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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 25, 2024, 08:39:50 AM
#42
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - July 25, 2024, 08:27:08 AM"Batman" (1989)
The Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) battles the Joker (Jack Nicholson) for control of Gotham City's streets in Tim Burton's gothic superhero blockbuster that broke box office records and sparked a Bat-Mania craze that sold a million tee shirts. Nicholson steals the show with his scenery-chewing performance, and the set designs, costumes, and Danny Elfman's score still hold up all these years later.
I saw this movie three times (!) during its theatrical run back in the day (it's the only movie I've ever paid to see more than twice) and countless more times since then. 35 years later, it's still essential comic-book nerd viewing and still one of my all time favorites.
The Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) battles the Joker (Jack Nicholson) for control of Gotham City's streets in Tim Burton's gothic superhero blockbuster that broke box office records and sparked a Bat-Mania craze that sold a million tee shirts. Nicholson steals the show with his scenery-chewing performance, and the set designs, costumes, and Danny Elfman's score still hold up all these years later.
I saw this movie three times (!) during its theatrical run back in the day (it's the only movie I've ever paid to see more than twice) and countless more times since then. 35 years later, it's still essential comic-book nerd viewing and still one of my all time favorites.
#43
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by RCMerchant - July 25, 2024, 07:29:48 AMQuote from: lester1/2jr on July 25, 2024, 12:28:49 AMHe's so insane he wrote a best selling book https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547
So did this guy-
Just because he wrote a bestselling book doesn't mean a goddam thing.
#44
Off Topic Discussion / Re: 25 nostalgic things you re...
Last post by retrorussell - July 25, 2024, 06:11:51 AMQuick 2017 entry:
Joe Biden has a weird quote at a Wilmington DE pool being named in his honor, about children rubbing his hairy legs underwater.
And 2021:
Tom Brady first starts ads for Hertz focusing on electric cars.
Okay, time to update:
2023
1. The World Health Organization no longer considers Covid a Global Health Emergency.
2. Palestinian military group HAMAS, governors of the Gaza Strip, attack Israel, who declare war on HAMAS. The conflict will cost over 25,000 lives.
3. Silicon Valley Bank and 1st Republic Bank collapse.
4. Balloons fly over the US, and are initially believed to be Chinese spy balloons.
5. Got on Craigslist and offered a job to someone who could unclog my bathtub-- he had to get a really long augur and do some extensive work but got a massive gob of hair out for $100. I was really impressed with his work and had him replace a bunch of fence supports/posts that were weak, and I put up some new fenceboards and painted them. Some of the remaining supports/posts don't look all that great but aren't nearly as rotted as the old ones. The dumbass neighbor next door didn't really want to put his boards back up after they came off the rails we were replacing, but he seemed to relent and I just told him "whenever you want to; doesn't matter to me-- I will have my boards back up on my side". Then later, he acted like I never talked to him about it; he didn't even want to acknowledge that they were HIS boards! Well, I haven't heard from him since so maybe he's let it go. The boards are still laying in his yard.. anyway, I was really happy with the work my Craigslist guy did and he was really happy to financially stay afloat. Cost me just under $1,000; not bad for all that work.
6. Spent weeks chopping up the old boards/rails/etc. and boxing it up for kindling, and put it on the curb. Posted on Facebook Marketplace or whatever it was called, and in days it was all gone! I could have made a little coin off of that but no biggie; I just wanted it gone. One board laid on an anthill-- UGH! They were crawling all over me! One Facebooker came unglued because I didn't take the ad down IMMEDIATELY after all the wood was taken. Get a grip, bag with which one douches.
7. It was probably this year that I got a permanent thorn in my side-- a patient that was diagnosed with bedbugs in the Dialysis Unit. He is there EVERY OTHER DAY-- to this day-- and I have to do a complete scrub down of the room he was in. I find it hard to believe he actually has them every other day like clockwork-- and patients are often mis-diagnosed at the VA-- so this feels completely unnecessary for me to have to spend so much extra time cleaning. But I'll take bedbugs over cockroaches any time (we've had those too); bedbugs don't carry or transmit disease through biting. Still gross..
