TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV series) 2015

I just saw a promo for Sharknado 3.

Man, I may actually have to check this out.  What a cast!

Tara Reid, Frankie Muniz, Bo Derek, David Hasselhoff, Mark Cuban (as the President), Ann Coulter (as the Vice President) - those last two casting choices alone should be worth the price of admission -,Chris Jericho,  Michael Bolton and Jerry Springer.

I hope Michael Bolton dies a gory death.  If he does it's just too bad they didn't get Phil Collins, Steve Perry and Dave Matthews to do the film too.

Mark Cuban as the President !

I will be watching this one

"Metal Tornado" (2011)


In this cheaper-looking than usual SyFy nonsense, Lou Diamond Philips (remember when he used to have a career?) and Greg "BJ and the Bear" Evigan (!!) battle a whirling, metal-attracting vortex of doom - the by-product of a scientific experiment gone wrong - before it can tear its way through Philadelphia. Pointless.

"The November Man" (2014)



Pierce Brosnan may not be James Bond anymore, but he can still whoop some spy-game ass! He's a retired CIA agent who gets "reactivated" to protect a girl who's been targeted by some very bad Eastern European people. Cool cloak and dagger stuff.

Allo Allo!
Futureama
Texas Rising

Spider-Man 3 - the Sam Raimi trilogy goes out with a fizzle

Dead End City (1988).



Hard to find 1980s action movie about a vigilante resistance force leader fighting gangs for control of the city.

Bob's Burgers

"M*A*S*H*" (1970)



In this classic satire of military life during the Korean War, the day-to-day adventures of two Army field-hospital surgeons (Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould) include playing pranks on their superior officers, drinking lots of martinis, hitting on nurses, and occasionally saving some lives.

Like many people, I am more familiar with the long-running TV series based on this movie, than with the film itself. Released during the height of the Vietnam conflict, the crude humor in "M*A*S*H*" was apparently considered quite shocking/subversive in its day (legend has it that this was the first major studio film in which someone said the "F" word), but its edges have been dulled by the passage of time. There's no real "story" to this movie, it feels like it was stitched together from a bunch of random sketches.. Still, it's a fairly entertaining period piece.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"M*A*S*H*" (1970)



In this classic satire of military life during the Korean War, the day-to-day adventures of two Army field-hospital surgeons (Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould) include playing pranks on their superior officers, drinking lots of martinis, hitting on nurses, and occasionally saving some lives.

Like many people, I am more familiar with the long-running TV series based on this movie, than with the film itself. Released during the height of the Vietnam conflict, the crude humor in "M*A*S*H*" was apparently considered quite shocking/subversive in its day (legend has it that this was the first major studio film in which someone said the "F" word), but its edges have been dulled by the passage of time. There's no real "story" to this movie, it feels like it was stitched together from a bunch of random sketches.. Still, it's a fairly entertaining period piece.

I cannot watch this movie without even thinking of Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, et al. They are the people I associate with the characters, not Sutherland, Gould and so on. Still I do enjoy the film and like to catch it from time to time.

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I cannot watch this movie without even thinking of Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, et al. They are the people I associate with the characters, not Sutherland, Gould and so on. Still I do enjoy the film and like to catch it from time to time.

Yep, same here. When I was a kid "M*A*S*H*" was my parents' favorite TV show but I was almost in my early teens before I even knew that a movie existed prior to the show. I happened to pick up an old back issue of MAD magazine (of all things) at a comic book convention which had a parody of the Sutherland/Gould movie in it, and I was like "Wait...you mean, this was a movie?"

I'd actually never seen the film till this viewing, though I've been curious about it for a long time. I just finished reading a book about the so-called "New Hollywood" movement of the '70s, when all these new, young American directors came into prominence and shook up the old fashioned "studio system"... "M*A*S*H*" was a major part of it, along with Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider," Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Warren Beatty's "Bonnie & Clyde," Lucas' "THX 1138" and "Star Wars," Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," etc., etc., ... lots of stuff I either haven't seen in a long time or have never seen at all, so now I'm off on a '70s movie kick.

While I too grew up with the tv version, I've seen that movie numerous times and love it. Probably better than the tv show nowadays. The early episodes are classics, but I can't take Alan Alda's preachiness in the later seasons.

Yeah the show's tone did change after awhile. For me, it was about the time that Frank Burns (Larry Linville) left the show. I can still watch the episodes after that but they are not the same.

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Yeah the show's tone did change after awhile. For me, it was about the time that Frank Burns (Larry Linville) left the show. I can still watch the episodes after that but they are not the same.

Sounds about right. I'm not sure when it happened exactly, but I think Alan Alda started taking more creative control behind the scenes and it was becoming more about Hawkeye and his moral crusade against, well, you name it. Still some funny stuff in there though.

Starting my mother on:

ABCs Of Death 2

I think "B is for Badger" is hilarious.

Wrestling's Not Wrestling

Leatherface wrote:

Wrestling's Not Wrestling

What's that?

tohostudios wrote:

Leatherface wrote:

Wrestling's Not Wrestling

What's that?

I think he's referring to this:

Thirteen Days - A-

The Illusionist

Over the past few days....The Bobby Leibling documentary (Pentagram), History Of The Eagles Part 1 & 2, Good Old Freda (The Beatles secretary), Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Who is Harry Nillson documentary.

I haven't seen those late 70s/early 80s Chuck Norris films for years.  My favorite was Silent Rage.  Because it's SO f**king ridiculous (and scummy too!) that it just reaches a level of high unintentional art.  Hmmmm...let's see what happens when we take our standard Chuck Norris action vehicle and insert a mad scientist and the unstoppable, self-healing killer he cooked up in his lab! What happens is 90 minutes of fun.  I saw Silent Rage when I was 12 and I'm telling you, it's quite possibly THE perfect movie for a 12 year old male.

Pawn Stars