i haven't heard  about our theaters yet.. but the  drive in is showing   goonies..and Raiders of the lost arc.. they hqave sued the   driven in for at least 4-5  highschool graduations

 before the virus hit, they were advertising sellign it?.. the  windfall from the graduations may have saved it.

When I first started my job at the park, our stage was VERY different.  Looked kind of like a back alley in NYC or something, but we had multiple levels to it, and the speakers all hung directly over the stage...woofers had big ports in the enclosure to allow for air movement...

We didn't start rehearsing until early to mid-May...so birds would start nesting in the speakers, because "Hey, big box up here away from potential predators!"  And their babies would hatch around the time shows opened...

Which meant that, for about three weeks each year, I would end up at least a couple of times a week (and sometimes a couple of times a day) being confronted by a traumatized performer at the end of a show, saying, "There's a baby bird on stage..."  "Where on stage...?"  "Third level, stage left..."

"Is it old enough to survive?"  "Doesn't matter...I stepped on it..."

Yeah...one of my unofficial job duties was dead-bird-removal...

Different stage and different speakers, now.  Now we just have issues with birds making nests in the lighting cables we've tied up out of the way...

And a lot of theaters are showing old movies right now...there's not a whole lot slated for theatrical release until late July or August.  Stuff that IS being released right now is getting a limited theatrical release because they're also releasing it on streaming services or VOD, but that's still a minuscule number.  I think there are three titles being released in ALL of June, and so far, maybe twice that many in July.  And these are not high-demand titles, either ("My Spy" had already had its release dates pushed back twice BEFORE Covid...)  There's not enough new stuff to fill a megaplex, and second-round theaters like the one I work at have pretty slim pickings for titles because almost everything that was going to be coming available to us got dumped to DVD so the studios could make SOMETHING on them.  We have six titles at our theater (three screens, with each doing an early and a late show), and EVERYTHING we've got has been on DVD for a while.  Two of the six movies are Harry Potter and Batman movies, and they're making us more money than the recent stuff.

yeah..I'm Bummed out the NBA princes and thier families  are 'suppsoed' to get to  see Black Widow , while they finish thier season down there... i really...really don't like that.

 Talk about  forgetting about the fans  who pay for these  things?

I'm sure the studio's looking at it as, "Wait...we get someone to PAY US to be a test audience?"  B3cause with it not officially releasing until November, they've got 0lenty of time tore-edit and possibly even re-shoot some stuff.

maybe?... The  'Everything always "  youtube stuff i watch for insider things , put it up yesterday... lots of folks weren't happy..and? since the MBA is using the   hotels there, I'm sure disney will let them see it for free.

 they actaul have the teans in Hotels, according to thier  seeding ( i guess for playoff?)

Nikki.........

https://www.msn.com/en-us/auto...15KVch?ocid=msedgntp

Yep...hated that bus.  Book and movie were stupid.  a lone hiker trying to 'find himself'.  what codswallop!  then tries going back to civilization breaks a leg, starves to death.  Well...that was his own damn fault.  why people think he was some great guru is beyond me.  And people want to know how the bus got there and why not drive it out.  It was moved there to be temp lodging for some guys building a road back in late 40's.  left there for lost hikers as shelter.  over time trees and such grew up and to big to cut down...so there it stayed.  Then this guy did only one thing right and use it as a shelter.  To bad he didn't bring a phone, or something.  Then other lackwits wanted to follow his footsteps...asshats and twits.  few others dies, several had to be rescued.  thing became a death trap.  hope they crush and slag the thing.

ha!!  I played the thunder struck video for my wife, telling her how the songs are integrated in the story, she said cool. and that she doesnt think she had ever seen that video. lol

Check your post locations there folks, if you do it wrong, I hear the GM is a real hard nose... LOl

  Yeah, when i had a gaming group YEEEAAARRRSSS ago, we played Axis and Allies every weekend, we had one person for each country, so 5, but we always had a war movie on in the background, Dos Boot, the Longest Day, Sahara, .... stuff like that. loads of fun

Sorry thought it was in ooc.


Just for the dads here (and grandpas too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXxH-Tk-5c0

On my way for sunday football.... Happy FAthers  day to all the Fathers  who are there  for thier Kids....for Step  fathers  who act like father...and  for the Single Moms  who have to be  both  Mom and Dad!!!

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 37):

NICOLE!!!!!!  That was fantastic!!  made me laugh this morning, thank you so much.. great.

 happy Father's day

Roy..got this in an email...

https://www.cinemark.com/cinem...m_content=nat-061720

Are we going to move the fighters to the One Eye Jack thread?

everyone  will be in one eyed jack...if you want to post before i get another post up..feel free!

