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  1. Doctor Strange

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Yeah, I can't say that his departure means very much to me either. He made a few worthwhile films, but most of his work was dreck, and I was pretty much immune to his alleged star power.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched Under The Skin last year for my film/TV discussion group. A very weird and disturbing film, and one that I find myself thinking back on more than I expected to. Definitely more of an art film than the usual sci-fi stuff. ScarJo has made a number of SF films at this point, but this...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A great movie, and the only one from nutso director Michael Gondry I feel that way about. (Nutso screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's other films I mostly like.) Outstanding cast, fascinating idea, great effects work. The sequence approximately 38 minutes in, where Joel is following Clementine down...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Marie Severin, a Marvel comics stalwart, one of the very few notable women in the field in the silver and bronze ages: https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/08/30/marie-severin-r-i-p/ https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-marie-severin-frequently-unsung-marvel-comics-l-1828729298...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I posted about Neil Simon here yesterday. A couple of interesting pieces mostly about how the culture changed under him and his style of comedy was left behind: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/theater/neil-simon-appraisal.html...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just to finish up re The Prisoner of Zenda... (I had severe problems entering my post yesterday: using MS Edge is frequently a disaster since the latest forum upgrade, and I wrote and rewrote that post a half-dozen times. Every time the ads were redrawn, I was popped back two screens and lost...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I finished up the Sharp Objects miniseries on HBO. I thought it was outstanding, really well done, and is sure to generate lots of Emmy noms. Amy Adams is a lock for best actress in a limited series (or whatever that category is called now.) That said, I did not like - or more importantly...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    See the list of adaptations and rip-offs here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    John McCain was definitely included in my "What an awful weekend..." above.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    What an awful weekend... now Neil Simon: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/obituaries/neil-simon-dead.html
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    which jacket for canadian winter?

    What Kurt Russell wears in The Thing isn't a G-1. It's a non-military-issue Schott 674. I had one just like it in the 80s.
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    Where do you fall on the functionality continuum?

    I love my lambskin Wested Raiders, it's my "summer weight" leather jacket. Okay, so it's just movie wardrobe, not a legit historical design... but it's very practical and flattering.
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    Where do you fall on the functionality continuum?

    I'm in the "pockets and comfort" school of functionality. I don't ride a motorcycle or work on a ranch, I don't even walk that much: I basically mostly drive from place to place. So I don't need any protective or hard-wear functionality. Most of my jackets are military repros: my interests...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Great comic actress Barbara Harris: https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-barbara-harris-oscar-nominated-actress-and-co-f-1828505983 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/obituaries/barbara-harris-stage-screen-and-improv-actress-dies-at-83.html
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    Star Trek

    I watched Nemesis recently for the first time since it was in theaters... and it was even weaker than I recalled. Apart from vague curiosity I had to satisfy about the villain, the Romulan Picard clone Shinzon - was he really played by a young, skinny Tom Hardy?!? (Yes!) - it was a slog. As...
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    Star Trek

    And tastes, attitudes, and the media landscape are so hugely different that maybe nothing can work. Trek may be just as dead as all the westerns, spy shows, variety shows, etc. that surrounded it in 1966. That was essentially how I felt after Nemesis and Enterprise sputtered to an end, and...
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    Star Trek

    This Picard series strikes me as a pretty obvious desperation move to keep the franchise ongoing. The Abramsverse movies are showing diminishing returns and having backstage difficulties (did anybody see the recent news that the next one - which was somehow supposed to include Chris...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Darkest Hour on HBO. Gary Oldman deserved the Oscar, but I don't think he especially stood out from the many other actors who've taken on Churchill over the years, most recently Brian Cox in Churchill and John Lithgow in The Crown. (Also Albert Finney a few years back in a couple of good TV...
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    My (small) A-2 collection

    Nice to see a good review of the WPG jacket. I've been recommending it as the best-bang-for-the-buck generic repro for a while... even though I've never handled one. But I've got three other WPG jackets, and they're all outstanding values for what I paid (Ike jacket, M-43 field jacket, British...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Baby Driver. Not my usual kind of flick, but given its stellar reviews I had to check it out... Of course, I didn't like it. I'm really getting tired of dumb action movies getting rave reviews and four-star ratings, though this one didn't annoy me nearly as much as some other recent examples.

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