Saturday Evening Movie Thread: A Man Called Pearl (2006) [movigique]

Hey, guys--

This is a "reprint" of a review from 2008, a documentary you might have missed (like "Finding Vivien Meier", covered a couple months ago), but I wanted to add a little foreword in memory of Oregon Muse.

For about 2 years until last September, OM took my HTML and formatted it (removing all the little black diamonds the hamsters don't like) and re-sized my pictures so they wouldn't wreck the margins--I had completely reversed the dimension requirements--as well as reminding me if I forgot to send the pictures, and doing the general sort of nitpicky stuff that keeps AOSHQ the well-oiled smart military blog it is.

If you've ever tried to negotiate that stuff, you know that it can get annoying fast, but OM was always patient and careful about getting things right, which is one of the best characteristics I can think of for anyone to have. (I've been doing my own uploads since about September, and I'm less patient with myself than he was.)

Anyway, I liked him a lot and I'm going to miss him.

Now, on to the review!
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The documentary-as-hagiography without a political end is a neglected genre.

I say this non-facetiously. A lot of people have done really cool things, and we don't really need to know about the not cool things they've done. We've all done the non-cool things, for the most part, and there's no point in letting that trivializing the good stuff.

Just an opinion, of course. Some of us do seem to enjoy a good wallow. And it's hard to imagine some documentaries, like Crumb or Bukowski - Born Into This without considerable examination of these men's flaws.

The Man of the Hour. The Hour of Flower Power. Or something.

But it’s nice to have a movie that’s along the lines of “Here’s a cool dude and here’s the cool stuff he’s done.” Exempli gratia, A Man Named Pearl. The only remote negativity is the ghost of racism, which is ameliorated by the fact that his current best friend is a white 40-something female museum curator.

Pearl Fryar bought a house nearly 25 years ago in Bishopville in South Carolina, not welcome in certain areas because, apparently, he wouldn’t keep his yard up. So, the marginally educated, 3 decade veteran of a can company bought his house elsewhere (with 3 acres of land! we who live in L.A. salute you!) and embarked on a horticultural journey which may ultimately have the effect of revitalizing his somewhat backward hometown.

What's going on here? I don't know, but it's amazing!

First, he had no training, apart from a four-minute how-to on “bonsai”. Second, he builds his garden entirely with cast-offs from the local nursery. Third, he has plants thriving in his yard that really shouldn’t be. Fourth, he uses a hand chainsaw, which is totally inappropriate.

Most importantly, however, Pearl worked weekends–and nights, using a big lamp–for decades and turned his yard into a masterpiece.

And there’s your story.

It’s simple. It’s got lots of great pictures of sculpted bushes and trees, and Pearl Frayer working on them. It’s got his church group, a museum curator, the manager of the local Waffle House, and lots of kids talking about the inspiration the old guy gives them.

There’s a nice message about race relations, God, and the value of hard work–and the value of hard work doing something you love.

I confess, about 20 minutes in, I thought, “Oh, my God! It’s a real live magic negro!” But in that thought, I realize the problem with that stock character: Fryar isn’t magical, he just works his ass off. He’s not a saint, he’s just a really good role model. He’s actually a living example of why that stereotype is offensive.

Bishopville's #1 Tourist Attraction, totally blowing away The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

It’s a nice, hopeful movie with nice, hopeful people in it. It’s about ten minutes too long. Even at that, it’s hard to object too strongly.

And if the people of Bishopville work half as hard as Fryar does, they’re going to be all right.

This review is from 2008, before I had come up with my 3-point documentary scale. I've corrected the spelling of Mr. Fryar's name, fixed the broken links (the Internet is forever, but not usefully so), and added the pictures as well as the content below. (Also, I could refer to "the ghost of racism" with a straight face.)

Subject matter: One man doing what he can is not the sort of epic material, e.g. Oscar likes to celebrate. In 2006, two of the documentary nominees were anti-Iraq-war, two others were anti-Christian, and the winner, of course, was the risible scaremongering propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth. Stuff like this is great in the way Rodney Smith Jr.'s "50 Yard Challenge" is great: It's unalloyed goodness that improves the world just by being there.

Presentation: Plain as can be, but with lots of nice pictures of gardens.

Slant. Yeah, it's a hagiography. And that's cool, man.

Unfortunately, Bishopville has continued to dwindle in the past 15 years since the documentary was made. I blame the Lizard Man.

He got the lyrics to the song wrong, but I still don't see what's so funny about it.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:50 PM

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Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 07:59 PM (2JoB8)

2 Some new movies on the docket: Kingmaker, The Policeman's Lineage and Happy New Year (all Korean), Belle (Japanese), the Coen MacBeth, and maybe even that Bradley Cooper noir thing.

Y'all?

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:00 PM (asXVI)

3 So we are doing crop circles now?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 29, 2022 08:01 PM (bVYXr)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2022 08:02 PM (arJlL)

5 what is this thread about

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 08:02 PM (geLO8)

6 This reminds me, I need to shave my balls.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:03 PM (LKTKP)

7 I can't tell

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 08:03 PM (geLO8)

8 Wut is this?

Posted by: Johan Goldberg at January 29, 2022 08:05 PM (BFigT)

9 Doing topiary has to be work, but also creating out of what your given

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 08:05 PM (2JoB8)

10 And who was OpenBlogger?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM (dNqv+)

11 Who wrote this thread?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM (Dc2NZ)

12 I think I need to smoke a bowl.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM (+ya+t)

13 This reminds me, I need to shave my balls.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Jeebus Man! Be careful!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM (mD/uy)

14

GEOTUS up "soon" from Conroe, TX...

(0100Z, 2000 EST)

https://is.gd/GEOTUS_from_Conroe_TX

Link to RSBN, will be live for the speech

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM (9TjH4)

15 Last chance. I have an extra livestream link to the Flash Cadillac concert. The leader of the band is, of course, our Emmie's hubby. It's on now. Anyone interested, shoot me an email...my nick at the centurylink thingy with a dot net on the end. (Centurylink does like me...they're still processing my emails five years after I left them.

Anyhow, link is here for the asking.

Posted by: creeper at January 29, 2022 08:07 PM (cTCuP)

16
Frayer isn't magical, he just works his ass off.

You never what can happen when you say What The Hell and just dive into something and Just Try.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:07 PM (VfZkq)

17 Ooops...that 7:00 PM start time on the concert is MST, not Central. No wonder I'm hearing the Beatles.

Posted by: creeper at January 29, 2022 08:08 PM (cTCuP)

18 That fucking sock has been on all fucking day. I'm conflicted here....

Come on man... I don't have any weed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2022 08:08 PM (BFigT)

19 Who wrote this thread?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Movie Geek

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:09 PM (VfZkq)

20 This reminds me, I need to shave my balls.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:03 PM (LKTKP)

Try a Brazilian wax, it is so much more entertaining for the rest of us.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2022 08:09 PM (ZMraq)

21 https://is.gd/GEOTUS_from_Conroe_TX

Link to RSBN, will be live for the speech

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 08:06 PM

Errr, link to RUMBLE...

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 08:10 PM (9TjH4)

22 OK, ok, in my defense, I uploaded this weeks ago and had to pull it twice. First, 'cause I'm a moron and posted around the same time TJM did. Second time a week later when there was confusion about who was supposed to post.

It's still good, though. Five second rule: Any post that falls on the floor is still edible if you repost in five seconds.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:11 PM (asXVI)

23 I'd be interested, in a clinical way, to see someone shave their own balls.

Without blood.

And a fresh slap of Aquashave.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2022 08:11 PM (BFigT)

24
Nothing wrong with the post.

The Boomers are easily confused.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:12 PM (VfZkq)

25 Mike and rich at RLM review of the bloody messterpiece "Total Recall":

https://tinyurl.com/2yrmtbdf

Mike is right, there will never be another master of gratuitous squibbage like Verhoeven.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

26 Well, since this appears to be some kind of movie thread, I need to get me The Straight Story. Directed by David Lynch. Starring Richard Farnsworth. I've seen it only once, but holy hell it was powerful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Who Dis? at January 29, 2022 08:14 PM (x8Wzq)

27 I had to check it out, here's the trailer for "A Man Named Pearl".

https://tinyurl.com/aa8wcbp6

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:15 PM (4thlk)

28 In Loveland OH there was a guy that built a huge castle from scrounged river rocks and the like. I met him one day on a visit. It was quite a thing now a state park

Posted by: Oldcat at January 29, 2022 08:15 PM (eoQWY)

29 GEOTUS up "soon" from Conroe, TX

Conroe is just a bit up the toad from me. My mom is at this.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:15 PM (3YVs3)

30 Toads. Roads. Whatever.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:16 PM (3YVs3)

31 Big fan of original Predator, never understood why anyone liked Predator 2. Because I kept seeing good comments about it, decided to do first rewatch since it came out.
Within five minutes, I realize, it's a comedy! Still don't think it's that good, but with so many bad sequals now, it's no longer in my list of worst movies seen.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 29, 2022 08:16 PM (C/fpg)

32 Yes, for those still confused, this is the 2-out-of-every-three-Saturdays movie thread, and the 1-out-of-every-three-Saturdays moviegique movie thread.

I apologize for the math.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:17 PM (asXVI)

33 I have not seen any new movies lately.

I did see Archive81 on Netflix. One season. If you like Lovecraftian horror, you should enjoy it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:18 PM (3YVs3)

34 Yes, for those still confused, this is the 2-out-of-every-three-Saturdays movie thread, and the 1-out-of-every-three-Saturdays moviegique movie thread.

I apologize for the math.
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:17 PM (asXVI)

"I don't get it." -- TJM

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 29, 2022 08:18 PM (AiZBA)

35 Kristen Bell is a qt3.14.

Posted by: I mean... at January 29, 2022 08:18 PM (l5LYs)

36 The whole "Magic Negro" nonsense is a left wing racist creation. I've been around a long time and been to a lot of places. People are people.

