570 - French Cathouse On The Lake, The Nightmare Of Garfield's Nightmare, "James Bond Will Return In: The Villain With The Perviest Dwarf"

[10:14 AM] 

French...

Chat...cat

Eau...water

Chateau...

[10:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

hmm

[10:18 AM] 

“Country House”, obviously

hehe

Gonna start saying "Cat Water" though

[10:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

More of a mansion or palace though.

Chateau plural is apparently chateaux

[10:22 AM] 

Well... implies a very NICE house, yes.

My house is officially named an "igloo".  Heh

[10:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Why's that?

[10:32 AM] 

fairly small, white

"What shall we name the house?"

"Name the house?" 

"Sure.  We name the cars."

"True."

"How about The Igloo."

[10:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

La petit blanc chateau

[10:33 AM] 

Tres bon!

[10:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

5TH HSE ON L-WHITE BI-LEVEL W/BLACK SHT

[10:36 AM] 

"Black Sht all over that house."

[12:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

i think this whole drinking straw thing is just a ploy by restaurant conglomerates to save money by not providing straws and to claim it's for the environment

[12:06 PM] 

Not so sure on that. 

I've been hearing they are an environmental hazard for like 20 years or so.

Besides.  Someone like McDonalds probably has a half billion dollars worth of them in stock.  With everyone watching to make sure they don't landfill them.

Pretty expensive dump.

[12:16 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I've heard it's minimal but apparently not

And plastic straws are high on the list of the most common objects fouling the seas. They are routinely among the 10 most collected items in beach cleanup programs, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. 

[2:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Several people became nauseated after brakes failed on a pirate ship ride at Kennywood Wednesday and crews were unable to stop it for 10 minutes.

The ride swings like a pendulum from left to right and up and down. Passengers were stuck swinging before workers could engage a secondary braking system.

“Kennywood ride operator accidentally discovers perpetual motion”

[2:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

heh

I don't think i would have gotten sick

A spinning ride, yes

[2:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah, I never minded the pirate ship

I would probably ride it a few times in a row if there were no lines

Apparently they got rid of the old mill for some "Garfield's Nightmare" BS and everyone hates it.

I think part of Kennywood's appeal is its old school feel.

I'm not sure why they'd wanna "update" the classics

It can't compete with Cedar Point or Six Flags or whatever else... it has to remain at least somewhat vintage

[3:05 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yeah, Garfield's

Been through it a few times

The original was scary to me

lol

[3:05 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah it was creepy

Why would Garfield be having a 'nightmare'?

[3:06 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

He overate, then went to sleep

[3:06 PM] 

It's been Garfield since 2004. When were you last at Kennywood?

[3:06 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I probably haven't been there in 10 years

[3:06 PM] 

There ya go

And yes, I'd prefer a proper dark ride

It's not terrible or anything

Garish as hell because it's all in blacklight and 3d glasses

[3:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Garfield seems like a weird choice

[3:07 PM] 

He was bigger back then

The TV cartoon was a hit

The strip had been for a while

It might as well be a L'il Abner ride for these kids

[3:12 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

ahh yeah

I guess that would've coincided with the films too

If i were them i'd make it the old mill again but less musty

[3:13 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I think they wanted to add more for the kids or family

I think there is less animatronics too

so cheaper

[3:15 PM] 

Believe me, nothing at Kennywood ever used anything as advanced as Animatronics

But if I were them, I'd be taking advantage of really superior advanced technology...

Like they installed in the Disney Haunted Mansion...back in the 70s...

heh

[3:16 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

yesss

[3:16 PM] 

There's so many good looking things that can be done with audio visual tricks that just aren't that hard

[3:19 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Heck, they used a projector and a white faced mannequin and put a talking face on it

Looks good

[3:21 PM] 

yes

But Disney also uses tricks that were cutting edge in the 1800s

The ballroom dancing stuff is a sheet of glass and lights on figures below the riders

[3:22 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Garfield's Nightmare

[3:24 PM] 

Right.

Meanwhile – Haunted Mansion

[3:25 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I like how they kept the actual mill

Garfield's nightmare included an old time water wheel

[3:33 PM] 

(Pitch) "Okay...Okay...we keep Garfield, but picture this.  Smoke...flashing emergency lights and sirens. Jon - headless with fountain of blood.  Garfield has a flamer and is shooting gouts of green fire at a xenomorph holding and shaking the head?  Eh?  Don't say 'no' right away."

