Let's Talk Movies #33: Star Wars: Jabba Rising...Captain America Trumps China...and MORE!

[Buzz]

Next on my hit list are Transformers and Spider-Man but those tickets are not on sale yet.

 

[watchthis!!]

By sheer coincidence, I ended up watching another Adrien Brody movie. Cadillac Records is about the birth of Chess records, which was responsible for introducing music of many African-American musicians to America (and the world). Muddy Waters, Little Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf (Jackson, I think...?), Etta James and Chuck Berry. It's one of those movies that is both a good movie and an important movie. I liked seeing the stories of all these incredible people. The cast is jam-packed of talented people...Jeffrey Wright, Cedric The Entertainer and Beyonce among them. (In smaller roles are Gabrielle Union, Eric Bogosian, Norman Reedus and a handful of other people you will recognie.) This movie didn't do well at the box office, which is really unfortunate for many reasons. Definitely worth seeing.

 

[Buzz]

Got tickets for The Mummy tomorrow!

 

[PeterG]

Too many good movies this week!

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-06-09th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipT6kKwOzO1yZz669_aMXDo2


June 9th - The Mummy (Wide) – Fantasy adventure with Tom Cruise, Russell, Crowe, Jake Johnson and Courtney B. Vance

June 9th - It Comes at Night (Wide) – Horror thriller with Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott [Girls] and Carmen Ejogo [Alien: Covenant]

June 9th - Megan Leavey (Wide) – War drama with Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford, Common and Edie Falco

June 9th - My Cousin Rachel (Limited) – Mystery romance with Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin

June 9th - Beatriz at Dinner (Limited) – Comedy with Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton and Chloe Sevigny

June 9th - The Hero (Limited) – Comedy drama with Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman and Katharine Ross

June 9th - Camera Obscura (Limited) – Horror thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “A veteran war photographer with PTSD sees imminent deaths in his developed photos, questioning his already fragile sanity and putting the lives of those he loves in danger.”

June 9th - Miles (Limited) – Family comedy drama with Missi Pyle, Paul Reiser, Yeardley Smith and Molly Shannon

June 9th - The Hunter’s Prayer (Limited) – Action thriller with Sam Worthington

June 9th - Random Tropical Paradise (Limited) – Comedy with Bryan Greenberg and Joe Pantoliano [The Sopranos]

June 9th - 11:55 (Limited) – Crime drama with a new cast & John Leguizamo. From imdb.com: “Returning to his hometown, US Marine Nelson Sanchez finds himself trapped by the violent past he had tried to escape.”

June 9th - Raising Bertie (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina.”

June 9th - I Love You Both (Limited) – Comedy drama with Lucas Neff [Raising Hope]. From imdb.com: “Krystal and her twin brother/roommate confront twenty-eight years of their codependency when they start dating the same guy.”

June 9th - Awakening The Zodiac (Limited) – Thriller with Shane West [Nikita & ER], Leslie Bibb [GCB & Popular] amd Matt Craven

June 9th - Dawson City: Frozen Time (Limited – New York, then L.A. on the 16th) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “…depicts a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation - and through that collection, how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.”

June 9th - Middle Man (Limited) – Comedy crime drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “Lenny Freeman is a straight-laced old-school accountant with a dream; to become a famous stand-up comedian. The problem is he's not very funny.”

June 9th - Night School (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “…follows three students determined to graduate from their high school in Indianapolis despite the fact that the institution has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.”

June 9th - As Good as You (Limited) – Comedy drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “A serious comedy about grief.”

June 8th - Chris Brown: Welcome to my Life (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “A compelling and never-before-scene look at Chris Brown's controversial life and career.”

 

[Seerek]

I don't think it'll be released in many American theatres (premieres next week in at least NYC), but Sally Hawkins does a nice job in a small Canadian film called Maudie about East Coast artist Maud Lewis (Ethan Hawke plays her to-be husband).

 

[watchthis!!]

Last night I watched The Space Between Us with some friends. It's the one about the teen boy born on Mars who wishes to come to Earth and experience the life everyone he knows has experienced (but not him). He finds a way to his online friend in Colorado and they go on a road trip to find his father. It's pretty hokey, but sometimes an innocent type of movie hits the spot. It did seem like on many occasions that the movie was made specifically for 14 year old girls, though. I recognized the main scientist guy, but couldn't place him. It's Gary Oldman, playing a WAY more sweet and normal type of character than I've ever seen him play before. Surprised when I found out it was him because he so often plays crazy and mean people. There's a few other familiar faces in this one, but no real big name stars. Here's the trailer for the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjFJ5N2MjA

 

[Buzz]

The Mummy - Just got back from seeing this and loved it a lot more than I thought I would given the terrible reviews. This movie is part Night Of The Living Dead, part National Treasure, part League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and part Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I do have to admit that if it had not starred Tom Cruise I probably would not have gone to see it but glad I did. One of the things I didn't like was...

