What are you watching?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

One of the most memorable commercials of the 70's:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Revisiting a classic.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

A coincidence -- I watched my DVD of "Castle in the Sky" just the other night
Very good early Miyazaki.

And here's some news:

Netflix releases 21 of Ghibli Studios’ most iconic animated films

Netflix has the rights to 21 Studio Ghibli classics, including Japanese animator and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki’s films

www.google.com

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Yes, it's good news except for the U.S., no Ghibli for us

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Hey, you're right! I didn't notice that. There are workarounds:

Redirect Notice

 

[Olorgando]

Yes, it's good news except for the U.S., no Ghibli for us

The only Ghibli I know is that Maserati sports car with a power output, for about the mid-1960s, of horrendous 300+ hp. Not what you're talking about, I'd guess … 🤔

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

The only Ghibli I know is that Maserati sports car with a power output, for about the mid-1960s, of horrendous 300+ hp. Not what you're talking about, I'd guess … 🤔

Nope, Studio Ghibli is a Japanese Animated Film studio. Hayao Miyazaki is one of the co-founders and has made some of the most beautiful animated movies. Here's a trailer for one of my favorites, Howl's Moving Castle. The music and animation are stunning. If you get a chance to see one of his movies, you should, just don't start with Graveyard of the Fireflies like I did 😢

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

OK, so Solar injured her back during a rehearsal, and I believe it was suggested she try pole dancing as a back-strengthening exercise. She liked it so much, she decided to study it seriously. After a year, she was able to perform this with her instructor (it's considered an art form in Korea, BTW):

(I recommend turning the captions off -- they get in the way)

I'm soft-hearted anyway, but the combination of strength, grace, and beauty moves me almost to tears. It's performed to a song written by by her:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I'm not sure what this is referencing, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull was just a bad dream and never actually happened 😬

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Posted without comment:

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Halasían]

Queen Sono on Netflix.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Looks good!
If we're doing trailers, here's the one for Hotel del Luna:

And here are a few of the ghosts:

I posted a couple of weepy songs from the OST on the Music Thread. 😢

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Here's another one from Korea -- this time, looks like a 16th century Game of Thrones, with extra zombies:

If you have Netflix, Season 2 starts in a few days:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This one is gorgeous enough to post here, wouldn't you agree?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

And that kind of light was once provided by cigarette lighters held aloft

Which raises a question: who was the first guy to do that -- and what was the reaction?

 

[Olorgando]

Oh, I'd guess in real life that would have been in the 1960s, say at a Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane or Blue Cheer or Country Joe and the Fish concert, so probably in San Francisco.
Thought I'd also guess they didn't need the lighters for Marlboros or Camels or Lucky Strikes … 🥴

 

[Olorgando]

Revisiting a classic.

That reminds me that I've read somewhere that in the first SW movie, in one of the mass spacecraft fly-by scenes, the special effects guys smuggled in a sneaker into the "armada" - as they wanted it to be a sleek model, they had to use an Adidas three-striper at that time. 😛