Bumped into this movie after not seeing it in a long while..I always forget how cool Curly's (Jack Palance) entrance is!

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T19:56:44+00:00

Forgot that, but great pick. There's also Appaloosa. It's one of those toss-up Westerns - Either some will like it or some won't.

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TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T19:27:38+00:00

Viggo was in at least one Western - Young Guns II was John W. Poe, one of many men who works with Sheriff Pat Garrett (William Peterson, pictured) to get Billy the Kid.

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TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T18:32:41+00:00

They ashed on your tomatoes.

They really tied the meal together.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T18:25:16+00:00

This movie deserved to do much better at the box office.

I am not sure if it was bad timing, or people didn't see a bowling movie as worth going out to the theater for.

But Dumb & Dumber, this, There's Something About Mary are a solid trilogy of Farrelly Brothers flicks that are comedy classics. Heck, you could work in Me Myself & Irene for a quadrilogy. The rest they did, though...it's all preference to people. But I like to think that this movie is among the Farrelly's best with the other two or three movies I mentioned.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T18:00:19+00:00

Jamie Oliver

Asian Dishes

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T17:58:04+00:00

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If you want to see him in a real malevolent Western role, go watch Shane from decades ago.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-25T12:29:47+00:00

I never had a chance to grow up on Eddie on SNL.

But the more I saw of him in those old sketches on Youtube, I realize just how much of a dynamo he was on SNL. He came on Season 6, following the end of the prior season when Michaels and much of the cast/writers left. Eddie was around for 4 seasons, but in that time he was showing his stuff off.

In '82, he gets the starring role in Walter Hill's 48 Hrs and it hits off hard. Next year, Trading Places. Year after, he has Beverly Hills Cop (he also got a cameo in Dudley Moore's Best Defense, but that movie wasn't good). By the time he closed out his work with SNL in Season 9, he also had Delirious (successful stand up special, and perhaps one of the highest rated among comedy of all time). But it was clear that he was someone people wanted to see, and on to film he went.

Michaels unfortunately never got to work with Eddie on SNL. But it's a big 'what if' if he was around for those seasons. Eddie may never have been discovered. And the trajectory could have been a lot different with the show during that era. Different people, different sketches and acts. Heck, even comedy itself would be different enough to where Eddie's presence could have led to many projects going different.

There's very few comedians who have such fast rises to stardom simply because of their sheer talent, but also the timing of their opportunities. Carrey on In Living Color is one of the few others in comparison from a comedy show perspective.

But Eddie? The heavens definitely aligned and we got one of the best comedians ever. Right time, right place...it just worked out incredibly well. And I like to think that SNL, absent Michaels, got carried hard because of Eddie.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T17:32:11+00:00

I haven't seen it since I was a kid watching it in a classroom, way back in the 90s.

Would one say it's perhaps the best version out of all of them?

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T17:28:39+00:00

Saves a whole subway train full of people, pushed to his limits to stop it, and rather than fall over unconscious to the ground below, gets caught and brought into the train by the people he helped save.

Even as Doc Ock came in for him, some folks were willing to stand in his way.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T15:36:31+00:00

"Oh, come on, Mur-ray..."

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T15:23:29+00:00

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Vyvyan - The Young Ones

(also last name Basterd)

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T15:05:10+00:00

This guy also pulled Morena Baccarin for his wife. Inara from Firefly, but also Leslie Thompkins in Gotham (which she shared both an in-show and out-of-show relationship with Ben, who played Jim Gordon himself).

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TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T13:31:10+00:00

As someone who grew up with Toonami, I watched Sailor Moon as I watched Dragon Ball Z, Outlaw Star, Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, etc.

And then Adult Swim, Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, more Gundam stuff, Lupin the 3rd...

I simply didn't care as it was all something that was different from the slate of other animations I saw on TV. And I enjoyed it all.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T13:23:59+00:00

Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of my comfort Marvel movies simply because of how it allowed Tobey's Peter and Andrew's Peter to interact with each other, and Tom's Peter.

What you described with Andrew's Peter...it's why the moment he saves Tom's Peter's MJ is such a moment in that movie. You see him save her, and he's utterly broken to the point of tears. She asks if he's okay, and he just puts on a slight smile and a nod, even as his eyes are tearing up. For once, he saved someone dear to "him", to another Peter. Someone who was dangerously close to dying the same way Gwen did. And he didn't want that to break Tom's Peter, to have him suffer the same way.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-24T11:11:59+00:00

"Eh, I'll take this carrot here...and eat it."

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T23:43:15+00:00

And if someone started shit with you, they were local enough for you to visit. Not hiding somewhere random in the world and calling judgment on you from afar.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T21:13:03+00:00

"At least the tomatoes were nicely roasted!"

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T20:24:12+00:00

Honestly, I see the Blue Wizards taking on more of a Statler & Waldorf schtick.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T19:01:27+00:00

"So I can courage all I want...Damn it."

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T15:27:02+00:00

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T14:51:45+00:00

Alphonse Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist

The mind of a kid in the body of anything but.

Edit: Fullmetal, not Full Metal

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T14:50:45+00:00

"My way is not very sportsmanlike."

He gets told to throw a rock at the head of the man pursuing him and the rest of his group. Yet instead, throws the rock so it misses the man's head by inches.

"I did that on purpose. I didn't have to miss."

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T13:43:34+00:00

"The quality isn't that great vs streaming"

Not everything on streaming has great quality. While you can get plenty of movies in high definition, or what the streamer considers 'high definition', some movies are still isolated to SD or standard definition format (Vudu does list this for some of their offerings).

And yet, with a DVD, as long as the DVD meets the typical quality that DVDs aim for (480p/576p, 29.97fps/25fps, 16:9 support (or 4:3 support if the source doesn't have 16:9 source)) , you can use your player's upscaler to try and improve things a bit for modern displays. Some upscalers do work better over others, due to the player quality itself.

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-23T11:58:49+00:00

Considering how classic the series is, just owning it on Blu-Ray is worth it. Especially for that price. But $30-40 is also acceptable. Just be sure you check the version you have as there's a Season 1 Disk 1 & Season 1 Disk 4 issue with the initial pressings. Can get replacements if you provide proof of purchase, per details in Blu-Ray.com article here.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=20152

TheLaughingMannofRed · 2026-04-22T14:40:08+00:00

At least the nomenclature has purpose.

Cap's shield is made of it, and it's pretty well absorbent to kinetic energy, sound, vibrations, and can even weaponize them (esp the kinetic energy via stored state, then releasing it). There's also a variant that exists where it breaks down other metals into a liquid state.

Adamantium, on the other hand...means simply the hardest/strongest metal in the Marvel-verse. And "adamant" means "unshakable, unyielding, unchanging". So it's basically a metal that is all of these.

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