We have rooftop antenna and a Samsung smart TV, with a slew of streaming channels to keep us entertained. Lately, we've been watching selections from an app called Freevee TV. Recent viewings include Reservoir Dogs for the first time, a mini-series called The Irish Mob, which chronicles the involvement of the Irish in organized crime over the years. It's not mostly network TV as it was years ago. They just don't seem to offer good entertainment like they used to.
The only currently airing TV, other than sports, that I am watching right now is Deadliest Catch, and I'm a few weeks back on that because I prefer to DVR it so I don't have to watch commercials. My sister and I are currently watching The Rifleman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. I'm also watching rewatching Star Trek: The Original Series with the kids, and we are watching Parks and Recreation and rewatching The Office as a family.
I'm a big fan of Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush. When the scamdemic hit, we watched both from the beginning and have watched every episode of both. Jake Anderson is my favorite character on Deadliest Catch. I still remember when he showed up as a greenhorn on The Northwestern and for a first year greenhorn, he got a lot of camera time for some reason. It was like they knew he was going to be around for a long time and make a name for himself. As far as I know, Deadliest Catch is only shown on Discovery and if you're paying for that, there are several AK based shows that I find worthy of watching.
My dad and I have been watching Deadliest Catch probably since like season 3 or thereabouts. I am also impressed with Jake Anderson and how far he has come, not only with his leadership skills, but I'm always really impressed with his mechanical knowledge. I was always a big Phil Harris fan, and I was sad when he was gone. My favorite captain recently has been Sean Dwyer, but he hasn't been around this season. I've also been impressed with Sophia "Bob" Nielson. I figured she was just on the show because she is a girl (and I'm sure that was the impetus for the production to include her), but I think she seems like the real deal.
All of those are good people on the show. Bob looks like she's 18, if only I was 40 years younger. :wink: And a few of them have interesting stories behind them. Those captains do have to know a lot about all of the systems on those boats, I don't know how they learn it all.
I enjoy watching Deadliest Catch also.
Terri, if you think there is a lot to learn on one of these little fishing boats, try having to learn everything about a 360 foot destroyer, that includes the boiler rooms, engine rooms, propellers and shaft bearings, weapon systems including torpedoes; rocket launchers, phalanx guns, 5 inch 38 guns, five different radars, radios, combat information center, anchor windless, and location of every fuel tank, water tank and what is in every space on board. After you think you learned everything and completed a check off list then you sit down in a room with the senior members of every department who questions you about their areas and decide whether you are qualified.
Oh and you have less than a year to complete this. 😊
Jim Altmiller
Sounds pretty serious, Jim, but I guess if you're the ship's mechanic, you need to know what's going on. I asked one of the commercial pilots that I know, if they knew their planes like the ship's engineer knows his ship and the answer was, "no". I'll have to ask my neighbor if that's the case for a Navy pilot too.
Last night was a WW II themed double feature, featuring 'Enemy at the Gates' and 'Defiance'. Both based on true stories. I expect that there is some dramatization but both were good movies. I had seen Enemy at the Gates a few years back but Defiance and the story it tells was all new to me. I recommend them if you like that type of movie.
Never seen Enemy at the Gates, but it floated around in my Netflix queue for years, so I'm vaguely familiar with it. We watched Defiance a good number of years ago now. I remember it being just okay. We gave it a 6/10 according to my records.
We watched the Netflix exclusive black comedy I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore last night, and it was so good. The more I think about it the more I like it. We gave it a 9/10.
Enemy at the Gates is good. One of the few I saw in theater. All Quiet on the Western Front is good and the newer one is better than the old one.
Quote from: Kathyp on October 12, 2024, 07:41:58 PM
All Quiet on the Western Front is good and the newer one is better than the old one.
Oh good to know. I've been wondering what the deal was with the new one, having never seen the old one.
All quiet on the western front has been on here but I haven?t seen it yet. I?ll have to see if I can catch it.
QuoteI've been wondering what the deal was with the new one, having never seen the old one.
They are both good, but I felt like the newer one was more real. Maybe not the best for young kids though.
Tonight's feature was American Graffiti. I hadn't seen this movie in years, maybe even decades. I don't have a rating method but I'd rate it pretty high. How many noticed that Harrison Ford was in it?
