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#11
Bad Movies / Re: Color horror movies you sa...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 07:15:51 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 06:59:33 AMThat's a great question! There were B+W TVs in family homes when I was a kid but I don't remember watching a color horror movie in B+W. The TV in our family room was full-color, and while POLTERGEIST and AMERICAN WEREWOLF might have been just as scary in B+W, it was the bright red blood that really flipped me out......
No colour TV broadcasting in my birth country then unfortunately.
Another creepy movie I saw in b/w was BAFFLED with Leonard Nimoy.
#12
Good Movies / Re: South African born actors ...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:01:07 AMCyril Cusack was great as the gunsmith!
#13
Bad Movies / Re: Color horror movies you sa...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 06:59:33 AMThat's a great question! There were B+W TVs in family homes when I was a kid but I don't remember watching a color horror movie in B+W. The TV in our family room was full-color, and while POLTERGEIST and AMERICAN WEREWOLF might have been just as scary in B+W, it was the bright red blood that really flipped me out......
#14
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 06:34:28 AMIf my overextended, work-addled mind couldn't even retain the simple title "JAY KELLY", how the heck can I be expected to remember...
HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A BILLS LOVE STORY (2025):
This is some kind of diabolical team-up between the Hallmark Movie network and the NFL, which recycles the same title and (for all I know) the same plot for different football teams. There is at least a HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A CHIEFS LOVE STORY (feh!) and possibly others? But besides that this is just like any other garbage Hallmark Christmas movie, which I tend to disregard (though Madame will occasionally watch them). We watched this one because it appeared to be shot on location in Buffalo and promised glimpses of local landmarks and (as often will be the case in WNY-shot features) cameos from WNY's large pool of theatre artists. But as a famous Admiral once said, "It's a trap!"
The cameos you will get are of past and current Buffalo Bills, including 80s/90s legends Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas, QB and RB for the only team in NFL history to contend in four consecutive Superb Owls (and thus also the only team in NFL history to lose four consecutive Superb Owls). I didn't recognize him but apparently (per the credits) there's also an appearance by Scott Norwood, famous among football fans for losing one of those classic Superb Owls at the very last moment with a "Wide right!" field goal; and famous among film enthusiasts for ruining Vincent Gallo's life in BUFFALO 66, becoming a naked obese strip club owner, and getting his brains blown out by Gallo in the climax of the film. (Norwood didn't play himself and Gallo wisely changed the name to "Scotty Woods.") The current Bills head coach has an entire dialogue scene with the male lead, though his name isn't mentioned and I don't know it
in spite of watching the equivalent of one entire Bills game (or parts of four quarters of a few different games) this season, which is probably the most TV football I've ever watched in a single season in my life. Alas, though current star QB Josh Allan is mentioned, he's too busy getting paid a lot of money to appear in commercials and enjoying his new wife Hailee Steinfeld (hot star of SINNERS, who also doesn't appear, natch)... thus I presume if you were to watch A CHIEFS LOVE STORY, you'd get no Pat Mahomes or Travis Kelce (or Taylor Swift).
I wrote a musical about the life and career of Thurman Thomas a few years back. Thomas told me that when he flew into Buffalo as a rookie from Texas in the mid-80s, his first thought was "Where's the city? It's so flat..." To be fair to Buffalo, 21st century urban renewal has made it look a little bit more like the platonic ideal of a "city" than it used to. Unfortunately HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN shoots almost all of its exteriors on one small downtown block of one of Buffalo's sleepier suburbs, failing to distinguish this from downtown Buffalo proper, thus making my region look approximately as p**sant as how I presume residents of other cities think Buffalo looks. (I've been to parts of Kansas City that were $#!tholes, too, so I hope the CHIEFS LOVE STORY team was more considerate about their location scouting.)
