Managed to catch the start of The Hallelujah Trail (all I can say about that farce, is have mercy on the cavalry lol); and then switched to Die Hard when I found it on :-), now The Horse Soldiers is starting; so there is something to watch while I sit in front of a computer, lol.
Movies
Just saw one of my favorites, You Can’t Take It with You. Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) as the old patriarch of a family of cooks, each lilies of the field; and James Stewart as the rich Tony Kirby, out to marry his granddaughter Alice (Jean Arthur). When things finally come to both families meeting, Tony throws a monkey wrench into Alice’s plans by bringing his parents to dinner a day ahead of schedule, before she can script her eccentric family into being “Normal”. Mr Kirby’s scheme to buy up the old Vanderhof house in a business backfires, and lands them all in the drunk tank. “Do you know who I am! I am Anthony P. Kirby!!!”.
After provoking an incident, Mr Kirby gets a proper mouth full, when grandpa Vanderhof tells him what he thinks of him and his craving for money. 3 or 4 lawyers finally show up to defend the Kirby’s in court, but just about everyone in the dang gum city turns out to support their friend, old grandpa Vanderhof. The judge finds the Vanderhofs guilty, after they admit to manufacturing fire works without a license in their basement; fining them $100.00, Mr Kirby offers to pay the fine but is turned down. Despite them all being as poor as Grandpa, the people chip in to pay the fine, even the judge contributing two bits himself! When it comes to why the Kirby’s were present at the arrest, grandpa Vanderhof tries to plagiarize himself to keep the Kirby’s out of the news papers, and Mrs Kirby pounces on it to save her social reputation; Alice flies off the handle with the truth as Tony Kirby finally sticks up for the truth.
Alice flees to Connecticut, the Kirby finical empire hinges on the biggest deal of Mr Kirby’s life, and the Vanderhofs sell the house so they can go to Connecticut and keep the family together. Tony is set up to be the President of the most powerful company in the America, and resigns to go follow his own dreams; then like grandpa Vanderhof so many years ago, brokken hearted Mr Kirby takes the elevator up to the top floor, where everyone is waiting to seal the big deal…. and he goes straight back down, out the door, and never looks back ;-). Tony asks grandpa Vanderhof how he can get in touch with Alice, but gets the hopeless truth, that she doesn’t want to see him and left to forget the past; but Tony also gets a bit of advice. The trouble with young people today, being that they never use the ol’bean, lol. He mentions that there is a large trunk in Alice’s room that will be going to where she is staying, and Tony gets the hint hehe. Alice shows up to question grandpa about selling the house, and locks herself in her bedroom when she sees Tony Kirby coming down the staircase.
Mr Kirby shows up to ask advice of old man Vanderhof, so he tells him to stop thinking in terms of fortunes, and sit and play a duet with him on the harmonica. Grandpa Vanderhof explains that whenever he has troubles, he just sits and plays his harmonica until it passes, and somehow it all works out ok in the end. Of all things, they play Polly Wolly Doodle until the rest of the family and friends helping with the move join in, Tony and Alice eventually joining in, and getting Mr Kirby’s approval of their marriage. When Mrs Kirby shows up looking for them, and finds the party going on, she out right faints xD. In the end, grandpa Vanderhof says grace at the big family dinner:
Quiet, please, quiet! Well, sir, here we are again. We’ve had quite a time of it lately, but it seems that the worst of it is over. Course, the fireworks all blew up, but we can’t very well blame that on you. Anyway, everything’s turned out fine, as it usually does. Alice is going to marry Tony; Mr. Kirby, who’s turned out to be a very good egg, sold us back our house – he’ll probably forget all about big deals for a while. Nobody on our block has to move; and, with the right handling, I think we can even thaw out Mrs. Kirby here. We’ve all got our health; as far as anything else is concerned, we still leave that up to you. Thank you. Bring it on, Reba!
