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« Reply #1620 on: 18 April 2025, 19:18:58 »
Was it any good? ???
argh answered i am belch instead of you
it was ok other wise i would not had been continuing watching over 3 days

as for dare devil it was ok so far...
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« Reply #1621 on: 18 April 2025, 19:58:22 »
Its WrestleMania Weekend!!

That's still a thing?
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« Reply #1622 on: 19 April 2025, 00:13:55 »
OK, I was thinking of watching Warfare (2025) in this fancy schamncy new movie theater (with leather couches, free popcorn and plush carpeting) at the mall near my place, but the ticket price is $12?! Insane. I normally pay just $7 but this is almost double that!  ::)

The theater chain is only showing that movie at the premium venue, and the old Dolby Atmos theaters that I normally frequent are only showing the Minecraft movie. Grrr!  >:(

I'm thinking of biting the bullet and going for it anyway, but my practical side thinks I might as well just wait for streaming. I heard it's a good, but not great movie.

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« Reply #1623 on: 20 April 2025, 04:27:56 »
Warfare (2025) since my son wanted to watch it too, I decided why not and pay for the premium theater. I got to say it was somewhat disappointing. Theres not much of a plot or story, just some young soldiers get into a firefight in Iraq, and thats it. Lacks the narrative drive that some movies like Blackhawk Down possessed. The cool thing is that the usual cliches are kept to a minimum. Rating: 5/10

Daredevil Born Again Season 1 (2025). I liked the first season of the Netflix show, but I'm not feeling it on this one. I've only watched two episodes so far and I'm struggling to stay interested. It seems to be missing something, and the dialogue is at times atrocious. It's like a mashup of different styles and themes, and lacks focus or drive. Still debating whether to go on or not.

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« Reply #1624 on: 20 April 2025, 07:51:40 »
That's still a thing?

Yep still a thing and a fun watch.
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« Reply #1625 on: 20 April 2025, 08:36:12 »
wrestling...is still a thing? last time i had  seen it a match was hogan got in it junkyard dog jake the snake iron sheik and captain lou albano and i think rowdy piper
had not watched it or seen one since save for the ps2 games and only characrer i remember was the grave digger? the tall mean silent one with a hat that would grab you by your throat and slam you...
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« Reply #1626 on: 20 April 2025, 10:03:40 »
wrestling...is still a thing? last time i had  seen it a match was hogan got in it junkyard dog jake the snake iron sheik and captain lou albano and i think rowdy piper
had not watched it or seen one since save for the ps2 games and only characrer i remember was the grave digger? the tall mean silent one with a hat that would grab you by your throat and slam you...

Last i watched, was the stupid decision mcmann made in having Brock lenser, beating the undertakers streak.
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« Reply #1627 on: 20 April 2025, 10:11:30 »
Watched Miller's Crossing; it was hard to follow the dialog, and who was betraying who.  Everyone seemed to get punched a lot. It had Gideon from the Crow and, bad news for the Cohen brothers, it had a budget of $15 million and only did $5 million in the box-office.

Godzilla Minus-One; so, looked online, the library opens at two last Saturday; so, I biked over; it was closed.  They're closed weekends :(; least I got exercise and I went to the one open library and placed a hold on it. It was a good Godzilla movie, with dialog with the character so it's not all about a Kiju.

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« Reply #1628 on: 20 April 2025, 11:04:22 »
As the Honest Trailer put it, Godzilla Minus One accomplished the near-impossible by making us care about the human characters.
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« Reply #1629 on: 20 April 2025, 11:25:06 »
Well, "...the humans too", but point taken! :D

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« Reply #1630 on: 21 April 2025, 04:17:12 »
Watched Miller's Crossing; it was hard to follow the dialog, and who was betraying who.  Everyone seemed to get punched a lot. It had Gideon from the Crow and, bad news for the Cohen brothers, it had a budget of $15 million and only did $5 million in the box-office.

