How are you watching it? That show, well Daphne, has crossed my mind recently
CHAT What are you up to this evening? I’m watching a classic film
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CaryC
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Love Sherlock. Some of the new books written by others not so much. One is even a daughter of Sherlock, not so much.
And the guy that played Kahn in the new Star Trek movies with Frodo as Watson, also not so much. But "Elementary" is a blast.
BTW me and SB are thinking about starting our own Investigative Service, since we can tell Holmes, and Gibbs who the bad guy is before they find out.
We've been watching NCIS we are in Season 13, and was flabbergasted when the thing said it thanked all the fans for watching 200 episodes. 200 Episodes and that was a while back.
Other than that on cold rainy days and no soccer games on, mostly Monday and Friday, been going through the entire Star Wars in order. Like Episode 1, then Solo, then 2, 3, Rogue 1, 4, etc....
Iowa Wiley
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last night just finished up rewatching Band of Brothers. And continuing on trying to get caught up on Blue Bloods. Up to about the middle of season 12.
CaryC
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don't know how stormie is doing it, but Frazier is now on Paramount+
As is I love Lucy. Watching that while waiting on SB to get done in bathroom in the evenings.
Just got through with the Candy Factory episode, hilarious but what some people forget is that while Lucy and Ethel, are at the factory, Fred and Ricky are being housewives, and while I'm not saying that would be me, it's me. One pound of rice per person for supper. SB was dying.
I loved that show! I remember one episode in particular, where Patinkin’s character (the most arrogant heart surgeon in the world - lol) gets into it with the equally arrogant lawyer character, and absolutely burns him to the ground. That exchange was to best I’ve ever seen in terms of put-downs.
Toosh
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What a coincidence, I just finished 2010 Space Odyssey. Not as good as 2001 but I did enjoy seeing Hal again. It was offered as a suggestion in my Netflix feed so I went for it. Last week I watched Ender's Game - well done, IMO.
But tonight I'm burning more brush from recent storms as part of spring garden cleanup and adding ash to new raised beds.
stormie
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With Amazon prime you can watch it free.
TerriHaute
Hoosier Gardener
I'm a day late, does it still count? DH and the dog are snoozing, bellies full. I am sitting in my bathrobe and PJs in front of the fire, watching it rain. We went out for dinner with friends and it was pouring when we got out of the restaurant. After being cold and wet, the fire feels wonderful. Pretty soon I'll fix a mug of herbal tea, pull out the crochet project I'm working on, and listen to the audio book I started yesterday.
Tex88
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If you like Mandy Patinkin, watch "Dead Like Me". But only the show, not the post-show movie. The movie doesn't exist.
Tex88
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foreverkeeps
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DH is watching Tommy Boy.
I have to admit I am looking at it some, but it is so stupid.
I have to admit I am looking at it some, but it is so stupid.
SurvivalRing
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A few weeks ago, I started playing around with ChatGPT and its graphical tools, trying to make a new logo for library package.
No matter how many times I tried to get the text to say “SurvivalRing”, it just couldn’t get the spelling right.
So, here’s a sample of what I came up with…
I see potential…once I figure out why the damn thing can’t spell correctly…
Still working on it a little every few days…
No matter how many times I tried to get the text to say “SurvivalRing”, it just couldn’t get the spelling right.
So, here’s a sample of what I came up with…
I see potential…once I figure out why the damn thing can’t spell correctly…
Still working on it a little every few days…
The Hammer
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I've been busy the last couple months, so I've only had time to watch shorter movies, and ones you could only generously call "B List".
Cases in point:
Attack of the 50-foot Woman (1958)
It's Alive! (1974)
Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (1965) - this was particularly bad
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
These were bad, but in a train wreck, can't quite look away type of fashion...
Cases in point:
Attack of the 50-foot Woman (1958)
It's Alive! (1974)
Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (1965) - this was particularly bad
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
These were bad, but in a train wreck, can't quite look away type of fashion...
I love schlocky old B SCI-if movies.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
If you have a Roku tv there's a Monster Movie channel where you can watch all types of B list movies, if they are even that good.
