69 Replies to “Some Sunday Entertainment News”

  1. Hard to find a holly-tard movie worth watching these days.
    I guess it is safe to say Mr. Elliot is not a fan of Fudgepack Mountain either.

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      I’ll raise you a black, female James Bond. Just surprised
      they didn’t put her in a Q-equipped wheelchair.

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      1. How DARE you suggest that the handicapable cannot be superheroes!? I see MULTIPLE commercials on my TV celebrating handicapable wheelchair athletes on the courts … on the ice … and even strapped to mono-skis doing the Giant slalom! Meanwhile … back here in the REAL world … there isn’t a human alive who prays they’ll NEVER end up confined to a wheelchair. Sorry. I hope REALITY doesn’t appear too harsh. But it is … and it will always be.

        What woke Madison Avenue don’t realize is that every noble portrayal of a handicapable athlete is a reminder to the fullycapable what they hope NEVER becomes of them. Yeah, that’s called the REAL world.

        1. @Kenji – “How DARE you suggest that the handicapable cannot be superheroes!?”

          The Daredevil is blind.

          They also made Wonder Woman & Bat Woman gay, and Deadpool suggestively a Bi-homo.

          1. Deadpool guy cannot possibly be bi-homo! Why? He’s too self deprecatingly funny to be anything other than a straight white male.

          2. Daredevil was made blind, originally, to underscore his enhanced other powers.
            I know, that sounds nerdy and golden age, but it wasn’t a woke motive.
            Just sayin’.

          4. Hahaha ha Paul … yeah, youtube comic guy gave plenty of homoerotic examples for Deadpool. However, he failed to explain the tongue in cheek delivery of those homoerotic “urges” and longings which sound so counterfeit and mocking. Tongue in cheek … not tongue in Thor’s shorts.

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          “How DARE you suggest that the handicapable cannot be superheroes!?”

          I’m learning new stuff all the time. For instance, I didn’t know that
          ambiguously bi-racial folk are fiends for swimming and camping
          until I perused all the Canadian Tire flyers as of late.

          It’s about time they disappeared all those racist Caucasions!

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    2. Benedict Cumberbatch was ghastly as Sherlock Holmes. I fail to see how anybody could watch that series. (Jeremy Brett WAS Holmes, as far as I’m concerned.)

      1. The first two seasons of Sherlock were entertaining, but it started going off the rails after that. The last one was, on the whole, over the top.

        But, yes, Jeremy Brett’s portrayal was the gold standard.

  2. “Does anyone go to see a Hollyweird movie anymore?”

    A rhetorical question?

    Foreign films are the new it in movies especially and some pretty good TV series. Belive it or not “Russia, Russia, Russia” has put out some excellent movies and a couple of good tv series in the last few years.

    1. Nope, theatres closed during the Wuhan flue, and we have missed no movies of note from Hollywood.
      There are a lot of A- to B- quality foreign films and series on Netflix, with a good search.

  3. I liked Cumberbatch’s off-the-wall portrayal of a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in the TV series, but after he mentioned he supported Extinction Rebellion, all my Sherlock DVDs went straight to Goodwill.

    1. What? Cumberbitch supports upper middle class enviro-twats? That’s sad as fuck. Extinction Rebellion don’t have a working brain cell between the lot of them. They might be good as fertilizer, but who’d want to compost critters who are that rancid? Count me among Cumberbitch’s former fans. No more.

    2. He wouldn’t get a movie if he didn’t support the greenies/trans/gai/socialists. They own the American movie business. Every single leading man/leading lady out there sings from the Woke hymnal, no exceptions.

      Does he -really- support the extinction fruitbats? I don’t care, it’s just another freakin’ American movie that I’m not going to watch.

      These days I watch anime and foreign films. That’s pretty much it since Marvel joined Disney on the dark side. Have you seen The Eternals? So very cringey and bad. Like, Star Wars bad. When you can’t roll your eyes anymore because you’re too bored.

      1. He wouldn’t get a movie if he didn’t support the greenies/tran/gai/socialists.

        That’s like saying Jane Fonda wouldn’t have found work in Hollywood if she hadn’t supported the North Vietnamese. (Yeah, right.)

    1. And in The Great Lebowski. He’s also the voice of Dodge Ram pick-up trucks. (“Ram tough!”)

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      “I liked Mr. Elliott in Tombstone.”

      He’s a tour-de-force in the ‘Yellowstone’ prequel ‘1883.’

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      1. His 1883 work is quintessential Sam Elliot. And the dudes getting old. I was duly impressed with the PHYSICAL work he put in on and off horses. And gawwwd I wish my voice were anywhere NEAR his dulcet tones.

  5. It’s just the institutional left continuing the march through the institutions, purging critical thinking, history, civics, and ethics and replacing enlightenment with post modern nihilism to hollow-out the culture to accept conformist and collectivist bilge. Get woke, go broke Hollywood!

