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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on December 07, 2024, 06:59:21 AM
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I've been watching Hysteria! on Peacock.
Follows a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts who use the town's sudden interest in the occult to start a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a strange series of events triggers a witch hunt that leads back to them.
These 3 outcasts in high school have a heavy metal band. When there's a kidnapping and a pentagram is drawn at the scene, everyone thinks it was satanists. They pretend to be satanists just to get people interested in the band and it works. They went from being nobodies to the most popular kids in school. Bruce Campbell plays the sheriff. He's originally from the Detroit area an so is Sam Raimi who made the Evil Dead movies starring Bruce Campbell.
The show takes place in the fictional location of Happy Hollow, Michigan. In one episode a TV station is about to go off air while Bruce Campbell's snoozing in a chair. It says something like this concludes our broadcast day, and the station signing off is WDIV. Before I had cable that's one of the stations I used to watch. It's channel 4 in Detroit. That's W, the same as all TV and radio stations east of the Mississippi, D as in Detroit, and IV, the Roman numeral 4. 8) It's one of those details that adds some realism to the show to people familiar with it.
In the preview at IMDB.com, one boy asks if there's any chance they were using authentic satanic verses. The girl replies that they found them in the public library, not a book bound in human flesh. :) That's in reference to the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Book of the Dead) in the Evil Dead movies, and TV series Ash vs Evil Dead that Bruce Campbell was in. 8) Nice tidbit for fans of him and the movies. It has 7.1 out of 10 stars and halfway through the season, I like it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21493708/
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In last week's episode of Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon a group of people was walking through the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) heading to England from France. There was lots of bat guano on the floor and they tried to avoid it. One person said that it can cause hallucinations, or psychosis, or whatever they said. Eventually they all started going nuts to one degree or another. They literally went bat$#!t crazy. :)
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I'm watching The Expanse on Amazon Prime. I saw the first 3 seasons (36 episodes) on SyFy before they cancelled it, then Amazon picked it up for 3 more seasons (26 episodes). It's based on a series of science fiction novels, related novellas and short stories by James S. A. Corey. That's the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
One of the lead characters is portrayed by Iranian and American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. She's been n a lot of other TV shows and movies too. IMDb says her trademarks are Often plays well-educated, sophisticated professionals, and Seductive husky voice. To me she always sounded like one of those people who chain-smoked for years, and maybe got throat cancer. Seductive voice? Or repulsive? You be the judge. Would you like your significant other to whisper sweet nothings in your ear sounding like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr5JCRd-ceM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoxJXcTX_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKZw9Fxg_Q
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I just got done watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I can't believe it took 36 years to make a sequel to the original movie. The first one was called Beetlejuice and the second one was Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. If they make a third movie, I think I know what the name will be, but I'm not saying it. ;)
They used the song MacArthur Park in the movie. It was sung by Richard Harris who had the lead role in the 1970 movie A Man Called Horse, and it's sequels The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) and Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983). The Sioux Indians hung Horse by his chesticles, um, chest in the first movie.
"Weird Al" Yankovic had a song called Jurassic Park on his 1993 album Alapalooza. It was a parody song, based on MacArthur Park, of the Jurassic Park movie that came out 4 months earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZqL9N6Rx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-vKW4ZboU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWnRrRWYoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0
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Diplomat w/ Keri Russell is good.
Finished up the last 2 seasons of Great British Baking show, that BBC finally took off pay-for-view, which actually had some down-to-earth contestants.
Started Man on the Inside with Ted Dansen. Okayish.
And BBC also took off of PFV the last two years of Midsomer Murders so they're now available.
