Thread: What are you watching?

Spielberg “fixed” one scene that I always thought was wrong. When the police were waiting for the kids on bikes (at the end) they had guns! This made the police really awful. He digitally changed it to walkie talkies. He also added a scene in Close Encounters where as Dryfuss’s car travelled across the desert, the shadow of a flying saucer could be seen.

But, you, made a true artist is never satisfied with his work, he just has to end it at a certain point. Of course today there is a technology that previous generations did not have.

Tolkien first wrote the Hobbit, then the Lord of the Rings, which originally was just one book. He then went back and rewrote the Hobbit to match the Lord of the Rings. But he couldn’t fix everything. It actually took until computers were used for his son to go in and fix a few things. So it took 35 years.

Lucas was never that good of a director and could never write real dialogue and that is why the last three movies were not as good as the first. He had Lawrence Kasdan writing and two others directing. I think it is baloney why he said he stopped.

The saddest thing of all is that fewer and fewer people, especially people over 30, are going to the movies. True Grit didn’t cost a fortune and did very well. So they make a simple western, The Lone Ranger for $250 million. Why? To get those kids in.

But it’s not just movies. They only make network TV shows for that age bracket too.

Let me tell you a secret, don’t tell the others.

About a decade ago, after being totally spoiled with my big setup, I found it difficult to watch my Sony 25 incher in the bedroom. So I began to change things.

I got a Pioneer Elite 50 incher, a Marantz 8002 receiver, I put in six in wall speakers, three in the front, three in the back, a small sub-woofer that is in the ceiling and when I bought my Oppo 105 I put the 95 in the bedroom. My installer says that I have a better bedroom system that most of his customers have in the living room!

So when I watch a “small” movie or almost all the TV shows on Blue Ray and regular TV I am often comfortably in bed and feel spoiled as hell.

Yet, even small black and white movies, such as Casablanca and the Day the Earth Stood Still are majestic on the big screen, with bigger sound.

But there are days and late evenings that I enjoy just lying down and watching something in bed.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Spielberg “fixed” one scene that I always thought was wrong. When the police were waiting for the kids on bikes (at the end) they had guns! This made the police really awful.

But here's the thing: It's the true and sad reality; back then and still now, and most likely tomorrow.

He digitally changed it to walkie talkies. He also added a scene in Close Encounters where as Dryfuss’s car travelled across the desert, the shadow of a flying saucer could be seen.

Yep; you can do almost anything today.

But, you, made a true artist is never satisfied with his work, he just has to end it at a certain point. Of course today there is a technology that previous generations did not have.

Three letters: C.G.I.

Lucas was never that good of a director and could never write real dialogue and that is why the last three movies were not as good as the first. He had Lawrence Kasdan writing and two others directing. I think it is baloney why he said he stopped.

'Star Wars' (1977) was huge at the movie theaters, in America. ...It defined the American mentality back then, and still now. ...I truly think.

Lucas uses a language for kids.
Spielberg uses kids.
Gibson shows the gory reality.
Scott has flair.
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The saddest thing of all is that fewer and fewer people, especially people over 30, are going to the movies. True Grit didn’t cost a fortune and did very well. So they make a simple western, The Lone Ranger for $250 million. Why? To get those kids in.

But it’s not just movies. They only make network TV shows for that age bracket too.

The Coen brothers, I simply love them! ... 'True Grit' and all.

$250 million for 'The Lorne Ranger'! ...Bring me back my innocence, my youth right now!

TV? I don't watch TV, ever! ...It's mostly all crap anyway. ...FOX, CNN, and all that shit! ...This guy abducted this young little 'barbie' girl, .... and everything they analyse, and people love sad and sick news, and that's what Americans are starving for.

* In the Sahara desert, they drove camels, not couches in front of their TVs! ...In the Himalayas, they climb rocky mountains covered of snow so that they can reach the sky higher.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Let me tell you a secret, don’t tell the others.

About a decade ago, after being totally spoiled with my big setup, I found it difficult to watch my Sony 25 incher in the bedroom. So I began to change things.

I got a Pioneer Elite 50 incher, a Marantz 8002 receiver, I put in six in wall speakers, three in the front, three in the back, a small sub-woofer that is in the ceiling and when I bought my Oppo 105 I put the 95 in the bedroom. My installer says that I have a better bedroom system that most of his customers have in the living room!

So when I watch a “small” movie or almost all the TV shows on Blue Ray and regular TV I am often comfortably in bed and feel spoiled as hell.

