The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.

Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
They drop the bit rate.

You had me at $4.99.

I've only seen a few of these movies.

Last Action Hero

Universal Soldier The Return

The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik, nothing to do with the Charles
Bronson film or its remake starring Jason Stathum)

Into the Sun

The Stone Killer

Silent Rage

Shamus

The Anderson Tapes (Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon); I think I liked it but
it's not memorable

Attack Force

The Point Men

The Hunt for Eagle One

Walking Tall: Lone Justice (some direct to video crap that has nothing
to do with the original story)

S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)

Basic (I'm so confused!)

Maximum Risk (such a generic title, I have no clue if I've seen this)

Stealth (I rooted for the plane)

The Pact of Silence

In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)

The Quiet

Trapped

On a separate DVD, Hammer of the Gods set in 871 AD. The marketing hype
on the package promises well-choreographed fight scenes and bloody gore.

Also, The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, who smolders
according to the hype. It's a western revenge flick I'd never heard of.
Why is the main character Danish? I have no clue.

Then a pack of Matt Damon flicks, The Adjustment Bureau (there are worse
Philip K. Dick adaptations) and The Good Shepherd, a really really
really long movie that would have worked better as a tv miniseries,
about the early days of the CIA and loosely based on the Angleton
incident. Hey! This one's BluRay! I hadn't actually looked.

Then, I couldn't resist buying the entire package of Bewitched, which
promises that it's as originally broadcast.

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>
> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
> They drop the bit rate.

Hopefully it’s not 20 movies all on one disc!

How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?

> You had me at $4.99.
>
> I've only seen a few of these movies.
>
> Last Action Hero

That… Wasn’t very good. Arnold was on the late night talk shows selling it
saying how he was in charge of every aspect of production and even designed
the movie poster. They really need to not let him do that again.

> Universal Soldier The Return

There are a lot of those and I can’t keep track of them. Remember back when
we liked Ally Walker?

Good Lord. IMDB search says there are dozens of these things. I have no
idea if they’re all related to the original. I’ve definitely not seen the
return.

>
> The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik, nothing to do with the Charles
> Bronson film or its remake starring Jason Stathum)
>
> Into the Sun

That could be a couple different movies

>
> The Stone Killer

I’m guessing that’s Charles Bronson and it’s just chock-full of people who
made careers out of guest starring on TV shows

>
> Silent Rage

There’s a bunch of movies by that title. I’m guessing you’ve got the one
with Chuck Norris versus genetic monsters that so bad they did it on
RiffTrax. And there’s a sequel!

>
> Shamus

I’m guessing that’s Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon. What can I say? It’s got
Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon it. I’d watch anything with Burt Reynolds and
Dyan cannon in it.

>
> The Anderson Tapes (Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon); I think I liked it but
> it's not memorable

What can I say? It’s got Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it. I’d watch
anything with Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it.

>
> Attack Force

Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn’t even have her picture on IMDb and was
born in
I swear
Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden

>
> The Point Men

Severe violence and gore!

>
> The Hunt for Eagle One

Wow! I had no idea that Sensi ping from the middleman

Now best known as the nephew of the chairman on the version of iron chef
that has a 500 pound pig woman as a judge ever headline the movie!

>
> Walking Tall: Lone Justice (some direct to video crap that has nothing
> to do with the original story)

Direct sequel to walking tall: the payback, this stars Kevin Sorbo and
three hot women, one of which is Yvette Nipar, and I’d watch a movie just
for her. This ended her career.

> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)

There are a lot of swat movies and I’ve never made my way all the way
through any of them. I’m guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
great Robert Urich?

>
> Basic (I'm so confused!)

I’m guessing this is the 2003 movie with the top notch cast including John
Travolta and Samuel L Jackson?

>
> Maximum Risk (such a generic title, I have no clue if I've seen this)
>

Wait. You’re complaining about this title being generic when the previous
movie was just named “basic”?
Anyway I’m guessing this is the 1990s version with the chick from species
and moderate nudity. With any luck they’ll overlap.

> Stealth (I rooted for the plane)

Hey, it had a babe in it!

>
> The Pact of Silence

Girard dippy Doo and a cast of people with unpronounceable names that are
such low end actors they would appear in a movie with Gerard dippity do.

>
> In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)
>

Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
still only gives it five stars. Maybe the directors cut has lots of extra
nudity but I doubt it.

