Big Blue Huddle

And another big-time softball

Captain, you told me...

The Captain: Never mind what I told you. *I'm telling you!*

I want to continue the sunset adventure. As I said last week, I have had the great fortune to be at a certain location when all the sunset Gods seem to favor us. The atmosphere was perfect, the type of clouds were perfect and as the sunset, especially right after it set, the sky just was illuminated in the most remarkable colors that you simply were amazed. This has happened to me 3 times at such a high level that pictures simply cannot capture the event, though I tried. Especially, out at sea, where you can see the entire horizon and the entire sky is ablaze in color. How can one, whatever size pix you have, tell that story. I did take a couple of videos but, for the life of me, don't know how to post them here.
Anyway, here are some of the pixs that tried to capture the event.












And the second time was off the coast of Cape Cod

And still some more very cute pix

The first thing I've got to say is I am a HUGE fan of westerns--HUGE. I just love then, from the real oldies when guys would fight for 5 minutes all over the place and never lose the hat on their heads, to the old TV days of the Lone Ranger, to basically any Cowboys and Indians movie, right thru to present day. These days, compared to years past, the Western seems to have lost a lot of favor and you just do not see many. But when they do make one these days, they usually make them a lot more, true to life, than the olden days. In today's' westerns, the cowboys are not all clad in shiny new vests, are clean-shaven, and look like they just came out of the dry cleaners. That is nOT the way it was back then. Movies like 'The Unforgiven' were wonderful in the way the real west was portrayed.

Anyway, when I read that Tom Hanks had done his first Western, I just couldn't wait to see it, regardless of the reviews. His latest and the one I am talking about is
'News of the World".
So, most movies these days go to the theater where no one is watching and then go right to On Demand viewing online.
We got to see this movie last night, and, as you might expect--LOVED IT.

What else is there about Tom Hanks? He like an American institution nowadays. Whatever he is in, while maybe not terrific, is always enjoyable enough to watch and enjoy. So, with my love of Westerns, and Mr. Hanks in the lead, I just sat back and enjoyed 2 hours of wonderful entertainment.

The story basically--Hanks is a 'newsreader'. he goes around town to town, for a dime apiece, which people pay to hear him read the news of the day, and listen to his stories about it, and they love him. While journeying along, he comes to a burnt wagon, with one person hung and he finds a young girl who is white but was raised by the Indians and spoke no English. He decides to take her with him to town and they really weren't up to that idea of having her. The town really doesn't want the girl but he learns she has family somewhere and he volunteers to take her there (????). And that is the story, his journey, and what happens to him along the way. I have to say the guy wasn't born under a lucky star and misfortune is everywhere. That is all I will say and you will have to watch for yourself. But the story is about the relationship between Hanks and the young girl and the chemistry is just marvelous. Not a lot of dialogue but great acting, and Mr. Hanks might have another Oscar nomination for this work.

I would heartily recommend this movie to everyone. There is some killing, some cursing, but nothing graphic and it is suitable for families.
One of the best watches I have seen in quite a while.

Quote from: jimv on January 29, 2021, 07:10:01 PM

There's another more famous quote from that same movie:

"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

Anybody want to take a shot on it??????????????

Might as well give it away

You can add the line before that one
I always did like a man in a uniform. That one fits you grand.

Quote from: jimv on January 29, 2021, 06:53:36 PM

"Hamlet;" Laurence Olivier.

Never saw it and have no interest in seeing it. Shakespeare is just not my thing--ever.

Ok guys, how about this one (an oldie)

Quote from: jimv on January 29, 2021, 12:15:52 AM
Here's one from an Academy Award winning film:

"Alas, poor Yorick!  I knew him, Horatio."

Try as I might, I have no clue as to this. I evened googled it and they have no clue. Sorry.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on January 29, 2021, 03:09:48 PM
Great minds must think alike, LOL. Your suspicions were exactly as mine. I told my girlfriend over and over it was Sutherland and each week, something added to that suspicion. I figured he planted the hammer and did everything possible to point the finger at Grant...who, like you said, hated him. He actually passionately despised him and seemed he wanted his daughter all to himself.