Loved that movie. My fav Coen bros film. I had to watch it twice to get the plot, because there's no exposition and lots of slang, but after I got it, I'm convinced it's a work of sheer genius. The violence is cartoonish, which explains how Tom is able to get punched so many times and gets right back up. Leo's tommygun scene where he fires hundreds of rounds without reloading is a classic. 8)

Black Box (2021) French thriller about an air crash investigator who suspects something is afoot after a plane crashes in a mountainside. It's a slow burn but kept my interest throughout. Falters a little in the ending, but it's passable. More drama than action, FYI. Rating 7/10

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« Reply #1631 on: 21 April 2025, 20:16:44 »
I took the girls to watch Minecraft on Sunday, dubbed in Finnish as the younger doesn't do English quite that well yet and might not read just quickly enough. Or maybe she would've. Anyway, it was just about the silliest movie I've seen in a while. Funny enough, silly enough. I didn't expect anything spectacular and had a good time.

The kids, being bilingual thanks to their mother, were giggling with the Jason Momoa character dropping random lines in Spanish and claiming they mean something completely different.
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« Reply #1632 on: 24 April 2025, 18:47:33 »
ok late 60s early 70s german/and swidish production of pipi longstocking is on the table for my neighbors kids tommorow if its raining. oldie but goodie want to see their reactions lol
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« Reply #1633 on: 24 April 2025, 19:19:28 »
Dubbed or subbed?
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« Reply #1634 on: 25 April 2025, 04:49:14 »
well its a dvd...so both versions...frankly i enjoy the swedish dub more than german dub...
surprised any one knows this one
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« Reply #1635 on: 25 April 2025, 06:08:28 »
Daredevil Born Again Season 1 (2025) It got off to a pretty lousy start. The first two episodes were a drag, and it never truly found its feet. The show can't seem to figure out what it wants to be, whether its a legal drama, superhero series or a crime thriller. It tries to be all three but it fails. The direction is flat, the actors just seem to deliver their lines with no enthusiasm. All in all, I struggled to finish it, even while skipping through a lot of superfluous scenes. Honestly, they could have cut the number of episodes by half, and it wouldn't have lost anything. Totally predictable too. Rating 4/10

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« Reply #1636 on: 25 April 2025, 10:46:08 »
A real golden oldie of b-rate action flicks.   Cynthia Rothrock and Bolo Yeung in Tiger Claws..
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« Reply #1637 on: 25 April 2025, 13:51:17 »
A real golden oldie of b-rate action flicks.   Cynthia Rothrock and Bolo Yeung in Tiger Claws..
had not seen this in decades
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« Reply #1638 on: 25 April 2025, 19:53:41 »
I'd love to watch some of her other older films.. Pity i can't find any.  Same for Bolo..  Also would love to rewatch the brandon Lee film Rapid Fire.
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« Reply #1639 on: 26 April 2025, 03:43:17 »
I'd love to watch some of her other older films.. Pity i can't find any.  Same for Bolo..  Also would love to rewatch the brandon Lee film Rapid Fire.
you may want to sart with pluto tv... a tv online if you have roku tv stick use the search engine you would be surprised  what you can find. my friend uses amazon and roku and prefers roku
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« Reply #1640 on: 27 April 2025, 14:48:55 »
Godzilla 0-1, I was questioning the plot hook, when all the tug-boats, appeared out of nowhere, and thought it wasn't realistic, but yet, Godzilla, being a supercharged giant reptile, is somehow realistic! 

Dune 2: so, the other day I just happened to check it out after I checked that the DVD was released last year; it just was never at the library's Dune-section before. I like the production, the set, but the score, just didn't seem to do it. I've read the prequels, but not the actual Herbert, sr., books; I like what they did with the Harkonnens and their culture/world; I know their planet is an industrial wasteland, and I know they got invaded by the Thinking Machines thousands of years ago. I really want to create a Battletech society off of them, those hairless, ruthless, sunscreen covered goons.

The plot was OK, kinda.  I just seemed to wrap it up really fast, when the Emperor showed up, and in like, 1% of the movie-time he's defeated and I guess Paul is on his way to be the Wormperor.   His main costar, the chick, kept reminded me of Vasquez from Aliens.

The star that played Paul, is also in the movie about Bob Dylan, called, "A Complete Unknown", and a coworker suggested I watch that too and compare his acting-styles.


Loved that movie. My fav Coen bros film. I had to watch it twice to get the plot, because there's no exposition and lots of slang, but after I got it, I'm convinced it's a work of sheer genius. The violence is cartoonish, which explains how Tom is able to get punched so many times and gets right back up. Leo's tommygun scene where he fires hundreds of rounds without reloading is a classic. 8)

Yeah, the Tommy-gun; I gave them creative license since a barrel holds about 50-rounds and I lost count after 100!