OK here are some quotes from the trivia section on IMDb:

The unrated version is notorious for a scene where fellatio is witnessed by
Meg Ryan's character, although it was later revealed in the film commentary
that the actress was using a rubber prop.

According to Reuters, Meg Ryan would have preferred not to do the steamy
sex scenes but put her faith in Jane Campion. Speaking at Toronto Film
Festival, where the movie made its debut, Ryan said: "I think the scenes
are really good though, I think they're very honest. Jane didn't want them
to be coy, so I don't think they are at all. And I love how much dialogue
is in those scenes. That's what makes them really intimate." Ryan said the
scenes were filmed with a minimum of people on the set, and Campion did
everything possible to put her actors at ease, including offering to take
off her own clothes.

The only film that received an "F" CinemaScore from audiences upon its
release in 2003.

The film uses the word "fuck" 55 times.

Frannie (Meg Ryan) spends forty percent of the film in her underwear and
nude.

Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) spends twenty percent of the film nude.

A few seconds after Malloy has removed Frannie's panties, she is still
wearing them (while he fondles her stomach).

They spent $12 million making it and grossed back $5 million.

You need to invite us all over. Movie party!

> The Quiet

I am guessing this is the 2005 movie with those girls that Ian likes that
review say is “extremely disturbing“

>
> Trapped

There are a lot of movies with this title. This one could be very good or
very very bad.

>
> On a separate DVD, Hammer of the Gods set in 871 AD. The marketing hype
> on the package promises well-choreographed fight scenes and bloody gore.
>

I hate bloodless gore.
This may be the only one I’ve seen.

> Also, The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, who smolders
> according to the hype. It's a western revenge flick I'd never heard of.
> Why is the main character Danish? I have no clue.

Well, so is the Director. And both writers.

Filmed in South Africa on a $10 million budget and grossed back $44,000.

>
> Then a pack of Matt Damon flicks, The Adjustment Bureau (there are worse
> Philip K. Dick adaptations) and The Good Shepherd, a really really
> really long movie that would have worked better as a tv miniseries,
> about the early days of the CIA and loosely based on the Angleton
> incident. Hey! This one's BluRay! I hadn't actually looked.

I liked the adjustment Bureau. I’ve never seen the other one.

>
> Then, I couldn't resist buying the entire package of Bewitched, which
> promises that it's as originally broadcast.

So poorly colorized then?

Is this the version where they swap out the husband for a completely
talentless creep and then proceed to remake the same episodes which are
absolutely horrible because of the completely talentless creep?

Enjoy!

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On 9/13/2022 12:30 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>
>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>> They drop the bit rate.
>
> Hopefully it’s not 20 movies all on one disc!
>
> How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?
>
Because thumb drives are more expensive and perceived to be too
complicated and "nerdy". Plus when DVDs came out not many TVs had USB
ports to plug them in to.

--
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dirty old man.

In article <tfp5vp$2gvpn$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

>The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.

Be carefull to not get the Rocky 4 with the alternative ending!

--
Let's go Brandon!

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>
>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>> They drop the bit rate.
>
>Hopefully it's not 20 movies all on one disc!
>
>How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?

Too easy to copy the contents?

>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
>
>There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>great Robert Urich?

DanTannah!

Wait, that was a TV show, not a theatrical release!

--
Let's go Brandon!

In article <tfq60j$2joik$5@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
<weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> > Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
> >> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
> >> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
> >> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
> >> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
> >>
> >> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
> >> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
> >> They drop the bit rate.
> >
> >Hopefully it's not 20 movies all on one disc!
> >
> >How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?
>
> Too easy to copy the contents?
>
> >> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
> >
> >There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
> >through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
> >great Robert Urich?
>
> DanTannah!
>
> Wait, that was a TV show, not a theatrical release!

Robert Urich played Officer Jim Street in S.W.A.T.

I think Robert Urich was in everything back then. BTW I didn't know
until now that his widow, Heather Menzies, died in 2017.

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Into the Sun

>That could be a couple different movies

I should have listed the years.

2005 with Steven Seagal who talks way too much, direct to DVD

Ah. I've seen this. I always thought is was a lousy remake of The
Yakuza, except looking it up, they rewrote just enough of the script to
avoid paying the fee to license the original script.

