Sweeping Strings

He did War of the Worlds - hard to get more malevolent than that.

Only guest on Little Fluffy Clouds I know of was Joni Mitchell, who features in a sample talking about her childhood taken from an interview she gave. 

Co-producers of Doctor Who now, too.

All hail our mouse overlords. 

Sometimes, I'll discover sex comedies etc that have been 'snuck onto' YouTube uncut and the YT overlords haven't cottoned on yet. Always fun, hehehe. 

Private Resort (1985)

 
 
I felt like watching a shitty Spring Break style teen sex comedy. So my wife picked Private Resort, probably hoping to see some early Johnny Depp.  From the box art, you could assume it’s a Depp vehicle, and you’d be wrong.  Oh he’s in it a lot, but it seemed like he was Rob Morrow’s sidekick. 
 
No matter. You get two horny guys with zero backstory looking to get laid at the resort.  Hector Elizondo plays “The Maestro”, a bumbling jewel thief who…
 
Ah, who cares?  There’s plenty of bewbs, bare ass from both Depp and Morrow, lots of physical Benny Hill style comedy, no tattoos, zero diversity (unless you count the two Sumo wrestlers), and the large chested woman from the Police Academy movies.  
 
Did I mention there’s bewbs?
 
How the hell do I give this a number ranking out of 10?  I’m not gonna even try.  Sad fact is, I laughed at this stupid but entertaining time capsule.  A throwback then even to those old ribald Euro sex comedies.  They don’t and can’t make them like this anymore. 
 
 

'Imagine being the reason the Kardashians are famous and that NOT being the worst thing about you' is by far the best comment I've seen about Simpson kicking the bucket. 

'Imagine being the reason the Kardashians are famous and that NOT being the worst thing about you' is by far the best comment I've seen about Simpson kicking the bucket. 

Don't forget The Chase!
 

 
or 
 
The Gloves
 

Truman-Lodge was hilarious, a perfect parody of 80s 'yuppie' tossers. 

'You'll have to show some sort of ... special talent.' 

*Bond glances around the room* 'Well, that shouldn't be too difficult'. 

'What about the money, padrone?' 

'Launder it'. 

Australia is definitely real. I followed a chemtrail down a perfectly flat road to get there.

Maybe the studios now think the multitudes of tinfoil-hatted crazies online equate to a large and lucrative target market? 

Coming soon ... Flat Earth, Australia's Not Real and Chemtrails!  

If that's a euphemism ... TMI, dude!  

Totally sympathise. I always imagined that streaming would be like in Star Trek where they just have anything in the database and you'd be able to access it... such a fool! I do, however, highly recommend JustWatch (https://www.justwatch.com/) which at least gives you a fighting chance of finding stuff, even if it's just to pay to watch it. It has a website and an app, all free (although obviously there's a paid for option, but the basic is more than sufficient for most people I'd guess).
 
There's a range of options. You can either have a certain number of discs per month or a certain number of discs at a time. We currently just have 1 disc at a time for £10.99 a month and I guess you could probably get through 5 or 6 discs a month, maybe more, if you lived in the UK (as we're in Guernsey, post takes longer and I think they sometimes get stuck in customs for a couple of days). We were previously on 2 discs at a time for £14.99 a month but didn't watch them that quickly. Not as good as Lovefilm where we used to have 4 discs at a time for the same (or less), but a good alternative to streaming for hard to find things.
 
Honestly very few discs have had any issues. Fingerprints can be wiped off and only a couple have had scratches that makes them skip (none have been totally unplayable), but no worse than renting from Blockbuster I'm sure. The unlock of DVDs from the library is a magnetic thing that locks the case shut, a bit like the tags they have on clothes to stop people pinching them. As I said before, I assume it's a holdover from when DVDs were expensive, but I don't imagine they are worth stealing.
Yes, I loved Lovefilm... fucking A*****n.

I'm old enough to remember when it took about six months after its big-screen release for a movie to get a rental release, and 3/4/5 years after that before it was on TV. 

Probably why I still find it notable when 'terrestrial' TV has premieres of movies that really aren't that old ... Channel 4 had The Lost City on Sat night and Top Gun : Maverick on the previous one, both summer '22 releases.     

If that's a euphemism ... TMI, dude!  

The Inglorious Bastards - not the Tarantino flick, rather an Italian-made 70s WW2 actioner in which a bunch of US soldiers in France who have been sentenced to death for various misdemeanours escape on the way to the prison camp where the sentence is to be carried out and head for neutral Switzerland, only to wind up becoming part of a plan to destroy a train carrying a prototype of the V2 rocket.

Fun Saturday night watch, with a streak of Dirty Dozen/M*A*S*H cynicism to it. Starring Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson and Ian Bannen.

Something like 5000 live tarantulas used in the filming. Kudos to the cast ... there wouldn't be a fee high enough for me *shudders*. 

McCartney saying that Wings doing the LALD song meant that he'd forgiven Bond for the 'earmuffs' line from Goldfinger still makes me smile. 

McCartney saying that Wings doing the LALD song meant that he'd forgiven Bond for the 'earmuffs' line from Goldfinger still makes me smile. 

Great fun, that one. Love the scene of Shatner picking live tarantulas off the car seat before getting in his truck. 

Given the mention of the Shat in this thread, here's an enjoyable 'creature feature' with him that fits right in to it - 



Think Arachnophobia, but without the gags. 

Given the mention of the Shat in this thread, here's an enjoyable 'creature feature' with him that fits right in to it - 



Think Arachnophobia, but without the gags.