What Are You Watching Now?

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Good lord what a long movie....always happy to see Gal Gadot tho...

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Hmmm Justice League in 4:3
Good 4k tho - smoother than the Batman/Superman..

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Love the music, good cast and if you don't watch the credits...you'll miss the movie

"Wild Things" is lurid trash, with a plot so twisted they're still explaining it during the closing titles. It's like a three-way collision between a softcore sex film, a soap opera and a B-grade noir. I liked it. This being the latest example of Florida Noir (hot on the high heels of "Palmetto"), it has a little of everything, including ominous shots of alligators looking as if they know more than they're telling.

The movie solidifies Neve Campbell's position as the queen of slick exploitation, gives Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon lots of chances to squint ominously, and has a sex scene with Denise Richards (of "Starship Troopers") that is either gratuitous or indispensable, depending on your point of view.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wild-things-1998

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This was a real surprise ..one of the best war stories ever and hard to beleive but all true-absolutely remarkable

Apr 7, 2023
872 views • Apr 7, 2023
The true story of Aidan MacCarthy, a young medical graduate from the south-west of Ireland who survived some of the most harrowing experiences of World War II - evacuation from Dunkirk, then almost four years of POW captivity and finally surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 70 years later, his daughter travels to Japan in search of the mysterious donor of a Japanese Samurai sword, that her father had brought back with him after the war. A story of real-life adventure, human survival, forgiveness , and closure.

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Did not know where to park this but why is no one dead !!!!!

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Ouch ...

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Came across this - there are a number of associated videos....

Missed out on OshKosh despite planned mcycle rides to get there.
This 14 year old flew solo to it .....1,000 miles from home base. 41 take off and landings.....big time kudos.

All you USAians....get your asses to OshKosh this summer.

https://www.eaa.org/airventure

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give me a South African fix …I miss the Western Cape

worth a trip for anyone …..500 km WIne Route
gorgeous …..go before it all falls apart.

[pErvinalia]

Falls apart?

[rasetsu]

Finally got my Netflix subscription. It took an hour because it kept balking at the payment.

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Gangs, Corruption and Collapse
The Slow and Steady Demise of South Africa

The end of Apartheid in South Africa brought a surge of hope for a brighter future. But the ANC, the party that liberated the Black majority from oppression, has transformed the country into a swamp of corruption, mismanagement and despair. Some are trying to turn things around.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... 4718215281
read and weep....

The damage caused by theft, sabotage, incompetence and mismanagement has been particularly severe at the country’s railway operator Transnet and the nationwide power utility Eskom. On some days, there is no electricity for 12 hours at a time in some places and large cities sink into inky blackness at night. The South African Reserve Bank estimates that such outages cost the economy the equivalent of almost 45 million euros per day.

A joke in South Africa these days asks what the difference is between the Titanic and South Africa. Answer: At least the Titanic’s lights were on as it sank.

[Brian Peacock]

Did not know where to park this but why is no one dead !!!!!

Jesus! Top of the hill you think it's absolute madness going that fast over ice and shingle on a cliff edge, and then they go into the trees!

[rasetsu]

Finally got around to watching episode two of Better Call Saul. I was going to watch Doona! but another Korean drama crossed my radar, so that's up next.

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I knew very little about Cary Grant...nicely crafted tale..... and true

Accurate casting

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an early Jodie Comer - signature intensity