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20 hours ago, Inquisitionist said:
I was really enjoying Six Degrees, with Campbell Scott, Bridget Moynahan, Hope Davis, and others, and when TPTB decided not to air the last few episodes that had been filmed.
Me too! I thought Mr Rat and I were the only ones who liked it.
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19 hours ago, Blergh said:
But then again, I think Lost in Space would have not only been better but also lasted as long if not longer had they not had Jonathan Harris playing Dr. Smith as a perpetual 'Special Guest Star'!
Hard to imagine what the show would even have been without Dr. Smith! He's the key to the plotting since he's the perpetual anti-family character on a family show. Not surprising that Dr. Smith and the Robot are the best remembered characters.
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6 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
I've gotten rid of so many things in the past that I wish I'd kept, that now I have a lot of stuff I haven't used in up to 10 years
Oh how I wish I could honestly say that this was not equally true for Mr Rat and myself. 😟
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On 6/30/2019 at 12:48 AM, bilgistic said:
Bolded is what I thought. Like, why did they need to buy a month's worth of groceries at 10pm right after she got out of the hospital?! It made zero sense!
And there are at least two other grocery stores within two miles that are open later, so...yeah.
Who knows? My guess is they were terrified by what had happened in the hospital, perhaps had been there for 12 plus hours, weren't thinking clearly and kind of clinging onto an everyday activity like grocery shopping so they could feel normal.
Really there's no way of knowing. While it TOTALLY sucks to be kept late WO overtime, were they at least polite aside from staying past closing?
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11 hours ago, elle said:
I am only vaguely aware of the movie Barry Lyndon and that is only to know it is not the period movie with Albert Finney, which is of course Tom Jones. It is a strange choice to include in the promo as it does not seem to be a movie that is in the pop culture psyche as Jaws is which came out the same year in 1975.
I saw this movie when it came out, in the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Visually it is hands down one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen - the scenes shot by candlelight were so thrilling to look at I had to remind myself to breathe. I felt like I was really looking at 18th century nightlife and gambling hells. But like most of Kubrick's films I admire it more than love it.
I'm not surprised both you and Rinaldo thought of Westerns, since the climactic event in the film is a duel. (A little off topic, one of my recent intellectual projects has been watching the TV series Gunsmoke all the way through. The first six seasons of Gunsmoke are heavily concerned with showing what it's like to live in a place where dueling is legal - woof.)
I also agree with you that Barry Lyndon is the outlier in this group to me in terms of present-day popularity. Also as usual with these things the movies are mostly from the last 40 years - other than Vertigo and Anatomy of a Murder. Come to think of it Anatomy of a Murder is an outlier too.
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On 6/28/2019 at 11:10 PM, BaggythePanther said:
What I really want is the machine on the Waverider that makes you whatever clothes you want. I’d probably just make a bunch of different types of jeans, but still, the option is there.
18 hours ago, ramble said:That makes me think of the gadget where you punch in the food you want, whatever it may be, open the magic door and it’s there. I remember first seeing it on Star Trek, but I think it’s used in various sci-fi shows. That would be amazing.
14 hours ago, Anduin said:Replicator.
Yes!
16 hours ago, shapeshifter said:The Orville has something like that. I'm now realizing that they were probably inspired by those vending machines with little windowed compartments, each containing a sandwich or brownie or maybe a piece of pie — not sure if they still exist.
Oh The Orville they are called synthesizers so as not to get into legal trouble with the Star Trek folks. I don't know if the Legends machine actually has a name - I think they just lump it in along with all the other things Gideon does for the crew.
12 hours ago, BaggythePanther said:Legends also has a machine like that on the Waverider. I was really wishing I had a machine like that last night because I wanted a home cooked meal, but I didn’t want to actually cook.
15 hours ago, ABay said:From "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend":
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the AutomatWoof. I ate a few times at the last Automat in NYC (just to do it, you know) and all I can say is that the Automat definitely did not provide a replicator-like experience, LOL. It was like school cafeteria/diner food at best, and usually more like vending machine food. My mom grew up in NYC and according to her it was like that even when it was a thing. Also you could clearly see all the stressed out women in pink uniforms behind the little doors, preparing the little plates of food and then shoving them into the compartments. There was a Flintstones element to the whole experience.
