What movie are you watching?

[Brewdude]

Just finished re-watching this great Masterpiece Theater series. I'd recorded it on Beta tape when it was first shown years ago and transferred it to DVD many years later,  but the quality left something to be desired. Found one source for the set on ebait and got it in. Quality was still not great but much better than my own home recorded discs.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

Another great Masterpiece Theater Drama which I had to replace recently since my home recorded version left much to be desired.

It's an engaging story of a young British man just discharged from the Army after serving in WWI in the trenches at the Somme. He's shell-shocked and suffers from other complications, but finds a good job teaching students at a private school. He eventually rises to become Headmaster after surviving the death of his wife and two children in a tragic accident. Very well done series.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Blackhorse]

Started watching the Expanse - Season 4.  

I SO want one of the HUD communicator things they use.

 

[peanubutter]

Just watched the 1941 classic The Maltese Falcon

 

[D.L.Ruth]

In the last couple days I've watched...
It's a Wonderful Life (colorized version, was pretty neat)
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol (with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge)
Christmas Vacation

 

[Brewdude]

Simply amazing! If you're an Laurel and Hardy fan you need to see this!

8)


Cheers,

RR

 

[Blackhorse]

My adult kids, who do movies together regularly, are going to see Cats tonight.  My son is really grumbling and rolling his eyes. But it’s not his turn to pick. My daughter says she is just inexorably drawn to what is surely one of the greatest train wrecks of the year...perhaps ever.

One of the better critical comments on the new movie is that artistically, it’s a hairball.  Ouch.

Me?  I’d rather re-watch the cult classic, “The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera”.  It includes one of the better cat-like human-animal portrayals ever.  (snicker)


https://youtu.be/HvnEyrVNNG4

 

[eggman]

My adult kids, who do movies together regularly, are going to see Cats tonight.  My son is really grumbling and rolling his eyes. But it’s not his turn to pick. My daughter says she is just inexorably drawn to what is surely one of the greatest train wrecks of the year...perhaps ever.

One of the better critical comments on the new movie is that artistically, it’s a hairball.  Ouch.

Me?  I’d rather re-watch the cult classic, “The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera”.  It includes one of the better cat-like human-animal portrayals ever.  (snicker)


https://youtu.be/HvnEyrVNNG4

I’ve never heard of this movie before and nowI’m going to have to watch it. I just can’t unsee that clip.

 

[eggman]

My wife sometimes forgets- she is NOT a space alien.

 

[Brewdude]

I was actually looking for the old B&W version of this which I'd seen before. This was almost as good though.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

Just finished re-watching this classic Masterpiece Theater series. Very well done.

Basically it's about a cockney girl with ambition to become a great chef in the early 1900's in London and her journey as she becomes famous and later buys a hotel.

If you're a Downton Abby fan check this out.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

Saw this when it first came out a century ago and decided to re-watch it as I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan. It was just as weird as the first time around!


Cheers,

RR

 

[Blackhorse]

Outland, 1981.  Starring Sean Connery.  An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter’s sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.

It’s pretty much High Noon in space. Old formula but major fun if you’re a Connery fan.

PS: The wife does not leave him in anger.  She takes the son off station...tired of living in space...wants the boy to grow up with real air & gravity.  Yadda, yadda.

 

[Brewdude]

Right now I'm working my way through this old TV series-

Never caught it when it was first shown and some of it was filmed near where I used to live in WA state. The scenes in the Brick tavern and Roslyn cafe are in Roslyn, WA just off I-90 in the Cascades. Been to both places, and the Brick has a unique feature left over from its heyday - a piss trough which runs parallel to and right up against the bar counter. Supposedly a common sight in the rough and tumble taverns back when this was a men's only establishment frequented by lumberjacks and hunters/trappers. No need to have a toilet or outhouse - just unzip and let 'er rip right there!

When I was brewing for Pyramid I'd heard they used their neon signs as backdrops in the interior shots and by golly there they are - along with Redhook neons. Also frequently shown are Alaskan Amber bottles.

Anyway, am enjoying the series as I'm now about halfway through. It's not as weird and creepy as Twin Peaks, some of which was filmed in my backyard of Snoqualmie/North Bend. But it is pretty quirky and has some hilarious moments.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Corncobcon]

I loved N.E. Still watch it occationally, although, I don't have the whole set. Also enjoy Twin Peaks and Dukes of Hazard. Roscoe P. Coltrane, played by James Best is sort of a relative, by marriage. One of my daughters married into the Best family.

 

[Brewdude]

Right now I'm working my way through this old TV series-

Never caught it when it was first shown and some of it was filmed near where I used to live in WA state. The scenes in the Brick tavern and Roslyn cafe are in Roslyn, WA just off I-90 in the Cascades. Been to both places, and the Brick has a unique feature left over from its heyday - a piss trough which runs parallel to and right up against the bar counter. Supposedly a common sight in the rough and tumble taverns back when this was a men's only establishment frequented by lumberjacks and hunters/trappers. No need to have a toilet or outhouse - just unzip and let 'er rip right there!

When I was brewing for Pyramid I'd heard they used their neon signs as backdrops in the interior shots and by golly there they are - along with Redhook neons. Also frequently shown are Alaskan Amber bottles.

Anyway, am enjoying the series as I'm now about halfway through. It's not as weird and creepy as Twin Peaks, some of which was filmed in my backyard of Snoqualmie/North Bend. But it is pretty quirky and has some hilarious moments.


Cheers,

RR

Now into the 4th season and am very impressed. The quality of the writing seems to have gone up a few orders of magnitude and is now on a level with Twin Peaks. Great character development. The occasional quirkiness and humor of the preceding episodes has gotten much more complex and is very reminiscent of the absurd brand of comedy that Monty Python exhibited in it's heyday.

Don't know if they got new writers as the seasons progressed but the show seems to have finally matured. I will definitely be adding this DVD set to my collection as I'm viewing it from the library right now.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

1931 b&w flick about the gangster era during prohibition. Starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

Classic Edward G. Robinson here!


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RR

 

[Brewdude]

Read the book, had to see the movie. Pretty good.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Brewdude]

Sid mentioned this in the "What are you smoking" thread. Very powerful flick about the Stalin era of '32/'33 in the Ukraine.


Cheers,

RR