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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2023 20:50:04 GMT -5
This morning we watched White Noise. A very interesting flick, but not for everyone and certainly not for Plainsman. There are several scenes that were a lot like the conversations in our house. There was one line in particular that trickled me One was where the college professors were discussing California, about all the disasters. Another professor overheating this chimes in with! "Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.". 😉 |
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Post by don on Jan 1, 2023 21:29:35 GMT -5
I watched “ Wild Bill” today. Not great but not terrible. I always enjoy Jeff Bridges. I have seen it before, although it was many years ago.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 1, 2023 22:07:59 GMT -5
This morning we watched White Noise. A very interesting flick, but not for everyone and certainly not for Plainsman . There are several scenes that were a lot like the conversations in our house. There was one line in particular that trickled me One was where the college professors were discussing California, about all the disasters. Another professor overheating this chimes in with! "Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.". 😉 Now, there is a Professor who knows nothing of philosophy, history, sociology, culture or the arts. I am guessing he is in the Engineering Department? Perhaps a Mathematician? There is a bleak humor there which California surely warrants. However, to run down a much struggled over segment known as "lifestyle" or self awareness. That is not right to me.... OK, so tell me, just how many angels can dance on the head of pin??? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2023 22:42:07 GMT -5
This morning we watched White Noise. A very interesting flick, but not for everyone and certainly not for Plainsman . There are several scenes that were a lot like the conversations in our house. There was one line in particular that trickled me One was where the college professors were discussing California, about all the disasters. Another professor overheating this chimes in with! "Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.". 😉 Now, there is a Professor who knows nothing of philosophy, history, sociology, culture or the arts. I am guessing he is in the Engineering Department? Perhaps a Mathematician? There is a bleak humor there which California surely warrants. However, to run down a much struggled over segment known as "lifestyle" or self awareness. That is not right to me.... OK, so tell me, just how many angels can dance on the head of pin??? I guess as many as choose that Lifestyle! 😁 The movie is kind of a farce. The central character is a professor of the study of Adolf Hitler. He is the world's greatest authority on the subject, but doesn't speak German. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 1, 2023 22:44:32 GMT -5
So why isn’t this flick for me? Huh? Huh?
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2023 23:39:07 GMT -5
So why isn’t this flick for me? Huh? Huh? I just don't think that you would like it, and after my last suggestion, I don't want to have you waste your time. Go ahead, but don't blame me. 😉 |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 2, 2023 10:33:52 GMT -5
So why isn’t this flick for me? Huh? Huh? I just don't think that you would like it, and after my last suggestion, I don't want to have you waste your time. Go ahead, but don't blame me. 😉 Thank you, Your Vagueness. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 2, 2023 10:36:02 GMT -5
I just don't think that you would like it, and after my last suggestion, I don't want to have you waste your time. Go ahead, but don't blame me. 😉 Thank you, Your Vagueness. Watch it and find out you hard-headed old #ð¥ï%ß |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2023 12:36:37 GMT -5
Watched the excellent 1961 British movie "The Day the Earth Caught Fire". Another Val Guest extravaganza. Great story and excellent Cast. Edward Judd's first picture and he is quite good in it. Leo McKern holds it all together as only he can do. Then there is the luscious Janet Munro. Because the story is largely set at a Fleet Street newspaper, real newspaper editors are present with lines of script. The special effects are quite well done and without CGI, of course. Lots of superb mat paintings, sepia colorization of B&W film.
If you have not seen it, it is on Amazon Prime in the BFI Collection.
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Post by zambini on Jan 3, 2023 18:32:00 GMT -5
This morning we watched White Noise. A very interesting flick, but not for everyone and certainly not for Plainsman . There are several scenes that were a lot like the conversations in our house. There was one line in particular that trickled me One was where the college professors were discussing California, about all the disasters. Another professor overheating this chimes in with! "Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.". 😉 Is that the one with Micheal Keaton seeing poltergeists on his TV? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 19:14:54 GMT -5
This morning we watched White Noise. A very interesting flick, but not for everyone and certainly not for Plainsman . There are several scenes that were a lot like the conversations in our house. There was one line in particular that trickled me One was where the college professors were discussing California, about all the disasters. Another professor overheating this chimes in with! "Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.". 😉 Is that the one with Micheal Keaton seeing poltergeists on his TV? No, completely different. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 6, 2023 1:47:36 GMT -5
Crossfire, featuring Robert Mitchum and, more importantly, Robert Young as a detective who keeps a rack of pipes on his desk. He's been cleaning a couple of them while interviewing witnesses. So far, smoked a saddle-bit billiard a couple of times.