  6. I still say the best example to show people what “toxic masculinity” is, would be that short video of the guy in the gamestop store shouting, “IT’S MA’AM!!!”

  7. The last movie that I went to was “The Martian,” and thoroughly enjoyed it. In general, I can’t see myself spending the money for most cinematic output these days. A 55-inch HD TV is more than enough for most of it.

    1. Garth…

      Took 8 replies before someone hit the nail on the head.

      I refuse to go to a MOVIE theatre to support assholes like Robert DiNero & Alex Baldwin.
      to hell w/ Hollyweird.

      I too have a 55″ big screen.
      Cut the chord 5 yrs ago – bought an NVidea Shield Pro – Installed Stremio / Kodi and the world is was my oyster. Costs dropped from ~150/month to half that for decent web speed.

      We watch what we want – when we want and if on one of those two streaming platforms – No commercials.

      It’s the same with music. Over the past 55 years, I have likely spent 10’s of thousands supporting 60’s, 70’s, 80′, and some later musicians…but I refuse to re- purchase a track I had previously paid for 2 or 3 times in the past. Not happening.

      U-Tube – convert to mp3 & DL.

      Done…and done having wallet looted.

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        Tired of commercials and hundred dollar cable bills?

        Get a torrent client and head for Piratebay.org, my friend.

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  8. For those that haven’t seen PotD, the review at the end of the article, is spot on, if not understated. It was……Boring.
    12 nominations? Yeah, that does speak volumes.

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      Yeah… I used to go to the theatre to
      be entertained… not indoctrinated.

      nota bene… I’m so old I remember
      women’s sports.

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      1. Unfortunately, Hollywood liberals have never forgiven D. W. Griffith for his Birth of a Nation, even though it was made over 100 years ago. Turner Classic Movies showed it a few years ago and, although it does have a few cringe-worthy moments, the worst thing I could say about it was that it was boring, running more than 4 hours.

      2. I’m old enough to remember the East German women’s swimmers with Adam’s apples and shoulders large enough to lift a Soviet automobile off an unfortunate pedestrian. And it was considered … a breach of UN-woke Olympic rules.

  9. I think it is poetic justice that Steven Speilberg’s remake of “West Side Story” cost 100 million dollars to make and earned $ 38.4 million at the box office. It is now streaming on Disney Plus. Even if I subscribed to Disney Plus, I would still not watch it as the original one was excellent and has stood the test of time.

    1. Besides, the original was directed by the great Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Its cast included Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, Simon Oakland, and George Chakiris.

      Wise was no slouch as a director. He also made The Day the Earth Stood Still, Run Silent Run Deep (one of the best submarine movies ever made), The Sand Pebbles, The Andromeda Strain, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Each of those is still worth watching.

      Spielberg, on the other hand, made a lot of stinkers over the years, going back to that mess 1941.

      1. BA:

        “Run Silent Run Deep (one of the best submarine movies ever made), The Sand Pebbles, The Andromeda Strain, & Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”

        All 4 were SUPERB movies…Especially Run Silent – Run Deep..one of my all time favs.

        And I my just rewatch it tonight..!! Stremio, here I come..!!

        Musicals on the other hand..?
        Zero interest i’m afraid..

        1. Especially Run Silent – Run Deep..one of my all time favs.

          It’s not surprising that it’s a good movie. The novel on which it was based was written by USN Captain Ned Beach, who not only served during WW II but also commanded the USS Triton, the first nuclear-powered submarine to circumnavigate the globe without surfacing.

          Apparently, though, he didn’t like the movie all that much.

          As for Robert Wise’s involvement with the Star Trek flick, the story I heard was that he was brought in to replace Gene Roddenberry, who, apparently, made a mess of the entire project.

          1. I had read the book first. The movie didn’t live up to it. Had I done the other way around the movie would have been better.

    2. I’m not sure why he had the brilliant idea to have some of the dialog in spanish with no subtitles.. guess he considered it “high” art

      1. The makers of the TV mini-series Shogun learned that lesson. During its initial broadcast, none of the Japanese dialogue was translated on-screen. When it was shown again 2 or 3 years later, some translation was provided, though I can’t remember if it was as sub-titles or as a voice-over by a narrator.

        Some classic movies didn’t have translations, either. For example, The Third Man (Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and Bernard Lee) is set in post-war Austria. None of the German dialog was translated.

        1. Sometimes translation is the wrong thing. If German dialog is left untranslated it leaves you feeling like a spy. Not a fan of Cumberbun.

          1. Being reasonably fluent in German, I was able to follow the action in TTM.

  10. Reminder that US audiences’ walking away from Hollywood is no longer Hollywood’s worst-case scenario.

    Hollywood couldn’t even come up with a first-rate film about the consequences of nuclear war.

