To whom it may concern,
I hope this evening’s missive finds you inebriated, stoned, food coma’ed, or basking in the love and warmth of your family/friends. I, as many American’s this weekend, feasted on the seared flesh of the harvested animals, the seasonal appropriate side dishes, and desserts celebrating the harvest of the season’s fruits. Much merriment and intoxicants/inhalents were consumed as I left the house to be social. Ah, the sacrifices we make for marital happiness.
The weekends baseball tilts were quite interesting to watch but we watched an English movie from the 50’s starring a young and very beautiful Lucille Ball as as a Taxi Dancer in London during the reign of a serial killer wandering the streets. The movie is Lured, and I highly recommend it. For a conversation starter, what movie have you come across that you had never heard of, but loved?
I am sure there are sports on tonight, but I have a feeling that we will be watching Tulsa King.
To the comments!
Ooooh.
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/spook-who-sat-by-the-door-infiltrating-hollywood-2025
Michael Clayton screening at Vidiots on Saturday with special guest Tony Gilroy. They only have standby tickets left.
https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/michael-clayton/
Syriana was good, too. It’s definitely a product of it’s time, and requires multiple viewings to fully comprehend it all. However, it’s worth it. Good movie, and gives a good “vibe” of what it felt like living in the US during the mid-2000s.
Zulu was a movie I just ran across and really enjoyed.
Based ball follow-up (NOOOOOO):
Dirt Stillers had nine hits, eleven men left on base, no runs scored. Impressive.
Need a gif of Vader holding his arm out and saying “I find your lack of ability most impressive.”
Maybe Dirt Aaron Rodgers (Curt Schilling?) could help them
Not even the ghost of Roberto Clemente can help them. They are doomed for all eternity.
I love it when they’re mathematically eliminated by the All-Star break. Every fucking year!
Stumbling across random movies and shows is something I miss about traditional cable. My dad is a big channel-switcher so watching tv when he has the remote means you see bits and pieces of all sorts of interesting things you never would have seen otherwise. There’s really no streaming equivalent, but they still have cable (probably because there’s no streaming equivalent) so I get the experience when I’m home to visit
tubi, Pluto, Amazon prime live, and some other apps have limited “live” options, including peacock and iirc paramount plus.
I was watching Jose Andres’s pbs show on Amazon on a whim after I got to catch the end of Rambo when he mows down half the Burmese army.
Don’t forget about Comet!
I just learned an interesting WW2 fact. The US, while still neutral in July of ’41 occupied Iceland (taking over from Britain) to prevent Germany from taking control of the shipping lanes. Iceland was still technically a soverign country that remained neutral throughout the war, although they cooperated with the continued presence of the US
Senorita Weaselo is interested in that movie, as we still need to watch The Long, Long Trailer.
Most things I see on TCM fit that bill because I didn’t see any film noir until I started watching that channel. Double indemnity is one that stands out.
Recently saw No Other Land at a film society showing joined by 90% blue hairs and though I wouldn’t say loved it was well-done, showed me something and certainly delivered its message without getting overly graphic.
I’ve seen some interesting stuff going to the TCM area of Max and just picking something at random.
Dirt Stillers shutout for the ninth time thus far in 2025, three more than any other franchise in MLB.
Sweep4 straight losses averted!Man on Fire 1987.
I saw the one with Denzel at the movies and I didn’t know it was a remake. I liked the original better. https://youtu.be/AERYCHIx184?feature=shared
Since my 43rd is coming up this Friday… I think I’ll take this guy’s advice…
Congrats!
That’s an awesome milestone
Our 26th is Thursday
Congrats Buddy
This says 43 is travel, good stuff!
https://www.happy-anniversary.com/year-of-marriage/
Gumby died two weeks before our 42nd. That one is real estate. I just sold our house, seems fitting.
You were lucky to have had each other. If I go tomorrow, I know what a lucky man I have been.
With the reno ongoing, it will be a short trip this year. But we do plan on getting away and doing something different. Our sanity right now needs it. Spent 2+ hours looking at bathrooms yesterday. I was tempted to jump out of the second floor windows more that once. Nobody on this planet cares about my bidet opinions…
On the other side of the topic, a movie I went to with bottom-barrel expectations, and was somehow even worse:
Guh. What heap of detritus and waste.
If World War Z was named anything else, and was just a zombie film, it’d be fine. It’s supposed to be the movie version of the greatest zombie novel written.
Why not make a movie version of the Miracle on Ice, and show a movie about a down-on-their-luck youth baseball team managed by a grumpy, older man who doesn’t want to be there? That’s essentially what this movie did with the book.
I’m still pissed I spent money going to the theater.
