TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

I hear Agents of Shield is good now? I quit halfway season 1.

Just as it started to get better.  I'm slowly catching up on it, as I had also quit around that point.

[Josquius]

Grabbers- Aliens attack a small Irish town and try to eat everyone. It turns out the aliens are allergic to alcohol. Yet they chose Ireland to invade. Hilarity ensues.

[Sophie Scholl]

Managed to nab The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr. for $12 the other day.  I loved that show more than The X-Files when they aired back-to-back.

[Malthus]

The ones I saw were "Old Man of the Mountain" (very rape-y - the Old Man is depicted as raping anything that moves, including a sad hippo with three "old man" babies - he chases Betty and rips off Betty's clothes, but she gets them back and avoids his advances); "Red Hot Mama"; one where Betty was sexually assaulted by a circus manager and saved by the clown before the manager could "take her Boop-a-Doop away" (needless to say, rape-y  ); and one where Betty runs away from home with her dog-boyfriend, only to be scared back home by a jazz walrus.

Will check out "Snow White".

I've seen "Red Hot Mamma," and I think I've seen that last one too; but I don't remember what it's called.  I'll check out "Old Man of the Mountain."

"Bimbo" is the name of her dog-boyfriend.  He had a very short run, as Wikipedia explains:

He appeared in Fleischer cartoons from 1930 to 1933, when he was eliminated from Betty's series by the Production Code censorship laws, since a dog with a human girlfriend gave implications of bestiality.



"Snow White" features Cab Calloway singing "St. James Infirmary Blues."  Cab is rotoscoped in as Koko (though with some astounding changes); if you watch closely you can see him do the moonwalk.

Hell, in "Old Man of the Mountain" they more than imply beastiality: you see a hippo-woman sobbing as she wheels her babies away from the rampaging "Old Man" - and they are clearly his offspring! (they have "old man" beards!)

Anyway, wasn't Betty originally a poodle?

[celedhring]

I hear Agents of Shield is good now? I quit halfway season 1.

Just as it started to get better.  I'm slowly catching up on it, as I had also quit around that point.

I will try to catch up then.

[Sheilbh]

Hunger Games Catching Fire

[garbon]

Hunger Games Catching Fire

I'm not looking forward to being required to watch the next one with the fam for thanksgiving.

[Admiral Yi]

So the waitress from The Blob got me thinking: what do actors that don't get steady gigs do with their time.  Now, Candy Cane had more roles than I new about--for example she was in David Bowie Falls to Earth, but how about people like Fred Munster and Noonan from Caddy Shack?  What do they do for 20 years between jobs?

[Eddie Teach]

Nowadays they can do reality shows or youtube.

[CountDeMoney]

but how about people like Fred Munster and Noonan from Caddy Shack?  What do they do for 20 years between jobs?

Fred Gwynne bought a farm up the road, did voiceover work, watched a wife die, painted and wrote children's books.

[celedhring]

So the waitress from The Blob got me thinking: what do actors that don't get steady gigs do with their time.  Now, Candy Cane had more roles than I new about--for example she was in David Bowie Falls to Earth, but how about people like Fred Munster and Noonan from Caddy Shack?  What do they do for 20 years between jobs?

Commercials, theater... a lot just have regular jobs.

Some manage to teach, too. There's this guy I had as acting teacher in NYC that managed to audition both for Mozart in Amadeus and Kyle Reese in T1, and lost both; it was hilarious how spiteful he still was about it, claiming he'd have done a better job. He only had a few credits in movies nobody's seen, yet he had managed to get a cushy job as acting teacher in Columbia.

[Savonarola]

Hell, in "Old Man of the Mountain" they more than imply beastiality: you see a hippo-woman sobbing as she wheels her babies away from the rampaging "Old Man" - and they are clearly his offspring! (they have "old man" beards!)

Anyway, wasn't Betty originally a poodle?

I guess she was; I didn't know that:



It looks like I haven't seen any of her early cartoons.  I also learned she was based on Helen Kane, not, as I had thought, Clara Bow.

[11B4V]

Watched Maleficent with the kid tonite. B-

Jolie did a good job. Some great lines.

[Josephus]

So the waitress from The Blob got me thinking: what do actors that don't get steady gigs do with their time.  Now, Candy Cane had more roles than I new about--for example she was in David Bowie Falls to Earth, but how about people like Fred Munster and Noonan from Caddy Shack?  What do they do for 20 years between jobs?

I often wonder about things like...bass players from 80s pop bands...what are they doing now?

[Scipio]

So the waitress from The Blob got me thinking: what do actors that don't get steady gigs do with their time.  Now, Candy Cane had more roles than I new about--for example she was in David Bowie Falls to Earth, but how about people like Fred Munster and Noonan from Caddy Shack?  What do they do for 20 years between jobs?

I often wonder about things like...bass players from 80s pop bands...what are they doing now?

Session musicians, the lot of them. Except Sting.