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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Boy, I REALLY don't want to see that. As I've said here endlessly, I think Tarantino is a great talent... but I'm disgusted that he's wasted his career making "homages" to genres that were mostly junk to begin with. I do like some of his films - and he writes tremendous dialog - but I wish...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Edward... I thought Snyder's film of Watchmen was excellent, and as good an adaptation of that "unfilmable" story as we could hope for. I liked his 300 a lot too. But with Man of Steel and - even worse - Batman v Superman: Dawn of a Cast of Thousands, he's stumbled badly. He's incapable of...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched the entire thing. I didn't really plan to, but I got sucked in and watched almost all of it on the nights it premiered. It's outstanding. I didn't think I could stand 18 hours of Vietnam, but soon discovered it was necessary. Having grown up in those days with news junkie parents...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    One could also say that it's about the youthenizing of our culture, and the erasure of many of the differences between young folks and grownups. There used to a real wall between the fun of childhood and the seriousness of adulthood that wasn't breeched much. Adults were supposed to be beyond...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Regarding those Ben Cooper Halloween costumes, I had a friend who used to say that - like a lot of things foisted on young folks in the 50s/60s by our elders - their approach indicated vaudevillian thinking. Rather than actually being decent costumes, they instead proclaimed "Look, I'm the...
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    My father 50 year old cowhide.

    I believe they made that style, or very similar ones, in naked cowhide for a long time, before they introduced the current 184SM. (Donald Sutherland wears one in the 1970 WWII film Kelly's Heroes, which is an anachronism, it should be an A-2!) I wore mine through several NYC winters, they're...
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    My father 50 year old cowhide.

    Yeah, it's a Schott 674 bomber jacket, a common eighties style. I had one exactly like it, I bought it new in around 1983 for $99. An extremely tough, warm jacket... but not an on-spec military service flight jacket.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Yes, I actually did know most of that. But I agree it's worth mentioning for those who don't.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Also remember that The Invisible Man was directed by James Whale, whose style incorporated humor along with thrills and chills. I mean, The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein also have plenty of humor (and Bride includes return appearances by Una O'Connor and E.E. Clive, who were part of...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I was 10 in 1965 and I did love it... until the next fall, when Star Trek premiered and demonstrated what a serious SF TV series could really be. The thing that I find fascinating about Lost In Space now is that that pilot and some of the first season episodes are so dramatic (*) and serious...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The two-hour pilot for Marvel's new Inhumans series. Wow, what a mess. The old Kirby/Lee Inhumans royal family was never going to be a concept that really worked on TV or as a movie nowadays however they chose to spin it, but this is the first real embarrassment for the mostly successful MCU...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    That's "The End of the Line". And despite all Petty's great songs on his own, it's the one that's been stuck in my head the most since I heard of his departure.
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    Movie locations

    So many movies and TV series are shot in Vancouver that it's sometimes referred to as Hollywood North! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_North https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_produced_in_Vancouver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Vancouver...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Paul, I don't mean to denigrate either of those TNG episodes. They were plenty gutsy for their time, and had reasonable resolutions for the era in which they were written and aired. But you must know that the endless WHY ARE THERE NO GAY PEOPLE ON STAR TREK? discussions that have gone on in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It was M-G-M, who'd never been known for SF projects, but like everything they did, they followed the studio motto: Do it right, make it big, give it class. It's well known that the plot was, um, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. Dr. Morbius is the wizard Prospero, Altara is his daughter...
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    Movie locations

    A classic location! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks And regarding what someone mentioned above, Griffith Park includes these caves that have been endlessly filmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Canyon
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Surely you know that the place to look for where Trek took its inspiration is Forbidden Planet, not Queen of Outer Space. For that matter, the uniforms and other props and costumes in Queen were reused leftovers from FP. FP gives you the captain/first officer/ship's doctor troika, a...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Sorry, I can't agree with you guys. I thought that episode was awful. Especially because it was so sure it was a serious inquiry into a thorny issue, when it was completely superficial and confused. This is 2017, and when you write an episode like this that uses "sex" and "gender" - terms...
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    Movie locations

    Looks just like mine. I should have you known you'd have this covered!
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    Movie locations

    FF, I've mentioned this here before, but it's worth repeating: If you don't already know it, be on the lookout for a book called Celluloid Skyline by James Sanders, published around a decade ago by Knopf. It's a really interesting read by an architect/film scholar about how NYC has been...

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