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Fewer Kilometers
| Favorite team: | LA-Lafayette  |
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re: Project Hail Mary is a Huge Gamble by Amazon
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/3/26 at 1:22 pm to wareaglepete
quote:I read the book then listened to the audio book. The trailers look spot-on. I really think that it'll be better received than The Martian.
Good Lord, are you way off.quote:
I hope so. Have you read the book? I have not.
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re: Project Hail Mary is a Huge Gamble by Amazon
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/3/26 at 1:08 pm to wareaglepete
quote:Good Lord, are you way off.
It doesn't look that good and it kind of gives me vibes of that horrible Adam Sandler Netflix space movie.
re: Alex Jones says he was a professional Voice actor before being 'blackballed'
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/3/26 at 9:04 am to Jack Ruby
quote:Hey, they've kept Rob Schneider from getting an Oscar.
then he says he was blackballed.
So far...
re: Rosemarys Baby holds up incredibly well on rewatch with teen!
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/3/26 at 9:03 am to 45RCRoy45
quote:I'm envious of any generation that can go into this film not knowing the "secret". In the 60s and 70s, we all knew beforehand.
From the very first scene - much like the 6th sense -
re: Rosemarys Baby holds up incredibly well on rewatch with teen!
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/3/26 at 8:59 am to PhilipMarlowe
quote:Less is more. In this case, way less is way more.
Agreed. Exorcist can’t carry Rosemarys jock.
re: Bruce Campbell announces he's been diagnosed with cancer.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 11:28 pm to blueboy
Class act. Love him.
re: Harrison Ford accepts SAG-AFTRA lifetime achievement award - worth the listen
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 11:25 pm to thenza
quote:frickin’ Falfa from American Graffiti. Coolest character in the coolest movie ever.
Indiana Jones or Han Solo?
re: Bond Films Rewatch
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 6:55 pm to alajones
quote:
For Your Eyes Only
A classic. One of my favorite Bond films.
re: He Got Game is my favorite Denzel
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 4:54 pm to One72
Toss up between Glory and Inside Man.
re: The Bounty (1984)
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 12:10 pm to sgallo3
From my old Mutiny on the Bounty thread:
quote:
I just finished a movie kick of watching the four surviving film versions of the story of the HMS Bounty and its mutiny. The only version that I had seen previously was the Mel Gibson/Anthony Hopkins film (which I had left the theater with the sole memory of "titties").
My recent interest was launched by a viewing of Ruggles of Red Gap on TCM. Charles Laughton played one of the earliest "fish out of water" characters as a British Butler lost in a card game to new employers in the American west. Laughton did an amazing job of playing the effeminate eyerolling butler and I was amazed to find that he had played the iconic villain of William Bligh in the same year.
The four surviving films (an Australian silent version existed at one time):
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
An odd Australian film that is a mixture of a travelogue and a historical adventure film. It mixes badly acted vignettes of the mutiny with then-present-day footage of the descendants of the mutineers on Pitcairn Island. It's claim to fame is that it's the first appearance of Errol Flynn on film (as Fletcher Christian). At this point it's mostly interesting for Flynn and as a document of what Pitcairn Island was like at the start of the 1930's.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
This is the film that all other versions are measured by. My only exposure to it was through the Bugs Bunny parody and from impressionists in the 1960's doing their take on Bligh and Christian. I have to say, for a film made in the 30's, it stands up extremely well. Laughton gives Bligh layers of greed and spite and jealousy that make for an impressive character. Gable is fricking heroic as Christian. I wasn't a fan of his until seeing this movie.
Historians and biographers were mixed on what happened on the Bounty. Seems like the current take is that Bligh wasn't the animal portrayed in this film. But after Laughton was finished with it, Bligh was shorthand for tyrannical leader.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
You can see from the start of the film why audiences were shocked by Marlon Brando's take on Fletcher Christian. Everyone still had Clark Gable's heroic man's man in their minds and Brando played him as an almost effeminate society playboy fop. He does have his heroic moments, but he keeps lapsing into playing the character as almost having a Scarlet Pimpernelish weak secret identity. Trevor Howard does a good job of playing a slightly less demonic Bligh. Richard Harris is on board as the leader of the mutineers. A decent film other than Brando's weirdness and his insistence on building a bizarre ending so that his character could get the last big scene.
