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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Magnificent Seven redux
The coolest thing about this Magnificent seven remake (which was a western Seven Samurai remake) was Robert Vaughn plays basically THE SAME CHARACTER he played in the original.
A Bug's Life is also a redo.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Trouble Man? Really?
Very much enjoying the new series, but once again in tonight's episode Sam Wilson (the Falcon) mentioned playing the album "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye to help bring Steve Rogers (Captain America) "up to speed" after his deep freeze.
The problem is that it is a soundtrack album to a movie, and half of it is instrumental pieces.
If he really wanted to let someone who's been out of commission a long time learn "what's going on" in the world, a clearly better Marvin Gaye album might be, oh, I don't know...wait for it....."WHAT'S GOING ON".....
Brilliant album with songs about contemporary problems of poverty, racism, war, drugs, addiction, inequality, police brutality, and ecology. With ultimate salvation through love, family, and faith.
I was surprised they made this error in the movies. I'm really disappointed they are continuing with it on the TV series.
I love both albums, but there is no question which one would be more helpful if you came out of the deep freeze.
Thanks for attending my TED talk, we now return control of your televisions to you until next week.
The Stone Tape (1972)
Haunting of Hill House lite
Not an easy movie to find, but finally got to watch a copy. Enjoyable overall, though fairly low budget....felt like I was watching an old Avengers TV show. (spoilers to follow) However, very early in the film I was immediately reminded of The Haunting of Hill House (a much better film). We have: 1)a female lead who is clearly unbalanced, somewhat hysterical (though the subtleties of Hill House are replaced by crawling on the floor crying), 2) a group of people studying a "haunted" location, 3) some of whom are more "sensitive" to the events than others. While that may seem a bit of a reach, the ending (the woman dies and becomes part of the haunted location) fairly well closes the case. Once you then see the parallels, some of the charm of this film fades. Again, not bad, not great, interesting....but a poor shadow of Hill House. IMHO