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HVC

#57705
June 17, 2026, 06:58:22 PM
New Spider-Man trailer is out. Looks good. Has a Spider-Man meets Fallen* theme in there.


*I actually really liked that movie, but I appear to be the only one.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Savonarola

#57706
June 18, 2026, 03:55:19 PM
The Criterion Channel has the first three James Bond movies on right now.  I saw the first two (Dr. No and From Russia With Love.)  They're still trying to find their way in those movies.  For one thing they're quite a bit more brutal than the subsequent Sean Connery/George Lazenby/Roger Moore movies - the Sean Connery-Robert Shaw brawl in a railcar is especially harsh (and excellent.)  Bond isn't as invincible in those movies either, he admits to being scared in Dr. No, and in From Russia with Love, right before his fight with Robert Shaw, he does seem to be caught in an inescapable situation (rather than one featuring sharks with frickin' lasers.)

One thing from the From Russia with Love commentary that amused me is that Leonid Brezhnev was a fan and had (unofficially) seen the movie three times.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#57707
June 20, 2026, 12:34:30 PM
Le Pont du Nord (1981)

This is very much a French New Wave film directed by Jacques Rivette.  It's all shot outdoors, in natural light, with handheld cameras and with very long takes.  The story deals with one of Rivette's favorite themes, friendship between women, in this case former bankrobber/left wing militant Marie (Bulle Ogier) and quirky would be karate avenger Baptiste (Pascale Ogier.)  The story starts with Marie and Baptiste running into each other three times in an hour, and Baptiste realizing that it's destiny and Marie needs a protector.  She turns out to be right as a conspiracy starts to unfold, (or does it as it's obvious that Baptiste is insane) involving Paris set up as a Game of Goose.  The film explores the constructions sites, canals and largely unused pedestrian bridges of Paris (one critic I found said that the movie seems to be made entirely out of rebar.)

I thought the film was fun, I used to explore Detroit similar to the way Rivette is exploring Paris; and perhaps I would imagine at times that Zug Island was Mordor or that the two buildings that flank Woodward Avenue's entrance to downtown were the sentries at the gates of the inferno.

The Jim Jarmusch film "Down by Law" was dedicated to Pascale Ogier.  I had seen that in the film, but it didn't register as I didn't know who she was.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Syt

#57708
June 23, 2026, 01:08:52 AM
Started watching The Rookie. After 4 episodes I enjoy it a lot. Nathan Fillion is "aw, shucks" charming as always.

Though I guess it's a bold choice to make an 8+ season show glorifying the view point of villains, i.e. the LAPD :P ;)
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#57709
June 23, 2026, 08:09:38 AM
Was watching the opening of Frasier S8 (Niles and Daphne finally together), and was smitten by the eloquence of Frasier's rant in the second half.

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Frasier: What is my offense?  What egregious sin have I committed,
         that I should be so maligned?  Was I to just sit idly by
         and watch these two misguided souls embark on doomed
         relationships?  Would they have thanked me for that?  Not
         very likely, I dare say.
 Martin: Who moved the mustard?
Frasier: Top shelf, door.
 Martin: Bingo.
Frasier: And then, when they were perched on the very brink of
         disaster, I snatched them from the gaping maw and placed 
         them gently into one another's arms.  But am I accorded a
         hero's welcome for my troubles?  Am I hoisted on their
         shoulders and paraded about the room?

Martin turns and hands him a jar.

 Martin: I don't have my glasses, what's the expiration date?
Frasier: Last week.
 Martin: I'll chance it.
Frasier: No!  Those two ingrates turn on me like vipers, and make me
         the villain of the piece.  Well, hear me now, this day
         forward, Frasier Crane will not interfere with those two!
         This is it!  Finished, finito!  Non quam postea! 
 Martin: Uh-huh.
Frasier: I know I've made declarations like this before, but I tell
         you what, Dad, you mark the calendar!  You note the time on
         your watch! [points to his own] This - Is - It!

:wub:

I need to figure out a way to work "What egregious sin have I committed, that I should be so maligned?" into conversation. :P
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Grey Fox

#57710
June 23, 2026, 08:23:01 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 23, 2026, 01:08:52 AMStarted watching The Rookie. After 4 episodes I enjoy it a lot. Nathan Fillion is "aw, shucks" charming as always.

Though I guess it's a bold choice to make an 8+ season show glorifying the view point of villains, i.e. the LAPD :P ;)

I watch this too, started in late 2025. Tone will change a lot after the murder of George Floyd. Later seasons, like 6 and 7, are quirky.
Getting ready to make IEDs against American Occupation Forces.

"But I didn't vote for him"; they cried.

garbon

#57711
June 23, 2026, 09:01:30 AM
Yeah I haven't watched the latest season but it swerves all over the place in later seasons. Like the mokcumentary episodes. Or the Daddy Cop song intro which then turns into a character.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

#57712
June 23, 2026, 01:46:01 PM Last Edit: June 23, 2026, 01:48:16 PM by HVC
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is a weird premise, and will probably suck, but I'm oddly looking forward to it.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Syt

#57713
Today at 07:10:25 AM
On Rookie - it's fine that it evolves. I think keeping it the same for 160+ episodes would be a bit difficult. And it's already a bit quirky in the first few episodes with some of the crimes they deal with.
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Crazy_Ivan80

#57714
Today at 07:47:51 AM
Quote from: HVC on June 23, 2026, 01:46:01 PMStuart Fails to Save the Universe is a weird premise, and will probably suck, but I'm oddly looking forward to it.

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