Hmm, this movie reminds me of my favorite verse in the Bible, should look it up & post it someday. lol, that also reminds me of the last time I quoted it…. My pastor reminded me to stand behind the bible, rather then next to it, less my mother throw something at me >_>
Hahahaha !!!!
I put Stargate on and decided I would lay down for a few minutes before getting online; last thing I remember is O’Neil and Jackson being captured and about to be brought before Ra. Next thing I know, I wake up out of a sound sleep to see some show on depicting a 2 on 1, like wtf!? I slept through Stargate!!!
That’s what I get for taking a nap, instead of camping out in front of a computer lol.
N I’m wide awake and glad that unlike the rest of my family, I don’t set my TVs volume loud enough to be heard from Kansas..
Hmm, I’ve just seen a movie, that I’ll probably never watch again. Some of the thing troops go through in combat, are truly horrible. Even more terrifying, is what war can do to those that have been at it far to long. In a lot of ways, I’m glad I didn’t pursue a military career, b/c I honestly don’t know if I could live the rest of my life, if I had to experience some of the things that have happened to our fighting men. I generally have quite a hard exterior and the poker face to match it, but for this film, I shed tear.
Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
– Bill Mauldin, Up Front, 1944.
And say a prayer of thanks and for their safety, with my hand over my heart in salute.
After a massive interruption, I managed to catch the end of the War of the Roses. Now that, is what I would call, the divorce from hell lol. The movie is funny, but it’s not pretty.
The whole thing goes to pot, when the husband thinks he’s having a heartattack and is rushed to the hospital. The wife is feels ‘happy’ at the thought of being free of him; never mind the sweet deathbed note he wrote, thinking he was dying lol. Which in turn leads to the divorce, both want the house and won’t give it up… To the point, that they’ve worked on a system for dividing the house between them, in the words of the lawyer, “Does this seem rational to you both?”, “I have more square footage >_>”.
She denies him pills, he runs over her cat trying to drive to the store. She locks him in the sauna, he ‘snots’ the soup at her dinner party and pisses on the fish course (lmao!). She runs him over, monster-trucking over his Morgan with her big-ass SUV. Attempts to patch it up fail, ending with a waging war across the house (and a couple $100,000 in damage)… Including her trying to drop the chandelier on him, him trying to rape her turning into a more ‘natural’ moment, until she tries to bite his dick off loool (stupid bastard, should’ve seen it coming!). And more destruction of property, until finally they both end up sitting in the chandelier, as friends come to the rescue……
The cables holding the chandelier up, give way, since she loosed the cable, and they both fall to their death before help arrives.
If I ever get married, remind me to never get divorced!
Between a parakeet that has been screaming almost since dawn, a mother in the kitchen, and a dog underfoot, they’ve managed to give me a monster headache code wise :
At least there was something decent on TV tonight, but I slept through half of it lol. When I woe up though, I was pleasantly surprised to find The Mating Season on. it’s an old movie (1951), but it’s a wonderful movie. If memory serves, a man basically ends up tapped on the rescue when his bosses socialite girlfriends had an accident, which ends up with them getting hitched a very little while later.
The young Mr McNulty breaks the bank and goes into hock six ways from Sunday, to give his new wife Maggie a decent apartment. Nothing extravagant but quite high for his modest sallery, all for the love of a rich girl. His mother that flipped burgers for years to get him through college, finally gives the bank collector the big slip one more time and sells the hamburger joint. Goes out and buys a new dress, expansive hat (even by todays standards for common folk, so in 1951 it would’ve been insane!), and she goes down to drop in on her son and his new bride.
When the mother gets there, the new Mrs McNulty is trying to throw a dinner party, except for one thing. She never learned how to cook or keep house! So she’s expecting the maid her husband was sending over from the agency… When her mother in law shows up at the door, Maggie thinks that she is the maid, right off the bat, fair mistake. When the mother sees just how badly things are screwed up, she takes off the hat and puts on an apron. Just couldn’t bare to embarrass her daughter in law I guess, lmao. When Mr McNulty returns, he’s like WTF is going on here! but ends up cooking up a deal with his mom. To let her continue on as the ‘maid’, before she skips town and finds a worse job. And Maggie and the ‘maid’ become best of friends, and saves them a fortune on the shopping bill.
