The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

Post by **bjmdds** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:06 pm

Based on the study results, four species of Pacific salmon are known to carry Japanese tapeworm infections: chum salmon, masu salmon, pink salmon and sockeye salmon.

Post by **Blowfeld** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:21 am

RIP John Hurt. One of my favourite Doctors. Not easy to craft a likeable Doctor let alone the War Doctor, a unknown regeneration thrown in the anniversary special.
I was afraid he was not long for the world when he announced early stages of pancreatic. Still he persevered.

Mike Connors is another great lose. I was impressed with how he and Joseph Campanella were in the Mannix Season 1 DVD commentary, perhaps eight years ago. Both men well in their eighties ready with a quick quip and answer for one episode out of the hundreds they were in. I believe Mike Connors did a Sean Connery in suing the studio for unpaid profits.
I always wished Mannix had a better final show than Diagnosis Murder special. Hope to God they never reboot Mannix.

Post by **Kristatos** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:39 am

OMG this is the first I've heard about John Hurt. Sad news indeed.

Post by **bjmdds** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:34 pm

Original Dumbledore.....Snape......now the wand maker from HP.

Post by **Omega** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:07 pm

bjmdds wrote:Big O, get this! ------Denver Secret Service agent may face disciplinary action over anti-Trump Facebook posts----Special agent Kerry O’Grady wrote: “I would take jail time over a bullet”

not surprised someone in the bubble of Denver would say that. She should of been retired or fired the day after the post. They (SS) sat on this because of the implications of firing a top woman in a agency plagued by problems like hiring hookers and DUI.

She can't be in charge and she can't work security. Even If she were guarding her heroes the Clintons she might decided one morning they betrayed the American people and not worth protecting.
Why is she still there? If she were a mall cop and said something equivalent she would be fired the next morning. It's all political from the agency of SS.
But we all know how the nation reacts to a president being harmed or killed, we want to know why the secret service failed.

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Post by **Omega** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:09 pm

bjmdds wrote:Original Dumbledore.....Snape......now the wand maker from HP.

not shaping up to be any better of a year for celebrities

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Post by **bjmdds** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:11 pm

Speaking to The Telegraph, writer Neal Purvis said: ‘The thing is… I’m just not sure how you would go about writing a James Bond film now.
‘Each time, you’ve got to say something about Bond’s place in the world, which is Britain’s place in the world… with people like Trump, the Bond villain has become a reality. ‘So when they do another one, it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that the world has become a fantasy,’ he added. They also revealed how the next Bond movie will perhaps be a very different beast, saying: ‘.. Spectre felt like it closed off a certain way of doing Bond. And I think whatever happens next will be quite different.’ Recent Bond outings have been grounded in threats relevant to the modern world, but the writing pair have admitted how they’d struggle to imagine a story which could apply to a world of Donald Trump and Brexit.

Post by **Kristatos** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:18 pm

There was a thread on Twitter about the number of '80s movie villains who were based on Trump. I knew about Future Biff from BTTF2 and Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2, but there were a whole bunch of others.

Post by **Omega** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 1:57 am

Kristatos wrote:There was a thread on Twitter about the number of '80s movie villains who were based on Trump. I knew about Future Biff from BTTF2 and Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2, but there were a whole bunch of others.

he's a good egotistical bully to base a loudmouth bad guy.
But I almost bet they remake Bttf now just for the line who's president in 2020? Donald J Trump! The jackass billionaire?!!

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Post by **carl stromberg** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:24 am

Blowfeld wrote:RIP John Hurt. One of my favourite Doctors. Not easy to craft a likeable Doctor let alone the War Doctor, a unknown regeneration thrown in the anniversary special.
I was afraid he was not long for the world when he announced early stages of pancreatic. Still he persevered.

Mike Connors is another great lose. I was impressed with how he and Joseph Campanella were in the Mannix Season 1 DVD commentary, perhaps eight years ago. Both men well in their eighties ready with a quick quip and answer for one episode out of the hundreds they were in. I believe Mike Connors did a Sean Connery in suing the studio for unpaid profits.
I always wished Mannix had a better final show than Diagnosis Murder special. Hope to God they never reboot Mannix.

