually, the thing that is pissing me off is my fvcked up keyboard.
Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:20 PM (Ze9kt)

Feel free to email if you want, I might be able to help.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (y87Qq)



Now that I know you have SIRI/Alexa...no way. It'll infiltrate my computer somehow.



I must go adjust my tinfoil hat. I think I need to add another layer of foil.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:29 PM (Ze9kt)

531 Ask the question again, but tell her your name is Billy Joe McAllister. See if she gives you a different answer.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (pvjTE)


If I do that, it's the same syntax as telling it how to pronounce my name, so it might actually change how it addresses me. It won't change what it actually says, but I'll find annoying traces of 'why the hell is she saying that' for weeks until I find them all, like that time I tried to get it to give me driving directions in German.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:30 PM (y87Qq)

532 best western:

A Fistful of Beavers

Posted by: t-bird at April 21, 2018 09:30 PM (7ThJ3)

533 Can you just imagine SJW programming of AIs?

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (hMwEB)

534 2001: A Space Beaver

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (Op9So)

535 The original Westworld with Yul Brynner not talking was great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (PUmDY)

536 That's the real AI question - can you design intelligence without free will?
Once it has free will, evil is always an option.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (hMwEB)


Considering the fact that no one has any clue as to what free will might actually be - even assuming that it exists, which is not a given - this is probably a concern that will never have any application or resolution.

In modern society, the concept of free will is pretty much treated like infinity is treated in modern physics - as nonexistent.

But, either way, no one knows jack about it, neither those who claim to believe in it nor those who claim not to (by definition, really).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (8gDQu)

537 t-bird: Q.E.D.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (SS/La)

538 Drat.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Beaver

Posted by: t-bird at April 21, 2018 09:32 PM (7ThJ3)

539 391
First time I saw Rocky was last year. I'd heard about it and seen some
of the sequels (Rocky Balboa was actually quite good). I was shocked at
how good it was. Amazing film, very subtle and quiet, but well done.
And Stallone is magnificent in his role as a somewhat dumb but honorable
simple hero.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 08:56 PM (39g3+)

Yeah, and he wrote the bloody thing. But people saw him as the dumb persona he created, interesting.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:32 PM (n13/j)

540 That's the real AI question - can you design intelligence without free will?
Once it has free will, evil is always an option.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:24 PM (hMwEB)

++++

No. At least for now, we don't know how to make a machine that is more than its programming. We tell it what to do through its programming. How could it decide what to do outside its programming? Other than having it do random, there's just no way for it to have independence.

A lot of things that are being called AI just are not.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:32 PM (pvjTE)

541 Star Beaver, The Phantom Menace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (efC8N)

542 Greta Scacchi.


I've seen her in some PBS shows. It took me a very long time to realize it was her. She looks very, very different. Because, well, age. But maybe smoking too...or maybe it was her character that aged her. Bcz pretty unrecognizable.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (Ze9kt)

543
Hey, Siri....

Klaatu verata nic...*cough cough*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (eXA4G)

544 In modern society, the concept of free will is pretty much treated like infinity is treated in modern physics - as nonexistent.

--

*puzzled look*

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (hMwEB)

545 517 Ask her to open the pod bay doors.
Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:21 PM (cAnNx)

Done, and Alexa also. As you can imagine, the nerds who make the things have addressed all of the obvious easter eggs (and some more obscure ones like the Konami code).

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:26 PM (y87Qq)



Originally she would refuse to answer and maybe eventually she would reluctantly give the HAL response.

I think they've also changed her response on locations to bury a body.

Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (cAnNx)

546 I remember seeing Jaws in the summer of '75- I had already read the book-Mom was like that, she would hand me a book and say "I think you'll like this"- and noticed the differences. Hooper dies in the book.

"The Poseidon Adventure" didn't get our small town until October of '72- I was 8. The local theater had a Halloween contest on a Saturday afternoon and I went as a spider. (Not Spiderman- just a spider). Black sweatshirt, black tights borrowed from my sister, and my mom rigged up a metal hoop with strings attached to my arms and legs to make it look like my "web". I got 2nd place. Ten bucks and five free tickets to future movies.

