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Feb-02-24
 | | offramp: Last night I watched the start and end of
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4264426/
BITE (2015). Three women went on holiday but one of them were bitten by an aquatic creature. Back home, she becomes the vehicle for the creature's progeny. The film became hugely gruesome. I think it's called <body horror>; John Carpenter does that stuff.I had watched that film about a year ago, so I watched
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092627/
The Bedroom Window (1987) with Steve Guttenberg (a big surprise) and a very sexy Elizabeth McGovern. This was a film with lots of early Hitchcock and a bit of Orson Welles's aquarium scene from <the Lady from Shanghai>. The film was a load of twaddle but it was all well done, and I liked it. BITE (2015)👍👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
The Bedroom Window (1987)👍👍👍👎🏻 |
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Feb-02-24
| | offramp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty... |
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Feb-03-24
| | offramp: I watched <The Onion Field> (1979) and it was very good all the way through. I had a shock when I saw the actor and I thought, "No way that is Ted Danson". Then I saw another actor and I thought, "Absolutely that is NOT James Woods - it can't be!!" But they were Danson and Woods.
Woods was, as usual, really good. An Oscar-worth actor almost always. Like he said in that episode of the Simpsons ("Did I get that across?"). Woods is also famous from his cameos in the Family Guy (especially his trail of sweets). The film reminds me of the play by the famous W Shakespeare, <Julius Caesar>. The assassination happens in Act 1.
In this film the best part is the various Courtroom dramas. I like them! The film description said neo-noir and it really was like that, the director got that feeling from the 1940s and 1950s. I think the Germans invented that. Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock learnt his trade in Germany?
There is an interview on YouTube of Hitchcock in German. The Onion Field 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👎🏻 |
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Feb-11-24
| | offramp: Photographers like to get pictires of chess players with head buried in hands, whole face covered. THOSE pictures end up used on profiles. |
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Feb-14-24
| | offramp: One of my favourite beers is HOBGOBLIN. They have their own website but YOU can't go there because you have to pass the homepage. Hobgoblin RUBY is the beer that I like, it's 4.5%. As I get older I drink slower and slower. |
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Feb-14-24
| | offramp: Gregory Peck starred in the film <The ********>. Set in Mexico. It's hard to get hold nowadays because of that bad word. |
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Feb-15-24
| | offramp: Last night I saw <Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things> (1972).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068370/
It was okay. It wasn't a disaster. I wouldn't watch it again. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👍🏽 |
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Feb-15-24
| | offramp: At my nearest M⁂Hall I know that a separate order called <"Hermetic Order of SK">. I have never heard of that. At first I guessed SK stood for "Solomon the King", but no one says "Solomon the King". On the spreadsheet there isn't enough room in one cell for that name, that's why they are using the abbreviation for SK. BTW there are many secret orders that don't appear in books or online. |
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Feb-16-24
| | offramp: I found out what <SK> stood for. I have been surprised. It's a Russian Order from the 18th century. |
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Feb-17-24
 | | Check It Out: I recently made it through <The Witching Hour> by Anne Rice. Very descriptive writing, with a slow, epic pace. A bit of softcore in there, but she can't help herself. |
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Feb-19-24
| | offramp: Last night on Film 4 I saw a very funny film.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016).
Comedy. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👎🏻. |
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Feb-20-24
| | Check It Out: I just watched The Taking of Pelham 123. Not the new one with Denzel, the 70s original with Walter Mathau. "Gesundheit!" |
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Feb-21-24
| | offramp: User: Check It Out I liked it especially for Robert Shaw. He did three colossal films on the trot: Jaws, The Sting and Pelham 123. Walther Matthau has had quite a weird range. I know he played a gay Frenchman in one film, and I've seen him in a Don Siegel hard-bitten thriller: <"Charley Varrick"> - that film includes the line, "They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch", cleverly reused in <Pulp Fiction>.