We gave that a 6.5. I did notice Harrison Ford, but I always look deep at the cast list before movies, so I knew going into it. He surprised us in an episode of Gunsmoke once though! :cool: I'm a big Happy Days fan, and I found Ron Howard and Cindy Williams distracting in American Graffiti.
A 6.5? You're brutal :cool: And for the life of me, I can't think of the Phillips girl's first name. Do you have that on tap? I could look on IMB if I need to. I think she's Pappa John Phillip's daughter.
Quote from: Terri Yaki on October 14, 2024, 10:21:07 PM
And for the life of me, I can't think of the Phillips girl's first name. Do you have that on tap? I could look on IMB if I need to. I think she's Pappa John Phillip's daughter.
Mackenzie?
Quote from: Terri Yaki on October 14, 2024, 10:21:07 PM
A 6.5? You're brutal :cool:
The curse of being an accidental critic. :rolleyes: Light drama is a loaded genre, it takes a lot to stand out on that scale. But keep in mind that 6.5 is still pretty good. That's a movie that is not great, but it's okay, not one that is bad.
Mackenzie, that's her. She cracked me up in that movie.
Did you guys remember that Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, was on CHIPs for a season? That show and Emergency! had a lot of people play bit parts and later become more famous.
I didn't watch either of those shows so I'm out.
I've never watched either of those either. As far as old TV goes, my sister and I tend to only watch cowboys, spies, and space. :cool:
I hope you have space for The Beverly Hillbillies because that is some good comedy.
Talking about good comedy, growing up I think I watched every Mash episode. It is back on TV again and I still watch it.
Jim Altmiller
I gotta be honest, my sister and I don't really watch comedy TV that much. We watch sitcoms once a week as a family, and that's fine, but we'd never choose a comedy over a drama if it was just us. And we only watch light comedy movies very occasionally since I'm in charge of curating Friday night movies. My parents watch a comedy together every Saturday, and they always watch sitcoms before bed, but it's just not my cup of tea.
Quotegrowing up I think I watched every Mash episode.
You and my husband. He will rewatch Mash forever I think :cheesy:
QuoteI don't really watch comedy TV that much.
Not my choice most of the time either. There are exceptions. Z Nation was outstanding and I like Sharknado movies!
M A S H definitely rates highly too. It was sad to see that series end.
The original TV series MASH, ran longer than the Korean War itself.
My Daddy was in that war on a Destroyer. The USS Smalley. He also liked the TV series mash. I use to watch it with him from time to time.
My father was in the Air Force during the Korean War. His unit was told that they would be sent to take over the top of a hill and their job was to hold the hill in enemy territory. Everyone knew it was a suicide mission but they were being sent anyway. At the last minute it was canceled. If they had gone over there, I probably wouldn?t bee here.
Jim Altmiller
I have a friend who is in my county. In fact, he is one of the top Democratic leaders. He was also heavily involved in the clvil rights negotiations in the 60s in Memphis.
It?s a miracle He is living Jim. He was also in Korea and was on one of these suicide hills or mountains. . He told me the Chinese were so thick moving toward them that it looked like the whole side of the other hill was moving. Make a long short, his group was overrun and almost every everyone in his group were killed. He was one of the few exceptions. I think he was severely wounded and they thought he was dead. Real nice fella, which I have much respect.
This is more a movie rec I guess, but the Tom Hanks movie Finch was good and got little notice. It's streaming on Apple+ I think.
Reagan,
I remember my dad talking about reports that the Chinese would send out several rows of men with nothing more than sticks and hand weapons and it wasn?t until these men?s bodies were stacked up that the ones with guns would have to climb over the pile and attack our troops. Our machine gunners had to find something to put their tripods on to be able to shoot over the mounds of bodies. When they have more mouths to feed than they have food I guess they don?t care how many men they lose.
Jim Altmiller
This evening, it's Crocodile Dundee. Another movie that I haven't seen in a long time.
I used to work with several Korean War vets. They had those same stories of masses of Chinese coming at them until the machine gun barrels were melting and their rifles were too hot. Terrifying and awful.
Tonight's feature was Deepwater Horizon, which is based on the disaster on the oil rig. Starring Kurt Russel and Mark Wahlberg and released in 2016. I liked it.
Terri, I have not watched that yet. It's been on my list for ages, but like my reading list, my watching list gets longer and longer :cheesy:
I've never gotten around to that one either. I'm not a big fan of Wahlberg, so that's made me choose other things over it since it was released. Saw the trailer for it like 600 times in the theater that year though.