Spoiler

Mr. Hyde. He just came of as lame and didn't do much in the movie at all. I was hoping to see a fight scene between him and "The Mummy" but alas it was not to be

7 out of 10

 

[watchthis!!]

Tonight we watched "Morgan", which my friend said was a horror movie, but it was really a sci-fi (action) thriller. Netflix made it sound like it had a moderately famous cast, but it has a REALLY accomplished cast. Kate Mara is one of the two leads, along with Anya Taylor-Joy, who was in The Witch and Split. Also starring is Toby Jones (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee), Michelle Yeoh (BAFTA nominee), Brian Cox (Emmy winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee), Paul Giamatti (Golden Globe and Emmy winner and Oscar nominee) and in a small role, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Golden Globe winner and Oscar & BAFTA nominee). Whew!

The movie is a bit like Ex-Machine, but less esoteric and more mainstream. More action in it as well. The story is quite good, Taylor-Joy is the central character, a corporate experiment about cloning DNA to create entities to be used for organ transplant recipients. Or is it more than that? I thought the script was really good, as was the cast. But the direction and the overall story is the star of this, a big thrill ride while exploring how human emotion gets caught up in scientific experiment. Worth seeing.

Trailer for Morgan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc5BE8iwmHw

 

[jenny12]

I saw Wonder Woman today and enjoyed it. Gal Gadot was wonderful and had great chemistry with a charming Chris Pine. So much better than other DC movies.

 

[Buzz]

The first trailer for Black Panther is here!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWvtMOGAhw

 

[PeterG]

I Netflix'ed and chilled with some friends last night. We watched two Netflix productions, one which was just added to Netflix that day. Shimmer Lake was described as a dark comedy, but it's really a drama that has a light tone with a few laughs thrown in here and there. I only laughed out loud once. But it was interesting, basically a bank heist drama that involves a large group of people in a town and the story is told with the last scene first and then four more scenes, each from the previous day. So the whole story is told backwards, which makes it somewhat interesting, but it's not as told as well as a movie like Memento, which was done in a similar way. I liked the movie, but since it had been described as a comedy, I was hoping for more laughs. A good cast, which includes Rainn Wilson (The Office), Ron Livingston, Rob Corddry, Wyatt Russell, Adam Pally and John Michael Higgins. If you don't recognize any of those names, you'd probably know who they were if you saw them.

The other program we watched was Sarah Silverman's latest stand-up special called Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust. I thought it was hilarious and one of my friends laughed even more than I did. But I love her comedy, so it wasn't a surprise that I loved it. If you're not into her comedy, avoid this one for sure. She is not afraid to cross the line and I'm sure there are at least a handful of topics she covers that will infuriate various types of people. But if you're not easily offended and are left-of-centre (well, maybe REALLY left-of-centre), then you'll probably like this one as much as I did.

 

[Buzz]

Wonder Woman is set to finish #1 at the North American box office this weekend with Mummy a distant second. BUT, and this an increasingly important but , Mummy did exceptionality well overseas for a worldwide total of $169.3m. Tom Cruise's best opening ever and the movie also finished at #1 in 52 different markets.

http://deadline.com/2017/06/the-mum...-box-office-results-international-1202109606/

 

[watchthis!!]

• 
  Edge of Darkness was a bit of a surprise...wasn't expecting much of it but ended up quite liking it. It's the 2010 crime drama mystery with Mel Gibson as the lead. It also stars Danny Huston and an excellent Ray Winstone. Gibson plays a cop whose daughter is shot and killed when they are leaving his home. He then goes on a hunt to find out why this happens and the script has just the right amount of twists and turns. I believe this was Gibson's first role after his downfall after drunk driving and spewing various slurs that got him in so much trouble. He picked the right vehicle and team to make a comeback with. The director (Martin Campbell) made a couple of Bond movies, this one is a bit like a Bond film, but with a working class cop (without and 007 skills or resources) as the lead character. The trailer below makes it sound like way more of a guns blastin' - cars crashin' kind of movie than it really is. There are a number of moments that are quiet and sweet that showcase Gibson's acting as he shows the love of a father for a daughter as he is mourning at the same time he is trying to solve a complex crime.

