poptart Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 (edited) On 3/25/2021 at 8:20 PM, bluebell said: I think if you copy and paste the actual link, instead of using the link feature at the top of your post, it will imbed the video. Tried it and yep, that works. Thanks! FYI, may not be the most child friendly movie, still a few good duel scenes esp. in the beginning. Buster Scruggs is awesome. Edited March 27, 2021 by poptart 1 Link to comment
Amulek Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 The kids have finally made it through 'book 4,' so we watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this past weekend. While I'm firmly in the Potter-stinks camp myself - don't be hatin' - I do recognize that this is one of the stronger books / films in the series. Link to comment
Tacenda Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Just finished watching Seaspiracy on Netflix. I was shocked and had no idea of the devastation this is doing to our planet and that there is so much slavery on these industrial fishing vessels that go along with all of the killing of fish that die for no reason because of the hordes of fish nets and some are killed just for their fins and how it's destroying our planet much more then plastics and other things. I do tend to get caught up in some of these types of documentaries and would love someone else's opinion about all of what it's saying. I won't be eating fish unless things change though. I remember watching Food Inc. and saying I needed to become a vegan but that didn't happen, I wish I had the gumption to finally do it. Link to comment
Calm Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Wiki suggests it may not be very accurate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaspiracy Link to comment
bluebell Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 On 3/30/2021 at 3:28 PM, Amulek said: The kids have finally made it through 'book 4,' so we watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this past weekend. While I'm firmly in the Potter-stinks camp myself - don't be hatin' - I do recognize that this is one of the stronger books / films in the series. Before I know whether or not to hate you I have to know if you've read the books or are just going off of the movies. 1 Link to comment
3DOP Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) Has anybody else ever seen Texas Across the River? My wife and I watched with our son and his wife last night. It was as funny as it was the first time over thirty years ago. I noticed one very comical thing they did that I had never noticed before. It was delightful fun again. Dean Martin and Alain Delon. The trailer makes it look trashy and stupid. Don't look at the trailer. It is just trying to get people to a theater in the 60's. The music, script, and a theme of clash between old Europe and new America are ever-present in what I have to say is my favorite comedy. There are a cast of faces many might remember. Maybe not so many. 60's TV and movies. Peter Graves is outstanding as this as dull-witted US Calvary captain criss-crossing Texas with his whole command because he is obsessed with avenging his cousin's "murder". Michael Ansara is great as a noble Indian chief, whose son is a buffoon. Joey Bishop? He plays Dean's Indian friend without disguising his Fulldelfya (Philadelphia) accent. The Kingston Trio sings Texas Across the River which is written by the inimitable Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. (Come Fly With Me and The Tender Trap are two of their many well-known collaborations). My son just brought his wife back from the Philippines a month or so ago. I asked my son why he didn't show it to her when they were in Manila. He said he wanted to wait until we could all do it together. So we watched it last night. It has been a lot of fun over the years and for our family, it obviously merits repetition. There are half a dozen scenes that I could rewind half a dozen times and watch over. I'll stop gushing. Rory Edited April 4, 2021 by 3DOP 1 Link to comment
Stargazer Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 20 hours ago, Tacenda said: I remember watching Food Inc. and saying I needed to become a vegan but that didn't happen, I wish I had the gumption to finally do it. I can only comment on veganism. It isn't all it's cracked up to be. Two interviews with Lierre Keith, former vegan: with Steven Crowder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSz4AmaMcs with PaleoHacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFm2QLLuh6I And just for fun: If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8 Link to comment
Amulek Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 On 4/3/2021 at 11:31 PM, bluebell said: Before I know whether or not to hate you I have to know if you've read the books or are just going off of the movies. I read the books several years ago, back when my nieces / nephews were getting into the series. I wanted to be the cool uncle who was into what they were into. It was painful. Honestly, there is just so much about the HP universe that makes absolutely no sense: magic, government, sports, you name it. I know they are children's books, but I just wasn't able to get past all the issues. Maybe if I had read the series when I was at the tail end of elementary school, rather than as an adult, I would have been able to get into them more. As it is, my favorite Harry Potter book isn't even a JK creation but a fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. 2 Link to comment
bluebell Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 33 minutes ago, Amulek said: I read the books several years ago, back when my nieces / nephews were getting into the series. I wanted to be the cool uncle who was into what they were into. It was painful. Honestly, there is just so much about the HP universe that makes absolutely no sense: magic, government, sports, you name it. I know they are children's books, but I just wasn't able to get past all the issues. Maybe if I had read the series when I was at the tail end of elementary school, rather than as an adult, I would have been able to get into them more. As it is, my favorite Harry Potter book isn't even a JK creation but a fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I read the books for the first time only a few years ago, and while the first two I find on the young side, I still think the series is absolutely brilliant. But then I really enjoy the fantasy genre, and especially where fantastical and supernatural things are woven into everyday life. 2 Link to comment
