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Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)
August 26th, 2018 at 4:03:15 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Stripes is on Nflix. I remember liking it in the early 80's. I find it almost unwatchable now. Bill Murray quits his job for no reason and gets his car repo'd because he's a deadbeat. So they join the army, even though they're way too old, they would never get in. Everybody gets a boot camp buzz cut except the two stars. Murray joined on purpose, he wasn't drafted, but from the minute he gets there he makes fun of everything and hates being told what to do. He's a complete unlikable jerk for the whole movie. When the sarge hits him in the face, I was cheering. Their ragtag company of idiots would never exist in any real army in the world. Why I ever liked this is a mystery. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 27th, 2018 at 2:33:38 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
They were portrayed as in their late 20s so were well within the age to get in. Actually Murry's situation is within reason. We all have known people who had a life going nowhere, so they join. As the recruiter said, "sometimes the Army is your only shot." (Which IRL irks the left to no end.) Believe it or not, the Army gave them full cooperation. I guess they wanted to put a more friendly face on things which had gotten really bad by 1980, not a good time to join. The President is a fink. |
August 27th, 2018 at 2:37:32 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
I have read a sporadic complaint here and there but nothing major. True about the trades. If you go onto a crew and cry about racism you will not last. You do have to man-up as on a crew like that the guys act like they hate each other when work is really going. They don't, but it is letting off steam. And expect to hear names like Frankie the Wop and Black Steve. Part of the territory. Walt turns the kid from a snowflake to a man. The President is a fink. |
August 27th, 2018 at 11:54:08 AM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
And the kid turns Walt from a monolith to a human. I thought it was a very good movie. |
August 27th, 2018 at 12:29:34 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Walt was just a typical man of the era. There is an episode of AITF with Mike and Archie locked in the storeroom that shows the same kind of guy. The President is a fink. |
August 27th, 2018 at 12:46:05 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Walt trying to "man up" Thao NSFW The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
August 27th, 2018 at 2:22:11 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Gran Torino is Italian for Great Turin. Ford named a car that because Turin is a big car making town like Detroit is. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 27th, 2018 at 3:58:43 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
The Mustang was supposed to be called the Torino but Henry II got himself in some kind of scandal over there. The President is a fink. |
August 27th, 2018 at 4:55:54 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
I didn’t really care for the car, not like the Shelby Mustang GT in Gone in 60 seconds or the SS Camaro in Better off Dead. However, wasn’t this the same model of car that Starsky drove on the “Starsky and Hutch” TV show? |
August 27th, 2018 at 5:32:12 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Me either. There was just too many of them, you couldn't go anywhere without seeing one, from 1964 on. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |