Big Blue Huddle

I really wanted to rewatch the entire series as I never remember much and I feel this year will tie everything together. I can't tie it if I can't remember it.

There are so many other things I also want to watch, I don't know if I'll have the time, but before the summer is over, I will do it. I really should rewatch Breaking Bad also. I watch an episode here and there and again, I remember the basics, but not what made this so great a series. 

I didn't do yesterdays, so I can't comment, but today I got it on my last try. No vowels. Very tricky.

We are away, but we have our nights free and with our Firestick, we are able to watch a lot of what we watch at home.

That said, we started watching on Disney+ "The Beatles-Get Back"      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9735318/

As might be expected, being from that generation, we have always been huge Beatles fans and my darling wife simply cannot watch enough things about them even after 60+ years. So, seems they found about 80 hours of footage of them trying to put together their last concert in 1969, sort of a farewell thing, live. They need 14 new songs and they haven't performed live in over 2 years and really haven't been together, as a group, for over 6 months. So they gave all this footage to Peter Jackson, of LOTR fame to make some special about this.
So we have 3 chapters, each running about 2 1/2 hours long, of the Fab Four trying to come together to do this concert. If you remember, it ended up being the concert they did on the rooftop but we haven't gotten to that yet.
We are about 1/2 way thru the 7 1/2 hours and personally, I find many parts very slow, dry, and devoid of anything interesting. Myt DW, on the other hand, is fascinated with the chance to watch them in their own environment, with the camera being a nosey neighbor. They kid, they smoke, they curse like regular people. It is fascinating in a way, to watch how they create songs and music but again, if they had cut it to 4 hours, I would have been happy. As we get closer to the concert, I'm sure things will really pick up as most of the music will be now Beatles standards, but then, all new stuff.
If you are or were a Beatles fan you need to see this, as really this is the end of this group, never to be seen agasin.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on March 18, 2022, 10:42:11 AM
After running a typical "upgrade" on my browser, I lost tons of information. I had to redo many dozens of passwords and rebuild my main board favorites. Took me most of the day and I wasn't a happy camper.

Anyway, I just noticed that I can finally "like" other people's comments. I would have clicked "like" a thousand times in the last couple of years but couldn't. I tried everything to fix it and nothing worked. So anyway, there are so, so many comments that I wanted to "like", but couldn't. Hopefully, I don't lose that feature again.

ha Ricc

You just never liked anyone, but we all liked you.   

Quote from: GordonGekko80 on March 17, 2022, 04:49:37 AM
Let me give it to you guys...

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

I don't think I have ever seen this movie. I did a quick search and even though Tom Cruise isn't one of my favorite actors, the movie does look interesting and something I would definitely be interested in watching. I'll let you know what i think as soon as I watch it.

Greg

First -- very sorry to hear about your Mom. I know it may not be much, but she was ver y lucky to ahve you for a son, that looked after her as well as you did. God Bless you.

Now, as someone who has been retired for about 15 years--

First, I worked for myself so I have no pension, and not much in an IRA. My wife worked for NYC and geta a small pension, but she has a decent amount of money in her retirement account. WE are definitely no gamblers and our investments have always been on the conservative side. As long as we see a halfway decent return and not lose money to inflation, we are satisfied. We have no outstanding bills and are able to come and go as we please.

That said, I started drawing Soc Sec at 62--I had to. If I was able I would put it off until I was 66, if you fall into that category. Since I just turned 76, I had to start drawing from my IRA at 71 and took the least amount that I was required to take. In fact, last year, when we did basically nothing, all the money that was withdrawn was put into other things as I just did not need it.

We have an investment guy who handles our money. Maybe I shouldn't say this without knocking on wood, but since the market has done so well, I have more money in my IRA, even with the yearly withdrawals, than when I retired. (Not a lot more, but it hasn't gone down throughout my withdrawal period, so I never even bothered to rethink 3%, 4% or whatever. I think you have to withdraw 3% at age 71m but you can reinvest it in other things.

I could never sleep if I were to invest in anything aggressive, but that's just me. I am content with what we have and hope we have enough to keep enjoying ourselves. We look at it this way, each year we get older and our money is still stable and increasing, even slowly, we should be able to spend more as our life expectancy is going down (less years to enjoy it). Thinbgs that once were no-nos because of high costs, are now, well on the radar to enjoy, if you know what I mean.

Quote from: ozzie on March 16, 2022, 02:37:08 PM
#1 - Blues Brothers
#2 - Mrs. Doubtfire??
#3 - ?

Lenn, I am sure the Groucho line was in Duck Soup. What other Marx Bros. movie was it in?

Night at the Opera


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIZwv5aENQ&t=6s




#1     

#2--See Jim's post.   

Come on guys, #3 is a pretty easy one.

A few more. pretty easy I think

1--- "We

I had all the letters for today's word early, but htere were so many good combinations that it took me till the last try to get it. Easy word, but a lot of combos

Quote from: GordonGekko80 on March 16, 2022, 04:50:42 AM
"It's a new day, people! Destiny calls. The world expects only one thing from us: That we will win!"

It sure sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

Quote from: gregf on March 15, 2022, 06:13:17 PM
Hey Lenn. I can read front porch now on taptalk.   I loved Reacher. You mentioned Valhalla. Have you watched Lost Kingdom?  I just finished last season, real good stuff for Vikiings fans. 

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Greg

Just LOVE The Last Kingdom. In fact, rewatched the last 3 episodes from the last season just to get caught up and started watching the new season tonight. I'll be thru with it by the weekend. Utred is back on the warpath and excitement for everyone.   

Quote from: ps11yat14 on March 15, 2022, 03:43:42 PM
#1  Die Hard

Bill

Great job Bill. Not one of the memorable lines from that movie, but once reading it, a dead give-a-way.

Quote from: ozzie on March 15, 2022, 01:20:40 PM
#2  - Tombstone
#3 - I believe that's Grouch Marx in Duck Soup

Lou

#2 is correct and #3, right character, wrong movie (I always thought this was the correct movie until I did look it up)

A few about gas

Quote from: LennG on March 02, 2022, 10:58:41 AM
You guys were great on my last batch of quotes that were not really softballs.

Here are a few more that will fall into the not really softball category    All quotes are from very popular and famous movies, not from some movie many never saw.


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