Wahlberg is only a co-star, Kurt Russell is in it too... :wink: Living in my cave as I do, I was totally unaware that this one was ever made until I found it whilst browsing last night. I could probably watch it again.
:grin: Ok sure, but Wahlberg is clearly the lead. I saw the trailer enough times to know that, plus he's the only guy on all the posters. I'm not saying "no" to it, and do I like Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, and Kate Hudson. I just have always had other priorities, and I'm still not going to bend over backwards for it. If it gets onto Netflix, I'll probably toss it into my list, then not watch it until it's on the chopping block and about to be removed.
Local Color, Movie on TubiTV 2006 1hr 47min. A movie about art and life.
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The two form what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master's eyes. And the master learns to see life through the eyes of innocence again. This story is based on a real life experience.
sorry, it's not on TV, it is streaming movie. I don't have a working TV and watch streaming only.
>We gave that a 6.5. I did notice Harrison Ford, but I always look deep at the cast list before movies, so I knew going into it.
American Grafitti is all about nostalgia. You're too young to feel any nostalgia about that era.
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My schmart TV has a Tubi app on it and I'll look for Local Color on it.
Last night it was Hogan's Heroes S1E1. Back in my yute, HH was must see TV but it doesn't move me much any more. But I wanted to see what the first episode was like so I watched it. Other than it being in black and white and E2 in color, it didn't break the show out as a series opener. Not anything like The Beverly Hillbillies does. Then it was The Voice. When I first heard of it, I didn't think much of the idea of the show but after watching it, it has grown on me. Through all of the talent shows like it, there are some very talented people out there who are now getting to have themselves seen. The competition is very stiff and some good talent gets sent home. I remember when Ed McMahon had his talent show but I forget what it was called. I used to watch that one too.
Quote from: Michael Bush on October 22, 2024, 06:07:08 AM
American Grafitti is all about nostalgia. You're too young to feel any nostalgia about that era.
:grin: Yeah, no kidding. Even my parents are too young. And as a homeschooler, I'm doubly at a disadvantage for these types of movies, regardless of the era they are set in, because all that social nonsense is just that to me, nonsense. The only aspect about it that lands semi-correctly for me is that I grew up watching Happy Days, so it made me feel nostalgic for that. But without the Fonz, I'm not sure what the draw is. :cool:
Heeeyyyyyyyyyy
Quote from: Terri Yaki on October 15, 2024, 11:42:11 AM
I didn't watch either of those shows so I'm out.
I didn?t either. . Quality TV choices seem to be slim pickings these days in spite of the many channels offered. 🤷🏻♂️
QuoteThe15thMember
I grew up watching Happy Days, so it made me feel nostalgic for that.
The Fonz was a cool cat. Winkler was a good actor for that part.
Henry Winkler ran a very short-lived and not so well known showed named 'Better Late Than Never', which starred William Shatner, George Foreman, and Terry Bradshaw. It ran for two seasons but only the first season is worth watching, if you can find it. They travelled around Asia and ate all kinds of strange foods and visited interesting sites. Shatner and Bradshaw made me laugh the whole time. It looks like it's on Apple TV and/or Hulu.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5020352/
> these types of movies, regardless of the era they are set in, because all that social nonsense is just that to me, nonsense.
Agreed there. I never got the social stuff and I wasn't home schooled, though I wish I had been...
Quote from: Terri Yaki on October 22, 2024, 05:06:42 PM
Henry Winkler ran a very short-lived and not so well known showed named 'Better Late Than Never', which starred William Shatner, George Foreman, and Terry Bradshaw. It ran for two seasons but only the first season is worth watching, if you can find it. They travelled around Asia and ate all kinds of strange foods and visited interesting sites. Shatner and Bradshaw made me laugh the whole time. It looks like it's on Apple TV and/or Hulu.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5020352/
I think I remember seeing commercials for that when it was airing.
Tonight's feature was Return of the Fly, followed by Chicago Med and Chicago Fire. Return of the Fly was released in 1959 starring Vincent Price. The 'special effects' of those movies from those days cracks me up.
