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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

Russell Jaslow said:
I still have a VCR hooked up to the TV. Though admittedly, I haven’t used it in a very long time (despite the fact I have some shows/movies on tape I still want to watch).
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VCRs are getting extremely rare. I sometimes wonder about when services that can convert them to digital will stop.
 
mookie watched Cannonball! Which starred the king fu actor mookie recalls on tv from his youth. Handful of pretend sex scenes which made mookie wonder just how hairy them bushes were back then :rolleyes: Sad
stallone had an uncredited speaking role. One short line.
recognized the other car salesmen from Used Cars…..classic movie on mookie’s top 27 list
 
dxmnkd316 said:
VCRs are getting extremely rare. I sometimes wonder about when services that can convert them to digital will stop.
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I had an epiphany when I realized I could use the same capture card my wife uses when gaming/streaming to record old videos myself. But that would also require a working VCR and time to commit to recording.
 
aparch said:
I had an epiphany when I realized I could use the same capture card my wife uses when gaming/streaming to record old videos myself. But that would also require a working VCR and time to commit to recording.
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I've got a ton of old UMaine games(late 80's through the 2000s), a working VCR, and a capture card, that I have to get working on, but I just don't have the time. I also suggest a good video editing software suite to cut out commercials, make better transitions and such.
 
I never realized there was a remake of High Sierra(not the Colorado Territory reimagining)until I watched I Died a Thousand Times. Jack Palance and Shelley Winters in the Bogart, Lupino roles. It was aight; I give it a C.
 
I'm watching Raiders of the Lost Arc on Paramount Network and it's still a fantastic film to this day.

But with the discussion of rebooting movies moving them up the time line to today floating around (ie: if Back to the Future released today they'd go back to 1993) I got to wondering what a "modernized" Indiana Jones would be.

1981 - 1936 = 45 - 2024 = 1979.

Today's Indiana Jones would be a period piece where he has to go into Afghanistan and rescue a priceless relic from [pick from the various] religions with assistance from the Afghan Mujahideen with the Soviet invasion right behind him.


And how hasn't this been made yet?
 
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aparch said:
I'm watching Raiders of the Lost Arc on Paramount Network and it's still a fantastic film to this day.

But with the discussion of rebooting movies moving them up the time line to today floating around (ie: if Back to the Future released today they'd go back to 1893) I got to wondering what a "modernized" Indiana Jones would be.

1981 - 1936 = 45 - 2024 = 1979.

Today's Indiana Jones would be a period piece where he has to go into Afghanistan and rescue a priceless relic from [pick from the various] religions with assistance from the Afghan Mujahideen with the Soviet invasion right behind him.


And how hasn't this been made yet?
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It was made in 2008. I really like it, a sleeper gem.

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aparch said:
I'm watching Raiders of the Lost Arc on Paramount Network and it's still a fantastic film to this day.

But with the discussion of rebooting movies moving them up the time line to today floating around (ie: if Back to the Future released today they'd go back to 1993) I got to wondering what a "modernized" Indiana Jones would be.

1981 - 1936 = 45 - 2024 = 1979.

Today's Indiana Jones would be a period piece where he has to go into Afghanistan and rescue a priceless relic from [pick from the various] religions with assistance from the Afghan Mujahideen with the Soviet invasion right behind him.


And how hasn't this been made yet?
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You mean Rambo 3? ;)

BTW I can't watch Raiders sometimes because of Big Bang Theory. Indiana Jones is a worthless plot device to the story.
 
My wife and I watched Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 last night.

It actually isn't that bad. It's a huge, long, sprawling story that jumps from plot line/location to plot line/location in a way that is a bit confusing at first, but both my wife and I were left with the feeling that we wished we could have moved on to Chapter 2 in the next couple of nights. It's got interesting characters. It very much reminded me of 1883, which was the Yellowstone series "prequel." I think fans of that series will enjoy this as well.

It'll be interesting to see if the plan to send Chapter 1 out to streaming services after it apparently bombed at the box office will have the desired effect.

I honestly feel like if Costner had broken it up into maybe hour long pieces that it would have been a huge success along the lines of Yellowstone.
 
Well all the parts should be released...I think they are coming part 4 right now or just finished. My guess is very limited theater run if any though. Probably do decent on streaming.
 
It doesn't ruin it; it's what makes it great. His irrelevance was always my favorite part of Indiana Jones. It is also true of Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. Ivanhoe is useless in the book. The doctor in The Plague. All Greek tragedy. I've always thought it was wonderful -- the "hero" strives and preaches and accomplishes nothing.*

That's what the hero signifies. We must imagine Sisyphus happy.


* And anyway it isn't true. He defiled Marion and ruined her life. That's something.
 
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