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OK I confess... my prior opinion about Thor Love and Thunder being the stupidest movie I'd watched no longer applies to it.
I've now tried to watch this XMen, The New Mutants.

As with @Lithóniel and "Thor: Love and (a lost cause)...." - I just couldn't get through this X-Men. "Off with the TV and back to Narnia." A children's book that in my opinion far exceeds the entertainment value of that tripe. (Def: tripe: nonsense, rubbish.)

Walt Disney once said "you can't beat pigs with pigs".
Seems to me the entire Industry continues to try to prove him wrong - unsuccessfully.
But I guess as long as cash is king and the cow can be milked until it's wretched and dead, it will be - a sequel finally flopping badly enough that there is just no resurrection.

Like any other business, the concept of the product itself is still viable and good, and can evolve appropriately within it sphere of influence. It's the business itself that mismanages things and fails.

Perhaps this is what friend @ZehnWaters refers to and is concerned about with regard to RoP's impact... and he is in the role of "Watchman"... (a concept those biblically educated will be familiar with.) If so, I have missed this in him and misunderstood the source/origin and intent of his passion. Also if so, it makes his approach to things clearer to me. Hum.

More pondering required.
 
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@The Ent
After all of the delays and supposed butchering of the film by execs I actually quite liked the movie.
Or at least more than Dark Phoenix, now that's something I can barely call a movie.
I do wish the director had been given the option to go full horror on it.

Erestor Arcamen said:
I'm no good with heights but am watching this and feeling anxiety the whole time 😂
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Heh I never imagined they could actually make a full film on this premise but I thought it turned out quite well, also ended up being more than what I thought would be just cheap thrills.
 
Yeah I thought it was excellent but I honestly did have anxiety the whole time, guess that just shows they did a good job 🤣
 
@CheriptheRipper - thanks for the head's up.
I haven't watched 'Dark Phonenix' - (or if I have it was so forgettable I have no memory of it, which it sounds like would be a good thing.)
 
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Watching one of my favorite movies, as I do every year 😁
 
After waiting three years, due to Covid, IU''s legions of fans finally got to see her live again, at her spectacular Golden Hour concert, held at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, this past September.

88,000 fans attended over the two days. Watch how this tiny (5' 4", 162cm) lady fills the huge stadium with her huge personality, opening with "Eight", a song with multiple layers of meaning, both happy and sad, for her and her fans:
That's the only officially released clip, so far, but here's a fancam of the way she dealt with the problem of so many being unable to see her up close:
Yes -- that's a real, functioning hot air balloon; a first, I believe.
 
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I've been watching Tracker with the Highlander star Adrian Paul lately. It's free on Tubi. It only had one season, but I really enjoy his character. I am a big fan of Highlander (the series) and Adrian Paul, his Highlander episode vs. Kevin Bacon made him so much like Conan I have been a fanboy ever since.

Tracker

An alien bounty hunter scours the Earth for extraterrestrial fugitives but, since they've assumed human form, finding them won't be easy.
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@Squint Eyed Mod: I can only take a certain amount of Korean television (King2Hearts is a guilty pleasure of mine), but my God these people have great aesthetics. That lady looks like an elf. Well, if she was 6'6".
 
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out.")
Miracle on 34th St (the original, not the really bad re-make)
A Christmas Carol (the one with Alastair Sim, titled "Scrooge" in the UK)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The BIshop's Wife
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1967 Stop motion...the one with the elf who wants to be a dentist and Burl Ives narrating)
The Snowman (1982 animated British television film based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 picture book The Snowman.)
Home Alone
 
There was a programme on UK channel 4 with contributions from the original team of The Snowman from 40 years ago (first shown on channel 4) followed by showing The Snowman and The Snowman and the Snowdog. There was stunned silence from the test audience of the first ever showing (and a few sobs from the children in the audience). They wondered whether it had bombed but of course the opposite was the case.

 
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