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I forgot to mention I saw a few episodes of Space Precinct (1994-95) as I sorted ammo the other day. It's good to watch when you're looking at something else. It doesn't matter if your attention is divided, just look up when the major action happens. Ted Shackelford stars as a veteran 20 year NYPD detective who works in a different precinct now, the Demeter City police force on the planet Altor in the star system Epsilon Eridani. Don't ask me how he and his family got there. I used to watch that when it was on, and now it's on Amazon Prime. The series was created by Gerry Anderson, who made the Thunderbirds and other TV series using "Supermarionation". The characters were played by electronic marionettes with a moveable lower lip, which opened and closed in time with pre-recorded dialogue by means of a solenoid in the puppet's head or chest. He also made Space: 1999 from 1975 to 1977, starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. I remember watching that too, back when I was still in school. It was a good show for its time. Like all of Gerry Anderson's shows, Space Precinct has a lot of special effects consisting of miniature sets being blown up.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Space%253A%25201999
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108938/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Space%2520Precinct
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057790/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_thunderbirds
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I just finished The Ipcress File, the TV Mini Series from 2022. Not the 1965 Michael Caine movie. The movie was rated 7.2 stars and the mini series was rated 7.3. I thought it said 7.4 a few minutes ago. They were both based on Len Deighton's 1962 first novel of the same name. The first of a series of spy novels, several of which were made in movies starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.
The assassination weapon in the mini series is a joke. It's a 9mm broom-handle Mauser with a stock for enhanced accuracy. And a 3/4"(?) tube scope in super-tall see-through mounts. You could almost use the scope if you put your chin on the comb of the stock, but not even close with a proper cheek weld. I saw the first part of the mini series before, but this week I got to watch Acorn TV for free and watched all 6 parts.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13636038/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059319/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_TV
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I just watched Fatman (2020) with Mel Gibson. He looks a lot like Donald Sutherland to me in the movie poster. It's rated 5.9/10 at IMDb, 6.3/10 in the U.S. "A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking." If that description and these pics don't make you want to see it, maybe you should anyway. :D I saw it for free at tubi.com.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10310140/?ref_=ttrt_ov
https://tubitv.com/movies/100032159/fatman
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Watching House of cards w/ Kevin Spacy and Robin Wright. Wow. Good. Though they’re using gun control as a sub-plot in a couple of episodes.
Also did Zero Day, 6 episodes, is good.
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I heard House of Cards was good but never heard of Zero Day. I don't have Nexflix so I can't watch those. I have Xfinity plus Peacock Premium, but no paid premium channels. I pay for Amazon Prime, and Vet TV but that's it. Sometimes I watch free TV and movies at other places like Plex, Vudu, Tubi, and Roku, but not very often. I saw that Tubi has a couple of Matt Rife specials. Everything I've seen of his was really funny, so I'll watch them at some point. I don't think anyone does crowd work as well as he does. He can spend well over an hour interacting with the audience and it's better than most other comedian's best shows that they wrote and stuck to the script. He does use some foul language, so some people will be bothered by that. But it's nothing I haven't already said myself in the past half century, so it doesn't bother me.
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New series on Amazon Prime named "House of David".
While it takes "some" liberties it the name of entertainment it does stay true to the Old Testament.
I really like it.
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I just came across a show tonight called Common Side Effects. It's an animated show that's streaming on Adult Swim from Cartoon Network. I haven't had Cartoon Network for a few years and never heard of it, but it was on Xfinity and I saw the first 5 episodes. It's rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, a lot higher than the average TV show. Follows former high school lab mates Marshall and Frances as they unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the government to suppress knowledge of a rare fungus secret that may contain the solution to cure all world's diseases. Who doesn't like a good conspiracy theory? ;)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28093628/?ref_=mv_close
BTW, House of David is rated 7.0/10, so it must be pretty good, but I don't think I'll be able to fit it into my schedule. Especially since I found several new shows I'm interested in at Tubi. The once-mighty King Saul falls victim to his own pride, as an outcast shepherd boy, David is anointed as the second king.
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If you’re a fan of Miley Bobby Brown (11 in stranger things and Enola Holmes) you might enjoy seeing her in The Electric State. The script itself isn’t very great and they wasted $300million, yep million making it, but she, Chris Pratt and C Esposito where fun to watch.
