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Post by Plainsman on Mar 28, 2023 11:31:56 GMT -5
I really don’t care what her politics are. It’s her acting mannerisms I deplore.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 28, 2023 11:45:44 GMT -5
 Yep Bob we can agree to disagree!! 
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 28, 2023 11:51:56 GMT -5
Of course we can, Brad. But I don’t think we’re really disagreeing all that much. It’s just that I disliked her long before I knew anything about her politics.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 28, 2023 12:28:56 GMT -5
I cannot recall any role she played which impressed me.
Compare her to Helen Mirren, for example.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2023 12:41:50 GMT -5
Agree on Streep. I liked Out of Africa, but wish they used another actress. For instance, I Dreamed of Africa with Kim Basinger.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 28, 2023 12:49:58 GMT -5
They could always remake it with Madonna and Steven Seagal. 😜
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2023 13:18:06 GMT -5
They could always remake it with Madonna and Steven Seagal. 😜 Or Lady Gaga and Ben Stiller. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 28, 2023 13:51:23 GMT -5
They could always remake it with Madonna and Steven Seagal. 😜 Or Lady Gaga and Ben Stiller. Even better. A Jenny couldn’t lift off with Seagal. |
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Post by urbino on Mar 28, 2023 17:53:44 GMT -5
This was the remake. She was Starbuck. I'm almost finished watching a really bad drama called "Argentina, 1985". The subject matter is interesting and important, but the writing is god-awful. This version with Katee was a movie rather than a TV series. I am not familiar with these developments. It was a miniseries, iirc. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 4, 2023 21:45:04 GMT -5
Watching "The Highwaymen." The Captain Frank Hamer sort of biopic of his pursuit of the Parker Gang in 1934. The Rangers have been disbanned by the Texas leglislature. The Governor appoints Hamer a Special Agent of the Texas Department of Highways and turns him loose. His first stop is a gunshop where he buys every gun worth a damn.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 5, 2023 9:54:18 GMT -5
Captain Frank had a grim side to him which Kevin Cosner plays well. He wanted to be a Presbyterian Minister and hoped to enter a seminary as a young man. Some of that gravity come through in the movie. His sidekick, Maney Gault, complains of the wieght carried as a Texas lawman. A burdern Frank bears with grace.
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 5, 2023 10:33:22 GMT -5
I’ve often thought that cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Which side they come up on depends on weird flips and circumstances. Cynical, but true in my experience.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 5, 2023 20:21:54 GMT -5
I’ve often thought that cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Which side they come up on depends on weird flips and circumstances. Cynical, but true in my experience. Some certainly. Others not so much. Frank Hamer, whom I only know from books and movies, and my Great Uncle Paul were serious men with strong moral convictions. Paul joined the NYPD upon his return from France and the USMC in 1919. Not to be confused with my Great Uncle, Joe, and his six gun from the photo I posted. Served as a Precinct Captain in the 1940s until retirement. Same with the retired SFPD and CHP officers I worked for at Bank of American in the early 1970s. Our former Sheriff is like that as is our current Sheriff. Another Marine. He personally caries up the dead bodies of the bridge jumpers who fall 400+ feet to the river below the Taos Bridge. It is a long tough climb up a very steep gorge. They are scraped up and bagged for the trip home. Perhaps the toughest duty of any law officer. Uncle Paul fired his service revolver in the line of duty, other than at the range, exactly one time. It was during the Harlem Riots of the late 1940s. A house was on fire in Harlem and some jerk was throwing bricks from a roof top at the NY Fire Department fire fighters trying to put our the fire. Uncle Paul took him off the roof top with one shot and dropped him onto the street. Marine training, I guess. He never got over that and retired in the 1950s. He had enough of killing German soldiers and the one bad guy. |
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Post by urbino on Apr 5, 2023 20:30:01 GMT -5
I’ve often thought that cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Which side they come up on depends on weird flips and circumstances. Cynical, but true in my experience. I think that's true. Another way I've heard it put is some of the guys who become cops would probably be criminals if they weren't cops. My brief contacts with various PD's over the years -- and some of the guys I knew who became cops -- tend to support that. For a certain type of person, being a cop and being a criminal have a lot of the same appeal. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 5, 2023 20:57:16 GMT -5
Well let's be thankful that so many make the right choice. Being a cop isn't for everyone.
