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I have 18 more movies to watch, Krypton. I'm not accepting any hop-ons. This is not a stair car.
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I'm gonna watch two a day, which seems like a good pace. The next two are your picks. So if they both suck and ruin my day, know that it doesn't really matter since I didn't have much going on that day anyways.
 
I'm gonna watch two a day, which seems like a good pace. The next two are your picks. So if they both suck and ruin my day, know that it doesn't really matter since I didn't have much going on that day anyways.

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Blazing Saddles was funny, but I don't know that they wouldn't change some of it these days. Also, something I haven't watched for ages and ages but I remember it being VERY, VERY funny was "Where's Poppa?" with George Segal, Trish Van Devere and Ruth Gordon. Ruth Gordon was a treasure. So if someone doesn't want to accept hop ons, it's their loss. I wonder if @Perfect Cell would watch it if he knew they couldn't make that movie anymore and you need a sort of sick sense of humor to watch it.
 
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If things are really going to get even hotter, I wonder if they'll be able to BBQ in St. Louis and Kansas City without charcoals? Has anyone ever been in St. Louis in August? I was going to a Labor Notes conference in Detroit (via St. Louis), the flight got cancelled so I hooked up with someone I met in Albuquerque. It was more fun than the conference, but bejesus was it hot. I hope they have a better power grid in Missouri than they do in Texas.
 
Blazing Saddles was funny, but I don't know that they wouldn't change some of it these days. Also, something I haven't watched for ages and ages but I remember it being VERY, VERY funny was "Where's Poppa?" with George Segal, Trish Van Devere and Ruth Gordon. Ruth Gordon was a treasure. So if someone doesn't want to accept hop ons, it's their loss. I wonder if @Perfect Cell would watch it if he knew they couldn't make that movie anymore and you need a sort of sick sense of humor to watch it.

I can take suggestions for Round 2 later on. I still need to burn through 36 hours of this without losing my mind and starting to believe I'm a fighter pilot or arm wrestler.
 
Fighter Pilot Arm Wrestler Dragon Knight.


In the 90's that **** would have been a billion dollar toy franchise.
 
I can take suggestions for Round 2 later on. I still need to burn through 36 hours of this without losing my mind and starting to believe I'm a fighter pilot or arm wrestler.
You could always believe you are the Speaker of the House, kick Jim Jordan off the committee and replace it with Adam Kinzinger. Anyway, I thought you really were a fighter pilot.
 
Fighter Pilot Arm Wrestler Dragon Knight.


In the 90's that **** would have been a billion dollar toy franchise.

Obviously the jet would turn into a dragon. And his archenemy would be a vampire Russian sub commander. The sub would turn into a race car. The cartoon would get 250 episodes.
 
I would have watched it with a bowl of Fruit Loops and my bong.
 
I watched Dragonslayer. I like how they turned the old wizard into the oxygen tank from Jaws. Also, when you see Disney's name at the beginning, you don't expect to see a princess getting torn apart by baby dragons, but here we are. A different time, I guess. All in all, a fun time.

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Dragonslayer

I was going to watch Excalibur right after, but it's almost two and half hours long and I ordered some McNuggets. It'll have to wait.
 
I watched Dragonslayer. I like how they turned the old wizard into the oxygen tank from Jaws. Also, when you see Disney's name at the beginning, you don't expect to see a princess getting torn apart by baby dragons, but here we are. A different time, I guess. All in all, a fun time.

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Dragonslayer

I was going to watch Excalibur right after, but it's almost two and half hours long and I ordered some McNuggets. It'll have to wait.


Yeah, this was one from an era described as "Dark Disney". And the film is so much better for it "going" there on a number of issues. Even the lead character in the apprentice isn't a mere pure hearted Luke Skywalker type despite the surface similarities. He's honestly kinda an arrogant dick in many ways. And yeah, the whole bit with the Princess getting eaten... Our hero doesn't really reckon with how this is his fault on some level, even if, yes, the princess chose to be part of the lottery and to rig it so she would be sacrficed.

The wizard is also not quite the grand old wise man at all times and there's early ambiguity as to if he still has any formidable magic left, or if he ever had it to begin with.

The imagery is pretty good too. The dragon's lair is a literal lake of fire. Phil Tippet's team were really on the ball with most of the VFX.

