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by Lord Tesla
April 28th, 2020, 11:09 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

Sunday night I popped Quatermas and the Pit in the disc player. I've seen it in whole or in part a number of times, but not recently. This was the first time I'd had the chance to goggle the film from the Scream Factory release. Alas, I nodded off. But, what parts of it I saw were as good as I remem...
by Lord Tesla
April 21st, 2020, 11:08 am
Forum: General Star Wars Discussion
Topic: Rank the Star Wars Movies
Replies: 17
Views: 62956

Re: Rank the Star Wars Movies

Rank the Star Wars movies? Why not? 1. The Empire Strikes Back. 2. A New Hope (A.K.A. Star Wars to those of us who were around prior to the name-change). 3. Revenge of the Sith. 4. The Phantom Menace - Return of the Jedi (Tie). 5. Attack of the Clones. 6. The Force Awakens (A.K.A. The Farce Awakens...
by Lord Tesla
April 16th, 2020, 8:30 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: What's the Last Thing You Ate?
Replies: 48
Views: 123066

Re: What's the Last Thing You Ate?

Popcorn.
by Lord Tesla
April 16th, 2020, 7:57 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: What's the Last Podcast You Listened to?
Replies: 2
Views: 7933

What's the Last Podcast You Listened to?

In ReSearch of: Pilot: In Search of Ancient Astronauts The podcast takes a critical look back at episodes of the pioneering 1970s paranormal TV series, In Search of... hosted by Leonard Nimoy, which grew out of...a series of TV specials narrated by Rod Serling, beginning with In Search of Ancient As...
by Lord Tesla
April 13th, 2020, 11:23 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

Still waiting until I can be relatively sure there are no Killer Corona Cooties on my copy of The Rise of Skywalker before I try that one one. LT, I know you've have to watch it, but... I'd have a guilty conscience if I encouraged you to watch TROS. To make sure you don't get cooties, I'd say burn ...
by Lord Tesla
April 4th, 2020, 3:59 pm
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

The Amityville Horror of Dracula
by Lord Tesla
April 4th, 2020, 3:45 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

The Phantom Menace, y'know, that prequel to one of those film franchise doohickies, made a few years back...

Still waiting until I can be relatively sure there are no Killer Corona Cooties on my copy of The Rise of Skywalker before I try that one one.
by Lord Tesla
April 4th, 2020, 3:41 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Television Show Watched
Replies: 161
Views: 380346

Re: Last Television Show Watched

Agatha Christie's Poirot, again. Again, the episode, "The Chocolate Box." And, once more, the little grey cells, they screwed me over and went to sleep.

I think I watched Southpark after I woke up.
by Lord Tesla
April 1st, 2020, 4:10 pm
Forum: The Sequel Trilogy
Topic: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)
Replies: 228
Views: 677177

Re: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)

My copy of The Rise of Skywalker is out for delivery today, 1 April--I kid you not. In a way, I'm eager to see it. I haven't seen the film yet. In another way, I'm eager to see it, just so I can be done with this particular trilogy. I'm thinking it arriving in the middle of a deadly pandemic might m...
by Lord Tesla
April 1st, 2020, 4:01 pm
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

The Old Man and the Sea Chase
by Lord Tesla
April 1st, 2020, 3:56 pm
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

The Old Man and the Sea of Love
by Lord Tesla
April 1st, 2020, 3:55 pm
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

The Old Man and the Sea Hawk
by Lord Tesla
March 30th, 2020, 3:46 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Television Show Watched
Replies: 161
Views: 380346

Re: Last Television Show Watched

The Walking Dead , 10.14, "Look at the Flowers." Er, right. The flowers would probably have been a bit more interesting. Better than last week's catastrophic farewell to Michone episode, which I suspect with its longer running time and elaborate, and wasted, effects, helped to put complet...
by Lord Tesla
March 30th, 2020, 3:39 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

The Last Vampyre, 1993, from the Granada series, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. A very bad attempt to turn "The Sussex Vampire," itself rather a modest entry in the Holmes Canon, into a feature length film. Not. Good.
by Lord Tesla
March 27th, 2020, 5:07 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

Yeah, I've leaned more towards "modern" movies, newer stuff. Well, don't put investigating the older stuff off too long. Time is always in short supply, and there are killer bugs out there--and I am *not* talking about the mutant insects from Them! (Warner Bros., 1954, B&W, 94 minutes...
by Lord Tesla
March 22nd, 2020, 11:23 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

Dial "M" for Murder , 1954, Warner Bros., Color, 105 minutes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland and John Williams. Classic. Hitchcock and Kelly? How can you go wrong? A bit later, Horror of Dracula , broadcast on the Svengoolie program; alas,...
by Lord Tesla
March 22nd, 2020, 11:14 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Today in History...
Replies: 7
Views: 21870

Re: Today in History...

