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- Thread starter Gorn
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Pet Sematary.
The original one from 1989. I don't know why I watched this movie again. It freaks me out every single time, and now I'll be holding my Achilles when I sit down for the next few weeks.
-Mike
The original one from 1989. I don't know why I watched this movie again. It freaks me out every single time, and now I'll be holding my Achilles when I sit down for the next few weeks.
-Mike
I think it's pretty reasonable to be freaked out by that part.
Also the Ramones song from that soundtrack is pretty good.
I started watching the new Zorro series on Paramount last weekend.
I like it! And I'm a child if the Disney 50s, when Guy Williams starred as Zorro in their series - which made that character just about as famous as the Lone Ranger. If kids in the 50s didn't want to be Superman or the Lone Ranger, you can bet they wanted to be Zorro. It was a BIG hit!
I was pleased that in this new series they have used the character names of earlier series - Don Diego, Bernardo, Monasterio, etc. The black horse Tornado is there, as is the black outfit and the broad-brimmed hat which dates back to the early character and most recently looked great on Antonio Banderas.
One Disney series character is missing for good reason - the fat and not very bright comic Sergeant Garcia. For reasons we all understand, this is not a day and age when a production will include Mexican characters like dumb, fat Sergeants or happy Mexican bandidos. That day is past.
It's shot in the Canary Islands, and they created a very plausible version of Los Angeles in the 1830s and 40s. It has a nice look and the cinematography is well done. There are errors in continuity such as a two-shot derringer that appeared to fire three times, and a scene in which Zorro walks away leaving one of his knives in a soldier he has dispatched.
Here's one little treat for you - there is more than one generation of Zorro in the series, and the first one is played by Cristo Fernandez, who played Dani Rojas in the Ted Lasso series. Nice to see him!
I've always been a sucker for Zorro, who was created by newspaperman Johnston McCully in the 1930s. There's no better swashbuckler in history, even including Errol Flynn in Captain Blood and Robin Hood.
I like it! And I'm a child if the Disney 50s, when Guy Williams starred as Zorro in their series - which made that character just about as famous as the Lone Ranger. If kids in the 50s didn't want to be Superman or the Lone Ranger, you can bet they wanted to be Zorro. It was a BIG hit!
I was pleased that in this new series they have used the character names of earlier series - Don Diego, Bernardo, Monasterio, etc. The black horse Tornado is there, as is the black outfit and the broad-brimmed hat which dates back to the early character and most recently looked great on Antonio Banderas.
One Disney series character is missing for good reason - the fat and not very bright comic Sergeant Garcia. For reasons we all understand, this is not a day and age when a production will include Mexican characters like dumb, fat Sergeants or happy Mexican bandidos. That day is past.
It's shot in the Canary Islands, and they created a very plausible version of Los Angeles in the 1830s and 40s. It has a nice look and the cinematography is well done. There are errors in continuity such as a two-shot derringer that appeared to fire three times, and a scene in which Zorro walks away leaving one of his knives in a soldier he has dispatched.
Here's one little treat for you - there is more than one generation of Zorro in the series, and the first one is played by Cristo Fernandez, who played Dani Rojas in the Ted Lasso series. Nice to see him!
I've always been a sucker for Zorro, who was created by newspaperman Johnston McCully in the 1930s. There's no better swashbuckler in history, even including Errol Flynn in Captain Blood and Robin Hood.
I had finished up The Rockford Files and not seven episodes into Bones.
I like watching old series like The Rockford Files, recognizing actors, and looking them up to see where in their career such an appearance occurred.
I like watching old series like The Rockford Files, recognizing actors, and looking them up to see where in their career such an appearance occurred.
Watching The Cursed for the fourth or so time. I'm always up for a halfway decent monster movie and Boyd Holbrook has become an actor I'll watch in almost anything.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Amazon is excellent. Very different from the movie version, but worth watching.
I was a Stephen King fan until Pet Sematary. I was really put off by the way he killed Gage, which is weak rationalization given the things he had already done to children in previous works. Maybe it was just time to move on. I have gone back and read a few more of his works after Pet Sematary, but none of them grabbed me like his earlier stories did.
Skeleton Crew will always be tops for me, but the Stand is a classic, and the Shining is brilliant.
"Elvis"
Overall, I liked it. It was interesting to have Col. Tom Parker (played by Tom Hanks) as the narrator. I learned a lot more about Parker than I did about Elvis.
Overall, I liked it. It was interesting to have Col. Tom Parker (played by Tom Hanks) as the narrator. I learned a lot more about Parker than I did about Elvis.
I think I just need to leave Stephen King alone. That guy is messed up in the head to be thinking up the stuff he does.
-Mike
-Mike
The cocaine and alcohol certainly helped.
Not bashing the guy; I'm a big Stephen King fan. In fact, my favorite book of his is "Insomnia". If you haven't read it, check it out. Love the Dark Tower series books as well. "The Mist" is one of the few stories I've ever read that freaked me out.
The cocaine and alcohol certainly helped.
The Mist is a stone-cold classic of the genre, one of the very best.
I love all the early King stuff but only recently got through IT. Never read Cujo or Pet Cemetery (yet). He’s actually had some good one recently as well. The Stand and The Dead Zone will always be my favourites. I’ve tried to watch TV adaptations of The Stand but none have done it justice. I think Randall Flagg just has to live in your imagination. The Shining, IT and Salems Lot were decent adaptations though.
