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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2023 11:09:31 GMT
Pierce with the single worst Glasgow accent in history. What a film though. I'd say between that and Before The Sunset, those are better Bond performances than some of his actual 007 stuff. Even bits of The Matador. They've just announced some belters for Q1 of 2024 including 4Ks of two of my top 5 horrors - Blood On Satan's Claw and Witchfinder General. Then Inspector Wears Skirts 2, So Close, Franco's Count Dracula 4K, A Blade In The Dark 4K, Amityville Horror 4K, Beauty Of Beauties, Gold with Roger Moore, Street Law with Franco Nero, Evil Dead Trap 1 and 2, Tokyo Decadence, Night Of The Comet, Mosquito Squadron (RIP David McCallum).........that'll do. Eureka also announced Paths Of Glory 4K, Slaughter In San Francisco (Lo Wei directing Chuck Norris when he was still a legit martial artist), and Yakuza Wolf 1 and 2 with Sonny Chiba. UNREAL stuff. Genre film has never been better served. Ain't Chuck credited as Chuck Slaughter in Slaughter In San Francisco? At the time, yep. I'd imagine for name value that's changed for almost all home video releases. Once he was done with a one-off Chuck experiment, Lo Wei went back to Asia where he'd done so well with Bruce Lee and tried to turn Jackie Chan into the new Bruce. As we know that didn't quite work (despite some amazing fight sequences) but Jackie found his own path starting with...The Young Master, I'd say. Drunken Master set him up but it was Young Master when Jackie became "Jackie Chan" as we know him. Lo Wei didn't really know how to use him.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 18, 2023 1:37:12 GMT
Ain't Chuck credited as Chuck Slaughter in Slaughter In San Francisco? At the time, yep. I'd imagine for name value that's changed for almost all home video releases. Once he was done with a one-off Chuck experiment, Lo Wei went back to Asia where he'd done so well with Bruce Lee and tried to turn Jackie Chan into the new Bruce. As we know that didn't quite work (despite some amazing fight sequences) but Jackie found his own path starting with...The Young Master, I'd say. Drunken Master set him up but it was Young Master when Jackie became "Jackie Chan" as we know him. Lo Wei didn't really know how to use him. Snake In Eagle's Shadow & Drunken Master were the best things to happen for Jackie it steered his career in a new direction & the movies that followed were kung fu classics. I enjoy Young Master but my favourite JC film is Project A.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2023 15:05:10 GMT
Today's arrivals and out this week: Picard S3 (greatest comeback since Lazarus, given how bad the first two seasons were) on steelbook, Indicator's WONDERFUL Tod Slaughter box which has the master of the macabre's films TOTALLY renewed with one of the best remastering jobs ever and a Stephen Chow double bill..
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Post by number13 on Nov 19, 2023 21:00:05 GMT
Today's arrivals and out this week: Picard S3 (greatest comeback since Lazarus, given how bad the first two seasons were) on steelbook, Indicator's WONDERFUL Tod Slaughter box which has the master of the macabre's films TOTALLY renewed with one of the best remastering jobs ever and a Stephen Chow double bill.. Technical question please Davy: would I have to suffer 'Picard' S1 & S2 first to understand S3 or can I just engage directly with it?
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Post by mark687 on Nov 19, 2023 21:08:00 GMT
Today's arrivals and out this week: Picard S3 (greatest comeback since Lazarus, given how bad the first two seasons were) on steelbook, Indicator's WONDERFUL Tod Slaughter box which has the master of the macabre's films TOTALLY renewed with one of the best remastering jobs ever and a Stephen Chow double bill.. Technical question please Davy: would I have to suffer 'Picard' S1 & S2 first to understand S3 or can I just engage directly with it? Go straight into it the new hold-over characters are given a backstory re-fresher and S3 ignores S2 completely! Regards mark687
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Post by number13 on Nov 19, 2023 21:21:57 GMT
Technical question please Davy: would I have to suffer 'Picard' S1 & S2 first to understand S3 or can I just engage directly with it? Go straight into it the new hold-over characters are given a backstory re-fresher and S3 ignores S2 completely! Regards mark687 Excellent! Thanks Mark, in that case I will make it so.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2023 21:31:38 GMT
Technical question please Davy: would I have to suffer 'Picard' S1 & S2 first to understand S3 or can I just engage directly with it? Go straight into it the new hold-over characters are given a backstory re-fresher and S3 ignores S2 completely! Regards mark687 Is your name Davy? But....basically number13 - what Mark said! The showrunner was involved in S2 but this was him getting to actually create his own story and BOY does it save the show. Picard in the first two series was all over the place. Series 1 was a weird Blade Runner thing which made the utopian Federation a total nightmare. Series 2 was a poor time-travel effort which would have been a 2 parter in TNG but it takes a whole run. Both did their best to distance Picard himself from his character in TNG. Picard S3 doesn't treat the legacy of the character as baggage but a privilege. As Mark says, it also totally ignores parts of the first two runs, openly contradicting them, which tells you how popular they were that they could be shot down straight away, only for the series to be called the best run of Trek in decades by many.
