Big Blue Huddle

Seems the market has bounced back, big time.

Can't keep a good man down for long.

I HOPE 

 A few more to help us thru this day

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on December 05, 2021, 12:28:25 PM
I watched a trailer a couple days ago and decided against it. I love watching Benedict Cumberbatch act - a strange man with strange looks who is a great actor, but is so stereotyped as Sherlock Holmes with his traditional British accent and style straight out of early London that its difficult to see him in such a different role. Seeing him as a cowboy in American West just didn't seem right to me...sorta like watching Jason Alexander (better known as George Costanza of Seinfeld series) playing a rough and tough mob boss...or perhaps Ren

 So a week or so ago, I sort of killed a new Western on Netflix. Today I read another new Western type movie that was just out, again on Netflix, "Power of the Dog"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_power_of_the_dog  Rotten Tomatoes review

so it was something that really looked different, a gritty type western set in the early 1920s. I love realism and was hoping that this would fit the bill.
Well, I was right on the realism part, the imagery, the sets and just about everything else was very good, For me, the problem was this story was so quirky and utterly impossible to believe, when it ended I sat there realizing I wasted another few hours. I was so disappointed in this movie from the mid-way point and beyond it just elaft me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Briefly, 2 brothers, one a hard-driving cowboy, the other a more reserved and business-like. The reserved on marries a lady he meets with a son who, let's say is a bit awkward when it comes to being a cowboy and seems to have again, what one might say are feminine quirks, a sissy to put it bluntly. The cowboy brother is relentless in not wanting to conform to more modern-day things including the new wife. This goes on thru about 1/2 the movie then all of a sudden he takes a liking to the boy and decides to help make him more of a cowboy. I won't even go into it anymore.

For me, another very promising movie, ends up in the crapper, to put it honestly.

Quote from: GIANTS1 on December 03, 2021, 09:02:45 AM
lenn #3 sounds like maureen ohara to natilie woods in miracle on 34th street.

Yeah, that one was a real softball. 

It's been a while since we laughed together, so let's start now

The holiday season is coming fast so how about a few quotes from Holiday related movies

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My darling wife and I have just finished watching this series on Netflix 'Maid'. It is highly rated these days and this is the first season. It is about a young woman with a 2-year-old child who lives with an abusive husband. She runs away, goes to a shelter, and finds all sorts of problems to survive. The Maid title is the fact she takes a job as a low earning Maid just to earn enough to get on some of the financial things that people in her position can get.
Anyway, I really liked it thru about the first 5 episodes, then this young lady started getting on my nerves for various reasons. Many peop[le are trying to help her but she basically refuses their help. By the time it ended, and it had a decent ending, but I was really less than thrilled with it.
So, my darling wife LOVED it. I would assume, as a woman, she was able to relate to many of the things this young lady was going thru and her mothering instincts et al. Since I have never been in any of the situations as this young lady and neither has my wife, but overall, I can see where women would relate to the main character a lot more than men would.

Overall, I would recommend it, just know what you're in for.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on November 29, 2021, 01:10:26 PM
Omicron - love the name - sounds like a warrior group out of Star Wars or a secret energy source the galaxies are fighting over.

Some people have huddled down in fear, while others go about business as usual. Me...it's business as usual. I got my J&J booster shot last week and haven't even had a cold in a few years now (knock on wood). The biggest problem I have with it is that it caused my portfolio to crash 4.9% last Friday as the market is made up of an awful lot of skittish folks - any negative news and BAM...sell, sell, sell. 

Luckily, today's market has recovered most of my losses from Friday's selloff so I think the scare is over

Anyone worried about this latest COVID variation/mutation? 

So much for that recovery.

Sorry I am late to this, but we were visiting the grandkids and prison was furthest from my mind.

As Lou said, many good movies on that list and I probably would vote Shawshank as #1. I never tire o watching all or parts of the movie.

There were a few on the list, I do not think I have seen and even one or two that I never even heard of. I would assume the list wasn't a countdown, just a list of movies (at least I hope so).

If I did have to make a list of my top 10
1-Shawshank
2-Green Mile
3-Cool Hand Luke
4-Bridge on the River Kwai
5-Stalag 17
6-Oh Brother, Where For Art Thou
7-each Dawn I die
8-Midnight  Express
9-The Great Escape
10-Don't know if this would be a real prison movie, but The Count of Monter Cristo

And just a shout out to Papilion--(Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman version)

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on November 26, 2021, 09:58:31 AM
You would not be able to get any such stipulation in this challenge. You could not quit, even if you were willing to forego the $3 million already earned. You would be forced to continue to fast for the duration of the agreed upon time period regardless of whether or not you wanted to quit. There is no "see how it goes" provision with this.

