Posted on 12/17/2019 1:04:38 PM PST by Widget Jr
It really does remind me of the propaganda movies of Nazi and Soviet days.
Yup.
Indeed. When the price is ‘right’ a show can be much more enjoyable.
Years ago I went to see the ‘Scorpion King’ with my brother-in-law.
It was at the dollar movies. The deal was I was to pay for the tickets, he was to buy the refreshments.
It turned out to be 1/2 price night, so we got in for ONE dollar.
So that set my mood.
I really enjoyed the movie. They got me laughing so hard I could not stop.
The hero shot three arrows at once, hit three people, and they all went flying back 30-60 feet. Hilarious.
The hero is buried up to his neck in sand. The giant ants are coming. The mashed them with his chin. Oh no, one gets past the chin of death... Nevermind, he ate it.
Hilariously over the top action.
The other patrons were all glowering at me.
But even at this low price, the Malodor sucked.
Luke took a big steaming dump on the Jedi legacy in the last movie. I have no interest is giving any money to Disney. For this or for the Marvel Eunuchverse.
You joke, but i've read various articles which assert the primary difference between women voting Democrat and Women voting Republican is marriage.
It lost me with the Ewoks too!
Personally, i think the Mandalorian sucks. It is boring, pedantic, the story is plodding. It has a cute “baby yoda”. The main character is in a mask 90% of the time, which means there is no real emotional attachment.
They don’t have the budget for special effects, the makeup is shoddy, and I’ve seen better spaghetti westerns, which is kind of what it is like.
Firefly was an excellent show of this genre. Mandalorian is kind of what happens when Disney takes over your action-adventure series.
That’s exactly what I felt after watching the 1st episode — I could care less about the main character, it’s just some helmet-guy, no attachment.
And they don’t have a budget for real effects, so you get cheesy off-shots when they shoot people for example, like someone’s home video.
I watched The Story Lady.
No desire to go to the theater.
“but even that thing had a cheap B-movie look, which wasn’t 100% Lucas’s fault.”
Lucas wanted that feel. He wanted it to be completely reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon serials. He wanted the terrible dialogue and half-wit acting of the “good guys” to stand in stark contrast to the more civilized, yet ominous “bad guys”. That’s a big part of Star Wars (1977) charm.
The problem with Star Wars is that people began to take it wayyyyyyyyyyy too seriously. Lucas didn’t care what people thought of “The Phantom Menace” while making it, but he certainly did when it came to that Clones disaster. The Phantom Menace gets trashed left and right, but that was the last movie (aside from Rogue One) that actually “felt” like a Star Wars movie in my opinion. The rest have been commercials for toys and video games.
I won’t be seeing this one in the theater even if offered free tickets. Disney lost me forever with that “Last Jedi” SJW nonsense and everything released since the late 1990s has been varying shades of disappointment. When “The Force Awakens” is the standout film in the “Saga” films released since 1999, you’ve done a ridiculously bad job with such a simple story.
I have an idea for a ‘con.
Quinn-Martin-con.
I would probably be the only attendee. Not many left from those shows.
It was a lame attempt at humor on a rainy night.
Who the bloody Hades are they, and, can they fly X-Wings? Or are they B Wing pukes?
"This has been a Quentin Martin, Harton, Barton and Fargo Production" - Benny Hill
Benny Hill, a true master of comedy.
Indeed. No attachment to the character.
The blurb says: ... “A Mandalorian bounty hunter, tracks a target for a well-paying client.”
Yawn.
The opening sequence.
The Mandalorian is out in the cold tracking someone. Jump to bad guys beating up a guy for his ‘glands’. They are going to sell his musk (how creepy). Just before they kill him, the Mandalorian enters.
The bad guys can’t get along with him, so they immediately pick a fight (instead of finishing with their victim). A fight ensues, in which he kills them all. Gruesomely. One of them gets cut in half by the door (where is the safety mechanism ?!?)
The Mandalorian then shows the bounty puck to the rescue victim... Before tying him up and dragging him off into the cold.
We are now 3 minutes in.
Just dark and gruesome so far.
I was thinking of getting the Disney plus free trail to watch it with the kids over Christmas break. Can you stream past episodes “on demand” with D+?
Roy Thinnes is the only one you need. Bring in Gary Conway to rep the best Irwin Allen show.
Took me a bit to figure that out. Had to look him up. That being said, I've seen episodes of all his shows.
Now I get it. "Quinn-Martin-con"\Quinn-Martin-Cohn.
:)
It was a lame attempt at humor on a rainy night.
I understand. I've heard worse. :)
Oh geez, then they catch an ice taxi to their space ship. 4:13 to
Simple, right?
Nope.
The first ship is to fancy, so the M. rejects that one. He wants a ‘gritty, broken down Taxi’ not a droid driven taxi. 4:58... they hint about ‘raveniks’. Perp is unhappy about the quality of the ship. 5:42... taxi driver warns perp to ‘stay off the ice’.
5:53... As the taxi driver drives off, something comes out of the ice and eats him and his craft.
6:18... and then it comes and tries to eat the perp and the space ship. M. has to hit the beast with a cattle prod to drive it off.
So what are we up to now? 5 gruesome deaths and nothing to cheer for.
The back row is Kathleen Kennedy and her writing/production staff. She's the gal who took over Star Wars and turned it into uber woke female warrior princess "chick flicks."
I think that "guy" is also involved in Star Wars, but I don't know anything about him other than some video commenters on Star Wars think he's a major part of the problem.
He's probably a feminized Soy Boy.
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