Yet, even small black and white movies, such as Casablanca and the Day the Earth Stood Still are majestic on the big screen, with bigger sound.

But there are days and late evenings that I enjoy just lying down and watching something in bed.

I'll tell no one.

* I believe that Joe too is a "bedroom" person.

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* Don't believe the title; there is nothing "haywire" about this flick, it's just a double-cross trap!
-> Thin script, shaky and grainy picture, sub-par audio, lack of interest, lack of action, lack of direction, lack of passion, lack of everything. ...Soderbergh is just getting deeper and deeper at going down.

Last night | The 3D version :::

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- Please, don't go there! ...Unless .... you are 5-years old*, or less.

* Rated 'R'.

Every night (366 nights per year) is "the big night" for me. ...And all the 366 days that come just before them nights too.

------* You can always click on the above picture cover art ^ if you are interested.

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* Not my favorite main actor (Matthew) but not a bad flick at all; check it out.

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* I like Gerard but not particularly that flick.
{The body count (killed people) is very high, so not for everyone's taste. And with Antoine Fuqua as the director, those 'kills' are realistic, so even more realistically disturbing, and it's just a film!}

I re-watched this last night ::

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* I do 'recall' the very nice/polished picture quality, and good sound. ...The future looks futuristic, all in CGI.
It's a fine sci-fi flick. ...And the re-experiencing value, for me, is also fine. ...Fine, for me, means just above 55%, and up to 65%, for the film itself.

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* This one too has a nice/clean/polished/detailed picture quality to it (Tom's and Olga's faces), and good surround sound.
The flick itself, after a second viewing? ...Not so much, but still better than a bunch of others.
...Hollywood fare, no more no less.

- And if I re-watched it, that means some' important enough in my cinematic book.

Last night I revisited this Snowboarding Documentary; 'The Art of Flight' | 3D ... Before I watched the 2D version, which was amazingly 3D enough.

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Click on the above picture cover ^ for a very good 'apercu' on this extremely highly recommended Documentary.
...It is short, only 80 minutes, but beats anything Hollywood out there.

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Originally Posted by chumlie

Miller's Crossing.

Hey, I thought I just saw you! ...Wow, truly spooky! ... 'Miller's Crossing', from the Coen brothers; excellent flick!

Last night I started watching/listening to this ::

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* I need few days because it is over 480 minutes long.

Originally Posted by chumlie

Indeed. 'The Usual Suspects'

That's another great flick, directed by Bryan Singer.

Bob, I hope this makes you laugh. There is a downside to such a wonderful site like his and to your perpetual question. I feel guilty if I don't listen or watch anything special! I had a busy day and just wanted to read a newspaper and read a book. I just read the bio of Al Capp. I got a few unseen blu rays...the Hobbit and TheLife of Pi but haven't felt like watching them. And sometimes I just want to see a "bad" TV show. Oh well, tomorrow's another day.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Bob, I hope this makes you laugh. There is a downside to such a wonderful site like his and to your perpetual question. I feel guilty if I don't listen or watch anything special! I had a busy day and just wanted to read a newspaper and read a book. I just read the bio of Al Capp. I got a few unseen blu rays...the Hobbit and TheLife of Pi but haven't felt like watching them. And sometimes I just want to see a "bad" TV show. Oh well, tomorrow's another day.

Barry, when I was working relentlessly my lifestyle was quite different.

Nowadays, for the last fifteen years or so, I don't work as hard, and I got much more time for music and movies.
And I could do even much better.

What I share is what I am now; what I do. I expect no less from me, and others, and no matter what/how each one of us live his/her life. ...In the now.

And yesterday was our culmination of today's own actions. ...I live in the moment, intensively with all who I am and feel.
I don't want to worry about tomorrow, ever.

* Personally, Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit' - 3D (& 2D) on Blu-ray disc, didn't do much at all for me.
- Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' - 3D (& 2D) on Blu, I liked.

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The perception we get from movies and the real world surrounding us every day is only different in ways we react. - Bob

Bob, I owe you a seperate email. But tonight is going to be Betty Boop on Blue Ray!!! Night.betty.jpg

“Barry, when I was working relentlessly my lifestyle was quite different.

“Nowadays, for the last fifteen years or so, I don't work as hard, and I got much more time for music and movies.
And I could do even much better.”




Bob, I could have written the first two paragraphs. (But I am not clear what you meant on the next two two).

When I was younger and working hard, I had the time but didn’t have the money for this great equipment. I had something else, that I didn’t realize too

Then, when I got the money, I didn’t have the time to enjoy much of this.

Now, I retired very early and have the time and the money. What I don’t like conceding is that sometimes I don’t have the ENERGY to do everything I like, that’s what I had when I was young and didn’t realize it.

But, Like Burgess Meredith in that famous Twilight Zone Episode, I finally have time enough at last. So I bought a few extra pair of reading classes and I read. I listen to music, I watch movies and even some TV shows. I love the DVR!!!! I spent time with friends and family…I tend not to travel. In fact that’s when I go to the movie theatre. That’s now a social event, going with friends to see a new movie, otherwise I’d just be happy to see it at home and have fresher popcorn too!

Like so many others, I had to work for a good present, but I also worked for a good future. And the future is here, now and I enjoy it.



Bob, a personal note that might be better served in a private Email. I worked long and hard for decades when I retired due to a really bad back.

You know, I never, in all that time got up and said, “Gee, I want to go to work today.” I know that is Un-American, but if I inherited a zillion dollars I would have retired when the check cleared. I worked hard, even owned my own business, but I was never happier than when I woke up on my own, without the alarm going off. Or people needing me.

Finally, I have time enough, at last.

Barry, what I simply meant (in these two next small paragraphs) is that I love movies, music, and that many things I did when I was a kid, at school, and during my entire life makes who I am today (culmination).
And I love people too and sharing my hobbies with them, that's all. ...I use my own words in exactly how I feel in the moment, and sometimes it takes more time for some people to get the hang of me; and when they do it's perfectly natural.
And as you probably noticed I'm a French Canadian, and that too comes into play, as English is my second language and not the one that I could master perfectly. ...I make mistakes often, any type of English mistakes (typos, grammar, omit past tense on some of my verbs, put that word in front of that one when it should be the opposite, use lots of interjections, use French words, etc., etc., etc.) and sometimes people can totally misinterpret the true meaning of some of my posts.
It created and still creates some big problems sometimes, and some people simply don't have the patience.

Other times the communication level is just fine (most of the time), but when in my heart and soul I feel some' deep, I feel in French first. ...Then I tried to translate that into English.

TIP: I'm sometimes an abstract writer, to describe the mundane, the ordinary. I also sometimes use poetry, philosophy, and can extrapolate in hallucinatory terms. I guess it's a natural human mechanism in me to stay away somehow from boredom. And I believe it is in all of us too, more or less. And there is the humor too, and that can be sometimes very unique to each one of us because we all had a different education (teachers, parents, friends, lovers, ...), experiences in our life.

I appreciate your honesty because I always adapt to the people surrounding me; to their own language.

One last thing Barry; I believe in open discussions, it's good for everybody.
And here is as good as anywhere else. ...Movies and real life have something fundamental in common; it's entertainment.

Originally Posted by NorthStar

Last night I started watching/listening to this ::

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* I need few days because it is over 480 minutes long.

I'm still into that one by the way. ...Just finished watching it last night. ...Tonight, we'll see (I live in the moment).

Bob, I like open discussions too! And i love having the time to enjoy all those things I didn't have time for.

If this works out today, I am rounding up the usual suspects and watching the blu ray of "Casablanca" today. It's a miserable day and not everything may work out!

last night I saw most of the Blu Ray of the Betty Boop cartoons. Sadly, these were not my favorites nor was there a big selection for the price. Seeing one after another is not as much fun as seeing a few at a time, so Ill pop on a few every week.

One other thing: And it's not Blu Ray. There are TV shows from the 1960s that I have enjoyed. When they released them they often put in the unseen, un aired pilots that are just fascinating to watch. Let me mention three:The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally called "Head of the Household" and starred Carl Reiner. That unaired pilot is in the box set with reiner talking about it. The Man from Uncle Seet has the pilot entitled "Solo" and it's cast is a bit different from the TV show. Finally, in the Fugitive box set they have the original director, in very recent times, narrating the unseen pilot and telling of the changes made, some were funny. (The Pilot used a state that did not have a death penalty, so they had to rewrite part of it and dub in the newe state, although the bus stops showed the odl state!)

We all believe in something; similar, or different...

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-> Different, because it was filmed and recorded outside in a beautiful surrounding setting.
You can feel and see some of that "natural outside" expressive fueling passion from the conductor.
The music is fine (I luv myself), the sound is fine too (for that Blu-ray), and the images are just ok.

The best thing? You are much closer to the stage and musicians than in real life using awkward and uncomfortable binoculars. ...And the sound quality too; in open-air it reverberates from the trees around, and get lost in the wind at times (pitch variances).