The dream of having a device that could just manifest a delicious meal, or a great outfit, must go back as far as the first human being (a woman I'm sure) who was too tired to build the fire and cook the roast beast, or twist the fiber into the thread that she'd have to weave into cloth.
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MLB Thread
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5 hours ago, xaxat said:I really hope that the good people of Great Britain don't think that was a typical game.
1 hour ago, theatremouse said:They're used to cricket so this game probably felt short.
How and where did they find this many people in England to go to a baseball game? American ex-pats? Europeans who've lived in the US?
Also I was hoping to find out if Duchess Meghan is a baseball fan or just attending as part of her official duties. Would be shocked if she were a fan of the Yankees or the Red Sox in any case, it would have to be the Dodgers or Angels.
Honestly when it was 6-6 at the end of the first inning I almost bailed.
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I am not a binge watching person at all. I realize that current streaming series are designed to be watched all at once, but that's not for me. If I enjoy the series I like having the time to think about each episode before I see the next one.
The more complicated and emotionally involving the series, the less I want to see it all at once. I wouldn't want to watch all 15 hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz all at once - I'd be a wreck. Also Mr Rat and I are big fans of old movie serials, which have the opposite problem - watching them all at once underlines how slowly the plot tends to advance, even when they don't cheat on the cliffhanger endings. Watching a few episodes at a time we can enjoy them for what they are without getting impatient.
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On 6/27/2019 at 3:49 PM, Tom Holmberg said:
I was on vacation in Canada and got to catch some "Murdoch Mysteries", which are hard to find in the US (
A lot of public TV stations run them in a spotty way (WLIW around here). Just to make it harder it was apparently called The Artful Detective in the United States until this year. Ovation has been running the current 12th season, and showing episodes from seasons 10 and 11 during the week, out of order. But I don't know of a broadcast or cable US station that is running the entire series. I only started watching it last year and I'd love to be able to find someplace to watch it from the beginning.
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On 6/26/2019 at 9:57 AM, BooksRule said:
Do any of you catch any of the films that are shown as part of the 'TCM Underground' series?
This has always been one of my favorite parts of the programming. It does go through phases - as with the rest of the schedule, they will show the same films several times in a year (Berserk, or Food of the Gods, etc.) which I suppose has to do with broadcast rights? But really there is so much for them to choose from I don't understand why they don't mix it up a little more.
Also this is programming that could REALLY benefit from host intros and outros, given that it is often quite obscure to a present day audience. I don't understand why they don't do this. Your example of The Bed-Sitting Room is a good one. Of course one can look these films up for oneself, as I always do anyway, but, come on.
It's one of the more unpredictable slots. You might be seeing super-campy-kitsch like Gymkata, , straight-up exploitation like Child Bride, or art films like Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. I love TCM.
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On 6/27/2019 at 2:08 AM, Irlandesa said:
I suspect Ovation will get the second season two but not for another year or so.
Oh, I didn't know that. I hope you're right. I also hope that I can remember this complicated plot by the time I see season two.😀
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11 hours ago, theredhead77 said:11 hours ago, peacheslatour said:
If someone wanted to host brunch in their home, could they be arrested for serving mimosa's before 11?
No, you just can't purchase alcohol. Private parties and residences aren't included in the ban
BTW that was the case even when the Eighteenth Amendment was the law of the land. Those who had the foresight to stock up and fill their basement or barn with booze wine and beer could drink it at home and serve it to their friends without restriction. They just couldn't BUY or SELL it. Thus, those huge boozy Long Island parties in The Great Gatsby.
7 hours ago, topanga said:The name of this store { Smart & Final} fascinates me—I’d never hear of it till I read your posts.
