McB!


Was it less high-brow than the first GI Joe movie?

Oh c'maaaahn...G.I. Joe was totally highbrow...

So you mean you missed the -


"What light through yonder window breaks?"

"I think it's a laser-scope, sir..."

"Oh...Bollingtons..."


And...


"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

"No, I think that would be Snake-Eyes' three-foot ninja sword, sir..."

"Snake-Eyes is a three-foot ninja?"

"Ssssh...He's quite touchy about that..."

*Snort*..."Wait! AARGH!"...

"Told you...Alas, poor muppet...Sadly I gave no monkeys about it...Let's rock!!...Nurse! My RPG...Wasssuuuppp!!!"...



Totally highbrow...



Also...


Hey you... ... ... ...

Now you have me thinking of this!

...

My Daddy!!... ...

I miss him!... ...

Such class...

I finished watching The Call of Cthulhu. Still a delightful gem, and definitely my favorite silent film. I just love the behind the scenes stuff, from all the hair-brained stunts they did to make the movie (like using blankets and glitter to simulate the ocean), to the improv dialogue by the actors (who mouths had to be moving in the scenes, even though nothing had been written for them to say, since it is a silent film).

Just finished the 3rd season of "Rectify"- lots of strong performances, especially as it treats the family dynamics and dysfunctions. It is not a program for the faint of heart, and it certainly does not provide easy answers- or any answers- as far as the "central question" of whether the main character actually committed the crime for which he was on death row.

The next to last season of Hell on Wheels is now up on Netflix, so we are rationing our watching of that.

Final season of Person of Interest- sigh.

Otherwise, police programs... and Grey's Anatomy and Gilmore Girls.

It is also fun to discover the occasional gem in the independent films on Netflix... e.g.- "The Year Dolly Parton was My Mom" or "Jackie and Ryan" (which I did not realize had the Grey's tie-in of Katherine Heigl).

Alas, dids't that most pleasant of comedy plays, Upstart Crow, come to the finale of its first act (in six parts!) this very night...Though rejoicing be had upon its end credits, when an angel dids't proclaim a return in due course!...

Huzzah!...

Look what came in the mail today!

I want to believe.

No kidding... ...

Good luck, see you sometime next year then... ...




Oh...As for me...Restarted the Doctor Who go-through some time ago...One a week...Sometimes it'll be on the x1.5 playing...I can still hear it but it's done ten-ish mins earlier... ...

This morning's was the Madame de Pompadour one though...So that was on properly...Love that one...

Aaaaand we just watched Episode 2 of the latest Musketeers series/season...Ye *Gods* I love that programme... ...

I loved the Madame Pompadour episode! I fell in love with Sophia Myles when I saw her in it.

There is more Musketeers? I saw the first season on dvd and thought it was fun. Does this mean the second is out on disc now? Or do I have to wait another year for that? Peter Capaldi was awesome as the Cardinal. I hear the guy they replaced him with is pretty good too.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 15 2016, 09:22 PM

Yet to watch any of Musketeers S3, though I keep seeing adverts for it on BBC. Very much enjoyed the first two seasons.

Rosa - Season 2 is out on DVD, and season 3 will be released in August. At least that's what amazon uk tells me. Might be different in the us.

Oh aye, the second series/season is definitely on DVD because they're pushing the "Series one and two boxset is available on DVD and Blu-Ray from the BBC Store..." at the end of it all...

Yeah, Rochefort was pretty devilishly excellent in a boo-hiss kind of way... ...He was played by the chap that, in Doctor Who, was in that Doctor-lite episode where there was that small group, LINDA and they all kept getting absorbed by that alien...he ended up "Married" to the girl stuck in the paving slab...(Everyone else, just move on...Don't ask...It's all too...Complicated... ..)...

The pair of nasties (Slight spoilers there, sweetie...) they've got in S3 are giving a fine effort in the jaw-dropping stakes too... ...

Awesome programme... ...

Immediately after lunch today I watched my newly arrived DVD of F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh, Kino's Restored Deluxe Edition. I chose the disc containing the restored German version, which features Giuseppe Becce's original 1924 music score performed by the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra. (A second disc contains the unrestored 'export' version of the film, with a specially written music score by Timothy Brock.) This was my first complete viewing of Laugh, though I had seen excerpts in the past. I find that I do not mind the tacked on 'happy' ending (added at the insistence of the studio), though I can't say I'm totally enamored with it. The Becce score is very nice, btw.