That’s when all hell breaks loose. The other mother in law comes down to visit, being a stuck up, rich bitch of a snob: treats the ‘maid’ like a dog, and even goes so far as to having the poor asshole sleeping on the couch in his own home :. Combine with his boss, his ex girlfriend, and his mother-in-law all trying to destroy their marriage, they drive the poor guy nuts. His boss, stealing a grand idea as his own and making him do the leg work, but doesn’t invite him to the party. But luckily, his wife loaned out the new ‘maid’ to his bosses father (the head of the company), to take care of the old man while he was sick in bed.
She tells him the truth about whose idea it really is and gets her son invited. At the party, Maggies snobbish partner in a game makes a snide comment resulting in an argument. Without even knowing or asking what went on, the husband immediately takes the other womans side, because he wants “in” with the folk their at the club and the business deal to go through. So he forces his wife to apologize to the old bat, and she does. Making a big play up about possibly having an affair with his boss (who was her former boyfriend). Which starts a good quarrel between them. When Maggie’s mother sees something odd in the middle of the night, she accuses her son in law of fooling around with the maid! When Maggie finds out that the maid is really her mother in law, and hat he has kept this secret the whole time, that’s the last blow — and she puts an end to the whole thing.
That’s when his mother saves the day, lol. Getting together with the head of the company, they hatch a bigin’ with setting up a meeting between the two parted but newly wedded morons, before Maggie can leave town. Later on the son presents his mother to the snob from the club, and throughly puts and end to his own snobbish ways by rejecting the club as not good enough for his family. Now that the “cat is out of the bag’, his mothers able to speak freely with the other mother in law. When his mother in law decides that she’s moving in for the long term to be with her daughter, his mom fixes it good :-). That this time, it would be no more slave labour, the two mothers would help out, and the rich bitch would be put to work ! Hahahahahahaha, it’s priceless >_>
As that is all taken care of and the young couple is back together again, another twist of fate. The head of the company, having taken a liking to the ‘maid’ when she took care of him earlier. Hears his son (the boss from before) say that he would rather have his throat cut, then have a mother like Mr McNulty’s, the old man comes to his decision. And finally asks her out in his limo <_<
It’s a crazy movie, but it’s hilarious some of the jokes that go through the scenes. You’d have to watch it to get it. If you ever had an in-law of an out-law move in, it probably would be even more funny then it is to me lol.
Some classics, are just classically funny if you sit and watch them.
Managed to catch the last half of Crimson Tide. I haven’t seen the movie in ages, was nice to actually get to see something though… Once everyone else is asleep, it’s actually possible to get stuff done, so I rarely watch TV lol.
One thing I do know, I can’t stand the idea of serving on a submarine. At least if a service ship goes down, you might have get off the ship in one piece, deal with the undertow trying to suck you under, and not freeze to death before CSAR arrives… But at least you’ve got some chance. ON a sub, if something happens hundreds of feet below, ya a tad bit fucked.
Not exactly a movie that I would choose on my own, but so fucking funny it was worth cooperation lol. Ok, these two couples are shopping… The pregnant mothers on one end of the store and the fathers on the other side. While the guys are going buy, there is a dude in a “Arnie” Dinosaur suite pitching a sale to some kids — making fun of Barny the Dinosaur of doom. When the two guys walk buy, he tries to sell them the video:
Marty: I’m not gonna buy your damn video!
Arnie: But the kids will love it…
Marty: My kids will hate it because they think your show sucks!
Arnie: [after a long pause] Oh.
Samuel Faulkner: Thanks anyway.
Arnie: Oh sure, no hard feelings okay?
Marty: Alright.
[He and Samuel walk away]
Arnie: Ah, ya cheap shit.