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 08:20 PM (AmoqO)

37 31 Big fan of original Predator, never understood why anyone liked Predator 2. Because I kept seeing good comments about it, decided to do first rewatch since it came out.
Within five minutes, I realize, it's a comedy! Still don't think it's that good, but with so many bad sequals now, it's no longer in my list of worst movies seen.
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 29, 2022 08:16 PM (C/fpg)

Predator was another in a long list of films that did not need a sequel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:20 PM (dNqv+)

38 35 Kristen Bell is a qt3.14.
Posted by: I mean... at January 29, 2022 08:18 PM (l5LYs)

*types* *deletes* Things better not to know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:21 PM (dNqv+)

39 Was there a Predator III as well?
Agree the first should have ended it.

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 08:21 PM (2JoB8)

40 LOL, Pearl says he doesn't have the patience to wash his car, but he does have the patience to work on a gardening project for five to ten years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ia_RbfIF0

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:22 PM (Dc2NZ)

41 39 Was there a Predator III as well?
Agree the first should have ended it.
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 08:21 PM (2JoB

I think they are up to five or six of the things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:23 PM (dNqv+)

42 Have any of the Predator sequels been good? None that I have seen were, but I quit even trying to watch them and have not seen several.

Predator is an 80s movie that isn't just good by 80s standards, it's just plain good. It's one of the few movies of the Maid-Fucker that really hold up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:23 PM (3YVs3)

43 >>> The whole "Magic Negro" nonsense is a left wing racist creation.

I think Spike Lee coined the phrase, or maybe popularized it.

Stephen King loves him some magic negros.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:24 PM (UnQlg)

44 Was there a Predator III as well?
Agree the first should have ended it.

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 08:21 PM

There has been six movies with predators in them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 29, 2022 08:25 PM (bVYXr)

45 I haven't watched anything new either, nothing out there that makes me want to spend any money on. I see Nicolas Cage's Pig is out on streaming, worth spending 10 bucks on?

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:25 PM (4thlk)

46 I really liked Pig.

It is Nick Cage craziness. And I'm a fan of that. So full disclosure.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:26 PM (3YVs3)

47 42 Have any of the Predator sequels been good? None that I have seen were, but I quit even trying to watch them and have not seen several.

Predator is an 80s movie that isn't just good by 80s standards, it's just plain good. It's one of the few movies of the Maid-Fucker that really hold up.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:23 PM (3YVs3)

Supposedly 'Predators' was not TOO awful, except everyone made fun of Adrian Brody gargling gravel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:26 PM (dNqv+)

48 Have any of the Predator sequels been good? None that I have seen were, but I quit even trying to watch them and have not seen several.

Predator is an 80s movie that isn't just good by 80s standards, it's just plain good. It's one of the few movies of the Maid-Fucker that really hold up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:23 PM

Fun fact, the blood of the predator is the stuff from inside of a green glow stick. I have no clue what they used for the alien blood.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (bVYXr)

49
I'm just happy Morgan Freeman isn't in every new movie anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (VfZkq)

50 I'm starting a movie called Gunpowder Milkshake, and it is giving off strong Tarantino vibes. But now I notice that every Tarantino movie is 10/10 for Tarantino-ness, whereas the second place runner-up might be 7/10. This movie is a 6 or 7 so far.

The movie Charade with Audrey Hepburn, I have mistaken for a Hitchcock movie. It is 10/10 for Hitchcock-ness.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (ybIRR)

51 ||LOL, Pearl says he doesn't have the patience to wash his car, but he does have the patience to work on a gardening project for five to ten years:

That's an honest man right there.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:28 PM (asXVI)

52 >>> Nicolas Cage's Pig is out

That'll do, Nick. That'll do.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:28 PM (UnQlg)

53 I'm just happy Morgan Freeman isn't in every new movie anymore.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (VfZkq)

When is he doing the biopic for Nelson Mandela?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2022 08:29 PM (ZMraq)

54 A Man Named Pearl, what a man can do.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 08:30 PM (9v1sv)

55 Nicolas Cage's Pig is out

Uh oh. I hope it gets returned safely!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 08:31 PM (II3Gr)

56 "Pig" is probably my pick for best of 2021 and it's pretty sedate as far as Cage performances go.

https://moviegique.com/2021/09/pig-2021/

If you want cray-cray Cage, "Prisoners of the Ghostland", also 2021:

https://moviegique.com/2021/10/prisoners-of-the-ghostland/

Yes, my theater-going in 2021 had an unusually high Cage-to-non-Cage ratio.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:31 PM (asXVI)

57 Some new movies on the docket: Kingmaker, The Policeman's Lineage and Happy New Year (all Korean), Belle (Japanese), the Coen MacBeth, and maybe even that Bradley Cooper noir thing.

Y'all?
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:00 PM (asXVI)

Are those movies you're going to watch or movies that are going to come out? Because I'll give a hard pass to any Kingsman entry. I'm also sick of seeing the ads for the silly Jennifer Lopez flick Marry Me.

Local classical station now playing Ravel's Piano Concerto For the Left Hand.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:33 PM (2JVJo)

58 The Adrian Brody Predators was panned as bad, but it is actually pretty good.

Predator 2 is unremittingly grim, I saw it when I was 13. I was thinking "These voodoo sacrifices (downtown LA amirite?) are much more disturbing than any alien action later.)

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2022 08:33 PM (ybIRR)

59 Has anyone seen the movie "Redeeming Love"? I'm going to see it this week. The trailer looks good and I loved the book.

Posted by: Iris at January 29, 2022 08:33 PM (6lKe4)

60 52 >>> Nicolas Cage's Pig is out

That'll do, Nick. That'll do.
Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:28 PM (UnQlg)

ha

pitter patter

Posted by: redclay at January 29, 2022 08:34 PM (zakMt)

61 I mean, yeah, it's sedate compared to Prisoners. But Mandy is less crazy than Prisoners. Prisoners cannot be the benchmark for crazy, because other crazy pales in comparison to Prisoners. It's dial goes up to 11.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 08:34 PM (3YVs3)

62 Predator 2 is unremittingly grim, I saw it when I was 13. I was thinking "These voodoo sacrifices (downtown LA amirite?) are much more disturbing than any alien action later.)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2022 08:33 PM (ybIRR)

Yeah. The bits on the subway were also pretty horrific. It is an uneven movie to say the least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:34 PM (dNqv+)

63
Remember when movie trailers were normal?

https://youtu.be/N-rif_Bym54

Fandango, 1985, starring Kelvin Costner and Jug Nelsom

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:35 PM (VfZkq)

64 Free movie channel has had James Garner movies lately. Forgot about "Support Your Local Sheriff" and "Duel at Diablo". Good movies.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 08:35 PM (+ya+t)

65
President is live:

https://youtu.be/rsDSkvKT91s

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (VfZkq)

66 49 I'm just happy Morgan Freeman isn't in every new movie anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (VfZkq)

He's all over the History Channel or Science Channel, whichever. Actually not the worst programing. Step above "How It's Made".

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (AmoqO)

67 Kristin Bell is cute fersher. She also can sing. She removed herself from the "Central Park" animated show because her character was biracial and Bell is an Aryan poster child.

You know who else was cute? Kristine DeBell. A fine, funny actress who apparently bought into the "soon, ALL legitimate actresses will be doing porno" line and killed her career with a performance in the X-rated "Alice in Wonderland".

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (asXVI)

68 Nicolas Pig's Cage is out?

Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (63Dwl)

69 In Loveland OH there was a guy that built a huge castle from scrounged river rocks and the like. I met him one day on a visit. It was quite a thing now a state park
Posted by: Oldcat at January 29, 2022 08:15 PM (eoQWY)

Have you ever heard of Edward Leedskalnin's Coral Castle in Florida?

https://tinyurl.com/my6aksd3

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (2JVJo)

70 This reminds me, I need to shave my balls.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:03 PM (LKTKP)

Try a Brazilian wax, it is so much more entertaining for the rest of us.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2022 08:09 PM (ZMraq)

Carnuba! For that enduring glossy shine!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (4I/2K)

71

GEOTUS is coming to the podium now!

https://is.gd/GEOTUS_from_Conroe_TX

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (eQVV8)

72 I was just checking my movies I "own" on Amazon, last one I bought was "Free Guy". Ace talked me into it, I thought it was 'Meh'.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:37 PM (4thlk)

73 I finally saw "Nomadland", director Chloe Zhao's flick starring Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her shuttered company town and travels in her van taking odd jobs. It's a very laid back story. I enjoyed it a lot.

I feel sorry for Zhao for being offered a superhero movie that bombed. This was a good documentary-style film but there was nothing in it that screamed BIG LOUD CROWD-PLEASER.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:37 PM (Dc2NZ)

74 Trump up!

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 08:37 PM (+ya+t)

75 Carnuba! For that enduring glossy shine!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (4I/2K

Even on low, the oscillating buffer is rough on the ole family jewels.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:38 PM (LKTKP)

76 >>> Local classical station now playing Ravel's Piano Concerto For the Left Hand.

What was the insolent noise they were playing about 20 minutes ago?

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:38 PM (UnQlg)

77 Thanks for the movie thread, one of my weekly favorites.

Watched Nightmare Alley at the theater this week.

It was weird and mostly pointless and depressing.

Funny how after the movie was over I remembered hearing all of the twitterings about the full frontal nude scene of Bradley Cooper. I must have missed that part, even tho I watched the entire movie. Maybe it was overblown hype to stir up interest in a blah movie?

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (tW7e2)

78
RSNB are amateurs!

Turn on his mic, you dummies!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (VfZkq)

79 Carnuba! For that enduring glossy shine!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 08:36 PM (4I/2K)

*squeaky surface*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (dNqv+)

80 ||Are those movies you're going to watch or movies that are going to come out?||

Some I just saw, some have just been released.

|| Because I'll give a hard pass to any Kingsman entry.||

"Kingmaker" is a Korean political thriller. They're kind of hard to follow but they also don't hate me, so.

|| I'm also sick of seeing the ads for the silly Jennifer Lopez flick Marry Me. ||

I passed a single bus-station ad for it on my way home from "Belle" and I said to the kids, "I THINK FIFTY IS A LITTLE OLD TO BE PLAYING BLUSHING BRIDES, JLO."