I think a three day time period is a reasonable choice. What's interesting is that answers to this question range all over the place. There are folks who claim they would sign up for as much as 3-4 weeks or more, claiming that (with water) human beings can last for 50-plus days without food.

Then there are those who scoff at the whole premise in the first place and state that they would not agree to even one day of this. I find that answer a bit odd for anyone other than the mega-rich, to whom a few million dollars is of zero significance.

I would probably try to talk myself into something like 5-7 days. There is no question that you can do that without doing any real damage to your body, so it's really a question of mind over matter. The inability to bail out though is tough. If I could accept the challenge at any time, I would consider "practicing" with a few days of no food to see how it went and then doing the challenge later on down the road based on that experience.

72 hours with no food (at minimum) for $3 million tax-free seems like a no-brainer though. I'm pretty sure I have had multiple time in my life where I didn't eat for at least 36-48 hours. I don't recall it ever being that big of a deal. And I think you probably need to shoot for more than that, as $1 mil per day with no tax obligation is pretty serious money. Even if you're crazy rich, that's a lot of money to earn for a short time period and if you didn't need it there are obviously plenty of worthy charities who do.

Hey, we can make you an honorary Jew and you could then practice for Yom Kippur. If you don't know, it is a day fast, usually about 25 hours with no water, no food, no nothing, so it should be good practice. 

Maybe the next challenge for Squid Games   

Quote from: T200 on November 26, 2021, 12:52:33 PM
I love food. I love to eat. It's a miracle (and a blessing) I don't weigh more than I do. In fact, I'm eating a couple of donuts as I'm typing this!

The most I'd do is three days. Three million (straight cash, homie) would serve my wife and me very well.

I'll be hella hangry at the end of the three days but it would definitely be worth it.

I'd actually be more interested in a weekly challenge - one day, one million, every week!

I could go for that.

Quote from: ozzie on November 26, 2021, 11:10:37 AM
Wow, this list could go in a hundred different directions all depending on what kind of person you consider a "Hero".
There are a lot on the list I agree with, others have me scratching my head as to how they fit into the hero category.

Lou

Could you expand on this? Just curious.

Quote from: T200 on November 26, 2021, 01:00:15 PM
Len,

Sorry you didn't like it. I liked the way it was done, the setup, the lingering question, and the answer at the end.

Aside from the language, what part(s) did you feel were racist? To me, especially the white town, was all tongue-in-cheek. I'm not a big western movie fan but I enjoyed this from a purely entertainment standpoint.  If I recall correctly, some of the characters were based on real black cowboys. The events were obviously written for the movie.

BTW, Blazing Saddles is probably the best western of all time.



Just kidding, Len! I know that would turn you three shades of red!   

Tim

I do not wish to harp on this one. I love Westerns and I love my westerns to try and be as real as can be. Yes a movie like Blazing Saddles was great, but this one, well, as I said in my post, I know it was done tongue in cheek, but I just found it to be so over the top. Maybe I was really looking for a good, old-time, western, but this, I felt was so absurd. I would also assume that it was based on true characters, but did you ever hear of a completely Black town, not just one, but several. At that time, I really wouldn't think most of the Black cowboys have shaved heads, and I fully understand that the 'While Town' was done for laughs, I just didn't find it fully that way. We know each other well enough that I can say what, or how I feel. Say the situation was reversed and it was a White group of Cowboys and they said the same thing about a Black town and all the people portrayed in the town were made to look foolish and incompetent. As a Balck man, I know you would be upset, well I just think that in this particular movie, it went a bit too far and I just didn't find any humor in what they were trying to project.
As we always say, to each his own. There are many movies, especially ones made for today's audiences that I just do not get or like, so it's no big deal to me.
Glad you enjoyed it though.

Interesting premiss Dave.

Since I am of more advanced years than several here there would be no way I would do anything to endanger my health
. i always fast on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippor so one day is a breeze so 1 million in the bank. I believe with water i could easily
do 2 more days. I might be able to do more but with the stipulations i would quit then take my 3 mil and be perfectly satisfied.