OT: General OT Thread #44 - The World is Still Turning

[TaLoN]

I watched the new Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible movies.

My main thought for the Indy movie was, well it's better than the crystal skulls one at least. Indy was good, the bad guy was good, the old characters were good. The new heroes were just unlikeable for me. the 2:30 run time was just too long and felt bogged down.

The new MI movie was much better in comparison. It doesn't quite have that Top Gun "must see in theaters" aspect to it for me, but it does have a couple of moments. I did like how they ended the movie. It's a "to be continued" but not a "cliffhanger" end to the movie.

Loved both films!

 

[MuckOG]

Meet Kinga, my now 9 week old Viszla. She is about 70% pain in my ass and 30% sweetheart. Absolutely cannot WAIT to go hunting with her next year

We just picked up our new Black Lab puppy on Saturday. Sadly we lost our English Springer Spaniel last month due to cancer and heart disease. The new pup has helped alleviate our grief and, like you, I can't wait to hunt him next year. He's 12 weeks and we're starting some initial commands and play retrieving. I forgot how hard the puppy stage is, but its alot of fun.

 

[Soldier13Fox]

We just picked up our new Black Lab puppy on Saturday. Sadly we lost our English Springer Spaniel last month due to cancer and heart disease. The new pup has helped alleviate our grief and, like you, I can't wait to hunt him next year. He's 12 weeks and we're starting some initial commands and play retrieving. I forgot how hard the puppy stage is, but its alot of fun.

Aww man, I'm so sorry to hear that. It's so hard. My plan wasn't to ever have 2 dogs at the same time but my 10 yo boxer is probably reaching near the end and I realized that I just couldn't bare the thought of having a period without a dog in the house. Plus she is extremely well behaved and I hope she rubs off on the new pup.

Yeah, puppies are frickin hard. So cute but also so much work!

 

[MuckOG]

Aww man, I'm so sorry to hear that. It's so hard. My plan wasn't to ever have 2 dogs at the same time but my 10 yo boxer is probably reaching near the end and I realized that I just couldn't bare the thought of having a period without a dog in the house. Plus she is extremely well behaved and I hope she rubs off on the new pup.

Yeah, puppies are frickin hard. So cute but also so much work!

Kinga is a good looking pup. This is my new Black Lab. 13 weeks old and his name is Blue.

 

[Wabit]

Well before I post pics I'll just list off the zoo in my house. I only agreed to getting 1 dog and 1 cat; because we live in town, not on a farm.

Dogs:
1. My dog (the only pet that matters). Red Heeler that I picked out.
2. My sis-in-law dog. Irish Wolfhound/Sulkie mutt from Qatar (dog has a passport and everything). We agreed to watch him because she was having a surgery of some sort. That happened 4+ years ago and he hasn't left yet.
3 and 4. Jack Russel (pup at the time). Just not a breed for me, she's a good dog though. 14yo old Shibu, great dog, but not long for the world. Mostly blind/deaf and has some neurological issues. When she can't do her weekly walk around Farm and Fleet (the cashier ladies just adore her) it'll be time. They were the wife's friend got cancer and we took the dogs while she was in the hospital about a year ago. Had them until the end of Jan when she went into remission. Got them back again in the end of APR when her remission ended. She got back home again about 2 weeks ago. We were supposed to take them back to her last weekend, but she wasn't feeling well so we held off making the 3 hr drive to Eau Claire. Well as of Thursday they are our dogs.

Cats:
1 ( I agreed to getting) and 2. littermates shorthair tuxedo cats. We got when we still living Buffalo 14 years ago. Was only supposed to be one, but the wife just had to have the runt of the litter too.
3. Blue of some sort. Wife brought home from the vet because his previous owner passed and needed a new home.
4. Maine coon the wife inherited from it someone on a knitting board my wife is on 3 years ago. Never met the lady and the cat was willed to her because reasons?
5, long hair black kitten the kid found in the snow 2 winters ago.
6. barely weaned kitten the kid brought home a couple months ago. He had slightly older buddy that came too but a friend took that.

Lizards (all of them are friggin creepy):
1 and 2 bearded dragons. The wife got 1 off craigslist for free. The pet store gave us the other one because she was unsellable (sickly and had some rot and lost toes and part of the tail).
3 and 4 Geckos. They just showed up in the house one day with the kid. No clue how or why, they just live here now.

