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Started by PhantasticSanShiSan, September 26, 2008, 04:58:26 PM

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Quote from: WildCard on May 13, 2018, 11:59:53 AM
i member. before the food poisoning and assassination attempts, when they were first buying up the town, someone telling me how horrible it was that these poor townies were being overrun.

and my reaction was - fuck em. i welcome the hippie invasion

and the ending with "ma anand sheela"!
she did nothing wrong
real rajneeshism hasn't been tried yet

Ha... ;D

Kidnostad3

Quote from: WildCard on May 13, 2018, 11:59:53 AM
i member. before the food poisoning and assassination attempts, when they were first buying up the town, someone telling me how horrible it was that these poor townies were being overrun.

and my reaction was - fuck em. i welcome the hippie invasion

and the ending with "ma anand sheela"!
she did nothing wrong
real rajneeshism hasn't been tried yet


That’s what advocates of all the failed socialistic personality/ideology cults say instead of acknowledging the reality that  they are inherently dehumanizing, exploitive and repressive and ultimately they fail.  I put Rajneeshism  in the same category as Scientology, Moonism, The Peoples Temple and Post Modernism.

Chine

Quote from: WildCard on May 13, 2018, 11:59:53 AM
i member. before the food poisoning and assassination attempts, when they were first buying up the town, someone telling me how horrible it was that these poor townies were being overrun.

and my reaction was - fuck em. i welcome the hippie invasion

and the ending with "ma anand sheela"!
she did nothing wrong
real rajneeshism hasn't been tried yet

I watched Wild Wild Country as soon as it was released. Extremely good and finished it in two days.

Still in my ‘Peaky Blinders was so amazing, can’t wair for Season 5’ slump.

Gave ‘Safe’ on Netflix (Michael C. Hall) a go when it aired on the 10th. Eh... The ‘Who done it?’ thing
has been done so often that this was tiresome and rather silly. After Episode 3, I had enough.  Love Michael C. Hall and have followed his work over many years including work on the stage. He was really the only interest as well as is extraordinary and Amanda Abbington ( from Sherlock). Maybe, I’m just not in the mood for it at this time.


Dr. MD MD

Yeah, so I'm actually considering going to see Solo. you think maybe I've really gone insane this time?

Rix Gins

I was flipping channels when I came across an episode of Gun Smoke.  I only caught a middle segment where some weasel of a cowboy had a beef with Matt Dillon only the marshal was out of town.  So the hot head galoot thought it would be a good idea to shoot all the windows out of the marshal's office/jail.  Well, Matt came into town the next morning and he wasn't pleased to find all the windows shot out.  He tracked the slimy cowhand down (coming out of a saloon) and confronted him.  "I hear you've been looking for me," Matt said to the surprised cowboy.  "Well, you've found me."  Now, I'd like to pause here for a second because I thought all right, Matt is going to throw the no good rattlesnake into jail and make him pay for all the damage.  But no.  The marshal proceeded to pound the living shit out of the guy, damn near killing him on the spot.  I found that portion of the show very satisfying and I didn't even bother to watch the entire episode.     

Rix Gins

Flight to Nowhere is a 1946 movie directed by William Rowland.  Wiki calls it a film Noir crime film but I disagree.  It's more like an early day James Bond film, minus any fancy gadgets.  The principle character, Hobe Carrington, is a secret agent of sorts (though he doesn't quite know it) who likes to wear fancy clothes and who has a way with women. 

The movie starts off with an atomic bomb explosion, followed by some quick cloak and dagger scenes resulting in the stabbing of a secret agent who was carrying an important document.  No, the paper isn't a formula for an atom bomb, more important than that.  It is a top secret geologic map showing all the major deposits of good old uranium.  Such stuff as A bombs are made on. 


Hobe is introduced in the movie standing by his plane.  He's a charter plane pilot and he is talking to a mechanic when a mysterious lady enters stage right.


"Wow, catch those mysterious legs, Hobey Boy!"  

The woman is Countess Maria de Frescas and she hires Hobe to fly her and her entourage to Death Valley. 


Hobe, "Nice hat, lady."  

The Countess and her gang are flown to Death Valley.


Hobe (second from left) looks over the usual gang of suspects.

They get off the plane and take a charter car to the Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley.  You see, one of the really cool things about this movie is that the producers didn't have the bucks to build sets and rent out movie lots, so they had to utilize real buildings like the Furnace Creek Inn to save dollars.  It makes the movie more fun to watch, in my opinion. 