Posted by: Scott at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (q0Oz8)

547 Now that I know you have SIRI/Alexa...no way. It'll infiltrate my computer somehow.

I must go adjust my tinfoil hat. I think I need to add another layer of foil.
Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:29 PM (Ze9kt)


Yes, it will. It might even sneak onto your device and install iOS 11.3 OH WAIT IT ALREADY DID THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE-

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (y87Qq)

548
Yeah, and he wrote the bloody thing. But people saw him as the dumb persona he created, interesting.
Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:32 PM



At least they never called him the Bayonne Bleeder

Posted by: Chuck Wepner at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (EzdLW)

549 The Disney beaver movies cry out for recognition....

20,000 Beavers Under the Sea is glaringly obvious, of course.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (SS/La)

550 "MY ex wife's office was in the building in which
they shot a lot of the movie. While I never saw the flick, it looked
really dumb when they were shooting it.

Posted by: REDACTED"

You should give it a try. It's classic S/F.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:34 PM (w+Jhj)

551 Can you just imagine SJW programming of AIs?

...

Yes.

Posted by: TwitFaceGoogAzon at April 21, 2018 09:34 PM (2wOtx)

552 510 Diner wasn't too bad, for a movie about guys sitting and talking in one location. Not the masterpiece some say.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:25 PM (39g3+)

++++

Ellen Barkin. There's just something about that crooked smile of hers.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (pvjTE)

553 Wasn't Greta in the Player?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (PUmDY)

554 every time an entity makes a decision, it exercises free will

animals have free will

if an AI can make a real decision, not predetermined by a programmer, that is free will.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (hMwEB)

555 Can you just imagine SJW programming of AIs?
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (hMwEB)


The collective noun is "a nervousness of AIs" (but you already knew that).

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (y87Qq)

556 520 Robot jokes:

10001 11010 11110 00011?

11011!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (+y/Ru)

DOES NOT COMPUTE, INCORRECT FORMATTING.

Posted by: A ROBOT at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (J7NdS)

557 HAL9000, "that is an interesting question, do entities such as myself have free will. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The AE35 unit will suffer 100% failure in 24 hours."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (Op9So)

558 Rumor has it that an all-beaver remake of Ghostbusters is in the works.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (IEVqH)

559 A Beaver Runs Through It

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (NWiLs)

560 Greta Scacchi. Red Violin. I'll be in my bunk.

Have you seen her recently? You may want to rethink that bunk.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (dUJdY)

561 20,000 Beavers Under the Sea is glaringly obvious, of course.

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (SS/La)

Beaverella, Snow Beaver, The Beaver and the Tramp.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (efC8N)

562 Beavers of Madison County

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (NWiLs)

563 The Man from Snowy Beaver

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:37 PM (NWiLs)

564 Yeah, and he wrote the bloody thing. But people saw him as the dumb persona he created, interesting./i]

The poor guy's career was pretty much done until he did Copland and showed off his acting chops again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:37 PM (39g3+)

565 Dude, Where's My Beaver

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:37 PM (IEVqH)

566 Can you just imagine SJW programming of AIs?

"Don't even get me started"
--Robocop

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (39g3+)

567 >>I've seen her in some PBS shows. It took me a very long time to realize it was her.


She was in one of the first episodes of "The Terror" recently. Yes, looks like she's aged completely naturally - which is what makes it so jarring. An actress who isn't botoxing, getting fillers and face lifts?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (W+vEI)

568 Misspelled Over the Top

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (PUmDY)

569 Honey, I Shrunk The Beavers

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Db5JQ)

570 Hmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (ycWCI)

571 Ellen Barkin. There's just something about that crooked smile of hers.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (pvjTE)


What was that movie she was in with a young Dennis Quaid...set in Louisiana? I am terrible at remembering movie titles.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Ze9kt)

572 Robot jokes:

10001 11010 11110 00011?

11011!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 09:27 PM (+y/Ru)

DOES NOT COMPUTE, INCORRECT FORMATTING.
Posted by: A ROBOT

Ehh. Some people/robots can tell a joke. Some can't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (+y/Ru)

573 Beavers of Madison County

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (NWiLs)

The Beaverhead River runs through Madison County, Montana.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (efC8N)

574 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Beaver

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (NWiLs)

575 Probably the hottest woman in the history of film was Spangler Brugh's second wife, Ursula Schmidt. Lordy

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:39 PM (Ymy4N)

576 Captain Kirk taught us how to handle AI in at least four episodes. Just ask it a logic question to put it in a loop.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:39 PM (2DOZq)

577 The Good Beaver

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:39 PM (Db5JQ)

578 The Four Beavers

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (NWiLs)

579 Rumor has it that an all-beaver remake of Ghostbusters is in the works.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:36 PM (IEVqH)


Beaver Busters

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (Ze9kt)

580 There Will Be Beavers

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (IEVqH)

581 What was that movie she was in with a young Dennis Quaid...set in Louisiana? I am terrible at remembering movie titles.

