Tuesday, January 1, 2019

488 - We Plunge Into The Abyss As Mr. Brown Takes The Presidency

[1:54 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I watched "the abyss". It was good
They didn't have the special edition though, which I guess is longer but better
It's just an insane movie from a filming standpoint...
I'd never do any of that stuff - fear of drowning + claustrophobic
[spoilers] The special edition apparently adds stuff like the conflict & tension between US & Russians on the surface, as well as a tsunami the aliens send to destroy cities but they stop it just as it arrives at the coasts
[2:02 PM] 
I thought it was Ok.
It was during an extended period of "Let's do Alien but underwater!" films. 
All the shock and horror was...basically...um...
Just regular people doing their job and having accidents while making a not unpleasant first contact
"This film is so AWESOME!"
"Sure. Now turn on the original 'Day the Earth Stood Still'."
Granted “Abyss” had some great stuff in it.
[2:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I liked the attention to detail
[2:05 PM] 
Yes
[2:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
They could've easily skimmed through the details of the underwater stuff
like decompression and all the other technical stuff.
Or have characters who are inexplicably inept at their jobs
I think instead of aliens it might've been neater if they were just an intelligent deep sea life form but you don't find that out until the end
[2:29 PM] 
True, it didn't need to be aliens. 
I can tell they spent a bazillion dollars on the alience ship, but I didn't like it.
[2:31 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah, the ship at the end sucked.
I don't know how I'd have ended it, but to go through all that detail and then "oh they brought us to the surface but somehow fixed it so we wouldn't need to depressurize" seemed like a cop-out
[2:32 PM] 
Definitely
[2:33 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
The crew knew they hadn't depressurized and yet still opened the hatch and stepped out
"How come we didn't die?"
Uhh...why didn't you think about that before opening the hatch?"
[2:36 PM] 
Yes.  All that effort and the harrowing descent in pink ooze and crap (that stuff is real, BTW...yuck) and
"Hey we're not fizzy goo!  What COOL ALIENS magic is this?"
"It must be the COOL ALIENS did it.  Zow!  We're humbled and stuff."
[2:36 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah
[2:37 PM] 
The aliens probably detected the nuke on the way down and neutralized it and didn't think they needed to say anything.
[2:37 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
LOL! Yeah
I assume they have anti-nuke capabilities on their ship if they can just nullify the effects of crushing water pressure and decompression.
[2:37 PM] 
"There's a guy in a suit out there..."
"(Sigh) Fine... get him..."
[2:38 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"We're going to hold the entire race accountable for the actions of this 1 dude we met at the bottom of the ocean"
This twitchy, bleeding guy they sent to the depths of the sea for some reason clearly speaks on everyone's behalf"
[2:41 PM] 
(Defrib scene...everyone gathered around, standing in water, wet...)  "Clear!"  (Thump!  Everyone falls over.  Credits start rolling)
[2:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
LOL
That was a pretty tense scene, plausibility be damned
[2:43 PM] 
Well it wouldn't have actually hit anyone, but I pictured it in my head.  :D
[2:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
It seems like half the cast and crew had nervous breakdowns during the shoot
I almost had one just thinking about the shoot
[2:45 PM] 
Oh, some of the stuff they had to do?  Not surprised. 
There was one from that period that was in submarines...Leviathan?
[2:45 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah, same year
[2:46 PM] 
Russian sub, everyone dead.  "Rescuers" drank the vodka with the experiment from Soviet R&D in it.
I saw that one in the theater too
I don't recall that one bein' quite so “hard science” ;)
(at the restaurant after) "What exactly was the Russian plan with this experiment? Put the stuff in a controlled environment, wait for the results, and then...um...never recover any of it to study as it's lost in a submarine?  No wonder the USSR failed." 
[2:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
The same Soviets poured leaked radioactive materials down floor drains
[3:04 PM] 
"Not 'The Peoples' problem."