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The Adventure of Jim Bowie on Prime. Two seasons starting in 1957. Back when they 25-40 episodes a season and not the 8 or 10 you get now.
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I want to see The Electric State but so far it looks like it's only on Netflix. Maybe in a couple of months, or years, it will be somewhere I can watch it. I like Giancarlo Esposito. I haven't seen anything he was in I didn't like, even if I only got to see 1 episode of a show. I most recently saw him in the TV show The Boys and the movie Abigail. There are a lot of other good actors in the move too. I always wonder what Alan Tudyk's characters will sound like when he voices a new one. He plays Dr. Pentos and Mr. Flesh in Grimsburg. I think his normal voice is close to Mr. Flesh, but I'm not sure he even knows what his voice naturally sounds like. He played Wash on Firefly.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XZktHxv4SpI
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I saw all 8 episodes of The Bondsman on Prime Video.
Murdered bounty hunter Hub Halloran is resurrected by the Devil to trap and send back demons that have escaped from the prison of Hell. By chasing down those demons with the help and hindrance of his estranged family, Hub learns how his own sins got his soul condemned - which pushes him to seek a second chance at life, love, and country music.
Resurrected bounty hunter, Hub Halloran, gets an unexpected second chance at life, love and his nearly forgotten musical career--only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.
It stars Kevin Bacon and is rated 7.1/10 on IMDb. Anytime the star of the show gets killed right at the beginning, you know you're in for something different. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28256288/
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The Substance. A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that creates a younger, better version of herself. 7.3/10 om IMDb. If you like horror movies, especially the sub-genre body-horror, check it out. It a horror movie that just when you think it can't get any worse, gets even more horrible. It's the most blood-drenched movie I've ever seen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNlrGhBpYjc
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Right now - Life of Fire on the outdoor channel.
They did one season last spring, and they are rerunning it this spring. I hope they do another season. Actually, I hope they don't, because I no longer have the space to do a pit barbeque.
Several of the episodes have me dreaming of having a group of guys over for a day of shooting and cooking, then as evening comes all the families come and we enjoy basic slow cooked meats and sides.
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I just finished the last episode of Patriot on Amazon, rated 8.2/10 on IMDb. Follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner, whose latest assignment--to prevent Iran from going nuclear--requires him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous, non-official cover. An official cover operative is one who assumes a position in an organization with diplomatic ties to the government for which the operative works such as an embassy or consulate. This provides the agent with official diplomatic immunity. Operatives under non-official cover (NOC) are operatives without official ties to the government for which they work who assume covert roles in organizations. They don't have the safety net of diplomatic immunity, and if captured and charged as spies are subject to severe criminal punishments, up to and including execution. To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous non-official cover ("NOC") of a mid-level employee at a Milwaukee industrial piping firm. You won't believe what he does to get the job. He has a hard time learning the industrial piping industry lingo, like the 2 phrases in the picture of captions below. :D If you see watch a couple of the previews you'll probably be interested in the series.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/?ref_=ttep_ov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series)
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If you like Hurt Locker then BBC on Brit Box is a show called Trigger Point. Unban bomb squad in London. Evidentially they call them EXPO, Explosive Officers.
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If you like Hurt Locker then BBC on Brit Box is a show called Trigger Point. Unban bomb squad in London. Evidentially they call them EXPO, Explosive Officers.
I may be able to watch that on Prime. If you see them running, try to keep up! That's actually the motto for military EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal).
