@odd Such a good spy film. All of Hitchcock's spy movies are good but North by Northwest is his best IMHO.
@odd Such a good spy film. All of Hitchcock's spy movies are good but North by Northwest is his best IMHO.
@manton This may help you in the future: Spy 100 Project Indepth reviews of 100 spy movies.
@manton I quite agree with you on the Michael Caine movies, the first two are outstanding and the third one is terrible.
I do recommend "The 39 Steps" - This is the 1959 (Cold War) version with Kenneth More. (The Hitchcock version is also excellent - 1935 - so it's Germans as the antagonist. I prefer the Cold War setting of the More version.)
@simonwoods I think, if I was forced to pay for social networks like Twitter et al., I'd rather pay to host my own social network of some sort.
@Cheri I just bookmarked this for future reference. Thank you for writing this, it makes it all so clear.
I guess I read all of them but I have a particular soft spot for Traditional, Amateur, Hard Boiled and some cozies.
@kicks Yikes! That's rough.
@Cheri Slow zombies build dramatic suspence. Fast zombies are just a chase scene.
@bix Good point. With my luck, I'll never be the Undead Overlord with a zombie army at my command.
@JohnPhilpin Good article. I've got no wisdom to add except at some point in our lives our super hero capes turn into shawls and our closets all have mothballs in them and you wonder, "what the f--- happened?" Waves cane.
@Cheri Congratulations!
@Cheri Congratulations! Your fingers must have been on fire. It's got to be a great feeling to be on a roll like that.
@kulturnation @cheri I had the same impression about The Team.
I've found most Scandinavian mysteries to be very well acted and plotted. But they are a gloomy lot and I always feel depressed after watching them so I generally avoid them.
@Cheri @kulturnation I agree on prefering subtitles over dubbing, although most Americans don't like subtitles. I wish these shows would have been around wayback when I was studying foreign languages. They really help immerse you in the spoken language.
The only other German police/crime drama I have watched to any extent is parts of the Tatort series. The parts I watched were from the 1990's based in Koln (Cologne) and teamed up the characters "Freddy and Max". The acting was excellent and the episodes very well done.
Mhz also has The Undertaker Swiss (in German) which is wonderful, quirky, dark and amusing all at the same time. In fact it's my 3rd favorite foreign language detective/mystery series of all the ones I've watched.
@kulturnation @cheri The subtitles are very well done. Mhz Choice streaming service is very affordable and specializes in good foreign language crime/mystery TV shows so Murder by the Lake is one of many interesting shows. If anyone is interested I'll list my favorites.
@odd "de-escalation training, psychology training and social studies" you've hit the nail on the head, these are the elements that I see are missing in current training.
Training can vary by each US state. Police powers are invested in the states not the Federal Government. Another factor is the police are stretched thin on a local level which means they are under a lot of constant stress.
There also seems to be a generational factor which is complex - when I was younger most of the cops had served in World War II or Korea, they had a lot of life experience and did not lose their temper as easily as the youngsters do these days. They were not saints and racism was a huge problem but they didn't fly off the handle quite so quickly.
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@canion I could not put it down when I read it. Great book.
@fgtech @pratik It's strange that an HOA would even care. My HOA kinda enjoys chalk sidewalk drawings by the kids and it's fun walking around seeing what has been drawn. The whole idea here, is to encourage kids to play outside, run around, be creative.
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@JohnPhilpin Well written, thoughtful, response.
@odd This is an excellent development for those who are in the EU/UK. Congrats for both Fairphone and /e/ for bridging the proprietary divide.
@JohnPhilpin @ChrisJWilson Two things amaze me: 1. How many people believe the craziest stuff, 2. How many, of what I suspect are Twitter bots, come out of the woodwork so fast, to spread an extreme agenda. On #2, this is an organized, malevolent, effort on somebody's part.
@Bismarck Now that's Living! Enjoy.
@JohnPhilpin I don't think you can beat the originals. The Brits might be able to remake some of the British shows but if Americans tried to do it, it would be a disaster. Imagine John Steed reimagined as a Rambo type character. Shudders With explosions everywhere. Even the Brits would be hard pressed: the British reserve of Steed, Peel or Drake is not what it used to be and that was part of what made these shows so compelling.
The Saint is interesting because it was a remake. Or at least a recycling of the character and they managed to pull it off, although I do like the old B-movie series as well.
@JohnPhilpin Absolutely. The Prisoner still blows my mind.
@Cheri Oddly, the guy who wrote that became the Superintendent of the nearrby National Park here a few years ago.