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7 Years after Rollerball (2025 AD) - The Sport "Future Sport"

( a combination of Extreme Rolelr Skating and Shot Put) has taken over the world. The Los Angeles teams meets Berlin in the finals in New Orleans and are in fact favored. The game however is a Berlin Upset due to one L A player more intrested in individual records than team work. Yet in the meantime , a Pacific Island terrorist group (with it's own F S team) is planning to withdraw the Pacific Islands from North American soverignty, and actually draw up their own Declaration of Independence, not recognizing the results of the 2024 A D North American Elections. Fixx, the inventor of the game (Wesley Snipes) inititally invented the game after basketball completely and suddenly collapsed (As a way for street gangs to solve their turf battles in a more socially acceptable manner) yet dons the uniform to help the North American Continental Mainland Future Sport Team versus Honolulu. If Honoluulu Wins, Hawaii and the Pacific islands win their own soverignty. No questions asked. Check it out.

Which is how football is intended to be played. No domes. In all sorts of natural elements. The Miami Sharks of AFFA are on something of alosing streak late in the season. In walks an up start ex cornerback rag tag named Willie Beamon (Jamie Foxx). Placed at QB By coach D'Amato. A pair of obvious alternatives make themselves manifest. Beamon can call his own plays and leads the team deep into the AFFA playoffs , or listen to Coach D'Amato's plays, and liekely have less success . (All due respect to the old grizled battle hardened coach D'Amato)

Not Mr. Stone's best work , but certainly worth viewing.

Different and monstrous does not necessarily mean bad. Mighty Joe, a Mutant Nubian Gorilla is brought to the United States as a sideshow freak. After winning a tug of war between about 10 strongmen of that day, amongst them, the swedish angel and primo carnera, several of Joe's keepers get him drunk, then he breaks his cell and goes on a rampage. The Police want him exterminated, along the lines of a rabid dog. But after he selflessly should I say, simianlessly] rescues a little girl from a fire, the police think diferently of it and see to it personally that MJY and his keepers are returned to Africa.

Set in the not particularly distant future (2020 AD) the First manned Mission to Mars is a complete success, but not without cost. A quartet of astronaut land on Cydonia , Mars, then encounter a force of natural Martian energy unlike anything ever seen on earth.This energy results in the death of three astronauts. The survivor, Luke, finds a way to survive for a year on mars, vegetation playing a vital part. The rescue mission to Mars culminates in the mysterious ominous and enigmatic face on Mars inhabited by someone known to Gary Sinese on earth.

Evermore forward.

In the year 2018, The World is unified under a corporate global government. Peace prosperity and plenty for all in exchange for blind obedience to the Mega Capitalist World nation state The World's favorite game is no longer soccer, but Rollerball, a hybrid of Rollerjam (former Roller Derby) and Flavian Amphitheater style survivalist bloodsport. James Caan portrays jonahthan E., a 10 year veteran of the worldwide Rollerball circuit, who is ordered to retire by Mr. Bartholomew (J. Housemann) prior to the world semifinal Rollerball match in Tokyo. When Caan refuses to do so, the Rollerball rules are changed to integrate the purest form of survivalist sport (2018 A D ) with the already brutal Rollerball, and Caan turn violently anarchistic (on track) .

Culminating in the World Rollerball Championship of 2018, in which Caan appears for the Houston team (following the Tokyo Game, in which caan also appeared) , the rules revert to total barbarism. no rules whatsoever in the most absolute literal sense of the term. Houston ' s opponent is New york.

Last Man Standing in the most absolutely literal sense of the term. Forget these LMS matches in pro wrestling. Will Houston repeat as Rollerball Champs? Watch and see.

Newman and Martin are back ten years after Cool Hand Luke and the Captain, this time as friends and allies on the failing Charlestown Chiefs hockey team. Martin (J. McGrath) picks up three brothers from The Iron League , the Hansons, at a reasonable rate. And the odyssey begins, the Chiefs punch , kick, brawl, and generally steamroll over their fellow Federal league teams to the Federal League Championship.

A tremendous story of the Underdog getting his chance in the sun, [ a la "The Longest Yard" {1974} ] (yet under much less adverse circumstances than "Longest yard" ) which is a seemingly unpopular concept [ in my opinion, by the way] here in the early 21st century.