8. I think it was this year that we got a pretty bad winter storm in February.. I had to head back home during transit to work. I would normally catch the shuttle down to the Lift that takes you to Oregon Health & Science University where you could just walk next door to the VA, but the tracks were frozen over! I had to walk a good distance to the stop since a number of buses were re-routed, and man.. those Arctic-like winds..
9. The new HALLOWEEN trilogy concludes with a thud, as HALLOWEEN ENDS is rightly panned. New ideas for a franchise aren't necessarily a bad thing, but when they're really BAD ideas.. I wouldn't mind seeing a TV series involving Michael Meyers, however.
10. Massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kills over 60,000.
11. Trans women are banned by World Athletics from competing in female events.
12. An outbreak of 147 tornadoes hits the US.
13. The sub Titan, exploring the remains of the Titanic, implodes off the coast of Newfoundland. All 5 aboard die.
14. Wildfires raze Hawaii, killing over 100 and burning 17,000 acres of land.
15. A quarter of the city of Derna, Libya is destroyed by the cyclone Storm Daniel.
16. Russia & Ukraine launch drone strikes on each other.
17. BARBIE is the highest-grossing movie of the year.
18. The SAG-AFTRA strikes hurts the American film industry.
19. The International Criminal Court in Hague issues arrest warrants for Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.
20. Safety Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills collapses during a game vs. Cincinnati when his heart stops. The game is canceled, after he is revived. Thus the Bills only played 16 of 17 games scheduled.
21. The Texas Rangers win their franchise's first World Series. The NBA's Denver Nuggets likewise win their first franchise title. Also, the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights win their first Stanley Cup!
22. Aaron Rodgers ditches the Packers and signs with the New York Jets! His time with the Jets this season lasts barely into the first quarter of Game 1 vs. my Bills as he is sacked by Leonard Floyd, causing an Achilles tendon rupture, ending his season. Zach Wilson steps in as his replacement. Somehow these events that should turn the game to the Bills' favor, are squashed by a really bad day by Josh Allen, who has 4 turnovers. This season seemed lost due to an unheard litany of injuries, but a late winning streak got us the AFC East title again. Even with so many injuries, the players that we manage to trot out there play their hearts out for coach Sean McDermott. Impressive to see.
23. Another Bills memory of 2023 was another disgusting loss: a home stinker to the Broncos. The offense became moribund under OC Ken Dorsey, and this game helped lead to his dismissal. With Buffalo leading by 1 point the Bills forced a missed FG at the end. But then.. we were flagged for too many men on the field. Denver got another chance and it went through.
24. Not long after the Damar Hamlin game-- or not-game-- we get smoked in the Divisional Round by the same Bengals at home. We fall behind early and never recover. Barf.
25. Donald Trump is ordered to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million after accusations of sexual abuse/rape.
Joe Biden has a weird quote at a Wilmington DE pool being named in his honor, about children rubbing his hairy legs underwater.
And 2021:
Tom Brady first starts ads for Hertz focusing on electric cars.
Okay, time to update:
2023
1. The World Health Organization no longer considers Covid a Global Health Emergency.
2. Palestinian military group HAMAS, governors of the Gaza Strip, attack Israel, who declare war on HAMAS. The conflict will cost over 25,000 lives.
3. Silicon Valley Bank and 1st Republic Bank collapse.
4. Balloons fly over the US, and are initially believed to be Chinese spy balloons.
5. Got on Craigslist and offered a job to someone who could unclog my bathtub-- he had to get a really long augur and do some extensive work but got a massive gob of hair out for $100. I was really impressed with his work and had him replace a bunch of fence supports/posts that were weak, and I put up some new fenceboards and painted them. Some of the remaining supports/posts don't look all that great but aren't nearly as rotted as the old ones. The dumbass neighbor next door didn't really want to put his boards back up after they came off the rails we were replacing, but he seemed to relent and I just told him "whenever you want to; doesn't matter to me-- I will have my boards back up on my side". Then later, he acted like I never talked to him about it; he didn't even want to acknowledge that they were HIS boards! Well, I haven't heard from him since so maybe he's let it go. The boards are still laying in his yard.. anyway, I was really happy with the work my Craigslist guy did and he was really happy to financially stay afloat. Cost me just under $1,000; not bad for all that work.