Hi Folks,
Henry Winkler, Sally Fields, Harrison Ford. HEROS. 1977.
https://youtu.be/DEPOTZYfzfM
Sal
I have heard of the movie but never saw it, I'll have to see if I can hunt it down. Sally Fields was the love of my life once upon a time. :tongue:
With my new iPhone came three months of free Apple TV. I had a stretch of it before when I bought my iPad and watched See and Ted Lasso. See had one more season after I last had it so we watched that and now we're watching Ted Lasso.
See is oddly entertaining to me with its bizarre premise. Blind people traversing the earth and fighting each other is a ridiculous notion so I don't know why I liked it. And Ted Lasso is some pretty funny stuff. I just wish I could understand that British accent a little better. Between it and my aging ears, it's tough to comprehend at times. And sadly, it's not family friendly so some people shouldn't be watching it.
I'll be watching the return of Yellowstone tonight.
Slow Horses on Apple TV is good. If the Brit accent is hard to hear, put the CC on. I watch everything with it on anyway.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5875444/
When I started it I didn't think I was liking it, but it stuck in my head and now I have watched all the available seasons.
My dad and I finished watching the current season of Deadliest Catch yesterday. I thought it was another really good season. About 5 years ago we were getting fed up with how fake the show was at times, but they really turned things around, and I hope the show gets renewed for another season. I'm a little concerned, since this was only a half order season, plus the finale clearly was constructed so it could function well if that was the final episode, but Discovery is always extremely late in announcing renewals, so we'll see. If it is renewed, it will beat out Gunsmoke (in seasons, not episodes), which is quite a feat. The production quality this season was just so high, the score was incredible, and the camera work gets better every year. The use of drones gave some amazing gyroscopic shots of the boats in the weather; I felt like I finally understood the size of the waves this season after watching the show for like 15 years. My only complaint this season was that I just don't like Captain Rick Shelford. I can't get over the fact that Sean Dwyer refused to fish with him due to safety and efficiency concerns when he was new to the show, and I feel like the whole situation with Jacob on that boat seems suspiciously inorganic. Oh, and Monte's handling of Keith's stroke and Jake's handling of a potential neck injury the following week frustrated me. I don't know why every captain isn't an EMT like Casey on the Cornelia is. But Jake's fishing that last string backwards was insane, and Sig and Clark navigating back to Dutch with no modern instruments except a radar was so impressive.
Nice summary, Reagan. I can't even remember all that stuff, if I noticed it to begin with. Injuries at sea have to be tough to decide on. There's a whole heap of money to go in for an ill or injured person so they try to stay out. I expect one of those on board to be a designated EMT but yeah, maybe not. One of Sig's long time hands has sued him for not taking him back in, which resulted in further damage, I forget what it was but the hand was Nick, Jake Anderson's uncle. The couple of years that red kings were either moratoriumed or limited catches were a little slow for the show.
Cornelia Marie has a couple of skeletons in her closet and the last I heard, it was docked and deteriorating.
Quote from: Terri Yaki on November 13, 2024, 09:26:51 PM
The couple of years that red kings were either moratoriumed or limited catches were a little slow for the show.
That's true, but there was no opies this year, and it wasn't a problem. Maybe they did the half-season order because of lack of material, not because of waning interest in the show. If so, it was a good move.
Quote from: Terri Yaki on November 13, 2024, 09:26:51 PM
Cornelia Marie has a couple of skeletons in her closet and the last I heard, it was docked and deteriorating.
I'm not super surprised about that. I honestly felt like Josh never really was going to be able to take the reins of that operation. When Casey was hired, the show acted like he was meant to be a set of training wheels for Josh, to give him the instruction that Phil hadn't really given him. But I never saw Josh attempt to lead for himself, Casey always took charge in a crisis or when things were difficult, and as much as Josh would say things like he was proud that he was continuing his father's legacy, I never saw him really commit to stepping into his father's shoes.
Woo hoo! Deadliest Catch might be done for the season but Gold Rush is back on.
Watching Ted Lasso whilst I still have free Apple TV but I like variety so I stopped in on the Dawson's Creek channel to see what that show was about. Coincidentally, it happened to be the pilot show for the series so we didn't feel like we had to figure anything out. Anyhow, we like it so are watching it. I also discovered that we are able to stream the series so we can start at the beginning and work our way through it chronologically. Katie Holmes stars in it and it's the first time I ever saw her in anything. Other than I think she was married to Tom Cruise, I wouldn't have heard of her.
I'm most familiar with her as Rachel from Batman Begins.