Did you catch Emperor Palpatine?
 
Yeah, the Dreyfuss as runaway dad thing never sat well with me as a kid, and even now. I mean I have outgrown needing every main character in a movie to be moral paragons these days but you zeroed in on it. Maybe Spielberg was working through some personal stuff about his dad? I honestly don't know enough about his life outside of being a film geek from childhood and that he married the female lead from Temple Of Doom.
What I got from the Spielberg HBO doc a few years ago is that the vast majority of his filmography is him working through his issues with his dad and his parents' divorce, so I'd say yeah that seems pretty likely, lol.
 
What I got from the Spielberg HBO doc a few years ago is that the vast majority of his filmography is him working through his issues with his dad and his parents' divorce, so I'd say yeah that seems pretty likely, lol.

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I had read previously about how many look at ET, Close Encounters ect. was essentially Spielberg riffing on absentee dads but I have never read more than that so didn't know if his parents separated.


You ever see Dragonslayer flick?

Ladyhawke?

Ladyhawke is right up your alley if not.
 
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I had read previously about how many look at ET, Close Encounters ect. was essentially Spielberg riffing on absentee dads but I have never read more than that so didn't know if his parents separated.


You ever see Dragonslayer flick?

Ladyhawke?

Ladyhawke is right up your alley if not.
I have seen neither. Planning to watch Ladyhawke soon, though!
 
I have seen neither. Planning to watch Ladyhawke soon, though!
Oh you must.

That said... Just cut the soundtrack some slack. I love it but it's not for everyone. Still... I can't see how it ruins the movie if it's not to one's taste.
 
Look...

I'm not saying that the Omen would have had a different ending if it had been Tom Baker instead of Trouton playing the priest, I'm just saying that Baker's priest wouldn't have come off quite as crazed cuz he wouldn't have started his spiel with "Have you accepted Jesus... Blood and Flesh of Christ... Yadda Yadda..."

They need to make "Getting To Yes" a must read for priests attempting to avert the rule of Satan on Earth. Trouton came on too strong. You gotta ease Peck into child murder, y'know?
 
Alright, I watched Excalibur...

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I do appreciate that every single actor gave approximately 200% in this movie. Real full efforts. Either that, or someone spiked the water supply with speed. Liam Neeson looked like he was about to have a stroke in the Round Table accusation scene. Though I did like seeing Patrick Stewart, who never stopped screaming. "HE PULLED THE SWORD OUT, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!? **** YOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!"

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Dragonslayer
4. Excalibur
 
Look...

I'm not saying that the Omen would have had a different ending if it had been Tom Baker instead of Trouton playing the priest, I'm just saying that Baker's priest wouldn't have come off quite as crazed cuz he wouldn't have started his spiel with "Have you accepted Jesus... Blood and Flesh of Christ... Yadda Yadda..."

They need to make "Getting To Yes" a must read for priests attempting to avert the rule of Satan on Earth. Trouton came on too strong. You gotta ease Peck into child murder, y'know?

Either Krypton posted this in the wrong spot, or he too is having a stroke.
 
Combustable wizards, filetted princesses, broiled clergy...

It's a fun time for the whole family.

Now we know why @Roose Bolton was an EP.
I requested more nudity and gore. There was an entire sequence where a previous Princess is found surviving in the dragon’s lair, only to die gruesomely giving birth to a Wyrm. The French guys at Euro Disneyland who financed the picture balked and said it was too perverse. I countered that as a nation that had no laws against incest they were in no position to make moral statements. But then Phil Tippett, bless his heart, informed me that the dragon was in fact female and it was too late into production to redesign its genitals to accomodate the scene.

But that’s Hollywood. There’s never enough time or money.
 
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I requested more nudity and gore. There was an entire sequence where a previous Princess is found surviving in the dragon’s lair, only die gruesomely giving birth to a Wyrm. The French guys at Euro Disneyland who financed the picture balked and said it was too perverse. I countered that as a nation that had no laws against incest they were in no position to moral statements. But then Phil Tippett, bless his heart, informed me that the dragon was in fact female and it was too late into production to redesign its genitals to accomodate the scene.

But that’s Hollywood. There’s never enough time or money.

A day late and a dollar short, it's a tale as old as time.

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TRY HARDER NEXT TIME, PHIL.
 
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