What are you watching?

[MikeBjerum]

Gunsmoke. 

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.

[Big Frank]

Gunsmoke. 

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.

[Big Frank]

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/

[Big Frank]

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/

[alfsauve]

... 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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[Majer]

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.

[Big Frank]

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.

[Diamondback]

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.)

[Big Frank]

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

[Big Frank]

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/