I see, I haven't watched Batman in decades so I wouldn't have seen that.
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is infinitely worth your time, if you ever get the chance. Katie Holmes is only in the first one though, she had a scheduling conflict if I remember correctly, and the Maggie Gyllenhaal was recast as Rachel for Dark Knight, which honestly is that movie's only serious flaw. If you can only watch one Batman movie, watch Dark Knight, but I'd highly recommend making time for all three.
We are heavily partial to Zack Snyder's DC stuff as well, that would be Man of Steel, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Snyder's cut (AND ONLY SNYDER'S CUT :angry:) of Justice League. Technically Watchmen is also Snyder and DC, but it's from earlier in his career and unrelated, although it's also very good. Wonder Woman's related stand alone movie, which Snyder didn't direct himself, is good too. All these movies are rated 10 on our "Franchise Movies" scale, except Wonder Woman, which is a 9.0, and Watchmen, which is an 8.5.
Clint Eastwood day again on GRIT. I don't think I could get tired of watching Fistful of Dollars but the next two up, I've had my fill of for now. I would like to see a Dirty Harry movie or two though. They don't get the play that the spaghetti westerns do.
New Year's Day will be a John Wayne marathon. I like John Wayne alright but I'm not so hot on watching his movies over and over again like I am with Clint.
I haven't actually watched many John Wayne movies to be honest. In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I think the only one I've seen start to finish is The Searchers. I've seen bits and pieces of different ones on TV though, and I watched about the last half of Big Jake the other day. I didn't really understand the draw with John Wayne until I read an article that explained how contemporary audiences saw him, and now I kind of get it, but he just doesn't really appeal to me very much personally.
I watched the end of the Christmas episode of Wagon Train yesterday, an episode of Gunsmoke, and the Christmas episode of Laramie, which is a show I hadn't watched before, and it seems pretty good. I think we'll probably keep that one in our back pocket for when we're done with Rifleman or Rawhide. I also watched about 10 minutes of the Clint Walker movie Night of the Grizzly, but my sister, who's a big Cheyenne fan, had to go do her chores, so she asked me to record it so we could finish it together later.
Today however will just be Christmas Story on repeat once we're done opening presents, which we like to do after brunch.
We watched the Six Tripple Eight last night on Netflix. Enjoyed it.
Good to know. I'll toss that in my list.
Quote from: Kathyp on December 25, 2024, 12:05:36 PM
We watched the Six Tripple Eight last night on Netflix. Enjoyed it.
Is that from WWE Wrestling? :cheesy: :wink:
Just watched "The Cowboys". Great John Wayne movie. I almost spoiled it, by telling you what is rare about it...
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All the westerns with Selleck are worth watching.
I did a voice search for movies last night and Short Circuit popped up. We ended up watching part 1 & 2 .
I watched it in the eighties and haven't even thought about it again until last night.
We finished up Dawson's Creek and now we're watching Masters of the Air on Apple TV. This show is pretty good.
Just watched Islands in the Sky (Andy Devine, James Arness, Harry Carey Jr.) and The High and the Mighty. Both John Wayne movies that I actually had not seen before. Then Fort Apache (another John Wayne which I had seen before). Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple. Watched both the Midways. The old one (1976, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Edward Albert, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck, Steve Kanaly, Pat Morita) and the new one (2019, Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Darren Criss, Keean Johnson, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Woody Harrelson). I had seen them both before but it had been a long time since the old one. I probably watched it last in '76.
Masters of the Air was a short series (I think 8 episodes but I'm not sure) that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was based on America's bombers and bombing crews during WW II in Europe.
Now I'm watching a show on WW I, both it and WW II were brutal, I don't know how the men withstood it all.
Quote from: Michael Bush on December 30, 2024, 09:04:49 AM
Watched both the Midways. The old one (1976, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Edward Albert, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck, Steve Kanaly, Pat Morita) and the new one (2019, Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Darren Criss, Keean Johnson, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Woody Harrelson). I had seen them both before but it had been a long time since the old one. I probably watched it last in '76.
I was thinking about doing that myself, but I ran out of time on the old one, as it will be leaving Netflix in a few days. How was the new one?
We watched The Birds late last night. Doesn't age well at all, but it was fun to make fun of. :grin:
Old yeller is free on utube right now, give that a try, it is better then the birds in my humble opinion.