6. Spent weeks chopping up the old boards/rails/etc. and boxing it up for kindling, and put it on the curb. Posted on Facebook Marketplace or whatever it was called, and in days it was all gone! I could have made a little coin off of that but no biggie; I just wanted it gone. One board laid on an anthill-- UGH! They were crawling all over me! One Facebooker came unglued because I didn't take the ad down IMMEDIATELY after all the wood was taken. Get a grip, bag with which one douches.
7. It was probably this year that I got a permanent thorn in my side-- a patient that was diagnosed with bedbugs in the Dialysis Unit. He is there EVERY OTHER DAY-- to this day-- and I have to do a complete scrub down of the room he was in. I find it hard to believe he actually has them every other day like clockwork-- and patients are often mis-diagnosed at the VA-- so this feels completely unnecessary for me to have to spend so much extra time cleaning. But I'll take bedbugs over cockroaches any time (we've had those too); bedbugs don't carry or transmit disease through biting. Still gross..
8. I think it was this year that we got a pretty bad winter storm in February.. I had to head back home during transit to work. I would normally catch the shuttle down to the Lift that takes you to Oregon Health & Science University where you could just walk next door to the VA, but the tracks were frozen over! I had to walk a good distance to the stop since a number of buses were re-routed, and man.. those Arctic-like winds..
9. The new HALLOWEEN trilogy concludes with a thud, as HALLOWEEN ENDS is rightly panned. New ideas for a franchise aren't necessarily a bad thing, but when they're really BAD ideas.. I wouldn't mind seeing a TV series involving Michael Meyers, however.
10. Massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kills over 60,000.
11. Trans women are banned by World Athletics from competing in female events.
12. An outbreak of 147 tornadoes hits the US.
13. The sub Titan, exploring the remains of the Titanic, implodes off the coast of Newfoundland. All 5 aboard die.
14. Wildfires raze Hawaii, killing over 100 and burning 17,000 acres of land.
15. A quarter of the city of Derna, Libya is destroyed by the cyclone Storm Daniel.
16. Russia & Ukraine launch drone strikes on each other.
17. BARBIE is the highest-grossing movie of the year.
18. The SAG-AFTRA strikes hurts the American film industry.
19. The International Criminal Court in Hague issues arrest warrants for Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.
20. Safety Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills collapses during a game vs. Cincinnati when his heart stops. The game is canceled, after he is revived. Thus the Bills only played 16 of 17 games scheduled.
21. The Texas Rangers win their franchise's first World Series. The NBA's Denver Nuggets likewise win their first franchise title. Also, the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights win their first Stanley Cup!
22. Aaron Rodgers ditches the Packers and signs with the New York Jets! His time with the Jets this season lasts barely into the first quarter of Game 1 vs. my Bills as he is sacked by Leonard Floyd, causing an Achilles tendon rupture, ending his season. Zach Wilson steps in as his replacement. Somehow these events that should turn the game to the Bills' favor, are squashed by a really bad day by Josh Allen, who has 4 turnovers. This season seemed lost due to an unheard litany of injuries, but a late winning streak got us the AFC East title again. Even with so many injuries, the players that we manage to trot out there play their hearts out for coach Sean McDermott. Impressive to see.
23. Another Bills memory of 2023 was another disgusting loss: a home stinker to the Broncos. The offense became moribund under OC Ken Dorsey, and this game helped lead to his dismissal. With Buffalo leading by 1 point the Bills forced a missed FG at the end. But then.. we were flagged for too many men on the field. Denver got another chance and it went through.
24. Not long after the Damar Hamlin game-- or not-game-- we get smoked in the Divisional Round by the same Bengals at home. We fall behind early and never recover. Barf.
25. Donald Trump is ordered to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million after accusations of sexual abuse/rape.
#45
Good Movies / Re: FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
Last post by Trevor - July 25, 2024, 04:35:47 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on July 25, 2024, 03:39:02 AMQuote from: RCMerchant on July 24, 2024, 01:05:41 PMYou said it all in three words- " soppy and sentimental ".
I really wasn't sure what tone it would have... was half expecting 'buddy' comedy or full on sports action stuff.Quote from: Trevor on July 24, 2024, 02:14:39 PMThe ending of that film where the camera rises up over the baseball field where Kevin Costner and his Dad are playing catch and shows the hundreds of cars bringing people to the field always makes me think of my own Dad who would have been 90 on Sunday.