Critics say Seagal's dialogue scenes feel like padding (Seagal doing a
single sentence of dialogue would feel that way). One says it's one of
his better movies, I guess for the action, but way to set the bar low.
>>The Stone Killer

>I'm guessing that’s Charles Bronson and it's just chock-full of people who
>made careers out of guest starring on TV shows

Yeah, 1973
>>Silent Rage

>There's a bunch of movies by that title. I'm guessing you've got the one
>with Chuck Norris versus genetic monsters that so bad they did it on
>RiffTrax. And there's a sequel!

1982, so that sounds right

>>Shamus

>I'm guessing that’s Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon. What can I say? It's got
>Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon it. I'd watch anything with Burt Reynolds and
>Dyan cannon in it.

Good point

>>The Anderson Tapes (Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon); I think I liked it but
>>it's not memorable

>What can I say? It's got Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it. I’d watch
>anything with Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it.

I'm sure that's why I've watched it in the past. I can't bring myself to
watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ever again, knowing that Connery
decided that retirement would be way more fun than making more crap like
that.

>>Attack Force

>Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn't even have her picture on IMDb and was
>born in I swear Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden

Heh

>>The Point Men

>Severe violence and gore!

>>The Hunt for Eagle One

>Wow! I had no idea that Sensi ping from the middleman

Middleman!

Maybe I'll watch this first.

>Now best known as the nephew of the chairman on the version of iron chef
>that has a 500 pound pig woman as a judge ever headline the movie!
>>Walking Tall: Lone Justice (some direct to video crap that has nothing
>>to do with the original story)

>Direct sequel to walking tall: the payback, this stars Kevin Sorbo and
>three hot women, one of which is Yvette Nipar, and I'd watch a movie just
>for her. This ended her career.

Oh dear

>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)

>There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>great Robert Urich?

No it's the dreadful one from 2003.
>>Basic (I'm so confused!)

>I'm guessing this is the 2003 movie with the top notch cast including John
>Travolta and Samuel L Jackson?

Hence the hint
>>Maximum Risk (such a generic title, I have no clue if I've seen this)

>Wait. You're complaining about this title being generic when the previous
>movie was just named basic?

Heh

>Anyway I'm guessing this is the 1990s version with the chick from species
>and moderate nudity. With any luck they'll overlap.

1996

Van Damme, whose movie suck a lot less than Seagal, and Natasha
Henstridge. Yeah, it's the movie you're thinking of.

>>Stealth (I rooted for the plane)

>Hey, it had a babe in it!
>>The Pact of Silence

>Girard dippy Doo and a cast of people with unpronounceable names that are
>such low end actors they would appear in a movie with Gerard dippity do.

IMDb has reviews that truly slam this crap.
>>In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)

>Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
>movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
>says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
>still only gives it five stars. Maybe the directors cut has lots of extra
>nudity but I doubt it.

>OK here are some quotes from the trivia section on IMDb:

>The unrated version is notorious for a scene where fellatio is witnessed by
>Meg Ryan's character, although it was later revealed in the film commentary
>that the actress was using a rubber prop.

>According to Reuters, Meg Ryan would have preferred not to do the steamy
>sex scenes but put her faith in Jane Campion. Speaking at Toronto Film
>Festival, where the movie made its debut, Ryan said: "I think the scenes
>are really good though, I think they're very honest. Jane didn't want them
>to be coy, so I don't think they are at all. And I love how much dialogue
>is in those scenes. That's what makes them really intimate." Ryan said the
>scenes were filmed with a minimum of people on the set, and Campion did
>everything possible to put her actors at ease, including offering to take
>off her own clothes.

>The only film that received an "F" CinemaScore from audiences upon its
>release in 2003.

>The film uses the word "fuck" 55 times.

Is that a record?

>Frannie (Meg Ryan) spends forty percent of the film in her underwear and
>nude.

I'm starting to remember. Is this the movie Meg Ryan accepted in order
to ruin her career, in lieu of making buckets full of money doing
romcoms, because she wanted to be taken as a serious dramatic actress?

>Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) spends twenty percent of the film nude.

He wears a bag over his head and nothing else?

>A few seconds after Malloy has removed Frannie's panties, she is still
>wearing them (while he fondles her stomach).

Fire the continuity chick! (A guy would have recalled she wasn't wearing
any.)

>They spent $12 million making it and grossed back $5 million.

>You need to invite us all over. Movie party!

Heh

I'd have to buy out the stock of a small liquor store. We'd all have to
get very very drunk.

