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I learned how to drive watching Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit and in Cannonball Run and also watching the 2 guys of The Dukes of Hazzard on TV. I had 4 tickets and 2 accidents within 30 days of getting my hardship driver's license at 15 (yes, back then it was 15, not 16) including totaling both of Mamma's and Dad's cars. It's funny now that I think about it. It sure wasn't funny back then. Dad nearly killed me! Now I haven't had a ticket or an accident in 20+ years.

The Getaway (1972) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068638/ I just love this iconic theatrical poster: One of director Sam Peckinpah's best films along with his The Wild Bunch. This is also the first screenplay by Walter Hill, who went on to write The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Aliens and Aliens 3. Hill also produced all the Alien films including Prometheus and Alien Covenant plus both Alien vs. Predator films. The Getaway is a hard hitting tough as nail and sometimes brutally violent crime heist film that has been copied many times since. Watch this one and stay away from the inferior 1994 remake with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. 4.75/5

Don't like her voice.

Reminds me of Monsters, Inc.

So Burt Reynold's most famous movie is Smokey and the Bandit where he is smuggling Coors Beers. I looked it up and this is why. Didn't know that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit#Legal_status_of_Coors_beer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company#Products

Burt Reynolds has died from a heart attack. After Smokey and the Bandit was released in 1977, every guy wanted to be him and have a Pontiac Trans Am and every girl wanted a guy that drove a Pontiac Trans Am. I remember being in High School and only the Seniors were allowed to drive to school and any Seniors that drove a Pontiac Trans Am got all the girls. Somewhere in Heaven the Bandit is again running blocker for the Snowman with Sheriff Buford T Justice in hot pursuit. R.I.P. Burt. Thanks for the great memories!!

https://www.thelocal.it/20180906/italy-first-starbucks-opens-in-milan https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-starbucks-italy/starbucks-italian-dream-comes-true-but-it-is-not-cheap-idUKKCN1LM0G2 Don't mess with our Cappuccino and Espresso!! We don't want your Americanized coffee flavored dish washing water !! I seen them (the clerks at Starbucks) make Espresso and Cappuccino. They don't press the coffee ground into the porta filter hard enough and tight enough. With Starbucks it's all about speed and how many order they can fill in one minute. If you have no idea what I am referring to: https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/07/coffee-tools-the-espresso-tamper-how-to-tamp-correctly-barista-tips.html I was making Cappuccino and Espresso at my Father's Restaurant and Coffee shop when I was 10 years old in 1975 in Italy. Most of the idiots who work at Starbucks right now at their 25,000 stores in 78 countries were not born yet or were still in diapers. HELL! Them morons at Starbucks can't even put a decent thick milk foam on a Cappuccino!! That takes time and skills and as I've said, at Starbucks is all about speed and filling orders: quantity comes before quality!! Good quality coffee is served in a ceramic cup, not in a ducking styrofoam or cardboard cup. Furthermore anything of quality worth having takes time and care and skills to prepare. Coffee that is in your hand less than 2 minutes after you've placed your order was prepared without any time and care and skills. It's over priced mud water !!

Oh I am definitely taking our kids to see this!!

Or pay for their food. Bet they eat a lot!

Damn! These are the biggest domestic house cats I'd ever seen in my life. Norwegian Forest cat Maine Coon

You meant to say some people nowadays have NO TASTE!

The solution is to make more insecticide! Can't let them critters eat up so many 213 million tons of OUR food! We humans do not like to share! https://komonews.com/news/local/study-global-warming-puts-crop-chomping-insects-in-the-mood-leads-to-rise-in-food-prices https://www.sciencenews.org/article/temperatures-insects-appetites-crop-damage-global-warming https://www.ecowatch.com/insect-pests-crop-yields-2600805242.html https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/agriculture/insect-numbers-are-expected-to-rise-owing-to-global-warming-and-may-pose-a-significant-threat-to-global-food-security-new-climate-model-predicts/

I have attempted to watch this for the 4th time since I got it 3+ weeks ago. I just can't get into it. I will watch maybe 10 minutes at the most if even that much and lose interest. It's classified as a Thriller and so far it hasn't thrilled me. Elizabeth Harvest (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6852872/ This is the 2nd theatrical movie this year I couldn't finish watching because it didn't hold my attention. The other movie was Winchester https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1072748/

Found this on Netflix over a couple of weeks ago. https://www.netflix.com/title/80243728 In Finnish with English subtitles. Karppi aka Deadwind https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6616260/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwind It took me over a week to watch all 12 episodes. This was darn good!! They are already working on a Season 2 which will begin filming in 2019.

The Meg (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4779682 Not much to see here unless you really want to see what kind of crappy CGI a $130 million budget buys. The only character in it that does anything is Jason Statham and the Asian lady - she is in it because this is another Hollywood Made In China movie. The other characters are just there to fall in the water and swim in panic while The Meg is chasing them and maybe they will get to safety before they are eaten. There are 2 other women characters in it: Jessica McNamee and Ruby Rose. One plays Jason Statham's ex wife and the other is the designer of the underwater marina station and they both don't do much besides again, swim, swim, before The Meg eats them. Watch (or rewatch) Jaws 1975 instead with NO CGI and a mechanical shark that was way ahead of its time. 2.5/5 p.s. If you don't know what Hollywood Made In China is: http://chinafilminsider.com/book-review-hollywood-made-in-china/ https://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-made-in-china-excerpt-2017-1

For political reason, I refuse to support the NFL and watch anything maybe except for the Supebowl.