The majority of HT:ABLS looks like it was shot on sets possibly outside of Western New York (the credits have a huge "Connecticut" icon, sigh) and, most disappointingly, nearly all of the actors were clearly cast from elsewhere and imported. The supporting cast I recognized include Caroline Aaron from MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL; Michael J. Fox's wife Tracy Pollan, who is 65 and looks 40 max, though her forehead never moves; the always-welcome Abraham Benrubi as Santa Claus; and Joe Pantoliano, co-star of THE MATRIX, THE FUGITIVE, and "The Sopranos", who can't possibly need money this badly but gives a real performance anyway and nails the Buffalo accent. That's more than I can say for the inept romantic leads and the hopeless younger actors who play their group of friends, all of whom I guess cut muster by Hallmark standards, though they wouldn't easily make it on to any regional stage of repute.
That's a real shame - practically the only reason Buffalo theatre artists watch the (mostly bad) films shot in Buffalo is to spot people we know. There is one nominally "real" WNY actor visible in this film or named in the credits, I worked with him once in 2012, he's got about three lines, and he doesn't exactly represent the region as being a rich center for theatre... but somehow they found him and put him onscreen, so one wonders - why couldn't they have filled dozens of other roles not played by Name actors with similar local talent? There are only a couple dozen Women of a Certain Age in WNY who would've been thrilled to play "Mrs. Claus" (who has more screen time than Benrubi as Santa) and would have done as well or better than the import they hired. That actress happens to also be the exact size and shape as Buffalo's own Stephen McKinley Henderson, and walks and gestures identically to Steve. Although Steve obviously wouldn't play "Mrs. Claus", he still makes time around his many appearances in Oscar Best Picture nominees to come appear in independent features shot in WNY, reminding us that HT:ABLS could have done better if it wanted to. For another example, I could point to the closing scene of BUFFALO 66, where Gallo has a long conversation with a doughnut shop clerk played by Buffalo's playwright laureate Manny Fried. (I founded and ran the Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop for 15 years, with Manny's blessing.) There are other real Buffalo actors in that donut shop finale, too.
1/5
But I suppose the audience for this was Hallmark Christmas movie fans nationwide and less so actual Buffalonians or Bills fans. As such it does deliver all the usual Hallmark horse$#1t, alas.
HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A BILLS LOVE STORY (2025):
This is some kind of diabolical team-up between the Hallmark Movie network and the NFL, which recycles the same title and (for all I know) the same plot for different football teams. There is at least a HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A CHIEFS LOVE STORY (feh!) and possibly others? But besides that this is just like any other garbage Hallmark Christmas movie, which I tend to disregard (though Madame will occasionally watch them). We watched this one because it appeared to be shot on location in Buffalo and promised glimpses of local landmarks and (as often will be the case in WNY-shot features) cameos from WNY's large pool of theatre artists. But as a famous Admiral once said, "It's a trap!"
The cameos you will get are of past and current Buffalo Bills, including 80s/90s legends Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas, QB and RB for the only team in NFL history to contend in four consecutive Superb Owls (and thus also the only team in NFL history to lose four consecutive Superb Owls). I didn't recognize him but apparently (per the credits) there's also an appearance by Scott Norwood, famous among football fans for losing one of those classic Superb Owls at the very last moment with a "Wide right!" field goal; and famous among film enthusiasts for ruining Vincent Gallo's life in BUFFALO 66, becoming a naked obese strip club owner, and getting his brains blown out by Gallo in the climax of the film. (Norwood didn't play himself and Gallo wisely changed the name to "Scotty Woods.") The current Bills head coach has an entire dialogue scene with the male lead, though his name isn't mentioned and I don't know it
in spite of watching the equivalent of one entire Bills game (or parts of four quarters of a few different games) this season, which is probably the most TV football I've ever watched in a single season in my life. Alas, though current star QB Josh Allan is mentioned, he's too busy getting paid a lot of money to appear in commercials and enjoying his new wife Hailee Steinfeld (hot star of SINNERS, who also doesn't appear, natch)... thus I presume if you were to watch A CHIEFS LOVE STORY, you'd get no Pat Mahomes or Travis Kelce (or Taylor Swift).I wrote a musical about the life and career of Thurman Thomas a few years back. Thomas told me that when he flew into Buffalo as a rookie from Texas in the mid-80s, his first thought was "Where's the city? It's so flat..." To be fair to Buffalo, 21st century urban renewal has made it look a little bit more like the platonic ideal of a "city" than it used to. Unfortunately HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN shoots almost all of its exteriors on one small downtown block of one of Buffalo's sleepier suburbs, failing to distinguish this from downtown Buffalo proper, thus making my region look approximately as p**sant as how I presume residents of other cities think Buffalo looks. (I've been to parts of Kansas City that were $#!tholes, too, so I hope the CHIEFS LOVE STORY team was more considerate about their location scouting.)