The Birds was big when I was a yute. 'Special effects' from those days are funny.
Quote from: gww on December 30, 2024, 01:20:53 PM
Old yeller is free on utube right now, give that a try, it is better then the birds in my humble opinion.
I saw Old Yeller when I was really little, but haven't watched it since. I remember liking it.
Quote from: Terri Yaki on December 30, 2024, 01:31:45 PM
The Birds was big when I was a yute. 'Special effects' from those days are funny.
Oh yeah. The overacting was funny too, along with people's ridiculous scary-moving decision making. It was also funny how in a lot of sequences with real birds, they are supposedly all sitting there looking menacing, but if you have any experience with birds, you can tell that they are just completely relaxed. Like towards the end, the guy is sneaking out of his house to get to the car, trying not to disturb the hundreds of birds that are on his lawn, because they are supposedly watching his every move and waiting for him to make the wrong one, and one of the ravens is dust-bathing in the pathway. :grin: Yeah, real scary.
If you liked Old Yeller you and your family might enjoy >where the red fern grows< . .
Most likely y'all have already seen it.
I read that book aloud to my family probably 15 years ago, and everyone except for me was so mad about the ending that I doubt that suggestion would go over well. :grin:
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>it will be leaving Netflix in a few days. How was the new one?
You can watch it today. The new one was fine. Good actors, good acting, same story. But the old one was good actors, good acting and the same story.
I also watched Run Silent Run Deep (Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles).
Quoteeveryone except for me was so mad about the ending that I doubt that suggestion would go over well.
Little OT, but I have a book of original children's stories. I was reading
The Little Match Girl to my then 5 year old granddaughter, forgetting how it ended. Fortunately she she'd fallen asleep before we got to the end. :grin:
Quote from: Michael Bush on December 31, 2024, 08:56:51 AM
You can watch it today. The new one was fine. Good actors, good acting, same story. But the old one was good actors, good acting and the same story.
One can watch it today, but I can't. :grin: I've got a matinee hockey game this afternoon, and then setup for New Year's Eve tonight. My sisters and I always make beds on the floor and sleep out in the living room. We started a new tradition a couple years ago of watching a musical on New Year's Eve, so The Sound of Music the plan for tonight. At midnight we will of course tune into New Year's Rockin' Eve for the ball drop.
Quote from: Kathyp on December 31, 2024, 10:52:37 AM
Little OT, but I have a book of original children's stories. I was reading The Little Match Girl to my then 5 year old granddaughter, forgetting how it ended. Fortunately she she'd fallen asleep before we got to the end. :grin:
We had a animated movie version of that when I was little, some direct-to-video VHS from a small studio, and they changed the ending, so I was like in my teens before I knew what really happened at the end of the original story.
I don't understand the infatuation with The Rifleman, I watch an episode or two and thought it was cheesy.
all of those programs/movies are cheesy :cheesy:
cheesy is great for kids on their own. Other stuff is still good to watch with kids if you are with them.
I remember liking the cheesy stuff .. like Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Lone Ranger and even stuff like Leave it to Beaver
My daughters watched "Watership Down", "Animal Farm" and other classics by the time they were 4 or 5 (had also had the books read to them).
And the "original" fairy tales with death, cannibalism, and other nasties intact. You just have to explain the meanings and reassure them. They also had newer stuff like "Rainbow Fish" with an added conversation to point out the fallacies in the stories. Kids can handle much more than people think with proper guidance (and why improper guidance by woke teachers is so insidious).
Quote from: animal on January 10, 2025, 09:28:23 PM
Kids can handle much more than people think with proper guidance (and why improper guidance by woke teachers is so insidious).
I couldn't agree more with this. I can't believe how far children's programming has fallen even since I was a kid.
Quote from: Terri Yaki on January 09, 2025, 12:31:25 PM
I don't understand the infatuation with The Rifleman, I watch an episode or two and thought it was cheesy.
Quote from: animal on January 10, 2025, 09:28:23 PM
I remember liking the cheesy stuff .. like Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Lone Ranger and even stuff like Leave it to Beaver
Rifleman is exactly one cut above the rest in that list, exclusively for the reason that Mark and Lucas are really good characters. The other characters and the stories in Rifleman are often weak. I always feel like the show really needed an hour to be very good, and unfortunately it never got it. It's also important to remember that Rifleman was the first show on TV to show a single father raising a child on his own, so that is really the draw of the show.