I’ll be in L.A. from Saturday through the next Saturday. I’ll still be working normal business hours, just from L.A. I am still working out the specifics, but I assume I’ll be at the Kibbitz Room on Tuesday around 10pm.
Dude, I am two hours into sleepy time by then. Have fun, though!
Mrs. Balls really earned the name.
I’m sure there will be other things we may be able to do. But I would recommend the show if you ever can. The lead singer is a DJ our age and it’s basically like watching a Mix CD live.
Oh man I haven’t been to Canter’s in forever.
Chicago.
Had zero expectations but I’m a sucker for a good musical.
Thanks Pops.
That movie is incredible.
I have the soundtrack. Love it.
All so going to watch All That Jazz again soon.
what movie have you come across that you had never heard of, but loved?
“come across” limits it, but I suppose “Where The Boys Aren’t 21”
If “come across” is not meant in the ejaculatory sense (unlikely, but possible I guess), then maybe this movie, which I embarrassingly knew nothing about before watching it about 15 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmYY5ZMXOY&pp=ygUedG91Y2ggb2YgZXZpbCBvcGVuaW5nIHNlcXVlbmNl
Only because I saw Get Shorty.
https://youtu.be/Q8C-zQaENMc?si=-ev6BDHrc0w0s5Zb
That’s a good one.
I hope it was a VHS tape. DVDs are so fickle.
LaserDisc, the only way to truly watch mature movies.
2,084 logged films on Letterboxd and about 200 in my list of to-see or “I never finished, so I can’t properly log this and call it a piece of shit,” and I can’t really think of anything.
Maybe The Third Man. I had to watch it for a class in college with no idea what it was when I sat down in the library theater and it is still the best film I’ve ever seen.
That sounds like it fits the bill
Hooray!
Oh. Edit got fixed.
The login system seems to be a lot more cooperative, too.
Internet Dad Rules!
I think GTD helped out this time too.
I didn’t dun nuthin
Among the 200 are a couple of special cases: Wind River, I turned that off at the morgue scene when the sheriff and Olsen are discussing why she’s not legally involved in the case; Kids, because I am a giant wienie; etc.
THIS THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES HOMES COURT, I CALL IT THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S AIRPLANE BECAUSE IT IS SPONSORED BY NATIONS THAT BROUGHT US 9-11!
Wait — who has the Emirates court? I’m at a bar with no sound.
Also, before this game was a ESPN thing on a girl Stanford goalie that killed herself. It was fucking WHACK in closed-captioned.
Also I’m a couple hours into listening to these two chicks next to me. It’s sad because they see how fucked they are.
Because they’re female or because they’re next to you?
Young.
Female.
Will be decapitated in a ditch early tomorrow before I pick up my wife at the airport.
Blax gets more done before 8 AM than most people do all day.
That’s the Island Lifestyle.
2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.
The 1978 version is absolutely one of my favorite films of any kind. I had very low expectations for the remake, but it was a lot of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTYNwwPQH4k
There’s an “alternate cut” featuring “It’s the End of the World (As We Know It)” by REM instead of Johnny Cash. I can’t find it, but I actually think it’s better than the actual version used.
That’s a good one. I think they shoot a zombified Jay Leno .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFQNF1L_oi8
EDIT: naturally, it doesn’t post
I only watched the opening scene of the Dawn of the Dead remake. Very well done but it was too gnarly for me to want to see more.
It definitely set the tone for the rest of the film. It’s way more intense and even compelling than I expected. Plus, Phil Dunphy long before he was married to the lovely Julie Bowen!
Didn’t they film the 78 one at the Monroeville Mall? Seems appropriate, that place was always crawling with zombies. I just watched a Youtube video about them demolishing Century III, I remember when that was the fancy “new” mall. I’m old.
Absolutely correct (about Dawn being filmed at Monroeville Mall).
All of Romero’s Living Dead movies were filmed around here. The house used in the Night of the Living Dead remake in 1990 was maybe ten miles from where I’m typing this now. I don’t know when it was demolished, but I’ve heard it’s been gone for probably a decade now, if not more.
Aaron Rodgers open to retiring as a member of the Packers, but only under one condition – CBSSports.com
Will someone tell the Packers to take one for the team and end this nonsense? As much as I enjoy watching Pittsburgh and the Steelers Nation be held in this perpetual existential nightmare, even they don’t deserve Qaron to darken their doorstep.
Dude is a dick. You play for your fans.
J/K I am 100% in on players signing $1million 1-day contracts with teams they never played for. Why we being Coy? Someone will buy their dusty old bones as a trophy to peacock before banging some 20-something.
Matt Gaetz hopes “something” means “negative 8.”
Certainly some of their many owners could wrangle the cash to make it happen.
The original Bedazzled
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tA1wH3cck