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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2024 11:51:17 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2024 10:44:01 GMT -5
I second farrar!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2024 10:00:51 GMT -5
Chess
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 13, 2024 5:22:49 GMT -5
Size
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 12, 2024 17:41:23 GMT -5
I didn't follow that series, but didn't Millenium end in an episode of The X-Files?
That's like Skull the Slayer concluding in Marvel Two-in-one!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 12, 2024 17:36:07 GMT -5
I just watched The Chosen (1978) with Kirk Douglas. I had never seen it, despite being a fan of 70s films dealing with the upcoming apocalypse.
Tonally, it felt a lot like The Omen, but with the marching orders "do The Omen, but differently". Nowadays, after decades of movies exploiting the Book of Revelations, the literal interpretation of some biblical passages feels a little quaint; however, back then, I suppose it could have felt pretty clever.
There isn't much tension, I must say, but I give the movie added bonus points for its inconclusive ending. I fully expected it to end in a certain way (a very old cliché) and it did not.
Not particularly recommended, but not one to avoid either.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 12, 2024 17:29:33 GMT -5
Night
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 11, 2024 19:55:34 GMT -5
Ashes
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 11, 2024 17:19:21 GMT -5
Cover
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 11, 2024 8:52:51 GMT -5
Blind
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 10, 2024 19:51:36 GMT -5
I'm feeling melancholy tonight, so please bear with me...
We don't die as long as people remember us, I heard. If that's the case, I'd like to reiterate my affection for Dr. Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Dr. Albrecht Dold, the lovely couple who welcomed my wife and I (when we were WAY younger than today!) as tenants in their lovely house in the early 90s. They were mathematicians who warrant their own their Wikipedia page, and a lovelier pair you will never meet. Albrecht was soft-spoken, frail-looking and insanely kind and intelligent. Yvonne was equally smart, but seemingly made of iron; just picture Judy Dench as M.
Although Germans (well, Yvonne was Dutch) tend to be more Vulcan than Tamaranean when it comes to interpersonal relationships, we always knew that they cared for us. At one point they invited us two dumb Canuck kids to see Der Fliegende Holländer at the Mannheim opera (and thank God for my father initiating me to Wagner's works), where we told them my wife was expecting our first child. They were thrilled, in their reserved way, and we felt as proud as can be.
Years later, we were deeply chagrined when we learned that Albrecht had suffered from Alzheimer's disease before passing away, and that Yvonne had followed him soon after. I expected her to bury old Father Time, honestly; her passing was pretty hard to accept.
My elder son, when backpacking across Europe, went to look at the house and met a neighbour. She didn't know who he was talking about.
But my wife and I remember, Yvonne and Albrecht, and your memory is a blessing. You still live in our hearts, and you are still loved.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 10, 2024 15:08:27 GMT -5
The actor playing Aragorn did look a little like Viggo, I thought. In any case, I really enjoyed that fan-made production a few years ago... and I can almost guarantee that I will still like it better than the new "official" versions when they come out. Not that I try to be contrarian, but The Hobbit trilogy was very underwhelming and what I saw of The Rings of Power was utter dreck. Having WETA on one's side is not enough to make a good Tolkien film!
Shades of the Star Wars franchise...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 10, 2024 14:39:55 GMT -5
Gobelin
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 10, 2024 11:45:52 GMT -5
I nominate impulse . His entries in the Word association game are often hilarious and really in the spirit of the thing!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 10, 2024 11:36:02 GMT -5
Onion
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