Tom is so silly!

This is playing in IMAX theaters across the USA this week and it's actually the original 161 minutes version that premiered on April 2nd, 1968. After the premiere, Kubrick cut 19+ minutes out of it and the cut version (142 minutes) is the theatrical version the world has seen and known for the past 50 years. This original version that's playing in IMAX right now will be released on 4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray on October 30th, 2018.

What a dumb butt! Those lemons are still green! They haven't had a chance to ripen on the trees yet. Was he planning to make a few gallons of bitter lemonade? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/26/striking-sour-note-california-man-arrested-with-800-pounds-stolen-lemons-cops-say.html

I would think they would put someone out there everytime there is a long field goal attempt of more than 50 yards. LOOKS like they won't be able to NOW with the rule now being that, on a missed FG, possession changes at the point of the FG attempt... teams will want to take the ball at that point... If you attempt to run it back out of your own endzone, you run the risk of being pinned back deep in your own end.

It's only been done a couple of times before and only on long FG attempts anything over 50 yards where the ball falls short of the goal posts and didn't fall out of bounds.. It's totally legal but I am surprised it hasn't been attempted more often. We seen a lot of 50+ yards attempts: I would think every time a team tries to do a 50+ yards FG, the opposite team will put someone in the end zone.

Wait.... How can you take the ball from a failed field goal and run it back like a punt return? We have seen 1000's of field goals and point after and why no one from the non kicking team ever stood in the end zone before - waiting to catch the ball if the field goal is no good and try to run it back for a TD? At least in all the football games I've seen in 40 years, I have never seen this before.

Hereditary (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7784604/ After the death of her elderly mother, a grieving woman (Toni Collette - who deserves an Academy Awards nomination for her acting in this film), her husband and her children begin to experience troubling incidents in their lives. When I saw this movie's preview trailer for the very first time, I knew this was going to be good. After a long string of PG-13 horror wannabes containing cheap thrills, the horror genre has finally gotten its well deserved and long overdue R rated entry. Watch this in a pitch dark room but don't watch it alone!! If you don't get one bit scared while watching this, it means you are already dead. 4.5/5

Ocean's 8 (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5164214 This is supposed to be a heist caper movie... really? A street level 2 bit petty thief could had done what it took 8 women to do without all that glitz and shine and constant talking into earphones, oh the horror of seeing shot after shot of them talking into earphones and being very conspicuous about it! It's also supposed to be a comedy movie... really? Not one scene was funny unless you still have the immature asinine moronic mentality of an 3 year old and you still find enjoyment in watching Anne Hathaway with her head over a toilet bowl and puking her guts out. It's also supposed to be a thriller... really? There were no thrills, no suspense, no sense of impeding doom or menace that they were going to be caught or that the law was nipping at their heels 1/2 a step behind them. This movie is yet another Hollywood's failed attempt to remake or reboot a movie, rewrite its original strong male cast by replacing with a female cast and celebrate woman's power. There is nothing wrong with that, if you give the female characters something interesting and intelligent to do, it will work fantastically well: i.e. the recent Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde. BUT nope, the writers of this film chose to write lazy shallow characters just for the sake of writing female characters like we have seen in the recent Ghostbusters or the many Melissa McCarthy's movies laced with juvenile locker room and toilet humor. Finally, this is also another attempt by Hollywood to be politically correct: let's make sure we have a token Black character (or two), a token Hispanic character, a token Asian character (or two): after all, we don't want to alienate any race, do we? This should had been called Ocean's Meh instead of Ocean's 8. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter, all great actresses in their own right who have over the years, proven themselves over and over again to be talented at making great films, should be ashamed for agreeing to do this farce just for the sake of bringing a bunch of actresses together. I bet Ol' Blue Eyes is rolling in his grave right now after seeing how a politically correct female enpowered driven Hollywood has turned his beloved movie premise into a piece of celluloid garbage. If any of you think I am on a personal agenda against female characters driven movie, you will be deadly sadly wrong. I am not the only male (and female) who thought this latest entry into the forced female remakes stunk: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5164214/reviews 0/5

Malice (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107497/ This is IMO Nicole Kidman's best film role after Dead Calm and To Die For. She is a major witch and she also has never looked more beautiful than she was in this movie. Kidman along with other actresses dominated the 1990's evil, scheming, conniving Bat Crazy women movies trend: Linda Fiorentino's Bridget Gregory in The Last Seduction, Uma Thurman's and Kim Basinger's evil sisters Diana and Heather in Final Analysis, Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, Lara Flynn Boyle's Suzanne Brown in Red Rock West, Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes in Misery, Rose McGowan's Courtney Shayne in Jawbreaker, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions and finally, Nicole Kidman again as Suzanne Stone in To Die For. 4.5/5