Today’s Audience Appreciation Thursday goes to… CPRM! Turn on the subtitles unless you speak Italian.
So what is it about?
After causing the collapse of their own planet, the Anatar people of humanoid aliens who evolved from ducks, are searching for a new celestial body to call a nest. During their wanderings in space they land on Pandoro, a place where living beings and nature have found their strange balance. Love, war, spaceships and space ducks are the ingredients of this grotesque modern fairy tale about accepting what is different from us.
Howard the Duck in Space, with Italians? Got it. This is a parody film and it looks pretty good. It is a cheap as dirt B movie. If you hate it, you can always talk about the level of snow in your garden, as Glibs do.
NOTE: My apologies for brevity, times are getting difficult over here. The house did finally sell, I am now going on vacation (at sea) returning home only to have movers evict me. So the next few posts will go up but be short of content. I may not even be able to attend tonight’s post.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, I have an interruption in the schedule due to my miscounting of posts prior to Christmas. So next week, we have Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas Special! After that we will return to our regular schedule and have Runaway Train.
Tonio is right. That does look terrible on the front page.
It’s infinitely better than blank space. Which is what we would get if you didn’t give us B movies.
Howard the Duck in Space, with Italians? Got it. This is a parody film and it looks pretty good.
Diving in.
Congratulations on selling the house! Coming home to an eviction though… sorry.
I can sort of understand Italian, but not all of it, so subtitles in English are kind of annoying. I looked but I couldn’t find this movie anywhere.
Also, the director is Alan Smithee?
Reminds me of Burn Hollywood Burn, where the guy’s name literally is Alan Smithee. It would also be a great choice for a Thursday night movie.
It sounds like they are all just quacking. Maybe there are human characters that speak Italian?
God only knows. Could be another fine CPRM prank.
They show up after around 10 minutes.
I’m thinking this is a spoof of Avatar.
Alan Smithee is the industry standard name when the real director doesn’t want his/her name associated with a movie that they are not happy with.
That’s the joke. He doesn’t want to be associated with the movie, but it’s his real name.
So far over my head, I didn’t even need to duck.
Noted.
Congrats on the house.
“After that we will return to our regular schedule and have Runaway Train.”
There aren’t many Chanukkah movies. We already did Hebrew Hammer, and that stupid Adam Sandler movie.
Could you please be more specific?
LOL
I remember hearing his standup comedy and laughing incessantly.
Runaway train was pulled. I will find something.
There is a horror/comedy called “Hannukah” from 2019.
Also Die Hard is streaming.
As it happens, Christmas and Chanukkah overlap this year. I say show Die Hard and kill two birds with one stone.
/still a vegetarian
Damn Them!
I thought it started the day after Christmas?
I was a vegetarian for years, but it wasn’t for me.
Jewish holidays start at night. So… it starts the evening of December 25th this year.
Chafed: Done, unless they pull it.
“Jewish holidays start at night. So… it starts the evening of December 25th this year.”
Oh, OK, Catholic Christmas starts at midnight of Christmas eve, and ends the next midnight, so there would be overlap between sunset and midnight?
“Runaway train was pulled”
…as it were.
Before Christmas & Hanukkah come there is another holiday ahead. For those of you with Showtime2 & 12.5 hours to spare, they are showing the first 8 Friday the 13th movies starting at 9 AM CST tomorrow.
Or they’re also available on Paramount Plus.
Nice. I watched a lot of them on one of the free channels during October but of course all the best parts were cut out.
Jamie Lee Curtis’s boobs?
Wrong horror franchise, Chafed. Sorry!
Also, no boobs until Trading Places.
Utterly O/T: Was just listening to SiriusXM’s Holiday Jazz channel, and they played a cover of “My Favorite Things.” This isn’t the first time I’ve heard it played as a “Christmas song,” but I’m not sure how that came about, as it is most certainly NOT a Christmas song. It’s a perfectly good song from the genre of musical theater/film, but it’s NOT a Christmas song. 🤨/mild rant
How about this one?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRjmD9h-YY
That’s Christmas-Lee.
John Coltrane? I love that track, even though McCoy Tyner sounds high af.
Anyway, there are some Christmas season things in the lyrics, and Julie Andrews first performed the song on some TV Christmas special before she did the Sound of Music.
Don’t know if it was Coltrane’s – we were streaming it off SXM’s app on TT’s phone, sending it to the stereo via Bluetooth, so I couldn’t see the name of the artist.
Did not know that about Julie Andrews singing it on TV. Apparently Jack Jones also sang it on his Christmas album released shortly before the film debuted (after R&H’s people pushed for someone to record one of the songs to help promote a very expensive movie!)