I'm watching Fugget About It for free on Tubi. Rated 6.9/10 at IMDb. If you go to Tubi and search "fugg" it comes right up. Ex-New York mobster Jimmy Falcone joins the Witness Protection Program, which relocates him and his family to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. So far Jimmy has pronounced Regina correctly once, instead of calling it Vagina, Saskatchewan. He's not too bright, but Uncle Cheech is a complete moron. His pencil mustache reminds me of John Waters, but he's only gay by accident. :) Tubi's programming includes tens of thousands of movies and TV series for free, paid for by ads which seem very minimal compared to broadcast TV. They supposedly have the most on-demand video of anyone in the world. Sites like this are almost enough for me to give up cable.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1799834/
https://tubitv.com/
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I'm watching RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, a 2023 four part TV documentary series on Amazon Prime. The movie RoboCop came out July 17, 1987. In one scene filmed in 1986, Clarence Boddicker plays a DVD from Dick Jones for Bob Morton. But the DVD was first released ten years later, on November 1, 1996, in Japan. When you see it, there's no mistaking it for anything other than a DVD. It's a 5" silver color disk with a hole in the middle that starts playing video as soon as it's inserted into the DVD player, which didn't exist until 10 years later. :o My mind is blown, because I didn't even realize that until just now. Science fiction became reality, and I don't think most people noticed.
P.S. They also had Steve Minh, a member of Boddicker's gang, doing a one-handed shotgun pump 4 years before Sarah Connor did it in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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The Residence, about life at the White House. Again Giancarlo Esposito. It’s Clue meets Knives Out, meets Columba, meets Inspector Clouseau. A little drawn out. Gives a view that the WH staff works for the institution and they tolerate the temporary guests who live there.
Been out for a while and I’ve heard the first season was gritty and grim, so jump to season 2, but Black Mirror is modern version of Twilight Zone. Stand alone stories in each episode. No narrator.
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I've never seen Black Mirror but thought it sounded good. I had the 2018 movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch on one of my computers, but not this one or the new laptop. I hope I find it someday on one of the other computers so I can watch it. A young programmer starts to question reality when he adapts a mad writer's fantasy novel into a video game.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9495224/
I finished watch RoboDoc and found out there's an 11' tall 2 1/2 ton RoboCop statue somewhere in Detroit, but can't figure out where. The idea for the statue originated with a 2011 exchange between Detroit mayor Dave Bing and a pseudonymous user on Twitter. In response to the suggestion that Detroit have a statue of RoboCop to rival Philadelphia's statue of Rocky, Bing replied that there were no plans to erect such a statue in the city. The exchange went viral and a subsequent Kickstarter campaign raised $67,436 to fund the construction of the statue. In early 2011, Detroit mayor Dave Bing and his communications team solicited suggestions on Twitter for improvements to the city. On February 7, 2011, User @MT responded "Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & Robocop would kick Rocky's butt. He's a GREAT ambassador for Detroit." Bing replied to the tweet, writing "There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_statue
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I forgot to post this pic earlier. He's somewhere in Detroit, but finding him is like a game of Where's Robo?
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I forgot to post this pic earlier. He's somewhere in Detroit, but finding him is like a game of Where's Robo?
I always got a laugh out of him twirling the auto pistol without it discharging!
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I always got a laugh out of him twirling the auto pistol without it discharging!
Wouldn't that work if the safety was on? During the making of the film, RoboCop's big robot finger wouldn't fit in the trigger guard of a Desert Eagle they wanted to use. Being filmed in Texas, you know someone would have a gun in their car, so one guy went out and got his Beretta 93R and said try this. That was the birth of the Auto 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPf5quy8_nM
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I recently rented the new movie, Becoming Led Zeppelin, and watched it twice. The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970. The 2025 film is an independent production made with the full co-operation of the band - the first time they have participated in a biographical documentary.
Becoming Led Zeppelin traces the journeys of Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant through their childhoods in post-war Britain, the music scene of the 1960s including Shirley Bassey performing the Goldfinger theme with Zeppelin members playing on it, their meeting in the summer of 1968 and meteoric ascendancy throughout 1969, culminating in 1970 when they become the No. 1 band in the world. Suck it Beatles! ;D
The story is told by the band members with the late Bonham represented by archival audio interviews. The film features full, never-before-seen footage of the band's early American and British concerts and unseen material from the band's personal archives.
