Fool to cry

Seeing George in vain giving the reasons why the idea for doing a show in Libya wouldn't work just for practical reasons l now realize George quitting was less his being mad at not having any more songs on his album and more "What we are doing now is insane". To have only two weeks to come up with 14 new songs to perform live for a TV special when they haven't played in front of an audience in two and a half years and most of the songs they've written since required lots of overdubs when they even havent figured out where it's going to be held, all while being filmed by a documentary in a strange empty film studio was INSANE.

The lyrics to "America" and "Gee, Officer Krupke" still blow me away.

Honestly I found director Michael Lindsay-Hogg to be far more annoying than Yoko. Despite all the Beatles shooting it down he would just not stop pushing his idea for a live show in an amphitheater in Libya!

Favorite moment is an hour in, it's the morning of Day 4. John is late, and the other Beatles are sitting there waiting. Paul passes the time strumming his bass uptempo and mumbling in front of a bored George and Ringo. After a few minutes of fiddling around Paul's riff turns into what we recognize as "Get Back" with improvised lyrics. George realizes he has something good and starts playing along with guitar. Ringo begins clapping a rhythm then goes to his drums. John finally arrives and without a word just sits down, takes his guitar and plays with the three of them as they all play on "Get Back" for the first time. Magic.

That's a shame. I recently saw the 1970 British suspense thriller "And Then The Darkness" and she's great in it. I also was surprised to found out that she was in the second to last Green Acres episode in a back door pilot as the daughter of a hotel manager in Hawaii and it also features Pat Morita. If the pilot had been picked up the show would have been called "Pam". The original Oceans Eleven is on Friday and while I know it's reputation as made as a lark while the Rat Pack were doing shows in Vegas I find the acting solid and dialogue surprisingly thoughtful.

I'm beginning to think the mom is sketchy as well. There are fans of Kate in the comics who are watching only because of her and who hate MCU Hawkeye both because they don't like Renner and they prefer the Matt Fraction depiction where he's a single guy who's a mess. I say if you want that version watch Johnny Lawrence in COBRA KAI. The first Iron Man movie pretty much destroyed any chance of seeing the comics version of Hawkeye. Why do we need a wisecracker who annoys Cap when we already have one but who's rich, a scientific genius and got a cool suit of armor instead of just shoots arrows? Fans liked him when it seemed he was Black Widow's love interest but AGE OF ULTRON ruined their Budapest fanfics. Then handsome young Pietro gets killed saving him, he's shown killing POC and Natasha sacrifices her life for him in Endgame and Clint is pretty much forever persona non grata for a segment of the fan base.

It's explained in a montage in episode 2. Reminded me of this I learned from Michael Caine's book on acting, when he was making The Swarm(1978): Richard Widmark once gave me a piece of advice about large noises in film. He said: “Watch the special effects when you’re working, especially in Westerns.” I said, “Why is that, Dick?” "What?” he said. “Can you talk into my other ear?” So I said, “Why is that, Dick?” into his other ear. He says, “You know all those scenes in pictures where you see the cowboy and he ducks back, and the explosive goes off in the rocks? You talk to any one of us. We’re all deaf in one ear.” Henry Fonda, who was also there, joined in then and asked, “What did he say?” So I said, “You made a lot of Westerns, too, didn’t you, Hank?” "Yeah, I did,” he said. All those fellows were deaf in one ear. It was the price they paid for being in a western.

Kate had a good explanation that Clint himself is a "low key" person irregardless of powers and doesn't like to draw attention to himself. He's like George Harrison or the recently passed Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones.

Clint's son signing "I love you" to him had me verklempt. Kate's wealth was a holdover from "Young Avengers" where she was the Bruce Wayne/Tony Stark of the group and paid for everything. It was downplayed in the Fraction comics but it was always a part of her backstory. It's tough nowadays to have a rich protagonist and Tony has never escaped criticism for being a 1 percenter.

