Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-25 (Saturday)

On 5/26/2024 7:08 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 5/26/2024 3:25 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

The Harryhausen Chronicles (Narrated by Leonard Nimoy)
A hour long special about Harryhausen's work that came on the disc for 'Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger'.
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We can blame 'King Kong' for inflicting Mr. Harryhausen's work on us.  :P
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 I'm still trying to wrap my head around how the Peter Jackson remake takes twice as long to tell the exact same story.
 

Computers are slower than one person moving a dozen joints a millimeter.   Just ask Anim.  ;)

 

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Dogfights - Thunderbolt (disc)
"Time and again the P-47 Thunderbold, or Jug as it was affectionately known, managed to survive blows that would have destroyed less rugged planes.  This classic World War II workhorse survived machine gun attacks and even fire to protect its pilot and keep on fighting.
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 Cool.
 

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What Did You Watch?
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 I watched:
  The Big Boss (blu-ray) 1971 martial arts movie starring Bruce Lee as a young man who starts working at a factory that is a front for a drug smuggling operation.  When some friends are murdered after finding out about the drug ring Lee steps up to find out what happened and bust some heads along the way.  It's an OK movie.
  Fist of Fury (blu-ray) 1972 martial arts movie starring Bruce Lee as a young man who returns home for his teacher's funeral only to discover his teacher was murdered.  Lee then steps up to find out what happened and bust some heads along the way.  It's an OK movie.
  Enter the Dragon (4K disc) 1973 martial arts movie starring Bruce Lee as a young man recruited by a government agency to travel to an island that's a front for a drug smuggling operation.  Lee steps up to find out what's happening on the island and bust some heads along the way.  It's an OK movie.
  Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (blu-ray) 1993 biopic starring Jason Scott Lee as Bruce Lee and Lauren Holly as the love of his life.  The movie treats Lee's life almost as if it was a movie with Lee constantly having to engage in epic fights with over the top villains.  Great movie. Stupid Wikipedia is determined to ruin everyone's fun by pointing out the movie has almost no relation to the actual events of Lee's life. But who are you going to believe, the real life people who knew Lee and are on record as saying the events of this movie are fictitious?  Or the director who admitted he just made up stuff to make the movie more entertaining?  Wait something's not right there.  Anyway the movie is loads of fun.  Who cares if any of it is true or not?
  The Last Dragon (4K disc) 1985 martial arts movie about a young man called Bruce Leeroy who must save Vanity from an evil music promoter and Mr. Nuff who insists he is the master.  I love this movie.  I've watched it umpteen zillion times.  And it's always entertaining.  The movie specifically references "The Big Boss," "Fist of Fury," and "Enter the Dragon."  After all of these years it's nice to finally be able to get the references.  This new 4K disc has a Dolby Atmos sound track for movie's wonderful music and a new "fan" commentary that's closed captions so I can watch the movie with the Dolby Atmos sound while reading the funny fan commentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlg7S-qVeHw

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