I didn’t realize you posted that already, as it didn’t hit my page until I just refreshed. Good to see we’re on the same wavelength regarding the breed.
23:14 E.D.T.
As I prepare the last of this for posting.
I’ve just finished watching this. Everything I heard and read said it was good. It is. There is some use of language, but it’s widely spaced and is only “solid waste.”
But the 20th Century Studios people got this one exactly right otherwise.
As always……………………….click out the clutter and go full screen.
It’s worth the time if you like computer sci-fi (an A.I. non-player-character does a Hal in a good way), combined with real life; as “real life” as movies ever get, anyways.
The villain is villainous, the heroes and heroines (in both worlds) are heroic, and the supporting cast plays really well.
I really liked this one.
I once read a story, or an illustration within a story, about how to wish carefully.
The gist of the wish was:
“I wish you, without loss of life, to create a mountain range between England and Scotland.”
There was, around the same time but maybe a couple of years earlier, a Werner Herzog film also called “Heart of Glass”, at least in English…. which I also liked.
It was strange, and rather mystical, something you hardly even need to bother saying, when talking about early Herzog movies.
…
It’s set centuries ago, in a tiny village, where a glass factory produces woderful ruby glass, until the only person who knows its secret ingredients dies…
The rest is basically about obsession and madness.
It’s been many years, so I can’t totally remember the plot,
but there are some beautiful scenes.
…
I just discovered that there are several links where you can watch the whole thing free…. here’s one….
…
….
But I’d better put in a disclaimer, to tell you that while I loved it, almost everybody I told to go see it hated it…
maybe because it’s strange and mystical…. and also dark, and slow as molasses.
I DO remember reading that Herzog had most of the actors hypnotised every day, and that’s why they speak and move so slowly…. and very little happens in each scene.
….
And it’s in German…. which will work for Tigressy but the rest of us will have to slog through with subtitles
I just checked out that link, and it’s close-captioned in Hungarian (?!) but you can switch it to English.
Hey, do I know how to pick ’em, or what?
…
OK, OK… you can watch a 3 minute trailer instead, and decide …
…
My YouTube videos haven’t been embedding since I got my new computer… I haven’t figured out why.
If these don’t, they will work with a right click and “Open in a new window.”
Haven’t seen any he’s made since probably the late 80s…
Ever since I stopped working in San Francisco, I have little access to theaters that show foreign films without driving there….
and it’s almost 60 miles.
….
I don’t have a tv, and I don’t tend to watch whole movies when I’m alone in my house…
I guess I’m too distracted by the computer…
And the 14″ screen just doesn’t do justice to the cinematography of someone like Herzog.
Susan,
I’m calling your embedding problem a “back-glitch” (because, why not?) on your computer’s end. I’ve put an attachment showing what I’m seeing, and the whole thing works perfectly well for me.
Our father woke up my sister and me up to see Sputnik orbit over Red Lake, Ontario.
I do remember seeing it go over, and Dad’s excitement as he pointed it out.
nowadays, since they don’t publish the times when the International Space Station goes overhead, you can get emails alerting you to when it does.
I never get tired of going out to see it….it’s only in your field of vision a few
minutes……it moves FAST
.
My older brother was of the opinion that pugs were like potato chips.
Ya can’t have just one. 😀
It does seem as though pug owners always have at least two.
Why?
….
Sure, I’ve known owners of multiples of some other breed …
A neighbor had three mini dachshunds…
but another neighbor had one.
…
I don’t think I’ve known anyone with a single pug, unless it was temporary. …
nor can I say that about any other kind of dog.
Well, there is not a lot of dog there.
I suppose… but if that’s the criterion,
people who wanted a Newfoundland dog, an Irish Wolfhound, or a Mastiff, would have to share it…
And chihuahua owners would always have a dozen.
Then again…. maybe one chihuahua is all a person can take.
those guys look more like French Bulldogs
Like in “Kingsman”?
I didn’t realize you posted that already, as it didn’t hit my page until I just refreshed. Good to see we’re on the same wavelength regarding the breed.
I think the photo that Nighthawks posted of the 2 dogs romping portrays French Bulldogs:
These are Pugs:
They are similar in stature and both have flat faces, so it’s really easy to confuse the 2 breeds.
That cleared it up. thanks, kiddo.
I just wanted to agree with Happy³ about multiple pug ownership.
I knew the dogs in the picture weren’t pugs… I meant to say so…
But I was trying to decide whether they were Frenchies, cos they’re so soft and wrinkly.
French buildings have such… I dunno…. formal(?) faces… And HUGE ears. LOL.
….
These days when ear cropping and taping are both, thankfully, out of favor, you can’t always tell bully breeds apart the way i was used to.
I thought those also might be English bulldog puppies with natural, floppy ears, which sometimes flop upright.
Dunno whether this pic will work. I’m on my phone.
….
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRcY1ChGWb-eqYIFkdmm5BdmFC5ezsrhSGBRw&usqp=CAU
Gun… Only if you click it. Try this one:
?fit=999%2C520&ssl=1&resize=1280%2C720
What do you think?
I think that they are all cute. Just look at those mugs. 😀
..
Find the similarities between these two pictures.
🙂
Please, please, please….
…don’t give —
🙂 🙂 🙂
At least he didn’t say “stinkin‘ rich.”
I’d be satisfied with comfortable.
I saw Vicki on stage here at the local casino.
