Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-12 (Friday) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:39:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <1263722996.734740148.460057.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="63f1f5628a7944260c1b4c80127e1270"; logging-data="3670530"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19FHnYJXgLZlazNjsyag+y+LYFsrXkQhKM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tv1FIJ5jkDVpKdZ09LSXCd2KUv0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4303 On 4/13/2024 6:23 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote: > On 4/13/24 5:34 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > >> On 4/13/2024 3:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>> On 4/13/2024 8:41 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>> >>>>> What did you watch? >>>>> >>>>> (I am working on IMDb stuff right now, so I will follow-up to myself a >>>>> little later...) >>>> >>>> I watched: >>>> >>>> The Birds (blu-ray) 1963 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a >>>> small town being terrorized by birds that keep attacking for no reason. >>>> I could have sworn this movie was in black and white and was shocked >>>> when it was in color. My best guess is the last time I watched it was >>>> maybe 40 or so years ago on a black and white TV.  Either that or I >>>> just >>>> flat out forgot it was in color.  Regardless, the movie holds up well >>>> enough.  I just have one more Hitchcock movie to go, then I think I >>>> will >>>> have watched all the ones I want to watch. >>> >>> Which one do you have left to go? >>> >>> Perhaps more importantly, which do you intend to skip? >> >> I have a Hitchcock blu-ray box set.  A while back I watched: Rope, >> Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and Dial M For Murder >> (off of TCM).  Time really flies!  I could have sworn I watched these >> a year or less ago, but it was actually 2 years ago.  Yesterday I >> watched The Birds and today I'm watching my Psycho 4K box set. >> >> In the Hitchcock blu-ray box set that I didn't watch: Marnie, >> Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Torn Curtain, >> Topaz, Frenzy, and Family Plot.  I'm not sure if I've seen any of >> these before.  I'm vaguely aware of the plot of The Trouble with >> Harry, but that doesn't mean I seen it before.  Same goes for >> "Frenzy."  Although if they did a remake, *maybe* I saw the remake.  I >> really don't know for sure.  The set also includes 7 episodes of >> Hitchcock Presents and 3 episodes of The Hitchcock Hour.  I don't know >> which episodes are included. > > You can skip "The 39 Steps", that's for sure!! > >> As an aside, something very weird has been going on with my news >> reader for a long while.  One of the issues I occasional experience is >> when I click on a post it shows as if someone else sent it.  That's >> not something that's easy to catch, but it happens to my posts too. >> The only way I knew for sure this posted is because you responded to >> it.  On my end, I could see it was sent, but couldn't see the actual >> post. Every time I clicked it Ian's post appeared instead.  It's >> getting worse and worse, I click on one person's post but someone >> else's' post appears. I'm going to have uninstall and reinstall >> Thunderbird or maybe use a different newsreader.  This is getting out >> of hand. > > Are you Mac, or PC? > > I would definitely check for updates, and if no update is available, try > a reinstall. > > PC. At some point I'll probably dedicate some time to a proper trouble shoot and reinstall.