The majority of HT:ABLS looks like it was shot on sets possibly outside of Western New York (the credits have a huge "Connecticut" icon, sigh) and, most disappointingly, nearly all of the actors were clearly cast from elsewhere and imported. The supporting cast I recognized include Caroline Aaron from MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL; Michael J. Fox's wife Tracy Pollan, who is 65 and looks 40 max, though her forehead never moves; the always-welcome Abraham Benrubi as Santa Claus; and Joe Pantoliano, co-star of THE MATRIX, THE FUGITIVE, and "The Sopranos", who can't possibly need money this badly but gives a real performance anyway and nails the Buffalo accent. That's more than I can say for the inept romantic leads and the hopeless younger actors who play their group of friends, all of whom I guess cut muster by Hallmark standards, though they wouldn't easily make it on to any regional stage of repute.
That's a real shame - practically the only reason Buffalo theatre artists watch the (mostly bad) films shot in Buffalo is to spot people we know. There is one nominally "real" WNY actor visible in this film or named in the credits, I worked with him once in 2012, he's got about three lines, and he doesn't exactly represent the region as being a rich center for theatre... but somehow they found him and put him onscreen, so one wonders - why couldn't they have filled dozens of other roles not played by Name actors with similar local talent? There are only a couple dozen Women of a Certain Age in WNY who would've been thrilled to play "Mrs. Claus" (who has more screen time than Benrubi as Santa) and would have done as well or better than the import they hired. That actress happens to also be the exact size and shape as Buffalo's own Stephen McKinley Henderson, and walks and gestures identically to Steve. Although Steve obviously wouldn't play "Mrs. Claus", he still makes time around his many appearances in Oscar Best Picture nominees to come appear in independent features shot in WNY, reminding us that HT:ABLS could have done better if it wanted to. For another example, I could point to the closing scene of BUFFALO 66, where Gallo has a long conversation with a doughnut shop clerk played by Buffalo's playwright laureate Manny Fried. (I founded and ran the Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop for 15 years, with Manny's blessing.) There are other real Buffalo actors in that donut shop finale, too.
1/5
But I suppose the audience for this was Hallmark Christmas movie fans nationwide and less so actual Buffalonians or Bills fans. As such it does deliver all the usual Hallmark horse$#1t, alas.
#15
Bad Movies / Re: Your fave movie bloopers?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 06:04:58 AMQuote from: HappyGilmore on December 11, 2025, 10:35:13 PMSo, the one I'm gonna mention weren't in the actual movie itself. But it was a feature on the two-disc DVD set and can be found on YouTube if you search.
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back-2001. It's like 8 minutes long. They're all pretty good but the bit at the end when it's Matt Damon and Ben Affleck making a cameo for Good Will Hunting: Hunting Season and they just keep screwing up their lines and Ben goes on this long laughing fit where he can't catch his breath is just great.
I'm still waiting for them to release that sequel 😉😉🐢
#16
Bad Movies / Color horror movies you saw in...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 06:03:17 AMI can name two
QUEEN OF BLOOD
HORROR EXPRESS
I saw them both on TV as a kid in b/w and I always thought they were creepier in b/w.
