Not so good movies

[Industrial Toys]

Watched "Trauma Centre" last night with Bruce Willis on LeftFlicks. Lady friend announced, "I found a good movie for us to watch tonight".

Isn't Bruce Willis Ashamed? What a terrible, terrible waste of talent and charactor. And certainly not the first recently.

 

[oosik]

Last time I went to a "movie theatre" was 1965. Friday nights @ the I-Bar-F, Glennallen, AK. 16mm projector - white sheet hanging on the far wall.

Otherwise - if it isn't on the tube, I won't be seeing it. I won't watch zombies, LBQTD, or a whole lot of those supposed "reality shows" either.

 

[Jstpssng]

Last time I went to a "movie theatre" was 1965. Friday nights @ the I-Bar-F, Glennallen, AK. 16mm projector - white sheet hanging on the far wall.

Otherwise - if it isn't on the tube, I won't be seeing it. I won't watch zombies, LBQTD, or a whole lot of those supposed "reality shows" either.

The last movie that I saw in a theatre was "Platoon" when it came out.(1986?) Come to think of it, that also was the last time that I saw the woman who went with me.
I don't even have a "tube"... well, there is the TV that I saved for years to buy, which has been down in the shed ever since everything went digital a year later.

I also won't watch zombies, LBQTD, or any of those fake reality shows.

 

[drssg]

The last time I was in a movie theater was a couple of Star Wars movies ago, which was my first in quite a while.

I find movie theaters to be way to loud, so I wear ear plugs. The more recent change is that, in addition to playing the movie very loud, they have super low frequency bass effects. These base notes go right through ear plugs, which work better for higher frequency noises.

I went there with a large group of family, or else I would have walked out. I found it miserable, and I swore I would never by back.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Was at my daughter's place yesterday; my Grandsons were watching a movie "The Skeleton Key". When I found out it dealt with evil spirits, satanism and such I declined to watch...but I did notice that John Hurt was listed in the cast. I asked my Grandsons if they knew who John Hurt was, and of course they said "No". I said that he played the starring role of Joseph Merrick in "Elephant Man". To my surprise, neither had seen it...in my mind a classic movie...and of course I wasn't surprised when they said neither had seen "The Proposition".

I guess that's what Grandpas are for; to remember all that "old" stuff.

 

[Industrial Toys]

The first star wars movie was the first and only one I have ever seen. And of course saw it in a theatre.

As for that bad movie I saw on the weekend. In one scene, the bad guys are shutting off the lights in the hospital corridor. And with every bank of lights going off, there is a loud bang, like an explosion. You see that in a lot of movies. It's as bad as the firearms falsehoods!

 

[drssg]

I like the firearms falsehood where someone gets shot, and the impact from the bullet knocks their body around like they were hit by a truck.

If the bullet had that much momentum, it would have a similar effect on the guy that fired the gun.

 

[Industrial Toys]

How else are you supposed to "BLOW" someone away?

I still like how the hero can be attacked by numerous persons with sub machine guns and not get hit, or even wounded by shrapnel. Then takes them out one at a time with his sidearm.

They say if a target is on the other side of a vehicle, just shoot at the ground. Bullets apparently have a tendency to follow ground or a flat wall for that matter. Interesting thing to remember.

 

[JasperFrank]

"Taken," Liam Neeson. Been to Paris, and no, you can't drive a car like that on the river bank. There are no silent, white slave, auctions. And seriously, those guards on the boat, were dumber than Star Wars Storm Troopers.

 

[Jstpssng]

How else are you supposed to "BLOW" someone away?

I still like how the hero can be attacked by numerous persons with sub machine guns and not get hit, or even wounded by shrapnel. Then takes them out one at a time with his sidearm.

They say if a target is on the other side of a vehicle, just shoot at the ground. Bullets apparently have a tendency to follow ground or a flat wall for that matter. Interesting thing to remember.

In one of the Bruce Willis movies he's on the ground with a helicopter overhead and the occupants are raining bullets down... missing him, of course. All that he has is a snub nosed revolver with two rounds in it, so he shoots a high tension wire which comes down on the chopper, causing mega arcing (although nothing was grounded) and the chopper to come crashing down.
I don't know about out in California, but aside from his amazing shooting, our power lines here are a lot tougher than that. I knew a crop duster pilot who allegedly hooked a wire with his landing gear and ripped several poles out of the ground.