Hold onto your hat - the actual name is Smart & Final Iris:
https://www.smartandfinal.com/history
full disclosure : growing up in California I always thought the name Smart and Final Iris was funny too. Of course as the link above explains it's just three companies who merged - much like Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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6 hours ago, RealHousewife said:
My pet peeve is friends whose favorite thing on the weekends is breakfast/brunch, especially if it's at an earlier time and/or there's a long wait.
Tell me about it. It's a cult in NYC. And ANY wait at all on a Sunday morning when we should all be sleeping in - WHY? I said no to all that years ago. Unless we're making brunch ourselves in the house (which we can do for a fraction of the cost) just include me out.
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17 hours ago, smittykins said:
I don’t judge her at all for surrendering her—I know she made the right choice for her—but I admit that I wonder why.
Maybe he/she died and the children hate cats. Maybe he/she went into assisted living which doesn't always allow pets - or worse became homeless - shelters for humans never allow pets, at least around these parts. So it could be horribly sad for the person.
Or maybe they were just an asshole. Take your pick, I guess.
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We watched all of the first season and really enjoyed it. I'm also surprised there was so little activity in the forums here.
Unfortunately for me at least, according to the front page here, season two will be moving to Sundance Now, a paid streaming site. Hope that turns out not to be true, but it probably is. Bummer. I like the show but not enough to subscribe to a paid service just to watch it. I don't like streaming as much as TV anyway - can't DVR anything, for one.
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Beany and Cecil.
ETA: since the thread I posted in has now been merged into another thread kind of without explanation, I meant that I was relieved that Beany and Cecil were never a couple.
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4 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
I saw it about 20 years ago in a huge theater, and it really got to me. I remember feeling really sad for him, thinking, "It's not his fault."
As Dino de Laurentiis may or may not have said, "Everybody cry when the big monkey die."
One of the few things I really liked in Peter Jackson's King Kong was the scene where Kong has captured Naomi Watts and set her down on the ledge, where she is frozen in fear - and then on a sudden hunch, she performs her vaudeville act for him! Dancing, acrobatics, tumbling. Exactly what would appeal to a gorilla, to a lot of animals I think if the pets I've had are any measure - they've all been pretty fascinated by physical play like that.
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12 hours ago, Sharpie66 said:
I do want to chime in on a few recommendations for old films, but these are not out of Hollywood.
Those are both great films, and completely apropos for this thread since they often show them on TCM.
6 hours ago, Rinaldo said:And it occurs to me that Butch's then-startling "solve a solemn Western standoff by kicking the guy in the balls" is essentially the same gag as Indiana Jones handling a sinister master of the whip by pulling out his gun -- in both cases, failing to observe the ceremonial "rules" of the situation and instead resorting to pragmatic common sense.
Also in both cases the "ceremonial rules of the situation" are the ceremonial rules of a MOVIE standoff situation. Which is why in both cases it's so funny - the audience has been trained to regard the standoff as grim and tense - then the payoff reminds them that they're watching a movie. It reminds me of the scene in the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business where Groucho is in the stateroom with Thelma Todd, when her gangster boyfriend bursts in with a gun and proceeds to threaten Groucho with movie-gangster threats - "do you know who I am? do you see this gat?" etc. And Groucho just keeps throwing back wisecracks at the guy - since he refuses to say any of the gangster movie countersigns -"don't shoot! don't shoot! it's not what you think! etc." the movie gangster can't shoot him. Classic comedy technique I guess really.
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19 hours ago, Joe Hellandback said:
I liked that, it was always the unrealistic aspect of Star Trek that nobody ever used the holosuites for sex
One of the things I like about The Orville is that they do use the holosuites for sex. See "Primal Urges", season 2 episode 2.
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So, an observation in passing.
Season 10, episode 24, Thursday's Child, starring the great Jean Arthur. She plays Kitty's mentor (in salooning, I suppose) who comes to Dodge to (secretly) help deliver her outlaw son's wife deliver their child. When the young wife keeps saying she's very very tired, Jean Arthur laughs quietly and tells her in that great throaty voice, "oh honey, you're just pregnant, that's all."