>>The Quiet

>I am guessing this is the 2005 movie with those girls that Ian likes that
>review say is extremely disturbing

Yeah
>>Trapped

>There are a lot of movies with this title. This one could be very good or
>very very bad.

2002, Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron and Pruitt Taylor Vince

IMDb reviews praise the performances of the three and carry the first
two thirds of the movie, but Courtney Love ruins the last third.
>>On a separate DVD, Hammer of the Gods set in 871 AD. The marketing hype
>>on the package promises well-choreographed fight scenes and bloody gore.

>I hate bloodless gore.
>This may be the only one I've seen.

Were the fight scenes any good?

>>Also, The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, who smolders
>>according to the hype. It's a western revenge flick I'd never heard of.
>>Why is the main character Danish? I have no clue.

>Well, so is the Director. And both writers.

>Filmed in South Africa on a $10 million budget and grossed back $44,000.

Maybe set it in South Africa?
>>Then a pack of Matt Damon flicks, The Adjustment Bureau (there are worse
>>Philip K. Dick adaptations) and The Good Shepherd, a really really
>>really long movie that would have worked better as a tv miniseries,
>>about the early days of the CIA and loosely based on the Angleton
>>incident. Hey! This one's BluRay! I hadn't actually looked.

>I liked the adjustment Bureau. I've never seen the other one.

I got a kick out of the guy from Mad Men who did all those auto
commercials as the villain in The Adjustment Bureau.

If you ever attempt to watch the CIA flick, seriously, break it up into
viewing sessions. It is not paced like a movie and really would have
worked better if done as episodes for a miniseries.
>>Then, I couldn't resist buying the entire package of Bewitched, which
>>promises that it's as originally broadcast.

>So poorly colorized then?

They promised it's not!

>Is this the version where they swap out the husband for a completely
>talentless creep and then proceed to remake the same episodes which are
>absolutely horrible because of the completely talentless creep?

Still better than the post-series theatrical movie

>Enjoy!

I may just skip the final three seasons.

A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
> In article <tfq60j$2joik$5@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
> <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>>>
>>>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>>>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>>>> They drop the bit rate.
>>>
>>> Hopefully it's not 20 movies all on one disc!
>>>
>>> How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?
>>
>> Too easy to copy the contents?
>>
>>>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
>>>
>>> There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>>> through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>>> great Robert Urich?
>>
>> DanTannah!
>>
>> Wait, that was a TV show, not a theatrical release!
>
>
> Robert Urich played Officer Jim Street in S.W.A.T.
>
> I think Robert Urich was in everything back then. BTW I didn't know
> until now that his widow, Heather Menzies, died in 2017.
>

Yeah, wasn’t that awful? :-(

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Into the Sun
>
>> That could be a couple different movies
>
> I should have listed the years.
>
> 2005 with Steven Seagal who talks way too much, direct to DVD
>
> Ah. I've seen this. I always thought is was a lousy remake of The
> Yakuza, except looking it up, they rewrote just enough of the script to
> avoid paying the fee to license the original script.
>
> Critics say Seagal's dialogue scenes feel like padding (Seagal doing a
> single sentence of dialogue would feel that way). One says it's one of
> his better movies, I guess for the action, but way to set the bar low.
>
>>> The Stone Killer
>
>> I'm guessing that’s Charles Bronson and it's just chock-full of people who
>> made careers out of guest starring on TV shows
>
> Yeah, 1973
>
>>> Silent Rage
>
>> There's a bunch of movies by that title. I'm guessing you've got the one
>> with Chuck Norris versus genetic monsters that so bad they did it on
>> RiffTrax. And there's a sequel!
>
> 1982, so that sounds right
>
>>> Shamus
>
>> I'm guessing that’s Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon. What can I say? It's got
>> Burt Reynolds and Dyan cannon it. I'd watch anything with Burt Reynolds and
>> Dyan cannon in it.
>
> Good point
>
>>> The Anderson Tapes (Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon); I think I liked it but
>>> it's not memorable
>
>> What can I say? It's got Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it. I’d watch
>> anything with Sean Connery and Dyan cannon in it.
>
> I'm sure that's why I've watched it in the past. I can't bring myself to
> watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ever again, knowing that Connery
> decided that retirement would be way more fun than making more crap like
> that.

Oh I actually did watch that within the last month or two. I am not
entirely sure why. Maybe it was on Plex when I got it. I still marveled but
apparently nobody realized Connery should’ve been playing Tom Sawyer. And
that 20 mile long submarine navigating the canals of Venice.