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« Reply #1641 on: 27 April 2025, 15:58:52 »
I recommend at least reading Dune itself.  That will give you a lot of context that even Villeneuve's excellent take couldn't.  I'm not really sure what you didn't like about the score.  I thought it was perfect.

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« Reply #1642 on: 28 April 2025, 01:37:48 »
Yeah reading the book is worthwhile, because the new movie doesn't cover a lot of the side plots that I feel are the high points of the book. Denis made a faithful movie, but he shifted the narrative over to Jessica and Chani (who was more of a minor character in the novel) as well as the socio-religious aspects instead of the Game of Thrones style scheming politics of the source material.

Oh, and even though I'm a huge Dune fan, I will never read the prequels. I'm a Frank Herbert purist and don't consider them canon.  8)

And I didn't like what they did with the Harkonnens. That was Denis's invention; he turned them into aliens. They looked normal in the books (and with distinctive red hair).
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« Reply #1643 on: 28 April 2025, 05:08:33 »
trip read the jihad prequels i dont consider them or sequels  part of dune but they are still fun light read. what annoyed me was decannonization of dune encyclopedia and how far pre sequels went off the rail
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« Reply #1644 on: 28 April 2025, 10:09:58 »
I recommend at least reading Dune itself.  That will give you a lot of context that even Villeneuve's excellent take couldn't.  I'm not really sure what you didn't like about the score.  I thought it was perfect.

The score in the movie, worked, but the score, by itself kinda works; don't get me wrong; I got Dune 1 score and Atreidies (metal-cover), made it to a CD for my car, but the first score, was like 40 songs of the same track; the Dune 2 score, wasn't really that impressive when I played it on my phone to speaker in the van.

Yeah reading the book is worthwhile, because the new movie doesn't cover a lot of the side plots that I feel are the high points of the book. Denis made a faithful movie, but he shifted the narrative over to Jessica and Chani (who was more of a minor character in the novel) as well as the socio-religious aspects instead of the Game of Thrones style scheming politics of the source material.

Oh, and even though I'm a huge Dune fan, I will never read the prequels. I'm a Frank Herbert purist and don't consider them canon.  8)

And I didn't like what they did with the Harkonnens. That was Denis's invention; he turned them into aliens. They looked normal in the books (and with distinctive red hair).

I like the prequels because I like his son's writing style; short, concise-chapters.  Also, when I'm reading a sci-fi book, in my mind, I'm thinking of how it applies to Battletech/Renegade-Legion and how I can use it in an RPG game.

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« Reply #1645 on: 28 April 2025, 10:30:22 »
Every time i've tried to read one of the dune novels, i put it down after 20 or so pages.. Just too damn long winded and convoluted for me.
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« Reply #1646 on: 29 April 2025, 14:04:00 »
Every time i've tried to read one of the dune novels, i put it down after 20 or so pages.. Just too damn long winded and convoluted for me.

I feel the same.  I feel the same as when I have tried to read The Brothers Kasmorov

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« Reply #1647 on: 29 April 2025, 19:10:10 »
Currently doing a binge of an Old 90s tv show, with Heath ledger, called Roar..  About the romans trying to take 400ad ireland, and the locals (led by ledger) fighting back.  So far, its NOT impressed. 
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« Reply #1648 on: 29 April 2025, 21:11:47 »
Every time i've tried to read one of the dune novels, i put it down after 20 or so pages.. Just too damn long winded and convoluted for me.
I've only tried reading it once, and I was Probably late teens, Pretty Sure I was still in HS.  Not sure I made it 20 pages.  :-\  Felt the same, too long winded, and if I recall, the odd names got to me.  I couldn't keep them apart!   :-[

I'm 58 now, and Might be able to tackle it, were it not a 532 book series at this point.  :o  Ehh, I've enjoyed the movies at least, including the one with Sting!  Don't know anything about anyone, but I've been Entertained at least!  ;D


Just tonight I went to see The Accountant 2.  I thought it was pretty good, different from #1, and As Usual for sequels, pretty sure I liked #1 more.  Again, it's GOOD, but just a hair "less" than #1.   :-\  Not sure "What" the difference is, but I haven't seen #1 since it was originally in theaters, so maybe I'm forgetting something?
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« Reply #1649 on: 30 April 2025, 10:44:56 »
I need to rewatch the first accountant.
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