Return to.. normal

Alright, I did something on Friday that I shouldn't have.. I was watching 12 monkeys, that tv show on syfy... Yechhh.. The show.. First episode got my attention.. I really liked it, enough to get the entire season. Boy what a turn on.. I go a hold of my older brother a science fiction fan and asked him if he was watching or recording this show and he said he had it on DVR and was planning to watch it.. I told him I thought it was worth watching.. I watched episode two, same feeling, I'm following with great anticipation because this show is GREAT.. Episode three, well it started to be like some shows where the new wares off, but still fantastic show, see episode four.. Then Friday I start episode four and instantly from the get go it lost me.. Not lost me as in the plot line but rather caring to watch it.. I wanted to watch the show but every time I tried to watch it was like getting my eyes poked out.. This show suddenly hit the "this show sucks" wall..  What happened??  I have no idea, some shows do that, I'm flowing along and suddenly it just isn't what I thought it was..

This weekend saw a somewhat return to normal as far as movies were concerned.. Saturday morning saw the much anticipated Kill Bill vol 2 which is the sequel to Kill Bill movie.. The first was better than the second mostly because it had a lot more far fetched actin in it.. Farfetched but still quite entertaining even though it was beyond real..

In my case I had several interuptions in the movie but still got the gist.. Quinten Tarantino makes some of the more interesting and truly entertaining  movies in this day in age.. I give it four stars..

The next was Saturday night movie night and with it a great movie I've been putting off  and putting off.

Three Days of the Condor.. What a great movie.. Great period piece that is relevant today as it was back in 1975.. I had never seen this picture.. Great movie all the way around.. During the early scenes when it is raining out there is a single thunder clap that with surround sound seemed like I was right there.. It's strange how I can pick such an odd thing out during a movie like that.. Over all with Robert Redford (the Condor) and Faye Dunaway, it's the perfect pairing.. Great story..  Robert Redford hitting his stride as the master at movie making as an actor..  Some of the other things to notice in this movie.. Rotary telephones in phone booths.. Phone booths, yea they were pretty much everywhere back then.. Filmed in New York City and so the grand twin towers were in there as well..  And, of course everyone seemed to smoke cigarettes..   

Then this morning was another first time viewing of a magnum opus movie (read  LONG)  We have the great Blackhawk Down..

This was one of those you gotta see it movies.. Not a war movie, but rather a rescue mission in the middle of a policing state type of movies.. There was a point during the movie where one of the soldiers said why aren't you shooting back, and the guy said because they aren't shooting at us.. The guy was right however having rules in situations like that.. who else does that??  The enemy wasn't engaging this soldier at that exact moment, but he was obviously engaging with a fellow soldier and suddenly with the change of the barrel three degrees and suddenly he is shooting at YOU.. This movie is great and shows what our guys are capable of.. It's why if you give our guys a goal they will meet it.. It's one of the things I hated about them being in Iraq, They were constantly being given a goal.. our guys would reach that goal.. Given another impossible goal, no problem they reached that goal.. Then one day the press asked the guy in charge when will our troops be coming home and the answer was they will NEVER BE  coming home.. Meaning there is no goal now.. Saddam had been captured as well as his sons.. Tough shit guys we are eliminating the goal line.. That pissed me off because how are you supposed to feel now with no goal to achieve.. I wasn't even over there and I know how I felt.. This movie is based on a  real life situation that happened in 1993.. A police state that showed how things would go early on..


Badge Henry

(P.S. As an example of a tv show that I had happen to me what happened to 12 Monkeys, that show Marvels Agents of Shield, that show was on the verge of losing me last year but I hung with it to the very end and I was glad I did.. However the show lost me before the holiday break of part one of the season and the just resently restarted part two.. It lost me after just a few episodes of this season.. I might pick it up on Netflix streaming but I might not also.. There was a (is) a show called How To Get Away With Murder, I started watching this show this season and on the very first show of the season the oddness of hearing a Christmas song on the radio as they were sitting at a gas station and you knew we were watching the show as it would pertain to December.. The show is really good except for one thing.. the gay sex.. I have no problem with people being gay, seeing a man kiss another or women kissing, but when the grinding begins is where I turn away.. We get it, they have sex.. If these people are straight they can't show that, why do we get gay grinding scenes??  I stopped watching it because of that.. Sorry, I thing the creator of this show needs to get a gay show on a premium  channel and then go porn on these shows.. Have a How to get away with murder, the steamy sex scenes in their entirety.. Good for you.. But like I said the networks aren't allowed to show straight people grind like that, there shouldn't be two standards.. Just my opinion and I decided to not watch the show anymore, rather than get on my soap box and preach to everyone "HEY, DON'T WATCH THIS OR THAT SHOW.." Or use these products that advertise on this show.. Hey, if you want to waste your time watching low grade gay porn, GO FOR IT.. )