First use of that word on this show, probably an early use for American TV generally. And along those lines:
Season 11, episode 7, The Bounty Hunter. Robert Lansing finds out from the wife of his intended target that he beat a man to death because - that man had raped her.
The first use of this word seems even more significant, since rape and the threat of rape are constant themes on Gunsmoke, usually presented in stomach-turningly low-key realistic ways. for example in season 3, episode 24, The Cabin. But the word was never spoken.
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I don't have Netflix so I'm not watching When They See Us - but I thought you all on this board would appreciate this article about the other victims of Matias Reyes - the actual rapist of the Central Park jogger, Trisha Meili. This article made me so angry - not just that the cops didn't follow up on some leads that might have prevented five rapes (!?!) but that these women are never, NEVER mentioned in the coverage of this case.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/the-attackers-other-victims-in-the-central-park-five-case.html
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On 6/9/2019 at 3:51 PM, SVNBob said:
Actually, that whole album rocks and fits this thread perfectly.
I listen to that album all the time!
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On 6/9/2019 at 3:09 AM, Joe Hellandback said:On 6/8/2019 at 6:24 PM, kariyaki said:
Oof, disagree on this one. Dollhouse put a magnifying glass on Eliza Dushku's limited acting range. She couldn't pull off the character and without a strong lead actress, the show fell apart for me. Had they had Amy Acker playing Echo instead... maybe.
Really? I thought she was fine in the role(s) although Enver (Victor) was undoubtedly the best actor of the group. I think the problem with the show was that it was hard for the casual viewers to follow the character development when those characters were wiped every week.
I like Eliza Dushku but Echo was not a character she was suited to play. I don't think Amy Acker would have done any better from what I've seen of her. They are both good performers, but they are not chameleons like, for example, Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman - actors who are tremendously good at accents and altering their body language. Enver Gjokaj and Alan Tudek were and are actors who ARE good at that and it just showed up the limitations of the other performers. The scene in "Belle Chose" (season 2, ep. 3) where Victor is in the nightclub and becomes several different imprinted personas (including a giggly college girl) one after the other is a great example. I've watched Eliza Dushku and Amy Acker and Dichen Lachman in other programs and I don't believe they could have done such a scene - many actors DON'T do accents and it doesn't make them bad actors. But for this show this is what was needed.
This is especially obvious to me now after having watched five seasons of Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany was SO good at embodying different, distinct characters that I had to keep reminding myself that the same actress was playing all of them. That's the kind of lead actress that Dollhouse needed.
I had no problem following the character development - the way the dolls kept having these flashes of memory and awareness, and trying to hang onto them - I really liked that aspect of the show and it made up for some of the problems. I do wish the show had continued, even with all the negative things I've said - it was an unusual concept and I was never bored by it.
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1 hour ago, Joe Hellandback said:
2. Tara King was the best Avengers girl (and that includes Purdy) and the final season of the original series was the best.
Woof, you're nuts, sorry. Some of the Tara scripts are very good, and I never disliked the actress, but the character was poorly thought out after two strong female partners. Emma Peel was SUCH a crowdpleasing character - and having Tara be a young hero-worshipper of Steed was inevitably going to make whatever actress played the part suffer in comparison to the supremely self-possessed Mrs. Peel and Mrs. Gale. I always felt bad for Linda Thorson and she definitely doesn't deserve the hate she gets in Avengers fandom. On top of everything else apparently the producers wanted her to be a blond, so as to look different from Diana Rigg - the bleaching burned and damaged her hair so badly she had to wear wigs. Why they chose the matronly styles of wig they did is another mystery - Diana Rigg was the Queen of Mod and poor Linda looked like a middle-aged square - good god she was only TWENTY ONE.
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Shows That: Died Before Their Time, Never Got A Fair Shot, Or Were Ahead Of Their Time
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Bomb Girls! That's another show that Mr Rat and I loved but couldn't convince anyone else to watch. What's this about a wrap movie? I don't remember that at all, would have loved to have seen it.