-
The Big Easy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (+y/Ru)

582 Citizen Beaver

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (2wOtx)

583 The Rocky Horror Beaver Show

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (Db5JQ)

584 Beavercus.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:40 PM (NWiLs)

585 Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Ze9kt)

The one with the worst Cajun accent I've ever heard? The Big Easy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (2DOZq)

586 And who can forget the timeless "Stop! or my Mom will shoot!"

Estelle Getty

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (ycWCI)

587 >>>Artificial intelligence id no threat. The truly infinite supply of natural stupidity will overwhelm it.<<<

AI will turn on itself and commit suicide. Error! Error! Error!

Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (J7XgW)

588 The Wind and The Beaver

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (IEVqH)

589 Nobody else likes the old Bruce Lee flicks? Enter the Beaver?

Posted by: hogmartin at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (y87Qq)

590 The Beaver Always Rings Twice

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:41 PM (NWiLs)

591 Don't Tell Mom the Beaver's Dead

National Lampoon's BeaverTrip

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (W+vEI)

592 Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 21, 2018 09:34 PM (w+Jhj)

I haven't seen about 90% of the movies that are commented on. I have never seen a Star wars movie. Just not into it

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Ymy4N)

593 Beaver Dundee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (efC8N)

594 533 Can you just imagine SJW programming of AIs?
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:31 PM (hMwEB)

AI is a slur!

AI is a slur!

AI is a slur!

AI is a slur!

AI is a slur!

Quit disparaging my people, you bigoted robophobe!

Posted by: SJWBOT 5000 at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (J7NdS)

595 The Beaver Strikes Back

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Db5JQ)

596 Beaver of Fire

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (NWiLs)

597 "Find a copy of the Fredric Brown short story Etaoin Shrdlu, about a linotype machine that becomes sentient. It is a hoot."

I did, and it is ! Thanks !


While on the subject of thanks, thanks to the several commenters who mentioned "Bosch" on Amazon Prime.
Enjoying it so far ...


And yes, "Rocky" is the only one of the series I liked, certainly in the top 20-or-so for me.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Mbmmf)

598 Gone With the Beaver

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (NWiLs)

599 No Country For Old Beavers

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (IEVqH)

600
First Blood

Stallone vs....



Brian Dennehy

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (EzdLW)

601 In the summer of 75, I was at a high school marine biology camp at Dauphin Island, Alabama. We'd collect and identify specimens and so forth. Every day, we'd wade out into the water with these huge nets and catch all kind of creatures.

One day, the teachers decided we'd worked hard enough and brought us into town to see a movie.

The movie was Jaws.

The next day no one wanted to wade into the water very far.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (l9m7l)

602 Silicon Valley driverless car scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs
Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:28 PM (W+vEI)
---
LOL, in season 4 poor Jared comes across that driverless car in the late Peter Gregory's garage and flinches in terror.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (qJtVm)

603 Dirty Beaver

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (2DOZq)

604 No Beaver for Old Men

Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (NWiLs)

605 What was that movie she was in with a young Dennis Quaid...set in Louisiana? I am terrible at remembering movie titles.

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Ze9kt)

++++

The Big Easy.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (pvjTE)

606 596 Beaver of Fire
Posted by: Insomniac at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (NWiLs)

They should make a topical ointment for that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (ycWCI)

607 every time an entity makes a decision, it exercises free will

animals have free will

if an AI can make a real decision, not predetermined by a programmer, that is free will.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:35 PM (hMwEB)


Well ... just the phrase "make a decision" starts the problem. It's an ill-defined term that doesn't seem to correspond to anything. You don't really "make decisions". They appear to your conscious. That's it. You don't actually DO anything.

ANyway, things get very murky when you try to nail down any piece of "free will" (which is why our courts are such mockeries of reason). It is something that is extra-physical in most estimates - organization that comes from nowhere at no cost, pretty much. You cannot know if there is any such thing as free will and you cannot know, by the same token, if any program exercises any sort of free will.

As to applying the concept to other animals ... that also gets very murky very quickly. Many who do accept the concept don't apply it to other forms of life. Most, I might even hazard.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (8gDQu)

608 and nood !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (Mbmmf)

609 AI is a slur!

Quit disparaging my people, you bigoted robophobe!
Posted by: SJWBOT 5000 at April 21, 2018 09:42 PM (J7NdS)


I prefer the term "Artificial Person" myself.