Missing? The real experience (live).

Of All the Home Theatres in all the World Casablanca was shown on mine.

I just saw Casablanca on Blu Ray. Gosh, was I impressed.

This is just a damn good movie: great characters, great story, great dialogue, great acting, great music and great direction. “Moonlight and love songs are never out of date” says “As Time Goes By.” Neither is this movie. It’s about romance, war, commitment and heartbreak. We will always have all that, as well as Paris.

The layered performances by Humphrey Bogart especially, and by Ingrid Berman and the rest of the cast were wonderful. There is humor throughout the movie, in just the right places. This is a perfect movie, made even more so by a restored Blu Ray edition.

The picture was spectacular in Blu ray. In fact it often looked like it was in 3D. The lighting and scenery comes across so well. But the scenes at Rick’s Café were so vivid and real. For a black and white film this gets my top video rating.

The soundtrack was also great. Yep, it is mono, and 70 years old, but the reproduction here brought out the details of the music and ambient sound. I can’t really rate this on a modern scale, but it was impressive.

Simply, I was just not only impressed, I was moved. This is still a powerful movie.

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But wait there is more! Along with a choice of commentaries, including one from the late Roger Ebert and an introduction from Lauren Bacall, warner gives us a night at the movies, 1940 style. There is a newsreel (about the American troops) a 20 minute short, and two cartoons (in color).

Great great movie. I'd love to see it again on blu ray.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Of All the Home Theatres in all the World Casablanca was shown on mine.

I just saw Casablanca on Blu Ray. Gosh, was I impressed.

This is just a damn good movie: great characters, great story, great dialogue, great acting, great music and great direction. “Moonlight and love songs are never out of date” says “As Time Goes By.” Neither is this movie. It’s about romance, war, commitment and heartbreak. We will always have all that, as well as Paris.

The layered performances by Humphrey Bogart especially, and by Ingrid Berman and the rest of the cast were wonderful. There is humor throughout the movie, in just the right places. This is a perfect movie, made even more so by a restored Blu Ray edition.

The picture was spectacular in Blu ray. In fact it often looked like it was in 3D. The lighting and scenery comes across so well. But the scenes at Rick’s Café were so vivid and real. For a black and white film this gets my top video rating.

The soundtrack was also great. Yep, it is mono, and 70 years old, but the reproduction here brought out the details of the music and ambient sound. I can’t really rate this on a modern scale, but it was impressive.

Simply, I was just not impressed, I was moved. This is still a powerful movie.

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But wait there is more! Along with a choice of commentaries, including one from the late Roger Ebert and an introduction from Lauren Bacall, warner gives us a night at the movies, 1940 style. There is a newsreel (about the American troops) a 20 minute short, and two cartoons (in color).

And not only that but the Blu-ray is less than ten bucks! ...The single-disc version. ...On sale at various places if you look for it.

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* Good stuff, I very recommend to everyone here.

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Bob, tonight friends are coming over to watch the Mets (last few innings) the Yankees and watch 42 on blu ray....I just got it. Please let me know about the great gatsby!,,,

i am on my iPad and cat put up a picture.

Originally Posted by Lefisc

Bob, tonight friends are coming over to watch the Mets (last few innings) the Yankees and watch 42 on blu ray....I just got it. Please let me know about the great gatsby!,,,

i am on my iPad and cat put up a picture.

Mets? ...Is that baseball?

* 'The Great Gatsby' (1974) on Blu-ray; skip it, and instead wait for Baz Luhrmann's 2013 own adaptation (vision; radically).
...On Blu-ray, 3D, August 27. ...I've heard it's bad, but picture and sound is supposed to be out of this world! ...If that's your thing (me, sometimes; I'm a Baz's fan, sort of, mainly for his extravaganzas on set decors, colors, cinematography, and all that extra jazz.)

** '42' on Blu; I think you'll luv it. I'm sure.

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*** Life is a beautiful thing, when you're in love. ...With movies and all.

The Mets are not baseball. They are the cartoon before the movie starts

Like Bugs Bunny, or the Road Runner?

No, more like Wylie Coyote, he never wins either!!!!

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Originally Posted by NorthStar

Like Bugs Bunny, or the Road Runner?

Originally Posted by Lefisc

No, more like Wile E. Coyote, he never wins either!!!!

Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety the Bird, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, ...


I miss all of them, plus all the others. They should reintroduce them again, on all the Blu-ray movies, before the main attraction. It would be so awesome!