The Coltrane version is soprano sax, bass, drums, and piano, with no vocals. The whole album is great. It’s on YouTube.
My brother loves The Sound of Music, but I have never been able to bring myself to watch it. There is just something about that first song that just grates. I love Julie Andrews’s voice, but I really really really hate that haircut she has.
She got better looking as she got older.
Quite lovely in S.O.B.
Yes, I’d agree she’s got better looking as she got older. She’s generally a lovely woman, but not in The Sound of Music.
Maybe that was a bit intentional? If I remember correctly, she doesn’t seduce him, but wins him over with her virtue in taking care of his children. Which is why I never got how it was a gay movie. OK, maybe gays like musicals, but it’s the most wholesomely heterosexual plot ever.
Moje, I didn’t happen to watch this when it aired some years back, but maybe you’ll find this Maria Von Trapp a bit more watchable. (At first listen, I’d say she does it well, though Lady Gaga’s later version on whichever award show was magnificent.)
After seeing Grace Jones redo “Little Drummer Boy,” I feel she should also redo The Sound of Music.
Lady Gaga really really really trained to do that performance. She so wanted Julie’s approval and she got it. It makes me compare and contrast to Madonna, who couldn’t hit the target even with all the training she had. She just couldn’t get rid of her high nasally childish pop voice.
I couldn’t do as well as Madonna, but I’m also not hanging my career on my voice.
That’s not bad! Sure beats David Bowie/Bing Crosby.
Yes, yes, I know I have committed blasphemy and am going to hell. Bing Crosby’s fine. Bowie is only good for one thing and that thing is Labyrinth.
“After seeing Grace Jones redo “Little Drummer Boy,””
Couldn’t be worse than Joan Jett.
Tater:
It’s good. You’ll see it next week in Pee Wee’s Christmas special. Rewatching that special and seeing how many people he brought together… Amazing.
“You’ll see it next week in Pee Wee’s Christmas special.”
Looks like the whole thing is on youtube.
The Paul Lynde Christmas Special is an acid trip. Kiss plays a couple of songs.
You should post that in the comments next week. I had to submit the post already as I may not have effective internet on the boat.
I remember the Paul Lynde Christmas Special. They totally under used KISS.
“Bowie is only good for one thing and that thing is Labyrinth.”
Pretty much. I still don’t get how he got to be so famous basically by having a gimmick and one decent song
Dr. Frankenduck has a silver toilet plunger on his head for a hat.
A montage!
Only the best for the Glibs.
There was a fade to black on a villian’s jacket later too.
Actual quote from Mayor Adams, NYC:
“This is a guy, he’s got a Skittles box on his head.”
“He’s unkempt, he’s soiled himself. This is a picture perfect example of why we should not be saying he has a right to be out there. He doesn’t know he needs help. We have to give him that,” Adams said.
Now he cares? I guess any reformation is good. But damn. How long did it take him to get there?
Well, now it’s SAFE to do what’s right because he doesn’t have a bunch of proggies breathing down his neck calling him racist.
If the city of San Francisco did involuntary commitment, half the town would be locked up.
If SF did involuntary commitment, half the local gov’t would be locked up.
“If SF did involuntary commitment, half the local gov’t would be locked up.”
Your terms are acceptable.
See also: souring on “sanctuary city” nonsense.
Unfortunately for him, he’s likely to be primaried from his left. All the up-and-comers are whackjobs.
Sell it back to the Dutch.
I really wonder if that will work. Even in New York there appeared to be a rightward shift. The mayor is a smart guy, he knows what he can get away with.
Isn’t there an investigation of some sort into his administration? Or is that falling apart due to Garland falling apart?
Yes! It was crazy and seemed very much politically motivated. He started criticizing Biden over immigration and suddenly his ass was in hock, along with his staffers. It was downright frightening.
Cares is a little strong.
Okay, “notices.”
Don’t do it Rob!
https://www.rvmnews.com/2024/12/comedian-rob-schneider-announces-an-entertaining-opposite-to-the-view-watch/
This will not end well.
I thought this show already existed and is called “The Five”.
I would only watch it if the Glibs did it, and Mock Star ran it. As his avatar.
Schneider was at FreedomFest last July.
Well that was different.
I recently learned you wrote the New Hampshire state anthem and didn’t share it with us. I’m a little hurt.
https://youtu.be/g9dwTSXkiII?si=1ARX8Jxvx9wKWm9k
That’s not bad.
Weed, guns, and axes
We don’t pay our taxes
Because we don’t exist
On any government list
🎵🎸
This should be the Glibs national anthem.
This should be Chafed Chanukah wish come true!
