Star Wars marathon. May the Fourth be with you!

Just finished watching Miss Congeniality for the fifth or sixth time. I still love that movie.

Thanks to Netflix, I am now watching The Six Million Dollar Man. I used to watch this when I was little. There were three pilot movies before the actual series, and I just finished the third one. They were... not the best in the world. I do still love the little quips he makes when someone sees him doing something impossible, like knocking down a stone wall: "Vitamins," he'll say.

What was really interesting is that the x-plane accident he was in during the first pilot was not nearly as interesting as how it looked in the title sequence of the series proper. They added in all kinds of stuff for the tv show, and it is a lot better. Even after all these years, I think it is one of the coolest tv show intros ever.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 16 2015, 04:09 AM

BwaaHaa! I remember, didn't they show some accident and then the voice said "they made him better...stronger..." and then they showed him running on a treadmill and it was going really fast or something?

That was it!

Omg, the link didn't show up in my mailbox! For some reason I thought the actor's name was Steve Austin - didn't remember the name Lee Majors till I saw it, lol. - and wasn't he married to Farah Fawcett? I remembered that, but not his real name, lol. Urk.

"We have the technology..." - what a line! I do remember that now that I saw it in your link! What a great little moment of nostalgia, lol. Thanks, SubRosa!

He was married to Farrah Fawcett. I forgot all about that. They were one of Hollywood's first power couples. Like Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were. Or before that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon... Now that makes me remember the hooplah over that picture of Farrah getting out of the car with no underwear under her dress...

I still remember her left nipple from that movie with Kirk Douglas,

Wow, I forgot all about that!

Just finished watching Mystery Men. Still love that movie. Eddie Izzard is my favorite as the leader of the Disco Boys. Now I am digging out Oceans Thirteen, for his little part as Roman.

Well I never forgot it, it was like the first real nipple I ever saw (my own and other girls my age certainly did not count in comparison, lol).

I haven't seen Oceans Thirteen yet, but wanted to.

Just finished Oceans Thirteen. I have seen it over a dozen times, and it is still lots of fun. I love all the little things and inside jokes. mALX, if you liked Oceans Eleven, you will like this one too.

I haven't seen Oceans Eleven, but in general I do like heist movies if they are well done and not overplayed. The cast is a mix of some of my favorites (Like Damon) and some actors I refuse to watch (Clooney) - so when that happens I won't seek out the movie to watch, but if it comes up I'll give it a chance.

Well, so far Ocean's Eleven never came up for me to give it a chance - but actually I like the sound of Ocean's Thirteen more because they have dumped Julia Roberts off. I will watch Julia in some things, but in a movie like Eleven I was afraid she would cheese it up.

I forgot you don't like Clooney. You might want to stay away from the Oceans movies then, unless they happen to be on tv and you are bored. He is a major part of all of them. The films are named after his character after all.

Today I saw Black Sea. It was a good thriller. Lots of tension, a few twists, and some of the worst kind of people being the worst kind of people. Jude Law turned in a good performance as the Captain Ahab-ish captain. I believed in him right up until the end.

Clooney used to be a doctor in a hospital show and was excellent in the role; (I think it was St. Elsewhere) but then suddenly overnight he played a role in a movie and became some kind of supposed sex symbol.

Then his head seemed to swell with the image and his acting ability took a nose dive - or actually that could have been caused by the roles he took in the movies where all they cared about seemed to be showing him off as a stud figure.

After that he went around with a "I'm hot and I know it" look on his face and attitude, and all the great acting he showed in St. Elsewhere went elsewhere. So I crossed him off my list, and started avoiding his movies like the plague.

mALX, I think you have one great hospital show mixed up with another. Georgie Boy was on ER, while Mark Harmon (my hero as Special Agent in Charge Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS!) was on St. Elsewhere, along with David Morse and Denzel Washington (another one who went down the stud idol path before he started showing serious acting chops in better quality movies).

I do agree with you about George Clooney, though I think the rot started while he was still on ER. I never cared for him. Funny, though, I loved "Rocket" Romano! He was a riot!

I couldn't remember the show, only that it was a hospital show and serious (not a comedy). But yeah, after that first film he started getting hammy, and never went back.

Just watched Jupiter Ascending. Expected an action adventure film with spaceships and Sean Bean (the reason I decided to watched it). Got a cringey romance story starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum.

The action parts were good, the CGI was nicely done, Sean Bean was as good as I expected him to be. Other than that the film was 'meh' and I had to skip several scenes that made me groan with how rom-com-worthy they were.



Next up I'm going to rewatch the 'Sharpe' series for the 8347385756th time.

I just learned about Jupiter Ascending when I saw an outtake from it on a show Mila was on advertising the movie. That outtake centered around Mila (of course). My impression was mixed. To begin with, I like Mila as an actress, so I was expecting to like it if she was in it; and she didn't disappoint in her role that I saw in that outtake.

But then I followed up by watching some trailers for it (to determine if it was "Rent-Worthy") - and found her role seemed a lot different between the trailers and the outtake. She was stretching to still be good in her role, and therefore the role itself lost a lot of believability (imo).

BUT - many times when all you see are excerpts they can be taken out of context, so that could be a completely wrong opinion, and I did keep that in mind; so it was just a minor flag against it.

The action looked good to an extent; but it was a little too obviously computer graphics in all the collisions. I think it would have been a lot stronger with some more realistic collisions so we weren't reminded every time that they were keeping a tight budget on a film.

Then there was the believability of those crashes:

(Example: When a man crashes into a building and through it, I expect to see some indication he has just done that - some body twisting/spinning/wincing or flinching/some bodily damage/even just a flailing arm or change in facial expression! Nothing. He crashed into a solid structure and came out the other side as if he had just walked in through the door.

At least a change in facial expression to show either strength and determination or pain - anything. Instead there was a crash into the side of the building and Channing emerged without any noticeable indication he had just plowed through a thick wall of concrete! Nothing whatsoever to show it just happened, not even people below ducking from falling rubble! Who was the Director that let that scene pass?

Then he flew straight to Mila's side unimpeded while armies just stared at him coming; and he lands with gun in hand pointed at the enemy. It was way too uber; and way too much of a "Now we know why the other side is losing all the time" moment.

Now again; that excerpt they showed may have been taken out of context, but it is the only thing I have to base my judgement on. It blew it for me wanting to watch the movie.

Something like that breaks any chance of immersion for me, because it makes sure you know you are watching a movie instead of really seeing these things take place. So then your outlook is at a disadvantage for everything else the film has to offer, like dialogue/storyline/etc.

Some of the acting was good, but some bordered on predictable and wavered between overplayed and underplayed. In one scene it was almost trite. And truthfully, I wanted it to be good because Magic Mike was in it, lol.

What I ended up deciding was that if this movie was free on television or someone else rented it - I'd watch it through. Otherwise, it won't be seen, I won't make the trip to BlockBuster for it, lol.





This post has been edited by mALX: May 26 2015, 07:39 PM

Aww that's disappointing. I liked the ambition that the Wachowskis showed in the Matrix trilogy and, to a lesser extent, in Cloud Atlas. I had high hopes for Jupiter Ascending before it disappeared into 'reshoot hell' for nine months. The movie was pretty much doomed after that.

I watched The Dark Knight Returns part 1 and 2. They are great and highly recommend them.