Non conformist rebel , Lucas Jackson (P. Newman) is apprehended by local law for minor and trivial violations and sent up the river. Shortly after arriving at the big house, he and "Dragline" (G. Kennedy) are in a boxing match , won by Dragline . Yet Newman's most famous line from this movie (to my notion) - "You're going go have to kill me." Later in the movie Luke is befriended by Dragline. And Luke makes 2 attempts at an escape, both of which failed. At the end of the movie Kennedy (Dragline) becomes absolutely enraged at the bosses and the captain, and with good and legitimate reason, by the way.

As one of the only 77 Congressional Medal of honor winners steps back onto American soil after serving honorably in Korea, Raymond Shaws story is told. While serving overseas, Shaw is transported to Manchuria and brainwashed to the communist dogma.. What is real shocker is that he has an American operative. What is the real shocker is who his American operative actually is. I'll leave this one up in the air [for those who are yet to see this brilliant film]

A conspiracy film for the ages.

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The all time sci-fi absolute classic of all movie history. The manned space flight to Jupiter. Falling into total failure. What, however was the cause of this failure? Was HAL actually predicting a radio wave of extreme power aimed at Jupiter from Earth's moon? Was it man's paranoia due to this prediction and man's distrust of technology, possibly the paranoia of HAL? Possibly all 3 ?

Thought provoking!

'' Some aspects of science are not intended for man to experiment with.'' Such was a line of Mr. Vincent Price in this sci-fi horror mega classic. A tale of Four Demensional transport without direct human touch. But not without direct human involvement . Much more so than television or movie screens which merely projects the image. Most times in 2_d - or 3-D , and if you have the proper glasses. And most times pre - recorded. A terrible attrosity is created in a laboratory, yet his life is spared through a reversal of process. Bravo, Mr. Price. Bravo to all other cast as well.

A bawdy show, yet just so absolutely plainly purely and brazenly ridiculous as to be just that funny.A particular episode was #205 where the South Park Cows went to China to face the Chinese national Team for the world volleyball championship, which the Cows won BTW. A segment in that where the Chinese Play by Play callers were doing their imitayions of Americans. The one announcer trying to do "Yall come back now ya hear?" ----- well , being from Georgia as I am, I'm not as offended as you may believe, for it's just as I stated, so purely and totally ridiculous as to be just that funny!

"Squirm" filmed entirely on location right here in Port Wentworth is the all time favorite local film. Or at least one of the top 5. A bizarre tale, indeed, one of the "nature gets back at the human race for wrecking the environment " type films. The cast is indeed obscure and practically unknown. But "Squirm" is an unacknowledged and forgotten classic.

1920's era tale based on a Sinclair Lewis standard. It starts out with Lancaster (Elmer) telling 2 of the most absolutely hysterical jokes that could ever be told - EVEN TODAY! Gantry eventually meets Sister Sharon Faulkener and Reverend Morgan (Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger) The 2 legitimate Revivalists on the Faulkner/Gantry/Morgan revivalist juggernaut. After the tragic death of Sister Falconer in a fire, Gantry appears to be fed up with all the showmanship and thus returns to the legitimate aspect of revivalism. A MUST SEE!

Footnote concerning Mr. Lancaster - If you ever get a chance to listen to the original ''War of the Worlds" broadcast of October , 1938 , listen carefully to the voice of the announcer telling America, "Those strange beings landing tonight in the Jersey farmlands ------- are the vanguard of an invading army from the Planet Mars." That HAS to be Mr . Lancaster.

In October of 1991, the entertainment world was robbed of true comedy quality talent, namely Mr. Redd Foxx. This is his crowning achievement. My 2 personal favorite episodes were the episodes about chicken wings on an airplane and the wrong computer error and ''Mr. Haystacks'' bringing Grady a third social security check. This show will undoubtedly withstand the test of time. Thank you so kindly, Mr. Foxx.

Fine screen adaptation of Plato's work "Timmaeus and Critias" The modern day Bermuda Triangle stirs at the spot where Atlantis once flourished thousands of years ago? I am no meteorologist or tornado chaser, yet proof exists that when a tempest is in the triangular region between san juan puerto rico, hamilton bermuda and titusville florida, that tempest strengthens rapidly. But to the movie. John Dall's last (and finest, as far as i am concerned) role as Zarin, King of Atlantis at the time of the great cataclysm, something along the lines of Bera King of Sodom and Birsha King of Gomorrah, from Genesis 19. But from the movie before Atlantis, Spartacus, (1960) Dall, (Commander of the Roman Garrison) gave a fine pre movie speech.