Trailer for Edge of Darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4QUhbywIFo

 

[PeterG]

Brief Encounter is a 1945 romantic drama directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Noel Coward, based on one of his stage plays. It's about a man and woman who meet at a train station café and start up a conversation, which leads to more meetings and an emotional attachment - while both are married to other people. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard play the two lead characters. Johnson was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this film. She was nominated for three BAFTA's, winning for her supporting role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Howard was nominated for an Oscar for Sons and Lovers and received multiple nominations for Golden Globes, BAFTA's and Emmys (he won one of each for the latter two awards). Along with Johnson, the movie was Oscar-nominated for direction and screenplay. Personally, I found the movie very annoying. Thematically and character-wise. These two dolts dithered around doing something they both felt was morally wrong...but just kept on doing it. Without every really doing anything. I'm trying to remember now if they even kissed. Maybe once towards the end. The movie is narrated by Johnson's character and natters on and on and on and on in a higher-pitched, whiny voice. Ugh. The movie is beautifully film in black and white, so it's nice to look at. But 90 minutes of analytical navel-gazing is about 89 minutes too much for me.... I'm guessing my thoughts would be seen as sacrilegious by many, but that's how this movie affected me. I could have watched three episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in this time! (Kidding...I would NEVER subject myself to that kind of psychological torture!)

 

[watchthis!!]

Wonder Woman is set to finish #1 at the North American box office this weekend with Mummy a distant second. BUT, and this an increasingly important but , Mummy did exceptionality well overseas for a worldwide total of $169.3m. Tom Cruise's best opening ever and the movie also finished at #1 in 52 different markets.

http://deadline.com/2017/06/the-mum...-box-office-results-international-1202109606/

On the radio this morning, they were talking about how The Mummy had bombed. And that there was a planned series to follow this movie and that was now in question. They all but said the franchise was now never going to happen. They did mention the production budget was 120 million. But Wikipedia says the movie had made 174 million worldwide...in just three days. So you're right, international box office will make up for whatever the movie loses in the U.S. I'm curious as to whether the series will go forward even though American audiences will think it's a flop. Vin Diesel's "xXx: Return of Xander Cage" from this year made 44 million in the U.S. on an 85 million budget. But it made 300 million internationally. So even though it bombed in the U.S., I expect there will be another xXx movie somewhere on the horizon.

 

[skatesindreams]

Peter, relationships; particularly those seen as "illicit", were viewed very differently by society at the time "Brief Encounter" was made.

What you saw as "dithering" was her painful attempt to deal with the conflict between the moral imperative and her genuine emotion; something neither party ever expected to happen, much less, acknowledge.
.
In my opinion, joy and pain are "palpable" in every frame.
It's something that only masterful actors are able to convey; and why the film is, and remains, a classic of its' kind.

 

[Jay42]

On the radio this morning, they were talking about how The Mummy had bombed. And that there was a planned series to follow this movie and that was now in question. They all but said the franchise was now never going to happen. They did mention the production budget was 120 million. But Wikipedia says the movie had made 174 million worldwide...in just three days. So you're right, international box office will make up for whatever the movie loses in the U.S. I'm curious as to whether the series will go forward even though American audiences will think it's a flop. Vin Diesel's "xXx: Return of Xander Cage" from this year made 44 million in the U.S. on an 85 million budget. But it made 300 million internationally. So even though it bombed in the U.S., I expect there will be another xXx movie somewhere on the horizon.

Warcraft made significantly more money internationally than it did domestically as well and as of right now it isn't getting a sequel so it wouldn't surprise me if The Mummy doesn't get a sequel. As much as there is growing evidence that the international box office is becoming more important, it doesn't seem to be changing the way studios are thinking about sequel opportunities for movies that bombed domestically. At least not very quickly.

 

[Vash01]

By sheer coincidence, I ended up watching another Adrien Brody movie. Cadillac Records is about the birth of Chess records, which was responsible for introducing music of many African-American musicians to America (and the world). Muddy Waters, Little Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf (Jackson, I think...?), Etta James and Chuck Berry. It's one of those movies that is both a good movie and an important movie. I liked seeing the stories of all these incredible people. The cast is jam-packed of talented people...Jeffrey Wright, Cedric The Entertainer and Beyonce among them. (In smaller roles are Gabrielle Union, Eric Bogosian, Norman Reedus and a handful of other people you will recognie.) This movie didn't do well at the box office, which is really unfortunate for many reasons. Definitely worth seeing.

It is in my Netflix queue. Unfortunately it is not very high right now.

I am going to receive 'All the presidents men' in a couple of days. I want to watch it before MSNBC airs their program related to this movie.

