What are you watching?

[Vrede too]

I don't know anything about the story, but there are some who believe that being an activist excuses being a jerk. I disagree.

Also speaking in generalities - If being a jerk alone got one blackballed there would be no NBA .

[Vrede too]

Last Dance....

Might have just been my own mood, but I really liked E7 and E8. The story was still all MJ all the time when I'd like a bit more on the rest of the team, but his now grayed teammates and opponents got a lot of talking heads time. Anyhow, I was fascinated and each hour just flew by.

[GoCubsGo]

Last Dance....

Might have just been my own mood, but I really liked E7 and E8. The story was still all MJ all the time when I'd like a bit more on the rest of the team, but his now grayed teammates and opponents got a lot of talking heads time. Anyhow, I was fascinated and each hour just flew by.

It's a great series. I think my biggest take is into Jordan's mindset. The real and imagined enemies he created to motivate himself to be GOAT, how he motivated his teammates, being an asshole be damned. Larry Bird was pretty much the same way.

It's an interesting dichotomy, but he couldn't make the separation on the golf course, card table etc.from the floor.

[billy.pilgrim]

Well, the first of some 10 double sided discs in the western film dvd collection was all Tex Ritter stuff. Now, I have nothing against Mr. Ritter, but those movies have rather ridiculous plots which clearly function only as vehicles for Ritter to stage a few songs. I guess it's an example of what passed for entertainment pablum in movie theaters of the 30's and early 40's. The second disk graduates to Gene Autry movies. Also transparent vehicles for his style of song making, but at least the plots are considerably more believable. Watching one now that deals with the supposed battle between cattle and sheep ranching in the West. I'm aware that sheep tend to denude the grass landscape, but... haven't these folks heard of fences? Ha.

Mrs. Ritter always was there to give me a ginger snap cookie every morning when I delivered concessions from the Opryland warehouse to the auditorium.

[billy.pilgrim]

For some reason over the past decade or two, I have accumulated a fair collection of movies and TV series on DVD. Partly because Costco used to feature them at bargain prices.

Anyway, just got through watching an old western I'd never seen before: Ride the High Country, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McRea, and Mariette Hartley. Altogether a good movie, with some great panoramic views of Inyo National Forest in the California hills, sort of halfway between Yosemite and Death Valley.

Hey, it killed some time.

And since various TV series are on pandemic hiatus, the DVD collection is coming in handy to help while away the hours. Plus I just noticed I have a little box set of westerns that claims to have 50 movies... which should keep me occupied for quite some time.

I watched one of my favorite westerns last night

Once Upon a Time in the West

Henry Fonda is the badest bad guy ever, Jack Elam plays with a fly and then there's Harmonica - this may be the only time that I have liked a Bronson movie.

[O Really]

but... haven't these folks heard of fences? Ha.

They had, but not necessarily happily...
Fence Cutting Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_Cutting_Wars

[billy.pilgrim]

but... haven't these folks heard of fences? Ha.

They had, but not necessarily happily...
Fence Cutting Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_Cutting_Wars

wiki leaves out Bundy's trespass.

[Vrede too]

but... haven't these folks heard of fences? Ha.

They had, but not necessarily happily...
Fence Cutting Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_Cutting_Wars

Thanks, in conjunction with...
Sheep Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_Wars

Not sure how either gets made into a Gene Autry song.

[neoplacebo]

Saw Dennis Hopper in an old "Wagon Train" episode yesterday. The end credits indicated the show was from MCMLXIII or 1963. Lately, I've been taking considerable doses of old Western tv shows from back when i was a kid. Now and then there are instances in which a particular character will exhibit some kind of hatred for "Yankees" and then be admonished about how "the war is over" but they never have those moments involve the racial aspect of the Civil War, just the Yankee vs Southerner aspect of it. When this happens, it makes me think of how much alike those old characters are to the modern day cat pan who also hates his country and his religion.

[billy.pilgrim]

The Blue Max was fun. I had forgotten how it ended, which was a sad ending.

