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Glad to report that Heidi and Jane made it home safe. Although they did pick up some sketchy company along the way.

Wasn’t the last one - the third one - called Bad Boys For Life? What a missed opportunity. Obviously, they should’ve saved that title for this one - the fourth one - and call it Bad Boys 4 Life. 😂

I wouldn’t mind a boxed set of Gerhardt’s Star Wars, Empire and Jedi in 5.1.

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Moonwalker (1988) IMDb I saw this in the local cinema yesterday. First time on the silver screen for me. The audience applauded at the end which I thought was cute.

…yourself.

Don’t worry. It’s only a bathroom glass! 😂

Don’t ask me why I spend my hard earned money on this… I’m not even a Snyder fan! But I did enjoy his cut of JL, even though I think Josstice League is a better movie (and has a better aspect ratio!), but I can’t say I won’t watch it - and enjoy it. Aa I’m writing this, I’ve actually started watching this. However, I’ll skip MoS as I don’t really have any fond memories of that movie - and is not particularly keen on revisiting it - and go right into BvS. Not that that movie is much better but at least it tried to do some fun things, the introduction of Wonder Woman for example. But, man, is Snyder’s take on ol’ Supes bleak. The way he straight up kills that terrorist in his first scene by flying him through several walls. Not very Superman is it (But then again neither was killing Zod in the previous movie). Batman’s first scene, weirdly crawling around on the ceiling doesn’t fare much better. And, despite being a good actor, Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of Lex Luther is more annoying than menacing. So I’ll skip the first one, suffer through the second one to get to the (kind of) good one. Yay me. But it was a good deal if that is any kind of justification, $US 18.78 including shipping, for all three movies on 4K and these weird lenticular postcards (10 of ‘em all in all).

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Can I just have a replacement disc for my faulty expanded Schindler’s List CD2, I’l be happy. Thanks. Thats it for 2024. I’ll make grander wishes for 2025, I promise.

Thought I’d post the program since it’s now only available outside of JWFan. Program AlFRED NEWMAN, 20th Century Fox Fanfare ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, Main Title from Captain Blood MIKLÓS RÓZSA, Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur FRANZ WAXMAN, Sunset Boulevard Suite BERNARD HERRMANN, Scène d’Amour from Vertigo ALEX NORTH, “Forest Meeting” and "March" from Spartacus ALFRED NEWMAN, Cathy’s Theme from Wuthering Heights (with Ms. Wang) MAURICE JARRE, Suite from Lawrence of Arabia Intermission DANNY ELFMAN, Main Title from Batman JOHN WILLIAMS, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind JERRY GOLDSMITH, The Hunt from Planet of the Apes ENNIO MORRICONE, Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West (with Ms. Newman) THOMAS NEWMAN, The Night Window from 1917 JOHN WILLIAMS, “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones NINO ROTA, Suite from The Godfather ALAN SILVESTRI, Suite from Back to the Future

Really nice! But I would submit that “written by” and “composed by” are tautological.

Okay, I have to join the chorus here as well and say that that was awesome.

Did you guys see this fan edit of the re-inserted Jabba scene?

I watched Rebel Moon when it came out. I thought it started off alright, but it just never got anywhere. Meandering. Even when they got off the planet, I still had a feeling that nothing was really happening. By the time spider lady came on screen I had completely lost interest and decided to continue another day. I pushed through a couple of days later but found the latter half as uninspired as the first.

They’re in cahoots with the Austrians!

Yes, I agree. One is within the tone of the movie/series whereas the other is not. Just pointing out the slightly absurd logic in my own complaint.

As one of the people who’ve said “he should’ve died”, I stand by that statement - but I can see the humor in having such a complaint in a movie about time travel where the main character goes back in time and meets Archimedes.

@filmmusic You’re allowed to say that it’s out there to torrent as long as you don’t post a link to pirated material.

Whatever it is, make sure to drink it from a bathroom glass! 🤣🤣🤣

I think that you have put too much thought into my statement. I don’t sit with an excel sheet while watching movies. It’s a gut feeling. But if my gut constantly tells me, “that’s unnatural - that’s illogical - that’s weird”, and then at the end my brain points out unresolved events abd starts going “but what happened to x - and what happened to y”, then It’s a bad movie. There’s no calculus. Of course, the “gut feeling” all depends on the movie. I can watch Sharknado and it’s obviously bad, but I don’t give Indiana Jones the same leeway.

Yes, sure. And if it has too many low points… ?

They’re all bad. I think the defenders of these movies give them a pass due to the franchise or brand they belong to. They have too much invested in them to accept any flaws. It becomes a self image problem (but of course that is the wrong conclusion). “If this thing that I grew up with, identify with, have formed my identity around, have publicly defended, spent time and money on - is suddenly bad, I refuse to accept this ‘new’ reality and will blindly defend it” - even though it’s painfully obvious for everybody around. It’s the same reason (to some extent) that women in an abusive relationship don’t leave their men. Like all “bad” movies they are bound to have have some redeeming features. The music. The set design. The props. A certain actor. A groundbreaking special effect. But one swallow does not a summer make. I think it’s easy to look back at a bad movie and confuse one or more of these redeeming features with the movie actually being ok/good and think, “since it had X, it was not bad”. But this is a false logic. It’s self justification with a bias because we also want to like these movies. But sure, we all have different definitions of good/bad, no one can deny that. And we can endlessly discuss the nuances of how bad it was by comparing a bad movie with other bad movies - which one was slightly worse or which one was slightly better - but it’s not enough that a movie is “relatively ok”. A movie is a sum of all its parts - and a bad movie with some redeeming features is still a bad movie. Right! I’d forgotten about that. Such an unnecessarily cruel movie! And you’re absolutely right, the logic that the characters use around these events, so unnatural. I think the reason I dislike this movie boils down to two things: most things happening in this movie feels either pointless or unnatural, and one can only suspend one’s disbelief for so many things.