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QUEEN OF BLOOD
HORROR EXPRESS
I saw them both on TV as a kid in b/w and I always thought they were creepier in b/w.
☺️☺️🐢
#17
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - Today at 04:46:53 AMSo my last night at work was interesting. We had a rather excitable slightly drunk man come in and tell me that there was a guy lying on the ground and that he was non-responsive. I headed out the guardroom to check on him. I am not sure if he was non-responsive, but when I got to him he was sitting up, bawling his eyes out because his girlfriend had left him a couple of weeks previously. He'd been sick all over himself, had pee'd himself and was all dirty from lying on the ground. There was a gaggle of drunks standing around and as I am trying to sort him out, they all started pushing each other, building up towards a fight. I managed to sort them out and send them on their way and figured that although he didn't seem in immediate medical danger that I should take him back to the guard room and sort him out a bit.
He then started trying to punch walls and himself while apologising constantly for being a p***y and crying his heart out. He was ginger and looked a lot like Ed Sheeran, but with a scraggly beard. Anyway when he started trying to hit himself we figured we'd get someone more qualified to look after him, besides we don't have the manpower to look after random drunks, so we got the duty officer in to have a look at him and then he called in the duty padre (in addition to being priests they have various qualifications in psychology and therapy). Two hours later he was still bawling his eyes out. I was impressed he still had enough liquid in his body to keep pouring out the tears. I did get info out of him on where his room was and that he was due to be taking an early train later that morning. The duty officer escorted him back to his room and got the service police to check in on him a couple of times to make sure he didn't self-harm or choke to death on his own vomit.
I have no idea if he made his train. I doubt he'd remember the night, but a report will have went to the SWO, who might have a word with his CO so he might find out about it that way.
Happy holidays everyone.
He then started trying to punch walls and himself while apologising constantly for being a p***y and crying his heart out. He was ginger and looked a lot like Ed Sheeran, but with a scraggly beard. Anyway when he started trying to hit himself we figured we'd get someone more qualified to look after him, besides we don't have the manpower to look after random drunks, so we got the duty officer in to have a look at him and then he called in the duty padre (in addition to being priests they have various qualifications in psychology and therapy). Two hours later he was still bawling his eyes out. I was impressed he still had enough liquid in his body to keep pouring out the tears. I did get info out of him on where his room was and that he was due to be taking an early train later that morning. The duty officer escorted him back to his room and got the service police to check in on him a couple of times to make sure he didn't self-harm or choke to death on his own vomit.
I have no idea if he made his train. I doubt he'd remember the night, but a report will have went to the SWO, who might have a word with his CO so he might find out about it that way.
Happy holidays everyone.
#18
Good Movies / South African born actors in m...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 02:29:01 AMCyril Cusack as the gunsmith Gozzi in THE DAY OF THE JACKAL.
Nigel Green as Colour Sergeant Bourne in ZULU.
Glynis Johns as Mrs Banks in MARY POPPINS.
Basil Rathbone in QUEEN OF BLOOD.
Nigel Green as Colour Sergeant Bourne in ZULU.
Glynis Johns as Mrs Banks in MARY POPPINS.
Basil Rathbone in QUEEN OF BLOOD.
#19
Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Rob Reiner
Last post by Trevor - Today at 01:05:57 AMQuote from: RCMerchant on Today at 12:57:18 AMHorrible.
And Our President...this is the leader of the free world.
And Trev. your not showing the USA with any disrespect by calling Trump. An idiot. That's giving him too much credit. He is EVIL.
Missed you here, Ronny.
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#20
Off Topic Discussion / Re: the I hate xmas thread
Last post by RCMerchant - Today at 01:02:01 AMI do hate Christmas. With a passion. It's not about a religion anymore. It's about money.
And Tara Sue died Xmas Eve, 2008.
Bah, humbug.
And Tara Sue died Xmas Eve, 2008.
Bah, humbug.