(co presenter) "You know...for the kids!"

"Right!"

[3:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

They should keep it as Garfield's on the outside... but on the inside make it something else that would be terrifying

[3:41 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Or you go inside Garfield, not his dreams

[3:42 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Maybe the first couple stops is Garfield related stuff

Then it gets weirder and weirder

"Garfield's LSD Bad Trip"

[3:43 PM] 

It already is Garfield's LSD Bad Trip

"Garfield's Nightmare: Visits to the Vet"

[3:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Garfield contracts FeLV and has to be put down

[3:44 PM] 

The Spay/Neuter Room!

[3:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Odie goes rabid and attacks Jon and the vet!

[8:11 AM] 

Morning

[8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

morning

[8:12 AM] 

Ended up doing the pair of Live and Let Die and Man with the Golden Gun

[8:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Both decent

[8:13 AM] 

Yes

They are probably never beating the boat chase in the one.

Probably never beating the simplicity of the villain in the other. 

[8:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

Just a guy that likes killing and has respect for Bond... And wants to challenge him.

[8:15 AM] 

Yes

Merely enjoys his job and wants to play top-league duels

"Oh and I have a base and all this power or something.  Meh...I'm rich.  Just gonna sell it anyway.

Spotted the creepiest bit from MwtGG I never noticed in all the viewings...which was a lot because it was a fave.

(watching) "Wait a second...oh geez."

(Mrs. Silver) "What?" 

"They're in bed, right?"

"Yeah"

"Mirrored ceiling, right?"

"Yeah"

"Knicknack has a secret panel in the ceiling and was watching them from up above, waiting for a good time to drop and attack."

"..."

"Meaning he had a secret compartment and two-way mirror installed in the ship's master bedroom so he could watch."

"Ewww..."

Also notable, there's a stunt at the end I want to research because it really looked like Moore and Ekland instead of doubles, and it looked like it was about a 10th of a second from killing both of them.  As it was, they crashed to the floor and into furniture and it probably hurt a lot.

[9:02 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

If the redneck sheriff wasn't out of place, some of his lines definitely were

Am I remembering right that he called Asians "slopes"?

[9:10 AM] 

Pointy heads

Which is interesting because in LaLD I don't think he used any racial slurs or even say "black".  Mostly he said 'boy', which in ... character ... is taken by basically anyone as an insult. 

[9:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[9:13 AM] 

All the southern law enforcement and related were remarkably cautious through the whole thing.  Only black villains and operatives made comments against Bond, et al.

Rather astonishing, really

As a joke on Desmond Llewelyn, Sir Roger Moore wrote fake dialogue for Q, and then gave it to the Script Girl to give to Llewelyn after he had spent a whole month learning his lines, and was about to come on-set.

Hmmm... Mrs. Silver and I did note this other subject last night.  

MwtGG might have been the "girl furriest" Bond... 

While doing the title sequence (Golden Gun), Maurice Binder ran into a problem with one of the nude models. Her pubic hair was sticking up when they needed it flat. After a few minutes of her trying, and failing to get it right, Binder smeared her pubic hair with Vaseline. She gave Binder the brush and told him to fix the hair to how he needed it. The whole thing was seen by Sir Roger Moore and Harry Saltzman, causing Moore to turn to Saltzman and quip, "If you're the producer of this film, you're not getting the perks!"

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh
[10:53 AM]

Ah...here it is...

Britt Ekland admitted to being terrified when filming the scene where she and Sir Roger Moore escape from Scaramanga's island. In his autobiography, Moore pointed out one particular shot, right before the second explosion goes off, when Ekland falls to the floor; according to Ekland, that wasn't acting. Moore came back, picked her up, and helped her go on. His arm was around her back as the second explosion went off, and he felt the tiny hairs on her skin get singed.

So it really was them and could have been a lot worse

Glad they left it in, because eeek!

"Great acting!  It really looks like they almost got blown up!"

[10:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think i remember that

And noticed that too

[10:55 AM] 

"Acting...yes...that was what it was."