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were both session musicians who played with an incredible number of bands. Jimmy played with almost everyone back then except the Beatles. He played the guitar solo on Donovan's Sunshine Superman. John Bonham is still recognized as one of the best drummers ever. They didn't mention it in the movie but he did triple-kicks on the bass drum that not many people were ever capable of. John Paul Jones was the choirmaster and organist at a church when he was 14. He played bass more than the organ and said he was in love with John Bonham's right foot. JPJ would sometimes skip notes on the bass because he knew something of Bonzo's would come through and it would be good. Robert Plant was homeless and just wanted to sing. He didn't care what kind of band it was, and he tried different kinds of music.
Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds in 1966, but the band broke up in 1968. They were still booked to do some concerts in Scandanavia, so Page formed a new group with vocalist Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham. They played under the name The New Yardbirds, who later renamed themselves Led Zeppelin.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10365912/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Led_Zeppelin
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Wouldn't that work if the safety was on? During the making of the film, RoboCop's big robot finger wouldn't fit in the trigger guard of a Desert Eagle they wanted to use. Being filmed in Texas, you know someone would have a gun in their car, so one guy went out and got his Beretta 93R and said try this. That was the birth of the Auto 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPf5quy8_nM
Never test safetys when loaded with live ammo. IMHO.
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Gunsmoke. 8)
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Gunsmoke. 8)
When I was driving over the road for those couple years, I bought the box set of Have Gun Will Travel. I love the old western series. Wanted Dead or Alive, Lawman, Tombstone, Death Valley Days, Wells Fargo, ... I can lose hours in a hurry if I find a station running a Saturday of these.
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Gunsmoke. 8)
You know what else James Arness was famous for? The Thing in The Thing from Another World, 1951. He was 6'7" tall and made a good monster, but I much referred The Thing, 1982 with Kurt Russel as MacReady.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World
James Arness (born James King Aurness) was also the older brother of actor Peter Graves (born Peter Duesler Aurness). Graves was a maternal family name. I remember him playing Jim Phelps in the TV series Mission: Impossible. I watched that all the time.
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I watched the last episode of season 3 of Reacher last night. Reacher is a BIG dude. Actor Alan Ritchson is 6"3" and built like a brick outhouse. But this guy he was fighting, Paulie, is played by "The Dutch Giant" Olivier Richters who stands 7'2". He's built like a brick silo. No matter how you stack it, that's a lot of beef, and Big Paulie was mopping the floor with "Little" Jack Reacher.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Reacher finally killed Paulie. Their was a BIG machine gun in the gate house at an arms dealer's house. It may have been a 12.7×108mm Soviet DShK, but I'm not sure. It may have been even bigger, a 14.5 × 114 mm. Anyway, Reacher fired off some rounds but didn't hit Paulie, then Paulie turned the gun on Reacher. When he fired the gun it backfired and he was fatally wounded. Before he died, Reacher told him he pulled a round out of the belt and plugged the barrel. Something like that, but no one saw it happen. And when the gun blew up it didn't explode in Reacher's face and kill him, it only blew up backwards and put a few holes in Paulie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9288030/
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I saw Stargate Origins on Prime Video last week. It's a prequel to the other works in the franchise, taking place in 1939, some decades before the events of the 1994 Stargate film and its subsequent sequel series. It follows a young Catherine Langford (a minor character from the 1994 film and Stargate SG-1), who goes through the Stargate in a quest to save her father. The series consists of ten episodes, each 10 minutes in length. The episodes were concatenated together into a 104-minute-long standalone film, a "Feature Cut" entitled Stargate Origins: Catherine. Her father was played by Connor Trinneer, best known for his roles as Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise, and Michael on the series Stargate Atlantis. It was okay if you want to kill some time while you're doing something else, like cleaning your guns. The 4.0/10 rating at IMDb seems about right. Like most shows made in the last 20 years they had to have some homosexuals in it. Not that it has anything to do with advancing the plot or making it a better show. I would ding it one star just for that. I don't normally watch anything rated less than a 5/10, but I didn't check this first.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7161862/
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... I love the old western series. Wanted Dead or Alive, Lawman, Tombstone, Death Valley Days, Wells Fargo, ... I
Short lived, Yancy Derringer
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I was cleaning a corner in my spare room and found a 5 DVD set of Lonesome Dove the outlaw years and started watching that. It was a pretty good show that did a good job getting the guns and clothing right.