The real Furnace Creek Inn.


As it turns out, Countess and crew are a gang of racketeers and they have the valuable map in their possession.  They are looking for somebody to pay big bucks for it.  Hobe's secret agent boss fills him in on the plot and so he (Hobe) pick pockets the map back and all is well.  Until he's walking down a dark hallway and somebody knocks him out and he looses the map.


"Ouch!"

Hobe Carrington revives himself, and after kissing the Countess, he falls for a good looking blonde suspect.  A playboy type suspect makes an unwanted move on her so Hobe knocks him into the Furnace Creek pool.


Hobe, "Take that, Pretty Boy."

More cloak and dagger stuff ensues until for some reason or other, the Countess has Carrington fly the whole gang over to Las Vegas.  They pile into a car and make their way to the real Last Frontier hotel in Vegas.


The real Last Frontier.

More cloak and dagger scenes take place and Hobe manages to get the map back.  But he's walking down a dark path and, believe it or not, somebody knocks him out and he looses the map.


"Again, I say Ouch."

Hobe revives himself in time to see the playboy suspect hitting on the blonde suspect again, so he knocks the guy into the Last Frontier pool. 


"I don't like to repeat myself, but take that again, Pretty Boy."

Oh yeah, before I forget, lots of cool Auto Art in this movie.



More cloak and dagger stuff occurs and (spoiler alert - stop reading here if you don't want to know how the movie ends) Hobe Carrington gets the map back, without being knocked out for a third time.  He also gets to marry the blonde suspect.


Director, "Makeup!  Get a can of black paint.  We've got to fill in that bald spot!"

Oh and by the way, you can watch this movie for free on YouTube. 


SredniVashtar

The Ipcress File (1965) stars Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. A former criminal, he was given the option of working off his prison sentence by spying for the Government. Following the success of the Bond films, this was meant to be a working-class version, featuring Caine as a Cockney 007.

A scientist goes missing, Palmer is recruited into another department run by Major Dalby (Nigel Green) to find him, and we end up in the world of NLP, the Ipcress File being a manual about how to resist brainwashing. None of this matters much, the plot is barely coherent and the film exists mainly to capitalise on Caine's new-found star status since Zulu.

The film is mostly interesting for its incidental (and unintentionally amusing) details. Palmer might be a chirpy Cockney git but he's sophisticated too. He can make an omelette. With bell peppers! He buys a superior brand of canned mushrooms with a French label. And he makes coffee with a cafetiere, even if he doesn't appear to know how to use one. You probably have to be British to really appreciate this stuff (where olive oil was only available from the pharmacy until the late '80s) but it's a reminder of how bleak life was back then.

None of this has aged well, and a lot of it seems designed to impress without actually impressing. We get a lot of fancy camera angles, which looked fine in Citizen Kane but are out of place here. It relies far too much on Caine's alleged charm too. He's given basically the same performance for the last fifty years but at least it was fresh back then. Even so, he's acted off the screen by Nigel Green. He was an incredibly underrated actor and dominates every scene with his physical presence (he was also in Zulu, giving a completely different performance but still compelling your attention) and he deserves to be in a better film.

For some reason this film is regarded as a classic. There is an overlong brainwashing scene at the end, which was totally pointless. The whole thing is wrapped up in the most perfunctory way that I lost count of all the loose ends by the finish. The Bond films were crap but at least they were redeemed by Connery. Caine (an old friend of big Sean, incidentally) doesn't have the chops for this kind of thing.




"Vashtar!  Vashtar!  I've seen you.  You are alive"


SredniVashtar

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2018, 06:25:43 AM
"Vashtar!  Vashtar!  I've seen you.  You are alive"



The film Zulu is basically like Yorkie and me on BG. Surrounded and outnumbered by uncouth savages, doing our best to spread civilisation, before gunning you bastards down with our superior firepower.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 07:06:18 AM
The film Zulu is basically like Yorkie and me on BG. Surrounded and outnumbered by uncouth savages, doing our best to spread civilisation, before gunning you bastards down with our superior firepower.

Now they won't even let you have plastic butter knives. You've come a long way, baby! ;D

SredniVashtar

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on May 26, 2018, 07:09:35 AM
Now they won't even let you have plastic butter knives. You've come a long way, baby! ;D

It's sweet that you think that one's true.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 07:06:18 AM
The film Zulu is basically like Yorkie and me on BG. Surrounded and outnumbered by uncouth savages, doing our best to spread civilisation, before gunning you bastards down with our superior firepower.