I've been watching "Ancient Impossible" on Story TV. This is an old series that I have never seen but like a most of old series that "Story" runs, it has quite a bit of information that I had not heard of before. Tonight, they were talking about how Alexander the Great used a form of body armor consisting of multiple layers of linen glue tightly together. It was a primitive form of kevlar and would stop a metal tipped arrow fired at 120mph from fully penetratingly and saving the warrior. Researching this further, the cloth was made by an ancient techinque called "twining", not the c**p sold today. If this can stop a armor piercing arrow, then it probably could stop a flintlock fired lead ball. This tech was obviously lost but you can imagine how many lives may have been saved during the wars of the 1700 and 1800's and the impact of armour on the bad guys.
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SurvivalRing
Rich Fleetwood - Founder - author/coder/podcaster
bracketquant
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I know this won't go over well with some here, but my trilogy for the most boring movies of all time are Dune (the original), Tron, and 2001 A Space Odyssey. Dune was so bad, that I've never been back to a movie theater, since.
I can never thank you enough for introducing me to the giant Killer Shrews. It was like dogs in rugs and I couldn't stop laughing in places.
@bracketquant , Did you ever read the Dune original trilogy? It’s a great read. (Actually, books one and three are great; book two was boring to me.) Hollywood tried multiple times to make a dune movie. The screenplays always sussed out to 6 hours or more. And when they finally released the film, I knew it wouldn’t be faithful to the book. Sure enough, there were huge gaps in the storyline. I discovered that there was a separate British version which was an hour longer. When I saw that version, I found it much more satisfying. All the story holes were addressed, but the version was IIRC 4 hours long. (Similarly, there’s a longer version of Dances With Wolves that accomplishes the same thing.)
I liked the original Arron for the advanced imaging. It was a beautiful film to see, even though (yes) it was boring.
And 2001 wasn’t written to be a shmup movie. It was a grand cerebral look at what mankind might accomplish if freed from paying for the survival of billions of Turd Whirled blacks. I loved the music, and I loved the beautiful scenes. But you had to have read the book to understand the movie.
I liked the original Arron for the advanced imaging. It was a beautiful film to see, even though (yes) it was boring.
And 2001 wasn’t written to be a shmup movie. It was a grand cerebral look at what mankind might accomplish if freed from paying for the survival of billions of Turd Whirled blacks. I loved the music, and I loved the beautiful scenes. But you had to have read the book to understand the movie.
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bracketquant
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Life is simply too short for me to read fiction.
In other words, if I make it to a long, happy and productive life, and reflect upon it, there's no way that I'm going to say to myself, "I wish I read more fiction". It's the same with, "I wish that I spent more time at work". (such work applies to a job that I've had that was mostly unproductive, and had the bonus of a miserable cruel boss)
With watching a movie, I have a few certain chores planned for the same time, and I can get both done at the same time. I can't do that with a book in front of me. Getting totally absorbed into just a pure fantasy world doesn't appeal to me. That's why I choose to do something in the real world, while watching a bit of the fantasy at the same time.
bracketquant
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I got the entire grand cerebral look at what mankind might accomplish, where the ape tossed the bone and the scene then went to the spaceship.
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A wee bit of symbolism, what?
Mankind’s greatest technological accomplishment was….
Zero-G toilet.
jward
passin' thru
I'm finishing up shifts on each job, on no sleep, trying to catch a break between hail storms to see what the damage is- while taking care of the task of a small farm in spring, trying desperately to avoid readmittance to the hospital, and playing nurse yet again to someone who's temp is higher than my weight, o2 won't stay in the upper 80s, and refuses their own admittance to the hospital.
- lookin for some lemon water n balm, only to be reminded it's sweet boys night off and he's never one to believe the old saw that "charity starts at home".
momma's tired. tired enough to even watch a movie LOL.
- lookin for some lemon water n balm, only to be reminded it's sweet boys night off and he's never one to believe the old saw that "charity starts at home".
momma's tired. tired enough to even watch a movie LOL.
Tex88
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Read the essay underneath here:
Lisan al Gabe - Penny Arcade
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