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Post by Blunashun on Nov 3, 2022 14:23:04 GMT
At one point last night Patton, The Sting & Cinderalla Man were all on at the same time. Tough choice.
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Post by Blunashun on Nov 6, 2022 15:53:42 GMT
Bandidas is on right now. Salma Hayek & Penelope Cruz.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 6, 2022 18:55:17 GMT
Bandidas is on right now. Salma Hayek & Penelope Cruz. Two of my favourite Latinas. Showgirls was on earlier this morning on IFC. What a train wreck of bad story and bad acting. But plenty of good nudity. Hard to believe that they actually made a sequel, although straight to video, of that piece of crap. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Nov 14, 2022 17:07:16 GMT
Idiocracy is on Starz.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 19, 2022 4:49:59 GMT
Caught “The Walk” last night on STARZ with Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing and narrating as Philippe Petit, the French high wire artist who walked a tightrope between the north and south WTC towers in 1974.
I vaguely remember when this happened (I was eleven years old and a lot of memories from those years have been eliminated by excessive drinking and bong hits).
I guess what I didn’t remember that I discovered from this film was not only the act unsanctioned and illegal, but also the fact that Petit not only made the trip across back and forth multiple times, during one pass he stopped, mid-wire, knelt down and then looked down (something he advised a wire walker NEVER does) and acknowledged the crowd that had gathered and grown below.
Then, during his final trip across, he actually laid down on the wire for several minutes, using his balance pole under his shoulders to keep him in place.
The movie was pretty good, although the scenes from atop the WTC buildings as well as the wire itself were very unnerving and a little unsettling.
I believe I remember there being a bit of an uproar of how these scenes were triggering vertigo by moviegoers and I can see how that would be true.
It was freaky enough on my 70” - imagine those same scenes on a screen 10 or 15 times that large!
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Post by Blunashun on Nov 22, 2022 4:03:01 GMT
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 was on earlier. The original is so much better than the remake. Robert Shaw's tightly wound villain? Or John Travolta's intense overacting?
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 22, 2022 6:43:00 GMT
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 was on earlier. The original is so much better than the remake. Robert Shaw's tightly wound villain? Or John Travolta's intense overacting? Robert Shaw, every day of the week. Also great in the classic Jaws. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Nov 22, 2022 20:34:14 GMT
Watching Broken Arrow, with Jimmy Stewart. It's about a gold miner in Apache territory. He meets Cochise & they become friends. He also meets his future wife.
What a beautiful actress Debra Paget was. But how old is she? Stewart looks to be in his early 40's. I looked up the movie & Paget. 1950 for the movie. Paget was born in 1933? She was 16 during filming!!
Always with these older flicks you see the age disparity between leading men & women. That's a bit much though.
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Post by Blunashun on Nov 25, 2022 18:17:34 GMT
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 was on earlier. The original is so much better than the remake. Robert Shaw's tightly wound villain? Or John Travolta's intense overacting? Robert Shaw, every day of the week. Also great in the classic Jaws. GO DODGERS!!! The Sting was on too. Robert Shaw's character was based on Peg Leg Lonergan. He was a big shot New York gangster. I read about him in a book on Al Capone. People don't realize Capone got his start in New York. Lonergan & Frankie Yale were fighting for control of the waterfront. Yale brought Capone in & Lonergan was dead. That movie harkened back to the days of Irish mobsters. Dean O'Banion, Danny Walsh, Owney Madden, Vannie Higgins, Nucky Johnson, Big Bill Dwyer. Joseph Kennedy is about the only one who thrived alongside the Italian Mafia. O'Banion, Walsh, Higgins & Lonergan were killed. Dwyer got busted. He was partners with Frank Costello & Vannie Higgins. The succession set up a war that had Higgins dying in it. Walsh was the biggest bootlegger in Rhode Island. He disappeared. Madden was tight with Costello, which makes me think that saved his life. Costello (Castiglia) had Madden shuffled off to Hot Springs, Arkansas. That was sort of a mini Las Vegas back in the day. He lived out his life quietly, looking after the Mob's interests there. He owned the Cotton Club in Harlem. He was 'Duke of the Westside' at one time. Kennedy managed to whitewash his beginnings, become the first head of the SEC, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, & got his son elected president. He was worth a reported 300 million dollars at the time of his death. That would make him a billionaire several times over in today's money. Johnson was the character Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire. He was audited by the IRS & ruined. As Shaw would say - "You follow?" |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 25, 2022 19:50:48 GMT
Robert Shaw, every day of the week. Also great in the classic Jaws. GO DODGERS!!! The Sting was on too. Robert Shaw's character was based on Peg Leg Lonergan. He was a big shot New York gangster. I read about him in a book on Al Capone. People don't realize Capone got his start in New York. Lonergan & Frankie Yale were fighting for control of the waterfront. Yale brought Capone in & Lonergan was dead. That movie harkened back to the days of Irish mobsters. Dean O'Banion, Danny Walsh, Owney Madden, Vannie Higgins, Nucky Johnson, Big Bill Dwyer. Joseph Kennedy is about the only one who thrived alongside the Italian Mafia. O'Banion, Walsh, Higgins & Lonergan were killed. Dwyer got busted. He was partners with Frank Costello & Vannie Higgins. The succession set up a war that had Higgins dying in it. Walsh was the biggest bootlegger in Rhode Island. He disappeared. Madden was tight with Costello, which makes me think that saved his life. Costello (Castiglia) had Madden shuffled off to Hot Springs, Arkansas. That was sort of a mini Las Vegas back in the day. He lived out his life quietly, looking after the Mob's interests there. He owned the Cotton Club in Harlem. He was 'Duke of the Westside' at one time. Kennedy managed to whitewash his beginnings, become the first head of the SEC, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, & got his son elected president. He was worth a reported 300 million dollars at the time of his death. That would make him a billionaire several times over in today's money. Johnson was the character Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire. He was audited by the IRS & ruined. As Shaw would say - "You follow?" LOVED that movie the first time I saw it. But once you’ve seen it and know the ending (which was a COMPLETE surprise), it kinda loses a bit. Still a great one with excellent acting by Butch, Sundance and too many others to name. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 7, 2022 5:31:42 GMT
Bandit, starring Josh Duhamel as Gilbert Galvin, The Flying Bandit that robbed over 50 Canadian banks amassing nearly $3 million US dollars over a three year period was on Starz last night.