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Short lived, Yancy Derringer
I never heard of it. It was before my time but so were a lot of shows I saw reruns of when I was a kid. I just watched the latest episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City while I ate dinner.
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Moldy A-Team reruns. It's time to call it a night when Universal Action on Pluto cuts to even more "aged like milk" Knight Rider. (The only thing about that show that HASN'T aged poorly is KITT.)
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About a month ago I saw the first Jumanji movie from1981. I think I saw it years and years ago, but can't be sure. It was based on a 1981 fantasy children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Chris Van Allsburg. I found out the second book in the series was Zathura that came out in 2002, and the movie would be on TV in 2 weeks. So I set my DVR and watched the 2005 movie Zathura: A Space Adventure 2 weeks ago. Think Jumanji in Outer Space and you'll get the gist of it. I just watched the 2017 movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and will probably watch the 2019 movie Jumanji: The Next Level tomorrow. There's going to be a 3rd movie in the modern series tentatively called Jumanji 3 coming out 2 weeks before Christmas next year. It was 24 years between the first 2 movies, 12 years until the 3rd, 2 years until the 4th, and it will be 7 years between the 4th and 5th. That's a span of 36 years between the first 2 Jumanji movies, and 45 years between the 1st and 4th Jumanji movie when it comes out next year!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113497/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_in_0_q_zathursa
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2283362/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7975244/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26735127/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_4
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I just watched Crazy on the Outside, a 2010 comedy film starring and directed by Tim Allen. It was the only movie Tim Allen directed, and is notable for reuniting him with co-stars from many of his previous films (Sigourney Weaver from Galaxy Quest, Ray Liotta from Wild Hogs, Kelsey Grammer from Toy Story 2 and Julie Bowen from Joe Somebody). Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Angela Papadopolous, a single-mom parole officer whom Tommy (Allen) tries to date. J. K. Simmons is Ed, his sister Viki's' sarcastic, taunting husband. You may recognize Malcolm Goodwin as Rick and Jon Gries as Edgar, a couple of ex-cons who work with Tommy at Pirate Burger. Julie Bowen as the ex-girlfriend was looking good, as always.
Tim Allen financed the film himself, a choice taken by Kevin Costner on various films. Costner advised Allen "on how to direct it, how to put it out" into distribution. He also received directing advice from Barry Sonnenfeld and Francis Ford Coppola. Casting included friends he had previously worked with, including Sigourney Weaver and Ray Liotta. Weaver, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and J. K. Simmons were announced in April 2008. Production began that same month, with Weaver having just wrapped Avatar. Production wrapped at some point before October. I think there's a reason why Tim Allen never directed another movie. It's not bad, but it's not great, either. 5.5/10 at IMDb.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196134/
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I just watched Love Hurts (2025) on Peacock for free. The lead actor is 53-year old Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor Ke Huy Quan, as real estate agent Marvin Gable. In 2022 he played office worker Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once, with Michelle Yeoh as his wife. But he's most famous for his first acting gig, Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He also played Data in The Goonies the next year. He took a 19-year acting hiatus from 2002-2021, during which he worked as a stunt choreographer and assistant director. Sean Astin, who had the starring role of his friend Mikey in The Goonies, stars as his boss in Love Hurts. He holds a second-degree black belt in taekwondo; he started taking classes after learning from a taekwondo instructor for his role in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. That and his stunt choreography work paid off in this movie.
