Comments by "" (@MrEab2010) on "WatchMojo.com" channel.

  1. to paraphrase Jules in Pulp Fiction, Indy should be "dead as f^cking fried chicken."
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  2.  @maxjaybo  how many people used the platitude "fascinating" (Spock) or made a V-sign with their middle fingers and said "live long and prosper" before 1966? Probably not many.
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  3. Zell has to swallow his precious diamonds before he accidentally kills himself in Marathon Man. Robert Shaw self-administers the death penalty in Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
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  4. a Britcom about Adolf and Eva actually made it to the filming stage???!
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  5. even in the 70s I thought SWAT and Starsky & Hutch were outrageous parodies of the then-obsession with urban policing in the Patty Hearst era. Although occasionally witty, I thought Get Smart was for kids. I actually liked the Man From UNCLE, it's even somewhat more interesting than the tv series. Addams Family Values is that rare tv-to-movies artistic success. The Untouchables series was far superior to the movie, despite Connery's iconic performance, second only to Bond. As for M:I, the series is IMO the best ever made; the movie franchise are just action fests, they do not come close to the series' psychological mind games. And turn Jim Phelps, an American patriot, into a traitor and give him a dishonorable death? I'm still steamed about that nearly 30 years later. The Fugitive, tv series and movie, are equally as good, though for different reasons.
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  6. Obama's election as the first black president in 2008 re-ignited white racism and led to Trump and the MAGA movement in 2015, giving rise to political cultism and alternative facts. We will be living with its ramifications for the remainder of the 21st century.
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  7. The Greek Tycoon (1976). Embarrassing.
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  8. to put 6/27/2024 into perspective as to the rest of the 21st century, this is what we would have had to look forward to for the remainder of the 20th century if we were alive on 6/27/1924: Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) Lindbergh Flight, Invention of Talking Movies (1927) Invention of TV (1928) Stock Market Crash (1929) Great Depression (1929-1941) FDR's New Deal (1933-?) Hitler Comes to Power (1933) World War II (1939-1945) A-Bomb Invented, UN Formed (1945) Cold War (1945-1991) Communists Takeover China (1949) Korean War (1950-1953) McCarthyism (1950-1957) H-Bomb Invented (1952) Polio Vaccine, Rock 'n' Roll Introduced (1955) Sputnik (1957) Laser Invented, Birth Control Pill Introduced, JFK Elected (1960) First Man In Space, Orbit (1961) Vietnam War (1961-1975) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) JFK Assassinated, Earliest Internet Invented (1963) Six Day War, 1st Black Supreme Court Justice (1967) MLK, RFK Assassinated, Worst U.S. Riots (1968) Man on the Moon (1969) Shirley Chisholm, 1st Black & 1st Black Woman Presidential Candidate (1972) Watergate, Nixon Resigns (1972-1974) Portable Computer Invented, 1st Practical Cell Phone, Abortion Legal Nationwide, Hip Hop Born (1973) Oil Crisis (1973, 1979) Bicentennial, Rocky, Apple Computer(1976) Test Tube Baby, Artificial Heart, Jonestown(1978) Iran Revolution, Egyption-Israeli Peace Accord (1979) Reagan Revolution, Rich Become New Rock Stars (1981-1989) 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice (1981) Geraldine Ferraro, 1st Woman VP Nominee (1984) Microsoft Windows (1985) Donald Trump Becomes Famous w/ Wollman Rink, NYC (1986) World Wide Web Invented (1989) Fall of Communism, USSR (1989-1991) De Facto Rise of Christian Nationalism (1992-?) First World Trade Center Attack (1993) Amazon Founded (1994) Oklahoma City Bombing, OJ Acquitted (1995) Dotcom Bubble (1995-2000) First Animal (Dolly the Sheep) Cloned (1996) Bill Clinton Impeached, Acquitted (1998-1999) Y2K (1999) may you continue to live in interesting times!
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  9. I use printers a lot and the newer ones are definitely worse than the older models. I am constantly buying ink after only a relatively few prints. What a ripoff!
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  10. huh? lol
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  11.  @Glicksman1  Ness was not even a Treasury agent, he was part of a Prohibition task force set up inside the Treasury Department. It is true that the Chicago press dubbed the local task force The Untouchables because they allegedly would not take bribes, but no one remembered Ness until he wrote ((with popular journalist Walter Winchell) his mostly exaggerated memoir The Untouchables before his death in 1957. The book was optioned by Desilu Studios for the tv series.
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  12. The buildup to the monsters in The Langoliers was great - until I saw the ridiculous cartoon drawings!
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  13. Roy Scheider chasing the bad guys from Upper Manhattan to NJ in The Seven Ups.
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  14. the Jeep (WW2), the hipster limo. The Hummer/Humvee (Gulf War). The Drone (Iraq War). Trench coat (WW1). Eisenhower jacket (WW2). Army jacket (every war since Vietnam). Khakis (British Indian Army). Army Boots (WW2). Flak jacket (WW2). Prefab housing (WW2). Computer (WW2). Ambulance (WW1). EMTs (Vietnam). Helicopters (WW2, Korea, Vietnam). Blood plasma (WW2). Nuclear power (WW2). Motorcycle (WW1). Photography took off during the Civil War. Math & science education & scholarships, Space Age (Cold war). Undeclared non-nuclear wars (Korea, Cold War). National Security State (WW2). Troop entertainment (WW2). Dogs as pets (Roman wars). Pensions (Civil War). Government bonds (WW2). Families and kings (outgrowth of early Biblical wars). Tools (prehistoric wars?). SWAT (Watts riot), peace organizations, international organizations (WW1, WW2). Prosthetics (WW2, every war since).