 

[PeterG]

Apologies for this post. I am at a friend's home and they have an Apple computer. Apple sucks! It's preventing me from doing so many things I can do with my PC. Plus youtube won't let me log onto my account even though I sent myself a password to use to show it's me, but they think I'm an imposter who wants to hack my own account. Sheesh! So weird formatting and no youtube playlist (I'll post it later when I'm home).

Trailers For Movies Released 2017-06-016th

June 16th - Cars 3 (Wide) – Animated comedy with Owen Wilson, Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion, Armie Hammer, Kerry Washington, Tony Shalhoub, Margo Martindale, Bonnie Hunt, Bob Costas, Lea DeLaria and Larry The Cable Guy

June 16th - Rough Night (Wide) – Comedy with Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Demi Moore, Ilana Glazer and Ty Burrell

June 16th - All Eyez on Me (Wide) – Musical drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.”

June 16th - 47 Meters Down (Wide) – Horror thriller with Mandy Moore, Claire Holt [The Vampire Diaries] and Matthew Modine

June 15th - The Hippopotamus (Limited) – Comedy with Matthew Modine, Russell Tovey [Quantico] and Fiona Shaw [True Blood]

June 16th - The Book of Henry (Limited) - Thriller with Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris, Sarah Silverman and Lee Pace

June 16th - Hare Krishna! The Mantra, The Movement and the Swami Who Started it all (Limited - New York) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who arrives in America without support or money and ignites a worldwide spiritual phenomenon, now known as the Hare Krishna Movement."

June 16th - The Journey (Limited) - Drama with Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt and Freddie Highmore,

June 16th - Kill Switch (Limited) - Sci-fi with Dan Stevens. From imdb.com: "A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong."

June 16th - Lost in Paris (Limited) French comedy with Emmanuelle Riva (Amour). From imdb.com: "Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing."

June 16th - Maudie (Limited) - Romantic drama with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke

June 16th - Once Upon a Time in Venice (Limited) - Action comedy with Jason Momoa, Bruce Willis, Famke Jannsen, John Goodman, Kal Penn, Billy Gardell and Adam Goldberg

June 16th - Pray for Rain (Limited) - Drama with Jane Seymour. From imdb.com: "A journalist returns to the California farming community where she was raised only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs."

June 16th - Score: A Film Music Documentary (Limited) with Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Trent Reznor, James Carmeron, Randy Newman, Quincy Jones, Alexandre Desplat and Howard Shore - From imdb.com: "...brings Hollywood's premier composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most widely known music genre: the film score."

June 16th - Hearing is Believing (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "...introduces the world to the life and music of the multi-talented 23-year old musician and composer, Rachel Flowers."

 

[Wyliefan]

@PeterG, I am TOTALLY with you on Brief Encounter. One of the most overrated movies of all time. Every time it's on, all of classic movie Twitter is sighing and weeping and mooning over it, and I'm over here going, ". . . Whatever."

Thank God somebody else finally gets it!

 

[VGThuy]

Ok, now I have to watch Brief Encounter just to see where I stand on it. I don't know why, but I keep confusing it with Separate Tables which was made more than a decade later and has a totally different cast, crew, and story.

 

[Wyliefan]

I haven't seen all of Separate Tables, but I like what I've seen of it so far. Looks like it gave Niven, Hayworth, et al. a chance to stretch a bit.

 

[Jay42]

June 16th - 47 Meters Down (Wide) – Horror thriller with Mandy Moore, Claire Holt [The Vampire Diaries] and Matthew Modine

June 16th - Once Upon a Time in Venice (Limited) - Action comedy with Jason Momoa, Bruce Willis, Famke Jannsen, John Goodman, Kal Penn, Billy Gardell and Adam Goldberg

Isn't 47 Meters Down just The Shallows with more people in it?

Once Upon A Time in Venice looks very derivative of John Wick but it has Jason Momoa in it and I will watch him in pretty much anything. He's a good actor and it doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous.

 

[watchthis!!]

Tonight we watched No Escape, the action drama with Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan. Not sure why we watched it because within the first five minutes, two of us stated how we did not like Owen Wilson. I couldn't remember if his name was Luke or Owen (which brother), but now I'll remember Owen because every time I see him in a movie, I'll be thinking, "he's owen me my money back"! He really does play every single character exactly the same. Plus he can't even be bothered to change his look in any way. He dresses the same way in every movie, he never changes his physical mannerisms or his voice in any way at all, he can't even be bothered to cut his hair shorter (or grow it longer) or even change his hair colour. He's one of the LAZIEST actors out there! . Back to No Escape. Arguably the worst movie of all time. The things that happens are preposterous minute after minute after minute. The dialogue made us laugh out loud many times. Then at the touching final scene, I felt so bad the actors had to mutter the dialogue they were given. Poor Pierce Brosnan deserves so much better than this. Hope he got a big paycheque. This is a great movie to watch with friends who love ripping shitty movies to spread. Sit back and heckle your TV screen and have fun!