RIP John Hurt. He had so many great performances, and he was a distinctive figure with his look and voice.

RIP Mike Connors too. I enjoyed the Diagnosis Murder "Mannix" episode. It was a bit weird where they had an old episode as a flashback. I never watched Mannix. It's strange it's never on a channel I have whereas Quincy, Matlock etc etc always pop up.

Post by **Blowfeld** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:43 am

carl stromberg wrote:
Blowfeld wrote:RIP John Hurt. One of my favourite Doctors. Not easy to craft a likeable Doctor let alone the War Doctor, a unknown regeneration thrown in the anniversary special.
I was afraid he was not long for the world when he announced early stages of pancreatic. Still he persevered.

Mike Connors is another great lose. I was impressed with how he and Joseph Campanella were in the Mannix Season 1 DVD commentary, perhaps eight years ago. Both men well in their eighties ready with a quick quip and answer for one episode out of the hundreds they were in. I believe Mike Connors did a Sean Connery in suing the studio for unpaid profits.
I always wished Mannix had a better final show than Diagnosis Murder special. Hope to God they never reboot Mannix.
RIP John Hurt. He had so many great performances, and he was a distinctive figure with his look and voice.

RIP Mike Connors too. I enjoyed the Diagnosis Murder "Mannix" episode. It was a bit weird where they had an old episode as a flashback. I never watched Mannix. It's strange it's never on a channel I have whereas Quincy, Matlock etc etc always pop up.

I bought the DVDs, Mannix was never as big a rerun as other PI mystery series. I think there is a story about Lucille Ball using her influence to save Mannix during seasons one because she liked the show and the network was going to cancel it.

We lost Barbara Hale too. Her Della Street even inspired Ian Fleming. I actually looked up her bio info last year to see if she was still alive we had so many well known personalities passed I was hoping a few favourites were still with us. Had a real soft spot for her from watching the Perry Masons reruns, just about every where I lived had a way to watch the series. Of course I bought the DVDs to be sure. Barbara Hale was always a class act, she will be missed.

Post by **Blowfeld** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:52 am

bjmdds wrote:Speaking to The Telegraph, writer Neal Purvis said: ‘The thing is… I’m just not sure how you would go about writing a James Bond film now.
‘Each time, you’ve got to say something about Bond’s place in the world, which is Britain’s place in the world… with people like Trump, the Bond villain has become a reality. ‘So when they do another one, it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that the world has become a fantasy,’ he added. They also revealed how the next Bond movie will perhaps be a very different beast, saying: ‘.. Spectre felt like it closed off a certain way of doing Bond. And I think whatever happens next will be quite different.’ Recent Bond outings have been grounded in threats relevant to the modern world, but the writing pair have admitted how they’d struggle to imagine a story which could apply to a world of Donald Trump and Brexit.

This is sounding oddly familiar to the shift between Die Another Day 40 years of Bond to Daniel Craig as Barbara's 007 the hulking Cro-Magnon. The writers and Producers were doing nothing with no ideas on how to carry on, muttering about how much the world had changed.

Honestly if Craig does not come back I fully expect they will reboot the series fresh again with it set in 1953 or the 60s, just because they have no inspiration except for those recent spy movies which did have style and flare EON lost some time ago.

Post by **Omega** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:55 pm

New report is Sony pictures is falling apart. The last year of movie losses has sealed the fate of the current guy running the show, who has been there for longer than 2 years when Amy pascal was fired .
Ghostbusters reboot and angry birds fails to make money . Only Sony division making money is PlayStation .

They blame the shift in DVD and bluray market, and decline in movie going.
Ok bluray Sony assured the world would replace DVD and make studios and patent holders rich again. Bluray never took off like DVD, they tried to prop it up with 3D and 4K.

Movie going, Sony in the story talks more about relying on intilectual property, but that's what they have been doing by making a reboot of every property they own. Honestly you could smell the stink coming of Sony movies long before they hit theaters. Now early 2000s they had better movies.

