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ladybug_archive) wrote2011-05-04 10:58 am
ladybug_archive) wrote2011-05-04 10:58 am
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Bah.
I think I hit my first real dud on my search for various things. I watched Tony Rome and rather quite detested it. If it had been made in the forties I probably would have loved it, or at least, liked it more. Making it in the late sixties caused them to throw in a lot of innuendos and a couple of crude bits. Honestly, by the late sixties there are very few movies I like aside from Disney films.
But at least the whole reason why I watched the darn thing was not wasted. Simon Oakland had a very nice role as Tony Rome's client. And there was even some hurt/comfort later on when a hitman tried and failed to kill him. So I don't regret watching the movie. I would have done it sooner or later, to see him. But ugh, that movie was mediocre. And for the great majority of it I was confused out of my mind. I watched an episode of David Cassidy - Man Undercover afterwards to try to shake the rocks out of my head.
I really hope Bullitt is better than Tony Rome. Since it's culturally significant and the car chase is iconic I do have higher hopes for it.
Yesterday I watched The Big Valley episode The Secret and was thrilled. For the first time I saw Simon Oakland's character interacting with a kid. It was adorable! The whole plot of the episode was very dark and intense, too. And everything worked out in the end, which was awesome.
I'm still waiting on my first Riverboat DVD. Netflix sent a copy last week, but some moron had scratched it up and sent it back to them like that. So I've been waiting on my replacement, which should have come Monday but was scheduled for Tuesday and didn't arrive on either day. If it doesn't come today, I am going to be very annoyed. The next time I have an Amazon gift certificate handy I think I'll just buy the three-disc set. I know I'm going to want it, for Darren McGavin. I got so annoyed last week that I watched an episode elsewhere (and only later realized it's one that's on the DVD and hence, I would have rather waited to see it in higher quality on the DVD). I loved Darren's scenes.
I also rewatched I Want to Live! yesterday. It's the first time I've seen it since Simon Oakland has actually meant something to me. I love the role he has in that, of the tough but compassionate real-life journalist Ed Montgomery. And even when I didn't know who the heck Simon Oakland was, I loved that role. So now it's even more special to me.
But at least the whole reason why I watched the darn thing was not wasted. Simon Oakland had a very nice role as Tony Rome's client. And there was even some hurt/comfort later on when a hitman tried and failed to kill him. So I don't regret watching the movie. I would have done it sooner or later, to see him. But ugh, that movie was mediocre. And for the great majority of it I was confused out of my mind. I watched an episode of David Cassidy - Man Undercover afterwards to try to shake the rocks out of my head.
I really hope Bullitt is better than Tony Rome. Since it's culturally significant and the car chase is iconic I do have higher hopes for it.
Yesterday I watched The Big Valley episode The Secret and was thrilled. For the first time I saw Simon Oakland's character interacting with a kid. It was adorable! The whole plot of the episode was very dark and intense, too. And everything worked out in the end, which was awesome.
I'm still waiting on my first Riverboat DVD. Netflix sent a copy last week, but some moron had scratched it up and sent it back to them like that. So I've been waiting on my replacement, which should have come Monday but was scheduled for Tuesday and didn't arrive on either day. If it doesn't come today, I am going to be very annoyed. The next time I have an Amazon gift certificate handy I think I'll just buy the three-disc set. I know I'm going to want it, for Darren McGavin. I got so annoyed last week that I watched an episode elsewhere (and only later realized it's one that's on the DVD and hence, I would have rather waited to see it in higher quality on the DVD). I loved Darren's scenes.
I also rewatched I Want to Live! yesterday. It's the first time I've seen it since Simon Oakland has actually meant something to me. I love the role he has in that, of the tough but compassionate real-life journalist Ed Montgomery. And even when I didn't know who the heck Simon Oakland was, I loved that role. So now it's even more special to me.
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I would need to see Sapphire and Steel first, and there's no guarantee that I'd get plunnied for it, but if that happens when I do see it, you'll be the first to know! I'm already getting a Riverboat plunnie.
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If the plunnie expands enough, I'll definitely work on it! I was watching The Fight Back (which I am absolutely in love with now) and was intrigued by the part where Grey mentions he was knifed by that guy seven years ago. I feel like writing a hurt/comfort fic involving that experience.
By the way, did they ever show a flashback to when Grey first won the Enterprise? I had thought originally that the first episode would show that, since the way he won it is described in all these summaries of the show.
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Interesting! Who was in Iron Horse?
I wonder if Grey just mentioned how he won the Enterprise in one episode. Otherwise, if there's nothing in the show about it at all, it puzzles me as to why how he won it in a poker game is such common knowledge as to be plastered all over every summary of the show, as though it's an important plot point.
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Awesome! I imagine that would give his roles an even more special meaning.
Very true. Or maybe it was something in, say, a press release and was meant to be brought out in the show and they never followed up on that angle for some reason.