Sure was. Thanks CPRM!
Thanks CPRM!
And thanks RJ for putting all these movie posts together.
I’m out for the night. I’ve been oversleeping and not going to the gym lately. I need to turn that around.
A reminder to me, from TUBI:
“ You have 76 in-progress flicks and 564 saved picks waiting”
More good Argentina news:
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/12/12/argentina-lowers-age-legal-firearm-ownership-21-to-18/
First he lowers taxes by 90%, now this. The man is a blessing.
I was telling my husband that Elon Musk is a gift from God. So, too, Milei, with a little less visibility. I wish he’d throw out some mean tweets. With this last election, I feel like finally we’re not heading for the abyss as fast as we were.
Only time will tell. Trump is no libertarian. But he damn sure ain’t the woke wing of the left either. I certainly don’t have the hopes that he’ll be Milei, but he’s the best chance most of us have seen in our lifetimes to really cut government in some meaningful way.
Donald Fucking Trump.
That said, if his policies last past his own presidency, maybe retirement to Argentina wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Do you know who else retired to Argentina?
Imma have to go to the doctor with as many erections as I’ve had over Milei news today.
It’s freaking fantastic.
You want tears? Go back and listen to what he told WEF right after his election. He is fearless.
When he legalized cocaine and hookers it’ll be paradise.
And he took Argentina from deficit to surplus
I have a huge man crush.
Hmm. Maybe another dove hunt next fall?
I don’t want to brag, but I have 5.6875 SOLID. HARD. INCHES* of snow in my garden**
*starting from the center of the taint, once around the shaft, to the very tip of a stretched foreskin***
**IYKWIM
***deer camp joke
Nice. Nothing in Texas yet. It did get close to freezing the past few nights.
I’ll be heading to Miami shortly to get on the Icon of the Seas, at which point I won’t even need a coat.
I promise to wave to Suthen, Brett, Derpy and all the other Southern glibs as I fly overhead tomorrow on the way to Miami.
You know who else has five and a half inches (of love)?
https://youtu.be/sm7AfxdXj0k?si=BM4lP3VTaYUdbrEb
NOT STEVE SMITH! HIM HAVE 18 INCHES OF ROCK HARD ICE!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb1f9zWJkQ
One last note on tonight’s film: I have a sneaking suspicion that CPRM wrote the Featured Review on IMDB.
That would be the twist we need and deserve.
Does it have an Italian Lea Thompson?
Howdy! Just dropping in to wish you all a merry Christmas and I hope you are all fine, Cheers!
You too, good sir! Merry Christmas! Hope you find all your wishes under the evergreen Kia.
Merry Christmas Yusef!
Morning, Glibs.
Imagine if Luigi Mangione wanted to protest health policy by conspiring to kidnap a Team Blue politician he considered responsible for it.
Happy Friday the 13th!!!!
Watch out for machete carrying folks.
😲💀🔪
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-9VnIba_qQ
🎶🎶
Last I heard, he haunts New Jersey, and sometimes Manhattan, or space.
Good morning, Sean, U, Ted’S., and TAFKALack!
Today started with some bad luck for me – I was trying to close the zip-lock on the bag of sweetener when my fingers slipped. I knocked over my travel mug and spilled almost all of my coffee. 😞
…and good morning, slummy!
Do you have enough spare coffee to refresh the cup?
Can you get the cats to clean up? (I know, I know 😹 )
Morning, all.
With the wife traveling for work, She Who Must Be Obeyed has me up early, for her walk.
There’s more coffee, enough that there’s still usually a little left at the end of the day, but I don’t want to take too much and short TT. I may measure out a short mug’s worth in a few minutes.
Then you need a bigger coffee pot, GT.
And Good Morning to all!
Good morning, 4(20)! More coffee procured without incident!
Already worked 50 hours this week… And the wifey is out of town. Here I am with two kids AND a to-do list with like 5 things that need to be done before my trip back home next Wednesday… Jesus.
Your reward for all your hard work is… more work!
(Hopefully it’s smooth sailing until you get a break)
Isn’t that what your orphan child labor is for?
I had a boss that said “You always give more work to the busiest person, ’cause you know he/she will get it done. Those with a clean, organized desk don’t have enough to do.”
And that, my fellow glibs, is a sure-fire way to end up with high turnover among your best people and get stuck with the do-nothings.
Morning. First week of class almost done. Pointless but it’s like a mini-vacation with Mrs OBE
Good morning all.
We can all rest easy today. I just saw John Kirby on the tv….he says the drones aren’t real and even if they are we cant prove it.
This stinkin turd of an administration is easily the worst in history. I am convinced it is Obama’s doing.