    If you want to see what the real price of war with Russia might be—if you want to see the horrors Chrystia is willing to unleash just to rid the world of the Muscovites and Yids—go watch Threads, the BBC TV movie from 1984 (irony of ironies) about a nuclear attack’s likely consequences for Britain.

    Spoiler alert: there’s no happy ending.

    1. Threads was far better than The Day After. Another movie on that same theme that’s worth watching is Testament with Jane Alexander, about a small town in California dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear war.

  11. Great … another film about gay cowboys eating pudding. Or wanna be repressed homo cowboys … because it’s a dominant (wishful thinking) theme in the gay community that every happily married straight dude is a repressed homo. Facepalm. Reeks of desperation. Reeks of indoctrination. Reeks of 2sLGBTQq+/- mandates. Gay mandates.

    1. Oh, just wait! There’s bound to be a nitwit who insists on doing “woke” re-makes of classic westerns, such as Red River or The Searchers. I can well imagine what the Duke or directors like John Ford or Howard Hawks would say about that.

      1. Well … they’ll remind us that John Wayne was really … Marion Morrison. So “she” must have had a sex change operation before becoming John Wayne … Right?

        1. While they’re at it, they’ll likely remind us that his co-star in Red River, who played his character’s adopted son as an adult, was Montgomery Clift who, as it turned out, was, well, one of those…..

          I’m also sure somebody’s going to dig up the time he was a guest on Laugh-In dressed in a bunny suit. He did it, of course, to poke fun at his tough-guy image.

    2. Wait for it. A gay version of Lonesome Dove is coming. Call and McCrae doing it in a sleeping bag during the cattle drive.
      *barf*

    1. I remember the old PBS series Sneak Previews, back when it was originally hosted by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. One of their frequent complaints about their jobs as film critics was that they had to sit and watch an awful lot of rubbish in order to write their reviews.

    2. Apparently 223 million people bought tickets to movies in the USA in 2020.

      I wasn’t one of them. Hollywood can go to hell.

  13. Answer “NO”.
    Soon it will be time for a remake of a remake of a remake..of Paint Drying,up close and with time lapse sequencing…
    The current Propaganda brings Damnation Alley to mind..
    Imagine trying to make a “Woke” version of Hell Tanner…

  14. given that the academy decided to go full quota, why would it not get the nod?

    I wonder how many Canadian tax credits they farmed…

  15. I just binge-watched Jack Reacher on Amazon Prime. Thoroughly enjoyed it and may watch it again. Zero political correctness. And the guy playing Jack is literally head and shoulders bigger and better than Tom Cruise. I haven’t seen a movie or turned on my TV for 2 years now. No big loss.

    1. Good Finn…

      Hilarious – we did same. The past two nights..
      I had reservations at first, but we thoroughly enjoyed it as well..!!
      Twas well done…!!

    2. The only channel I watch to any extent nowadays is Turner Classic Movies. I’ve seen many of its films several times, but, once in a while, there’s one that’s new to me being presented.

      1. In BC we have The Knowledge Network. No commercials except for their wanting people to be members. British series, our go to channel.

        1. We used to have a counterpart here in Alberta called ACCESS, but after the Klein government pulled funding for it, the channel died a lingering death. The last time I checked, CTV took it over.

  17. I haven’t gone to a movie theatre since 1992 and I feel fine.
    I don’t have cable or Netflix or any of that shite.
    I like books and the occasional podcast that features real thinking people.
    Call me what you like, but cheap distractions suck.
    Fuck the Hollywood psychopaths and narcissists, including the turner classic versions.
    Reminds me of the old joke….a guy on his deathbed saying, gee, I sure wish I had spent more time watching TV.

  18. Not produced by Hollywierd but by a Texan.
    Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown. And soon 1932 and maybe the four 6’s. 6666 is a ranch in Texas that Taylor Sheridan and his investors bought the 6666 ranch.
    Supposed to become a series like the others he has.
    He is a fantastic story teller script writer with excellent actors / story lines.
    No CGI and actors had to learn how to ride and rope.
    Authenticity is paramount with Taylor.
    Anyways just my take on it.

  19. I mentioned here back a few months ago that I got sucked in over xmas to watch TPOTD. I was visiting friends who had a young gal in charge of ‘movie nite’. I’d never heard of the flick and lasted about half an hour before I got up and took my leave.

    I was onto the theme from the outset but I was a guest and didn’t want to offend. Finally I said,” fuck it I’m not watching this crap” and excused myself. The room emptied along with me. Turned out the rest of them were too polite as well.

    Sam Elliott called the movie a chip n dale flick. I’ve never seen a chip n dale anything – but I think I know the drill. All the ripped buffed up cowboys in the pool washing their balls. Piss off Benny Cumberthingy

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