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I watched Death of a Unicorn today. It's a dark fantasy comedy horror movie. It was dark, fantastic, funny, and horrible. :) I liked it a lot. I usually get to rent 1 $5.99 or less movie a month from Xfinity for $1. So I rented this and got a text thanking me for renting it for $0.00. I didn't realize I was getting a free movie this month. I thought it was $1 like usual. I didn't pay much attention when I clicked on the reward the other day.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28443655/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cMIarrxLGs
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Enjoying Foyle’s War, 2002 Brit detective series set during WW II. A number of British actors make guest appearances including Rosamond Pike, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi. Probably a number of other Brit actors I’m just not familiar with. It stars Michael Kitchens and Honeysuckle Weeks.
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Rosamund Pike is a good actress. At least I liked her in some of the movies she played in. My movie rental expires tomorrow at 2:59pm, so I haven't missed the chance to re-watch it. The last show of season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City was on tonight. I don't know if there's going to be a season 3. There have only been 14 episode in 2 seasons, which is more like 1 season. I'll probably watch my movie first while I still can, then watch Dead City later, maybe tomorrow.
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If its horror I'm watching it! I just got rid of cable so I'm slumming with Samsung tv. I'm watching Slumber party massacre, so terrible, it can't even be called a b move, but I love that old campy slasher stuff. I do have netflix and amazon but it takes so long to find stuff I haven't seen. Oooh look Fright is coming on next, old horrible British terror can't wait. lol
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I saw Final Destination: Bloodlines 2 days ago. It's probably the bloodiest, goriest, most f***ed up movie in the whole series. I believe it was the sixth movie. And I liked it even more than I thought I would. I'm going to try to find someplace to download it so I can watch it again whenever I want to.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9619824/
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I've been watching "The Blacklist" pretty good series with a lot of twists and decent plots.
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I probably missed some episodes of The Blacklist over the years, but not by choice. I saw one episode of Star Trek: Discovery a few days ago, with Captain Pike before he became the handicapped person in the original series. I saw a couple other shows I can't remember, and I'm catching up on the episodes of Rick and Morty I can watch for free.
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Her Peevishness has become annoyingly obsessed with Patriot Games. "BUT I ALWAYS MISS DUH FEW SEKUNZ B4 DUH TYTULZ REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
And people bitch about MY autism...
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I'm halfway through the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I only get to see Season One on Prime Video because I'm not paying for Paramount Plus. Apple TV or Netflix either, for that matter.
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I watched The Gorge last night. "Two operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a classified gorge." 6.7/10. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13654226/
I downloaded about 50 movies and will probably watch another one here shortly.
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Not TV series, but I watch a couple of Youtube channels that are a running series of car stuff.
Vice Grip Garage is a guy that finds old cars sitting up for years (some for decades) and revives them where they sit and tries to drive them back to his home base. He started in Minnesota but moved to Tennessee for better climate year-round. Good clean entertainment.
A similar themed channel, based in Texas, is Flying Sparks Garage. A husband and wife team works on various projects....cars, trucks, tractors, boats, planes ans a semi. They just finished a multi-episode series reviving an 80's era Peterbuilt rig and converted it to RV status instead of commercial so they could pull the 40' enclosed trailer (retired Red Cross blood drive trailer) they've been converting to a race car hauler/camper rig.
If you're a car guy, it's good stuff.
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If you're a Helen Mirren fan, pox on you if you're not, she did a dark TV detective series called Prime Suspect set in the 1990s.
Also, rather light hearted private eye genre, is the Jane Seymore series Harry Wild.
Untamed, about murders in Yosemite Park, is a limited series, 6 episodes. They could spin off short episodes with either the lead male or female character.
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I like the best of the year Real Mechanics React videos and Customer States videos by Just Rolled In on YouTube. They have videos all the time about cars that people bring in, customer states car has this problem, and holy crap, you wouldn't believe what's really wrong with it. Here are the latest videos from each channel. I haven't even watched them yet. I either watch a few at a time or just watch the best of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVspBnQMbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbNBq-z_OE
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War of the Worlds on Amazon Prime. It didn't have a rating at IMDb when I looked earlier today. Now it's at 3.4 and rising. If I knew it was that low I would have skipped it. I'm 15 minutes in and will kill the whole 2 hours of my time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306/