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the wife has been watching Highway to Heaven a lot
tbh this show really gets on my nerves
I don't expect Jesus to wander by every other week to give Johnathan a thumbs-up, and I recognize that having a concerned conversation about the good news at the melodrama of the week would get repetitive and lack from a dramatic standpoint, but holy shit the way this show goes out of its way to NOT mention Christ is really fucking grating
like one episode shows some young black baptist family saying grace and as they literally can't say anything other than "Jesus" somebody runs in to interrupt what's going on
tbh this show really gets on my nerves
I don't expect Jesus to wander by every other week to give Johnathan a thumbs-up, and I recognize that having a concerned conversation about the good news at the melodrama of the week would get repetitive and lack from a dramatic standpoint, but holy shit the way this show goes out of its way to NOT mention Christ is really fucking grating
like one episode shows some young black baptist family saying grace and as they literally can't say anything other than "Jesus" somebody runs in to interrupt what's going on
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Two old cops who should be on disability fighting the entire Chinese mafia because Mel Gibson can’t stop driving boats into things.
They beat Jet Li by tag-teaming him like he’s the last boss in Double Dragon.
Danny Glover immediately adopts a whole Chinese family, and Mel’s just wandering around being like, “By the way, my girlfriend’s pregnant, your daughter’s pregnant, everyone’s pregnant,"
It is funny how those movies are like little time capsules where Danny Glover gets to do the righteously angry Black man who speaks truth to power about apartheid or border control. And then they cut to Mel Gibson, who’s just standing there blinking like a golden retriever that heard a new word. He’s doing the “Wow, that sure is bad” face.
After four movies, you'd expect that Riggs would’ve worked through his issues. But by Lethal Weapon 4 he’s not even a character anymore, he’s just Mel doing crowd work. The other big problem is they crammed so much bickering and wise-cracking into every scene that it’s like the movie has ADHD. There’ll be a huge action set piece happening, gas tankers flipping, boats exploding everywhere, and in the corner you’ve got Mel, Danny, and Joe arguing like stooges. Jet Li is off to the side performing these miraculous kicks but he's basically the straight man in this movie.
Chris Rock shows up just to annoy Murtaugh, not realizing Chris knocked up his daughter. Chris Rock sucks as an actor, man. Especially when he’s playing anything cop-adjacent.
Okay, circling back to Lethal Weapon 3 for a second, does anyone remember who the villain was? All I remember is Rene Russo showing up and doing a meet-cute with Riggs where they compare scars, yuck. That was during that weird period where Hollywood was like, “Here’s Rene Russo, gracefully aging… "
Russo herself just never did it for me. I think she was in an Elmore Leonard thing, maybe Get Shorty, and then she did Thomas Crown Affair. And then Rocky & Bullwinkle, which, honestly, might’ve been her best. (She was the only one to receive a Razzie nomination.) She doesn’t make this movie better or worse, she just… slows down the clock.You've got Joe Pesci back as their little snitch gremlin. I don’t even mind him playing the bum who mysteriously has a new job every few years, what does bother me is how Riggs and Murtaugh are constantly like, “God, this guy sucks, he ruins our lives”… and then invite him to Christmas dinner. It’s that cop-show trope where they act like they hate the guy but also he’s “family." Joe’s doing his best, but it’s like putting premium fuel in a lawnmower
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Just watched “Flight” cuz free on da YouTube.
Am I the only person who is mad that Denzel Washington had a perfect alibi laid out in front of him but decided to “come clean and cop a BS manslaughter times four charge + operating an airplane while’s partying (drugs and alcohol)?
Did he for one second think about how that would impact his best friend/drug dealer, John Goodman? Absolutely disgusting.
Am I the only person who is mad that Denzel Washington had a perfect alibi laid out in front of him but decided to “come clean and cop a BS manslaughter times four charge + operating an airplane while’s partying (drugs and alcohol)?
Did he for one second think about how that would impact his best friend/drug dealer, John Goodman? Absolutely disgusting.
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I thought it had an interesting message. Things were going well in spite of his enormous personal failings, but ultimately when it came to a decision point where he had to throw a dead friend's reputation under the bus to weasel out of facing the truth, he realized that would be the point his soul was damned.
Or, alternatively, the enormous pressure of facing that choice caused him to relapse, which in turn ended up leading him down the honest path anyway.
And the jury's out on whether you could argue the way it went was the harmful option ,or not.
There's a couple of dimensions to that story that I like in how they left it ambiguous. Made me think.
Edit: My wife has a different take. She thinks he couldn't do it sober, so he became impaired. Then it turned out he couldn't do it impaired, either.
