2017 Movies & Tv Show

Friday night Memegirl and I saw "Death Line", an early 70s British horror film with a very silly Donald Pleasance, the guy who played "Norm" in "Hard Days Night" and Christopher Lee awkwardly cut into one scene. It's about a clan of cannibals living in the subway system. We both thought it was kind of lame.

Last night I saw a 4k restoration of "Suspiria", the much loved classic of 70s Italian horror. I'm officially giving up on 70s Italian horror. Aside from some interesting set designs, it was just boring.

Horror films never scare me. Comedies can make me laugh. Dramas can make me cry. Suspense can make me tense, but that's entirely empathy for characters in the film. I'm never personally frightened by anything happening on screen.
 
I saw a movie Sunday afternoon. American Assasan. I didn't like it and I like everything. It wasn't very good. The guy looked like a young Rob Lowe. I kept making bad jokes with my sweets about the movie to keep myself entertained. I did have one of them Wisconsin Burgers with tots, I hadn't had one of those in a few months so I left the theater happy.
 
memebag said:
Last night Memegirl and I saw "A Ghost Story". We both liked it, but agreed it's best seen in a theater. On TV we would be too tempted to be distracted by other stuff. Very slow movie. Actually showed paint drying at one point.
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Just saw A Ghost Story and loved it! Going in, this is one that I knew nothing about besides that picture of Casey in a sheet. I was expecting something much different. It's an artsy film but done right. Not one of those that gets annoying where I wind up thinking that the writer/director has way too high an opinion of himself. The one part I didn't like was the monologue by that one party goer around the second half of the movie. I guess it was supposed to be philosophical but I think the story would have been every bit as strong if it was left out. The loop back was cool and the final scenes were amazing. Great minimal script. I read that it was only like 40 pages. This is easily in my top 5 of 2017. Dunkirk, A Ghost Story and Logan. So far I guess I only have a top 3, but all the Oscar movies will be coming out soon.
 
Damn Canadians, they get free healthcare, get away spelling certain words and now free access to Star Trek Discovery.

Where the Canadian invasion thread, we need to invade again!
 
During football there were so many ads for the new show about a retard doctor that I gave in and watched the pilot. It's a cool idea but it wasn't great. Maybe I'll give it another shot but I doubt this is one I'll stick with.
 
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JHDK said:
During football there were so many ads for the new show about a retard doctor that I gave in and watched the pilot. It's a cool idea but it wasn't great. Maybe I'll give it another shot but I doubt this is one I'll stick with.
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Autistic. I take it sensitivity training was not part of your court appointed rehab schedule?
 
I’m glad one of the best TV shows has returned to TV Will and Grace and it still damn funny!

I love this pic!

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I saw the show last night, that was a good closing picture. We thought the new show wasn't as good as the original.
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It was a bit different from the original, but I still laughed quite a bit. They basically killed the story lines from the old series finale. The product placements were a bit to much, but I guess it will help pay for the show?

They still have another 15 episodes to air and hopefully they will still be good. I wouldn't mind seeing some of the old actors making appearances again like:

Shelley Morrison as Rosario
Leslie Jordan as Beverly
Michael Angarano as Elliott
 
This is interesting:

How much Hollywood stars are paid revealed | Daily Mail Online

I don't care so much about what the celebs make, even the low paid ones are rich, but it's neat to see how much the crew makes. 37k to hold a mic on a stick is pretty good. But when I think about it I can see those guys getting bitter after awhile. Eventually it would be easy to lose sight of the fact that it's a great gig and instead get jealous of all the millionaires.

I could go either way on the $25 hourly for a cameraman. On the one hand that's pretty good but on the other getting the right shot the right way is a bit of an art and thus should maybe get more of the artist's type pay.
 
JHDK said:
This is interesting:

How much Hollywood stars are paid revealed | Daily Mail Online

I don't care so much about what the celebs make, even the low paid ones are rich, but it's neat to see how much the crew makes. 37k to hold a mic on a stick is pretty good. But when I think about it I can see those guys getting bitter after awhile. Eventually it would be easy to lose sight of the fact that it's a great gig and instead get jealous of all the millionaires.

I could go either way on the $25 hourly for a cameraman. On the one hand that's pretty good but on the other getting the right shot the right way is a bit of an art and thus should maybe get more of the artist's type pay.
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My dad was a sound man on some movies. I don't think he resented actors getting the big bucks. Some of them were nice people, some of them weren't. He was convinced one of them was a robot.
 
I have a cousin that appeared in couple of movies. She basically was a background actress with couple of lines. I believe she got the parts from her former husband. I know her husband is somewhat famous back in the past. But anyway, you guys might recall these scenes.

Back To The Future 2 "Dustbuster" scene

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Ghostbusters 2 "Slime In The Restaurant" scene, she was that got slime in the video below.



She also appeared in Junior, but I don't recall what scene.
 
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