Matthau was OLDER in <The Sunshine Boys> - I mean his character was meant to be older than Burns. A very very funny film; one of Neil Simon's best. The next best for me is <The Cheap Detective> with Falk. I was totally deflated the the remake of <Pelham 123>. I like Denzil Washington but the film let me down. Washington was great in <The Equalizer>. |
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Feb-23-24
| | offramp: I weep in my front room.
I have been using <Bluetooth> for 25 YEARS!! How bad is Bluetooth? I would give it ONE OUT OF TEN. I think that the word <FLAKEY> was specifically invented to describe Bluetooth. |
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Mar-06-24
| | offramp: Film 4 has been showing some Oscar winning films. On consecutive night they showed <The Godfather> I, II and III. The first 2 are classics - nuff said.
For Godfather III I had my head buried in my hands. George Hamilton??? Antonio Banderas?? A massacre by helicopter?? Again, GEORGE HAMILTON?? The murderer from 2 Columbos. I really liked Sophia Coppola; she was prefect. You could see that she was <family>. I mean, she was obviously a Coppola. She had a great future. She directed <Lost In Translation> which is a superb film and it has the luvverly Bill Murray who seems to <NEVER MISSES>. Here is the problem with Godfather III.
There is a brilliant film available, already written and shot. It is called <CASINO> (1995). Godfather <SHOULD> have been about the Mob in Las Vegas. NOT about the bloody Vatican. <INSERT> Michael Corleone, and the whole film would have been the end of a dazzling trilogy. The Vatican - oh boy, what it a disaster that film was. |
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Mar-09-24
| | offramp: Did you know there's a big company called <beIN>? https://www.bein.com.
beIN is almost a chess move: Be1(N).
The name of Malcolm Pein is definitely a valid move:
Pe1(N). |
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Mar-11-24
| | offramp: I travelled in a car today. In 20 years I've been in cars 20 times. I love cars but I don't have the opportunity. A friend gave me a lift to Beaconsfield. The funeral was a police affair, mainly motorbike police. The service was run by a chaplain-type geezer. Not my <thing>. You either get a priest, or a vicar, or whatever. |
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Sep-24-24
 | | OhioChessFan: https://youtu.be/Lc4o_wNoOBk?si=D81... Heard it today. The dom dom chants always bring me here. |
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Nov-26-24
| | OhioChessFan: I think <Dom> would have enjoyed a Black win in the French in a WCC match. |
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Nov-26-24
 | | Open Defence: < OhioChessFan: I think <Dom> would have enjoyed a Black win in the French in a WCC match.> raising a glass of the good stuff to him |
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Jan-03-25
| | offramp: I have mentioned before that I rarely travel in cars. In the last 5 years, I have travelled more often in cars by using Ubers. In my final years I would like to travel ina Mercedes Grosser, a 600! That would be fantastic! Much better than a poxy Rolls Royce. |
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Jan-03-25
| | OhioChessFan: I don't think I could afford to look at one, much less ride in one. |
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Jan-04-25
| | offramp: OCF, I'm hoping for one of those gifts that cost about £100 for 'one day at a race track' or something like that. A circuit in a Ferrari is popular.... I couldn't fit in one. So for me it's the famous Grosser. Here's a daydream: I travel by train to Dusseldorf. Then I get driven in the Merc from Dusseldorf to Geneva. Then I fly back to London, in an aeroplane, humming some crappy song from The Sound of Music. |
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Jan-04-25
| | offramp: The Pakistan cricket team is .. mercurial. They play a blinder one day. Then the next day they look like 14 year olds. ATM Pakistan is being dismantled by South Africa, day 2, session 2, SA 538/6! Rickelton 250*. 2 minutes later SA is 546/6. Scoring like mad. |
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Jan-04-25
| | offramp: I'm watching THE QUIET MAN with John Wayne.
In the film Kate O'Mara throws £350 into a fire. Nowadays, £350 is worth £100,000,000.
In fact, Vladimir Putin could buy Google and Mars because he could stand on his head JUST to buy that boiler from THE QUIET MAN. |
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