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Alien vs Predator?
Prometheus?
Covenent?

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So torn if I want to watch it.

I loved season 1 and 2 , but the way season 2 ended…

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I’m watching it, right now…

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One word: octopus.
Really? :roll_eyes:

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Relive the magic of 1994.
You can see the segments getting better as the Olympcs goes on.

I have to say CBS had a great suit of graphics for the Olympics. Whoever put that together did a good job.

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Ooohhhh

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That’s just one of the various problems with the second season, but yeah…

WTF was that about?

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“Remember Sliders? What if, what if, suppose instead of having a remote control with buttons on it, they travel from one timeline to another by doing yoga and then killing themselves. Like in Heaven’s Gate! Did you see Heaven’s Gate?”

“You’re thinking of the real-life suicide cult, Zal. That wasn’t a movie. That really happened.”

“See? It’s totally realistic!”

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This is delightful. Carol Burnett’s physical comedy is just amazing and the dancing is damn fine.

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i’m so impressed by how well he mimics fred astaire’s singing style, and those perfectly-styled parodies of songs from those old astaire movies – so hilarious! i also love seeing young roddy mcdowell, and who knew that carol burnett had such fantastic legs?

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Right? It’s a total gem. Really well done in every way. I love how Carol Burnett uses her body. She has a confidence with it that you don’t really see with a lot of women.

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And I am the only one here who caught Tim Conway channeling character actor Fritz Feld who did a lot of desk clerk, waiter, etc. roles.

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aha! i knew i had seen that somewhere before, but i didn’t know if it originated with the Burnett Show skit, or what. hilarious. Tim Conway had a bit of trouble deciding if he was going to be french or italian, haha.

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I am finally getting to watch 3 Days of the Condor (it’s on Kanopy if anyone’s interested).

Damn Robert Redford is a good actor. And what a complex, troubled character – what he does makes sense within the movie, but he’s definitely not the bookish boy next door he seems at first.

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An excellent example of 1970s conspiracy-theory paranoia that now looks like a documentary. See also The Parallax View.

As recently discussed over at The Other Place, consider 2010’s Rubicon.

Good luck finding a copy to watch. I’ve actually seen the theory, in online discussions of this show, that AMC cancelled it after one season because it was getting too close to the truth. :sweat_smile:

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Okay; the scene where Mr Ball-Legs 2 sprouts eyes everywhere really squicked me out for some reason.

Dude… the way S3 ended…

O_O

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Okay. Okay. I’ll watch it.

Sheesh.

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what am i watching?

bond. james bond.

there’s a ton of them on netflicks right now, and i’ve been gorging on them. yes, some of it is definitely unsettling, but omg, the fashions, the ultra cool mid-60s cars and furniture, and especially sean connery in his prime? fans self…

i had to laugh because i’ve noticed a reoccurring thing in the past couple movies: connery will go to his hotel desk to ask about mail or a package or whatever, and as he leaves the woman at the desk will TOTALLY undress him as he leaves. i’m with you, 60s reception lady… he was SO fine back then. also, Miss Moneypenny, i love you. she dishes out just as much as bond does, and she’s good at it.

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This is probably an unpopular opinion, but over the years as they have tried to make the character less misogynistic, they’ve taken a lot of the fun out of it. I think the cartoon aspect of the ladies man who drinks the cool drinks, shoots guns like an ace, and drives fast cars fast while wearing a damn fine tux is clear to us all and the campy good fun of it is being destroyed by well meaning producers. Just let Bond be a cad. That’s what we came for.

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I’ll re-watch this whenever it pops up on cable and I stumble across it, but I find the treatment of the Faye Dunaway character a bit troubling and a little gratuitous.

Another one that sucks me in every time is Goodfellas. In fact, almost any gangster movie by Scorsese.

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