Gotta say, I was really looking forward to this until Elton John got named as a supporter of Conrad Black. Don’t know if Trump’s telling the truth in his pardon, but I can’t imagine he could name-drop John falsely without a public statement from John’s PR people.
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Hmm. I hadn’t heard that. Apparently he supported Black during his trial as well. That is disappointing. I wonder why?
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I wouldn’t like to speculate.
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In other news, Wick 3 learns to murder with animals and it’s awesome.
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Me watching John Wick 3 with a body count in the hundreds:
“I hope those dogs are okay.”
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I just saw this with a friend. The dog killing scenes are definitely the most creative and fun. The end is a real nod to every single Bruce Lee movie ever. It’s fun and mindless. Keanu is one of those people who has that screen magic where the camera just eats him up. I can’t believe how physical the movie is - he was in good shape to shoot all of that.
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I think the joke went over my head.
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Phone-induced typo that I just ran with. It got old fast. 
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I haven’t even seen John Wick 2 yet.
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i had never even heard of John Wick 1!
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I’ve never even seen “Speed.”
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What are these “movies” everyone’s talking about?
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I just don’t get why SNL always seems so lackluster when certain (talented) comedic actors host. Paul Rudd being this weekend’s prime example.
That being said, Weekend Update was still very good, and Leslie Jones was on fire.
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You know how Grimm fairy tales, etc., are a lot darker than the Disney-fied versions?
My daughter suggested that we watch an animated movie together called “My Life as a Zucchini”. She thought it would be a kids’ movie. It’s a modern type of Grimm tale.
Beautifully done. So worth watching. But it’s not a cute kids’ story. It’s a story for kids whose parents have harmed them and thus put them into the foster system.
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While taking a recent train trip, I decided to finally watch “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” This is the famous episode of The Twilight Zone where an airline passenger played by a young William Shatner sees a malicious creature on the wing of the plane.
I haven’t been in a hurry to see this episode mostly because of how famous it is. For one thing, I’ve heard it talked about so often over the years that I know the entire plot. Another reason is that I often find the most famous episodes of The Twilight Zone have a tendency to disappoint me: Both “To Serve Man” and “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” are two such examples that have interesting ideas at their core, but I find their execution a bit of a letdown.
And then there is also the issue of William Shatner and the creature costume. They both had a high probability of being laughable.
But this episode does not disappoint. It is distinctly terrifying. When Shatner first first sees the creature walking out of the mist on the wing of the plane, it indeed feels like a nightmare. And, yes, the creature is a bit funny looking, but that just makes the vision more disturbing in my opinion. When Shatner jerks back the curtain and the creature is staring in the window at him, it made me jump. I guess Richard Donner knew what he was doing.
But, if you want, this episode can be seen as more than just a horror show — it can be read as an examination of mental sanity. The plane trip is life. The other passengers are the people with whom we exist. The creature on the wing is any of the problems that exist within ourselves that threaten to upset our life. Is sanity simply ignoring these problems, so everyone else thinks you’re “normal” and has a pleasant flight?
Shatner in the end confronts this personal demon in a physical way and wins. If only it was always so easy.
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It’s supposedly Westworld Season 3 but it looks more like Blade Runner ×Taxi Driver × Fight Club
but without the weird fashion and architecture — we seem to have lost the ability to imagine a future that looks different from the present
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Watched the newish Hanna on Amazon Prime.
Not bad.
I’d seen the movie which I thought was a good Chemical Brothers album with a disjointed action film wrapped around it.
This eight episode series fleshed out what happened (more or less) in the movie and laid the ground for season 2.
Enjoyable. Will look for season 2.
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Now I’m ready to close my eyes
And now I’m ready to close my mind
And now I’m ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sands
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