Subject: Stay At Home Viewing
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
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Godwit 
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Let's hope I would have noticed that, as I watched it, BT. :) Reply #341. Jul 23 20, 1:57 PM |
| Godwit
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I attempted to watch the movie "For Your Consideration" but it's bad. Same crew as "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best In Show" which I enjoyed. Reply #342. Jul 25 20, 10:05 PM |
FatherSteve
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Tonight we rented ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ and found it most enjoyable ... silly, but enjoyable. Reply #343. Jul 26 20, 12:48 AM |
paulmallon
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I believe the next (last?) season of "Shameless" is starting today on Netflix. More of those whacky Gallaghers:-) Reply #344. Jul 26 20, 10:52 AM |
charlie-1
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This isn't current, but I don't think that particularly matters? I'm currently watching on YouTube, 'The Murder Case' with the great Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. Around 30 mins of comedy genius, that stands the test of time 90 years after it was made. From the start, it just cracks me up. Ollie asking Stan if his Uncle was still living? Stan: "No, he fell through a trapdoor and broke his neck". Ollie: "Was he building a house?" Stan: "No, they were hanging him". Ollie then turns to the camera and just looks in disbelief at how flippant Stan was. Just brilliant deadpan humour and genius comedy timing. There has and will never be another double act like them. IMO, of course. They absolutely adored each other - and when Ollie died, Stan refused to act in any more movies.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJB5A9C1QMReply #345. Jul 26 20, 12:03 PM |
| Godwit
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There's not much better than those old standards and classics. Thanks for the reminder, especially in humor. Reply #346. Jul 26 20, 1:26 PM |
| charlie-1
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I know, Godwit. If anyone is feeling down - all you have to do is look at their sketches and films to bring that smile back onto your face. Laughter is the best medicine - and in these rotten times, we need to laugh, need to have something to brighten us up. I could post something else, being a naughty girl - but this is a family-friendly site, lol! Reply #347. Jul 26 20, 2:36 PM |
| Godwit
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Your post, and holding back, are both much appreciated! We listed some comedies back a ways in the thread, but we all seemed to agree more recent comedies are just not funny. Anything truly funny out there, ya'll? We might have no remedy but to go back to the classics. Gene Wilder. That guy was hilarious just standing there. Lucy. Monty Python. Mel Gibson just announced he had, and has recovered from, corvid. He was in hospital for a week, and kept it secret. He's also in trouble again for letting his tongue get ahead of his brain. He has a new movie coming out. Same, Liam Neeson. He said he thought confessing to insane behavior and thinking from earlier in his life might be a refreshing lesson for us all. Reply #348. Jul 27 20, 11:40 AM |
HairyBear
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My choices for comedies are almost all predictable... "The General" with Buster Keaton; "Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin; "Singin' In the Rain" with Gene Kelly. Many movies others find funny I don't find funny at all, like "A Fish Called Wanda", "Fargo", "There's Something About Mary", "Airplane", "The Naked Gun", "Slapshot", "Caddyshack"... I don't even find them mildly amusing. ONE movie that few others find funny I think is funny is "Yellowbeard". It generally gets negative reviews, but I always laugh watching it. Reply #349. Jul 28 20, 2:55 AM |
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Comedy is very much to taste. But especially important, right now. I agree we can go back to the standards--reliably fantastic. I can't stop laughing no matter how many times I watch Jim Carrey in "Liar Liar". Steve Martin's "Roxanne" is wonderful. I enjoyed "Northern Exposure" and the Royal Canadian Mounty--what was his name? He was witty. Due South? For TV the Dutch "Professor T" is wry and clever humor. But mixed in with crime and sorrowful back stories. "The Last Man on Earth" is low-level humor. Typically I don't enjoy that, Owen Wilson style, "Animal House" or Dumb and Dumber. But Last Man, first season, is original. He thinks he's the only living human on earth, gets bored and conjures all manner of silly ways to entertain himself. Robin Williams. Since I learned that most of the side comments he makes in a manic gush are references to politics, history, literature, etc--it's fun listening for them. Reply #350. Jul 28 20, 10:11 AM |
| paulmallon
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Season 10 of "Shameless" is a major disappointment. Same stuff over and over...and no Fiona:-( Reply #351. Jul 28 20, 10:59 AM |
| Godwit
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Bummer :( Maybe it will pick up? I started "Crazy Ex Girlfriend". So far, it's cute. Reply #352. Jul 28 20, 1:23 PM |
| paulmallon
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But is she? Reply #353. Jul 29 20, 12:00 PM |
| Godwit
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Is she crazy? Ex? Or cute? Reply #354. Jul 29 20, 4:18 PM |
| Godwit
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I might succumb to using a list, to guide my movie watching. Sometimes I'll choose an actor and watch everything they've done from start to finish. Robert Redford, for instance, started out on The Twilight Zone, as a compassionate Death. Reply #355. Jul 29 20, 4:25 PM |
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"300", the sequel. Anyone seen it? Reply #356. Jul 30 20, 11:30 PM |
| FatherSteve
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How can there be a sequel when everybody dies? Reply #357. Jul 31 20, 2:22 PM |
| Godwit
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ROF! Excellent point dear friend. It could follow the one half-blind fellow that Spartacus sent home to spread the news of the bravery in war? Or Xerxes Major Depression upon learning he is not a god? Truly, I have the answer. This sequel takes place before the events of the first show, and during, and after. (Then how is it a "sequel", he asks) In the sense it follows the first. Though...is it technically a pre-se-aft-quel? I don't know. But my fantastic brisket nachos are here. Reply #358. Jul 31 20, 5:29 PM |
MiraJane
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You're correct, Godwit. The second movie in the 300 movie theme takes place before, during, and after the first one. From Wikipedia: "300: Rise of an Empire $337.6 million. 300: Rise of an Empire is a 2014 American epic action film written and produced by Zack Snyder and directed by Noam Murro. It is a sequel to the 2007 film 300, taking place before, during, and after the main events of that film, and is loosely based on the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis." Reply #359. Jul 31 20, 6:57 PM |
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I can't testify to the proper name for it, but there has to be a category of film in which the motion picture is BOTH a sequel and a prequel, at the same time. I didn't know that about 300 part II. But I do think that The Godfather, Part II, would qualify as both a sequel and a prequel. Na? Reply #360. Jul 31 20, 8:51 PM |
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