Guinea pigs:
1. Kid brought it home because her friend didn't want it or something. Temporary to until it could be rehomed. Found it a new home, about a week later they gave it back because reasons.
2. The friend they had gotten for pig 1 that we got as a bonus or something.

Well I keep forgetting that I'm building a pet cemetery on piece of family land. We buried cats 2 and 3 (old age) about a month ago. The sickly beaded dragon (and a hamster the kid acquired somehow) were buried about a month before that.

 

[Avder]

Well Twitter is well and truly dead. Thinking about closing my account.

 

[Puhis]

Well Twitter is well and truly dead. Thinking about closing my account.

Come to Mastodon. It's fun.

 

[Avder]

Come to Mastodon. It's fun.

Isnt there like a million servers?

 

[Minnewildsota]

Well Twitter is well and truly dead. Thinking about closing my account.

Say what? Musk is a genius

 

[Puhis]

Isnt there like a million servers?

Yea, but you can interact with people across the servers.

 

[Digitalbooya]

Well Twitter is well and truly dead. Thinking about closing my account.

Like tech issues or people are now allowed to say whatever they want issues?

I stopped using almost all forms of social media once I realized the BS on the platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter when it was run by Jack Dorsey. Now I just use twitter to follow my hockey people (Russo, Smith, Friedman, Lebrun, Seravelli, etc).

I also found that I am much happier when I spend as little time on social media as possible.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Like tech issues or people are now allowed to say whatever they want issues?

I stopped using almost all forms of social media once I realized the BS on the platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter when it was run by Jack Dorsey. Now I just use twitter to follow my hockey people (Russo, Smith, Friedman, Lebrun, Seravelli, etc).

I also found that I am much happier when I spend as little time on social media as possible.

That’s not a coincidence.

Speaking about Twitter though, it’s been facing a lot of tech issues. Couple that with the fact that bots have pretty much taken over Twitter, since they fired most of their staff that kept bots at bay, it’s now an even bigger cesspool.

 

[TaLoN]

Christopher Nolan is such a fantastic filmmaker

 

[Minnewildsota]

Christopher Nolan is such a fantastic filmmaker

I thoroughly enjoy any movie he makes. I might not always understand wtf is happening, but I still enjoy them.

Example: Tenet. I understand the premise but my mind simply can't wrap around what is happening.

 

[TaLoN]

I thoroughly enjoy any movie he makes. I might not always understand wtf is happening, but I still enjoy them.

Example: Tenet. I understand the premise but my mind simply can't wrap around what is happening.

Tenet is such an underrated film too.

 

[Wabit]

I thoroughly enjoy any movie he makes. I might not always understand wtf is happening, but I still enjoy them.

Example: Tenet. I understand the premise but my mind simply can't wrap around what is happening.

Outside of the Batman movie with Heath Ledger, his movies have been "wake me up when it's over."

I remember going to a drive-in double header for Inception and Sorcerers Apprentice. My thoughts when we here leaving were Sorcerers Apprentice saved the night. Watched Sorcerers Apprentice again when it came out on video and thought "this isn't a good movie."

Interstellar and Dunkirk are movies I should like, I'm a sucker for sci-fi and WWII movies. I came away thinking they were technically perfect movies, but completely unentertaining. Ten words is more than enough for me to describe what I remember about either movie.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Outside of the Batman movie with Heath Ledger, his movies have been "wake me up when it's over."

I remember going to a drive-in double header for Inception and Sorcerers Apprentice. My thoughts when we here leaving were Sorcerers Apprentice saved the night. Watched Sorcerers Apprentice again when it came out on video and thought "this isn't a good movie."

Interstellar and Dunkirk are movies I should like, I'm a sucker for sci-fi and WWII movies. I came away thinking they were technically perfect movies, but completely unentertaining. Ten words is more than enough for me to describe what I remember about either movie.

I disagree entirely. I find them highly entertaining

 

[MuckOG]

I disagree entirely. I find them highly entertaining

Same. I'm also looking forward to viewing Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy is one of my favorite actors. Loved him in Peaky Blinders.