Wow... ...Fair dues...

For my own self I have to admit to...Slightly dumber...(There's a thing!... ...)...

Angie Tribeca...I mean, seriously, properly the funniest thing I've watched in years...

If you love Airplane!, Hot Shots and Police Squad...

This was from the one we watched last night...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Jun 18 2016, 09:46 AM

I just finished the latest season of Orange Is the New Black.

So one of the major plot points of this season was the arrival of an inmate based of Martha Stewart's arrest, but possibly more Paula Deen (I never watched Paula Deen, I only know about her love of butter and the...other issue, which became a plot point in the show too). Anyway, for awhile, her friendship with one of the CO's, Luschek, reminded me of a warped version of Wrothken and Bernice, which I loved...until things took a dark turn.

In fact, this whole season was a dark turn. Usually, lots of bad things happen, but a few things get resolved. Not everything, but enough so certain things feel right.

Not this time.

I'm hoping it's because they know they've been renewed up until season 7 (so far) that things are getting stretched out and maybe things will be resolved in the upcoming seasons, but I really didn't enjoy season 4 that much.

I only saw the first two episodes of Orange is the New Black. It never did anything for me. I could not understand what it was supposed to be. If it was supposed to be a comedy, I never laughed. It isn't very dramatic either, and certainly isn't an escape/action show.

I bought Ghostbusters on 4k last week. It was a big disappointment. The quality just wasn't there, and many of the special effects looked terrible. I might as well have just been watching it on dvd. The story itself was ok. But I think I have seen it too many times now. It just felt flat all around.

Now I am watching X-Files on blu-ray. I bought the 6-part 'event series' on blu-ray as well, and the two X-Files movies. So it looks like I will be having an X-travaganza over the summer. I am only 4 episodes in, and I am already noticing the glaring issue this show had. The protagonists are often ineffectual, and the stories lack resolution. Most of the episodes go something like this: Weird stuff happens, Mulder and Scully come and look, weird stuff stops on its own accord, nothing is really explained or settled. At the most the main characters are just witnesses. They rarely ever truly drive events, and force a real ending.

The two Eugene Tooms episodes in the first season stand out because they break that mold, and give us solid storytelling. In the first Toom's secret is deduced by Mulder, and he is captured thanks to Scully's psychological profile of him. A combination of "I want to believe" with good old-fashioned policework. In the second Tooms escapes, and our intrepid heroes track him down and finish him for good. In both cases the protagonists drive events, and create a resolution to the danger of Tooms.

I just finished up Season Two of Rebels. Wow. I don't want to give away any spoilers, so won't go into more details. But very cool.

I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?! I watched it too, and I totally lost my mind when You-Know-Who did You-Know-What to You-Know-Them with such ludicrous ease! I can't wait when You-Know-Who meets You-Know-Who; it's been a You-Know-What in the making since You-Know-Who made his/her/its debut in You-Know-What-Episode.

You know?

I am still working my way through Wiseguy. I was really ticked off to learn that the boxed set of the entire show that I just bought did not include the Dead Dog Records arc. Those episodes have never been released on dvd, undoubtedly because of the rights to the songs. So I have to watch them from the old VHS tapes I made from when Wiseguy was still on tv. *grrrr*

But even on crappy vhs, it is still a fun story arc. I am on the 3rd episode of it so far. It is a big departure from the usual gangsters. Plus, Tim Curry, Paul Winfield, Glenn Frey, and Blondie. This was actually the first time I ever saw Paul Winfield (just like it was the first place I ever saw Kevin Spacey), so he has always been Isaac Twine to me.

One thing I like is that it really excoriates the music industry's unethical practices from when it was at its height. And I don't mean the blatantly illegal things like labels printing two million cds in a factory, but only claiming that they made one million, and then selling the other million overseas and pocketing all the money. But the technically legal stuff, like the fact that the artist pays for everything, and the music company never tells them that until the bill comes due later. The band pays for the studio time, for a producer, for the cost of printing the cds, and so on. Even the limo rides and catering is all charged to them. So a band can make millions, and still end up broke at the end of the day. While companies like Sony get rich off their hard work and inspiration.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 23 2016, 12:32 AM