Yup,that's a fair conclusion Panzer. I'm surprised I made it all the way through. I had decided I wouldn't even watch it but in the end I had to see for myself,and I like McCarthy and Wiig usually.

I'm continuing with 'Taboo' although I guess maybe it's not available to you guys over the pond? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647998/ *EDIT* I see you got it in January. I rate this higher than Westworld personally.

Tom Hardy.He is awesome.

I just watched it to see the cameos of the original cast.

Found it on Amazon Prime.
Strategic Air Command (1955): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048667/


Wheels

Pushing Daisies. 1:1 and 1:2. How the heck does ABC run Dancing With The Stars and The Bachelor type series multiple times a week (sometimes) and let a very imaginative and unique show rot on the vine?

Simple answer: the ratings just weren't there to justify the production costs of the show. Blame TV watchers in general.

Duh. (I know you're being informative) It just infuriates me that there's nothing but crap on TV and one decent show gets cancelled. I get the revenue and ratings aspect, PM. It's the law of TV. What can make money stays. What can pay for itself gets a second chance... sometimes.

I'm party to blame too. I didn't watch Pushing Daisies when it originally aired. I get used to seeing so much poor TV advertised that the good stuff gets passed by.

I never watched the show but what I've read seemed to indicate that "Pushing Daisies" was a very off the wall and quirky kind of show. It strikes me that this is the type of show that should have been on cable and not network tv.

The Fall (2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

Found this little gem of a film yesterday.



According to imdb,due to a communication error,the little girl,Catinca Untaru,thought that Lee Pace was a real-life paraplegic. The director decided to not tell her to make the dialogue more believable. Definitely worth a view if you want something a little different and it is beautifully filmed.

I didn't think I knew who Lee Pace was until I checked his imdb,he was in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Mom
Season 4 Episode 13


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Last night I binge watched The Last Ship, all of series 1 and part of series two to try and catch up as series three started last night. I had caught one or two episodes when they aired before and thought it was quite good.

Here the cable channel sometimes stops the series before the end of the run and then broadcasts the last episodes in the week before starting the new series, that is what they had done with The last Ship, held back the last two episodes of series 2 and then broadcast them last week.

watched Hacksaw Ridge Sat night, it didn't look too impressive when I saw the previews at the theater but this was a great movie. I would highly recommend it. Not sure why he put up such a fight in boot camp over not shooting at the range, because he still could not have picked one up during war time.

The Rat Race (1960)

• Tony Curtiss
• Debbie Reynolds
• Don Rickles

Wheels

Just finished watching Marvel Studios latest, "Doctor Strange" Loved it. great movie.

Just finished watching Moana with my little girl. I enjoyed it very much.

Cumberbatch is great at playing cocky geniuses huh?

Swiss Army Man. Low brow humor that worked when the actors have fun making the movie.

He plays the part so well. Yes, he does.

This got my attention as Alfred Bester wrote a novel which was
optioned to be made into a movie called "The Rat Race" (the novel
was called "Who He?", but was at one point rereleased under the
title The Rat Race) and Jackie Gleason wanted to play the lead.
However, the movie that got made (noted above) was from a completely
different story, a play by Garson Kanin.

Bester's novel was written in 1953, the only major novel he wrote
which wasn't SF. Kanin's play was some years later. Curiously, a
previous novel by a guy named Jay Franklin, also called The Rat
Race, appeared in 1950, and was a sci-fi, or more accurately
a contemporary story with science-referencing fantasy features,
but labelled as SF nevertheless.

I've always been interested in Bester's book as it's the only one of his
I've never read, as it was out of print for 50 years, and not in any local
library. But in researching this post, I see it has been reissued, so I
will have to get it.

Finally got around to watching Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Excellent movie. Clearly 'Last Man Standing' was a remake of this film.

I went in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised.