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You can buy the first season on Vudu for 24.99
It's On Demand on Dish.
Just a reminder, Yellowstone season 2 starts tomorrow.
I’ve got Direct TV, and Yellowstone S1 is available on demand. I watched the last three episodes last night to remind me where it left off, in anticipation of S2.
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Just watched Rocky for the first time in forever. You forget just how good some movies are and this one was right up there. Stallone wrote the script.
Budget:$960,000 (estimated)
Gross USA: $117,235,247
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $225,000,000
Pretty dang good return on investment, I'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by badrose
Boxofficemojo says that inflation adjusted that's about $455 million, making it the #85 all time grossing film in US boxoffice, in inflation adjusted dollars.Quote:
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FYI Gone with the Wind is still #1 and it's not even close, with an inflation adjusted box office of over $1.82 BILLION, just US box office. Given the US population in 1939 I assume every man, woman and child in the country saw the movie at least once to get that kind of number. lol
The best thing that happened to Rocky was the relatively low budget. A more polished production might have removed a lot of the grit you see in those street shots, shots of his apartment, etc. It's like the difference between the original Terminator and Terminator 2. Both good movies, but the sequel feels different.
I remember watching a documentary on the making of the movie. There's a scene toward the end where Rocky is talking to Adrian the night before the fight about how he just wants to go the distance. Stallone thought it was really important, but the studio wanted to not film it because of cost overruns (cost overruns on a $960,000 budget!). Stallone was given 1 take, and he knew he had to nail it. Whenever I see it (and it is a great, and important, scene), I think about that and the pressure he must've felt to get it right.
The first three Rocky films were good but after that it went downhill IMO. He did that with a few of his creations.
Thank goodness he didn't lessen "Stop or my Mom Will Shoot" with a sequel. It would never have lived up to the original.Quote:
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BEvans so nailed it. The movie, due to budget, had a gritty "street" feel to it that exactly matched the story. Do that film with lavish location shoots and award winning lighting and cinematography and you lose the impact of it. It was shot exactly the right way for the story.
And that's also a credit to Stallone. Sure he couldn't do things b/c of budget, but for just under $1 million he told a full, rich story and played it perfectly. As a slow talking action hero with his share of cheesy parts he gets chided, but Rocky shows real talent in both the story and the acting.
He'd done a good job in Lords of Flatbush, and had a leading role in Death Race 2000 but that movie was a total cult cheese fest (which I love btw), so to find a way to get that film backed and made and turn him into a global star is to his credit. He was going to be "Mafia Henchman #2" in a lot of films had he not found a way to break out from that stereotype.
BTW Amazon Prime's Absentia Season 2 is underway and it's pretty doggone good.
Also to add it was brilliantly cast. They couldn't afford anyone established other than Burgess Meredith, who was a tremendous actor, and it vaulted all the main roles into another level.
^Between 72-76 Talia Shire did Godfather, Godfather 2, Rich Man Poor Man (a miniseries sensation at the time) and Rocky. Pretty good run.
great run. I had in my head she did Rocky first but she did the Godfather movies first.Quote:
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I'm actually surprised they could afford her and Burgess Merideth and still come in under $1m for the film. That must have been one thin craft service table. lol.
PSA:Quote:
Originally Posted by badrose
The Paramount channel will be airing Rocky 6/23/19 at 12:00 am est.
Set your DVRs
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"Ain't gonna be no rematch"
"Don't want one"
Stranger Things will be back July 4th. The first two seasons were great so I'm looking forward to it. It's on Netflix so if you have seen the first two, you can catch up fairly quickly.
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee will be back July 19th.
There's a documentary about Lynyrd Skinyrd on Showtime. If I leave Here Tomorrow....
There's a good Tom Petty documentary (Tom Petty: Running Down A Dream) on Amazon Prime. Good perspective on his career and the band's growth from Gainesville.
Only downside: reading a Petty biography by Warren Zanes, Petty had editorial control and directed no mention be made of a heroin addiction Petty had in the 90s. Makes me wonder what else might've been shaded in the documentary. But I still enjoyed it.
^^^There's a huge spat between his wife and his daughters (not by his wife) over the estate.
^Wow. Read some articles like this one and I don't think Tom would be happy. Sounds like he did a decent job of estate planning by placing his holdings in a trust, but his widow and his daughters are arguing over the trust terms and who makes decisions. Without seeing the documents and knowing the law in the appropriate state (I'm guessing California), it's hard to say whether the daughters have a case, but I bet this is not what he had in mind when he did his planning.
I just finished re-watching the Criterion version of Dressed to Kill and one of the supplements was a dialogue with Brian De Palma who wrote and directed the movie. It was fascinating how his mind works with his choice of actors and his vision on how everything should come together. Basically, he's a reincarnation of Hitchcock.
Don't forget Stranger Things: Season 3 starts tomorrow.
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You would think that for an estate of his size, a quick google says maybe upwards of $100 million, that you'd have some pretty sharp lawyers drawing up the documents, and not leave that kind of vague language that is so critical to the control of the assets.
just started watching..... Might have to go back and watch one and two againQuote:
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PBS documentary series "Chasing The Moon" premieres tonight:
https://twitter.com/PBS/status/1148215154905178114
Excited about this--just about anything to do with the early space program, I'm in.
Ditto, thanks for the heads up.Quote:
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Anyone here watch Grudge Match with Stallone and De Niro? Was it any good?
Looks like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is going to be a good one. (Tarantino)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7131622...=nm_flmg_act_2
All six seasons of Justified is on Amazon Prime for free.
New season of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee premieres Friday on Netflix.
I haven't checked it out yet, but saw this tweet that CBS is live streaming its original Apollo 11 coverage on YouTube:
https://twitter.com/mental_floss/sta...66447390994432
OK there are a million reasons why this movie is a bad idea but this trailer looks amazing and they actually (and inexplicably) put an F-14 in there at the end and now there's no way I'm not seeing this when it comes out:
https://youtu.be/qSqVVswa420
Just a heads up...
Netflix has a 4K extended version of The Hateful Eight. It's a Tarantino product and very well done.
Here's the cast list:
Scroll down
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252...2?ref_=nv_sr_2
Oops.
This version is very graphic and very likely offensive to many. It is to me.
Good set! Quite enjoyable.Quote:
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Ron Howard is currently making a film adaptation of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Some is being filmed now in Ohio:
https://www.military.com/off-duty/20...box=1564175466
I just watched a movie called From Hell which is based loosely on the Jack the Ripper case in the late 1800's. I hadn't watched it in a while and forgot how good it was.
final season of "Orange is the New Black" is out.
I love lesbian prison shows.
I started to watch Netflix's One Strange Rock. The visual is so great that I can't even catch the lines :D