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hookyIU1990 said:
Lots of great lines in Point Break that get quoted among some of my buddies. Without fail, if anyone going up to the bar to get beers asks "who needs one?", he'll get the best line of the movie.

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My kids couldn’t believe how awesome it was. When Johnny Utah wrecked Bohdi during the beach football game they went nuts. “That’s Johnny Utah from Ohio State.”

Swayze was absolutely on a heater in that one. RIP
 
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Cortez88 said:
My kids couldn’t believe how awesome it was. When Johnny Utah wrecked Bohdi during the beach football game they went nuts. “That’s Johnny Utah from Ohio State.”

Swayze was absolutely on a heater in that one. RIP
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I wonder how the original Roadhouse would hold up with kids today?

Not sure I want to see the remake. For my money, Swayze and Sam can't be topped.
 
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Cortez88 said:
Have we had any discussions about The Bear season 3? I just finished Ice Chips. I have some thoughts.
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Going to finish this tonight. Haven’t gotten to ice chips yet. The conversation with the former baseball player. Perfect.
 
Cortez88 said:
This is how much I love Swayze. After Point Break ended, I pulled up “She’s Like the Wind” on YouTube and watched it 20 straight times.
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There's a great backstory about how he got that song into the movie.

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If you’ve heard of “Dirty Dancing,” you’ve heard this song. Learn more about the song and my personal connection to it.
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A few updates:

Twisters--good. ridiculous. like the first one. I might like this one better. Great popcorn movie and family friendly.

Deadpool and Wolverine--fanboy porn? Sure. Don't like that? Don't go. Meh.

Three Body Problem--starts off boring (although I read the first book so knew what was coming). I thought it was interesting midway through to the end. Looking forward to the next season. Glaring plot inconsistencies, though, which is tough when it's hard sci-fi.

Slow Horses--great. Can't say enough good things about it
 
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BradStevens said:
A few updates:

Twisters--good. ridiculous. like the first one. I might like this one better. Great popcorn movie and family friendly.

Deadpool and Wolverine--fanboy porn? Sure. Don't like that? Don't go. Meh.

Three Body Problem--starts off boring (although I read the first book so knew what was coming). I thought it was interesting midway through to the end. Looking forward to the next season. Glaring plot inconsistencies, though, which is tough when it's hard sci-fi.

Slow Horses--great. Can't say enough good things about it
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Slow Horses is excellent. Gary Oldman at his best.
 
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Just finished George Stephanopoulos’ Situation Room. It went through emergencies and major disasters in President’s Kennedy through Trump. Spoke with many people involved in the administration. Felt it was fairly bipartisan until Trump era. It made me like admire some of the past presidents more. Think many would find it interesting.
 
Movies? Are there any summer movies that aren’t Marvel and/or for kids? After last years’ Barbenheimer extravaganza, I can barely find anything I’m interested in seeing in theaters. I see independents, foreign, everything, but there just hasn’t been much of interest. Think I’ve been to the cinema twice all summer and I usually go every week.
 
I recently rediscovered Legion on FX. I had never seen the last season and happened upon it last weekend. I binged it in three days. Visually, it is one of the most creative, weird, and interesting shows I've ever seen. Plot and character-wise, season 1's I found the best, but there are parts of 2 and 3 that standout. Here is a bit of a sampling that you might find corny, but works in the context of the episode it is in S3,E6 (that provides, by the way, one of the best models of parenting I've ever seen):

 
Saw A Real Pain at the Heartland premier with Jesse Eisenberg and and Kieran Culkin. Eisenberg wrote and produced the film . Culkin and Jesse are cousins who grew up very close. Their grandmother just died, so they decide to take a Holocaust tour in Poland and visit her old home. It’s very funny, but also deals with serious themes. Culkin may be considered for awards for his performance. But the best part, is that Jesse is sporting an IU baseball cap for the large majority of the movie. Here’s a good review : https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/a-real-pain-review-jesse-eisenberg-kieran-culkin-1235881023/
 
This may have been discussed already, but...

