What are You Watching? Year 2022
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Not legal. Might be more of a PM kind of discussion. Well, not all of it is illegal. The major entertainment industries may well think my statement about "not all" are inaccurate.
Ah, ok and thanks! Only interested if legal.
As you know, but not everyone does, posting info on anything illegal is not OK on the forum.
As you know, but not everyone does, posting info on anything illegal is not OK on the forum.
And that would go for PMs, too, yes? I just want to make sure that I am abiding by the rules of the forum. I like it here and don't want to get banned.
Fall. If you have height issues, this is horror for real. 3/5.
Noticed "Banshee" is available this morning, so watching a couple episodes. Watched it when it first was on years ago. Pure escapist entertainment - ex-con assumes identity of dead law enforcement guy, inserts himself into town where his ex-girlfriend partner in crime lives, violence, crazy plot twists, good character actors, humor, "romantic" encounters galore. For the genre, 4/5 *
One of the great Kurosawa masterpieces. Seems silly to apply any metric to something like this, but five stars!
Just finished the entire run of Steve McQueen in Wanted Dead or Alive. 4.5 stars. If you never read up on him he was quite the uh character, biggest star for decades and turned down rolls in some of the biggest movies in history. Cocaine, whisky and starlets (also hookers) was his life.
I can recommend Errol Flynn's autobiography. It's probably at least half made up but altogether one hell of a fun ride and read.
Steve’s was quite factual, everything from living off of coke to renting hotel rooms and “casting couch” wanna be starlets with fake movie offers from fake movies. He was a gang member in his youth, car thief, was a get a way driver for some bank robbers and a pimp and just his youth
He was also a pain in the ass to work with and so cheap if they wanted him to wear his personal Rolex on screen he charged $250 a day
One infamous story was when James Garner got the roll for the LeMans movie, McQueen who happened to have the apt above his, would pee off his balcony onto Garners back porch every morning. Haha
Just finished Pam and Tommy, and was surprised that there were several pipe smoking characters, including Heffner.
It’s definitely not for everyone, but it is definitely memory lane for technology.
I was oblivious to the whole sex tape thing back then, but interesting, and I definitely don’t feel sorry for anyone involved. But a good time killer. 4/5 Hulu
It’s definitely not for everyone, but it is definitely memory lane for technology.
I was oblivious to the whole sex tape thing back then, but interesting, and I definitely don’t feel sorry for anyone involved. But a good time killer. 4/5 Hulu
Honestly I've never heard or read much about him, although I always enjoyed his work in front of the cameras.Steve’s was quite factual, everything from living off of coke to renting hotel rooms and “casting couch” wanna be starlets with fake movie offers from fake movies. He was a gang member in his youth, car thief, was a get a way driver for some bank robbers and a pimp and just his youth
He was also a pain in the ass to work with and so cheap if they wanted him to wear his personal Rolex on screen he charged $250 a day
One infamous story was when James Garner got the roll for the LeMans movie, McQueen who happened to have the apt above his, would pee off his balcony onto Garners back porch every morning. Haha
But yeah, most of those Hollywood stars are weird, messed up and odd in every kind of way.
Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Oliver Reed... Many interesting and fun stories to read up on.
On TCM it’s “Obsession” - I like the British title better and relates better to the story. Blacklisted Hollywood Ten director, nice noir, my kind of movie! Pipe smoking Scotland Yard Superintendent. 4/5*
I also watched Obsession today on TCM. I rate it 4/5.
I got a kick out of the part towards the end when the Scotland Yard Superintendent flips the light switch in the garage and the light stays on. He yanks the wire from the switch and follows the wire out the door, down the hill, through the tunnel into the hidden room.
Good movie...I enjoyed it.
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