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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2023 1:32:49 GMT -5
Warrior Season 3 finally starts June 29. Hands down my favourite tv show....
That's a new one on me, might have to give it a look. The action scenes look pretty high quality, which I find isn't always the case with tv shows of this kind compared to the movies.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 23:06:25 GMT -5
Yesterday was the 107th anniversary of Beaumont-Hamel, an action in the Battle of the Somme in WWI in which the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was nearly wiped out: out of 800+ men who went over the top only 68 were able to answer roll-call the following morning. They have a service every year at the War Memorial not far from my apartment but I usually don't get up early enough to make it. This year I did, though, and it was nice. I was impressed that official representatives from the UK, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey all showed up to lay wreaths. And they had a choir to sing the Ode to Newfoundland.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 22:52:58 GMT -5
I watched Cool Hand Luke on black and white tv as a kid in the early 1970s and have not seen it since. Not sure how much they cut for tv and I'm sure I was too young to appreciate everything about it so I really should re-watch it some time.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 22:47:13 GMT -5
Hate #13
I feel like I was buying more comics in the early 1990s than I usually list in this thread. Maybe my memory's playing me false or maybe there's a few independent things not included on Mike's site.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 22:40:47 GMT -5
July 1983:
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #12 E-Man #7 New Teen Titans #35 Saga of Swamp Thing #17 Silver Star #4
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 22:32:44 GMT -5
Terra Obscura #2
I don't recall much about this Alan Moore miniseries. I think it was only OK but at this point I wasn't interested in new superhero stories so there wasn't much here to attract me, in spite of Moore being my favourite comics writer. Yannik Paquette's artwork has never really grabbed me either, I thk partly because I don't care for the style of his regular inker.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 18:59:25 GMT -5
From Mike's site all I see is that I bought in July 1973:
Crazy Magazine #1
Not listed on Mike's site is whatever issue of MAD Magazine was out that month - probably #162 if the cover date was October as it was for most other comics on the shelves.
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Post by berkley on Jul 1, 2023 18:28:19 GMT -5
I'll have to look up the year's release list to check but I'm fairly certain I'll find a ton of personal favourites, including a few already mentioned (e.g. Burn, Sheer Heart Attack). Just leaving for Canada Day celebrations so I'll check back in later.
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Post by berkley on Jun 29, 2023 23:53:34 GMT -5
I've been feeling the same way as MRP for a while now. But I haven't finished my review thread yet. I miss Supercat. And not just because I am a cat person.
I missed that - I assumed that everyone just deleted their accounts without comment but MRP said why he was leaving?
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Post by berkley on Jun 29, 2023 23:38:19 GMT -5
Started up a re-watch of Boardwalk Empire. I don't think I've seen it since it first came out on DVD (actually I'm not 100% sure I ever watched the last season). I'm only three episodes in to season one, but I'd forgotten what a complete dirt-bag Michael Shannon's Prohibition Agent character was. Steve Buscemi is just great in this (and pretty much everything). And...damn...I miss Michael Kenneth Williams. R.I.P.
This is the show Martin Scorsese was involved in, is that right? I always wondered how much input he had into it. I assume he wasn't actually the show-runner, that would be too much to hope for, but was he fairly hands-on or did he only come up with the concept and then lend the prestige of his name to the project?
I'll probably watch it eventually regardless but the more Scorsese had to do with it the sooner I'm likely to get around to it.
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Post by berkley on Jun 29, 2023 14:58:59 GMT -5
Epic had the most creative offering IMHO. Yes, when I hear "anthology comic" I think of a series that had multiple stories (not featuring the same character) in each individual issue, not a series that featured different characters at different times. Like DC's House of Mystery, for example. To me, something like, say, the Deathlok run in Astonishing Tales feels exactly the same as if it had been a Deathlok miniseries or short-lived ongoing that got cancelled, so I don't really think of it as part of an anthology series called Astonishing Tales (even though AT used to feature two separate stories per issue with different lead characters).
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Post by berkley on Jun 28, 2023 23:19:10 GMT -5
St. John's Amazing Ghost Stories #14 (1954) Matt Baker, I believe.
Nonsense, the artist was a gentleman named Ten Cents, you can see his signature on the boat.
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Post by berkley on Jun 28, 2023 23:07:54 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about all these regulars leaving. I've enjoyed reading their posts, agree or disagree. Hearing that someone's not only stopped posting but has also deleted their account always makes me worry a little that they've been hurt or offended in some way and that I may have contributed to this. Not a good feeling.
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Post by berkley on Jun 28, 2023 6:02:51 GMT -5
Leaving aside the various Star Trek and Star Wars series, what have been the best science fiction shows of the last 5 or 10 years? I haven't seen anything much lately and I'd like to start on something soon. Depends on what you mean by science fiction; if you're talking about space opera a la Star Trek or Galactica, the only one I've watched that I can recommend (assuming that you haven't already seen it) is The Orville, which pleasantly surprised me - to some extent, it is, or was at the beginning, kind of like TNG peppered with crude humor, but it quickly won me over with really strong and enjoyable stories. There's also Avenue 5 - which I mentioned upthread a while back: it's a straight-up space opera sitcom that I think could have been better but is still very watchable with moments of hilarity (the second season is better than the first).
For more general SF, though, there's Resident Alien, which is incredibly entertaining (Alan Tudyk as the titular alien is absolutely brilliant.) I'd also recommend the dystopian series Station Eleven ( which I mentioned on the preceding page - the trailer is embedded). I just got through watching it recently. It's eight episodes, tells a complete story and is really quite good (a rather well-written, engrossing story - it's an adaptation of a novel - and a really strong cast). Another one that sort of straddles the line between SF and urban fantasy - with a little bit of sticom mixed in - is yet another one I mentioned on the preceding page, Mrs. Davis. It's tone is lighter and more humorous (although the humor is occasionally a bit dark), but it is similarly well-written with a stellar cast - and again, it tells a complete story (also 8 episodes) with a satisfying close.
Thanks, there's a couple there I don't think I've heard of before and a couple I'd forgotten about. I'll definitely try a few of these.
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Post by berkley on Jun 26, 2023 23:35:35 GMT -5
Saw this on Facebook earlier and yes, while I'm aware that it's aimed for "content creators", who on earth would need 22 or even 44 terrabytes worth of storage space?! Give it ten years or so, and that might not seem excessive. As more storage becomes available, they're gonna make more stuff to store. I used to think a single terabyte was way more than I would ever need, but I'm up to needing 2 TBs to store backups of my stuff. Very little of that is movies, and what there is of movies, they're mostly low-quality. I imagine movie buffs who want to keep their own off-line copies of movies could go for much larger drives. How much space does a Windows install need these days? 10 - 20 GB, isn't it? That would have seemed absurd not too long ago (at least in the way an old man reckons "not too long ago"), but everybody's got the space for it, so just bloat that OS all the way to heck and back. I know that's still a tiny fraction of 22 TB, but it illustrates the point of eating up space just because you can (seemingly, anyway).
Yeah, movies and shows can soon add up to a lot of space. Especially if you're going after the highest video quality, as a friend of mine with some nice home entertainment gear does.
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