Heck, even almost 29 is kind of pushing it.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (asXVI)

81 I really enjoyed "Predators", it's the best after the original movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (Dc2NZ)

82 73 I finally saw "Nomadland", director Chloe Zhao's flick starring Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her shuttered company town and travels in her van taking odd jobs. It's a very laid back story. I enjoyed it a lot.

I feel sorry for Zhao for being offered a superhero movie that bombed. This was a good documentary-style film but there was nothing in it that screamed BIG LOUD CROWD-PLEASER.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:37 PM (Dc2NZ)

Enjoyed that one too. Did you see her in Three Billboards?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:40 PM (LKTKP)

83 Watching some korean zombie tv series

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 29, 2022 08:40 PM (lCui1)

84 ||It was weird and mostly pointless and depressing.

*scratches Bradley Cooper noir-thing off the list*

It didn't really look good, but times are lean.

We've got the vaccine mandates so I let my AMC membership lapse and I can't go to my local indie.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:41 PM (asXVI)

85 83 Watching some korean zombie tv series
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 29, 2022 08:40 PM (lCui1)

The Kingdom or Kingdom or whatever?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 08:41 PM (dNqv+)

86 Have Trump on my tablet
Haven't seen any movies much even to me

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 08:42 PM (2JoB8)

87 I really enjoyed "Predators", it's the best after the original movie.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:39 PM (Dc2NZ)

Liked it better than the original.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:42 PM (4v2Bk)

88 Damn there's a lot of people at the Trump rally.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 08:42 PM (+ya+t)

89 Enjoyed that one too. Did you see her in Three Billboards?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:40 PM (LKTKP)

Not yet. Is it lecture-y?

I'm usually in for anything with Frances McD. I go for the character actors and actresses.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:42 PM (Dc2NZ)

90 While I was resting from snow shoveling this morning (spoiler: my snowblower still won't turn over), I passed out on the couch and watched the 1918 Pola Negri movie Eyes of the Mummy. You'd think, with that title, that it was some Egyptian horror/ suspense movie, but it isn't. Negri plays a dancing girl who wins the heart of a rich Englishman and marries him, but is followed (and eventually killed) by Radu, an Arab who has sworn revenge on her for deserting him.

I like it. You probably wouldn't.

https://tinyurl.com/yeytp9t5

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:43 PM (2JVJo)

91 Anyone see the older movie The Cooler? I thought it was a very good movie other than Alec Baldwin chewing up his scenes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:43 PM (4v2Bk)

92 ||Watching some korean zombie tv series

That started around the same time as "Rampant", which is a Korean zombie historical drama.

https://moviegique.com/2018/11/rampant/

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:43 PM (asXVI)

93 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 29, 2022 08:43 PM (+4oV5)

94 What was the insolent noise they were playing about 20 minutes ago?
Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:38 PM (UnQlg)

Alban Berg's "Three Pieces for Orchestra." Yuk.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:44 PM (2JVJo)

95 Hoping for Pig II: Fuck Seattle!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:44 PM (Dc2NZ)

96 El Jefe Grande, El Presidente de los Nortenos,
El Presidente de los Estados Unidos todo ariba.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 08:44 PM (9v1sv)

97 ||Anyone see the older movie The Cooler? I thought it was a very good movie other than Alec Baldwin chewing up his scenes.||

I'm a sucker for a William H. Macy flick.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (asXVI)

98 Kristin Bell is cute fersher. She also can sing. She removed herself from the "Central Park" animated show because her character was biracial and Bell is an Aryan poster child.

*

I'm guessing she's also not a two dimensional cartoon character, but hey, that's okay because (Jedi hand wave) reasons. Seems like you kind of have to pick and choose what you're going to "not" be once you start down that dumbass road. You know the one thing you are, though? An actor. Whose job is to pretend to be things like a biracial whatever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (CUxst)

99 The God-King speaks!

$5 he drops a son of a bitch.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (6VxHv)

100 >>> Alban Berg's "Three Pieces for Orchestra." Yuk.

It was no Vivaldi.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (UnQlg)

101 While I was resting from snow shoveling this morning (spoiler: my snowblower still won't turn over)...

**
Won't turn over or won't start but is trying to crank?

Because we car guys love those threads.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 08:46 PM (CUxst)

102 Hello, Ladyl!

**hand kiss**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:46 PM (2JVJo)

103 It will be horribly offensive if Trump calls someone a stupid SOB.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 08:46 PM (CUxst)

104 McDormand is wasted often. She is best at quirky. Coen Bros's stuff.

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 08:46 PM (AmoqO)

105 100 >>> Alban Berg's "Three Pieces for Orchestra." Yuk.

It was no Vivaldi.
Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (UnQlg)

It wasn't even a Bag of Hammers in a Dryer.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:47 PM (Dc2NZ)

106 It was no Vivaldi.
Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:45 PM (UnQlg)

I'm not loving this Ravel piece, either. Frankly, I only like his "Bolero" and "Pavane for a Dead Princess."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:47 PM (2JVJo)

107 53 I'm just happy Morgan Freeman isn't in every new movie anymore.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:27 PM (VfZkq)

When is he doing the biopic for Nelson Mandela?
Posted by: Kindltot

He played Mandela in a movie about South Africa's win in the Rugby World Cup. They won it right after ampharetid ended and Mandela became the PM. It was ok in spite of MATT DAMON being in it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 29, 2022 08:47 PM (sAmhv)

108 Not yet. Is it lecture-y?

I'm usually in for anything with Frances McD. I go for the character actors and actresses.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:42 PM (Dc2NZ)

I didn't think so. Just a good story about a mother's fight to get the police to do their job.

Definitely worth watching.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (LKTKP)

109 ampharetid = aparteid

however the hell you spell it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (sAmhv)

110 Eris, I replied to your e-mail. Will be sending 1913 some time next week after I dig out from this rotten storm.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (2JVJo)

111 MP4, I also like Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" and "La Valse".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

112 "Anyone see the older movie The Cooler?"

I take a hard pass on most movies with William Macy in them, he irritates me.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (4thlk)

113 My very dear {{{MP4}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at January 29, 2022 08:49 PM (+4oV5)

114 Bless you Poppins! That period is my jam!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:49 PM (Dc2NZ)

115 It wasn't even a Bag of Hammers in a Dryer.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes

Screwdriver in the disposal? I hate that when it happens.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 08:49 PM (tjZg/)

116 Do see Russians are putting up new movies on YouTube at a good clip.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 08:49 PM (2JoB8)

117 Tonight I'm either going to watch Once Around with Richard Dreyfus or Going the Distance with Drew Barrymore from my DVD collection. Last new movie I've watched is Free Guy .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:50 PM (4v2Bk)

118 Ok this is surreal.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 29, 2022 08:50 PM (6VxHv)

119 Ah the frog and the scorpion fable.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 29, 2022 08:50 PM (6VxHv)

120 Watching Blast from the Past, as recommended by Morons. Cigarette intermission time, lovely movie indeed.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 29, 2022 08:51 PM (OssQ4)

121

🍊 >> 🥔

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 08:51 PM (9TjH4)

122 Anyone see the older movie The Cooler?"

I take a hard pass on most movies with William Macy in them, he irritates me.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (4thlk

Just the opposite of movieique. That's what makes the world go round.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:52 PM (4v2Bk)

123 >>> I'm not loving this Ravel piece, either. Frankly, I only like his "Bolero" and "Pavane for a Dead Princess."

I also like "Prelude to the Afternoon of aFawn", and "Boat on the Ocean". Nice atmospheric pieces. I hate that Mother Goose abomination that they overplay.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 08:52 PM (UnQlg)

124 Richard Dreyfus was always a fun watch.

What about bob and Down and out in Beverly Hills come to mind.

You just have to ignore Bette Midler.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:52 PM (LKTKP)

125 LOL Zettai!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:52 PM (Dc2NZ)

126 $5 he drops a son of a bitch.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Now you're messin' with a ..

A son of a bitch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrE7GzxJ8s

El Donaldo Trumpis could use this as his walk-up music.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 08:54 PM (tjZg/)

127 Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 08:52 PM (LKTKP

Yes he was really good in The Goodbye Girl.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:54 PM (4v2Bk)

128
PDT just said biden abdicated his duty.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:54 PM (VfZkq)

129 You can't forget. Support Your Local Sherrif, it pretty much defined the genre. Not saying it was first, but it is the classic.

Posted by: Quint at January 29, 2022 08:54 PM (TWbux)

130 84 ||It was weird and mostly pointless and depressing.

*scratches Bradley Cooper noir-thing off the list*

It didn't really look good, but times are lean.

We've got the vaccine mandates so I let my AMC membership lapse and I can't go to my local indie.
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:41 PM (asXVI)

2022 was the year for a Cinemark membership - $99 for 14 movies (14 credits) for the year...it's helped me not watch the dreck of January...

Next movie that interests me in theaters is Death on the Nile. And I'm a sucker for Tom Holland as action hero and my kids are begging, so we may see Uncharted, too (or instead)...

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (exHjb)

131 92 ||Watching some korean zombie tv series

That started around the same time as "Rampant", which is a Korean zombie historical drama.

https://moviegique.com/2018/11/rampant/

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:43 PM (asXVI)

Hit "search for" with a tinyurl link instead of just "copy" in the last thread. Got "Korean Tiny Dick" porn site links. Sorry to be so crude. Had to look. AVAST went crazy so I disconnected quickly. Got to be careful.

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (AmoqO)

132 MP4, I also like Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" and "La Valse".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

The local classical station is going to be playing "La Valse" after Holst's "Jupiter."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (2JVJo)

133 ||Whose job is to pretend to be things like a biracial whatever.||

It's so destructive. She was really good in it, too, but that doesn't save you any more. Apu was a beloved Simpson's character but...out he goes!

