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  1. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Of course, Worf. My point was merely that if you only know his samurai films - if you've never seen movies like Stray Dog, Ikiru, The Bad Sleep Well, Dodeskaden, Dreams - you're missing out on major aspects of his remarkable career.
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    65F is too warm for jackets in February

    It's not quite that warm up here on my mountain, but it is in the 50s. I have been wearing my G&B M-422A over just a long-sleeve shirt, putting aside the heavy sweaters and peacoat or MA-1 I've been wearing daily for months now. Considering that I needed to get my driveway plowed THREE times...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Red Beard, an Akira Kursosawa film from the sixties that I'd recently recorded from TCM. It's about a young doctor's experiences working in a rural clinic run by Toshiro Mifune in nineteenth-century Japan. Like many of Kurosawa's films, it's long (over three hours) and a bit slow at times to...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes, but Tilda was great in Doctor Strange - a far more interesting take on the Ancient One than someone like say, James Hong would have been as a stereotypical wise old Asian. All of the now-embarrassing thirties Orientalism baked into Doctor Strange (based on stuff Stan Lee had absorbed back...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Melissa, you're really overthinking A Majority of One from a modern-agenda POV. Nobody cared that the male lead wasn't Asian, least of all those who made the film. Even the original production of the play had cast Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the role! Alec Guiness was cast because he was a big...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched the first two episodes of Stranger Things on Netflix, and I absolutely do NOT understand the over-the-top hype and praise for the series. Everything in it is familiar and hackneyed. It's not even sub-Spielberg, it's sub-Abrams-imitating-Spielberg-in-Super 8. And I guess I'm too old...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I don't know that I would praise it as much as you did, but this episode did have more than its share of great lines. Coulson was on fire: (Seeing the conspiracy wall allegedly showing how he's behind "every alien encounter"): "This is why I'm not on Facebook." (After the villain finishes his...
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    Leather Blazer Recommendation?

    Okay, I can see the picture now. That's a nice jacket for $30. You don't think there's enough folded-over leather inside the sleeve hems to lengthen them sufficiently? Looks like there might be, but that's for a tailor to decide. (I have the opposite issue - I always need the sleeves...
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    Leather Blazer Recommendation?

    Seems I don't have permission to view your image. BTW, I meant to add to my comment about Wested that further down on the page they say they will make the blazer in any of their standard hides. So that's not a "customization", per se. Getting longer sleeves would be, but for slightly over...
  11. Doctor Strange

    What is your favorite hat crease?

    I'm a distinct fan of the center-dent, with or without front pinches. I've got some preshaped hats with teardrop creases, and I like them too, but I always seem to come back to the center-dent with my open crown hats. Not sure why, but something about the simpler, older, closer-to-homburg look...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The first two episodes of Legion on FX, a new Marvel series with a vague connection to the X-Men. An interestingly different approach to a superhero story, closest to Jessica Jones as far as what I've seen before, in that the lead character is self-destructive mess rather than a self-possessed...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I haven't seen it many years, but I don't recall Guiness's performance being the film's biggest problem. I seem to remember that the entire plot situation is stagey and contrived, and obviously a not-great adaptation of stage play. A historical artifact of drama used to improve...
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    Agent Carter

    Atwell is always excellent. Don't know if I ever mentioned... The new Disney Cinderella from a couple of years ago, the one with Cate Blanchett and Lily James, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Though my kids are now grown up, I'm always interested in anything from the fairy tale, myth/legend, and...
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    New Barnstormer...

    That's a real beaut, Worf. Outstanding!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yeah, but Guiness was the great lead character actor, the go-to guy for oddball characters, and NOBODY then considered "yellowface" casting the horror that today's PC police do. How about Marlon Brando in Teahouse of the August Moon? Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's? You don't have to...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's a great film, but how about some credit to Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets (and director Alexander Mackendrick), who WROTE it? It's beautifully played and filmed, but its power really comes from the script. These guys started with a blank page: that's actually a much tougher job than the...
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    Agent Carter

    Hayley Atwell's next role is one of the leads in a new miniseries adaptation of Howard's End from the BBC and Starz: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hayley-atwell-star-howards-end-series-976481 Well, it's a step up from the godawful Conviction. And Emma Thompson won an Oscar for...
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    Arrival

    I saw it a couple of weeks ago and was mightily impressed. An actual SERIOUS SF film, beautifully done, surprisingly moving, and firmly anchored by Amy Adams' solid performance. And I was completely taken in by THE TWIST. You want to watch it again the minute it's over. My only complaint...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Timeless - I'm still enjoying it. It's got just enough dramatic surprises, just enough decent production design in its historical settings, and a solid cast. And it's also - I'm not quite sure how to say this - in some ways a refreshingly old-fashioned network SF/drama series. At a time when...
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    Real USN Pre-WW-II Flight Jacket?

    I think you're responding to some kind of spambot post, Charles. I feel like I've seen "her" erroneous text somewhere on the Internet before, and it's just been copied and shoved into this first/only post by "machine intelligence". I mean, it's an incomplete extract that has nothing to do with...

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