Marty: What did you say?
Arnie: Oh gee, I didn’t say nothing mister, you must be hearing things. Bye bye, Arnie loves you. Ya penis-head.
Marty: Now I heard that!
Arnie: Heard what?
Marty: I heard what you said!
Arnie: I didn’t say nothing… Ya fat ass pussy.
And the two guys end up diving at him, three way brawl with “Arnie” cussing them out through the whole thing, until the women come over and find the “children” fighting. hilarious !
Just caught the end of Iron Eagle on TV, it’s about as much of a cheesy unrealistic ’80s action flick as ya can get. But it is the only decent cheesy action flick with lots of air action that I now of >_>.
The whole jist of the movie is a kid skipping town with a pair of USAF F-16s to rescue his father, and ending up single handly saving the day while dancing beteen AAA and MiGs, although how any one could call those things MiGs without being drunk, is totally beyond me. Those airframes just screen Dassault Mirage! The movies never the less enjoyable, as long as one can forget a few bits of reality, kick back and relax that is.
It reminds me that I’ve never really found a flight simulation that I like. Everyone that I’ve ever played, either boils down to being to arcade like, not my bag, or proves that a keyboard and joystick are a poor substitute for a real aircrafts cockpit lol. I like flight sims but they don’t like me I guess :. I’ve never really had much taste for modern missile based combat either, just a gun-fighter at heart I guess… And I have *never* found a flight sim game that had an AI that could really dog fight, get past the missles and they are just toast. Although it’s a very arcade-like game, Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere was actually quite fun, just wish I had a Japanese copy of it… Most particularly the mission where one has to fly in hot pursuit of the X-49 Night Raven through a tunnel system, leading the player into a later level where one duals the ultra-nimble aircraft inside the caverns below.
The fun part of course is getting through the level at high speed without crashing, then moving on to shoot it out with the Night Raven for an A ;-). The occasional duals with the UI-4054 Aurora, looks like one of our spyplanes but flies like a jetfighter from hell lol. Some of the few times that the computers proven to be a challenge I guess :. I eventually gave up on flight sims in general, do to lack of anything fun that didn’t go to either extreme (the arcade Vs where is my simpod problem). Hmm, before I quit though I remember when one of the console based flight sims came out, more realistic then most consolers but still to arcadey for my tastes. When my brother watched me fly one of the attack fighter missions, he described me as a lethal S.O.B. while I was making waves, crazy wall crawling spider at work xD. But it’s been *years* since I’ve actually played any flight-based games seriously.
If I ever found a game that I could enjoy and not dislike, maybe I’d get back into flight simulations someday. But none just seem to strike a good balance :. And I flibbin’ hate air-to-air missiles! In a lot of ways, I think the truest forms of air combat began dying out after World War II, disappearing into the post Vietnam era… Where a pilots skill is as important then his technology, if not even more so. Who knows, maybe technology will one day return fighter pilots to more dog fighting, less ground attack jobs.
Either way, I’m not likely to ever fly let along get a pilots license, and my Dream Girl is already retired anyway.
Cought an excellent movie on tonight, one I haven’t seen in quite awhile as point of fact: Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell as Mame.
The film starts out in the 1920s with a man writing his will, that when he passes on. His sons future would be well taken care by his banker. But his son would end up in the care of his sister, something that he wouldn’t even wish on a dog! But of course keeping himself in good shape, he figures that there will be no need to worry for while. He dies at an ironic time during PT, making the papers with the shocker ^_^. Which send his young son Patrick and servant Norah Muldoon off to live with his living realitive.
Patrick’s “Auntie Mame” mistakes him and Norah for the new dishwasher when they walk in on a party. Setting the entire film in motion as they adjust to life together. The character of Auntie Mame is without a doubt, one of the best. She is arguably a first class screw up, party animal, and a lune but a very good person. Nuts as a mad hair but a good person lol. They have a near non stop stream of parties or as Norah puts it when groaning with the decorator. They’ve had 13 parties in two weeks, would have been 14 but the bootlegger couldn’t come that day, hahaha.
