Movies

Going to see the final Star Wars movie this Saturday night. Theater is equipped with X-Box seating that move and vibrate with the action on the screen.

Fairly pricey at $42 for the pair, but definitely worth it as we’ve seen quite a few flix over the years in these seats and we probably only go to the theater a couple of times a year.

Hard to believe its been 45 or so years since the original hit the big screen and I had to have my mom drive me and a friend over to the new (at the time) Showcase Cinemas in Erlanger, KY as they were the only local venue that was showing it.

Think the tickets were three or four bucks.

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I know more than a few decent cops, including three brothers I went to school with, another that I’ve known for probably 50 or so years and one of my favourite cousins.

My mom dated a couple of cops when I was growing up and I actually thought I wanted to be one for awhile. I changed my career path after joining my village volunteer fire department after turning 18.

Unfortunately, the early 80’s were the “affirmative action” years and after taking the city exam twice a year for four or five years while working at an insurance company, I decided to stay in insurance.

I never scored lower than 90 and one year, I missed only ONE question out of 90. I didn’t even merit moving to the next phase. Being a white male made my chances only slightly lower than winning the lottery.

I stayed a volunteer for nearly ten years until village budget cuts caused the department to disband. I think back now to the “what if’s” had I made it onto Cincinnati’s FD.

I’d probably have never met my wife, so there’s that. But I would also probably be retired and living on a full city pension after 35 years of service.

But getting back to cops, for every decent dude like I’ve known above, there’s been five or six complete dicks that I’ve met through them that I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.

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Watching Hacksaw Ridge. It's really amazing how cheaply governments sell our lives.

Just finished watching Kingsman - The Golden Circle. Also very good but like most sequels, not quite as good as the original viewed last night.

Julianne Moore played the villainess and was adequately evil; fairly amusing cameo by Sir Elton John (which I believe led him to pick Taron Egerton to play him in Rocketman).

Lots of action and fighting and Bond like gadgets. If you’re a fan of action flix with a bit of humor and lots of gratuitous violence, these two should be right up your alley.

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Godfather Part II, Aliens over Alien. Space Odyssey, & most of the Bourne movies.

Caught a couple of flix on HBO the last couple of nights. Anna, a KGB / CIA action flick with a cast of no one I had ever seen or heard of other than Helen Mirren, who plays the title characters KGB handler.

Think Alias (the TV show from a few years back with Jennifer Garner) on steroids. Anna is totally bad ass and although the story shifts back and forth in time periods with a number of subplots, I was definitely entertained.

Yesterday, again with a bunch of nobodies other than Ed Sheeran and James Corden (both playing themselves) was REALLY good - but I’m a huge Beatles fan and the entire premise is a struggling musician in England, along with the rest of the world, encounters a 10 second blackout, during which he is hit by a bus while riding his bicycle home from a gig.

When he gets out of the hospital, his manager presents him with a new guitar as his other one was destroyed by the accident. As he is with a group of friends, they ask him to play a song and he chooses the classic Yesterday.

The are all amazed and nobody knows who he is talking about when he refers to Lennon & McCartney. Seems the blackout erased the Beatles and several other things from existence.

He goes on to start playing only Beatles songs at his gigs, all while trying to remember all of their songs and lyrics, records many of them as demos and ends up opening for Sheeran, after which he and his Beatles catalog go Hollywood.

Dude does his own playing and singing and is very good at both. Gets the girl and clear conscience in the end. Enjoyed immensely!

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Right there with you on the TV’s. I have an old 20” tube Panasonic on the basement bar that I bought as a floor model (so you know it was on at least 10 hours a day) back in 1981. Still fires up and has a clear picture with excellent colour.

Our main 70” Sony was the last generation of 1080p hi-def and as excellent as it still is, the 52” Sony 4K in our bedroom is even more stunning,

Only thing is - it hardly EVER gets any use. The wife goes to bed usually around 11:30 pm and I’m normally up until two or three.

I could probably watch the one in bed and it wouldn’t bother her (she can and does sleep through just about anything), I’d rather stay downstairs with the bigger screen.

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