The Morgan Freeman/Mandela flick is "Invictus", directed by Clint Eastwood.

https://moviegique.com/2010/01/movie-review-invictus/

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (asXVI)

134 I've started and stopped watching The Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn (Jeb Stuart), Olivia de Havilland (what a cutie!!), Ronald Reagan (George Custer), Alan Hale Sr., Raymond Massey, and others. Starts out with them all graduating West Point (Robert E Lee, Commandant) and keynote speech by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. Many of the big name future generals on both sides of The Late Unpleasantness are shown pre-war.

Flynn and Reagan are rivals for de Havilland's affections.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (4I/2K)

135
Snake poem!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:56 PM (VfZkq)

136 It's so destructive. She was really good in it, too, but that doesn't save you any more. Apu was a beloved Simpson's character but...out he goes!

*

It will be neat that Hollywood will have to write exclusively white roles for all of these popular actors that bring eyeballs to screens.

Way to go, dumbasses.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 08:56 PM (CUxst)

137 https://moviegique.com/2018/11/rampant/
Posted by: moviegique

You mean Kingdom? That's a great show
No I'm watching some Korean high school zombie drama
All of Us are Dead
It's kind of meh

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 29, 2022 08:57 PM (lCui1)

138 This has a Howard Finster feel to it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (yQpMk)

139 (Meanwhile, back on topic)
I had to check it out, here's the trailer for "A Man Named Pearl".

https://tinyurl.com/aa8wcbp6
Posted by: lowandslow

Thanks for posting that. He's a fascinating guy. Everyone wants to do something wonderful, but he shows it's a lot of hard work and perseverance to achieve this.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (tjZg/)

140
Kevin Costner is 67.
Magnum PI is 77.

Who looks older?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (VfZkq)

141 ||Hit "search for" with a tinyurl link instead of just "copy" in the last thread.||

I'm not quite sure what you're saying. If you go to that, it takes you to my site. If you search for it (Google or DDG), my site comes up first.

I didn't see anything untoward in either engine.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (asXVI)

142 Funny zombie movie is Boy Scout Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:59 PM (4v2Bk)

143 DJT looks good, most former Presidents look like the years double on them, Trump doesn't.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (2JoB8)

144 I will probably see Uncharted. I watched my wife play the video game, which was pretty cool.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (3YVs3)

145 Good zombie movies:
Shaun of the Dead
Night of the Comet

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (tW7e2)

146 I infer from the "Batman Calzone" at Little Caesars that there is a new Batman movie.

I'm not sure that I have seen half of the ones out there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (yQpMk)

147 ||You mean Kingdom? That's a great show

No, the movie is called "Rampant". But from what I can tell, it's contemporaneous with "Kingdom" and they're very similar plot-wise.

The Koreans do a lot of feeding back-and-forth between movies and TV, as well as the classic Hollywood trick of "Someone is making a movie about X? WE have to make a movie about X!"

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (asXVI)

148 Kevin Costner is 67.
Magnum PI is 77.

Who looks older?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (VfZkq)

Hmmm, both of them have aged pretty gracefully. Selleck seems to be the one who got the weight though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:01 PM (dNqv+)

149 I'm not quite sure what you're saying. If you go to that, it takes you to my site. If you search for it (Google or DDG), my site comes up first.

I didn't see anything untoward in either engine.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 08:58 PM (asXVI)

Not here. It was a tinyurl link someone posted in the last thread, the Hobby one. I tried it twice. Got the same results. I'll go back and try again. Will not open one of the sites,

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 09:01 PM (AmoqO)

150 Hmmm, both of them have aged pretty gracefully. Selleck seems to be the one who got the weight though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:01 PM (dNqv+)

We swing back in 10 years to see how Costner is doing.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (4v2Bk)

151 Didn't Costner endorse Pete Bootyjuice?

Speaks volumes to his mental capacity.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (LKTKP)

152 Good night, Horde

Wake me if they play Beethoven

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (UnQlg)

153
Brad Pitts is 58, btw.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (VfZkq)

154 Just popped in Grumpy Old Men. Seems appropriate for a Minnesota winter.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (CAJOC)

155 Im watching the Greatest Story Ever Told.
Some good, some bad,
They certainly tried.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (Ed8Zd)

156 Funny zombie movie is Boy Scout Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 08:59 PM (4v2Bk)

Agree.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (4I/2K)

157 A son-in-law did a documentary about the basketball team of a tiny unincorporated high school in the Mid-west, a sort of Rust Belt Elegy.

https://tinyurl.com/ye2ybrr6

"Pearl" made me think of it.

Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:02 PM (bJKUl)

158 I take a hard pass on most movies with William Macy in them, he irritates me.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 08:48 PM (4thlk)

Who couldn't love The Shoveler. He shovels.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (yQpMk)

159 Kevin Costner is 67.
Magnum PI is 77.

Who looks older?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Mugman (Tom Selleck) looked pretty weather worn years ago when he did the Jesse Stone movies.
Costner and I are about the same age, but I think I look a lot better....but he's got more money.
It's a toss-up.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (tjZg/)

160 Use to like zombie apocalypse movies, haven't grabbed me as much maybe got burned out by Walking Dead series.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (2JoB8)

161 Kathy Ireland is also 58.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (LKTKP)

162 146 I infer from the "Batman Calzone" at Little Caesars that there is a new Batman movie.

I'm not sure that I have seen half of the ones out there.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:00 PM (yQpMk)

Yes, The Batman movie comes out 1st weekend in March - a long, dark film noir-type movie, so it won't "feel" like the last movies.

I'm also a sucker for almost all superhero movies and the Bat Family and Criminals are my favorite comic characters, so I'll probably be seeing The Batman, too...

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (exHjb)

163 Kristin Bell is cute fersher. She also can sing. She removed herself from the "Central Park" animated show because her character was biracial and Bell is an Aryan poster child.

-
I was surprised to learn that the Nazi did a lot of sub categorizing. There were six or eight subcategories of Aryan of which Nordic was on top. Looks like were heading in that direction but with DNA we can fine tune it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (FVME7)

164 Good grief. Girldog tripped me, being too excited about going out. No broken teeth, maybe a sore nose...DAMN. too old for tripping and falling...

See all on ONT

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 29, 2022 09:04 PM (JfNvZ)

165

Who couldn't love The Shoveler. He shovels.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (yQpMk)

God gave him a gift. He shovels well. He shovels VERY well.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:04 PM (II3Gr)

166
They should do a reunion movie of The Breakfast Club when they turn 60, which is in about a year.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:05 PM (VfZkq)

167 I finally got around to watching Scorcese's 'Silence' last night. Good, not great.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 29, 2022 09:05 PM (sJHOI)

168 The last post apocalyptic movie I've watched is The Rover. It now seems more realistic these days since it takes place in Australia. Good movie by the way.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:06 PM (4v2Bk)

169 || Looks like were heading in that direction but with DNA we can fine tune it. ||

That's good. If there's one thing people complain about when it comes to Nazis, it's their lack of efficiency and attention to the details of race discrimination.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:06 PM (asXVI)

170 There is no accounting for taste. I didn't like The Rover. It seemed pointless.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:06 PM (yQpMk)

171 OAN getting shut down by AT and T. Didn't know they owned them.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:07 PM (+ya+t)

172 The Batman movie

-
I've been playing the Telltale Batman games. The city is disintegrating because of high crime rates and corruption in the government. I play it for, you know, escapism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:07 PM (FVME7)

173 DJT just gave a shout out to the Canadian truckers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM (P3gRi)

174
AT&T owns Direct TV, and they are dropping OAN from their cable....I think.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM (VfZkq)

175 Next movie that interests me in theaters is Death on the Nile. And I'm a sucker for Tom Holland as action hero and my kids are begging, so we may see Uncharted, too (or instead)...
Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 08:55 PM (exHjb)

I bet you $5 that they ruin it a al "Murder on the Orient Express".

Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM (bJKUl)

176 161 Kathy Ireland is also 58.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (LKTKP)

Would still bang.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (II3Gr)

177 Completely OT, but I'm doing Mark Rober's Creative Engineering course. Made a doggie-treat dispenser. Working on a pitch-detector now, hoping I don't blow out my Arduino...

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (asXVI)

178 There is no accounting for taste. I didn't like The Rover. It seemed pointless.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:06 PM (yQpMk)

Just trying to get a handle on taste. Did you like The Road because I thought that was pointless.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (4v2Bk)

179 AT&T owns Direct TV, and they are dropping OAN from their cable....I think.
Posted by: Soothsayer

AT and T ...rocket scientists.

Direct TV is kind of dying, and cable is not far behind.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (tjZg/)

180 166
They should do a reunion movie of The Breakfast Club when they turn 60, which is in about a year.
Posted by: Soothsayer

It would need Paul Gleeson and he died in 2006.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 29, 2022 09:10 PM (sAmhv)

181 Who couldn't love The Shoveler. He shovels.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (yQpMk)

There are so many movies from the before times that seem pointless now. It was a superhero movie deconstruction before the REALLY insane popularity of superheroes in movies took off. It was from a time before comics were dead woke wastelands. Came off as mean spirited and trying to be hip and edgy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:10 PM (dNqv+)

182 It will be neat if they give the moviegoers to Uncharted controllers and have them press A or B or up or down at certain points in the movie. It won't affect anything, and the story will move on regardless.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 09:10 PM (CUxst)

183 Mystery Men was a hoot

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (II3Gr)

184 I bet you $5 that they ruin it a al "Murder on the Orient Express".
Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM (bJKUl)

Funny enough, I skipped that one and haven't yet watched it b/c so many said it wasn't good and I didn't like the trailer...I do like the Death on the Nile trailer, and my spouse wants to take me out for Valentine's Day without paying the $8B premiums that going out to eat on that weekend comes with...BUT, if I nix it, we'll do fondue at home, probably, and still be happy!