>
>>> Attack Force
>
>> Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn't even have her picture on IMDb and was
>> born in I swear Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden
>
> Heh

I couldn’t do the special characters. It’s amazing that I got as much as I
did past spellcheck!

Who else thinks that from now on we should call Ian “vast bottoms“?

>
>>> The Point Men
>
>> Severe violence and gore!
>
>>> The Hunt for Eagle One
>
>> Wow! I had no idea that Sensi ping from the middleman
>
> Middleman!

Then kew

>
> Maybe I'll watch this first.
>
>> Now best known as the nephew of the chairman on the version of iron chef
>> that has a 500 pound pig woman as a judge ever headline the movie!
>
>>> Walking Tall: Lone Justice (some direct to video crap that has nothing
>>> to do with the original story)
>
>> Direct sequel to walking tall: the payback, this stars Kevin Sorbo and
>> three hot women, one of which is Yvette Nipar, and I'd watch a movie just
>> for her. This ended her career.
>
> Oh dear

I think for some unknown reason she must’ve come out of a retirement to do
these last two and then faded away again.

>
>>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
>
>> There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>> through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>> great Robert Urich?
>
> No it's the dreadful one from 2003.

“Raise your hand if “ewww““

>
>>> Basic (I'm so confused!)
>
>> I'm guessing this is the 2003 movie with the top notch cast including John
>> Travolta and Samuel L Jackson?
>
> Hence the hint
>
>>> Maximum Risk (such a generic title, I have no clue if I've seen this)
>
>> Wait. You're complaining about this title being generic when the previous
>> movie was just named basic?
>
> Heh
>
>> Anyway I'm guessing this is the 1990s version with the chick from species
>> and moderate nudity. With any luck they'll overlap.
>
> 1996
>
> Van Damme, whose movie suck a lot less than Seagal, and Natasha
> Henstridge. Yeah, it's the movie you're thinking of.

I have always loved that there’s a South Park that credits her as the chick
from species and it’s actually her in it.

>
>>> Stealth (I rooted for the plane)
>
>> Hey, it had a babe in it!
>
>>> The Pact of Silence
>
>> Girard dippy Doo and a cast of people with unpronounceable names that are
>> such low end actors they would appear in a movie with Gerard dippity do.
>
> IMDb has reviews that truly slam this crap.

And can you blame them?

Remember the Columbus movie (I think it was) where the other actors would
repeat deputy dues lines after him because they realized nobody could
understand what he was saying?

>
>>> In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)
>
>> Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
>> movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
>> says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
>> still only gives it five stars. Maybe the directors cut has lots of extra
>> nudity but I doubt it.
>
>> OK here are some quotes from the trivia section on IMDb:
>
>> The unrated version is notorious for a scene where fellatio is witnessed by
>> Meg Ryan's character, although it was later revealed in the film commentary
>> that the actress was using a rubber prop.
>
>> According to Reuters, Meg Ryan would have preferred not to do the steamy
>> sex scenes but put her faith in Jane Campion. Speaking at Toronto Film
>> Festival, where the movie made its debut, Ryan said: "I think the scenes
>> are really good though, I think they're very honest. Jane didn't want them
>> to be coy, so I don't think they are at all. And I love how much dialogue
>> is in those scenes. That's what makes them really intimate." Ryan said the

Gah. I hate chicks that talk in bed.

>> scenes were filmed with a minimum of people on the set, and Campion did
>> everything possible to put her actors at ease, including offering to take
>> off her own clothes.
>
>> The only film that received an "F" CinemaScore from audiences upon its
>> release in 2003.
>
>> The film uses the word "fuck" 55 times.
>
> Is that a record?

I was wondering.

>
>> Frannie (Meg Ryan) spends forty percent of the film in her underwear and
>> nude.
>
> I'm starting to remember. Is this the movie Meg Ryan accepted in order
> to ruin her career, in lieu of making buckets full of money doing
> romcoms, because she wanted to be taken as a serious dramatic actress?
>

That rings a bell.

Did she have the disfiguring plastic surgery before or after she made this?

>> Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) spends twenty percent of the film nude.
>
> He wears a bag over his head and nothing else?

Eww

>
>> A few seconds after Malloy has removed Frannie's panties, she is still
>> wearing them (while he fondles her stomach).
>
> Fire the continuity chick! (A guy would have recalled she wasn't wearing
> any.)