Lizzy made a post in the hanger thread I will have her wait till you do a fighter post in One Eye Jack thread.

ok..i  reposted the fighter  stuff in oneyed jacks..( so there is two of the same now)

 i don't like doing that, because its  'cheap post count"..but... we did have 2  deleted posts..one of mine  and  Nikki delted one..so..its not too bad

 I am going to try something.... i will use it at times...trough out this battle...I want PM  feed back ( PMs  so now one  'bandwagons" )

1.... do you like the  'view  from the other side"

2...does this take away from how you view the story/game

3...should i keep doing it

4...does it ruin , your reactions.

 there are times we have interactions with enemies  once  we made contact?  that's  part of  any game/movie/book... but do you want it  without that 'contact?

sorry...I really did mean to post it in the ooc.

i messed up too...didn't even use it after that..it happens.. we do have a couple threads in this game!

ok? got  4 little  ones  here... gonna make sure they go to sleep... I'll check the boards  a bit later.

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 45):

It's reminiscent of a GM technique they encouraged in the old Star Wars RPG, which was borrowed from a cinematic technique...'cut-away scenes' (or 'cut-scenes), where we get a chance to see what the effects of the current action are on people who are not directly in the action.  I like it...I try to write my posts with a combination of literary character insight (which you can't do very well with film, unless you have a LOT of distracting voice-overs...but good actors can provide a lot of visual hints of what's going on in their character's mind in any given scene), combined with the epic scale of cinematic space opera (which is, basically, what we're playing...)

So throwing in some cinematic touches here and there doesn't hurt, for me.  And sometimes it's fun to see what the bad guys' reactions are to things, as well as seeing what's going on with the good guys in places away from the action.

Been taking advantage of being able to play DVDs on the computer we use to run our ads between movies, and watching older films that I never got a chance to see on the big screen.  Tonight's offerings were 'Logan's Run' and 'Soldier'...which has one of my favorite scenes in it, for just sheer bad-ass heroism...

Kurt Russell is prepping a bunch of weapons he's salvaged from the three Soldiers that he ambushed, and one of the refugees comes in to ask what's going on, what they can do, etc...there are two or three really awesome lines in that scene, but the one that just seals it for me is after she finds out that there should be seventeen more Soldiers coming, and Kurt Russell's Sgt. Todd is going out to face them alone.

"But...one against seventeen?  What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to kill them all, Sir."

(I feel like that's a highly underrated movie...it gets tossed aside as just another sci-fi action film, but it really does present some heavy food for thought, about the whole concept of how responsible we are if we train people to be highly efficient soldiers, and then tell them that they aren't needed anymore...and I noted again, tonight, how nuanced their handling was of the final Soldier-to-Soldier confrontation was...normally, the hero would win and just kind of toss the bad guy aside to go finish saving the innocents...but Sgt. Todd looks almost on the verge of tears as he finishes off the last 'other' Soldier, and puts his body down with a degree of reverence...which is NOT extended to the officers commanding said Soldier...it's subtle, but very telling.)

I'll get my post up in the early afternoon

Post when you can Zob.

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 I saw that movie a couple times...Like you said..back then, sci-fi and fantasy would be jeered at,, Siskal and  Ebert, would  say things as they laughed " we've seen this before..hero  does this , does that"

 Even at that age, i would get angry..and stayed  angry..Cops shops...Dr Shows...slob humor movies..and social Commentaries .. we see  DOZENs  of those

 I mentioned it before..Star trek and Starwars opened the door.. Lord of the Rings helped alot too, but  it  took awhile before the critics  jumped on the BAnd wagon  with them..Aliens..Prditor   and all the others..

 Battle for LA is  good...Battle ship could have been..but they didn't do enough with it..i wish i could make this into a movie...it would need cleaned up some..but not  much.. so it could be  the 'orivate  Ryan..or BAnd  of Brothers  of sci fi!... we'd have to cut back on some of the fluff though, but.. people look for romance too!

 i agree, Soldier was a great movie in my mind, and yes they could have done better at the time, but really they set that up for future editions and failed to follow-through. They could have the next movie when they find a place to land, and then either the locals or another group of 'badland' type of gang shows up, as long as they didnt do repeats..... same-rinse-repeat-do over.... type of thing. I like what they're doing with the Mad Maxx series, it's almost the same thing but they seem to be doing it better than most. One of the worst failures, "I think", in movie franchises is the Indians Jones stuff. they lost it with the last one with Shia Labouf(sp), they could have continued it with a new generation but I think they gave up.