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 Started working on Amityville Horror 1979.  Seeing video stores promoting the hell out of it throughout the 80's, young lion pondered why the parents never rented it.  IMDB ranked it higher than Apex.  It didn't take long for it to get up to 2x.   Was delighted to see a young Strickland.  Didn't that guy ever have hair?  He was only in 30 seconds. Then a funny scene debating the merits of spending $80k on a house.  It's currently in the mid $1M's & blocked from a direct zillow address search. So basically, anything just $1M today is the scene of a mass murder.  The creepy windows in the real house were replaced at some point.  Between supermen 1 & 2, cigarette burning Lois Lane had to trudge through the shawshank sewer of amityville.  We forget 1 reason everyone was skinny 50 years ago was because they all smoked. Despite its low IMDB rating & boredom, it actually was a financial success, probably from the amount of pro...
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 Skimmed through Apex at 1.5-2x.  The IMDB somehow gave it 6/10.  It only ended up on the hard drive because of world class gen X hottie Charlize.          Watch Charlize lift heavy objects & flex muscles at 50.  That took a lot of cigarettes.  What they take away with cancer, they give in metabolism.    If it looked familiar, it was because it was indeed shot in the blue mountains where Dave made his canyon videos.  It might have showed the actual canyons in Dave's videos.  It was an internet recommendation after searching for Wild rather than a movie Dave saw.    Then the fun ends & we embark on the female version of Deliverance.      The under exposed beef jerky eating scene came unto its own after we discovered the beef jerky was human remanes. Surprised she didn't have the phone & cash in her tent.   Then she somehow got sucked into wandering around the cr...
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  Another night of chicken, noodles, potatoes, & another morning feeling strong.  Managed 2 sub 8 minute miles.    The chicken diet hasn't always been consistent, but the good days always follow it.  Haven't had very good results from fruit, other than feeling full.  Gently stretching the hamstring has subjectively improved results.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Reacquired What Dreams may come in HD, 1 of those movies you forget you ever saw.  Lions only remembered vague details from watching it 30 years ago, in vastly different circumstances, as if it was in a dream.    While lions remembered the lake scene, it was not lake Como but Montana.     Lake Como was the basis for his rustic cabana.  In hind sight, it would have been logistically inconvenient but it's 1 area where drone delivery could unlock previously unattainable housing op...
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 Lions always assumed the father in Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin ended up never having any contact with his son, ever since 1st discovering the lyrics in 2016.  It was 1 of those 1st songs lions heard over & over on AM radio without ever noticing the lyrics.   Finally reviewed the abundant documentation on it & the internet assured us the father did have contact with the son but it represented the growing latchkey kid movement of the 1970's, what became normal in the 80's.  It's certainly normal in a divorce for the father to disappear completely.  The Cats In The Cradle chorus was intended to keep it from becoming too depressing.  Young lion thought it was 2 gangsters saying "we'll get together then, man". It made lions ponder whether staying out west just to get the rule of 55 might be too greedy, especially if they hit the bingo point.  The rule of 55 would provide only 4 years of lower taxes & won't amount to...
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 Continuing the Avatar series for the 20th year, lions started Fire & Ash.   It definitely had a theme of stuff burning down.  The premise of the series, humans transmutating into alien bodies through technology, was long gone.  3D screenings were presumably long gone.  The avatar existed in title only.         Cameraman really nailed the aspects of bright lighting, bright colors, big spending to make 3D animation look good in bright lighting & tack sharp focus.   The display of technological supremacy, casually traveling 26 trillion miles, conference calling problems in the age of holograms, was still on the wrong side, with the focus still on traditional environmentalism.    Some nice visuals of bioluminescence.  Such things could have been made into a costume, years ago, with EL wire.  Modern LED strips would be too expensive. The 2nd act was a batshit boring soap opera with canned Cameraman dialo...
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