Trailer for No Return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFpK71yBv1s

 

[Cachoo]

I did like Owen in "Midnight in Paris" so maybe he works for me if he is playing Woody Allen befuddled types who like to talk and talk and talk. I just don't see him as a dramatic actor but maybe I have not seen him in the right role.

"Beauty and the Beast' is now "on demand" and I have been demanding it. I enjoyed the animated version but really took to this one. I love the cast in this one---every casting decision seemed so well thought out imho. I find that there are a handful of films made since the mid- 90's that I can watch over and over again and never truly tire of them. I think "Beauty" is going on that list and I'm surprised at the number of "children's" films on the list. The list includes:

Beauty and the Beast
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Up
Wall-E
Star Trek
It's Complicated
Love Actually
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Silver Linings Playbook
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion

 

[Wyliefan]

Once Upon a Time in Venice sounds like a Merchant-Ivory period drama, not an action comedy!

 

[PeterG]

Peter, relationships; particularly those seen as "illicit", were viewed very differently by society at the time "Brief Encounter" was made.

What you saw as "dithering" was her painful attempt to deal with the conflict between the moral imperative and her genuine emotion; something neither party ever expected to happen, much less, acknowledge.
.
In my opinion, joy and pain are "palpable" in every frame.
It's something that only masterful actors are able to convey; and why the film is, and remains, a classic of its' kind.

I read a fair bit about the movie at wikipedia because the more I read, the more the esteemed "Brief Encounter" seemed to be. That's why I kept reading to find out what I was missing. Wikipedia covered pretty much all the thoughts you've mentioned. I like your phrase, "...the conflict between the moral imperative and...genuine emotion..." A movie that dealt with all the themes you mention interests me. Just not with a self-absorbed, whiny lady with too high-pitched a voice. And with characters I would be drawn to, instead of disliking every single human who appears on screen during this movie. Even the cast with small parts are overwhelmingly annoying in their own bothersome way. Keep the themes, but re-cast the parts and re-write most of the dialogue. The director can stay though.

@PeterG, I am TOTALLY with you on Brief Encounter. One of the most overrated movies of all time. Every time it's on, all of classic movie Twitter is sighing and weeping and mooning over it, and I'm over here going, ". . . Whatever."
Thank God somebody else finally gets it!

I'm also confused by the adoration for shows like MASH, Seinfeld and Game of Thrones. Although with the latter, I only gave it one episode before writing it off. So maybe one day I'll give it another shot. Can't think of any movies that made me feel all about the love for it like I felt with Brief Encounter. I'm sure there are some that everybody seemed to love, but I was just left thinking

Ok, now I have to watch Brief Encounter just to see where I stand on it.

Let us know what you think! @skatesindreams needs someone to back her up!

 

[Wyliefan]

Well, with "M*A*S*H" we part ways. I adore it. (I do hate the movie version, though.)

 

[watchthis!!]

Warcraft made significantly more money internationally than it did domestically as well and as of right now it isn't getting a sequel so it wouldn't surprise me if The Mummy doesn't get a sequel. As much as there is growing evidence that the international box office is becoming more important, it doesn't seem to be changing the way studios are thinking about sequel opportunities for movies that bombed domestically. At least not very quickly.

This surprises/shocks me. I thought movie studios just cared about profit. (Well, maybe awards too! ). But for movie studios to not make sequels to profitable movies when the movie fared poorly in America, but was a hit everywhere else? I just have to think something else is at play...but I have no idea what.

 

[PeterG]

A while back I watched Kiss Me Kate (1953), a musical about a divorced couple starring in a musical version of Taming of the Shrew. Howard Keel is one of the leads, so I liked it just for that reason. Kathryn Grayson is his co-lead, I found her (character) annoying, but that's how it's supposed to be. But sometimes the character we're supposed to be annoyed with we find endearing in a way, and for the most part I didn't feel that with Grayson. I learned from the DVD extra that Bob Fosse played Hortensio in this, had to go back again and watch the number he was in. But as good as he was, the highlight of the movie for me is Ann Miller singing and dancing to Too Darn Hot. She definitely hits it out of the park with this one!

Well, with "M*A*S*H" we part ways. I adore it.

You'll get a lot of backup on that. It's a classic. Maybe it was meant for a more mature audience than myself, who was just nine when it debuted in 1972. And I was just twenty when it went off the air in 1983. If our library had copies of the series, I might give it another try. But my list of TV shows to watch just keeps growing, so I'm going to be busy for a while.