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  15. all of these people should have at least been nominated. The Oscar is such a joke.
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  16. all the Blockbuster stores have since been demolished and apartment buildings or a Walgreens built in its place.
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  17. update: Gary Oldman finally won Best Actor for Darkest Hour in 2017.
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  18. Jim Jones' church members deciding to uproot themselves from 1970s San Francisco and follow him to Guyana to set up Jonestown led to the biggest cult suicide in history and showed future cult leaders like Trump how easy it is to manipulate millions.
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  19. John Goodman passed over for Joe Piscopo. Historic boner. :face-blue-smiling:
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  20. Everett Sloane, the heartless CEO Mr. Ramsey in the 1956 movie Patterns makes Montgomery Burns look like Fred Rogers.
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  21. Nielson's best was Police Squad! It only lasted one season, but it remains one of the funniest tv shows I ever saw.
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  22. my favorites: Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction led to YouTube. OJ Simpson saved the NFL at one point while giving us the Kardashians and celebrity worship culture at the other point.
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  23. every villain in every action movie ever made has horrendous aim. The hero always has to win, duh!
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  24. that one scene ruined the entire movie for me. So out of place.
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  25. not that shocking in hindsight, the ape map of the NYC metro area gave it away for me, there was even a wink from Cornelius. Also the canyon reminded me of Manhattan from the East River side.
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  26. his acting style definitely gave off ghost vibes from the start.
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  27. how did All The President's Men lose to Rocky in 1976?
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  28. I'm not famous but I seriously considered leasing a small office in the North Tower on a floor above where the plane hit.
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  29. I definitely would not want to be on Anton Chigurh's hit list. Terrifying guy.
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  30. Trump tops them all b/c he is a wannabe tyrant who has the added advantage of an arsenal of thermonuclear weapons if he wins re-election.
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  31. Number 2 is creepy.
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  32. to this day I wonder what happened to Benjamin and Elaine after that brilliant scene at the back of the bus. As for the entire movie, Robert Shaw's Grant not talking at all until the final train confrontation with Connery's Bond in From Russia With Love makes him one of creepiest and most menacing bad guys ever.
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  33. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) is one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. There is nothing hopeful about this world.
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  34. Jodie Foster is not given enough credit for inventing the much-parodied Clarice Starling female FBI agent "Walk," kind of jaunty with the arms swinging wildly.
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  35. William Shatner LOL
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  36. for me nothing will ever top The Magnificent Seven, from beginning to extremely moving ending. The only movie to make me cry and smile at the same time.
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  37. as a kid I remember the plane crash in Fate Is The Hunter (1964), which was pretty scary at the time. Still is.
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  38. May 16, 1990: the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson overshadowed by the death of entertainment legend Sammy Davis Jr. I remember it well.
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  39. Fate Is The Hunter, 1964. Rod Taylor as the doomed pilot was haunting. Scared the sh&t out of me as a kid.
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  40. Soul Man (1985): C. Thomas Howell wears shoe polish and pretends to be a black man in a story about a white man who fakes being black to win an affirmative action place at Harvard Law School. Pretty much ended Howell's career.
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  41. Sanchez' fiery end in Licence to Kill was most satisfying and appropriate.
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  42. Stallone.
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  43. most people would swear on a stack of Bibles that Eve gave Adam an apple. She didn't, she gave him a fruit.
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  44. The destruction of LA in 2012 was also good. And I love seeing the aftermath in movies like the original Planet of the Apes series.
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  45. how ironic that Annie Hall, a movie that probably began political correctness, was so politically incorrect.
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  46. Google Glass made you look like you were part of The Borg lol
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  47. How could you leave off When Worlds Collide (1951)? They build a freaking spaceship filled with only 40 Aryans to escape doom to the new world and they SUCCEED.
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  48. The Untouchables is a great flick but historically it's almost total bullcrap.
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  49. Fred Flinstone: a suburban middle class Ralph Kramden. The Beverly Hillbillies: the Waltons combined with every Powerball winner. Gilligan's Island: classic cross-section of white people. Batman: interesting for Batman's sexual repression and latent pedophilia toward Robin The Green Hornet: pity the bigotry of the era prevented Bruce Lee from having his own series. Bonanza: 4 men who are "related" but don't look at all alike and no women around whatsoever. Star Trek: basically a children's show set in space. Dick Van Dyke: he's every guy on the 5:10 from Grand Central to Scarsdale. Dr. Who: never once watched it. If I did I don't recall. Andy Griffith: the liberal decent response to Bull Connor. The Twilight Zone: some episodes are creepy to this day.
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  50. too bad about Jay Pharoah, I still often remember his "coffee for morfa" line in an SNL commercial parody.
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