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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-25 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 08:50:37 -0700
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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'.
>>
>> We can blame 'King Kong' for inflicting Mr. Harryhausen's work on us.  :P
>>
>>
> 
> 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.  ;)

> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Cool.
> 
>>
>> What Did You Watch?
>>
>>
> 
> 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

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.