Perfect. After Discovery, Enterprise is the next weak link. Everything else is pretty great.

I’ll give it another try, but I’ll skip that ridiculouus first season

I got to season 3 before bailing, but season one was really ponderous. I’m really over the Star Trek obsession with Klingons.

I cant wait. I’ve loved all the Star Trek series except Discovery. I just couldn’t get into it, and I tried hard. Maybe I’ll give it another go before this comes out.

Half of America are horrified by it, and the other half think it’s something to be proud of, because they’re ignorant neanderthals.

I’m listening…

If Disney had supported their star, instead of attacking her, she would have wanted to promote the movie.

I’ve seen that, and figured that was exactly the story. They even used a clip of the Willie’s whistled tune to lock that up, too.

They’ve had cocktails for years, that’s nothing new. I don’t buy them, because the only time I bought a beer in a movie theater, they charged me $12. That was pre-Covid. Its probably $18 now. How do they think that charging those predatory proces is going to entice people back to the movies?

With those predatory prices, I have no moral qualms with bringing in my own. I stop at Dollar Tree on the way to the theater, buy my snacks there (they have candy in noiseless movie boxes for $1.25 instead of $8), and sneak in those and a bottle of water. I’ve been doing that for many years, and nobody has ever said a thing. My son walks in with a tote bag full of groceries, and nobody ever stops him.

All three of these look pretty interesting.

Hmmm, sounds like something I’ll like.

I can’t speak for Putin, but MAGA is a cult of personality. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, there will be a vicious battle for leadership, and at least half of the MAGA Morons will drop out without their divine leader to follow. Its very likely they will pivot to making him a religious figure.

The traditional GOP will try to recapture their hegemony over the party, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs will wage a war to keep and expand their influence. They will all try to float a new leader, and we can expect HitlerPig Jr to make a big attempt, but he’ll be recieved the same way as Frank Sinatra Jr - with a yawn. Anyone else will be accepted even less.

I hope the battle for control of the party will result in internecine violence, so the Dems can regain power, and use the crimes and violence of the MAGAs to crush them, and purge them from government and society.

Miracle Mile (1988) - Streaming on Prime. About a guy who randomly meets a girl, and they have instant, love-at-first-sight chemistry. They agree to meet after she gets off work at midnight. Then he picks up a ringing pay phone, and listens to the wrong number panicking because a nuclear strike is about to hit LA in an hour. It becomes a race against time to find his true love, and escape before the bombs hit, as LA descends into PRE-apocalyptic chaos.

I hope someone is working on inventing the Holodeck.

I worked for their music distribution division, WEA, in the 90s, and they had been the #1 record company in America for 25 straight years. It was a cool company to work for, and my dream job.

Then they let the accountants get control, and they started cutting costs. One of the first things they did was close a bunch of branches, and thousands of people, including myself, were out of jobs. Within a year, they had fallen to #4, out of the 5 major labels at the time, and they never recovered.

Now it sounds like the accountants have come up with the idea of selling off the catalogue that has literally defined the company for decades. Every Warner Bros division had its own mascot. WEA’s was the Raodrunner. Those cartoons and characters are the DNA of Warner Bros.

Never let the accountants make business suggestions or decisions. If upu own or run a company, and an accountant tries to make a suggestion, yell at them rudely, and tell them shut up and go back to their hole and count the money like they are paid to do. Nobody is interested in creative ideas from an accountant.

A lot of times its too much trouble to fiddle with the highlighting to catch the right spaces, and then drop it in the right spot. Its easier to just grab it, drop it, then edit the spaces.

Good suggestion.

BOTH of those movies have been on my list for a long time, and I’ve never seen either of them. My son is a cinephile and a massive Lynch fan. I’ll suggest this double-feature to him for the next time we have movie night. I’ll bet he’ll like that.

I just watched an interesting movie called “The World, The Flesh, and The Devil,” from 1959, starring Harry Belafonte. It is thought to be the first post-nuclear holocaust film, where Belafonte is trapped in a mine for a few days, and when he digs his way out, the entire world has been wiped out by a nuclear holocaust.

It’s not the greatest movie ever, with some occasional weak writing, and questionable acting, but it was still an entertaining watch just the same. One of those 6/10 movies that is somehow still compelling.

Wow, compelling. /S

I always recommend the Alfred Hitchcock films from the 40s & 50s, but especially the color films from the 50s, and ESPECIALLY Rear Window, which is a prime example of a perfect movie. There us not a bad movie among them; in fact, every one of them is at least an 8, and many of them are genuine 10s, including:

Lifeboat

Rebecca

Strangers on a Train

Notorious

Dial M for Murder

Rear Window

North by Northwest

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Rope

Vertigo

Pyscho