Gonky and Mover were discussing TG3 last night, the idea of a prequel with Cruise playing his Phantom driver father came up. That could be awesome.
US federal spending per person per year, in constant 2025 dollars: 1925 - $153.00 2025 - $20,497.00
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I watched Top Gun : Maverick on Netflix a couple of days ago.
I`m happy that I didn`t spend money to watch it in a theatre.
What a dissapointment.
My issue with the movie were the overt references to nostalgia. They were unnecessary and the film would have been better without. We don't need constant in our face wink winks about the previous movie, everywhere.
Regardless, I enjoyed the film. The first is better, however, despite the not so well aged jank.
I loved the nods back to the first film and found the film quite emotional at points though I am a soppy creature sometimes. To me, the nods made it even better. But, horses for courses!
I would be very interested in the TG3 story-line with Maverick playing his father. Would solve his ageing issues in the film and I found that angle interesting in the first.
Though I have a feeling the appetite for Vietnam flavoured story-line may not go down well with audiences nowadays.
Though I have a feeling the appetite for Vietnam flavoured story-line may not go down well with audiences nowadays.
That is a solid assumption based on the fact that the height of the Vietnam War genre in Hollywood was roughly from the release of "Apocalypse Now" in 1979 to the early 90's. The genre has largely been untouched by Hollywood since then.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Finished the entire Perry Mason series for the second time yesterday.
Series was 271 episodes (1957 to 1966) -- with re-watches that's nominally 542 episodes.
Learned a bit about myself.
Firstly, in watching to pass time and not evaluating, I remember virtually nothing from any particular episode when seeing it again months later.
Part of the memory issue is due to the cast virtually always being the same group of actors just playing different roles. And, the sets are virtually all from the same set of sets -- just using different set decorations. And, the unfolding of events is often similar. So, I find little to visually differentiate episodes. And, visual memory is my strong suit -- when designing stuff I used to see the stuff forming in my mind -- full color and 3D ( ).
I do not remember episode titles after about 10 seconds of the first scene. Never have remembered "names" of people, places, or things very well.
Series was 271 episodes (1957 to 1966) -- with re-watches that's nominally 542 episodes.
One thing that has always fascinated me are actors who play the same character over so many years. Don't these actors get bored playing the same role for so long? I'm sure some of them do but they do it for the paycheck after all.
The ultimate example of this of course are the day time soap actors. Many of them have played the same character on the same show for decades.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I'm sure a lot of actors settle for the regular paycheck, like most people except they're acting I guess. Some actors though really embrace the recurring role, the one that springs to mind most is Peter Falk.
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
Finish Fargo season 5. A great final episode to a fantastic season.
Will be watching it tomorrow, so no spoilers, please. Best season since the first, IMO. Jon Hamm is superb as the sheriff!
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
Series was 271 episodes (1957 to 1966) -- with re-watches that's nominally 542 episodes.
One thing that has always fascinated me are actors who play the same character over so many years. Don't these actors get bored playing the same role for so long?
You got that right. They say Raymond Burr was "tired" of Perry Mason and wanted to do a different series. He had agreed to do one more season -- but, that season was cancelled after the 1966 season.
In 1967 he began the "Ironside" series. In this one he plays the Good Cop in a Wheel Chair. Yesterday, we ordered the "Ironside: The Complete Series" -- nominally 56 disks and "9660 minutes".
"Ironside" arrives tomorrow. We'll see if we like it.
That's nothing. Check out The Simpsons boxed dvd set .
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I have been trying to find the two-part miniseries (or TV movie) «Shackleton» from 2002, starring Kenneth Branagh. It hasn’t been available on DVD/BluRay, nor on any of the streaming services. Someone recently uploaded it to YouTube, so I watched it over the last couple of evenings. It’s very good! A bit slow at first, but once the expedition gets going it’s excellent. Followed Alfred Lansing’s book about the expedition very well. Some excellent performances in it, as always from Branagh, but the others are good as well.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
Backstory to the Godfather, and very well done I think.
I thought that was already done in Godfather 2?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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