My sister and I like watching cowboy shows for fun, but I'm fully willing to admit that the overwhelming majority of them (Tombstone Territories, Bonanza, Mask of Zorro, etc.) are tacky and shallow. But they are still wholesome and fun to make fun of. Then there are shows like Rifleman, which are entertaining, and shows that are genuinely really good, like Rawhide, which we watch all the way through, and don't just toss on TV while we're hanging out. And then there's Gunsmoke, which literally is the single best TV show ever produced, and nothing you can say could convince me otherwise. :cool:
Having a little trouble finding new stuff to watch, we got Paramount+ now and have been watching the Taylor Sheridan shows. 1923 only has one season out as of now but we watched that and now we're watching 1883. The Rifleman has nothing on them. :cheesy:
I'm watching those series too.
I am watching Landman on Paramount+ too.
Each to his own and I enjoy some of those too; But If you want to view good westerns, the old black and white (early John Wayne Movies) are hard to beat. >Blue Steel< is one that comes to mind. >Randy Rides Alone< is another as well as
>The Lucky Texan< with Gabby Hays the perfect sidekick; (and sometimes known to do a pretty good job as a villain) 😮
There are others fully, equally interesting. Those movies were filmed in settings which were authentic to the era, life in the early West. The old barns, the structures of wood buildings, a peep hole in the floor of an old hotel for security as cameras systems did not exist and electricity was a rairty. . A bridge being washed out, even down to the crowing of a rooster and cattle of that day. And the gear used, such as wagons, including saddles and spurs of that time, all authentic!
But just as importantly to the strength of the movie, was the struggle of good vs evil. Where the wolf in sheeps clothing is exposed and usually exterminated in a realistic way, without the added (politically correct (emphasis) that is packed into some of the above mentioned.
Along with Gabby Hays, Yakima Canutt was usually in those films as well. He played the perfect bad guys strong arm man. Sometimes he stared as the head bad guy.
>Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt (November 29, 1895 ? May 24, 1986) was an American champion rodeo rider, actor, stuntman, and action director. He developed many stunts for films and the techniques and technology to protect stuntmen in performing them.<
I wonder how accurate 1883 is. They are on one tough road to Oregon.
I viewed about 5 minutes of one of those which featured a (politically correct) court scene. Men were men back then and the problem villain (in reality) would have been eliminated might quickly. For modern folks I suppose it's entertaining, but for the era, in my opinion (from what I seen), is bunkum. Try lonesome dove one if you want a more realistic atmosphere in a western movie.
I tried Lonesome Dove once for some reason, it didn't suck me in. The Taylor Sheridan shows, OTOH, make me want more. Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923. And there are major stars in the lineup.
I wasn?t much for Lonesome Dove 2
Quote from: Terri Yaki on January 11, 2025, 09:57:30 AM
I tried Lonesome Dove once for some reason, it didn't suck me in. The Taylor Sheridan shows, OTOH, make me want more. Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923. And there are major stars in the lineup.
Speaking of Lonesome Dove One in comparison to those two, they are not the same for sure. Im of the opinion that the yellowstones use a previous era setting to fulfill a modern day mindset aimed at the politically oppressed, releasing a bit of frustration for the latter. Which would make them extremely popular in todays society. :cool:
1883? Barf. That show is a DUMPSTER FIRE! That show portrays a version of the west invented by modern suburban and urban yuppies who can't possibly envision the world of the 1800s, so they assume that it must have been unsurvivable. It's ridiculous, inaccurate, and full of woke undertones that made my sister and I angry and offended. We watched the first episode and were so irate we couldn't go to sleep. I posted about it on this thread, because the show is a prequel to Yellowstone and it made me wonder if Yellowstone was crap too.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=55953.0
Thank you Reagan for clearly articulating your view, as your opinion is in sync with mine and is what I was attempting to communicate . :wink:
:grin: No problem. My sister and I are planning on reading Lonesome Dove. We've heard that it's really good.
Party poopers! :angry: Dramatized or not, we find it entertaining and somehow, I've missed the woke undertones, with one exception.