It also stars Mel Gibson as Tommy Kay, a local bar owner / loan shark / fence who Gilbert partnered with on a large jewelry heist of over a million in Vancouver.
Elisha Cuthbert (from the original 24 series) stars as Galvin’s sweet but naive wife who eventually discovers what Gilbert actually does for a living after finding piles of stashed Canadian funds in their home.
Rather than leave him, she elects to go with him on a job (waiting in the car) and actually seems to get as big a rush as Gilbert when he is once again successful.
Galvin would us a variety of disguises and due to a very high lack of security in these banks would usually get $20 - $30 large from one teller by handing them a note and then walking right back out the front door.
He even hit some banks and the same tellers more than once!
Pretty decent heist flick, although I only really watched it to see if Jack Bauer’s daughter would get naked (she didn’t).
Not a bad two hours spent, tho.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 10, 2022 19:13:47 GMT
Caught both Equalizers with Denzel Washington this week on Starz. Damn - what a badass! Both were very good - as usual, I liked the original with him taking down the Ruskies over the sequel.
Understand a third installment is in pre-production.
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Post by Blunashun on Dec 10, 2022 19:34:25 GMT
Caught both Equalizers with Denzel Washington this week on Starz. Damn - what a badass! Both were very good - as usual, I liked the original with him taking down the Ruskies over the sequel. Understand a third installment is in pre-production. ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️ for the first ⚾️⚾️⚾️ 1/2 for Part Two GO DODGERS!!! Timing himself is great. |
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Post by Blunashun on Dec 11, 2022 2:24:25 GMT
Watching 'Grease.' It's a trip seeing my alma mater on screen. My senior year I was incorrigible. I turned 18 in March. "Please excuse Tom for being absent the last week as *I* was sick." One teacher said it was nice of me to stop by.
"I thought so too."
In retrospect I wound up knowing more than them because it fascinated me. Not because it was curriculum. Me with a book under my arm was a constant joke.
"You read?"
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 14, 2022 17:32:44 GMT
USS Indianapolis - Men of Courage was on Starz last night. Made in 2016, but I honestly don’t ever remember seeing ads for its theatrical release back then.
It tells the story of the Navy warship that was sent under top secret cover to deliver the two atom bombs that were dropped on Japan to end the war.
And while it’s unescorted trip to to the drop point was flawless, the return trip - not so much.
It was hit by multiple Japanese sub torpedos and sank into the Pacific with over 1,300 crewmen.
And while a good deal of them survived the sinking, in the next four days of being stranded at sea with minimal supplies, close to half died either from injuries sustained as the ship went down or were eaten alive by sharks. What a COMPLETELY DREADFUL way to go!
The survivors were eventually rescued by a bomber pilot who landed his plane in the ocean, allowing them to climb on its wings and in its hull until boats could arrive.
The commander of the ship (played by Nicholas Cage) was made the scapegoat for the Navy and was eventually court martialed for his “failure to use zig zagging” maneuvers to evade the torpedoes.
Even after testimony by the Japanese sub commander who confirmed that those maneuvers would not have made any difference as their sub was too close to the Indy, a guilty verdict was still awarded.
The commander shortly thereafter took his own life. After years and years of appeals, the court martial was eventually rescinded and signed off on by Bill Clinton.
I never knew of this event from WWII until seeing this movie. I also learned that the Japanese had developed torpedoes that would include a suicide kamakazi “pilot” that could and would get inside the torpedo and “steer” it to its target. Crafty little bastards!
By the way - this story is told in great detail by Robert Shaw in the classic “Jaws”. Guess I just realized that! Pretty decent flick directed by Mario Van Peebles.
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