22 March 1931: Canadian actor William Shatner born.

22 March 1995: Cosmonaut Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov returned to Earth, ending the longest stay in space by a single human being, 437 days spent aboard Mir.

Stardate 2231.03.22: Federation Starfleet Captain James Tiberius Kirk born.
by Lord Tesla
March 21st, 2020, 7:06 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: What's the last book you read?
Replies: 39
Views: 105291

Re: What's the last book you read?

The Robots of Dawn , by Isaac Asimov. 1983. The third of Asimov's Robot Novels, the last, if memory serves, of those with both Lije Baley and R(obot). Daneel Olivaw. I had fond memories of it before I reread it. Wow. I'm not sure why. It is a bland, plodding novel, now very dated. Its weird determi...
by Lord Tesla
March 21st, 2020, 6:32 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Universal Studios, 1954, B&W, 79 minutes. Directed by Jack Arnold. Starring Richard Carlson and Julia Adams. Good, clean, creature-feature fun, and Julia Adams in that swimsuit! :w00t: How can you go wrong?
by Lord Tesla
March 21st, 2020, 6:26 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Today in History...
Replies: 7
Views: 21870

Re: Today in History...

21 March A.D. 1980: J. R. Ewing shot in Dallas, Texas.
by Lord Tesla
March 20th, 2020, 4:03 pm
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

At some point, I've gotta dive more into these older movies. It can really pay off. And, as I recall, you've yet to see some top notch, even classics, of the '30s - '40s era, and even some of the cool SF films from the '50s. I've fairly recently watched or rewatched and can recommend The Thing from...
by Lord Tesla
March 20th, 2020, 3:35 pm
Forum: Fan Activitities
Topic: Fan Fiction: Recursion of the Force
Replies: 5
Views: 34102

Re: Fan Fiction: Recursion of the Force

Interesting... I'll need to digest it a bit more. Okay, seven months....more or less... ;) I know it was weird, but I didn't think it was quite that weird. Looking back on it I might make a change or two for clarity's sake, but...I'm still pretty satisfied with it, given what I had invested in it. ...
by Lord Tesla
March 17th, 2020, 11:34 am
Forum: Entertainment
Topic: Last Movie Watched
Replies: 168
Views: 404474

Re: Last Movie Watched

The War of the Worlds , 1953, Paramount Pictures, color, 85 minutes. Directed by Byron Haskins, produced by George Pal, starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. A much better film than I remembered. And a relief from current headlines, although...I was once familiar with some of the locations mentione...
by Lord Tesla
March 9th, 2020, 11:11 am
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: Celebrities Deaths
Replies: 9
Views: 32318

Re: Celebrities Deaths

R.I.P., Max von Sydow.
by Lord Tesla
March 9th, 2020, 11:08 am
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

No Time To Die Another Day of the Jackal.
by Lord Tesla
March 8th, 2020, 12:07 pm
Forum: The Cantina
Topic: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game
Replies: 57
Views: 151270

Re: [Game] Combine the Movie Titles Game

Dr. No Time to Die Another Day
by Lord Tesla
December 18th, 2019, 11:21 am
Forum: The Sequel Trilogy
Topic: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)
Replies: 228
Views: 677177

Re: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)

Won't spoil but they aren't Republic. That seems an easy inference from the X-Wing, and the direction it's pointing. I waited to see The Last Moof-Milker until it arrived on disc. I'm not sure about this one. I might go for a matinee after the crowds-- :laugh: -- die down. Then again, might not.
by Lord Tesla
December 2nd, 2019, 11:20 am
Forum: Star Wars on Television
Topic: Live-action: "The Mandalorian" (2019)
Replies: 73
Views: 161219

Re: "The Mandalorian" Live-Action Series (2019)

I haven't seen much of The Mandalorian. Ads, brief clips, some concept art circulating on the web. And who could escape the revoltingly cute Yodaling? And I keep thinking one thing: Lone Wolf and Cub But I don't think I see any Japanese people. Is this some of that "cultural appropriation"...
by Lord Tesla
October 22nd, 2019, 11:55 am
Forum: The Sequel Trilogy
Topic: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)
Replies: 228
Views: 677177

Re: Star Wars Episode IX (SPOILERS ALLOWED)

The final trailer. Didn't do anything to me. https://youtu.be/nlnrOr2STaE I wasn't particularly moved by it any which way, either. What looked like Star Destroyers--or a Star Destroyer--rising out of the water was a millisecond of interest, until I realized that, 1) this is a JJ Abrams flick, and 2...
by Lord Tesla
October 20th, 2019, 9:29 pm
Forum: Fan Activitities
Topic: Fan Fiction: Recursion of the Force
Replies: 5
Views: 34102

Re: Fan Fiction: Recursion of the Force

Interesting... I'll need to digest it a bit more. Okay, seven months....more or less... ;) I know it was weird, but I didn't think it was quite that weird. Looking back on it I might make a change or two for clarity's sake, but...I'm still pretty satisfied with it, given what I had invested in it.