Stargazer Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Amulek said: I read the books several years ago, back when my nieces / nephews were getting into the series. I wanted to be the cool uncle who was into what they were into. It was painful. Honestly, there is just so much about the HP universe that makes absolutely no sense: magic, government, sports, you name it. I know they are children's books, but I just wasn't able to get past all the issues. Maybe if I had read the series when I was at the tail end of elementary school, rather than as an adult, I would have been able to get into them more. As it is, my favorite Harry Potter book isn't even a JK creation but a fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I generally prefer hard-science-fiction to fantasy -- because I find it hard to suspend disbelief when the laws of the universe are so egregiously violated without any recompense (such as having a rational basis for the magic). I've watched all the films, and as I got further into them I found it gradually easier to suspend disbelief. I guess I just gave up looking for rational premises, and gave myself to the characterization and the action -- which was there in spades. When Dobby was killed I was heartbroken, for example. But the first film was boring. I had to watch it in stages in order to finish it. There is no way I would ever read the books. I'm hard to please on some subjects. My sister-in-law really enjoyed this one SF novel, Homecoming, by Nir Studnitski. She recommended it, so I got it on Kindle. I could not get into the book because of egregious errors of fact and lack of knowledge by the author. First chapter opens with an American military special operations team which has been inserted into some place "east of Tibet" via a HALO jump. From an altitude of 40,000 feet. I know something about HALO, and while such a jump could be done from that altitude (the service ceiling of a C-17 Globemaster is 45k feet), the participants would have to wear flipping space suits to do it. The max altitude for HALO jumps is 35k feet -- not that they couldn't do it from 40k, but... dang. I muscled past that until the troops started talking about being low on ammo -- and used the word "clip" repeatedly to refer to their magazines. And then there is some new astronomical feature in the sky that is messing with the sun. This is shortly revealed to be a pulsar, described as "a super-dense planet many thousand times the mass of the Earth, with a diameter no wider than a dozen miles." It has shown up without anyone noticing, apparently, and it was heading straight for earth with a supposed impact site being North America. That did it. WIlling suspension of disbelief right out the window. A pulsar is not a planet. It's a freaking star, for crying out loud. A pulsar is not "many thousand times the mass of the earth", the minimum mass for a pulsar is about 1.4 times the mass of the sun. The sun would eat the described object for breakfast and not even burp. Well, it might burp. A real pulsar would eat the sun and the entire solar system, especially a merely average pulsar, which would mass hundreds of times the sun's mass. I couldn't get past chapter 3. It was patently ridiculous. Problem was, I know too much about science. The author didn't do a lick of research. Edited April 7, 2021 by Stargazer Link to comment
Amulek Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 13 hours ago, Stargazer said: I generally prefer hard-science-fiction to fantasy -- because I find it hard to suspend disbelief when the laws of the universe are so egregiously violated without any recompense (such as having a rational basis for the magic). In which case, you might actually enjoy HPMOR. It casts Harry as a child prodigy, kind of like a miniature Spock, who goes about applying the scientific method on his journey throughout the wizarding world. It's actually rather entertaining. Link to comment
Stargazer Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Amulek said: In which case, you might actually enjoy HPMOR. It casts Harry as a child prodigy, kind of like a miniature Spock, who goes about applying the scientific method on his journey throughout the wizarding world. It's actually rather entertaining. Thanks for that, it looks interesting. One novel series that I really enjoyed was Rick Cook's Wizardry series. The first book, Wizard's Bane, was about a computer programmer who was transported into a world of magic by a summoning spell. He ended up finding a way to program magic. As a computer programmer myself, I found it extremely fascinating. 1 Link to comment
jkwilliams Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 My wife and have been watching Shtisel on Netflix. It’s fantastic. 1 Link to comment
Tacenda Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 1 hour ago, jkwilliams said: My wife and have been watching Shtisel on Netflix. It’s fantastic. I agree! Link to comment
Okrahomer Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 2 hours ago, jkwilliams said: My wife and have been watching Shtisel on Netflix. It’s fantastic. We just finished the 3rd season. Wonderful series. Link to comment
Tacenda Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Another good one about the Jewish faith alongside Shitsel, is Unorthodox on Netflix. https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/26/21193180/unorthodox-netflix-streaming-series-review Link to comment
bluebell Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 16 hours ago, jkwilliams said: My wife and have been watching Shtisel on Netflix. It’s fantastic. I tried watching it and didn't make it very far. Maybe I'll give it another go. Have you and your wife watched Unorthodox? Link to comment
bluebell Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Tacenda said: Another good one about the Jewish faith alongside Shitsel, is Unorthodox on Netflix. https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/26/21193180/unorthodox-netflix-streaming-series-review Yes! I'm hoping they'll do a second season. Link to comment
Chum Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 The show Stan Against Evil is one of the finest things I have ever seen. Link to comment
bluebell Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Watched The Midnight Sky last night. It's a netflix movie with George Clooney about a lone astronomer that stays behind at a research station so he can contact a spaceship (piloted by NASA astronauts) coming back to earth to tell them they can't land (because of an unnamed incident that has recently made the earth uninhabitable), and need to turn around and go back to the Jupiter moon they had been studying for the last couple of years. It's well done and the acting is good. It's got a lot in it that makes you think and some interesting action sequences. And there's a twist at the end. 1 Link to comment
bluebell Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Hubby and I finally finished Things Heard and Seen on Netflix. It's a 'haunting' type of movie. Rated MA but it's really tame until 1/2 of the way through it (other than sexual innuendo) when the F words start flying. I thought it was a really intriguing show until the last 15 minutes and then it all went downhill and I don't think I could have hated the ending more. It's confusing and, just, dumb. Link to comment
bluebell Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Hubby and I watched A Quiet Place II last night at the theater. It was so fun to be back in that space, and the movie was really good. Link to comment
Garden Girl Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 12 hours ago, bluebell said: Hubby and I watched A Quiet Place II last night at the theater. It was so fun to be back in that space, and the movie was really good. A Quiet Place is one of my favorites... you mean there's a sequel? GG 1 Link to comment
bluebell Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 9 hours ago, Garden Girl said: A Quiet Place is one of my favorites... you mean there's a sequel? GG There is! Here's the trailer. 1 Link to comment
Kenngo1969 Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 3/27/2021 at 2:40 PM, poptart said: Thanks! FYI, may not be the most child friendly movie, still a few good duel scenes esp. in the beginning. Buster Scruggs is awesome. I love movies that have titles that are fun to spoonerize: Scruster Buggs. Link to comment
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