Quote from: Ben Framed on January 11, 2025, 11:34:23 AM
Thank you Reagan for clearly articulating your view, as your opinion is in sync with mine and is what I was attempting to communicate . :wink:
Uh huh, go ahead and gang up on me, I can handle it. :cheesy:
If I want reality, I'll locate my old Howard Stern WWOR show tapes. :cool:
lol Enjoy your show Terri, as they say variety is the spice of life! I?m sure there are plenty of others here that enjoy both of those programs you mentioned.
Back in the eighties I enjoyed the original Magnum PI. Did you watch that one?
No I didn't. Back in the day, I found that show to be cheesy. It's funny how everyone views different shows differently from other people. Columbo, that show with James Garner in it and some others just never appealed to me. I do like Tom Sellick in other stuff though. He's good in the westerns and Blue Bloods. Sometimes they're just so ridiculous that they're funny to watch.
You?re right, many different views on tv stuff.
I particularly liked the intro 80s Magnum opener which was a two part set up titled >Please don?t eat the snow in Hawaii<
That well thought out sequence set the following shows up with a solid, well rounded base to build upon. That opemer, which was a total of 2 hours equivalent to a movie, was the best work Tom has ever done in my opinion.
BA! Hum bug. The best show I ever found on TV came on as soon as you pressed the OFF button. :tongue:
Quote from: iddee on January 11, 2025, 03:20:05 PM
BA! Hum bug. The best show I ever found on TV came on as soon as you pressed the OFF button. :tongue:
Hmmm...I take it you've never watched The Beverly Hillbillies? :cool:
Quote from: iddee on January 11, 2025, 03:20:05 PM
BA! Hum bug. The best show I ever found on TV came on as soon as you pressed the OFF button. :tongue: :wink:
Lol :grin: :wink:
Iddee your post makes me think of the scene in Forrest Gump when his fellow soldier ask Gump to turn off that Bull; well he didn't actually use the word Bull. I believe it was Gomer Pyle that was playing on the hospital TV in Vietnam that was in reference.
I like an occasional Ole Miss football game and that is seasonal.
With the hundreds of channels to pick from at any given time. There seems little quality to choose from.🤷🏻♂️
No, Terri. I didn't. Most girls I grew up with knew what a bra was for. It wasn't a slingshot. I have been in the room while many shows played, but never got interested in any of them. I always got mad at the other kids that wanted to stay in and watch the little rascals instead of going out and doing something. I think TV is the worst invention of mankind, right next to football.
I was happy staying in Saturday mornings and watching cartoons but my father always chased me out of the house. I couldn't understand why it mattered to him what I did as long as I didn't cause any trouble.
As iddee, we did not take the time to watch TV until we were called for supper, we were too busy (outside) and only came in for lunch unless it was raining. When we came in for supper we would then watch a little Tom and Jerry. It was a good and generous time of our lives because when we got big enough for the hay field it was over!! lol. Square Bales 😁 notice I said big enough I did not say old enough. 😮😁
I grew up like Iddee. Up early, ate breakfast and out the door if I didn?t have to work for my dad on electric jobs. I spent most of my time in the woods that were about a mile away. Most of the time my parents had no idea where I was. At age 7 I received a set of foot traps for Christmas and caught opossums and raccoons.
Jim Altmiller
My sister and I watched Quigley Down Under on Sunday. We really liked it. It's one of those movies that has everything. Action! Romance! Drama! Humor! :grin: It would have been easy for Crazy Cora to be annoying, but she wasn't. Alan Rickman and Tom Selleck are obviously perfect for these roles, and it was fun to see Ben Mendelsohn, who is now quite famous, as a young unknown actor. Reasonably realistic, and Australia gives the movie a fun twist off the typically cowboy fare. We gave it an 8.5.
>BA! Hum bug. The best show I ever found on TV came on as soon as you pressed the OFF button.
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book"--Groucho Marx
>My sister and I watched Quigley Down Under on Sunday
When I was in Australia, I asked around if anyone had seen Quigley Down Under. No one had. I thought about it, though, and every Australian in the movie is evil. The only good people were Germans who were living in Australia, and two Americans. And of course the Aborigines.
Quote from: Michael Bush on January 17, 2025, 12:45:04 PM
I thought about it, though, and every Australian in the movie is evil. The only good people were Germans who were living in Australia, and two Americans. And of course the Aborigines.
I don't know, I feel like a lot of the Australians who worked at the ranch were just doing their jobs, and they bailed on their villainous boss when Quigley warned them that things were about to get dangerous, so I don't see them as evil.