That happened recently in that movie with Ben Affleck and the hot chick
from the last James Bond movie.

>
>> They spent $12 million making it and grossed back $5 million.
>
>> You need to invite us all over. Movie party!
>
> Heh
>
> I'd have to buy out the stock of a small liquor store. We'd all have to
> get very very drunk.

We have delivery services here that lets you place a group order and
everybody tells them what they want and it goes on their card and they just
bring the whole mess to an address.

>
>>> The Quiet
>
>> I am guessing this is the 2005 movie with those girls that Ian likes that
>> review say is extremely disturbing
>
> Yeah
>
>>> Trapped
>
>> There are a lot of movies with this title. This one could be very good or
>> very very bad.
>
> 2002, Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron and Pruitt Taylor Vince
>
> IMDb reviews praise the performances of the three and carry the first
> two thirds of the movie, but Courtney Love ruins the last third.
>

In article <tfp5vp$2gvpn$1@dont-email.me>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>
> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
> They drop the bit rate.
>
> You had me at $4.99.
>
> I've only seen a few of these movies.
>
> Last Action Hero
>
> Universal Soldier The Return
>
> The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik, nothing to do with the Charles
> Bronson film or its remake starring Jason Stathum)
>
> Into the Sun
>
> The Stone Killer
>
> Silent Rage
>
> Shamus

Is this about the adventures of Usenet's greatest sockpuppet?

In article
<1668081864.684743709.375286.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> > Attack Force
>
> Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn’t even have her picture on IMDb and
> was born in I swear Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden

I propose we all start calling Ian "Vasterbottens" from now on.

> > In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)
> >
> Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
> movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
> says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
> still only gives it five stars.

Is this pre-surgery Meg Ryan or the post-surgery Joker-era Meg Ryan?
'Cause if it's the latter, there's absolutely nothing erotic about that
whatsoever.

> and Campion did everything possible to put her actors at ease, including
> offering to take off her own clothes.

That sounds like a Harvey Weinstein move.

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> In article
> <1668081864.684743709.375286.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Attack Force
>>
>> Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn’t even have her picture on IMDb and
>> was born in I swear Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden
>
> I propose we all start calling Ian "Vasterbottens" from now on.
>

And each time we do, celebrate with a delicious spoonful of ice cream!

>>> In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)
>>>
>> Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
>> movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
>> says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
>> still only gives it five stars.
>
> Is this pre-surgery Meg Ryan or the post-surgery Joker-era Meg Ryan?
> 'Cause if it's the latter, there's absolutely nothing erotic about that
> whatsoever.

And then the second helping of ice cream for dessert!

>
>> and Campion did everything possible to put her actors at ease, including
>> offering to take off her own clothes.
>
> That sounds like a Harvey Weinstein move.
>

They’re about equally attractive.

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In <1787328830.684777790.732909.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

[snip]
>>> Direct sequel to walking tall: the payback, this stars Kevin Sorbo and
>>> three hot women, one of which is Yvette Nipar, and I'd watch a movie just
>>> for her. This ended her career.
>>
>> Oh dear

>I think for some unknown reason she must've come out of a retirement to do
>these last two and then faded away again.

likely to be a SAG/AFTRA requiement of "if you're not
actively, err, acting, no health insurance for you"

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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.

>>Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>>licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>>They drop the bit rate.

>>You had me at $4.99.

>>I've only seen a few of these movies.

>>Last Action Hero

>>Universal Soldier The Return

>>The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik, nothing to do with the Charles
>>Bronson film or its remake starring Jason Stathum)

>>Into the Sun

>>The Stone Killer

>>Silent Rage

>>Shamus

>Is this about the adventures of Usenet's greatest sockpuppet?

Heh

"I've fallen into the laundry basket and I can't get out!"

RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 10:54:45 UTC-4, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 9/13/2022 12:30 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>>>
>>>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>>>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>>>> They drop the bit rate.
>>>
>>> Hopefully it’s not 20 movies all on one disc!
>>>
>>> How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?
>>>
>> Because thumb drives are more expensive and perceived to be too
>> complicated and "nerdy". Plus when DVDs came out not many TVs had USB
>> ports to plug them in to.
>
> Even if they did, they were for displaying still images only. But
> storing a movie on a thumb drive in VOB (DVD) format is HIGHLY space consumptive.
> Much better to make it an mp4 with 265 compression. Then you can have
> multiple movies and they won't suffer any compression issues.
>

Yes. I didn’t go into details but that’s one of the big advantages of the
thumb drive is that it isn’t stuck on the antiquated low quality hi file
size DVD format. I have entire TV series on MP4 H265 on reasonably sized
thumb drives. For whatever reason the plasma has three or four USB ports
on the back.