She really does have a great voice.
23:14 E.D.T.
As I prepare the last of this for posting.
I’ve just finished watching this. Everything I heard and read said it was good. It is. There is some use of language, but it’s widely spaced and is only “solid waste.”
But the 20th Century Studios people got this one exactly right otherwise.
“Free Guy”
As always……………………….click out the clutter and go full screen.
It’s worth the time if you like computer sci-fi (an A.I. non-player-character does a Hal in a good way), combined with real life; as “real life” as movies ever get, anyways.
The villain is villainous, the heroes and heroines (in both worlds) are heroic, and the supporting cast plays really well.
I really liked this one.
I love this movie.
OK, you sucked me in to this. I watched 20 minutes, now I have to go to bed and watch the rest tomorrow.
Yes, it was worth it!
Good night people and pets. 🙂
As posted above, Canada doesn’t get this.
She’s apparently only 5 foot 2 and a half.
I once read a story, or an illustration within a story, about how to wish carefully.
The gist of the wish was:
“I wish you, without loss of life, to create a mountain range between England and Scotland.”
Hadrian’s Wall?
Moral to the story…………………….Never trust a talking Wishing Well.
Words to live by!
Filthy Rich. Tom Balland Kenny Sultan.
Hilarious!
Supposedly they wrote it for the California Lottery. I can’t imagine why it wasn’t picked for the lottery’s theme song.
Maybe one more try, Claude. I am sure Cleo will give you good advice.
Every time I open a Youtube video, this pops up as a follow-up. And no wonder, it is one of my favorites. So I might as well post it.
that’s the spirit!
the more the merrier
I loved Heart of Glass, still do.
….
There was, around the same time but maybe a couple of years earlier, a Werner Herzog film also called “Heart of Glass”, at least in English…. which I also liked.
It was strange, and rather mystical, something you hardly even need to bother saying, when talking about early Herzog movies.
…
It’s set centuries ago, in a tiny village, where a glass factory produces woderful ruby glass, until the only person who knows its secret ingredients dies…
The rest is basically about obsession and madness.
It’s been many years, so I can’t totally remember the plot,
but there are some beautiful scenes.
…
I just discovered that there are several links where you can watch the whole thing free…. here’s one….
…
….
But I’d better put in a disclaimer, to tell you that while I loved it, almost everybody I told to go see it hated it…
maybe because it’s strange and mystical…. and also dark, and slow as molasses.
I DO remember reading that Herzog had most of the actors hypnotised every day, and that’s why they speak and move so slowly…. and very little happens in each scene.
….
And it’s in German…. which will work for Tigressy but the rest of us will have to slog through with subtitles
I just checked out that link, and it’s close-captioned in Hungarian (?!) but you can switch it to English.
Hey, do I know how to pick ’em, or what?
…
OK, OK… you can watch a 3 minute trailer instead, and decide …
…
My YouTube videos haven’t been embedding since I got my new computer… I haven’t figured out why.
If these don’t, they will work with a right click and “Open in a new window.”
I don’t like Werner Herzog.
I love his early films…
Haven’t seen any he’s made since probably the late 80s…
Ever since I stopped working in San Francisco, I have little access to theaters that show foreign films without driving there….
and it’s almost 60 miles.
….
I don’t have a tv, and I don’t tend to watch whole movies when I’m alone in my house…
I guess I’m too distracted by the computer…
And the 14″ screen just doesn’t do justice to the cinematography of someone like Herzog.
Maybe for “Even Dwarves Started Small”.
Can’t imagine Aguirre or Fitzcaraldo that size.
I don’t like Ron Perlman
I liked Aguirre and Nosferatu.
Susan,
I’m calling your embedding problem a “back-glitch” (because, why not?) on your computer’s end. I’ve put an attachment showing what I’m seeing, and the whole thing works perfectly well for me.
No, it’s actually working perfectly well for me, too, this time.
So I went back to where I reposted the links to Nighthawk’s failed pictures they other day…
Nope, they’re still posting as links, not embedded, even though I copied and pasted (and separated) the urls he used…
Which later worked for HIS post.
…
Tigressy posted them, and they worked for her, right after mine… though there is a small, inexplicable difference in hers… since she copied them too.
It’s WordPress poultergeists… No other explanation.
Unless it’s WordPress gremlins.
The gremlins are at GoComics.
even the trailer was too long
I warnedja,
LOL….
No accounting for tastes.
Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, was launched October 4, 1957
Our father woke up my sister and me up to see Sputnik orbit over Red Lake, Ontario.
I do remember seeing it go over, and Dad’s excitement as he pointed it out.
nowadays, since they don’t publish the times when the International Space Station goes overhead, you can get emails alerting you to when it does.
I never get tired of going out to see it….it’s only in your field of vision a few
minutes……it moves FAST
We went out last night at 8:07 to see it. Great!
I remember going out to my grandparents’ chicken ranch to see it as a kid. No city lights to get in the way, Quite exciting!
I like burnt ends but that’s ridiculous.
HAPPY MONDAY MORNING, CLEOPHANATICS!
…and it’s not even Tuesday
Have a taco, grab those buns and hit some balls. (((((HuGz!)))))
oooey -gooey!
Wow. You created a great menu and the exercise to take down all those calories!
these used to be everywhere
Clara is not going to be happy with you Claude! You might find yourself on laundry duty.