Watched Civil War last night. Big thumbs down. Acting and visuals and all that were fine I guess, but there was no fvcking plot.
 
ChicagoFineForNow said:
I saw there is a new Amy Winehouse documentary. Anyone watch? I love Amy Winehouse.

Compared to all the other great musicians that died young from drug overdose she went out like a bad ass. Alcohol poisoning. That’s a man’s way to go out. Not shriveled up in the corner with a needle in your arm or a handful of pills like a coward.
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Watched it in a recent flight.

Not as authentic as the doc, but also easier to follow the "story"...not just a bunch of home movies pieced together.

I'm not sure if the actress sang her "live" parts? If so, pretty good.
 
Feck me. Xfinity running free Max this week so I decided to watch The Penguin series. I'm two episodes into the binge today and I'm hooked...there's another streaming sub I'm gonna have to get.

 
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Paramount did a marathon to catch up on Yellowstone, so I'm watching the rest of the show.

I don't get it. Why is this a criminal family? The Sopranos made sense. They were the mafia. Sons of Anarchy I get it. They ran guns. Why are a bunch of cowboys shooting people and throwing them off a cliff? Because the head of the family is a corrupt appointed politician? There's something really missing here.
 
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TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
@mcmurtry66

Paramount did a marathon to catch up on Yellowstone, so I'm watching the rest of the show.

I don't get it. Why is this a criminal family? The Sopranos made sense. They were the mafia. Sons of Anarchy I get it. They ran guns. Why are a bunch of cowboys shooting people and throwing them off a cliff? Because the head of the family is a corrupt appointed politician? There's something really missing here.
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Because you do whatever you need to do to protect this ranch, just like our family before us in these prequels that will make even more money.
 
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TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
@mcmurtry66

Paramount did a marathon to catch up on Yellowstone, so I'm watching the rest of the show.

I don't get it. Why is this a criminal family? The Sopranos made sense. They were the mafia. Sons of Anarchy I get it. They ran guns. Why are a bunch of cowboys shooting people and throwing them off a cliff? Because the head of the family is a corrupt appointed politician? There's something really missing here.
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Because it's the land, Goat, the land. And he's not corrupt, he is the wall against which progress bashes against!

 
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TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
@mcmurtry66

Paramount did a marathon to catch up on Yellowstone, so I'm watching the rest of the show.

I don't get it. Why is this a criminal family? The Sopranos made sense. They were the mafia. Sons of Anarchy I get it. They ran guns. Why are a bunch of cowboys shooting people and throwing them off a cliff? Because the head of the family is a corrupt appointed politician? There's something really missing here.
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Ostensibly they’re protecting a ranch. But in truth. A way of life. I like the chick in it. She’s actually Asian
 
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So, after reading Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann, and really liking it, I decided to check out some of his other books. Currently, I am reading The Lost City of Z, the true story of Percy Fawcett, an explorer who disappeared in 1925 while searching for El Dorado in the Amazon rainforest. (There is also a movie based on the book.)

Anyway, I was struck by two observations:

1. This guy absolutely had more masculinity in his pinky than all of us combined.
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2. The amount of worldwide fame explorers in general had was interesting. They were major celebrities, and people were riveted on a daily basis by their exploits.


Anyway, after I finish this book, I will move on to The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by Grann.
 
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Bulk VanderHuge said:
So, after reading Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann, and really liking it, I decided to check out some of his other books. Currently, I am reading The Lost City of Z, the true story of Percy Fawcett, an explorer who disappeared in 1925 while searching for El Dorado in the Amazon rainforest. (There is also a movie based on the book.)

Anyway, I was struck by two observations:

1. This guy absolutely had more masculinity in his pinky than all of us combined.
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2. The amount of worldwide fame explorers in general had was interesting. They were major celebrities, and people were riveted on a daily basis by their exploits.


Anyway, after I finish this book, I will move on to The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by Grann.
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Sounds like you have a lot of time and inclination to read . . .
 
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