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Post by urbino on Jan 6, 2023 3:01:46 GMT -5
He eventually got around to a straight apple, too, before returning to the billiard. Kept a zippered tobacco pouch in his pocket, too.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 6, 2023 11:08:02 GMT -5
Crossfire, featuring Robert Mitchum and, more importantly, Robert Young as a detective who keeps a rack of pipes on his desk. He's been cleaning a couple of them while interviewing witnesses. So far, smoked a saddle-bit billiard a couple of times. I know that movie. Robert Young seems natural enough with his pipes. Mitch does his usual best. Isn't Robert Ryan in this? |
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Post by urbino on Jan 6, 2023 16:15:33 GMT -5
Crossfire, featuring Robert Mitchum and, more importantly, Robert Young as a detective who keeps a rack of pipes on his desk. He's been cleaning a couple of them while interviewing witnesses. So far, smoked a saddle-bit billiard a couple of times. I know that movie. Robert Young seems natural enough with his pipes. Mitch does his usual best. Isn't Robert Ryan in this? Yep. And the actress who played Violet in It’s a Wonderful Life, if I’m not mistaken. |
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Post by Darin on Jan 9, 2023 17:31:23 GMT -5
"Lou" on Netflix
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Post by toshtego on Jan 10, 2023 15:28:17 GMT -5
"Two Way Stretch", 1960. An early Peter Sellers comedy with Wilfred Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, and assorted British character actors. Three convicts plan and execute a jewel heist while still in prison. Thus having the perfect alibi. Quite amusing.
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Post by mgtarheel on Jan 14, 2023 22:03:33 GMT -5
Watched "The Pale Blue Eye" on Netflix today.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 16, 2023 0:16:40 GMT -5
Just watched All Eyes, About a guy like Bob, a monster, and some booby traps, a movie about an escape room from hell. Crazy but crazy good.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 16, 2023 0:19:16 GMT -5
Watched "The Pale Blue Eye" on Netflix today. We started watching that but stopped for a nap. Will try to pick it up again this week. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 16, 2023 7:46:29 GMT -5
 Pale Blue eyes is slow but good, ending is a twist.
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Post by don on Jan 16, 2023 8:15:54 GMT -5
St. Vincent
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 17, 2023 12:37:00 GMT -5
Watched STAND UP GUYS last night. Pacino, Walken, Arkin. Pacino was excellent. Walkin can be obnoxious to watch with his weird shenanigans, but he was very good in this. Maybe the best I’ve seen of him. Arkin was so-so. It’s a fun piece of fluff.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 17, 2023 22:25:44 GMT -5
Watched STAND UP GUYS last night. Pacino, Walken, Arkin. Pacino was excellent. Walkin can be obnoxious to watch with his weird shenanigans, but he was very good in this. Maybe the best I’ve seen of him. Arkin was so-so. It’s a fun piece of fluff. That is some cast. I will look for this one. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 18, 2023 0:10:40 GMT -5
Watched STAND UP GUYS last night. Pacino, Walken, Arkin. Pacino was excellent. Walkin can be obnoxious to watch with his weird shenanigans, but he was very good in this. Maybe the best I’ve seen of him. Arkin was so-so. It’s a fun piece of fluff. I just added this one to my list. |
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Post by Darin on Jan 18, 2023 17:02:49 GMT -5
"I'm all outta gum"! 😅
Watched "The Humanity Bureau" last night.
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Post by don on Jan 18, 2023 17:31:15 GMT -5
Just watched “The Shooting”. Considered by many to be the first “Acid” Western. I have seen it a few times. Very dark movie. I always enjoy Warren Oates. Nicholson is good as ever, too. No tidy ending to this movie.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 19, 2023 18:51:36 GMT -5
Just saw Avatar 2 today in 3D,and it was really good. Very impressive movie. The 3D was the best I've seen, very natural.
5 Stars. 👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 20, 2023 19:35:08 GMT -5
Watched BLITZ last night. Brit straight-to-video mystery. A Jason Statham vehicle. Unfortunately for me, no subtitles. And guttural demotic Brit-talk almost unintelligible. Good cast though.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 24, 2023 17:11:13 GMT -5
Tonight, I shall try to get "The Banshees of Inisherin" on my oh, so smart TV. It is a bitch having a TV which is smarter than I am. I have had this one since October and have not figured out how to make it do all that it could or that I would like. Fortunately, I have not shot it in frustration nor have I knocked it off its perch. SO, we will try to find this movie for watching.
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Pale Blue eyes is slow but good, ending is a twist.