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On 9/13/2022 10:24 AM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <tfq60j$2joik$5@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous
> <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>>>
>>>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>>>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>>>> They drop the bit rate.
>>>
>>> Hopefully it's not 20 movies all on one disc!
>>>
>>> How come selling movies on thumb drives never became popular?
>>
>> Too easy to copy the contents?
>>
>>>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
>>>
>>> There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>>> through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>>> great Robert Urich?
>>
>> DanTannah!
>>
>> Wait, that was a TV show, not a theatrical release!
>
>
> Robert Urich played Officer Jim Street in S.W.A.T.

Yes, and Pubie tried doing his own version called T.W.A.T.

> I think Robert Urich was in everything back then. BTW I didn't know
> until now that his widow, Heather Menzies, died in 2017.

On 9/13/2022 11:38 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <tfp5vp$2gvpn$1@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>> nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>> remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>> Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>
>> Ok ok. I picked up a Mill Creek Entertainment set of 20 movies on DVD,
>> licensed from Sony Pictures for home entertainment. Yes, yes, I know.
>> They drop the bit rate.
>>
>> You had me at $4.99.
>>
>> I've only seen a few of these movies.
>>
>> Last Action Hero
>>
>> Universal Soldier The Return
>>
>> The Russian Specialist (The Mechanik, nothing to do with the Charles
>> Bronson film or its remake starring Jason Stathum)
>>
>> Into the Sun
>>
>> The Stone Killer
>>
>> Silent Rage
>>
>> Shamus
>
> Is this about the adventures of Usenet's greatest sockpuppet?

So true, "Ed Stasiak" is a pile of shit in comparison. Oh, and idiot,
"Seamus" is what you call the guy who creates the sockpuppets, so you
even fucked that up you fucking idiot.

On 9/13/2022 11:50 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <1668081864.684743709.375286.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Attack Force
>>
>> Steven Seagal and a woman who doesn’t even have her picture on IMDb and
>> was born in I swear Dorotea, Vasterbottens Ian, Sweden
>
> I propose we all start calling Ian "Vasterbottens" from now on.
>
>>> In the Cut (director's cut! Does that make the movie better?)
>>>
>> Women write and direct the useless jackass who plays the Hulk in the marvel
>> movies with additional writing by Stavros Kazantzidis. The first review
>> says it’s the greatest performance of meg Ryan’s career and erotic and
>> still only gives it five stars.
>
> Is this pre-surgery Meg Ryan or the post-surgery Joker-era Meg Ryan?
> 'Cause if it's the latter, there's absolutely nothing erotic about that
> whatsoever.

Yes, for example, Anim8r's fave RuPaul most likely didn't have such surgery.

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:58:51 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

>>The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>
>Be carefull to not get the Rocky 4 with the alternative ending!

I'd kind of like to see that even as "extra content" on a DVD. My
mother was at Vancouver's Agridome for the climactic fight but I don't
think I saw her as an extra. Stallone found the actor who played
Gorbachev in a bar when he was in Powell River, BC for a weekend
fishing trip at the start of shooting.

lcraver@home.ca wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

>>>The big box home improvement store, where I've never been served by Sam
>>>nor Andi, sells all sorts of oddball stuff. Sometimes they get DVD
>>>remainders. Today's batch was all labeled for sale by Distribution
>>>Solutions, so either this stuff sells or gets dumped.
>>
>>Be carefull to not get the Rocky 4 with the alternative ending!
>
>I'd kind of like to see that even as "extra content" on a DVD.

Whoosh!

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In article <130920221124010549%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>>> S.W.A.T. (I've never been able to get through this movie)
>>>
>>> There are a lot of swat movies and I've never made my way all the way
>>> through any of them. I'm guessing this is the 1975 classic with the late
>>> great Robert Urich?
>>
>> DanTannah!
>>
>> Wait, that was a TV show, not a theatrical release!
>
>Robert Urich played Officer Jim Street in S.W.A.T.

There was a theatrical version of the TV show?

>I think Robert Urich was in everything back then.

It sure seemed like it!

[Kerman's incorrect formatting fixed.]

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