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (exHjb)

185 I wonder how many know the origin of the name of Scape Ore Creek?

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (0OP+5)

186 OK, folks, I can hear the plows going by and I know I'm going to have a foot or two of hard, heavy snow to shovel in the morning, so I am off to bed.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (2JVJo)

187 ||Did you like The Road because I thought that was pointless.||

I read the book and thought it was an awful drudge. Did not bother with the movie.

I don't think it's any more realistic than, say, Damnation Alley, and it's no fun at all.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (asXVI)

188
It would need Paul Gleeson and he died in 2006.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Wouldn't be the same without him.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (VfZkq)

189 176 161 Kathy Ireland is also 58.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:03 PM (LKTKP)

Would still bang.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (II3Gr)

Probably the last time I bought a Sports Illustrated

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (LKTKP)

190 Mystery Men was a hoot
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (II3Gr)

Kick Ass was also hilarious in its own way.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (4v2Bk)

191 The Criterion Channel is playing a lot of Hitchcock this month, so -

last night I watched Hitchcock's remake of his own movie, "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

It stars Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart.

Man, does it start out great, and keeps getting better until the climax/resolution. They sort of wrote themselves into a corner and to get out of it they go all Hollywood corny. Spoiler!: Doris Day's singing saves the day!

However, Doris Day was great as the Mom of the kidnapped kid. And Holy Cow did she look like the perfect sweet, pretty American farm/country girl.

I have no idea what she was like in real life. But she looked like the sort of girl you'd dream about meeting back in the 50s. No wonder she had a successful Hollywood career. In her case, looks really were destiny.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (5NkmN)

192 This is bizarre, looking up The Rover on YouTube and a Portuguese version comes up, seems the full movie but it's backwards with titles

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (2JoB8)

193
PDT endorses Abbott.
That means Allen West has no chance for his endorsement.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (VfZkq)

194 And yes, I'm extremely cynical about video games becoming movies pretending to be video games. I don't mind the stories - and some are pretty good - but don't pretend that my pressing the button is doing anything other than advancing the script to the next scene.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (CUxst)

195 I loved Flaming Carrot and the Mystery Men. Still have the comics. Too bad we never got a Flaming Carrot movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (Dc2NZ)

196 Nice remembrance of OM, moviegique.

And a good commentary on a movie about a good guy.

Posted by: KT at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (0ghg2)

197 || I wonder how many know the origin of the name of Scape Ore Creek?

Not many.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (asXVI)

198 187 ||Did you like The Road because I thought that was pointless.||

I read the book and thought it was an awful drudge. Did not bother with the movie."

So, I also read the book and also didn't get it...it ended with no ending and just seemed pointless and dreary...and thus, I also skipped the movie.

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (exHjb)

199 Trump will put West in his cabinet.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (LKTKP)

200 Did you like The Road because I thought that was pointless.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:09 PM (4v2Bk)

I read the book, once. It's a Cormac McCarthy story so it is almost pointless by definition.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (yQpMk)

201 190 Mystery Men was a hoot
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at January 29, 2022 09:11 PM (II3Gr)

Kick Ass was also hilarious in its own way.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (4v2Bk)

Both true...in their own ways.

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (exHjb)

202 DJT just gave a shout out to the Canadian truckers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM

🍊❤🇨🚛

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:14 PM (eQVV8)

203 What a difference in fluid public speaking between Trump and PuddingBrain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 09:14 PM (4I/2K)

204
Rick Perry is in the crowd...which is funny since he was the first rat to jump ship in 2019.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:14 PM (VfZkq)

205 I've been digging into a box set of the Our Gang silent films. Amazing how much cleverness and creativity came out of The Hal Roach Studios. Next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of Our Gang's debut, and there's just something I dig about laughing uproriously at nearly hundred-year old films. Humor changes with time, but some things remain the same.

In the best Petey film ever, the remarkable and hilarious "Dog Heaven" (1927) the famous ring-eyed dog attempts to commit suicide (!) after being falsely accused of jealously pushing a little girl, guest star Annette de Kirby, into a river after she steals the attentions of his owner, original fat boy Joe Cobb away from him.

After being saved from hanging by a dog friend, Petey spills out his sad story, culminating in the distraught pittie hanging out drinking all day in dog bars with the wrong type of dog. In the end, Petey is absolved and all live happily ever after. It's a truly bizarre yet funny film that is clever as can be.

The cleanest version on Youtube seems to be the same print that I have on the boxset, but with a non-original jazz soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzJjGOJ_ok&t=2s

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 09:14 PM (njfCw)

206 Gunpowder Milkshake was okay.

You will literally forget it 3 minutes after it's over though.

The very definition of a popcorn movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:14 PM (5NkmN)

207 Thanks, KT!

||I have no idea what she was like in real life. But she looked like the sort of girl you'd dream about meeting back in the 50s. ||

Yeah, you might not want to research that.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (asXVI)

208 " Next movie that interests me in theaters is Death on the Nile. "
"I bet you $5 that they ruin it a al "Murder on the Orient Express"."

I kinda liked Branagh's version of the Orient Express. The new one took forever in post-production, not a good sign.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (4thlk)

209 It's the damn endarkening wokening of everything.
The Brits are the worst on this.

Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (bJKUl)

210 No creepy whisper. Unpresidential.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (3YVs3)

211

That didn't turn out well...

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (eQVV8)

212 Endorsed Gregg Abbott, heartily endorsed Ken Paxton and introduced Louie Gohmert.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (9v1sv)

213 I read the book, once. It's a Cormac McCarthy story so it is almost pointless by definition.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (yQpMk)

Heh. Roger that.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (4v2Bk)

214 Cities of the Plain > The Road

Neither should be mass market movies any more than the Crossing or All the Pretty Horses should be. Or heck, No Country for Old Men.

They're brutal, gruesome stories. I like them immensely. They're still brutal, gruesome stories.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 29, 2022 09:16 PM (CUxst)

215 acknowledged not introduced

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:16 PM (9v1sv)

216 I bet you $5 that they ruin it a al "Murder on the Orient Express".
Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:08 PM (bJKUl)

How can that movie be ruined? The author said "the most magnificent moustache in the world" and they delivered.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2022 09:16 PM (ybIRR)

217 || Amazing how much cleverness and creativity came out of The Hal Roach Studios.

A comedy powerhouse.

|| I live about 40 minutes away. I will make a trip up to Bishopville JUST to see it.

Oh, cool. Report back in...three weeks. ;-)

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:17 PM (asXVI)

218 211

That didn't turn out well...
Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (eQVV8

Yeah.

Orange heart copywrite truck?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:17 PM (LKTKP)

219 Odd, doesn't lead there now. No loss.

Posted by: Javems at January 29, 2022 09:17 PM (AmoqO)

220 Kick Ass was also hilarious in its own way.

I really enjoyed it. KAII, on the other hand, reminded me of the stupid drive-in movies we used to sneak into as kids so we could see some titties. Like The Cheerleaders, and Beneath the Valley of the Cheerleaders.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:17 PM (yQpMk)

221

🍊 ️ 🇦 🚛

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:18 PM (9nadL)

222

I give up...

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:18 PM (9nadL)

223 ||It's the damn endarkening wokening of everything.
The Brits are the worst on this.||

Wait, Anne Boleyn =wasn't= black?

Kind of hysterical that they'll employ fleets of set designers, costumers, historical experts all for accuracy and then...

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (asXVI)

224 That didn't turn out well...
Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:15 PM (eQVV8

Yeah.

