My Game of Thrones Season 1 & 2 DVD set arrived just after lunch. I watched Season 1, Episode 1 right away. Being a fan of the books I expected to be underwhelmed by the screen adaptation. This was indeed the case. Even so, it was an enjoyable experience and well worth the insignificant investment ($32US for 10 DVDs). I might or might not watch episode two this evening.

I watched the first two episodes on Netflix and was very underwhelmed. I think I am the only person in the world of that opinion though.

In the middle of Die Hard. Yippie Ki Yay Mother****er!

Watched The Sentinel last night.

Bloody awful film. Plotholes all over the place.

To remove the memory of having watched it, later on I'm going to watch one of my favourite films: Dungeons and Dragons IT doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, it just never gets old.

My favorite line in the film, (and there were many great lines in that movie!)

I went to the video store and rented the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Die Hard movies. It's going to be a Bruce Willis fest this weekend!

I am now on the 2nd one. It has Robert Patrick, John Leguizamo, and even Colm Meany all in bit parts!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 11 2015, 09:51 PM

That is my kind of fest!

Longmire Season 4 has finally been released by Netflix! (Struggling to avoid binge watching...)

And the beauty of it being streaming now is we can have subtitles to overcome Katee Sackhoff's mumbling...

For anyone with Netflix, I highly recommend watching from the beginning. Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips, and A Martinez all turn in splendid performances episode after episode, as do the other "non-name" actors--- not to mention Gerald McRaney.

I watched the first three seasons recently, and it is good, though I would not call it great.

Was gonna watch Game of Thrones season one, episode two after lunch but chanced upon an excellent biography of the silent-era actor Lon Chaney Sr, still remembered for his portraits of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera. I love movies from all eras, with a special fascination with silent film, so this is right up my alley. A bonus . . . I had not read much about Chaney, so much of the info on this video is new to me.

There are at least two of us, the difference being your 'very'.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Sep 12 2015, 01:13 AM

My ears have been bothering me so much these past two day I've not done any serious long-duration watching, but instead limited myself to relatively short YouTube videos of various sorts. I normally try and catch TYT's daily (except weekends) 2-hr live YouTube news-stream, but Friday's stories were so disheartening I bailed 30min before the end.

Speaking of disheartening, I learned of two movie-related deaths within the past two week that received next to no coverage by the major news outlets. On 4 Sep Jean Darling passed away at age 93. On the 7th Dickie Moore left us just shy of his 90th birthday. Both were alumni of Our Gang comedies. What's more, both were amongst the handful of verifiable surviving actors from the silent film era. With them gone, that list is down to 11! As might be imaged, those who remain were all child actors during the silent days, the oldest having just entered their teens as the era came to a close. The last silent actor who might be termed adult . . . and an extremely young adult at that . . . departed early last year, at age 104 if memory serves. The last adult-age silent actor of acknowledged 'star' status, Anita Page, passed away in 2008.

On a more lighthearted note, I recently learned that a complete second reel of Laurel & Hardy's two-reel silent comedy "The Battle of the Century" was discovered in a collection several months ago!!!! This is the famous pie-fight reel, which up until now was thought to have survived only in a highly edited version. Funny thing is, the complete reel 2 has been in plain sight for quite some time. The reel's previous owner assumed he had a copy of the edited version so never bothered to watch it. The current owner made the same mistake for a number of years, and only recently decided to give it a look-see. The reel is now in the hands of preservationists. We should at some point get to see the pie-fight in all its unedited glory. (Much of reel one, missing only its final segment, was unearthed in the late seventies.)

Here' the pie fight as it's been seen for many years, in its edited, truncated edition.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Sep 14 2015, 12:10 AM

Just watched Excalibur. Gotta love that film.

Excalibur once mesmerized me. I watched it in various LA area cinemas during its initial run more times than any other movie. I mean, I saw it a LOT. Later on it was an early DVD purchase. Later yet, I became somewhat disillusioned, finding a certain amount of 'hokiness' within it. That said, I still find much to enjoy. It is easily my second favorite Arthurian film, the first being 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.'

Another movie I once put quite high on my list of favorite films but now consider a bit 'corny' while still greatly enjoying it is the Errol Flynn 'Adventures of Robin Hood.'

I agree that Errol Flynn in Robin Hood is quite corny, especially after - oh, say, fifty views or so.

Channel 9 when I was growing up (aka Superstation WGN nowadays) used to have Saturday Matinees when they would air classic movies. This one was aired about once a year, along with other classics like Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro, and Burt Lancaster in The Crimson Pirate. Errol Flynn was one of my favorite action actors growing up, and I watched that movie religiously every year. When I was in vet school and living in Minnesota, my younger brother (the same one I always squabbled with when we were young) found the 50th Anniversary DVD of the movie, in its full uncut version, complete with captions. There were moments when I was like I don't remember that! and it renewed my delight in the film.

Now let's see if I can dig it out . . .

Yes, it's corny, but dang, Errol Flynn in tights!!

This post has been edited by haute ecole rider: Sep 16 2015, 05:08 PM

Make mine Captain Blood. Too much of this nonsense in Robin Hood for me!

I bet you're not a fan of The Laugh and the Furious either...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 16 2015, 09:21 PM

I prefer this version of Robin Hood. One of my all time favourite films, and the first VHS tape I owned as a wee lad.

Funny that you should say this, because when I went to check out the vid clip, I got an ad for the Fast and Furious #7!

The dvd for Furious being out now is probably what put it in my head.


In other news I finished my latest watching of Claymore today. Wow, that was really good. Now I am itching to play more Persephone back in Skyrim. Like I said before the look and emotion of that show was definitely in my subconscious when I created Persephone.

I also discovered something interesting. Laura Bailey is one of the English voice actresses! Yes, our favorite vampire from Skyrim plays a half-human, half-yoma killing machine. Not really much of a stretch! She plays Jean, and is in the second half of the series. It is not that big of a part, at least in screen time. But she does make a huge impact on events at the end. I found myself switching from Japanese to English whenever Jean was in a scene. Then I would switch the audio back to Japanese of course, because most of the other English voice actors are atrocious.

Fakey laughter, huh? Not a fan. I'm with Hazmick on preferring the fox and bear,