I’m eating applesauce made from a medley of apples purchased at Brown’s Orchard and Cider in Hickory, PA, and it is so sweet and flavorful it did not need sugar. I did put a little cinnamon on it though.
Watching the Spielberg documentary on HBO. You?
Luthe
Star Wars Star Wars Star Wars!
It took me fifteen minutes of fighting with the AMC website, but I got my tickets!
Major Major Major Major
Epic bigfoot.
Yutsano
Physiotherapy recovery and apple crisp.
Mnemosyne
We watched the Spielberg documentary last night. It’s really good.
GregB
The Deuce.
I put Burn’s Vietnam on hold because it was grim. The Deuce is pretty grim.
Mike J
@Luthe: I just bought tix for the 10pm Blade Runner. Is there a Star Wars thingie coming out?
Gin & Tonic
@GregB: I caught an episode of that a couple of weeks ago when I was in a hotel with HBO. I remember when NYC was like that.
Gin & Tonic
@Mike J: I got home from Blade Runner a little while ago. No spoilers, but there are some good ties to the old one that you’ll appreciate. I think it could have been edited about a half-hour shorter, but that’s just me.
Mnemosyne
Also, I touted this in another thread, but people who like Hollywood documentaries will like Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story.
Short version: he was a storyboard artist who worked on dozens of movies that you’ve heard of with directors like Hitchcock and Coppola, she was a researcher, they were happily married for over 50 years and she tells some great stories about their life together.
Major Major Major Major
So which one’s the real thread?
ETA does it depend on whether I think it’s evening or night?
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: It’s night for us and evening for you.
Mike J
@Gin & Tonic: I think that of most movies. Most books too.
2D imax, seat F8.
The first Blade Runner was the first movie I saw in a stadium seating theatre, in Colorado Springs, Co, when I was 15 (working at 7 Falls to buy a car I drove home to Memphis.)
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
I think I recall hearing good things about this where is it available?
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John Cole
well damn, sorry Adam.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
The new Star Wars movie looks like complete trash, just like the last one. Very disappointed.
I’m only going to see Leia. Last time I will see her on the big screen.
Major Major Major Major
@Gin & Tonic: So I should be down in the evening thread? Gotcha.
Villago Delenda Est
@Gin & Tonic: I just saw it, too, and enjoyed it. As good as the original, but needed a bit more Vangelis.
Villago Delenda Est
@John Cole: Folks on the Twitter Machine should follow The Dodo.
Brachiator
@Gin & Tonic:
I hope to see it this weekend. For now I’m trying to avoid all the spoilers that are popping up.
Did the new Star Wars trailer drop during Monday Night Football? I thought I saw something about the film’s director suggesting that people avoid it if they wanted to avoid spoilers. Perhaps he was putting his tongue into his cheek, as the saying goes.
dmsilev
@Brachiator: Yes, the new trailer is out. YouTube link.
Matt Smith
@John Cole: Is “a medley of apples” their language or yours?
Just one more canuck
@Brachiator: @Mnemosyne: I came across it by accident a few weeks ago (not sure where, maybe TCM) Mnem is right – it was really good
rikyrah
@Luthe:
Already????
rikyrah
If they are selling Star Wars tickets, then dammit, I wanna buy Black Panther tickets.
dmsilev
@rikyrah: That’s a couple of months further downstream. Patience.
Mike in NC
@Gin & Tonic: We watched a couple of episodes of The Deuce but it was just too creepy. My destroyer made a port call in NYC in 1982 and a few of us ended up walking through Times Square, where at one point a scantily-clad woman stepped out of a doorway and whispered something into one of our group’s ear. His face turned bright red but we never did ask him what she said.
Brachiator
@Just one more canuck: Ah, I see that “Harold and Lillian” is on Google play and Amazon. Look like it’s worth a rental.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
They showed it on TCM a couple of weeks ago, so it may still be on the WatchTCM website or app. If not, the DVD has been released, so Netflix should have it, and you can rent it on Amazon for $3.99.
Toni Peluso
Just watched the star wars trailer. Thought it looked amazing. Guess I’m shallow that way.
cckids
@Toni Peluso: I’ll join you in the supposedly shallow end, then; because I liked it too. Can’t wait to see it.
GregB
@Gin & Tonic:
Trekked there with older bro who was dating a Jamaican woman living in NYC.
Funniest thing seen. Guy in a motorcycle peels out and almost drives into a crowd and drives off.
Moments later a cop comes running through crowd and hops on a little scooter. Kick starts it, drives forward a few feet and it stalls out with a bang.
The crowd roared with laughter.
NotMax
Shall mention it once again and then shut up about it (probably).
If you like <Blade Runner, recommend Charlie Jade on Amazon. SF film noir; a series that demands your attention – and merits it. As the person who put up the trailer describes that in the link, a bit cheesy – the show is not anywhere near as pat nor predictably cookie cutter as appearances there might suggest.
A joint Canadian/South African production from several years back. Am down to the final two episodes and pretty confident it won’t go off the rails and into the weeds.
Yutsano
@Toni Peluso: @cckids: Man that hit the feels hard….
@Major Major Major Major: A striking resemblance to fair Tom’s Tikka there.
Major Major Major Major
The pet supply store across the way is doing adoptions right now. I saw a kitty in the window tonight that really made me want to go in (I did not). That cat, and a picture of a kindly old man I drew, can be seen here.
Peale
@Gin & Tonic: yep. I liked it until it got scary. Which was in that last 1/2 hour in the fourth act when I was afraid that there might be a fifth act like Interstellar and i would be forced to either leave to pee or suffer dearly. they need to sell smaller soft drinks at AMC theaters.
Sister Golden Bear
Watching the local news — the fires in both NorCal and SoCal are just horrific.
The Anaheim fire in Orange County hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention but has the potential to be far more disastrous because there’s dense neighborhoods backed right up against the foothills, whereas the NorCal fires are mostly in semi-rural/rural areas with much lower density.
Winds last night in both SoCal/NorCal had gusts up to 70-80 mph. At that point the fires become literal firestorms — TV footage showed what looked kind of like hurricane footage, except that it was embers blowing sidewise, not rain — and are more or less unstoppable.
Thankfully the winds are much calmer tonight, so hopefully the worst is over.