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This movie was so boring I thought I died. Not even John Goodman could save it.
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Found on Tubi, Toei's attempt at riding in the wake of Star Wars, Message from Space starring some people, Vic Morrow a few years before he got killed, Sonny Chiba and two of the members of the Japan Action Club training school for aspiring film martial artists and stunt performers Chiba established, HIroyuki Sanada (who co-starred with Chiba in many projects over the years) and Etsuko Shihomi (who some might recognize from the "Sister Street Fighter" films. though she doesn't do a lot of KIAI!-ing here) and directed by the prolific Kinji Fukasaku, who helmed Battle Royale and the series of Battles Without Honor and Humanity films noted for their un-romanticized depiction of Yakuza life. It was a sci-fi take on the legend of the Hakkenden or "Dog Warriors", from the lengthy Edo-era serial based on a Chinese legend, scripted by none other than the prolific creator Shotaro Ishinomori, It's a fun movie, and the makers were ready to blow up models, and in one case pour fuel on and then light up a big spaceship model.
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I'm rewatching 'Millennium', directed by Chris Carter of X Files fame and starring Lance Henriksen.
Darker than the X Files but still enjoyable.
Darker than the X Files but still enjoyable.
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DUDE! I just came to this thread to post this!. I'm in the middle of re-watching season two. I used to watch it when I was a wee lad. Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me is the episode that stuck with me all these years. And that opening is something I'll idly hum to myself every now and then (that and the opening to Angel (just a real sucker for violins)).
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No idea if you play video games, or not, but I hear a lot of it in certain Witcher 3 tunes.
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Christmas specials
I'll throw in more specific ones as I go
John Denver And The Muppets - A Christmas Together
less well-known than Muppet Family Christmas, more of a normal Muppet Show thing
has a great part where Miss Piggy gets John to corpse
also a telling of the birth of Jesus (with olde tymey looking puppets, not muppet whatsits versions of them)
I'll throw in more specific ones as I go
less well-known than Muppet Family Christmas, more of a normal Muppet Show thing
has a great part where Miss Piggy gets John to corpse
also a telling of the birth of Jesus (with olde tymey looking puppets, not muppet whatsits versions of them)
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I never got around to playing it. But I will give this soundtrack a listen. Very nice music. Thank you.
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Millennium is one of those shows people only assume was good because Fox canceled it.
Winter Kills (1979)
So apparently JFK didn't get killed by one guy with good aim. Turns out there was like, fifty dudes all shooting at him like he was a Call of Duty lobby.
Jeff Bridges finds evidence that his brother, the late President, was the target of a hit. Every time he talks to someone about it they get murdered. First he thinks it's the CIA, then the mafia, then a Hollywood producer, then some billionaire weapons guys... Then he finds out his dad John Huston maybe ordered it because his brother wanted peace or whatever.
The ending is just Jeff realizing truth is a joke and the country is owned by like twelve dudes who golf together.
So the whole movie is just Jeff Bridges being like “I’m rich and sad,” and getting his bare ass out again. He’s supposed to be some WASP playboy but he looks like a guy who sells weed. Huston is Joe Kennedy which is so funny because he looks like a Texan oil baron. I liked him in Chinatown, but here he’s in every scene, and it’s like wow, I didn’t know there could be too much Huston. Anthony Perkins shows up, does Anthony Perkins stuff for five minutes.
The movie can’t decide if it wants to be Network or The Parallax View, and then for some reason there’s a 20-minute stretch where Jeff Bridges tries to domesticate a sex worker.
Rating:
That’s the real assassination: the last hour and a half of my life.
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The Robocop television show. My first reaction was, "It was on TV?!" And for a show that comes up with ways for Robocop to not kill people, it's pretty good. It's effectively Robocop performed by understudies. Obviously not as good as 2, but better than 3. I'd probably rank Appleseed above this show too. I make this comparison because the first episode has Delta City hooked up to a Supercomputer built from the kidnapped brains OCP acquired.
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Was catching a couple of eps of Millennium recently, including the Darin Morgan helmed-episode "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me". Henriksen has what amounts to a cameo appearance in this episode, but it's no less important for that, culminating in his understated but powerful delivery of the line, consisting of five simple words:
"You must be so lonely."
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Just watched the 4k of Phenomena (1985). 14 year old Jennifer Connolly plays a girl who can speak to insects. She assists Donald Pleasence in the investigation of a murder. Things go sideways when the murderer cottons on to their investigation.
The first half is your standard gialli, with characters milling about doing nothing. The second half is simply beautiful.
