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  1. Doctor Strange

    Dumb question, does brown go with black?

    I sometimes wear brown and black together... but only those two colors, I try to avoid a third color. For example, black jeans and a black T-shirt under a brown leather jacket (like my lambskin Wested Raiders) is a striking combo. (With this I wear a brown/beige/tan hat to match the jackets...
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    New Blade Runner Movie NOT a remake!

    If you insist. But I'm still never watching either film again.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Continuing from last week's 1934 The Age of Innocence, I watched another earlier adaptation of a nineties classic via TCM: the 1960 French film Plein Soleil starring Alain Delon, which is actually The Talented Mr. Ripley. It's different from Anthony Minghella's film with Matt Damon, Jude Law...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I wasn't claiming they were better films, just that they used the "digital backlot" methodology better. That said, I personally like 300 BECAUSE it's just so insanely overwrought and nutso. (Plus I was a fan of The 300 Spartans in my youth and I'm a sucker for the story.) Conversely, Sin...
  5. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Okay, I was totally on top of Sky Captain when it came out - I took my kids to see it in the theater, enjoyed it as a fun (if badly written and acted) steampunk adventure with references to/ripoffs of the Fleischer Superman cartoons, Lost Horizon, serials, etc., and I eventually got the DVD - so...
  7. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Then my work here is done: I watched it so you don't have to! Obviously, I didn't really expect it to compare to Marty's meticulously opulent and whip-smart 1993 film... but it was pretty much a disaster. It's the worst performance from Dunne I've ever seen.
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    New Blade Runner Movie NOT a remake!

    I never watched that series, but I'll admit that Commander Data on Trek:TNG had some interesting moments in trying to understand and become more human. (Though this trope eventually wore itself out on later Trek series like Trek:VOY, with The Doctor and Seven of Nine both taking whacks at this...
  9. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The 1934 adaptation of The Age of Innocence with Irene Dunne and John Boles, DVR'd from TCM. Compared to Martin Scorsese's excellent 1993 film, it's terrible. John Boles couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Nobody in the cast has any chemistry with anyone else. Even Dunne, whose character...
  10. Doctor Strange

    New Blade Runner Movie NOT a remake!

    I have never been a big fan of the original Blade Runner (visually stunning and highly influential, sure, but it's always left me cold)… and I really didn't like the new film at all. Ironically, it mainly enhanced my appreciation of the original. Stories of androids questing to figure out...
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    A jacket that changed my life

    For me it was my first "serious" leather jacket - a black goatskin G&B Civil A-2 I got in late 2001. I'd owned some leather jackets before, most notably a Schott 674 cowhide in the 80s and a Cooper café racer style cowhide in the 90s. But I had some kind of surge of patriotism after 9/11...
  13. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    That is, "RIP founding Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin". https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/obituaries/marty-balin-dead.html https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/ Marty Balin was a very talented songwriter and performer...
  14. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I finished off Maniac. I'm not sure if I actually liked it, but it held me for all ten episodes. I don't know that "it didn't all make sense" is a valid criticism for a SF story mostly set inside people's hallucinations, taking place in a slightly different world from ours (with a "Statue of...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I only made it ten minutes into Kidding, it didn't hold me. Great cast, but just too immediately distressing and cringe-inducing. You're right about The Miniaturist, it's just a mess. I watched the first half of the new Netflix miniseries Maniac, with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. It's promoted...
  16. Doctor Strange

    Your first job

    My first job was working in my parents' little commercial photo studio. By the time I was 13, I was working there every day after school and during the summers. I was developing b/w film, making and drying prints, loading 4x5 film holders, moving lights and holding reflectors, retouching...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes, it's a big, showboating performance from a brilliant actor who generally goes for greater subtlety. But there's really nothing subtle about the film, and his bravura performance anchors it. I mean, he's supposed to make a bigger impression than scene-stealing character actors like...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I finished off The Miniaturist... and was disappointed overall. The big revelations about the miniaturist made no sense, and the entire situation and how the characters dealt with it felt much too contemporary for the period. It all looks smashing, though.
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    Ideal leather for spring/summer?

    My (entirely) cotton-lined lambskin Wested Raiders has been my summer leather jacket for 15 years. Sure, it quickly seems too warm when it's hot and/or humid in full sun, but for evenings and cloudy/breezy days, it's great. The thin lambskin is very supple with a great drape... though it's...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I thought Gangs of New York was darn good when it first came out (despite a few minor problems), and it I think it plays even better now. I'd never argue that it's one of Marty's best films... but it's a fascinating window into a largely unexplored time and place, stuffed with interesting...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Don't forget Walter Brennan. He was never young either. He already looks around 40 in Meet John Doe! Addendum: Lizzie, what about John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror?!? That one's right up there too.
  23. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, you - and Lizzie - are right on. An awful lot in this play/film (still) rings true, and it was obviously very influential. This flick has been on my radar forever, I don't know why it took me so long to finally see it. (Thanks, TCM!) I didn't bother to mention that it was stagey...

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