"I can do this all daaaaay!" Awesome. The opening credits did a great job telling the story of Kate's life and I love they were in the style of Aja's art. Hailee Steinfeld really was the perfect choice. In her Kate Bishop I see the stubbornness of Mattie Ross in True Grit, the goofiness from Edge of Seventeen and the wide eyed wonder from Bumblebee. ETA: I wondered where I had seen Armand Ducane III before and I now remember when he played Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes in the BBC Red Nose Day parody from ten years ago: https://youtu.be/r5dMlXentLw ETA again to post I learned he was also the happy go lucky bearded boyfriend of John Hannah in Four Weddings and a Funeral and his character's last name is spelled "Duquesne".

Muni bus driver weighs in on the bus fight. As someone who's ridden San Francisco buses all their life I got a kick out of it!

True, but from the episodes of the Bruno Cremer series from France(which has a great theme music) I've seen, you barely see her.

MM shows why most TV detectives are either single, divorced or widowed. Nobody cares about their domestic life, they want to see them solving the case!

Thinking about it, if Harold Ramis hadn't died the movie would have been about Venkman's heirs since Bill Murray was the one holding out on the sequel.

Sorry Potter fans, Michael Gambon's choice of the way Dumbledore asked Harry if he put his name in the Goblet of Fire was the right one. Okay maybe he shouldn't have been so rough handling a 14 year old, but the implication is supposed to be if Harry didn't someone else did, intending him to die in the incredibly dangerous TriWizard tournament. The only way Dumbledore would ask "calmly" was if he was a Vulcan or a robot.

I remember reading a pre-scandal Louis CK interview in Rolling Stone magazine where he talked about how he was sitting next to Costner at a table at the Golden Globes when he was nominated for The Hatfields and the McCoys and Costner just said quietly "I hope I win." At the time I thought this guy already won an Oscar for directing Dances With Wolves(beating out Martin Scorsese) and is a famous movie star and it's still not enough. Knowing now his career at that time was at a low point that sentiment makes sense.

The Field of Dreams tone turned out to be a canny choice and as everyone agrees McKenna Grace is fantastic. So the lesson for the franchise to go forward making adventure movies with comedy(ala Goonies) as opposed to a full comedy. Let's face it the makers of the first movie had previously made Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes and National Lampoon's Vacation, and Ghostbusters 1984 was another movie in that vein only this time with a big budget special effects. The mature jokes went over the heads of kids who watched it though and they mostly remember the scary moments and the camaraderie and that's what the series should center on now.

Also with Pamela Franklin from The Innocents and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as the silly but ultimately tragic Dora. I didn't know until recently she was also in a movie I saw on TV when I was a kid "Flipper's New Adventure" I recently saw the actor who played David Copperfield in the 1972 British horror anthology "Tales From the Crypt" based on the 50s comics. In his segment he's a total bastard to a kindly old neighbor played against type by Peter Cushing who is so heartbreaking.

Lily James was probably filming the "Pam and Tommy" movie and the trailer just came out. I wouldn't have recognized her as Pamela Anderson!

I like Edith and I like that she's finally happy. That's what I liked about the show is neither her or Mary were perfect. They had their good sides and bad sides. The nature of TV shows it seems is people want to be on different teams regarding their favorite characters. This movie is going to make people want a Violet prequel series even more.

I haven't seen it just heard about it but I cannot fathom the choice of making the burglars sympathetic? Who thought that was a good idea?! It was funny seeing Pesci and Stern get hurt because they're playing scumbags.

I think I like season 2 the most. Season 1 has this "Family Affair" vibe while seasons 3-5 feel like "The Partridge Family".

I hope they explain Lord Grantham's weight loss by having him do old timey gym stuff like lifting medicine balls and taking steam baths.

Calling it "Sorcerer" when it had nothing to do with magic probably didn't help. I would watch the original "Wages of Fear" first. I like that it's obvious Friedkin saw it and thought "Man, this movie would've been even better if we saw these guys' lives before they had to hide out in that town, and they drove through a dense jungle, and then had to cross a rickety bridge!" I saw this in the "Mr Plow" episode of The Simpsons when I was a kid but didn't know it referencing "Sorcerer" until recently!