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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 08, 2015, 03:51:57 pm ---And, of course, male strip shows used to be common in that mecca of gay travel, Provincetown, Mass. I saw one there back in the Eighties. The guys weren't nearly as good as the guys in Magic Mike.
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Sorry, a little OT, but...
I've never even heard of male strip shows in Ptown. Certainly not in the last 20 years. Now, we have "Well Strung", a clothed chamber group.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 08, 2015, 08:01:54 pm ---I've never even heard of male strip shows in Ptown.
Certainly not in the last 20 years.
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It was the Eighties, and you didn't miss much.
--- Quote ---Now, we have "Well Strung", a clothed chamber group.
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Clothed, yes, but somebody clearly thinks it's good for business to show off his shoulders and biceps.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Monika on February 07, 2015, 04:19:00 pm ---Has anyone seen Jupiter Ascending? The trailer looks good but it has gotten really bad reviews over here.
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I quite liked it--I had a silly grin on my face all the way through. It was fun! I really cannot understand all the hate--especially the hate sent at Mila Kunis. I liked her AND Jupiter Ascending. I also especially liked Magic Mike--I mean Channing Tatum--as 'Caine'.
Jupiter (Mila Kunis) says, yearningly, "But I like dogs!" in re Channing/Caine, who is a genetic 'splice' wolf/human, and I laughed out loud. Caine the wolfman once had bird wings that had been amputated as punishment, so, as is usual with the Wachowski siblings, things are complicated, an over-the-top mish-mash.
I see many influences: Cordwainer Smith's Norstrilia and his bombastic future history ('The Instrumentality of Mankind') with the Underpeople (animals-slash-humans treated as property) that spanned several interlocking stories, novellas and novels; Robert Heinlein's Glory Road, with a soldier of fortune who helps a beautiful young girl (who turns out to be far, far older, and the Empress of the Twenty Universes besides); H. Rider Haggard's She (or more likely the 1965 film starring Ursula Andress and John Richardson)--there are even elements of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Oh well--at least it isn't boring! ;) ::) :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 09, 2015, 03:04:23 am ---I quite liked it--I had a silly grin on my face all the way through. It was fun!
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I haven't seen it, but it certainly looked like fun in the TV commercials for it.
And it's got Sean Bean and Magic Mike Channing Tatum. 8)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 09, 2015, 10:37:09 am ---I haven't seen it, but it certainly looked like fun in the TV commercials for it.
And it's got Sean Bean and Magic Mike Channing Tatum. 8)
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Oops! Wrong costume!
That's better! ("But I love dogs--I've always loved dogs!!") WOOF! ;D ;D
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