When the stock market crashes as the great depression looms, Mame and all of her friends are totally wiped out. Her best girl friend Vera (who is usually passed out drunk at Mames place) hooks her up with a two bit part in one of her plays. Mame is almost literally there with bells on and ruins the show when she gets her bracelet stuck on Vera’s dress. Although it is probably a great way to get fired on the first night, she actually cracked up the audience and livened up a really dull drama. In search of a new job, she ends up as a switchboard operator on a PBX and bungles it horribly.
While working as a sales girl at Macy’s, Mame walking around with the worlds most horrendous sales book in history (practically trailing behind her). She meets a fine southren gentlemen, whose out buying 24 pairs of roller skates for an orphanage. After Mame gets fired, he chases after the manager to explain things; she shouts a reminder to get the skates, and “get them at Gimbles!”. Fast forward a bit and “Beau” has brought her home to the plantation to meet his family. Where an jealous ol’filly suckers Mame into riding in a fox hunt, side saddle atop of a killer horse. The plantation sequence is bloody hilarious, even more so perhaps if your an American. Every one but Beau is expecting Mame to die in the process, even young Patrick who offers to trip her, “You’ll only break a leg Auntie Mame”. Not only those that zany woman manage to survive the fox hunt, while riding side saddle!!! She passes the hounds, she passes the fox! And ends up flying off the monstrous horse and into the bushes, holding a steering wheel as the only thing keeping her from flying back to blue belly hell >_>.
Beau purposes and she excepts but little Patrick just has one question, who the flib did she stay on that horse!? It seems that just like in the play, she got “stuck but at the other end” looool. Mame and Beau take a honey moon around the world, where Beau is always trying to get to the highest places to snap a picture of his bride, until he ends up falling off the Matterhorn in the alps. Mame eventually returns home to friends and family, only to find out that the growing Patrick is getting married. And even worse, to the most stuck up snob on two legs. Patrick manages to convince her to write her memoirs and play it “sane” long enough to pass in front of his snobbish fiancée. Before the wedding, Mame invites everyone to her place for an intimate family dinner…. Masterfully planned as only “Auntie Mame” could “accidentally” arrange ^_^.
She redecorates the place to beat the bands and what a perfect idea it is. She drives Patrick’s in-laws to be and fiancée crazy, invites every “riff raft” friend who helped raise him over. And totally sets off utter chaos — if anyone can get through this part of the movie without laughing at it, they must be a part Vulcan. Mame succeeds in destroying the evil engagement, driving the matchmaking banker insane, and making Patrick realize hat a doomed course he was set to, rather then actually living his life. Several years later, Mame is entertaining the son of Patrick and her (now former) secretary, and scheming a way to show the youngster India!
At first glance it might be a boring idea for a movie but in actual watching. Auntie Mame is a great movie, funny, entertaining, and the best rendition that I’ve seen. It’s been made into a movie at least 3 times, who knows how many times on stage as well. But the first film outing is the best IMHO, and most funny 🙂
Yes! Live! Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
Coming on at 0100Q is a movie that my family has enjoyed for ages, The Trouble with Angels. A really long time actually, my parents first saw it on a date in the ’60s. It was a drive in double feature of Cinderella and The Trouble with Angels, and the entire family has enjoyed the movie since lol.
It follows two girls at a Catholic boarding school run by a group of nuns. The two of them get in enough hilarious trouble, that the poor Mother Superior is lucky enough to survive the movie! From bubble bath in the nuns tea, the smoking affair, making a plaster mask of another students face, and oh… what pranks those two brats play! It’s like watching a little demon and her stooge at work lol. It’s also the film that introduced my family to the expression,
“I’ve got the most scathingly brilliant idea”
Which usually occurs before they get into more trouble ^_^. You’ve got to admire the nuns, for not beating the ever loving crap out of them for all of the torment they are subjected too…