[11:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Was this it? near the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg5yklxfy8w

There's a couple close ones

From 3:30 on

[11:07 AM] 

Nod.  I was referring to the run after the catwalk collapse where they both crash

And yeah, the blast right before that was pretty close looking too

Sounds from the description Moore gave that they actually clipped the first time she fell and he went back...which would be why the pyro timing was screwed up and they were so close.

must have been right after the one right in front of them and right before the run into the lounge

Augh!

569 - The Most Bond Of Bonds, and "If I Were An Investin' Man I'd Say Don't Take A Republican Bet"

[8:04 AM] 

Morning

"Spy Who Glubbed Me" last night.  Not finished.  3rd sub capture and it was too late to keep going.

Note - Title came from Mad Magazine.  I've never been able to refer to the movie without it popping up.

That and "The Poop-Side Down Adventure"

[8:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

You've seen it before?

[8:05 AM] 

Many times

Great title music

Barbara Bach is a strange beastie...

I kinda have to put her in my Cute or Corpse club

One minute you can look at her and think  “Mmmmm. So nice."

And then others you wonder if there's anything attractive about her at all. 

Its a Mana thing, I suppose

[8:13 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Luckily her character was good

[8:13 AM] 

Yes...very good

Though this film was notable for them occasionally both being terrible agents.

(me) "These are the best the UK and USSR have?"

I don't know if I noticed before...probably.

Some things just stuck out as "why the heck didn't he/she...?"

Like they meet the guy with the microfilm. 

He shows it off.

He immediately gets a mystery phone call that honestly no one important or in this situation would take without asking about...

And neither one of them follow the guy?

I mean...it's 2 nuclear subs with 32 thermonuclear missiles.  Enough to wreck the earth for the foreseeable future.

Follow the guy

But it's a dandy Bond film all told. 

[10:51 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh yeah

[10:51 AM] 

Good chemistry, nice action

[10:51 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Top 3 for me

[10:52 AM] 

The ski chase wasn't one of the strongest but the end was a faboo lead-in to the opening credits

Jaws was at his best

The gadgets were a mix of silly and plausible and who wouldn't want that submarine Lotus?

[10:54 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's the most Bond Bond

[10:54 AM] 

I didn't get to it yet, but as I recall the final battle scene was quite well done, gritty, and suspenseful. Enemies coordinating to save the world and all that

Most Bond Bond meaning "height of the classic form"? Incorporated everything to that point and did it well?

It really did draw from the entire Bond genre, yes

[10:58 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

For someone that's never seen a Bond film but has the idea of Bond in their head, that's the one they'd probably most relate to

[10:59 AM] 

Except there was no gambling scene and no naive beauty who helps for a love scene and ends up dead

Not needed, really, but extremely common elements

[11:02 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Kind of like the Ford Fairmont is the most "car" car

[11:02 AM] 

The car all kids draw

[11:02 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[11:04 AM] 

The “lusty femme fatale” wasn't used either, really.  If Bach wasn't in the picture, Bond certainly would have had a go at Munroe's helicopter pilot

But again...they wrote for partner chemistry

I think they tried in Moonraker...eh. 

And they succeeded in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 

Others pair ups weren't so "partner"-y

(Diamonds Are Forever...Tiffany Case. Man With Golden Gun...Agent Goodnight)

I've watched these things too many times...

[11:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Funny line i forgot to relay in Moonraker. He's in the shuttle with the girl under blankets (but floating) and MI6 punches up a live feed so Bond can talk to the prime minister

"Good lord! What is Bond doing?"

Q: "It appears he's attempting re-entry."

[11:10 AM] 

lol

I liked the bit with Margaret Thatcher at the end of "For Your Eyes Only"

Talking to the parrot and thinking it's just bad radio reception

[11:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

ahh yes

[11:13 AM] 

https://www.bondmovies.com/2016/11/17/does-denis-thatcher-break-the-fourth-wall-in-for-your-eyes-only/

lol

I could swear Benny Hill did the swat away from food gag too. 

I wonder if it happened for real or something

[11:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I'm not finding anything about it, but i did stumble on this

Before she entered the tough world of politics, Thatcher was a research chemist. In her 20s she worked for J. Lyons and Co. as a food scientist, where she developed additives for ice cream. Her team “discovered a method of doubling the amount of air” in ice cream, which eventually found its way into soft serve products. 

What a shiester.