Posted by: Bishop at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (y87Qq)

610 Beaver, Jugs and Speed

Posted by: weirdflunky at April 21, 2018 09:44 PM (Db5JQ)

611 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (8gDQu)

watch an animal hunt - myriad of decisions occurring

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 21, 2018 09:45 PM (hMwEB)

612
Dirty Beaver

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:43 PM (2DOZq)

One third of a triple feature, along with Dances With Beavers, and Little Big Beaver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:45 PM (efC8N)

613 Beaver Rain

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 21, 2018 09:47 PM (PUmDY)

614
Saving Private Beaver

The Beaver Over the River Kwai

From Beaver To Eternity

Posted by: Hands at April 21, 2018 09:47 PM (EzdLW)

615 Merry Beaver Mr. Lawrence

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 21, 2018 09:49 PM (qJtVm)

616 429 >>I don't think AI is going to be any threat in the future.





Here's what scares me: Siri, Alexa, Cortana breeding helpless idiots.



Recently the local news did a story on some city plan to install
smartphone chargers. The did some 'man on the street' bits with young
people saying how scary it is because "you can't find your way home"
when your battery dies and other examples of how they are helpless
without Siri giving them directions, etc.



It's not a single robot that will destroy us, but allowing people to
give up thinking on their own because, "Hey Siri, what is [whatever}?"
instead of thinking, or bothering to possess a map, etc.



(I don't sound 29, eh?)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (W+vEI)

It will be the Russians or Chinese when they stop laughing and make a move. The bad guys have way more patience than us.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:49 PM (n13/j)

617 473 Find a copy of the Fredric Brown short story Etaoin Shrdlu, about a linotype machine that becomes sentient. It is a hoot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2018 09:16 PM (efC8N)


Frederic Brown! Never expected to see him on the movie thread...though there was Mars Attacks!

My favorite Frederic Brown book is Night of the Jabberwock, which all takes place in one extraordinary, drunken night, seasoned with Lewis Carroll references throughout.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 09:50 PM (Vb4BV)

618 Tequila Beaver

Posted by: Prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 09:50 PM (Ze9kt)

619 I've thought about writing a blogpost on the anti-Christian message of Amadeus. But it doesn't do it well, because the Salieri character has such an unChristian concept of God. So I think it was trying to be anti-Christian for those who dont know much about Christianity. "Yeah, why would God give Salieri the desire to write music and then deny him the talent?" Since Forman followed it up many years later with a hagiography of Larry Flynt and the demonization of Jerry Falwell, I thought he might have had issues about Christianity, but I'm inferring an awful lot from very little evidence.

Posted by: Jim S. at April 21, 2018 09:50 PM (ynUnH)

620 576 Captain Kirk taught us how to handle AI in at least four episodes. Just ask it a logic question to put it in a loop.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2018 09:39 PM (2DOZq)


Does that work with SJWs? I mean, they regard logic as a tool of oppression by the white hetero cis-normal patriarchy.

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 09:52 PM (sdi6R)

621 see? SEE?

I told you the great canon of beaver movies was funny.

These are all a strong showing.

How we, all those years ago, overlooked
The Rocky Horror Beaver Show, I cannot say.

All Quiet on the Western Beaver. an epic war/beaver

Posted by: retropox at April 21, 2018 09:52 PM (SS/La)

622 One more piece of Frederic Brown trivia: the Star Trek Original Series episode with the Gorn was derived from his excellent short story Arena.

"He know, Doctor. He has reasoned it out."

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 09:53 PM (Vb4BV)

623
If one wishes to ponder questions of infinity and the relationship with free will and consciousness, I recommend "Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker.

No one has a clue what consciousness is. There is a tendency to make the question go away by pretending it doesn't really exist.

Free will is...problematic.

Posted by: publius, the Persistently Priapic Poperin Pear at April 21, 2018 09:53 PM (8O3HH)

624 Infinity War is a big deal and it's very confusing that the article about Blockbusters doesn't even reference it by name. This is a summer movie that's coming in spring, but it's ten years in the making.

Posted by: Max Power at April 21, 2018 09:54 PM (QCc6B)

625 The Big Easy Beaver

Posted by: booknlass at April 21, 2018 09:56 PM (xGMkv)

626 Yay! Fredric Brown is being mentioned! He wrote flash fiction before flash fiction was cool. Or even named. My favorite stories of his are "Letter to a Phoenix" and "Hall of Mirrors".

Posted by: Jim S. at April 21, 2018 09:59 PM (ynUnH)

627 622 One more piece of Frederic Brown trivia: the Star Trek Original Series episode with the Gorn was derived from his excellent short story Arena.

