I pulled out an old bluray of world on a wire, and 3 hours in, I discover it skips. More than irritated because,
a Criterions are expensive
b it was really helpful for my nascent german skills to be able to compare the english subtitles with the german dialogue. Is it available somewhere on the web?
It was on the Tube of You a year or so ago. But at three hours in, I would say youāve passed all the good stuff.
I miscalculated. It skipped right after the tap dancing, which means that quite a lot was missing
anyway, I found a rip on yt. 
canāt really tell whether the germany of 1973 looked like that or itās an extrapolation into a then near future we never had
Weāre watching season 11 of Call The Midwife. Itās a drama, so naturally every episode has a midwife crisis.
Sorry. But itās a great program that has weathered the changes in characters over the years.
So I just watched this:
Do not watch this if you havenāt seen either of the other movies, and definitely donāt watch it if you have no fondness for them or other Kevin Smith productions. It is deeply sentimental and melancholy, but was clearly made with love and care. I enjoyed it. You already know whether or not you will enjoy it.
Stick around for the credits. I think this is the first time Iāve seen a movie with commentary over the credits.
Does it get back on track? At one point it got pretty weak. Itās very comfort food though, and I like that they bring awareness to midwifery and obstetrics.
Iām not sure because I canāt remember previous series well enough. Enjoying this one though. I like the characters, and they manage to create interesting new ones when actors leave.
I also like the issues theyāve dealt with ā like thalidomide, for instance.
I think it was Season 4 when the original lead actress left and they pivoted to the side character being the lead. She wasnāt really as compelling and the story lines got a lot more formulaic. I stopped watching. But it had a good premise so I could see it getting back on track.
Youāre right, the ephemeral characters do vary in interest. The ones that have been in all the series are interesting enough for us ā as well as the plots, and the change in society shown between 1958 and 1969.
The movie is entirely forgettable. But it is interesting for one point ā it gives us a glimpse inside Iran just before the revolution. Something apparently of which the Rifftrax people were unaware.
If you have a sharp eye you can see portraits of the Shah and Shahbanu in the background of one scene.
This is the penultimate film of prolific actress Pouri Banayi. After the revolution she just stopped working. You can see her hair in this movie.
I watched this last night, lol.
This may be the most gloriously stupid movie Iāve seen all year.
Highly recommended if you like schlock horror.
I think I saw this as a kid, but I really didnāt remember any of it other than the opening scene. It was a pretty fun horror movie that might not always make sense. But if you think of it as running on nightmare logic, where the people have to do the things that they do, then it works well enough to make a decent Halloween season movie.
LOVED that movie. especially loved the flying dagger sphere things! THOCK to your skull!
Iām watching āX-Men: Apocalypseā, and after watching DoFP, Iāve developed a mom-crush on Evan Peters.
Tonight I decided to take a break from Halloween season horror movies and throw on a comedy instead. I thought this would probably just be light casual lowbrow jokes strung together or whatever, and I wasnāt expecting much. But I underestimated.
It was both a good movie (in terms of plot and characters and stuff) that fit the buddy cop genre well while also being really funny. Made me actually laugh out loud.
Weāre getting ready to start Cobra Kai, so my daughter and I re-watched the Karate Kid trilogy. I had no memory of the 2nd movie and Iām pretty sure I didnāt make it to 3 before. But I gather Cobra Kai picks up on plot points and characters in all the movies.
There is a 4 with Hillary Swank but 3 was so bad that I couldnāt do another.
The first movie still snaps. The dialogue between Ralph Maccio and Pat Morita is so brilliant. They are a great comic pairing. And all the Japanese stuff - the bonsai, the gardens, the chopsticks, it just took me back to the 80s when everything Japan was new and exciting.
2nd was surprisingly good. They didnāt just rehash the old movie, but took the whole thing to a new location (Okinawa) and had some good back story stuff on Mr. Miyagi. The script was really good and they introduced some new fun elements that meshed with the OG story.
The 3rd was terrible. I read that Ralph Maccio was terrible on set because he didnāt feel the script was right. And he was so right. They didnāt even attempt to fit it into anything previously known about the characters. Apparently Mr. Miyagi had a life long dream of owning a bonsai shop - which literally never came up in the previous movies, but was the main, really dumb plot point. They had the right cast; I thought the actors and martial arts were all good, but you could tell that everyone was phoning it in. The dialogue didnāt have the snap and fun of the first 2. The villain is the only person worth watching and he did a good job of being over the top.
So now on to Cobra Kai! Hiya!
Cobra Kai really ties all the main themes of the movies together. Clever plotting gets every old character back into it. Iām surprised at who they got to come back and how much scenery chewing goes on. Itās really fun.