[11:44 AM] 

heh

Thatcher doubled the amount of air in British Politics

[11:54 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heheh

[8:09 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

So they are thinking the economy is going to crash.

That the rise will not last

[8:30 AM] 

Never really was a rise.

Basically Trump stole a lot of money from the United States to give us masses a tiny speck each and everyone already rich and big companies the bulk of it.  And then the rich pocketed theirs and the companies didn't do anything they said they would, and used the money to buy back their own stock.  So they "increased in value", continued with business as usual, and the USA is now even poorer.

Which immediately led to the Republicans worrying about having no money (as planned) and how we really need to look at restructuring (looting) "Entitlement" programs (which aren't entitlements) to pay for everything (steal it too). 

It was predictable enough – The White-Collar-Crime Party managed to get in a crook who is a whole new undiscovered level of corrupt beyond their previous five.

I read a Republican apologist Repub-splaining how the government can't really steal money from Social Security et al and nobody needs to worry because it's all done in the form of valuable government bonds that they're required to pay back with interest.  So nobody needs to worry because it's all Democrat propaganda.  

http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.hN5EpvwBnkOxHWX6tiHWRAHaIw

"Hey...they are required to pay those back with interest!" 

I'm required to pay off my car too. 

So...what if I decide not to?

"Yup I'm broke.  Sorry.  Bankruptcy."

[8:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I don't understand how money or economies work

too many people smarter and greedier than me

[8:59 AM] 

They are perfectly happy with you not knowing

[8:59 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

That makes two of us

[9:02 AM] 

Obviously, things are complicated...but it comes down to:

1. There's only X number of beans.  So many are eaten...so many are grown.  (real value)

2. I claim my whatever is going to be worth so many beans...maybe it is...maybe it isn't. (So many beans per year of the real value, i mean)

3. You can bet your beans I'm right. (speculation and stock market)

If you bet right, you get “free beans” for no work

If you bet wrong, you lose beans to those betting against, or unforseen costs.

And that's basically where the world is screwed up: "Free" not-real beans.

It's all fake

Just a system to put relative values on real beans whether or not those real beans actually exist or are produced.

I have a book on the topic that said when these economies were being developed it was called "ghost money"

[9:18 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

ahh

No chance for me to figure it out, let alone then take advantage of it

I'm better off being ignorant and just keeping my money in a bank or mattress

[9:19 AM] 

Well you are in it with your retirement and 401k

They're out there speculating on beans for you

Making a "I am worth this many beans" claim in your name

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

And I'm sure they're making good investments and not just helping themselves out

with my money

[9:23 AM] 

Hard to tell on one side, but yes that comes out.

Cheating, lying about value, big players mysteriously somehow unloading everything before an issue. 

[9:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Then there's like, short-selling? or whatever? betting on 0?  somehow making money by things crashing

[9:25 AM] 

"Renegotiating investments"... Trump has people apparently very good at that BS. 

Special deals and "public investment"...ie using tax money without the taxpayers agreeing to it.

Trump basically destroying Atlantic City was all that kind of crap.  Yet he's not in jail.

Atlantic City was a huge deal when i was younger.  No one talks about the place now.

[9:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah it was still booming when i was a kid, now it's like a metaphor for failure

I wasn't sure what the cause was. I assumed since all surrounding states legalized gambling and cheap flying became available to Regular Joes, people in the Philly/NYC metro area just started going upstate or flying to Vegas.

[9:38 AM] 

Can't find the article that laid out all the Trump destruction there...too long ago.

[9:38 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Gambling seems kinda sad to me

Although I played a slot machine at the LV airport and won a small amount of money But I quit while i was ahead

[9:39 AM] 

Visceral thrills

[9:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I think they have sensors that can tell if you're a new gambler and make you win early

and then you get hooked and lose forever

Same thing happened at bingo once... Won $160 my first time, never won again

[9:40 AM] 

Probably understands someone betting like an experimenter

(calculating) "This one made 3 quarter bets with a $5 spin option and waited a full minute between each, trying to figure out the fireworks show readout. Pay out."

Makes sense...also totally illegal

Unless if it is excusable as "advertising".

[9:42 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah

If they can tell people who win – card counters or whatever – that they can't play anymore, they can probably do that

"Gentlemen you can't win in here! This is a casino!"

[9:46 AM] 

Hehe