Its hard to describe the film without spoiling the many twists and turns in the second half, but the film takes a lot of inspiration from Friday the 13th and other 80s slashers (in the best way possible).
High recommendation: 7/10
The first half is your standard gialli, with characters milling about doing nothing. The second half is simply beautiful.
Its hard to describe the film without spoiling the many twists and turns in the second half, but the film takes a lot of inspiration from Friday the 13th and other 80s slashers (in the best way possible).
High recommendation: 7/10
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It was supposed to be for kids, right? Some of those two-part episodes are based on the comics and those are actually kinda good.
But instead of liquifying gangsters or fighting, like, robot satan, he’s just walking around doing George Reeves Superman errands. He is a giant metal murder machine, let him kill a corporation.
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I was surprised at how not-bad the early Saturday Morning cartoon was
It was before 2
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Finally saw Last Tango in Paris (I bought the 4k). For a film about two people loafing around an apartment fucking, its actually surprisingly good. Brando is amazing as a middle aged widower, and Maria Schneider got a nice little bod on her. This is the kind of rare film you can watch in your 20s and again in your 40s and appreciate it on two completely different levels.
8/10
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The Babe Ruth Story (1941)
I hope you like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" because this movie is Guantanamo Bay for that song. There’s no score, no theme, it’s just that song over and over.
Babe Ruth is impossible to cast because he was huge but always had this mildly annoyed face. He’s like a monument which eats. William Bendix does fine, but what do you want from me? It’s every sports movie from the forties. "I get it, baseball is church, can I go to sleep now?”
Francis the Talking Mule
The Francis movies are about a guy whose best 'friend' is a mule who can talk. And the mule is always right. That’s the joke.
The mule’s like, “Actually General, this private is a moron and the enemy is over there." And of course the producer went on on to make Mr. Ed,
Donald O’Connor’s whole performance is just credulousness. “Please sir, the animal told me.” O’Connor is failing upward because the mule is doing Gladio operations behind the scenes, but no one believes he’s real. It's like Forrest Gump if Forrest was constantly about to be committed to an asylum.
Every movie is just a new institution that hates him. Army, horse racing, West Point, journalism (the mule is Deep Throat), the WACs, the Navy. Francis Goes to West Point is the funniest conceptually because the mule understands honor and duty better than the military academy. By Francis Goes to the Races they’re just freebasing the premise.
O’Connor quits two-thirds in because he realizes he’s been doing the same sketch for six movies straight. It’s just, “Sir, the mule can talk,” and the Army’s like, “put him in the rubber room.”, then at the end of every movie some guy in a lab coat says, “What if we studied the mule?” And the mule’s like, “Absolutely not, I’m union.” The government’s always one scene away from being like, “Let’s hook electrodes to the mule’s balls" / "What if the mule runs for president?” And the mule’s like, “I’m not doing that,' and fakes his death every time. Donald O'Connor said the mule got fan mail, but Donald didn't. Sorry pal, audiences prefer the mule. He has range.
I hope you like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" because this movie is Guantanamo Bay for that song. There’s no score, no theme, it’s just that song over and over.
Babe Ruth is impossible to cast because he was huge but always had this mildly annoyed face. He’s like a monument which eats. William Bendix does fine, but what do you want from me? It’s every sports movie from the forties. "I get it, baseball is church, can I go to sleep now?”
Francis the Talking Mule
The Francis movies are about a guy whose best 'friend' is a mule who can talk. And the mule is always right. That’s the joke.
Donald O’Connor’s whole performance is just credulousness. “Please sir, the animal told me.” O’Connor is failing upward because the mule is doing Gladio operations behind the scenes, but no one believes he’s real. It's like Forrest Gump if Forrest was constantly about to be committed to an asylum.
Every movie is just a new institution that hates him. Army, horse racing, West Point, journalism (the mule is Deep Throat), the WACs, the Navy. Francis Goes to West Point is the funniest conceptually because the mule understands honor and duty better than the military academy. By Francis Goes to the Races they’re just freebasing the premise.
O’Connor quits two-thirds in because he realizes he’s been doing the same sketch for six movies straight. It’s just, “Sir, the mule can talk,” and the Army’s like, “put him in the rubber room.”, then at the end of every movie some guy in a lab coat says, “What if we studied the mule?” And the mule’s like, “Absolutely not, I’m union.” The government’s always one scene away from being like, “Let’s hook electrodes to the mule’s balls" / "What if the mule runs for president?” And the mule’s like, “I’m not doing that,' and fakes his death every time. Donald O'Connor said the mule got fan mail, but Donald didn't. Sorry pal, audiences prefer the mule. He has range.
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