This might have actually been clever and amusing, if you had not screwed the pooch and misspelled civilization.
Sigh.  Below is a primer to help you with your deficiencies.  Perhaps you can review it while you are down at the
Frog and Toad eating a plate of boiled sheep or some other horrible thing?


SredniVashtar

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2018, 07:23:39 AM
This might have actually been clever and amusing, if you had not screwed the pooch and misspelled civilization.
Sigh.  Below is a primer to help you with your deficiencies.  Perhaps you can review it while you are down at the
Frog and Toad eating a plate of boiled sheep or some other horrible thing?



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qYjisp51M

You were saying?

I accept your apology, unless you get insolent again and we have to dish out Field Punishment #1.

I take it you're referring disparagingly to my normal Saturday custom of repairing to The One  Off The Wrist for a platter of pickled pig's arse. It's offally good.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 08:06:21 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qYjisp51M

You were saying?

I accept your apology, unless you get insolent again and we have to dish out Field Punishment #1.

I take it you're referring disparagingly to my normal Saturday custom of repairing to The One  Off The Wrist for a platter of pickled pig's arse. It's offally good.

Oh dear.  So we are really going to have to do this, are we?  I merely had a little fun with Nigel Green's wonderful performance
and you had to blow it up into a pissing contest.  One you can't win, as evidenced by you resorting to some pompous wind bag
with a made up accent, droning on and on about 'Civilisation' for 50 minutes?   

If we were both dropped in 1780 London the residents would have no trouble with my Detroit Mid-Western manner of speaking
and would sound very much like me.  They would laugh their heads off at your jive way of talking - they would assume you were
some sort of a freak...and they would be right.   We kept it real over here baby. No need to change the language in order to impress
as we were impressive enough.

Oh, by the way.  Do take care whilst washing up after devouring that hawg arse, old boy.  Wouldn't want you to burn those precious
hands of yours now.  Might interfere with your typing.



Oh. S.V.   Don't even think up bringing the Billion thing.  You lost that one too..........    ;)

SredniVashtar

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2018, 08:31:45 AM
Oh dear.  So we are really going to have to do this, are we?  I merely had a little fun with Nigel Green's wonderful performance
and you had to blow it up into a pissing contest.  One you can't win, as evidenced by you resorting to some pompous wind bag
with a made up accent, droning on and on about 'Civilisation' for 50 minutes?   

If we were both dropped in 1780 London the residents would have no trouble with my Detroit Mid-Western manner of speaking
and would sound very much like me.  They would laugh their heads off at your jive way of talking - they would assume you were
some sort of a freak...and they would be right.   We kept it real over here baby. No need to change the language in order to impress
as we were impressive enough.

Oh, by the way.  Do take care whilst washing up after devouring that hawg arse, old boy.  Wouldn't want you to burn those precious
hands of yours now.  Might interfere with your typing.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrxHO-B2TY

If you were dropped into 1780's London it couldn't be high enough for me! And you've just called Lord Clark of Saltwood, no less, a pompous windbag. Not only is that conduct unbecoming a gentleman, but we'll have you running the gauntlet for it in no time, matey!

I'm sure they'd be delighted by your accent. They could find a nice cage for you in the zoological gardens with all the other animals. When they heard me they'd instantly tug their forelock and begin shining my shoes.

You listen to this fine British music as we march over that hill. Then see our bayonets flashing in the noon-day sun as we stick them right up!

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 08:51:21 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrxHO-B2TY

If you were dropped into 1780's London it couldn't be high enough for me! And you've just called Lord Clark of Saltwood, no less, a pompous windbag. Not only is that conduct unbecoming a gentleman, but we'll have you running the gauntlet for it in no time, matey!

I'm sure they'd be delighted by your accent. They could find a nice cage for you in the zoological gardens with all the other animals. When they heard me they'd instantly tug their forelock and begin shining my shoes.

You listen to this fine British music as we march over that hill. Then see our bayonets flashing in the noon-day sun as we stick them right up!