I first saw this movie 20 years ago as it debuted. Under unusual personal circumstance , as fate would have it ( circumstance that I personally dont care to discuss) Somewhat, no, quite thought provoking, (Why did Jane Seymour age and Chris Reeve did not?) I'll tell you right now, the main theme from the soundtrack (Sergei Rachmaninoff) can make a grown man cry. I'm living proof of it. Every man has a n Achilles Heel however. Superman has his Kryptonite. Fred Sanford his bad heart. my main theme from "SIT". And just as I've stated , I'm a 36 year old white male from the South East who has admitted "Titanic 1997" to be my favorite movie, I dont care who knows this is MY Achilles Heel.

Somewhere in the Bible it says "Your sins will find you out." True enough in this case. Although the ACTUAL murder victim was NOT Libby Parsons. Tommy Lee Jones turns in, as usual, a quality performance. U S Constitutional Amendment V drama, suspense at it's finest. Maybe not quite a must see, but pretty close.

Henry Fonda at his absolute best as paroled "Young Tom Joad" 60 years ago. A classic. A classic tale of the American style caste system - the wealthy attempting to remain so. And the masses driven from Oklahoma to what is believed to be a "Promised Land" in search of greener pastures. Yet finding only continued class struggle more so than was EVER to be found in Oklahoma. As stated - poverty and laziness being automatically synonymous.

ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! I would highly recommend "Grapes of Wrath" for those who are inclined to believe so.

Howard, Howard, Howard, Fine, DeRita........................... The undisputed , undisputable kings of slapstick comedy. The story begins around 1912 with older teen ager Moses Horowitz (Moe Howard) his brother Samuel (Shemp) , and a friend, Laurence Feinberg, [I believe] (aka Larry Fine) in NYC. From the streets to the shabby little theaters to Hollywood and the short length films and the fame and would be fortune. "Working class who thumb their noses at high society. I like that." So do I. Never a disloyal moment to the front office did the initial FOUR stooges hold, and I'm sure DeRita espoused the same loyalties. The drama of it all. And the occasional pure tragedy as well, particularly Jerry Horowitz (Curly Howard) ' s bad headaches which lead to a fatal stroke.

In closing, I offer, posthumously to 1952, 1955, 1975 and 1993, a most heartfelt "Thank you so very kindly" to Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp, and Joe. There'll never be five others like them.

Have ever you seen such a sight in your life as Three Blind Mice?

Cant say that I have.

Excellent live TV (1st time in 39 years) re-make of the old 1964 Cold War Era Standard (Walter Matthau). A computer error (and yes, computers are made by men, who are all too fallible and mortal) sends a 40 megaton payload towards Moscow. The President eventually convinces the Premier that it is all inadvertent. In exchange, the City of New York will be sacrificed if the point of no return is passed. Does the Cold War continue , or does it end with no victors whatsoever? Are the 2 cultural hubs of each hemisphere spared? or does the unimaginable transpire.

I realize this is no longer 1983. I realize that you and Matthew Broderick are no longer in high school. I realize that we're approaching the vanguard of the 21st century. But, GOOD LORD!

Animatorial genius at it's absolute finest. America's 2 favorite juvenile delinquents [ mid 1990's era] on a cross country trip to "do" Dallas Grimes [Demi Moore] , unknowingly targeted by Federal Agents, mistaking the dynamic dumb a**es as terroristic geniuses. The hallucination scene in the desert to the tune of White Zombie's "Ratfinks Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls" KICKED! as did the nuclear flatulence in the desert. A must rent!

R. Hauer is superb as the German officer Xavier March, who realized to his absolute shock and disgust he'd served megalomaniacs. Make up artist making Rudolf Fleischer look like the 75 year old freaky fuerher, splendid make up job.

Japanese bomb Pearl harbor then set sites on Hollywood. They come across Hollis Wood (Slim Pickens) saying "where Hollywood?"

"You're looking at him." "What?" "Hollis Wood. Cant you speak english?" (They were japanese militia, Mr. Pickens, you good ole boy you!)

Then the compass in the cracker jack that Wood swallowed then the Japanese force fed him prune juice then sent him to the toilet then Pickens made that scream then threw his boot in the toilet - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

NEVER has there been such a fine story line ruined by such language that would cause one to be thrown out of the seediest raunchiest honky tonk dive in the South East, or any where else in the nation. "Beavis and Butthead do America" and "Porky's I" were dirty, but HILARIOUS.

Call me an 80's throwback if you will. If you do, thank you for the compliment.