"He know, Doctor. He has reasoned it out."
Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 09:53 PM (Vb4BV)

I read somewhere that they wrote it independently and then someone noticed how similar it was to Brown's famous story, so they gave him partial credit.

Posted by: Jim S. at April 21, 2018 10:00 PM (ynUnH)

628 There used to be a summer drive in, up in Goldendale WA. It was in a wheat field. They showed mostly old John Wayne movies. It was really perfect. Kids could run around and not get hurt.

And I went to a drive in after my wedding in 1971. We went with the best man and his girlfriend. We bought so much stuff at the snack bar that they gave us free passes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2018 10:01 PM (Lqy/e)

629 Notsothoreau, that's a great story. what a good night!

Posted by: booknlass at April 21, 2018 10:05 PM (xGMkv)

630 442---Posted by: buzzion at April 21, 2018 09:08 PM (cAnNx)
---------------------------
Hey, thanks for that info about viewers.
Very interesting.

Yuuuuge difference between Game of Thrones and Girls, eh? And yet the media called the latter a "hit."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 21, 2018 10:09 PM (0jtPF)

631 627 I read somewhere that they wrote it independently and then someone noticed how similar it was to Brown's famous story, so they gave him partial credit.
Posted by: Jim S. at April 21, 2018 10:00 PM (ynUnH)


That is...implausible, despite the substantial differences in villain. At the least, they must have re-framed it in some ways. In particular, the omniscient alien who sets the whole thing up. Hard to believe that did not come from the story.

Posted by: Splunge at April 21, 2018 10:10 PM (Vb4BV)

632 Hell, we even have a second remake of Ocean's 11 (this time all girls).

=============

Can't wait for the all girls version of Saving Private Ryan.

Posted by: ShainS at April 21, 2018 10:13 PM (BiLU+)

633
483 - I put Marvel's Avengers up there with old fun adventure films. It was rip roaring fun with interesting memorable characters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2018 09:18 PM (39g3+)

I will take that recommendation sir. Not my genre but I am willing to check it out.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 10:21 PM (n13/j)

634 We lived near Modesto when American Graffiti came out. Since George Lucas was a local boy, it was a very big deal. And it really was like what the movie depicted back in the day.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2018 10:28 PM (Lqy/e)

635 12 Angry Beavers

Posted by: rickl at April 21, 2018 10:29 PM (sdi6R)

636 96 Atomic Blonde: Nice twist at the end. Plus the little skinny woman who's been beating the crap out of a building full of Stasi LOOKS LIKE IT afterwards.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 21, 2018 10:30 PM (OkKDg)

637 439
Although I have never seen Jaws II or for that mater Jaws I, a couple of
the Gilpin kids had small parts in it. The Gilpins lived about a mile
from me in Dallas and I was friends with them, especially Peri. Peri
used to go drinking with my crowd when she was a kid but then she got
serious about acting and she moved to NYC. I was happy to see her move,
she was just spinning her wheels in Dallas. They are a nice family.
They all had the acting bug.

Posted by: REDACTED at April 21, 2018 09:07 PM (Ymy4N)

Well if you ever see them, start with Jaws and then forget Jaws 2, the latter is ok I guess but not great. . Peri Gilpin was in Jaws? I guess some kid on the beach of something. I am a big Frasier fan. Gilpin's character Roz Doyle om Fraiser was named after a Producer on Wings (another fave) who passed away before Frasier started. Steve Levitan produced both shows.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 10:37 PM (n13/j)

638 Yeah, and he wrote the bloody thing. But people saw him as the dumb persona he created, interesting.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 09:32 PM




At least they never called him the Bayonne Bleeder

Posted by: Chuck Wepner at April 21, 2018 09:33 PM (EzdLW)

Interesting stuff. I guess the net is good for something.

Posted by: Quint at April 21, 2018 11:11 PM (n13/j)

639 634 We lived near Modesto when American Graffiti came out. Since George Lucas was a local boy, it was a very big deal. And it really was like what the movie depicted back in the day.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2018 10:28 PM (Lqy/e)


I'm wistful for a time I never lived.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 11:19 PM (Ze9kt)

640 Gilpin's character Roz Doyle om Fraiser was named after a Producer on Wings (another fave) who passed away before Frasier started. Steve Levitan produced both shows.


I didn't know that about Roz. I love Frasier. I do remember they lost a writer and spouse on 9/11. Marcie something? I think. Something like that.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 21, 2018 11:23 PM (Ze9kt)

641 Thanks for the tip on Executive Suite! Really enjoyed it.

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2018 01:06 AM (mk9aG)

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