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 5, 2023 22:26:32 GMT -5
I didn’t mean for my comment to apply to ALL of them. A good many of them are my all-time heroes. As they should be for all of us.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 6, 2023 8:52:55 GMT -5
I didn’t mean for my comment to apply to ALL of them. A good many of them are my all-time heroes. As they should be for all of us. Amen. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 6, 2023 8:57:03 GMT -5
"Operation Mincemeat", 2021. Based on a true story of British Intelligence and a deception to confuse the Naaazis before the invasion of Sicily. The 1956 film "The Man Who Never Was" is a clearer telling of that tale but this one is also interesting. Colin Firth and a host of great Brit actors.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 6, 2023 9:00:26 GMT -5
Watched a documentary on Edward who adbucated, he was a traitorous little 💩. England was spared him, they were better without him, cost his country hrs and monies survailing him during the Second World War!
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Post by toshtego on Apr 6, 2023 10:05:12 GMT -5
Watched a documentary on Edward who adbucated, he was a traitorous little 💩. England was spared him, they were better without him, cost his country hrs and monies survailing him during the Second World War! So true. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 9, 2023 10:49:52 GMT -5
"Against the Ice", an British made movie about a Danish expedition to north eastern Greenland in 1909 to discover what happened to a lost expedition from earlier. Well done. So far only five toes have been amputated. I liked the pincer tool they use for that purpose, looks to be a hoof trimmer pliers. Filmed mostly on glaciers in Iceland and some scenes in Greenland. I spent time in both places long ago and enjoy seeing them again.
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 17, 2023 8:56:03 GMT -5
Watched JOHN WICK: PARABELLUM (#3 in the series) last night. Ridiculous number of “kills.” A ballet of death, even with actual ballet scenes! Much use of very many wakizashis. This is the one that really lays out the fairy tale/myth aspects of the narration. It also sets the stage for #4. The very last shot shows a battered and bloody Wick being asked “Are you pissed?” And him replying “YESSS!” Uh-oh. There is major mayhem in the works! I have to say, the action sequences are nothing short of amazing. Much CGI, of course, but it is seamless and masterfully done.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 17, 2023 10:47:23 GMT -5
They could always remake it with Madonna and Steven Seagal. 😜 Or Lady Gaga and Ben Stiller. You are on to something there. Let me call my Agent... |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 17, 2023 11:16:30 GMT -5
Watched JOHN WICK: PARABELLUM (#3 in the series) last night. Ridiculous number of “kills.” A ballet of death, even with actual ballet scenes! Much use of very many wakizashis. This is the one that really lays out the fairy tale/myth aspects of the narration. It also sets the stage for #4. The very last shot shows a battered and bloody Wick being asked “Are you pissed?” And him replying “YESSS!” Uh-oh. There is major mayhem in the works! I have to say, the action sequences are nothing short of amazing. Much CGI, of course, but it is seamless and masterfully done. JW4 is 3 hours of over the top violence. I don't know where he gets the ammunition. He's supposed to be very handy with a gun in real life and proficient in martial arts. It's got great reviews but a surprisingly low box office. "John Wick: Chapter 4 piles on more of everything -- and suggests that when it comes to a well-dressed Keanu Reeves dispatching his enemies in lethally balletic style, there can never be too much" |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 17, 2023 11:23:31 GMT -5
Oldest Son loves him, I can’t say I do or don’t, senseless killings don’t excite me, good stories do, the British are great at this.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 17, 2023 11:27:19 GMT -5
Oldest Son loves him, I can’t say I do or don’t, senseless killings don’t excite me, good stories do, the British are great at this. They are entertaining, but so is the nightly news out of Shreveport. |
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 17, 2023 11:29:40 GMT -5
Not much to love about John Wick. He’s a killing machine, and not even a very good actor. But as to “senseless”— his victims have all raised their hands against him, and some are downright evil. Brad is dead on here: there really IS no story, just excuses for ACTION— and the Brits excel at intelligent stories intelligently told. Two entirely different reasons to watch a film.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 17, 2023 11:32:36 GMT -5
Not much to love about John Wick. He’s a killing machine, and not even a very good actor. But as to “senseless”— his victims have all raised their hands against him, and some are downright evil. Brad is dead on here: there really IS no story, just excuses for ACTION— and the Brits excel at intelligent stories intelligently told. Two entirely different reasons to watch a film. Agree on all counts, but I think the world needs more hard men, not less. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 17, 2023 11:45:42 GMT -5
I agree Ron, we’re not hard when we need to be, too many Bud light drinkers!
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 17, 2023 11:50:57 GMT -5
I agree Ron, we’re not hard when we need to be, too many Bud light drinkers! I didn't understand Bud Lite until recently. It "Identifies" as beer. I don't understand how we got to the point that insanity is normal and to be celebrated with parades. |
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Yep Bob we can agree to disagree!! 