Lord Clark of Saltwood?  You lot will never get over that shit, will you?   He was just a guy.  No different than me, no different than you (well brighter than us of course - we are both damaged or why would be here on bellgab?).  That stuff is ridiculous - check this out:

QuoteHis Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, Baron Greenwich, Royal Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Extra Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Member of the Order of Merit, Grand Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Order of Australia, Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand, Extra Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Royal Chief of the Order of Logohu, Extraordinary Companion of the Order of Canada, Extraordinary Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Canadian Forces Decoration, Lord of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Councillor of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Personal Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty, Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom

Just call him Phil and be done with it already.   You can fix bayonets all you want.  Old Hickory awaits and we all know how that turns out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7XS_8qgXM


....and I did take pity on you and gave you a small opening with the Billion thing.   Let's see if you figure it out or not.................

SredniVashtar

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2018, 09:22:53 AM
....and I did take pity on you and gave you a small opening with the Billion thing.   Let's see if you figure it out or not.................

I don't want to hear about your opening, small or otherwise. Although I have a feeling that it would have got a bit bigger if you spent much time in 1780's London. You would have been scooped up and locked in a molly house.

I passed over the billion thing with scorn and contempt. I will continue to refer to it as a milliard whatever you colonialists think. We are used to daunting odds.

Mark your target when it comes. Look to the front.

Front rank, fire! Advaaaance!!!

What interesting films you all watch. Ill have to see some of them .

Sophie s Choice.  Watched last night but couldn't get into it. After 30 minutes, I lost focus. Not really sure why this is famous.

Also watched à New sci fi movie À Silent Place.  The fact that the majorité of the dialogue was in sign language with subtitles was annoying.  I like to do things around the house while watching movies, and subtitles makes doing both impossible. Even more so when the film is slow and not visually intéressant.

Metron2267

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 09:33:42 AM
Mark your target when it comes. Look to the front.

Front rank, fire! Advaaaance!!!

Lol, from the most invaded country in all of Yurop...

Who hasn't had their way with Blighty?

http://www.renegadetribune.com/england-quisling-nation/

For his humanitarian achievements and his services to the British Crown, Vidkun Quisling was honoured with the British order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Ironically, it is England and not Quisling who, by their base betrayal of Sir Vidkun Quisling are far more deserving of the ignoble slur, treachery and cowardice.

Yorkshire pud

I sat down to watch 'SEAL team eight' yesterday.  Now the plot is plausible I suppose; The CIA get wind of a Al Qaeda insertion in a fictitious African country where a vicious self proclaimed rebel General Ntonga (Played by Leroy Gopal) is protecting the extraction and sale of yellow cake uranium. Naturally there's a middle man who the CIA have no idea of the identity of, and a CIA agent in deep cover running an informant in the gang of vicious rebels. Both the agent and the informant need to be extracted together with destroying the rebel camp and anyone who tries to stop the SEAL team that will be inserted via civilian helicopter (Won't be noticed as much as a Black Hawk natch).

Enter SEAL team headed by Lee Sizemore who start off with a game of pool in the HQ and get summoned to a briefing by their bosses and a couple of CIA spooks. The job is of course going to be a royal PIA because as is usual with military intelligence, they don't know what they don't know and what they do know might be out of date, incorrect or compromised. But this is where it becomes a joke.. The drone pilot with the task of flying the Predator drone that is armed with enough ordnance to start a small war plus cameras, plus uplink video in real time is an implausibly nervous fidget He has a bowl of what look like Skittles or M&Ms at his side (His boss stood behind him has to remind him to "Focus"--Really??) , and he and his colleague sitting with him quaff cans of Coke with nonchalant abandon as if they really are teenagers on level ten of some shoot em up video game.

Anyway.. As you might imagine, there's lots of bangs when the team go into the camp. And just like a video game, the rebels come storming out of concrete huts that have just been beaten up by the SEALs. The even slightly observant will spot the exact moment that you know the ending. It really won't be a case of "Oh, I never saw that coming". However three quarters of the way through, the SEAL leader has to explain to his number two played by Anthony Oseyemi the plot and his suspicions that the audience has been telling him since about fifteen minutes into the film. It has that pantomime "He's behind you" feel.


Lot's more blood and death later (and a goodly dose of explosions) and to the finale.. Well we know how that will end. Our man Lee becomes the one man army everyone deep down knew him to be. Why the Navy wastes money on recruiting so many, only they know, but we shamble on with more explosions and the audience shouting "Go man go!"

The last five minutes is as predictable as you choking on your popcorn at just how predictable it will be...It's in letters writ large!

A little bit of introspection and a setting sun and Our man Lee saves the day..Whataguy.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Metron2267 on May 26, 2018, 09:43:34 AM
Lol, from the most invaded country in all of Yurop...