Moved on to another classic in the same collection: The Desert Fox. Interesting movie, although a bit incongruous with the deliberative James Mason playing Rommel. And a glaring moment when a German army telegraph operator is reading out a dispatch from Hitler's headquarters in a broad, bland, mid-western American accent. The movie also had a bit of a newsreel quality to it. Not good or bad, just kind of meh.

Next up: Sink the Bismark.

I loved those. I saw The Blue Max fairly recently, but I'm going to have to watch the other 2.

[neoplacebo]

Svengoolie on ME tv at 8. I always check out what he has on Saturday. Sometimes there's some really classic as well as really tawdry old horror and science fiction movies on there, always with trivia about the actors once they overcame the shame of being in these specific movies in some cases. Most of the time he has something interesting. Also Three Stooges are on ME at 6pm for an horu or so. Some of that stuff dates back the the late 30's.

[billy.pilgrim]

Svengoolie on ME tv at 8. I always check out what he has on Saturday. Sometimes there's some really classic as well as really tawdry old horror and science fiction movies on there, always with trivia about the actors once they overcame the shame of being in these specific movies in some cases. Most of the time he has something interesting. Also Three Stooges are on ME at 6pm for an horu or so. Some of that stuff dates back the the late 30's.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0050294/

The Deadly Mantis is on tonight

[GoCubsGo]

Becoming on Netflix.

Miss Michelle Obama more than ever.

[Vrede too]

Does William Hopper play the mantis or a mantis snack?

[Vrede too]

AFV@Home

All bored yet creative quarantined folks. Excellent, catch a repeat or YT post if you can.

[O Really]

"Snowpiercer" on TNT. Probably won't watch any more of it after tonight. Interesting story, but unlikable characters.

https://www.tntdrama.com/snowpiercer/wi ... lsrc=aw.ds#/

[Vrede too]

It's a great series. I think my biggest take is into Jordan's mindset. The real and imagined enemies he created to motivate himself to be GOAT, how he motivated his teammates, being an asshole be damned. Larry Bird was pretty much the same way.

It's an interesting dichotomy, but he couldn't make the separation on the golf course, card table etc. from the floor.

Agreed. The "bully" stuff was new to me, but his bullying got results.

Good finish. I liked the time spent on Steve Kerr and Gus the bodyguard. Interesting takes on why that had to be the Final Dance.

[Vrede too]

"Snowpiercer" on TNT. Probably won't watch any more of it after tonight. Interesting story, but unlikable characters.

https://www.tntdrama.com/snowpiercer/wi ... lsrc=aw.ds#/

I saw the movie. It was okay, but I never could get past the unbelievable premise that they needed to be on a train.

[O Really]

"Snowpiercer" on TNT. Probably won't watch any more of it after tonight. Interesting story, but unlikable characters.

https://www.tntdrama.com/snowpiercer/wi ... lsrc=aw.ds#/

I saw the movie. It was okay, but I never could get past the unbelievable premise that they needed to be on a train.

Didn't know there was a movie. I also thought it a bit past believable that the somewhat heartless Wilford didn't just dump the dissidents into the cold.

[Vrede too]

The Most Popular Show in Every State During Coronavirus Pandemic

... Far and away, “Friends” is the top show in the country. The NBC sitcom was named the most popular series in 11 states, including seven of the 10 most populated ones: California, Texas, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Georgia and Ohio, where it tied with “NCIS.”

I thought Friends was okay new, I don't watch reruns. I do like NCIS.

... Illinois has a clear number one, with the NBC mainstay “Chicago P.D.” being the most-watched show. As for the crime procedural’s superlative popularity in Pennsylvania, that remains a more intriguing mystery.

Map:

AL & MS - Law & Order SVU ( no comment)
OR & WA - Star Trek ( original, I assume)
NJ - This is Us
SC - The Walking Dead
(merge This is Us with The Walking Dead and you understand Whack9 )
TN - Criminal Minds (I watch it)