Orange heart copywrite truck?
~~~
Wait, let me try

Orange man loves Canadian truckers.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (IDhUW)

225 See, you all have now encouraged me to go watch something new, since it's Saturday night and my daughter is home from her concert, so see you all in tomorrow's food thread to talk food (and football...I'm sorry - if it's a rout, I won't, but last week's games were so nuts, they had to be mentioned!)

Posted by: Nova local at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (exHjb)

226 "... atrocities in Houston as police officers shot and killed by illegal aliens . . ."

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (4I/2K)

227

Pixy hates Canadians...

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (9nadL)

228 It would need Paul Gleeson and he died in 2006.
Posted by: Puddleglum

---------

Where in the hell is Beeks?

Posted by: Randolph Duke at January 29, 2022 09:20 PM (VxC1e)

229 Orange man loves Canadian truckers.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM

ty!

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:20 PM (9nadL)

230 Just curious,

Who hasn't seen "Goldfinger", and why?

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2022 09:20 PM (Xo3T0)

231 I'm extremely cynical about video games

Perfectly fair. It's almost always awful.

But if they have a clue, Uncharted could really be Indiana Joneish. I'd love to see them succeed.

They probably won't. But I'd like them to.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (3YVs3)

232
Roger Clemens rejected for Hall of Fame?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (VfZkq)

233 I was going to support McCarthy. But I realized I don't care . Not going to change any minds or say something new. I need to check out this Trump rally!

Posted by: Quint at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (jjf42)

234 They probably won't. But I'd like them to.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (3YVs3)

Mark Wahlberg.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (dNqv+)

235 Or is h a Marc?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (dNqv+)

236 My, this is...interesting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:22 PM (VxC1e)

237
I watched the game when Clemens struck out 20 in a row, or whatever it was.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:22 PM (VfZkq)

238 Think saw lots of the old James Bond movies in drive ins

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 29, 2022 09:22 PM (2JoB8)

239 Wait, Anne Boleyn =wasn't= black?

Kind of hysterical that they'll employ fleets of set designers, costumers, historical experts all for accuracy and then...
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:19 PM (asXVI)

But her feistiness cannot be properly portrayed by a white girl. Or something...

Posted by: sal at January 29, 2022 09:22 PM (bJKUl)

240 >>I watched the game when Clemens struck out 20 in a row, or whatever it was.

I was at Fenway. It was amazing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2022 09:23 PM (ZLI7S)

241 Clemens was not a nice guy. Saw him be a dick to a few people on the golf course.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:23 PM (4v2Bk)

242
Theo Epstein is the devil's dingleberries.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:24 PM (VfZkq)

243 A zombie comedy that gets no respect but which is really good is "Warm Bodies'.

In essence it's a zombie rom-com, but has some nice twists and good laughs, and-

BONUS! It's that rarity in the zombie genre..The hopefull zombie movie.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:24 PM (5NkmN)

244 Clemen's wife looked good in a pair of tight jeans though.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:25 PM (4v2Bk)

245 197 || I wonder how many know the origin of the name of Scape Ore Creek?

Not many.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:13 PM (asXVI)
What the oldtimers told me was if a slave could 'scape ore' the creek to the next plantation they could get started on the underground railroad. This used to be my old stomping ground when I was younger. Got kin around Hellhole Swamp.

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2022 09:25 PM (0OP+5)

246 Karen Gillan is even taller than Lena Headey, which is relevant to my interests.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2022 09:25 PM (ybIRR)

247
No Hall of Fame for Barry Bonds, either.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:25 PM (VfZkq)

248 Roger Clemens rejected for Hall of Fame?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:21 PM (VfZkq)

It was his last year of eligibility. Total BS. Next year they do the "Oops...the sportswriters screwed up" vote. Sportswriters, like the rest of the media, can kiss my ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (axyOa)

249 Our Gang
------
Wise ass buddy dubbed me the leader of the He Man Woman Haters Club and made me a sign to hang. Those guys wish they lived alone.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (+ya+t)

250 I stepped away for a minute.

Has Texas seceded yet?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (Dc2NZ)

251 I did a little business with him. He was a nice guy.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (9v1sv)

252 Looks like the tide may be turning for Canadians.

Saskatchewan Premier backs the truckers and vows to end mandate.

First crack in the dam

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (LKTKP)

253 Unscreened refugees from Afghanistan

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (IDhUW)

254 Has Texas seceded yet?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (9nadL)

255 ||But her feistiness cannot be properly portrayed by a white girl. Or something...

It's kind of funny you should say that.

Back in the day, one of the reasons for blackface--it's a very nuanced subject despite what you may hear--was that certain styles of music, particularly highly emotional ones, were seen as not acceptable for white performers but okay for black ones.

A white man couldn't sing a "mammy" song but, if he wore blackface, it was acceptable.

Plus �a change, plus c'est la m�me

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (asXVI)

256 Ensure free fair honest elections

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (IDhUW)

257 I stepped away for a minute.

Has Texas seceded yet?

It's Saturday. Saturdays are for drinking and fu . . . dancing. We'll secede on Monday.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:28 PM (3YVs3)

258 Well better turn this off before ONT sneaks up on me
Have a great night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2022 09:28 PM (2JoB8)

259 I did a little business with him. He was a nice guy.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:26 PM (9v1s

I saw what I saw. He was a dick.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 29, 2022 09:28 PM (4v2Bk)

260 She removed herself from the "Central Park" animated show because her character was biracial and Bell is an Aryan poster child.

-
Kind of hysterical that they'll employ fleets of set designers, costumers, historical experts all for accuracy and then...

-
Racism is a single edged sword that cuts only one way.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:29 PM (FVME7)

261
Everyone is a dink on a golf course. It's the go-to place for dinks.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:29 PM (VfZkq)

262

True The Vote, Catherine Englebrecht!

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:29 PM (9nadL)

263 >.Im watching the Greatest Story Ever Told.
Some good, some bad,
They certainly tried.

Posted by: LASue

did you get to the part where Jesus does the Sermon on the Mount in Canyonlands National Park?

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:30 PM (geLO8)

264 They want to put me in jail

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:30 PM (IDhUW)

265 ..However, Doris Day was great as the Mom of the kidnapped kid. And Holy Cow did she look like the perfect sweet, pretty American farm/country girl.
I have no idea what she was like in real life. But she looked like the sort of girl you'd dream about meeting back in the 50s. No wonder she had a successful Hollywood career. In her case, looks really were destiny.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (5NkmN)

I forgot exactly which Hollywood/NYC actor/raconteur had the quip, but it was excellent: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.." IIRC, delivered on an early Johnny Carson broadcast.

Zing!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 29, 2022 09:31 PM (QzJWU)

266 We all have the capacity to be assholes, do we not?

Would we want it any other way?

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:31 PM (asXVI)

267 did you get to the part where Jesus does the Sermon on the Mount in Canyonlands National Park?
Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:30 PM (geLO

--

It would have been cool if they filmed it at Vasquez Rocks and a Gorn showed up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:31 PM (Dc2NZ)

268 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:32 PM (x8kT3)

269 A white man couldn't sing a "mammy" song but, if he wore blackface, it was acceptable.

-
Damn! I should've read the rules on the box top of the game of life!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:32 PM (FVME7)

270 Damn! I should've read the rules on the box top of the game of life!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:32 PM (FVME7)

It's rigged.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (II3Gr)

271 Trump's hair is like spun mithril.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (Dc2NZ)

272 ||Damn! I should've read the rules on the box top of the game of life!||

They're always there and you're never allowed to know what they are.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (asXVI)

273 243 A zombie comedy that gets no respect but which is really good is "Warm Bodies'.

My wife loves this one.

Two other solid zombie comedies: Life After Beth and Aah! Zombies!!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (3YVs3)

274 261
Everyone is a dink on a golf course. It's the go-to place for dinks.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:29 PM (VfZkq)

Golf is a really easy game to suck really bad at.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (dNqv+)

275

"Our country is dying...but that's what they want..."

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (9nadL)

276 It would have been cool if they filmed it at Vasquez Rocks and a Gorn showed up.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:31 PM (Dc2NZ)

I looked up the Vasquez Rocks. Damn!
The list of movies and tv shows that used them is endless.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:34 PM (axyOa)

277 ||Trump's hair is like spun mithril.

lol...I feel like now I have to read the Silmarillion.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:34 PM (asXVI)

278 Looks like the tide may be turning for Canadians.

Saskatchewan Premier backs the truckers and vows to end mandate.

First crack in the dam
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (LKTKP)

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has courageously licked his finger, and is checking the breeze, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2022 09:34 PM (P3gRi)

279 Trump's hair is like spun mithril.
~~~
Nice *insert toothy grin here*

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:34 PM (IDhUW)

280

A man called Pearl Necklace...

Posted by: Peter Buttplug at January 29, 2022 09:34 PM (7DYli)

281
Who loves old british comedy?
The popular sitcom "On The Buses" made 3 feature length movies. Oh the hijinx and hilarity!

For real boobies.

No, really. For real.

https://youtu.be/UMcDFLxZthc?t=118

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:35 PM (VfZkq)

282 265 ..However, Doris Day was great as the Mom of the kidnapped kid. And Holy Cow did she look like the perfect sweet, pretty American farm/country girl.
I have no idea what she was like in real life. But she looked like the sort of girl you'd dream about meeting back in the 50s. No wonder she had a successful Hollywood career. In her case, looks really were destiny.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:12 PM (5NkmN)
I forgot exactly which Hollywood/NYC actor/raconteur had the quip, but it was excellent: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.." IIRC, delivered on an early Johnny Carson broadcast.
Zing!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 29, 2022 09:31 PM (QzJWU)
Ever see her appearance in that tight blue sweater on Letterman? Or was it Carson?

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2022 09:35 PM (0OP+5)

283 Lock her up! Clinton

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:35 PM (IDhUW)

284 266 We all have the capacity to be assholes, do we not?

Some of us have excess capacity.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:35 PM (3YVs3)

285
obama plays lots of golf

remember when they pretended obama was some avid basketball player, and we never saw video of obama playing a minute basketball?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:36 PM (VfZkq)

286 She started out as a big band singer.
It wasn't a slight on her personality.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:36 PM (9v1sv)

287 Looks like the tide may be turning for Canadians.

Saskatchewan Premier backs the truckers and vows to end mandate.

First crack in the dam
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:27 PM (LKTKP)