Bounty (1984)
The most sympathetic Bligh to date. Anthony Hopkins gives the top notch performance that you would expect. Bligh's lunacy is a slow build in this one. I had no memory of Daniel Day Lewis or Liam Neeson being in this film, because they weren't name actors in '84. Lewis elevates the character of John Fryer to a major role, taking some of the villain weight off of Bligh's shoulders. Neeson takes Richard Harris' role as the head mutineer. Both do as well as you would expect them to. Gibson looks like an Errol Flynn or Clark Gable matinee idol, but he didn't do much with this role. Gibson is just there in the first half of the movie and then flips a switch and starts to chew the scenery. Christian isn't a man who's been pushed to his limit. He's a guy who goes insane from happiness on Tahiti and is ripe for Bligh's machinations. There was talk of this film showing some homo eroticism between the Bligh and Christian characters. I took it as being Bligh's jealousy of Christian's happiness. I think the gay erotica stuff came from everyone being dripping in sweat for the third act.
Oh, and, "titties".
re: Paul McCartney - Man On The Run
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 11:05 am to CocomoLSU
quote:At the time it was seen as the Eastman family dominating Paul and trying to get their claws on the Beatles. I think that if any of the other Beatles had married into a highly successful business family, those families would've advised as the Eastmans did. If Epstein had lived I'd guess that the break-up would've been a lot less corrosive.
So sad that Paul was the only one who really saw how shitty AK was. And I get that he was also biased because he wanted Linda’s father instead. But still, it seems like at least one other of the guys should’ve seen through AK’s bullshite.
And I think that the involvement of the Eastman's is part of why Linda took all of that criticism whenever Paul took a creative misstep throughout their marriage.
re: Behind the scenes pictures
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 10:50 am to Globetrotter747
The Sunshine Boys that we almost had.
re: Lake Bell-my new crush
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 10:10 am to SoFla Tideroller
quote:I jumped out of the last season so I don't know. The last episode was a year ago, so who knows? They were known to drop single episode specials out of season.
Is it even still on?
re: David Fincher's best movie is...?
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 9:42 am to iwyLSUiwy
quote:I know it's not his best film, but for some reason Gone Girl has stuck with me the most.
I love Fincher but I hated the Gone Girl book so much I never watched the movie.
re: Lake Bell-my new crush
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 9:32 am to SoFla Tideroller
quote:She was/is. I think I dropped off after the series moved to Metropolis. It was very entertaining for a while.
Wasn't she the voice of Poison Ivy on Kaley Cuoco's animated Harley Quinn series?
re: Variety: HBO Max and Paramount+ to Combine Into One Streaming Platform
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/2/26 at 9:30 am to VermilionTiger
quote:LOL, I doubt that those of us enjoying "free" Max through our providers will continue to do so.
So I’ll continue to get HBO Max for free with my AT&T Fiber Internet?
re: 49 Years Ago Today, The Greatest Sports Film of All Time Premiered.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/1/26 at 6:51 pm to mametoo
quote:And the phrase, "You'll shoot your eye out."
Really changes the way I look at the mom in A Christmas Story.
re: Paul McCartney - Man On The Run
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 3/1/26 at 3:46 pm to cgrand
quote:I think that if Linda was alive, McCartney would push for Wings to be in the HoF (as he did with Ringo as a solo act). Denny Lane is already in as a founder of The Moody Blues.
Wings was about McCartney and he’s obviously already in the HoF for his solo career. I don’t think there’s a case to induct Wings as a band since Paul is already in
Linda died a short while after Paul was inducted in the first class of the HoF as a Beatle in 88’, then he was inducted as a solo artist in ‘99.
re: Jennifer Aniston - The Break up
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 2/28/26 at 6:17 pm to LSUgrad83
Catfished again.
re: Can Paramount save Star Trek?
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 2/28/26 at 5:28 pm to skrayper
quote:And The Trouble with Tribbles, Spock’s Brain, I Mudd…
Eh, classic Trek had the episode with the hippies.
re: Paul McCartney - Man On The Run
Posted by Fewer Kilometers on 2/28/26 at 2:40 pm to hogcard1964
quote:They showed Linda in a Magneto t-shirt. Nothing other than that.
They played a little of "Listen To What The Man Said", and that was really the extent of it, wasnt it?
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