 

[57special]

Got more or less trapped into seeing Mission Impossible #47 at a Theatre(first time in quite a while) while on vacation. Not a big Cruise fan, but the things I wanted to see weren’t convenient to see, so… was pleasantly surprised. Kind of fun, didn’t have to think, a bit like a Bond film. Solid action film.

 

[TaLoN]

Got more or less trapped into seeing Mission Impossible #47 at a Theatre(first time in quite a while) while on vacation. Not a big Cruise fan, but the things I wanted to see weren’t convenient to see, so… was pleasantly surprised. Kind of fun, didn’t have to think, a bit like a Bond film. Solid action film.

That can be said for most every MI film, aside from MI:II which is utterly terrible.
The last 4 have all been especially good.

Outside of the Batman movie with Heath Ledger, his movies have been "wake me up when it's over."

I remember going to a drive-in double header for Inception and Sorcerers Apprentice. My thoughts when we here leaving were Sorcerers Apprentice saved the night. Watched Sorcerers Apprentice again when it came out on video and thought "this isn't a good movie."

Interstellar and Dunkirk are movies I should like, I'm a sucker for sci-fi and WWII movies. I came away thinking they were technically perfect movies, but completely unentertaining. Ten words is more than enough for me to describe what I remember about either movie.

Could not disgree with you more here. IMO Christopher Nolan has never made a bad film and is easily the best filmmaker currently out there!

 

[Minnewildsota]

That can be said for most every MI film, aside from MI:II which is utterly terrible.
The last 4 have all been especially good.


Could not disgree with you more here. IMO Christopher Nolan has never made a bad film and is easily the best filmmaker currently out there!

I agree with this.

One could even say he changed how superhero movies were made. Previous to The Dark Knight trilogy, most superhero films were cartoony, if you will.

 

[Wabit]

Could not disgree with you more here. IMO Christopher Nolan has never made a bad film and is easily the best filmmaker currently out there!

I just don't get into his movies. He makes technically perfect films, no argument here. He just doesn't make entertaining films (meaning films I'll watch more than once). I'll watch Openhiemer because it's an interesting topic to me, but it's at least 4th on the list of movies for me to go see. Barbie, Haunted Mansion (for the wife), and Sound of Freedom are ahead of it on my list. MI# and Indy# would be ahead of it too if I hadn't already watched them.

I'll take Taranteno, Rodrigues, Kevin Smith, Eastwood, Favreau, coen bros, Snyder, Tim Burton, Adam Sandler, Spielberg (hasn't been great lately), just to name a few. They've all made movies I didn't like, for sure; but they've all made movies I watch again and again.

I agree with this.

One could even say he changed how superhero movies were made. Previous to The Dark Knight trilogy, most superhero films were cartoony, if you will.

I disagree with this. A couple of batman movies were cartoony, but that's about it. X-men, Superman, fan-4, were just the standard good vs evil that Marvel (or Star Wars) has moslty run for the last bazillion movies.

The "dark" comics trend only worked with the 3 batman movies. Others tried (mainly DC universe) and they were all pretty bad movies. Logan (is it a superhero movie?) is another "dark" movie that worked.

 

[TaLoN]

He just doesn't make entertaining films (meaning films I'll watch more than once)

Which is funny, because I find his films VERY entertaining and rewatachable. I saw Interstellar in theaters 3 times, same with Inception and Tenet. Will I see Oppenheimer in theaters again? Not likely, but that doesn't tend to happen with any biographical film.

 

[MuckOG]

Could not disgree with you more here. IMO Christopher Nolan has never made a bad film and is easily the best filmmaker currently out there!

I really like Nolan's films....but I would go with Tarantino as the best current filmmaker.

 

[Soldier13Fox]

Outside of the Batman movie with Heath Ledger, his movies have been "wake me up when it's over."

I remember going to a drive-in double header for Inception and Sorcerers Apprentice. My thoughts when we here leaving were Sorcerers Apprentice saved the night. Watched Sorcerers Apprentice again when it came out on video and thought "this isn't a good movie."

Interstellar and Dunkirk are movies I should like, I'm a sucker for sci-fi and WWII movies. I came away thinking they were technically perfect movies, but completely unentertaining. Ten words is more than enough for me to describe what I remember about either movie.

Oh man, complete opposite here. Love every one of his movies... but interstellar is one of my favorite movies of all time. Absolutely love that movie