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has courageously licked his finger, and is checking the breeze, too.
~~~
I hope the truckers ask for everything and the kitchen sink.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (IDhUW)

288 Also, Conkeys

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (3YVs3)

289 ||I looked up the Vasquez Rocks. Damn!
The list of movies and tv shows that used them is endless.||

Yep. Also Chatsworth, which has been my stomping grounds for nearly all of my nearly 29 years. "Stagecoach", "Shane", "Support Your Local Sheriff":

https://tinyurl.com/yckp3eua

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (asXVI)

290 Of all the inspiring Canadian Trucker Convoy vids, this one, set to "We're Not Gonna Take It," is my favorite:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9d35mc

Makes me nostalgic for the earliest Trump rallies, when he used the same song as intro music.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (njfCw)

291 The stunt casting works against the Coen's Macbeth
because it insists upon itself.

It constantly calls attention to the fact that we are watching fakey fakeyness. And impairs the suspension of disbelief which is essential to movies, plays, novels, etc.

Not that any of the Black actors were bad or anything like that, but it made about as much sense to have Blacks in Medieval Scotland as it would to have Robert Pattison play Kunta Kinte in the new remake of "Roots".

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (5NkmN)

292

GEOTUS is en fuego! tonight!!

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (Rty+z)

293 remember when they pretended obama was some avid basketball player, and we never saw video of obama playing a minute basketball?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:36 PM (VfZkq)

I saw him throw up 14 bricks in a row.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (yQpMk)

294 Nova Scotia “Province today, January 28, issued a directive under the Emergency Management Act prohibiting protesters from blockading Highway 104 near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border.”, $10,000 fine for cheering on the roadway.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (Dc2NZ)

295 Man has stones.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (+ya+t)

296 Golf is a really easy game to suck really bad at.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2022 09:33 PM (dNqv+)

I never suck at golf. I just play really really hard courses.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (axyOa)

297 I've been kinda sorta keeping up with the Canadian trucker protest via Jim's twatter channel. There are some good memes in there, too.

https://nitter.net/QuarantinedCoof

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (DTX3h)

298 "and right now you have a president who is grossly incompetent"
_Donald Trump

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (9v1sv)

299 I forgot exactly which Hollywood/NYC actor/raconteur had the quip, but it was excellent: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.." IIRC, delivered on an early Johnny Carson broadcast.

Posted by: Jim

Groucho Marx iirc

Posted by: Tonypete at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (mD/uy)

300 276 Close enough to Hollywood to feel like the desert or a different planet, and you save money on sets.

BBC did this a lot with Doctor Who on quarries. A lot.

Posted by: Bete at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (Ojki1)

301 Damn, beer!

Also, Cockneys vs. Zombies is another solid zombie comedy. It ain't just Shaun of the Dead. There's a lot of worthwhile ones. Weird that zombie comedy is a subgenre. But . . .

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:38 PM (3YVs3)

302 Loved the landscaping pics moviegique! Thanks!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (IDhUW)

303 266 We all have the capacity to be assholes, do we not?

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It's a closely-kept secret that developing this natural capacity is the main topic of the third year of law school.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (VxC1e)

304 It's a closely-kept secret that developing this natural capacity is the main topic of the third year of law school.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (VxC1e)

Well it WAS a closely-kept secret...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (II3Gr)

305 did you get to the part where Jesus does the Sermon on the Mount in Canyonlands National Park?
Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:30 PM (geLO

Not yet. The scenery is great but the casting is distracting. Roddy McDowelll and Ilya kuriaken as apostles is tough to swallow. Same with Max Von Sydow who looks waaay over 30.

Posted by: LASue at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

306 GEOTUS is en fuego! tonight!!
Posted by: Zettai

If he is encouraging the trucker insurrection, Canada will impeach him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:40 PM (FVME7)

307 remember when they pretended obama was some avid basketball player, and we never saw video of obama playing a minute basketball?
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Look it up, threw bricks like G"rump said.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:40 PM (+ya+t)

308 remember when they pretended obama was some avid basketball player, and we never saw video of obama playing a minute basketball?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:36 PM (VfZkq)

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To be fair, the media believes that all black males play basketball.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:40 PM (VxC1e)

309 >> Same with Max Von Sydow who looks waaay over 30.

Posted by: LASue

yeah he has a different haircut than most other movie Jesuses

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:41 PM (geLO8)

310 Welcome, Kestrel!

As for "MacBeth", I do not go to a Coen brothers movie for any degree of realism. That said, I thought they only had Denzel, which I'd be fine with. Eh, I'll go see it anyway.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:41 PM (asXVI)

311 Well it WAS a closely-kept secret...
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 29, 2022 09:39 PM (II3Gr)

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I'm close enough to retirement not to care anymore.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:41 PM (VxC1e)

312 290 Of all the inspiring Canadian Trucker Convoy vids, this one, set to "We're Not Gonna Take It," is my favorite:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9d35mc

Makes me nostalgic for the earliest Trump rallies, when he used the same song as intro music.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 09:37 PM (njfCw

That's awesome!

Why people voted in that shithouse rat, I'll never understand.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:42 PM (LKTKP)

313 >>the media believes that all black males play basketball. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:40 PM (VxC1e)

Zod also believes this.

Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:42 PM (x8kT3)

314 I don't like tick-the-box casting, but seeing it in stage plays doesn't bother me, nor in Shakespeare movies. It's like opera -- Madama Butterfly being white or black is no big deal, you gotta have the talent.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:44 PM (Dc2NZ)

315
That's awesome!

Why people voted in that shithouse rat, I'll never understand.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:42 PM (LKTKP)
People did not vote in that shithouse rat.

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2022 09:44 PM (0OP+5)

316 ||Why people voted in that shithouse rat, I'll never understand.||

Dominion(TM).

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:44 PM (asXVI)

317 the media believes that all black males play basketball. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:40 PM (VxC1e)

Zod also believes this.
Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:42 PM (x8kT3)

It's innate.
https://youtu.be/jiYbIyOYCG0

Posted by: Ted Stryker, Peace Corps Volunteer at January 29, 2022 09:44 PM (4I/2K)

318 I've been kinda sorta keeping up with the Canadian trucker protest via Jim's twatter channel. There are some good memes in there, too.

https://nitter.net/QuarantinedCoof
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

bwahahahahaha!

except for the poor pets of those damned lefty twats downtown.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 29, 2022 09:46 PM (IJES/)

319

So. Much. Energy.

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:46 PM (Rty+z)

320 Barack 'Brick House' Obama misses 20 out of 22 shots on White House basketball court

https://ytube.io/3PUl

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:47 PM (yQpMk)

321 I just wanted to echo the movie review I saw here a couple weeks ago for the new Matrix movie. The review said it was dreadful.

I can confirm: Dreadful.

A sloppy mess, badly in need of an editor.

Posted by: red speck at January 29, 2022 09:47 PM (gS3OW)

322 There's a great documentary with William Friedkin being interviewed about the making of The Exorcist. Apparently, Sydow was having problems at one point and Friedkin asked what was up and Sydow said he didn't know how to do the scene because he didn't believe in God. Friedkin was incredulous: dude, you played Jesus!

You should watch any Friedkin interview you can. The guy is hilarious in the most lowkey way.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:47 PM (3YVs3)

323 Trump keeps saying "WE are going to take back the White House", the tease. Are you running or not, Donnie?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

324 Barack 'Brick House' Obama misses 20 out of 22 shots on White House basketball court

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He does his best work outside the 3-point line.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (VxC1e)

325 It's like Maximum Overdrive, only the trucks are on our side.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (njfCw)

326 I saw him throw up 14 bricks in a row.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

He was a brick layer too?

AMAZING!!!!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (tjZg/)

327

🍊 >>]/b] 🥔

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (Rty+z)

328

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (Rty+z)

329 Trump keeps saying "WE are going to take back the White House", the tease. Are you running or not, Donnie?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread)

It's the royal "we".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (FVME7)

330 So moviegique, give us a few recommendations for your next movie thread. Top two movies we should watch before then?

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (4thlk)

331 Lol. Americans are backed up for miles trying to cross the border into Ottawa to join the honk party.

Epic.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:49 PM (LKTKP)

332 ||I can confirm: Dreadful.

Mike and Jay from RLM liked it, but as they're describing it I'm thinking, "Oh, lord, this sounds DREADFUL."

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:50 PM (asXVI)

333

"IF I decide to run..."

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:50 PM (Rty+z)

334 Not yet. The scenery is great but the casting is distracting. Roddy McDowelll and Ilya kuriaken as apostles is tough to swallow. Same with Max Von Sydow who looks waaay over 30.
Posted by: LASue

Wait until you see John Wayne as a Roman Centurion.

Or Sidney Poitier....he's got a cameo, too.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:50 PM (tjZg/)

335 >>Trump keeps saying "WE are going to take back the White House", the tease. Are you running or not, Donnie?

Yes, of course he is. He just can't say it until after the 2022 elections because of campaign finance rules.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2022 09:50 PM (ZLI7S)

336 Excellent, JackStraw!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:51 PM (Dc2NZ)

337 Like our J-6 protesters were arrested for "parading," our Canuck brothers and sisters will be arrested for "honking."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 09:51 PM (njfCw)

338 PDT is on the campaign trail.

"free speech"

"corrupt media will destroy our country if we don't do something"

"I'll do1st thing" brief pause "if I decide to run"

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:51 PM (IDhUW)

339 Welcome, Kestrel!
As for "MacBeth", I do not go to a Coen brothers movie for any degree of realism. That said, I thought they only had Denzel, which I'd be fine with. Eh, I'll go see it anyway.
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:41 PM (asXVI)

Surprisingly, Denzel is just okay in it.

He gives a Donut Performance. He starts out okay. He ends excellently but the middle is hollow.

I don't know if he didn't quite get a handle on Macbeth's changes or the fact that the movie cuts out abut half of the original play doesn't give Denzel enough meat to fill out the role.
That said, really all the movie really wants to be is the film noir/Universal Monster/German Expressionist horror version of Macbeth.
It looks fabulous.

But, Polanski's "Macbeth" is the Macbeth you want to want when you want the straight up horror version of Macbeth.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (5NkmN)

340 "What're ya in for?"
"Aggravated honking."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (Dc2NZ)

341 The honk heard round the world.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (LKTKP)

342 PDT is the most vetted candidate in American history.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (VxC1e)

343 Barack 'Brick House' Obama misses 20 out of 22 shots on White House basketball court
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Next show everyone how you throw a baseball.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (+ya+t)

344 I like Cormac MacCarthy

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (sJHOI)

345 ||So moviegique, give us a few recommendations for your next movie thread. Top two movies we should watch before then?||

I might review "Belle", which is a Japahino cartoon. Or maybe "MacBeth".

End of March, a safe bet is "The Quiet Man". It's coming to the big screen for the 70th anniversary!

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (asXVI)

346 Truckers on both sides of the U.S./Canada border have completely blocked traffic both southbound and northbound at the Coutts/Sweetgrass border crossing. The line on the Canadian side is 18 km, which would back it up right to the town of Milk River. Milk River (the river itself) is part of the Missouri River catchment basin.

https://tinyurl.com/7dn8s5nt

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (P3gRi)

347 There's a great documentary with William Friedkin being interviewed about the making of The Exorcist. Apparently, Sydow was having problems at one point and Friedkin asked what was up and Sydow said he didn't know how to do the scene because he didn't believe in God.

Wonder what he is thinking now?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (axyOa)

348 >>Next show everyone how you throw a baseball.
Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (+ya+t)

Or shoot a shotgun.

Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (x8kT3)

349 I've never liked Macbeth.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:54 PM (3YVs3)

350 Lol. The liberal comments are hilarious. Terrorist honking!

Siege by honking!

Pets fear shitting!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:54 PM (LKTKP)

351
"Toxic, facist, and probably Russian involvement..."

What do you think the Fake News is talking about?

https://youtu.be/0DRsGzZGGIo

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (VfZkq)

352 Next show everyone how you throw a baseball.
Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (+ya+t)

Or shoot a shotgun.
Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (x8kT3)

Ride a bike.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (4I/2K)

353 Hey! Nice honkers!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (tjZg/)

354 ||That said, really all the movie really wants to be is the film noir/Universal Monster/German Expressionist horror version of Macbeth.
It looks fabulous.||

Is there a filmed version that manages to capture the play? (Other than filmed plays?) They all make some severe cuts.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (asXVI)

355 I regret that I have but one horn to honk for my country

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (geLO8)

356 347 There's a great documentary with William Friedkin being interviewed about the making of The Exorcist. Apparently, Sydow was having problems at one point and Friedkin asked what was up and Sydow said he didn't know how to do the scene because he didn't believe in God.

Wonder what he is thinking now?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (axyOa)
Maybe 'can we shoot this part again?'

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (0OP+5)

357 Barack 'Brick House' Obama misses 20 out of 22 shots on White House basketball court
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Next show everyone how you throw a baseball.
Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:52 PM (+ya+t)
***

His slap shot is wicked!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (axyOa)

358 The honk heard round the world.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Your keyboard to God's ears.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (IDhUW)

359 Next show everyone how you throw a baseball.
Posted by: dartist
Or shoot a shotgun.
Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (x8kT3)
Ride a bike.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Or be President.
That's right. He stinks.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Ain't that pretty at all at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (tjZg/)

360 Dude can't work an umbrella. Like I'm supposed to believe he can sink threes?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (LKTKP)

361 349 I've never liked Macbeth.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 09:54 PM (3YVs3)
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Macbeth only says nice things about you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (Dc2NZ)

362 I can confirm that the new Matrix is just a huge pile o'poo.

They can't even direct coherent action any longer. It's a fail on just about every level.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (5NkmN)

363 Aggravated Negligent Honking

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (4I/2K)

364 Piss off, ray.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (yQpMk)

365 356 I regret that I have but one horn to honk for my country
Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (geLO8

Do not honk until you see the white snow of Canada!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (LKTKP)

366

*lights cigarette

Posted by: Zettai at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (Rty+z)

367 Re: Greatest Story Ever Told...

Not until The Passion did the person of Jesus ever seem played as remotely human and relatable. Every other depiction of the Gospels I've seen has been over the top in production or everyone playing their parts as caricatures or Jesus as this untouchable, mystical being.

The best thing I've seen has been that crowdfunded series: The Chosen. Now into shooting their third season, it's a really good, Biblical rendition of Jesus' ministry, and the way they depict the disciples is wonderfully human. There are many places where the writers have filled in the gaps, but they've done it in the most respectful way, it's quite something. And they aren't trying to stuff everything into two hours, so they can take their time with character development.

The second season ends with the Sermon on the Mount, and I believe they are hoping to do seven seasons. Very well worth the time.

Posted by: red speck at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (gS3OW)

368 ||They can't even direct coherent action any longer. It's a fail on just about every level.

Yeah, Jay & Mike hedged on that being some kind of statement, because the whole movie is some kind of statement, to which I say, well, I guess I can admire that, but I don't wanna see it.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (asXVI)

369 Nobody is beating this guy in 2024 as long as the election is even remotely fair.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (ZLI7S)

370 Posted by: RedFinger at January 29, 2022 09:56 PM (6BGaP)

raykon showed up/ Yer late! And zip up your fly!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2022 09:57 PM (P3gRi)

371 He's just warming up.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (+ya+t)

372

Thank you, Mr. President.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (9v1sv)

373 I will make Georgia honk!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

374 I love the Sam & Dave ending. It's perfect.

Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (ELgVT)

375 The Road was a metaphor for life. The young boy sees nothing but opportunities to meet people, make friends. The father sees only threats and danger, people that might kill them.

Neither is wrong, just a difference in perspective and life experience.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (sJHOI)

376 End of March, a safe bet is "The Quiet Man". It's coming to the big screen for the 70th anniversary!
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:53 PM (asXVI)

I guess I did watch something I've never seen before, I watched "The Deadly Companions" the other night. Can't go wrong with Sam Peckinpah and Maureen O'Hara, it was a decent western.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 09:59 PM (4thlk)

377 ||Neither is wrong, just a difference in perspective and life experience.

lol, yeah, seeing only threat and danger is a pretty good definition of "wrong".

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:59 PM (asXVI)

378 Neither is wrong, just a difference in perspective and life experience.

The movie features a caravan of cannibal rapists!

Imma have to go with pops on this one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 29, 2022 10:00 PM (3YVs3)

379 ||I guess I did watch something I've never seen before, I watched "The Deadly Companions" the other night. Can't go wrong with Sam Peckinpah and Maureen O'Hara, it was a decent western.||

I still have 2-3 more silent entries queued up if H-wood continues to the sh*t the bed, too.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 10:00 PM (asXVI)

380 with malice toward none, with horn-honking for all

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 10:00 PM (geLO8)

381
lulz

they call Jan 6th the Democrats' "Sixmas."

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at January 29, 2022 10:01 PM (VfZkq)

382 Imagine a 20,000 car and truck convoy that circles America. Stopping at sites where Trump speaks.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 10:01 PM (axyOa)

383 One honk, Vasilli.

One honk only.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2022 10:01 PM (LKTKP)

384 As for me, give me liberty or give me honking!

Posted by: Patrick Henry at January 29, 2022 10:01 PM (4I/2K)

385 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397553

ont is nood

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 29, 2022 10:02 PM (IJES/)

386 Is Canada having a *gasp* insurrection?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 29, 2022 10:02 PM (sJHOI)

387 As a play, I like the tight, taught structure of Macbeth. It's Shakespeare with all the fat trimmed off. Lean and mean. Perhaps a bit too much so, as I concur with the general criticism that we needed a bit more development of Lady Macbeth and then Macbeth himself turning to the dark side. I like the Witches. Love the banquet scene. Macduff's gut-wrenching grieving scene when he learns that his family has been slaughtered is Shakespeare at his absolute best.

It's not one of my top Bard plays but I can see why it's so popular. It's consiceness and relative simplicity of language made it one of the most popular Shakkespeare plays taught in American high schools which is where I first read it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 10:02 PM (njfCw)

388 >>373 I will make Georgia honk!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 09:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

(Begins dismantling Sherman statue, "wait, was he one of the good guys?", reconsiders Sherman's race, resumes dismantling)

Posted by: ZOD at January 29, 2022 10:03 PM (x8kT3)

389 But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini honking his horn all along

Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 10:03 PM (geLO8)

390 A classy summation of The Scottish Play is a good note to end on. Everyone have a good night or at least a good ONT!

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 10:03 PM (asXVI)

391 OH, GAWD.... The Road.

My wife read the book and was very excited when the movie came out. I don't usually feel dragged to movies, but oy-vey. It was like two hours of post-apocalyptic Murphy's Law. It just got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, when you think, "Oh dear god in heaven -- finally, some glimmer of ho--" KA-BLAM!!! And then it ends.

If you're on antidepressants, avoid this film at all costs.

Posted by: red speck at January 29, 2022 10:03 PM (gS3OW)

392 || it was Barzini honking his horn all along

Barzini was Keyser Soze?!?

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 10:04 PM (asXVI)

393 I wish he'd throw in more Motown like Shotgun by Jr. Walker and the All Stars.

Posted by: dartist at January 29, 2022 10:04 PM (+ya+t)

394 Surely they can't honk all night?"
~Reddit
Wakie wakie honk honk honk

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2022 10:06 PM (BFigT)

395 ..I regret that I have but one horn to honk for my country! Posted by: DB at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (geLO

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their "eh?s" !

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 29, 2022 10:06 PM (QzJWU)

396 "Everyone have a good night or at least a good ONT!"
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 10:03 PM (asXVI)

Thanks for the thread, see you in a few weeks.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 29, 2022 10:06 PM (4thlk)

397 If they mean to have war, let the honking begin here.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2022 10:07 PM (axyOa)

398 Is there a filmed version that manages to capture the play? (Other than filmed plays?) They all make some severe cuts.
Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 09:55 PM (asXVI)

Not sure.

Polanski's version is 140 min versus the Coen's at 105 minutes.

Thirty-five minutes is a lot of time in a movie or play for character development or plot elucidation.

So, big differences right there.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2022 10:08 PM (5NkmN)

399 Thanks for the fine movie thread, gique!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 29, 2022 10:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

400 The only Shakespeare movie I've ever seen that really manages to capture almost the entire play, Much Ado About Nothing, was made by the supreme asshole Joss Whedon.

Sigh.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 29, 2022 10:13 PM (njfCw)

401 I think Spike Lee coined the phrase, or maybe popularized it.

The linked Wiki article says Lee indeed popularized it. Leading to a critic describing Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost" as a "Magical Negress". Which is extra hilarious in light of her antics on the View.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2022 10:22 PM (t5Lgg)

402 || Leading to a critic describing Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost" as a "Magical Negress".

I'd probably disagree with that. I mean, she was, literally a magical negress, but the "Magical Negro" is so much more than that.

Posted by: moviegique at January 29, 2022 10:25 PM (asXVI)

403 The only Shakespeare movie I've ever seen that really manages to capture almost the entire play, Much Ado About Nothing, was made by the supreme asshole Joss Whedon.

Whedon made/was involved in some great stuff. "The Cabin In The Woods" is fantastic.

In hindsight, Dr. Horrible is more autobiographical than he likely intended though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2022 10:28 PM (t5Lgg)

404 However, Doris Day was great as the Mom of the kidnapped kid. And Holy Cow did she look like the perfect sweet, pretty American farm/country girl.

I have no idea what she was like in real life. But she looked like the sort of girl you'd dream about meeting back in the 50s. No wonder she had a successful Hollywood career. In her case, looks really were destiny.
Posted by: naturalfake

Oscar Levant said that he knew her before she became a virgin.

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2022 02:28 AM (arJlL)

405 I have been to Bishopville many times visiting family in Mayesville , SC and have never seen topiary garden. They do have an excellent liquor store in Bishopville , HWY 15 Liquors.
lots of hard to find items and store picks and the owner always gives me tastes from some of the picks .

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