As far as when the wife figured it out, I think (being a professional therapist/psychologist) she had an understanding of human behavior so well, she knew as soon as Grant's mother called her on the phone and explained about his sister that everything she thought about Grant was wrong and that he had a great ability to hide his true self. Grant's lack of interest or his ability to hide any emotion regarding his sister doesn't add up to a "caring, empathetic, and loving" person. In fact, it's the trademark of a psychopath.

Agreed, but try an I might, even though she was a psychiatrist and understand human behavior, and then realizing that the man she married showed no remorse, but he had to show love and tenderness etc. He wasn't a so-called mindless, remorseless zombie. AND that doesn't make him a killer. Sure she was pissed at him but she still stuck by him until that point.
Her lawyer wanted suspicion pointed at the dead girl's husband. he really had the most interest in seeing her dead. I still can't get how that proverbial 'lightbulb' went off in Kidman's mind, and the plot was hatched. Throughout the show, you couldn't be definitely sure it wasn't the other husband. Granted that Hugh Grant's story was so ridiculous, he was there, they made love, he left, then came back--silly, but people did believe it.

And we are so attuned to never suspect the obvious, that we look for, who is the most unlikely guy to be the murderer--Sutherland, that we immediately go right there. Good stuff anyway.

PS, ever get to watch the last season of Fargo?

On everyone's recommendation, I finally got to watch this series and agree 100% it was great. I refrained from reading this thread as I wanted to know nothing and go in with a clear mind. Just an excellent watch. Kidman is always good, I loved Hugh Grant as the 'bad guy'. I'm so used to seeing him play those innocent guys in silly comedies, and, of course, Donald Southerland was superb.

So my take, I watch so many of those old crime dramas, Agatha Christy stories etc. etc. that in my mind whomever the obvious killer is, it's usually not them, so I basically eliminated the husband right from the get-go. I also had Southerland as the killer. He had all the motivation, the money and he was perfect as the killer. Each show gave me more and more reason to suspect him. His wife recently passes, he loved the fact that his daughter and grandson were coming to live with him, he hated the husband and the list could go on. The hammer planted at his beach house. He WAS the killer. I really never thought that the son was the killer even when the hammer was found in his violin case. That was just too easy. I did, for a couple of moments think Kidman could really be the killer, as a sort of dual personality. She would have been a second choice.

Maybe I missed the 'plan' as I never really put it all together as you explained, but reading it, it sure as hell was the perfect plan. My question though, how or why did she 'suddenly' figure it out, as opposed to believing him. What made her suddenly know it was her husband and maybe not the victim's husband?

Also, I agree with the poster who said that it was simply unbelievable that the husband killed the woman so suddenly, in fits of rage over basically nothing, and NEVER showed any sort of anger, ever in their 15 years of marriage.

Anyway, a good watch, so thanks for the recommendation.

OK It doesn't get any easier than this

Is this heaven?

It's Iowa.

Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.

Quote from: GordonGekko80 on January 29, 2021, 02:25:39 AM
Batman. 1989. Directed by Tim Burton. 

One of the biggest lines of the Movie from Jack Nicholson.

I also loved the Soundtrack. Partyman was my favourite at the time.
And Prince was a f**king genious anyways. A visionary with his music.

Again, correct.

Out of all the Batman movies, to me anyway, this one was the best. Gimmicky--for sure, but I just LOVED Nickolson as The Joker. The movie just came alive whenever he was on screen. The movie was done tongue in cheek.

I also loved Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight, but he was sinister and was just perfect in that role, while Nicholson was playing it for laughs.

Quote from: LennG on January 25, 2021, 11:25:55 AM

Try this one. Again, not a softball, but the line has clues to the movie (I watched this over the weekend)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.

Another real softball

Larry

I don't think it is 'the clock' as much as it is the world itself. With each year, each natural disaster, each pandemic, we are inch9ing closer and closer to armageddon.
I read a story about this so-called clock. They unveil it once every year and each year we get closer and closer, some years by what one might say. leaps and bounds' and other years by a snail's pace. But the thought, overall, is that we are headed for some sort of armageddon if we keep living the way we have, and I don't just mean US, this goes for the entire world. Maybe it was their way of making a point--a la Doomsday Clock.