[11:30 AM] 
So yesterday: (Mrs. Silver) "So how are you feeling after dropping having a drink at night."
"Eh. I mean I kind of miss the feel...felt like going to bed earlier." 
(R ) "Me too about going to bed."
"Honestly I'm not sure what I should expect.  I've never studied the subject.  Just a sec."
(googles "alcohol withdrawal symptoms”...reads...)
:O
:O
:S
:&&
[11:34 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Yeah, it can kill ya
[11:34 AM] 
"Uh...turns out I'm fine."
[11:34 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Lindon couldn't walk
[11:34 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
You getting on the wagon, Mr. Silver?
[11:42 AM] 
Back on the wagon?  Not at this point, no.
I'm the Two-Can Sam of alcoholics if I'm an alcoholic.
There's no joke to match vodka martinis
[11:43 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
idk that i ever had a martini
[11:44 AM] 
They're rather shocking to start
Once demon vermouth takes over, however, they're rather nice.
[11:44 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Is that what Bond drank?
[11:44 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
They are really good
So much that I have to stay away from them or i get to the drunk levels i don't like
[11:44 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I love Irish carbombs
I'd drink em all night
POW, right in the kisser
[11:44 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
I'd do a carbomb to close the bar
[11:45 AM] 
I think Bond may have switched to Vodka Martini because they didn't want him constantly giving the instructions for making a Vesper in movies.
(Busty spy babe with auburn messy hair discovered in nothing but Bond's shirt, barely held together with a single button – clothes and shoes on chair)
Drink, Mr. Bond?”
(Pause, winning Connery smile, starts setting aside spy gear and loosening up tuxedo as Bond theme plays)
Yesh. Make me a Vesper. It's a dry martini but its to be served in a deep champagne goblet. Start with a shaker of ice. Add three Imperial measures – that's 25 milliliters each, dear - of Gordon's gin. Then one measure of vodka...Russian. Then a half measure of Kina Lillet. Shake until ice cold and pour. Then cut a large very thin slice of lemon and-...”
(Girl and clothes gone, hotel key on shirt on chair...)
Hello?”



[1:02 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
I should run for president
[1:02 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
You're not a celebrity
[1:02 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Lets get Average Joe a shot
LOL
"Uh hey. How is that secret project: “over easy” going guys? I want the reports on my desk in the morning."
Project Over Easy - Rocket through the sun
I'd give lots of nervous addresses
[1:04 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
[newspapers spin towards screen]  AMERICA IS BROKE        PRESIDENT BROWN ESCAPES ANGRY MOB
[1:04 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
It will be awsome. I'll have spelling misstakes in everything
[1:04 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
lol
[1:05 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
America must invest in Ceramic bunnies to rebound!”
[1:05 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
"President Brown's bills make no sense! The Bill to End Racosts?"
[1:06 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
First rule of business ,  No more pansy ass dick weeds allowed Do it.”
[1:06 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
lol
[1:06 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
SUN-ROCKET CAUSES MASSIVE SOLAR FLAIRS, MILLIONS DEAD
MOST OF EUROPE INCINERATED
[1:07 PM] 
"'Its All Over' Say Discredited World Consortium Of Scientists"
Wait...we're already there with our current president
[1:07 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
president brown addresses the masses ,  My plans have become full  Eroupe is gone We have won the planetary war
[1:07 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 
"Mr. McGreen under trial for suspicion of being a pansy ass dick weed"
[1:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Europe will be repopulated with super-sentient beavers," boasts Supreme Lord Brown
[1:09 PM] 
"But don't eat 'em, 'cause.  You know."
WORLD CONFUSED BY 'YOU KNOW' GATE STATEMENTS
[1:12 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
President brown Issues new prototype batarangs to all police departments across usa
[1:13 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
PRESIDENT BROWN CAUGHT IN SEEDY D.C. ALLEY SMOOCHING FLAG
[1:13 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
"I SWEAR IT DIDN'T TOUCH THE GROUND "



[1:11 PM] 
Which brings up "High Crimes and Misdemeanors".
I got thinking about that over 1st break.  And we'll need to know this stuff when Mr. Brown takes the presidency.
I'm wondering when misdemeanor became a legal term, instead of something you just said in conversation.
'Cause all it literally means - if I'm defining it correctly - is "acting erratically or inappropriately", which isn't a crime.
Was it a criminal legal term back in Founding Father times, or just commentary? 
If it's just a person's behavior, then in the Constitution, all it really means is - "if it turns out you elected an ass...kick him out."
So maybe they DID predict some of the pinheads who've been in office. 
"If he's a criminal...or a fool...impeach him.  Here is the review process."
[1:29 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
You got caught doing something not so great.
we have to mark this on you record somehow, but we don't want to get you in lots of trouble as it was not that bad
We will call that a “misdemenor”.
[1:31 PM] 
Congress Gives President Stern Talking To - Written Warning

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