But they also want to be bailed out by china who is seeing a drop in their movie business too.

Here's my is my question after losing $1 billon on their movie division, do they have the money or desire to make a bad partnership with MGM and EON again?
We know they made very little on SP, but still the make money I guess. Is it worth it to them to do business with the Bond franchise again?
Guess that's up to the new head of the studio.

Here is the link to Bloomberg story, other interesting story this weekend is WB lost money on Afflecks passion project, they go on about how the studio only receives a percentage of the ticket sales and how much it cost to distribute , which didn't matter to WB a few months ago. :Roll:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... e-business

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Post by **bjmdds** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 4:57 pm

Movie ticket prices are way out of line now in NYC and less people are going more than once to see ANY film now. Also, middle America, excluding the NORTHEAST and WEST coasts, are fed up with Hollywood and their PC films as well. What liberals do not get, and never will get, is that America is only 20% liberal, a fact, no denying it, yet they push their PC garbage and storylines that 80% of our people reject! It's no surprise to me that people have soured on Hollywood and the morons who run it and are in their films. The NFL's ratings are DOWN considerably this year due to Kaepernick's comments too

The next Bond film, whenever they release it, will have a REDUCED budget for sure, 'no bout a doubt it', which could favor a cheaper NEW Bond actor in the role, instead of an expensive 50-ish pathetic loser remaining in the role in perpetuity!

Post by **bjmdds** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:10 pm

Tom Matthew
After I watched Julia Dreyfus and her Trump tirade, I stopped wactching. I was already on the fence from Meryl Streeps political speech at the Globes.
I already know that I won't be watching the Oscars and I now have a distaste for any type of actors awards show.

Post by **bjmdds** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:11 pm

Winona Ryder is your typical Hollywood moron:

All they are doing is STRENGTHENING Trump's position in this country, and the liberal media's lying reporting is NOT being listened to by MIDDLE America any longer!

Post by **bjmdds** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:18 pm

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPeiyESJbp4[/video] THIS is exactly why Hollywood is FINISHED for good!

Post by **Omega** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:57 pm

Another related story about Hollywood is bloated productions, 200 people working on set with limited specific jobs, who do nothing most of the time and how Amazon and Netflix are trying to revolutionize the industry but face all kinds of old school thinking on how Hollywood should work. The industry thinks they are immune because only they can make movies/tv people want, ignoring what happened to publishing and music

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Post by **Kristatos** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:43 pm

Some folks have questioned whether streaming services like Netflix are sustainable in the long term, though. I've seen people saying that it could be the next dotcom bubble.

Post by **Omega** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:50 pm

Kristatos wrote:Some folks have questioned whether streaming services like Netflix are sustainable in the long term, though. I've seen people saying that it could be the next dotcom bubble.

could be, imo if Netflix Amazon and other streaming content makers crash the rest of Hollywood is right behind. I don't think Hollywood realizes yet they are at the same economic mercies any industry is, look at car manufactures and unions it worked well in the boom times but they failed to innovate and almost lost it all.
Hollywood has a lot of rules to protect its trade and workers, but don't have any protection from YouTube and social media which compete for the eyes of viewers much more efficiently.

Netflix could be a bubble, I see very clearly how it's on the edge of being unsustainable. But digital movies being easy to watch is not going away, Netflix was the first attempt to curb illegal downloads by making it easier for people to get what they want legally.

I'd bet Hollywood would like Netflix and Amazon to disappear then replace them with a studio friendly system that in reality nobody would like. Just look at their UV digital rights system, it clunky and a pain to use places like vudu make it tolerable, but after all these years xbox live and the PlayStation network have not been added to the UV system, those are two of the biggest suppliers of digital content , Disney never joined UV and honestly I like their digital locker better cause it works with Xbox,Amazon, and Apple .

IMO the studio system of tv and movies could collapse if not modernized, and that could mean making it cheaper to film, cutting out required union jobs maybe. I'd look at the music and print industries as a warning, print has not settled down yet they think they have a bead on it but they don't, print will probably be pushed even farther down by blogs and social media. Sometimes better informed and better written, always more entertaining.

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