Who hasn't had their way with Blighty?

http://www.renegadetribune.com/england-quisling-nation/

For his humanitarian achievements and his services to the British Crown, Vidkun Quisling was honoured with the British order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Ironically, it is England and not Quisling who, by their base betrayal of Sir Vidkun Quisling are far more deserving of the ignoble slur, treachery and cowardice.


You need to ask Kidnostan about the "Taylor class" Russian submarine..  ;)

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 09:33:42 AM
I don't want to hear about your opening, small or otherwise. Although I have a feeling that it would have got a bit bigger if you spent much time in 1780's London. You would have been scooped up and locked in a molly house.

I passed over the billion thing with scorn and contempt. I will continue to refer to it as a milliard whatever you colonialists think. We are used to daunting odds.

Mark your target when it comes. Look to the front.

Front rank, fire! Advaaaance!!!

Kidding aside I was absolutely shocked when I learned that there was a difference.  How can a Billion not be a Billion?  Numbers should be
the same!   Wasn't until I was in Engineering school and a Professor from Germany mentioned it. I thought how can that be?  Looked it up
and the little Hun bastard was right!  In this case I personally think y'all had it right.

I am going to have to set this little spat aside for now.  You see I've got like a House with a yard and grass, trees, flowers and shit. It all needs
tending to.   Unlike like some miserable 20 square 'meter' flat that costs 500,000 Euros or Pounds or whatever you are using for money this
month.    Do take care until the next time.   ;)

SredniVashtar

Quote from: Metron2267 on May 26, 2018, 09:43:34 AM
Lol, from the most invaded country in all of Yurop...

Who hasn't had their way with Blighty?



Since the Normans, 1000 years ago, nobody. Many have tried, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, and we beat the stuffing out of the lot of them

Next dumb question, please!

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 26, 2018, 09:54:18 AM
Kidding aside I was absolutely shocked when I learned that there was a difference.  How can a Billion not be a Billion?  Numbers should be
the same!   Wasn't until I was in Engineering school and a Professor from Germany mentioned it. I thought how can that be?  Looked it up
and the little Hun bastard was right!  In this case I personally think y'all had it right.

I am going to have to set this little spat aside for now.  You see I've got like a House with a yard and grass, trees, flowers and shit. It all needs
tending to.   Unlike like some miserable 20 square 'meter' flat that costs 500,000 Euros or Pounds or whatever you are using for money this
month.    Do take care until the next time.   ;)

He can't come back on you on that one...But you might have underpriced it by another million quid.

Metron2267

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 26, 2018, 10:01:43 AM
Since the Normans, 1000 years ago, nobody. Many have tried, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, and we beat the stuffing out of the lot of them

Next dumb question, please!

Crikey!

Your "royals" are crossbred with invaders fool!

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Metron2267 on May 26, 2018, 10:10:01 AM
Crikey!

Your "royals" are crossbred with invaders fool!


As opposed to inbreeding with the current incumbent at the WH?


K_Dubb

Quote from: Metron2267 on May 26, 2018, 09:43:34 AM
Lol, from the most invaded country in all of Yurop...

Who hasn't had their way with Blighty?

http://www.renegadetribune.com/england-quisling-nation/

For his humanitarian achievements and his services to the British Crown, Vidkun Quisling was honoured with the British order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Ironically, it is England and not Quisling who, by their base betrayal of Sir Vidkun Quisling are far more deserving of the ignoble slur, treachery and cowardice.

What sort of nonsense is this?  Alliances in the north were difficult (cf. Finland, with whom we severed diplomatic relations briefly) and Britain is hardly innocent vis-à-vis Norwegian neutrality, but when you seize power and set up a collaborationist regime in the teeth of a foreign invasion, you generally wind up against the wall when it collapses.

Metron2267

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on May 26, 2018, 09:53:16 AM

You need to ask Kidnostan about the "Taylor class" Russian submarine..  ;)

;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4210160/Britain-currently-NO-working-attack-submarines.html

PM 'unaware' that Britain currently has NO working hunter-killer attack submarines (let's hope nobody's told Mr Putin either)
Royal Navy currently has no 'hunter-killer' attack submarines on active duty
Five of the seven in service are said to be undergoing maintenance work
The HMS Astute is at sea but is till undergoing tests following an inspection
It comes a day after the RAF scrambled jets to intercept Russian bombers

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