What's up Doc?

I finally saw the Blu ray of 42

First: I do not consider great sport figures to be heroes. They do what they do for a great deal of money. I admire many, respect a lot, and are disappointed more often than I want to be.

But Jackie Robinson is one of my heroes. What he went through, along with his wife Rachael, was not just unbelievable, but something I could never have done.

Believe it or not, that is why I had low expectations for this movie. As a history lesson, something I want to show to school children it was great, as a movie. I give it 3 out of 4 stars and I did enjoy it.

You see when controversial figures, such as Patton have movies made about them, they can be three dimensional characters, with all sides of their personalities shown. They can be shown not to be perfect people and that makes them more interesting. Shindler, in Shindler’s list was fascinating because he was complex, not perfect, and could be shown turning a corner.

The first time I notice this was in PT 109, a movie about President Kennedy, produced when he was alive. It was a good film, but with no great depth of character. Kennedy a sailor, was a perfect person. Even as a sailor he didn’t curse, dressed perfectly, and always did the right things. Cliff Robertson was really good, but there are limits you can do with living people and so the movie was a bit bland. If you watch the movie The Right Stuff, notice that Astronaut Gus Grissom was the only character shown to do wrong things. Also note that Gus Grissom was the only astronaut dead at the time the film was made. *

That’s what I found here. This movie was more of a documentary (and a good one) than a great drama. Many of the principals, Mrs. Robertson and many of the Dodgers are still alive. The script, mostly, showed events, but did not show the inner Jackie Robinson. There is very little depth here. Chadwick Boseman played him stiff and too internal for a movie. He was not the dominate actor needed for this role, in my opinion.

The second male lead, Harrison Food, who played Branch Rickey seemed, too often, to be a characterization, sometimes an inappropriate funny one, of the person. He didn’t seem real to me at all.

These two performances in particular made me feel that I was watching a Biography Channel reenactment sometimes, rather than a real movie.


*The movie made it look like Grissom botched up and lost his capsule. When the capsule was recovered, ten years later, the evidence showed that Grissom was 100% right. And did you know Gus Grissom was the ONLY Astronaut selected for all three manned programs? Mercury, Gemini and Apollo? He died in the tremendous accident of what we now call Apollo 1.

Great essay on '42' Barry!

The Prisoner resumes tonight:

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My first thought about The Prisoner in the year 2013: Will it hold up?
The answer is yes, it does. But that’s not necessarily a good thing.
The secret to watching The Prisoner is understanding the three “secrets” which I will mention.