🥺😢
sure, I can see it might elicit things like this. As someone who's basically had zero relationship with their own father there's probably some things that don't tug on me old heartstrings in the same way they might for others?
it was interesting to see a pre GOODFELLAS Ray Liotta, at least....
(Auto-corrects changes that to Ray Lolita, hah)
😊😊
I had a good relationship with my dad and he would always be game for a catch. 😊
It's just that final shot with the hundreds of cars bringing people to the field which always makes me think there's some South African ninjas chopping onions somewhere.
It also changes the IF YOU BUILD IT HE WILL COME thing to the much more emotional IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME and they do. 🥺
#46
Good Movies / Re: FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
Last post by zombie no.one - July 25, 2024, 03:39:02 AMQuote from: RCMerchant on July 24, 2024, 01:05:41 PMYou said it all in three words- " soppy and sentimental ".
I really wasn't sure what tone it would have... was half expecting 'buddy' comedy or full on sports action stuff.
Quote from: Trevor on July 24, 2024, 02:14:39 PMThe ending of that film where the camera rises up over the baseball field where Kevin Costner and his Dad are playing catch and shows the hundreds of cars bringing people to the field always makes me think of my own Dad who would have been 90 on Sunday.
🥺😢
sure, I can see it might elicit things like this. As someone who's basically had zero relationship with their own father there's probably some things that don't tug on me old heartstrings in the same way they might for others?
it was interesting to see a pre GOODFELLAS Ray Liotta, at least....
(Auto-corrects changes that to Ray Lolita, hah)
#47
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Zapranoth - July 25, 2024, 01:27:19 AMQuote from: lester1/2jr on July 25, 2024, 12:28:49 AMHe's so insane he wrote a best selling book https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547
Didn't say he is insane. I said he needs to go back to Douchebagistan where he belongs. I don't care about what he wrote. Sarah Palin and any number of soulless shills wrote books that sold. He is the lapdog of a Silicon Valley oligarch.
#48
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Things you don't see anymo...
Last post by Dr. Whom - July 25, 2024, 01:02:42 AMOver here adult cinemas have certainly gone the way of the dodo.
#49
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by lester1/2jr - July 25, 2024, 12:28:49 AMHe's so insane he wrote a best selling book https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547
#50
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - July 24, 2024, 10:10:39 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on July 21, 2024, 09:19:03 AMNow that's professionalism!Quote from: M.10rda on July 21, 2024, 08:46:12 AMSPACE MUTINY (1988):Plus, she got brutally killed and went right back to working her desk job!
DEATH PROMISE (1977):
I followed up SPACE MUTINY w/ the Rifftrax edition of this late 70s kung fu film that I thought was a different late 70s kung fu film w/ zombies and the devil. (I still can't recall what the heck movie I was thinking of but this one has no zombies or the devil.) DEATH EXPRESS has a diverse cast of guys in goofy 70s hairstyles (including a black guy who starts the movie w/ a cool fro but ends the movie in a lame cross between cornrows and a jheri curl) fighting to save a single rundown tenement building and avenge some murdered family members. This single rundown tenement building is the focus of a vast conspiracy run by five wealthy NYC businessmen/politicians who seem like they should have bigger fish to fry, as well as (per the final plot twist) at least one international criminal syndicate that absolutely has better things to worry about than a rent strike in NYC. That final plot twist does a MONSTER-A-GO-GO / OCEANS TWELVE-style job on the logic of one of the main storylines, as well.
DEATH PROMISE is a pretty bad movie but I enjoyed it more than I enjoy many better-produced Asian martial arts films of the same era, because by the late 70s the Shaws et al had the formula down to a science and thus, while competent, I find most late 70s/early 80s Chinese kung fu movies to be quite dull. Cheap American imitations like DEATH PROMISE are relatively inept but everyone onstage (non-Asian guys and Asian Americans alike) are all so enthusiastic about kicking each other that they manage to transcend their modest abilities through sheer pluck, like Mickey and Judy in those old "Let's put on a show, kids!" flicks. You're also more likely to get some twisted embellishments in these cheapo American joints, like a bad guy who gets a sack of rats tied to his head. It's scarcely a believable effect but it sure is funny.
2.5/5
The riffs are good too.