The Leftovers, Season 3! Let's discuss!

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[–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Good morning.

I grew up in the US—not New York—but have been living in East Asia for a while, broken up by two years in Mexico fairly recently. I also lived in Thailand for about two years. So, you guessed right and I am amazed. I'll go back and read what I wrote to see how you got it right.

Not so classic but have you seen Badlands (1973) directed/produced by Terrence Malick with a very young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek? In True Romance, Tarantino makes multiple references to it. True Romance is a sort of modern classic itself.

Of course, I've seen Metropolis a few times and nothing is more classic than that. It still looks modern after all this time. The Blue Angel, Tin Drum (Not old enough), Der Himmel Uber Berlin. Wim Wenders is Dutch I think but I liked his early films like Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law or anything with Tom Waits. I'm not coming up with many classic German films right now.

Is your username a reference to the Ian Holm android character in Alien?

Yes, unfortunately, Dennis Hopper is not with us anymore. The Big C got him but he had a good life I think. By the way, he had a fairly short but memorable part in True Romance.

Sending a virtual hug and an apology for this being short but I need some lubrication of some sort to get me going on long rants and am recovering from a bit too much lubrication, in the form of vodka, last night.

Just looked up Bad Boy Bubby on IMDB and will be looking for a copy. Honestly, I never heard of it but if you like it that is good enough for me.

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    [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    That was really funny and maybe you won't regret it. I could pass a test right now because this country is really damn severe about the kind of fun you have. I'd come up positive for vodka though but that's not on the list. Good on you for standing up.

    No, I am American, at least that is the passport I have but I may have changed over the years.

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      [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I just wrote a longish reply to the above message that begins, "I was too emotional..." then went to IMDB and the message just disappeared. I'm sure that has happened to you. Darn. Anyway it was about a Christian Bale movie where he's clean, having just come back from Iraq, but parties with an old friend for a few days, and then is offered a job with DHS, (the people who search Americans at airports) and is asked to come in for the blood/pee test. He panics and tries all kinds of things to clean up for the test, and I don't remember the rest. He's been in so many movies I couldn't find THAT one. Did you know Bale was the kid in Speilberg's Empire of the Sun?

      Those Americans can be a bad influence. :) I really am sorry about what happened and I hope your luck changes.

      I remember the character in Breaking Bad. Once in awhile she shoplifted, right? But not you, I'm sure.

      I'm similar to you in that I spend a lot of time at home. Don't be shocked, but I'm retired. Yes, my secret. Why go out when I have everything right here. But twice a year I go to a different country, usually in Asia for at least a month to relax and do things that would make me fail those tests.

      Now over to your next message.

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        [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

        Oh, I forgot about Evil Dead...Bruce Campbell. He is so funny in the time travel movie: Armies... something, something. Yes, it's a good name. Did you see the one where he's in an old folks home and insists he's Elvis? Bubba Hotep. Funny. I was a sci-fi nut as a kid and also like horror, especially comedy horror. Only once did a horror movie really scare: John Cusak is a paranormal writer who goes to a supposedly haunted hotel room...I'm not going back to IMDB but the title is just a number (of the hotel room) and Stephen King wrote the book. That one really scared me. "We've only just begun..." I'll bet you saw it.

        Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian movie? They do make some good ones. And I didn't know the other things you said about Mel. That explains a lot. Do you remember one of his first: Year of Living Dangerously with Signoury (sp?) Weaver?

        Midnight Oil? It belongs to them—Let's give it back.

        They made the Coca-Cola Kid with Eric Roberts (talk about drug abuse) and I think they have a great sense for comedy. The men have a wonderful sense of friendship—if you're a mate, they will take care of you till the end. I know 'cause I had such a mate, who was older than me and has gone the way of Dennis Hopper.

        I put off writing to you until late because I have to be in the right mood but writing to you gets me keyed up. It is now about one PM in the UK but time for me to have some dinner and turn in with my Patrick O'Brian book. I'm just checking—you don't know him, do you? Because that would be too weird.

        I will check your links and call it a night. Good day to you Ash.

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          [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

          The Crying Game

          [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

          Only a tentative response right after waking:

          Army of Darkness is by far my favorite of the Evil Dead series if you don’t mind mostly comedy and not so much horror.

          I’m quite straight as you might have guessed but two men I identified with are David Bowie and Don Johnson. Bowie wasn’t even gay in my opinion—he liked black women. I saw him live on his last tour when he had the collapsed vein in Germany, I think. He was obviously with a beautiful black woman in his band who i think was his wife. I think he always liked back women but gay was in after Lou Reed so he went with it. Not saying he didn’t have a few flings on the side with men. He must have loved German later surrealists as he dressed up like Klaus ?? I’ll think of his name later.

          This is written just after waking up and i’m still on my first coffee. I need lots of stimulation like Bowie but caffeine is all that’s available

          I always wanted linen suits like Johnson but I just couldn’t pull it off. But he is so ultra cool.

          No, I’m not in London or I’d go over to see you but I thought YOU were there. Just a minor misunderstanding.I wasn’t crazy about it the short time I was there but that was because some of them have a thing about Yanks to be sure.

          Actors don’t get much better than Oldman. My favorite of his roles was in Pulp Fiction, a movie overflowing with great actors.

          Eric Roberts is still in a few movies now and then and I might add him to the two men mentioned above.

          Patrick O’Brian writes about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and that sounds just awfully boring but isn’t. He wrote twenty books in a series that fit together as one huge book. If you read them you MUST read them in order starting with Master and Commander. Yes it was a Russel Crowe movie but you can’t blame O’Brian for that.

          For filth, I like William S Burroughs early work: Naked Lunch, The Ticket that Exploded, etc. all made into a Cronenberg movie that didn’t work for me, but I like Cronenberg otherwise.

          That tunnel fight scene sounds very familiar.

          Oh, what was that really dark London movie about a man who falls in love with another man, thinking she is a woman. I need more stimulation to get the brain working.

          This message sounds like a shopping list but I will post it now and send another one or more later. Soon I have to go work out because at my age if I don’t work out I disintegrate into a blob.

          It is very flattering to read those things but I am afraid the reality of me might stun you.

          Don’t be hurt by anything people say online. Some people live to hurt others. I wouldn’t mind if you lie but do not think you are. And you’re not oversharing. I love it.

          Ta ta for now: brekkies and more coffee

          [–]Ash[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          You will love this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv6YCdLwQgE.

          I learned to not fall for looks but only substance, brains and people thinking outside of the box and being themselves.

          [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          By the way, I have nothing against sexy androids. :) That paragraph is amazing.