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Post by number13 on Nov 20, 2023 0:38:41 GMT
Go straight into it the new hold-over characters are given a backstory re-fresher and S3 ignores S2 completely! Regards mark687 Is your name Davy? But....basically number13 - what Mark said! The showrunner was involved in S2 but this was him getting to actually create his own story and BOY does it save the show. Picard in the first two series was all over the place. Series 1 was a weird Blade Runner thing which made the utopian Federation a total nightmare. Series 2 was a poor time-travel effort which would have been a 2 parter in TNG but it takes a whole run. Both did their best to distance Picard himself from his character in TNG. Picard S3 doesn't treat the legacy of the character as baggage but a privilege. As Mark says, it also totally ignores parts of the first two runs, openly contradicting them, which tells you how popular they were that they could be shot down straight away, only for the series to be called the best run of Trek in decades by many. Thanks Davy! (For it is he. )
It's good to know what I missed and that I was right to decide to miss it! I will look forward to watching S3 - as you say, if science fiction fans approve of extensively rewriting the continuity of 'their' show, it must have been really unpopular.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2023 15:43:17 GMT
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 26, 2023 16:44:03 GMT
88 Films Silent Rage, Last Hero Of China and Miami Vice.
Tomorrow Prey & Tremors box set arriving while Enter & Revenge Of The Ninja blu rays are due later this week.
Purchased Batman 1989-97 4k box set, Dark Knight Trilogy Blu ray, Superman 1-4 4k, Iron Man trilogy 4k & Raimi Spider-Man trilogy 4k.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Dec 3, 2023 21:40:21 GMT
Won an ebay auction for Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters. I tell you, that film is impossible to find in region 2/B.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2023 18:47:49 GMT
End of the year means LISTS. So, here's my 10 (with, well..a few..OK, a fair few honourables) bluray fave purchases of 2023
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 6, 2024 19:44:03 GMT
Bought Tickets for the Wolfsnächte Tour 2024, in October. Going to see the Power Metal bands "Windrose" and "Powerwolf" again. Both of them do an AWESOME show. Looking forward to seeing them again.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 6, 2024 23:04:42 GMT
Bought Tickets for the Wolfsnächte Tour 2024, in October. Going to see the Power Metal bands "Windrose" and "Powerwolf" again. Both of them do an AWESOME show. Looking forward to seeing them again. "Windrose" will be here next month I believe, I am getting slammed with FB adverts .. "You had me at hello Windrose !"
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Post by fitzoliverj on Feb 17, 2024 17:16:13 GMT
"The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" by Will Cuppy (1950), a humorous history book - imagine "1066 and All That" with actual facts.
What really intrigues me, though, is his involvement with one of the "1066 and All That" sequels. Sellar and Yeatman's "Garden Rubbish" isn't awfully good, which Cuppy discovered after being hired to write footnotes for it (like Terry Pratchett, he put his best jokes in the footnotes) to explain British terms to Americans. So, apparently, he just wrote funny footnotes with little or nothing to do with the text.
Unfortunately, I just can't find a copy of this edition online (EDIT: one on eBay. But thirty quid is a trifle excessive). I've located one quote
and the eBay images have a few instances
and there's a book that reprints *all* the footnotes but that's only available to buy in Canada:
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 28, 2024 18:21:15 GMT
Not sure this is really entertainment, at least for other people, but well, for me it is. 6 months ago I sat down with the best ant nest builder in the world (from the US) and we designed a custom nest for my ant colony. Yesterday, it arrived. I have been watching the girls doing their moving pretty much all the time I have been at home and not at work. It is just very relaxing and meditative to watch these little busy creatures doing their thing. Very good investment, I think.
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