The Prisoner: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
This show should first be judged from the perspective of the era it came from. Our government has always controlled our paths of free speech. That is, the Post Office had stopped many magazines from being distributed and the FCC really stopped major issues of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s from being discussed on TV and radio. While every network had censors, they were only there because the FCC came down hard on networks for showing things they didn’t want to be shown or discussed. You may be too young to remember things like “The Fairness Doctrine” and “Equal Time” laws, but they were in place so that the government’s side of the issues was ALWAYS presented. And the government “punished” the networks, economically if they did not conform. So TV shows were pasteurized, it was hard to get things that related to war, politics, and social issues through.
Everyone wants to be first, so QB III and Rich Man, Poor Man are often proclaimed to be the first mini-series for TV. This totally ignores that in the 1960s and into the 1970s, TV often had summer replacement shows. One of those shows was The Prisoner, made in England, and first aired here on CBS in the summer of 1968, as I recall. It was like nothing I had ever seen.
So here is the first secret:
You have to watch this series twice, and it helps if you watch it in order, not the jumbled way it was put on TV. You see, the show seems to be a mystery and when you begin looking for clues and then you miss the bigger picture.
The show is “WAY OUT” and it tells you that in its introduction. (Look for that sign on the door). A “nameless” government agent, played by Patrick McGoohan, resigns his post in anger and is kidnapped and placed in the Village…a strange place where people are given numbers and not names, but everyone there seems to have been at one time or another associated with the government–or a government, you may not know which one. This was the era of the Cold War, of a divided Europe.
Who was Number 6? Was he John Drake?
We don’t use this term anymore, but Number 6, was a “non-conformist.” He was someone who didn’t seem to care what other people thought of him and went his own way. Back then it was often implied that you were selfish and not “part of the group.” As if there was something wrong with individuality. Today, we don’t think that way (but we really act that way).
John Drake was also played by Patrick McGoohan. He was a NATO agent in a TV show called Danger Man, that aired from 1960-1962. This 30-minute show (available on DVD) was a great influnce to the Bond movies which followed, in plot, in devices and in casting. After the Bond movies become popular, they brought back the show in 1964, renamed it Secret Agent, and made it an hour long.
One other thing: Drake was no longer a NATO agent; he no longer was connected, in any way, to America. His character was absolutely based on John Drake, but unless they wanted to pay the creators of Danger Man residuals they could not use his name. So they didn’t and it added to the fun. There was no political or storytelling motivation here, it was all about money. For some reason this take up a lot of people’s time. The other part is that this was a surreal show, a fantasy, not the realistic show like Danger Man. By the way, several episodes of the Danger man were filmed in the Welsh resort of Portmeirion, which served as the village. And, in several episodes actors from the first series showed up in the village and Christopher Benjamin even appears as the same character.
The show is not a mystery, it’s not a whodunit.
The show is mostly asking questions, not answering them. If you are looking for answers you will not find them here. Which is why the show holds up after all these years.The world had turned since WW II and things were not as clear as they once were.
The show on education, for example, asked whether people were learning and processing information or just memorizing facts. It didn’t answer the question.
In the end, where the differing political groups so very different?
Why does every new leader promise to be different, but turns out to be nearly the same, answering to the same people?
And why do we seem to wind up where we started from?
It’s not a mystery; there is no secret at the end, because there is no end. The joke about The Prisoner is that the big picture may be smaller than you thought it would be.
The acting is great, the show has great drama and great humor and even great music. It looks better on Blu-ray than it ever did, but it was still a British show filmed (which means the colors are a bit off, it always raining there). So it gets 3.5 (out of 5) for both sound and picture.
But 5 stars for the show.
PS: Notice that I didn’t try to explain too much about the setting, the plots or the characters. It would take too much time, everything here is unique. If this review isn’t clear enough, or perhaps a bit confusing, then I succeeded.
Patrick McGoohan was asked in 1977, how has the Prisoner changed by the end of the last episode: “I think he is essentially the same. I think he got slightly exhilarated that he got out of this mythical place and felt like doing a little skip and a dance and singing a bit and felt very happy to be going back home with his little buddy, the butler, you know. We never did a cut with him when that door opened. We just saw the door open and went in with the butler. You never knew if his exhilaration was lost when he saw that sinister door, that was left in abeyance. Unfinished Symphony… He just wants to get out. And he uses a technique that he hadn’t used before that which is violence. Which is sad, but he does. And that’s how he gets out. And in fact in the final episode he goes back to his little apartment place and he has the little valet guy with him and the door opens on its own. And he goes in and the cars there and you know it’s going to start all over again because we continue to be prisoners.... He’s got no freedom. Freedom is a myth. There is no final conclusion to it. And I was very fortunate to be able to do something as audacious like that with no final conclusion to it. Because people want the words “The End” put up. The final two words for that thing should have been, “The Beginning.”

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Tonight, I am hoping Christine is down to watch Looper for her first time. I have been excited to hear what she thinks of it.

Just the right amount of Sci-Fi, for me.

Last night I saw the HBO presentation of “Glickman.” It is the story of athlete turned announcer Marty Glickman who faced adversity, anti-Semitism, Hitler, and Avery Brundage and became one of the most respected and liked persons in his field.

There are no hidden back stories here, not “we now know he did these terrible things” that we see on all these bios that build a person up and then tear him down. This was just a very enjoyable thing to watch.

Sadly, the racism in this country, from the early 1930s into the late 1960s is on display here. Thank gosh, so much of it seems out of place and out dated, but, sadly racism is still around.

Glickman did look back, but he looked forward and helped so many people.

One really small complaint: In EVERY bio of this type I have seen, for athletes, writers, artists, broadcasters etc, the interviewees always say he was the best, the most, the only, the innovator the first to… etc. Here too.

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I went fully dimensional into it (radically 3D) and let my aura get engulfed by Baz's own vision (montage).
...I was in no mood for any kind of expectation, and I was fully entertained. ...In my senses; visuals and auditory. ...Pleasantly.

If you haven't see it yet, check it out, in particular on Blu-ray if you that's your bag like it is for me. Recommended, and I don't care about what others have to say about it; me I liked it and I will revisit it. On Blu it definitely shines.

Bob, please don't turn me in, but I actually read a book last night. Will I be thrown out of the club?

Nothing to worry about Barry; we all have our favorite flavored chewing gum.

I watched this last night, but on Blu-ray this time ::

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