Posted on 12/21/2020 7:24:13 AM PST by Kaslin
I think I had the gentleman on the right knock on my window for change once.
Bonfire was an awful adaptation of an amazing novel.
When the Sound of Music was released in Spain, it was called “The Rebel Nun.”
How fitting is the title, when many people out there will be
just that this year, being forbidden to meet with family or
friends?
Are you sure he wasn’t the guy with the squeegee who cleaned your windshield?
I remember when VCRs first came out. They were prohibitively expensive so a lot of places used to rent them. My parents would drive some distance to a mall that had a video rental store, then a completely new venture. They'd rent a top-loading VCR (which at the time retailed for around $1200) and a half dozen VHS tapes for the weekend. I remember the store owner would give us a lesson on how to manually adjust the tracking, saving us a return trip if the tape didn't play well.
It was a big deal when we finally bought our first VCR and stopped renting the ones from he video store.
I was in a Red Robin burger restaurant about 6 weeks ago and was taken in by some artwork on the wall, a kind of puzzle collage that covered the wall and that when you looked closer was entirely made up of 8-track tape cartridges with the original album covers of all these 70 oldies. I really enjoyed just staring at all the old album covers and reminiscing the music.
Nowhere near as good as National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Randy Quaid at his best.
“Merry Christmas! Sh*tter was full!”
I saw over the weekend for the first time the 1935 version starring Seymour Hicks on Amazon Prime. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Though it only ran an hour so they had to cut a lot of stuff out.
Not a lot of "great" Christmas movies out there but there are hundreds and hundreds of them. This time of year, I just have the wife put on whatever Hallmark type Christmas movie she wants to see and I'll sit through it. My only pet peeve is that many of those movies have the guys portrayed as complete jerks most of the time.
Anyone watch “We’re no Angels”? No, not that one, I’m talking about the one with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray. My favorite Christmas movie.
And there’s always “Gift of the Magi.” Jeanne Crain and Farley Granger version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYKlV0vkIs
Make sure you see the Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven version of The Bishop’s Wife and some horrible remake.
I’ll be watching it tonight.
Yeah but is the original “Die Hard” considered a “Christmas” movie?
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